1000th YouTube Subscribers giveaway! watch the video

Yay
I'm so glad to have reached this awesome milestone.
I know for some Youtubers that's peanuts, but I'm so happy with all of you.
So I'm sponsoring a giveway.
Meaning all prizes are paid by me and sent out by me.

EXCEPT the $15 certificate to the wonderful Gerda Steiner shop. You can buy digis or real stamps if you prefer, I would suggest digis as your giftcard will go further......

What you have to do to win is simple:
leave me a nice comment telling me which prize you'd like to win. You have to be a YT subbie.
If you comment also on all my other platforms (Instagram, Blog (you're here), Youtube, Facebook)
You will have 4 chance to win a prize. But please always ask for the same prize. Choose one and commit ;-).If you ask for different prizes I will have to disqualify you.

I will put as many  tickets in a bowl as I have entries and draw from the pile.
If I draw a name twice because you entered on more platforms you will still only win one prize, but you will have more chance to be drawn if that makes sense. I want to give everyone a chance to win, so one prize per person.  You can ofcourse choose your favorite, but maybe also see which prize isn;t as popular or has less request, that would improve your chances as well...:-D

So what can you win?
15 dollars US certificate to the Gerda Steiner Shop sponsored by Gerda Steiner
100sk for the Pernilla Nillson shop (digital stamps)
10 UK Pounds to Wee stamps shop (digital stamps)
10 of my handmade cards
6 sheets of my toner paper
1 Brush and stamps set
1 teflon cookie sheet or craftmat in my case. I got it last monday, and I had already filmed the video. It's the black sheet I use often. heat resistant and non stick.

I will leave the giveaway open until november 30th midnight (NL timezone), but the giveaway is open WORLDWIDE!

On December 1st I will draw the winners on screen.

Good luck everyone!
And thank you for being here
xxx
Maaike

Coloring Lili of the Valleey furry baby bat, Halloween card , with video

Happy Halloween everyone.
I don't celebrate Halloween very intensly, no one does in the Netherlands, although it's getting more popular each year and I buy candy each year, kids don't seem to trick or treat, or the skip my house cos I'm scary haha...I might eat them, the kids I mean not the candy lol.

Anyway
I printed a digital stamp from Lili of the Valley, called Furry babies- bat- on Crafter's Companion Neenah paper and colored it with Spectrum Noir and Spectrum Illustrator markers.

Added Nuvo shimmer pen on the wings and stars and adhered the panel with tape runner.

Peace on Earth

I'm entering this card into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: monochrome,
the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: anything goes, showcasing W+9 and the Less is More Challenge: stamp layering.

I don't have any W+9 products, so sorry about that.
I used the Hero arts  color layering deer and the Hero Arts classic Christmas borders for the sentiment.

To stay with in the monochrome theme I used Bristol smooth card as my panel as it's slightly creme-ish.
For the deer I used Memento dewdrops: toffee crunch. rich cocoa and espresso truffle, in that order.

Also I used Espresso Truffle on the sentiment.
Adhered the panel to a card base.

AAA cards Challenge #102: inkblending with Memento dew drops

This fortnight the challenge over as AAA cards is: inkblending.

Our sponsor this time is Stamplorations, and the prize is a giftcertificate of $15 + 10% coupon offer for players.

For my card I used Memento dew drops to do my inkblending. I know not many people do this, so I wanted to show how wonderfully they blend and even out when drying. Smooth blend, the easy way. Still an arm workout, but easier ;-)

I started my card by stamping the sentiment from CAS-ual Fridays (lovely snowflake) with Versafine onyx black ink. Heat set it to be sure.

The I used  Sticky notes to mask off an area on my card, big enough for the deer, but as small as possible so to leave ample white space. Also I love the trees are sticking out of the area.

On hindsight these sticky notes weren't the best idea, apparently they're not entirely water repellent and some of the ink seeped through , I covered one splotch with the tall tree, but I have to leave the others, or diecut more trees.

These dies I've had for ages and I'm not sure which brand they are anymore, sorry, any you have will do the job as well. I cut them from black cardstock.

For the inkblending I used Memento Nautical blue, Teal zeal and Summer sky. I usually just look in my book which colors I think will work together. I made  Memento "recipes" too, like with the Distress inks.

As normal I used my mini inkblending tools and applies the darkest inks first. There's quite a leap in saturation from teal zeal to summer sky, but by going over it with a real light hand of teal zeal you kind of match it all up.

As with Distress inks, these react to water as well and so I splattered some on the area, leaving the masks in place. Then I splattered Dylusions white linen and Distress spray Brushed pewter for my snowflakes. To finish the snowfall I also splattered some Talens ecoline (100-white) this is much more opaque than the Dylusions spray, which turned a light blue as it reactivated the inks below. All these layers will give a lot of depth to the scene as the lighter splatter will look further away and the silver is just for shine as it's a Christmas card.

Removing the masks to reveal your little scene is kind of magical...until you see the splotches lol.

Attached the diecuts with liquid glue. I used the border to ground them and I pretend the white is a snowbank.

For more information or to play along the AAA cards challenge, see this

I'm also entering it into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: anything goes

Halloween or Christmas treat bags, Scoringboard project with video

 I made the Christmas one for a SimoN Says Stamp Monday Challenge a while back, but I also wanted to share how I did them in a video, just in time for Halloween.
But they're equally fabulous for any other occasion of course, like a wedding favor,  school treats, party favors, baby shower, just adapt the paper to the occasion en voilá!



I don't have the Lawn Fawn die and frankly with my scoringboard I can do more, different sizes and projects.
I also don;t know the size of the Lawn Fawn bag, but I made mine to get 2 out of one sheet of 12"12 card.

You need a piece of paper that is 6"x12".
You can make it taller, but 6" is the width of my Big Shot if you want to diecut out the "handles", I used a small rectangle shaped die with rounded corners.

Score on the long side at: 2", 5", 7"and 10" then on the short side at 2"only.
Burnish your scorelines, then cut the bottom and notch them slightly.

I used a hole punch to make 4 holes and  then fed some silver ribbon through it, and tied it together.
You can also just stample the ribbon to the bag and or hot glue the ribbon also.
My hole punch is a little big and the smaller one was too tiny to feed ribbon trhough, maybe bakerstwine would have been better, but hey, you live and learn.

I use hot glue to put  my boxes and treatbags together, it's faster and more secure than tape or liquid glue, but you can

use anything you like ;-)

I'm a lamp

I had my craftstore order this hilarious set from Art Impressions (catastrophy),  mainly because of this stamp..I'm a lamp...rofl
Luckily my cats never had to wear one of these, my vet doesn't like them and neither do cats/dogs ;-)

So for my card I stamped the image onto 140lbs watercolor paper from Schut with Simon Says Stamp intense black ink. Colored him in with Talens ecoline, a fluid watercolor.

My panels are always  slightly narrower because I cut them from a bigger sheet. So I mount the panel with foamtape and fill the gap on the cardbase with a similar colored washi tape.

For more information on the Cat lover's blog hop, see this

Everyday Christmas card series #22, with video

For today's card I'm revisiting  a card I made a few weeks ago for the Less is More challenge, but different ;-)

I loved the intense blue sky against the white diecut panel.

I used Talens ecoline in a variety of blues (505.506.507.578) on Schut classic watercolorpaper 300grams/140lbs.

I wet down the paper first apply a range of colors in an ombre like effect.. Few layers heat setting in between.

If your paper curls up, just heating from the back as well, that will straighten it right back out.

Then I splatter Dylusions spray white linen and Distress spray stain brushed pewter and Talens white ecoline (100).

For the diecut this time I used a Craft Emotions die, but any you have will do, as well as the sentiment, I used a Crealies one,with Versafine onyx black ink.

I love the contrast and the white trees really looks like snow covered trees to me.

I used carpet double sided adhesive for the watercolor paper and foamtape for the cardpanel.