40 Days of ... Art - Day 38 - Happy Birthday

Hello world,

Today I was inspired by the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge to create a birthday card, 

You can find them here.

So here is the card:

Have a nice Easter tomorrow!

Caroline

40 Days of ... Art - Day 38 - Another Tag

Hello World,

Another Tag today, I can't help it I'm really in a Tag Period, I have all these tags that I used for left over ink and paint that are so inspiring to do something with them. And then it is just my gut feeling that is doing the rest. Today I had very little time to craft yet I did manage to do something.

Thank you for reading my blog and have a great weekend.

Caroline

40 Days of ... Art - Day 36 - Tag

Hi Guys,

You probably think I abandoned you, let me assure you I didn't, but sadly I got my share of the flue season that is still going around here. So the 40 days were a bit on suspend. But the last 5 days are here starting today. 

And to start a tag that kind of is representing my mood today. 

Thank you for reading my blog. 

Caroline

40 Days of ... Art - Day 35 - Masculine Card

Hello World,

Today a masculine card. It is actually the technique and stamp combination Tim Holtz showed in his 12 tags of 2013 series, I think for the month August.

I made the tag then and I (still) make it in card version, when you have to give a card to a men they simply love a card like this.

Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice time.

Caroline

40 Days of ... Art - Day 26 - Tropical Tavelogue

Hello World,

The piece I want to show today is a money box with Grahpic 45 paper. 

As it is a gift for someone I will not share a lot about it, enjoy the picture. 

Have a nice week.

Caroline

40 Days of ... Art - Day 8

Hello,

I always like to have a bit of a stock of birthday cards because you often need one last minute.

So today I made a few of the cards that I call "The Tim Holz Cupcake goes 80's style" cards.

The vibrant layered background is so fun to make and these cards actually always make me happy.

Thank you for reading my blog today.

Enjoy your day.

Caroline

Cardmaking Monday

Hello,

Today I had an idea while commuting to work. Cardmaking Monday would be like something cool to do, perhaps a weekly or bi-weekly series. Well I couldn't wait getting to it, to bad I still had to work all day.

For my first card in this series I thought about doing a birthday card, I simply love doing birthday cards, they are always fun, as you can go so many ways with them.

I still kind off had the technique from the Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2013 from June in my mind and so it is kind of this technique but with a bit of my own twists off course. This time I mainly used distress ink, distress markers, stamps, archival ink, so no distress paint or stains.

Thank you for reading my blog and have a wonderful and creative week.

12 Tags of 2013 - June

Hello,

This month master of the Ranger universe Tim Holtz got out his Distress markers. I gladly put aside the project I'm working on to pull out mine, cause I absolutely love the Distress markers they are so versatile and easy to work with.

The background of the Tag itself was very fun doing too, using 3 different products of the Distress family (paint, stains and ink).

Tim used one of his favourite stamps, so I used some of my favourite stamps (no reason I should use Tim's favourite one when I have so many that I love too).

My choice of colours are mostly light colours to reflect the first rays of sunshine we are finally getting here in Belgium.

Thank you for reading, I hope you like my tag. 

Mirror Mirror on the wall...

Hello everyone,

 

Mirror Mirror on the wall... what accessories will I put on today.

Well I kind of like to have my mirror and my accessories close together so I mad this little beauty.

 On this mirror I can put the earrings I want to have quick on hands very easily.

And as a women you are entitled to want some changes now and then, so the embellishments are  interchangeable, every piece can go on any place, how cool is that.

 Thank you for reading my blog.

Metallic Card

Hello Everyone,

The challenge on the Simon Says Stamp & Show blog inspired me to make a card. This time it was a card for when a colleague leaves. Most of the time I try to make a personal card at that moment, but that is not always possible, so it is good to have a few of those cards in your stash.

The challenge was to work with metal. The card opens in the middle and on the front I have two embossed metallic panels that are accented with acrylic paint.

The front of the card is kept very simple because you want to keep the surprise effect when you open the card.

In this edition I put on the side panels two quotes that would go with the purpose the card will serve. But it could be any quote, any image you coloured in or even little photo's you want to share. Just keep in mind that you have to keep it flat for easy posting.

The middle is left white cause there I like to write a little something for the person I give the card to. And if it is for a colleague that leaves well I'd need all the place for people to write their name.

Thank you for reading my post. Have a great and creative weekend.

Happy Birthday

One of my very best friends had her birthday this Sunday *if you read this Happy Birthday again*.
 So I made her a birthday card. I was really inspired to use turquoise because it is one of her favourite colours. So I used it in the background.

The background was made by using 2 different dylusion spray ink tones. I wanted it to have a very luxurious feeling so I stencilled some Golden Glass Bead Gel onto the background. And I let it air dry, I like the result the best when air dried.

As a focal image I chose the birthday cupcake from the Tim Holtz CMS153 Birthday Blueprints clingmount stamp set. She likes to bake so it was so obvious to choose the cupcake. I stamped the image on watercolour-paper and coloured it in with Distress Markers. As I wanted to continue the luxurious look I embellished the image with my stickles.
To finish it all I mounted the background on a card and added the focal image together with some ribbon and a little "Happy Birthday". 

I lined the interior with some light cream paper that I very slightly edged with some vintage photo distress ink and on the left side of the card I added a birthday sentiment stamp. The right side I left empty to journal in some words and wishes for my friend. 

 

Thank you for reading my post. 

Tim Holtz Creative chemistry 101 - Day 2

I enjoyed this series a lot and finally I got around to take pictures, so the first day wasn't really a lesson to take pictures of, but day 2 it was. I had soo much fun making the tags. For all the techniques and how it is done I gladly refer to the Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 101 course.

12 tags of 2012 – may…

Here is my version of the may tag.  I must say the only tissue paper where I could stamp on was this pink one the others have a print that is quit busy so I couldn't use them.  This made the whole feeling of the tag. 

An other thing I learned is that stamping with really wet ink pads isn't the best as it bleeds a bit (or a lot depending on how wet it still is). So all in all I like what it has become...

12 tags of 2012 - April

Ok, as you all know I follow the 12 tags of 2012 series by Tim Holtz. I always try to make the tag, with the materials I have at my disposal.

My April tag was a bit of a struggle as I was very nervous for the technique that Tim used. I didn't cut out a shape like Tim did, as I have all this grungeboard shapes that I bought a long time ago that are unused, and i found it the perfect moment to bring it out.
The tag has a very obvious twist of my own and I like it a lot.

12 tags of 2012 - february...

So who of you didn't hear of Tim Holtz new 12 tags of... I'm so exciting that he's doing them all year long, It will give me so much more joy all year long than just very concentrated in December.
Here is my February tag.

Seasonal Distress Ink

OK, I could not wait playing around with the new distress inks, so I made very basic cards with a background in each of the colours so that I would know what they look like. I love these colours they are fabulous. The pictures are giving an idea but the colours are more vibrant in reality.