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 32 - Easter Card

Hello World,

Finally I'm able to blog again. I had a few hectic days, but here I am and today you'll get 3 posts :) 

It is almost Easter and I'm getting in the  mood so I made an Easter card. 

With scraps, I always have leftover pieces in the front of my paperpads, and when I'm making small projects or a card like this on I challenge myself to use those scraps. 

Sometimes the colours aren't contrasting enough like was the case here, but with a bit of Distress Ink you can just give it the little extra that just tie it together. 

Thank you for reading my blog.

Caroline

40 Days of ... Art - Day 25 - Birthday Card

Hello world,

Sometimes it is enough just looking at a stamp to be inspired. This was what happend for this card.

Girly and yet not all pink, because not all ladies like pink.

Thank you for reading.

Caroline

40 Days of ... Art - Day 15 - Baby Card

Hello,

Today it's baby card time. I love making these big 6 by 8 baby cards.

When I had this new stamp set I almost directly made this card, with graphic 45 good old sport paper in the background.

And off course in the inside the left panel is also decorated, I find it so sad to leave that side blank.

I hope you enjoyed this card.

Have a nice time.

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

40 Days of ... Art - Concept and Day 1 & 2

Hello world,

Around here everyone is buzzing about 40 days without meat. It's a modern version of the Lent.

All week I heard about nothing else and I'm tired of it. However it made me think and this morning I saw the light. Why not do 40 days of Art. So here I go with my concept.
Normally I should have started yesterday so today you get Day 1 & Day 2.

Day 1

Something new I added to my art, Zentangle. So fun to do and I could do it on the train seeing that I don't really  need much to play. Here is my very first tangle.

Day 2

One of my colleagues became Dad to a beautiful baby girl and I made a card for the occasion.

The card is 6" by 8,5" and as I often do, I have decorated the left part of the inside of the card, leaving the other side blank for wishes.

I hope you enjoyed viewing these creations. Thank you for reading, comments are appreciated.

Caroline

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. 

Babyboom on my work

Where I work there is somewhat a baby boom going on. So this weekend another baby boy was born. I made this card for him (it is in French seen as I work in a mixed environment Dutch/French).