12 Tags of 2013 - August

Hello world,

Tim really took a simple principle and made a cool tag out of it with the most cool stamps. I love this stamp set it is very cool for making cards for men. You all know how hard it is.

Well I pretty much did the same thing as Tim did this time, except for the background where I used a bit other colours.

Her it goes, my edition of the August Tag:

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Quick Message

Hi all,

I didn't drop of the earth. But I'm rather busy none the less. My studio is having a make-over, combined with a heatwave it is going very slowly. It does make it hard to craft, everything is all over the place. But it will be nice in the end.

I do want to share a bit with you guys ... my new desk, it is huge, I will have many many hours crafting fun on it.

On the right I have a lot of storage.
And on the left I have a bit of place but mainly I have place to put power supply at the bottom and when I don't need my heat tool I can put it safely on the shelf in the middle (no more hassle with the cord).

I'm hoping to finish soon, so that I can show you more art.

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Cardmaking Monday - Week 4

Hello Everyone,

I'm in the process of changing to a new craftroom where I'll have more space. So I'm going trough a lot of stuff. 

Today for card-making Monday my eye fell on a left over kit from a workshop that I did last year in October. You all know & love the generous kits where you have stuff in excess but in reality you often don't do much with it. Especially with the little things you have over like one flower left, only a bit of ruban, little scraps or pieces of paper, ...

With those little left-overs I made a girly birthday card.

 

The only thing I added was the base of the card (some applegreen bazzil cardstock) and a bit of scrap paper to make the 'present' embellishment, I stamped it, coloured it in with some distress ink and cut it out.

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Cardmaking Monday - Week 3

Hello,

This week I was inspired by the Simon Says Stamp & Show Blog, their weekly challenge is all about stripes.

I made two cards with stripes today, and I made masculine birthday cards, I have many male friends and never seem to have enough of them and male cards aren't that simple either.

The first one I made the background myself with distress ink and tape.

The second one I took some paper that I bought in the very beginning of my crafting days. It quality isn't top and It is very bright and not very trendy any more. But for cards you can still use them. You only need a bit and you have a focal image so ideal to use. Oh and to avoid having it to bright and not so cool, well I put some distress ink all over it, instead of a screamy stripe pattern I got a vintage stripe pattern, very neat and very easy :)

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Cardmaking Monday - Week 2

Hello,

Today I had very little time to spent on making a Card.
So I made a quicky card. You know the type off card you still have time to make when  you only have 20 minutes or less to spend on making a card, because you came home late from work, still have to ready yourself and have about 15 minutes to make a card because you have to go to a party.

How can you solve that dilemma. By making a simple yet beautiful card with PanPastels.

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Artjournalling Thursday

Hello everyone,

Today I made the first in another series, Monday I presented the first "Card-making Monday", and today it is the "Art journalling Thursday". That makes 2, but I had ideas for 3 series, what will be the 3rd??? Keep tuned on this blog, and you'll now it will make it's apearance this week. It is the week of 1st's this week.

As for my page today I did a single page, the first in a new book is very often a single page.

This is the book I'll use for this series, it is a simple book, but the paper is great and I love this kind off book.

The backround is many layers of distress ink that I build until I liked what I saw. The stamps are some wooden Tim Holtz stamps that are always on my desk so I tought it was fitting to use them in my first page.
They will make many more apperances in the future, especially the clock one.

The flowers I used are little paper flowers that became what I call "faux china".

  

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Have a nice 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.

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