* A new card *

After a long time of no paper scrapping and card making, I finished yesterday a new card for a birthday coming up. Used some of my ver old stash; papers from little yellow bicycle, digi from Kenny K, text from Elegant wordart by Bethany, inside text from Creat with TLC, flowers from Kaiser Craft.

Inside the card another text.

Enjoy the rest of the sunday. Mine is rainy and too full of works to be done :(

* It's a Pary! *

It has been ages ago since I last entered the Card Patterns challenges. I really shouldn't wait so long with entering again, I had great fun with this weeks challenge. However project life/P365 is keeping me very busy. Too busy to do find time to do other stuff. But I needed a birthday card and besides that a male birthday card and those I find very difficult. However the sketch helped me a lot. I don't think it's "too male " with the flowers and the color combo, but it's also fairly neutral so I will send it any way. Besides I like the cheerful colors :) Gives me a springy feeling.

Supplies: Patterned papers of October Afternoon - The thrift shop & Fly a Kit, rope, Colorsoft pencils, digistamp from MelJen Designs, Fiskars border punch, Crafts too corner punch, Prima Marketling E-flowers, buttons.

* more christmas cards *

Yesterday evening I finished 2 more cards for Christmas. I must really hurry up, because it's almost time to send them and I only have a few. So guess I will be busy this weekend with card making.
First one is for Get Sketchy sketch #66, however, I am too late too post, but I liked it too much not to. Love the lost of bling bling. Again I almost only used materials not bought in official scrap store. Second one is for this weeks sketch over at Card Patterns. It's sketch 92 already! Sadly I have missed a lot of sketches over the last few weeks (months) but life has kept me busy.

The weather is really very cold over here. It's -8 degrees, but due to the strong eastern wind it feels like -15 to -20 degrees!! And there is snow and the road are not kept very clean this time. I fear the roads will be icy tomorrow....

* Magical Christmas *

I have to start working on my Christmas Cards now, if I want to finish everything early and on time enough before Christmas. So last evening I made one after the sketch of CardPatterns.
What I love about this card is that all stuff used, doesn't come from official scrapbook stores. The papers & rhinestones come from Kruidvat and were a gift of my mom. The lilac paper is from another store Euroland or something. The ribbon from a Garden Center and the trees from Wibra :)

Well gotta move on and go to work now. It's raining - again.

* last minute card *

I needed a card for a wedding day... urgently... So I grapped my fav romantic papers (still Rose Garden from PaperMania, though I am practically running out of enough papers to make a decent card and only have a few very small scraps left)
Thankfully this weeks sketch of Card Patterns was - again great - just what I needed to get inspiration to make this card. It fell together effortlessly and it's already posted also today :)
Supplies: White cardstock, Rose Garden Papermania papers, doily lace E flowers Prima Marketing, Flowers Kaisercraft, pearls, pearl brads, digi stamp from myself, scalloped scissors, doily lace punch Martha Stewart, corner punch crafts too.

Enjoy the rest of your sunday!

* Music *

Over at Kenny K's the new stamps are out and believe me they are awesome. They all revolve around music, as does there challenge of this week. I couldn't help it, I had to buy one of those super duper stamps and use it for the challenge. Besides I love the theme, I am crazy about music, cannot live without it!
I also combined it with this weeks challenge of Card Patterns (I turned the sketch)
The papers I used are from Very Merry - October Afternoons winter paper line of last year. Thought it would fit nicely because of the music paper.
Supplies: White& red cardstock, Very Merry October Afternoon papers, fiskars borderpunch, scalloped scissors, text digi from Create with TLC, digi from Kenny K, buttons, Prima Marketing Swirl, Derwent pencils.

* Halloween * Birthday boy *

This card was created for Dutch Card Lovers, which had a great new sketch this week. It has been far too long ago since I played along with them and I thought it would be a good opportunity to combine the sketch with a great challenge over at the Doodle Diva's blog from Karens Doodles. You get this great freebie and one of the things you have to do is create a card with it. How hard can it be? I love the digi's from Karen and this freebie is no exception. I dug into my stash and found some old Basic Grey - still one of my fav brands even though I don't use it too often these days, might need to change that ;) - and some black cardstock. Sat down my old pc and created some text to go with it. Supplies: white & black cardstock, Basic Grey Ambrosia papers, ribbon, buttons, fiskars borderpunch, Karen Doodle's digi stamp, my own word art.

The next card is for Card Patterns - I always love there sketches. Again this one was a very basic one, but it was just perfect for the birthday card I had to create for my Nephew. Due to the busy patterns & colors, it's great to have a more simple sketch. The digi is from Sliekje. She is a great artist and her stamps are too darn cute. The papers are from provocraft - again some oldies from my stash, I don't remember how the series was called though. Plus I used again my very first bought borderpunch!

Supplies: White, orange & green cardstock, Provocraft papers, blue ribbon, Fiskars borderpunch, image digi from Sliekje, text digi from Pollycraft.

Enjoy the rest of the sunday & have a nice week!

* another round of challenge blogs *

Yes again some cards. Seems I really got my mojo back and I have tons of papers still lying around waiting for being used to create something. One of those is a summerline of Imaginisce. I don't remember the name and don't want to go through my stash again, so I will try to find it later on the internet.
Anyway, it's for 2 Challenges. The card is based on the current sketch from card patterns and the challenge from Kenny K, this time the theme is in the SummerTime. Supplies; pink and green cardstock, Imiginisce papers, Bo Bunny on the dot green, Zva Creative swirls, jewel, McGill flower punch, EK Succes flower punch, Martha Stewart doily lace borderpunch, scalloped scissors, Jolanda's digistamp (text), Kenny K digistamp, Colorsoft Pencils.

Other challenges for this card:

Creative Card Crew: Cute & Girly

Incy Wincy: Summer Fun

The pink elephant: Summer fun

Next is again a christmas card and this time I used one of the digi's from Karen's Doodles. It's also for the challenge over at the Dutch Challenge site of Karen's Doodles.

The papers I used are some old MME papers; colorful christmas, which I like because they are bright and cheerful :) Supplies: My Mind's Eye Colorful Christmas papers, snowflake punch, Fiskars borderpunch, jewels, Karens Doodles digi stamp, Colorsoft pencils.

Enjoy the rest of the week. There won't be much time for crafting for me, too busy at work these days.

* more christmast cards *

And again I am too late to upload my card based on Get Sketchy's sketch #49... I only finished it last evening and didn't have time to upload until now. ah well, I like my card any way. It's my first attempt at vintage style with printed pictures, and I think it's not too bad. I used the old BG line Wassail. Almost ashamed to say, but can you believe I have it lying here for ages already and have never made a project with it!!! Any way, I like it with the old fashioned pictures of santa and angels. I think there will follow more :)
Supplies: white cardstock, Basic Grey Wassail papers, vintage picture from the Internet, red and green ribbon, my own wordart.

Next is also vintage style with a more modern look for Card Patterns sketch. Already nr. 75! again a great sketch to work with.

Supplies: White and pink cardstock, October Afternoon papers, vintage picture from the internet, pink ribbon, white organza ribbon, pin, my own wordart, Fiskars borderpunch.

Enjoy your weekend!

* again some new cards *

Seems I really got my mojo back, because yesterday I finished 2 more cards. The first one is with a great image from Kenny's. (I love the fact that I can buy stamps now that I've got paypal finally) Don't you love it? The card is based on a sketch of Dutch Card Lovers. Kenny's challenge was to use pastels, so I dug out an old paperblock with lovely summery pastel colored papers Madame Royale. Which I haven't used for quite a while.
Other challenge: Wild orchid Challenge - Flowers Supplies: We R Memory makers Madame Royale papers, lilac cardstock, orange cardstock, white puffy paint, scrappers floss, jewels, McGill Flower punch, EK Succes flower punch, Kenny K digi stamp, my own text.

And the last is a card for Card Patterns & Karens Doodles Scandinavian challenge blog nr. 18.

Unfortunately the tiny squares are hardly visable, because as usual I put to much on the card, but they are there!

Karen has a sale at this moment, so it was a nice opportunity to buy some stamps and get one for free. The challenge was love. And isn't this girly lovely? How she likes the butterflies.

Supplies: green & pink cardstock, Basic Grey Green at Heart papers, green & pink ribbon, pin, Prima Marketing flowers, button, Zva Creative bling bling, Karen Doodles digi stamp, my own text stamp.

* After a break.... *

I finished some cards again and I enjoyed crafting again.

The first is for CardPatterns sketch 71 already again. There are some anniversaries coming up, so I started making some cards for that already. I used the romantic papers of Papermania together with a picture of Mo Manning for a fun note. Added some flowers and roses and pearls and it's done.
Supplies: pink cardstock, doily paper, prima marketing E flowers, roses, Crafts too corner punch, digi stamp Mo Manning, my own digistamp, ribbon, Zva Creative pearl swirl.

And I made a fun card with Kenny K stamp. Don't you love it? I am going to buy one or two more. I combined them with the bright colors from My Minds Eye and another digi stamp from TLC. (The card is based on last weeks sketch from DCL, but I was not on time to enter)

Supplies: My Minds Eye papers, Bo Bonny on the dot, crafts too corner punch, digi stamp from Kenny K, digi stamp from TLC, ribbon, scalloped scissors.

* long blogpost *

I used my new October Afternoon The Thrift Shop papers to create a "vintage" card. It's my first attempt at creating a vintage card. I am not so happy with the end result, since its not really vintage to me. So I guess I have to keep trying to make it better. Supplies: white cardstock, October Afternoon The Thrift Shop papers, Prima Marketing flowers, Paper Mania pearl brads, Zva Creative bling bling swirl, ribbon, lace, digi stamp from Scrapaddictive, digistamp from Digital 2 4 Tuesday.

And here is my card for this weeks sketch from Card Patterns & the challenge from Dutch Card Lovers. A recipe this time, a round card, stitching & flowers.
And it was a hard challenge for me this round. Creating a round card. I search the whole house for suitable moulds to trace circles to use for my card..... Stitching was also a struggle, I don't have a sewing machine and by hand it was really bad... so I redid and make faux stitches by punching holes and tracing a black line. Of course it isn't the real thing, so I wonder if it's sufficient for the challenge.. I added the text in the heart of the digistamp.
On the photo it isn't visable, it's way too dark, but I used purple & pink on the dot papers of Bo Bunny, but on the photo, the purple almost looks black.

The card is also for the following challenges:

Meljens: challenge 5 shapes

Sentimental sundays: challenge 2 for someone special

Cupcake craft challenges: challenge 88 don't be square

Creative Cottage Challenge: Challenge 8 Circles

Allsorts Challenges: Challenge 50 animals

Craft Challenge: Challenge 48 Shaped card

Tiddly Inks: Challenge 2 Mothersday

Fun with Shapes: Mothersday

Lilly Boo Too: May challenge Shapes

Quixotic Paperie: Challenge 23 Distressing

Supplies: white cardstock, purple & pink on the dot cardstock Bo Bunny, Bo Bunny Jazmyne papers, Zva Creative bling bling swirl, scalloped scissors, Martha Stewart doily lace punch, McGill punch, EK succes punch, jewel flower, digi stamp Cuddly Buddly

* Some new cards *

Today I made 2 new cards. The first one is based on the latest CPS sketch, which I turned around to make my card. Plus, it is also for the new challenge blog from Tiddly Inks. I enjoyed going through my stash for this one and grab some old papers I haven't used in quite a while, I teamed them up with a freebie from Tiddly Inks. Isn't she a cutie? She is colored with Derwent coloursoft. I also used some new lime bling from Zva Creative and some bling from a local store & a home made pin. Supplies: white, green and pink cardstock, K&company Berry Sweet papers, Prima Marketing flowers, pin, green & pink ribbon, digi image from Tiddly Inks, Coloursoft Pencils.
Other Challenges:
Spoon full of sugar: Happy Birthday
S2G Challenges: flowers

The second card is based on the latest sketch of Card Patterns. The sketch was very basic, which I like best, since I can fancy the card up as I like. And this one is also for the Karens Doodles Dutch Challenge blog. Since I have no other digi's but only the girl with flowers which was once a freebie, I have used it again. It's a lovely digi and very suitable for all kinds of occassions. I made a Get Well Soon card. Again coloured with Derwent Coloursoft. It is not visable on the photo, but I used stickles on the flower for some bling and my spica pen on the stamp.

Supplies: white & lilac cardstock, We R Memory Keepers Madame Royale, Prima Marketing flower, Kaisercraft flower, ribbon, pin, my own digistamp, digistamp from Karens Doodles, white puffy paint, Derwent Coloursoft Pencils, stickles, spica pen.

* Best wishes on your Wedding*

I know I made a promise not to buy any new scrappy stuff and I broke my promise....
I had to have some delicious papers from imaginisce and a nice paper block from Paper Mania.(a style I never use normally, but these are so lovely for romantic cards :) ) and while I was add it I ordered some awesome large brads from American Crafts, a little stamp, some E-line flowers from Prima. Simply love those, all women like flowers :) I made a card with the Paper Mania paper block based on this weeks sketch from CardPatterns. It fitted perfectly for the idea I had in mind already and I love how it turned out. Its for my aunt and uncle who celebrate 35 years of Marriage coming Sunday. I used also the large brad & the new flowers :)

Supplies: white, pink, blue cardstock, Paper Mania papers, E-line flowers, Zva Creative bling swirl, Fiskars border punch apron, Crafts too corner punch, doily lace paper, my own digi stamp.

One more day to work and than it's time off for the long Easter weekend & I am so looking forward to those 4 days off!

* Birthday Card & Tag *

Yesterday evening I quickly finished this card based on the latest Card Patterns sketch, a great one to work with and perfectly for my needs. I need to make a quick gifttag for a birthday present of my uncle. I am giving a bottle of wine, so a red card is a great match! Plus some other gifts which will be wrapped and added with this card. (not to happy about this one, but I am in a hurry and have no time to make a new one, so it will have to do)

Supplies: White, red and green cardstock, Jillibean papers, Fiskars borderpunch, McGill punch, EK succes punch, ribbon, button, my own digistamps.

* cute girlie card *

I made a quick card and finished it in less than an hour (I am a slow scrapper so this is very quick for me!) and I still love the outcome. The card is for the sketch challenge of Card Patterns & for this weeks challenge @ Dutch Card Lovers which is a color combo challenge. Normally I don't to color challenges because I find them too difficult but this one came together very nicely I think :) Supplies: white, blue & pink cardstock, Daisy Bucket patterned papers, Kaisercraft flowers, jewels, Zva Creative swirl, A. Kramer digistamp, Jolanda's text digi stamp.

Unfortunately the weekend is already over ... Have a good week!

* Happy Holidays *

Here is another card I forgot to upload yesterday. Based on the previous sketch of Card Patterns. (I was too late in posting anyway) I have still so many scraps and Christmas papers lying around I decided to make a card for Christmas this year already. I sooo love this Jillibean soup series. Did you see the new releases on their blog already? I fell in love with Egg drop soup.
I have decided for this year I am not going to buy new papers, but at the same time I still sneak around to see what yummy materials are coming up this CHA. I hope I can control myself :) I have so much lying around waiting to be used, that I don't have room for more stuff...Supplies: kraft & red cardstock, Jillibean soup papers, Studio G text stamp, prima flower, jewel, rope, digi stamp.

* Xo Xo Xo * Get well soon *

I like it that Get Sketchy posts their sketch challenge so early (Fridays) so that gives me time to create a card in the weekend. This time I chose the delicious papers of Bo Bunny Love Bandit,(Already ordered some more, because I can use these over and over again) to create a Valentine card. Supplies: white cardstock, Bo Bunny Love Bandit papers, handcut swirl, Prima's say it in crystals, Fiskars borderpunch Apron, Martha Stewart punch doily lace, Crafts too cornerpunch, ribbon, white puffy paint, pin.

Next is a card for CardPatterns. I used MME papers Ooh La La to create a get well card. My aunt is having a (small) surgery next week.

Supplies: white cardstock, My Minds Eye Ooh La La papers, digi stamp Digital Delights, Melissa Frences stamp, hotfix with stones, handcut swirl, jewels, KaiserCraft flowers, organza ribbon, pin.

Enjoy the rest of your sunday.

* Round of Challenge blogs * Get Sketchy *

I am *so happy* I won last weeks challenge over at Get Sketchy:) Thank you ladies for chosing my card and of course for the weekly inspiration. I won a great prize of digi stamps over at Soft Pencil. Go see for yourself the art is amazingly beautiful. I fell in love with it the minute I saw it, so I am very happy to be able to use one of those digi stamps in the near future.

Of course I made this weeks sketch again. It's a card for someone who got a new job, to which good luck. I still have scraps left of the amazing Bo Bunny papers and I still *love* them. I also couldn't resist using my favorite bird stamp again, so cute. Supplies: Bo Bunny designpapers, Imaginisce stamp, Studio G text stamp, pin, ribbon, organza ribbon, roses

Next is a card for Card Patterns, I have not played with there sketches in a while and missed it. It was not the sketch that made me struggle with this card, and the papers are also lovely, however it didn't seem to work out for me. First one ended in the dustbin and I am not too happy with this result as well, but since I won't be having more time to make it one more time, I decided to put it up anyway.

Supplies: Imaginisce papers, cardstock, ribbon, Autumn leaves stamp, Studio G stamp, white puffy paint, pin.
Due to the dark weather the photo's are not too good.

Almost weekend, so I hope it will stop raining than but the weatherforecast isn't too good. Well, lets wait and see.