Instyle Stamps Blog Hop

Hi there and welcome to the Instyle Stamps April Blog Hop!

If it's correct, you came here through Raquel's blog. If not, please start at the Instyle Stamps Blog to follow this amazing Blog hop!
And amazing it is!

This month the theme is "Mother's Day".
As I don't want to forget the Mothers who are pregnant of their child, I created this card.
As they are already a mother, expecting another child, or they will become a mother for the first time.

So here it is....

Digital stamp: Lucy (Instyle Stamps); Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned papers: Tilda; Ribbon: Stampin'Up; Baubles: StampingBella; Pen: ZIG; Coloring medium: Copics

I will be sending this to someone special...... She's expecting her first child, so I thought this Mother's Day 2010 would be a perfect occasion to send her a card.

Anyways....

Hop on over to Jodi's blog. She has created something amazing as well :)

But.... don't forget to leave a message at the Instyle Stamps Blog who you think has created the most creative/beautiful item.
You can win a prize, but the DT-member can also win one.
You can leave a message untill Saturday 1st May 11:59 PM PST (dat is zondagochtend 8:59 Europese/Nederlandse tijd)
Wanna know the prize... hop on over to the Instyle Stamps Blog.

Happy Hopping :)

Digital Delights Challenge "Punch"

Today it's challenge time over at Digital Delights' Sketches and Challenge blog.
This time the theme is "Punches".

Made this card...

Digital Image: Digital Delights Little Red Riding Hood; Cardstock, punches and ribbon: Stampin; Up; Patterned paper: October Afternoon; Coloring medium: Copic markers; Baubles: StampingBella; Button and thread: own stash

I used 3 kind of punches: Border punch, scalloped circle punch and circle punches (different sizes). Layered the punched circles on top of the scalloped circle and added a button with thread. I also wrinkled the circles before I glued them together for a bit of an altered look.

Thanks for joining me, and please join us at the challenge :)

Magnolia Fairytale Snow White

I'm just so in love with this Fairytale collection :)
And so does my kids in class :) They want me to stamp them so they can color. It's just so much fun to see this! Will be using these stamps next year for the "fairytale"-project we will be doing at school. They are just perfect!

Anyways... here's a card I made with stamps from the Spring Stampkit and maskered them.

And a detailphoto...

Cardstock: Stampin; Up; Patterned paper: October Afternoon; Stamps: Magnolia (images) and StampingBella (sentiment); Flowers: Magnolia and Prima; Baubles: StampingBella; Ink: Memento; Stickles: Ranger; Coloring medium: Copics

Challenges:

- Friday Sketchers: sketch

- Just Magnolia: Anything goes

- Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge: Birthday with a sweet treat (used a birthday sentiment and the apple Snow White is holding is the sweet treat)

Thanks for looking :)

Teddy Stampers Challenge

Today is the day for another Teddy Stampers Challenge! This time the challenge is to create a Teddy project with only red-white (ok, your bear can be another color ;))

This is what I made this time around, a card with one of my newest stamps I bought at the Art Specially Event in Zeist, where I also met my sweet fellow DT-member Lins *hi Lins!!*

Stamp: DoCrafts; (red) Cardstock, patterned paper and ribbon: Stampin'Up; (white) cardstock: Bazzill; Stickles: Ranger; Border punch: Martha Stewart; Coloring medium: Copics

Please join in the fun and get creating.... there's a really cool prize to win! :)

Magnolia card

I just so love the new Magnolia Fairytale collection! Specially in combination with the Tilda-papers :)
Started this card last Saturday at a forummeeting and finished it yesterday.

Detail, so you can see the glitter...

Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned paper: Tilda; Stamp: Magnolia (image) and Elzybells (sentiment); Flowers: Magnolia and Prima; Swirl: Prima; Stickles: Ranger; Ink: Memento; Coloring Medium: Copics

Digital Delights time! :)

OMG! It's release day at Digital Delights!

Made this card with the FISH image:

Cardstock and ribbon: Stampin'Up; Digital images: Digital Delights; Cuttlebug embossingfolders; Coloring medium: Copic markers

You can join us over at the Delightful Sketchesblog to participate! This time the sponsor is Pink Hedgehog Papercrafts.

Instyle Stamps OHDBCGA!!

It's time for OHDBCGA at Instyle Stamps!
This month the theme is "Mother's Day", so I guess the most of you are celebrating this.

Here's my take on the theme:

Stamp: Instyle Stamps; Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned papers: Tilda; Baubles: StampingBella; Ribbon: Stampin'Up; Stickles: Ranger; Coloring medium: Copics

A close-up

Go check out the InstyleStamps blog as there are some great prizes to win!
Yes, I said "prizes" as InstyleStamps has a new look and wow... it's marvelous and very, very cool!

So what are you waiting for??? Go to the Instyle Stamps blog, get creating and celebrate! :)

Magnolia Fairytale card

OMG!!
I was hoping to buy the newest Magnolia-stamps of the Fairytale-collection, which will be released pretty soon, at the Art Specially Event last Saturday at the Magnoliastand.
And luckily they had the stamps with them and yeah... bought a lot *oops*
Those stamps are just sooooooooo cute!

Here's a close-up of the card where you can see the glitter on her tiara and a bit on her skirt:

And here's the card I made with it.

Used some Tilda patterned papers which are just delicious to work with. If you ever get the chance to work with them... just do it!

Stamp: Magnolia; Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned paper: Tilda; Ribbon: Stampin'up; Flowers: Prima and Magnolia; Stickles: Ranger: Ink: Memento; Coloring Medium: Copics

Thanks for coming to my blog and watching what I love to do... being crafty :)

Have done some shopping :)

Friday evening I went to a scrapbookstore to follow a workshop by Tracy Hudson. It was a Prima workshop and already followed one about 2 years ago at the same store.
It was just great! I'm not someone that likes glitter and bling a lot, so it was quite of a shock to notice there was "some" bling in the kit.
(nevertheless I have to tell you I bought some of those "bling" flowers yesterday)
But.... I just sooooooo enjoyed it!

As I had to travel (by public transport, as I don't own a car and don't really need it either) a bit, I left work with a colleague of mine who had to travel the same direction.
Bought some dinner at the trainstation and had a marvelous evening untill... I had to go home that is.
Got the bus at about 10.05 pm, got the train at about 10.30, but had to change trains in Utrecht and there it was.... the train had some delay, 15 minutes. That's ok, but then they said it would take again 15 minutes before the train would leave, so I just took another train back home. I was home at 00.45 am!!!
Man, I was tired!
After 5 hours of sleep, my alarm went off so I could get the bus to get a car to Zeist, which is where the Art Specially Event was.

Still tired, I just sooooooooo loved the event!
Met loads of people (hi Lins, Angelina, Laura, Cora, Liezbeth, Rosita, Linda, and another one, sorry, can't remember your name...) and bought loads of cool goodies :)

It was extremely busy in the hall... terrible I can tell you! But there were so many cool shops!

First I went to the Magnolia-stand as I'm quite addicted to those stamps *lol*
Bought the newest stamps of the "fairytale"-collection. Really like them!
Also bought some flowers, other stamps, inks and papers.

Here it is :)

Have been playing around with some of the stamps already, so you will find those projects on my blog real soon :)

Anyways... I was really tired after the event. Left at about 6 pm and really enjoyed the day!
When I got home it was about 7.45 pm and felt really tired. Watched some tv and went sleeping.

Can't wait to go to the event next year!

Instyle Stamps Colorchallenge April

Yahoo! It's Instyle Stamps Colorchallenge time again!
Go visit the Instyle Stamps blog to see all of the other creations the DT-members made! They are awesome!

This week, Instyle Stamps is also sponsoring the Fussy and Fancy Friday challenge blog, so used their sketch for this challenge as well. Credits for the sketch go to Mindy Baxter.
You can win yourself 4 Instyle Stamps digistamps which are, by the way, really cool to use on all kind of projects, so get creating!! :)

Here's the card I made:

And a detailshot where you can see the glitter a bit better:

Stamp: Instyle Stamps; Cardstock and ribbon: Stampin'Up; Punch: Fiskars; Stickles: Ranger; Cuttlebugfolders; Coloring Medium: Copics

Teddy Stampers' challenge card :)

Yahoo!!
This is the first card I made as a DT-member for the Teddy Stampers Challenge blog! :)

This time around the theme is "Spring".
Finally spring has settled itself overhere in The Netherlands. Flowers are blooming, trees are getting back their flowers and leaves. It's just a pretty sight.
But, last but not least, temperatures are getting much better :) We had a really cold and long winter, but I just loved it! Never seen so much snow for such a long time.
But now.... it's another great season... Spring!

And Spring stands for me for "new, fresh and flowers", so I used my newest Penny Black stamps and used some fresh papers of My Mind's Eye.

Go check out the other creations the DT-members have made, hop on over to the Teddy Stampers' blog and just make something nice in a spring-theme with a Teddybear stamp on it (yeah, it's a must to do this, otherwise you will be disqualified, sorry).

Stamp: Penny Black; Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned papers: My Mind's Eye; Baubles: StampingBella; Ink: Memento; Coloring medium: Copics

Oh... did I tell you there's a prize to win as well???
This time the Teddy Stampers' Challenge will be sponsored by "Creations by Penny". Please check out the Teddy Stampers' Challenge blog for more info.

Can't wait to see all of your creations! :)

In2stamps Get Well-card

Here's a card with a In2stamps stamp from the "Get well"-collection.
Think this stamp is very versatile to use for Girl and Boy cards. Just adjust the colors you use. It's perfect!

Stamp: In2Stamps; Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned paper: WR MemoryKeepers; Ink: Memento; Coloring medium: Copics

Sketch online Magnolia card

There was another Sketch Online this Easterweekend at one of my Yahoogroups and I made this Magnolia Spring-card.
Just love the 2010 Magnolia Easterstamps a lot!

Here's a detail of the card:

And here's the whole card:

Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned paper: WR MemoryKeepers; Stamp: Magnolia; Ribbon: Stampin'Up; Baubles: StampingBella; Ink: Memento; Coloring Medium: Copics

Mojo Monday #133

I just love the Mojo Monday sketches, but don't play with them as much as I would like to.
But... today is my day off, plus there's a new sketch... soooooooooo.... I just made this card:

Cardstock, patterned paper, stamp, ribbon and markers: Stampin'Up; Baubles: Stampingbella; Ink: Memento; Nestabilities

In2Stamps challenge!!

There's a new challenge at the In2Stamps challengeblog.
This time you have to make a "Spring"-themed item/card.

Here's the card I made:

Stamps: In2Stamps (image) and HeroArts (sentiment); Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned paper: My Mind's Eye; Baubles: StampingBella; sewing machine; Coloring medium: Copics

And don't forget to enter the In2Stamps blogcandy. It's just amazing!!! You can win awesome stamps, a borderpunch, nestabilities and more, more, more!! :)

In2Stamps mega goodie package!!

Ok,
I just love new goodies, and what about you???
I sure know you do!!! So what are you waiting for?? Go to the In2Stamps blog to win all these goodies!!!!

OMG!! Can you believe it???!!! All this to win!!!

Go to the In2Stamps blog and see what you have to do to win all of this! It's just awesome!!!

InstyleStamps Sketch Challenge card

Yeah!
It's the 2nd day of the month, so that means the Instyle Stamps blog has another sketch-challenge for you all!

Here's the card I made:

Digitalstamp: Instyle Stamps; Cardstock, patterned papers and circle punches: Stampin'Up; Ink: Memento; Stamp (sentiment): StampingBella; Stickles: Ranger

Magnolia Eastercard

I just sooooooooooooooo love Magnoliastamps and I'm a real addict *lol*
Ordered the Easter 2010 stamps, but didn't receive them untill last week, so I had to work very hard to have some Eastercards ready for family and friends.

Here's one of them I made:

Stamps: Magnolia (image) and Stampin'Up (sentiment); Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned papers: WR MemoryKeepers; Ribbon: Stampin'Up; Borderpunch: Fiskars; Baubles: StampingBella; Inks: Memento and Colorbox; Stickles: Ranger; Coloring medium: Copic markers

I also made this card for the following challenges:

Crafty Angels - Easter

Crafty Cardmakers - Spring into Spring
Colour Create - Your Choice of Pastels
Stampin' for the Weekend - Easter
Stempel Magie - Easter
Magical Crafts - Easter
Stempeltraüme - Easter
The Corrosive - Easter or Spring
Crafty Ann - A card for someone special
Lexi's Creations - Easter
Everybody Art Challenge - Spring
Papertake Weekly - Open theme
Daring cardmakers - How Egg-citing
Cute Card Thursday - So Egg-citing
Creative Craft Challenge - Eggstatic
Going Grey Challenge - Easter

Delightful Sketches challengetime!

OMG! This is just toooooooooo cute!!
Having a Dutch digital stamp, it's just perfect for people coming to The Netherlands for holidays, travel, visiting family and living overhere.
Wanted to use colors of the Dutch flag (red, white and blue).
I will sure use this cute stamp a lot!

Made this card for the new challenge at the Delightful Sketches blog which is called "Buttons and bling".
Used a button and some bling.

Stamp: Mieke (Digital Delights); Cardstock and ribbon: Stampin'Up; Button: own stash; Cotton Thread: Rayher; Stickles: Ranger; Coloring Medium: Copics; Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Swirls

Please join me and the other DT-members and you can win a $ 20 shoppingspree at Simon Says Stamps!!

So what are you waiting for?? Get creating!!