A Very Happy New Magnolia Year 2012!

Hi there and what better way to wish you a very happy 2012 than by showing you a Magnoliacard, specially with Celebration Tilda on it! :)
Hi en ik kan op geen betere manier jullie een geweldig 2012 toewensen, dan deze Magnoliacard te laten zien, vooral omdat Celebration Tilda erop zit! :)

I hope all your wishes and dreams may come true, loads of love and off course a very creative 2012!
Ik hoop dat al jullie wensen en dromen waar zullen worden, heeeeeeeel veel liefde en natuurlijk een zeer creatief 2012!

Made this card with Celebration Tilda. It was an exclusive about some months ago to a shop in The Netherlands, so was quite surprised it was showing up in the newest Magnolia release (I'll be waiting a few months in the future, it will save me some money, cos it's cheaper at this release ;))
Ik heb deze kaart met Celebration Tilda gemaakt. Het was een aantal maanden een exclusieve stempel voor een winkel hier in NL, dus ik was op z'n zachtst gezegd verbaasd toen deze in de nieuwste Magnolia release verscheen (ik wacht dus voortaan wel een paar maanden, scheelt ook weer geld, want deze is nu ook goedkoper ;))


Anyways... enjoy :)
Anyways... geniet :)

And a detail...
En een detail...

Thanks for coming over and hope to see you again :)
Bedankt voor het langskomen en ik hoop jullie weer te mogen begroeten :)



Challenges this card is playing in:
- Christmas cards: Sketch
- TOMIC: Happy New Year
- Just Magnolia: White + one color (I used pink)
- Dutch Magnolia Chickies: Pink & White
- Cute Card Thursday: Happy New Year
- Simon Says Stamp: Anything goes

Magnolia Winter 2011 card

Hi there and welcome!

Oh my... it's been really "hot" the last couple of weeks and Christmas has been totally different compared to the last two where it was snowing and now... it's 10 degrees Celcius!!
So, maybe this Magnolia card will bring the Winter to The Netherlands ;) Who knows....

Used some scraps from last year's Echo Park paper I came across cleaning and used a Magnolia stamp released for this Christmas.

So here you have it...

And 2 detailphotos to see some glitter and gems..

Thank you very much for coming over and hope to see you again! :)


This card will play in the following challenges:
- Christmas Cards: Sketch
- Magnolia Stamp Lovers: Winter
- Simon Says Stamp: Bingo (I used Ribbon, Glitter and Gems)
- Stamptacular Sunday: Winter (+photo inspiration)
- Pile it on: Bling it on!
- One Stop Craft Challenge: Winter Wishes

Papertrey December Blog Hop Challenge

Hi there and welcome to the Papertrey Ink December Blog Hop Challenge! :)

I defenately wanted to participate in this challenge, as it would be a real challenge for me.

The challenge is to use some left over material to create a project.

I used some twine I had left after wrapping some presents and used the tree I cut out of wrapping paper (bought this one last September in London). Have to say I stamped the "bubblewrap", but it looks like real :)

So here you have my project, a kraftbag to use next year ;)

And my kraftbag with the wrapping paper (you can see the trees on it):

Thank you very much for coming over!

Hope to see you tomorrow... am working on another project :) Yeah... mojo is back! :)

This project will play in the following challenges:

- PTI: bloghop

- CAS-ual Fridays: Brown paper packages tied up with string

- JellyPark Challenges: Anything but a card

Wishing you Peace this Holiday Season

Dear readers,

Wishing you all Peace and Joy this Holiday Season.
May you have a very Merry Christmas and a lovely and fantastic 2012!!

This card will play in the following challenges:
- Less is More: Just One Word
- Charisma Cards: Anything goes
- Crimbo Crackers: Snowflakes
- Paper Pretties: Let it snow

Yeah!! Back online!! :)

Thanks to my great brother I'm back online since past Thursday!! *whoowhooooooooooooo*
I'm so glad everyting is normal right now. I had a virus (and I'm not a computernerd at all, so was quite scared loosing everything), but that's gone as well :)

I'm trying to find my way around again, seeing new challenges etc., making crafty things, etc. etc. on the internet. Wow... I missed so much in the last weeks, but it was also a good time to do other things at home.
Have so many plans for 2012, just watch my blog for updates :)

Anyways... gotta go right now, am in a crafty mood today, also baking my 2011 Christmascake. So many things in life I love doing, it's sometimes hard to make a decision.


Thank you all so much for visiting me the last weeks, even though I didn't upload things. I will make it up to you asap! :)

internet problems :(

Hi all!

Not so good news right now... well... there are worse things in the world.
Am writing this from someone else's home, but I don't have any internet and emailaccess at home. Have a virus on my computer and guess I have deleted some files that were part of internet and emailaccess.... *whoops!*
So no updates from me the last couple of days and the next couple of days as well. Hopefully it will be fixed this Friday.

But, the good part...
It gives me loads of cleaning time :) My craftroom hasn't looked so organized since 2007 *lol*
And some good crafttime as well :)

So this is the update... hopefully I will be back online soon...

ABC Challenge: D for Dazzle

Hi there and welcome to another ABC Challenge! *whoowhoo!!*

This time we arrived at the D, and it's for DAZZLE, so get out your glitter and glamour and get creative.
I'm totally into the Christmasmood and just loooooooooove this SU set. I just love the trees (there are actually 3 trees on the stamp, but didn't use the 3rd one).
I stamped them with Versamark and put some holographic embossingpowder on it and heated it. Just looooove the sparkle it gives. Not too much (I'm not a glittery type), but just enough for some action.

So here you have the card:

And a detailphoto of the trees to see the sparkles...

Thanks very much for coming over.
I hope to visit you while you play along with us. So get over to the ABC Challengeblog to see what to do :)

See you later! :)

Happy 90th Birthday! Magnolia stamp card

Hi there and happy 90th Birthday Grandma! :)

Oh yeah... it's a special day overhere and we celebrated in style with loads of family, friends and other people. It was just great!

As I think 90 roses are wasting too much space (are gone within a couple of days/weeks and are very, very expensive, even though I love my grandma a lot), I made this card and told her it was me giving those roses and she had to imagine it were 90 real ones :)

Anyways... here's my card. Just love the LOTV sentiment I bought in London last September. I really enjoyed creating it a lot and had a lot of compliments today from people, but the best part was my grandma liking it :)

So here you have it...

And a detailphoto:

Thanks for coming over and see you later! :)


This card will play in the following challenges:
- Simply Magnolia: Anything goes
- Simon Says Stamp: Photo inspiration
- Stamptacular Sunday: Punch it!
- Card Caravan Challenge: Birthday themed

Basic Grey Challenge: Mix & Match Lily of the Valley card

Hi there and welcome! :)

Oh boy... busy, busy, busy, headaches, headaches and more headaches... not a day without them :(
Ok, I will stop now, as there are a lot more worse things in the world.

Anyways... welcome to another Basic Grey challenge!!
This time we're mixing things up and wow... it sure was a challenge for me, but when I looked through my stash of 6x6 paperpads, it kinda was quite easy. Just combined the background paper from the Oliver collection and the patterned papers from the Jovial collection.
And this is the way it turned out...

And a detailphoto...

Even though I totally am a cat-person, I think this Lily of the Valley dog is quite cute and love it as well :)
Bought that image last year in London and the sentiment stamp is also from Lily of the Valley and bought it last time in London (loved being there!) at a stamp and scrapbooking fair and they both finally saw some ink :) 

So... now it's your turn to get those Basic Grey papers out of your closets and get mixing and matching them together to find awesome combinations.

Please join us at the challengeblog. And while you're there, please visit the other DT-members as well... great projects!

Thanks very much for coming over and hope to see you next time :)



This card will also play in the following challenges:
- Christmas cards: sketch
- Lily of the Valley: Creature comforts
- Christmas Stampin': Never seen ink
- Crimbo Crackers: Make it sparkle
- Fun with shapes and more: Make 3
- Floweretstämplar: Christmas

Birthday Card - Magnolia Fishing Edwin

Hi there on this "Feels like Spring-kinda" Sunday in November.

Oh yeah... the weather overhere in The Netherlands is just fantastic! Yesterday we were able to go outside without a wintercoat and outside the wind, behind glass it was really comfortable and you were even able to sit outsite without a coat. NICE!!
Nature is behaving really strange the last year....

Anyways... back to topic :)
Got a Magnolia Edwin birthday card to show you today. Made this one a while back for someone who likes fishing.

I masked Edwin, so he was able to sit. Used some punches and voila.... my card's ready:

And a detailphoto of Edwin...

Right now I'm in the middle of Christmascards. Have to make the last ones, but also got some orders from people to make :)
So time is precious and I couldn't find it at the biggest craftfair today... still looking for the right shop which sells it *lol*


Thank you very much for coming over.
See you around next time :)


This card is also playing in the following challenges:
- Just Magnolia: Anything goes
- Birthday Sundaes: Birthday words on front (Van harte = Congrats)

ABC Challenge: C for Crochet Flowers

Hi there and welcome to another ABC-Challenge.


WOW!! What a great response we had on the latest challenge.... top entries and it was really hard to make a Top 3. Please visit the ABC Challengeblog to see who's in our Top 3 :)

The challenge for the coming weeks is "C for Crochet flowers".

For this challenge, I really had no idea what to make as I don't crochet (don't know if you spell it this way), but rememberes some flowers I bought from SU quite a time ago (think about 2 years or something).
So I made this very, very CAS card, but wow... I love it! Think it's better IRL than on the photo though :)

Anyways.. here you have it!

And a detailphoto:

First I used a nestabillitie to diecut the circle. Than placed the flower, stamped the sentiment... easy peasy tonky wonky... really CAS :)

So this is it for me today. Please go to the blog, so you don't miss any of the other creations the DT made :)

Thanks for coming over to see my thing and see you later!

Basic Grey Challenges: Anything Goes

Hi there and welcome again to my blog :)

This time it's time to reveal what I made for the BasicGrey Challenge: Anything Goes.
I'm still into the Halloween home-decoprojects. I just loooooooove making home-decoprojects, only problem is I don't have a large house, so will be giving this away :)

I wanted to use this cute stamp of Batty Tilda in combination with the Booooo background, so I masked a little, colored a bit here and there, used some BasicGrey Eerie papers from the 6x6 paperpad, altered a black photoframe and.... voila.... here's my project:

And a detailphoto...

Thank you very much for coming over!
I'd like to invite you to play along with this challenge over at the Basic Grey Challengeblog.
There you will also find all the other gorgeous inspiration projects the other members of the DT made and WOW!! They just blew me away and I'm sure they will do the same to you :)

See you later! :)

This card is also playing in the following challenges:
- Sweet Stampin': Anything goes
- Saturday Challenge: Spooky or whimsical 
- Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge: Spooky
- If the shoe fits... scrap it!: Halloween or fall
- Bloggers challenge: Happy Haunting

Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge: Black and pearls/ribbon

Hi there and welcome to another Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge :)

This time we choose the theme "Black and pearls/ribbon".
I wanted to be in the Halloweenmood a bit longer, so I made a Halloweencard (for next year to send that is).
I used one of my fave WnW images: Hannah (US/Canada buy here, rest of the world buy here)

And here you have my card:

Thank you very much for coming over. I'd like to invite you to join us and play along with this challenge.
Please go to the Wags 'n Whiskers blog for more info :)

See you later!

Magnolia-Licous Christmas All Year Long bloghop - Magnolia card

Hi there!

Welcome to another Magnolia-Licious Christmas All Year Long Bloghop!
If it's correct, you've came here after visiting the Magnolia-Licious Christmas All Year Long Blog, the starting point for today and I'm the first person on the hop this month.
At this blog there's a bloghop every 25th of the month.
And as I really don't like all the stress at the end of the year with making Christmascards I thought this was one of the ways to get a little less stressed :)
So I decided to participate and it also challenges me to use my Christmas Maggies all year long and as the newest collection is arriving at my house (uhh... the fall kit is with some nice stamps and will buy the others during a hobbyfair next week), I really can't wait till it's Christmas... Only 9 weeks to go!

Anyways... here's the card I made for this hop:

And a detailphoto of all the glitter:

Thank you very much for coming over. Your next stop on the hop is Carissa and she's got something amazing to share with you!

Thanks again for taking the time to come over and see you later! :)

This card is also playing in the following challenges:
- Christmas Stampin' All Year: Sparkle
- Floweretstämplar: Christmas
- Soartful Challenges: Angels
- Squigglestamps: Christmas
- Christmas Inspirations: Die cuts or punches
- Magnolia Down Under: Getting Punchy

Haunty Halloween Hop - Magnolia Halloween Time

Hi there and welcome to another awesome Blog Hop with my sweet and dear online friends, this time it's called the "Haunty Halloween Hop".
Hi en welkom bij een nieuwe geweldige bloghop met mijn lieve online friends, ditmaal genaamd "Haunty Halloween Hop".

And wow.... do we have an awesome hop for you!! Amazing projects have been made and you will defenately not be sorry for hopping with us. You have time to do this untill the 26th October, 8 pm EST, or 27th October 2:00 am CET (oh boy... love those timezones ;))
En wow... we hebben een geweldige hop voor je in petto!! Geweldige projecten zijn er gemaakt en je zult zeker geen spijt krijgen om met ons te hoppen. Je hebt de tijd tot 26 oktober 8 pm EST, ofwel 27 oktober 2:00 am CET (Nederlandse tijd, geweldig... houd van die tijdszones ;))

Please visit every participant of this bloghop and leave them all a message as there are some awesome prizes to be won as well and well.... you just never know if it's you who will get a prize ;)
Neem een kijkje bij iedereen die meedoet met deze bloghop en laat een berichtje achter, aangezien er geweldige prijzen te winnen zijn en wel.... je weet nooit of jij het bent die een prijs zal ontvangen ;)

If it's correctly, you've came here after visiting Lea. If you didn't come here by visiting her first, please go to Cyndi's blog, so you won't miss out all the great fun and awesome projects my sweet friends have made. Thanks!
Als het goed is, ben je hier gekomen nadat je Lea hebt bezocht. Als je hier niet gekomen bent door haar eerst te bezoeken, ga dan naar Cyndi's blog, zodat je niets mist van alle geweldige projecten die mijn lieve friends hebben gemaakt. Bedankt!


Now it's time to reveal my project.... I wanted to make something with my Magnolia stamps and wanted to make a home-decor item as well, so here you got the result...
Nu is het tijd om mijn project te onthullen... Ik wilde iets maken met mijn Magnolia stempels en wilde ook een home-decor item maken, dus hier heb je het resultaat...


It's a 9"x9" home-deco project...

And a few detailphotos...

So... that's it... but ...

we have TONS of fabulous Halloween prizes from our wonderful sponsors!

Zo... dat is dat... maar ...

We hebben super Halloweenprijzen van onze geweldige sponsoren!

Stampendous! ( 5 winners... 1 Halloween bg cling stamp each winner..Crowscape, Graveyard, Beware Gate, Castle Gate, Pumpkin Fence) - US only

Karber Digital Designs...2 digis to one winner

Skipping Stones Design...Halloweenie set - US only

Smeared Ink  (5 single digis...)

Strange Skin...1 set of choice (except Zombies)

Jens Digi Stamp...(5 images to one winner)

Simply Betty Stamps...($10 Gift Certificate)

La-La Land Crafts ($10 Gift Certificate)

Dreamweavers Stencils: 3 prizes: each is 4 stencils, 2 brushes, with 3 technique sheets each! - US only

And here's the order of the hop:
De volgorde van onze hop:

Cyndi

Pam

Suzi

Jingle

Krissy

Alison

Wendy P.

Wendy J.

Berenice

Lynn

Maria

Lee

Stampendous! Blog

Sandie

Tanya

Beth

Mary

Lea

Angélique (you're here!!)

Betty

Taylor

So this means your next stop is Betty. Please give her a lovely message as she made an awesome project!

Dit houdt dus in dat je volgende stop Betty is. Geef haar een lief berichtje aangezien haar project echt super is!

Thanks for visiting me today and see you later :)

Bedankt voor het bezoek en zie je later! :)


This project will play in the following Challenges:
- 4 Crafty Chicks: Marker it up
- C.R.A.F.T. challenge: Autumn
- CCEE Stampers: Fall
- Delightfull Challenges: Halloween
- Shelly's Images: Anything goes
- Crafting for all Seasons: Halloween
- Divas by design: Something Spooky
- Freshly brewed design: Color Challenge (black, purple, orange)
- I brake for Challenges: Halloween
- Inky Impressions: Halloween
- Little Red Wagon: Fall themed projects
- 7 Kids Challenge Blog: Halloween
- Whimsical Wednesdays: Halloween
- Color Throwdown: Colors (see their blog)
- Paper Craft Star: Trick or Treat
- Magnolia Mania: Little Scene
- Oldie but a goodie: Autumn colors (Halloween is in the Autumn....)
- Papertake Weekly: Halloween Hues
- Partytime Tuesdays: Spooky
- ColourQ: Colors (see their blog)
- Dutch Magnolia Chickies: Halloween
- The Crazy Challenge: Halloween
- Magnolia Stamp Lovers: Fall
- Gingerloft Challenge: Halloween or Fall
- DreamValley Challenges: Halloween
- Addicted to Stamps: Halloween
- There's Magic in the air: Halloween
- Sparkles Forum Challenges: Halloween
- Scrappy Frog Challenges: Something that flies
- Kreative Stempelfreunde: Halloween
- Simply Magnolia: Halloween
- Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Trick or Treat
- Stampin'For The Weekend: Spooky
- Stempelsonnen Challenges: Halloween
- All Sorts Challenge: Halloween
- CMC Copic Challenge: Fun Halloween
- Just Some Lines: Halloween
- Desafio Mad About Magnolias: Halloween

Basic Grey Challenges Fall/Halloween

Hi there!

I'm here *again*. This time for the Basic Grey Challenges.
The theme is "fall, autumn, halloween".

I made my CAS card with the awesome Eerie-paperpad which I bought a year back (I think, or it was 2 years ago). Love the colors of it and it really gives me a vintage look.

I combined my papers with an awesome Elzybells-stamp I bought a long, long time ago. Luckily I did, as Elzybells isn't there anymore and I always found their stamps very whimsical. Don't you just love the circle sentiment and Dracula?? I sure do!

Anyways... here's my card. Enjoy...

Hope you can join me and the other DT-members on this challenge. Thanks! :)
Go visit the blog for more inspiration.

Hopefully I will be crafting a lot more the coming week. Hardly got any time after work nowadays.

Thanks for coming over and see you later! :)

ABC Challenge B for Boo!

Hi there and welcome to another ABC-Challenge.

WOW!! What a great response we had on the latest challenge.... top entries and it was really hard to make a Top 3. Please visit the ABC Challengeblog to see who will be our GDT in November :)

The challenge for the coming weeks is "B for Boo", so think of Halloween, Spooky, etc. etc.

This time we're sponsored by The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop and they have some awesome stuff for the winner :)


For this challenge I grabbed an "oldie, but goodie"-stamp from StampingBella. It was when I saw the StampingBella's on cards when I knew I had to "have" Copics and right now I can't live without them! :)
I colored the Bella with only a couple of colors, didn't do my "usual" type of coloring (with 3 colors of the same range, to get some shadow etc.).

So here you have my card... it's cute.. it's black... I love it! :)

So what are you waiting for?? Get creating!!
We'd love to visit you and like you to participate. Please visit the blog for more details.

Thank you so much for coming over and see you later! :)

New Magnolia Fall Kit 2011 card - Christmas preview

Hi all!

Oh, I'm so happy, cos when I came home after work and playing flute, I found the newest Magnolia Stamp Kit *whoowhoo!!*

Soooooooo... after mounting, I just had to play with one of those cuties.

Here's a little teaser for you...

More of this card will be there tomorrow :) (oh no, I'm not mean...really... just haven't completed coloring and making the card :) Only colored her skin and hair and did some stickles, that's all)

Thanks for coming over and see you later!