Wags'nWhiskers Challenge: Circles

Please scroll down for the Our Creative Corner challenge. I'm the guestdesigner of this week *whoowhoo*



Hi there!

Welcome back to my blog.....
Oh my... Blogger gave me some headaches the last couple of days. I was able to see my blog, but, as many of you who also have Blogger, weren't able to leave any comments nor log in to our accounts.
That way I wasn't able to put the text and photos of my sceduled posts online.

So right now I'm restoring all my sceduled posts. Ah well... better late than never eh?!

So here I am... back with the Wags 'n Whiskers challenge of this fortnight: CIRCLES.
I made a circle card for a men. I totally love those stamps to use on those kinda cards.

Here's the card:

I made it with Sophia, and you can buy the stamp overhere.
Didn't put too much embellishments on the card, uh... none :) But I so like this text for men's cards *lol*

Anyways...thanks for coming over. Please join me and the other DT-members in this challenge. We'd love you to play along! Please visit the blog for more details :)


Oh...before I forget, please... also visit the blog for some nice candy. Oh yes! We got some nice stuff there for you!

Thanks for coming over and see you later!

Guest Designer Our Creative Corner

A very special hi there!
A very special one, as I will be the guest designer this week for Our Creative Corner *whoowhoo*
I won one of their challenges a while back overhere and wow... it was just smashing to hear I'd be a GDT!!

This week the theme is "Going Natural" and the twist is "Buttons and lace". It sure is a challenge for me!
Please go to the Our Creative Corner blog for more details on this challenge :)

Here's my entry... made a CAS-card and hope you will like it!

And a detailphoto of the sentiment:

Thank you very much for coming over and a very special "THANK YOU!!" to the DT-members of Our Creative Corner for having me as a GDT! THANKS!!!

See you later!

DWYT Sketch #85

Hi there!

It's Thursday, 00:00 CET, so you know what that means on my blog ;)
It's time for another DWYT-sketch! *yahoo!*
When I first saw the sketch I was like: oh my... I totally don't like those lines higgledy-piggledy, so this sketch was more a guide for me this time. I used 5 different patterns, a large stamp and some ribbon and voila....

Here's my card:

Wanted to make another Christmascard as I'm in need of those right now.
Hope you will like it, if not.. I do *lol*

Thanks for coming over. For more inspiration from the other DT-members, please visit the DWYT-blog.

Right now it's time for me to say goodbye and see you later!

Whiff of Joy and Little Claire's Challenge cards

Hi there and welcome to another sunny Sunday!

Oh wow... the weather's been so lovely the past weeks, though I have to say I wish it would rain some days so all the trees, plants and flowers get some water from our mother, Mother Nature :)

Today I'd like to show you 2 cards I made for some challenges.

First of all I got a card made with a cute Whiff of Joy image. I so love their images, specially the ones designed by Elisabeth Bell :)
About 2 weeks ago I discovered an online craftshop in the city I live in and surprise, surprise, they also have a real craftshop, so was very surprised about that one, specially as they carry Whiff of Joy images *huuuuuuuuuge smile here!* And as that shop is situated almost besides a hospital I drive by every day from work...whoowhoo... well.. you know what I mean ;)
So I bought this stamp with another WoJ one, some papers and some more little stuff. Didn't buy that much as they, to be honest, don't carry the things I really, really enjoy to play with, but who knows what the future will bring :)
I came across the WoJ challengeblog today and wanted to play along. And as it was way too hot this afternoon to enjoy the sun at my balcony, I decided to play along.

So here you have my first card:

And a detailphoto where you can see the bling on the butterflies:

This card is playing in the following challenges:
- Whiff of Joy: Sketch
- Scrapdelight: Inspired by photo (I was inspired by the colors and with all the things on the picture you can make something, and I think that when you dream, you can do anything you want!)

And right now it's time to show you a card I made with a stamp I bought last September at a stamping and scrapbooking show in London, UK!!
Never ever heard of this company, Little Claire's, before, but wow... they have some lovely stamps out there and I bought several of them in London, but.... never used them till now that is! :)
Wanted to play along with their last challenge, but for some reason I just forgot, but now it's time to take part.
Made it a Christmascard as I don't wanna hurry the last months of this year making them.

So here you have my card:

And here some detailphotos where you can see the glitter I put on the snow I also put on the card:

And what's a roof without any snow when it snowed??!! So here you have it:

This card is playing in the following challenges:
- Little Claire's: Sketch
- Jingle Belles: Spirit of Christmas past
- Crafty Hazelnut: Inspired by photo (see their blog, I was inspired by the stocking which are at the chimney, and SantaClaus who brings the presents through the chimney)
- Winter Wonderland: Christmas colors

Thank you very much for coming over!

Enjoy your evening and see you later! :)

Spesch Stamps May release... you're gonna love these!

Hi there!

Over at Spesch Stamps, it's time for their monthly release and wow... what a release we got this time! :)
It's time for some fairytales.
There are 4 new images released and I made cards with 2 of them and here you have them.

I made a card with Ariel, the little mermaid :)
Actually I made this card after I made the other one, but used the same patterned papers as I really loved them and thought the dots were just perfect for the "sea"bubbles. That's why I also used that borderstamp and the dotted ribbon.
I also used the pearl glimmermist all over my card, so it got a lovely sparkle. Unfortunately my photography stills aren't that good to capture that :(

Anyways... here's the card, loads of sparkle on the flowers and Ariel:

And here we have Peter Pan... I just looooooooove this image for boy's cards! But this time I made a "congrats, you did it"-card for people who're going to graduate the coming month.
No sparkles overhere, but inked the edges.

Hoped you liked my cards :)

Now it's time to hop over to the Spesch Store and the Spesch Blog for more inspiration from the DT PLUS you can buy those images right away.... I just sooooooooooo love them!! :)

Thanks for coming over and see you later! :)

4 new SU challengecards, graduation

Hi there and welcome to another bright and sunny day!
And it's getting hotter as well overhere in The Netherlands, so I'm probably going to the beach or other lovely place tomorrow.

Anyways...today I had some time to craft, so made some cards.
Below the cards you will find the challenges that card is playing in.

So here they are.... my cards:

When I saw this "You brighten my day"-stamp, I just knew I wanted to make a card like this :)

Challenges:
- Ribbon Carousel Challenge: Inspired by 


And here some cards made with SU-only materials. I'm in need of some Graduationcards, so even though the kids overhere have to do their exams, I thought I begin with making the cards :)

Challenge:
- Less is more: Congratulations

Challenge:
- Less is more: Congratulations


And the last one for today:

Challenges:
- The Play Date Cafe: Colors on their blog
- Annabelle Stamps: Sketch


Thank you very much for coming over! :)
See you later and have a lovely day and weekend!

Sugar Nellie oldie, but goodie

Hi there!


As the title of this posts says, it's time for an oldie, but goodie Sugar Nellie :)
I've loved these stamps for quite a few years right now, I even have the older Elisabeth Bell stamps they used to sell overthere as well (luckily I bought them those days as they're also one of my faves!).
Anyways... I love the Sugars and while surfing the internet today, I came across this challengeblog I used to visit more often in the old days, I gave myself a try and wanted to make this challenge.
So here you have it, my card:

And a detailphoto to see the sparkle on the skirt, flower and bubbles:

Thank you very much for coming over! :)
See you later!




This card is playing with the following challenges:
- The Sugar Bowl: Sketch
- Amber's Crafts and Stuff: Special lady
- Crafts and me: Swirls
- Creative Card Crew: for mom
- Diva's by design: Anything goes
- For Fun: Mother's Day
- My mum's Craft shop: Cute & girly
- The Paper shelter: Bling it up
- The Sisterhood of crafters: Mother's Day
- Ladybugs Crafts Ink: Going Dotty
- Papertake Weekly: Anything goes
- Partytime Tuesdays: Mother's Day
- Try it on Tuesday: Something old, something new (old: Stamp, new: paper)
- Tuesday Throwdown: Mother's Day

DWYT SKetch #84

Hi there and welcome to this week's DWYT-sketch!

It was my turn to make this week's sketch. I kept it really CAS as I love making those cards and when I have a great sketch I like to use it all over and over again :)

So here you have it...

And here's the card I've created with it:

As you can see, it's a real simple one, easy to make within 5 minutes time.
And as we don't have time to make everytime 3 hour-cards, I thought it would be nice to show you one to make within the 5 minutes timeperiod PLUS you can use your scraps for the punches PLUS you can put any sentiment you'd like where I put mine :)

Thank you very much for coming over.
I'd love to invite you to visit the DWYT-blog so you can see the other examples the DT has made with my sketch. And while you're there... why don't you just play along?? I'd be really happy to see what you all make with my sketch :) Thanks!

See you later!

ABC Challenge: T is for Two

Hi there and welcome to another ABC-Challenge!

This time it's T for Two, two images that is!

And this week we're sponsored by Wild Rose Studio

It wasn't hard to think about what images I wanted to use... MAGGIES!! Oh, I so love them and when I bought these stamps at the Art Specially event, I just knew I wanted to use these for this challenge.
I really, really like these ones a lot, specially the backgroundstamp with the stones and flowers.
I didn't use a text on it, just wanted to focus on the image.

Anyways... here's the card for this challenge:

Thank you very much for coming over!
Please take a look at what the other DT-members have made at the ABC-Challengeblog. Thanks!
Plus I would really, really like to visit you, so why don't you just join us??!! Would be so much fun!

Thanks again and see you later!

Mojo Monday... Happy Birthday!

Hi there!

It's been awhile since I showed my last card...sorry!!
Thank you very much for your kind messages after my last post. As said before I'm not a person rambling about personal life on my blog, but this was something I just needed to do, to let people know the Make a Wish foundation, or the Doe Een Wens stichting overhere.

Anyways... I'm back with a card, made with this week's Mojo Monday sketch and wow... I just love this sketch!
Already made 2 cards with it (the other one is the same as this one).

Here you have it:

All materials used are SU, except of the twine. Bought that at the Art Specially Event a couple of weeks ago.

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