Birthday Cards

 I made these cards with lots of inspiration from Craft Stamper magazine.

The girl is a free stamp from a creative stamping magazine and the background stamps are Tim Holtz Stampers anonymous.

 I liked it so much I made it twice!

Ships sail in the night

I made this card for the anything goes challenge at Pan Pastels

I masked off the moon and inked the background before dripping water on to make some spots.

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Distressed and masked tag

Hope you're havin a good day!
This tag is being entered into two challenges Studio L3's CCC #33 - Inking and Stamping Masks and for Simon Says Stamp and Show - a tag.

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Nature's Factory tag

Hi everyone, here is my latest entry for Studio L3's CCC #20 - the challenge this time is to do Tim Holtz's industrial grunge technique. Loook in the book for exact instructions.

First I painted the tag yellow with acrylic paint. Then I made a mask in a cog shape (this was made in the same way as you cut snowflakes as a child - if you know what I mean).

Next I sponged over the mask with red and then black paint.

I used the urban grunge technique on the the flowers (photo doesn't show it very well :( ). I painted them silver to look like metal and arranged them like cogs. To finish them off I glued some washers and nuts in the centres.

As this tag looks a bit mechanical, I thought it needed some worker bees -I die cut them with a cuttlebug die and coloured them with permanent marker pens.

Thanks for looking at my blog and thanks to my growing number of followers :))
Jolanda x

Extreme Masking - Challenge #19

Happy Wednesday to you all!

Studio L3 have another exciting challenge from the Compendium of Curiosities challenge; this time extreme masking. I won't tell you what this is exactly cos its in Tim Holtz's book!

I bought the book and I think it has changed my style of crafting! (for the better I hope! :)). The book is so full of wonderful ideas.

I used Distress inks to colour the background - barn door, peeled paint and walnut stain on a yellow tag.

For the extreme masking I cuttlebugged a 'ornament' shape and used this as a mask. Inside the shape I stamped wording from a Tim Holtz stamp. The stamp stamp is a See D's one.

The lady is from a free image on the Internet somewhere - I think it may have been Art-e-zine.

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Make your own stamps!

Hi, everyone - hope you are having a good Sunday

I wanted to show you a stamp I made. I have seen so many nice birdcage stamps around and thought I would have a go at making my own.

In the local pound shop I found a set of four rubbers - 2 big and 2 small - Perfect!

I drew out my design using a soft pencil and then turned it over on top of the rubber, rubbed and transferred the design onto it.

Cutting it out with a lino tool requires a little patience but I think this only took me about 20 minutes.

I stamped the birdcage and embossed it with a cosmic shimmer embossing powder.

To stamp the birds inside I cut a mask for the outside and stamped through this so none of the bird stamp shows outside the cage.



Thanks for visiting my blog

Jolanda

another spooky tag 666

Hi everyone,

Simon Says Stamp and Show have a challenge to use numbers. As I have seen so much scary halloween crafty stuff made recently, I decided something scary would be good.

There are numbers all over the tag and embossed in the bottom righthand corner are the numbers 666.

The stamps of the ladies and the children (hiding in the background) are Tim Holtz stamps.

I used distress inks in weathered wood and Walnut stain.

Thanks for looking

I am also entering this into the secretcrafter saturday challenge - distressing

Jolanda x

slightly spooky Autumn Tag

High everyone, I made this tag for the Kard Krazy Tuesday Tag challenge. The theme of this is pumpkins.

The lady and cross are hand carved from erasers.

I am also entering this into Gingersnap creations gothic challenge. I think the church is quite gothicy and the lady and cross quite scary.

And the stampin for the weekend challenge which is to use the colours of Autumn.

And the stampman challenge site which again is to use Autumn as inspiration.

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

stampartic challenge card

This card is my first entry for a Stampartic challenge. In this challenge stitching and masking a stamped image must be used. The background lettering stamp is from Stampsmith and the house is from the Dutch houses set by Avec. (my favourite stamps). The key is a free stamp from Craft Stamper Magazine. I made the flowers, using techniques I have seen on several websites. I decided to leave the house plain white, I think it looks quite effective.
Thanks for looking.