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!

Week 4 of Project 52

'The best things in life aren't things'

This the next instalment of Project 52 on Soul Scrappers.
For the background I tore strips of book, music and stamped paper and glued them to a card base. When it was dry I painted a thin coat of white to soften the printing.

Thanks to my followers and visitors :)

Jolanda x

Christmas tag

This is my entry in Panpastel's tag challenge

I white embossed some snowflakes on the tag then inked with blue and green distress inks.

the trees are a cuttlebug cut and the mini tag a free stamp from craftstamper magazine.

The father Christmas I stamped first and then brushed over with perfect pearls powder.

bye for now

Jolanda x

Simon Says Stamp and show some Tickets

Hi everyone, hope you're having a great Sunday.

This is my entry into the simon Says Stamp and Show challenge - show some tickets

The wordin on the tag says enjoy the memoirs - unfortunately memoirs doesn't show too well on the photo. My ideas for this piece were to make a time machine tag - and the tickets would allow you to be taken back in time.

The clock is a squashed bottle cap in which I put a stamped clock face and filled this with crackle glaze. The wings are from a metal butterfly which I snapped in half and covered with alcohol inks.

thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Grungy Monday

This is my entry for the latest Grungy Monday challenge - Perfect Distress.

I stamped the pen nibs and then did the perfect distress technique on them!! of course, the best bits are covered up - One day the best bit will be in a good place to stay uncovered!

I think the man is the Duke of Wellington.

The quote reads the best things in life aren't things. I made this stamp with my new stampmaker I have just bought.

Press studs are stuck in the corners.

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

halloween panel using Tim Holtz products

Hope you're having a good Sunday!

This is a panel I have made to enter a couple of challenges

I don't really send Halloween cards so I just thought I would make this and see what I can do with it later - I'm sure it will come in useful for some scrapbooking project in the future!

The back part is embossed using a Tim embossing folder which I then put mahogany distress ink on the raised parts and clear heat embossed - it really enriches the colours.

The front panel I stamped with Walnut stain DI and then coloured with tea dye and peeled paint DIs.

The cat is black embossed and cut out from the same embossing folder as the back panel.

I am entering this into Studio L3's Grungy Monday challenge - Tim Holtz Halloween and Simon says Stamp - Halloween or Goth challenge

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Strawberry Shortcake and Molly Blooms Stamped card

Hi everyone, I hope you are having a good weekend, the weather here is a bit disappointing and grey :( Hopefully it will be much better tomorrow (fingers crossed!!) lol

I have a pretty card to show you today

The stamped images are coloured with Distress Inks of various shades of brown.

The inside of the card is also decorated with some lovely vintage papers I bought in Holland when I was last there. I stitched round the edges of the papers to give a little bit of extra texture.

To finish off I added some gold liquid pearls to the cake icing!

It's the first time I have attempted a monochromatic card - I really like the effect.

I am entering this card into the Saturday Challenge - monochrome and the Stampman Challenge blog, which wants to see some stitching and also Simon Says Stamp - anything goes.

Have a great evening

Jolanda x

Vintage style birthday card

I made this card for my dad's birthday and luckily it fits several challenges going on at the moment.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
The Stampman - anything by Tim
paper cutz challenge

Stampavie - Birthday
Flutterby Wednesdays - use a butterfly

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

stamped butterfly card

Hello everyone,

I have managed to combine several challenges for this card. First I started with the sketch and to make the background with stamps (Our Vintage Affair). I used one of my favourite techniques by Tim Holtz for the Grungy Monday challenge 11.

The stampman challenge this week is to make something with butterflies and dragonflies, and Polkadoodles have a challenge - all of a flutter.
Finally a really easy one!! delightful sketches is anything goes.
All the stamps I used are by Tim Holtz.

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Distress Inks on tag

Hi everyone,

this is a tag I made using Tim Holtz Distress Inks - tattered rose, weathered wood and tumbled glass.

The bird is one of Tim Holtz's beautiful stamps. I mucked up the stamping of the bird, so I stamped on a paper bag that just happened to be on my desk. I cut it out and stuck it on - I really like it!! some of my best discoveries are by making mistakes!

I inked up the tag with the inks and then 'water stamped' over it to give the watery swirly effect.

I am entering this into two challenges

Studio L3 - distress ink challenge

Simon Says Stamp and Show - show us a tag

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Grungy Mondays - a new dimension

This week on Studio L3's challenge site the challenge is to follow one of Tim's techniques (you can see it here)
For this project I used some corrugated card for the dimension and painted the edges with gold acrylic paint. I then covered it with oriental style papers and then stamped and gold embossed the flowers.
The elephant was given to me by a student from Thailand, who stayed in my house while studying here. I have finally found a use for it!!!
Thanks for looking
Jolanda x

Grungy Mondays - tete a tete

Linda's challenge on Studio L3 this week is to use distress ink with multi medium.

It is a resist technique which can be found here

This is my version

I stamped fleur de lys on the right hand side and used them as a resist.

The couple are another from my set of Oxford Impressions stamps

Thanks for looking

Tim inspired tag

There is a new challenge on Studio L3's wonderful blog - Grungy Mondays

Its all about inspiration from the creations of Lord Tim Holtz!!

this first challenge is to take inspiration from one of his Christmas tags.

Tim Holtz's blog is here

I embossed the owl with copper embossing powder and painted in blue and green perfect pearls.

The leaf image around the edge was also stamped and brushed over with the green.

I shimmers beautifully in the light.

The owl is standing on some seaweed? that I picked up off the beach. I never go there without bringing something back!

TFL

The Stamp Man Challenge

Good morning to you all, hope it's a good one!!

This card is my entry for the Anything Tim challenge that is being held on the Stamp Man Challenge blog.

I have used 3 Tim stamps: the car, the sentiment and the swirls, which I embossed with vintage photo distress embossing powder. The car is covered with glaze and very shiny.

The Eiffel Tower stamp is from a travel stamp set and the building is one of my new stamps from Oxford Impressions (stunning stamps!!!!!!!)

Have a lovely day

Jolanda x

Dimensional Collage Fragment technique

This week at Studio L3 the challenge is to use the Dimensional Collage Fragment technique as featured in Tim Holtz's Compendium of Curiosities book. As I don't have any of these fragments I improvised with some very thick clear dimensional square stickers. I punched out some hearts from dictionary paper and back this with some pink oriental paper.

The tag is made from chipboard which I painted with white acrylic. then a layer of PVA and while it was wet another layer of white paint. This produced a nice crackle efffect when it dried. I inked this with Dusty concord distress ink.

I stamped the flowers and leaves and painted over them with acrylic paint. I can't paint leaves so I stamped over them with a Tim Holtz swirl and copper embossed it. I embossed the edges and finished off by attaching my three 'fragments'.

thanks for visiting my blog and leaving such nice comments :)

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

love you more...

Happy Thursday everyone, hope you're having a good day!

I cut out a red heart and embossed it with a TH folder and then swiped ink over the top and clear embossed it.

The hanger for the tag is a humble coke can ring pull that I embossed with verdigris embossing powder.

The flower was cut out using the cricut - George cartridge. On the petals I used the rusted Enamel technique from Tim Holtz's wonderful Compendium of Curiosities book. In the centre is a star shaped eyelet.

The love you more tag is a free stamp from Craftstamper magazine, which I also clear embossed.
I am entering this into the following challenges:

Studio L3 - CCC #31

Simon Says - anything but a card challenge

Simon Says Stamp and Show - embossing

Fantabulous Cricut - share the love

Crafty Creations - three little words

Thanks for visiting my blog

Jolanda x

male card

I made this card for the Crafty Creations Challenges - Heat it up!

My way of heating it up was to heat emboss the stamping and make it really glossy!

and of course, the man is standing in hot rain too!

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

CCofC challenge #29

This week the challenge is to make something using the weathered wood grunge technique.

A few days ago I bought the wood effect embossing folder and just had to use it. The method for the technique is in Tim Holtz's Compendium of Curiosities book.

I cut the swirly heart and 'rusted' it with Vintage Photo Distress embossing powder. The bird is inked with rusty hinge and tumbled glass distress ink. For a bit of glam, I painted the blue bits with Turquoise perfect pearls powder.

The bead is attached with gold wire and is curled underneath.

I'm entering this into CCC challenge #29 and delightful challenges - have a heart

Hope you like it!

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Simon Says Stamp and Show

Simon Says Stamp and Show's current challenge is to show something made with a Tim Holtz technique. Its a bit difficult to choose, because they are all a lot of fun to do. I decided to choose water stamping as I was amazed by the effect you can get with it!!

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x