Its all about the vintage - love

Its all about the Vintage are having a 'love' challenge.

I made this 'lovely' easel card for the challenge.  I embossed the edges with roses using a brass stencil and light box (haven't used that for a long time!! since I bought my cuttlebug)

The butterflies were cut on the cricut and painted with perfect pearls powder.

The lovely couple are from Oxford Impressions Paris plate.

Have a good evening

Jolanda x



Dragon Tales - Skyrim

Smudgy antics current challenge is called

Dragon Tales

I thought a Skyrim card would be perfect.  My son plays this game on his xbox all the time and there are lots of dragons in it too!

I used a map of Skyrim as the background and coloured the dragon with Promarkers.

The eyes are red glitter glue and in the corners used cosmic shimmer bronze pva for the 'brads'.

Thanks for looking

Bye for now

Jolanda xx

Totally Gorjuss - Lace challenge

Hi, everyone

This is my entry for the Totally Gorjuss lace challenge - it started out as the previous one which was to follow a sketch but it seems I ran out of time!

Luckily I had put a strip of lace on the card :)
I would also like to enter this into the Crafts and Me lace challenge.

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Going Buggy - August Challenge

Going Buggy is having a girly challenge - you must make a girly card with a girly icon on it.

I hope my lady with the hat fits!

I coloured her face with promarkers and paper pieced the hat and collar.

She is a stamp that came free with a magazine.

 

The frame and swirls are dies by Leane Creatief.  I cut it out using coredinations card.

Thanks for visiting

Jolanda x

Less is More!!!

Hope you are having a lovely restful Sunday,

the weather has been lovely here today, so good in fact, we took a little walk along the beach to the ice-cream van at the harbour!! It was very nice too :)

I am really getting into these less is more challenges - I think they take a lot more thought than the 'pile it on' cards!!

The challenge is to make a one layer card with fur or feathers on it.  I think I did quite well because my daughter ran her finger over it to check it really was one layer! :)

 I have found that DL card blanks are really good to use for clean and simple cards - not too much space to use.  

First, I stamped the bird (from my new stamp set - bird script, by Papermania)

Then masked it and stamped the music over the top.

I then masked the top and bottom with post it notes and used distress inks to colour the band across the card.

I dabbed black around the edges of the bird to lift it off the background a bit.

Lastly, I used a thin black pen to do wiggly lines top and bottom a la Barbara Gray!! lol!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Less is More - One layer card with fur or feathers

Stampalot - Take flight

Thanks very much for visiting

Jolanda x

Less is more - blue and green challenge

When I saw the less is more challenge is blue and green it had to be the Dutch houses with green doors.  A lot of the houses have very dark green houses and window frames.

have a nice day

Jolanda x

vintage stamped card - celebrate the moment

Hi everyone

Last week I had to buy some new stamps, as I don't have enough!! lol!!

This one is from Papermania - Urban Stamps range

The banner is a molly blooms stamp.

The background is made from distress inks and mica sprayed on.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Less is More - sketch challenge

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Anything Goes

The Stampman - Anything Goes/Celebration

Crafts & Me - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting my blog

Jolanda xx

Tilda with Tulips

I love this Tilda stamp - it's my latest acquisition.

I coloured her using Promarkers and also used them to colour the leaves and branches.

The bird and the leaves are a Marianne die.

I would like to enter this into the 

Passion for Promarkers challenge - use gingham or checks

and also the Dutch Magnolia Chickies challenge - anything goes.

Simon Says Stamp and Show - layers

Sir Stampalot - crafty passion - my passion has to be stamping and colouring, I don't think I can make a card or layout without some stamping on it. 

Tilda with Ladybird

One of my favourite Tilda stamps

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Pan Pastel - icecream colours

Totally Gorjuss - sketch

Saturday Challenge - pastel colours

Everybody Art - Summer

less is more - Gold

This is my entry for the Less is More challenge - gold.

Less is more is really quite difficult - I just want to put more things on but I must stop!!

I've tried quite hard to keep some 'white space' not sure if I have really achieved it but I did try!! lol!

I stamped the flowers and gold embossed them and also the flourishes.