Mother's Day Card

Hi everyone,

I thought I would post a picture of a Mother's Day Card I made yesterday.

The word Mum is stamped and embossed as are the edges with pink baby powder embossing powder

I can't stop sniffing it! it smells so lovely!! :)

Thanks for looking

Have a lovely evening

Jolanda x

Welcome to fabulous Mini Vegas Norfolk

Casino Jack is the inspiration poster for this month's

from Screen to Scrap Challenge.

Extra Criteria

 1pt = Grey base card stock
2 pts = playing card/s
3 pts = money notes

 

 

Here is my layout using the poster as inspiration.

I live in Great Yarmouth which I think is a gambler's paradise!  There are casinos, amusement arcades, horse racing, greyhound racing and many betting shops!!

 

 

 I used a dark grey cardstock as my base and gold embossed stamped coins around the edge.  I printed out some postcards showing all the lights.  There's a couple of playing cards tucked behind the main postcard too.  I tried to copy some notes but the software wouldn't allow it!! so I found an image on google and used that.

The Chinese acrobats are from a flyer advertising the circus.

Thanks for visiting

Jolanda x

Archi-Scraps Challenge 8

I recently found a new Scrapbooking site

called Archi-Scraps.

Their current challenge is to use a photo of David Cerny's

Metalmorphosis

as inspiration

If you go to Archi-Scraps there is a link to the video of this amazing piece of public art.

The added criteria is to use a headshot for your photo and bling!

 

 

This photo is of my youngest daughter and her best friend at their school prom.

I used various sprays and inks on the background of a ripped pizza box.

Here is a close up of some of the bling.

For the semi-heart I inked and then clear embossed, over this I brushed some perfect pearls powder and then reheated it- it gives a lovely shimmery effect.

Thanks for visiting

Have a good Sunday!

Jolanda x

 

Craftmania February Challenge

Our local craft shop, Craftmania have made a kit up from which you need to make a card for their competition.

Its a lovely kit with loads of stuff - enough to make several cards.

I used one of the white Marianne Designs cutting dies for the flower and flourish.

The aperture was cut with a heart die (can't remember who makes it but its pale pink if that's any help!)

Thanks for visiting

Jolanda x

From Screen 2 Scrap Challenge

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good weekend.

Screen 2 Scrap's January challenge poster is from the film TED

The Criteria was to use white cardstock as the base,

Large bold one word title

and a teddy bear.

My teddy bear is in the photos.

 

Opa is Dutch for grandfather

I cut some tags on the Cricut to go behind the photos and used a little butterfly brad to cover up my little cutting error!! I'm very good at cover ups now; I've had a lot of practice :)

Thanks for visiting

Jolanda x

a day at the beach

This photo brought back some great memories of a happy family holiday.

 

All four children happy together! :)

 

This is my youngest daughter with her blow-up swan on a hot sunny beach in France.

 

I cut a stencil of wings and stencilled this behind the photo and layered up some scraps underneath.

 

I would like to enter this into the Artastic Challenge to use chalks and wings.

 

 

 

Jolanda x

Go Karting Double Page Layout

A little while ago we went on a short trip to Holland,

Where, to my surprise my son went karting

 (I didn't think he would have to nerve to go on such a big track)

I took a panorama view of the whole track.

The others are of my son going around, he did very well too!

Guinea Pig shaped bread

 Hi everyone,

Are you having a good Saturday?

It's so cold here the only thing to do is stay in and bake and craft.

We've made guinea pig cake so I thought bread would be a good idea!

I pushed 2 sultanas in the front to make eyes and pulled the dough to make ears.

Very easy, but while its proving you have to keep pushing the sultanas in and reshaping the ears, but it baked beautifully.

Jolanda x

steampunk 18th Birthday Card

 

 

 

This is the card I made for my daughter's 18th birthday - she is quite into Steampunk at the moment.

The 18 was cut on the cricut and embossed and alcohol inks in browns for an aged effect.

I also cut the cogs on the cricut.

 

 

 

 

The steampunk lady is a free clip art.  I did follow the blog its from when I nabbed the clipart but somehow it didn't work.  So I will have to search again for it - he also had some other nice clipart to use for free.

I would like to enter this into the Top Tip Tuesday challenge 'kids and teens'

 

 

 

Thanks for looking

 

Jolanda x

mylo and friends

Here is a little card I made for my daughter's 2nd wedding anniversary

thanks for visiting me

Jolanda x