Marianne's little sweetheart Easel Card

I've just bought some promarkers and am practising colouring with them. Still doesn't look as professional as in the magazines but I will keep on trying!!!

The image is from Marianne Design - little sweethearts. The flowers and butterfly are all cut using my cricut. After inking the flowers I painted them with perfect pearls powder...very glam!! he he

I am entering this into several challenges:
Marianne's Design Divas - anything (Marianne) goes
fun with shapes and more - anything goes
lil red wagon - butterfly diecut
crafting for all seasons - birthday

I hope your day hasn't been too windy - despite the wind it has been lovely and warm.
Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

laptop Card/gift box

Hi everyone, this is card made by my daughter and me.  Her boyfriend really loves computers and we thought this would be a fun card to make for him.  It also doubles as a gift box.

First we made a box and lid.  On the lid we put a keyboard and then attached the 'screen' to the lid side.

A really simple and easy make!!!

Papertake weekly has an anything goes challenge this week.

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Travel Suitcase Birthday Card

Hi everyone,

I made this card for my eldest son's birthday - He loves to travel, so I thought this was quite appropriate!

I used a couple of Tim Holtz stamps on this card and black embossed the images. The tag is also stamped but I don't know who made that one.

I am entering this card into the Stampman Challenge which is all about travel

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Hi Everyone,

I made this card for my eldest daughter's birthday.

I love this cute image and thought it would be quite a challenge to colour it in using only Black Soot Distress Ink.

For a bit of shine I added a black satin ribbon and put some gloss on the butterfly. The butterfly is a free stamp from Craftstamper magazine.

A doily and some lace give it a nice feminine effect.

I am entering this into:

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - ribbon and lace

Crafts & Me - #49 lace

Digi Doodle - Anything goes

Have a great weekend - whatever the weather!! lol

Jolanda x

Another pretty easel card

Hi everyone, hope you're having a nice Sunday. I've had a lot of fun making this card! I'm really pleased with the result - maybe I should send it to myself! lol!

I stamped the girl and coloured her in with Distress Inks and then cut her out using an outside of the die technique - which is the challenge on the Little Miss Muffet blog.
I also decided to follow the sketch on the digi doodle shop challenge blog - I had to turn the image around to make it fit though



Frosted Designs are having a colouring challenge this week.

Delightful Sketches want to see some stitching.

Crafts and me and Fashionable Stamping both have anything goes challenges.
and so do addicted to stamps



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

Vintage Tattoo Wedding Card

I made this card for a friend's wedding - I think they are quite an unconventional couple and wanted to make a 'different' kind of card for them.

I made this using my fairycut software and then cut it out on the cricut.

The birds are coloured with distress inks.

Although this card is simple I am very pleased with the result :)

I am entering this card into the OVA - July card challenge. Although it isn't traditionally vintage , I think the tattoo style is quite retro from the 50's.

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Our Vintage Affair July Sketch Challenge

Hi everyone,

This is a layout I have made of my daughter's wedding last September.

Our Vintage Affair July challenge is to use the sketch from their blog and to use at least one handmade flower - easy!! I love making flowers and for this layout I crocheted the flowers in the top right hand corner.

The bands going across the page are made from masking tape that I stamped using distress ink (it takes a while to dry)

I also found some whitewash colourcore card in a sale and embossed this in the cuttlebug and sanded it. I love the colours and the effect it gives.

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