Frosted Designs - embossing challenge

 

Good morning!

 

I made this Tilda card for the frosted designs - friday challenge which was to include some embossing.  The background card is in fact an old Easter egg box; the colour inside is perfect for vintage cards.  The star die cuts are also embossed with copper and gold powders.  The top one with 'vanilla' powder - it smells really wonderful!!! Vanilla is definitely my favourite taste.

 

 

thanks for looking

 

Will be posting some more stuff soon, having a great crafting weekend!!!

 

 

Jolanda x

altered pages challenges

 Hello,

 

Altered Pages Challenges have a challenge to make a headdress!  So I came up with a steampunky style fascinator.

I thought the bottom curly bit looked a bit like a moustache so I stamped eyes in the pocket watches to make a face.

 

Here, the fascinator modelled by my daughter.

 

 

Thanks for visiting

 

Jolanda x

Out There Festival 2012

 Here are a few photos from last weekend's Out there Festival -

a festival of street circus acts.

The first two photos are of Close Act - a Dutch act that specialise in doing things on stilts!!

They also walked around as insects

 

 This act Les Studio de Cirque did some amazing stunts on their Wheel of Death.

 

They were so good we saw their show 4 times!

 

Now all I have to do is scrap some of these great photos!!

 

Bye for now

 

Jolanda

Screen 2 Scrap - Villa Volta

 

Hi everyone, on this windy Sunday.  It certainly feels like the first day of Autumn now, the sun is low its windy and there's a chill in the air :(  Time to get out the scarves and gloves!

 

Screen to scrap's challenge this month is to make a layout with the poster of Last House on the left as inspiration.  A house must feature somewhere so I made this the photo.

I did lots of stamping and embossing with gold and copper powders. 

 

The story of this house is that it belonged to the leader of a band of thieves called Hugo Van Der Loonsch-duinen and (in short) he did some really bad things and is imprisoned in the house for eternity. 

The walls of the house turn and make you feel as if you are upside-down; not a good idea to go on this ride if you have just eaten chips and mayonnaise!!!

 

 

Thanks for looking

 

Jolanda xx

 



Birthday at From Screen 2 Scrap

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good day!

 

Screen to Scrap are having their 3rd Birthday and their challenge this month is to create a layout to do with birthdays.

 

I made this layout for my daughter's 13th Birthday - her cake is supposed to be a DS with frogger game on it. 



 

The criteria is to use inspiration from a movie poster - The Birthday Princess which has a lot of pink on it.

 

thanks for looking

 

 

Jolanda xx

Wedding card

I made this card for a neighbour's wedding.  She looked absolutely stunning in her beautiful dress!

 

The digistamp I used is by Sliekje, her designs are very cute :)

 

The Saturday challenge this week is white on white and coloured image.

 

Thanks for visiting

 

Jolanda xx

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