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

I made this layout using the sketch from Ingeborg's Scrapbooking Competitions - it turned out a lot more simple than the sketch! but I'm pleased with the result. My daughter sewed some zips to her shirt for a punky look, so I thought I would use a zip on the page too!

I used colour core card for the background and embossed and sanded the edges.

Thanks for looking

Have a lovely day!

Jolanda xx

Hi Everyone!,

Our Vintage Affair have a June sketch challenge going on with the subject of grandparents.

This LO is my take on the sketch, I titled it Oma (which is Dutch for Grandmother)

I used free papers from Simply Homemade magazine; I thought they matched the colours in my photograph beautifully (very 70's colours!! lol)

I am the girl in brown and my sister is the one in orange

Thanks for looking

Have a good evening

Jolanda x

Lego Darth Vader birthday card

Happy Sunday everyone!!

I thought I would show you the birthday card I made for my youngest son - he's 14 now (time has gone so quickly)

I used a free SVG cutting file. It's from Mardenz you should definitely look at all the free cuts there!! they are fantastic.

TFL

Jolanda x

guinea pig cake

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good Thursday!! I thought I would show you my latest cake effort!! When I asked my son what he would like for his birthday and he said a guinea pig cake; I thought oh no! I did think it would be really difficult but good old swiss rolls came to the rescue!! I slapped on a bit of icing, painted it with black food colouring and made some marzipan guinea pig food - I think it resembles the real thing a little!!! Anyway my son was over the moon when he saw it!! Not sure the real guinea pig was so impressed judging by the top photo!! lol

Thanks for visiting my blog

Jolanda x

Scrapbeginnings Mini Album April Lesson

S This is my page for the Home mini album.

April's lesson was to make a page featuring your dining room. My favourite part of the room is the dresser displaying my collection of blue and white crockery.

Just today I bought another plate (I don't know where I'm going to put it, there's no room for it really but I needed it when I saw it!! I imagined some French Fancies on it and that did it - out came the money!!!)lol.

I'm a bit behind with my scrapbeginnings projects but I will have to catch up!

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Ingeborg's Scrapbooking Competition - Prince Charming

Hi everyone,

This is the layout I made for Ingeborg's Scrapbooking Competition using her sketch.

The photo is of my daughter and her new husband - he was trying to put on her more comfortable shoes after the wedding. Unfortunately, the shoe didn't fit because her feet had swelled up so much.

I crocheted the flower myself and dyed the larger one in tea to give it a vintage colour.



Cinderella's coach is from a very cheap set of brads and ribbons etc that I bought in Holland in a discount shop called Wibra (you can find some fantastic bargains here!!)

thanks for visiting my blog and all the lovely comments you leave

Jolanda x

Sir Stampalot May Challenge - Magical Worlds

This is my entry into the Sir Stampalot challenge - I did quite a lot of masking and stamping on this one. I am also entering this into Dutch Dare Card challenges - winged things

Thanks for looking

Our Vintage Affair - sketch challenge with pearls

I kept this layout very simple as I think this photo is so beautiful.

I stamped the border at the sides of the photo and glued pearls to the flower centres.

I'm entering this into the Our Vintage Affair challenge

Hope you like it

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