less is more - one layer and wings

 

Hi,

This is the card I have made for this week's challenge on Less is More.

 

I stamped the butterfly three times and doodled some lines around them.

 

The squares are coloured in with Promarkers.

 

Top Tip Tuesday are also having a things with wings challenge.

 

 

Thanks for visiting

 

Jolanda x

Autumn/Fall tag pop up

This is made from two tags joined together at the bottom, so the tree pops up as you open them.

 

The tree is a svg cut I found somewhere but cant remember where from.  I coloured the tree with promarkers and heat embossed the hearts with red tinsel.

 

The moon is from a Retro Cafe Art Gallery graphics sheet.

 

The leaves and tags are from a HOTP 4308 book that I won some time ago.

 

 

 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

 

Everybody Art - tag

 

Dutch Dare Card Challenges - fall

 

Frilly and Funky - use a tag in a different way and the theme of fall

 

Crafty Creations Challenge - Fallhttp://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

 

 

Well, that's it for this evening I think

 

Thanks for visiting

 

 

Jolanda x

 



Quoth the Raven, Nevermore - anything Poes!!

 Happy Sunday!

I love these tag pull cards - they are fun to make!

I put 'do not pull' on the pull tab because I know if you see that then you just have to pull!!! lol!!

like in our local museum there is a red button on a barrel that says'do not press' and what do you do but tentatively give it a little push!! nothing nasty happens but the barrel laughs!

 Retro Art Cafe Gallery have a freebie sheet for download and some of these images are from it.

 I did lots of stamping all over and coloured the eyes in with green perfect pearls for a nice ghoulish effect.

I would like to enter this card into the Quoth the Raven - Anything Poe's challenge

The quote I have used is 'where there is no imagination there is no horror!'

Bye for now

Jolanda x

Less is More - Silver

This my entry for the less is more challenge which is to use silver on your card.  

It is soo hard to do less is more - I just want to put on a bit more then a bit more!!

So this is where I stopped.

Thanks for visiting

Jolanda x

lovey dovey no.2

This card has one of my favourite stamps on - the loving couple are by Oxford Impressions stamps.

 

The back ground paper has also been stamped with words and a few 'Frenchy' stamps

 

I have found a new Vintage challenge site called Vintage Stamping Challenges and they are having an anything goes challenge.

 

Also It's All About the Vintage are having a nice challenge - Brown tones.

 

Have a lovely evening.

lovey dovey

 Hi, this is the card I made for the Less is More Love and Marriage challenge.

The pigeon and dove are decoupaged and the sentiment says, 'you two are perfect'.

the insert is stencilled with roses along the bottom.

Dutch Dare Card Challenges have a clean and simple challenge this week too - I haven't entered one of their challenges for a while.

 

Thanks for looking

 

Jolanda x

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