Oriental ATC

Good evening, I hope you are having a good weekend - wow! the weather is fantastic here - summer at last (in the Autumn!!)

This week Simon Says Stamp and show are having an atc challenge.

I don't normally make atcs but thought I would have a go.


I stamped some clouds on the background, gold embossed them and coloured them in with with a white glaze gel pen. The kimono was stamped onto glossy photo paper and coloured in with gel pens.

thanks for visiting my blog

Jolanda x

gorjuss girl with star tag

My new stamp!! from ebay - isn't she lovely?


I am entering this tag into two challenges:
Fashionable stamping - make a tag
totally gorjuss - nothing square about me

Simon Says Stamp and Show some Steampunk!!

Good evening!!

I saw that SSSS are having a steampunk challenge this week - well that is a challenge for me!
I hope this is steampunk enough!!!

I've had this stamp of the singing lady for some time and have hardly used it - every time I try the image ends up in the bin - but this time I think I've cracked it!! lol
I thought this lady might need a bit of help with her singing - must be very tiring so I added a clockwork key to her back. Behind her are some cogs that turn to give her energy...

I finished it off with a crackled flower that I've also had for some time - I knew it would come in useful one day!

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Gorjuss girl - hang me out to dry

Hi, I hope you are having a nice weekend.

I recently bought a Gorjuss stamp and it really is gorgeous!!

I made this card for my sister's birthday and as I used Marianne flower dies (Flora 2) I will enter it into Marianne Design Diva's latest challenge which is to use Marianne flowers

The image is coloured in with my new Promarkers - colouring is a real pleasure with them!

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

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