From Screen 2 Scrap - White Christmas

This month from screen 2 scrap challenge is White Christmas. I love these pictures of our guinea pigs wearing their Christmas hats!

Scruffy - the black and white one doesn't look too impressed!

Thanks for visiting my blog

Jolanda x

Christmas tag

This is my entry in Panpastel's tag challenge

I white embossed some snowflakes on the tag then inked with blue and green distress inks.

the trees are a cuttlebug cut and the mini tag a free stamp from craftstamper magazine.

The father Christmas I stamped first and then brushed over with perfect pearls powder.

bye for now

Jolanda x

Winter Wonderland stepper card

Hope you are having a nice weekend!

I made this stepper card for a few challenges:

Totally Gorjuss - #110 Let it Snow

Saturday Challenge - All things great and Small

Frosted designs - use glitter
Cute Card Thursday - anything goes

Crafts and Me challenges - Winter (Snow/Snowflakes)

I used glitter on my snow (writer) on the trees and also on the background behind the girl.

I'm really pleased at the way my deer turned out - first I coloured them with promarkers and then dotted with the blender to create spots. (it didn't show while wet but as it dried they appeared as if by magic!)

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Vintage Style Christmas Card

I made this card following a sketch for Cute Card Thursday's sketch challenge but went a little wrong, but I think its still recognisable. Across the middle I used crepe paper which I stamped and mica powdered.

Bye for now

Jolanda x

Simon Says Stamp and show some Tickets

Hi everyone, hope you're having a great Sunday.

This is my entry into the simon Says Stamp and Show challenge - show some tickets

The wordin on the tag says enjoy the memoirs - unfortunately memoirs doesn't show too well on the photo. My ideas for this piece were to make a time machine tag - and the tickets would allow you to be taken back in time.

The clock is a squashed bottle cap in which I put a stamped clock face and filled this with crackle glaze. The wings are from a metal butterfly which I snapped in half and covered with alcohol inks.

thanks for looking

Jolanda x

The best thing about being a woman?

Once upon a Sketch challenge this month is to journal about what is the best thing about being a woman! lots of things! at the same time!! lol.

After all we are multi-taskers aren't we?

I recently went to The Range and bought this great Kraft cardstock - really cheap too! compared to some other shops.
I used my cricut to cut the border (Storybook) and my cuttlebug for the lettering.
The black and white pictures are from a site 'digital two for Tuesday'
Thanks for looking
Jolanda x

the Stampman challenge

The challenge set by the stampman challenge blog is to create something using techniques from the Christmas tags by Tim Holtz.

I looked at the tags and decided to use the backgound technique on the day 12 tag 2009.

The colours I used are aged mahogany and tumbled glass.

Thanks for looking

Jolanda x

Elegant lady

This is my entry for the sketch challenge on the Saturday Challenge blog, I have also combined it with another challenge on Simon Says Stamp and Show - Women only

The lady stamp is by Oxford Impressions.

I embossed with a purple cosmic shimmer on the sentiment and round the edges, unfortunately it doesn't show in the photo how beautiful it is.

Thanks for looking

Look!!! my winnings!!!!!

My winnings arrived from Australia this week!! Can't wait to play with them!!!

They are from the challenge sites of Artastic and Screen 2 Scrap - go and have a look they have great prizes!!!

Jack Skellington cake

Hi everyone, hope you're having a lovely Sunday!

I thought I would post some pictures from my youngest daughter's birthday last week.

As you might guess she is a fan of Nightmare Before Christmas, so I made her a Jack Skellington cake.

My mum is a cardmaker now, I think she caught the virus off me!!!

Here's her lovely bird and flowers card.




Lastly this is the card I made for my daughter. I used a svg cutting file made by Mardenz and cut it out on my cricut.




Thanks for looking

Jolanda x