vintage stamped card - celebrate the moment

Hi everyone

Last week I had to buy some new stamps, as I don't have enough!! lol!!

This one is from Papermania - Urban Stamps range

The banner is a molly blooms stamp.

The background is made from distress inks and mica sprayed on.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Less is More - sketch challenge

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Anything Goes

The Stampman - Anything Goes/Celebration

Crafts & Me - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting my blog

Jolanda xx

Tilda with Tulips

I love this Tilda stamp - it's my latest acquisition.

I coloured her using Promarkers and also used them to colour the leaves and branches.

The bird and the leaves are a Marianne die.

I would like to enter this into the 

Passion for Promarkers challenge - use gingham or checks

and also the Dutch Magnolia Chickies challenge - anything goes.

Simon Says Stamp and Show - layers

Sir Stampalot - crafty passion - my passion has to be stamping and colouring, I don't think I can make a card or layout without some stamping on it. 

Tilda with Ladybird

One of my favourite Tilda stamps

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Pan Pastel - icecream colours

Totally Gorjuss - sketch

Saturday Challenge - pastel colours

Everybody Art - Summer

less is more - Gold

This is my entry for the Less is More challenge - gold.

Less is more is really quite difficult - I just want to put more things on but I must stop!!

I've tried quite hard to keep some 'white space' not sure if I have really achieved it but I did try!! lol!

I stamped the flowers and gold embossed them and also the flourishes.

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Oriental

Hi everyone,

I made this card for the Fashionable Stamping Challenge - Oriental.

I love making oriental cards.

The panel on the card is ATC sized; I stamped some clouds and coloured them in with white gel pen.  The kimono is stamped onto glossy paper and coloured with ink and gel pen.

I stitched two lines down the side and put 2 'lucky' coins at the end.

Thanks for visiting my blog

Jolanda x

Artastic - Insects challenge

 

Hi everyone,

Artastic are having an insect challenge - I managed to put a prehistoric dragonfly on the layout.

This is a double layout I made of our visit to the Dinosaur Park just outside Norwich a few years ago

I just can't work out how to move the pictures around, so I'm sorry they are not in the right order.

 

 I printed out clip art of the dragonfly and then painted it with glaze.

I had a lot of photos to show so made a little booklet under the big dinosaur.

Thanks for visiting





Jolanda x

Horse Cave Painting

I've had this stamp for quite a while now and never used it.  My daughter's friend loves horses so I thought I would make a 'horsey' card.
I wanted to give it the look of a cave painting and used three different distress inks on the background stamping.  The horse on the front panel is copper embossed.
The studs in the corners are copper cosmic pva glue.

Luckily this fits a few challenges that I would like to enter:
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Depth of Distress
Pan Pastel - anything goes
Crafts & Me - anything goes
Delightful Sketches - anything goes

Thanks for looking :)

Paper Piecing at Less Is More

Hi There!!

This is my card for the latest Less is More challenge - Paper Piecing

A while ago I won a docrafts giveaway competition and used the stamps and the papers from this set.

Hope you like it

Thanks for visiting

Jolanda xx

Shiny less is more card

Hello again,

This is the card I made for the less is more challenge - something shiny

I stamped onto black card and then used various colours of perfect pearls powders.

I then mounted this card onto some lilac textured pearl card and then onto the white base card.

I must say I am very pleased with the effect and the overall card - normally I like to pile it on with my cards!!

Bye for now

Jolanda

Tilda on holiday in Holland

 I spent yesterday making this card - it took quite a long time inbetween cooking dinner and helping my daughter use the sewing machine!

When I saw a red white and blue challenge on the Dutch Magnolia Lovers blog, I knew straight away that I wanted to use some of my Dutch papers.

The background paper is from a paper bag from a souvenir shop. The house is a brass stencil by Avec.

Behind the windows and door are papers that show a little room.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Dutch Magnolia Lovers - Red, White and Blue

Saturday Challenge - Red, White and Blue

Dutch Magnolia Chickies - Holiday

Thanks for visiting my blog

Jolanda x