Spring card!

The weather was really nice for a couple of days, lots of sunshine and milder temperatures....it made me think that spring was around the corner and it inspired me to make this card.
Today it's snowing, if the weather people are right, we are gonna get quite a bit.
For this card I have used my Cricut (Walk in my Garden) to cut out the stems of the flowers from Crealies, the stamps are from Just Rite, the square is made with MS punches. It didn't take long at all to make this card!
Maybe if we all make spring cards, the snow will go away.....
Have a great day and thanks for looking, Anja

One more..............

One more stampscapes card, I am having a lot of fun with them! It's hard to see in the picture but here I have used my white gel pen to accent some things, just before I sealed it.
The rocks on the front is a new stamp, I like the effect that it gives.
I should be working on some cards for a fundraiser I am helping with...but first I am gonna go outside and enjoy this beautiful weather.
Have a great day and thanks for looking, Anja

Masculine birthday tree

Working on some masculine cards...not the easiest cards to make. I am not completeley sure about this one, still think something is missing and I can't figure it out.

Time to move on to another card, lol!

The tree stamp is from Penny Black, coloured on the rubber with brown and different greens (Tombo markers).

The leaves are from a little punch. The sentiment is from Clear Dollar Stamps.

Hope to get some stamp time today, take care, Anja

More fun with Stampscapes

Today I am sharing another Stampscapes card with you, so much fun to make them and pretty easy. I have kept this one blanc and it will go in my box.
The hardest part is actually finishing the card after you make the scene. You don't wanna add to many other details and it seems that matting them in black makes them more pop.
Here I have added some ribbon and hope it's not too much, oh and some stickles on the water, mostly to cover some spots where I went a little darker than I wanted.
Have a great day and thanks for looking, Anja

Stampscapes card

Yesteday I pulled out my Stampscapes stamps and started playing....! didn't get the result I wanted so I googled it and read up on some tutorials...........Then I played again....and I have to say, I really like this card. It's just a lot of sponging, layer upon layer and you heat set in between. You can find lots of info on the website from Stampscapes.
The front of the card is scored with my Scor pal and the little sentiment is stamped first and then I cut a leaf from Nestabilities, inked up the edges and finished the card.
The card is already in the mail to Holland for a good friend who has a birthday coming up.
Hope he likes it too!
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Impressabilities Thinking of You

The 3 impressabilities I own are not used much, in fact they never get used, I can't seem to get a nice, crips impression. So yesterday morning I googled it (again) and tried again, the background is okay, not as deep as I would like but the light purple Nestabilitie is a lot better. I ran it through my CB first to cut it and then put the paper with the die still on it with the Impressablitie through the CB, then you get a nice, embossed cut with border we are used to with Nestabilities, does it make any sense?
This is another elegant card, done with my Just Rite stamps. Love this colour combo.
Flowers and branches are made with punches and with my new dies from Crealies
Some liquid pearl along the border and the card was done!
Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day, Anja

Glam it up, CIC 7

Clam up a card, that's the challenge this time for the Clearly Inspired Challenge 7, you can read about it here. I think most of my cards could enter this challenge, LOL! I love to stickle up my cards, put bling on and make them glittery! Not sure if those words really are words, oh well, I can always say that English is my second language!
This card is done with a new set from Clear Dollar Stamps, it's called Bitty Botanicals, it's a new release for this month, just adorable.
The sketch is an old MOJO sketch, I always save those because they will give you the perfect inspiration for a layout. The tiny, pink pearls are more shiny in real life and the stickles on the flowers are diamond.
So pink flowers, bling, ribbon, all the things I love to use.
Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Welcome little one / CDBC2

Over at Lauri's blog, you can check out several challenges and see her wonderful work.
This challenge is HERE . The challenge is to use a duck on your card....mmm, this is the only one I have, and I think it's a pretty cute one. If you play the challenge, she will email you a digital stamp image, so cute. I am new to digital images so lots of new things to learn. This is a monthly challenge, lots of time to play!
I have watercoloured the duck with Tombo's, did some sponging and even some shading, cut it out with Nesties and made it into this card. I wish I had cuttlebugged the blue background with the Swiss dots but I wasn't gonna take it apart. Oh, and of course there are some stickles used, waterfall for the water and diamond for the rest. The image and sentiment are both from Clear Dollar Stamps.
Today is Family Day here in Canada! It's nice to have an extra day off, having my college son home for 3 days and enjoy some family time, we are planning to go skating this afternoon.
Have a wonderful day and take care, Anja

A card for encouragement

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you! Show some love to all your loved ones and to the ones you have a hard time loving!

This card is for a girl from church who is going on a mission trip for 4 months to Lima and we wanted to send her a card full of encouragement.

The flowers on this card are made with some of my new dies from Holland, check out Annelies' store here
The sentiment is from Clear Dollar Stamps, butterflies and border from MS, some Nestabilities and CB embossing folder. I like this colour combo!

Have a great day and take care, Anja

Simple sympathy, ssnotime126

It's been a while since I have participated in Sharon's challenge, you can check it our HERE
but today is the day. I need a sympathy card and I have used the colours from the challenge, purple and green, to make a simple card.

The colour of the ribbon looks way off in the picture, it is purple but here it looks like black.

I am hoping to get some more stamping time today, but I would also like to watch the Olympics.

So sad what happened yesterday, hopefully nothing like this will ever happen again.

Take care and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Matching the ribbon

So many pretty ribbons......I really have to say no some times but it's all so pretty, LOL!
This is another ribbon from Michaels and I made the card around it. The new punches from MS
are adorable, if you read the instructions first it's very easy to get a perfect square, oh well, lots of scraps are gone now. The sentiment is from Inkadinkadoo the cute little wedding cake from
Clear Dollar Stamps
After I gave the cake some colour, I cut it out and stickled it up.
I am trying to get some different cards in my box so that when I need one, it's right there.
Nice try, right?
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Happy Birthday with Ridley, the raccoon.

Another card with my free set, I know, raccoons are not brown, I have lived here long enough but he sure is cute and I had to match the paper, he he!
After I finished the card at first I saw the grass border punch from Martha Stewart and thought how perfect it would be..... so that one is part of my collection now too.
I am not sure how often I would use this colour combo, it sure is different.
The image is coloured with Prismacolour pencils and Gamsol and the sentiment is from Penny Black, and of course some bling out of my box. No stickles, this time.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day, Anja

Exciting News!!

This month I have been chosen to be the Featured Friend for Clear Dollar Stamps, check it our HERE.

I am so excited and honoured to be choosen!! Some time last year I fell in love with the nice stamps and collection from Clear Dollar Stamps and now I got to pick a free set! Yippee!

The set I have choosen is called "Lovin' Ridley & Rosie", it's very cute and great for Valentine and Anniversary card but also for other occasions. It is great for colouring!

It gets me out of my "box" and I have made some cards with it to share with you.

Thank you Clear Dollar Stamps for giving me this oppertunity!!

Have a great day, Anja

Hoppy Birthday!

Wishing our 74 year old neighbour a hoppy birthday with this card!
He is always a busy guy, farming, singing and playing his guitar, enjoying his family, volunteering and more. Wow, I sure hope I am doing all those things when I get there, well, probably nobody wants me to be singing.....
The white border on the bottom of the card is embossed with one of the border folders from CB, hard to see in the picture, the sentiment is from Clear Dollar Stamps and the frog from Penny Black.
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Elegant with Clear Dollar Stamps

Something completeley different came out of my hands than I had in mind.... I wanted to play with the set Art Deco Medallions from CDS , I was planning on combining them with some of my

Just Rite stamps. Well, it didn't work out that way. I had the colours, ribbon and charm laying on my table, planning to put them to use, later I added the pearls, I wasn't sure at first if they would go with the charm, anyway, after a while, it all came together. I am happy with this card.

I kept it blanc, for no other reason that there was no spot to put a sentiment, LOL!

Have a great Sunday, we are going out for brunch with all our boys, take care, Anja

Biggest Wishes

When I saw this set from CDS, I fell in love with it! So cute and so much fun to colour and of course for me, it called for lots of pink!
I watercoloured with my Tombo's, used some sakura pens and stickles, the dp is from my stash.
At first I was gonna use some ribbon too, but that was too much, so my cute, velvet ribbon has to wait for another card.
Flowers are from my old bag and the Dollar store, I am patiently waiting for my package to come in, sigh, something went wrong with it but now it's on his way. I just have to be patient!
Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day, Anja

Butterfly encouragement

I didn't have a whole lot of time but I wanted to send a card to a friend who goes through a rough time. The butterfly is from a set from Inkadinkadoo, stamped with brown versafine and then I put twinkling H2O's over it, so IRL it sparkles. Some MS butterflies, EK borderpunch, pearls,ribbon, CB dots and teh scor pal. Didn't realize how many things were involved,LOL!
Take care and have a great day, Anja

More Penny Black...

Another Penny Black card, love those cute images! This one is coloured with Prismacolour pencils and Gamsol, such a fun technique. Some of the flowers are from punches and some are from my flower bag, the little rhinestones came in the perfect matching colour. I got those on Monday when we went to this giant dollarstore between some of the games.
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Penny Black Challenge

Here is a card for someone special in my life for the saturday challenge over on Penny Black's blog.
This week I finally played, the challenge is called Someone Special, and the people I love are very special to me so that's easy.
The image is from a Penny Black set called "Piece of my heart".
I used my prismacolour pencils and some Gamsol and followed the colours from the dp.
Hope you like it, I am happy with it!
Have a great day, Anja

Time for some pink.....

Wow, what a day we had yesterday, gone for 12 hours! The boys and girls team both placed 2nd so they did pretty good. Some tough games were played and some of them will be hurting today, I think, but it was a lot of fun.
So no, I didn't make a card yesterday, but I saved one to post today.
Another birthday card with a set from Clear Dollar Stamps .
This set is called Peony and I just love this big flower. watercoloured, cut out and covered in Crystal Lacquer and glitter sprinkled on top. It had to be pink, LOL!
Have a great day, I know I will be catching up on laundry and such, take care, Anja

Birthday card

Again a quick post today, my son is in a basketball tournament so I get to spend my day watching, cheering, chatting and maybe even visit the local (nearby) stamp store!

It's gonna be fun!

But of course I couldn't start the new month without sharing a card.

For this one I have used another set from Clear Dollar Stamps, it's called Birthday Celebration.

I did cover the top with diamond glaze and put some beads on it, I think it turned out okay.

Thanks for stopping by, take care, Anja

A Christmas card for January!

Surprise, a Christmas card in January! I am planning to start early this year, LOL!
It's done with Just Rite stamps and the square with MS punches.
This is the last day of January and so far I have posted a card every day this month! I am not sure I can keep this up but I will try.
Now we are off to church, have a great Sunday, Anja

Clearly Inspired Challenge 6

Between the new releases for the month of February, there is a new Clearly Inspired Challenge over at http://www.clearlyistamp.typepad.com/

It's a colour challenge this time, red, black, white and you can add pink.

Perfect oppertunity to make a Valentine's card.

Here is mine, I did something I haven't done for a while, I have stamped on the ribbon, so cool.

The brads are from my big full brad container. The stamps are from a retired set from CDS

it's called Simply Valentine's and of course I had to use my Spellbinders, the scalloped hearts and the other decorative swirl, sorry, don't know the name. The border punch is from EK.

At first it didn't come together but then I got a new blast of creativity (read a nice chat with a friend) and I was able to finish this card.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, don't forget to sign up for all the awesome blog candy below, take care, Anja

I found more blog candy!

I found some more awesome blog candy from a very talented lady.
Go check it out!
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I am off to bed now, good night, Anja

Awesome blog candy from Shawne!

Go over to Shawne's blog to find out about her awesome blogcandy!

Paper Art from Studio 313: http://www.cleardollarstamps.com/products.php?cat=50

She designs stamps for Clear Dollar Stamps, go over to her blog and see all her beautiful creations!

Just wanted to share this with you, Anja

Birthday boy card with Clear Dollar Stamps

A birthday card for my son's friend, all stamps used are from Clear Dollar Stamps.
Cool ride, Glory days and Flying by are the names of the sets.
After I took the picture I did fix the ends of the ribbon, as they are very uneven! I bet the birthday boy could care less, LOL!
The big plane is watercoloured with Tombo's, cut out and popped up.
I resisted the urge to put some stickles on it.....and maybe the ribbon is already to much for a boy, oh well, it's done.
Have a great day and thanks for looking, Anja

Just Rite birthday

No pink in this card, it's hard to stay away from any shade of pink but I did it.
This colour combo is totally different and if it wasn't for the dp I don't think I would have put those colours together. I had fun playing with flower punches and dies since I didn't have anything to match in my flower bag. I am patiently....well not really, waiting for a package in the mail to make flowers.....I will show it when I get it.
The stamps are from Just Rite and the shapes are all kind of Nestabilities.
Have a great day, it's snowing and blowing here and I was surprised that the kids went to school, hopefully we'll get them back safe, take care, Anja

More Penny Black

I seem to be a roll this month, a card every day, and today is no exception.
It's another image I coloured on Monday afternoon, and I still have a few more, turned into this card. The flowers are from the Dollar store, I did put another centre in them, instead of bright yellow it's some teal bling.
The rest is pretty basic, maybe I should have put some "water" on the floor....oh well, this is one tidy cat! Nobody in my house can seem to take a bath without flooding the whole bathroom, LOL!
Have a great day and thanks for looking, Anja

Pink and green again....

Another pink and green card.....don't worry I am almost out of the bright pink!
This is a Penny Black stamp, watercoloured with Tombo's and stickled up. Yesterday afternoon I spent the afternoon at the kitchen table with a friend colouring away.....some coffee, some chocolate....
The frog on the left is popped up because I messed up my colouring. The flowers are from a bag a found, bought a long time ago.
The sentiment is from CTMH.
I will try to use some other colours soon. But who doesn't like pink, LOL!
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #53

Sweet Monday Morning delay!! I love it when the phone rings on Monday morning at 6 AM......and then there is a 2 hour school delay. Oh, turn off your alarm, and snuggle deep in to the blankets!
That's about the only phone call I like to get when I am still in bed, way to early!!!
Anyway, this card is for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #53, check it out here:
www.kgiron.blogspot.com
I had this dp and matched the colours on the stamped image with it. I don't think I have ever used this mint green paper in a card, I had to dig into my old stack of Creative Memories paper to find it. The little silver accents are called spacers, I think, they are used for beading and I put a little bling in the centre.
Now I am off to do some cleaning, and laundry of course, have a great day, Anja

Kissing under the umbrella...

That's my guess...that they are kissing under the umbrella, a cute young couple! This is a card for an engagement. It's the first time I have used this stamp, I had the paper picked out before I started colouring, yep watercolouring with Tombo's. The skirt from the girl is paperpieced, is that even a word?

The sentiment is from Verve, love the size and variety of those.

Some flowers from Nestabilities, MS borderpunch and bling from the Dollar Store.

I am not really sure about this card....but since I have nothing else new to show today I decided to put it on here. Hopefully I will have some stamping time today, it's a dreary day, we are supposed to get rain, lots of it.

Take care and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #52

I was in the mood to make a flower card! And that's what I did, pink, flowers, stickles and bling....they always work for me!
This is for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge#52, check it out here: www.kgiron.blogspot.com
I know, it's almost Sunday again... the sketch was on my desk the whole week, I always think I have more time to stamp than I really get, it's called life and that is okay.
The sun is shining here, looks like there are a million diamonds in the snow, beautiful!
Thanks for looking and have a great day, Anja

Lighthouse birthday card

Another card with a set from Clear Dollar Stamps, do you love them already too?
This set is called "Sheltering Lights", the images are simple with a few nice sentiments, though the sentiment used here is from CTMH. The nice thing is that they are so easy to colour!
I used my watercolour paper and Tombo's and I am pretty pleased how it turned out!
Overall I think it makes a nice masculine birthday card.
Thanks for stopping by and take care, Anja

FREE MAKE AND TAKE!

Today it's time for another FREE MAKE AND TAKE!! That's right, free for all of you.

Come on over today between 3 and 5 pm to Sheila's store, SCRAPPINGREATDEALS in Komoka.

Here is the website: www.scrappingreatdeals.com

You can make this cute box for Valentine's day! No need to registar, just come and have fun!

It won't take long, it will be precut for you and we'll show you everything how it's made!

It's amazing what you can learn from this........I learned this.......I make and the girls take LOL!!

They like the stuff precut and ready to go!!! Oh, and did I mention there will be some chocolate.....to put in the box.

See you there, Anja

Happy Anniversary!

Second post today, this one if for my husband, today is our 21st anniversary and I made him a card to tell him........... well, that's tmi! I have followed the sketch for this challenge over at Clear Dollar Stamps, CIC 5,

http://www.clearlyistamp.typepad.com/

Also I noticed that one of the little rhinestones fell off...I should put that on again.

I had an idea in my head, wanted to use "manly" colours but also some hearts.....

The stamps are from CDS, a set called "sweet friends".

It took me a while but it's done, it's like marriage, sometimes it's hard work,but lots of fun, LOL!

Have a great day, Anja

High hopes baby boy!

On Monday morning when I went to stamp with friends I took a few stamps, my watercolour paper and my Tombo's and some of the dp I was hoping to use. I didn't get much done....but I did colour this cute elephant from High Hopes. Later on I stickled him up and made this card.
I thought my dh will probably tell me that elephants don't come in this colour but I was wrong, he really liked it LOL!
I am just happy with my colouring, some of you may know that it took me forever to learn this but I am glad I kept on trying.
Have a great day, Anja

Spring, anyone?

Some people are so ready for spring, some go find some sunshine away from home, some just sit it out.....I guess I belong to this last group.

But it's spring in my craft room! This card makes me think of spring, the flowers and the butterfly are from my collection, the dp is a scrap out of the bin, the ribbon probably from Michaels, it actually has white dots on the other side but I decided to use the plain side.

Hope you have a good day, take care, Anja

More filigree

A quick post today as I want to go to a friends house and do a little stamping, here is another card with this elegant stamp. Very similar to the first one I made. This one has no sentiment so it could be used for different things. in my box it goes.
Have a great day, take care, Anja

Simple baby boy

Just a simple baby boy card with almost no stamping other than the sentiment from Verve and the inside. The feet are dry embossed and I put some stickles on the toes. A piece of dp out of my scrap bin, some ribbon, bling, and Nestabilities, very easy and quick.
Sorry, the picture isn't the greatest.
Have a good day, we are off to church and then skating on a rink in an old barn with friends......
I'll be stiff tomorrow LOL! Take care, Anja

Elegant filigree

Charming, isn't it? This card is made with the retiring set Elegant Filigree from Clear Dollar Stamps, and I think it's just beautiful. It stamps very nice and crisp and I had to use some of the charms I found at the Dollar Store. Very easy and quick card to make.

Thanks for stopping by, take care, Anja

Masculine birthday card

Another card with some of my new stamps from....Clear Dollar Stamps, yes, it was a big envelope full with stamps!
When I saw this set I fell in love right away, I know, it doesn't take much to get me to buy some stamps but this set is just perfect for masculine cards!
Today is another Friday for a challenge over at Clear Dollar Stamps so I am off to check that out and hopefully will have some time to stamp later today. After the groceries, the laundry, the cleaning...
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Baby girl card

As you may have noticed I had some serious shopping time this month, so I have made a resolution not to buy anything more this.....month. Thankfully the month is almost over!
The scalloped hearts were hard to get but I got them at Sheila's, www.scrappingreatdeals.com
The bib stamp is actually from the Dollar Store, the sentiment from Verve, dp from Hobby Lobby,the ribbon from Joan's, a Martha Stewart borderpunch and a little flower punch from the Dollar bin at Michaels.
It's an awful little thing to use, very hard, but I like the little size.
I think I have named enough stores in one post!
Take care and thanks for looking, Anja

Just Chillin'

Here is another card with some of my new stamps from Clear Dollar Stamps,the set is called Just Chillin', this cute bear was so much fun to watercolour with my Tombo's. The set comes with sentiments for Christmas but also some for winter and some for friendship.

The dp is from BoBunny and it's shiny, very pretty! There is fake snow on the bottom and when it was still wet I put some glitter on it and of course some red stickles, can't make a card without stickles, LOL!

Thanks for stopping by and take care, Anja

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #51

This card is for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge#51, check it out at www.kgiron.blogspot.com

I think this is a wonderful sketch for all the cute little stamps you have, or at least I know I have some.

The stamps I have used are from Clear Dollar Stamps, www.cleardollarstamps.com

Yesterday my order came in, made me a happy stamper. I was waiting very patiently for them,LOL!

They are stamped on watercolour paper and coloured with Tombo's, the dp is from my scrapbin and it happened to be double sided.

I am happy with this card, it certainly didn't bug me to make it, too much fun, LOL!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

A different challenge.....

I got this stamped image, already coloured and matted in black from a friend....she said she didn't have the right colours to finish it......so she gave it to me and "told" me to finish it, LOL!
Oh, and the ribbon was wrapped around it.

So, I looked at it, didn't see anything wrong with it, went trough my stash of scrap paper, and voila, here is my card, sorry, the card!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Clearly Delightful Blog Challenge # 1

Baby, it's cold outside! Brr, I think this is weather for the polar bears and not for us. Luckily in our craft room it can be spring, thanks to Laurie over at , http://www.clearlydelightful.typepad.com/ ,

who is starting a new monthly challenge on the 5th, the challenge is open for 2 weeks. You can find all the details on her blog.

The theme is BUNNY/RABBITS, and that makes me think of spring.

I really thought I couldn't play because I don't have any rabbit/bunny stamps....till I started cleaning up and looked at my Penny Black stamps.

So, here is my card! The image is from PB and the sentiment from Close to my Heart.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Thank you cards with dp

I have been asked to make a few thank you cards for somebody, so that's what I have been doing. Trying hard to use my dp, both of them have flowers, surprise!

Today I am gonna try to organize a little more of my craft space........but maybe I will end up making cards because of all the stuff you find when you start cleaning up and organizing, LOL!
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Penny Black birthday card

Wow, I have posted a card every day so far this year!! Aren't you impressed?
I am pretty sure I won't be able to keep that up, life usually gets in the way a bit but that's okay!
I am trying to use more of my huge stack of dp, although this is a new piece for me, I see those beautiful papers and then I can't seem to corporate them in my cards so the stack is growing....
On this card I have used a square charm, not the right name probably, also one of my new things, the Penny Black image is watercoloured with Tombo's and the sentiment is from Clear Dollar Stamps. And some stickles on the flower and the hedgehog. I had to look it up in the dictionary because I didn't know the English name for this cute little animal.
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja