Greeting Farm boy card

I am so happy that my mojo seems to be back, feels good and the other thing is that my craft room is cleaned up and I am ready to roll again.
This cute dude is a stamp from the Greeting Farm and I have coloured him with Tombo's using the colours from the dp. I am really happy with this card!
I needed the card last night so it's gone already and it was well received, I think.
Have a great day, thanks for stopping by, Anja

Birthday easel card

An easel card for my friend who is celebrating her birthday.
Since my mojo seems to be gone, I went with one of my favourite colour combo's and flowers.
The silver butterflies seem to be a perfect accent.
I am happy how it turned out.
You can see that I messed up the sentiment, I had to do it again and cover it up.
There is also some celery ink sponged on , hard to see in the picture and I put first stickles and then diamond glaze on the flowers.
Have a great day and thanks for looking, Anja

Sponged sympathy

A sympathy card for my box, hopefully I don't need it anytime soon. My creative juices aren't really doing anything these days so I went on Splitcoast and looked at other peoples cards.
I came across something very similar to this, I am not sure who it was, but I like this card.
Super easy to make, stamped with Versafine on glossy paper and 2 shades of green were sponged over it. A MS border, some brads and the sentiment, easy as that.
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

More like a scrapcard.

Today I am sharing with you a very quick card since I really didn't get any stamp time.
I had this dp and matched it with one of my punches. The square is made with MS around the corner punches and another border punch from MS on the bottom, some ribbon and bling and a little bit of stamping on the square, hard to see in the picture.
Thanks for looking and have a great day, Anja

How hard can it be?

How hard can it be to make a flower card with my favourite colour combo??
Let me tell you, this card is finally done, it was a card before.......3 cards actually. It just didn't turn out as I thought it should, completeley lost my sense of creativity.....grrr!

The thought about having to post a card that I really didn't like made me shudder........so....I went back and let the pink be the pink...picked up a sheet of vanilla paper and finished the card.

How easy was that!

Now I am going for a walk, the weather is so nice here in South Western Ontario, lots of sunshine and blue skies with about 12 degrees Celsius!!

Thanks for stopping by, Anja

Penny Black from leftovers

I had this image laying around, coloured it a while ago with this dp with it to use. I know I have used this combo before but since I didn't have a lot of stamping time the last couple of days I used this cute image and finished the card.
There is no sentiment, my son asked me for a couple of cards to take back to college.....mmm, mostly for girls, he said, of course I said I was more than happy to make him some,LOL!
Take care and thanks for looking, Anja

Thank you with SU punch

It's been a while since I got some SU stuff....... Last week I got this cute punch, with a bird and a branch. Finally I had a change to play with it. The ribbon is a Dollar store find, the colour combo came of my desk, from a big pile of scraps those colours jumped at me.
Not a lot of stamping, only the sentiment from Clear Dollar stamps, such an easy card to make.
Hope you have a change to enjoy the beautiful weather, I am going for a walk!
Take care, Anja

Basketball and a card!

With all the excitement this weekend I forgot to post a card this morning. So the first picture is the card for today, this is one of the 4 cards I am gonna do for a class at SGD.

The date is April 7 and we are gonna make 4 masculine cards! Check out the website! You know how hard those masculine cards are, this is your change to get some ready for you to use.

The picture below shows you what I have been busy with, basketball. The boys won BRONZE in the Thames Valley Schoolboard Finals!! Way to go Jaguars!!!

Basketball is done and over and now we are moving to badminton! But first we are gonna enjoy the beautiful weather we are having here in South Western Ontario.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Welcome to Canada!

Friends of ours have adopted a girl from China and she is home now! Today we are having a shower for them, welcoming her to Canada! I have used this cute ballerina from CDS and of course lots of pink. I went with colours from the dp, no clue who it's from, sorry.
Hope she likes it!
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Purple, pansies, pearls and a bad picture

Purple pansies on this card with pearls and liquid pearls along the pansies border.
The sun is shining bright this morning so I took the picture in the kitchen, not such a good idea. And for one or another reason if I want to upload pictures more than once a day I have to restart the pc, so slow, what a pain. But I am not complaining about the sun, it's lovely and it makes walking outside a very pleasant outing.
I love this colour combo and I have used it before, flowers, bling and ribbon, an Anja card, I would say.
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

It's hip to be square, CIC#8

It's hip to be square, that's the challenge this week at CIC Clear Dollar Stamps !
Finally I got a change to play and was I statisfied with my card. You don't wanna know how many pieces I threw out.....
So I sponged the sky and the grass on with Ranger distress inks on glossy paper, let it dry for a little bit, and then stamped 2 images from the set Bitty Botanicals with black versafine. It's really not difficult at all! The sentiment is also from Clear Dollar Stamps, this set is called Kid Encouragements. After it was all dry I made the corners I bit darker, put the bling and ribbon on, voila, your card is ready!
The size of this card is 41/4 x 41/4, so it will still fit in a regular envelope, I kind of like that since I don't have a lot of different sizes envelopes. But I guess I could always get some, LOL!
Have a great day and if you have a change to be hip today go on over and play too, Anja

Star birthday card!

On Sunday we celebrated my son's birthday, he is a leap year baby so only every 4 years he has a "real" one. Here is the card I made for him.
I tried to keep the colours how he likes them, you know being a teenager, I tell you, there are certain cool things and.....
He liked it, so everybody happy!
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Simple sympathy card

A CAS sympathy card, I like them that way. First I thought there was a lot of white space left but I kept it this way. There is a nice verse on the inside, I should have made a picture of that too.
Today I am hoping to make a card for the Clearly Inspired challenge, we had a busy weekend with no stamping time so hopefully today.
Take care and thanks for looking, Anja

Baby girl card, pink again!

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This card is a pretty basic card, I thought that the beautiful ribbon and stickles just gave it that classy look. The cute little bear is made with a MS punch. The card is sold already.
This past week my full card box became an almost empty one, there are only a couple of cards left and the rest is sold! I can't tell you how much this means to me, not only the money, but the fact that people really wanna buy them. So now there is some money in my craft wallet and you know what is gonna happen LOL!
I helped out at a fundraiser and was offered to bring my cards to sell, so it really was all good!!
Have a great day and thanks for looking, Anja

More green and pink with Penny Black

You can tell which colours were laying on my table, pink and green. Love this colour combo!
The image is from Penny Black, again watercoloured with Tombo's and stickled up.
There is a wrinkle in the ribbon, can you see it, I got it out after I took the picture.
There is really nothing more to say about this card, I think it's cute, it will go in my box.
Have a great day, thanks for looking, Anja

Just Rite birthday

I am sitting here at my computer, checking out some blogs, sipping a coffee,ready to start the day, yes, this late, I had to watch Joannie Rochette skate last night. Wow, what a strong girl!
All this Olympic stuff is cutting into my sleep time.....so today I was thrilled with an early phone call that school is cancelled...yippie.....turn off your alarm and sleep in!!
Luckily I had made this card earlier this week so I have something to share.
It's a pretty basic card, the image from Just Rite is watercoloured with Tombo's and stickled up.
Pretty simple, I love the details of the stamp.
So I better get going now, do some useful stuff.
Thanks for stopping by, take care, Anja

FREE MAKE AND TAKE!

If you would like to make this cute, trifold card in Spring colours, come on over today to
Scrappingreatdeals between 3 pm and 5 pm and you get to make one for FREE.
You don't have to sign up, just come and join the fun. All supplies will be provided.
Would love to see you there, Anja

So cute, little lambs and a card!

Aren't those little lambs adorable? They were born yesterday, lambing season has arrived at our farm! Two big boys and we are hoping that mom has enough milk but just in case, we are also doing some bottle feeding.

So it sure was "a hoppy day" here.

My card is a Penny Black image, watercoloured with Tombo's. The MS grass border punch came in handy again and to top it off a flower from Crealies.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Easel card

Today I should be making a golden card!! Scott Moir from Ilderton and Tessa Virtue from London earned a gold medal with ice dancing! We live just outside from Ilderton, we signed the banner for them, the whole town was cheering!! Such a nice young couple.
Anyway on to my card, it's my first easel card and I went for a crisp look, again in spring colours.
Yesterday we got a fresh blanket of snow, no spring for us yet, which actually makes everything outside nice and clean.
The instructions for this card were found on Splitcoast, it's really easy and the result is very nice.
Have a great day and thanks for looking, Anja

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

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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!

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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