C4C321, down under

The challenge today at the Crazies is to create a card/project with something down under...

You can find it HERE

 I had to think a bit about it.. This is what I came up with, a girl under an umbrella. The background is made with watercolour paints with some pearlescent water, hard to see in the picture. Sentiment from Just Rite, embossed in black, little girl cut with Silhouette. Some twine as a finishing touch. Hope you like it, Anja

Altenew sympathy card

Here my card for the SGD blog today, you can read about it HERE.

                            Have a great day, Anja

Let's BLOG HOP, Dora opens her own DIGI SHOP!

Hello Everyone,

My friend Dora from Holland makes the most beautiful drawings, which she uses for her card making. For my card down below, I used one of her images. I coloured it with Prismacolor pencils and some gamsol, cut it out and popped it up, the background is done with tumbled glass distress ink, sentiment from Altenew. She has some exciting news.....

Today is a festive day because Dora opens her own digi-shop: http://doortje-digi-shop.blogspot.com/.

We want to celebrate this with a little bloghop.

The rules are:

Go to each blog that participates in  this bloghop and leave a nice comment.

On each blog there will be a winner chosen.

The bloghop ends on  February 3rd. On Friday February 5^th the winners will be announced.

These winners may choose one digi from my digi-shop, http://doortje-digi-shop.blogspot.com/

                                  

Here is the order of the bloghop:

http://dora-knutselhoekje.blogspot.nl/ = Dora

http://marsvrouw.blogspot.nl/ = Irene

http://www.stampinganja.blogspot.com/ = Anja (that's me)

http://www.suestamping.com/= Sue

http://creatiesvanjoanne.blogspot.nl/ = Joanne

http://carlasknutselateljeeke.blogspot.com/= Carla

'http://doortje-digi-shop.blogspot.com/ 

Have fun, leave comments and have a change to win a digi image!

                                                                  Till next time, Anja

Hallo Allemaal,

Vandaag is het een feestelijke dag omdat Dora haar http://doortje-digi-shop.blogspot.com/ heeft geopend.

We willen het samen vieren door een kleine bloghop te organiseren.

De regels zijn:

Ga bij iedereen langs en laat een leuke reactie achter en als laatste kom je op mijn digi-shop om daar een reactie te kunnen geven.  Op elke blog wordt dan een 1 winnaar gekozen.

De bloghop  eindigt op 3 februari en op Vrijdag 5 februari worden de winnaars bekend gemaakt.

Deze winnaars mogen elk 1 digi uitzoeken uit mijn 'http://doortje-digi-shop.blogspot.com/'.

Hier de volgorde van de blog hop:

http://dora-knutselhoekje.blogspot.nl/ = Dora

http://marsvrouw.blogspot.nl/ = Irene

http://www.stampinganja.blogspot.com/ = Anja (that's me)

http://www.suestamping.com/= Sue

http://creatiesvanjoanne.blogspot.nl/ = Joanne

http://carlasknutselateljeeke.blogspot.com/= Carla

 'http://doortje-digi-shop.blogspot.com/ 

                                            Veel plezier, Anja

C4C320, let's POP

Challenge day over at the Crazies, it happened to be National Popcorn Day this week so the challenge is to add some POP to our cards or projects.

I popped up my Altenew flower with foam and also by using some bright colours on gray leaves, I think it makes the flower pop.

You can check it out here:

www.crazy4challenges.blogspot.com

            Till next time, Anja

Memory Box birds

Happy Friday! Here my card for the SGD blog today, check it out HERE.

                                             Till next time, Anja

C4C319, sketch challenge

It's the third Saturday of the month and that means sketch challenge over at the CRAZIES, you can find all the info and cards  from the design team HERE. Sketch challenges are a great help to me, it makes designing a card a whole lot quicker. I used the flower stamp from Altenew, Beautiful Day, and I cut out the leaves instead of stamping them. The 3 squares are embossed with an unknown embossing folder...sorry, no clue who made it and there in no name on the folder itself. I also flipped the sketch, and that is fine, you are welcome to change it up any way you like. The size of this card is 4 x 4.

Sentiment is also from Altenew, hope you like this card, till next time , Anja

Quick and easy masculine card

Happy Friday! Take a look at my card for SGD today, you can find it HERE.

                                   Till next time, Anja

Trying something different...

It's the perfect day to stay inside while the snow is falling and blowing....I am trying some different colouring techniques, this is with the prismacolour pencils. Far from perfect but practice might make it better, lol.

I don't have the happy die from Altenew, but I cut this one and the background with the Cameo.

Flower stamps are from Altenew , whimsical flowers. Till next time, Anja

C4C318, it's bubble bath day!

It's Saturday, challenge time for the CRAZIES. You can check it out HERE.

Apparently it's BUBBLE BATH day, so the challenge is to use some sort of bubbles on your card.

I decided to cut the bubbles with my Silhouette and put them behind the frame, which is raised with foam tape.

The flower is from Altenew, coloured with Prismacolour pencils and Gamsol, then cut out. Sentiment is also from Altenew, can  you tell I fell in love with those stamps, lol!

                                                Hope you like it, Anja

Altenew Layered Lilly class

Happy Friday! Here are my cards for the SGD blog today, it's a class!! You can sign up HERE.

                                           Till next time, Anja

Simple sympathy card

The New Year just started and I already need 2 sympathy cards. I like to keep those simple since it is not about the card at all.

For this one, I used the Golden Garden set from Altenew, I simple stamped it with tattered rose and the outine in chocolate brown, sentiment is from Just Rite. The leaves are coloured with tattered rose distress marker. A few scored lines and some dots on a kraft base.
                                          Till next time, Anja

C4C317, Z fold card!

Happy Saturday! The first one in the New Year, are you ready for a brand new challenge from the CRAZIES?

We said goodbye to some design team members and new people joined us, you can check it out!

The challenge is that apparently yesterday was Z Day.

 Let's celebrate by including something starting with the letter Z on our cards. You could make a Z Fold Card, use a zip or zip image, zinnia, zebra, zoo etc. Let's show the letter Z how much we love it!

So I made a Z fold card and I used a variety of Stampscapes stamps, I took a picture of both because both sides are stamped on. For inks I used Tim Holtz distress inks, tumbled glass, broken china, peeled paint and dusty concord.

    

                                        Hope you like it! Till next time, Anja

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all of you!

Here is my card for the SGD blog today, you can check it out HERE.

                           Have a great day, Anja

Bouquet of flowers with Altenew

When the ice pellets were falling down hard, I was in my craft room working on this card. First I stamped all the flowers seperate on watercolor paper and cut them out, then I layed them out on my white cardstock and stamped the stems, arranging the flowers, some are popped up. Then I cut around the top...and then...then I messed it up,grrrr, I had not used my wink of Stella pen in ages and I don't know what happened, but it was not good......so then I put stickles on top to cover it up and I guess it's okay.

The flowers are from Altenew whimsical flowers and the sentiment is from Persian motifs.

                                            Till next time, Anja

Layered lily

Finally inked up the layered lily from Altenew. Started with stamping on watercolour paper, shaded lilac from Tim Holtz, SU eggplant and Versafine black. I blended with water and cut out the lilies. The centre and stamina were added later. For the leaves, I used three inks, shabby shutters, peeled paint and forest moss, again I blended with water and cut them out. For the background, also watercolour paper,   I stamped SU French script with Versafine and heat embossed it in white. Then I added some antique linen and sprayed some water on, after that was dry, I inked up a big SU crosshatch stamp with memento toffee crunch and stamped over it. Walnut stain is sponged around, then I wiped the ink off the embossed areas. A vanilla base with some score lines and I put the card together, some viva pearls as a last final touch........so much fun to make it.

                                         Hope you like it too, Anja

One more....

Two colours of distress inks and a tiny paint brush.... Dots are stamped with memento gray flannel. Butterflies from Martha Stewart. 

                 Crafting fun for me!

                         Till next time, Anja

Hello with Altenew

Just playing with my stamps, i started with the pink piece of paper. The images are heat embossed in white, I coloured them with Tim Holtz distress markers, worn lipstick, barn door and peeled paint. After the colouring was done, I spritzed the whole piece with water with some pearlex in it. It's hard to see the shimmer in the picture, sentiment is cut with the Silhouette. Some bling and sponging and the card was done.

Hope you like it! Till next time, Anja

Red berries

Happy Friday! Here is my post for the SGD blog today, come on over and check it out HERE.

                                                  Hope you like it, Anja

Spring flowers

Just some play time with a flower stamp.....coloured with Derwents , after colouring I put some glaze over top and when that was dry, I stamped the dots and put on some tumbled glass around.

Sentiment from Altenew, pretty easy card! Hope you like it! 

                                     Till next time, Anja

A foggy day

It was quite foggy here yesterday and it inspired me to make this card with a Penny Black stamp. I added some dots with versafine and silver embossing powder. Inks from Tim Holtz, evergreen bough, peacock feathers and faded jeans.

Hope you like it, till next time, Anja

Hidden lane masculine card

Happy Friday! Here is my card for the SGD blog, you can check it out HERE.

                             Till next time, Anja

C4C315, trees

The challenge today over at the Crazies is trees, to get your inspiration from "Oh christmas tree oh christmas tree"

It can be trees, branches anything ....

I have a couple new tree stamps and this is one from Impression Obsession

I saw a real life picture with those colours, grabbed my distress inks barn door, citrus orange and memento london fog to create this scene.

If was a quick and easy card!

Check it out here:

www.crazy4challenges.blogspot.com

Hope you like it, Anja

C4C314, square challenge!

Challenge day over at the CRAZIES, today is National square dance day and the challenge is to make a card with squares or a square card. I choose to make a 4x4 little card with the winterhouse stamp from Rosewood, the image is embossed in silver and watercoloured with Derwent pencils. Then I added some stickles, after the stickles were dry, I added the white embossing enamel as snow.

You can find the challenge HERE. The sentiment is from my stash and I have no clue who made it.

The last thing I did, was adding the score lines. Hope you like this little card!

                                               Till next time, Anja

Snowy grove

Happy Friday! Here is my card for the SGB blog today, you can check it out HERE.

                                                 Have a great day, Anja

C4C312, buttons and flowers

Happy Saturday! Here is my card for the CRAZIES, this week the challenge is a femine birthday card with buttons on it! So I went with my favourite colour combo for this kind of card, pink and green.

I used some modelling paste with a stencil on the background, after it dried, I sponged on some Tim Holtz bundled sage.

The flowers were cut with the Silhouette and have some picked raspberry sponged on. The greenery is done with various punches.

                  Hope you will check out the challenge and maybe join us? That would be fun!

                                        Till next time, Anja

Masculine card

Happy Friday! Here my card for the SGD blog today, you can check it out HERE

                                    Hope you like it, Anja

C4C311, thank you card

Challenge day over ar the Crazies!  A thank you card in seasonal colours ... I got the first part right, not sure about the second part lol.

Background done with bister, love the look of it. Sentiment from Flourishes , flower from Magenta.

Check out the challenge here:

www.crazy4challenges.blogspot.com

Thanks for looking, Anja

C4C310, Christmas card

Happy Saturday! I am trying to get this post on Blogger..... The connection is soooo slow, it's frustrating...

Over atcthe Crazies , the challenge this week is Christmas cards , you can check it out:

www.crazy4challenges.blogspot.com

             Take care, Anja

Colour bursts are on the way......

Happy Friday! Here my card for the SGD blog today, you can check it out HERE.

                            Till next time, Anja

Gelli plate fun

Perfect day for crafting... Gelliplate got some paint on... Added some colourburst with glimmermist and some white enamel.

Branches are white embossed, sentinent from Silhouette.

          Hope you like it, Anja

C4C309, colour challenge

A colour challenge today over at the CRAZIES, you can find it HERE, the colours are green-red-mustard.

With so many beautiful Fall colours outside, I had to make a card with leaves. I embossed them in white and then applied different colours of distress inks. The whole panel is sprayed with a gold glimmermist, its really hard to see in this picture. Sentiment from CTMH, embossed in gold and some gold cord.

                                           Hope you like it, Anja

Hot glue leaf

Happy Friday! Here is my card for the SGD blog today, you can check it out HERE.

                                    Have a great day, Anja

Wedding card with the Silhouette

The Silhouette came to the rescue again....completely forgot to make a wedding card,  had great intentions, lol. So I made this one from the Silhouette store, it took me a while but I love how it turned out.

                                                 Hope you like it, Anja

Sketch time, C4C 308!

It's Saturday and it's snowing here!! The flowers keep blooming in my craft room, those Altenew stamps are way to awesome to play with, I had to use them again for the sketch challenge over at the CRAZIES.

Kept my card pretty simple, used some old SU cardstock and added scored lines. The label  is also a punch from SU. Check out what the other Design team members have created to spark your creativity and join us if you like, we would love to have you!

                                                          Till next time, Anja

Scribbled roses

Happy Friday! Here my card for the SGD blog, you can check it out HERE.

                                      Happy Crafting, Anja

Playing with ink!

Playing with some Impression Obsession stamps.... I could not resist and they wow me away....

I dont know how it can be.... Nice stamps keep coming.... 

So I am enjoying them very much!!

Hope you like it too, Anja

C4C 307, it's costume day!

Saturday means challenge time over at the CRAZIES, this week the challenge is "costume day".

You can find it HERE.

Jessie said clearly that it does not have to be a Halloween costume, lol, which is good because I don't have anything what would come in that category. I could have showed a picture of my kids when they were dressed up but I did not. I had to look hard in my stash, I knew I had this stamp....she is in costume, right?

Coloured the image with Prismacolour pencils and gamsol, the row of tulips is from the Netherlands set from SU, sentiment from Just Rite and the fence from the Silhouette.

                                 It was a challenge for sure, lol! Have a great day, Anja

Inlaid Fall card

Here is my card today for the SGD blog , check it out HERE.

                                              Have a great day, Anja

Watercolour garden

This was one of the first stamp sets I got, mini watercolour garden from SU. It's been in a drawer for a while....but now I took it out. So inspired by all the beautiful flower cards I see on Pinterest and such. Sentiment is cut with the Silhouette. Just stopping by to say HELLO!

                                               Have a great day, Anja

Celebrate today!

Recently I came across some beautiful stamps from Altenew, and I fell completely in love!!!!

Beautiful samples can be found at Marika's blog, go on over HERE and see for yourself.

There is lots on Pinterest too.....I cased this card! Planning on CASING a few more....

Sentiment is cut by the Silhouette. Flowers are coloured with Prismacolour pencils and Gamsol.

                                                    Till next time, Anja

C4C 306 , Halloween treats!

Happy Saturday! Halloween treats this week, this is the challenge over at the CRAZIES.

This is a real challenge for me....I don't really DO Halloween, I do hand out candy to about 3 kids in my neighbour hood and when the kids were younger we would go dressed up around the block, talking to all the neighbours and always came home with soooo much candy. My excuse is, I did not grow up with it, lol. in Holland they don't have Halloween. But I tried, and my silhouette came to the rescue.

A little pillow box with bats on it. Hope you like it! Till next time, Anja

Fall card with Viva Decor inka gold

Happy Friday! Here is my card for the SGD blog today, you can check it out HERE.

                                           Hope you like it, Anja

Bokeh technique

Happy Friday! Here my card for the SGD blog today, you can check it out HERE.

                                                 Have a great day, Anja

Stamping with Viva Gold....

Happy Friday! Here my card for the SGD blog today, you can check it out HERE

                         Till next time, Anja

For the Grandparents

Challenge time at the Crazies, make a card/project for the grandparents or an older person

I cheated a bit lol, i actually send this card to a person younger than me but I thought it could work for the challenge.....

Our internet is giving me all kinds of trouble and I really hope this post will go up. You can check it out here;

www.crazy4challenges.blogspot.com

Till next time, Anja

Penny Black and Gelatos...

Happy Friday! Here my card today for the SGD blog, check it out HERE.

                  Till next time, Anja

Drawing flowers....

Recently I got some adult colouring books, not that I want to colour in them but I like them for showing me how to draw some flowers and such. Honestly, I was never good at drawing, but I can copy.

After I did the flower, coloured it with Derwents , I put some glaze over it and then I did the background with a stencil and some distress inks.

The flower is partly cut out to make the oval overlay fit, sentiment from Taylored expressions.

                                                  Hope you like it, Anja

C4C 301, put a tag on!

Happy Saturday! The challenge today over at the CRAZIES is to put a tag on your card/project.

You can check it out HERE. I searched in my Silhouette library and came across this elegant one and since I needed a card for an egagement, I decided to use it with a shimmery white and gold paper.

The background is a plain piece of white paper, stamped with Versafine and a Cornish Heritage background stamp, I then put perfect pearls on it.Rolled flowers from MFT, some punches and a sentiment from Just Rite. It was hard to get a good picture, too bad you can't see the nice shimmer.

                              Hope you like it, Anja

For you!

Happy Friday! Here my card for the SGD blog today, you can check it out HERE.

                                     Till next time, Anja