Cleaning up.....

   Since a friend is coming over to come and stamp some time this week, I have to clean up my stamp room or at least the floor and make some sort of space, lol! The good thing is, you find lots of things you forgot you had....scraps and leftovers and some new things!!

So this card is created with some leftovers from a Wonderful Wednesday a long time ago, I used a sentiment from Paper smooches and the new violet die from Memory Box and of course some Viva pearls.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

MOJO 278 Sending love

 It the last sketch of the month and that means, circle or square for the MOJO MONDAY sketch. I used a Spellbinder die as the base for my card, some dp, rolled rose, a die from Marianne, SU label punch, Joy craft border and some pearls. Sentiment from Just Rite, sorry for the dark picture, hope you like the card, Anja

Thinking of you

      You should see the mess in my craft room, my workspace is getting smaller and smaller, I am even working on top of other things, lol. No wonder I can't find anything, so I just used the same designer paper as before, and made a similar card. The blue of the flower and the ribbon look so different in the picture, in real life it a way better match. The sentiment is from Just Rite.

Thanks for stopping by, Anja

Happy Anniversary cards

 Going through my pictures, I wasn't sure if I posted these cards, I think I didn't. I love the way they turned out, that's why I made 2, with some little differences.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day, Anja 

Clean and Simple

    Caa you tell I don't have a lot of Valentine's stamp, it is a lot of hugs and kisses, lol. Anyhow, I wanted to play in the clean and simple challenge, you can find it HERE. I know, I know, there is already a new sketch, I am a little late. I couldn't find my Tim Holtz rosette die, and since I wanted to use it, I had to find it first, lol. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

MOJO 277, you are too kind!

  A while ago, I got a set of sentiment from SU at the garage sale...I needed them, that's what I thought, well they haven't been used once but today was the day,LOL!

The designer paper is from Authentic, rolled rose from MFT, border cut with a die from MFT and some pearls, stickles, ribbon and no clue who made the stamp with the little flowers, I have had it forever.

You can find this sketch, and many more, here on the Mojo Monday blog. 

We got lots of snow and it seems to keep coming! Stay warm and thanks for stopping by, Anja

A card and a little box

    Today is our 24th anniversary! And I am sharing the card I made for my husband with you. Not really a guy card but it says it all! No stamping on it, as you can see, I used my cricut , embossing folder, MS borderpunch  and the snowflake strip die from Tim Holtz, designer paper is form Crate. I also cut out a little box with the cricut and put some heart shaped chocolates in it.  I haven't done much for 3 D projects but I am thinking that might change. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Happy Birthday card

  I have tried to post this card before and for one or another reason the post did not show. The designer paper is from Indie and the sentiment from Just Rite, I am also pretty sure it is an MOJO sketch but I can't remember. Hopefully Mr.Blogger will be nice tonight and let me post, lol. Have a great evening, Anja

MOJO 276, masculine birthday!

  A new MOJO sketch this Monday, and since I need a masculine birthday card, I followed the sketch and made this card, also using some Verve stamps, older ones but a lovely set. You can check out the challenge HERE. Designer paper is from a 6x6 Authentique paper  pad (Loyal), I have so many of those and I love that when you grab one, all the papers go together, and the size is perfect for cards. For the borders I have used a MS and EK borderpunch, the rectangle is a Spellbinders die and some copper Viva pearls to finish it off. I should make another one for my box, always handy to have it ready. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

MOJO 275, happy anniversary!

  Two cards in one day, wow, that hasn't happened in a long time! Every week I look up the Mojo Monday blog and I wanna play.....and then life happens. But this week I did make a card for the challenge, right before the deadline. I used paper from a 6x6 Kaiser Craft paper paperpad, sentiment from Just Rite, MFT rolled flower die, Martha Stewart borderpunch, MS fern punch, some gold Viva pear and I was gonna use a bow but decided not too. I was also thinking about inking the edges but choose to go for the clean look. Have a great evening, Anja

Clean and simple Valentine's card

    I had some crafty time this weekend so I played a few challenges, this card is for the Clean and Simple blog, you can find it HERE. It is hard to keep it simple, I was itching to add some ribbon and such. I am always amazed how some people can make such nice cards without all the extra stuff, I might need some practice, lol!  Anyhow, dp is from My Minds Eye, tickeld pink, sentiment from Just Rite and embossing folder from Crafts Too. Hope you like it, Anja                                                     

Simple Thank you

                                                                    Since I needed a Thank you card now, I just used some leftovers from yesterday to make this quick card. It has to go in the mail so the flowers have to be flat. Thanks for looking and have a great day, Anja

Just playing.....

   Two similar cards today, I have been playing with the new cartridge. The flowers and the blue pieces are from the cricut. Not sure if the style of the sentiment on the right card is the best fit. I couldn't find what I was looking for and then came across this one. I am working to fill my box with cards so that I am ready instead of struggling to make a card last minute, great plan, I think lol! My other plan is to use what I have and believe me, I won't be short of anything anytime soon.Have a great day, Anja

Hugs and Kisses!

   Here is my project for SGD today, you can read about it HERE.  Have a great day, Anja

Trying out something new................

  I got the CTMH cartridge Artiste, so many cool things to cut out....o la la, just playing with it and cutting some things out of scrap paper...this one sample made it into a card. Always good to have a baby card in your stash! Have a great day, Anja

Give flight to your dreams....

 Happy Friday, this is the card I made for the SGD blog today, you can read about it HERE. Have a great day, Anja

Happy New Year!

                                                                      Wishing you all a Happy, healthy New Year! 

It's been a while since I have posted anything here, I did make a few cards but I didn't get around posting them. Real life got in the way of my crafting.

This afternoon I am gonna make "oliebollen" a very Dutch New Years Eve treat, like a dougnut.

They are yummy and hopefully delicious, and not healthy at all!

We don't have big plans for tonight, we are staying home and enjoy ourselves.

The other thing I did this month is organizing all my dies in a Martha Stewart binder, it is sad how many I haven't used yet but I hope to do so soon, for the 2 cards here I used the Memory Box deer and window die, and I tried the technique about making the snowy hills with stick it notes.

Hope you have a great night and all the best for 2013!        

Playng with a brayer...

 Playing with my brayer, trying to get this technique done properly.....I might need some more practice, lol. Have a great day, Anja

For a friend

  This card is made with a new small die from Spellbinders, background with distress inks and butterfly from Cheery Lynn. Goosebumps were sprayed on the butterfly, really like that effect. The card is already sent to a friend going through a rough time.

Thanks for stopping by, Anja

A little bit of both....

 Happy Friday! You can find all the details about this card HERE. The card is for Toonie Tuesday, December 11 at 2 PM. Hope you can make it, have a great day, Anja

Masculine Birthday!

 My calendar says December.....oh my, I haven't posted in ages....but I did make some cards, just didn't get around to posting them. I have also been on a trip to Holland to see my family, lots of fun! Of course I had to buy some Marianne dies, and while I was going through my dies, I came across this one which I haven't used much, Ankie made a great card with it too so I started playing, and here is the result. Paper from Graphic 45. Hope you like it, Anja

Completely cased

This card was in an old magazine I got at the garage sale, I added the score lines. Stamp from Inkadinkadoo, have a great day, Anja

Toonie Tuesday November 6!

  Tomorrow it's time for another TOONIE TUESDAY at SGD. I fell in love with this set from Just Rite, so elegant! Come on out, if you can, bring a toonie and a basic tool kit and tomorrow at 2 PM you can make this card at SGD!

Hope to see you there, Anja

Romantique with Couture Creations

 Happy Friday! Today I am sharing a romantic, elegant, femine card with you, I just had to make one of those after seeing the new collections for embossing folders from Couture Creations. I simply embossed it on white, put a bit of pink on with twinkling H2O, sparkled the rest up with stickles (diamond), added a strip of embossed dots to hide a line that wasn't supposed to be there.  added a bow, a sentiment from Just Rite and this is the result.

Have a great day, Anja

Elegant birthday card!

 Finally I had some time to sit and play with some new goodies, love the Just Rite stamps, combined with some rolled mini MFT roses, MS branch , Marianne leave, pearls, ribbon, different borderpunches and beautiful Indie dp. With the 6 x 6 paperpacks it is so easy to make a card, all those coordinating papers all picked out for you.

Another rainy day here, this is not the weather that makes my farmer happy but that is life. Have a great day, Anja

Happy birthday for my husband!

Yesterday we celebrated my husbands birthday, we took the kids plus girlfriends out for dinner and had a great time. Here is the card I made for him, Happy Birthday Rien! Till next time, Anja

Fall card for Toonie Tuesday!

   Happy Friday! I haven't posted here forever, because I still have problems with the new blogger, I really should spend some time and figure it out, it is probably easy, lol. 

The leaves are falling fast here in my part of the world and the colours are amazing, it inspired me to do another Fall card for Toonie Tuesday, October 23 at 2 PM. Come and join us if you can, please bring a basic tool kit and a toonie. The little card in front is to cover up a smudge a made....see, I am such a messy crafter, my workspace get smaller and smaller and then things like this happen, lol!

Have a great weekend, Anja

Hero Arts Toonie Tuesday!

  Happy Friday! I can't get blogger to do what I want, grrr, so please check my card HERE.
Have a great day, Anja 

Merry Christmas!

  So I figured out a way to post a picture a different way, I am so not impressed with this whole new look of BLOGGER, it takes forever to upload a picture, I got a little frustrated and so I didn't post at all! Now I am posting the picture off my ipod, save it, and then type up a post, grrrrrr! Anyway, you can read all about this card HERE. Have a great day!

Inspired by Judy

The first thing I did this morning was go to my craft room and make a card, forget about the mess in the house , the laundry and what not.....I had to make card, lol! The picture doesn't do this card justice, in real life the two pinks are a good match. My inspiration came from Judy Kennedy, she doesn't have a blog but her cards are on display at SGD, she is also a designer and every time her works blows me away! A sizzix embossing folder, sentiment from Just Rite, IO die, Memory Box die, Cheery Lynn leave, MS leaves, pearls and goosebumps, a long list of supplies and so much fun.

Have a great day, Anja

Trees, trees and more trees with Craft A Scene!

Good morning, here is my second tree card for the Craft a Scene challenge of this month, we would love to have you join us! You can check it out here. For my card I have used a stamp and die from Memory Box, on watercolour paper coloured with Tim Holtz markers. The flower is also from Memory Box, can you tell I love their dies?I added some grass from Rubbernecker. Sentiment from Hero arts, some twine and paper I found in my craft room. Check out what the other design team members have made! Get inspired and show us your work! Have a great day, Anja

Merry Christmas!

Happy Friday! I skipped right through Thanksgiving and Halloween into CHRISTMAS! Here is the card I am doing for Toonie Tuesday next week, you can find all the info HERE.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Craft a Scene.....Trees!

Good morning! A new month is here, so it's time for a new challenge over at CRAFT A SCENE! This month our challenge is trees, please come and play with us and show us some trees! Before you know it, the beautiful fall colours will come.

For my card I started with a sponged background. First I made the hills at the bottom, using Memento black and london fog. The sun is sponged on with Tim Holtz squeezed lemonade and I have tried to put some of that colour around it. The sky is done with Tim Holtz weathered wood, going lighter towards the hills. In the right bottom corner I have added some scrubs, it is done with the top of a Stampscapes stamp, maple trio small, with pine needles and some black ink. The big tree is also a Stampscapes stamp, SC 226 E twisting oak and the bird is SC 162 A, solo duck. Borderpunch from Martha Stewart and a sentiment from Hero arts.

Toonie Tuesday September 4 th!

Happy Friday! Here is my project to share at the SGD blog today, you can find it here.

We had a wonderful family holiday at Prince Edward Island, what a beautiful place it is! I haven't posted much here on my blog.....life is just happening and I am enjoying it. With back to school, more routine, it will get better. Have a wonderful long weekend, Anja

Flying away.....

Happy Friday! Here is my card today for SGD, you can read all about here.

Have a great day, Anja

Happy Anniversary!

Looking through my pictures.....I found a couple of cards I haven't posted yet! So here is one of them, an anniversary card, some paper, rolled flowers, Just Rite stamps, doily die, corner punch and ribbon and pearls. There is 2 golden heart charms glued to the bow, if you use a hot glue gun you can stick on anything, lol!

Hope you like it! Till next time, Anja

Craft a Scene...anything in the great outdoors

Today I am sharing my second card this month for CRAFT A SCENE, the challenge is Anything in the great outdoors. We would love to have you all join us in this challenge! I have used an old favourite set from SU, lovely as a tree. The background is made with Tim Holtz inks, dusty concord, milled lavender, dried marigold, sqeeuzed lemonade and memento london fog. I then sprayed it with Tim Holtz gold glimmermist. The sentiment is a great verse for us to remember, stamp from Clear Dollar Stamps. Some ribbon, gold Viva pearls a border from Fiskars, oh and the birds from Stampscapes to finish off the card.

Please come check out the great cards from the other design team members!! Have a great day, Anja

Thinking of you

This is a card I made for a very special lady Sheila, owner of SGD !!! A lot of us at the store signed it! I had the pleasure to make the card, the dp is from Echo Park, butterflies from Martha Stewart, sentiment from Hero Arts, and the flowers are rolled up flowers from MFT, after I made them, I sprayed them with glimmermist, love that effect. The embossing folder used here is seeing spots. Let`s hope we brightened her day!!

Till next time, Anja

Inspired by paper

Happy Friday! Here is my card for SGD this week, you can read all about it HERE.

Have a great day, Anja

Anything goes....with CRAFT A SCENE!

Anything in the great outdoors....that is our challenge this month over at CRAFT A SCENE! So come and join us and show us your scenery cards!

I had so much fun making this card, I am even gonna teach this one at a class at SGD. I build the scenery with Heartfelt Creations scenery builders set and Art Impression stamps. The deer are from a Memory Box die. The embossing folder at the bottom is from Darice, floss from Sew Easy.

Let me tell you what I did, I coloured the stamps with Tim Holtz markers on watercolour paper and then I took a brush with a little bit of water and watered down the ink. I really like this effect, you do it step by step using the heat gun to dry one colour before you move on to the next one. Here is a list of the markers: walnut stain, peeled paint, vintage photo, crushed olive, forest moss, tumbled glass.

Please check out the site today and check out the beautiful work from the designers! Come and play with us if you like, we would love to have you join us! Have fun, Anja

Best Fishes!

Happy Friday!! This bright card is for a bright young men who had a birthday yesterday! I tried my hand on colouring with alcohol markers...........don't tell anyone, lol! You can read the details about the card here.

Have a great weekend! Till next time, Anja

The Friday after CHA....

Hello Ladies, I am back!!! We had a great time!! I have been hiding in my craft room this past week, creating and adding more stuff, lol! Learn all about this card HERE.

I will post more soon......really, I just didn't have time to sit at the computer with all those ideas in my head, lol! Have a great day, Anja

Wedding wishes

If you can see this post, Mr. Blogger is doing as promised, lol! I pre posted a few things for this week since I am off to CHA in Chicago!!! So on to the card....stamp from Flourishes, sentiment from Verve, MS borderpunches, and some rolled flowers.

I like this layout and have used it in a different combo too. Hope you have a good day, Anja

Guess what?

Just letting you know that we are having great time at CHA! Today i met Tim Holtz , he was so nice, got his signature and our picture taken! Gotta go to my next workshop!

I am here for you!

Happy Friday! I am here for you.....for one more day and then I am going to Chicago!!! Six of us from SGD are going to CHA!! It is the first time for me and I am super excited.

You can read all about this card HERE. I have pre posted a few posts for next week, if Mr. Blogger does what he should do, they will show up!!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Garden scene for CRAFT A SCENE

As I said in my first post for Craft a Scene , I do not like to garden and my husband does most of the yard work. He loves big rocks and trees, and after 13 years here our back yard looks like a park! I simply enjoy all his hard work!

So I was thinking about that while I was making this card, the dog is chasing the butterfly as I wanted to make it a bit more playful. I started out stamping the garden foreground from Art Impressions with memento ink. Then I added the twisted oak, SC 226 E from stampscapes. I inked the stamp up with Tim Holtz distress markers ( vintage photo ,peeled paint, forest moss).

I coloured the foreground and the rock with Spectrum Noir markers and Prisma pencils. The wildflowers were added and I have no idea who made them, the set has no name, sorry. I also added some greenery between the trees with a sedge filler from Stampscapes.

Some flowers were added with SU ink, more mustard and perfect plum, around the rocks. The dog is from Pergamano Flower girls, stamped, coloured, cut out and popped up. The butterflies are from Martha Stewart, the red frame is also made with Martha Stewart punches.

The roses are made with a die from MFT, I also sprayed them with gold glimmermist. At last, I had to add some stickles on the flowers, yellow and fruit punch.Ribbon is from my stash.

All in all, lots of steps to make this card, hope you like it and that you have a change to play with us! Thanks for stopping by, Anja

One more baby card...

Completely forgot to post this one....another baby card, same image, same layout, nothing too exciting! Summer is here and life gets in the way of my crafting and blogging time, lol!

The weather has been hot, did I say HOT, and we have used the pool a lot. We got new windows installed so I had to give my house a good cleaning, all done now! The boys are all working, and they all start pretty early, like 5 AM, and 6.30 AM, but that is for the boys, I still get to sleep in a little. So there is a lot of driving involved since they not all have their license yet, how I love being a mom!!

I hope to do some stamping today, have a great day, Anja