Day 7, a little bit of colouring....

Day 7 of the 30 day color challenge, you can find it HERE.

I missed yesterday...and had plans to post early today, well, that did not happen but I did colour a little bit. The flower is part of a Magnolia stamp, coloured with pencils, and cut out. The background is watercolour paper with some yellow brusho's. When it was still a bit wet, I stamped the Altenew leaves with forest moss distress ink, and because the paper was still wet, you get a bit of the watercolour look. The sentiment was cut with the Silhouette.

                                       Hope you like it! Till next time, Anja

Day 5, pencils on black cardstock....

Happy Saturday! Some simple colouring today for the COLOR CHALLENGE, I have used pencils on black cardstock with some crystal effects on top. The derwent coloursoft pencils go on very easy on the black but the picture is not showing that all so well....

If you are looking for the CRAZIES card.....I posted that here on my blog a couple days ago as I used it for this challenge... I am trying to stay on top on all the things I want to do, lol, but sometimes Real Life messes that up, you can all probably relate to that! Oh well, such is life!

                                    Hope you get some crafty time! Till next time, Anja

Day 4, botanical garden!

Happy Friday! Here my card for the SGD blog and Day 4 of the colouring challenge, you can find the challenge HERE. As you can tell, I love flowers!!

                                        Hope to be back tomorrow! Have a great day, Anja

Day 3, For you!

Day 3 of the colour challenge....you can find the info HERE.

I used my Derwent colour soft pencils again to colour this rose from Rosewood, such a beautiful stampstamp, embossing folder from Anna Griffith, sentiment from Just Rite, die from Nellie Snellen.

I added some stickles to the rose, have to  have some sparkle, lol.

Hope you like it, till next time, Anja

Color burst and brusho background for Day 2!

Day 2 of the colour challenge, you can find it HERE, I had fun playing with color burst and brusho powders. The flower is a Impression Obsession stamp and the sentiment from Stampendous, and see I messed up my black Viva dots....

I used the Misti to stamp the flower and versafine black, so nice that you can ink up different times till you like it and always in the same spot!!

The frame is from Nellie Snellen. Hope you like it! 

                                       Till next time, Anja

Off to a good start...

Day 1 of the colouring challenge and I even finished the card, so I am off to a good start. I have a whole pile of stamped images ready to be coloured so that I can stay on track!

This stamp is from Penny Black, I coloured it with Derwent coloursoft pencils in the colours as they show on the package, sentiment from My Favorite Things, die from Nellie Snellen. I added some stickles and Viva pearl dots.

You can find the challenge HERE

                         Hope you like it! Till next time, Anja

Joining the colouring fun!

 

On July 5th there is a new challenge starting, all about taking some time to colour every day.....no stress, nothing that needs to be done, just taking some time for yourself ,  even if it's only 5 minutes a day. Sounds good, right? I think it's a great idea and I am planning to do this!

You can check it out and join too! You can find all the info HERE

There really are no rules, all about enjoying to colour with whatever medium you like!

Hope to be able to post something every day for the next month......now that might be the real challenge, lol!

                                                     Till next time, Anja

C4C343, lighthouses!

Happy Saturday! It's challlenge time over at the CRAZIES, this time you are asked to use a light house, you can find all the details HERE

It took me a while to colour this card, with derwent colorsoft pencils, the stamp is from Flourishes, but I made the scenery bigger by adding some hills and the rocks (stampscape) on the front, I also added some lines to make more water. At last I added the reeds and the seagull on the pole.

Sentiment is from Impression . A friend retired this week, so I gave the card to him.

                                             Hope you like it, Anja

Clean and simple Hello card

Happy Canada Day! My card today for the SGD blog, not using any red and white but keeping it very simple. You can check it out HERE.

                                                               Till next time, Anja

Buttefly challenge, C4C342

Happy Saturday! Challenge time over at the Crazies, use a butterfly as your main focus!

Love butterflies! I used my Cameo to cut the circle and the butterfly, some punches for the greenery. Background is watercoloured.Script stamped over butterfly and some crystal effects.

Our home pc is soooo slow.....doing this from my phone.... Here is the link to the challenge:

www.crazy4challenges.blogspot.com

       Till next time, Anja

From butterfly to flower!

Happy Friday! It was so much fun to create this card....I am sharing it today on the SGD blog.

You can find the details HERE , it's a butterfly stamp......and you'll see a flower!

                                     Till next time, Anja

Masculine sunset!

Happy Friday! Here is my card for the SGD blog today, you can find the details HERE

                                  Till next time, Anja.

Colourburst and a stencil...

Since I have been looking for some lost things in my craft room( still can't find what I am looking for) I came across some stencils I cut with the Silhouette...

My colour bursts were on my desk too so I started to play with them together and this is the result.

Love the effect! Turned the panel into this quick card, sentiment from Just Rite, border die from Joy Craft.

                                      Hope you like it, till next time, Anja

C4C340, 0ne for the men!

Time to make a card for the men in your life, the challenge over at the CRAZIES is masculine!

With Father's Day around the corner, it is perfect timing. I found this cut out at the Silhouette, coloured the sun and the boat with markers and made a background with distress inks. Sentiment from Just Rite.

Matted it on navy and voila, all done! Check out what the other design team members have created, get inspired and join us if you like! Have fun!

                                    Till next time, Anja

Elegance in motion!

Happy Friday! Here is my card for the SGD blog today, you can find all the details HERE.

                                        Till next time, Anja

c4C339, put a flower on!

Happy Saturday! Time for another challenge over at the CRAZIES. Love this one, put a flower on!!

I love flowers, and I got this beautiful peony from Altenew, coloured with watercolours. Fussy cut and paired up with some blue and purple. Sentiment from my stash.

The leaves are done with a variety of punches and dies (Marianne Design).

                        Hope you join us! Have a great day, Anja

Cosmo flowers

Happy Friday! Here is my card for the SGD blog, you can find all the details HERE.

                                      Have a great day, Anja

Thank you card for C4C338.

It's Saturday,  a very hot day here in Ontario!! Today the challenge over at the CRAZIES is to make a (teacher) thank you card. Our kids are now all adults, I can't believe it myself while I am writing this, so I made a "normal" thank you card. For the background I used the Kuretake watercolours and I cut out the oval with a nestabilitie. The poppy is from Impression Obsession, heat embossed in this red colour.

Part of the flowers are cut out to fit over the oval. Love those watercolours, they are sooo rich in colour!

                                         Till next time, Anja

                                        

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Friday! Here is my card for the SGD blog today, you can read all about it HERE.

                                    Till next time, Anja

C4C337, sketch challenge!

Sketch challenge time over at the CRAZIES. You can find all the info HERE. My computer is acting up...having trouble getting this post up and going.

Anyhow, about the card...I got the idea at a card class and used it in a different way here. You stamp the poppies (IO) on the vellum and heat emboss them, they are coloured from the back with tombos and a blender pen. Sentiment from Just Rite, some more vellum and shiny cardstock.

                       Hope you like it! I love a good card sketch! Till next time, Anja

C4C336, white flower!

It is challenge time over at the CRAZIES, this time we are asked to use a white flower on your card, you can find the details HERE.

I used a Penny Black stamp. heat embossed it in white on watercolour paper, then I added some liquid metal purple colour burst and some regular purple colour burst. Added more water, dabbed it up, sprayed a little more....till I liked it, or actually till I could still see the flower lol. I then stamped a script stamp lightly over it and added the sentiment. It was fun play time!

                                         Till next time, Anja

Clover foliage!

Happy Friday! I have been playing with this new stamp from Impression Obsession, clover foliage.

This is my card for the SGD blog today, you can hop over HERE and read all about it.

                                                Have a great day, Anja

C4C335, emerald green

Good Morning! Seeing lots of emerald green today in our challenge over at the CRAZIES.

You can find it HERE.

I made a panel with Brusho emerald green and let it dry overnight, the next day I stamped this Magenta flower on it and embossed it with a pearl deep blue embossing powder. 

Sentiment is from Just Rite. There is a thin strip of mirri board in green along the panel, and the cream left side is popped up over the green side.

                                        Hope you like it, Anja

To a special Friend!

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

                                   Have a great day, Anja

C4C333, Spring Flowers!

Happy Saturday! April showers bring May flowers, but at the CRAZIES we would like us to us some flowers here in April. You can find the challenge HERE.

I got this cute stencil with the flowers and I taped it to a piece of watercolour paper.

With a sponge I put on some distress inks, peeled paint, dusty concord and faded jeans, spritzed with water, dabbed some up, sprinkled some brusho powder through the flower part, more pearalized water, more dabbing. The perfect pearls in the water will give you a nice shine.

After it was dry, I took the stencil away, added the script and  some sponging. I also went around the flowers with a fine tip black pen to get back some of the detail. Sentiment from Altenew.

                                          Hope you like it, Anja

Color burst and Penny Black!

Happy Friday! Here is my card for the SGD blog today, you can find the details HERE.

                                 Till next time, Anja

C4C332, sketch challenge

Happy Saturday! Sketch challenge at the Crazies! Check it out :

www.crazy4challenges.blogspot.com

Have a great day, Anja

Bejewelled Penny Black flowers

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

                                                         Happy crafting, Anja

C4C331, glitter and paste

Here my card for the Crazies, challenge is to use glitter after you use a stencil with some sort of paste.

You can go here and read all about it

www.crazy4challenges.blogspot.com

I am posting from my phone,  hope all will go as planned. I cut the sentiment and branches with the cameo, flowers from punch.

              Till next time, Anja

Vellum and markers

Happy Friday! This is my card for the SGD blog today, you can find all the info HERE.

                                                    Till next time, Anja

C4C330, baby animals!

Happy Saturday! Challenge time over at the CRAZIES. All about baby animals.....I live on a farm and we are in the middle of lambing.... Lots of cute  baby lambs!

I did struggle to make this card, not sure if I really like it. Background done with leaf freen brushos, lambs from the Cameo and sentiment from Paper Smooches. 

                Happy crafting, till next time, Anja

Quick and easy shimmer sheetz card

Happy Friday! Here my card for the SGD blog today, sorry, last week the link did not work, hopefully today it will, you can find the details HERE.

                                                  Have a great day, Anja

Hero Arts Flowers

Happy Friday! I missed blogging for the past two weeks.....we went on an unexpected trip to see my family!

But today I am back with a card for the SGD blog,  you can check it out HERE.

                                             Till next time, Anja

C4C326, all about the umbrella!

Happy Saturday! Time for another challenge over at the CRAZIES, March is National Umbrella Month......I did not know this, lol. So the challenge is to do something with an umbrella...I did not have much stamping time this week,but yesterday I went to my little card class and we made this card...perfect timing for me! SoI did not design this card myself.

Stamps from Penny Black, coloured with Prismacolour pencils, borderdie from Joy Craft.

                      This card saved the day for me. Till next time, Anja

It's your day!

Happy Friday! Here my card for the SGD blog today, hop on over HERE to check it out!

                                    Have a great day, Anja

C4C 325, Spring time!

SPRING time over at the CRAZIES, come and join us for celebrating that Spring is really coming!

You can find all the details HERE.

I have made several cards lately that would go well for this challenge.....Spring time for me, makes me think of pretty pink flowers, some green and bling, lol!

So I used another Penny Black flower, inked up with markers and some sponging around,  a gold thread around the bottom and the sentiment I cut with the Silhouette, after I saw that you can get some pretty dies

from MFT, I think. Since I have the Cameo, I try not to buy any dies...and it worked again!

                                            Happy Crafting, till next time, Anja

For you!

Here is my card with a lovely PENNY BLACK stamp for the SGD blog today, you can find the details HERE .

                                                        Till next time, Anja

Passionate sympathy card

Sharing with you today a sympathy card with the Passionate stamp from Penny Black.

Its a quick and easy card, I used tombo markers in the stamp and a gold gel pen for some accents. Sentiment from Just Rite. Matted on black on a silver card base. Hopefully this card will stay in my basket for a while. 

           Have a great day, Anja

C4C324, sketch challenge!

Third Saturday of the month, sketch challenge time over at the CRAZIES.

Love a sketch challenge, so easy to start a card when you know what you are doing, lol!
For my card I used the Beautiful Day set from Altenew for the flower, with a couple of different shades of purple, some punches to make the leaves and a sentiment from Just Rite.

Some tape and a strip of paper to make the diagonal line, and an embossing folder on the bottom.

The top purple is a shiny paper, hard to see in the picture.

Please check out what the other Design team members came up with and join us if  you like!!

                                         Till next time, Anja

You are my cup of tea!

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

                           Till next time. Anja

Here for you

Happy Family Day! Playing with my Altenew Stamps, I watercoloured the stamped images, the flowers are popped up. Some stickles in the center and some sponging and dots. Sentiment is popped up too. I matted it on black, leaving a bigger space on the right.

           Hope you like it, Anja

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day to you all!

This is the card for my husband, colour burst background, border punch and a heart from the Cameo.

Enjoy your day! Till next time, Anja

C4C323, red and pink monochromatic

Happy Saturday! If you live in my area, you are probably buried under a big blanket of snow right now, it's been snowing hard and still more to come, perfect for some stamping time, lol!

The challenge today over at the CRAZIES is to make a monochromatic card using red and pinks!

Since I am on a watercolour roll....I used my tombo's to make this background on watercolour paper.

Stamps are from Inkadinkadoo, and I heat embossed the images in black. I am keeping this card sentiment free for now...you never know when you need a card and then I can personalize it.

                      Hope you will join us in this challenge! Have fun, Anja

Wool always be friends!

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

                                               Till next time, Anja

C4C322, heart kite!

It's National Kite day according to our challenge over at the Crazies
Since I was not sure if I had any kite stamps, my cameo helped me out again!
I found this heart kite and this is what I came up with, the background is an embossing folder with some Tim Holtz barn door ink sponged on, sentiment from Just Rite.
At least I got started on some Valentines cards.......it is around the corner.
Check out what other design team members came up with and join us , if you like!!
                              Have a great day, Anja

Watercolour wash background

Here my card for the SGD blog today, hop on over HERE to check it out!

                                        Till next time, Anja

Winner of DORA's bloghop

  Hello Ladies,,

Today we are revealing the winners of DORA's blog hop.
If you go over HERE you can find out who the lucky ladies are.
We all got to pick a winner from the people who left a comment...my son randomnly picked a number....
GerJanne is the lucky one!!
Thank you to all of you, it always warms my heart when you take time to write a comment!
                                                             Till next time, Anja

Vandaag maken we de winnaars bekend van DORA's blog hop. Ga maar eens kijken HIER.
Wij mochten allemaal een winnaar kiezen van de mensen die een berichtje hadden geschreven....mijn zoon heeft willekeurig een nummer getrokken...GerJanne, je hebt gewonnen!
Hartelijk bedankt voor alle berichtjes, het is hart verwarmend dat jullie de moeite nemen om te reageren!!
                                                             Groetjes, Anja
                                            

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