Something new, something old....

          Just a quick card to share with you, the pink flowers were leftovers, they are from a new Spellbinders die, the embossing folder is new to me and the rest is stuff I had for a while. Hope you like it, Anja

Crazy for Challenges, C4C192, let's shape it up!

          Good Morning! We are doing hexagons over at the Crazy 4 Challenges this week, or you can do octagons or whatever shape you feel like, lol!  I have used a 

hexagon background stamp from Bo Bunny, sentiment from Flourishes, butterfly from Cheery Lynn, mini rolled rosed from MFT, some ribbon, greenery and Viva liquid pearls. Hope you like it! Come check out what the other design team members have made and play with us, if you like!! Till next time, Anja

Christmas in July!

 

           Good morning! At SGD we are doing Christmas in July, stay tuned for more ideas! Check out this card HERE. Have a great day, Anja

 

Crazy for Challenges, C4C191

    Happy Saturday, today we are having a challenge with a flip flop card over at the Crazies, You can make your own or use the template provided for you. That's what I did, so easy, come check it out and play with us if you like!! Have fun, Anja

One more Father's day card!

      One more Father's day card to share with you, this one came together pretty quick. I used distress inks to make a background and a stamp from Inkadinkadoo. My DH loves horses. Some spellbinders to complete it and all done. Hope you all had a great Father's Day. Till next time, Anja

C4C190, a sketch for you!

    This week the "crazies" have a sketch for you from Kristine! You can check it out HERE. I pulled out some of my 6x6 paperpads and came up with this card, hope you like it. Have a great day, Anja

Easy butterfly card

    Happy Friday, here is my card today for SGD's blog, you can check it out here. Have a great day, Anja

Crazy 4 Challenges, Father's day card

    Love it when a card comes together easily! The challenge this week for Crazy 4 Challenges is Father's day. Come and play with us if you like!

I combined several stamps from Just Rite, Stampscapes, Rubbernecker and several inks. The anker is a punch from Martha Stewart, I punched several layers and glued them together. As I said before, making a scenery card is always fun! Thanks for looking, Anja

Scenery card for Father's Day!

 Almost forgot how much fun it it to make a scenery card. Here I started with a background made with acrylic paint and the jellyroll, stamped the image with Versafine black and took some Pan Pastels to add colour. So easy! Now to get it in the mail on time....

Till next time, Anja

Crazy 4 challenges, C4C 188! Surprise!

        Oh happy day!!! Today I am happy to announce that I am now a design team member for CRAZY 4 CHALLENGES!!! Come on over to their blog and check it out!! The challenge this week is SUMMER INSPIRATION!! Here in South Western Ontario it certainly has been summer this week,hot and humid.

On to my card, I have been introduced to the Gelli Roll and of course I  had to get one...the background for this card was made with acrylic paint and a stencil on the Gelli roll. Die is from MFT and the stamps from Just Rite, I coloured the flower with Spectrum Noirs and Prismacolour pencils. Some Viva silver pearls were added since it seems impossible for me not to use them, lol!

Have a great day, Anja

Wonderful Wednesday card!

   Black and white together, what a great combo. This is my card for the SGD blog post from today, you can find details HERE.

Have a great day!!

Graduation for him and her!

    Tomorrow we are going to the graduation of our oldest son and his girlfriend. When he graduated from collega the first time, he was out and about working in Alberta, so we never got to witness that but after a year of working and travelling to Australia, he went back to school, met his lovely girl and tomorrow they are graduating together! We are so proud of them!! Hope you like my cards, lol! How fun it is that you get to brag about your children, lol!

Till next time, Anja

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Crazy 4 challenges!

   No patterned paper, no problem , the challenge over 

at the Crazy 4 challenges blog is not to use patterned paper on  your project, you can make your own.

I made this card a little while ago but never posted it, the background is made with Pan Pastels and a stencil, border from Memory Box, sentiment Paper Smooches, car from Clear Dollar Stamps, the key is made with a punch, several layers glued together and then I put Chrystal effects on top.

Have a great day, Anja

Happy Birthday!

     Happy Friday!!! I am off to a weekend scrapbooking and stamping in style with SGD at the Oakwood Inn,  you can read all about this card HERE.

Have a great weekend, Anja

Spectrum Noir and prismacolour pencils

   Sharing a sympathy card with you today, I like to keep those simple. The stamp is from Impression Obsession, coloured with Spectrum Noirs and prismacolour pencils. I sponged on some Tim Holtz ink  and the sentiment is from Just Rite. Have a great day, Anja

Happy Mother's Day!

     Happy Friday! You can read about this card HERE. It's been a crazy week here at the farm, love this time of the year, it makes my farmer so happy to be able to work the land but no time for me to craft, oh well, it can't be all about me, lol! Love being a farmer's wife! Have a great day, it is raining here  now so maybe I get to see my  hubby today some time, Anja

Looking through the window...

     Happy Friday! Here is my card for Wonderful Wednesday next week May 8th, you can read about it HERE . Have a great day, Anja

Going for elegance....

              Happy Friday! Today an elegant card, you can find all the details HERE. Enjoy the sunshine, Anja

Finally....

                It's been way too long since I posted a card.....life gets in the way of my crafting time, I do have some cards to share, just didn't take time to post them. 

So here is one of them,  a romantic card, hope you like it, I finally made this for a couple who got engaged weeks ago. Have a great day, Anja

Toonie Tuesday April 9.

Happy Friday! This is the card for Toonie Tuesday, April 9, you can read all the details HERE

Have a great day, Anja

Leftovers....

                             

Quick and simple, with some leftover paper! Filling up my box with cards so I have them when I need them. Have a great day, Anja

Just having fun!

   I am just having some fun in my craft room, playing with dies, paper, stamps and ink. Trying to use what I have collected, lol!

And since we had snow again today, I don't feel bad spending time inside. THanks for stopping by, Anja

One for the boys

A birthday card for a boy who turned 16. Pulled out my clear dollar stamps and heat embossed the car . New dies from IO and some twine. Hope you like it, Anja

Thinking of you

          A quick card I made with some leftovers. I have once again cleaned up my craft room, organized a bit more and I am really hoping to keep it this way, lol!

It is so much nicer to work on a clear space instead of on top of everything.....

Have a great day, Anja

Elegant birthday card

  Oops, the colours on this photo are not the best, not sure what happened. The blue is totally off, oh well, I have been making a lot of cards, enjoying myself in my craft room. I wanted a card with no pink and this is what I came up with, still a little touch of pink in de dp, but that's it. Have a great day, thanks for stopping by, Anja

Is it Spring yet??

    Happy Friday!! Spring arrived in my craft room,lol!!

Check out my card HERE. Have a great day, Anja

Spring colours!

    If only Spring was here....if I have to believe the weather man today, some nasty stuff is coming this way....Anyhow, I made a background with Glimmermists and followed the MOJO sketch from last week, forgot to upload the card but that's okay.

The sentiment is from Clear Dollar Stamps, border and die from Cheery Lynn and Memorybox.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Anja

Toonie Tuesday!!

   Happy Friday! Here is my card for TOONIE TUESDAY, March 19 at 2 PM at SGD. For a toonie you can make this card. You can read all the details here. Have a great day, Anja

Playing with mixed media!

          Mixed media is hot!! I see beautiful pieces of mixed media from other people, looked around in my craft room and pulled out some glimmermists, dylusions, prismacolour pencils, Tim Holtz inks, a stencil, oh and I bought some more stuff, lol.

Anyhow, I started with a piece of watercolour paper, put my stencil on it and with a light coloured prismacolour pencil put on the dots, then I sprayed.....some mists, some inks, I can`t remember, anyhow, after it was dry....I ended up with this. Cut out the die from Memory Box, sentiment from Hero Arts and the card was done. Hope you like it, I sure had fun making it!

More cards to share!

   Two cards I have made for my Friday posts at the store.....finally posting them here too, check out HERE for more details. Have a great day, Anja

Just having fun!

   It's not that I haven't made any cards.....good intentions of sharing them...but it took a while. Here a card with  all the things that I truly love, pink, green, flowers and a butterfly. Sentiment is from Just Rite, the leaf is a new die from Paper Smooches, dp from My Minds Eye.

Hope you like it too, Anja

Derwent Inktense pencils...., MOJO 283

  It's been a while... a lot of unfinished projects are on my desk and my hubby and I went on a wonderful trip to Curacao. At the store we got those pencils, Derwent Inktense and oh yeah, you need them. This is how I look at it, it's like with your kids, you love them all, can't miss one of them but they are all different, lol!!! See, all justified!!! Well, those pencils are different, very intense, real ink, you use water but once it's dry, it's permanent. When I first played with them, I did not let the layers dry, that was a mistake, the next time, I did, used my heat gun when I couldn't wait 2 minutes, lol.

They are so easy to work with and give a beautiful result. Sketch from this card is the new MOJO sketch. Stamp from Paper Smoothes and the little sentiment...no clue, sorry.

Today at Wonderful Wednesday, Sheila and Lori are showing us all about those pencils and you can play with them, come on over at 1 PM and bring a donation for the foodbank if you can.

Have a great day, Anja

Happy Valentine's Day

   Just in time,another Valentine's day card, I made a couple of different ones, they seem to disappear from  my craftroom, I wonder what my boys have to do with that, lol!Stamps from Inkadinkadoo and unknown, MS heart border punch, Nestabilities and some ribbon and bling.

Have a great day, Anja

MOJO279, thinking of you!

  Finally I got a change to post my card for the MOJO challenge this week, you can find it HERE. With an hour left....pfff. I had in my mind what I wanted to make and I worked on it different times, but every time I got interrupted, not fair, LOL!

Anyhow, I did it, love playing with the MOJO sketches!

Here a list of things I used: Paper from My Mind's Eye, Memory box fabulous Phlox, Martha Stewart butterfly, sentiment from Paper Smooches, SU label and oval punch, bling from stash.

Have a great evening and thanks for stopping by, Anja

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