Challenges: Sunday Sketch&Stamp, Color Chef

For this card i used a vintage image, sanded the ends and mounted on green paper.
The backgroud was music paper mounted on black.
I then used green ribbon, cream lace and a little black paper.
The sentiment was from my stash.
I wanted to stamp on the green ribbon, but was not sure which ink i should use.
Whenever in doubt, i try Archival ... what you see here, is the result.

1. Sunday Sketch & Scrap - sketch
2. Color Chef - black, cream, green

Julina's page...

My daughter (8) made this page herself. I printed the photos and she asked me to go there "where she can see how to make a page" (i.e. Pagemaps). There she picked a sample she liked and tried to copy it. Although i help her in the way of choosing colours (the page is actually going into her real album), she does everything herself.

Now that I'm looking at the page, it actually fits two challeges:

1. Your next stamp - spring colours
2. Sew many layouts - anything goes

Netball ...

Photos from my daughter's O.7 netball team, as well as her one friend, and loyal supporter (in the middle circle :-)

I cut circles out of 3 photos to use on the righthand side of the layout. Mounted all photos on plain cardstock and stuck a dotty piece in the middle of the page. Ribbon was folded and stapled on the right and the date was done with my Dymo.

This page fits two challenges:

1. Create 4 fun - sketch
2. Cute Card Thursday - ribbon

Challenge: Papertake weekly

This was one of those "real" challenges for me ... the photos is about a year old and i never knew what to do or how to use it. Papertake Weekly's challenge gave me this idea. The only paper i used, is the 3 strips on the cardstok. I distressed all the photos, and stamped a corner and wording. Three button-ribbon-flowers finished the layout.

Challenge: Sweet Stop #44

For this challenge from Sweet Shop, one had to use flowers ... I added a butterfly, just in case :-)

Challenges: Fun with shapes, Get sketchy, Sophisticat, Flutterby, Little red wagon

1. Get Sketchy - sketch ... nice one
2. Fun with shapes - spotted backgroud paper and cut-out corners
3. Sophisticat - embossing ... piece of embossed white paper, highlighted with a little black ink
4. Flutterby - open week ... beautiful butterfly
5. Little red wagon ... colours: black & white

Challenges: Sew many cards, Lexi's, Flutterby

1. Sew many cards - sketch ... a really nice one, used a digi-stamp, coloured with my Derwent's, glued wiggely eyes
2. Lexi's - anything goes ... how easy :-)
3. Flutterby - open week ... added two brad butterflies in the corners

Wow ... challenges galore!

1. Friday Sketchers - sketch
2. Bee Crafty - stitching ... for the corners
3. If the shoe fits - plaid/check - check and flowers make a great team
4. Just cute beares - lilac ... i love lilac/purple
5. Rosie D - friendship ... all in the sentiment
6. Stamp with fun - stitch
7. Cupcake - friends ... all in the sentiment
8. My time to craft - in the frame

Combined challenges

1. Lily of the Valley - sketch
2. Stamp Something - touch of spring (beautiful flowers in the girl's hand), swirl stamped
3. Secret crafter - mothersday (sentiment)
4. Magical crafts - for mum (sentiment)
5. Digital Tuesday - a card for mum (sentiment, digital image from collage sheet)
6. Simon says - vintage with flowers (vintage image, flowers)

Tarien 16

Tomorrow is my daughter's birthday ... boy, who would think that she'd be 16 so soon!

I used the sketch from Mojo Monday MOJO127 to make this card.
All i needed was two pieces of patterned paper, 2 ribbons, little dragonflies and a "16" ... and there we go.

Loving puppies ...

1. Stamp with fun - sketch
2. Flutterby - hearts (and remember the butterflies) ... used the hearts in my journaling on the side and butterflies in my sentiment
3. Pile it on - flowers ... love those pink flowers, this time with a bow in the centre
4. Sophisticat - stitching ... "stitched" those circles with my fineliner
5. Paper Sundaes - distress ... distressed each photo and tore the strip op pink paper
6. Stamptacular Sunday - circles ... the "stitched" ones

A rub-off sentiment and a few brads finished the layout.

Toothfairy ...

When I started this page, it was only to finish the toothfairy-photo. Then my eldest daughter wanted to know where she can find scrap-challenges to take part in. While i was searching the blogs, i came across a few challenges which i normally do for cards. And when this page was finished, i was stunned to see how many (card)challenges the page fits.

1. Cute Card Thursday - metal (the pin that "holds" the tag)
2. 1 Stop craft challenge - wall hanging (this will go to her wall for sure)
3. Allsorts - tag (for journaling)
4. Scrap & stamp - digital (got the "R10" from google)

The background was already patterned with toothfairy stuff, so i built the layout around it. I put a rhinestone star on the fairie's wand, had 2 confetti fairies do some R10 magic and stamped wings on the largest tooth on the page.

1st day at school

Who can believe it ... it's already one year later!

I had a lot of photos, so i basically just glued them to the background. On the first layout i added her nametag she wore the first week as well as a cutout from our local newspaper.
On the second page i added the letter her grandma wrote to wish her good luck.

Long overdue ...

I've been spending so much time on cardmaking, that I totally neglected my scrapbooking. Though difficult, i decided to spend today scrapbooking and TRYING to overlook all the cardmaking challenges.

These photos have been lying in the album since Jan.2009 and last night i started on them. I used kraft cardstock and added a light shade of peach pattern paper and a turquoise strip. The flowers matched the strip and i accentuated them with a little piece of ribbon on the top photo. I then added a little wording and a stamp here and there.

Challenges: Stamp with Sarah, Paper Cutz, Annabelle

1. Stampavie - get well soon
2. Paper Cutz - get well soon
3. Annabelle - sketch

Challenges: Digital Tuesday, 365 cards, Michelle Perkett, Crafty Creations

1. 365 cards - sketch
2. Digital Tuesday - all things girly ... a princes!!
3. Michelle Perkett - pale pink, fushia, orange, green ... used these colours as my background and a piece of patterned paper which included all of them, to combine the blocks
4. Crafty Creations - stitching ... though only fake, the circle was stitched :-)

A 3D sentiment, 2 pink brads and glitter finished the card.

Challenges: Sketch Saturday, CCEE Stampers, Simon Says, Little Red Wagon

1. Sketch Saturday - sketch
2. CCEE Stampers - sweet!
3. Little Red Wagon - ribbon
4. Simon Says - 3 types of embellishments, 2 patterned papers, 1 image

I used patterned paper in 2 shades of pink, used ribbon, rhinestones and rub-off as embellishment, and added 1 cake ...

Challenges: Creative Inspirations, My Grafico

1. Creative Inspirations - sepia
2. My Grafiko - sketch

Challenges: Truly Scruptious, Creative Belli, Your next stamp

1. Truly Scrumptious - sketch
2. Creative Belli - dragonflies
3. Your next stamp - spring colours

Challenge: La-La Land

The challenge over at is RED for this week. I stamped the flowers twice ... first on the card and embossed with gold, then on red vallum, also embossed gold and cut out.
I then stuck the vellum with 3D tape on the bottom flowers. Cut a frame from the red striped paper and added 3 red brads. The letters that spell HALLO was cut out and glued next to a piece of spotted ribbon.

Challenges: Color Chef, Sweet stop, Pink Elephant

1. Color Chef - cream, craft, black
2. Sweet Stop - sketch
3. Pink Elephant - use ribbon

I used my favourite music paper to paste the half circle and glued a little fringe around it. The image was from internet, which I mounted on cream handmade paper, and then on black. A piece of ribbon and sentiment finished the card.

Challenges: Just cute bears, My time to craft, Tuesday Taggers

1. Just Cute Bears - sketch
2. My time to craft - green plus one
3. Tuesday Taggers - Time

I love using different kinds of paper ... for the background I here used old pattern (used to make clothes) and part of an old book of maps. I stamped "time" and "4" and "fun" was a rub-on. A few brads finished the card.

Challenges: Pollycraft, Sophisticat

1. Pollycraft - double up
2. Sophisticat - tartan

For this card, i used three images (the house and 2 different fairies). I stamped them on linen cardstock and coloured with my Derwent's. I then cut and pasted them on the card. To qualify for Sophisticat's challenge, i added a tartan frame. Little butterflies, a sentiment and glitter on the fairie's wings, finished the card.

Challenges: Allsorts, Cupcake, Crafty Angels

 

1. Allsorts - 1 ribbon, 2 papers, 3 flowers
2. Cupcake - keep it simple
3. Crafty angels - fantastic flowers

For this card i used kraft cardstock with part of a white circle on it. I needed a vase for the flowers, so i stamped only part of my one stamp to cut out the vase. I then coloured the vase and lifted it with thick double sided tape. Glued the flowers and half rounds and picked a piece of ribbon to match. Finished it of with a sentiment stamp.

Challenge: Scrap & Stamp

 

My take on Scrap & Stamp's Challenge for this week.

As I haven't got a big enough stencil that looks like the paper in the background, i had to draw different ones till i got one that was the right size. I distressed the photos and used a flower strip at the end. I then stamped the journaling block, but decided to use an old saying in stead of writing something there. Buttons, a flower and butterflies rounds of the page.

Challenges: stamp something, Crazy 4 challenges

1. Stamp something - something cute
2. Crazy 4 challenges - red

Cariena asked that in stead of just naming the challenges, I explained what I did. I've got no idea how to do this, as some of my stash are so old, i can't remember from when and where. I also use a lot of different things etc. pictures, stickers - where as most bloggers use stamps. But I will give it a try ... for now.

I used an oval frame and mounted a "curtain" and "window-sill" at the back. I then stamp the cat with a Great Impressions stamp and coloured it with my Derwent watercolour pencils. I used a piece of thick doublesided foam tape to "lift" the cat in die window-sill. Finished it off with an eyelet in each corner.

Challenge: Secret crafter

This week Secret crafter challenged us to use a different fold as usual. I folded the card different and then cut off one corner on each side.

Challenges: Cute Daisy May, 1-stop craft challenge, Totally papercraft

1. Cute Daisy may - lavender & lace
2. Totally papercraft - buttons & bows
3. One stop craft challenge - sketch

Challenges: Friday Sketchers, Stamp with Fun, Teddy Stampers

1. Friday sketchers - sketch
2. Stamp with fun - hearts
3. Teddy stampers - love

Challenges: Bah! Humbug!, Annabelle Stamps

1. Bah! Humbug! - snowman
2. Annabelle stamps - sketch

Challenges: Cute Card Thursday, Colour Create, Lily of the Valley, Create 4 Fun, Daring Cardmakers

1. Cute Card Thursday - in the name of love
2. Colour Create - red, white, chocolate, pink
3. Lily of the Valley - Valentine
4. Create 4 Fun - sketch
5. Daring Cardmakers - love

Challenges: One stop craft shop, Inky Impressions

1. One stop craft shop - green, chocolate, cream
2. Inky Impressions - charm

Challenges: Teddy Stampers, Annabelle stamps

1. Teddy Stampers - dry emboss
2. Annabelle Stamps - sketch

Challenges: Roses on Paper, Flutterby

 

1. Flutterby - love
2. Roses on paper - pink, brown, cream

Challenges: Creative Belli Blog, Stampin for the weekend, Nutshells, Delightful sketches, Sweet sketch Wednesday

1. Stampin for the weekend - love is in the air
2. Nutshells - 3 layers, ribbon, glitter
3. Delightful sketches & challenges - love
4. Sweet sketch Wednesday - sketch
5. Creative Belli Blog - Ribbon

Challenges: Creative inspirations, Simon says

 

1. Creative inspirations - leftovers
2. Simon says - love

Challenge: Stamp with fun

 

Stamp with fun - hearts

Challenges: Cupcake, My time 2 craft, Just cute bears, Sunday Sketch & Stamp

1. Cupcake Challenges - red & white
2. Just Cute Beares - hearts
3. Sunday's Sketch & Stamp - sketch
4. My time to craft - hearts & kisses

Challenge: Digital tuesday, Papertake weekly, ABC challenge

1. Papertake weekly - sketch
2. Digital Tuesday - all about animals
3. ABC Challenge - N is for New - I used my brandnew stamps for the bottom part ...
suddenly can't remember from which company, sorry :-(

Stamptacular challenge #44

 

Stamptacular - love is in the air (using no hearts)

Saturday challenge #69

 

Saturday challenge - tones of one colour and white

A lot of challenges ...

1. Sketch Saturday - sketch
2. Allsorts - buttons & bow
3. Crazy 4 Challenges - be my valentine
4. Crafty angels - my favourite colour
5. Pink elephant - valentine
6. Die cut dreams - have a heart
7. Lexi's - spotted or striped