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    Lindy’s Stamp Gang November Color Challenge
    • Nov 8, 2019

    Lindy’s Stamp Gang November Color Challenge

    Hi everyone, today I’m showing you my inspiration for the Lindy’s Stamp Gang November Color Challenge mood board. I felt like creating a Christmas card and this how I went about it! This is what this month’s mood board looks like: Step 1: I started by stamping the images I needed onto some Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface Paper using Versafine “Onyx Black” ink and clear heat embossing afterwards using Lindy’s Stamp “Clearly Clear” embossing powder. The stamp set I used is by
    Derwent Inktense Travel Set #02 with Altenew Stamps
    • Apr 18, 2019

    Derwent Inktense Travel Set #02 with Altenew Stamps

    Hi everyone, today I would like to show you this card that I coloured with the new Derwent Inktense Paint Pan Travel Set Palette #02. To me this new palette is more versatile then the first one because the colours are brighter and there is a white included. The first palette is still really pretty but more suitable for landscapes and such, I feel (it’s a more muted palette). To get today’s card started I die cut a rectangle panel from Schut Terschelling “Aquarelbloc Hot Press
    Graphitint Masculine Birthday Card
    • Mar 13, 2019

    Graphitint Masculine Birthday Card

    Hi everyone, today I’m on the Colourstock blog with this fun and easy masculine birthday card, for which I used pencils from a line by Derwent that is called "Graphitint". This is a tinted graphite pencil that combines the easiness of a graphite pencil with a hint of soft, subtle colour and they can be activated with water (as I will show you) but you don’t have to do this of course! Step 1: I used a piece of Terschelling Schut “Hot Pressed” watercolour paper and on this piec
    Monoprinted Tags
    • Jun 21, 2018

    Monoprinted Tags

    Hi everyone, today I’m on The Crafter’s Workshop blog with a set of fun gift tags created with the use of Grafix Arts “Monoprint Plates“. -------------------------------- The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own. This post also contains affiliate links. -------------------------------- About the Grafix Arts “Monoprint Plates“: - they come three in a pack; - they are transparent, durable, lightweight, t
    Altenew’s 4th Anniversary Blog Hop Day 3 + Giveaway
    • Apr 5, 2018

    Altenew’s 4th Anniversary Blog Hop Day 3 + Giveaway

    Hi everyone, welcome to my stop in the Altenew 4th Anniversary Blog Hop! If you came here from the super-talented Kymona Tracey then you’re right on track (but you can always go back to the beginning HERE). Isn’t this a fun way to celebrate your birthday, together with all your crafty friends! Congratulations Altenew on your 4th birthday, hopefully there are many more to come! I’m very excited to be back as a guest designer for Altenew (thank you May!). It was a lot of fun to
    A Sweet Birthday
    • Feb 21, 2018

    A Sweet Birthday

    Hi everyone, today I would like to show you my take on the Lindy’s Stamp Gang February 2018 Challenge theme. You can find all the details about this challenge here: https://lindysgang.blog/2018/02/01/february-2018-challenge/ For this challenge we’re given a Mood Board with lots of pinks and the theme is Sweet, if you like to ad an extra element to it! I started my project by stamping the flowers from the Altenew stamp set called “Persian Motifs“ onto watercolour paper using V
    Colour Crazy Guest Designer - She Wolf
    • Jan 12, 2018

    Colour Crazy Guest Designer - She Wolf

    Hi everyone, today I’m showing you’ll the card that I created for my first guest design post over on the Colour Crazy Challenge Blog. If you don’t know what a challenge blog is then definitely go and check it out! I started my card by printing this gorgeous digital stamp from The Paper Shelter called “She Wolf“ onto some Canson 1557 paper (I like this particular paper because it takes coloured pencil well, it’s white and it’s thick enough but not to thick to run it through my
    Masculine Gel Press Cards
    • Jan 5, 2018

    Masculine Gel Press Cards

    Hi everyone, first of all I would like to wish all of you a Happy New Year! May all you wishes for 2018 come true! Today I’m on The Crafter’s Workshop blog showing you how to create a set of masculine cards for any occasion, for which I used a Gel Press mono printing plate. -------------------------------- The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own. This post also contains affiliate links. --------------
    Rebel
    • Sep 8, 2017

    Rebel

    Hi everyone, today I have a card for you featuring a gorgeous digital stamp from The Paper Shelter. I love The Paper Shelter images because they have a lot of genres to choose from, there is something for everybody’s taste, and today I have this beauty for you, she’s called “Rebel“. I started my card by printing this image onto Clairefontaine Digital Colour Printing (DCP) paper (190 gr). Then I die cut around the image using one of the rectangle nesting dies from my Crea-Nest
    Autumn Birthday Greetings
    • Aug 1, 2017

    Autumn Birthday Greetings

    Hi everyone, you probably didn’t noticed but I was on summer vacation for a couple of weeks and though our vacation didn’t turned out the way we planned or hoped for (due to family circumstances), we did manage to have an awesome day at the zoo yesterday. We went to “Ouwehand’s Dierenpark“ in Rhenen, the Netherlands. Amongst all the wonderful animals we saw these beautiful flamingo’s. The weather was also nice for a change, so we really enjoyed ourselves. But, back to the car
    A stamping tool review: the MISTI
    • Dec 3, 2016

    A stamping tool review: the MISTI

    There are different stamping tools to get us the perfect stamped image in exactly the right spot. I have, for example, heard of and seen in YouTube-videos Inkadinkado's Stamp-A-Ma-Jig but I have never tried this one myself since I don’t have wood mounted stamps. I guess that it would come in handy for some EZ-mounted stamps as well. And of course there are the regular see through acrylic blocks that you can put your clear stamps on and see through them (hover your head straig
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