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    Mixed Media Birthday Card
    • Feb 13, 2018

    Mixed Media Birthday Card

    Hi everyone, today I would like to show you a mixed media birthday card that I created using the Mixed Media Place “January 2018“ challenge mood board as my inspiration. Where I live it’s winter now and I’m longing for spring and summer so I decided on flowers to symbolize spring/summer when nature is in full bloom! First of all I got inspired by the two pictures in the right bottom hand corner showing repetitive patterns. I die cut a rectangle panel from some white linen tex
    Altered Pages Male Birthday Cards
    • Oct 19, 2017

    Altered Pages Male Birthday Cards

    Hi everyone, today I'm on The Crafter's Workshop blog with a set of cards (including matching envelopes), suitable for the guys in your life! I feel that it’s a little bit more difficult to create male cards, then female cards, and I bet that I’m not the only one, so, I figured I would give you some idea’s! -------------------------------- The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own. This post also contai
    Christmas Sprite
    • Sep 10, 2017

    Christmas Sprite

    Hi everyone, I hope that everybody is save and when you're able to read this that I can bring you some distraction from the bad weather conditions! Today I have another Christmas card for you all. I’m using a digital stamp from Aurora Wings and this one is called “Christmas Lights Sprite“. I printed this image, fairly large, on Clairefontaine Digital Colour Printing (DCP) paper (190 grms). After printing the image I die cut around him using one of the stitched dies in my Crea
    Easy cards with Handmade Backgrounds
    • Jul 24, 2017

    Easy cards with Handmade Backgrounds

    Today I have a couple of cards for you that I made a while back but never got around to posting on my website. A while back I borrowed a stamp set from a friend and made a bunch of cards. You can find the other cards that I made with the same stamp set here. For today’s cards I used the “Beautiful You” stamp set from Stampin’ Up. On the first card I stamped one of the gorgeous images with Distress Ink in the colour “Vintage Photo” on dark kraft card stock. I cut the piece of
    Coffee is always a Good Idea!
    • Jun 26, 2017

    Coffee is always a Good Idea!

    Hi guys, busy blog week up ahead! Today I would like to show you my second card for the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. I feel it's so much fun to see what everybody is creating! I started this card by stamping the Stamping Bella image called “don’ttalktomebeforemycoffeABELLA eb406” onto Canson 1557 paper with Versafine “Onyx Black” ink and then I coloured the image with my Faber Castell Polychromos. I used the following colours: 132 / 189 /121 / 217 /103 / 102 / 185 / 101
    Vintage Birthday cards for Guys
    • Jun 22, 2017

    Vintage Birthday cards for Guys

    Hi everyone, today I have some fun and vintage birthday cards for the guys in your life AND you get to use some of your paper scraps that you’ve laying around, which also is a big plus! So, let’s get started! I started by stamping the three images from the Lili of the Valley stamp set called “Vintage Motor - Trio” on some scraps of paper with Memento “Desert Sand” ink and cutting each image with a small square die. I chose the square die-size by trying to fit 3 in each row on

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