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    Welcome in the Neighbourhood!
    • Aug 4, 2017

    Welcome in the Neighbourhood!

    Hi everyone, today I have a very simple, fun and quick card for you all! We have a new neighbour and to welcome him I made this card. I used a stamp with a couple of houses on it, it’s from our local craft store, but you really can use any stamp you have that features a row of houses. The stamp was a little short to go over the width of the card (I precut the panel with a Crea-Nest-Lies XXL stitched rectangle die in the size I needed) so I first stamped the whole row once and
    You are Fin-Tastic !
    • Jul 21, 2017

    You are Fin-Tastic !

    Hi guys! Today I have a fun gender neutral card for you all. It’s fairly quick to make also. I started by stamping the fish from the “Snorkel Fun Fishy” stamp set from Your Next Stamp on Copic friendly paper with Memento “Tuxedo Black” ink. Next I coloured the image with the following Copic markers: - for my oranges I used: E11 / YR14 and YR18; - for my greens I used: G40 and YG06; - for my purples I used: V12 and V17; - and for my blues I used: B0000 and B21. After drying I
    Iced Mocha anyone?
    • Jun 27, 2017

    Iced Mocha anyone?

    Hi everyone, today I have my third and last card for the awesome Summer Coffee Lovers Blop Hop to show you all! I love to see what everyone is creating and how everybody is interpreting the summer theme. The image that I used for today's card actually is a free digital stamp from STAMPlorations, designed by Shery Russ, you can find this image here: http://stamplorations.blogspot.nl/p/stamplorations-anything-goes-challenge.html (Coffee & Dog Roses). I have to admit that I hav
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