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    New Home
    • May 21, 2019

    New Home

    Hi everyone, today I have a fun and bright card for you all that I found on my computer but have never published! I created this card for when my sister in law and her daughter were moving house a while ago. I started this card by choosing my card base: I used a rectangle crème coloured card base because that colour is closest to the Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface paper that I will use later on. Next I decided on the sizes of the mats that I wanted to use on this card: I
    Lindy’s Stamp Gang May Color Challenge
    • May 10, 2019

    Lindy’s Stamp Gang May Color Challenge

    Hi everyone, today I would like to show you guys my inspiration for the Lindy’s Stamp Gang May Color Challenge mood board. And since my favourite aunt is moving house I figured this would be a good moment to make a “New Home”-card. This is what this month’s mood board looks like: isn’t this a fun combination of colours!!! Step 1: After adding some anti-static powder to the paper (blow of any excess) I stamped the sentiment and the image from the StampingBella stamp set called
    New Beginnings!
    • May 22, 2018

    New Beginnings!

    Hi everyone, today I’m showing you my take on the May Challenge for “Het SU-per Team“ (this is a Dutch Facebook challenge group managed by a team of Stampin‘Up demonstrators, so you have to use at least one Stampin‘Up item on your project). This month’s challenge is a particular card design that you have to create, it looks like a staircase. So, I started my card with a sheet of sturdy kraft card stock from which I cut and folded the card design as shown in the challenge spec
    CraftAddiction April Challenge
    • Apr 17, 2018

    CraftAddiction April Challenge

    Hi everyone, today I’m showing you my take on the CraftAddiction April Challenge mood board. CraftAddiction is a Dutch craft supply store and they are sponsoring a monthly challenge on Facebook. This is what this month’s mood board looks like: The mood board made me think about “heart“ and “home“, “your own special place“, and that’s what I wanted to incorporate in my art journal page for today. I’m working in my 13 x 21 cm Art Plus Moleskine Sketchbook (I keep an empty page
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