the box

A collegue of mine has broken her leg. When we met, I felt the need to make a gift for her. So I made a little box with a notecard and a little present inside.
I absolutely adore making these little boxes. Too bad I couldn't get it on pictures very well (maybe because it sparkles too much?)
I have made some other boxes too but they are for a friend so I can't show them yet.
Hope you like them.

Materials:
Paper ~ My Minds Eye
Stamp ~ from a stamp convention, don't know the maker
Box ~ Scor-Pal
Punch ~ Martha Stewart butterfly
Extra ~ flowers and pearls

kleurenkaart in het PAARS!

Vorige week deed Martina een originele oproep om één dag in de week een kaartje te maken in dezelfde kleur. Ik vond het zo'n leuk idee! Zou het niet geweldig zijn als dit uitgroeit en we op een dag allemaal dezelfde kleurtjes zien verschijnen in blogland?
Ik ben alvast fan en doe mee aan de eerste kleurendag, met het kleurtje PAARS!
Ik ga proberen om elke week een kaartje te maken met de themakleur. Leuk om kaartjes te maken in verschillende kleurtjes (en ik hou van ton-sur-tonkaarten) en geweldig om mijn voorraad aan te laten groeien.
Klik --> hier <-- om naar Martina haar blog te gaan en te kijken naar een lijst van allerlei bloggers die vandaag ook een paarse kaart tentoon stellen.

Gebruikte materialen:
Stempel ~ Magnolia
Colour medium ~ Copic Markers (heb mijn afdrukje gekleurd in het café en die waren het gemakkelijkst om mee te zeulen lol)
Papier ~ Action
Ponsen ~ Whiff of Joy swirls, Marianne swirl, Martha Stewart (hartjesrand)
Extra ~ Parels en bloemetjes

Hidden journaling

Another Christmas baulb (I really love making these), but one with a twist.

You can take the ribbon and twist the card, so a hidden message appears. Surprise!
In case you are wondering what the little dots in the background are... I 'cuttlebugged' (is this even a verb?) it with my Dots die.
Add some faux stitching as well to make it look a bit more interesting.

And here's the inside... Another message and some room to leave a personal note.

And the backside. Really advertising my blog here. LOL.



Thanks for looking! Hope you like it.
And in case you got some inspiration of your own looking at my baulbs, I would love to see your creations as well.

Materials:
Stamp ~ Pipoos
Papers ~ Christmas Stack
Punches ~ Snowflakes (Pipoos)
Extra's ~ Cutllebug, white marker, black marker, ribbon
Template baulb ~ BoekenVoordeel

Christmas in a baulb

After making a lot of Christmas cards, I thought: why not make something different next year? Like a card baulb you can put in your tree after recieving it.
After hard thinking how I was going to cut all these circles, I found a baulb template in a book store with a 30% discount. Yeah!

So this is the front of the card, using a lovely Whiff of Joy stamp. A paper doily behind the stamp and some doodles made with my Cutllebug, using a Whiff of Joy die.
Some flowers, eyelets and pearls and offcourse some Stickles to top it off.

I couldn't leave the inside as it was, so had fun decorating it as well. Used a circle maker (worth every cent because it leaves NO holes in the middle!!) and cut out some circles.
Stamped a sentiment on the top side with Distress ink (Faded jeans) and on the other half I decorated with some Pipoos snowflake punches.


And then the backside... If it wasn't clear enough. This is one hand-made card baulb! LOL

Materials:
Stamp ~ Whiff of Joy and Pipoos
Colour Medium~ Copic Markers
Papers ~ The Christmas Collection
Punches and dies ~ Whiff of Joy Swirls - Snowflakes (Pipoos)
Extra's ~ Flowers, eyelets, pearls, paper doily
Stickles ~ Ice Stickles

Just a card

I just looooove this card. I don't think I will ever be able to give this one away for Christmas. LOL.
Had some time to play and based my whole card beginning with the paper doily and building it up from there. I got so inspired and let myself totally go :D

Materials:
Papers ~ Christmas Collection
Stamp ~ Whiff of Joy
Colour Medium ~ Copic Markers
Die ~ Whiff of Joy Swirls in combination with Cuttlebug
Punch ~ large and small bows (Pipoos)

Extra's ~ Perfect Pearls, Ice Stickles and Pearls, distress tool

Friday Sketchers

A fabulous sketch over at Friday Sketchers. My fingers were itching and finally had some time to craft again, so just had to participate.
Still had some fabulous paper from MME lying on my desk, so the choice was easily made.
A stamp from Whiff of Joy, some pearls and punches and the first Christmas Card for 2011 is ready. You can't start early enough.

Materials:
Paper ~ MME
Stamp ~ Whiff of Joy
Colour Medium ~ Copics
Punches ~ Pipoos (snowflakes)
Extra's: pearls and distress ink (worn jeans)