Whiff of joy DT call

It's the 16the of the second month and this means... Whiff of Joy is having their DT call again!! I never miss one now that I own this AMAZING stamps!! Go check out Katharina's blog --> HERE <-- to find out 'which responsibilities and privileges await you' if you get chosen.

The theme is to make SOMETHING for summer using at least one Whiff of Joy stamp. I decided not to make a card, but a box...

An EXPLOSION box. The above picture shows you how the box looks if it is opened.

And here's a little twist. You can turn it inside out, so that nice stamp from the Happy Mail collection greets you on your desk.
Doesn't it look like she's writing a love letter to someone in the green grass of a parc with the sun all around her? I love my box!


And here you can see one of the sides. I stamped some flowers on a cardstock sheet and embossed them with green, to match my papers.

I'm setting a challenge for myself too... I'm going to try to make one thing a day for this DT call (except for the weekend, because then I don't have a lot of time LOL). As I don't own very much 'summer' stamps, it will be a challenge indeed to see what I come up with!

Thanks for taking a look at my creation and do go over to the Wiff of Joy blog and store, because there are some amazing things to be seen and sold!!

Explosion box recipe:
Papers ~ They were all from my scrap map, so no idea about most of them :)
Stamp ~ Whiff of Joy and clear flowers from??
Ribbon ~ Action
Extra ~ Green embossing powder together with my heat tool

WOYWW

Hello there! Let's jump right into it. This is how my lovely desk looks this week:


Like this!









And this... from another angle. My desk spread with flowers. Love it!








Each week I get lovely comment about my fishy drawers, so here's a little peek inside the biggest drawer:
Filled with ribbons, some flowers and oh yeah, some more ribbons!


And if ever in need for some more ribbons, then I have this to play with...
And you thought I was only "eyelet-organised" last week, hm?

Off course I can't let you all leave without taking a look at the card that made my desk looks like that... So here it is!





Oké then... Here's a little sneek peak.









And here's the card in his/her fullest.
I didn't want to add a lot of embellies, because I really wanted to make Henry Mouse pop.




I made this post as short as I could. Not bad for a WOYWW rambler huh? :)
Thanks for looking and leaving all those wonderfull comments. They are highly appreciated and I try to come back at each and every one of you!

Card recipe
Stamp ~ Angel Henry Mouse by Whiff of Joy
Colour Medium ~ Copic Markers and a white gelpen, also I used Distress inks for the swirl stamps on the edges
Paper ~ The Christmas Stack
Flowers ~ Prima
Punches ~ Nellie Snellen leaf punch and a star punch
Extras: Ribbon by Action and pins by Whiff of Joy

Truly Scrumptious DT call

Go check out the Truly Scrumptious blog. They are having a DT call. Go there to find out about all the details.
In order to participate you have to place your favourite TWO pictures of pieces of artwork you made.
This is HARD!! Oké, sometimes you think a card looks better than an other one, but still... I have so many favourite pieces!

Anywayz... let's pick two. Here they are:


First: A boy's card, because they are always really hard to make and I really like the way this one turned out.

Go here for full details of the card:

















And on the contrary: a really girly card, because I am a girl and I LIKE it! So occassionally you have to make a card to proof that LOL.
To find more details about the card go here.
I so have much more 'me-like-a-lot-cards', but then you'll just have to snoop around my blog.

I hope you've enjoyed looking. I sure enjoyed making them!

Summer is in town

Have you noticed it yet? I did! It's summer! And boy is it hot. Weatherforcast says next week is all about rain. Never thought I'd be glad with a little bit rain. You really have to stay indoors where you can put a fan on your face.

But hey, more time to craft then, don't ya? And this is what I've been up to in my craft room, playing with some nice stuff I bought over this week.

It has been a long time, but I actually had this idea in my head, not using a sketch or anything and I think it looks better on the card than in my head (well, that's a first), so what'd ya reckon?



Challenges I would like to enter:

1. Hanna and Friends / Unused stamps (I never used that stamp on a card before)
2. Simon Says Challenge / Photo Challenge (look at that blue paper and that blue blouse)
3. One Stop Craft Challenges / Distressing (I distressed all my edges)
4. Timbroscrapmania / Summer (I think this qualifies as summer :))

Card recipe:
Stamp ~ Whiff of joy (dûh)
Colour medium ~ Copic Markers and chalk (for the shadow), distress inks
Paper ~ Action
Extra ~ Stickles, butterfly punch and some pearls

WOYWW I'm baaaaack!

Finally! I've had the time to participate in WOYWW. And tadaa this is how my desk looks yesterday night before I started on my card.

And this is from another corner. See those stamps there divided in three parts? Well... Some of you might already know I'm a Whiff of Joy fan... These is my entire WOJ collection and YES, I AM proud of that! :D

It's not entirely crafting going on. I've started working on some stuff for my class next year, but crafting got in the way. LOL. I think you can relate to that, hm?




And here I store all of my eyelets. I bought this wonderfull boxes at a stamping convention and I still think I don't have enough storage room. Lucky for me there are two of those conventions a year, so I can always get back for more. :)



And here is a little sneek peak of my card that I finally made. You can already see that I've used some distressing and some Stickles, ok no a WHOLE lot of stickles (actually I slipped with my new bottle, but shhh don't tell my mom HAHA). I do love my selfmade flower there in the middle topped off with a white pearl.




And here is the finished card. I thank Marley for letting me know that they have cute paper in Action, so I went there and indeed, this is some of the cute paper they've got there.
I also used inspiration from a card that Janneke made, but I don't know where she got the sketch from.
So, I hope you've enjoyed my card and my scraproom. Sorry for the long post, but thanks for sticking with me and leaving all those lovely comments!

By the way... If you still don't know why I'm showing my desk every wednesday, please go over to the lovely blog of Julia Dunnit. You WILL get wiser there.

Card recipe:
Stamp ~Whiff of Joy
Colour Medium ~ Copic Markers, Distressing inks
Paper ~ Action and the latte stack + some cardstock
Flowers ~ Prima's and handmade flower + leafs
Extra's ~ Pearls, Distress ink, Liquid Pearls, Stickles

Christmas in July!

I haven't posted for so long, and now two cards in one day. Woohoe!

At the Winter Wonderland blog there's the challenge of using punches. I have this amazing Christmas presents punch from Martha Stewart so I knew that this was the ideal punch for this occasion.

I took a stamp that I coloured ages ago. It's with a specifique technique, using embossing powder and your heat tool for three times and then you can crack your image up, just like it's glazing. Very pretty. Me like.

Today it is finally raining here. After our 35°C from yesterday, it really is a good thing. Finally some cold winds around here! So it is the perfect opportunity to get some other Christmas cards made, so for me... Christmas in July :)

I distressed the corners of my papers and used some amazing charms from Whiff of joy to top it off. I didn't think it needed much more decoration, as the card itself looks busy enough.




So in total I used THREE punches. Can you find them all??

Card recipe:
Stamp ~ Whiff of joy
Papers ~ Some scraps I had left, which includes: The Latte Stack and the Taj Mahal Stack and some cardstock
Charms ~ Whiff of joy
Extras ~ Ribbon and stars, clear embossing powder and my heat tool

Friday Sketchers

Today I am participating on a challenge blog again. I saw this amazing sketch on Friday Sketchers and I just knew I had to make a card with it!
I just bought some new copics, so this was the perfect chance to colour up this stamp again.



Really weird, but as you can see I tried taking this picture on different occasions and her dress always turns out blue, but I can assure you that it really is purple!


And here are some detail pictures of my card...

















Thanks for looking and leaving your comments. I really appreciate them!!







Challenges I would like to enter:
1. Friday Sketchers / A sketch
2. Charisma Cardz Challenges! / Metal (I've used two metal charms)

Card recipe

Stamp ~ Magnolia and doodle stamps for the edges of the papers on the stamp
Papers ~ The Latte Stack and some CS
Colour Medium ~ Copic Markers
Embellies ~ Whiff of joy charms, a handmade flower
Flowers ~ ?
Extras: some leafs I punched out with a Nellie Snellen punch and one from Prima Flowers I think