A bunch of greeting cards and postcards

Greeting cards using a rubber stamp from The Greeting Farm rubber stamp.

 

Postcards using Sweetpea rubber stamps.

Postcard using a rubberstamp from Viva Las Vegas rubberstamp.

Postcards using free images; the last postcard I used a masterboard.

Happy Mothersday to everyone!

A day to enjoy:-) And I do enjoy this Sunday. I hope you all do. Not a lot of crafting here; I did some colouring. Friday I created an owl card and Saturday a card with a garden. With the help of  a Sarah Kay image and copic markers and my Cricut Expression using the Create a Critter cardridge I came up with these cards.

NOthing much to chat about. See you next time:-))

Thank you cards

For a swap a Thank you card. Not much to chat about today. I had to make one card, but once in the mood I created two Thank you cards. The flower on the first card is created with circles; something I saw on the internet and figured out how to make it. This is my version of it. I used two Cuttlebug embossing folders and a Spellbinders die cut to make the butterfly. Foam tape keeps the upper wings of the butterfly from laying too flat on the card. The patterned paper is doublesided. I played with the patterned paper and made a fold in the left upper corner. The greeting is an clear stamp from American Crafts stamped on card stock with Stampin' Up inkpad and I used foam tape to alter the greeting. Here are pictures. Enjoy!

For my second card I used Stampin 'Up card for the base card, a Marianne Design embossing folder. It makes nice cut in the paper too. I added ribbon, two pearl stones, a freebie digital stamp and a freebie tag saying "Thanks a Latte". The cat is stamped on GinaK card stock and I coloured the image with my Copic markers. I also used foam tape to pop up the cat. Colours I used: E31, 33, 39, RV21, 23, W3.

Refill your Zig 2 way glue pen

Did you know you can ... yes, you can!, refill your Zig 2 way glue pen??? Really, you can. I am talking about the squeeze & roll glue pen. Wait, I'll take picture of the Zig 2 way glue squeeze & roll pen.

I love use the glue pens, because there so easy to use on small paper. And I only use them on smalll paper, which I often have to use when making cards, ATC'S (not making ATC's for a while), little gems, etc. There easy to use, since there is less spoiling glue.

As you see this pen has a barrel filled with the blue, typical Zig Memory System glue. My pen run dry and I immediately thought of buying a new glue pen. But it was weekend, then. And that is when my mind went on a creative tour. I told my youngest daughter that I probably can refill the barrel. You can't see it on the picture, but my pen, my barrel is filled with white Aleene's Tack-It Over & Over glue.

What do you need to refill this glue pen?
An old, empty Zig 2 way glue  squeeze & roll pen
Some Aleene's Tack-It Over & Over.

There are a lot of youtube video's showing how to water down the Aleene's Tack-It Over & Over, so I don't have to explain that. Please head over and look for a good vid. Talking about video's; I'll make a video on how to refill your Zig 2 way glue squeeze & roll pen.

I have my Aleene's in a kind of jam bottle. It may be tricky to unscrew the top of the pen. But don't give up; clean the nib and unscrew. Be careful! You don't want to break the screw system.

After opening the barrel you'll noticed it can be refilled. Refill the barrel, but DO NOT refill the barrel to the top! Close the barrel with the nib and tighten the nib on the barrel. Another caution!!! Don't squeeze to hard, the glue is liquid!! So take care when tightening and squeezing!! Your Zig glue pen is ready to reuse:-)

My motto: recycle whatever you can!!

 

 

I wondered if the other glue pen systems can be refilled. My daughter has an answer, but can it be done? I don't know and I already have thrown away the empty glue pens. Thinking ... thinking ... I'll be back!

A new digital image

This is an awesome digital stamp! I just ran up the website and I love the girls. And of course I just wanted to colour this stamp. Well, here is the card. It is quite bigger than the 4,5x5,5 inch card. But I must say that working on a somewhat larger scale is more pleasant:-)

Coloured with Copic markers. The challenge was colouring blonde hair. I used the Y21, YR23 and E35 combination. A good outcome and I love it. I forgot to write the numbers of the markers I used, but let's see if I can recall. E000, 0000, 00, 02, 11, R24, B60, 63,66, 93, 95 an Y08. I forgot to colour the ribbon in her hair, hihi...

Flower fairy

The sun is shining ... still a fresh wind, but such a beautiful day:-) Thursday we made a trip to Rotterdam; we returned very exhausted at home. One participant of the Flower Fairy round robin, Trish, never got her art journal back. It got lost in snail mail. At her request I sure want to make her a Flower Fairy art journal page. I hope she will receive enough pages to make an art journal. I still had to start this page for her. Just thinking how and what. I made this drawing on Wednesday night; my hand just flew over the watercolour paper. In one attempt and I was very, very satisfied. I even wondered if I would send this out.... but I created it for my partner and I will send it out. Yesterday I did the colouring. I used Tombow markers and Stampin' Up markers. The Stampin' Up markers were used for the finishing touch. The Tombow markers for the majority of the colouring. I doodled on the page and I'm in love with this Flower Fairy:-)

 

Aren't these very nice pictures? We have a tremendous sun shining and maybe the good light helped me a lot:-) Love the pictures!! I hope you like the Flower Fairy, Trish!?

Kings & Queens and ..... princesses

April 30th, yesterday, we, The Netherlands, celebrated queen's day. It was our last queen's day, because from next year on we will celebrate king's day. We had more to celebrate yesterday; our queen Beatrix abdicated the monarchy to her first born son, Willem-Alexander. Beatrix became a princess. It was a nice day, as if the sun shone especially for this great happening. It was such a nice ceremony and it is beautiful to see the guests, princes and princesses. From now on we have a king and his princess. No Máxima is not our queen by law, just to correct the media out there. During the tv broadcast of the abduction my creativity got a boost. Creating a art journal page with the prompt: Style @ Teesha Moore with journaling.

More masterboards

Just more fun making these masterboards. Nothing more to say about them. I use them in different projects, but I enjoy them the most in making greeting cards.But think about using this technique on creating a background for your art journal page:-)

Artist Trading Cards - ATC

It was a while ago since I made my last ATC. On a request I put my hand on ATC's again last weekend. No special themes, so I just went on a creative tour^_^

 

Joy fold card

My very first Joy fold card. No mistakes and very neat. Yahoooooo!! I did struggle with the colour combination and I see in this card not my best colour combi. But the ribbons make me smile:-) Enjoy...

 

 

 

It's a Party! ..... let's Celebrate!

Again cards to make and I search for other greetings than the common Happy Birthday. I found a couple of rubber stamps:-) And here you see what I created^-^

Handmade envelope

Handmade envelope