Last week I've made a few more cards. And I would like to share them with you.
The first one is the card I made for my mother a few weeks ago. I forgot to take a picture of it before I sent it. But fortunately she saved the card and I had a chance to take a picture of it with my phone.
It's a quite simple card. I used paper by Pink Paislee from the London Market line. I added a doily and stamped 'happy birthday' on it. Finally I added some veneer butterflies to it and it was done.
The next card is the card for my collegue who recently gave birth to her second son. I picked up some grey cardstock and I'm in love with it already. So, I used the same base as for the two other birth cards. I love how the grey is warmer and lets the hexagons stand out more. This time I added birds instead of butterflies. I thought it was more boyish.
The next card is a card for Creabest. They celebrated their 10 year anniversary. They had several make and takes and demonstrations last Saturday. And when you gave them a birthday card, you would get a 10% discount. Of course, I still had many things on my wish list and I could use some discount. So, I made them this card (in my new favourite colour combination ;)).
And the last card I made for my sister and her husband. They got married half a year ago (wow, time flies!) and as a surprise I asked everybody at the wedding to bring a card. I would post these cards every day, so the newly weds would receive a card every single day to remind them of the special day. Unfortunately the post office messed up my plan... Although I did post a card every single day, they often received a few cards together and some days they didn't receive anything.
And I have to say I messed up my plan as well. As I noticed the cards didn't get to their home every day, I got sloppy. I usually posted two cards every other day (or even less ;)). But last week I got down to the last ones.
So now it was time for me to finish my card. I wanted them to receive my card last, so they would know it was over. I once again used the grey cardstock. I wanted to combine this with some pink colours, but my sister really hates pink. So I decided to use yellow again (just as the last card). Not so romantic in my eyes, but this suits my sister better. I did add some lace and veneer butterflies to get some of the romance in. ;)
That are all the cards for now. I finished a page in my art journal today, but I wasn't able to photograph it before the sun went down. So, you'll have to wait for that. I also have one more layout to share with you.
The upcoming week it's a school holiday over here in the Netherlands and I'm planning to create a lot of things. Of course I'll share that with you. Have a good week!
Love,
Marjan
It's quite remarkable: three of my colleagues have received a baby in the past two weeks! [And you have to know that I don't have many colleagues.] I made these two cards last weekend. And right after I had finished them, I received a text message from the third colleague that her son was born that morning! I still have to make that card.
This time both cards are quite similar (except for the names of course ;)). I just loved the way the first one turned out, so I duplicated it.
I used the hexagons from a patterned paper by BasicGrey and put them on the card with some 3d foam. The names I embossed with Zing! embossing powder and finally I glued two wooden butterflies down. I love the simplicity!
It's an amazing thing when babies are born! I hope they enjoy this wonderful moment.
Love,
Marjan
Wow, I'm really inspired today. :D I've finished a second layout for the competition. And I've almost finished two cards as well. Lovin' it!
I'll show you the layout first. The challenge called for the use of three different shapes (either rectangle, square, circle, oval, pentagon, hexagon, triangle or octagon). And we could use it in pieces of paper, embellishments or the photo itself.
So, in this layout I used hexagons from a patterned paper (BasicGrey), circular embellishments (metal tags with embossed words) and rectangular word stickers and photo.
I hope to show you more soon!
Love,
Marjan
Because Creabest exists for ten years now, they're celebrating. One of the things they do is having a scrapbook challenge. The first 10 days of October, we get a challenge. We have to complete all the challenges before the 16th of October.
Now I'm not sure if I'll have enough time to finish that. But I always like to do some challenges. So, here is the first one. We had to make a layout with the numbers 1 to 10 on it.
In the picture you see me and my sister on her wedding day. I'm helping to put the wedding dress on. A special moment!
On this layout I used glimmer mist, masks, ink, paint, thickers and some wooden butterflies.
Let's start a new layout/challenge. Have a lovely weekend!
Love,
Marjan
Wow, I never expected to belong to the final 25 blogs on the Kreadoe website. But last weekend I did receive an e-mail confirming this. I was so excited!
Now, I have to wait how many people will vote for my blog. One of the prices I can win is 10 - 15 tickets for the Kreadoe convention. And I'm not going to keep them all for myself. I'll share them with you. So, if you vote for my blog and leave a message you will have a chance to win a ticket.
So, all you have to do is vote here and after that leave a message here with your e-mailaddress.
Thank you all very much. Even when you're not voting, thanks for visiting my blog!
Love,
Marjan
Dutch version:
Wauw, ik had nooit verwacht om bij de laatste 25 blogs op de Kreadoe website te horen. Maar afgelopen weekend stond dat toch echt in een e-mail. Ik was zo blij!
Nu moet ik afwachten hoeveel mensen er op mijn blog zullen stemmen. Eén van de prijzen is 10 tot 15 kaartjes voor de Kreadoe beurs. Natuurlijk hou ik die niet voor mezelf. Die deel ik met jullie. Dus, als je op mijn blog stemt en hier een berichtje achterlaat, maak je kans op een kaartje voor de beurs.
Dus het enige dat je moet doen is hier stemmen op mijn blog en vervolgens een berichtje op dit blogbericht achterlaten met jouw e-mailadres daarbij.
Allemaal heel erg bedankt. Ook als je niet op mij stemt, toch bedankt voor het bezoeken van mijn blog!
Liefs,
Marjan
In the upcoming week I'll be having two farewell parties (is that the right word?). Two of our managers are leaving us. Of course I also want to give something personal. To write down my thanks and wishes for them, I made them a card.
I've never made two cards that are the same. Now, these are not exactly the same, but very similar and based on the same idea. It was quicker to make them alike. And I think it's surprising that they still differ. I always want to try out something different. ;)
Another thing that I like is that I used one of my art journals as a inspiration for these cards. You can probably see which one I used. ;)
Next week will be very hectic. I hope I'll get through okay...
Love,
Marjan
Lately I've been addicted to art journaling. And the best thing is that I can use the things that appear while I'm creating for my scrap pages. :D
So, when I'm creating these pages I just go with the flow. I throw on everything I feel like without wondering if it will look good. Like, for example, I would never scribble with charcoal like I did on one of the pages if it were a scrap page. I would be terrified not knowing what it would look like. But on this page, I don't care. It doens't have to be perfect. If it's not good, I just flip the page and start over. It's that easy. You should try it. :D Enjoy!
Love,
Marjan
Ps: our living room smells delicious 'cause I got some brownies in the oven. I can't wait for them to be done!!! :D
This is a new journal. It's way tinier, so I can bring it everywhere and pages don't take hours to create. This page is quite simple, but already one of my favourites.
All I used is several stamps and some glimmer glaze. I put the date stamp on the right lower corner and stamped it several times without reinking.
This next page is totally different. There's a lot going on. It's not really my favourite page of all time, but like I said before: that doesn't matter. I got to use a lot of my new stencils/masks and I love them.
I loved the flowers that were in some magazine, so I tore the page out and stuck them on my page. Now you have to know that I rarely use purple. It's just not my favourite colour (although it used to be when I was little...). But I do have a distress inkpad in purple, so I used that together with some grey and blue. I also added some glimmer mist and some stamps. And then I thought it was done.
The last page I kind of like. It just might be a little too white... Anyway... I wanted this page to look like a smash book page. So I started with some watercolor in the background. Then I used a mask and some modeling paste. I mixed the modeling paste with some blue acrylic paint. I scraped it on with an old bank card and then pulled away the mask.
Then I put some random letter stickers on the right side. And then I did what was kind of scary. I just scribbled with a charcoal pencil. I thought this suited the quote I wanted to use very well. So I just did. And it was so much fun! And I actually like it. Although it looks a little weird. But I like weird. ;)
After that I put on some stamps and some masking tape. And then I wrote the quote down. I do regret that I hand wrote the entire quote. In respect I think it would've been better if I had stamped part of it. But then again, just work with it and learn from it. ;)
