The bright side of life

A few days ago I did some shopping at a store new to me and found this funny bird. From the heart stamps has lovely and crazy stamps, perfect for crafting! I loved the little akwardness and the funny sentiments that go with it, so today I gave it a go. The design paper is from my favorite brand Echo Park.

Penguins!

I totally love this image by Tiddly Inks, especially because of those cute penguins. I colored it with my copics and made card by combining different Echo Park papers from the set Bundled Up. With this card I'd like to join the Tiddly Inks challenge 171!

Echo Park Christmas

Today I made a second set of christmas cards. I really enjoy making these sets of cards. For this set I used Echo Park's last year's christmas design papers, they are great!

Christmas card set

Made my first set of Christmas cards. I wanted to have an easy layout, in order to make more than one card. It would be nice to send all of my friends and family a card and not just a few, wouldn't it? So here's my first set!

Curly crafting

After starting again on my coloring classes (I highly recommend these Kit & Clowder technique classes, they are awesome and really high quality!) I couldn't resist joining the monthly facebook technique class challenge thrown by Alyce from Kit & Clowder with this image by Yam Puff. This month she challenged us to practice our curly hair skills, so here I go! Since I also used one of the fabulous sentiments by Kraftin' Kimmie, I'd also like to join their challenge. 

Challenges I'd like to join

Kit & Clowder Facebook - Technique challenge

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Wonderful Wednesday

Krafty Tiddly Inks

The current challenge at Tiddly Inks is a krafty one! So for this card I used a kraft card as a base and I used one of my favorite Tiddly Inks stamps. I love the hearts die by Marianne Design, it's so sweet and you can use the hearts as well on other projects. 

Challenges:

Tiddly Inks - Let's get krafty

Quick tag

And this is my second make of today. Quick and easy, but I think it's fun to add a tag to presents! The stamp is by Kraftin' Kimmie.

I'd like to join Wonderful Wednesday challenge at Kraftin Kimmie stamps blogspot.

Crafting Sunday

It's crafting sunday! My sister came over to craft together, so here's my first make of today. I used a stamp by  Rachelle Anne Miller, some Echo Park design paper and the sketch showed on the Kraftin' Kimmie blog. With this card I'd like to join their Saturday challenge, with the "circles" theme.

CA(t)S

A second card this weekend, a little more CAS this time, I guess. I think it's difficult to find the right balance between embellishments, image, and empty space in such a card. How to make it interesting enough, while still being clean and simple? But I'm pretty happy with this one!

The image is by Kraftin' Kimmie stamps. I'd like to join their Koffie Krop challenge #4: Use an animal.

Hello Weekend

This card was made with as a base a Project Life card. I love all the cards and designs that come with Project Life kits, but I don't seem to be that kind of photo-girl. I actually hardly take any pictures of my life and I don't really have the ambition to do so, but... I still wanted to use these cards! Well, in the meantime I found other applications for them, like pocket letters for example, so I'll expand my collection soon I guess. For now I used one of the larger Project Life cards as a base and colored a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp with my copics. I added some die cuts and voila c'est ca!

With this card I'd like to join the Koffee Krop Challenge #1 (Paper Piercing) at Kraftin' Kimmie!

Saturated Canary

This weekend I made a card with an image by Saturated Canary. I'm quite happy with how the hair and skin tone turned out! Need to buy some extra E copics though, as I miss my E33 for example. For this card I used some gloss to make the balloon pop.

My Best(ies)

While watching an online tournament, I colored up this sweety by Sherri Baldy, from the My besties series. It's the first time I colored one of her images, but they're really amazing, with these long hair curls and nice clothes. Might do some more in the near future! The design paper that I used for this colorful card is from Echo Park, one of my favorite brands of paper. 

Relaxing

I started my day with making this card for a colleague of mine. It works best if I start at the beginning of the day making cards. More inspiration, more motivation. This image is by Marianne Design.

Challenges:
Craft for the Craic - Summertime

Frosted Designs - Here comes the sun

Creative Craft Cottage - Layer it up

World of Wonderful Wednesday

A new project to join the Kraftin' Kimmie Wonderful Wednesday. I love this World of Wonder set, as it is great to color and it combines really well with some of my paper pads. This is a This & That paper pad, and actually the front page of the paper pad (that shows all the different designs in the pad) inspired me for this background. 

Challenges:

Kraftin' Kimmie - Wonderful Wednesday

Graduation tag

Tomorrow one of my friends will graduate, so I made him this tag. Still have to buy a present though. The tag is covered with paper from a gift bag and a clear stamp of the Pure Innocence series by My Favorite Things. 

MAG-nificent!

It has been quite a while ago that I posted my latest card here. But here I'm again and I hope I can spend some more time on crafting the coming weeks! This card is made with a rubber stamp by Kraftin' Kimmie and my copics. I really should spend a lot more time coloring, but the thing is... sometimes I'm busy with other things (*buzzz priorities buzzz*) and sometimes, I just don't feel like getting all the stuff out on the table. Maybe stupid, but true ;).

Challenges I'd like to join:
Kraftin Kimmie - Wonderful Wednesday March

Friendship

Last month we had a card swap in the Kit & Clowder facebookgroup. This is the card I made for my swap partner and she happily received it! And I also received an amazing card from her, it made me really happy. So now it's finally time to show it to you all, as I forgot to make an image before I sent it. 

Challenges I'd like to join:
Party Time Tuesday - Anything goes
Crafting from the heart - Anything goes
Craft your passion - Anything goes

Rock Star

This pinkish card was inspired by the moodboard challenge in the Kraftin' Kimmie Facebookgroup. I really like the combination of pink with yellow! I'm also quite happy with how the coloring of the sentiment turned out.

Did I already tell you that I won the lovely Give-Away from Jessie Banks? She has a lovely blog and just by putting one comment I won some amazing digi's and a rubber stamp set! So please by so kind to take a look at her blog, she makes beuatiful cards!

Challenges I'd like to join:

Kraftin' Kimmie - Moodboard challenge

The Crafter's Cafe - Feminine

Crafty Gals Corner - May Flowers

Loves Rubberstamps - Add a sentiment

Discover!

I made this card with an image by Kraftin' Kimmie, colored with my copics and combined with papers from a This & That paper block. Thanks for visiting my blog!

Challenges I'd like to join:

Kraftin Kimmie - Wonderful Wednesday

Swing

Another stamp from the Squishy Hugs set by Kraftin' Kimmie! I love the happiness of this one and it is great to play with. I used design paper by Echo Park and colored the image with my copics. 

Challenges I'd like to join:

Card Mania - Flowers

Crafts Galore Encore - Make a card

Creative Bloms - Color challenge

Squishy Hugs

I love love love the set Squishy hugs by Kraftin' Kimmie. And the collection of Echo Park papers is fabulous too, with all the bright colors. 

Challenges:
Kraftin Kimmie - April Sketch + use twine

Di's Digis Design - Animals

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Use a die cut

Dragon Lair Designs - Animal

Vintage

This card is quite different from most of the cards I make, as it has a more vintage theme. I actually have quite a lot vintage papers, but often find it hard to combine those with the stamps I have. But this digi by Tiddly Inks appears to go really well with a vintage theme!

Challenges:
Tiddly Inks - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything goes

Guitar Chick

This card is made with the rock chick of Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps. Did you know I just won at their Wonderful Wednesday challenge? I feel so honoured and happy! So how can I not join 

again with one of their amazing stamps?

Challenges I'd like to join:

Kraftin' Kimmie - Wonderful Wednesday

Crafts Galore Encore - Make a card

Ladybug Crafts - Anything goes
One crazy stamper - Anything goes

Once upon a time

I started with this card with the rules for a Kraftin' Kimmie stamps challenge: no pink or blue. But it appeared that that challenge requires a birthday card, so now I'll enter this one to their Wonderful Wednesday challenge.

Challenges:
Kraftin' Kimmie - Wonderful Wednesday

Brown Sugar - Anything goes

Sister Act Card Challenges - Anything goes

Butterflies

My sister came over for a crafty afternoon, so I'd like to show you one of the cards I made. I colored this image by Ching-Chou Kuik a few weeks ago and made it finally into a card.

Challenges:
Kit & Clowder - Facebook challenge: Fantasy
Creative Corner - Nature Inspired
Fairytale Stampers - Anything goes with stamp

Double Krafty

I took a complete different approach on this singing girl by Kraftin' Kimmie stamps tonight, by coloring her in black and kraft with only a few highlight accents in green. I wished I'd have some light green thread for sewing, but since I didn't I just used white. So here's my krafty card!

Challenges:

Kraftin' Kimmie - Wonderful Wednesday 

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Green

Fairy Tale Challenge - Kraft

Celebrate

This morning I finished this card using these bright colors. I love the paper pads by Echo Park, because they have such bright and fun designs. As I started, my plan was to use more of these papers, but actually the white background really highlighted the image, so I left it that way. I used an embossing folder to give the background something extra. Both the image and the sentiment are by Kraftin' Kimmie stamps. 

I'd like to join the following challenges:
Kraftin' Kimmie - Bright Colors

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Butterfly Kisses

I love this sweet image by Rachelle Anne Miller (you can find it at Kraftin' Kimmie).

I think these images are the most beautiful when using pastel light colors, so I gave it a try with my pastel copics. 

I'd like to join the following competitions:

Get Creative Challenges - Embossing

Crafting from the heart - Anything goes
Crafting Musketeers - Embossing

Embrace the ocean

Another image by Ching Chou Kuik, which I colored last week and made into a card today.

I'd like to join the following challenges:

Simply Create Too - Anything goes

Sister Act Card Challenges - Anything goes

Crafty Calender Challenge - Anything goes

Sewing

Today I used my sewing machine for the first time on a card and I'm so happy with the result! I think the stitches add so much to the card, it's amazing. For this one I used an image by Ching-Chou Kuik, I will soon show you some other images by her. Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day!

Challenges I'd like to follow:

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Something with wings

Kit and Clowder - January Challenge
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge Blog - Anything goes (add layers)

Butterflies

This lovely image was created by Ching-Chou Kuik and provided for a challenges at the Kit and Clowder facebookgroup, one of my favorite groups. This group is full of positivity and creativity; really inspiring and motivating! I colored this image to join their challenge, but today I also put it on a card. I'd like to join the following challenges:

Crafts 4 Eternity - Reflection (see those stickle glitters?)

Left of Center Creative Challenge - Animal Instinct
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Spring Flowers
Digidesigns Challenge Blog - Add Sparkle