Two baby cards

 

Today I am showing you 2 baby cards I made. When I am making a baby card for no one in particular I always make a boy and a girl version. I can't help myself. 

I made a fun fold card. It is kind of like a stepper card as you can see from the side. It give more dimension to a card then if I would have place the fence and the grass directly onto the poles of the clothing lines. The background and the patterns I used for the baby clothes are digital downloads from Nitwit Collections. The white fence is from Marianne Design. I made the poles to hang the clothes lines on myself by using a strip die. I rounded the top of the pole with a corner punch. I glued about 3 to 4 layers onto each other to give it the dimension to look like a pole. I think it worked great. The dies for the baby clothes are from My Favorite Things.

The sentiment is homemade by myself. On the back of the card there is plenty of room to write your own personal message

I will enter this in the following challenges:
Inspired by - Clothesline

Shopping Our Stash #544 - Fun Folds
Color Throwdown #829 - Blue/Lime Green/Green
CD Sunday Plus #155 - Anything Goes
Time Out #285 - Movie Inspiration (Mine is Look Who's Talking)
Dream Valley #333 - Celebration (Mine is a new baby)

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Renate

A Gnome Flower Cart Birthday Card

 

This is my card for today. I made it into a birthday card. Spring just started and flowers are everywhere already. Just another excuse to bring out the gnomies again.

I made this gnome from several different sets of Globeland. I die cut a bunch of little strawberries and added them to his hat. He is holding a pot of roses. The flowercard and flowerpots are from Honey Bee Stamps. I printed the blue layer. I love how you can just get any color from your own printer. The sentiment I made myself. An overall cute birthday card in a spring/summer theme.

I will enter this card in the challenges below:
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Inspire Create #189 - Spring/Easter

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Renate

Thank you card

Today I am showing you a card looks simple and was really lovely to make.

I used a Waffle Flower stencil on 2 panels. I then cut the top on a bit smaller then the one underneath and this creates that lovely dimension. I also use a Waffle Flower cover plate to get that stitched pattern. As I liked the stenciled background I didn't want to cover it too much so I just used to sentiments of Carlijn Design that I die cut in black and for the shadow I just used white. For the finishing touch a few pearls here and there. If translated to English the sentiments say Super Thanks.

I will be entering this in the following challenges:
Stencil Fun - Optional Theme
Inkspirational #338 - Use 2 or more senitments
Just Us Girls #768 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

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Renate

Lavender Gnome Card

 

Today I am showing you another gnome card. I love gnomes and have many more that need to used. I used a sketch of the Creative Sketch Girls for the layout.

The papers gingham paper is from the Gnome Halloween collection of Nitwit Collections. I die cut a purple border with a border punch of Vaessen Creative. The triangle is out of green carstock. The log is LR0680 Tree Log of Marianne Design. The lavender gnome is from Globeland. As lavenders are purple I kept the card in a purple theme. I added a few pearls for the finishing touch and the sentiment is homemade and in English it says Best Birthday Wishes if you were to translate it. 

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:
Creative Sketchy Girls #101 - Sketch
Dream Valley #333 - Any Celebration
Penny's Paper Crafty #593 - Anything Goes Using Paper
PIP 2512 - Anything Goes
Let's Craft And Create - Green And Purple

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Renate

Guest Designer Card

 

So I have the honor to be a guest designer over at the Seize The Birthday challenge blog. The theme is to put a milestone on your card

In my country turning 40 is considered a milestone so this is the card I made. I got the inspiration at the Papertrey Ink blog. The flowers are from Papertrey Ink and are Into The Blooms Gardenia. I cut two strips and the used a strip die to make the stitches in the strips. The bow is from Concord & 9th. The number with outline are dies from A Pocket Full Of Happiness Disco Numbers. I don't know the brand of the embossing folder but it is a really large one and I just cut the panel down to size. The sentiment is home made and foiled with gold metallic foil in my trusty laminator. For the finishing touch I added a few gold pearls.

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Renate

Another Floral Card

Today I am showing you a card that I am not happy with. I believe in showing everything even the ones that didn't turn out all that great.

I used the Graceful Anemone flower die by Memory Box. It is a really beautiful floral die and the flower I am happy with. However I wish I used a different more softer background pierced panel. The sentiment die is from Alexandra Renke which I like because some of the german sentiment dies can also be used in my language since we are neighboring countries and we have some similarity in our languages. 

So as I said just wanted to show this also. 

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Renate

A Floral Card

 

Today I am showing you a floral card I made a while ago.

I used the Into The Blooms: Cute As A Button die set by Papertrey Ink to make the flowers and leaves. I think the oval panel is by Craft Passion although not sure about it. The sentiment die is from Marianne Design LR0749. I cut it in white and the shadow layer is cut out of vellum.

A cute lovely card that can be given for various occasions so don't know yet who is gonna get this one.

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Renate

Christmas Card for my Stash

Today I am showing you a card that I saw on Pinterest. Unfortunately I don't know how made the original but this is a pretty similar copy to the card I saw so if anyone knows let me know so I can give the creator of the original card credit for it.

I cut the houses out of red cardstock. I used pink for the window and door frames. The windows themselves I cut out of gold metallic cardstock. The roof are cut out of white glitter cardstock. The trees are cut out of the same colors I used for the houses. The deers are cut out of kraft cardstock and some scraps of tan brown cardstock. The dots on the bodies are of white cardstock. I hand cut a snowy border. The sentiment is homemade and foiled with gold foil using the laminator. The background paper is from Nitwit Collection.

The dies are all of Marianne Design
- CR1602 Pine Trees by Marleen
- COL1401 Eline's Deer
- COL1537 Houses by Marleen
- CR1637 Box Card Small

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Renate

Steampunk Gnome Card

 

Today I am showing you a card I made for challenges. I liked the sketch a lot and wanted to use this cute little steampunk gnome.

I used papers from Nitwit collection in what I consider menly colors. The gnome is unbranded but there is a whole range of them. I would love to know who make these but I haven't been able to find that out as of yet. I don't know what these little circles are called in English but I die cut these out of bronze metallic cardstock to give them that rusty metallic look. For the finishing touch a few pearls here and there in matching colors. 

I will enter this card in the following challenges:
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 - Sketch #299
Cardz 4 Guys #368 - S is for ...... (Steampunk)
Unicorn Challenge #107 - Boys/Men

Birthday Card For My Hubby

 

Today I am showing the card I made for my husband's birthday. His birthday is on March 22nd. He was happy with the card. He is a big music fan so I always make one in a musical theme.

I made a center step card. I die cut the jukebox from Cottage Cutz Fifties Jukebox. The electric guitars are unbranded. I added a border of music notes in metallic silver cardstock. The sentiment is upside down also cut in silver metallic cardstock. 

We had a wonderful day yesterday

I will be adding this card to the following challenge:
Kaartjes Inspiratie #204 - Cijfers & Letters
Crafty Calendar - More Then One Fold
Knutsels en Kadootjes - Nostalgisch Retro

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Renate

Beautiful Pansy Card

Today I am showing you a lovely floral birthday card featuring a beautiful pansy in spring colors.

The pansy is from Papertrey Ink Into the Blooms Pansies. I have used yellow cardstock and inked it with Distress Oxide to give it some more shading on the petals and the leaves. I also stamped some spots on the center using a stencil. I then added a little bit of transparent nailpolish and used that as glue to hold some gold glitter in the center. I added the flower arrangement onto Papertrey Ink Love to Layer Scalloped Oval. I added a green panel on the base card. I made the sentiment myself and then foiled it with some gold foil. For the finishing touch I added a few pearls.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:
Daring Cardmakers - Celebrate Spring
Cut It Up #326 - Colors Of Spring
Girlz Rebel #38 - Use Glitter
Just Us Girls #767 - Spring Moodboard
Cardz 4 Galz #246 - Springtime

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Renate

Two Baby Cards

 

Today I am showing you 2 baby cards. The card base is white cardstock. The designer paper is from Nitwit Collections from the Beautiful Baby Boy and the Beautiful Baby Girl collection. I used a doily border punch to make that lacy edge. I used the CR1581 text circle die of Marianne Design. The elephant is also of Marianne Design COL1521. For the finishing touch a few pearls in matching colors. Ofcourse I had to make one in pink and one in blue.

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Renate

A Good Luck Gnome

 

Another cute gnome card. This time is a gnome for luck. We don't celebrate St. Patricksday but do associate the color green with luck. I used a mug that is actually used as a Christmas mug but I made it in a good luck mug. The gnome is from Globeland. The gnome is holding big gold shamrock coins and at the bottom of the mug there is a post with gold coins so full that it spilled coins all over. The background paper is from Nitwit Collections. The sentiment is Dutch and homemade.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:
Craft-alnica #380 - Drink
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Shades Of Green
If You Give A Crafter A Cookie #202 - Lucky In Green

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Renate

The Easter Gnome Has Arrived

Today I am showing you my very first Easter card for this year. Don't know if I will be making any more but I at least made one. I love gnomes and have many so this time I took out my set with Easter gnomes. They are from Globeland. The birch tree is from Hello Bluebird. The little flower die is from my stash of many flower dies.

I will be entering this in the following challenge:
Try It On Tuesday - Spring Fling
Everybody Art #575 - Lots of Layers
Sparkles Monthly #186 - Easter
Creative Crafting Uncles #63 - Spring or Easter
Little Red Wagon #798 - Start Those Easter Projects
Tic Tac Toe #266 - Flower/Spring/Add Dimension
Inspiration Station #71 - Inspiration Photo (Bunnies for me)

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Renate

Thinking of You Card

 

Today I am showing you a floral Thinking of You card. I got the inspiration from Papertrey Ink. The tulip is from the Into The Blooms Tulip die by Papertrey Ink. I used light yellow paper for the petals and inked them with Schattered Straw and Fossilized Amber Oxide Distress Ink. I die cut the leaves out of a light green cardstock and inked that with Peeled Paint Oxide Distress Ink. The embossing folder is from Cuttlebug. I made a double satin bow with my bow maker and glued that to the leaves of the tulip. The sentiment is home made. I added some sequins in matching colors for the finishing touch. 

I will be entering this card in the following challenge:
Color Hues #106 - Lemon & Lime
Dutch Card Lovers #397 - Voorjaar
Papercraft Challenge #117 - Spring Blooms
Beautiful Blossoms #27 - Anything Floral Optional Moodboard
The Flower Challenge #100 - Add Circles (my embossing folder)
AAA Colourful #14 - Colourboard

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Renate

Birthday Card

 

Today I am showing you a card I made for my brother in law. He is having his birthday. He really likes coffee a lot so I made this card with 2 coffee cups.

I used a background paper from Nitwit Collection Coffee Talk. For the coffee cups I used the dies LLD Hot Cocoa Cups of My Favorite Things. The little coffee beans come from a set with coffee gnomes that seem to be unbranded. I used a large rectangle die from Surprise Creation to make that stitched edge.

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Renate

A Christmas Gnome Card

 

Today I am showing you a christmas card with gnomes stacked on top of one another in a cup of cocoa. I am a big fan of gnomes so I have a lot of different gnome but really haven't used them a lot but I really wanna start changing that.  So this is one of my dies. I think they are from Globeland. I don't know what brand the nesting panel die is from. I decided to not put a sentiment because I want all attention to go to them cute gnomies. The striped background paper is from a christmas collection of Nitwit Collections

I will be entering this card in the following challenge:
Peace On Earth #84: Anything Goes + Inspiration Board
The 12 Months Of Christmas #120 - Anything Goes
The Holly And Ivy Christmas #180 - Anything Christmas Goes
Kreativtanten #99 - Fantasy
The Krafty Chicks #759 - Christmas

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Renate

Christmas Coffee And Donuts

I made this card for the challenge over at My Favorite Things. I really liked the sketch that you have to follow.

I cut a white panel from the Stitched Diagonal Center Strip Cover Up die. I used the Time To Make The Donuts die to make the Christmas donuts. and for the sprinkles I used gold metallic cardstock. The cup is from the LLD Hot Cocoa Cups and I made a small Christmas belt around it using some nesting dies. The sentiment is home made and foiled with some gold foil. The background papers are from Nitwit Collection. All dies are from My Favorite Things.

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Renate

A Floral Hello

Today I am showing you a floral card. I used only 1 single layered flower die that I die cut about 20 times to create 10 double layered flowers. On each flower I made sure the petals were curling down and on the top layer I made sure the petals were curling up. This creates so much dimension. I added some 2mm brown pearls to the center of the flowers. The card base and flowers are in off white. I die cute the sentiment in gold metallic cardstock and since I this die didn't have a shadow layer I just fussy cut a piece of cardstock around the sentiment. The panel on the base card is a sort of olive green/grey. I used the gold pearls in the corners for the finishing touch.

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Renate

Same but different

 

So today I am showing you 2 cards. The layout is the same and the rest is different.

I used digital collections from Nitwit Collections to make these cute relatively easy cards. They are so lovely. Even nicer in real then on the photo. The names of the collections are Beautiful Baby Girl and Beautiful Baby Boy. I used a background and put a rectangle stitch panel on it. I forgot which brand the panel is from. I then printed the floral arrangement about 4 times each and cut out less of each image. I layered them so you get that lovely dimensions. I added a few pearls in matching colors and a homemade sentiment to finish the card. I first made the pink version and then decided that I wanted to make it in blue as well. 

I will be entering these cards in the following challenge:
Love Those Pretty Papers - Anything Goes With Patterned Papers

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Renate

Postage Collage Floral Birthday Card

Today  I am showing you a card that I made using the postage collage die. I so very much this die. I used a flower stencil that is a one layered stencil and unfortunately I don't know the brand of it but it makes this beautiful flower arrangement. I used pick and green inks for the flowers and leaves. I stamped some postage image also with stamps set of waffle flower. The sentiment was cut from gold metallic cardstock from a sentiment die of Marianne Design LR0750 Van Harte.

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Renate

A Spring Card

 

I saw this kind of card on Pinterest and borrowed the idea. It is such a cheery card to see. It is a slimline cards in a spring theme. I die cut the Waffle Flower Postage Collage die and cut apart the pieces. I then added colored cardstock to them. I decorated that with bows & strings, flower punches and added pearls in the middle of the flower in colors that matched the cardstock. The sentiment is homemade.

I will be entering this is in the following challenge:
Hobbywinkel De Egel #200 - Slimline + spring
Make My Monday #247 - Use a Punch or Die
Seize the Birthday #300 - No Stamping

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Renate

Shamrock Shaker Card

 

So today I am showing you a shamrock shaker card. 
So we don't celebrate St. Patricks Day but we do associate the color green with luck so I made this cute shamrock shaker card.

I embossed the green panel with an unbranded shamrock embossing folder. I then had some green strips left so I cut a shamrock out of that using the Pretty Pink Posh Shaker die. I cut a whole bunch of outlines and stacked them together to get the height to where it is high enough to hold the shaker embellishments.
For the shaker materials I used various colors of white, green and gold and used sequins, small 2 mm pearls and seed beads. I die cut the sentiment for green metallic cardstock so that it would match the card. The shadow of the sentiment and the card itself are in off white.

I will be entering this in the following challenge:
Creative Crafting Uncles #62 - Embossing
Creative Fingers #296 - Anything Goes
Can You Handle The Pressure - Lucky and/or St. Patricksday

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Renate

Going Green

A lot of challenge have a green theme going on. It is also the month of St Patricks Day but my country doesn't celebrate that. So I made these strips in green tones. I die cut the shamrocks or clovers twice to give them more dimension. I added some green pearls. I can't resist using those pearls. And added a homemade sentiment which says 'Thanks For Everything' if you translate it to English.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:
Simply Clean & Simple March - Shades of Green
Color Dare #642 - Shades of Green
Color Hues #105 - White and Green
Color Options March 2025 - Green
My Time To Craft #555 - Shamrocks/Clover
Double D - Going Green
Aud Sentiments #323 - Green + a sentiment

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Renate

An Anniversary Card Made Upon Request

 

My sister in law asked me to make a card for friends of her who are having their 50th wedding anniversary so I made a Z-fold card.

The beautiful papers are from the Hope collection of Lemoncraft. Such a beautiful collection as many of their collection are. The number dies are from Spellbinders Pooh's Alphabet, Numbers & More Etched Dies. The doily is from Craft Passion. The sentiments and names have been printed and die cut from dies from my stash.

She really loved the card so was happy to give it to her friends.

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Renate

Birthday Card with Lights

 

Today I also wanna show you this gorgeous birthday card I made for one of my clients that is turning 85. It is an interactive card and has lights and it actually works. I saw these card and just tried to make one myself and this is the result.

I used some digital paper and cut out the circle. I then added a text circle which says Happy Birthday that was made with a die of Marianne Design. I taped vellum behind the circle. I then added the fairy lights on the inside and taped the part with the battery to the right lower side of the card next to where that arrow is placed. I added layers of foam tape until the heigh was the same as the battery pack of the fairy lights. I then attach all the wires with scotch tape and then added the whole thing to a card base.
To decorate it I add the flowers that I also made myself and some twigs with a Martha Stewart punch.

I will be entering this card in the following challenge:
CD Sunday Plus #153 - Anything Goes

Cut It Up #325 - Happy Birthday
Just Us Girls #765 - Birthday
Krafty Chicks #758 - Birthday
Little Red Wagon #797 - B Is For Birthday
Art Piaskownica - Put A Number On It

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Renate

Retirement Card

 

Today I am showing you a card that I made for an guy that finally gets to enjoy his retirement. Yesterday he worked his last day so hopefully he gets to enjoy this for a long time to come. And as a celebration I felt it was a nice idea for a card to make it with this big cake. 

I used the Spellbinders Ganach Gateau to make that adorable cake with the cute macarons. I used white and shades of blue for the macatons. I did cut somewhat off the top of the cake part otherwise the card would have been so large because I really wanted to use the sticks on top with the dots garland. I made the sentiment myself and if you translate it to English it would say Time For Cake.

I will be entering this card in the following challenge:
Color Throwdown #828 - Light brown/Blue/Dark Brown
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Unicorn Challenge #107 - Boys/Men

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Renate

Christmas Village Scene

 

Today I am showing another stair step card. I like this fun fold so this time I am showing you a little Christmas village theme

I used white cardstock for the base. All dies are from Marianne Design except the little stars and the lamppost. I cut the moon myself with the help of 2 circle nestabilities since I didn't have a moon die but as you can see it can be made yourself quite easily. The snowflake design paper is also from Marianne Design. I used the help of a box die of Marianne Design to make the snowy borders. I cut that out of white glitter cardstock that I also used for all of the roofs. The sentiment was printed and die cut by myself but it was slighty damaged by the die cut label I used. It's ok it isn't too bad.

- PK9195 Chrismas Bakery
- CR1520 Church by Marleen
- COL1537 Houses by Marleen
- CR1602 Pine Trees by Marleen
- CR1637 Box Card Small 

I am entering this card in the following challenge:
Christmas Kickstart #96 - Not the norm
The 12 Months Of Christmas #120 - Anything Goes
Jingle Belles - Bling On The Holidays
The Holly And Ivy Challenge #178 - Anything Goes

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Renate

A Postage Collage Rose Card

 

I am still trying to find what style of cards I wanna make so so far I have just made all kind of different styles and techniques. Not that I am an expert at it. Sometimes I come across cardmakers and you instantly recognize their style. I don't seem to have that and maybe I never will. I need it mostly to be fun for me and definately not start to feel like a have to.

So today I am showing you a square postage stamp layout card. I am not sure which brand that die is as I got it second hand. I used Gina K Winter Rose stencil to make that beautiful rose. For the yellow I used Scattered Straw and Fossilized Amber and for the green I used Bundled Sage and Forest Moss. All are Distess Oxide Inks. I added some sequins to the card for the finishing touch. I used a sentiment die of Marianne Design. I used black cardstock for the sentiment but I later wished I used a more softer color then black. 

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Renate

A CAS Birthday Card

 

Today I am showing a card that I made for client of mine. For my job I assist people in keeping their house clean when they are not able to fully to this themselves and when I started this job I gave them all a Christmas card. Everybody liked that gesture so I kept on doing that and decide it would be nice to also give them a handmade card on their birhdays. I always try to make something that suits their personality or what they like doing.

So this lady still like to do sewing. She recently started to make cards herselve so we have that in common now. I decided to make it a CAS card. The cover plate die is from Waffle Flower. I also die cut some bobbins and added some real crochet yarn on them. I die cut the needle from silver cardstock. It came from a die set with sewing gnomes that apparantly is unbranded. Added a couple of pearls in matching colors to finish the card.

I am sure she will like it.

I will be entering this in the following challenge:
AAA Cards #285 - Anything Goes
Girlz Rebel #37 - Anything Goes using Twine, Ribbon, Lace
Try It On Tuesday - For A Lady

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Renate

Simple Fancy Fold Cards

 

So today I am showing you a this fancy fold card. It is easy to make and you can make different shapes with it as you can see in the card below. You fold your card base in half and then cut off part of the front panel. Then you add masking tape to all the edges. You then place a stencil of your choice (I used one from Waffle Flower) and ink it up. After you have finished with the stencil remove it and then carefully remove the masking tape. And then when you open the car up you can see the partially inked parts on the inside. To finish it I added a a die cut sentiment that I have put on some foam tape for a bit of dimensions. To finish it up I added some pearls.

And here is my other sample:

I will be entering this card in the following challenge:
Seize The Birthday #300 - No Stamping
Just Us Girls #764 - Anything Goes Stencil Week
Shopping Our Stash #542 - One Layer Card

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Renate