A Love Letter Card

 

Today I am shwoing you a love letter card. You can use this on any occassion but it kind of looks like it would fit Valentines Day pretty good also.

I made a square base card of 15 cm. I added a panel of 14,5 cm on that. I then cut a white panel of 14 cm and embossed it with the heart border embossing folder of Charlie Und Paulchen. After that I took one of my homemade mylar stencil with a square that was just large enough to add over the part in the middle that had no embossing. I added some splatters with red paint on it. While this was drying I dic cut the envelop of Alexandra Renke. I die cut some hearts out of various heart sets and I also had a die that die cut the tiniest hearts ever. I added these in between the splatters on the embossed panel. I popped up the envelp with the hearts onto some foam to give it dimension. I added the homemade sentiment and another heart and my card is ready. A lovely CAS card for that special loved one.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Alphabet Challenge - L Is For Love Letters

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Renate

An Acetate Birthday Card

 

Today I am showing you a birthday card I made from getting inspiration at Pinterst. I really like the card and this is my result.

I took a white base card and cut the half of a circle die out of the front of the card. I then added a piece of acetate behind it. To cover up I the acetate on the inside I added another piece of cardstock where I also cut out half of the circle die. I then took some designer papers and cut half the circle out that was a bit larger then the circle I used on the base card. I distressed the edges of the designer papers using a distress tool and then inked the edges with some Distress Ink. I cut some leaves in white as well as quite a lot of flowers. I inked the flowers with blue in the center and brown on the petal edges. I added some dots on each flower with a black fineliner and added pearls in the center after shaping the petals. I added a homemade sentiment on the acetate. To hide the tape I added a strip of cardstock on the inside. The sentiment appears to be floating. It did take some time to get all the flowers done. I do love the result for this beautiful card.

I will be adding this to the following challenge:
Die Cut Diva's September 2025 - Anything Goes
Little Red Wagon #826 - Congratulations 
Cardz 4 Galz #259 - Dies or Punches
Beautiful Blossoms #33 - Anything Floral Goes

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Renate

A Pop Up Birthday Card

Today I am showing you a fun pop up card. I saw this model on Pinterest and this is what I came up with when I tried it myself.

I took a square white base card. All the papers and graphics are from the digital kit Timeless Memories of Nitwit Collections. I did cut the flower bouquet a few extra times to get the 3D effect. I made some 2 pop up mechanisms to add behind the half circles to make them pop up when you take the card out of its envelop. It is a quick fun card to make and you can put on it whatever you want for any occasion so I will definately make more of these.

I will be adding this to the following challenge:
CD Sunday Plus #168 - Anything Digital Goes

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Renate

A Winter Card

 

Today I am showing you a card where I made the background myself. I have been searching through my large amount of files to find a fitting background for this really cute image I found on Pinterest. I think it is made with AI. I am trying to embrace the use of AI but still find myself struggling with it. Anyway I was unable to find a matching background that I like for this image so I just made my own not using AI but my computer software. 

Here is how I did it. I use Paint Shop Pro software that is still installed on my computer. I took the various shades of blue and made a gradient background in those blue tones. I then added a grunge border mask from a seperate layer. After that I added another layer and added a falling snowflake mask to it. I then added all the layers together and voila the background was made. I so love the result that i may try this again. You can get any color you want of even mixed colors. It has endless color options.

The shaped of the card is a swirl circle fold card. You can buy the die set from Marianne Design. I really like the brand and I have many die sets but this fold card you can make so easily yourself that you really don't need any speciality dies for it. Here is how I made it. I took a piece of cardstock of 20 x 14,5 cm. On the long end I score it at 7,5 cm, 9.5 cm, 11,5 cm and 13,5 cm. I then folded and I cut the corners with a corner rounding punch. I then added a nesting die in the middle with the image. I trimmed the background image into pieces to fit the cardstock and added some die cut trees and snowflakes on it. A homemade sentiment for the finishing touch and this is my finished result.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Rudolph Days September 2025 - Anything Christmas Goes
Girlz Creative Splash It With Color #5 - Blue
CD Sunday Plus #167 - Anything Digital Goes
Time Out #298 - Splatter, Season, Edge & Monochrome
Mix It Up #79 - Anything Goes Optional Fun Folds
ABC Christmas - T Is For Trees

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Renate

An Upside Down Z-fold Card

Today I am showing you a card with a fun fold I saw on Pinterest and ofcourse had to give this a try.

So I made this by using a large arched nestability and cut the base card. I die cut designer papers from smaller nestabilities and glued these down. I then took an oval nestabilities set that actually matched the shaped of the arched nestabilities set perfectly and I die cut the oval that I felt fitted best. I also die cut a smaller oval in designer papers to decorate the card. I added a fussy cut flower bouquet in 3D. To get the 3D effect I just cut less out of the graphic and then stacked it together.  I also used one of the ready to fussy cut sentiments on top and for the finishing touch a few white pearls. All the graphics I used are from the digital kit Abigail of Nitwit Collections. I love that she still draws her own graphics and no AI is used. You can resize them perfectly to your needs. I love using her stuff. I do draw graphics myself sometimes but I am not as good as her.

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Renate

A Christmas Bunny Card

 

Today I am showing a similar card like the previous post. This time it is a Christmas bunny card.

I took some designer papers with red snowflakes from Nitwit Collections. I added it onto the sentiment circle by Marianne Design CR1595 that I die cut in white. Underneath I added a red circle so you can see the sentiment circle even better. I die cut some balloons of Pretty Pink Posh in red and gold metallic cardstock. I die cut the bunny from Marianne Design COL1463 and the scarf and hat from the set COL1438. I added some embossing to the basket using a 3D embossing folder with a basket pattern. I added it all onto a white scalloped base card.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Girlz Creative Christmas #143 - Christmas Bunny
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes
Critter Crazy 102 - Anything using a Critter Goes
Crafty Animals #98 - Anything Goes Including an Animal

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Renate

A Circle Winter Card

Today I am showing you a round christmas card in a winter theme. I really like how it turned out and probably won't be the last one I am making. 

I made a scalloped circle base card. I added another scalloped circle on top to hide the score line of the base card. I die cut the snowman from Marianne Design COL1413. I die cut the hat and scarf form COL1438. I added some white dots for the eyes with a white gelpen. I did added some foam squares behind the snowman. I also die cut a small tree from the set CR1602. I dont remember the sign post. I used some snowy designer papers from Nitwit Collections and added a die cut snowbank. I glued the little scene onto a LET IT SNOW sentiment circle that I die cut out of metallic silver cardstock. The number of this die is CR1600. Below the sentiment circle I added a blue circle to make the sentiment set stand out even more. I then added this all to the base card and another lovely christmas card is done.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Peace On Earth #96 - Anything Christmas Goes
Jingle Bells - Gold/Silver/Copper or other metallics
The 12 Months Of Christmas #126 - Circles

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Renate

A Experimental Card

 

Today I am showing a card where I tried an experiment and it actually worked. I will be trying this many more times.

I am a frugal crafter because I believe that it should be a hobby and although I love all the designer and their releases it is getting a bit crazy and very expensive so if I can make something myself I will do just that. So I came across something that is called Stencil Butter. It looks so beautiful and when I looked into it I found out it comes in lots of colors but the price of a small jar is quite a lot. So I learned that is easy to make this yourself and I did. You just need to add some Extra Heavy Gel Medium to your acrylic paint to make it more like a paste. I ofcourse had to try this and it really works. I can now make any color by mixing my colors and adding that extra medium I can make it as thick as I want. It does require some time to dry but it is so beautiful. I only need to practise a bit more but it will turned out great I am sure. I also bought metallic acryllic paint colors for an even more shiny result. Check Youtube on how to make your own diy stencil butter if you are interested.

So the card here is the result of the first try I gave this. I mixed some white and pink paint together to get a lighter shade of pink and added the medium to it. I took the Dot Swirl Long stencil of Alexandra Renke and applied the substance to it. The reveal was such fun and then I left it to dry. I guess I could have used my heat tool but I didn't. When it was dry the texture is wonderful. I really had no idea what to do until I decided to make a slimeline cas card. I added some small butteflies inside the circle and added a nice sentiment of Maranne Design. A few pearl here and there for the finishing touch and that is that. I didn't wanna waste anything so this is what I made with it.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Stencil Fun September 2025 - Anything Goes Using A Stencil
Little Red Wagon #825 - Slimline Cards
Double D - Make Your Own Background
Unicorn #113 - Circles
Moving Along With The Times #181 - Butterflies

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Renate

A CAS Birthday Card

Today I am showing you a CAS birthday card.

I used a made a white square base card. I added a little white square nested panel and added several die cut flowers in various sizes in white on it. I don't remember the brand but I have had these for a long time. I then inked up 3 of the white flowers with Festive Berries Distress Oxide Ink. I also die cut some leaves in pale green cardstock. For the center I added a die cut button. I die cut it 3 times and layered them on top of each other to make it look like it's an actual button. I then added a small homemade sentiment. Translated to English it would say "Wishing You A Happy Birthday".

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Simply Clean And Simple September 2025 - Birthdays
Girlz Rebel #44 - Anything Goes + Buttons
Krafty Chicks #786 - CAS
Dragonfly Dreams September 2025 - Birthdays
The Sisterhood Of Crafters - Birthdays
Fab 'n' Funky #621 - Use A Button

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Renate

Gnome James Halloween Card

Today I am showing you a card featuring James the Gnome by Studio Light. He is trying on his outfit to try and scare you. He even invited some of his bat friends but he needs to do a better job because he is still too cute. I made this card special for the color challenge over at AAA Colourful. This idea just popped in my head immediately and here is the finished result.

I took a lime green based card. I added some black designer paper on it from the Gnome Halloween collection of Nitwit Collections. I took a white panel and added some Distress Oxide Ink color Villianous Potion onto it just lightly. I feel the name of the ink really suited the theme of the card. On that I added James in his green and purple outfit holding a happy pumpkin. The bats are from various gnome die sets of Globeland. And for the finishing touch I added some glitter enemal dots of Carlijn Design that I won as a prize at a challenge earlier this year. The colors really matched the card.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:

AAA Colourboard #20 - Colourboard
Two Old Bats Halloween September 2025 - Anything Halloween Goes
Just Us Girls #793 - Mood Board
Inspired By - Autumn (mine is the pumpkin)

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Renate

A Christmas Bridge Card

Today I am showing you a Christmas bridge card. I love making fun folds as they are just so different from anything store bought. 

So for this one I took a white base card. I added the score lines and then folded the model. I made 5 panels to go on the folded parts so 4 long rectangles and a larger rectange panel. I embossed the little panels first with a falling snow embossing folder. I added a snowflake border on top before I attached the smaller panels so the the border would be stirdy enough and hide it's ends. I then die cut a snow mountain border for the front that is about 7 inch width. So the card has a top and bottom bridge. I added a little panel in between to add the snowman with the red hat onto for more dimension. The snow guys and the pole are from Spellbinders from the North Pole Sentiments set. I did not feel the need to add any extra sentiments to the card. 

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
52 Weeks To Christmas - Kerstkaart Week 38
The 12 Months Of Christmas Link Up #126 - Anything Christmas Goes
FarmQuest Country Christmas #24 - Anything Country Christmas Goes
Peace On Earth #95 - Anything Christmas Goes
A Cut Above September 2025 - Anything Goes With A Die Cut
Let's Craft And Create #223 - Lots Of Layers

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Renate

A Fall/Autumn Gnome Easel Card

 

Today I am showing you a gnome easel card that I made as a guest designer for the challenge over at Kaartjes Inspiratie Challenges. The theme is to use leaves on your card so head on over to join in at this wonderful challenge.

So I choose to make an easel card. I used digital designer papers from Nitwit Collections. I added some a piece of beautiful brown ribbon. It is satin with a gold ege and organze. Very pretty and I have every color that was available. The gnome is from Globeland. He is racking up all the fallen leaves and took a pose for this lovely card. I added a tree as well. I inked up most of the leaves to give them a more realistic look. I die cut the large THANKS sentiment out of copper metallic cardstock. And for the finishing touch some golden brown pearls.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
4 Season Swap - Moodboard
Inspired By - Leaves
Crafty Calendar - Lots Of Layers
Daisy Chain #100 - More Then 1 Fold
The Paper Funday #80 - Changing Of The Seasons
Aud Sentiments #329 - Tags And/Or Thank You
Inspiration Station #77 - Inspirational Photo
The Four Seasons September 2025 - Fall Season
Allsorts #832 - Trees, Leaves and Plants
Penny's Paper Crafty #605 - Anything Goes Using Paper
Paper Rocks Scissors #8 - Anything Goes Using Paper or Scissors
Mix It Up #79 - Anything Goes Optional Fancy Folds

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Renate

A Poinsettia Circle Christmas Card

Today I am showing you a quick Christmas card I made yesterday.

I took a kraft card base. I also cut another square in kraft and I splattered some paint. I die cut a couple of poinsettia flowers with the centers. I added a bit of pink ink to the centers of the flowers and then added the little yellow center on top of the flowers I die cut various leaves in different tones of green. I compositioned everything and then glued it down.
Now here is the tricky bit that I really should have done before glueing everything down. I still had to stamp the sentiment in the middle so I just kept my fingers crossed and hoped it would turn out ok and it did. However next time I will remember to do this first.

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Renate

A Floral Christmas Card

 

Hi today I am showing you a floral christmas card. It turned out better then I initially intended so that is realy good.

I used a poppy red base card and put a piece of digital paper on that from the Christmas Romance collection of Nitwit Collections. I love the backgrounds from them so much and use them a lot in my cards. So I don't remember all the brands of the dies I used so lets skip that for now.
I die cut a nesting panel with a lovely lace edge in poppy red. On that I added a white oval panel and I stamped the sentiment on that with black ink. I then cut out a whole bunch of leaves and poinsettias. I inked up some of the leaves and I then made the poinsettias. I die cut the flowers twice in 3 sizes so each of the flower has a double layer. I added the Festive Berries Distress Oxide Ink in the middle of the flowers and added a touch of black on the points. I then sprayed a bit of water on them and shaped the leaves. I added some red stamens to each of the flowers. I used tacky glue to added it all together. I then started to composition everything onto the oval panel and I used quite a bit of foam to add dimension. It is a bit bulky but really beautiful so I think I will hand gift this one instead of mailing this. I decorated the inside to match the front as well.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
The Holly And Ivy Christmas #191 - Anything Christmas Goes
Sparkles Christmas #176 - Let's See Some Holly
CD Sunday Plus #167 - Anything Digitals Goes
Krafty Chicks #785 - Christmas

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Renate

A Lemon Get Well Card

 

Today I am showing you a get well or encouragement card with a lovely die set from Spellbinders.

I took a white base card. On that I added a digital paper from the Freshly Squeezed collection of Nitwit Collection. I pierced a border and then stitched it with white crochet yarn. I die cut 2 panels of an arch nestabilities set and I die cut the larger panel of vellum and the smaller panel out of white cardstock. I die cut all the parts of the Lemon Spritz by Spellbinders. I inked up the leaves, lemons and flowers with different tones of Distress Oxide Ink. I added foam tape to give all the pieces a dimensional touch. The sentiment is homemade.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Carlin's Kaartenparadijs #86 - Opkikkertje/Beterschap
CD Sunday Plus #166 - Anything Digital Goes

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Renate

A Postage Collage Mushroom Card

 

Today I am showing you a postage collage card. I don't make them nearly enough so I just had to do one today.

I used the Waffle Flower Postage Collage die to cut the postage panel. I used the stencil to cover the edges and then added Distress Oxide Inks in the colors Kitsch Flamingo, Scattered Straw and Peeled Paint. I saw on the Waffle Flower Instagram a sample that used this color combination and black silhouette stamps. I needed mushrooms because I am entering this into a challenge but I don't have any mushroom silhouette stamps so I figured why not used dies cut out in black. So I went throught my stash and came up with some grass, mushrooms and butterflies suitable to use as silhouettes. I think it looks better then I expected. I then added some postage detail stamps also from Waffle Flower. I then added it onto a kraft panel and I used a pink base card. The sentiment is homemade.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Color Dare #667 - Pastel Colors
Hobby Vision #150 - Paddestoelen
Stencil Fun September 2025 - Anything Goes Using A Stencil
Make My Monday #260 - Fun With Stencils

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Renate

A Geometric Christmas Card

 

Today I am showing my take on a geometric CAS card. I made this especially for the Addicted to CAS challenge.

I took a white base card and added a white panel on it. At the bottom I embossed some lines using my score board. I die cut one of the trees in the Geometric Christmas Tree die set of A Pocket Full Of Happiness. I added red and green tones in the christmas tree. I added a few sequins in red and green to match and finished the card with a homemade christmas sentiment.

I will be adding my card to the challenge

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Renate

Gingerbread Christmas CAS card

 

Today I am sharing a CAS card and I kind of made it similar to one I saw on Pinterest.

My base card is white. On that I added a white panel with some embossed lines. I just made the lines using my scoring board. On that I addded a large star that I then embossed in a embossing folder with falling snowflakes. On top of that I added a circle that I cut a couple of times and glued together to create that dimension. Around the circle I added a piece of 15mm satin ribbon and attached it to the back of the white panel. I then added the little gingerbread fellow. He is from a die set of that was recently released by Spellbinders in grey and white tones. I then made a nice satin bow and added that to the already attached piece of ribbon on the card. I added a few small stars for the finishing touch. To complete it I added a homemade sentiment which says Merry Christmas translated to English.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
The Holly And Ivy Christmas #191 - Anything Christmas Goes
Peace On Earth #95 - Anything Christmas Goes
Girlz Creative Christmas #141 - Alles Mag Kerst
52 Weeks To Christmas September 2025 - White + 1 Color 

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Renate

A Cas Birthday Card

Today I am showing a cas birthday card.

I took a white base card and cute the corners with a decorative corner punch. I took a happy birthday embossing folder and then cut a circle out of it. I added a die cut border circle of Pink Fresh Studio on the embossed circle. I die cut the border circle about 3 times and glued them together to get that nice dimension. I then die cut 2 sunflowers for the Dainty Sunflower set of Simon Says Stamp and inked them with orange tones of Distress Oxide Ink. I inked the center with brown tones. Since the embossing folder is already like a sentiment I did not add any extra text to it.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
CAS on Friday #317 - Fall
Simply Clean & Simple September 2025 - Birthdays
Alphabet Challenge - K for Keep It Simple (CAS)

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Renate

Snowflake Shaker Card

Today I am showing you another snowflake card. I like snowflake cards as they are so delicate. 

I die cut a white background panel with a snowflake pattern twice of Poppy Stamps. I adhered the 2 panels together to give the background more dimension. I added the panel onto a white base card.
I then cut out the rectangle scalloped nesting die about 6 times. Behind the first one I added a piece of acetate as my window. I then added the five remaining panels behind that. It was a bit fiddly to remove all the pierced parts of each rectangle but the result is beautiful. I added the sequins, beads and pearls as my shaker material in the middle of the background panel and then carefully placed the shaker window over that. I used glue to adhere the shaker panel because it still allows you to move the window a bit if it needs to be adjusted. 
Then I cut four snowflakes in different sizes and colors and stacked them on top of one another. It is a bit bulky but that is also what make this card so unique. I die cut a button about 4 times and tied them together using some cream crochet yarn and I added a nice little string bow on top of the button using some glue. There really is no room for a sentiment on this card but I guess not every card needs a sentiment when it speaks for itself. 
I probably won't be mailing this one as is kind of thick to mail but I will hand deliver this one myself.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Creative Inspirations September 2025 - Christmas In September
Pearly Sparkles #111 - Traci's Recipe (mine is sparkle & pearls)
Jingle Belles - Cardstock Christmas

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Renate

A Snowflake Card in Blue

Today I am showing a snowflake card in blue. I kind got an idea in my head how it was suppose too look so this is the end result.

I took a piece of snowflake designer paper from Studio Light. They have these A5 paperblocs and they are so nice to use. I inked up the border of the snowflake paper using some Distress Oxide Ink. I added a snowflake frame that I got on a second hand market so don't know the brand. I die cut the large snow sentiment from Papertrey Ink about 3 times and stacked them together to give it dimension. And for the finishing touch some silver sequins and some pearls to the centers of the snowflakes. A quick and nice looking holiday card.

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Renate

A Snowy Christmas Card

Today I am showing you a card filled with snowflakes on a pink grunge background.

I used white for my base card. I added a printed grunge background in pink. I really like this one so much. It is from Creative Fabrica. I pierced a border on the larger and smaller panel of my card and then stitched it with white yarn. That was the part of this card that took the longest to complete but it looks and feels so nice. I the added about four snowflakes for Papertrey Ink. I added some white pearls in the middle of the snowflakes. Underneath the small panel I added some leaves and branches of Spellbinders in white. I then popped it onto foam tape and added it to the card. For the finishing touch I added a few pearls here and there in different sizes and added a die cut stamped sentiment to it and voila. A really nice almost vintage looking snowy christmas card.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
ABC Christmas - P is for Pastel
Peace On Earth #94 - Anything Christmas Goes
The Holly And Ivy #190 - Anything Christmas Goes
Merry Little Christmas #64 - Anything Christmas Goes
Girlz Creative Christmas #140 - Anything Christmas Goes
Inspire Create #200 - Never Too Early For Christmas

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Renate