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Monochromatic planner page

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog!in today’s blog I will show you the first page of my planner for 2022. I have this idea in my head and that includes 4 quarters, 12 months and 52 weeks. So this first page is going to be my quarter 1 page. For this page I used a monochromatic color scheme. all shades of blue. To start I made a background with my Gell press and acrylic paint. this resulted in a beautiful layered look with a lot of depth…. Read More

Last blog of the year: Two more pages in my December day by day!

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome. In todays blog I am keeping it short and sharp. it is the last blog of this year as I am taking a week of, but I will be back in January 2022 with some exiting news! stay tuned for that. Today I made to more pages for my December day by day journal. For this I used all Elizabeth Craft Design Planner Essential dies. as I did before. at the end of this blog you will find the complete list of what I… Read More

New pages in my December planner

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog. Today I am taking you with me in the video on an overview of my #DecemberDBD planner. I am now up to December 14 so let’s say: half way through! for these pages I used a lot of the Elizabeth Craft Design Planner Essentials die sets. these make crafting so easy and give you great inspiration of what to make. Now let me start by saying that this is all new for me. These pages are the first time I made… Read More

Stylish Table decoration: Cutlery holders

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome! In today’s blog I am going to make some decoration for my Christmas diner table: Cutlery holders. These are so simple to make but have a high impact. The base you can use with any paper you want, so a great way to use some Christmas themed paper packs! if you want to see a step by step tutorial, please visit my YouTube channel at: full list of supplies used for this blog: Altenew Beautyfull bergenia www.altenew.com Colored cardstock 216 grm/80lb florance   https://www.plotterplezier.nl/webshop/florence/  Scotch… Read More

Stunning vintage gift tags

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome. In todays blog I am making these stunning vintage gift tags. I cut the tags out using an Elizabeth Craft Design Planner Essentials die and started of by applying the collage paper. I covered the whole tag with the Distress collage medium, sticked the paper and the dolls on and covered it up with medium again. Than using different colors of Distress crayons I created this background. The poinsettia is made with a set designed by Tim Holtz for Sizzix and is stunning! I… Read More

New December day by day pages!

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my Blog. today I am working on new pages for my planner album. The December dy by day challenge is just that… quite a challenge HHH. not because of the journaling but because of taking the pictures. At the moment we are in a lockdown in The Netherlands and therefor we hardly go anywhere. Luckily enough there is enough in and around the house ;). Today I made my own backgrounds using tissue paper and some stencils. This is a lot of fun… Read More

Make Art Stay-tion first impression and a card!

Hello my fellow crafters, and welcome to my blog. In this blog I am reviewing the Make Art Stay-tion by ranger. Since I started I used the sticky grit from Sizzix and I really like that stuff, however after a few uses it looses it’s stickiness and that’s why I was looking for an alternative. And that’s why I found in the Make art Stay-tion. I have used it a couple of times since filming this video and it is brilliant! at the end of this blog you will find… Read More

Whimsical winter scene using ECD winter scenery

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog. Today I had a lot of fun using the Elizabeth Craft Design Winter scenery die set designed by Joset van der Burgt. I used water color paint to color the wolf and reindeer and I love how they came out. they almost look like real fur. I combined the winter scenery with the dotted background die and this is a perfect combination. to create the background I used two different oxide sprays and a mica stain. In between layers I dried… Read More

Emboss resist snowflake Christmas card two ways!

hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog. For today’s blog I am working with a lot of Tim Holtz product. I started off by stamping the snowflakes with clear embossing ink and then embossed them with a holographic embossing powder. Once this is melted it is a plastic layer that will resist the ink you put over it. it is such a fun technique and it gives stunning results every single time. To finish it off I made snowflakes with an embossing folder (Impresslits) that cuts them out… Read More