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
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
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
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
Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog. in todays project I am working on my December day by day journal. Now as a beginner in this craft this can be quite intimidation so I developed a way for myself to make it work. Instead of staring at blanc pages for hours (witch I did lol) I now just go for it. The beautiful dies and stamps from Elizabeth Craft Design make things easy though. They come with a lot of inspirational images on the back of the packaging… Read More
hello my fellow crafters and welcome to Inspiration for cards! This time I am. again, working with the Elizabeth Craft Design Classic Christmas set. This set is so versatile that you can keep making cards with it and they are all different. This time I am using a glossy texture paste to create the shiny background. I spread this over a stencil I made out of yup using the background die from the set. It really brought out the colors that I used. The Tim Holtz mica stain sprays are… Read More
Hello my fellow crafters, welcome to inspiration for cards. In today’s project I am testing out the Ranger Gel plate for the very first time. what are my thoughts? do I like it? how does it work? well let me tell you… it was way to much fun. some things did not work out. I tried stamping with a beautiful Tim Holtz stamp but that was a fail. However the soft look and the beautiful blend it gives are just stunning. and its different than anything else I have tried… Read More
Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to inspiration for cards. Last week I shared my introduction to Planner Essentials and how I fell in love with it. Working with the stunning Elizabeth Craft Design Planner Essentials Mason Jar set inspired me to make this card. I took some elements of this set and turned them in to a beautiful winter scene. I love this collection even more now… it is so versatile and you can use the loose elements for anything. no matter if that is art journalling, planner or… Read More
Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to Inspiration for cards. I discovered a new addiction and that is making planner pages. Paper crafting is so much more than just making cards and I always knew that. However I never did anything other than making cards. When I was contacted by Esther Glas, the designer behind the Planner Essentials collection at Elizabeth Craft Design i was intrigued. She send me some of the Planner essentials sets and I started playing. I LOVE IT. by the time I am writing this I… Read More
Hello my fellow crafters, welcome to my blog. For today’s Christmas card I am putting on my vintage hat again. I am absolutely in love with this card and how its turned out.Using the texture paste really gives this card dimension and makes it pop. The different colors of embossing pores really finish it of! If you want to see a step by step making of, please hop over to my YouTube channel: At the end of this blog you will find a full list of supplies that I used… Read More
