Posts tagged diy card

Fun embossed butterfly card

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome. Today I made a beautiful card using some stencils, glossy transparant texture paste and the Distress embossing powders. I put the powders over the paste when this was still wet and this gives it a pretty, glass like look due to the transparency of both the paste as the embossing powder. because of this you can also see the stamping through that I did on the background. The butterflies are beautiful and delicate. They actually come from a Planner Essentials set but who says… Read More

Stunning gold leaf card

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog. Today I am making a birthday card using gold gilding flakes. I had this idea in my head and I am thrilled that it worked. The base for my brainwave was the Clear Double Sided Adhesive from Elizabeth Craft Designs. This is really good and sticky adhesive and I was wondering if the idea I had worked. And it did! This is such an easy way to make a high impact card. The background die also helped a lot and the… Read More

Classy cards using the inlay technique with a twist

Hello my fellow crafters, Today I am making two cards for you using the inlay technique. the second one using the left overs. this technique is simple to do but has such a high impact and looks really luxurious! To color the background I used the Elizabeth Craft Designs Water Color pallet. This stuff keeps amazing me as it is so pigmented! It’s crazy. In this project I show you how to use it for smushing. if you want to see how I made these cards, please visit my YouTube… Read More

Very cool Retro Bus turned in to a Card!

Hello my fellow crafters, welcome to my blog. Today I have a fun little project for you. if you have visited my blog before you know that I am a fan of the new Retro Bus Special kit from Elizabeth Craft Designs. I had this idea in my head to turn it in to a card and I love how this turned out. This set is intended to make planner pages or smaler booklets but, as it turns out, can also be used for a card! If you want to… Read More

Beautiful blossem card

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog. Today i am playing with the Elizabeth Craft Designs Beautiful Blooms Blossom. below you can find a step by step of how i made this card. I used a lot of different media to make this. At the end of this blog you can find a full list of products that i used. The next step is to choose a sentiment. Once cut out i colored it with the same colors as the flowers. Than i glued it on a mat… Read More

simple and clean 2 for one card

hello my fellow crafters, welcome to my blog. Today I am sharing two cards that I made in one go. so two for one. I got inspired to do this technique just by looking at this beautiful background die. It’s a stunner and I love it. Making this two cards was so quick and easy that I just had to share it with you. if you want to see a step by step tutorial on how to make these cards, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/r2_RZ3BVsow Products used for this… Read More

Stunning stained glass effect using shimmer powders

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog. For today’s project I finally made a card again! I have been so busy with my ambassador ship for Elizabeth Craft Design Planner Essentials that this got pushed back a bit. But today was time for a card. And oh wow how I love this card. It was my first time ever playing with the Nuvo Shimmer powders and they are stunning. It is like magic happening on paper. Now when yo start it doesn’t look like much but once you… 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