Christmas Cards {with sketches} #70

Hi there and welcome back to another CCWS!

This week Nicolet made the sketch and it's way too cute!
I kept my card really CAS, wanted a clean and white base with only some papers on it.
I colored my stamped image with the Spectrum Noir markers. Got the colors I used on another piece of paper. Will let you know which colors I used.

A detailphoto of my card...

Thanks so much for coming over!
Please join us at the CCWS-blog with this challenge. As every week, you can win a Top 3 spot and there's a sponsored prize as well.... this week from Krea Teja.

Christmas Cards {with Sketches} #66

Hi there and welcome to another CCWS!

This week we're sponsored by Carmen :)
This week's sketch is made by Janneke and I kept it quite CAS :) Not to many embellishments, just some ink, papers and twine.

Hope you like it as much as I do :)

Offcourse I colored my image with the Spectrum Noir markers... I soooo love them!

You can find the sketch on the CCWS-blog and that's where you can also upload your card when participating with this challenge :)

Thanks so much for coming over and hope to see you around later on :)

CAS card: Extraterrestrial

Hi there!

Today I like to show you a card I made for my stash... my stash really needed some cards.
This card was soooooooo easy to make... just stamp and color :)


This is the first time I finally used 2 stampsets with "Outer space" kinda images... perfect for boys!
 

Thanks so much for coming over and hope to see you later on! :)



Challenges:
- Casology: Extraterrestrial

Christmas Cards {with sketches} #64

Hi there!

Today it's time for another CCWS and we're at #64 already! Can you believe it??!!
This week you can win a fantastic prize by Scrap it and Wrap it.

Made the card with the CCWS sketch you can find at the blog.
Colored an exclusive Magnolia image with my Spectrum Noir markers. Ohhh... I love them!

And have you seen the Spectrum Noir challenge as well... it's to add a bit of glitter to your project and who doesn't love adding some sparkles to your creations?

So here's my card....

And a detailphoto of the image...

Thanks so much for coming over and hope you can join us this week with the great sketch you can find at the CCWS-blog.

See you around later on! :)

CCWS #56

Hi there and welcome again!

First of all I'd like to wish you all a happy 2013.
I still don't have any computer, and will not get it back within another 1-2 weeks.
But I managed to find a friend where I was able to upload some things and here I am... back with another CCWS creation for you.

This week the sketch has been made by me and you can find it on the CCWS-blog.
And this is the card I created. Pretty clean & simple, but really love it.

Hope you will enjoy this card and hopefully you're able to join us at CCWS with this challenge.

Thanks so much for coming over and I really hope my computerproblems will be solved soon.

Christmas Challenges {with sketches} #55

Hi there and welcome to another CCWS.

This is our last challenge for this year and a very special one as there's some candy up for grabs at the DT-members' blogs!
Oh yeah... just read on...

We all choose our fave sketch of this year and made a card with it.
I choose sketch #31 as it was my first one I made for the CCWS-DT a couple of months ago and yeah... I still like it!

So here's my take...

Made with one of my fave Christmasstamps... looooooooove my cats!

And here's the little surprise I have for you...

Some patterned papers, embellishments (some more will be added to your prize) and one of my all time fave Magnolia Winterstamps.
Please visit the CCWS-blog for the rules of this challenge and really hope you can join in.

Thanks so much for coming over and hope to see you later on!

Christmas Cards {with Sketches} #53

Hi there and welcome back...

It's been a while for updating my blog and being online. Busy with all the Sinterklaascelebrations at work.
Today it's time for another CCWS with a twist this time... make a bag!

I hardly have any paperbags, got them (that's 5 of them in totall...) in 3 different sizes... small, bit taller and tall (perfect for a magazine and other stuff).
The small one really was too small for the sketch, the tall one too big and the middle one... uhh... not that perfect, but it will do ;)
Instead of using paperpads, I used some scrapbookpapers from 2005 and yeah... still love my Doodlebugcollection.

Anyways... back to the challenge...

This week we're sponsored by Make it Crafty.

And here's my take on the sketch which you can find at the CCWS-blog.
**sorry for the terrible photo.... but due to all the Sinterklaascelebrations, I left my best camera at work and forgot to bring it with me to take photos... Will try to make a better one later on...**

Thanks so much for coming over and hope to see you around later on.

Another Christmascard and back from...

Some serious Christmasshopping in London :)

Oh yeah... finally, after 17 years of going to London almost every year, I finally was there just a couple of weeks before Christmas and was able to see all the gorgeous decorations in all the shops, beautifull Christmaslights in the streets and so much more.
Never been there so short before Christmas and wow... finally been there!
A dream came true these last couple of days :)

So... with me being in the Christmasspirit, here's another Christmascard I like to show you.
Made it with my Speccies, aka Spectrum Noir markers.
Very simple, very CAS, but sooooooo love it!
It's a 4x4" card, so very little.
Love the effect of just an image and sentiment stamp. Keep things focussed on it.

Thanks so much for coming over and hope to see you again later on!

Christmas Cards with Spectrum Noirs

Hi all!

Today I like to show you a very, very CAS-card I made recently with my Speccies aka Spectrum Noir markers.

Stamped the image and only used 3 colors to color the image. Couldn't be any simpler ;)

Scored some lines on the bottom of the card for some effect and added some stickles on top of the tree.

Love this card!

Thanks so much for coming over and hope to see you later on! :)

Spectrum Noir challenge: Flowers

Hi there!


Today I like to show you a card made for the Spectrum Noir challenge: Flowers.
I wanted to keep this card as CAS as possible, by making it a one layer card with some stamps to color on it and think I pretty succeed... I love it!
You can get so much depth by adding an extra dark color to it.

Have you already entered the challenge??
All you have to have on your card are flowers. Stamped or embellishments, but your image has to be colored with the Spectrum Noir markers.

Thanks so much for coming over and hope to see you later on! :)


Challenges:
- Without Words: Whizz Bang (Bright colors)

Kerstkaarten workshops

*Please scroll down for the tag I made*

*THIS POST WILL BE IN DUTCH*

Hi allemaal,

Ook dit jaar zal ik weer kerstkaartenworkshops bij mij thuis geven na het succes van de afgelopen jaren.
De bedoeling is dat we 4 kerstkaarten zullen maken. 3 in de zogeheten CAS-stijl en de 4e kaart zullen we uitgebreider bekleden en het stempelafdrukje zal worden ingekleurd met de Spectrum Noir markers.

Data: 8, 9, 15 en 16 december

Locatie: Den Haag (uitstekend bereikbaar per OV!! Ik woon echter op de eerste etage, zonder lift)

Tijd: Groep 1: 10.00 - 12.30 en Groep 2: 14.00 - 16.30 (16 december alleen de middaggroep)

Prijs: EUR 15,00 incl. gebruik materialen (uiteraard mag je je eigen gereedschap zoals lijm, snijmat, snijmesje, schaar, etc. meenemen), koffie/thee/fris en iets lekkers erbij.

Er is plek voor 5 personen per groep VOL=VOL


Je kunt je opgeven door een email te sturen naar:
scrapping_angel (at) casema (punt) nl


Kun je nu niet op bovenstaande data, maar je hebt al wel een groepje van 5 personen, dan kunnen we een andere datum plannen. Houdt er echter wel rekening mee dat er parkeerkosten zijn in de wijk waar ik woon tussen 18.00 en 24.00.

Christmas Cards {with Sketches} #49

Hi there and welcome back to my blog! :)

This time it's time for another CCWS... #49 already and we're sponsored by Delicious Doodles.

And this is the card I made:

Kept it a clean and crisp card, not too much embellishments.
Offcourse I colored my image with my Spectrum Noir markers... LOVE THEM!!

Now it's time for you to go to the CCWS-blog to see this week's sketch Miranda made.

Thanks so much for coming over and see you around later! :)

Basic Grey Challenge: Anything goes

Hi there and welcome to another BasicGrey challenge!

Unfortunately this will be my last one as well.
It's with pain in my heart doing it, but it's the right thing at this point.

This fortnight's challenge is "Anything goes", so I created a Halloween card. I just loooooove the combination of green, orange, purple and black!

Colored the image with my Spectrum Noir markers and am sooooo extremely happy with them and their storage!
Had a week off work and sometimes I just sat down looking at all those markers, lovely organized by color *lol*
It really made me happy :)

Anyways... back to my card for the BasicGrey challenge....

And a detailphoto where you can see the glitter I put on Tilda's hair and panty ;)

So... from this place in cyberspace I really want to thank all my teamies at the BasicGrey Challenges!!

**LOVE YOU!!**

And I'd like to thank you for coming over.... THANK YOU!!!



Thank you so much for coming over and hope to see you around later on!



Challenges:
- Tiets: sketch
- It's A Magnolia Challenge: Halloween
- Magnolia-licious: Halloween
- My time to craft: Halloween
- Totally papercrafts: Halloween

Last Tomic Challenge :(

Hi there!

Right now it's a really sad time, as within a few minutes time the TOMIC Challengeblog will close down :(

Remembers me of February 1996... "And from today... there's no more"...

So sad, but I did try to make a last card for this challenge, a Halloweenone.

Totally love this one!

Off course I colored the image with my Spectrum Noir markers and wow... I totally love their newest storing system! You really should see and have it!!

Anyways...back to topic... here's my card:

Thanks so much for coming over and hope to see you around later on. Thanks! :)



Challenges:
- Tomic: Halloween + bat + purple/orange/black

Spectrum Noir tag and great news!!

Hi there!

Today I like to show you a tag I made recently for the Spectrum Noir blog.
You can work with the Speccies so easily in combination with your stencils!


So here's what I made, you can see the step-by-step instructions on the Spectrum Noir blog:

Vandaag wil ik jullie een tag laten zien die ik voor het Spectrum Noir blog gemaakt heb.
Je kunt namelijk supergoed je Speccies combineren met je stencils (en die van mij konden wel een gebruikersbeurt krijgen..haha)
Dit heb ik gemaakt, je kunt de stap-voor-stap uitleg op het Spectrum Noir blog bekijken:

And I told you about some news about storing your Speccies.
Well... about 1,5 week ago I received the best ever storingsystem I've ever seen (and believe me, I've seen a lot) and totally love!
The Spectrum Noir markers have their own storingsystem (which, you can use for other markers as well!!) and I just loooooooooooooooooove it!
It's on my desk and it really works! All numbers on their correct place!
There's a blogspot about it on the Spectrum Noir blog as well from Jennie *Hi Jennie!!*. Stores in The Netherlands will also be selling this system in the future *whoowhoo!*

En ik heb al een tikje van de sluier afgelopen week opgelicht over het geweldige nieuws dat er iets nieuws aankomt voor de Speccies.
Wel... ongeveer 1,5 week geleden, ontving ik het beste opbergsysteem voor markers wat ik ooit gezien heb (en geloof me.. ik heb genoeg gezien!) en vind het dé oplossing voor markers!
De Spectrum Noir markers hebben nu hun eigen opbergsysteem (dat je overigens ook prima voor andere markers etc. kunt gebruiken) en ik ben er helemaal van onder de indruk! Dit is echt zo super opbergen!
Het staat nu op mijn bureau en het werkt echt superhandig. Alle nummers op volgorde, ideaal!
Er is een blogspot te vinden op het Spectrum Noir blog van Jennie *Hi Jennie!!*.
Winkels hier in Nederland zullen dit systeem vast en zeker ook gaan verkopen, want dit is iets waar ik al jaren naar op zoek was *whoowhoo!*

Christmas Cards {with Sketches} #45

Hi there and welcome to another CCWS-Challenge!

We were delighted to work with another beautifull sketch and this time the sponsor is: 

Elisabeth Bell

And this is the card I made:

Offcourse I colored my image with the SpectrumNoir markers. Love them! :)
And there is some very, very, very great news about storing them. Will let you know later this week or you can check out the website :)

See you around later on!

Spectrum Noir Challengeblog: Holidays

Hi all!

It's been a while... but here I am with a card I made for the new Spectrum Noir Challenge.
Yes, there's now a challengeblog with every month a new challenge and the first one is a good one: Holidays.
You can make a card with the Spectrum Noir markers for any Holiday you like.
I made, off course, a Christmascard :) Love Christmas!

Hi!
Het is weer een tijdje geleden... maar ik ben er weer met ditmaal een kaartje wat ik gemaakt heb voor de Spectrum Noir Challenge.
Jawel... er is nu een challengeblog met iedere maand een nieuwe challenge en de eerste is een geweldige: Holidays/Feestdagen.
Je maakt een kaart met de Spectrum Noir markers voor een willekeurige feestdag die je leuk vindt.
Ik heb, uiteraard, een kerstkaartje gemaakt :) Ik houd van Kerst!

Markers I used:
Markers die ik heb gebruikt:

IG 1,2,3,4,6,8,10 

CR3 

DR 3,4 

BG1 

EB 4,5 

TN 3,4,5,7 

BT 1,2 

Hope you can join us with our challenge at the Spectrum Noir Challengeblog.

Thanks for coming and see you later! :)

Ik hoop dat je meedoet met de challenge op het Spectrum Noir Challengeblog.

Bedankt voor het langskomen en tot gauw! :)

Spectrum Noir DT: Flower Power cat

Hi there!


Today there's a new post from me on the SpectrumNoir blog.
You can see how I made this...

To this card:

Getting better here luckily *whahoooooooooooo*, still tired a lot,but it's going much better than it was. So I'm positive on that part :)


Thanks so much for coming over and don't forget to go to the Spectrum Noir blog for information how I colored the image.

Spectrum Noir: Creating Shadows

Hi there!


Today is another day for me to show you a tutorial on the Spectrum Noir blog.
It's about creating shadows. It's a tutorial I made specially with people in mind feeling overwhelmed to create shadows on their projects, thinking "Oh... I can't do it... it's way too complicated!", but you're wrong and I like to show you there how you create shadows like on this stamped image:
Vandaag is de dag dat er weer een tutorial van mij op het Spectrum Noir blog te zien is.
Ditmaal gaat het om het maken van schaduw. Het is een tutorial die ik speciaal voor mensen heb gemaakt die het erg overweldigend vinden om schaduw op hun projecten te maken en denken "Oh... Ik kan dat niet, dat is veel te ingewikkeld!", maar dat is niet waar en ik wil graag laten zien hoe je nu schaduw kunt maken zoals bijv. bij dit afdrukje:

Yeah.. it's quite basic, but for people not knowing how to create it, it's just fine :)
So please hop on over to the Spectrum Noir blog for more information. Thanks!


Thanks for coming over and hope to see you later.
Het is nogal basic, maar voor mensen die niet weten hoe ze schaduw dienen aan te brengen, is het prima :)
Dus neem een kijkje op het Spectrum Noir blog voor meer info. Bedankt!
Bedankt voor het langskomen en ik hoop je snel weer te mogen begroeten.

Spectrum Noir blog hop Christmas in July meets Basic Grey Challenges Things with wings

Hi there and welcome to a new Spectrum Noir blog hop.


The theme is "Christmas in July" and ohhhhhhhh.. I just loooooooove making Christmascards all year long, so this is just perfect for me :)
As I was browsing through my stamps, this stamp was also the perfect fit for this fortnight's BasicGrey Challenge: Things with wings.
Hi en welkom bij een nieuwe Spectrum Noir bloghop.
Het thema is "Kerst in juli" en ohhhh... Ik houd ervan om het gehele jaar kerstkaarten te maken (zoals ook hier op m'n blog te zien is ;)), dus dit is gewoon perfect voor mij :)
Toen ik mijn stempels aan het bekijken was, waren deze gebruikte stempels ook zeer geschikt voor BasicGrey Challenges: Things with wings (dingen met vleugels).

A few members of the Spectrum Noir team have gotten together to celebrate Christmas in July!  We have an inspiration-filled blog hop today, along with a few great prizes!  If you have arrived here from Suzanne's blog, you are in the right place.  If not, pop over to the Spectrum Noir blog so you don't miss a thing!
Een aantal Spectrum Noir DT-leden zijn bij elkaar gekomen om Christmas in July te vieren! We hebben een super bloghop vandaag, tesamen met een geweldige prijs! Als je bent gekomen via Suzanne's blog, dan ben je op de juiste plek aanbeland. Zo niet, ga even naar het Spectrum Noir blog, zodat je niets zult missen!




And this is the project I made. It was sooooooooo hard to come up with the perfect stamp, but thought it was time to use these ones again :)
So here you have my Christmas in July project...
En dit is het project dat ik heb gemaakt. Het was zooooo lastig om de juiste stempel te vinden, maar dacht dat deze weer aan wat inkt toe was :)
Dus hier is mijn Christmas in July project...

I used the following Spectrum Noir markers:
Ik heb de volgende Spectrum Noir markers gebruikt:
Skin/huid: FS 1,2,3,4,8, CR3 (cheeks)
Hair/haar: GB1,4,6,7
Clothes/kleding: DR1,2,3,4, EB2
NOEL: BT1,3,4,5, EB2
Ground/grond: EB1,2
Shadows/schaduw: BT1,2


I wanted the red and BT-markers having a bit of a brownish color in it, so I went over those colors with EB2. It was just perfect :)
Ik wilde dat de rood- en BT-markers een beetje bruintinten kregen, dus ik ben met de EB2-marker over deze kleuren heen gegaan. Het was gewoon perfect :)


We hope you've been checking out the Spectrum Noir blog - it is full of great tutorials, techniques, and other projects from our design team.  If you haven't been over there, go take a look!  Before we get to the rest of the hop today, let's have a little fun.  How about a prize?  Spectrum Noir is going to award one lucky winner two sets of six markers, a pack of Crafter's Companion Ultra Smooth Premium White card stock (perfect for coloring!), and an adorable stamp called All Wrapped Up, from the new Mulberry Wood line.
We hopen dat je ook bij het Spectrum Noir blog langs bent geweest - het staat vol met uitleggen, technieken en andere projecten van het design team. Als je er nog nooit geweest bent, neem een kijkje!
Voordat we verder gaan met de hop... laten we wat leuks doen. Wat dacht je van een prijs? Spectrum Noir geeft 1 gelukkige winnaar 2 sets van 6 markers, een pak Crafter's Companion Ultra Smooth Premium Wit cardstock (dit is echt perfect voor het kleuren!!!) en een geweldig schattige stempel genaamd "All Wrapped Up", van de nieuwe Mulberry Wood-lijn.

Entering to win is easy.  Leave a comment on the Spectrum Noir Blog Hop Post telling us your favorite Spectrum Noir color combination you saw while hopping with us this week (please comment no later then Friday, July 27 at 6:00 PM GMT).  A random winner will be drawn using random.org and posted on our blog at 9:00 AM GMT, Saturday, July 28, 2012, so be sure to check back with us to see if you have won!  The lucky winner will have one week to claim their prize or a second winner will be chosen.
Om mee te dingen is gemakkelijk. Laat een reactie achter op de Spectrum Noir Blog Hop post en vertel wat je favoriete Spectrum Noir kleurencombinatie was die je tijdens deze hop hebt gezien (je hebt de tijd tot vrijdag 27 juli, 6:00 PM GMT, ofwel 7 uur 's avonds, 19.00, Nederlandse tijd ;))
Een random winnaar zal worden gekozen via random.org en op het blog gepost worden op zaterdag 28 juli om 9.00 am GMT, ofwel 10 uur 's morgens Nederlandse tijd ;). Dus kom even terug om te zien of je hebt gewonnen.
De gelukkige winnaar heeft 1 week om de prijs te claimen of er zal een andere winnaar gekozen worden.


Now, hop on over to the next amazing blog and check out what Lis has to share!  In case you get lost along the way, here is the entire hop order:
Nu ben je al lekker op weg, de volgende persoon in de hop is LIS.
Als je de weg even kwijt bent, hier is de gehele hop-volgorde:

Spectrum Noir Official Blog

Leann

Jennie

Linda

Taylor

Kristine

Suzanne

Angélique

Lis

Cyndi

Louise

Danielle

Wendy

Thank you for joining us today as we celebrate Christmas in July!  Have fun hopping around to see all of the inspiration from our team, and good luck winning the prize pack!


And also visit the BasicGrey Challengesblog for more inspiration on the "Things with wings" challenge.
Bedankt voor het langskomen vandaag terwijl we Christmas in July vieren!
Geniet, enjoy, have fun om alle inspiratie van het team te bekijken. 
Veel geluk!
Oh, vergeet ook niet het BasicGrey Challengesblog te bezoeken, want ook daar vind je meer inspiratie betreffende de "Things with wings"-challenge.




Challenges:
- TOMIC: Christmas in July (colorcombo + stars)
- Tilda's Town: Anything goes