Merry and Bright

Morning everyone,

just got back from a fieldtrip with the kids from Britt her class.

We went to a environmental centre near the school where the kids had to do a lot of fall themed assignments, like gathering certain leafes, tasting marmalade made of things that grow there, search for flowers that still bloom in this time of year etc.

The kids were having so much, they didn't want to go back to school. But sorry kids, mum is frozen and really needs a few big cups of coffee to warm up again.

While doing so I want to show you a card I made last week, using one of the cute CC-Designs Digi-images. It's one from this summer and right now they have the same image holding a christmas ornament in stock.

This card fitts the following challenges:

Craftycardmakers: use some kind of stamping on your card

Cupcake Craft Challenge: Snow Something

Digital Ink Challenge: Quotes

ATS Weekly Wednesday Challenge: use an older set

Card Recipe:
Papers: Cardstock-Color Core, DP- Basic Grey
Stamps: Image-CC-Designs digi image, sentiment-Autumn Leaves
Technique: Aquapencils and sansodor for blending
Tools: Border Punch from Fiskars
Embellishments: snowflakes and brads from stash

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Instyle Christmas Card

Hi everyone,

nice of you to stop by today.

This week it's my turn to provide the sketch on the Just Christmas and Birthday Cards Challenge.

It's a very easy sketch, just the way I like them.

Don't get me wrong, I really love the Bev and Rach style cards, but for some reason I can't fitt all those embellishments into one card. I've tried for so many times, but they always end up in the binn.

Our sponsor for this week is Instyle Stamps and they kindly donated a few images for the DT to work with. Because I had to create a christmas card I used cute Sandy. I coloured her with my aquapencils and used Sansodor for blending.

I have no idea which brand the papers are from, just had a little left-over and this piece had no name on it.

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Hoot hoot Hooray

Goodmorning everyone,

sorry for not being around the past week, it's been busy as usual.

And earlier this week I did hurt one of my fingers, and just holding a pen/pencil hurted so much, I wasn't able to do any colouring. But I had to make a card for the Dutch Dare Challenge, so I used stickers instead of a stamped image.

This weeks challenge is to use felt on your card.

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

LLWWC #10: Ribbon

Goodmorning everyone,

this week my last card as a guestdesigner for La La Land Crafts. Boy those 2 motnhs have passed so very quickly. Fabulous stamps to work with, perfect organisation of things form Jane and Irina, 10 great challenges and a great blog hop with I enjoyed organising. Really enjoyed the past 2 months and it's been a great experience. I'm going to miss you girls!!!

Enough with the sentiment here's this weeks challenge...

This weeks challenge (#10) is being hosted by Lisa and here is what she came up with:"My challenge is to use ribbon as your main embellishment. It doesn't have to be the only one, but let's show off our best ribbon design work!"

When I'm blogging around I see al the great things you ladies do with ribbon, but when it comes to using it myself it's a complete disaster... never can seem to get the knot/bow right, always think I'm attaching the ribbon in wrong place etc..

So sorry for not being so creative with ribbon this time.

For my card I used the cute Witch La La from La La Lands Halloween collection.

This card also fitts the following challenges:

Kaboodledoodles: Spooky

Creative Inspiration: Halloween

Stampin for the weekend: A Haunting good time

Polka Doodles blog: Halloween

Stamp Something: Halloween Something

Card Recipe:

Papers: Cardstock- Bazzill, DP My Minds Eye (Boo to you) - Nikki Silvis (boo-tifull)

Stamp: Witch Rosie from La La Land Crafts

Technique: aquapencils and sansodor to blend

Embellishments: ribbon and cute ghosts were a gift

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Hope this day is as special as you are

Happy Monday everyone,

Last day of the girls week of from school. Ruby and Britt have been asking me to take them to a indoor playground the whole weekend, and with all the rain outside today we dicided to go there.

It was quiet overthere, almost all kids are at school already, the girls teachers had a study day today, so that means a extra day of for all the kids at school. So no pile ups at the trampolines and slides, which means no screaming en crying kids at the table telling me they had to get into a fight to get on something.

They were so tired after playing there the whole day, that they were sleeping before I left the bedroom.

Now muumy has time to update her blog.

This week we have a great sketch from Janina on the Just Christmas and Birthday Cards Challenge Blog.

Really had so much fun creating this card. The past few week my mojo was on vacation and it took me forever to finish a card. But I had no hard time on creating this one.

This card also fits the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday: Candy Corns

One Stop Craft Challenge: Celebration

Card Recipe:

Papers: Cardstock - Color Core, DP and Die-Cut - My Mind's Eye (pretty please)

Stamp: digital download from Pink Cat Studio, Sentiment - CC-Designs

Technique: aquapencils and sansodor to blend

Embellishments: flowers - Prima, pearls, brads and spacers from stash

Before I go I have to announce the winner of the Mini October Afternoon Kit.

The winner is....

Lorraine

Congratulations Lorraine!!!!

Please send me a email with your addy so I can send you the cute kit.

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Dutch Dare Challenge #63: a sketch by Cathy

a very quick post today. In a few minutes I have to pick up the girls at my parents, they've spent 2 nights overthere just for fun, and then we are off to visit my friend and her 2 kids. We only see each other a few times each year, and have to do a lot of catching up.

Challenge #63 on the Dutch Dare Cards Challenge already.

Cathy created a beautifull sketch for you to follow.

For my card I used papers from this months kit on the Monthly Card Kit Club.

Beautifull papers with bright colours and great desgins from October Afternoon (Cherry Hill).

This is kit is still available and you can order it HERE.

If you have the time you have to check out the cards the DT-members made using the goodies that are in this kit. They've created some fabulous cards and projects

I have put together a mini kit containing some yummie things that are in this months kit.

Just leave a comment on this post untill monday morning Oct. 26th and I will pick a winner later that day.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,

xoxo Karin

La La's weekly Wednesday Challenge #9: GLITTER

Goodmorning everyone,

so nice of you to stop by today.

Challenge #9 already on La La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge.

This weeks assignment.... GLITTER!!!

Boy did I had a hard time finding something with glitter for this challenge.

I used to have a lot of bottles with stickles, but the kids in Ruby's class used all of it a few weeks back on cards they created. Didn't had the chance to replace them yet. And as for glitter in bottles... I banned them from the house. The girls decided to make a few beautifull glitter cards for my parents... they were beautifull but I found glitter everywhere in the house for several weeks. Everything I touched had glitter on it. So no more glitter in our house.

After digging deep in my stash I found some black glitter paper and used this for the bats and spider (doesn't really show on the picture).

And as for my card... I call it a freestyle card or in other words DON'T THINK JUST CUT AND GLUE CARD.

A lot of Dutch ladies use this style of cardmaking and when I'm out of inspiration I use this technique.

For my card I used Witch on the broom Rosie from La La Land Craft and I coloured her with aquapencils and used sansodor to blend.

Papers are from My Mind's Eye - Boo to you.

Bats, spider and text are cut with a die-cut from Cuttlebug.

This card also fitts the following challenges:

Pile it on challenge: ready for Halloween

Cute Card Thursday: Spook Fest

Paper Play Challenges: Favorite Embellishment (mine are gemstones)

Stampin B's: Halloween

Creativ Friday: Halloween

Stampartic: Halloween

One Stop Craft Challenge: Halloween

If the Shoe Fits: Bling

Stamp Something: Bling

Cup Cake Craft Challenge: things that go bump in the night

Have a great day,

xoxo Karin