Scrap Online / Cardmaking Class by email card

Goodmorning everyone,

it's Friday again and we I'm preparing for a very busy weekend. Tomorrow we have to go to a Sinterklaas party over at Ron's work and this Sunday we are celebrating a early Sinterklaas evening with my family. The girls are so excited about these events nad I'm completely stressed out (not knowing what to buy them (everything they have put on their wishlist is so very expensive), that I'm glad when it's december 6 and the old man gets on his boat again and returns to Spain for a whole year (LOL).

Today I want to show you a card I created for the Scrap Online group on Paper Craft Planet.

A very simple lay-out, but with a lot of layers.

I didn't add a sentiment, because I don't know who will receive this card.

I will add it when I've figured that one out.

If you can't make it to the Scrap Online on Thursdaynights, the step by step instructions on how to create this card are now available by email. It's called the Cardmaking Class by Email, and it will be send to you every Friday morning.

Sign up for this Cardmaking Class now, because in the near future (probably after new year) a few very talented ladies will create a step by step card for the Cardmaking Class. How about Claudia Rosa, Maria Bell, Bev Rochester and Jaqcui.

To make sure you won't miss anything sign up today by sending me a email.

I'm also entering a few challenges with this card.

Stamptacular : nature-tacular

Caardvark: colour a stamped image

Creative Cardcrew: favorite things (I love my new snowflake punch)

Everybody Art: christmas

Flourishesnewsletter: holliday themed card

Paper Take Weekly: christmas crackers

Charismacardz: anything christmas

Scrapmagasinet: christmas

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend,

xoxo Karin

Dutch Dare: All in your pocket

Goodmorning,

I know I'm 5 days late with me card for the Dutch Dare Challenge, but things are really chaotic overhere. A few birthdays the past few weeks, our neighbours/friends having a little baby girl, buying presents for Sinterklaas, just a few additional things to my busy schedule.

I hardly spend any time crafting and as far as posting on my blog....

But I still want to show you the card I made for the 'all in your pocket challenge'on the DDCC.

Monica created this challenge and she wrote down all the instructions for this card.

Have to say I cheated a little bit, but I'm very pleased with the result.

For my card I used products that are in this months kit from the Monthly Card Kit Club (which is still available).

This card also fitts the next challenges:

One stop Craft challenge: snowflakes

Stamp 'n scrap Hawaii: stitching

KL Stamping and scrappin: snowflakes

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

SOL card

Goodmorning everyone,

as some of you know I'm hosting the Scrap Online Group on PCP.

We try to create a card online every Thursday night, following instructions given every 5 to 10 minutes.

But the past few weeks we weren't able to de one because of all kind of reasons.

The card I'm showing you today has been on my desk for a few weeks now waiting to be posted on the SOL-Group.

I was really looking forward in doing this SOL last Thursday, but sadly we had to cancel this weeks SOL again. The ladies who wanted to attend this SOL all were having problems getting their kids into bed. Normaly I am the one who has to run upstairs several times before they finally are going to sleep, but that night they behaved like little angels and fell a sleep right away.

There are also ladies who really want to attend a SOl but are having trouble with the timedifference. I have been thinking about this problem for a long time ('really can't do a SOL in the middle of the night) and I have come up with some kind of solution.

Every Friday (the day after the SOL), I will send everyone that is interested a the SOL by email. I call it 'Cardmaking Class by email'.

You receive the full SOL (pictures and matching measurements of every step) in a Word Document, so you can work on your card whenever you want.

When you've finished your card, just post it on your blog, leave me a comment on my SOL-card with a link to yours so I can come over to visit.

If you want to receive your copy every week, just send me a email and I will send you the copy of this week.

Now on to my card.

For my card I used the beautifull papers from Bo-Bunny and inked all the edges.

The image is a cute download from CC-designs and I coloured her with aquapencils and used sansodor to blend.

the background is sponged with distressink.

Thanks for stoping by today and have a great weekend,

xoxo Karin

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

La La Lands Christmas stamp release day, a new challenge and winnerannouncement

Goodmorning everyone,

a big thank you to everyone entering La La Lands first blog hop. I hope you all had fun hopping around and seeing peaks of all the new christmasstamps. Today it's release day!!! Hop over to the La La Land store to see all those fabulous new stamps.

What's your favorite one? Mine is defenitely Christmas Rosie with bird.

Love the cute little bird with his boots and sweet hat.

Today we also have a new challenge on the La La land Craft Blog. With all the new christmas/winter themed stamps there can only be one challenge...

Create a christmas/winter themed card

Here's my card using one of the new christmas stamps (the sneak peek I was showing during the Blog Hop).

And now the winner of the cute Christmas Rosie with bird stamp.

Ruby is still sick at home and she picked a winner for me. The winner is...

BISCUITLID

Congratulations!!!

Please send me a email with your addy, so the stamp can be send over.

Card Recipe:

Papers: Cardstock- Color Core, DP - Eskimo Kisses ( Basic Grey)

Stamp: La La land Crafts

Technique: Aqua pencils and sansodor to blend

Tools: leafpunch from Mc Gill

Embellishments: flowers, brads and spacers from stash

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

La La Land Christmas Release Blog Hop

This post will stay on top untill October 14th.

Scroll down for all the new posts.

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to La La Land Crafts' Christmas Release Blog Hop. To celebrate the release of the fabulous Christmas stamps on October 14th, we are having a fun Blog Hop. Each DT Member and all the Guest DT-members will show you a sneak-peek of one of the new Christmas stamps...

What's in it for you???
Besides seeing all the cute sneak peeks of our new images? The winner of the Blog Hop will receive not one but THREE of our new stamps (winner's choice!!) PLUS all of the items in the photo below:

- Limited Edition Spellbinders Shapebilites Create a Flake 1
- Spellbinders Shapeabilites Pendants Fleur De Lis
- Spellbinders Borderabilites Fleur De Lis
- JustRite A Merry Little Christmas Set
- Basic Grey Holiday Ornaments Chipboard
- Cuttlebug For You Ornament Die Cut and Embossing Folder combo
- Copic Marker Soft Case for 24 Markers
- Three Copic Markers: E11, E33 and B41
- The Paper Company Bordeaux Filigree Accents
- Hero Arts Gemstones

Some of the DT members and the Guest Designers are also offering a little prize, randomly chosen from the entries on their own personal blogs.

I'm offering the cute Christmas Rosie for one lucky lady that leaves me a comment on this post. Here's a sneak peek of cute Christmas Rosie.

What do you have to do to join our Blog Hop????
* Start your Blog Hop at the La-La-Land Crafts' blog
* Each DT-Member will guide you to the next Blog in the Blog Hop
* Final stop is back here at La-La-Land Crafts Blog where you have to leave a comment telling us how many different stamps there are in our Christmas Release (it can be tricky, be careful )

If you started the Blog Hop at La-La-Land blog and followed all the links to this post, then your next stop is Irina
If you are just stopping by and want to join the Blog Hop, then just go to the La-La-Land Crafts blog and start your hop there.

Have fun and good luck to all of you and make sure you check back on October 14th to find out who the winner is of cute Christmas Rosie.

xoxo Karin

Thank you for being my friend

Goodmorning everyone,

thanks for stopping by today.

It's really getting colder overhere. We al wear our wintercoats, because in the morning, when I take the girls to school it's only 4 or 5 C. Ruby is sick at home and when I called her in sick yesterday the teacher told me that there were 9 sick kids just in her class. I won't be very surprised when Britt will be sick in the next couple of days too.

Anyway, when Ruby was on the couch watching tv yesterday I found the time to create a fall coloured card.

And believe it or not it fitts 14 challenges (it took me more time to write down all the chalenges then to create the card (LOL)).

Challenges:

Pile it On

Alys Sunday Challenge: the sketch

Cute Card Thursday: a charm

Cupcake Craft Challenge: buttons and stitching

Trimmies Craft Challenge: fotoinspiration

Stamp Something: Brown

Crazy 4 Challenges: thankfull

The Secret Crafter Saturday: Autumn colours

Caardvarks: something wonderfull with ribbon

Cooking it uo with Katie: Metal - borderpunch and something alive

The Pink elephant challenge: Fall

Whimsy Stamps: Get punchy

CCEE Stampers: a tall card

Three Clovers designs: Fall

Have a great day,

xoxo Karin

DDCC #62: a card recipe

Goodmorning everyone,

can't believe it's been over a week since my last card. Last week has been completely crazy and when I finally had a few moments for myself I just wanted to sit down and relax. Took me forever to finish this weeks DT-card for the Dutch Dare Cards Challenge. My mojo is completely gone, but hopefully it will return very soon so I will have more joy in creating cards.

Anyway this weeks challenge on the DDCC is a card recipe.

We want you to use:

2 different pieces of cardstock

2 different pieces of PP

2 flowers

2 brads

2 buttons or gemstones

for my card I used this cute Wizard Maya image from La La Land Crafts.

Papers are from Nikki Sivils and My Minds Eye.

flowers from Crea Motion and buttons and brads are from stash.

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

La-La's Weekly wednesday Challenge

Goodmorning everyone,

It's Wednesday again so that means a new La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge.

This week all the guestdesigners could pick a challenge, and to give everyone the chance to pick a theme they liked we created a recipe challenge for you.

here's what we want you to use on your card:

The colours chocolate, red and beige

2 pieces of patterned paper

Embossing

Paper piecing

Scallops

I think it was the hardest challenge ever. It first started with finding the right papers, had to dig through all my stash to find some that matched ( I couldn't find plain red DP so I cheated a little and used some red and pink, hope you don't mind). Next challenge was to fit all the other things in. Have tried different designs but and this card I liked best.

This card also fitts the following challenges:

Basic Grey - Embossing

Both sides of the Paper - distressing (doesn't show very well but I've distressed the edges on the red/pink DP)

All sorts Challenge: autumn

Whimsy Stamps: Buttons

Paper Cutz Challenge: Buttons

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Winner of my little Halloween mini kit

Morning everyone,

just a quick post to announce the winner of the mini Halloween kit.

And the winner is....

Marley

Congratulations Marley, please send me a email with your addy so I can send you the package.

Have a great weekend.

xoxo Karin

Double Dutch Challenge

Happy Friday everyone,

thanks for stopping by today.

Double Dutch Challenges is celebrating their first anniversary and to celebrate this they are having a really fun challenge with 3 prizes.

For this challenge they want us to create a fun filefolder, following their perfect instructions.

For my filefolder I used the beautifull papers that are in the October Kit on the Monthly Card Kit Club, which can be pre-ordered right now. Read more about the Monthly Card Kit Club - HERE -

Starting October the 4 very talented DT-members will make posts on the blog to show you what they created with the goodies in the Kit.

I hope you all will have a great weekend,

xoxo Karin

La-La's weekly Wednesday Challenge

Goodmorning everyone,

it's Wednesday again so that means another fun challenge at La La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge. This weeks challenge.. paper piecing. I really had a hard time with this one. I tried several things with the 2 La La Land stamps I had and I wasn't satisfied with anything. But luck was on my side, this weekend my new La La Land Crafts Halloween stamps arrived, and Wizard Maya was perfect for piecing.

I created this popcorn box (popcorn was gone in 10 minutes after taking this photo), using a part of Paper Trey's 'Pick a Picknick' template.

Again I used the yummie stuff that's in this months Kit 'Boo-tifull' which is still available on the Monthly Card Kit Club.

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to enter my little mini kit giveaway.

xoxo Karin

Halloween card and another little giveaway

Hi again,

second post for today.

Today I created a card using goodies from this months kit from The Monthly Card Kit Club called Boo-Tifull.

Each Big Kit contains one of the cute Greeting Farms stamps and I used the cute little witch stamp.

I followed this weeks sketch on Friday Sketchers and this weeks theme on The Greeting Farm ( Fresh Friday Farmer) is embossing.

And for one lucky commenter I have this cute little Card Kit available, with lots of goodies from the September kit and some Halloween themed images.

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post before Friday, when I announce the winner of this kit. Spreading the word about this little giveaway would be great but isn't required.

If you are interested in the complete kit, just hop over to the Monthly Card Kit Club and read all about the kits. September kit is still available.

Have a nice evening,

xoxo Karin

Winner of my little giveaway

Happy Monday everyone,

just a little post to announce the winner of my little giveaway form last Friday.

First of all I want to thank everyone for the sweet comments on my little project, they really mean a lot to me.

And now for the winner of my little stampprint folder and mini card kit.

The winner is.....

JILL

Congratulations Jill. Please send me a email with your addy so I can send you the goodies.

Make sure you stop by later today for another little giveaway. This time it's a mini Halloween Card Kit.

Thanks for stopping by,

xoxo Karin