Happy Summer

Happy Friday everyone,

the girls have finished their first week of school.

Gave me time to create a special project for Ruby's birthday tomorrow. Ruby always loves the cute little altered projects I create, So I want to surprise her with one tomorrowmorning. I hope she really likes this one.

The tutorial for this cute little flower cart can be found HERE. You really should try it yourself, it's such a great project to create.

This projects fitts the following challenges:

Cupcake Challenge: something sweet

2 Red Bananas: the sketch

Pink Elephant: Summer

Trulyscrumptious Challenge: Anything but a card

ABC-Challenge: Buttons

Cute Card Thursday: Lazy days

Project recipe:

Papers: Color Core Cardstock, K and Company - Citronella

Stamp: Magnolia

Technique: Distress ink, Fiskars borderpunch, EK-Succes flowerpunches, SU scalloped circle punch

Embellishments: straw, buttons and ribbon from stash

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great weekend.

xoxo Karin

La-La's Weekly Challenge #1: Flowers

Goodmorning everyone,

today I want to show you my first guestdesigner card for La-La-Land-Crafts.

Starting this week there will be a weekly challenge on the La-La-Land Craft Blog.

The first challenge is ....

FLOWERS

For my card I used the adorable Lala window stamp. I coloured her with Copics and Pro-Markers. The papers are from DCWV - Citrus and the beautifull flowers are from Prima.

Please don't forget to check the blogs of all the other DT-Members. They all are so very talented and create such beautifull cards/projects.

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Sketch #42 on JCBC-Blog

Goodmorning everyone,

the girls are back at school and it's so quiet overhere. No screaming and fighting, just peace and quietness. So nice to have structure in our lives again.

I finally have the computer back and I can write my post whenever I want.

This week we have a great sketch created by Linda over at the Just Christmas and Birthday Cards Challenge.

Card Recipe:

Papers: Cardstock - Color Core, DP -Cosmo Cricket

Stamps: Backgroundstamp - Magnolia, Pixie - CC-Designs

Technique: Pro-Markers and copics, Border punch - Fiskars

Embellishments: buttons and ribbon from stash

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Blog Candy Winner

Hi everyone,

a big thank you to everyone entering my candy. Also a big thanks to all the ladies that have ordered the August Card Kit.

The kits are on their way and I hope you like what's inside.

The winner of the August Card Kit and cute Elisabeth Bell stamp is......

JOSE

Congratulations Jose. Please send me a email with your addy so I can send you your prize.

Enjoy your Sunday and see you all tomorrow with my card for the Just Birthday and Christmas Challenge.

xoxo Karin

Candy Time!!!

this post will stay on top untill August 15th.

Scroll down for newer posts.

I have a little candy up for grabs. Why????

2 reasons... it's fun to make other people happy and today I started a new blog called 'THE MONTHLY CARD KIT CLUB'.

Every month a new and complete card kit for all you addictive ladies.

Each kit will include some great stuff to create some wonderfull cards/projects, like cardstock, patterned papers, flowers, ribbons, charms and many more embellishments.

The kits will come in a Big and Mini version and are available for single sale, a 3 month subscription and a 6 month subscription.

Want to know more??. just hop over to learn more about the Monthly Card Kit Club

For one lucky lady I will have the August Kit called 'Little black dress' up for grabs.

But that's not all... she also will receive one of the new Belles 'n Whistles stamps called 'sisters'.

How to enter:

* Become a follower of this blog and/or the monthly card kit club blog to stay up-dated about all the new kits.

* Spread the word about my candy and the card kit club on your blog.

* Leave a comment on this post when you're done.

Candy closes on Saturday August 15th, and I will announce the winner the next day.

Candy is open for everybody, I ship worldwide.

Good luck everyone,

xoxo Karin

Scrap Online Card: Make a wish

Goodmorning everyone,

yesterday we had another fun SOL on PCP. The girls created a card following instructions (pictures) given every 5 - 10 minutes. I have the advantage to take my time for the card ( I'm the one hosting the SOL, so I have to prepare all the steps, but the girls have to create this card in just little over an hour. And the cards they created are all so very beautifull.

Here's the card I created for the SOL.

Card recipe:

Papers: Color Core Cardstock, DP- Chatterbox (very Old)

Stamp: digital image from CC-designs, sentiment - CC-designs

Technique: pro-markers, copics and brown ink for the edges

Embellishements: brads - Rayher, flowers, gems and charm from stash

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend,

xoxo Karin

Dutch Dare Challenge #57: Christmas in August

Goodmorning everyone,

it's been a very busy week sofar. Last week of the vacation and there were a lot of things we still had to do. Monday I took the girls to a playground not far from our home. We have plenty of playgrounds next to our house, but none of them have swings. Tuesday we spend all day at the flea market selling old toys. So funny, we spend all day selling old toys and at the end of the flea market we ended up in the toy store buying new toys of the money we've earned.

Yesterday we cleaned up the girls bedroom and playroom (there are stilll enough toys in it to call it a toystore) and today we have to make preparations for Ruby's birthdayparty. Her birthday isn't untill August 22nd but she's celebrating it with her friends tommorrow.

Because we've been so very busy there wasn't much time for crafting and I had to make my card for the DDCC this morning.

This weeks challenge on the Dutch Dare Cards Challenge:

CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST

I already saw other challengeblogs doing this challenge, so if you participate in all of them you should have a nice number of christmas cards ready by December.

Here's what I came up with.

Don't forget to join us tonight at another Scrap Online over at Paper Craft Planet. We will be making a card online. There's a discussion posted with the supplies you'll be needing and starting 7.30 PM -London Time- I will help you create a card, by posting pictures of every step.

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Grand opening of La-La-Land Crafts

Today La-la-land Crafts is going to open its door for all you addictive stampers.

The celebration starts with the reveal of the 3 stamp collections at Cranberry Hill mercantile in Sunnyvale CA, from 6Pm till 9 PM.

To celebrate the grand opening, La-la-land crafts is giving a 10% discount Storewide!!!

This is a limited time offer and will only last for the first 24 hours.

Can't wait to show you my first cards made with those adorable stamps.

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Some exciting news!!

Goodmorning everyone,

I have some exciting news to share with all of you.

I'm going to be a guestdesigner for La-la-land Crafts, a brandnew stampshop which opens on Wednesday August 12th.

Irina has chosen 6 fantastic ladies to be on the Design Team and 4 other ladies (I'm one of them) and 1 gentleman as guestdesigners for September and October.

Introducing the Design Team

Jane Matsumoto

Sheila Lygo

Kim Yu

Maureen Wong

Lisa Hjulberg

Kathy Page

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Guest Designers

Karin Hoeve (me!!)

Marcea Watkins

Paul Ford

Sue Kment

Kim Blakely

Take a look at a few sneek-peaks of the stamps that will be released this Wednesday. I know you are going to love those cuties.

And last but not least.. Irina is giving away a great blogcandy.

One lucky lady gets 3 brandnew la-la-land stamps and some other fabulous goodies. Check out the candy HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Wishing you sunshiney days!

Hi everyone,

so nice of you to stop by today.

As said in my previous post, it's hot hot hot overhere. Temperatures have reached the 35 C in our backgarden. it's really so hot ( even in the shade) that I spend most part of the day inside the house basicly doing nothing. The girls are having a great time in their pool and playing with their barbies, playmobile and little petshop in the shade.

Today I want to show you all a project which is inspired on the hot temperatures overhere and a lot of different challenges.

I found the template for this cute little purse while browsing the internet. You can find the template HERE. And while you're there check out the rest of the templates that are overthere. There must be something for everybody.

The set suits the following challenges:

My Time to Craft: neglected or forgotten stash

Papertake Weekly: using a colour/colours that reminds you of a certain season

A spoon Full Of Sugar: floral fantasy

Simon Says Stamps: Buttons and ribbon

Digital Tuesday: Bling

Cup Cake Craft challenge: beach themed card

Creative Card Crew: Under the sea

Unscripted Sketches: the sketch for the card

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: child's play

Fun with shapes and more: buttons

Card Recipe

Papers: Pretty Please papers form My Mind's Eye

Stamps: Digital images from CC-Designs

Technique: Pro-markers, Copic Markers, Circle Nestabillities, EK Succes punch for the corners, borderpunch form EK Succes.

Embellishments: Die-cuts from Pretty Please (MMY), flowers from Prima and the buttons, gems, charms and ribbon are from stash.

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

How purple can a card be?

Hi everyone,

so nice of you to stop by.

We have a great day here in holland and we are getting ready for 2 really hot days. A good thing we have a large pool in our garden, so when things are getting too hot, I can take a jump into the pool.

Today I want to show you my purple, purple ,purple card.

Over at OCC they ask us to create a card using purple. And when you ask for purple, you get purple.

I used the fabulous sketch from The Secret Crafter and on Fun with shapes and more they want you to add buttons on your card.

It's a very simple card but I like it.

Well I'm off to prepare dinner (spaghetti) and then off to work.

Enjoy your day,

xoxo Karin

Cute little mermaid

Happy Friday everyone,

the weather is great overhere so we all are enjoying ourselfs in our backyard.

This is going to be a very short post because I want to go back to our backyard and relax a bit.

I want to show you a card I made yesterday. This cute little mermaid from CC-designs (the download version) was on my desk for a few weeks already waiting to be coloured. It took so long before I started to colour her because I didn't had the right papers for it. But Wednesday I received a fabulous RAK from my good friend Donna, and...... in it the perfect papers for this cute mermaid. I think they are from DCWV - the Citrus collection - (please correct me if I'm wrong about that).

This card fitts the following challenges:

Unscripted sketches - the sketch

Kaboodle doodles - use a digi image

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Simplify

Thanks for stopping by today and have a fabulous weekend.

xoxo Karin

Dutch Dare Challange 57: Use Lace on your card

Goodmorning everyone,

A new post again. Today we have a great new challenge for you over at the Dutch Dare Cards Challenge.

We want you to use LACE on your card. A great challenge... if you hve lace!

I have lots and lots of ribbons, but lace...?

I was getting worried I couldn't participate n this weeks challenge because of the lack of lace. But when I was cleaning out some drawers a few days back I found this fabulous piece of lace perfect for my card. I followed the sketch from Friday sketchers and I used one of my favorite image.. a very sweet Gorjus image. I coloured her with copic markers. The papers are from Luxe Designs, and the flowers are from Prima (caboodles).

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Love you

Hi everyone,

thanks for stopping by today. I can't believe it's been over a week since my last post. Time is really flying by. Hardly spend any time at my computer or spend time crafting. The girls are keeping me pretty busy and we are our time together.

Yesterday the girls were palying with their friend so that gave me a little time to make a few cards.

For my card I followed the great sketch over at OCC. And over at the ROP-Challenge they ask you to use hearts on your card. Because they ask you to use certain brand of stamps I decided to use one of my Magnolia's. It's been way to long since I last used them. There are so many beautifull stamps out there, it's very hard not to buy them all.

Enjoy your day and see you all tomorrow with my DT-card for the new challenge over at the DDCC.

xoxo Karin

Sketch 40 on JCBC-blog

Hi everyone,

thank you for stopping by today. I hope you all had a nice weekend. Overhere it's been busy with al kind of little things. Can't believe how fast you are adjusted to the normal things in life after your holliday.

Between washing, cleaning, ironing and keeping the girls busy I managed to make my DT-card for this weeks challenge on the Just Christmas and Birthdaycards Challenge.

This week I was the lucky girl to provide the sketch and I hope you like it.

For my card I used papers from Basic Grey - Bittersweet -. The cute stamp is from Bildmalarna and i coloured her with Copic Markers.

Paper flowers are from Prima and I bought the white organze flowers on Ebay.

White tab is made with a Stampin Up Punch.

Enjoy your day.

Hugs,

xoxo Karin

Flowers say hello from the heart

Hi everyone,

we got back yesterday from our holliday to a familypark near the Dutch coast and we had a fabulous time. The weather was great, our cottage was situated at the harbor so we had felt like we were in a sub-tropical country. We did do a lot of fun things so the week was over before we knew it. I did take my lap-top and some crafting supplies but I didn't had time for any of those things. the only time we spend in our cottage was at night and then I was to tired to do anything.

Couldn't use the lap-top because we didn't have internet access overthere, so I probably will spend whole weekend behind it catching up on everything.

This weeks challenge on the Dutch Dare Cards Challenge is to use cutting dies and/or punches.

This is what I came up with.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend.
xoxo Karin

Sketch #38 at JCBC blog

Goodmorning everyone,

after a very hot week, the temperatures have dropped to a normal level (23C).

Today it's the first day of the vacation and I'm taking the girls to a playground today. The weather forcast tells that there will be rain the next few days so we have planned this trip for today.

At the Just Christmas and Birthday cards challenge we have a great sketch for you to follow. This week I had to create a christmas card, which isn't easy when a icecream turns into a milkshake within a few minutes with those high temperatures.

For my card I used papers from Scenic Route, cute Hanglar images from the winterkit and some cute stars from a Dutch local shop called Zeeman.

We we're off to the playground.

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin

Scrap Online Challenge

Happy Friday everyone,

it's still very hot overhere (31C in the shadow). Yesterday afternoon I bought the girls a large pool, and they are having so much fun in it. This morning at 8.30 AM they already had their first swim.

I think I will join them after doing this post.

Last night we had another fun SOL at Scrap Online Challenges on PCP.

Because of the high temperatures I kept it very simple.

For my card I used papers from S.E.I. and cardstock from Color Core.

Cute little Gretel is a download from CC-designs. I coloured her with aqua pencils and used paperstumps and sansodor for blending. Sentiment is also from CC-designs.

Leavepunch is from??? and flowers and brad are from stash.

The sketch of this card posted as a challenge on Scrap Online Challenge so all you ladies can create a card following it.

I'm going to join my girls in their pool right now and try to cool down a little bit.

Have a great weekend,

xoxo Karin

Dutch Dare Challenge #55: a sketch by Cathy

Happy Thursday everyone,

today is my last day of quietness. Starting tomorrow the girls will be home for 6 weeks. So I probably will have to slow down on crafting and blogging, because we have planned some fun things for the girls during those 6 weeks. And with those abnormale high temperatures I really don't think I will be up for crafting very much.

Starting this week we will be posting a new challenge on the Dutch Dare Challenges every other week. So this weeks challenge will stay up for 2 weeks. Gives you plenty time to create a card following a great sketch provided by Cathy.

Before I will leave you all, I wanted to show you a photo of our ADHD Jacky cooling down in a small tub (we have a very small garden). When we start filling it with water she's the first one in it and the last one to leave. The girls put in some toys and Jacky will get them all out, and this repeats itself several times.


Thanks for stopping by today and have a great Thursday.
xoxo Karin

Sketch #38 on the JCBC blog

Hi everyone,

I hope you all are enjoying your week sofar. Overhere it's very hot and I try to stay cool/relaxed by doing just the most important things. Even sitting behind my computer makes me sweat. The best thing to do is to sit on the couch doing really nothing.

When I turned on my computer this morning and wanted to prepare my post for tomorrow I saw that I completely forgot to make a post about the new challenge on the JCBC blog. This week we have a great sketch provided by Janina.

For my card I used papers from Imaginisce and Papcicolor. The cute image is from Pink Cat Studio and flowers are from Prima.

Thanks for stopping by today,

xoxo Karin