Bellarific Friday Challenge

Good Morning everyone,

so nice of you to stop by today.

It's been over a week since my last post, and what a week we had over here.

I think I haven't seen that much snow in the last 15 years. The girls are very excited about it, but after falling on my bud several times.. I'm so ready with the snow!!

I'm really looking forward to see the sun again.. but that's wishfull thinking for the next couple of months I guess.

Only positive thing about that much snow, is that I don't go shopping that much so we save a lot of money this month (lol). Hubby will be pleased about that one.

Today I want to show you a card I made for the Bellarific Friday Challenge where they asked us to make a back to school card.

The image i used really reminds me of the lazy days we are having when the girls are free from school. We love walking around in our PJ's all morning (and sometimes the whole day) and when we do we look a lot like Alexis.

The papers I used are from October Afternoon and the sentiment was made on my computer.

I'm off to dig out my car to get some groceries... thanks for stopping by!

xoxo Karin

Happy Birthday Irina Blog Hop

Happy New Year everyone and all the best for 2010!!!
Hope this year will be a year with lots of creativity, love, friendship and good health.

About a week ago I was contacted by Elena one of the DT-Members of La La Land Crafts asking me if I wanted to join a Blog Hop. Irina (the owner of La La Land Crafts) is celebrating her birthday today and Elena thought it would be fun to surprise Irina with a birthday blog hop. And as a former guestdesigner I couldn't say no to this fun idea.

Here's the card I created for Irina's birthday. Of course it's one with a gorgeous stamp from her own collection.

Happy birthday Irina!!! I hope you have a great day with lots of yummie cake and wonderfull presents from family and friends.

If you just came accross my blog and want to participate in the hole blog hop please go to the La-La-Land Craft Blog and start your hop there.

And if you have followed the Hop from the starting point then your next stop is...

SUE

Have fun hopping around and I hope you enjoy all the cards the DT members and former DT-members created.

One last thing.. when you are at the end of the hop please leave Irina a nice birthday wish.

Have a great weekend,

xoxo Karin

DDCC #68: Joy folded card

Goodmornig everyone,

so nice of you to stop by on the last day of the year.

Just one more day and then it's already 2010. Tonight we are having 4 friends over to celebrate Ne Years Eve with us, so ti's going to be a lot of fun, beer, wine, champagne and fire works.
The girls are really excited because for the first time they can stay up untill Midnight.

Have to do some last minute preparations and then I hope to have a few hours to make a few cards.

On the last day of the year we have a great challenge for you over at the Dutch Dare Cards Challenge.

Monica created a step-by-step tutorial on how to make a Joy Folded card.

Here's my contribution for this weeks challenge.

I also want to show you 2 cards I received from my 2 beautifull girls.

Yesterday they got really creative and they both made me a card because I'm the best mum in the world (that is as long as they get what they want, if not I'm the worst mum in the world (lol)).

First card is created by my 5 year old Britt. She created a nice pocket with a few stampprints ready to colour.

This card is created by my 6 year old Ruby. Yesterday morning we were blogging around and she saw a card which she really liked. She made her own version of this card.

They would really love to hear from you what you think about their cards. So hop over to their blog and leave them a comment.

Happy New Year to all of you and see you in 2010!!

xoxo Karin

Cardmaking Class by Email (5)

Happy Wednesday everyone,

Boy what a week we had!!

In my post from last Thursday I mentioned we had a lot of snow and how I was dreaming of a white christmis. Well that dream was over a few hours later. I took the girls to school at 5PM that night for their christmas dinner. When I came home was unpacking the dishwasher when I heard a big BANG!!!. When I looked out the window I saw that a small buss was parked in the back of my car, which was parked in front of the house.

It's an old car so hopefully it can be repaired itherwise it's bye bye car and then I have to work, get on my bike or take the bus to the things I have to do.

So you can imagine my dream of a white christmas was over in just a few minutes.

And I needed to change all my planns for the next couple of days. Now one day before christmas I still have to do some christmas shopping. Luckely the girls are at my parents right now so I'm off in a minute to do some last minute shopping.

Because of all the chaos I completely forgot to make a post of the card I made for the Cardmaking Class by Email.

Last Thursday night we made a nice card on the Scrap Online Group at PCP. And Friday I emailed the step by step instructions to everyone that joined the Cardmaking Class by email. if you want to receive your weekly copy of the Cardmaking Class just send me a email and I will send it over.

For my card I used the gorgeous papers Farm Fresh from October Afternoon.

Love the bright colours and great designs, and this cute image from Stamping Bella perfectly matches with those papers.

Well I'm off to do my last minute shopping.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day,

xoxo Karin

Dutch Dare Challenge #67: create your own embellishments

Hi everyone,

so nice of you to stop by today.

Today we had our first snow. The girls really enjoyed the snow and they were all wet from the snowball fights they were in.

Hopefully the snow will stay for another week so we finally will have a white christmas again... I'M DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS!!!.

This week we have a fun challenge at the Dutch Dare Cards Challenges.

This week we would like to see your handmade embellishments.

Handmade flowers, handmade buttons... anything.

My handmade embellishments are the flowers.

I crochetted them myself.

Papers are from October Afternoon - Farm Fresh -

I used Distress Ink on the edges and the image is a cute Gorjus Girl.

Hope you all are having a great day,

xoxo Karin

Holiday Gift Tag Blog Hop Candy Winner

Happy monday everyone,

I want to thank all the ladies that have joined the Holiday Gift Tag Blog Hop and left me a sweet comment on my tag.

I think all the girls in the blog hop did a fabulous job. I've seen beautifull tags in so many different styles, colours and designs, I hope they can inspire you to create some yourself.

I'm one of the girls with a little candy for one lady that left me a comment on the blog hop post.

It's a very sweet Dutch stamp called Koetie, and I think she really is a cutie.

And now for the lucky winner.......

TERRIAVIDREADER

Congratulations Terri!! Please send me a email with your addy so I can send you the stamp.

Have a great day,

xoxo Karin

Holiday Gift Tag Blog Hop

A few days back I was contacted by Monika asking me if I was interested in joinig a last minute Holiday Gift Tag Blog Hop. Didn't had to think very hard about it and emailed her telling her I was in for the hop.
When I saw the list of girls participating in the blog hop I suddenly was having cold feet. So many talented girls creating the most beautifull cards and projects, I'm a really admirer of all of them. So it's a great honour to do this Blog Hop together with them.

And now for the Holiday Gift Tag Blog Hop...
We hope you will see some great tags created by a few very talented ladies today that will inspire you. Have fun! If you've just happened came accross my blog, you can start the Blog Hop here.
There will be some surprises hidden along the hop, but we’re not telling you where so be sure to leave comments on every post so you have a chance to win!! The winners will be announced on Monday, December 14th here and on the individual blogs where the suprises are hidden.

Here's the little Gift Tag I designed for this blog hop. I love using non-traditional christmas colours for my cards and tags.

Now it's time to hop on over to Maria Bell's blog.

Thanks for stopping by and joining the Holiday Gift Tag Blog Hop.

Have fun and good luck to all of you.

See you all Monday with the announcement of the Blog Hop winners.

Hugs,

xoxo Karin

PS: if you have created a Holiday Gift Tag, please leave a comment with a link to your work. Would love to see what you've created.

Cardmaking Class by Email (4)

Hi everyone,

can't believe it's Friday again. Didn't had the chance to make a post the whole week. I've been helping out at school again the past few days and at night I had to work or was to tired to do anything.

I managed to create a card for the Cardmaking Class by Email.

The ladies on the mailing list will receive a new cardmaking class every Friday, with step by step instructions for a card. They work their way through this class page by page so they have no idea what the card is going to look like.

Want to receive your weekly copy of the Cardmaking Class??? just me a email and it will be send over.

This week I created a easy card, perfect for those last minute christmas cards that still have to be made. Besides a piece of ribbon and a button I didn't add any embellishments. I think it's perfect this way.

For my card I used papers from Jillibean Soup (Grandmas Christmas Soup) and My Minds Eye papers from last year (christmas trees).

The ribbon and button are from stash.

Make sure you stop by tomorrow, because I'm in a fun Christmas Gift Tag Blog Hop which is organised by my friend Monika. You will see some great Gift Tags created by some very talented girls (Cindy Hafner, Maria Bell, Jodi Collins, Danni Bindel, Allison Filo, Denise Marzec, Melissa Sauls, Linda Beeson and Kim Hughs), some of them even have a small prize for one lady leaving a comment on their blog.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great weekend,

xoxo Karin

Cardmaking Class by Email (3)

Hi everyone,

i hopeyou all are enjoying your Sunday.

Overhere it a day to do relax after all the excitement from yesterday. yesterday it was Sinterklaas in Holland and i spend all morning with the girls on the riverside watching sinterklaas and zwarte Piet arrive by boat. After that we watched the parade in town and when we got home it was time to bake some muffins for grandpa and grandma who came over to celebrate this festivity with us. The girls got really spoiled and now they have enough new toys to play with for the next couple of months.

While the girls are playing with their new toys, I finally have time to make a post which I should have done last Friday.

Friday I emailed the ladies on the Cardmaking Class by Email list the 3rd card.

This time I created a pocket card.

Want your owm weekly copy of the Cardmaking Class by Email??.... just send me a email and I will make sure you get one each week.

Enjoy your Sunday,

xoxo Karin

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