My scrappin' life

Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday again!! 

Today it's Hermien's turn and I think her idea comes just in time to prepare for your Christmas gifts. Because, who would not love to receive a beautiful handmade card with their gifts?!

 

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Hi,

While the sun is making a real effort to let me believe summer is still here (yeah don't you love an autumn like this?) I am sitting at my kitchen table writing a short story about my two little cards for this month's BMMAC contribution..

It started with some left over paper and folding..what to make? Small ..hmm why not make a bigger little card to attatch to a gift or bouquet..you all know how small the 'normal' cards are and while writing a wish or thank you note you are forced to write very tiny or use less words than you wanted to? On this folded card you have much more space to say what you want to say!

I began with gesso and paint and the flower mask on one side, on the other side I used the circle mask and different colors (blue & yellow and purple & turquois) then embossed the stamps and added some text ..added some extra paint where I wanted to and at the inside of the cards I made gesso circles to write in..Used my black marker at the edges..now this post is ready I am thinking about making punch holes and ore some wire, but didn't do that... edit: I did☺ see pics!..have fun!

Products used in this project:

Hermien

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Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday again!! 

Today Hermien is here with another set of beautiful cards! She made these while she was dealing with a broken hip, can you imagine?!

So leave her some love people :)

 

 

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Hi, its Hermien again with some flowery cards. I had plans to make a small book but unfortunately I broke my hip and was not able to climb stairs (my hobby/happy space is still upstairs, next month I hope to move down stairs!) so maybe next month!

Decided to stay in the circle mood, but this time a little bigger, I used my round gelli plate to color the background, embossed the flower stamps and added some extra color, my camera was not able (or its me?) to catch the fluor orange, so it's really much brighter than on the pics..! I distressed  the edges and used a white marker to scribble some text.

 

Products used for this project:

  

Hermien

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karen

Hi everyone! It's Crew Member Wednesday and today we have Karen who made a lovely card using tissue paper. You all know how much I love tissue paper, right?! And aren't those embroidered marks the coolest?! Love this!

 

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Welcome everyone to another team Wednesday from me, Karen! I’m excited to share this tutorial today with you to give you some ideas to add some simple texture to your artwork. Adding in different paper weights and products can really help you to level up your creations. 

I’m using a small watercolor postcard to create on this time. I find that when I’m feeling a bit meh about my creativity it can really help to work on a piece that’s not inside my journal. It shakes up my creative brain a bit and I come up with new ideas.

I’m using the Scribble Feather stamp set and I’m going to be stamping onto this lovely purple tissue paper that I saved from some packing. I’ve also pulled out my Prima watercolors, this is the decadent pies set and some scraps of book text and gelli printed tissue paper.

I started off by stamping my feather using Staz On in black. I used my water brush to go around the edge on the tissue paper and that way I can control where the tear is going to happen.

I spread some water onto the postcard and then just dropped in some water color to it and let it mix. Honestly I could do this all day, it’s so soothing and magical.

I played around with the placement of my papers until I was happy with them. I wanted to see quite a bit of the watercolor texture and still have the feather was the focal point. I just added glue (with a glue stick) to the middle part of the feather. I wanted to make sure that I kept some of the texture if the tissue paper lose to mimic the feel of a real feather. 

For a final bit of interest I took some embroidery thread and added in some lines of stitches as the side. I think this just ties the whole piece together really nicely. 

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and you’re inspired to add in some stitches and textured layers into your own work. See you again soon!

 

Product used in this project:

 

Karen

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Karen

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Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday again!! 

Today Hermien is here with another set of beautiful cards. What a great idea of her to make the new trend fit her kind of projects!!!

 

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Hi, it's Hermien here :)

It's almost impossible not to hear about the new trend in stamping: the ATCoins! The samples made me happy so I made some for BMMAC! Because I am not a person who loves to trade and collect I turned the first 3 coins into little cards –>what else ☺

I started by stamping and stencilling on a piece of watercolorpaper, added some extra paint and then punched out circles.

I wanted a little more color so I stamped a variety of stamps onto red painted paper and cut them out after which I applied them to the circles.

I used the A5 Circles Background to stamp a background on some cards and glued the ATCoins on top.

Products used in this project:

        

Hermien

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Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello and welcome to Crew Member Wednesday!! 

Today it's Hermien's turn and she made some lovely cards in bright yellow and magenta, such a gorgeous color combination! She's sharing her process here with you!

 

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It took a while to get into the inspirational mood, in fact it took so long I even dared to think that the creativity had stayed at my old home and that it was there to stay... but nonsense of course!

I made a few cards I liked (but not a lot ;-)) and then I decided to get my fingers dirty and to paint over the background was the answer. And this is the result.

 

First I made a background by randomly spreading paint with an old creditcard, dabbing paint through those beautiful masks and stamping the text before cutting the (300gr watercolour) paper into 6 squares.

Then I used some favorite 'Birgit' stamps and embossed those on top followed by (finger) painting around the embossed print.

Very simple but effective!

The flowers even looked like a small painting, so no extra's were added.

The hearts did get some washi tape and the 'awsome' stamp to make it complete.

I hope you like them as much as I do (or is this only a feeling of relieve after my creative melt down??? ☺☺☺)

Products used to create these cards:

Hermien

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Hermien

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello! Welcome to Crew Member Wednesday. Today we have Karin with an explosion of color. I totally love the idea of die cutting circles out of these papers with so many patterns and details and colors. Karin made some beautiful cards with them but just imagine what more you can do with them, like using them in your art journal! 

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Hello, it's Karin here!

Because I'm almost out of cards, I decided to make some.

First I made two inked backgrounds (A4) and used a lot of different stamps on it.

I edited the stamped prints with markers and a white pen and I also applied some nice glitter to the backgrounds using WOW! FabFoil. I added some accents with a mask.

Then I punched everything in circles with a circle punch and glued the circles on a firm piece of paper. I cut the paper into squares and at last I glued the squares onto green cardstock.

Products used in this project:

Karin

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Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Crew Member Wednesday. Today we have Linda sharing a beautiful birthday card filled with awesome texture and layers! How wonderful would it be to get such a beautiful card in the mail on your birthday?!

 

 

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Hello !

Inspired by all the flowers in the gardens around where I live I made this card. It is made for a dear friend who is over average excited when it comes to flowers, especially in her own garden. I’ve used some of Carabelle Studio fantastic flower and leaf stamps, designed by Birgit. I’m using various embossing mediums and also playing with some cool pigments.

 

Watch my process video to see how this was made:

Products used in this project:

    

Linda

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Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday!! 

Here's Hermien with some lovely birthday cards. Now who would not love to get a pretty card like that in their mail box?! I sure would! :)

 

 

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In our family we celebrate a lot of birthdays in April/May, including my own ☺ so birthday cards?!?

Used some left overs, a small piece of paper I used to clean my brayer and stencils

I wanted to use I stamp set on each card, thought that I did so, but...I cheated a little (you will see)

the blue green card I made on valentine's day...just embossed the hearts and masked them while stamping the small circles, stamped the hearts again in green in the background and doodled a little border, finally I added the small hearty branches and used a a gel pen to color the small hearts red and distressed the borders

the yellow red card was simply stamped, no embossing, colored the circles with acrylic pens and the knitted circles with watercolor glued some washi and distressed the borders

I love the fact that you can turn scraps into cards..!

Products used for these cards:

Hermien

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Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Hi everyone! It's Crew Member Wednesday and we have Linda today showing an altered deck of cards that allowed her to do a little creative something while traveling through Japan (oh my, how lucky is she!!??). I think this is an awesome idea :)

 

 

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Hello !

Today I just have a short introduction to my video. Right now I’m on a 3 week trip to Japan and with limited space for creating when travelling, I needed something that was small and easy to take with me. I’ve altered a deck of cards, 52 single cards all ready for the last touches when I’m on the road. Hope you enjoy the video and hopefully it can inspire you to do something similar when you have limited space, both in what you can bring with you and where you are creating.

 

Products used for all 52 cards:

    

Linda

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hi,  welcome to Crew Member Wednesday. Today it's Karin's turn and she is sharing 2 beautiful cards that she created using some gel prints that she made for my  #31daysofgelprinting challenge! How cool is that?! Click here if you don't know what the #31daysofgelprinting challenge is, you can still join in the fun!

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Hi, it's Karin here!

Because I’m participating in the #31daysofgelprinting by Birgit Koopsen on Instagram, I have already a huge pile of gelliprints.  Therefore I decided to use one of these as a background for the cards I wanted to make. I stamped the tulips and the large flower on other prints, cut them out and glued them on the backgrounds. Finally I applied the cards on black cardstock.

The end result is two Clean & Simple cards.

Products used in this project:

 

Karin

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