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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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

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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! It's Crew member Wednesday again!! 

Today Hermien is here with another set of lovely cards. What a beautiful collection!!

 

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August already, time flies! In this post I’ll show you my second set of cards I made out of the same sheet of painted watercolour paper, see my previous post for the technique, very simple, less clean because I manage to spread paint all over, even únder my apron…arggg..

 

 

The pinky background was spoiled with this big flower, the‘awesome’tekst and some ripped washitape.

 

 

On the second card also only two stamps, those nice feathers and the same text..thats it! Hope you get inspired!

 

 

Products used for 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 Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday!! 

Today Hermien is here with a lovely home decor project. How fun to have tea from such a nice, personalised tray!!

 

 

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This time I stamped on a tray I bought for our new home. It was a bargain and after a while it was clear why: the bottom of the tray wasn't painted, it was a piece of paper. Spilled coffee/tea are not best friends ☺

But paper and stamps..hmmm!

I liked the distressed look, so I decided to make something in the same colors hoping to keep this distressed look.

So I randomly applied some gesso and then I  grabbed those pretty leaves masks and my bottle chalky gray paint.

And of course I used some of Birgit's stamps. I lightly stamped the images trying to keep it all a little distressed.

I finished the tray by adding two layers of gel medium hoping this will keep it all water (tea-coffee) proof!

 

Ready for some tea?

See you next month!

Products used in this project:

    

Hermien

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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 Hermien

It's Crew Member Wednesday again and today Hermien is showing how she turned a brochure she received in the mail into a lovely little art journal! How cool is that?!!

 

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Hellooo!

This is our last month in our house, we are moving in april! Facebook knows about these plans because there are lots of advertisements for new furniture popping up and thats why I choose a little interieur decorating flyer I received in my IRL maibox to turn into a small journal.

I like to show you how to make this and what you can do with one background technique.

At first I removed the staples and pages and gessoed the whole cover roughly, dried and used an old creditcard to spread some paint. Then I glued some washi tape and stamped the “flower” on top and at the bottom (later on I decided to emboss the bottom one, and to cover up the top one with a shiny piece of chocolate wrapping).

 

Time for those lovely tulips! I heat embossed the stamp on the front and back and started painting (front) turkois around the tulips and “flower” so the tulips pop a little extra..at the back I only outlined the tulips with a charcoal pencil to make them pop a little more..

I made new holes in the pages and cover and found a matching piece of ribbon (my sister gave me because she knows those are my favorite colors ☺)  the pages are ready for some journalling!

....now time to choose wich one you like the most!

 

Products used for this project:

 

Have fun creating!

Hermien

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Crew member Wednesday With Hermien

It's Crew Member Wednesday again and today Hermien is sharing some beautiful tags using bleach!!! I just love the colors!

 

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Gift tags

..once in a while such tags come in handy, as an attachment to a bouquet or a self packed gift...So when I found four scraps of paper, they called out to become...

Unfortunately, or maybe not..the paper was a little thin, I used Brusho pigment powder and sprayed with water...It's always a surprise what happens! Took my new stampset by Birgit and embossed the lovely feathers (black embossingpowder).. then I bleached parts of the cards (ordinary bleach with a small brush - rinse well as soon as you are ready because bleach and brushes are not best friends ☺)

When dry  I distressed the paper edges and glued the scraps onto other scraps..and attached eyelets and a little rope.

Stamps used for this project:

 

Hermien

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Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

It's Crew Member Wednesday again and today Hermien is sharing 2beautiful cards on which she embossed with white embossing powder. I think white is my all time favourite when it comes to embossing! It makes all the other colors pop! And don't you just love this color combination?!

 

 

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Goodmorning/evening!

Hope you all had a good start this new year! We sure did because we finally found our dreamhome and were able to buy it! (now stressing out making my house ready to sell and a lot of arranging, appointments etc...arggg)

But also very happy..

And happyness means also flowers (in my world), so an ideal moment to show two cards I made with some of Birgit's stamp sets for Carabelle studio!

For these cards I used a piece of randomly painted mixed media paper, I like the texture, cut into 6 cards and on this set I embossed those lovely flowers and painted and stamped around the them. I used my Posca pen for some white details, hope you like it!

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Till next month!

Hermien

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