CD crafting

Months ago, when I was sorting out my christmascards I got from people, I had to ask my dear friend Julie where she got the picture from, that she used on her card. She told me it was from a Joanna Sheen cd, that she printed off. I asked her if I could have a look, and it turned out to be a 3-CD collection of the most amazing, georgeous and lovely images and backgrounds EVER!! It's all vintage, and I just love love love vintage!!

I printed off 5 of the same image sheets, and made my own decoupage. Created a sort of box and used a background paper from the cd as well! I so love this card, it has the right feeling of what christmas is to me! Warm, cosey, family!!

Yvette
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Not mine, well a little bit ...

A good few weeks ago I was sitting at my table crafting away, when a friend of mine popped around. She saw me doing some coloring and I asked her if she wanted to do some aswell. She has never colored with promarkers, but she gave it a go! Then cut it out, and left it at that. Me beeing me, I could not leave it like that and made a little, very simple card with it :) And to be fair, I really love the endresult :) It's so chrismassy!!

Yvette
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Special card

A few weeks ago it was one of our craftclub members birthday. She is now the respectable age of 75! Such a great, fun and lovely lady, she deserved a special card for this special day :)

I love the whole feel of the card. The colors, the decoupage, it just all worked so nicely together :) At the bottom, I used a martha steward punch, and punched it in white, and then again in brown and put the flower leafs back into the white! It was a bit fiddly, but the end result was great!!

Yvette
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Birthday card

I had made the base for this card ages ago, but somehow the background paper really did not do it for me. So after months of gathering dust, I took it out again, covered it with a punched piece of paper and actually made a birthday card out of it :)

It's just one of those cards that is ok, but not that I get very excited about and think to myself, yeah I did a great job there! Ohwell, someone will like it :)

Yvette
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Get well soon

My mum had eye surgery 2 months ago, and I made her a little get well soon card.  It is in dutch, as my mum is dutch :)

I really love the look and simplicity of the card. The bottom corner stamp, I stamped twice, and cut out the flowers. I raised them with foamtape and then used a glaze to make them nice and shiny :)

Yvette
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Facetta

Once upon a time, a long long time ago, I bought this card making technique called Facetta. Beeing in old techniques (which wont last long) I wanted to make a card with it. I really love the look of embroidery on cards, but my hands really don't like to do it anymore. I get cramps and all sorts. I managed to finish this one though, and it turned out really nicely :)

I like the colors of this card, and glad I could use dies on it too :)

Yvette
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Back

I am back from my 3 week holiday/family visit in Holland. I have had such a great great time. I went to a craft fair with my mum, aunt and sister, and it was just AMAZING!! Spend a few pennies, and made an awesome deal. I bought 7 of the latest, most awesome spellbinder dies for 150 euro's!! It sounds like a lot in one go, but let me tell you, it was sooooo cheap as they usually go for inbetween 25 and 28 euro's a piece. Yay for me!! Be prepaired to see lots of cards in the future with lovely diecuts on them :)

For now, a card I made a few months ago. I think for the rest of this year you will be seeing lots and lots of christmas cards passing by. This is the first of 2012 :)

I used a technique called Trapeze, where you work with threads (and sometimes beads). Originally they are made with smaller (read 10 by 15 cm) cards, but I resized it on my printer so I could use it on my big card!

As you can see, you can see right through the card, where the threads are holding the middle piece in place. This wasn't easy to do, but after a bit of struggling I managed to do it! And I totally love the end result.

I made a picture with a white piece of paper inbetween the card so you can see the threads a lot better. I really loved making this card!

Yvette
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