Where am I

Oh it's been weeks ago since I last posted a card. It actually has been weeks ago since I last made a card.
My sister is pregnant, and it's another 4 weeks orso untill she gives birth, and like I did for the other kids she got, I am making a cross stitch thing for the baby. So for the last couple of weeks I have had nothing but needle and thread in my hands. Just a few more weeks and then it will be done and I hopefully can go back to my cardmaking, cos I miss it!
Even worse, my full set of Prismacolors arrived a couple of weeks ago, and I have only played with it once!! I wanna feel paper instead of Aida :):)

Yvette
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Yellow Sixteen challenge

This week we had a challenge in 2 steps. The first step was to make a list of items we were going to use on our project/card. We gott 100 credits and got to spend it on a pre-made list. My list was:

- 1 piece of 12x12 plain card (I picked white)
- 1 stamped image
- 1 text stamp
- use of ink
- use of needle and cotton
- lace
- ribbon
- 1 8x8 card (I picked patterened)
- 1 6x6 card (I picked patterened)
- 2 flowers
- 2 brads

There was also a mystery item that was reveiled on the second part of the challenge, that we had to use on the card. The mystery item was a feather! And here is my take on the challenge:

Paper I used is Basic Grey, the image is my new Belles 'n Whistles - Sisters, and the lovely girls are colored with Distress Inks. 2 big Prima flowers were used, with some cool big brads I got from some shop in Holland.

Yvette
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My Auntie's birthday

Take two: Yesterday I tried posting this, and after my typing I wanted to include picture only to discover that it was not on my computer. Luckily I have not emptied my camera yet, so it was still on there. So I try again.

Last week friday was my Aunt Marij's birthday. She is my craft aunt, and together with my mum she makes the most amazing things! I had to make a nice card for her birthday, and I think I did :)

I made an easel card, using lovely papers from a cheap paper bloc, that can be bought in Holland at the Action-store. Used the Martha Stewart combo punch called Cherish. Now at first my Aunt thought that I had been punching all the little holes one by one. Now I do like crafty things and all that, but punching little holes one by one is not one of them! They come with the MS punch :)
The stamp is from LLB-LLewelyn-Bowen and colored with Promarkers.

I don't know if I wrote this already, but last week I ordered my Prisma Pencils, so I am practicly camping underneath the mailbox :)

Yvette
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World of Cardcraft Challenge

Ricky, my lovely friend Anna's partner, started this group on facebook, giving us challenges. The challenge he gave us this time was to make something with your favorite color and number. My fave color is orange, and all the earthtones and red's and yellows that come with it (hahahaha so much for 1 color), and I don't really have a fave number. However, I do find "round" numbers feel good, and whenever I watch Deal or No Deal box number 18 is a good box, so I went for number 18. I know I did not make the deadline, but I still made the card :)

Do you think I overdid it with the flowers?? That was actually my take on my fave number. There are 18 flowers on the card :) I handstitched the lace to the circle, and used a cute little stamp with some embossing powder on it. Paper is from Basic Grey. Tilda is colored with Promarkers, and the cute sentiment is from a stampset that came free with a magazine I bought this week :)

Yvette
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Sketch Saturday

This challenges was so much fun to work with :) I really enjoyed making the card.

What I also enjoyed today was spening a lot of money. Well, I would have prefered to spend less obviously, but today I bought the full Prisma color pencils set, sansodor and paper stumps!! Can't wait for it to get there! I also bought a Bells n Whistles stamp, so so cute!!

I also got amazing mail today. My mum send me a package from Holland, which included the new Magnolia Ink magazine, amazing paperpads and lace, and she made me amazing fabric storage for all my Promarkers. After an hour of sorting they are now all in color-order, and it looks so pretty!! So a BIG BIG THANK YOU to my mum for making these!

So here is my card. I used some Basic Grey paper for all the layers. The image (it's a Sarah, no not Sarah Kay, just Sarah) is colored with Promarkers. Distress Inks were used to do matting and layering, and put like an airbrush kinda idea behind the image. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the border, some Hot Fix stones for the bling, and I punched some leafs with a Nellie Snellen punch. The cute flowers I happened to have bought today at Boyes, and they were just the perfect color for on the card. Voila, card done :)

Yvette
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Friday Sketchers Challenge

Luckily I am feeling a lot better, and I have spend a lovely afternoon making a card for the Friday Sketchers blog.

I used papers from my old stash, a Marianne Design die, where I made a Faux Nestie kinda thing to layer it on. The image was free with a magazine (I love free things :)), and I colored her with Promarkers. Instead of using flowers where it said on the sketch I stamped some cupcakes and colored them again with Promarkers.
Yvette
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Something simple

For the last 5 days I have not been allright. I think Ian gave me his bug. As I am writing this I am as dizzy as anything, but I really wanna post this card. My lovely friend Anna her partner has made a facebook group to give Anna and myself some challenges. I know I am a day late, bit I still wanted to show what I managed to make today.

The challenge was to use Clarice Cliff as an inspiration. She made lovely artwork in her days, things I actually really loved! I used her colors, the circle and the tree, and made this simple card. Paper is from Basic Grey, the tree is made with the Naked Tree and Leafs set from Clarity Stamps (Barbara Grey) and the flower is made with a Marianne Design die.

Yvette
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