Holiday Cheers ►Viva LasVegaStamps Blog!

Good Morning,

today I'm on the VLVS! Blog with some Christmas Cards .....

 

 Please stay safe, my friends, take good care of yourselves and your loved ones, and always find some time to craft ♥

Anything goes ► Use Your Stuff

Please join us at our Challenge Blog *USE YOUR STUFF*, so much fun, and this time soooo easy :=)

Back to School ► Use Your Stuff

Hi guys, it's time for another challenge at our USE YOUR STUFF Blog!

Since we are empty nesters with no grandkids, I had a bit of a rough time coming up with a creation for the theme. My teamies came up with the idea of books, and tada, here we are, a book mark stamped with Darkroom Door images ...

I stamped the background with the Woodgrain and the Stars from DRD. The clock on the background is a Stampers Anonymous stamp.

Artistic Trading Coins at UYS ♥

Our new Challenge at USE YOUR STUFF!

 I used a Kleenex Box and inked the backside in several colours. After I stamped some images from Viva Las VegaStamps for more texture, I cut them into "Artistic Trading Coins" (Diameter 2.5"). I stamped and heat embossed the flowers and added a little sentiment. All stamps used except for the background ar Darkroom Door Images.

Happy Week and Happy Crafting ♥

Tiny Houses with Viva Las VegaStamps!

Hi everyone!

I have a little tutorial for you over at the Viva Las VegaStamps Inspiration Blog.

I'd like to share my newest home decor with you. I was so inspired by the tiny houses from the Tim Holtz collection with Sizzix, that I just had to have them on my candle tray. I love this neutral look for my home decor. 

I cut the shapes from cream cardstock, added some old book paper with Gel Medium and covered everything with gesso.

 In my next step I used different stamps to create my background together with Archival Ink Shadow Grey, Pale Ochre and Versafine Toffee.

  After I adhered the sentiments and the Paper dolls with pop dots,  I used strips of my Miracle Tape tape to build the houses together.

I stamped and heat embossed the roof with very chunky embossing powder, I had to add powder several times, before it had the texture I desired. 

I made flaps from Washi Tape to adhere the roofs to the base. Thanks to my lovely teammate Tera for the recommendation!

I have a tray with glasses for candles, which I have redecorated many times over, i.e. Christmas, Halloween, Easter etc, now it's a more general theme I can use for a while regardless of any occasion.
 

As you can see, I left the backside undecorated, this way I can come up with some other embellishments if I get tired of the dolls. It also shows you that sometimes I don't look at my image before stamping and turn it upside down 😏

Have a closer look:

Some little flowers cut from Glassine Paper and crumbled up.

 Stamps I used:

Washi Grid

Squiggly Star Collage

Numbers Set
Mesh Texture

Tuft of Grass

Miracle Tape

 Thank you for stopping by today!
xx Majo.

Let's start the New Year at MooMania!

Our first challenge for 2018 at MooMania:

*FROSTY WINTER*

You have two weeks to show us your projects. We can’t wait to see your creations. You may as always link all sorts of projects, not just the Moo format is permitted.

 

A Moo is a little card sized 2.8 x 7.1 centimeters,

or approximately 1.1 x 2.8 inches. 

Come on over to our challenge blog and join in the fun, you can't imagine all the stuff that fits on that tiny little piece :)

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

 

As always what you make, style, medium and materials you use,  

will be entirely up to yourselves.

Have fun and don't forget to link to your entry!

Here is my take for your inspiration :)

 

Some of my Christmas Cards ....

I did not take pictures of all of them, just a few ....

 

This s one with a gift coupon inside ....

 

 

These are some during process :)

Christmas at MooMania ♥

Our new challenge for the next 14 days at MooMania:

Christmas

You have two weeks to show us your projects. We can’t wait to see your creations. You may as always link all sorts of projects, not just the Moo format is permitted.

 

A Moo is a little card sized 2.8 x 7.1 centimeters,

or approximately 1.1 x 2.8 inches. 

Come on over to our challenge blog and join in the fun, you can't imagine all the stuff that fits on that tiny little piece :)

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

 

As always what you make, style, medium and materials you use,  

will be entirely up to yourselves.

Have fun and don't forget to link to your entry!

Here is my take for your inspiration :)

 

Get the heat on ♥

Our new challenge for the next 14 days at MooMania: 

GET THE HEAT ON ♥

You have two weeks to show us your projects. We can’t wait to see your creations. You may as always link all sorts of projects, not just the Moo format is permitted.

 

A Moo is a little card sized 2.8 x 7.1 centimeters,

or approximately 1.1 x 2.8 inches. 

Come on over to our challenge blog and join in the fun, you can't imagine all the stuff that fits on that tiny little piece :)

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

 

As always what you make, style, medium and materials you use,  

will be entirely up to yourselves.

Have fun and don't forget to link to your entry!

Here is my take for your inspiration :)

Heat Embossing at UYS

Hi Peeps,

it's my turn to challenge you this week at "USE YOUR STUFF".

I'd love to see some heat embossing on your creations, preferably in GOLD. It's just the time of the year where the golden embossing fits so well, don't you think?

I created a Christmas Card using the Darkroom Door text stamp and the bauble from the

"Brushed Christmas Vol 2" set. It's my most versatile set for Christmas Cards.

 

 .... and a little close up of the embossed area .....

Please hop on over to our blog and take a look at all the neat creations from our design team!

Happy Crafting ♥ ♥ ♥

Challenge #248 - Hot embossing and watercolors

I totally forgot to post my inspiration for the challenge at UYS, ashes on my hair :(

The challenge is history, but I would like to share my card with you.

After stamping and heat embossing my card panel I applied water colours in different shades. I didn't use too much water since I wanted my colours strong.

I used a Visible Image stamp for my image.

12 Tags of 2016 - December

A last minute project again ... I'm not much into Christmas anymore, so I almost forgot this tag.

Ok, I got out my paper and stuff again and created this tag keeping pretty close to Tim's inspiration. I wasn't able to make the shadow box station work for me, so I decided completely against it and embossed and heat embossed the paper with my stitches folder, looks good to me ....

Some close ups ...

Happy Crafting ♥

Lace Up Celebration Bulbs

 Good morning, my friends!

Today I'd like to show you some table decoration I made with the Lace Up Celebration Bulbs.

I painted them all with silver acrylic paint and stamped my fir image on each bulb. I heat embossed them with chunky powder in gold and lined them all up on a thin wire.

Ready is your Christmas decoration, for a wreath, a tree, a picture frame etc., or as in my case the table candle decoration.

 

 

 

  

Have fun crafting ♥

Watercolor Flower Card at UYS

Use Watercolor on your project!

Another fun challenge #232 on our blog after the summer recess at Use Your Stuff!

I used water colors for my background, watered them down a bit with water drops and hest embossed my stamped image with Stampendous Detail White Opaque Powder.

I took off some of the color on the flower and the leaves with bleach.

Publications in Take Ten ♥

Just got my latest issue of my favorite magazine TAKE TEN. 

This is a whole page from me using Rubber Dance Stamps ...... Hooray!

Here some close ups ....

  

 ... and the one with one of my most favorite stamps from VivaLasVegaStamps, just love them!

Card Box with Mushroom stamps

I needed a box to give mushroom recipes to a friend, it's always a neat little present to share them ........

I used the versatile Mushroom Set from Rubber Dance and a German word from a Klartext Stamp set. 

And again I was inspired by the tutorial from Helen!

When you order the Mushroom Classes you'll receive the whole stamp set including 10 Tutorials, all about this stamp set, from Helen Allen. 

 I was totally surprised about the techniques Helen has given me in her awesome tutorials! It's not only for stamping beginners! I'm learning so much from her. If you are new to stamping, Helen explains every technique in detail.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Products from Rubber Dance
Mushroom Classes
 

You'll receive a 15% discount in the shop using the coupon *MAJO2016*, 

why don't you hop on over to the shop ...

Happy Crafting ♥

Use Your Scraps

I tag I made from scraps for the DT at Use Your Stuff. I used Rubber Dance stamps *ROUND IN CIRCLES* for the stenciled background, the sentiment is from Darkroom Door Stamps :)