Froggylicious

This afternoon, I've been stamping and experimenting with two friends.
We took out all of my stamps and different inks and just tried out all kinds of different techniques.

While doing that, I found this wooden stamp that I bought a few years ago, but haven't used since...
When I saw it again today, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it!

I made the following card for my grandmother who is going through a very difficult time right now (after the death of my grandfather, she's in very bad health and has lots of pain).
So I hope this may help her cheer up a little again:

For those of you who don't understand Dutch: 'kikker' translates literally as 'frog' and an 'opkikkertje' is kind of a boost for your spirit or your mood...

I stamped the cute frog on green cardstock several times with Versamark to create a background.
Then I stamped it one more time on white cardstock and coloured it with colourpencils.
Adhered both frog and sentiment with foamtape to create a little dimension and the card can be on its way to (hopefully) cheer my grandmother up!

Just one more close-up of Mr.Frog :p

I don't understand why I left him locked up in my drawer for so long... :)

Grandmother birthday card

The first week of december is usualy the time to finish some christmascards, but if you have a family the size of mine, there's always some birthday to celebrate in between all of the angel & christmastree-stamps...

Today, I'm making a birthdaycard for my grandmother-in-law.

She's a big fan of the simple, classic style and adores everything that involves flowers.

So, specially for her, I made this card:

Stamped the background on a piece of off-white cardstock with a diamond backgroundstamp and some pumice stone distress ink. On top are some victorian-velvet-coloured swirls.

Then a little stamping on some white cardstock. You can't see it in the picture, but the greeting is embossed with holographic embossing powder (LOVE the stuff, only downside is that it kinda sticks to everything!) - so it has a nice shine to it :)

And of course, I needed to add a flower to the card!

I distressed the edges of the flower with some ink and added it to the card with a button and a bit of sewing yarn. To finish it of, some diamond stickles in the center and it's ready to go!

Let's hope she likes it!