A golden glitter spinner card How are you all? I guess full in *Christmas decoration mode* Do you have all the Christmas cards finished? I made this glitter spinner card a few weeks ago for this blogpost and at the moment I’m very happy that I have many cards left from last year because of a stupid fall on my hand I can’t be making many Christmas cards, although I did manage to squeeze a few out. 😃 I already…
DIY Saint Nicolaus gift No card from me this time, but I do hope you guys still like my creation. Have you guys had this happen too, that on the nick of time you need to make a Saint Nicolaus gift. I think this would be a quick and fun project for you then. You could make them together with your children or siblings too and they don’t take much time to make. For this creation I looked for…
pink blossoms and butterflies This time no Christmas card from me, this time I made a card with pink blossoms and butterflies to give as a pick-me-up or to cheer somebody up card. At the time of writing this post it’s cold and grey outside the perfect weather to do some writting. The technique for this week at Hobby Alternatief was to make something using paper weaving, mine ended up as a trellis with flowers in front of it. Fairly…
A silver green Christmas By now you all know that with the DT Team from Hobby Alternatief we get a sketch every month to work from, this time we had one as well. This time I have chosen to make a silver green Christmas card. I’m still sorry for my short blogposts from the past weeks, I still have to be careful using my left hand and writing two blogposts is to much for my hand at the moment. I…
from vintage tablecloth to ……. Years ago I had a vintage tablecloth, that had seen better days and was beyond repairs. I had cut it into pieces to keep the little Dutch landscape images it had, with the intention to use them in a project some day. Well that day finally arrived, almost 20 years later. 🙂 1 of those images, they where all in Delfts Blauw (blue), had a little windmill on it. It couldn’t get more…
Recycled fall Is there anything more beautiful then the colours of the leaves before they fall. I made this card with Autumn in my mind, I used several recycled materials in it. Some you normally wouldn’t use. It took a long time for the glue that I used to dry but I’m happy with the end result. I went into our garden to look for little useful items and found a little twig that was suitable. At that…
DIY stamps There is nothing more fun then trying out things, especially when they turn out right. This was the case with these DIY stamps that I made for this weeks assignment of Hobby Alternatief I have always wanted to try to stamp with painters tape and now was the perfect time to actually give it a go. I used my acrylic blocks to wrap the painters tape around, making sure that the tape wouldn’t overlap itself. While wrapping…
Design challenge: Unusual shapes This week we received a sketch at Hobby Alternatief with, at least for me, unusual shapes, I don’t know if my college team members made cards like these before, but I haven’t. For this card, a real challenge for me, I had to sit down for some time and move the dies that I could use several times over the paper to get the best result. I had to do a lot of calculating…
Sketch: world animal day We received a sketch again at Hobby Alternatief but this time it had a catch. We had to make a card with the world animal day for next month the 4th in mind. Lucky me that I had bought tons of animal stamps and dies in the past 2 year. For this card I decided to use one of my cat themed stamps. I choose to use a 13cm by 13cm beige base card and…
Technique: Make a wrapped card This weeks assignment for Hobby Alternatief was to make a wrapped card, at the time I made the card I though that I didn’t have the dies to make these so I improvised. I had to do some calculations to get my card with the correct measurements. But I did it. 🙂 I just used a doily die and I cut it in half to make the wraps that would go around the…
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