Advent day 14

Can you believe we're up to day 14 already?!! Here's today's picture:

More advent pics!

No, I haven't forgotten about the competition, I have just had problems getting the pictures from my camera onto the blog! So here we are with the next few, from day 10 through to day 13.

Five

I honestly can't tell you the last time I made a lay-out. It definitely was when we were still in Australia. When Wendy asked me to be a guest, I just wanted to push myself and make one and give myself an incentive. For this lay-out I used some recent pictures of my youngest daughter, Renee who turned 5.

Here's the sketch:

And this is how my LO turned out:

Supplies: cardstock - Bazzill Basics, PP - Ambrosia by Basic Grey, grungeboard - Tim Holtz, flowers - Prima Marketing, alphas - American Crafts. From my own stash: clear stamps - Ali Edwards by Technique Tuesday, white marker - Kikki.K, buttons - unknown.

This lay-out ends my guest designer week here and Scrap, Paper, Scissors. I would like to thank Wendy for giving me this great opportunity. And I hope you enjoyed it, I know I did.

Male card

For whatever reason, it always seems to be quite hard to make male cards. Maybe because the scrapbooking world is such a female focused world and most lines have girly colours. However, some lines are perfect for male cards or lay-outs and it seems they are gearing more product towards that precise purpose. I'm always drawn to oblong shaped cards when I'm making a male card. This time I made a tri-fold one.

Here's the sketch:


And my card:

Supplies: cardstock - Bazzill Basics, PP - Prudence by Crate Paper. From own stash: ribbon - unknown, alphabet sticker - American Crafts, button - Basic Grey, circle cutter - Fiskars, star die - Sizzix.

To make the stars stand out from the background, I've put a white shadow star behind it. I also used dimensional adhesive to bring them forward even more.

Well, I hoped you like my cards. You can see more of my work on my blog The Blank Canvas. If you use any of my sketches, could you leave me a comment. I would love to see your creations too. I'll be back tomorrow with one last post.

Thanks So Much

Today's card I made along a sketch provided by Kazan on her and her best friend's, Laura sketch blog 2 Sketches 4 You. Every week they alternate and post a sketch with some fabulous prizes for the card of the week, or the honour for the Fab 5. I was on their Fall Design Team. For this card I used Kazan's sketch 14:

Supplies: cardstock - Bazzill Basics, PP - Prudence by Crate Paper, flowers - Prima Marketing, grungeboard - Tim Holtz, ribbon - unknown, rub-ons (from own stash) - American Crafts, pin (from own stash) - Fancy Pants, buttons (from own stash) - unknown.

Ever stuck for ideas... you might want to play along with Laura and Kazan. Enjoy your Wednesday. I'll be back tomorrow with a male card using the same paper line as today.

Advent 8 and 9

OK yesterday's picture for day 8:

And today's picture, day 9:

Don't forget to check back tomorrow for more of Lisette's gorgeous work!

'Hi' Card

A couple of weeks ago Wendy asked me if I wanted to guest designer on your blog. Of course I was honoured and said yes. During the next four days I'll give a little insight of the things I create and how I create them.

For those who that don't know me, my name is Lisette, I'm Dutch married to a Brit with three children. I was born and raised in Holland. Since 1999, we as an extending family have lived in Portland (Oregon, USA) , Melbourne (Australia) and Epsom in Surrey. We just recently moved back from Australia at the end of June.

When Wendy sent me my box, I'd asked her for some 'Ambrosia' papers from Basic Grey and 'Prudence' papers from Crate Paper. I had neither of these in my stack and thought they would be versatile to create both female and male cards. At the moment I'm mostly creating cards, as the move has put a halt to my LOs, but I've created a LO for this occasion, which I'll post on Friday. Tomorrow I'll show a card along 2 Sketches 4 You sketch by Kazan and Thursday I'll post a male card. Today I'll start with a female card:

And the card:

Supplies: cardstock - Bazzill Basics, PPs - Ambrosia Basic Grey, alphabet stickers - Thickers by American Crafts, grungeboard - Tim Holtz, bling - Crystal Stickers, paint (from own stash) - Making Memories.

I hope you enjoyed my sketch and card, I'll be back with another one tomorrow.