RobsCreations

I haven't been posting in awhile: laziness, some days of vacations, drop of creativity (mainly due to the lack of raw materials, hahaha 🤣) and days and days went by... Today I want to show you some bo ok ma rk s I recently made by using a cute digital stamp , some scrap paper and a magazine's paper . The digital stamp is from the Glimps series. I stamped it on 100% cotton watercolor paper , and I've colored it with ZIG  watercolors and Stabilo Swano markers. I added some interest to the little photographers with a fine tip black marker, a white gel pen and glossy accents (on camera's lens and flower-shaped hair pin). After watching this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d3irNsptSw ), I decided to try 3 different color combinations to create these skin tones I cut and rounded the corners of scrap paper and matching colored card stock. I punched either flowers or circles in the paper and added some magazine's shiny paper containi...

During the last two months I challenged myself to create cards and bookmarks without buying too many crafty tools! It's easy to make nice cards when we buy fancy die cuts, colorful scrap paper, flowers and enamel dots, expensive markers or lovely stamps...  For this project I wanted to rely on my creative side only and realize new pieces mostly with things I already had at home (especially in the kitchen 🤣). I made a minimal investment of less than 30 Euros and bought a box of 24 Stabilo Swano markers, 1 Xcut alphabet die and a  Ranger Glossy accents bottle (small size). Let's start with the bookmarks ! I'd like to spend few words on the first and third bookmark from the left. For the marble background I've used watercolours and a funny technique which relies on the use of saran wrap... For this and other funny watercolour techniques please refer to this interesting  VIDEO Cards will follow in the next blog post 😚 GOO...

I like to recycle every bit of paper when I'm crafting!!! ♲ At the beginning of this week I've been re-sizing Xmas craft paper to create soap boxes with the envelop punch board and ended up with a bunch of paper strips ... I kept wondering for a day or two what to do with these paper leftovers and all of a sudden their simple shape suggested me to create Xmas-themed bookmarks ! You always think you have too many bookmarks (receipts, postcards, flyers😅), but when you need a nice one... you never find one! 😁 Step 1) I reinforced the back of the bookmarks with red cardboard  Step 2) I've die-cut some Xmas trees with this lovely Sizzix set ...or used leftover Xmas trees from the shaker cards project you can find  HERE , and glued them on the front of the bookmarks. Step 3) I've cut a tiny rectangular opening on the upper part of each bookmark and threaded an organza red ribbon through the slit. Step 4) I've printed out some sen...