Lieve Lieve

This sweet (her name translated, I so love her name...) friend of M (and daughter of my friend) had her birthday party last week. She loves to craft, so we made a variation on this theme.
As you can see the stamps were still laying around! The stamp effect is everytime surprising to me. Now the ink liquified into the unsanded wood, which was really great. I made her a pincushion too, by hand this time. M said she really needs one :).

Wrap it!

Last weekend I had a full program. On Saturday afternoon our neighbors gave a really great party, so many people enjoyed our common garden. Then there was Rena's party and at night (till 4 a.m., that's late for a brave mother like me) I loved to join all neighbors and a very big crowd at De nacht van de Kaap. I like to mention this, because it's to be recommended!
This present was for sweet Rita and Jack. Here are the ingredients for wrapping a present like this: cheap brown wrapping paper, nice stamps (I used these, like I did before), and adhesive textile tape (found at Xenos). I stamped on the uncoated side of the paper. More stamping fun is following...

Just giveaway m&m treats!

Please take notice of this (earlier mentioned) great idea of Peppermint Plum. I like to share with you how to make a slightly different version: this stamped m&m treat necklace. If you like to read some more about this m&m treat, just go here, here and here.

This is what you need to make about 40 or less :) pieces:

1. a big bag flat (without nuts) m&m's
2. small letter stamps
3. a decorative stamp like in this nice stamp box of Djeco
4. an ink pad
5. colorful threads
6. colorful ribbon, 3 mm wide

And 4 large paper sheets of traditional Canson Mi-teintes. I used two pieces of light yellow for the backs, one green and one magenta colored sheet for the fronts.

Just couldn't stop...

.... photographing (because these, M's treats in school, are photogenic).

Almost 10

Sweet M is going to be 10 soon. Today she invited her friends to join her party next week on the adventurous Island of Brienenoord.
We did a stamping job together with small letterstamps of great HEMA. It's clear that we couldn't find any numberstamps, but in the end the yellow numbers worked out just fine.

Some time ago my eye found this stunning idea here, which I saved on my Pinterest boards. I so love the combination of the neutral colored wrapping-paper with the colorful thread and sweets.

Almost five fingers

L is having her birthday next week, so be prepared to read some posts about that special day. Preparations are started over here!
So sweet, she wants to invite four friends for her very first birthday party. Today we cosily made invitations. Firstly L started to make drawings for her friends and others, invited for her 'adults party', but it appeared to be too much work for her (she's that precisely, it would have taken the whole day). She ended up adding her name at the bottom... No need to mention that I was inspired by stamping Kristel (here she is again :)). Last time HEMA was my eraser supplier, this time it was V&D's turn (another Dutch warehouse).

First attempt

This summer I finally wanted to make a stamp. At my work we have plenty of linoleum samples. I worked hard and precisely, but this material is in my opinion too flat to use for stamps. The second attempt was with a sample of bulletin board. This worked out better, but with a result that I was not fully satisfied with. I used the stamp to make an invitation, and to stamp on little price bags for the skate party, made of fabric remnants. When you use this ink and iron it to fixate, the stamp will be definitive.
Some weeks ago I used an eraser of HEMA to make a stamp with better results.

Greek colleague

Last weekend a colleague married in Greece. I couldn't make it to Greece, but attended her bachelor party. For this occasion I remembered my dear friends blog on vlijtig. I took good quality lightbluegrey linen and sewed this tablecloth with two matching napkins. After embroidering I wanted to copy the idea of the initials, but that didn't work out. My daughter was at the same time making a drawing of a bride and groom, with roses. Et voilà, see here the result! The roses are 1,5 cm only and are cut out of a HEMA eraser. In the end the most difficult part of the job seemed to make a nice and recognizable drawing of a rose.