52 weeks of card making

sometimes you need a break, but we are back with card 38. No paint, no print, just paper.  And glue and a craft knife. #52weeksofcardmaking and a little video instruction on facebook.com/renateandtheanthouse

52 weeks of card making: fairy

my daughters are one of my great inspirations. Their lives are filled with magical characters at the moment. The most important being the fairy and the question if they are real. 

52 weeks of card making: flower

finaly have counted the cards and videos I have made so far. This is card 35. I’m surprised each week something else pops up.

Every body has some scraps of paper lying around. They are easily converted into this sweet flower card.

52 weeks of card making: rain lovers

inspired by a rainy day and a perfect rainy day craft. Basically a card for rain lovers. #52weeksofcardmaking

School holiday challenge continued

My girls might be even more excited about crafting then I am. I set the challenge up so that we didn’t have to work on it every day. But so far they have been asking me every day for it and when we can’t they are really disappointed. 

So here a few more impressions. The wonderful thing about journaling, you work on it when you want to and can come back to it when ever you have time. Enjoy the process.

School holiday challenge

My daughters and I have started our “travel journal ” for Brisbane, by making the journal and decorating the front cover.
We collected materials like stamps, papers, pens, magazines etc. 

It took a bit of time and convincing to have them make the cover about Brisbane. Granted it is hard to use images instead of words, for someone that loves words so much. But after a bit of a struggle everybody got on a roll and ended up with beautiful covers. 

Hope you have found an interesting subject and are well on your journaling way.

52 weeks of card making: simple flowers

handmade cards are always appreciated and flowers are for every occasion. Have a look on Facebook.com/renateandtheanthouse to learn how I made it.

52 Weeks of Card Making: Love Life

There are lots of things I’m doing at the moment that are making my life truly enjoyable. One of them is my #52weeksofcardmaking challenge. And here is the latest edition:

You can find how I made the card on Renate and the Ant House

Word cards and word games

Remember the words I collected last week. I finally given myself the time to do what I planned for them.

I’m looking for ways to come up with ways to make stories and plays that are not based on the cartoons and other Rv and movie fads that go around.

Well if you can make cards with places and people and things, you can blind pick the different categories. Once you’re words are revealed your imagination can do the rest. 

So that is what I have been doing. I have selected some words. I have written them clearly on some nice cards. Then to add a bit and make them more fun I have drawn a pattern around the word with an image that makes the word clear. The drawings are very simple but effective and lots of fun, go on have a go and come up with some very unusual and funny stories. 

52 Weeks of Card Making: Bookmark

They are crazy weeks at the moment. Book week, sports day, father’s day and my own exhibition. Making a card that can serve more then one purpose seems like a good idea. This one you can use as a card and a present. The present a bookmark for bookworm dads and book week kids. As usual an how to video on Renate and the Ant House.