Liefs Marlies

 Hi everyone! This was a tough sketch challenge! As I mentioned before in my post of AAA Cards Challenge #266 I do not have a lot of stencils. And guess what... A stencil would have come in handy AGAIN this challenge! So what did I do? Did I buy a stencil. Nooooo. I got creative! I took some of my alcohol markers, looked for a color palette on pinterest and started doodling. The colours were way too dark, so I was about to throw out the card panel, until I turned it around. What you see on the card is actually THE BACK of my card panel. Oh well... I can't wait to see how you interpret the sketch! As you can see, you can make any sketch work with materials you already own. Join us at AAA Cards Challenge Blog AAA Cards Challenge Blog . Liefs, Marlies

 Hi everyone!  Here I am -again- with a masculine card! But this time it was the optional twist, sooo.... I used low tech tape to shield the card, except the bottom part. I have a stamp set with cars and tools. I used one tool stamp to create the bottom pattern.  The circle stamp and matching dies are from Studio Light ( CCL-ES-CD731 and  CCL-ES-STAMP563). I placed the sentiment where it is, because that's where I smudged some ink with my fingers, ahem. What kind of CAS card will you make? Join our challenge at AAA Cards Challenge Blog AAA Cards Challenge Blog ! Liefs, Marlies

 This challenge at AAA Cards Challenge called for a large, unicolor stamp or a stencil with larger shapes. I. Have. Neither. So I created my own stencil, using a die and broad low tech tape! I used the plain leaf from the Altenew Mix Leaf Die Set and used it as my "stencil" shape. The sentiment is Frisian, it means both "a flower" and "a bouquet". I stamped it sideways to make it look like a flower stem. Here you can see our sketch for this fortnight, how will you make this work? Let's see!  Liefs, Marlies

  Hi everyone! I made this lovely CAS birthday card for... AAA Cards Challenge blog ! It's their/our 10th birthday and we want to celebrate with YOU . PRIZES Enter your CAS card and you may win a wonderful prize! Some prizes are only available to the country of residence due to postage, so please make sure when you do the card link up to add your country letters (for example: Marlies-NL). We always vote for our winners, but this way we can shift the prizes between them if that makes sense. Our challenge and giveaway is open World Wide , but due to costs there's a few restrictions. Our wonderful Design Team has put up these prizes, but they will be a surprise package, except of course the generous giftcard from Whimsy Stamps Altenew, Create a Smile Stamps and Funky Fossil Stamps, you can buy what you want. We also do not have a guest designer as we want everyone to be in with a prize, so get cracking and remember to make it CLEAN AND SIMPLE! Please note that the giftcards do not...

 Yay! Another sketch challenge at AAA Cards Challenge Blog ! I didn't really feel like creating my own wreath from scratch, so I decided to go the lazy way. The best thing about this clever design, if I do say so myself, is that I didn't have to colour the entire stamp, just the edges. I used alcohol markers and it was a lot of fun! The stamp is in Dutch and it means: "is it your birthday again?". The stamps I used:  Clear stamps Party buttons - Essentials nr. 563. The die I used:  Cutting die Nested circles - Essentials nr. 731. Will you join our challenge?  Liefs, Marlies

 Are you married or are you sensible? I love my husband so much, I would totally catch a bullet for him (and complain about te pain later). But man, aren't men weird?! They like sports like boxing and cycling and that just does not make any sense. And they believe women make no sense. I don't get it!  My husband is a fine specimen by the way. He is rather tall and helps around the house. He can fix almost everything, even though it might take a year or four. He is a great dad and an amazing spouse. Yeah. I won the husband lottery. We're married two years this year, but we've known each other for eleven years now. We met in a bar, on the dancefloor and dated for a bit then. He didn't want anything serious at the time but "wanted to stay friends". I told him "I've got plenty of friends" and we went our separate ways. That was ten years ago.  Six or seven years ago I started thinking about him A LOT again and decided it was time to be bold. I kn...

Hi everyone! I'm gonna be honest, this was a tough one. I simply had TOO MANY IDEAS. My best friend thinks I have ADHD or that I'm neurodivergent at least. I have no idea, but reels on instagram agree with her.  Anyways, back to my card!  This is my interpretation of today's sketch. I just bought the leaf mix die set from altenew. It was an absolute a*****e to find, but I managed to buy it from a webshop in Belgium: Card Nouveau . The sentiment is in Dutch and means: "I am thinking of you". I can't wait to see what your interpretation of our sketch is! Please submit your card at AAA Cards Challenge Blog . Liefs, Marlies