Valentines - Stor kram!

Time for Valentines Day... This is just a friendly card saying "Sending you a Big Hug!"

My Grandmother's Birthday

My grandmother just had her birthday. Sadly enough I mailed it too late, so she didn't get it for her birthday, but I hope that she will get it tomorrow, Monday. Her name is Anna and she's a bit over 80 years old now. Despite braking her hip some years ago she is still very active and is weaving in one of her tree looms every day. She's often up around 5 am and weaves for two hours before breakfast at 7. She also knits, mostly socks and mittens. What she doesn't do is reading my blog and therefore I can publish her card before she gets it whitout beeing worried about spoiling the surprise. :)

Christmas Cards 2010

This is an example of the Christmas cards I sent last year. I sent 33 cards altogether and they all looked differently. This one was for my mom...They were all purple and easel cards. The had different sentiments, stamped images, flowers and background papers. But almost everybody who got them didn't understand how to fold them to make them stand. Haha!

Secrets...

I have begun making this year's christmas cards that I'm going to send out. I'm making 30 cards in the same style and colour theme... So you shall hear no more from me until they are finished. I'm not gonna show you any of the cards until I've sent them...

24 December

I've made two similar cards for my mom and my granny to sell. I managed to stamp the textstamp upside down on one of the cards, and a bit crooked, but nobody could tell now, since I made the whole card "upside down" and covered most of the text with flowers. I think they look pretty nice. I've used paper from Maja Design and stamps from ROXStamps and inkido.

Welcome to the world!

This Friday morning at 6 am, my friend Carro and her husband Magnus got their second child, an adorable baby boy. I don't know his name yet, but I made a card for him anyway. Lovely stamp from Bildmålarna.

New stamps and a for sale sign...

These are my latest stamps! Popcorn the Bear from Crafters Confessions, a Swedish hymn from inkido, a 24th of December stamp (since we celebrate Christmas one day before everyone else here in Sweden) from ROXStamps and a bear with Poinsetta from Milton & Co. I love them all! I also bought four stamps from Bildmålarna plus their November Sheet with lots of stamps that I spent hours with mounting to foam this Friday. :)

I've written a sign to the sell next week. It says "Homemade cards by Malin Ek. Make a friend happy this Christmas by sending them a personal and unique Christmas card!"