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.

A Royal Wedding

The Swedish crown princess weds her dear Daniel tomorrow and I'm gonna be a part of the procession after the ceremony in the church. We are about 500 scouts that are going to stand along the road where Victoria and Daniel will pass in a carriage (dragged by horses with horse shoes made of aluminum that is supposed to look as silver) and salute them in the way scouts do best - by doing the scout salute!
I got inspired and made a wedding card with lots of flowers.


Also joining the blog hop and entering my card for the s2g Paper Crafting Contest. The twist was to use something old. I've used green string that is really old. I originally bought it in 1999 when I made a stole with embroideries for my father (he's a priest).

A blue silver dream...

So, I don't really know what to think of this card. I'm really afraid of making cards "too much" and honestly I like my cards to be really simple. But the cards in the challenges are always really worked through, and the more I work with my cards, the "more" they get...
Anyway, I'm a bit happy with it even though glitter and such isn't really my cup of tea. This is an entry for the Susie & Vikki's Christmas Club challenge for this week. The theme was blue and silver. A really nice combo and the Design Team cards are beautiful.
I wanted to make a weave with paper so I wove different paper strips together and put the paper mat on the backside of the front of which I had cut a hole. I've stamped the front with light blue, dark blue, silver ink and finished it of with embossing the same pattern. I also coloured and embossed the edges. Not sure how good its shown on the photo. I cut snowflakes (by hand!) from silver paper. Not the easiest thing I've done... Put a silver ribbon at the bottom of the front and then went nuts with flowers, stars and rhinestones on the weave... And then went even more nuts with my newly bought glitter glue. (Yes, I know my budget had been overdrawn long time ago this month but... I couldn't help myself...)
What materials have I used then...? Honestly, this is a real budget card. I got a Christmas Scrapbooking Kit from my mother-in-law last Christmas, no idea from where... I used some papers and decorations from that package. And some stuff from the Clas Ohlson Winter kit... I have used some papers from DCVW Linen Closet...
It was really fun to do at least. Stayed up until after 3 am last night. Finished it off this morning. Just need the glue to dry before I put it in my "Finished cards box". Planning to sell some of the cards in a market festival late this summer. In Dalarna of course!

Merry Christmas

This didn't feel odd at all... Making a Christmas Card in April... Anyway. This was for another challenge blog. This one is actually specialized in Christmas Cards and this week's challenge was to make a Christmas Card including a reindeer. Pretty cool. Since I don't have any reindeer stamps or Merry Christmas Stamps or any real Christmas Paper, I had to work with the things I had. Have already spent this months "Cardmaking budget"... And way above it too... *hrm*
So I found a cool reindeer on the web and draw it by hand since I'm way way to lazy to find the cable for the printer. It has been gone for a while now... Gonna buy a new printer later on... First I made the reindeer pointing to the right and I coloured it. But that didn't really look too good, so I ended up flipping it over and colouring it black. I used a sunset image from my DCWV Safari Chic Stack and some golden paper I found. I also had some winter papers laying around from a Winter Scrapbooking kit I bought at a Swedish department store with everything called Clas Ohlson.
I used my GellyRoll Metallic Gold pen for some stitching that doesn't really show that good on the photo.
It was really fun to make a Christmas Card and I'm gonna look at the blog for next week's challenge. The blog is called Susie & Vikki's Christmas Club.
The text is Swedish and translates, obviously, "Merry Christmas"!

Love U

My first entry for a card designing challenge... Hopefully my worst too... Anyway, the challenge was set out by Daring Cardmakers. The challenge was to include diamonds in the card. I went to a Scrapbooking store i Stockholm called Scrapparazzi. I can really recommend them. Their supply was nice, even though they had sold out most of the stuff I came for. (I still ended up spending 1000SEK...) I have bought online from them too and I got a personal e-mail from the owner telling me that she had seen my order and was going to pack everything down later that day.
Anyway, I went to Scrapparazzi and I bought rhinestones and a Martha Stewart Edge Punch Floral Lace just so happen to come along together with some nice paper and brads. How did that happen!? So I wanted to use both the rhinestones and the puncher and I thought the flowers were a nice touch. But no... What a mistake. A totally confusing card and the Floral Lace looks so misplaced... More thinking and less crafting next time, please!