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).

Inspire!

Ah, what a total satisfaction to make cards again. This one was made in half an hour and I thank Jennie for the inspiration!
Stamps are from Inkadinkado's Butterflies and Birds.

Busy Crafting Sunday with Jennie & Sara

Hello! I'm back!
Since I'm a teacher these last few weeks have been really really busy. And I haven't been busy with making cards. :( Today I finally finished work early - and you all know what that means! Important quality time where I finally had the energy to finish the cards that had been pushed aside and take some photographs of my finished work.
No, it is not entirely true that it's been weeks without crafting... I've honestly made a bunch of cards.
A couple of weeks ago I came up with a really neat design with butterflies. Modified from an idea from Paper Craft Inspirations.This last Sunday I visited my friend Jennie and her friend Sara was there too. We were busy crafting the whole day and it was so much fun! Jennie made beautiful cards and I got really inspired. Sara made necklaces and bracelets that were really pretty. Jennie had also made a very "yummie" chicken salad. I made more butterfly cards and three cards with a giraffe. Really cool. They both helped me a lot. Here we have the butterfly cards:

Stamped with the Dot Flourishes stamp from Inkadinkado. The butterfly is punched with a Wedo puncher. The paper is from BellaBella from My Minds Eye.

Paper from DCWV Citrus Mat Stack.

Paper from DCWV Linen Closet. Borrowed a "Tack!"-stamp from Jennie. Means "Thanks!" The ink is Pearlblue Shimmering Ink, also borrowed from Jennie. :)

Borrowed a distress ink from Jennie. Looks really nice. The paper is from Linen Closet. Discover-stamp from Butterflies and Birds from Inkadinkado.

Linen Closet paper. Inspire-stamp from that same Inkadinkado set.

Linen closet paper. :) The dark blue ink fits perfectly! Thank you Jennie!

A lonely giraffe on the savanna. Jennie helped me with the inspiration and the two fold card. Notice that little mane that the giraffe has! How cute! Paper from DCWV Animal Crackers Stack.

Now I still have some time to make another card! Yeah! Getting to it straight away!!

Safari

I made the trip of my life when I was 21. I went to Tanzania and lived there for 5 weeks, teaching English to the students living in Marangu. That was really an adventure. So this is a card inspired from Africa. And the main motive, the elephant, is my all time favourite animal!

The elephant stamp is from Magnolia, the African paper is from DCWV Safari Stack and the DCWV Animal Cracker Stack. I've embossed the background with Espresso and added Dimensional Pears to the frame and border - Mushroom around the elephant and Espresso on the border.

I'm joining this card for this weeks Crafty Creations Challenges where the theme this week is Around the World.

So Lucky to Have You

I was about to do a Around the World card for the Crafty Creations Challenge this week. I wanted it to be Swedish with an image of Pippi Longstocking, but when I started to make the card it got way to messy. So I resigned and made this card with a Lucky Clover instead. The paper is just from a cheap scrapbooking package and the letters are from the latest Creative Club package.
I think I'll make a Swedish card with Pippi and an Around the World card with some African inspiration instead.

Congrats to your Drivers License!

Two cards in the same style. I kind of like the blue best. Which one do you like the best? Why?

I'm entering these cards for the Stamp Something challenge where the challenge this week is to make a card that celebrates something. Worth celebrating are the things that only happens once in life! Like getting your drivers license! That really was a happy day for me since I took it really late in life and thought that I could never learn to drive a car...

I've used letters from Panduro, the car stamp is from Panduro - their Retro stamp set, the car paper is from Panduro as well... The ribbons are from DCWV - Travel. Really shouldn't buy so much stuff from Panduro since they are really too expensive.

Next week I'll get my order from Simon Says Stamp! worth 176$... :) That was this months paycheck... Sadly I didn't get the order before Ascension Day since I've been off work for four days now. Should have been fun to use all my new stamps and stuff then. But hey, It will soon be weekend again!

Thanks and Congrats!

Daring Cardmakers challenge this week is to make a card with flags. I'm still working on the cards for the Song and Music Week and I thought this would be a cute idea. "Tack" means thank you.


I cut lots and lots of flags in different colours so I thought that I'd better use them and made a second card in the same style. This time I made it for my cousin Marie who has her birthday in the beginning of June. There is a chance that she'll read this and see her card, but I'll take it. :) I would like to join in the Sweet Stampin' Challenge for this week - Get Personal! "grattis" means congratulations!