Last Christmas cards 2020

Just wanted to show the last of the Christmas cards for this year:

Materials used:

Paper pad from Bilka

Gold and black cardstock

Vellum

Sue Wilson die (trees)

Gummiapan die

Materials used:

White cardstock

Blue Glitter cardstock from Marianne Design

Sue Wilson die (text)

Spellbinders die (snowflake frame)

Materials used:

Old paper pad brand unknown (maybe Papermania)

Gold cardstock

Gittes Eget Design frames

China dies and hot plate

Spellbinders gold hot foil

Halfpearls

Materials used:

Hunkydory paper from magazine

Silver cardstock

Halfpearls

Simple and Basic die

Filled chocolates

Back in the beginning of November I found some cheap chocolate moulds in hard plastic in my local grocery store. They had 3 different kinds so I bought one of each and then I ordered some Callebaut chocolate from a store in Germany. And last weekend I decided it was time to try to make homemade filled chocolates. 

First I made all of the fillings, which took some time, and then it was finally time to start playing with the chocolate. When you make filled chocolates it's very important that the chocolate has the right temperature, and I was a little worried about that, since this was my first attempt, but it wasn't that difficult and my chocolates turned out great 😋. I ended up making just over 2.5 kg.

Recycled Christmas card

The image with the trees is actually from an old Christmas card, which I saved from getteing thrown in the trash can at work a few years ago. I immediately saw that I could use that for a new card, and I do have another piece left, for another card. It is a pretty simple card, but I really like how it turned out:

Materials used:

An old Christmas card

Silver and white cardstock

Gittes Eget Design dies

Marianne Design stamp

Black ink and halfpearls

Christmas card

For this card I found my inspiration on another Danish blog. I had some paper similiar to what she had used, so I tried to make a similiar card. The original card you can see here: Vild med kort. And this is how my card turned out:

Materials used:

Gold and green cardstock

12x12 sheet with poinsettias (maybe from Papermania, but I'm not sure)

Simple & Basic dies

Halfpearls

Advent candle decoration

Of course I also made an Advent candle decoration. Usually I make it with 4 candles, but this year I was kind of late with buying the candles, and so I could only find the one I used:

Again I kept it very simple, and only used a few decorations for it.

December 1st, Christmas candle decoration

Happy 1st of December 🎄🎅. So now the count down to Christmas has started, and here we always count down the days with a Christmas candle decoration. Here is the one I made this year:

Unlike my cards I almost always keep my candle decorations very simple. I found the star at the local grocery store and immediately knew, that I wanted to use it for the candle decoration this year.

Christmas calendar

November has been pretty busy for me, it started with a weekend getaway with some friends, and then we have been working on upgrading our bedroom with new floor, closets, colors and so on, so there hasn't been much time to be creative. My youngest, Rebecca, however, has made a calendar for me and filled it with goodies, so I'm looking forward to see what's in it. She made it out of empty toilet paper rolls and cardstock.

I think she did a really good job and I am so excited to see what's in it. 

Crochet scarf and hat

Recently I found some pretty and cheap yarn in my local grocery store. And when I brought it home my youngest daughter proclaimed that I had to make a scarf and a hat for her in it. So I did, well at least I made a scarf, she wasn't too crazy about the hat, so I made it big enough for myself instead.

Birthday card and survival kit boks for Kim

Back in September my colleague Kim turned 50, but it happened right after we all got sent home to work from our home offices again, so we didn't get a chance to give him his gifts and celebrate him until here in October, where we all had to go to the same company course. To make him feel old - I know, we are such nice colleagues 😁 - I had made him a survival kit box which contained items that will come in handy when you get old. Inspiration to the items I found on Google, and then I found a wooden box at Søstrene Grene to hold all of the things. Of course I couldn't pass up the chance of decorating the box, so I found some papers from UHK Gallery to decorate it with. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures from the side, so you can only see the lid of the box. Here is how it turned out:

Materials used:

UHK Gallery - Weekend collection (Friday Dinner, both sides)

Kraft cardstock

China dies - 50

Dixi Craft dies - alphabeth

I also made a birthday card for him. As always I think it is hard to make cards for men, but I am happy with how it turned out.

Materials used:

Pion Design - Mr. Tom's Treasures

Simple and Basics - Slim card set

Gittes Eget Design - Tillykke, Basis Rektangler & Flag

Marianne Design - numbers (COL1347)

China die - frame around picture

Kaisercraft Christmas cards

 Inspired by some cards I saw on Facebook, I have made the following 2 cards, these must definitely be CAS cards since they are very simple and very fast to make:

Materials used:

Kaisercraft 6½" paperpad - Yuletide

Dies - Spellbinders Matting Basic 6x6

Dies - Simple and Basics (Juleknus)

Shiny gold cardstock

Christmas cards made of scrap pieces

I am a huge fan of Maja Design and use their papers for a lot of my cards and so I also have a lot of scrap pieces, because I don't have the heart to throw away all those left over pieces, even though some are very small. So I have made two Christmas cards where I have used some of my scrap pieces.

Materials used:

Maja Design - Various Christmas papers

Dies - Gittes Eget Design (Basis Rektangler & Flag, Strips Vandret)

Dies - Marianne Design (Snowflake LR0125 and Pine branch CR1378)

White cardstock

Halfpearls and hearts from my stash

Inspired by a card from Hobbybodens blog

Today I saw a card on Hobbybodens blog (link), which inspired me to make something similiar but with a little more splash, which I did by just adding one color to each card. I am pretty pleased with how they turned out, even though they are very CAS compared to what I usually make:

Materials used:

Dies - Gittes Eget Design (Strips Vandret, Midi & Maxi tillykke, Basis Rektangler & Flag)

Cardstock - white, black, turquoise and shiny lime green

Embossing folders - Cuttlebug and Sizzix

Stamp - La Blanche (Sheet metal)

More crochet dish cloths

During the summer I made several dish cloths to learn different techniques, now that I am a newbie at that, and here are some more of them:

Congratulations card

This week I bought something I have wanted to buy for a while - a hot foil machine from Spellbinders, and so when I received it Friday I immediately had to test it. I had before hand watched several YouTube videos about it and how it was also possible to use regular dies, and since I had also bought some new dies, I chose to try that. And I am pretty pleased with the outcome.

Materials used:

Spellbinders Rose gold hot foil

Rose gold cardstock from Tonic Studios

White cardstock

Prima Marketing - Apricot Honey collection

Gittes Eget Design dies - all frames and word

Sue Wilson dies - flowers

Halfpearls from my stash

Birthday card using Maja Design scraps

Again I have been trying to use some of my Maja Design scrap pieces, this time I think they are all from the Summertime collection except the green matte that is from a piece of monochrome paper. 

Materials used:

Maja Design - Summertime 6x6 paperpad + Monochrome

Dies - Gittes Eget Design (Basis Rektangler & Flag)

Dies - Tattered Lace (Happy Birthday)

Halfpearls and red cardstock from my stash

Christening cake for Frey

One of my colleagues had a son back in March and they asked me if I would make a cake for the party, which was here in August and so I made this cake:

The cake did have the boys full name on it, but since it is a very special name I have removed it on the picture for privacy reasons. It was my first attempt at making an elephant but I think it turned out really cute. I found a vidoe on YouTube and just followed the instructions in it.

The cake consists of 3 layers of vanilla cake (drømmekage), 1 layer of elderflower mousse but this time I had added white chocolate with lemon to it and 1 layer of strawberry and rhubarb mousse. It is coated with buttercream with elderflower juice and covered with homemade fondant. All decorations are also made with homemade fondant and then I used Royal Icing for the border around the cake.

Mint and peach birthday card

 Back in July I made this card for a friend of mine, since it was her birthday.

Materials used:

Mintay - Celebrations 6x6 paper pad

Lemoncraft- Yesterday collection
Marianne Design - banner die
Tattered Lace - Congratulations die
China die - Leaves
Flower from WOC
Straws, half pearls and yarn from my stash

Birthday card

Lately it has been really nice weather here in DK, so I must admit I haven't spend much time at my craft table, when it is this warm I prefer to be outside, and it can be a bit tricky to sit with paper etc. outside, so instead I have being working on my chrochet skills, because that is easy to do outside, but today I will show you this birthday card I made for a friend:

Materials used:

Maja Design - Denim and girls collection

White cardstock

China die (round frame)

Sue Wilsom butterfly die

Flowers from WOC

Halfpearls and sticker from stash

Crochet

When my summer vacation started 3 weeks ago, I decided I wanted to use some of the time on learning to crochet. So I have been watching lots of videos on YouTube and made several little samples, and I have so far made 3 dish cloths, but I will only show 2 of them here, since the third one got very crooked, so I didn't finish it with a border. But here are the 2 I have made:

The striped one is a corner to corner (C2C) and turned out to be really easy, and I can definitely recommend trying this pattern if you are a newbie like me.

25th wedding anniversary exploding box

Back in March a colleague ordered an exploding box for a silver wedding anniversary, so I made this:

Materials used:

Craft o'clock – Ladies & Gentlemen collection 12x12

Dusty blue and green cardstock

Silver mirror card

Spellbinders – Borderabillities die

China dies – heart, love, leaves, letters in the big hearts

Joy Crafts die – letters and numbers in the small hearts

Marianne Design – big numbers

Flowers – Wild Orchid Crafts

Chipboard – Laserowe Love

Butterfly – AliExpress

Halfpearls and silver embossing powder from stash

Birthday card for my husband

My husband celebrated his 53rd birthday last month, so I made him this card, which for me is a CAS card. I was able to use some old scraps of paper with alcohol ink, that I made in a class a while back:

Materials used:

Scrap piece with alcohol ink

Dusty blue cardstock

Spellbinders D-Lites – Make a Wish

By Lene Design – Dagens mand

Lindys Stamp Gang spray – Blazing black

A card and a cake

Recently one of my nephews turned 20 and his parents and girlfriend arranged a surprise party for him. And no party without a cake, so I made him a naughty cake with big boobs 😉.

The cake consisted of 3 layers of vanilla cake (drømmekage), 1 layer w/elderflower mousse and 1 w/strawberry and rhubarb mousse. It was iced with IMBC and covered with homemade fondant.

I also made a card to go with the present for him and that turned out this way:

Materials used:

13@rts – His & Hers Remastered collection 6x6

UHK Gallery – Old Fashioned Christmas collection

White and kraft cardstock

Crealies – Star die

Marianne Design – COL1347 (numbers)

Spellbinders – Triple Tear and Matting Basics 6x6

Dixi Craft – Alphabeth

Banners – cut by hand

Quick Christmas Cards

Last weekend I went to visit my Godparents, they are both over 80 so they are at high risk when it comes to the Corona virus, but they are good at staying at home and taking care of each other. It was really good to see that they are doing great and coping well with everything that is going on. I had made a little box with some different cards for them, so they have some for different occacions. Among them were some Christmas cards which I will show today. All the cards are made with papers that came with at magazine from Hunkydory - Cardmaking collection.

Other materials used:

Gold and Silver cardstock

White and light teal cardstock

Dies - Marianne Design, Yvonne Creatief, Card Making Magic, China die and Simple and Basic

Stars from my stash

The banner with "Glædelig Jul" is cut from an old Christmas card
and a leftover piece from a braided star

A new layout of William

I have not made as many layouts of my son, as I have of the girls, so I thought it was about time I made another one for him. And since Maja Design has some great boyish papers I decided to use some of that with some school pictures from 3 years ago. And considering that I think it is really hard to make masculine cards and layouts I am very pleased with the outcome.

A few close-ups:

Materials used:

Maja Design – Denim & Friends collection, 12x12 and 6x6

Dusty Attic – Mini tabs #2, Word pack #6

Dutch Doobadoo stencil – Bricks

Stamps – Crealies No. 27 + one bought at the grocery store

Crealies die – Crea-Nest-Lies XXL no. 19 stars

Distress Ink – Vintage Photo

Pearls from my stash

Gesso and blue acrylic paint

Baby card

One of my colleagues had a baby boy at the end of March. The little boy wasn't due until here in May, so they were at the hospital for a while, but now they are at home. Due to the virus my colleague had to stay at the hospital the whole time, so we haven't seen him yet, and don't know when we will see him again, since we are all pretty much still work at home, but I have made a card now for them, so it is ready for when we can give him the baby's gift. This also gave me the oppurtunity to try out a new die set that I got for my birthday – the baby clothes line from Marianne Design. I am really happy with the outcome of this card, it's definitely one I will be making again.

Materials used:

ScrapAndMe – Blossom Blue collection

Cardstock – White, cream, craft, black and blue

Sue Wilson die – It's a boy

Marianne Design – CR1502 & COL1422

China dies – Doily and bow

Rose – WOC

Halfpearls from my stash