Isabellas birthday card

June 5th it was Isabellas 17th birthday, and as usual I made her a card, this time at the very last minute, since I had been pretty busy the week up to her birthday. Because of the Christmas stocking I had made for her, I had to get my sewing machine fixed, and so now that it is working again, I wanted to try to use it for stiching a card. I think it turned out okay, and I might use it again. Here is the result:

Materials used:

Craft-o-clock - Morning Dreams II, 6x6 collection

Grey and white cardstock

Gittes Eget Design - Tillykke die

NHH Design - leaves

Flowers from WOC

Grey soft tulle

Christmas stocking

Well, it has been a while since my last post, but I have also been busy lately, so I have also been really bad at reading other peoples blogs.

I am happy to share with you that my creative new years resolutions part 1 is done 😁. I was able to finish the stocking for Isabella in time for her to get it for her birthday yesterday, so I am really happy about that, now I can get started on the next one...Nahhh, I think I am gonna wait a little bit before I do that, cause otherwise I will not be able to complete resolution number 2, the crochet blanket for Rebeccas bed.

But I am so happy that I finally finished this one, and Isabella had no clue, that I had been working on it, so she was very surprised and happy when she opened the present, it was totally worth all the work.

Playing with Distress Ink

For this card I was playing with my Distress Inks to see if I could blend them together in a nice way, I think it worked out okay, but I would like to get my hands on some Distress Oxides since it should be easier with them. I think the card turned out okay, so I will try to make in colors suitable for males as well.

Materials used:

White cardstock

Gittes Eget Design dies – Frame and Tillykke

Distress Inks – Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry and Candied Apple

Halfpearls from my stash

Birthday card for my husbond

Today it is my husbands birthday and so I made him a card. I always find it difficult to make male cards, but he was pretty happy with it, so I guess I didn't do so bad 😀.

Materials used:

Scrap and Me – Something Else collection

Simple and Basic – Frame and letters dies

Gittes Eget Design – Tillykke dies

Kaisercraft – chipboard gears

Brown and white cardstock

Distress Ink – Walnut stain
Metal embellishments from my stash

Birthday card for my Godmother

Today it is my Godmother's birthday and for her card I wanted to try to test some dies in order to see, if I could extend them, so they would fit a slimline card and I think it worked out okay.

Materials used:
Craft Sensations (Soft Sweet Pink collection)
Pink and white cardstock
China dies (leaves and frames)
Gittes Eget design (rectangle with stitches)
Marianne Design die (banner)

Signature dies (butterflies)
Spellbinders hot foil pink
Spellbinders hot plate
Flowers from WOC and my stash
Half pearls from my stash

Christmas in April

Recently I bougth a new alphabeth die set with larges letters with an outline. So I wanted to try to make a Christmas card with them, the Danish saying "God Jul" can be translated to Merry Christmas.

Materials used:

Green, mirror gold and dusty gold cardstock

Docrafts Papermania - First Noel collection

Simple and Basic die - inside scalloped frame

Marianne Design - pine branch

Gavlhuset die - letters

Rhinestones from my stash

Tiny pine cones and white snowballs from my stash

Birthday card for my daughters boyfriend

Back in January my oldest daughters boyfriend turned 18, so my husbond and I decided he should get a little present and so I made a card to go with it, mainly out of Maja Design scraps:

Materials used:

Maja Design – Denim and Friends collection

Marianne Design – COL1347 (numbers)

Simple and Basic – SBD098

Intricut Dies –Intriciate Doilies (the "frame" for the 18)

Hot foil plates – Spellbinders Everyday Sentiments II

Distress Ink – Tea Dye

Hot foil – Spellbinders Silver GLF-003

Half pearls from my stash

Bread baskets

Not so long ago I went to a store called Hobbii, which is a yarn store. There I bought some ribbon yarn because I wanted to try to crochet a bread basket. I used the recipe from Hobbii, which can be found on their website Hobbii.dk. I am not totally happy with the end-result, I think they are a bit wobbly, so I might have to re-do them at some point.

Another goodbye card

End of March we said goodbye to yet another colleague, and since she knew that I was most likely to make a card for her, she had told me, that she had great expectations to the card, so I hope I lived up to her expectations. At least I was very happy with the end result 😉:

Materials used:

Maja Design - Little Street Cafe collection, Denim and Friends collection

White and dusty rose cardstock

China dies - flowers and frame

Marianne Design die - LR0256

NHH Design - Leaves and text

White flowers and stamens - WOC

White Gesso

Rhine stones and gold frame from my stash

Goodbye card for a colleague

Lately several colleagues has decided to leave and we usually give them a goodbye present and I make the card. This colleague was moving back to Australia, since she missed her family and friends, which is totally understandable after 3 years in Denmark.

Materials used:

Scrap And Me - Celebrations Rouge collection

Dark pink cardstock

Homemade foamiran flowers

Roses from WOC

China dies - big letters, leaves

Nellie Snellen die - small letters

Card with hot foiling

I am still playing around with my hot foil machine, and the last card I made was this one:

On the below picture I was able to catch the green foil better.

Materials used:

Light peach and white cardstock

Spellbinders hot foil plates - frame and leaves

Simple and Basics hot foil plate - Knus

Spellbinders hot foil - gold and green

Flowers - Spellbinders (came with the hot plate frame)

Spellbinders frame

Gittes Eget Design - the 2 square frames

Butterflies - China

Halfpearls from my stash

 

Birthday card for my sister

Yesterday it was my sisters birthday, and since we could not go and celebrate her, the least I could do, was send her a card. Only thing is, that she didn't receive it on time, since the only get mail delivered once a week, so she will not get it until Monday.

Materials used:

Scrap and Me - Blossom Blue collection

Lemoncraft - cut out leaves

White cardstock

A handmade foamiran flower

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

NHH Design die for the white leaves

Spellbinders dies - the tags

Stamp - unknown brand

Memento ink - Summer Sky

Halfpearls from my stash

Using scrap leftovers for cards

Another colleague quit his job and so we got together and chipped in for a little gift for him, and I made the card. I always find it hard to make masculine cards, so this time I chose to use some scraps from Maja Designs Denim & Friends collection.

Materials used:

Maja Design - Denim & Friends collection +  matching monochrome collection

Kraft and white cardstock

Simple & Basics dies

Gittes Eget Design dies

Crealies Star dies

Memento Paris Dusk

Stamp - unknown brand

A card and a cake for a 90th birthday

A colleague asked if I wanted to make a card and a cake for her mothers 90th birthday party. And so I did.

The cake consisted of:
Hazelnut cake

Raspberry mousse

Coconut mousse

Cream cheese frosting

Homemade fondant

Materials used:

Maja Design - Little Street Café collection

White and green cardstock

Spellbinders Matting Basics 6x6

Sue Wilson - Heraldic Square

Marianne Design - COL1347

China Dies

Flowers from WOC

Halfpearls

Butterfly card

In the fall I purchased a hot foil machine, and when I started to play with it I unfortunately discovered that I needed a new die cutting machine, since the one I had didn't put an even pressure on the plates. So recently I bought a new die cutting machine and since then I have made several cards with hot foil on them. This one I think turned out really pretty.

Materials used:

White cardstock

Rose gold mirror card

Simple and Basics dies

Gittes Eget Design dies

Spellbinders hot plates

Simple and Basics hot plates

Spellbinders Rose Gold hot foil

Spellbinders Prism hot foil

Using your leftover scrap pieces

I have a tendency to save pretty much all of my scrap pieces, because you never know, when they might come in handy. And then about a week ago I saw on Facebook this really cool card made out of leftovers, so I had to try that myself. It is super easy so I made both a birthday card and a Christmas card.

Materials used:

Scrap leftovers and gold cardstock

Simple and Basic dies

Gittes Eget Design dies

Halfpearls

Birthday card for my Godfather

My Godfather turned 86 on February 1st, but due to the pandemic and all of the restrictions we couldn't go visit, but a card is always allowed, so at least he got that. When he was younger he often went fishing on the weekends and sometimes I went with him, and since I had some paper in my stash with fish on it, I thought it was perfect for him. On the picture some of the paper look brown, but in real life it is actually more of an olive green, that was just very hard to capture.

Materials used:

UHK Gallery - Wabi Sabi collection
Distress ink - Faded jeans

Spellbinders Matting Basics 6x6 dies
Gittes Eget Desing - Tillykke Midi & Maxi
Halfpearls from my stash

Birthday card for a friend

A friend of mine just turned 40 so that required a card. I really love to make slimline cards, so that is what I did again.

Materials used:
Scrap And Me - Nice Moments
Chipboard - Laserowe Love
Simple and Basic die - SBD098
By Lene die - BLD1232
China die
Flowers from WOC and China
Hot Foil texts and rose gold foil from Spellbinders
Distress Ink - Victorian velvet
Halfpearls 

First Christmas card of 2021

Well, since today is the 24th I decided to make a Christmas card. I have seen other bloggers who have made Christmas cards every month on the 24th, but I have never done that myself, but today I really felt like making one, so maybe I'll try to do that every month, it will definitely make it easier to get them mailed on time I hope 🤞. I made one that is super easy and very flat. Most of my cards has to be mailed, and it is just more likely they will get there in one piece if they are flat.

Materials used:

Maja Design – Christmas Season 6x6 paper pack + an ephemera card from the 12x12 collection

Distress Ink – Bundled Sage

Hot foil plate and die from China

Half pearls

Crochet cloth

During my Christmas vacation I wasn't very creative, but I did manage to crochet one more dish cloth, this time in red. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, the edges actually got pretty straight.

Layout of Rebecca

This LO I made quite some time ago, but for some reason I have never blogged about it. It is one of my favorites of the LO's I have made so far, I really love how it turned out:

Materials used:
Maja Design – Vintage Summer Basics, Vintage Romance, Vintage Frost Basic
Brown cardstock
Stencils from Dutch Doobadoo and Memory Box
Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts
Dusty Attic chipboard (Flowerbuds, Bookman ABC set, Leaves 2)
Liquid pears ballerina
Brown acrylic paint
Cosmic Shimmer Mist
China die (beYOUtiful)
From my stash: Lace, cheese cloth, embossing powder, white gesso and 1 half pearl 

Here are a few close-ups:

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!! Personally I hope that this year will be so much better than last year, but then again it doesn't take much, does it??? I think we are all looking forward to getting rid of this dreadful pandemic and hopefully 2021 will be the year where that happneds, even though we probably still has to be quite patient about seeing the end of it.

This year I have decided to make some creative new year resolutions, I think it might be a good idea to have some goals I want to reach this year:

1: I want to finish the Christmas Stocking I am making for my oldest daughter, I have been working on it for more than 6 years now, so I think it is time to finish it. I am planning on working on it, when she is at work, so she will be surprised when she gets it. This is how far I am with it:

2: I want to finish the  crochet blanket I am making for Rebecca. I am maybe done with 25% of the squares I am crochetting, at least they don't take so long per square.

3: I want to blog more often, so I am making it my goal to blog once a week. I just have to be better at planning my blog posts.