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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spring birthday card for my Godmother

May 4th it is my Godmothers birthday, so today I made this spring inspired card for her:

Materials used:

Lemoncraft papers:

Melody A4 paper pad, Leaves paper pad, Violet Silence Basic and Everyday Spring

White cardstock

Dies:

Marianne Design – banner

China die – branches

Spellbinders – biggest circle

Card Making Magic – smallest circle

Flowers from WOC, on the daisies I replaced the centers with gold stamens

Embroidery thread and buttons from my stash

Lindys Stamp Gang – Golden Sleigh Bells

A punch from my stash to cut round corners

Stickles – Golden Rod

Baby card

A while ago a colleague of mine had a baby boy, so of course I volunteered to make the card from all of us. This is what I made:

Materials used:

Maja Design - Vintage Baby

Dusty blue cardstock

Topper from Felicita Design

Halfpearls from my stash

Dies:

China die - the frame

Marianne Design - LR0218 (pram)

Impression Obsession - DIE 127-K (heart shaped flowers)

Die'sire - New Baby

Quick card

I had to send some stickers to my Godparents. They got a new mailbox and my husband can make stickers with names to put on, and so I made a quick spring card to put the stickers inside, so they wouldn't get to bend in the mail. It is a very simple card, but I like how it turned out.

Materials used:

Green cardstock

Paper from a paper pad bought in Lidl

China die

Tulips (bought in SuperBrugsen a long time ago)

A good bye card for a dear colleague

Back in November my company decided to let some people go, so we had to say good bye to a very sweet colleague. We gave her a farewell present and I made this card for her:

Materials used:

Lemoncraft - House of roses collection & Gossamer Blue collection + butterflies

Anemone chipboard

China dies

Flowers - WOC and my stash

Dusty green card stock

Ribbon

Ranger Liquid Pearls - Ballerina

It's been a long time...

...since my last blogpost. The reason for this is, that back in November we had a water damage, and it did absolutely nothing good for my creative mojo. The repairs are still going on, but at least they are almost done now, tomorrow the last thing will be done in our shower and the last floor put down in our hallway. This means that on Thursday for the first time in 3 months we will be able to shower indoor again. AND we can finally get rid of the toilet/shower wagon that has been standing in our driveway for 3 months. It has not been a fun experience and I would never have guessed that it would take so long, but the floors had to dry for a very long time, before anything else could get done. But now we can finally see an end to it, and my creative mojo has started to come back. I did however make a few things during the last few months, and here is a birthday card I made for a colleague:

Materials used:

Lemoncraft papers - Yesterday collection

Kraft/recycled paper, white and dusty pink card stock

Anemone chipboard

China dies

Lace and lace flowers from China

Dusty pink buttons

Baby card for Laura

My boss and his wife just had their third child (and first girl), so I got to make a very girly card, and since I had just bought some baby shoe dies I wanted to try those. Here is the card:

Materials used:

ScrapAndMe – Little Cutie collection

White and Pink (2 shades) card stock

China dies

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Ribbon, half pearls, stars and embroidery yarn from my stash