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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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