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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

Layout of Isabella - contribution to More Than Words April challenge

Hope you are well and staying safe at home in this unusual time. Even though I have been staying at home, I haven't been very creative. I still have to work and at the same time I have 3 kids at home who also had to follow some online teaching, so it has been very busy, I have had to help them more with their school work than I have ever done before. At the same time the weather has been very nice, so I have been spending a lot of my free time working in the garden. Last summer we didn't get so much done out there, and it was kind of boring when we moved in 1½ years ago, so this year I have 4 projects I would like to get done, and I have now completed 2 and started the 3rd one, so I am getting there. I must say the weather makes a huge difference, when you have to stay at home, imagine how depressing it would be, if the rainy weather had continued. At least that is the situation here in DK.

Anyway, I was inspired by More Than Words April challenge which was the word Everyday and the creative challenge is bugs and/or birds. I remembered we had a picture of my oldest daughter where she had her face painted with a butterfly – perfect for this challenge. The picture reminded me of an EVERYDAY life where you were able to go places and do fun things together with your family and friends, like in this case where we had gone to a zoo. I wonder how long it will be before we get that kind of life back again.

Click here to go to the challenge

Here is the layout I made:

And some close-ups

Materials used:

Maja Design – Sofiero, Coffee in the Arbour and Life in the Country collections

Pink cardstock

Dusty Attic chipboard, and I think the frame and butterfly was from Scrapek

Flowers from WOC and my stash

Distress Ink – Bundled Sage and Spun Sugar

Lindys Stamp Gang – Pretty in pink pink

Stencil from TCW (Balzers Design)

Liquid Pearls – Ballerina

Halfpearls and sequins from my stash

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

3rd Christmas card 2019

I got inspired by a card that was on Maja Designs blog, so I lifted it and made it in different colors, here is the result:

Materials used:

Maja Design paper – Joyous Winterdays 6x6 paper pack

Spellbinders dies – Matting Basics 6x6

Tonic Studios die – Winter Snowflake

Oval die (can't remember the brand)

Distress Ink – Vintage Photo

Ribbon and halfpearls

2nd Christmas card 2019

I have been busy making Christmas cards, this year I want to get them done earlier, and also sent out earlier, so there is a chance, that everybody receive them before Christmas.

Materials used:

Maja Design – "A gift for you" collection

White + 2 shades of grey cardstock

Parchment paper

Marianne Design die – CR1378

Memory Box die – Chatford Wreath

Spellbinders die – Layered Poinsettia

Grey embrodery yarn and halfpearls from my stash

Pentart 3D powder

1st Christmas card 2019

This Christmas card was inspired by Maja Designs September Moodboard, which look like this:

It was the green, beige and brown tones that was the inspiration behind my card:

Materials used:

Maja Design "Christmas Season" and "Home for the Holidays" collections

White cardstock

Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Chipboard - unknown brands

Tonic Studios die - Winter Snowflake

Precious Marieke - Snowflake border

Stickles - Frosted Lace

From my stash: Lace, embroidery yarn and paper straws

With this card I participate in Maja Designs September challenge, which you can read more about HERE.

Card for my Godparents

In the beginning of June it was my Godparents 58th wedding anniversary, so I made this card for them:

Materials used:

Maja Design - Sofiero Collection + Monochromes Shade of winterdays & light green

Card Making Magic - Leaf die

Flowers from WOC

Lace from China and my stash

Half pearls from my stash

William's birthday card

The 12th it was my sons birthday, so I made this card for him:

Materials used:

Maja Design - Denim & Friends collection 6 x 6, topper from the 12 x 12 papers

White cardstock

Marianne Design die - numbers COL1347

Card Making Magic dies - Happy Birthday

Crea-Nest-Lies - XXL no. 19 stars

Buttons and sticker from my stash

Distress Ink - Evergreen Bough

Confirmation card for a young man

I bought a new die from Marianne Design – COL1434. It is the one you can make a sweater, jacket or vest with, so of course I had to try it out and since the confirmations are just around the corner I thought that a male confirmation card would be the perfect card to make:

Materials used:

Maja Design paper – Denim and Friends collection

Karen Marie Klip – beige sheet with the word "Konfirmation"

Cardstock – dark blue, white and silver

Marianne Design – COL1434

Dixi Craft – paper topper with shoes fussycut

Half pearls and hessian thread from my stash

Another card with spring theme

As I have already mentioned I love Maja Designs mood board for March,

and here is a reminder of how it looks:

I just love those colors ❤.

So it inspired me to make another card, this time in purple:

Materials used:

Papers from Maja Designs 6x6 paper pad Enjoying Outdoors

Spellbinders dies: Matting Basics 5x7 and Oval Ironwork

China die

Flowers from WOC and China

Liquid pearls - Ballerina

Halfpearls from my stash

With this card I participate in Maja Designs March mood board challenge,

which you can read more about HERE.

Card inspired by Maja Designs March mood board

I absolutely love the new mood board from Maja Design, just to remind you it looks like this:

It is just so beautiful and really makes me longing for the actual spring when everything starts blooming. The mood board inspired me to make this card:

Materials used:

Papers from Maja Designs 6x6 paperpad Vintage Spring Basic

Intricut die - Intricate Doily

Lace, tuille and halfpearls from my stash

Flowers from WOC

With this card I also participate in Maja Designs mood board challenge for March, which you can read more about HERE.