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 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

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

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 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

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

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

4 x easy birthday cards

4 of my sons classmates held their birthday party together, so that required 4 cards – 2 girly and 2 boyish. I came up with this pretty simple design:

Materials used:

Paper from Karen-Marie Klip and some bought in the local grocery store

Spellbinders Matting Basics 6x6

The boy and girl are from Dixi Craft

Banner from Card Making Magic

'Tillykke' sticker

Birthday card for my Godfather

Tomorrow it is my Godfathers birthday, so I made this card for him:

Materials used:

Matting basics 6x6 from Spellbinders

Tag dies from Nellie Snellen

Dagens mand from By Lene

Background paper + chipboard kegs + ruler sticker + watch from Kaisercraft

Topper and stamp from Dixi Craft

2 different kinds of brown cardstock

Twine

Distress Ink from Tim Holz (used on the kegs)

Confirmation card for Andreas

For this card I used some brown card stock and a lot of scraps from Maja Designs "Denim & Friends" 6x6 collection plus an image from the 12x12 collection. I have used stamps from Crealies "Bits & Pieces" (on the background) and DixiCraft and used Distress Ink - Vintage Photo. The only die I have used is the banner from Marianne Design. The halfpearls and stars are from my stash. Here's the card:

With this card I participate in Scrap from your heart's challenge no. 21, you can find it HERE.

Birthday card for Knud

A colleague of mine ordered a card for her brothers 50th birthday. Knud likes biking, so I found an old picture on Google that I printed and used as the focal point on the card.

I used papers and stickers from Kaisercrafts "Barber Shoppe" collection and the chipboard cogs are also from Kaisercraft. I also used some black cardstock. I have used dies from Spellbinders 6x6 Matting basics and Oval Ironwork, and for the numbers I have used a die from Marianne Design. The flowers are from WOC. The cogs are embossed with silver embossing powder.

Mortens 40th birthday card and cake

My colleague Morten turned 40 just before Easter so we all chipped in to buy him a present and I made the card to go with it:

I have used papers from Maja Designs "Denim & Friends" collection, and the picture I found on Google. I have used dies from Spellbinders - Matting Basics 6x6, Marianne Design - Numbers, Tattered Lace - Happy Birthday and Crealies - Stars. The halfpearls are from my stash.

Since I also make cakes from time to time Morten had booked me to make a cake for his colleagues, so for once I actually got to taste the finished cake :-). Morten designed the graphics for the cake, so it was pretty easy for me. He was not happy about turning 40 - it made him feel old - hence the wheel chair.

The cake consists of 3 layers of chocolate cake, 1 layer of raspberrymousse and one layer of chocolatemousse. The cake is covered with Baileys butterfrosting before covered with homemade fondant.



Maskuline birthday card

Another colleague of mine turned 30 and once again I was asked to make the card. And that was a great opportunity for using the "Denim & Friends" collection from Maja Design.

I used 4 different sheets from the 6x6 paper pad. I cut the squares with Spellbinders Matting basics 6x6, and I distressed all the edges and inked them with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. The numbers are cut out with a Marianne Design die. I decorated with some cheesecloth, a button with some hessian thread and some halfpearls.

With this card I participate in Maja Designs October challenge. This is their moodboard:

And you can read more about their challenge HERE.

Maskuline birthday cards

July 22nd two of my colleagues turned respectively 40 and 50 and I offered to make their cards, which no one objected to. I made each card personally.


First the card for Stig, who plays electric guitar in our company band:

The background paper is from a paper pad from Joy Crafts, which only has sheet music. The white, silver and black cardstock as well as the black corrugated paper is from my stash. The guitar I found on Pinterest and is fuzzycut. I have used dies from Spellbinders (6x6 Matting Basics) and Marianne Design (40 and the star). The banner is cut by hand. I decorated it with some cheese cloth, some buttons and some black halfpearls.

The second card is for Jesper, who used to be a mechanic and still likes to work on cars, he likes to fix things and ride his bike:

For this card I used grey cardstock from my stash, paper, stickers, text and chipboard from Kaisercraft. The topper is from Dixi Craft. I have only used dies from the 6x6 Matting Basics from Spellbinders. I decorated it with a few square halfpearls and a sticker (Tillykke) from my stash. 

Masculine birthday card

Back in February it was my Godfathers birthday so of course I had to make a card for him. I must confess that I like most other scrappers are more into making feminine card and sometimes find it quite difficult to make cards for men. But I think this one turned out okay.

For this card I have used papers from UHK Gallery, from the collection LOFT Marina. I have also used some Anemone chipboard from Scrapek.pl. The picture with the car is also from UHK Gallery from the collection called Monsieur. Then I have used some half pearls and an old button to decorate it with.