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

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

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

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

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

Exploding box wedding card

And here is the second vedding card which I made as an exploding box. This one was for the present from his department:

The lid

The outside

Materials used:

ScrapAndMe – Pink Blossom collection

Light green, cream and pink cardstock

Anemone chipboard – wedding rings

Laserowe chipboard – Heart and the couple

Lemoncraft – butterfly on the lid

Flowers – foamiran and WOC

Sue Wilson die – Happily ever after

Marianne Design – Banner COL1398

China die – heart

Lace, pearl ribbon and ribbon from stash

Gold embossing powder

Smile & Hello cards

I bought some new dies from China and so I wanted to try them out when I received them. Here are the 2 cards I made:

Materials used:

Black and white cardstock

Printed paper is from a no-brand paper pad bought in ALDI

China dies

Sue Wilson dies - Magical Butterflies

Halfpearls from my stash

Christmas card with gilded flakes

On this card I tried something new which was working with gilding flakes. I have had a container of it in my stash for more than 15 years, but I have never tried to work with it before. But it does give a very nice effect, so I will definitely try it again, even though it is very messy.

For this card I have used some red paper with a gold print from my stash plus some white cardstock. I have used dies from Sue Wilson - Lattice Window and from Spellbinders - Elegant Ovals. And I decorated it with a few halfpearls from my stash, a very simple but elegant looking card.

Snowman Christmas card

This card is a bit more time consuming but I think it is worth using the extra time on making a pretty card:

For this card I used white and a dusty blue cardstock from my stash + paper from Craft and You's "Frozen Paper" collection, the image of the snowman is also from that collection. I have used dies from Spellebinder - Matting Basics 6x6, Sue Wilson - "Eve" and "Frosty corner" from the festive collection, the Happy Christmas is from Tattered Lace and the pine branch is from Marianne Design. Flowers, halfpearls and ribbon is from my stash. The border around the image is diecut 4 times and then glued together to make an raised frame, I think it adds a nice effect to the image.

Red glitter Christmas card

Todays card is another quick card which can be nice at this time of the year:

For this card I used white, silver and red glitter cardstock and red glitter tape. I also used a chipboard snowflake from my stash. The only dies used here are the big snowflake from Dovecraft + the little oval which is from one of the Christmas sets that Sue Wilson has created. The chipboard snow flake is covered with glitter.

Card with Christmas bauble

I have bought a lot of Christmas dies throughout the years, so this year I am trying to use as many different ones as I can. This is another example of that:

For this card I have used papers from Galeria Papieru from their "The Cricket on the Hearth" collection. I also used red and green cardstock. Dies are from Spellbinders - Matting basics 6x6, Eve from Sue Wilsons festive collection, the wreath is from Sara Davies Signature collection and the bauble is from Dixi Craft. Flowers and halfpearls are from my stash.

Christmas card with Santa

I have made another Christmas card this and this time Santa is starring on the card:

I have used red, green and shiny silver cardstock and the paper with trees as well as the Santa image are from Kaisercrafts "Silent Night Collection". I have used dies from Spellbinders - Matting Basics 6x6 and Elegant Ovals, Sue Wilsons Festive Collection and the tree is from Dixi Craft. I dressed it up with a few halfpearls and a sticker which says Merry Christmas in Danish.

Wedding anniversary card

My husband and I just celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary on Dec. 6th. Amazing how times fly. I made him this card which could easily be used as a Valentine's Day card as well:

I only used regular cardstock for this card, no designer papers. I used dies from Marianne Design (the bear) and Sue Wilson (the hearts). I don't know which brand the stamp is from.

We celebrated the day by going to the movies just the 2 of us, where we saw "A star is born". I am not a fan of Lady Gaga, but I think she did really well with the acting in this movie and there is a lot of good music in it.

Christmas card

I have really been trying to use my Maja Design scrap pieces lately, since I have a lot of those, and that also goes for this card:

It was a very easy card to make and these are the dies I used:

Spellbinders – Matting basics 6x6

Sue Wilson – Winter trees (Festive collection)

DixiCraft – MD0045

Marianne Design – LR0482

Dan Dies – God Jul

I used some Stickles "Frosted Lace" for the trees and the snow hills to add some snow glitter. Besides the paper from Maja Design, I used some white and shiny gold card stock.

Box for Christmas cards

Part of my birthday present for Grethe was a box with 6 christmas cards in it. I used a box which had contained a gift certificate and decorated the front with a Christmas theme:

Again I used leftover pieces from Maja Design, for the deers I used Sue Wilsons "Deer family" from the Festive Collection. I added a few star halfpearls for decoration.

Golden anniversary card

A colleague of mine asked me if I could make a card for his parents who had been married for 50 years, here that is called gold wedding anniversary. Only request was that there was a prison theme, since the present was a stay in a former prison, which has been turned into a hotel.

I used papers from Maja Designs "Vintage Romance" collection, white and gold cardstock. The image I found on Google. I used the following dies: Sue Wilson - frame from "Happily ever after", Nellie Snellen "Guldbryllup" and Joy Crafts 6002/0252.

Silver anniversary card

My colleague Allan and his wife just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary (aka silver anniversary) last week. Of course they were getting a present from us, his colleagues, and I made this card for them:

I used paper from "Crelando" (found it at a Lidl grocery store), white and silver cardstock. The dies are from Joy Crafts (6002/0252), Sue Wilson (frame from Happily Ever After) and an alphabet and number die from a Die Cutting Essentials magazine.
The picture is from Pion Design and flowers are from WOC.

Girly birthday cards

A couple of weeks ago I was trying out the letterpress technique, and I got these two very girly cards out of that:

For both cards I have used the letterpress technique using a Memento ink called "Rose Bud" and an embossing folder from Crafts Too. For the top card I only used dies from China, for the bottom one I used a die from Spellbinders "Elegant Ovals", Sue Wilsons "Melbourne" and a Chinese die. The flowers are from WOC and the ribbon and halfpearls are from my stash.

Christmas cards 2015 & 2016

I haven't shown my Christmas cards for the last 2 years, so here they are (at least the ones I could find pictures of).
2015:

And 2016:

From the pictures I can see that I have used dies from Sue Wilson, Spellbinders, Memory Box, Marianne Design, Precious Marieke, Impression Obsession and Dovecraft. I have also used some chipboard from Dusty Attic and some card toppers from DixiCraft. The papers are just different kinds I have in my stash.

I really need to get started on my Christmas cards and I also have plans about making gift tags, so maybe I should dedicate my next weekend to that, since Christmas is just around the corner.

Grey and pink wedding card

Another colleague was getting married, and I was asked to make the wedding card. This time it was up to me which colors to use, so I went for pink and grey, inspired by the colors in Lemoncrafts September challenge.

For this card I used papers from Lemoncrafts Heart Painted and Just Love Me collections. I have only used dies from Sue Wilson this time, flowers are from WOC, fat silk ribbon, cheesecloth, halfpearls and lace is from my stash. Around the edges I have made some fake stitching.