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 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

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 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

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

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

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.

Birthday card for Kirstine

My friend Kirstine's birthday is coming up, and for this card I was inspired by Lemoncrafts July challenge, which you can read more about HERE:

The card I made:

Materials used:

Lemoncraft papers - "Just love me" and "Everyday Spring" collections

Green and white cardstock

Marianne Design dies - Banner (COL1398) and Branch (LR0256)

China dies - Roses and leaves

Anemone chipboard

Distress Ink - Bundled Sage

Lace, half pearls, sticker from my stash

With this card I participate in Lemoncrafts July challenge, and also in Scrap from your heart's 35th challenge, which you can read more about HERE.

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

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.

Another layout of Isabella

Dusty Attic has the prettiest mood board for March and it looks like this:

Which inspired me to make this layout of my oldest daughter:

I absolutely love soft pink colors and adding flowers to my things and in this layout I most definitely combined these two things :-).

I have used papers from UHK Gallery from the collections "Misty Morning", "Spring in Avonlea" and "Loft". From Dusty Attic I have used "Page Pebbles #11", "Foliage #4" and "Mini Scroll #2". The page pebbles and mini scrolls were first covered with white gesso, afterwards they were inked with "Spun Sugar" from Distress Ink and finally I sprayed them with a Lindys Stamp Gang Starburst spray (but I am not sure if it was "Pretty in Pink Pink" or "Cotton Candy Pink". The foliage chipboard was also covered with white gesso and then inked with "Bundled Sage" and "Forest Moss" Distress Ink, but I wasn't happy with the color, so I mixed some gesso with Lindys Magicals "Drop Dead Gorgeous" and sprayed them with the matching starburst spray. I used a stencil from Balzer Design (The Crafters Workshop) and some modelling paste, and when it had dried I also used the green spray on those. I added some pink lace and a couple of silver crowns from my stash, and made af few ink splatters with both the green spray and both of the pinks I mentioned earlier. All the flowers are from WOC.

Here are some close-ups:

You can read more about Dusty Attics Mood Board challenge HERE.

Card for a double birthday.

My colleagues son and his girlfriend held their birthday party together and my colleague asked me, if I could make a card that represented both of their interests, which were movies (his) and parrots/parakeets (her). I created this card:

I used papers from Maja Design "Ska vi ta en Fika" collection. The squares are handcut, distressed and inked with "Vintage Photo" from Tim Holtz. I also tore a piece of paper and inked the edges of that. I used some cheese cloth which I inked with 2 different inks - "Vintage Photo" and "Wilted Violet" - and put that behind my filmstrip, which was cut with a China die. The pictures of the birds was some I found on Google. The banners are cut with a die from the "Christina Collection" from Card Making Magic. For the letters I used a die from Joy Crafts, Happy Birthday is a Tattered Lace die. The banner, letters and Happy Birthday are all slightly inked with "Vintage Photo". Flowers are from WOC, chipboard from Scrapek and the halfpearls are from my stash.

Birthday card for my Godfather

February first my Godfather turned 83, so I made him this card using papers from Maja Designs new collection "Celebration".

I have used papers from the 6x6 paperpad, and mainly the dark colors since it is a male card.



I have used dies from Spellbinders Matting Basics 6x6 and Scalloped Borders One, and the banner is from Marianne Design. The gears are from Kaisercraft and inked with Distress Ink "Walnut Stain", flowers from WOC, cheesecloth and halfpearls from my stash. I don't know which brand the stamp is.


With this card I participate in Maja Designs January-Februare challenge. Here is their moodboard:

You can read more about their challenge here: Maja Design

4 birthday cards

My son went to a birthday party yesterday. It was 4 of his classmates who celebrated their birthdays together, so he needed 4 cards. I decided to use some of my scrap pieces from Maja Design. All the papers I have used are from their Christmas/Winter collections.

These are the cards for the two boys. Here I used star-dies from Crealies.

And these are the cards for the 2 girls. Here I used the Make-a-Wish die from Spellbinders D-lites and the banner is from Marianne Design. Here I also inked the edges with Vintage Photo from Distress Ink. 

I made the cards very similar, just switched the papers around so that the cards didn't become identical.

Bokeh confirmation cards

Like many others I have also started working on confirmation cards now. I wanted to try something different and new (at least for me) so I decided to try the bokeh technique, and I am quite pleased with how the cards turned out:

I have used Distress Ink on all of the cards to make the background and also sprayed a little water on the background. Afterwards I used a stencil from Dutch Doobadoo together with a VersaMagic ink to make the circles. I matted the backgrounds with black cardstock, which i also used for the banners. The boy and the girl a cut with a DixiCraft die, the banner is from Card Making Magic, and the stamp is also from DixiCraft.

Birthday card for Grethe

Happy New Year.

Well it's time for the first blogpost in 2018 and I'm starting with a birthday card for my colleague Grethe who's birthday was back in November. 

I used papers from Maja Designs "Summer Crush" 6x6 paper pad, and the image is also from this paper pad. I have only used dies from Spellbinders "Matting Basic" 6x6. All edges are distressed and inked with Distress Ink "Vintage Photo". Ribbon, halfpearls and sticker is from my stash, all the flowers are from WOC.