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

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

Faceted gift bag

A while ago my son was going to a 4 x birthday party so he needed something to put the cash in. Usually I (or himself) make a card and we stick the money in that, but I felt like trying something different and searched on Pinterest for gift bags. I found a cute one that I tried to make, and I think it turned out good, so I made 4 more (since the first one had a few flaws) one for each kid:

For all for of them I have used paper from UHK Gallery and ribbon from my stash. And then I made some small gift tags of craft paper. The "recipe" can be found HERE.

Isabella's birthday card

June 5th it was my oldest daughters 15th birthday, so I made her this card:

Materials used:

UHK Gallery - WASI SABI and Desert Rose collections

FelicitaDesign - Topper

CardMakingMagic - Banner and Happy Birthday die

Dixi Craft - numbers MD0066

Flowers - WOC

Cheesecloth, half pearls and ribbon from my stash

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.

Violet and gold card

The other day I was playing with some of my new stuff and out of that came this card:

For this card I used papers from UHK Gallery's "Autumn in Avonlea" collection. The squares are handcut and distressed. The paper in the back of the card was painted with "Golden sleigh bells" from Lindys Stamp Gang to get a more golden look. I used the same spray for the chipboard (Scrapek), the cheesecloth, the roses and the large frame, which is cut out in yellow card stock twice with Spellbinders "Oval Ironwork", glued together and then sprayed. The smaller frame is cut out with a die from Spellbinders "Elegant Ovals". I added lace, ribbon and halfpearls from my stash and some flowers from WOC.

Another card for a 50th birthday

Another colleague asked me to make a card for her brother who turned 50. The brother coaches a soccer team and likes red wine, so I tried to incorporate that in the card.

I have used papers from UHK Gallery from their LOFT Marina collection (Waves BS and Board). I inked the edges with Distress Ink - Vintage Photo - and the brown paper I distressed and tore the edges a little to make it look more like wood. The picture I found on Pinterest. I have used the following dies: Spellbinders - Matting basics 6x6, Presscut - circles, Marianne Design - numbers, Intricut - Doily and Nellie Snellen - letters. Besides that I have used cheesecloth, halfpearls, a soccer all chipboard and metal embellishments from my stash. The inside of the card:

50th birthday card

A colleague asked if I could make a birthday card for a friend that turned 50. The friend had biked to Paris, so he would like if somehow I could implement that in the card. I knew I had some paper that had Paris and the Eiffel Tower on it, and so I made this card:

From UHK Gallery I used the "Le Bistrot" paper from the "Allo Allo" collection and the small picture with the bike, and from Dovecraft I used papers from the 6×6 paper pad called "Sweet Paris". I have used dies from Spellbinders: Matting basics 6×6 and Elegant Ovals (inside the card), the Happy Birthday is from Tattered Lace, 50 is a magazine freebie die and for the leaves I used a China die. I inked the edges with Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, used flowers from WOC and some halfpearls from my stash.
Here is how the inside of the card look's like:

Boyish birthday card

Back in June my youngest nephew turned 17 and I made this very simple (CAS?) card for him:

The wooden blue paper is from UHK Gallery, and the dark blue and white is from my stash. The dark blue is actually a little shiny, but the picture is not of a very good quality so it is hard to see. I used the usual 6x6 Matting Basics dies from Spellbinders, and besides that I sed dies from Marianne Design (the star), Dixi Craft (the numbers) and Tattered Lace (the words). I decorated with a few halfpearls from my stash.

Silver anniversary

Back in May my sweet colleague Grethe and her husband celebrated that they had been married for 25 years. I made a card for them to go with the present from her colleagues.

I am not sure but I think I used papers from UHK Gallery, and the picture is from Pion Design. The squares are cut out with Spellbinders dies and distressed and inked. Besides that I have used dies from Sue Wilson, Nellie Snellen (circles and text) and Impression Obsession. Both the text and the hearts was embossed with silver embossing powder. The flowers are from WOC and my stash. For the final touches I used some halfpearls, cheesecloth and pearlstring.

I also gave them a bottle of wine as a present and that gave me the opportunity to try something new.

I had found a template on Pinterest, but it took me several tries to get it to fit the bottle and then I still ended up making it a little too long, but I think it turned out nice. I used papers from UHK Gallery, and another picture from Pion Design. The chipboard is some I bought at a local supermarket a while back and I embossed it with silver embossing powder. The long pieces was distressed and inked with black, and I used a lace ribbon at the top and bottom from my stash. The flowers are from WOC and my stash and the ribbon is also from my stash.

Birthday cards for boys

My son was invited to a double birthday party so that required 2 cards. It was kind of last minute I made them, so to make it easy for myself I decided to make the 2 cards identical.

I used paper from UHK Gallery and the sentiment is also from them. It is actually from a Christmas collection, but can also be used as a birthday greeting. The squares are as usual cut out with dies from Spellbinders and for the numbers I used a Marianne Design die. The straws I found at a local supermarket.

A summer layout

I'm really enjoying making layouts and I have found a lot of pictures that I want to scrap, among those I found the these two which are from May 2008, when we were on our summer vacation in El Salvador.

I have used papers from UHK Gallery from the collections "Spring in Avonlea", "LOFT Marina" and "LOFT" (a sheet named Rusty) and some white corrugated paper. The background is painted with clear gesso, and then I used some modelling paste mixed with white gesso to stencil the circles with a Dutch Doobadoo stencil.

The chipboard is from Anemone (Scrapek) and is painted with white gesso.

The flowers are from WOC, my stash and some homemade foamiran flowers where I have added a light green halfpearl to the centre.

I finished off by adding some shells, some microbeads and sprayed with some Pearl Mist from Cosmic Shimmer Mist.

Confirmation card

I have had a few orders for cards for confirmations this year, this one was for a girl, and it just had to be girly, which it definitely was.

I have used papers from UHK Gallery and kraft paper. The picture I found on Pinterest. Flowers and lace is from WOC. The squares and the cross is cut out with Spellbinders dies, and for the word "Konfirmation" I used a die from Nellie Snellen. The letters for the name are cut out with a die from Joy Crafts. I colored the lace with a Spectrum Noir marker to get a very light pink color. The finishing touches are a ribbon (from my stash) and some cheesecloth. I'm very pleased with how this card turned out.

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.

Birthday card

In the end of January one of my friends held a ladies lunch birthday party, which was a lot of fun. For her present I made her this card:

 

For this card I used papers from UHK Gallery, from the selection Loft herbs, the image with the teacup is from a matching paper strip that came with the collection. I used chipboard from Dusty Attic, which I inked with Bundled Sage Distress ink from Tim Holtz, and then I glued som mica beads on the sprouts. The wording Tillykke (which means congratulations) is from Scrapek, and I painted that one with white gesso before I inked it with Victorian Velvet Distress ink. All the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. I distressed some of the paper and also inked the edges with Bundled Sage, and the image was also distressed and inked with Victorian Velvet. At the end I added a few half pearls from my stash. I also did the inside of the card with 2 layers of paper and used the largest die from Spellbinders Elegant Ovals (one of my favorite dies) to cut a piece where I could write the text for card.

Anniversary card

June 3rd it was my Godparents wedding anniversary, 55 years they have been married (55½ now), so I made a card for them.

The paper with the blue flowers are from UHK Gallery, the green paper, which has a little glittery effect, is from something similar to a dollar store. The butterfly die is the Majestic Monarch from Sue Wilson and the circle die is also from Sue Wilson and it is the Decorative Frames from the Italian collection. I think the ribbon is from Wild Orchid Crafts, and I have used a Spectrum Noir marker to color it a light green to match the green cardstock. And then I added a few half pearls in the upper corners.

My very first layout

Well I think it's about time I show you guys my first layout. I made it as a present for my Godparents, since I thought they needed some updated pictures of the kids. I chose the colors for the layout to match the colors my Godparents have in their house. And as you can see, 2 of the kiddos actually have on shirts that matches the papers, I plan ahead you see, LOL, no it is just a coincident, but a good one I think.

I used papers from UHK Gallery and Lemoncraft, the chipboard clock is from Scrapek (Anemone), and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts (WOC) and a local craft store. For the frames around the pictures I used the Regal Frame from Spellbinders, and I cut out 3 frames that I glued together for each picture, this way it got a little thicker and looked more like a piece of chipboard. I also used some Gesso toghether with the Rings and Puddles stencil from Memory Box. The letters are made with a die that came with an issue of Die Cutting Essentials. I cut out 2 of each letter and glued them together to get a bit more chipboard feeling to it. "Tiden flyver" means Time flies. And then I added part of cake doily and some half pearls here and there. I was very happy with the result, since I hadn't tried it before, and my Godparents were very happy with it as well.

My second LO - Sweet

I made this layout during my summer vacation, and the weather was really bad.  I can't remember the story behind the picture myself, since I was only about 3 or 4 years old, but I have heard it several times: It was picture time at the kindergarten, and when it was my older sisters turn, she started crying and didn't want the photographer to take a picture of her, so the adults there suggested that I came along on the picture, and then my sister was okay again, but as you can see, she still looks rather sad, and I have my arm around her to comfort her.

I have used papers from Riddersholm and UHK Gallery, I can't remember the brand of the 3rd piece of paper. All of the paper is distressed along the edges, and some of it is a little torned as well. The flowers are all homemade with paper from Riddersholm and some shiny no brand red paper. I have used chipboard from Scrapek (butterfly and corners) and Blue Fern Studio (Sweet). The branches is a Marianne Design die, and for the flowers I used a die from Nellie Snellen. I also used some black lace, stamped black text and sprayed with a postbox red inkspray from Dylusions (Ranger).