Isabellas birthday card

June 5th it was Isabellas 17th birthday, and as usual I made her a card, this time at the very last minute, since I had been pretty busy the week up to her birthday. Because of the Christmas stocking I had made for her, I had to get my sewing machine fixed, and so now that it is working again, I wanted to try to use it for stiching a card. I think it turned out okay, and I might use it again. Here is the result:

Materials used:

Craft-o-clock - Morning Dreams II, 6x6 collection

Grey and white cardstock

Gittes Eget Design - Tillykke die

NHH Design - leaves

Flowers from WOC

Grey soft tulle

Birthday card for my Godmother

Today it is my Godmother's birthday and for her card I wanted to try to test some dies in order to see, if I could extend them, so they would fit a slimline card and I think it worked out okay.

Materials used:
Craft Sensations (Soft Sweet Pink collection)
Pink and white cardstock
China dies (leaves and frames)
Gittes Eget design (rectangle with stitches)
Marianne Design die (banner)

Signature dies (butterflies)
Spellbinders hot foil pink
Spellbinders hot plate
Flowers from WOC and my stash
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

Goodbye card for a colleague

Lately several colleagues has decided to leave and we usually give them a goodbye present and I make the card. This colleague was moving back to Australia, since she missed her family and friends, which is totally understandable after 3 years in Denmark.

Materials used:

Scrap And Me - Celebrations Rouge collection

Dark pink cardstock

Homemade foamiran flowers

Roses from WOC

China dies - big letters, leaves

Nellie Snellen die - small letters

Birthday card for my sister

Yesterday it was my sisters birthday, and since we could not go and celebrate her, the least I could do, was send her a card. Only thing is, that she didn't receive it on time, since the only get mail delivered once a week, so she will not get it until Monday.

Materials used:

Scrap and Me - Blossom Blue collection

Lemoncraft - cut out leaves

White cardstock

A handmade foamiran flower

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

NHH Design die for the white leaves

Spellbinders dies - the tags

Stamp - unknown brand

Memento ink - Summer Sky

Halfpearls from my stash

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

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 

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:

Mint and peach birthday card

 Back in July I made this card for a friend of mine, since it was her birthday.

Materials used:

Mintay - Celebrations 6x6 paper pad

Lemoncraft- Yesterday collection
Marianne Design - banner die
Tattered Lace - Congratulations die
China die - Leaves
Flower from WOC
Straws, half pearls and yarn 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

25th wedding anniversary exploding box

Back in March a colleague ordered an exploding box for a silver wedding anniversary, so I made this:

Materials used:

Craft o'clock – Ladies & Gentlemen collection 12x12

Dusty blue and green cardstock

Silver mirror card

Spellbinders – Borderabillities die

China dies – heart, love, leaves, letters in the big hearts

Joy Crafts die – letters and numbers in the small hearts

Marianne Design – big numbers

Flowers – Wild Orchid Crafts

Chipboard – Laserowe Love

Butterfly – AliExpress

Halfpearls and silver embossing powder 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

Spring birthday card for my Godmother

May 4th it is my Godmothers birthday, so today I made this spring inspired card for her:

Materials used:

Lemoncraft papers:

Melody A4 paper pad, Leaves paper pad, Violet Silence Basic and Everyday Spring

White cardstock

Dies:

Marianne Design – banner

China die – branches

Spellbinders – biggest circle

Card Making Magic – smallest circle

Flowers from WOC, on the daisies I replaced the centers with gold stamens

Embroidery thread and buttons from my stash

Lindys Stamp Gang – Golden Sleigh Bells

A punch from my stash to cut round corners

Stickles – Golden Rod

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

A good bye card for a dear colleague

Back in November my company decided to let some people go, so we had to say good bye to a very sweet colleague. We gave her a farewell present and I made this card for her:

Materials used:

Lemoncraft - House of roses collection & Gossamer Blue collection + butterflies

Anemone chipboard

China dies

Flowers - WOC and my stash

Dusty green card stock

Ribbon

Ranger Liquid Pearls - Ballerina

Baby card for Laura

My boss and his wife just had their third child (and first girl), so I got to make a very girly card, and since I had just bought some baby shoe dies I wanted to try those. Here is the card:

Materials used:

ScrapAndMe – Little Cutie collection

White and Pink (2 shades) card stock

China dies

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Ribbon, half pearls, stars and embroidery yarn from my stash

Birthday card for Anja

My friend Anja recently celebrated her birthday, so still inspired by Lemoncrafts moodboard from my previously post I made her this card:

Materials used:

Lemoncraft papers – Heart Painted Basics + Just Love Me collections

Laserowe Love chipboard

Flowers from China, WOC and homemade

Spellbinders die – Foliage Flourish

China die  (white rose)

Halfpearls from my stash

With this card I participate in Scrap from your heart's 35th challenge - Anything goes - 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

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

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