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. 

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.

Wedding card in blue and white

I got a reguest for a wedding card, and the colors was up to me, so I decided to use the colors from Lemoncrafts moodboard:

This is the card I made for the wedding:

And the inside of the card:

For this card I used papers from Lemoncrafts Gossamer Blue collection and some light blue cardstock. I used the following dies: Spellbinders 6x6 Matting Basics and Elegant Ovals, Joy Craft Sending Love, Decorative frames from Sue Wilsons Italian collection and a China die for the sprigs behind the flowers. The chipboard I think is from Anemone and it is painted with white Gesso and decorated with some light blue halfpearls from my stash. The flowers are from WOC. The edges of the paper are distressed and inked with Memento's Summer sky. And finally I used some cheese cloth which is also inked with Summer sky and some more halfpearls.

With this card I'm participating in Lemoncrafts challenge.

To read about the challenge click here.

Birthday cards

Two of my friends had a birthday on July 14th, so I made a card for each of them, using the Summertime collection from Maja Design. For the first one I tried to make a CAS (clean and simple) card for the first time. That was actually very difficult since I like to add bling, ribbon etc. But I think it turned out okay.

I have only used dies from Spellbinders: 6x6 Matting Basics, Make a wish (D-lites) and Sentiments one. Besides that I used some vellum and some red halfpearls.

For my other friend I made a different card, this one was a little easier for me to make.

Again I used the 6x6 Matting Basics from Spellbinders, the rest of the squares I cut by hand. All the squares are distressed, and the same is the piece of border. The border and the picture of the bike are also from the Summertime collection. The chipboard is from Anemone, the flowers from WOC and the leaves are cut out with a China die. For the final touches I used some cheese cloth and halfpearls.

With both of these cards I'm participating in Maja Designs Mood Board challenge for July/August. This is their moodboard:

To read more about the challenge click here.



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 card for Rebecca

Last month my youngest daughter turned 8, so of course I had to make a card for her. We are always joking about how she is our little princess, so that is the theme for the card.

I used papers from Pion Design, flowers from WOC, cheese cloth, half pearls and for the number I used a die from DixiCraft. The crown is from my stash and I think I bought ithis in a Euro-store in Germany.

Birthday card

I while back I made this card. Originally I made it for my sister but then a colleague asked me if I had a card in stock she could use for a friend's birthday, so I showed her a picture of this one and she liked it and bought it.

For this card I used some brown cardstock from my stash and some paper from First Edition, from a 6 x 6 paper pad called The Promise. I distressed the edges on the squares and inked them with a Tim Holtz Distress Ink (I can not remember which one). Once again I have used the square dies and the Elegant Ovals from Spellbinders, and the ovals was also inked. The leaf/branch behind the flowers are from Sizzix. The rosebuds are from my stash and the others are from WOC. Finally a put some half pearls and a ribbon from my stash on. I also decorated the inside of the card.