White birthday card

On Marianne Designs blog I saw that they have a challenge, where you have to use only white, so even though I couldn't participate in it (you had to use one of their text stamps, and I only have some Christmassy ones) I made this birthday card:

I have used white cardstock and some vellum. I used the following dies from Marianne Design: LR0455, LR0101 and COL1347 + the stamps from that set to make a harlequin pattern with embossing powder on the numbers. The ribbon and halfpearls are from my stash.
I think it's fun to challenge your self this way and it's a great excuse for ordering some new stamps 😊.

Birthday card for Sofie

Another colleague, Sofie, also had a birthday back in November, so I made a card for her as well.

For this card I used paper from Lemoncrafts "Gossamer Blue" 12x12 and 6x6 collection plus som blue card stock. I used dies from Spellbinders "Matting Basics" 6x6 and "Elegant Ovals", and the banner is a die from Marianne Design. The white and brown flowers are from WOC and the blue roses are from China. Halfpearls and sticker is from my stash.

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.

Christmas decor

On my Christmas break I have had time to play a little in my crafting corner. In the beginning of December I bought some Christmas stars at a local grocery store. They were a little plain, but I had an idea for how to decorate them. I made 2 poinsettias out of 3 mm foam, die cut some poinsettia leaves out of parchment and cut out some silver pine branches. I used dies from Spellbinders and Marianne Design. Finally I decorated with some red frosted berries, which I also bought at the grocery store. This is the end result:

This is my last blogpost of 2017 so I wish you all a Happy New Year. See you in 2018.

A Christmas layout

A while back I made this Christmas layout. The picture is a from 2008 and is one taken by a photographer for our Christmas cards that year.

I have used papers from Maja Designs Christmas collections "A Gift for You" and "Home for the Holidays" and from "Vintage Frost Basics" plus some white cardstock. The 2 chipboard baubles are from Scrapiniec. I have used dies from Sizzix, Crealies and Precious Marieke. I used gesso and a stencil from Carabelle Studio for the scripture. All edges are distressed and I have used some silver thread, silver star half pearls and silver Stickles for decoration.

Here are a couple of close ups of the layout:

Christmas gift tags

I also made several gift tags this year:

The bottom ones were really easy to make, I used some Dixi Craft toppers and a die from Nellie Snellen (the same die I used for almost all of the tags), and I was able to get two tags out of every topper. On some of the tags I added snowflakes and trees.

Christmas cards 2017

Merry Christmas !!!

Wauw, where did December go? It went by really fast in my opinion. But I shouldn't be too surprised about that, since I get that feeling every year ☺.

I managed at the very last minute to make my last Christmas cards in order to get them mailed in time to arrive before Christmas. Here they are:

I have used all kinds of different brands of paper and dies for my Christmas cards.