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

Baby card

A while ago a colleague of mine had a baby boy, so of course I volunteered to make the card from all of us. This is what I made:

Materials used:

Maja Design - Vintage Baby

Dusty blue cardstock

Topper from Felicita Design

Halfpearls from my stash

Dies:

China die - the frame

Marianne Design - LR0218 (pram)

Impression Obsession - DIE 127-K (heart shaped flowers)

Die'sire - New Baby

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.

Quick card

I had to send some stickers to my Godparents. They got a new mailbox and my husband can make stickers with names to put on, and so I made a quick spring card to put the stickers inside, so they wouldn't get to bend in the mail. It is a very simple card, but I like how it turned out.

Materials used:

Green cardstock

Paper from a paper pad bought in Lidl

China die

Tulips (bought in SuperBrugsen a long time ago)

Christening cake for Laura

My boss had a baby girl back in October and March 14th it was time for her christening and he asked me if I would make the cake for them. It has been a long time since I last made one, so I must say I am a bit out of practice but I accepted anyway. The cake was ordered to be for 35 people but due to the Corona virus they ended up being a lot less, so I think the top cake went into the freezer. Here's the cake which I think turned out really pretty:

The cake consisted of 2 layers of yellow cake (drømmekage med et twist) and 1 layer of chocolate cake. The mousses were Bailey's mousse and raspberry mousse and I covered the cakes with SMBC before I put the homemade fondant on. All the decorations are also made in fondant, so it is all edible.

Acrylic pouring class

A week and a half ago I went to a class about acrylic pouring. And it was so much fun making these kind of paintings, at least if you don't mind not being able to control the outcome. I made 4 paintings, using 4 different techniques. Unfortunately we all had a hard time getting some good cells, but I think the paintings turned out okay anyway.

For this one I tried dirty pouring together with the string pull technique. This is also my favorite.

It is not so dark in real life, but it was hard to take pictures of it.

This one was open cup pouring, and made with some of my left-over paints.

For this one I used the swipe technique.

And lastly for this one I used th collander pour technique.

I definitely have to try this again, I am hoping to make some really nice pictures to hang on the wall.

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