Maja Design is having a giveaway

Good morning.

Well, we are in the middle of moving to a bigger place, but there's still time to check my favorite blog, Maja Design, and they are having a giveaway, and the price is the Sofiero collection, which is back for a limited time. Sofiero is a beautiful and very romantic collection and one of my favorites so it world be so great to be the lucky person who wins it.

These are the papers:

 

Aren't they just beautiful?  And I love that they have made coordinating single colored paper for it as well. And if you are the lucky winner, you will win both of the above sets.

Here is where you go, if you want to participate in the giveaway, and good luck:
http://majadesign.nu/an-old-favorite-is-back-giveaway/

Birthday card for a colleague

One of my colleagues turned 60 on Feb. 1st, so I made her a very girly card, since she, just like me, likes pink.

For this card I used papers from a 15 x 15 cm paper pack from Studio Light, flowers and pearl ribbon from Wild Orchid Crafts, the small flowers on the stems are from a local craftstore. The chipboard piece is from Scrapek and is embossed with some cream colored embossing powder. The half pearls are from my stash. I have used to dies for this one, the numbers came with a magazine and the circle is from Spellbinders Triple Tear.

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.

Birthday card for my sister

My sisters birthday is in March, but since we'll be moving in the beginning of March, I've already made the card for her. I have kept it pretty simple, since I don't know yet if I'll be sending it by mail or hand it to her personally.

For this card I have used papers from Lemoncrafts Gossomer Blue collection, which is absolutely stunning, unfortunately the picture doesn't show the colors very well, I'll try to take a better picture in the daylight tomorrow.
UPDATED Feb. 13th: I took some new pictures and the colors are a little better on these.

With this card I'm participating in Lemoncrafts first ever challenge.

Besides papers from the Gossomer Blue collection, I've used craft card for the card base, I used some lace ribbon and chipboard, which is also from Lemoncraft, and some half pearls from my stash. For the flowers and the blue circle I have used dies from Sue Wilson. The flowers on the chipboard I have colored with a Pergamano pencil and then I used some Stickles, Frosted Lace, on top to make the blue stand out more. I also distressed the Lemoncraft papers and used the Vintage Photo ink from Tim Holz on the edges to give them a more vintage look.

Cake for work

At work there's a lot of people that like cake A LOT. And there is no occasion that's to small or big to celebrate with cake. Besides the normal celebrations like birthdays, jubilees and anniversaries, we also bring cake when we go on vacation, get a new car, buy a new house, sign the deed for the house, sell a house, become pregnant or a grand parent, etcetera. When I had my last day before my summer vacation, it was also my last day in that department, since I moved to a new one, when I came back, so of course I had to bring cake. So I made this cake for my colleagues:

I made it very girly since that is my favorite, just as I prefer to make girly cards. I'm not a hundred % sure, but I think it consists of 3 layers of champagne cake, a layer of elderflower mousse and a layer of rhubarb mousse. It turned out to be a very good combination, definitely something I have to try again at some point.

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.