Crochet

When my summer vacation started 3 weeks ago, I decided I wanted to use some of the time on learning to crochet. So I have been watching lots of videos on YouTube and made several little samples, and I have so far made 3 dish cloths, but I will only show 2 of them here, since the third one got very crooked, so I didn't finish it with a border. But here are the 2 I have made:

The striped one is a corner to corner (C2C) and turned out to be really easy, and I can definitely recommend trying this pattern if you are a newbie like me.

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

Birthday card for my husband

My husband celebrated his 53rd birthday last month, so I made him this card, which for me is a CAS card. I was able to use some old scraps of paper with alcohol ink, that I made in a class a while back:

Materials used:

Scrap piece with alcohol ink

Dusty blue cardstock

Spellbinders D-Lites – Make a Wish

By Lene Design – Dagens mand

Lindys Stamp Gang spray – Blazing black

A card and a cake

Recently one of my nephews turned 20 and his parents and girlfriend arranged a surprise party for him. And no party without a cake, so I made him a naughty cake with big boobs 😉.

The cake consisted of 3 layers of vanilla cake (drømmekage), 1 layer w/elderflower mousse and 1 w/strawberry and rhubarb mousse. It was iced with IMBC and covered with homemade fondant.

I also made a card to go with the present for him and that turned out this way:

Materials used:

13@rts – His & Hers Remastered collection 6x6

UHK Gallery – Old Fashioned Christmas collection

White and kraft cardstock

Crealies – Star die

Marianne Design – COL1347 (numbers)

Spellbinders – Triple Tear and Matting Basics 6x6

Dixi Craft – Alphabeth

Banners – cut by hand

Quick Christmas Cards

Last weekend I went to visit my Godparents, they are both over 80 so they are at high risk when it comes to the Corona virus, but they are good at staying at home and taking care of each other. It was really good to see that they are doing great and coping well with everything that is going on. I had made a little box with some different cards for them, so they have some for different occacions. Among them were some Christmas cards which I will show today. All the cards are made with papers that came with at magazine from Hunkydory - Cardmaking collection.

Other materials used:

Gold and Silver cardstock

White and light teal cardstock

Dies - Marianne Design, Yvonne Creatief, Card Making Magic, China die and Simple and Basic

Stars from my stash

The banner with "Glædelig Jul" is cut from an old Christmas card
and a leftover piece from a braided star

A new layout of William

I have not made as many layouts of my son, as I have of the girls, so I thought it was about time I made another one for him. And since Maja Design has some great boyish papers I decided to use some of that with some school pictures from 3 years ago. And considering that I think it is really hard to make masculine cards and layouts I am very pleased with the outcome.

A few close-ups:

Materials used:

Maja Design – Denim & Friends collection, 12x12 and 6x6

Dusty Attic – Mini tabs #2, Word pack #6

Dutch Doobadoo stencil – Bricks

Stamps – Crealies No. 27 + one bought at the grocery store

Crealies die – Crea-Nest-Lies XXL no. 19 stars

Distress Ink – Vintage Photo

Pearls from my stash

Gesso and blue acrylic paint

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