Pink and fluffy

Look look look, I've even colored! It has been such a loong time!

This card was made for a "secret friend" gift exchange

we did at a forum I've used for years and year.

We chose not to know the gender of our baby,

but the recipient of my gift is having a girl,

so it had to be pink, sparkly and fluffy. 

Challenges: 

Kort O Mania - La det blomstre

Simply Magnolia - Chabby Chick

Lovely Hänglar or Sweet Magnolia - Flowers

Magnolia-licious - Anything Goes

Blue Baby Love

Yeah, I'm still alive. And as promised, I will post whenever

I make something. I just make a lot less now, since I am working

so much and have less energy to be creative. I am even late

with my daughters birthday card, but I have started.

When summer comes, hopefully I'll get my scrap mojo back

in time for my long teachers vacation. And who knows,

perhaps I'll be working less later on...? ;)

This card I made for a friend from work who got her first child,

a little boy called Sigurd (very Norwegian!). 

I played a lot with some new dies and papers from Maja Design. 

I got a label maker for Christmas, my bestie pays attention!

The image was colored with Distress Reinkers.

I added lots of Star Dust Stickles, and lots of Frantage.

The letters are covered with Crackle Accents. 

Lots of lace, prima flowers, roses, doilies, fans and crown needles,

cloth and pearl stamens. 

Challenges:
Kort O Mania - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Marvelous Magnolia - Flower Frenzy
Tildas Town - Use your stash
Simply Magnolia - Embossing
Ribbon Girls - Anything but a square

Thank you to everyone who still follows and visits!
Hope to see you again. :)

Baby Boy Baptism

My fiance´s aunt asked me to make a card for
a baptism. This is what I came up with.
The baby´s mother is my fiance´s cusin,
and I was so disappointed when she told me what
she was going to name the baby. Completely irrational,
but Håkon was the name we had as a backup in case
Sofie was a boy, and we always intended to use it if we
ever had a boy. It was the name of his grandfather,
and the middle name of his father, so it would have been
very special to use. But hey, we have no guarantee of
ever having a boy, I'm not even pregnant, so we just
have to be to have a little Håkon in the family. :)

The papers I have used are from Maja Design and Magnolia.
I used a square doily, lace and cheese cloth from Ribbon Girl.
The flag pole is a paper straw, I added a blue crown pin
to the top. 

The big metal corners was embossed,
and I used flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.
The film strip and leaf dies are from Tim Holtz. 

The big flower is from Prima. The die swirl-leaf was embossed,
painted white, I added pearls and then covered it with Star Dust Stickles.
I added some acrylic paint to all the flowers.  

I seem to have forgotten how to paint, so I had to try twice to
get a proper image. Guess I need to color more.
I used Distress Reinkers.
Aaand I am totally in love with embossing.
I used a Magnolia Swirl Stamp and embossed white around the edges,
before I added chunky white Frantage and embossed some more...
I also used Chalkboard Glimmer Mist, and Star Dust Stickles. 

The letters are dies from Memory Box. 

Challenges:
The Ribbon Girl Challenge - Glitz and Dazzle

Simply Magnolia - Lace and Pearls

Kreativ Scrapping - Baby
Addicted to stamps - White + one other color

Scrappelyst - Barn/baby
Tildas Town - Anything Goes
Marvelous Magnolia - Layered up
ABC Challenge - U is for Unique
Cards and Scrap - Bruk Dies
Creative Inspirations - Lovely Lace

Baby Girl Sweetness

So it seems I have been in a blog-hibernation.
Almost two months since my last post.
I have spent my summer working as a maid in a hotel,
very busy work indeed, and very hard work,
so I simply have had little energy left for creativity.

Today I have a day off, and I think perhaps I'll try to
make a card or two. In the meantime I can show you
a card I made earlier this spring/summer for the second
of my baby nieces when she was born. 

The papers are all from Maja design,
and I used several doilies. 

The ribbons, lace, cloth, pearls, string and button are all from
Ribbon Girl.
I also used a swirl die cut from Magnolia,
and the roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts. The teal flower is from
a store called Nille. 

I inked the Magnolia Image up with Distress Reinkers,
misted with Chalkboard Glimmer Mist,
and added Star Dust Stickles. 

A couple of little teddy bear charms. 

The letters are from Prima, and Here is another Doohickey Die Cut. 

Challenges:
Magnolia-Licious - Anything Goes

Magnolia Down Under - Chabby Chic

Lovely Hänglar Sweet Magnolia - Celebrate

Stamp and Create with Magnolia - Anything Goes

For a baptism

This Saturday the first of my nieces is getting baptised,
so I needed to have a card ready for that. 

The papers are all from Maja Design. I also used doilies, and
my Marthe Stewart Lace edge puncher. 

The flowers and pins are from Wild Orchid Crafts.
The rustic heart, lace, cloth and seam binding ribbon I got at Ribbon Girl.
I rarely use my own handwriting on my crafting,
but it will do for this time. 

I added round pearls and flat back pearls to the ribbon, 

Buttons from Ribbon Girl,
and charms on a twine string from RG too. 

I think this big flower is from Prima. I added some Star Dust Stickles,
and a crystal pendant. The leafes are Magnolia Doohickeys,
cut out from an old book page. 

Challenges:
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Papirdukkene - Vintage/Shabby
Kort O Mania - Anything Goes
Trykkpressa - Blomster
Vintage Utfordring - Metallpynt/Charms

Pink for a Baby Girl

This weekend one of my (many) brothers had a baby,

my very first niece. I cant wait to go wisit and get some

baby cuddely! This is the card I made for them.

All the papers are from Maja Design.

I also used three kinds of heart doilies,

and lots of feathers and cheese cloth. 

Closed up, kind of... I used a few kinds of lace,

and a baby footprint ribbon. 

I inked the little baby Magnolia with Distress Reinkers.

I have to say, this image is not one of my favourites to color,

there is so much detail and hard to tell where the shadow would go.

I guess I'll get to work on it, because I am getting

another niece in april. :)

None of my flowers felt right today, I was digging deep into

my flowers, and ended up "making" these from flat flowers,

I added water and a brad (they are the same color, strange picture...),

and I used some roses. All the flowers are from WOC.

I also used a bling heart stick pin from Ribbon Girl. 

I punched some butterflies with my Martha Stewart Puncher. 

The letters are from Prima. I added white acryllic paint to tone

down the colors. I also used a couple of big snowflakes,

they are perfect for layering. 

And I also added a lot of Star Dust Stickles,

Chalk Glimmer Mist and Liquid Pearl. 

Magnolia-Licious - Anything Goes (celebrate)

Ribbon Girl Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Card and Scrap - Bruk Bling

Creative Inspirations - Stamping
Deep Ocean Challenge - Fantasy

Fashionista Challenge - Anything Goes

Addicted to stamps - Flowers
Tildas Town - Celebrate
Sketch Saturday - Sketch
In the pink - Die Cuts and Punches
Lovely Hänglar or Sweet Magnolia - Ribbon/trim
Time for Magnolia Challenge - Something on hair

Magnolia Mania - Snowflakes

Baby Prince

I was actually sitting down at my desk today to make

a few CAS-cards, but I had started to ink an image before,

and I picket it up to try to do a bit more work on it.

Well, I colored two complete images and two halv-done ones.

Then I strolled arount the challenge blogs for inspiration,

and made this blue baby card. 

My first time really scrapping in almost a month and a half!

The papers I used are from Maja Design. I really love striped papers!

I also used a die cut frame, a doily, cloth, my Martha Stewart

Lace Puncher, and a Magnolia Doohickey tag (you can maybe spot

a glimse of it under the flowers?) and a cloud, plus my spellbinders of course. 

The Magnolia baby image is wolored with Distress Ink.

I used Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose and Victorian Velvet

for skin. The clothes are all Wethered Wood. I used Pumice

Stone for wings and pillow. The shading is Wethered Wood

and Black Soot. 

The letters are from American Craft, and I used lots of pearls!

I have a bow of seem binding ribbon with a Crown from

Panduro on top. The swirls are from Prima,

and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. I also used

white mesh from Ribbon Girl. 

The image is covered with a thick coat of Chalkboard Glimmer Mist,

but it didnt show in any of the pictures today. I also used a lace

from WOC, and a white tuille ribbon from Ribbon Girl. 

Challenges: 

Creative Inspirations - Prince and princesses (is this okey?)

Deep Ocean Challenges - Blue

ABC Challenge - Roses (are red)

Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Masse blomster

MDUC - Tic Tac Toe Baby Boy (Lace, cloth, dies)

Lovely Hänglar and Magnolia - Flower Power

Addicted to Stamps - Lots of layers

Kort O Mania - topp 5 (perler, doily, bånd/blonder, dies, blomster)

Card and Scrap - Blonder/bånd

Baby Boy

Happy new year!

Today I have a baby card to show you,

I am going to be an aunt, any day in January the baby is comming, 

and I am sooo excited!

They have been trying for a long time,

and now the baby is almost due. :)

The ultra sound said it was going to be a boy,

so I have one card ready. I think I'll put the name of the baby

on it after he is born, they havent told anyone or decided the name yet. 

This card is my take on CLPs new sketch!

I have used some gorgeous papers from Maja Design.
The edges are distressed with Walnut Stain. 

A little peak at the new sketch, I love it!

I love this "charm"/frame, it even has glass on it. 

I have used some pompoms, loopet organza trim,

and regular organza trim tied in a bow.

I also have used pearl string, and pearles-in-a-row.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, and the white swirlies

are from Kort og Godt.

I used three baby charms. 

This is a piece of a die cut that I clued on some bazzil and cut out.

Like how it lookes.

I used some more pearls, and Star Dust Stickles on the image frame. 

This little baby is of course from Magnolia,

and so is the corner stamps. 

I inked him with Distress Reinkers.

Skin - Tattered rose and Vintage Photo, Aged Mahogany.

Clothes - Faded Jeans and Pumice stone.

Wings - Wethered Wood and Faded Jeans

Shading - Wethered Wood.

Challenges:

Magnolia Down Under Challenges - Anything Goes

Simon says Stamp - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - New

Lovely Hänglar Only - Anything Goes

Kort O Mania - Anything Goes

Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Happy New... (Baby!)

Pink for a Baptism

Today it is the first of October.
That means that it is time for a new sketch at CLP Challenges!

This is my take on the sketch.
It is a card for a baptism, they wanted it to be like my
standard cards with lots of details and girlie bits.

This is how the sketch look like, 

so pop over to join us!

 I think this image is from Mo Manning?
She is just so adorable. :)
I colored her with Distress Reinkers.
I used Vintage Photo and Antique Linen for her hair,
Tattered rose, Vintage Photo and Victorian Velvet for her skin.
Victorian Velvet for her clothes,
Victorian Velvet and Wethered Wood for her wings
(and Star Dust Stickles),
and Wethered Wood for shading.
I used some Liquid Pearl to make a little dust around her.

I used some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, and
a pearl-center from Ribbon Girl.

The ribbon and mesh are from Ribbon Girl. 

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I used letters from Prima and My Little Shoebox.
The lace is from Ribbon Girl. I also used some pompoms, cheese cloth,
Prima Bling and a charm.
The papers are from Maja Design and Inkido. 

This week I am at school,
so I`m sorry to say I cant visit your blogs until the weekend,
but I am looking forward to a great round of visits then. :)
Hope you are all having a lovely week!
Thank you for coming to see me. :)