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

Special Friend Gift Bag

I made a gift bag for my best friends birthday gift,
using left over paper pieces and lots of layers.
I also went a little crazy playing with fran-tage,
because I finally invested in a heat gun and embossing products!
I love to make things shabbyer and change how they look,
but I have very little patience in waithing for sticky
paint and glitter that need to dry before the card is finished.
Also I just love the snowy sparkle dusty effect on images,
so I was very eager to test it.

The paper are mixes of left over paper, some Pion and Inkido I think.
I distressed and curled the edges.
I layered with cardboard and cheese cloth. 

The stamp is from Lily of the Vally,
embossed with Black Soot.
I used Chunky White and Black around the edges of the dies.
The die is the Magnolia Dream Tag. The back piece is covered
in white glitter. 

The heart button, lace, pearl  and pearl string
and string are from Ribbon Girl.

I used roses from Wild Orchid Crafts, little fans from Kort og Godt,
a doily, and a little clip from Tim Holtz. The charms was made
and given to me by a friend. 

I also got new swirl dies from Tim Holtz. I used old book pages
and more Fran-tage. 

Card and Scrap - Alt er lov

Vintage Utfordring - Minst tre lag
Deep Ocean Challenge - At least one flower
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Lag på lag
Kort O Mania - Alt er lov
ABC Challenge - Frantage - Sentiment - Lace

The Ribbon Girl Magnolia Only Challenge *GDT*

This feels so strange, but I can now announce that (pending on my final grades)

I have finished school! I now hold the title in Norway called

adjunkt, meaning I am a teacher with four years of higher education.

I have to say, I am proud of myself. I actually made it!

Jobhunting is so far not looking up, it was a bit of an anti climax

when I delivered my very last exam for this time, and realised

I am no longer a student, I am simply unemployed.

So I have called around and are on the lists when there are need for subs,

and have applied for every available position.

Today I want to show you a card I made as guest designer 

for one of my favourite stores/blogs, The Ribbon Girl!

This Magnolia Only Challenge we want to see birthday cards.

Easy peasy, and perfect too, as there are some comming up that

I need to get cards ready for.

Ribbon Girl goodies used: 

* Floribunda Roses White

* Liquid Pearls White Opal

* 15 mm White Church Window Guipure

* 100 mm 'Camilla' Ivory Flat Lace

* 4 mm Opal Irridescent Bead String

* Wooden Heart Buttons

* 10metres Ivory Button Twine

Tilda was colored With Distress Reinkers,

This time I kept it light. No shading anywhere

ecept her hair. And I still dont like the curls,

they are just impossible. But I guess I have not practiced

my coloring that much lately either.

I added a lot of Star Dust Stickles,

of course. 

I used a letter A charm, and a doily. 

The sentiment is from Papirloftet,

it used to be my favourite scrap store,

but it closed a while ago. 

I got myself some of those paper straws on Ebay,

and I made them into flagpoles using pins from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I love that lace, so I added some on the flags. 

Challenges:

Addicted to stamps Challenge - Bingo (lace, pearls, doilie)
Tildas Town - Use your stash
Totally Gorjuss - Buttons and/or bows
Scrappelyst - Vår
MDUC - Tic tac toe (sentiment, buttons, metal)
Creative Inspirations - Birthdays
Kort O Mania - Kort til barn
Scrappin all over - Shabby Chic
Deep Ocean Challenge - Wings
Card and Scrap - Shabby Chic

Fairy Fift Birthday! *Marvelous Magnolia DT*

On the 17th my sweet little girl turned 5,

and is was celebrated in a fashionable manner with a

princess party and lots and lots of pizza and cake,

baloons and pink sugary stuff.

This is the card I made for her,

with one of my abselute favourite Tildas!

It is also my inspirational card for the midway reminder
of our super simple challenge over at
Marvelous Magnolia: Anything goes! Come join us. :)

The papers are from Inkido, Maja and Poppy Design.

I used my cloud dies from Magnolia, I wanted to make

a little magical scene with butterfly clouds,

pearl wind, frosted flowers and glittering mushrooms. 

The heart buttons are from Ribbon Girl,

I added some acryllic paint to them (and pretty much

everything else on my card...). The letters are from Prima. 

I also used pearl string, a heart doily, a sentiment from Magnolia,

a pin, and cheese cloth. 

Tilda was inked with Distress Reinkers and a waterbrush,

I used Liquid Pearl around, and lots of Star Dust Stickles. 

The lace, starburst stamens and white flowers are all from Ribbon Girl.

The other flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I used my Martha Stewart lacy heart puncher too. 

I used lots of cheese cloth under the flowers,

and frosted everything with acryllic paint, and some stickles

on the mushrooms from Prima. 

Challenges:

Magnolia-Licious - Bling it up
Magnolia Down Under Challenges - Butterflies

Deep Ocean Challenge - Just for a Girl

Fashionista Challenge - Shabby Chic Creations

The Ribbon Girl Challenge - Add lace

Tildas Town - Anything Goes

Scrappin All Over - Bruk osteklut (Stikker ut under blomstene)
Kort O Mania - Puncher/Dies

Pearls and flowers

Another shabby left over card.

I used papers from Maja Design,

and the green one is foreign to me.

The flowers are from Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts.

I used a doily, a crown pin, 

 and a piece of pearl swirl from Ribbon Girl.

Challenges:
Card and Scrap - Alt kan feires

ACB Challenge - F for flowers

Kort O Mania - Punch eller dies

Mother

Today I want to show you another one of my
shabby left-over paper cards.

This one just came easily,
and I got to use some beautiful stuff that sadly
 have been gathering dust for ages.

Since the papers where just little pieces I have no idea
where it came from. Not the kinds of paper I would normally
combine, but I liked how they look together. :)

I got this old chipboard frame from one a fellow scrapper,
and same goes for the leafes.
The roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts,
and are too powdery in the shade so I dont use them that much,
because they dont match the pink Maja Papers I am so in love with.
But this time, I think these finally where the right ones. 

I used cardboard, a doily, 

and a chipboard swirl. I used a lot of accrylic paint
and Star Dust Stickles. The letters are from American Crafts,
and I also used some pearls.
Finished the card of with some
Glimmer Mist Chalkboard Chalk. 

Challenges:
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Wild Orchid Challenge - Love is

Shabby Love

I have seen several gorgeous cards with no "image" ladely,
and I got so inspired to make some myself.
I had great fun, and I hope you like it,
as I have more of these ready to show you,
and I also know that these cards actually sell (so I can buy
myself some new scrap stuff!). Also it is a great way
to use papers I just never could use for my Magnolia cards,
and leftover papers, and just other kinds of flowers and colors.

The papers on this card is from My Minds Eye.
I used a pearl flower that I cut into several pieces. 

I used cardboard, an old doily cut out from a table cloth,
and my Martha Stewart doily puncher.
The largest flower is from Prima, the other two are from
Wild Orchid Crafts.

I think both this key and the cloth are from Ribbon Girl.
I added some Star Dust Stickles on the key. 

Challenges:
Kreativ Scrapping - Hjerter

ABC Challenge - Embellish

Wild Orchid Challenge - Love is...