House mouse ATC

Today I want to show you a cute ATC (artist trading card) I made with one of the adorable HM images. The little stamps are perfect for these kind of projects and are a perfect way to use up those tiny pieces of paper/ribbon/etc. You might think they are faster to make than cards, but since I'm not really used to making them it took almost as long as a card to finish. It's a great way to think outside the box though and a perfect way to let your special bits and pieces shine.

I'm especially proud of the piece of paper I managed to find that looks like the little feather laying on the ground. I also like the colorcombo.

Challenges:

Everybody art - summer
House mouse - ATC
Stampalot challenge - anything
Stampin for the weekend - spots and dots

70:ies necklace in a modern version

I have a couple of things that I made/finished lately that I haven't showed you yet. This necklace is one of them. I finished it quite a while ago, but never got around to showing it to you. It's made out of semi-precious stones I've had for years. I've had a couple of broken necklaces that I got from my mom and here and there. They were all in the same type of stones - quite popular in the 70:ies I think. I'm usually not wearing gold-coloured jewelry, but I thought these stones were beautiful with gold.

I wanted the necklace to be long and I wanted to use up the stones I had. I made it quite symmetrical with big stones and goldflower/small stone. I added a clasp (the golden ball seen in pic above) so you can wear the necklace double and shorter if you want to. I think the clasp is brilliant since it barely shows, looking like one of the flowers. It's beautiful, don't you think?

Hoppy Christmas deer friend

I'm having a "vacation" during august from the sweetpea DT so there will be no weekly SP cards from me during this month. Instead I'm taking out all the fab stamps I haven't had the chance to play with yet. There will be one sweetpea hop in the middle of the month that I will participate in, so stay tuned. There is a fabulous new release coming soon.

Ever had one of those cards that just doesn't want to get done? Well, this was a card like that. It started out great with the cute image from whiff of joy. Fab colouring if I may say so and great papers to match. All possibilities to turn out great and then - FRUSTRATION. I started on this over a week ago and it's been laying on my crafttable ever since, not wanting to play. I hate when something starts out beautifully, but messes in the end. I don't like just whipping those cards up in the end because they always start out with so much potential. In the end however I had to admit defeat and just finish it somehow so I could move on to something else. Not sure what's wrong with it, but something is just off. Not my best work I must admit, but I'm sure I'll be happy having it right around Christmas when I noticed I'm waaaay behind on Christmascards (AGAIN!) :D

Challenges:

A spoon full of sugar - tag
Everybody art - sketch
Paperplay - Christmas
Papertake weekly - anything
Simon says stamp - Christmas
Simon says stamp and show - tag
Stamp and create - animals
Totally papercrafts - holidays
Whiff of joy - buttons and bows

August blogcandy

Bunny Zoe's - 3:rd

Cathy - 7:th

Melly - 7:th

Lacey - 8:th

Mags - 8:th

Bunny Zoe's - 12:th

Deb - 13:th

Brenda - 26:th

Sweetpea bloghop featuring Rebecca Sinz

Hello and welcome to sweetpea's bloghop featuring artist Rebecca Sinz. If you have come from Karina's blog then you are on the right track, if not, start from the sweetpea blog. Our designteam has worked with the beautiful images drawn by Rebecca Sinz. If you leave a comment (before august 1:st) on every post during the hop you have a chance of winning a $20 gift voucher to the sweetpea shop. And all the Rebecca Sinz stamps are now 20% off. How great is that? (I moderate by comments so don't freak out if you don't see it straight away. Leave only one comment per person so it will be easier for me to count after the hop, thank you)

Ok, so on to my card:

I have used the slightly melancholic looking image called Gothic Lament. I think this card could work beautifully as a sympathy card - they are so hard to make.
The image is coloured with promarkers, cut out with a nestabilitie and the edges are inked with two distress inks. The thing that took the longest is that aggrivating bowembellishment. I knew I wanted a bow and that stone looking thing in the middle as it looks like the girl's pendant. I just couldn't get it all together and after an hour or two I just had to admit defeat. The papers I have used are from DCWV and have a wonderful metallic sheen to some of the details.

I cut out the oval so the rose and one of the wings would be outside of the frame. Doing it this way makes you focus a bit more on the rose, which gives the sadness an even bigger impact. I also put a black frame on one side of the oval. I think it balances out the image and the whole layout.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. Next on your hop-stop is Micki.

Challenges for this card:

Cute card thursday - sketch

I love promarkers - anything goes

Sweetpea bloghop tomorrow - don't miss out

We're having a hop and you can see my project right here in exactly 12 hours :) See you then.

House mouse 100:th challenge celebration

It's been a while since I played with all the other stamps I have in my stash. I have really missed doing that and entering challenges. During the last few months I've been focusing on my other crafts, but now I feel like I'm slowly coming back. And I'm having a blast.

Today's card is mainly for the house mouse challenge blog. These mice were among the first stamps I fell inlove with, but they were sooo expensive to get here in Sweden. I remember getting my first internet order from the US. Owning my first house mice...I think the love for cute images started right there and then. How could you not love these?

I was very pleased with the card I made yesterday and wanted to continue on the summery feel. Pink/green together with a cute image and butterflies, you just can't go wrong. I used my sewing machine around the edges of the image and pink card and to make a swirl looking like the butterfly's trail. I went over with a glittery pen along those dots and on the flower.

Challenges:

Basic Grey - sketch (I used patterned papers from the urban prairie line)
Everybody art - dots (from the sewing machine trail)
House mouse - buttons, bows and bling
Papertake weekly - getting cute
Stampavie and more - birthday
Stamp and create - ribbons and bows
Stampin for the weekend - animals with 4 legs

July blogcandy

Melissa - 24:th

Anita - 27:th

Bunny Zoe's - 28:th

Tab - 29:th

Make it crafty - 31:st

Debbie - august 1:st

If your name is Patsy C - DON'T LOOK! :)

Finally a card from me and let me tell you: I had so much fun making it. A dear internet friend of mine is having her b-day soon and I decided to make a special card for her. She mentioned in her latest e-mail she was into pink/green and shabby chic at the moment. I found these papers that are both and since the colourcombo is one of my favourites I was excited to start. Choosing an image was tricky, but as soon as I saw this stamp called Untouchable by Linda Biggs (plate 81) I knew it would be perfect. I wanted to make it super girly and summery and wanted to add more embellishments and details than usual. I think I managed to learn something new as the card is a bit outside my comfortzone with all the details. If nothing else I managed to learn to measure the whole paper properly, or at least try on a piece of scrap, before I go all out with the punch, lol.

The little butterfly on the stamp is the exact shape and size as one of the butterflies on the borderpunch. I cut it  out, embellished and raised up the wings a bit.

Challenges:

Bunny Zoe's - fun in the sun
By the cute and girly - things w wings
Crafts and me - add a flower
Magical monday - use texture (dryembossed butterflies)
Paper sundaes - beach or summer
Passion for promarkers - sketch
Simon says stamp and show - embossing (the butterflies are dryembossed)
Southern girls - happy birthday
Stamp challenges - something embellished
Totally gorjuss - punch or die

Dryembossed papertechnique

Hope you are having a wonderful summer. I just got back from a vacation to Mallorca with lots of inspiration. I originally wanted to make a "usual" card, but started playing with an idea. This technique took me about 5 minutes to come up with and about 20 minutes to finish the whole card. Don't you just love when everything goes right? Haven't had that in a while :)

The image I've been playing with is one of the first ones from sweetpea, plate 18.

What I did was dryemboss  a piece of white paper (I use to stamp on) with a cuttlebug folder. I used the one with little dots. I then inked up my stamp in black ink and stamped it off on the backside of the embossed paper. You want to stamp where the dots are sunk in, otherwise you won't get a clear image. Then I coloured the all of the image in twinkling H2Os. I only have 3 colours, but it was just perfect. Don't use to much water, because what happens is that the sunk in dots will stay white while the details of your image are coloured. Finally I attached the image to another embossed panel - this time leaves and added a coloured butterfly in the corner. It's very simple, and I like the organic look. The dots also work beautifully with this image. All the colours are shimmering, although it was a bit hard to photograph.

Hope you got inspired and are having a great day.

Challenges:

ABC challenge - Past challenges: V is for violet (from may 25:th 2011)
Simon says stamp - anything goes
Stampin' for the weekend - wings and things
Stamptacular - animal antics

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