New item on etsy

Just a quick note letting you know I've uploaded a butterfly bag on etsy. You can see more details and description of it HERE. Thanks for looking :)

Basic Grey blogcandy

Basic Grey challenge blog is back and they are offering a biiig candy to celebrate their return. Look what you can get your hands on:



Make sure to join before 21:st 10pm GMT.

If friends were flowers...

Today I finished a card for a couple of challenges. The card is in a distress/vintage style that isn't really "me". I'm trying to develop that style though and I think I'm getting better and better at it.

I used a sketch from the Besic Grey challenges. Did you know they are back again? They disappeared for a while and now they're back - better than ever! This is the sketch they have for challenge number 1. I thought it was wonderful so I used it. But Imust admit I had a hard time cramming every detail in there, lol. I couldn't make the tag with the text so I had to make it a little plaque instead.

In order to join the challenge you need to use at least one item from Basic Grey. I used patterned papers that I had bought on a sale. They are called Wassail and I love that vintage look!

I decided to join just magnolia's challenge this week too by using a Magnolia image and the theme for this week: "friendship". I thought the papers and image worked beautifully together as did the text: "If friends were flowers I would pick you".

Finally lili of the valley have a challenge where you need to use charms. I went through my jewelry stash and although I mostly work with silver coloured metal I did find some bronze/golden chain and the butterfly. The butterfly hangs loose on the chain but I'm thinking about glueing it to the middle of the ribbon. Can't decide :)

Promarkers used: coral, ruby, saffron, marsh green, pastel yellow and primrose. Hair coloured with an old pantone pen, similar to promarker's sandstone. The outer flower is a white one coloured with marsh green to match the image exactly. I also used my square nesties and CB embossing folder.

Vintage Paris bookmark

One of my absolute fav stampsheets from sweet pea stamps is the Paris - plate 6 (that is on sale by the way for only $5.63.)
I've been wanting to play with it ever since I got them last week and today I finally felt creative enough to do something with it.


I decided to make a tag/bookmark - getting inspired by Tim Holtz's Christmas tags. I finally got to use my alcohol inks that I bought ages ago. I think I have the wrong tools for them and that's why they haven't been working properly. The felt I have is too thin and the paper too porous.


I started by cutting out a piece of shrink plastic in my cuttlebug. I used one of my big tags. After that I inked the big Paris stamp with black staz-on ink, right side up I put on the shrink plastic and rubbed a little to get ink all over the tag. After the ink dried I turned it over and on the BACKSIDE I inked it with alcohol inks. I used butterscoth, cranberry and eggplant. Then I heated it so it shrunk and after it cooled down I coloured the edges with a goldpen.

The big tag is coloured using the same inks, blotted around at random. After I coloured it I stamped the big Paris stamp over it with staz-on ink and edged with the goldpen. Finally I found a coordinating fiber and attached the small tag to the big one. Voilá - we have a fabulous bookmark!


I made this bookmark for the Simon says stamp challenge - "anything but a card" and for stampin for the weekend. Their theme was "days gone by". I think this tag has that Vintage romantic look.

I hope you liked what I did today. I think even T!m would've been proud :)

Which witch? The cute Halloween one?

I'm on a roll today, lol. I'm having so much fun making cards. So many ideas...I love it!

Ok, so I know it's a bit early for Halloweencards, but I got so inspired from the latest stampsheet from my DT kit from sweetpea stamps. I'm so happy to be on the team. I never thought the stamps would be so easy to work with and so inspiring!

I've made this card using a sketch from the Charisma cardz blog.


I've used the girl from the latest stampsheet from sweetpea stamps, the Halloween sheet. It's only $6 if you preorder it by 15:th (so you need to hurry). Original price is $12 so it's a good price too I think since you get so many stamps and texts.



This card almost made itself. I just had these two Halloween papers. It suited the stamp perfectly since one of the texts were: cute little witches. Perfect! We don't really send cards to eachother on Halloween here in Sweden so I don't buy many of those papers. I had a hunch earlier this year though that I might want to make a Halloween card or two. I'm glad I was right! I coloured the image yesterday before going to bed and put it together today in maybe 1 hour (that's fast in my book ;)

I used my promarkers again to colour the girl: ivory, lilac, pumpkin, warm grey2 and lime green. I embossed the orange panel with one of my CB folders. It's supposed to be branches of some sort, but I think it might pass as spiderweb. Now I regret not buying that pumpkin embossing folder earlier...Grrr...
Hope you enjoyed my card.

Jumping for joy

I have made another Christmascard, this time for the sunday sketch and stamp challenge blog. Here's the sketch they had:

and here's my card:

I've used a digistamp that I got from a blogfriend. It was enclosed in an english magazine last year I think. There is a whole sheet of adorable doggies and cats so I'm sure I'll be making more Christmascards with them. Don't you just love the pooch trying to escape his square, lol?
The image is coloured with promarkers: burnt sienna, apple, marsh green, berry red and carmine. I used white liquid appliqué on the furry part of the hat. I also used the dimensional liquid thingy on the pooche's nose, on some of the bulbs and on the text (I can't remember what the dimensional thingy is even called right now. Help anyone?). The text is from a piece of cardstock. I like buying papers with text on them because it gives you an easy and cheaper way to add sentiments.


I'm also putting up this card on our creative corner where the challenge is: "Christmas in august".

I hope you liked my card and that you will leave a comment :)

Goodiebag contest for Swedish bloggers

This is a post for swedish bloggers where we have a shot at a great goodiebag filled with different beautyproducts etc.

Nu pågår en tävling hos Julia Berg där du kan vinna en goodiebag fylld med en massa roliga saker! Reglerna är enkla, var med och tävla du med, tryck HÄR! Sponsorer för tävlingen är: Pärlsmycken, Bambubutiken, Happystore, Glamouren, Wishdesign, Blingit, Beautifulme, Karin Herzog, Girlstuff, Design Atenga, Frozza, Pay less 4 quality, Puss, Bemi Smycken, Smyckespecialisten.

Christmouse for Christmas

It's been a while since I've joined the Penny Black saturday challenge or made a card using my PB's. I liked the sketch this week (AND the prize, lol). After my latest extremely bright card and the elegant/damask one (not sure what it's called in english) I felt like doing a Christmas card. I don't have many Christmaspapers although I have been buying some on recent sales. I'm really itching to buy some X-mas paperpacks later on and maybe sharing some in an upcoming candy (hint hint ;) Anyhow, I bought these papers last year and they are one of my fav colourcombos for Christmascards.

Here's the challenge sketch:

My take on it:

I have a box where I keep all of my Christmasstuff. It's a great idea since I only need to look through that box to find things for X-mas projects. I got some cutouts many years ago - before I had learned to use them. I wanted to find a snowflake since I don't have any in my qk collection (they were out when I shopped last). I found this one and I embossed it with my snowflakes CB folder.

I used a blue brilliance pad when inking the image. I tried to emboss the flake, but since brilliance don't emboss well I added some glitterglue instead.
At first I thought the card was a bit too busy with all that glitter and stones only on the upper part, but now I like it. The silver charm "peace" I bought at my local jewelrystore.

I've noticed that if you layer the patterned paper on some cardstock it looks more professional. It might sound simple, but it took me a while to figure it out, lol. I'm feeling so proud of myself making these cards. Blogging has REALLY helped me improve!

I'm also joining this week's challenge on the Dutchdare cardchallenges. The theme this week is "Christmas in august" which suits me perfectly since I missed all of the "Christmas in july" challenges.

A new challenge blog

I have found a new challenge blog called creatalicious challenges. They are a monthly blog and held on the 15:th. You can do whatever you like and combine it with as many other challenges as you'd like.
To start off the new blog there is a prrrretttyy niiiceee candy for those of us who are spreading the word (me me me!)
If you want a chance on the candy too, you need to enter before the end of today (13:th)

Count your rainbows...

This week I've been playing with the sugarbowl blog. I just love those Sugar Nellie stamps and this week you could've had a chance to win six stamps of your choice!!! I just had to join :)
The challenge was to use a sketch and doodle. I've doodled around the limegreen paper, around the image and I've actually also doodled the whitish horisontal patterned part.

I love these papers and had a lot of fun making this card.




My doodled part (the white on black. It's drawn with a white gel roller and then distressed with Tim Holtz' ink.