Breastcancer Christmas card

For this week's sweetpea stamps card I used non traditional colours. I used pink, kind of a breastcancer awareness Christmas card. I really like this image called light of beautitude and thought it would work beautifully (no pun intended) as this type of card, making the candles symbolize hope. A perfect card for a survivour. It's not really a Christmas image, but I think it works well as it anyway.

I must apologize though for the not so great images. I accidentaly dropped my camera the other day and the display isn't working so I'm litterally photographing in the dark. It so silly because I dropped it from a low chair and it was in it's padded cozy. I've been much rougher on it through the years, travelling with it a lot, but never really dropped it I guess. It must have bumped just in the wrong spot. Hopefully I can get it repaired as I can't live without it. It's so easy to use and loves me right back - such a chick camera :)

I have coloured the image with promarkers and added glitterglue to the wings. The leaves are punched out using a qk die called holly leaves. I added three red pearls to mimic some of the pattern on the background paper. I folded the corner on the left bottom to balance out the holly decoration. It's a quite simple card, but I think it's well balanced and interesting.

I thought of a couple of challenges while making this card:

ABC-challenge - G is for glitter
Alphabet challenge - A is for angels and fairies
A spoon full of sugar - let's get punchy
In a sweetpea dream - things with wings
Midnight madness - sketch
One stop craft - anything goes
Papertake weekly - sparkly and bright
Secret crafter - anything that flies
Simon says stamp - punch 'em
Stamp challenges - something with pink
Stamp with fun - all that can fly

Published again!

My computer has been taking a little vacation for the last couple of days. Today it came back and allowed me to read through my e-mails. One of them was from scrapbook news and review which is an online magazine. They informed me that the project I had sent in is going to be published in Volume #3, Issue #11 Sunday, October 31, 2010 8pm EST - their special double issue!

I'm so happy because this is the first time I sent anything to them and they accepted me at once. It was the same thing with stampers' sampler; got published on the first try. I'm going to be so spoiled expecting to be published every time, lol.

It's funny because I made that project for the GDT spot at Whiff of joy. Katharina didn't offer me any position, but instead I used the project and got published. I have taken away the pics until the end of november, but if you've been visiting my blog maybe you remember THIS POST?

Thanks a munch

Ok, so it's a slightly corny sentiment, but I wanted this to be a thank-you card and this is the best I could do, lol. I hope it makes sense to you using "munch" instead of "bunch". I'd definately like to munch some of those cakes!
Since I've been a bit tired of Halloween and autumn themed cards I decided on somthing totally different. It might have been a good idea to start on my Christmascards, but that would be out of charachter for me. Why not saving it until the very last minute instead, lol.

So for today's card I've been colouring one of Samantha Rawling's cuties called cake girl from sweetpea stamps. I got myself these patterned papers a while ago and as soon as the stamp came through my mailbox I've been wanting to use them together.

She is coloured with my promakers and cut out using one of the nestabilities. The edges are "burnt" with walnut stain distress ink. The little tag is a cuttlebug die and the text is written by hand (it shows unfortunately) I like how the smaller squares turned out. I rounded  two corners - diagonally. I think it creates a look like they are spritzed out, kind of like whipped cream or even the girl's hat. I also added glitterglue to some of the details on the patterned paper. The whipped cream on the girl's cake got some white liquid pearls.

The challenges I used for this card:

Cute card thursday - sketch
Simon says stamp - thanks
Secret crafter - use a manga image

Thanks for stopping by.

Auction for breastcancer fund/auktion för bröstcancerfonden

EDIT: Woohoo, the bust got 300 SEK on the breastcancer auction.Thanks everyone for bidding.

 I have donated my pink bust for an auction that raises money to support the fight against breatcancer. The auction ends 19:th. You can bid on it here:


Jag har donerat min rosa byst till pyssel.nets insamling till bröstcancerfonden. Auktionen avslutas den 19:e kl 20.00 (alltså imorgon kväll) Du kan lägga bud genom länken här:

New sweetpea release - detailed mermaid

There are a lot of new releases going on at sweetpea stamps. One of them is a new plate by Elaine Cox. I've been playing with one of the two images from that plate. Isn't she amazing? The stamp is quite big, about 5" wide. There are so many details to colour and for once I also coloured the background. It took me longer than I thought to colour the whole image, but seeing it done it was worth it. With a stamp like this you don't need many details around it. I wanted it to stand out so I focused on the colouring adding few embellishments.

I didn't follow any specific sketch as I wanted to leave it simple, but I managed to use a recipe challenge from simon says stamp: 3 types of embellishments, 2 patterned papers and 1 image. I'm also entering this card for peartreedesigns as they had a free themed challenge this week.

Happy Halloween, doll...

Are you tired of Halloween yet? I'm starting to be as I only have two Halloween patterned papers to play with, lol. I really want to get basic grey's eerie collection, but haven't found any good place to get them yet. To be honest I've been a bit of a cheapskate. Since we don't celebrate Halloween here I've been spending my moolah on other supplies, but after having so much fun with these cards I think I'll invest in some spooky ones. I think this is the most Halloween cards I've ever made during one year and it's been a blast.

For this card I used one of the older stamps from Kraftin' Kimmie's called Drucilla. I really love these stamps and I would like to have all of them! Actually, I was fortunate enough to win some during Kraftin' Kimmies bloghop. Can't wait to see which ones I get.

I didn't have any of the Halloween themed ones, but that never stopped me. I like to use what I have and thought this Voodoo one would fit perfectly. It is coloured with promarkers and the edges are inked with distress ink. I cut out two hearts in green and orange with my nesties which I then embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder. I used front on the orange heart and back on the green of the folder to add interest. This makes the skulls raised on one and pushed down on the other. It's a minor detail, but I think it makes a difference on the overall impression.

I also stamped the heartstamp - that comes with Drucilla - three times and colored in green, orange and purple. The texttag is a nestieshape and I wrote the text by hand. I wanted to write something funny and came up with this "doll" sentiment.

As always I had a couple of challenges in mind while working on it:

7 kids college fund - sketch+Halloween+use 2 stamps
Cupcake craft - scary creatures
Everybody art - Halloween
Kraftin' Kimmies - spooky card
Papertake weekly - 3 of something
Promarker challenge - green, orange, purple and black

Boo-tiful scenery

I've had a blast working on today's card. I have used the very sweet trick or treat stamp from sweetpea stamps, designed by Elaine Cox. The little owl is also a part of the stamp.

I started out with the house that I had laying around, cut out in Halloween paper using a qk die. As we don't celebrate Halloween in Sweden like the US I don't have many H papers. This is actually a scrap from a paper I bought years ago and keep using every year - I still haven't run out. It's a perfect way to use those smaller pieces not to mention a cheap way to make a card. As you can see it mainly consists of cardstock which is the most basic thing you can get. Both cheap and always available.

For the four background panels I have used four different cuttlebug embossing folders. The "boo" sentiment is from the same embossingfolder as the green panel. I embossed it and cut out with a circle nestie that had the perfect size. I cut out an orange circle in bling cardstock using a circle nestie. The black tree is from the same set as the house and the black bat is a single qk die. The little witch and owl is coloured with promarkers.

I used a couple of challenges while working on this card:

All sorts - songtitle ( I chose "this is Halloween" from a nightmare before Christmas)
By the cute and girly - spooky
Friday sketchers - sketch
Simon says stamp - Halloween


Here are the lyrics to the song I was inspired by from the movie  Nightmare berofe Christmas:

Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody screm
In this town of Halloween

I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under yours stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

Round that corner, man hiding in the trash cam
Something's waiting no to pounce, and how you'll...

Scream! This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green

Aren't you scared?

Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night

Everybody scream, everbody scream

In our town of Halloween!

I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair

I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween! 

Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare

That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Halloween

In this town

Don't we love it now?

Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everyone scream
Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy

Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween! [Repeat]

Think Christmas in pink

Edit 8/10:
I could not leave the card it was yesterday. It was too much blue and looked unfinished. I didn't get the challenges I wanted and you know how much I love challenges. I really didn't like the card, but I didn't have the time or energy to fight with it any longer ;) I left it overnight so it could think how badly it behaved and maybe be good today. I wasn't that lucky, but at least it improved and I got all the challenges I wanted into it and I'm still quite proud of the colouring. So here's the new card:

The challenges I'm entering are:

Alice in wonderland - text in a nonsense way
Allsorts - holiday
Bunny Zoe's - sketch
(Diecut dreams Christmas club - glitter, ribbons and gems) I missed the dedline though
Drunken stampers - think pink
I love promarkers - think pink
Magnolia stamp lovers - lace (The edge is lace, but a tiny piece of lace fabric shows just beneath the circle)
Stamp and create - Breastcancer/pink
The cuttlebug spot - pink and the theme strength, love, hope, faith
(Totally Tilda - glitter and sparkle (I think I missed the deadline on this one too)


Phew, that's it. Now I'm off to clean that huge mess I made picking out everything I had. Or maybe I'll do that later...Back before the end of the weekend with a sweetpea card. Thanks for stopping by (and leaving me some love, please?)

I've been working all day on my pink magnolia card and it's being very naughty to me. I'm struggling to finish it. I wanted it to be all in pink, but it was too much so I had to break it off with some other colour. But now I see there is too much blue. Hmm, I'll see if I can solve it somehow.

I made it with a couple of challenges in mind. First:

Just magnolia - anything goes

Great offer at sweetpea stamps

October 7th through October 9th ONLY!

For every $20 you spend in the shop, you will get a FREE individual stamp, our choice (ie. spend $42 you will get 2 free stamps, spend $85 you will 4 free stamps). This runs from midnight tonight until Saturday 11:59 pm.

GO TO THE SHOP

There are a lot of new stamps available from new designers.

How about Brigid Ashwood's phunky fairies?

Or why not Nikki Burnette's art collection?

Or Meredith Dillman's fairies?

Lots and lots to choose from...

Strut your stuff - it's your birthday!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. Thanks for stopping by.

Today's card was so much fun to make although in the end it gave me a hard time with the final details.

I haven't been this excited making a card for a while. I seldom fill out the background of the image with colour or stamp text next to the image. I seldom use an alphabetset to make texts like with the b-day text ( I just noticed though that I forgot to add an apostrophy between the T and S. I thought about it while working with the letters, but forgot it later) I recently bought almost the whole selection of distress inks at a sale and I've been eager to improve my distressing skills. And I'm quite proud to have put together the card from three different papercollections.

I wanted to make a card for a man as I would like to do it on a weekly basis. I really wanted to use another saying, but it didn't fit as well as this one. The one I wanted to use was "shake your tailfeathers". Although men might not want to shake their tailfeathers I think they would rather do that than strut their stuff, lol.

I made this card to help celebrate Kraftin' Kimmies 1:st birthday. I'm a huge fan of these stamps and even if I missed their sale at least I wanted to join the challenge. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can win some rubba.

I used Vivienne that comes with two matching textstamps, one of them "strut your stuff" that I used. The text "it's your birthday" I stamped with distress walnut ink. The alphabetstamps are from a quickutz giftset called sophisticate.
Vivienne is coloured with promarkers. The blue border around her is two shades of blue promarkers. The green and brown edges are distress inks: peeled paint and walnut stain. I gave her some extra eyeliner and some stickles glitterglue to her necklace.

The background paper I have used is from Basic Grey's Mellow collection called automne. The two smaller pieces are both from kaisercraft. The little hinges are cut out in silver mirror cardstock, just like the number 1.

Here are the challenges I'm entering:

All that scraps - manly card
Basic Grey - sparkle (using background paper from the Mellow collection)
Cards for men - autumn
Crafty calendar - autumn/1:st birthdays
Creative inspirations - birthday
Kraftin' Kimmies - celebration card
Papersundaes - something from your stash (all papers are "old")
Papertake weekly - sketch #31 from dec 29:th 2009
Simon says stamp and show - numbers
Spoon full of sugar - sparkle and shine
Stampin for the weekend - autumn colours
Stamp something - something to celebrate
Stamptacular - at least 5 layers