Vintage flower necklace

Allow me to show you another necklace I have made. I'm very much into this style of jewelrymaking lately where you use metalwire to connect the beads together.

This time I have used crackeled- glass- and waxbeads together with some metal flowers, beadcaps and tiny beads. 

Although the necklace is big enough to fit over your head, I decided to use a clasp in case you have a big hairdo and don't want to risk messing it up.

Clasp: opened, front and backside.

I really love the vintage feel of this necklace. Greys and soft lilac tones together with creamcolored beads. I also love the silvercolored metalpieces with the black details.
What do you think?

Detail of the hanging pendant part.

 The necklace is about 70cm + 12cm for the dangling piece.

This necklace is for sale and will be available as soon as I've made enough pieces to put in the shop either on etsy or zibbet. 
If you're interested you can snag it right away.
Just email me (details in the "about me" link top right)

Easter wishes feathered card

Another tuesday and that means: another cardreveal.

Today I want to show you an eastercard using different layers and papers. 

The card is made with two different patterned papers (the feathers and the ones with the chickens) 

The image itself comes from a 12x12" paper that had a bunch of different easterthemed tags. I really love those kinds of papers for a quick card. To make the image more interesting I added craqueler medium to the border around it. Eggs and cracks kind of go together, don't you think?

The yellow panel is dryembossed using an embossingfolder. I got it with a magazine or something like that, so unfortunately I can't tell you where you can get it. If you recognize it, let me know and I'll write it here. The ribbons were plain white that I colored in using my promarkers to match the colorscheme.

I used a gold- and silverpen for the edges and used some cutoff corners of the chickenpaper to add a nice cornerdetail. Waste not, want not, huh? 

Challenges:

Alphabet  - E for embossing

Crafty calendar - Things with wings
Creative card crew - Anything goes

Fab n funky - 3 or more layers

Simon monday - emboss it

Southern girls - texture

Lavender crocheted headband with freshwater pearls

Another friday and another project. 

This time I want to show you a crocheted headband I made a while ago that I've been using all spring. 

 

 

 

The pattern is not really a pattern. I just casted a couple of chains that I thought would be enough for the width of the headband. It was about 12 or 13 stitches. Then I crocheted the double crochet stitch (if I'm not mistaken) until the headband was long enough to fit around my head. Finally I slip stitched it together.

 

 

 

The flowers I improvised, making a magic ring and then stitching first in the front loops only, then after the circle was complete - in backloops only.

I sewed on the freshwater pearls to the flowers, then attached the flowers to the headband.

 

Hope you like it :)

Bird key cabochon necklace

Three weeks ago I made a post asking which of three projects you would like to see first. I didn't get that much feedback so I started on this necklace.

I have used a key with a glass cabochon, which is a piece of glass polished evenly. Under the glass there is a beautiful image of a bird. I think finding the perfect image for this necklace took me almost as long as making the necklace itself. But I'm glad I was so stubborn to find the perfect piece since I think it really makes the whole thing very coherent.

I have used blue fresh water pearls with a hint of pink (that match the image perfectly). I also used  crystal AB polished beads that give a hint of pink and blue. These are the ones that look clear, but catch the light like a prism.
I also have some blue wax beads with silver beadcaps and two silver colored birds.

The beaded part measures 78cm (about 30" - a so called "opera" length) and the key is 7x3cm.

This necklace will eventually be available in my shop (either etsy, zibbet or any other I find. If you have any tips, let me know) for under $30+shipping. If you are interested in buying it leave a comment below or e-mail me (address by viewing my complete profile top right)

Sending you a note

Another tuesday and another card. Today I have made a sweet "girly" card using stamps from Kraftin' Kimmie. It's been years I feel like since I used these stamps and I have quite a few that haven't seen ink yet, poor things.

So today I used some of them.

I used "Marie Antoinette" with the matching sentiment and a rosestamp from "The swan princess". 

Around the image I stamped the rose using a clear inkpad and clear embossing powder. I then went over the area using a distress crayon in the color "peeled paint". I rubbed it on and used a waterbrush to smear it out.
 

The image itself is colored using promarker pens. The sentiment is stamped using a distress pad in the color "peeled paint" aswell. 

I added glitterglue to the butterfly and to the girl's roses in her hair. I also used liquid pearls and a toothpick to add tiny pearls to the decoration in her hair to make it resemble beads.

Supplies:

Stamps: "Marie Antoinette" and "The swan princess" from Kraftin' Kimmies

Color: promarkers and distress crayon (peeled paint)

Papers: "Gossamer" from memorybox 

Dies: circle and scalloped circle: nestabilities, fleur de lis punch: ek success, pink scallop: shaped scissors, butterfly: martha stewart punch

Challenges:
Fab n funky - winged things

I love promarkers: pastel colors

Kraftin' Kimmie - seeing double + sketch

Simon says wednesday - make it girly

 

My crafting achievements

2:nd december 2017
Hitting 1000 subscribers on youtube

may 2017 
DT member for ilovepromarkers

september 2016 
Bag contest winner

july 2016
Instructables wedding contest winner

july 2016
Instructables dog/cat winner

june 2016
Guest designer for the mixed media warriors challenge blog



june 2016
Guest designer for the I love promarkers challenge blog

may 2016

april 2016

2011

January 2011 Craft stamper publication

Altered/mixed media of the year

2010

Nov 2009 - march 2010

2009 june/july Stampers' sampler magazine publication

polkadot challenge

2009 - 2010

Happy birthday mouse

Welcome back to my blog. Today I have a happy birthday card to show you. It is made with an image from the insanely cute house mouse stamps. Aren't they just the cutest thing? I wish I had cute mice like these, preferably ones that like cleaning up after me in my creative mess :)

 

 

I have a box with tiny pieces of paperscraps, so I went through it and found five pieces of paper that I thought worked great together. I then got some help from my trusted friend the cuttlebug (which I on occasion call "the cutiebug") to cut out circles using a nesting die. I also made a cardbase using embossed white cardstock. In the lower right corner I cut out an aparture.

 

 

I cut out five hearts in the same scrap papers using a punch and distressed the edges of the circles. I then added the hearts using 3D foam tape to create dimension and make them stand out. Then I added the circles to the frontpanels and handwrote "HAPPY" on the hearts.

 

 

Finally I colored the house mouse image using promarker pens in colors that matched the papers. I cut out around the image, used a rounded corner punch and adhered it to the inside of the card. I also added three strips of paper to the inside. 

 

 

To finish it off I added a handwritten "BIRTHDAY" sentiment and tied the card together with some pink string. 

 
Image: house mouse (I think it's discontinued)

Papers: scraps

Tools: circle nesting die, heart paper punch, promarker pens

Challenges:

Crafty calendar  - anything goes

Creative inspirations  - anything goes

Everybody art - birthday

House mouse  - anything goes

Passion for promarkers - bingo (ribbon, image, sentiment)

Simon says stamp monday challenge - april showers

Simon says stamp wednesday challenge - birthday (SSS is celebrating their 7:th anniversary! CONGRATS!)

Sketch saturday - sketch

 

Which project to do next?

So many ideas, so unorganized. I can't even blame it on "so little time" because I do have time. The issue is to decide which project to do next. They are all so exciting!

So I thought I'd let you decide which of the following you would like me to take on first. Comment below or on facebook and let me know what you think.

The first option (A) is a small wooden crate and some chalk paint from Annie Sloan. I recently took a beginner's class in chalk paint and this is the startkit I bought. 

If you'd like me to play around with this and show you what I can come up with, let me know. 

The next option (B) is a jewelry project with blue freshwater- and waxpearls and silver detailing. I also have a cabochon pendant - a technique I've never tried before, so that could be interesting :)

Last, but not least (option C) is a bunch of different plates, cups and candlesticks. If you're curious about what I can make with this, let me know.

 

Can't wait to see what you're curious about the most.

Joyous easter

Today I want to show you an easter card I made. It's very simple in design and when I need to make a batch of them I love to use images like these. Usually one scrapbook sheet has many of these themed images and this specific one had about 20-25 different images so you get a lot for your buck.

I wanted to let the pretty papers show so I focused on the details instead. The design is very simple, just layers and for the image I used a crackeling medium after I assembled it all together. I let it dry for an hour or so and that's it.

Challenges:

ABC challenge - everything goes
Crafty calendar - anything goes
Creative inspirations - anything goes
Cute card thursday - transport
Daring cardmakers - elemental inspiration (I used egg, bunny, flowers)
Everybody art - pastels 
Fussy and fancy  - pastel colors
Penny's challenge  - anything goes
Southern girls - anything goes

Crackle medium: Ranger ink crackle accents
Papers: Spring time - "easter tags" by inkido, bunny on egg and fairy by reprint, 
background paper (little chicks) Spring time "Happy easter" by inkido.

New crafter's guide blog up and running

For those of you who haven't found it yet, I have another blog called crafter's guide. There I'm linking to challenges, free tutorials, shops, companyblogs etc. So if you're looking for anything take a look there first. I will be updating the links over the next few weeks and as a result this blog will get less crowded. If you have any tips for me or want me to find something, please leave a comment.

There are changes brewing and I'm so excited!