July blogcandy

Time for another month of candies. Did you win anything last month? I won some papers,stamped images and fabrics:) Check back in august when I will be having a big candy giveaway.

Chelsea is giving away some cute clearstamps called Gurlee girls. Ends 5:th.

Dianneis having a candy in honor of Independence Day - July 4th. She has an explosive candy (ok, that was lame, lol) join before CST JULY 4Th

Ann is celebrating her blogoversary with a bunch of great things in her candy. Make sure to join before midnight CDT, July 7th.

Judy is thanking her visitors for helping her reach 20,000 hits. Ends 10:th midnight.

Mephisto is giving away a very cute Penny Black clearstamp set in her candy. Ends 10:th.

Clare is celebrating her birthday with a candy. Ends 12:th 6pm GMT.

Vikki is celebrating reaching 10,000 hits and having over 200 followers. And all that in just 4 months! Ends 12:th 8pm GMT.

Pauline is celebrating her first blogoversary and has just reached 20,000 hits! Ends 12:th.

Jodi is celebrating her birthday with a great candy. Ends 11:th 11:59PM PST.

Nicole has a great candy on her blog, but I'm not sure who can join. The blog is worth a visit though, even if you don't understand the language :) Candy ends 12:th.

Jude is celebrating her children's birthdays. Here's the loot you can get your hands on. Ends 13:th.


Susie is celebrating reaching over 500 followers. WOW! Ends 13:th I think.


Melissa is giving away a brand new cuttlebug with some dies and folders. Yes, you heard right, a cuttlebugmachine! Winner will be drawn 15:th 3pm EST.

Torill is celebrating 40,000 hits and that it's vacationtime :) Winner will be drawn on the 14:th.

Iris is sponsored by simon says stamp to give away a Whiff of joy stamp of your choice. Ends 14:th.

Angie is celebrating her 45:th birthday with a great candy. Ends 15:th.

Crissy has a huge candy bonanza - there will be 7 winners! Ends 15:th.

Tammy is celebrating 10,000 hits with a huge candy. Ends 15:th.

Kokica has a secret candy to celebrate her 50:th post, having more than 3000 hits and for having her first candy. Ends 15:th.

Natalie is celebrating 500 posts and thanks for all the comments she has gotten. Ends 15:th.

Ann has a candy for you Stampin' Up! fans. Winner will be chosen on the 17:th.

Hels is giving away a big candy with everything you might "need". Winner will be chosen 19:th, so make sure to join before then.

Ribenaruby is celebrating her first year of blogging with a stamp and paperset. Winner will be drawn 17:th after 6pm GMT.

Michelle is giving away a belated blogoversary candy :) Ends 17:th.

Sharon is giving away a downloadable file to make your own set of nesting boxes. She will pick the winner friday 17:th.

Charlotte&Jane are celebrating the arrival of the new lines Wild Asparagus and Bloom & Grow ranges from My Mind’s Eye. Pick your favourite and you might win it :) Winner will be drawn 19:th 5pm BST.

Carol is celebrating 30,000 hits with this yummy candy. Ends 9pm GMT on saturday 18:th.


Vicky is celebrating 15,000 hits with a lovely flowery candy. Ends 18:th.

Kim is celebrating her 3 months in blogland where she has made friends, won candies and even got a chance to join a DT. Her candy ends 20:th.

Tammy is celebrating her first blogoversary with a fabulous Anna Griffin candy. Ends 20:th.

Kimmi is having a candy to celebrate her last cycle of chemotherapy. You are so brave Kimmi! I can't imagine going through something like that. Her candy ends 21:st 9pm and here's what you can win:


Fran is celebrating 100,000 hits and her birthday by giving away some of her fav things. Candy ends 21:st.

Nini is giving away an awesome stampingtool from Fiskars. It seems to be working like those office selfinking stamps. With this tool you can do the same with your clearstamps. Check out her blog for more info and for a chance of winning. Ends 21:st.

Nini is also giving away a big candy from her stash. She is moving and can't bring everything along :) Ends 21:st.

Coldwaters2 is giving away two candies to celebrate her birthday and for reaching 20,000 hits. Drawing will be held on the 23:rd.

Jacque has so much to celebrate and she's doing it with a bang. Candy is big, so don't miss out - and make sure to congratulate her on all her achievements! Winner will be chosen thursday, July 23 at 8 PM EST.

Sarah is giving away a great selection of stampingstuff in her candy - especially the adorable elephantstamp. Draw will take place on the 23:rd.

Piali is celebrating being accepted on the Design Team of Sassy Studio Designs. Winner will be chosen 25:th.

Anna has gathered some lucious candy consisting of all the basic things you need for your cards. It's fab! Candy ends Sunday July 26th at 9:00 EST.

Dax has made a wonderful set for the winner of her candy. She's celebrating 5,000 hits. Winner will be drawn 27:th.

Angie is celebrating for not having a cigarette for a whole year. Congrats!!! I know how hard it is :) Candy ends midnight EST 26:th.

Camilla is giving away some new Magnolia stamps from the new lazy summer days collection (because she already had them when she got the DT pack - we don't mind, right?) Ends 27:th.

Debby is celebrating 100,000 hits (sheesh, congrats Debby)) Ends 27:th.

Barb is celebrating her first blogoversary. Candy ends 27:th.

Kirsten is having a Gorjuss blogcandy to celebrate her birthday. Ends 31:st.

Joanne is celebrating the launch of their 1st Northern Papercraft Retreat. It seems like such a great place. To celebrate she's offering 36 brand new copics in her candy. Winner will be chosen 31:st.

Bona is celebrating making the top #100 list of most subscribed this month. She's offering a lovely big pink candy for both scrappers and cardmakers. She will draw the winner live on the 31:st.

Daniel is celebrating his first blogoversary. It's so great to see that this hobby is spreading everywhere - Daniel is a 17 year old guy from Norway. He's both a cardmaker and scrapbooker. You should really check out his blog. His candy ends 30:th by the way.

Kay is celebrating the release of her latest stamp sheets. iIn conjunction with The Stamp Man she has decided to offer up some blog candy. I thought I read somewhere that it was only for UK residents, but now I can't find it. Check it out yourself and join before midnight friday 31:st.


Crystal is celebrating reaching 10,000 hits since april. She's offering some copics and Stampin' Up! stuff. Ends 31:st.

Purplicious is offering a candy to UK residents only. Ends 31:st.

Anna is giving away a 1/2 yard of a beautiful holly fabric in honor of her dad's 63rd birthday, and in honor of our Destash Sale and Christmas in July. Winner will be picked the 31:st.

Joanne is celebrating her blogoversary and reaching 20,000 hits. Ends 31:st.

Rachel has a great candy if you're into sewing. She has gotten a giftcertificate for $50 from the fat quarter shop to give away. I love that shop - they have sooo many beautiful fabrics. Candy ends 31:st.


Polly craft designs are having a giveaway and will have 4 lucky winners. They are having this candy to celebrate the release of the soon to be released TWIDDLY WINGS SET 2 digital stamps. Ends 31:st.

Sandra is offering some sweet candy on her blog. Make sure to check out her online shop. Winner will be picked 31:st at 8pm.

Katrina is giving away a great halloween candy. Ends 31:st.

Tracy is celebrating 30,000 hits with a lucious candy. Ends 31:st.

Michelle is offering a great candy. She also has a shop where you can buy Whiff of joy, Sarah Kay and other great stamps. You can see her shop HERE She has good prices and ships internationally. Winner of the candy will be drawn on the 1:st august.

Liisa is giving away her first candy consisting of some great papers, embellishments and a Sarah Kay stamp. Ends 1:st aug 5pm GMT+2.

Sick again :(

Just a quick note to let you know I've been sick again. I got a terrible cold (probably the flu) but what was worse was that it started attacking my stomach and I got sick there too! So I'm sloooowly recovering. I want to join a challenge for wednesday so hopefully you'll see a card soon.

Now I'm off to rest in bed - again!

DT application

Here's my application to jacksonbelle's DT spot and as some of you might now getting on a designteam was one of my new year resolutions. Naturally I want to join a team where I can do a good job. I don't want to join any team just for the sake of it.

However I'm having big problems choosing with which cards to apply. I need three cards and here are the ones I think are a bit different and represent my style. If you have any suggestions or you disagree - let me know! It's hard to choose and maybe I'm choosing the worst ones, lol.

I use different colouring mediums, but my promarkers are on the top of my list. I have used my promarkers for all of these cards.

This one I like so much because it's made with a slightly different fold. A bit different from the usual square cards. I have worked with different papers and textures. The grey part is embossed bling. I also used my borderpunch and my newest nestie. I cut the bunny out so it looks like he's peeking out of the oval. I think the colouring on this one is pretty good too. I love how it looks both elegant and cute at the same time.




This second card I made for a challenge called "quilts". I used a bunch of blue patterned papers, cut them into the same size and attached to the card. I like the way some of them were thinner and some thicker. It shows and some squares stand out more than others. I embossed the blue part with a CB folder and computer generated text.



This last card...I don't know what happened, lol, but I love it! I got tired of making square cards and needed to fold again. I also needed bright colours. I used my CB die to make the tag with the mouse. I actually think I used an image that wasn't complete. You might know that that stamp has three mice in it. The other mice weren't inked well enough so I saved this one by cutting it out :)
I attached a chipboard text and a little flower. It says "bloom" on it which I thought was sooo cute for this card.

Instructables

Have you seen this site called instructables? It's a site where you can read and post your own tutorials. I found two tutorials I have tried and many more I want to try later. They are sooo close to being done, but not quite. One of them I had to remake a bit because the pattern was for a smaller sized item...Aren't you just too curious what I'm up to? ;)

I also put up my own instructions, the DVD giftbox tutorial I made for Christmas. If you want to see it you can do that here:

My DVD giftbox tutorial

PB blogoversary and other challenges

Penny Black saturday challenge are celebrating their one year blogoversary on saturday. The theme is "celebrations" and there are a lot of great prizes to win :)

I have made a card that took forever. It just didn't want to get done. I also wanted to incorporate as many challenges as I could and I think I managed to get 4 or 5 in there.

I used a sketch that was quite hard to work with. It's from papertake weekly. They are having a guest DT spot and I just had to apply :)

Stamp with fun had "dots" for their challenge and I thought it was so perfect when I found this Penny Black stamp in my stash. I also wanted to get a colourscheme and got it from the promarker challenge blog. I used the challenge for 21/07 - Lime Green & Rose Pink. Isn't it just perfect for the frog?



I'm also applying for this weeks everybody art challenge. The theme was "happy birthday". They also have a guest DT spot available. I'm hoping to join. And even though this might not be my best work I think it's quite different with the cut out text and presents.
And finally I actually could join cute card thursday too. Their theme was "tag".



I thought the card was disastrous in the beginning but as I worked on it it turned out perfectly fine. I especially like the glitter I added on the ribbon at the end. Glitter makes everything beautiful, am I right? ;)

LOL, I got a tip that I could use this card for the Simon says stamp challenge. I'm a bit confused about the rules on this blog, it says: "please do not link creations that have been posted prior to the day the of the current challenge." Does it mean I shouldn't use a card that's posted before they announce their challenge or I can't post until the last day of the challenge? I'm a bit confused here. Anyhow, I'm linking this card too :)

So how many challanges was that, lol.
It was quite fun, but I don't think I will be doing it too often. I like making one card for each challenge (unless it's a sketch or colour combo). I think too much about the challanges instead of the card itself.

Three challenges in one

Now I finally have a card to show you. I wanted to join the stampchallenges and since they had a sketch I thought I'd pick up a colourscheme from the promarker challenge blog and a theme from roses on paper.

Here's the sketch:


And here's my card:






The colorscheme I used from the promarker blog was poppy red and moss green which will be the challenge 30:th of june. They have a list of future colours on their blogs if you want a head start.

The roses on paper challenge was to join another challenge and use flowers (+ one of their stamps, I chose Magnolia).

The swing and the girl I got from Sharon. You can see on the last pic that she stamped the images on a shimmery paper. I didn't even notice it until I was done colouring, lol. It didn't show in daylight, but did a lot in my lamplight (bottom pic).

I turned the sketch 90 degrees. I put the girl a little tilted on the swing because I wanted the square of the swing to show. I also wanted it to look like she was leaning on one of the ropes. I added gold glitterglue to the middle of the flowers.
I was quite ambivalent towards the card in the beginning, but now I quite like it.

And finally I want to tell you that I'm applying to Belles 'n Whistles Guest Design Team member call with this card. Keep your fingers crossed ;)

Shimmerz birthday bloghop

Not so much happening here I know. That's because I'm crafting like crazy! I have been sewing a lot, but I'm out of wadding so I can't really show you anything. I'll see if I can go by the sewingstore next week and get some characters done. I'm working on a big-boned angel and a seahorse among other things.

While waiting for me to get my bum out of the wagon and get my candy together you can always take a look around my etsy shop :) or bloghop with shimmerz paints. I'm also updating my candypost almost daily for new blogcandies.

I have at least one card to make this week, so I promise you will get some pics soon. Until then - enjoy the summer and crafting!

My new shoes

Doesn't really have to do anything with crafts, but I had to show you my latest shoes. I have extremely sensitive feet and even get blisters from sneakers, so I can't buy any shoes I like. I have to choose very carefully. I dare to say that I buy every shoe that is comfortable. Do you know how many shoes per year that is? About one or two pairs...

I saw these wonderful fushia suede ones and had to try them on. And despite being quite high they were comfortable (if you can say that about those kind of shoes, lol)
I wanted to wear them for my cousin's graduation, but it was raining and we had about 6 degrees Celsius. Yes, freezing, I know. Not sure where to wear these shoes now, but I just can't take them back :) Aren't they just too pretty? I don't have any real "sex and the city" shoes since I don't wear high heels, but these I just have to keep.





After the extreme rainy weather we've been having I decided to buy a pair of rainboots. I'm always running around in my sneakers and my feet get wet. I searched the whole town for my size, but they were out. When I went to Stockholm to my cousin's graduation I found my size! Finally I won't have to walk around with wet feet :) They are so cute with purple roses - they match my rainjacket perfectly. Hey, maybe this post has something to do with crafts? Pretty flowers, matching colours...Hmmm?

New Whiff of joy release

Have you heard about the new release from Whiff of joy? It's called "Women's delight" and has beautiful wedding, pregnancy and motherhood stamps. They are all designed by the very talented Elisabeth Bell, so if you like her style, you're going to love these!

The new collection will be released on june 14:th in the Whiff of joy shop.

Notepad holder

While bloghopping today I found a blog called Magnolia-licious highlites. They had a great challenge - making a post-it holder. I have a bunch of those cheap yellow ones and let's be honest: they are really ugly, but I've never thought about sprucing them up before. Deadlines work really well for me so I started straight away.

I had this beautiful image of Tilda already coloured in. My friend sent me some images stamped on watermark (aquarell) paper. I used my tombows and a waterbrush. I was very satisfied with the result and wanted to use the image on something special. So when I came across this challenge I knew I wanted to use her!






I've added glitterglue on the flowers she's holding - not sure if it shows. I like the way the flowers hang freely since I didn't glue them on properly. The scalloped ring she's sitting on is from my new nesties. I also embossed the ring with a cuttlebug folder.

If you want to give it a go, here's the tutorial:
Bridgett.

I've been seewing a lot today and I managed to put up some new items in my etsyshop. Do you like them?
Here are the two fabrics I've been playing around with today. I'm just in love with them!
I should be done with the project soon so come back and check it out.