First card of the year

Welcome back to my blog and to a new decade everyone. So glad you're still with me. I was out of town for the holidays and really missed my craftspace :) I just brought a couple of ATCs to colour. So today I felt good enough to sit and make a card.
I used some new papers I bought at a sale and one of my new Whiff of joy stamps - Charlie as 007. I've been wanting to have him forever so I finally made a big order during the 20% of sale that they had on winterstamps. I also used my new qk die - the black scroll to the left.

I used a great sketch from papertake weekly.
Stamp with fun had a new year's theme as did lili of the valley. Stampin for the weekend had "new beginnings" as their theme and at creative card crew they had "anything goes". Stamp challenges wants you to use something new you got during the season. Pretty much everything is new on this card.


I also made an ATC using the same stamp. This ATC I made for the promarker challenge. They are having a mega Christmas challenge with amazing prizes until jan 5:th. The challenge is: ‘anything but a card - with a Christmas and New Year theme’.

Thanks for stopping by.

50 followers - wooohooo!

Just got my 50:th follower and I'm so happy I had to post about it, lol. I want you all to know that I apreciate every comment I get. It is so fun to know that you like reading my posts and get inspired by them. I promise to do my best to continue doing that all through the new year.
Hugs and kisses to you!

Merry Christmas

Here is a card for all of my readers and faithful followers, wishing you a wonderful Christmas! Thank you all so much for visiting and I look forward to seeing you here next year.

Here in Sweden we celebrated Christmas yesterday. Today we're just ejoying time together. I have gotten a wonderful kitchenmachine that will help me bake more easily. Wish I could invite you all for a cup of tea and cinnamon-bun. :)

New Christmas challenge blog

There is a ew challege blog called ABC Christmas challenge.
As you might have guessed it's a Christmas blog to help us not to get so overwhelmed every year aroud this time. Every two weeks you make a card or christmasgift and you're all relaxed when Christmas comes :) To celebrate the launch they are having a blog hop. Start at their blog and hop your way through the DT members' blogs. Every member has a bit of candy too.

Love you forever

I've been sick again so it took me a while to make another card to show you. Good thing I had started on the Christmas cards early this year! You never know what's going to hit you :(
I was almost done with a card for a couple of challenges before I got sick, but now it's too late to enter. I will show it to you later though, don't worry.

This card I made for my sweetie for Christmas. I like giving him cards and he loves to get them. I used a sketch from lili of the valley and the theme "winter wishes" from the house mouse challenge blog.


The papers I used are same as for the previous card. I really like them. If you do too, make sure to come back after new year's as I will be offering them as candy together with a bunch of other things. I have a lot to celebrate and the latest thing is that I'm almost at 50 followers! And I didn't force anyone, lol.

I wanted to show you the latest loot that's been coming to my doorstep these last few days. Christmas really is early this year. The items below I won at Belles n whistles advent calendar.

The items here are stamps from Whiff of joy (finally got myself almost all the Charlotte and Charlie ones during their 20% off sale), lots of dies and alphabets from scrapyland and a box full of flowers, magnolias, papers and other things from Magdas.se.



I don't even know where to begin, lol.

Happy Lucia

Tomorrow morning we're celebrating Lucia here in Sweden, but it all really starts tonight when we sit up all night. Here's what the Swedish consulate says about this tradition:

The Swedish Lucia celebration is an annual festival of medieval origin, observed on the 13th of December. On this day, the darkness is brightened by Saint Lucia, a creature of goodness and light who opens the door to the Christmas season.

Named after a Sicilian saint, the Swedish Lucia does not have much in common with her namesake. She is celebrated in a variety of ways, but the most common is the Lucia procession consisting of a group of young girls and boys singing traditional Lucia songs.

On her head, the girl or woman playing the part of Lucia wears a wreath of lingonberry sprigs with holders for real candles (battery-powered ones are sometimes a safer option) to give the effect of a halo. She also has a white, full-length gown with a red ribbon around her waist. Her female attendants (tärnor) wear similar gowns and the "star boys" (stjärngossar) wear white pointed hats decorated with stars. Lucia processions are held in various places, ranging from kindergartens and schools to churches and the Swedish Parliament.

Lucia can be perceived as a symbol of the good forces in life and a symbol of light in the dark winter. She usually appears early in the morning, bringing coffee and saffron-flavored buns (lussekatter) traditionally eaten around Christmas time in Sweden.

Me and my fiancée have a tradition we've been doing for a couple of years. Our movie theatre arranges a Lucia movie night. They show three films that haven't been shown yet. Nobody knows what will be shown and that's kind of the thrill. It all starts at midnight and we watch the movies through the night. In between the films we get pizza and sandwiches to eat and in the morning we get "lussekatter". It all ends around 6-7 in the morning. We started doing this a couple of years ago and we've been doing it ever since. Every year we've been seeing how more and more people attend. This year we weren't even able to get any tickets - they sold out in a couple of hours - so we're doing our own version: we rented three movies instead. We took one we both wanted and one "secret" each. He doesn't know what I chose and I don't know what he chose. This way we get our own way of secret movies. We've bought lussekatter in a nearby bakery and will order pizza. With me being sick it actually turned out for the best. I don't know if I would be able to sit in a movietheatre for so many hours.


Moving on to today's card. I got this image of Tilda as Lucia from a friend and made this especially for my fiancées niece in mind. I used a lot of bling to be in the Magnolia down under challange that had "bedazzled" as their theme. I used pink shimmerz on the pink flowers and on the edges around the image. The gown is coloured slightly with light grey promarker to add shadow and then with white twinkling h2o. Leaves are punched from bazzil bling and I added some bling to the edge and center of flower.
I also used a sketch from friday sketchers. It was simple and clean which was perfect to make the papers stand out.
And of course as this is a Christmas card I'm entering it on thejust Magnolia challenge blog.
There is also a monochromatic challenge at a spoon full of sugar. Not sure if they will accept this card, but thought I'd give it a try. I think it's monochromatic with different shades of red.

A better view of all the shimmer and bling.

Basic Grey challenge and goodies.

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by. I've been busy this week sewing some Christmasgifts and planning jewelry. I've also been shopping like crazy lately and this week my first package arrived. It was from Simon says stamp. I can really recommend that store! Great stuff, resonable prices and super service.
I also got my package of the whole new set of promarker colours. They are really beautiful. Lots of great blues, pinks and purples.

Here's a Christmas card I made using one of the new Whiff of joy stamps I got. I thought I had all the Christmascards ready, but noticed I need a coouple more so I got right to it. I've used papers form Basic Grey's "Wassail". Love those papers. I like the dark brown one with swirls. Suits the image perfectly.
I'm entering this card for the Basic Grey challenge.

Here are the goodies I have to play with. I feel a candy coming up :)

Just a couple of flowers :D

11:th anniversary!

It's snowing! At least here on my blog. Have you seen the cool snow I've added? I think it gives a festive feeling to the blog. When the petals fall off from that pink tree in the spring it looks like it's snowing in pink. Horrible news about that tree: someone decided to cut it down! I can't believe it. That tree is one of my fav during spring. It only blooms for a couple of weeks and you need to be fast not to miss it. But now someone has decided to cut it down to make room for some concrete pavement I guess. I'm so mad! Here's a LO I made with a photo showing how it "snows", isn't it beautiful?

Moving on to today's card. Yesterday me and my sweetie celebrated our 11:th anniversary together. We didn't do anything special, just had dinner at home (since I don't dare eating out with my stomach) and went to the movies which we both love to do. I can't believe it's been 11 years!

I made a card for my darling using a bunch of challenges:
Papertake weekly - a great sketch and an opportunity to be a guest designer.
Crafty calendar - winter sparkle. Winter-themed cards and projects, with the added option of sparkle and bling.
The pink elephant - Color me wonderful. Use your fav colouring medium.
Sophisticat - snowflakes and sparkle.
Gingersnap creations - winter wonderland.
Cuttlebug challenge - glitter and bling.
Just magnolia too - make a card for someone special. Doesn't get more special than this :)
Quixotic paperie - use charms.
And finally Simon say stamp also had charms as their theme. The charm I added has a writing on the back that says: made for an angel.

The image is from Magnolia and coloured with promarkers. I coloured them to represent me and my sweetie with haircolour and the colour of our clothes. I added glitter to the girl's coat. I love glitter so that worked great and the boy got blue sweater which is my love's fav colour. I used the wonderful papers from SEI that haveboth glitter and a "reversed" metallic embossing (the metal is etched into the paper rather than raised) I made the snowflake decoration using a tutorial from Bev. Thank you Bev.

Hope you've enjoyed my card. See you soon.

Promarkers: ivory, pastel yellow, blossom, pastel blue, ice grey 1, henna, burnt sienna, burnt umber, blender
Other: Glitterglue stickles stardust, cuttlebug snowflake folder, spellbinder's snowflake die, snowflake punch, fibers.
Papers: SEI, Lovebirds

December blogcandy

Hi everyone and welcome to another month of yummy candy. You know I've been doing these canylists for a year now, hope you like it. I have won a bunch of goodies during this time. Have you?

Here's the new list. I'll be adding more whenever I find some more candies, so check back often. Maybe you can even give me a tip or two about new goodies?

Scrapmurmur is offering four Whiff of joy stamps to get us in the festive mood. Ends 3:rd.

Jacque is celebrating that she has been invited to join the Just Magnolia Design Team. Her candy consists of Magnolias among other things. Also ends 3:rd.

Sheena is celebrating her blogoversary with her first candy. Ends on her birthday - december 3:rd.

Linda is having candy to show how much she apreciates us. Her candy also ends 3:rd.

Kim is offering a well loved Whiff of joy candy with one of my fav characters - Charlotte. Ends 4:th.

Lisa is celebrating 5,000 hits with her first blogcandy. It ends 4:th at 10 pm and winner will be drawn on the 5:th.

Debbie is having a candy to celebrate the opening of the new blog site to sell The Crafty Pad stamps from. Here's what you can win. Last day to enter is 4:th and winner will be chosen on the 6:th.


Chris has been blogging for 2 years and to celebrate she's having a secret candy. There will be some great stuff in it, but exactly what is a surprise :) Winner will be drawn on the 8:th.

Denise has a great holiday candy. There will be four winners! Ends 10:th.

Victoria wants you to say how many Magnolia santa Tildas you can find in her shop to be in a draw to win some candy. Ends 13:th.

Crystal is celebrating 25,ooo hits with a huge candy. Candy ends on her weddinganniversary, at Midnight Eastern time 9:th. Winner will be announced no later than on the 12:th.

Promarker blog
are giving away a starter kit of promarkers. If you want to try this medium then make sure to enter before 15:th.

Motivet are having a candy again. You can win their whole new release of 12 stamps. Join before 15:th.

Lorraine has a candy that's been sponsored by Simon says stamp. It runs every week, but this one runs for 2 weeks. All you need to do is enter the simon says stamp challenge. Candy ends 16:th.

Kristine has celebrated her birthday on dec 22:nd and she's giving away a candy to one lucky winner. Candy ends 27th.

Jayne is celebrating her 40:th birthday on dec 27:th and is giving away a great candy. Ends 27:th and the winner will be drawn on the 31:st.

Debby is giving away two stamps drawn by the very talented Mo Manning. She will draw the winner on january 2:nd.

Kristy is giving away a box full of primas, stamps and other stuff to celebrate the new DT members at the Dollies. Ends jauary 4:th.

Die cuts r us are giving away a brand NEW QuicKutz Epic Six Die Cutting System and a grab bag of QuicKutz dies!!! What we need to do is make sure that blog reaches 500 followers before new year. They have over 100 followers now so it's not so much left. One among those 500 will then win that tool.

12 tags of Christmas - day 1

I'm so happy that Tim Holtz' 12 tags of Chrismas has started. Have you seen it yet? I thought it would start on december 13:th so I'm happy it's on now.

Yesterday after my Christmasshopping (where I found all gifts and tons of new beautiful fabrics) I gave it a go on tag for day 1. I had two ideas and actually finished both of them. Here are the results:

I just love the birdset of clearstamps I got a while back. I bought it from a blogger I was following. She advertised on her blog that she wanted to sell the set and I jumped right on it. I was surprised that noone had contacted her. The set is stunning and the price was great too.
I used peeled paint and vintage photo for this one.

This other tag uses a fairy stamp from PSX (remember that fab company?)
The text has crackle medium on it. Colours used: broken china and tattered rose. The swirl is made using a qk die.