I’m a bit late with posting this card, I thought I would make a few more but it never happened so here goes.
It’s a card for Malin on her 30th birthday and since she also make cards I felt it had to be just great. It might not have turned out great but at least its pretty and she liked it!
And the inside: (she likes elephants)
All stamps are colored with watercolor (aquarelle), I love sitting down and just color pretty stamps. I should do it more often!
So, it’s been a while again.. I haven’t had the time or inspiration to do anything neat and creative, I’ve mostly been ordering stuff online and putting them away again. I like to sort my pearls and scrapbooking stuff. I will use them, one day.. I hope!
Anyway, I had some time over this weekend and my cousin is graduating this Wednesday. So I made a card to go with the gift my mother got for her (I have no idea what it is). Got some inspiration from a challenge and a few ideas from other cards. I’m somewhat satisfied with the result, not the picture of it tho. It does look much better in real but I decided to enter my first blog challenge with it anyway. The card will be competing in this graduation theme challenge.
The sentiment says “A walk of a thousand miles always begins with one step” or well, its not really miles but its not very important (one mil = 10 kilometers).
Hopefully I will be able to post a few more things this summer. I just have to get used to my new job and spend more time crafting on the weekends!
Today was a great day! I woke up early, got up, put some nice electro music on and crafted the entire (very sunny) morning! I managed to finish a card that’s been lying around for a week now and I also made another two cards! Between the card making I put up a rail under a shelf above my desk and made a few hooks out of some wire I had. The hooks from IKEA didn’t fit my clamps so I made my own instead.
My desk area looks a bit more organized now I think, but the most important part is that I can put up all my important papers, such as bills and notes etc so I don’t forget them! And I found a way to avoid fighting with cables as soon as I need a charger or USB cable.
I won’t give you any image of my desk, at least not now, but I thought I’d share a few images of the cards I made. I don’t feel finished with the green card yet but it’s not very urgent so I have time to think about it.
The stamps are some of the results of my aquarelle practicing. Could have been more careful with the coloring on the lion but it turned out OK anyway. Kinda like a cartoon!
I’m sorry for the very bad pictures, the colors look horrible. I need a photo studio! And a new camera. I hope you’ll survive anyway!
The green/yellow details are more yellow and sparkly. The paper is gorgeous! The text says congratulations.
The red color is slightly darker and the pearl decorations are white, not grayish. The text says congratulations.
Best card picture today! It looks pretty much the same here. I think it needs something more. A work in progress! The text says Leon 2 years.
And as a bonus: a card I made for my brother a few weeks ago. Maybe not my best card (or picture) so far but I was quite low on inspiration and ideas. The card is dark blue, same color as the numbers.
I recently changed my phone number so I thought I’d send a card to those who usually call me at home. They are quite few, but why not make a card instead of send a boring text message or e-mail?
I made some sketches of the card at work and when I tried to find a nice image of a telephone to use I stumbled upon an image of me, talking on the phone. I will be interesting to see if anyone will call to check who it’s from. I surely hope my mum and dad can recognize their daughter tho.
Anyway, pictures!
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A card for my new born cousin. There’s something about the card I don’t like but I’m not sure what yet. The stamp is colored with aquarelle pencils, a technique I fell in love with.
I’ve always loved my “color books” I had when I was a kid. I used crayons, pencils, felt-tipped pens and water color. Basically whatever I had lying around. I’ve never really used aquarelle pencils before, except for one time in school I barely remember. The only thing I think could beat aquarelle at this point is copic markers. Veronica showed me a few youtube videos and they look amazing. Amazing and quite expensive. I think I’ll stick to aquarelle for a while.
Anyway, here’s the card for my new cousin. I don’t know his name yet, but I’ll keep calling him Theresius until it’s decided ;)
My thought was to make some sort of “Welcome to the world” card but then this idea/sketch got stuck in my head. The card says “Congratulations, it’s another boy”.
I think I’ll make a second baby card for the introduction/beginnings theme later on unless I get another, better idea!
My cousin got a daugther in August last year and a few weeks before Christmas they had a naming ceremony for her. Her name is Emilia and I decided to buy a necklace and make a nice card for her.
I wanted to make something girly, I had a feeling her parents would appreciate it so I digged up all the pink paper I could find and decided to go for some flowers and stripes.
I used my scallop lace border punch on the flower paper and printed her name in a neat font since I can’t write. I drew some shadow on the letters, added two diamonds and a few flowers. And I almost forgot to make a hole for the necklace so I just cut a plain and simple circle in the middle of the card and made sure the backside would fit somewhat.
I am quite pleased with the card, I guess I will look at it one day and think it’s horrible and ugly but Emilia’s parents liked it and I’m happy with that!
Can’t say the pictures show the colors in their full brightness but you get a hint at least!
The inside says “On your naming day from Therese”.
