A cardful spring, part one.

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.

A little something

Long time no posting, I know.. It doesn’t mean I haven’t been creative tho! I’m just a bit lazy and… yeah that’s it. I have been trying to organize stuff and learning new techniques. Since the scrapbooking/card making thing is quite new to me I have a lot to learn. I purchased a bunch of cute stamps and now I’m mostly practicing working with aquarelle.
I also have a few birthdays coming up so there will be lots of reasons for practicing card making too. Yay!

Anyway, I made a simple thing for Malin and her new apartment. I have one myself in blue and my mother has one in yellow. I got the idea from her actually, not sure where she got it from tho.
Since Malin keep her bathroom in black and white I decided to make one what would match!

Last but not least. My brother had his birthday a few days ago and I baked a bunch of cookies for his birthday dinner. Dangerously delicious as usual and very appreciated!
I also made a few for my aunt when I was visiting my new born cousin, she liked them too!

Yummy!

Phone number cards

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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Theme 68: Birth

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 fourth crafting club meeting

Finally the time came for our crafty Saturdays, to be honest it was more like a crafty Sunday but it was pleasant as usual. We were quite a few joining this time and the variety of crafts was better than usual! We had a bunch working with cards and scrapbooking, some jewelcrafting, decoration, knitting and sewing. It was a very nice day and of course we had dinner at Svenska Sushihuset afterwards. It’s a part of the tradition and their food is delicious!

I managed to make one card during the day, and I can’t say I’m very proud over that achievement but luckily I didn’t bring too much materials to the meeting. Only scrapbooking related items and a few beads.

Yesterday I baked Chocolate Chip Cookies for today and they are SOOO delicious! I made quite a few and ended up with some spare cookies.. poor me, hehe. Anyway, I really want to make more of them since they are so tasty and I want to share it with everyone I know. I hope there will be some birthday events or something soon that I can use as an excuse to make them again. Don’t they look awesome?

Yummy!

Theme 114: Cartoon

The first theme in the challenge is finished and it’s been in my mind for a few years now. I ordered the frames last year and painted them with a black glossy color and after that they’ve just been lying around waiting for me to find a proper background. Today I decided to finally finish the pictures and use different background colors for each figure. No more thinking and pondering, just doing!

I bought the figures at Disney World in Florida over ten years ago and for a few years they were used as decoration on my school bag (Pooh actually belongs to my brother and he used it as a bag decoration too) so they are a bit worn but it’s quite charming!

So, to get started I went through my scrapbooking papers and tried to find the best color. I recently ordered a big pack of plain papers in 20 different colors, very useful!
I found the papers, cut them to fit the frames and mounted them.

I cut out the back sides on the figures since they were bulging out and making it harder to mount them on the papers.

I used my glue gun and mounted the figures on the paper, had to add hangers to the frames as well but after that they were done!

And finally hanging on the wall!