My grandfather turned 80 a few days ago and I made him a card. It took me a while to get the card finished, it’s not very easy to make a card that looks elegant and classy but that was the feeling I was looking for. And I just had to use gold somehow. I found a sixty years old card of him (I also have a similar on my grandmother) that I like very much, it’s elegant and I think he looks like a movie star from the 50’s or something. I decided to use it in the card with some golden details.

He liked it a lot and commented the handwriting, this time I actually wrote it myself and it took some training to get it to look decent but I’m very happy with the result!

I used embossing on the text and the frame around the picture and some glitter glue dots in the corners.

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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