Louises scrapperie

Massvis med stämplar till salu!

2012-02-27T12:52:00.001+01:00

....har jag på Tradera.com just nu.
Om du är intresserad kan du söka på mitt nick Louise999, eller klicka på länken här: Tradera
Bland annat finns stämplar från Lily of the valley, Magnolia, Whiff of joy och Greeting Farm.
VÄLKOMMEN ATT BUDA!

Kram!

MDUC 135: Pink, orange and white

2012-02-25T21:00:00.000+01:00

Hi!
I´m so happy to be back again, even though I can see a post schedule in here that is turning into a pattern ;) I seem to only publish my MDUC posts and they´re every other week. I´m so proud to be a part of that amazingly talanted team, thanks for still having me ladies!

Today is no diffrent. We are back with an amazing colourcombi - PINK ORANGE and WHITE.
I had so much fun with it and I hope you will too :) We can´t wait to see what you come up with!

I have used an image that is very dear to me, look at them. Tilda and Edwin from Magnolia is so pretty :) As usual they are inked with di´s on 300 g watercolourpaper. The patterned papers are both from Fancy Pants and I bought them on my first visit to the Maggie store in Borås. The wonderfully lush ribbon is a gift from my very treasured friend and also teamie, Jane. Thank you so much sweetie, I love it! The amazing heart is made with a die from Magnolia and the alphabeth stickers are from Making Memories. The big glittery rose comes from Prima and the smaller ones are all WOC. White lace from Pysseltagen, a scrapstore in southern of Sweden.

Thank you so much for checking in today!

Hugs xXx Louise

MDUC: One word sentiment

2012-02-11T21:00:00.000+01:00

Hi everybody!

Time for a new challenge this weekend over at Magnolia Down Under Challenges. We would love to see you create something including a ONE WORD SENTIMENT!

As you all know we are getting closer and closer to Valentines day so I have decided to make a card for my mum and dad. They have helped out tremendously lately with all the things that makes life a bit easier for us. Thanks!

The patterned papers are from Pion design and little miss Tilda is from an older Valentines collection, I think she was part of last years release? Hm? I´m not sure, it might even have been two years ago. ;) The big rose is from Prima and the other flowers are WOC. The metal embellies are from Kort & Godt and the rhinestones was a gift from my lovely friend, Karita. Thank you sweetie. Film strips from TH, lace and small bows from the Magnolia store in Borås.

I added some stickles star dust on various places of the image and the lovely one word sentiment (although it occurs many times ;)) is also from Magnolia. Tilda is inked with my lovely DI´s on 300 g watercolourpaper - as always :) All edges is sewn.

Thnak you all so much for being here and leaving me some love even though I´m not the best visitor my self now a days. Lot´s of love, Louise xXx

MDUC # 131: Edwin only

2012-01-28T21:00:00.000+01:00

Let me start by writing saying a big HUGE thank you to all of you amazing blogreaders that left me some words after my last posting. It means so much, probably more than you know. ;)
As you can tell my crafting mojo is long away from what it used to be but my hoping it will come back soon.

Welcome to a new challenge with us ladies at Magnolia Down Under. This week we want to see ou create something only using cute to the boot Edwin! There are so many gorgeous Edwins so pick one and join in.
For more amazing inspiration jump over to the challenge blog to see the awesome Edwin projects my teamies made.

I made a twisted easel card. It is so hard to take decent photos here in Sweden during winter. It´s actually dark as I leave for work and also when I get home again so the picks aint the best. Sorry!
It´s a valentine card and as usual I have inked Edwin with DI´s on 300g watercolourpaper. The patterned papers are Prima´s Romantique collection from earlier this fall.

Thank you so much for being here!

Hugs Louise xXx

MDUC #129: Magnolias in only B&W

2012-01-14T21:04:00.000+01:00

Good evening everybody!

I´m here to tell you all about our exiting new challenge over at Magnolia Down Under. This week we would love to see you create a projec in whichever colour you prefer but your Magnolia image of choice may only be coloured in black and white. This was my very first attempt and I´m kinda satisfied ;) To tell you the truth I started sweating just a little bit at the sight of this theme but I must say I truly had loads of fun! I´ll definately do this again.

So, what are you still hanging around here for? ;) Head on over to the challenge blog to see what my lovely teamies has created for you all to inspire from. :)

And...to celebrate that we have reached over 1000 followers, which we could never have done without you, we are going to have gdt´s! Sign up!

Thank you so much for checking in with me today!

Hugs xXx

Top 10...eh...top 15 2011

2011-12-31T00:00:00.000+01:00

Hi everybody!

First of all I want to THANK ALL OF YOU that are still visiting me although I haven´t updated with something new in quite some time now. In my last post I wrote about me talking a break. And let me tell you I´m still not ready for my comeback yet but at least I can let you guys know what´s keeping me away ;)

Me and hubby are expecting a baby during summer 2012! We are of course very happy!

Unfourtunately I feel very tired and ill but I´m hoping I will feel a lot better soon.

This means I have resigned from two of my dt positions, both Little Darlings and Anonyme Scrappere. I´m on a break from Deep Ocean and MDUC. Hopefully they will let me back on when I´m ready ;)

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VISITING and leaving so many nice and encouraging words for me

Big hugs, Louise

xXx

Blogging break

2011-12-02T19:53:00.001+01:00

Hi everybody!

I have decided to take a break for a while. Since I started working again I don´t have even the slightest indication of a crafting mojo. I´m so busy taking care of my family when I´m not at work.
I feel great though, so no need to worry about me ;)
A BIG thank you to all of m patient readers :)

Hope to see you soon!
Hugs xXx

Preview: Little Darlings Christmas 2011

2011-11-28T06:00:00.000+01:00

Hi everybody!

Today is a BIG day for us at Love to stamp :) Part two of the Little Darlings winter range is being released today!

I´d like to showcase this little winter cutie, "Catching snowflakes".

Please do not miss to head on over to the Little darlings store blog to see all of the beyond gorgeous creations made by my teamies!

As I have told you about before I have decided to go back to my fulltime job. This unfortunately means I had to make a decision to leave this wonderful team. I have had the time of my life, ladies! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for looking!

Hugs xXx

Little Darlings challenge: Thank you

2011-11-23T06:00:00.000+01:00

Time for a new challenge with us at Little Darlings today :)

We would love to what you will create with the phrase: Thank you in mind!

I have used my all time fav Little Darling girl again and she is Go team Go, available from the Love to stamp store. We would also love to welcome our new guest dt, my cute friend, Alberto :)

Head on over to the challenge blog to take a look at the wonderful creations made by my teamies :)

Thank you so much for checking in with me today!

Hugs xXx

Deep Ocean Challenge: Letter C

2011-11-22T09:00:00.000+01:00

Time for an all new challenge at Deep Ocean challenges today and we would like to see you create something with the letter C in mind.

I chose to make a tag. I find them pretty quick to make when I feel a bit stressed out and still wish to play.

Tilda is here to invite you to eat some christmas cookies. (my letter C) Head on over to the challenge blog to see the lovely creations made by my amazing teamies!

I´m sorry to be keep it so short today but I have to get Signe to daycare and myself to work. That´s right, I have taken a little pause from my studying and I´m currently back at work fulltime. That´s why I´m such a bad bloggy friend and haven´t visited in some time.

Tell you more soon! Love you for being here and not giving up on me!

Magnolia Down Under 123: Debbie´s sketch

2011-11-19T21:36:00.000+01:00

YAY! Time for a new challenge over at Magnolia Down Under!

This week we would love to see you join us with you very own interpretation of my lovely teamie Debbie P.

Check it out, I´m telling you it will get your creative juices running! Thank´s Debbie, lurv it!

We are sponsered by Tilda´s town this week and you could be the winner of a giftcertificate of 15 $.

Debbies gorgeous sketch

I have been making so many christmas cards lately and although I truly adore the latest christmas maggies I felt like making something totally diffrent and the result is a card for a little princess.

I used my all time favorite stamp at least from the Fairytale collection. (I have so many ;))

She is inked with di´s on 300 g watercolour papers. I added loads of stickles star dust on to her on various places. The circular sentiments are part of a set from Lily of the valley. The big pink flowers is from Prima and the lily´s are by Magnolia. I also added a pearl swearl from Prima. The lace is bought at the Magnolia store in Borås as is the papers by My minds eye "Lost and Found".

Thanks for checking in with me today!

Hugs xXx

Fathers day

2011-11-13T16:44:00.000+01:00

Today we are celebrating our fathers here in Sweden and I made this card for my dad.

I think this is my favorite Edwin ever, he is so cute and at the same time very determined. Don´t you think? I can´t help thinking he looks like my father when he is waiting for me and my mum whilst we are doing one of our ordinary shopping streaks. Oh, but come on! ;)

Luckily this card fits right into this weeks challenge at TOMIC (The Offical Magnolia Inspiration Challenge). They would like us to create a card featuring Edwin and use a marvelloues sketch by dt member Tina. I love it, here´s what it looks like:

Thank you ladies, I had heaps of fun with it, it´s a keeper :)

My dad is also very into cars so it feelt like a great idea to mask Edwin with the glorious looking Magnolia car. The images are both coloured with di´s on 300 g watercolour paper. The sentiment is one of the cutest I have and I find it so useful time and time again. It´s part of a set from Lily of the valley. I have sewn and distressed all edges with Vintage photo. All the flowers are from WOC and the papers are from Kaiser Kraft. The paper pad is called Vintage Timeless. Lace is from the Magnolia store in Borås. Alphabeth stickers from Making Memories.

Thank you so much for looking!

Now I´m off to make loads of visits to you my stunning bloggie friends!

Hugs xXx

Anonyme scrappere: Vintage christmas

2011-11-09T09:00:00.000+01:00

This is my second posting today, for my Little Darling challenges post please click here

Time for a new challenge over at Anonyme Scrappere today :)

This time our theme is VINTAGE CHRISTMAS and we would be thrilled to see you join us. Please head on over to the challenge blog to take a look at the beyond gorgeous creations made by my lovely teamies.

I have made a stair step card with Magnolia products. This darling Tilda was part of last years christmas collection. I coloured her with my di´s and then I added stickles to various parts of her hat and jacket. She is on her way back to her house after chosing a christmas tree in the woods. The trees are diecuts also from Magnolia. I have painted the trees with distess crackle paint picket fence and then added som faux snow from Panduro. I also added that around Tildas boots. Besides this I have used papers from Pion Designs christmas collection called "Waiting for Santa II". I love them! They are the reason I´m actually not making one chrissy card this year without any red!! YAY! The beautiful text is from a die cut sheet also from Pion and it´s about Christmas and Santa Claus in swedish.

I had so much fun makin this card! Hope you like it as much as I do.

Thank you so much for checking in with me today

Hugs xXx

Little Darlings challenge #11: Silver bells

2011-11-09T06:00:00.000+01:00

Time for a new challenge with us at Little Darlings today!

I was unable to join in the last one and I´m so exited to be back again :)

This fortnight we would like to see you create something with SILVER BELLS in mind. That means you should include WHITE SILVER and another colour of your choice and as you can see I decided to go with blue.

I have been dying to ink this little cute guy for quite some time now and this seemed like the perfect moment. He is availbale from the Love to stamp store and he´s very suitably named All for me. Cute ha!

We hope that you´ll join us! You do not have to use a Little Darling image but if you do you will be eligable for our prize, 20 $ gift voucher in the store.

I want to enter this weeks challenge over at Sketch saturday, loved working with this weeks sketch as well :)

I´ll be back in a few hours with my new creation for Anonyme Scrappere, hope to see you then :)

Thank you so much for checking in with me today!

Hugs xXx

Deep Ocean Challenge #12: Vintage

2011-11-08T09:00:00.000+01:00

Time for a new challenge at Deep Ocean today and I´m so exited to tell you about the theme we have chosen for this fortnight. It´s VINTAGE!

One of my absolute fav cardmaking styles. The funny thing is I´m not totally sure my card is vintage, maybe I would call it more shabby chic but to me they kind of go hand in hand ;)

Click here to see the beautiful entries by my lovely teamies - we are welcoming some new members this week. Curious? He, he,he! I´m such a tease, they are stunning cardmakers so head on over to see who it is!

We are so proud to have you girlies!

I used this amazingly cute image by Sylvia Zet. This one is relased by Whimsy Stamps and is called Rose´s bike ride. I´m so happy I decided to buy them because I truly enjoy working with them, they are stunning!

She is inked with my di´s on 300g watercolourpaper. The gorgeous vintage looking papers are all from Pion Design. The little pretty bow with the rose is bought at the Magnolia store in Borås, as is the cute charm, the tulips, lace, minitag and the lush big Prima Rose. I have added Distress crackle paint picket fence to all the edges as well as I have sewn them. All of the other flowers are from WOC.The clock is a die from TH. The alphabeth stickers I placed on the minitag is from Making memories.

I used the marvellous sketch over at Pink {INK} sketches and it´s so beautiful! Loved working with it :)

Thank´s cuties!

I´d also like to enter the following challenges:

Addicted to stamps: Vintage or shabby chic

Anything goes: Stitching real or faux

Thank you so much for looking!

Hugs xXx

Magnolia Down Under #121: Charms & Bling

2011-11-05T22:00:00.000+01:00

Good evening to all my lovely readers!
It´s time for me to spread the word about the new challenge with us ladies at Magnolia Down Under :)
This time around we want you to create something that includes a charm and some bling on it. Easy peasy ha? I loved it :) Head on over to the challengebog to see the gorgeoues creations by my stunning teamies here.

I decided to play along with all the amazingly talanted ladies in the Magnolia dt over at their challengeblog called TOMIC. Their challenge is all about making baskets this week and I always braid a basket for the host and hostess we are visiting on christmas eve so it was the perfect time to make one now. There is a pretty splendid tutorial made by Magnolia dt lady Kianel on the Tomic blog. I want to try that too! I traditionally make my braided basket after this tutorial made by my ubertalanted ex dt colleugue Lena Katrine. Thank´s for doing this tut, Lena Katrine :) I bet we are many who apprechiates this ;)

Thank you so much for checking in with me today!

Hugs xXx

A little Darling on the move

2011-11-01T08:37:00.000+01:00

Hi everybody!

Sure feels good to be back :)

Don´t know my result at the exam yet so still a bit anxious ;)

I ment to post this yesterday but it´s for a friend of mine, her son August turned four on Halloween. He is a real cutie and so is this little guy from Little Darlings called Pumpkin Races. I coloured him with my di´s and folowed this weeks awesome sketch at Sketch Saturday. Loved working with it :)

However I didn´t add the three elements along the images sides because I think it would be to much on a boy card so I don´t know if I´m in the running for their prize or not but I´m taking my chances ;)

I´d also like you to know I´m very happy and honored to have made it into StampARTic´s Walk of fame!! Yay! Thak you so much ladies!

With this Christmas card

Thank you so much for checking in today!
Hugs xXx

Great news!

2011-10-29T09:40:00.000+02:00

I´m so happy!
Do you remember my halloween handbag?

So honored to be picked in the Top 5 over at The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge also known as TOMIC. A huge THANK YOU to the amazing ladies in the Magnolia DT.

YAY!!

I´m sorry I still don´t have anything new to show you, my amazing visitors. My final exam in course one was due yesterday and I thought the first thing I was going to do was park myself in my craft room but...little did I know, I was to tired! ;) Now I´m a bit anxiuos I won´t even pass..So keep your fingers crossed everybody!

Thank you!

I will be back soon couse my fingers are itching to get hold of some papers and stamps ;)

Wish you all the best saturday!

Hugs xXx

Little Darlings challenges: not square

2011-10-26T06:00:00.000+02:00

Hi everybody!I´m just checking in a quickie to let you all know a new awesome challenge goes live at Little Darlings today.Unfortunately I simply didn´t have time to join my lovely teamies this fortnight since my exam on friday get´s the best of me ;) I of course know the theme of the challenge which is NOT SQUARE so I encourage you all to join in.We would love to see your creations.

Have a great day!

Hugs xXx

Deep Ocean Challenge: sweeties

2011-10-25T09:00:00.000+02:00

Sorry, have to keep it really short today. Still got loads of studying to do before friday..

Time for a new challenge over at Deep Ocean challenges today.

We would like you to create something with the words sweetie in mind. If you want to we would love to see a halloween project but thats not an obligation.

I created a card with one of my new Wee stamps, this is the gorgeous Winter fairy recently realesed by Whimsy stamps.

Inked her with Copics.

Don´t forget to check out the amazing creations by my teamies, here.

Thank you so much for looking

Hugs xXx

MDUC #119: Getting punchy!

2011-10-22T22:00:00.000+02:00

Welcome to my blog!

Thank you soooo much for being here, I feel like I have been on a very involuntary blogbreak ;) It´s not that I´m missing my mojo or something because I can insure you my stamps are calling out to me ;) He, he,he LOL! Just got a lot of things going on in my personal life. Besides that I got my first big examination to leave in for review next friday. Hopefully the professor will like my work and give me his approval. Actually my goal is to pass with great credit ;) So I´m a busy bee! Hoping you wont forget about me ;)

Well, I´m here to tell you about something I simply can´t miss out on ;) There is a new challenge at Magnolia Down Under today! And this time we wanna see you get punchy! Use punches or dies on you project (as well as at least one Maggie image and or a Doo hickey die) and you´re in!

I´m so honored to be part of this amazing team, we have so much fun togheter :) We are all there for each other and I´m so proud to call them my friends. Love you guys!

Besides that they are all VERY talanted, take a look at what their makes this week here.

I made another one of those lushious bookcards. This time I wanted to alter the measurements a little because I love to embellish a LOT so I needed more space ;) This is 15 cm * 13 cm.

Tilda is always awesomely cute but this one is my fav from the new Sweet Christmas Dreams collection. She is such a doll :) She is inked with distressers and I´m proud to say this is my first ever creation that includes red that I´m truly satisfied with :) Red is one of those colors I never seem able to work really well with so a huge step for me ;) The papers are from the latest PION design collection called "Waiting for Santa II" I´m so into their papers, they are amazing!

I followed this month sketch over with the awesome ladies at CLP challenges and it looks like this:

It´s a keeper ha? Had so much fun with it, thank you for your always stunning sketches and very inspirational projects!

I´d also like to join in with the awesomely talanted ladies over at Wild Orchid challenges where they a theme of christmas fun right now.

Are you curious about those brown stars on the strings? Me too! He,he,he! I recieved them as a gift from very talanted and cute Kathy. If you haven´t visited her before you simply must! Stunning projects! Thanks sweetie, I love it! The ponsiettas are made with a marvellous puch by Nellie Snellen. The tree is a die from the new Magnolia sweet dreams collection. I added some faux snow from Panduro Hobby to both the santa hat and tree.

Thank you so much for being here!

Hugs xXx

Wee, isn´t she indeed a precious present?

2011-10-17T13:28:00.004+02:00

Hi everybody!

I want to share another one of my projects featuring my all new Wee stamps illustrated by the amazingly talanted Sylvia Zet today.

Decided to make my very first Bookcard inspired by my lovely friend Annette that keeps creating marvellous bookcards time and time again. I had to search the net after a great tutorial though and I found one at the stunning blog by the talanted norweigan lady called Wenche. Thank you for sharing!

I bought this specific Wee stamp as part of a kit containing all of the absolutely beautiful images that Sylvia made exlusively for SCACD. It´s called Precious present and that is what she really is! I´m sooo in love with her!

The patterned papers I have used are from Magnolia (the pink ones) and the purple and white one is from Inkido and I bought that years ago so about time I found a place for that, ha? ;)

The little sweetheart is inked with Copics. All flowers are from WOC and the alphabeth stickers are from Basic Grey. The shabby chic little lock comes from Melissa Frances and the filmstrip ribbon is of course by Tim Holtz.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I attended a scrapevent this saturday and I just didn´t seem to be able to get anything done?? Hm? Howcome? Sometimes that happends to me..;)

Have a great day!

Thank you so much for looking today!

Hugs xXx

I {heart} the Sylvia Zet images

2011-10-14T08:28:00.001+02:00

I made a card just for the fun of it :) Ever since I first noticed the amazingly cute images by awesome illustrator Sylvia Zet I fell like a rock! I´m so in love with the cute Wee stamps :) I haven´t really gotten around to work with them until now because they are now available in rubber both at Whimsy stamps and SCACD. So of course I had to shop like a maniac and now they are finally here in my home :) I´M SO HAPPY! ;)

First off is this little incredible Winter fairy. Look at that adorable face! My God! ;)

Right up my alley ;) Hope you like it as much as me :)

Thank you so much for looking today!

Hugs xXx

Little Darlings is hoping along with Scor-pal

2011-10-12T13:00:00.000+02:00

If you have popped by to read more about the new fortnightly challenge over at Anonyme Scrappere that I posted this morning, please click here

Warm welcome to my blog :)

I´m so exited! The Little Darlings designteam is arranging a BLOG HOP togheter with the Scor-pal designteam! YAY!

If you arrived here from lovely Gini´s blog you are right on track :) If not you might want to consider to hop along to the beginning, which is at the Scor-pal blog. If you participate you can win some amazing prices, how about a Scor-buddy from Scor-pal or a whole set of the stamps in Little Darlings latest collection of fall and Halloween stamps?

I´d like to showcase this little cute box that I made with my Metric scor-pal and I choose to work with an absolute stunning image from Little Darlings called Snappy dresser. You can find the tutorial on how to make this cupcake box here and if you feel like creating something diffrent using your scor-pal you should check out the scor-pal project listing website.

Here´s the hop order:

I´d also like to remind you to pop on by the Little Darlings challenge blog tomorrow to learn more about our new fortnightly challenge. We would love to see you join in!

Now you have to hop on over to my cute teamie Myrna´s gorgeous blog to see what she created for you. Its something smashing! :)

Thank you so much for checking in with me today

Hugs xXx

Anonyme Scrappere: hvit på hvit

2011-10-12T09:00:00.000+02:00

If you are here to see my BLOG HOP post for Little Darlings and Scor-pal, please click

YAY! Time for a new challenge with us ladies over at Anonyme Scrappere today :)

This fortnight we would like to see you create something with just one color in mind, namely WHITE

I made my first white on white card a few weeks ago and I loved it. I have seen them around on my friends blogs and as much as I have loved their makings I´ve been a wee bit scared og trying it myself. You should though and join us! Besides there are diffrent nuances of white and for instace I have used an ivory white bow that I bought when I visited the Maggiestore and two flowers from WOC in the same nuance.

I choose to work with a Magnolia image from the christmas collection of last year. I think this cutie is so sweet and she seems perfect for an all white card ;) Added stickles star dust to both the image, flowers and snowflakes. The snowflakes are actually made with my edge punch from Martha Stewart and is what you are supposed to throw away ;)

Tilda is colored with distresser on 300 g watercolorpaper. The lush rose is a Prima flower and the delisious ribbon is a treasured gift from my dear friend, Dena. Thank you sweetie! I love it!

Please check out the amazing creations by my teamies here

Thank´s for looking today!

Hugs xXx

Deep ocean challenges # 10: Fall colors

2011-10-11T09:00:00.000+02:00

OMG, I can´t believe this!

I´m here to tell you we are kickstarting our tenth challenge over at Deep Ocean challenges today, time truly do flies by ;)

This time we are embracing the fact fall has grabbed it´s hold on us. I have told you before fall is not by any means my favorite time of the year but I try to stay positive ;) I´m thinking of cozy things like sitting undernieth the blanket with Johan whilst the candles are burning in the background. Now that´s a thought I LOVE ;) He,he,he!

When you look at this card, you can probably see I haven´t been usuing colors within my comfort zone either ;) I usually only do orange on the pumkins on my halloween cards. I think this Tilda is truly amazing though so I think the end result is quite satisfying anayway ;)

She was part of last years christmas collection (Magnolia) and the reason I´m so fond of her is that lushious hair and the fact she can be used for just about any card ;)

The patterned papers are from Prima, a 6*6 paper pad called Fairy Flora and it was released last fall. I love them but I have been afraid to cut into them because they are very colorful. ;)

The lovely sentiment is from Whiff of joy and the fall leaves are from Prima. All flowers from WOC. The corner adornments is a gift from my friend Kylie, thank you sweetie! I love them :)

I followed the amazing sketch over at the Pink Ink sketch challenges when creating this card, here´s what it looks like:

Thank´s for the amazing inspiration cards sweeties! Loved working with this sketch :)

This card is also the second of the KAOS awards I´m sending off to three crafters I admire. This one is for Maria. I will never forget her first comment in my blog and my first visit back at hers. She is so talanted and I love to see the beautiful cards and Lo´s she creates. Thank you, girlie!

Before you go you shouldn´t miss out on looking at the gorgeous projects made by my teamies, here

Thank you so much for checking in with me today!

Hugs xXx

Magnolia Open house 2011

2011-10-09T10:59:00.001+02:00

If you are here to see my new creation for MDUC click here

For those of you that are like me, very into Magnolia stamps ;) I have written up this post about my day yesterday. Magnolia arranged an open house with great prices and the release of the new Sweet Christmas dreams collection in focus. I´m so lucky to live in Sweden an being able to attend this great event.

I also met lot´s of my crafting friends! I hope that wasn´t the last time..

Being there meeting all of these cuties and now as I´m writing this post up I feel like a child on christmas eve :) I can hardly believe I got to meet these awesome ladies!

On the picture above I´m togheter with one of my teamies in Magnolia Down Under Challenges, I bet you all know about her already since she makes the most gorgeous creations for Magnolia. Her name is Camilla S and I discovered her blog very early on and I have always loved seeing what she makes and her coloring is so beautiful - top class!

I also had the opportunity to meet another one of my fabby teamies, Janne and you can see a picture of that below

Janne also makes the most beautiful creations! She is a new addition to the MDUC dt group and what an excellent choice that was. Make sure you check out her blog becuase it´s filled to the top with awesome things! As if that wasn´t enough they had brought some more Norweigan candy to the candystore ;) This talanted lady´s name is Auhild and I´m so happy to have met her (although I have to tell you and yes I´m ashamed ;)) I didn´t realize it was her until I was in my car on my way home...:o OMG! Norweigan and swedish are quite the same and let me tell you when they talked to each other I felt like an alien ;) He,he,he! So...I´m happy to say I hugged her but I should have given her some proper congrats becuase she is the TOMIC guest this week! I´ll say them here instead Auhild! You make the most awesome creations, girl!

I also got to meet these stunning friends; Hanne who has the blog Papirdilla! YAY! I´m a huge fan of her work, so I jumped right on and hugged her to ;) He,he,he! She is one of the greatest masters of the shabby chic style and her Maggie cards are to die for!
Lillemor, whom is also a part of the Magnolia dt and I was absolutely blown away to see her amazing creations live - my God, I knew they were beautiful but phew, they´re truly gorgeoues! She had used a material that is new to me, wellum, and I have to buy it - looked absolutely smashing!

Here she is togheter with another very talanted crafter, Sassa, whom is a dt for hÄnglar & stÄnglar amongst others ;) I have known about her before but I have never met her. She was such a darling too! I hope to see her again. She sat with Camilla S in her coloring workshop and let me tell you - she colors in the most awesome way!

Camilla H was also there and she showed how she makes her shaker cards and in front of her was some utterly beautiful creations, I´m so happy I got to see some of them IRL :) Stunning beyond words! And let me tell you - she´s such a sweetheart taking our pictures I ended up having none of her...*sob, sob* I can´t believe I missed out...I will have to ask her if I can get one from her own when she posts about this day later on ;)

I also missed meeting me other MDUC friends! I hope we get to meet someday: I KNOW we would have loads of fun!

Thank´s for checking in with me today!

Hugs xXx

MDUC # 117: Halloween

2011-10-08T22:00:00.000+02:00

YAY! Time for a new challenge at MDUC tonight!

We want to see you create something with Halloween in mind this time.

I made this bag for my daughter Signe. We don´t really celebrate Halloween that much here in Sweden but as you know kids do just about anything for candy so she wants to go trick or treating. ;) I´m going to pick her friend up and then we will all head out. The girls are going to be the cutest witches ever ;)

Please head on over to the challenge blog to look at the amazingly beautiful creations made by my teamies, inspiration guaranteed!

I also want to join two other Magnolia challenges with this bag, both of them also have a halloween theme.

One of them is Tomic (the official Magnolia Inspiration challenge) and they want us to create something other than a card so my trick or treat bag will slip in just fine ;) I really heart this challenge but I rarely have the time to join in so I´m so happy to be able this week. Have you seen the gorgeous creations they made for us?

The other one is Magnolia-licious challenge, it´s the very first time I join them and I feel very exited. Beautiful projects there as well!

Thank you so much for checking in with me today!

Hugs xXx

Tilda is wishing Ebba a Habee Birthday

2011-10-02T00:31:00.001+02:00

Hi lovelys!
First of all THANK you for being here and also another HUGE thank you for leaving such beautiful comments. I´m so happy you do so don´t ever stop ;) There´s almost nothing like logging on to Blogger and recieve all of that love. You words warm my heart.

Today I´m here to showcase another one of my Magnolia cards. Signe, my daughter, is four years now and boy, I´d love to be too beacuse it seems to me she´s invited to birthday partys every weekend at the moment ;) Gotta love a fiesta, right? However, I don´t picture mine filled with four year olds. ;) He, he, he!
Tomorrow it´s time to celebrate Ebba´s birthday. She get´s along really well with Signe so she´s really looking forwards to it and I was overwhelmed when she asked me to make a card for Ebba. AUW! Cute, I love my little girl, she´s my biggest fan for sure ;)

It´s not really "my" week at Magnolia Down Under but I just couldn´t resist to join anyways. If you want to join in we are arranging a colourchallenge. Use the colours: PINK WHITE and GOLD. We wan´t to take the opportunity to join in the cause to raise awareness of breast cancer in choosing this theme. Head on over to the challenge blog to take a lookie on all of the gorgeous cards created by my teamies, you are in for some serious inspiration. So be ware because you´re going to run right to your craftroom to get started ;)

Over at Sketch Saturday they have yet another amazing sketch for us to follow, I joined last week as well and when I saw the new sketch I just couldn´t resist ;) I´m a sucker for great sketches and when you are at the point of no inspiration or just don´t know where to start they are simply amazing.

Tilda is coloured in with distressers on 300 g watercolourpaper. Patterned papers from Prima (the new Romantique 6*6 paper pad) and a to me all new brand, Simple Stories (Baby steps 6*6 paper pad). The alphabet stickers are from BG and all of the flowers are from WOC. As you can see in the pic below I added loads of stickles star dust from Ranger on the image. The edger punch is from MS.

Thank you so much for looking :)

Hugs xXx

LD Challenges #8: Fall/Halloween

2011-09-28T06:00:00.000+02:00

Time sure flies by, it´s already time for a new amazing challenge with us at Little Darlings and not only that! Today is release day for the new FALL / HALLOWEEN collection! So before I tell you more about the theme of this fortnights challenge I encourage you all to check out the Love to stamp store to get hold of your very own Little Darlings. And the theme is of course fall / halloween projects. You do not have to use Little Darlings images to join in our challenge but we would love to see what you would make of these sweethearts.

I have used an image called Tricks or treats and I LOVE this cute little witch, she looks a bit tricky indeed, I bet the treat in the big saucepan ;) He,he,he!

Ince again I have choosen the twisted easel fold. The spiderweb is made with a PATP set from MS. The cat and dream tag are made with Magnoliadies.The lush black orchids, the patterned papers and the sentiment are also Magnolias. I have coloured with my Copics. As usual I have added loads of stickles star dust to the image.

Found this amazing sketch on the Bunny Zoe´s Monthly challenge blog, I loved working with it. It´s a keeper.

Other challenges I´d like to enter with this card:

Paperplay time: Halloween

KB Cute mondays: Halloween

Thank you so much for looking

Hugs xXx

DOC #9: HAPPY BIRTHDAY

2011-09-27T09:00:00.000+02:00

Time for a new challenge over at this lovely place

with me and the rest of the Deep ocean family.

If you wan´t to join us this fortnight, we want to see your create something keeping our BIRTHDAY theme in mind. Isn´t that a lovely and very simple challenge? Everybody can join us so head on over to the blog to see the stunning creations by the rest of the team here and then grab your birthday gear and celebrate with us.

I have made a birthday card for somebody that is very important to me. You probably all know her to, or at least your followers of her amazing blog because otherwise you would just be stupid ;) He, he, he! LOL

Her name is Jane and just so happens she is also a dt for DOC ;)

I hope this has reached her home by now otherwise the surprise is spoilt but I think she´ll like it anyways. So Tilda and Tilda is cheering her on. I maked them togheter and it was hard to know which one I wanted in front of the other because they are eqaully lush don´t you think? As it turns out it came down to the balloon ;) It wouldn´t have shown if it was the other way around so not that a tough choice after all ;) They are both coloured with my di´s (Boy, I love em! Have you seen the new limited edition with fall colours?? Have to have them! ;)) on 300 g watercolourpaper.

The patterned papers are from a new Prima line called Pixie Glen and for a change we were´nt the last to have them in stock here in Sweden. ;) They arrived shortly after CHA in USA! Great me thinks! They are sooo my new fav paper pad.

The flowers are all WOC and I have added loads of stickles star dust to the images and a little here an there too ;) The banner is made from my spellbinder dies. Sentiment and ribbon is bought at the Magnolia store in Borås and the same goes for that pretty little bow. Alphabets stickers from Making memories. Corner adornments from Melissa Frances.

I have followed the new AWESOME sketch over at Sketch saturday (waving like crazy to the stunning ladies of the design team, had such a blast guesting them this summer ;))

Here´s what it looks like:

pretty lush ha?

Day three of Little Darlings sneak peeks: Throwing leaves

2011-09-25T06:00:00.000+02:00

Welcome to day three of the Love to stamp sneak peek´s on the new Little Darlings Halloween / fall release. They will be available in the store on wednesday :) I bet you can´t wait! ;)

My card for today features a cute little girly that really knows how to best enjoy fall. I remember doing this myself as a kiddo! Anyone else?

I have used dp´s from Basic Grey, a paper pas called "Indian summer" that was released about two years ago. She is inked with Copics and the stars are made from grungboard by TH. Firstly I covered them in Distress crackle paint tea dye and the splinked them with three diffrent glitters from Martha Stewart´s holiday pack. All edges has been sewn. The big lush and very autumny flower is from Prima and the rest comes from WOC. The same goes for the seam binding. Lace is from a swedish scrapstore: Lektyg och hantverk.

I´ll be back with more lovely Little Darlings stamps on wednesday when a brand new challenge goes live. You should join in the current one, we are looking for a guest designer! So grab your chance :)

If you´re looking for my MDUC dt post, scroll down a bit - thanks!

Thank´s for looking!

Hugs xXx

MDUC #115: Fancy Folds and KAOS award

2011-09-24T23:00:00.000+02:00

Time for another great challenge with us at Magnolia Down Under challenges and this week we would love to see you create something using a FANCY FOLD.

I made a princess twisted easel card. This ballerina Tilda is my absolute fav Magnolia stamp - all time!

I know I always say you shouldn´t miss out on the wonderful creations made by my lovely teamies and this time is no diffrent: the girls has outdone themselfves again! Take a look here. You are in for some serious inspiration :)

A while ago (I´m ashamed to say it´s been weeks now...:( ) I recieved a lovely card in my mailbox and it´s from my very talanted friend, also named Louise. It was not only amazingly crafted it was also a KAOS award. (KAOS= Kreativa Artister med Otrolig Skaparglädje) I´m pretty sure this is an award that doesn´t exist internationally - YET ;) I happen to know I was lucky enough to recieve another one this week and when I´ll be sending those out I will send it to some peeps I adore abroad. Be patience, I won´t be ready with them all until next year with the pace I´m having ;) So in english I think they would be called something like CAIC = Creative Artists with an Incredible joy for Crafting. Now please check out Louise´s lovely card:

Made by Louise Uddenbjörk

Now I need to tell you some more about the KAOS award. If you´re lucky enough to recieve one you are to send it onto three crafters that inspires and impresses you. The creation you pass on are supposed to reflect your own personal style and it is originally supposed to be 10*15 cm but I hardly EVER do those so I couldn´t do that AND create a card that reflects me ;) So I´ll be making three totally diffrent creations. You are also supposed to blog them all in the same post but ´knowing how busy I am right now I will do them one by one or I will never get to it ;) So I´m combining a challenge dt card with a kaos award - the best of two worlds ;)

You are also supposed to write a little bit of why you want to send your KAOS award to that specific person. My first one I made to a lady I admire a lot! I have been visiting Kamilla ´s blog on a regular basis ever since I started out with cardmaking in 2009. She has an amazing personal style and I feel there is really nothing she couldn´t create. She loves to try out new things and she often creates awesome designs that loads of people seems to love and then ask her to make a tutorial on ;) So I have followed them on numerous occasions.

Kamilla, please send me your home adress to my email: louise.fraenell@hotmail.se and I will send you your Kaos award card in an instant. I hope you will love it as much as I do :) We have one thing in common (well, of course you can imagine we got more than one but...) and that is we both LOVE the colour PINK. I can tell you without liying I will have a hard time saying bye bye to this pink card :)

So I´m aware I´m not totally playing this by the rules but I hope I´m excused?? ;)

I also want to enter these challenges:

Addicted to stamps - stitching

Anything goes - anything goes

Thank you so much for looking today :)

If you made it all the way here I´m grateful ;)

Hugs xXx

Little Darlings: A snappy dresser sneak peek

2011-09-24T06:00:00.000+02:00

Hi everybody!

I´m so proud and happy to showcase this little adorable guy from the Love to stamp ´s own brand Little Darlings, he´s name is Snappy dresser. Isn´t that just the perfect name? I think he´s so cute and I knew I wanted to create something featuring this little guy right away.

This is another trick or treat bag suitable for a candy gift on Halloween.

Snappy dresser is inked with Copics.

Papers are from a paper pad by Basic Grey that was released two years ago. The fence is a Magnolia Doo Hickey die. Alphabeth stickers from MME and the window in the bag is cut out using nestibilities circles die from Spellbinders. I made a frame with the nestibilities scalloped circles die too.

It´s been a while since my last posting now. It´s a wee bit funny because all of my dt work is concentrated around the middle weeks of the month. Well, in september that has been a good thing because I have been able to focus on my studies. It´s still a bit challenging planning around to be able to do everything but I feel I´m getting there ;)

How are you?

If anyone has missed me I can tell you I´ll be back already tonight with my posting for Magnolia Down Under. Hope to see you then!

Thank´s for looking!

Hugs xXx

Previews have started! Little Darlings Fall autumn release

2011-09-23T13:06:00.001+02:00

Hi ladies!
I´m here to tell you some amazing news :)
Time has come for me to finally spill you the news about a new upcoming release at the Love to stamp store. Little Darlings Fall and autumn release previews are starting today so head on over to the LD Blog and to see what my teamies are showing off.

I love the new line and I hope you will too :)

Hugs xXx

To Signes buddy Vidar on his 4th birthday

2011-09-18T14:04:00.000+02:00

Time for my daughter Signe to go to another birthday party today. The bithdayboy is celebrating his 4th birthday and is named is Vidar. They know eachother from daycare. He is so sweet and totally into superheroes. The invitation showed a picture of him as Spiderman and said the party had a costume theme. Signe and her best friend, Stella, immediately wanted to dress up as little princesses. I just have to show you a pic of our adorable little princess:

Signe 4 years old

So of course the matching birthdaycard had to be made in superherostyle ;) I have been longing to ink up this cute to the boot little Edwin from the "The winner takes it all" collection from Magnolia. It was part of the summerkit and so was the moon and the rocket! Perfect occasion, right?

The papers are from SassaFrass lass that I bought at the Maggie store in Borås this summer. I have struggled to keep this "simple" without adding to many embellies - you know me, I usually throw on loads of thingys to my creations. Instead of flowers I decided to go with some grungeboard stars from TH that I firstly painted with distress ink Picket fence crackle paint and the added German glass glitter from WOC. The letters are a combination of two diffrent Thickers styles. I just couldn´t keep out of my ribbon drawer though...I ended up with this lush blue ribbon. It was a most treasured gift from my lovely and utterly talanted friend Alberto. Thank´s! I lurv it :)

Edwin is inked with distressers on 300g watercolour paper.

At the Addicted to stamps challenge blog they want to see creations featuring stitching this week. Great challenge ha?

Thank you so much for visiting me today!

Great to see you here :)

Hugs xXx

Tickled pink Pinkette preview week: meet little Christmas Pinkette Coraline

2011-09-17T16:00:00.000+02:00

Hi sweeties!

This is sadly my last posting as a dt for Tickled pink stamps. I have made the decision to step down from my spot this month. Going back to Uni ment less time at my craft desk so I had to give one of my positions up. I have been with them for more than eight months now so I felt that was the way to go :)

I have enjoyed every moment as a {PINK}ette and I´m so thankful towards Kellie and the rest of the ladies on the smashing team for having me so long :)

Today we are showcasing little christmas Coraline. Isn´t she the sweetest thing? She is my fav Pinkette so I was very happy to see her return in this collection :)

I have used papers from Maja Design and coloured her with my di´s. The amazing white roseribbon is a gift from my awesome friend Dena. Thank´s hunni :)

Smuttred the big snowflake with stickles star dust and made the snowflak with a die from Spellbinders.

Thank´s for looking!

Hugs xXx

Tilda is waving bye bye to the summer - in Copics

2011-09-15T16:23:00.001+02:00

Hi everybody!
I´d like to show you this card I made today just having a play :)
I realized that summer is officially over here in Sweden and that I hadn´t used this sweet laying Tilda that has a very summery feel to her. Ever since I got her I have pictured her togheter with this scenestamp, also from Magnolia. I´m still praticing with my Copics and I have used them here. I´m still not used to how they get a much more vibrant look than my di´s and is harder to work a shabby feel with (at least I think so now) and I was very satisfied with the result until I tried adding some shadow in the gras undernieth her...My God, that looks hiddeous but I´m thinking I had to use it since it took me so long to finish it. ;) So I paired her up with some papers from 3ndy Papir and flowers from WOC. I have also used the Swedish lace die from Magnolia around the image. The sentiment is also from Magnolia. Ribbon from Panduro.

Thank you so much for looking :)

Hugs xXx

TPS Pinkette Christmas Preview week: meet little Faith

2011-09-15T16:00:00.002+02:00

Need someboy to sing you christmas carols? Look at this adorable little Pinkette from Tickled pink stamps! Her name is Faith and luckily she has been a huge inspiration to me when I made it, meaning I was seriously not in a chrissy card making state when it needed to be created ;) He, he, he! So she sang me a tune and told me to listen to some chrissy music ;) So I did and here it is: all dressed up in the traditional colours.

So if you need to get stareted with you jolly cards and have no inspi, Faith is what you need ;)

The patterned papers are from Basic Grey, flowers from WOC and golden ribbon from Panduro. As usual she is coloured in di´s on 300g watercolourpaper.

Have to go now, I´m off to a lecture, thank´s for visiting me :)

I´m part of the Anonyme Scrappere team!

2011-09-14T09:00:00.001+02:00

Hi cuties!
Oh, I´m so HAPPY today!
I have had a SECRET since this summer and I have been bursting to spill ;)
You´re reading the blog of the newest member of the Anonyme Scrappere team!! I´m so proud that lovely Anja, blogowner and teamleader, asked me if I want to join them after I had been a guest in july. IF I want to? He,he,he! I didn´t even consider turning this awesome offer down. Count me in!
I cant believe I´m now going to be working alongside some of the most talanted crafters in blogland on one more team :) I´m honored to be one of you and I can´t wait to get to know you all a bit better.

I´m going to be part of team 1 and we have a new challenge for you all today :)
We want to see you create something for a boy/man. Yes, it´s time for you to get your thinking caps on and dazzle us :) Talking about being dazzled check out the amazing card my teamies made here.

I siezed the opportunity to welcome little Arvid into this world. He was actually born about five months ago but for some reason the post office has been "unable" to deliver my packages...they just don´t seem to turn up at my friends house. The first parcel just vanished?? Hm? The second one came back to me again...so I figured I should make a third little gift set and that will be deliverd for sure, right? I mean hard hard can it be? :o

My choice of image is this beautiful baby Tilda from Magnolia. I don´t think she looks to girly if you colour her in these boyish colours?
Patterned papers from one of my favourite brands, Pion. Love them! They have just released their chrissy collection "I väntan på Tomten II" and guess what, I ordered it and can´t wait to get crafty with them :)

Thanks for looking :)

Hugs xXx

Little darlings challenges: Brown and red

2011-09-14T06:00:00.001+02:00

We are back with a new splendid challenge over at Little Darlings today!

And we want to see you create in my personal fav colourcombi for christmas, namely brown and red.

I think you need loads of christmas giftbags around these jolly times so I made the first one for 2011. I have used a fantastically cute image called Every stocking counts and is available at the Love to stamp store now.

I think she is so cute adding that little stocking in the hopes of getting some more goodies ;)

The red roses are from WOC and the brown ones with glitter is from a scrapstore nearby me called Scraproom, so is the pearls on strings. The papers are from Basic Grey and the image has been coloured with di´s on 300g watercolouring papers. The brown bow is from the Maggie store in Borås and the alphabeth stickers is MME.

The snow is made with a snow pen that I bought at Panduro, I added stickles star dust to them.

Please don´t forget to check out the amazing work made by my lovely teamies in the challenge blog.

Thank´s for checking in with me today :)

Hugs xXx

Preview week at TPS: Lil Christmas Pinkettes are soon here :)

2011-09-13T16:00:00.001+02:00

HO! HO! HO!

It´s chrissy time at Tickled pink stamps :) Awesome bosslady Kellie and the amazing {PINK} ladies has already had their preview week for the new christmas Lil Lad´s and Lolita´s :) A truly stunning collection to choice from! Click my link above to go shop your rubber!

(Kellie has had some troubles with her internet connection so the release was a bit delayed yesterday, keep checking in :) Suddenly they are there ;))

So now it´s the {PINK}ettes turn :) I have been dying to show you these cuties!

First off is little miss Coraline :) Isn´t she gorgeoues holding that mistletoe? :)

I wanted to place her in a very "frosty" scene so my choice of colour had to be blue. Decided on going for a new tag :) I need loads of those for my christmas gifts.

The patterned paper are from TH and the rose from WOC. Coraline has been inked with distressers on 300 g watercolour paper. The snowflakes are made with a punch from MS. I have added loads of Stickles Star dust to them :) Ribbons are from Panduro.

Do not forget to head straight over to the TPS blog to check out the fab creations from my fellow Pinkettes :)

Deep Ocean challenges #8: Lace

2011-09-13T09:00:00.002+02:00

Hi everybody!

Thank you so much for checking in with me today :) I´m so happy to see so many of you are visiting me these days and I´m so thankful towards all of you whom always leaves a little love before you take off. Means so much to me :)

Today I´d like to showcase my very first card with a Kenny K image :) I made it so it´s suits the new awesome challenge we are launching at Deep ocean which is LACE. We would love it if you could come join us :) And don´t forget to take a lookie at the beautiful work my talanted teamies has created here.

I´m so thankful that Whimsy stamps is cooperating with Kenny K to be able to bring us his awesome images in rubber too :) And I happen to have heard they are also going to do the same with the amazingly cute Wee images by Sylvia Zet in october as well :) YAY!! I´m going to be soooo poor :) Well, I could colour them with my Copics but I never seem to get the hang of the techniques I should use to feel completely satisfied with my colouring :( I´m practising though..;) But still,I´m going to be soooo poor ;) He,he,he! LOL

I thought it was time for me to make another birthday card, I new many of them "in stock" because my beloved friends seem to celebrate bithdays all over the place ;)

The lush papers are from Inkido, and the lace is from the Magnolia store in Borås. The nestie is a lable 10 from Spellbinders. The large rose is from Prima and the others are from WOC. Alphabet stickers from MME. And yes, I added my new fav spellies to this one as well ;) It´s from the banners set :) Wow, I can use them for everything ;) The white shabby chic corneradornment and lock is from Melissa Frances :) The leafs are made with a die from QK. I have also used a edge puncher from MS, called arch lattice.

Hope to see you all soon in YOUR blogs ;)

HUGS xXx

Magnolia Down under #113: Karen´s sketch

2011-09-10T23:00:00.001+02:00

Hi to all of you my dear bloggy friends!

How are you doing?

Today it´s time for new challenge with us ladies over at Magnolia Down Under :) This week we´d love to see your interpretation of Karen´s amazing sketch :) I loved working with it, sweetie, thank you so much

Here´s what it looks like:

I´m so fond of sketch challenges because it´s so amazing to look at how totally diffrent the outcome can be even though we have all been working from the same sketch :)

I decided to go for another chrissy card! I really need to get started with those to get all of them ready in good time :) I have made myself a promise I won´t put it off til the last minute this year.

Thank you so much for checking in with me today :)

Hugs xXx

Birthday gift for Stella, 4 years (picture heavy)

2011-09-10T11:53:00.002+02:00

Happy saturday everybody :)

I hope you are well, no matter your whereabouts in this world :)

I´d like to showcase a giftset I made for one of Signes pre school buddies, Stella. They are so cute togheter! The bestest of friends :)

As it turnes out Stellas mother, Anna and I have been going to the same school between ages 7 and 15! Not in the same class though but still - the world is a small place. So I wanted to make something a little extra today because Anna has done so much for our family this past year :) She has helped us out with Signe a few times taking her home when we have been working late. Thank´s Anna!

(Of course I have also bought Stella a little something she will enjoy right now, I don´t think Stella will be so intrigued if this was all we were to give her - after all kids are all about toys ;)) However I think her mother will treasure this :) It´s an lo that I made and then adhered to a 30*30 cm deep edge canvas frame and a matching card. If you check in here with me on a regular basis I´m pretty sure you´ll regonize the card. I made it for a MDUC challenge a while back and I just added a few details to it now for a more personalized look. :)

I´m so in love with the papers I used, they are from Pion Design and is called "Minnenas ataljé". I love thier delicate and vintage look - very shabby! The photo of Stella is taken by her mother when she was one year old and is Anna´s fav picture. :) Not hard to see why ha? She is such a cutie! I have added loads of Prima flowers to it and have also used quite a lot of laser printed cardstock (the leaves and corner adornments) that was a gift to me from lovely Kylie and came all of the way from Australia! Thank you so much hunni :) I adore them! The foam letters are from thickers from Prima. The small alphabeth stickers are from MME. Metal key from Panduro. The small and medium roses in beige, brown and pink is from WOC. I have used a PATP set from MS to get the lacey edge both on the photomat and the edges. The amazingly beautiful butterfly is also from Prima. I think this frame will hang beautifully in Stellas room. I made sure it blends in perfectly with her pinky walls ;)

I hope Anna and Stella will love this as much as I do :)

Thank you so much for checking in with me today :)

And I´ll be back later today to show you the card I made for MDUC´s new challenge so I hope to see you then :)

Hugs xXx

Little darlings is rocking!

2011-09-05T09:00:00.001+02:00

Hiya cuties!

Thank you so much for checking in today, I´m very exited about sharing this card :)

I immediately fell in love with this supercute image from the Love to stamp store she is part of one of the recent Little Darlings collection named Back to school, she is Music 101. Isn´t she just the coolest with those sunglasses? I think she looks like playing guitar and singing is the best thing ever, don´t you. That is one happy smile! A little bit like me when I´m satisfied with a card ;)

I paired her up with some papers from Webster´s pages and coloured her with my DI´s on 300 g watercolourpaper. The stars are grungeboard from TH that I first painted with Tea Die crackle paint and then added some MS glitter to. The ribbon is seam binding and the alphabeth stickers are BG. I had so much fun making that last joy fold card I had to make another one ;)

Again, thank you so much for looking!

Hugs xXx

Magnolia Down Under challenges 112: Frame it!

2011-09-03T23:00:00.002+02:00

Hi my gorgeous craftbuddies!

How are you all doing?

I´m starting to get the hang of some things again but boy, oh, boy! To become a student again totally changed everything :) It´s a good thing it´s for the better ;)

I´m here today to show you a card I have made just to play a little! So, some of you might know it´s not my week at Magnolia Down under challenges but when I finished the card I went by the blog to get a before peek at everybodys stunning creations and realized mine would fit in the theme just perfect :) We wan´t to see you create with a frame of your choice added around the image. I had so much fun with mine and I know you will too if you join in!

The stunning frame I used for my card is a gift from one of my most treasured friends in blogland, Karita. Thank you so much, sweetie! I love it and I´ll use one of them again soon :)

When I made this easel card I had a few other challanges listed in my head that I wanted to join in too. Have you guys seen the AWESOME tutorial Minna posted on the StampArtic blog about how she makes those amazing shaby chic looking cards of hers? If not, you simply must go do that :) Thank´s for sharing Minna :) In addition to that StampArtic´s challenge blog is arranging a shabby chic themed challenge for us all to join :) Check out the dt cards - they blow you away! When I made this card my goal was not to copy or do a rip off of Minnas lovely style so I tried to use her technique but with my style. I think I suceeded pretty well. I have added loads of Distress ink Picket Fence all over the papers, the frame and the lilac flowers, hope that´s enough to call it shabby chic ;)

In addition to StampArtic I also have been wanting to join in the sketchchallenges with my friend Chelsea, she is the owner and founder of the Crafting life´s pieces challenge blog. This is what the sketch looks like this month:

Awesome ha?

Thank you so much for checking in with me today :)

I would be thrilled if you left me some love before you head off :)

Hugs xXx

dt Tickled pink stamps: Tent card tutorial

2011-08-31T16:00:00.002+02:00

I´m here today to tell you it´s my turn to host a tutorial over at the Tickled pink stamps blog.

If you are intressted in seeing how I make my tent cards click the link to learn more about it ;)

I have made my tent card using my all time fav TPS image called Lil allsorts Fairy Kira and I coloured her with my distressers. The sentiment and the die is also from the TPS store, the senitment comes from a valentine kit but unfortunately it´s out of stock right now. I´m sure Kel will restock again though ;) The valentine die is available now though :)

The patterned papers are from Panduro Hobby and the gorgeoues checkred ribbon is a gift from my friend, Dena. Thank you hunni, I love it!

The buttons are from a local sewing store called Stoff & Stil.

Thank you so much for checking in with me today :)

Hugs xXx

Tickled pink stamps is sponsering Creative Inspirations

2011-08-31T01:00:00.001+02:00

....so if you feel like winning a gorgeoues TPS price you definately should join in the sketch challenge over at the Creative Inspirations Wednesday's Challenges.

So head on over there to learn more about that and you should also check our Tickled pink stamps blog to look at the cards that some of my gorgeous teamies has created for this occasion. :)

I have used my favorite {PINK}ette for this card, her name is Coraline and she is so sweet! Love that big bow in her hair and the yummie muffin on the plate. The sentiment is also from TPS. She´s inked with my distressers on 300 g watercolour paper.

I´m getting in the swing of things as a student at uni, a little more each day. Feels great!

I´m getting tired of the wheater though...I feel like it´s been raining her in Scania constantly throughout the summer. Now it´s cold as well...so autumn is definately here again.

Uhhh....I´m soooo not the biggest fan of autumn...

Chin up, Louise! It´s just the wheater ;)

Thank you so much for checking in today!

Hugs xXx

dt Deep Ocean Challenge #7: Hearts

2011-08-29T22:26:00.000+02:00

WOHOO!
Time for another challenge with us at Deep Ocean today! :)
I had sooo much fun with the joy fold card I made for the theme this fortnight which is all about HEARTS!
It´s been a while since I chose to work with this fold but that will change, I love it!
The result is almost like a valentine card don´t you think? ;)
Patterned papers are all from Magnolia and so are the stamps. Rollerskating Tilda is part of the latest collection "The winner takes it all". When I first saw it, I thought it was a collection with all nice stamps but they didn´t really speak to my heart but it´s a funny thing, now I love them all ;)
Rollerskating Tilda is my fav though! The heart corner stamp was part of the Valentine collection of this year. I stamped it with black and then added stickles star dust to it. The heart is actually grunge board from TH that I have painted with Distress Ink Picket fence crackle paint and then I added some german glass glitter from WOC. It´s so beautiful! The roses are also WOC and the lily comes from Magnolias own range of flowers.

We would LOVE to see you join in so head on over and check out the projects my lovely teamies has created for this new challenge.
Surprise us!

Thank you so much for checking in today :)

Hugs xXx

dt Magnolia Down Under challenges #111: Texture

2011-08-27T23:00:00.004+02:00

Oh, my God!

I´m tired, sooooo tired...

But in a good way ;) I´m now a student as of thursday this week!! It feels great but there is so many new elements in my life now that I throw myself in our couch every night exhausted ;)

Love the feeling of not having to go to work but I sure miss my coworkers, they´re all so gorgeous :) The perfect solution would be to bring them all to uni with me, but I guess that´s kind of impossible ;) LOL!

Enough about me and onto the card I´m showcasing today :)

It´s already time for me to tell you about our new challenge at Magnolia Down Under, time sure flies by, ha?

This week we would love to see what you create with TEXTURE in mind.

I have been wanting to make a white on white card for sooo long! Have seen great ones around in all of your blogs, my fabby friends, and this is how my interpretation turned out.

I had so much fun making it and I dare promise you that another one is on the way ;) He,he,he Lol!

I´m so happy with it, what you all think? ;)

The Tilda is from the Merry little Christmas collection that was released last year. I love it! She is adorable!

I have embossed the papers with two diffrent folders to achieve the structured/textured surfice. The snowflakes that are place on various places are "waist" from when I cut out the snowflake border with a PATP set from MS. I added stickles to the snowflakes, the flowers and the image. I coloured Tilda with my much loved distressers. :) Yes, I got a new ink pad ;) The flower is from Prima, I have used a die from Spellbinder to cut out the banner. Alphabeth stickers from MME. Swirldie from Magnolia, as the charm.

Don´t forget to run over to the challenge blog to wiev the stunning work my teamies has created :) They rock!

Thank you so much for checking in with me today!

Hugs xXx

Louise

dt Little Darlings challenges #6: Pleates or ruffles

2011-08-24T06:00:00.002+02:00

Time for another challenge with us ladies in the dt over at Little Darlings :)

We are so amazed and were so inspired to see your gorgeous designs this fortnight and we hope to see you all again this time around. We would like to see you create something with PLEATES and / or RUFFLES in mind. Nice and simple ha? ;)

I have made a card with an image from the Little Darlings range that you can shop at the Love to stamp store named First Bell. My daughter Signe is about four and a half now and this is how I imagine her on her way to her first day at school. I think she´s adorable!

The patterned papers are from Melissa Frances, my fav paper pad called 5th avenue :)

Ribbons from the Magnolia Store in Borås. The image is coloured with Copics. Flowers from WOC :) The sentiment is part of a stamp kit that my friend has designed but it´s currently out of stock in the store so I´m sorry but I can´t link to it. The shabby white little lock is also from Melissa Frances.

Don´t forget to head on over to the challenge blog to take a look at all the beautiful cards made by my teamies :) You´re in for some serious inspiration :)

I couldn´t resist joining the current sketch challenge with the amazingly talanted ladies in the Pink Ink sketch challenges this week! If you haven´t looked at the lovely work they made for us to inspire us you missed out big time! Go have a lookie.

Here´s the sketch:

Thank you so much for checking in with me today!

It means a lot to me :)

Hugs xXx

Louise

dt Love to stamp: Little darlings chrissy stamps

2011-08-21T12:01:00.001+02:00

Today I´d like to showcase my first christmas card for 2011 :)

It features this stunningly cute little girl from Angie´s own brand Little Darlings. You can find them in her very own online store Love to stamp. The image is called Decorating the tree and will be available tomorrow at 22:00 togheter with these amazing stamps:

Super cute ha??

I loved making this card and of course my first chrissy card needs to be totally chrissmassy and therefor in the colourcomobo red and green.

The papers are from a paper pad I bought last year from Webster´s Pages. I added some stickles to the image that is coloured with Copics. Flowers from WOC, and the charm and pearl thingy is from the Maggiestore in Borås. The alphabeth stickers from MME spells out Merry Christmas in swedish.

Thank you so much for visiting me today :)

I´m off to work on my dt card for the new Little Darlings challenge that goes live on wednesday :) There is still time to join in on our current challenge though. Check it out buy clicking my link above :)

Hugs xXx

The winner of my 300 followers candy :)

2011-08-20T11:47:00.000+02:00

First of all I´d like to thank all of you for taking part in the chance of winning my candy!

I´m blown away with the number of entries :)

I had to ask Mr Psychicscience.org to help me pick the winner :)

And the winner is

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Random numbers generated Aug 20 2011 at 11:40:15 by http://www.psychicscience.org/

and that is CAMILLA

Big congrats, hunny :)

Please email me your mail address here:

louise.fraenell@hotmail.se

Thank you for participating in my celebration, Camilla

And of course the rest of you ;)

Thank´s for checking in with me today

I´ll be back tomorrow with a Little Darling card :)

Hugs xXx

New stamps from Love to stamp -Little darlings

2011-08-20T11:18:00.000+02:00

I´m here today to tell you all about a new fabolous relase from Love to stamp and they are part of the Little Darlings range! It will be available on monday and includes the so cute stamps above - I think it´s the most adorable chrissy images :)

I´ll be back later today to announce the winner of my 300 followers candy and tomorrow you´ll see my first card with these gorgeoues Little Darlings :)

Thank you so much for checking in with me today

Hugs, Louise xXx

Best Witches!

2011-08-18T21:37:00.000+02:00

When my gorgeous dt boss at Tickled pink stamps, dear Kellie Winnell sent me the new Lil Pinkette images that are Halloween themed I bursted out in joy :) My God, these are pretty!

I have made a trick or treat box that you can fill with candy and give away :) Didn´t feel like going with the traditional colours and all of a sudden this cute little witch called Audrey ended up being inked in in black and pink :) The stunning sentiment is also from TPS and part of a sentiment sheet set also released in the Spinks & Spooks collection.

I have embossed it on to regular black cs with silver embossing powder - cool effect and I haven´t done that in ages ;) The papers are from Echo Park and Audrey is inked with Copics :)

I have had the headache from hell today so I´m keeping it short, I can hear my bed calling out for me ;)

Adorable ha?

Thank you so much for checking in with me today :)

It means so much!

Lot´s of love, Louise xXx

dt Whiff of joy challenges #111: Tag you´re it

2011-08-17T09:00:00.001+02:00

This post feels a bit sad you guys!

It´s my final posting as a dt for Whiff of joy challenges. I have been working with the lovely girls there for a year now and I feel it´s time for me to try on something new ;)

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING CUTIES!

I have had the greatest time working alongside all of you wonderful and very talanted ladies :) A special thanks goes out to my dear friend and excellent team leader, Jane. You´re such a sweetheart and the best dt boss anybody could ever wish for! *sniff, sniff*

Well...here I go ;)

As you probably have managed to figure out we´d like you to create something including a tag. Either you make your whole project a tag or you include a tag somewhere on it.

I decided to make a tag featuring the very cute Charlotte on carpet, illustrated by Alison Acton and she can be purschased here.

The tag is cut out using a die from Tim Holtz, patterned paper from Sassafrass Lass and flowers by Wild Orchids Craft. Charlotte is inked with my Copics :) I feel I´m improving and actually I wanted to ink this image with my distressers but my black Archival Ink pad seems to have gone up in smoke and I had no other choice ;) But I´m happy with it! I´m getting there ;) Need to buy a new waterproof ink pad though because I´m not giving up my distress colouring.

The minitag is from Magnolias store in Borås and the Love sentiment is also from Whiff of joy :)

So I have some busy, busy few days ahead of me! I started working again about a week ago and I´ll work til august 25th. After that I´m going back to school again. I can hardly wait, I´m really looking forwards to going back to the university! YAY! Til then I´m working full time and I hope I have time to see you all my friends otherwise you can be sure to see me again when things slow down a bit ;)

Don´t miss out on the beautiful work made by my teamies here.

We´d love it if you joined us!

dt Deep Ocean challenges #6: Light blue

2011-08-16T09:00:00.001+02:00

Time for another challenge with us over at Deep Ocean this fortnight.:)

But before I tell you more about that I´d like to thank all of you whom joined in the last challenge, it was a delight to look at all of those stunning and inspiring entries! Keep em coming, peeps :)

Onto our new challenge: it is: LIGHT BLUE.

I have had an urge to make something other than a card lately and the other day I found this jar empty in one of our kitchen drawers. I felt a bit sad for it so I had to alter it! ;)

I bought these amazingly cute Tildas when I last visited the Maggie store a few weeks ago and they have been screaming for attention :) Whoops Tilda inspired me to make it a Cookie jar. And here it is!

Papers are from Magnolia, flowers from Prima and WOC. Images coloured with distress ink pads on 300 g watercolourpaper. Charm from Magnolia and the cupcake punch edger is from MS.

Don´t forget about going here to check out the amazing work made by my awesome teamies :)

dt Magnolia Down under challenges # 109: Song inspired

2011-08-13T23:00:00.003+02:00

Oh boy! It´s already time for another smashing challenge with us ladies in the Magnolia Down Under and let me tell you: I´m sooooo exited about this one! We are song inspired this week :) I had sooo much fun making this card :) Can you see which song I´m inspired by? Oh, yes one of my childhood idols had to lend me her title ;) Yeah, it´s Madonna with MATERIAL GIRL! I still think Madonna is into the groove though ;)

See Tilda here where she´s shopping, she is just like me ;) He,he,he! LOL!

If I was a millionaire I´m sure I could spend it all anyways ;)

I have scheduled this post about a week ago and yesterday was me and hubbys 5th wedding anniversary! It was also a celebration because we have been togheter for 10 years! So..I don´t know where I´m at when I scheduled this :) Hubby tells me it´s a surprise but we will be away all weekend. Maybe we are in Stockholm? I´ll tell you all about it when I get home ;)

So please, go see the AMAZING work made by my teamies here. I promise you: the rhytm is going to get you! ;)

dt Tickled pink stamps: Introducing Lil Pinkette Halloweenie Pirate Patric

2011-08-11T16:00:00.003+02:00

Here I am again with another prewiev of one of the new Lil Pinkette stamps from Tickled pink stamps!

Meet Pirate Patric, he´s so cool!

Along with the new stamps is also released another set of gorgeous sentiments designed by one of the {PINK} ladies, miss Ann Vento. The sentiment and frame is part of that set. A bit creepy ha? ;)

I had some pirate themed papers from Panduro so I thought they would be perfect for this card. I also used the punch set from MS again to get the spiderweb going. The image is coloured with distress ink pads on 300 g watercolour paper. The metal embellies is perfect for any boy / man card me thinks, they are from Tim Holtz.

Don´t forget to check out the lush work by my teamies here.

dt Little Darling challenges #5: Back to school

2011-08-10T06:00:00.003+02:00

Time for my first posting as a dt for Little Darling challenges and I´m so exited and proud :)

Our theme this week is BACK TO SCHOOL and we would love to see you join us!

I made this easelcard with the through the roof cute Science 101, you can find this stamp and more from the latest Back to school release over at the Love to stamp store. Go check them out!

I used papers from Sassafrass lass togheter with red and lightyellow cs. The image is coloured with my Copics.

So head on over to the challenge blog to see what my very talanted teamies created :) There are so many stunning projects! :)

dt Tickled pink stamps: Introducing Lil Pinkette Halloweenie Fairy Coraline

2011-08-09T16:00:00.001+02:00

Some of you might know that we are in the middle of another smashing prewiev week at Tickled pink stamps. We are soooo exited about this new release, it´s filled with cool AND cute Halloween stamps. This month the prewievs are combined so you will wee both stamps from the Lil Lolita and Lil Lads range and Lil Pinkettes range!

Today it´s my turn to show you what stunning Coraline looks like in her halloween costume, she is dressed up to be a fairy, cute ha?!

I paired her up with some Magnolia patterned papers from the So Spooky collection. The spiderweb is made with a PATP set from MS. The flowers are from Magnolia and WOC. Added loads of stickles to the image. I wanted to make her look very halloweenie so I didn´t put blush on her cheeks, she looks so pale which added to the spooky feeling don´t you think?

Head on over to the Tickled pink stamps blog to see the lovely projects my teamies made using stunning Coraline. You will find all of the other prewievs published earlier this week too. That way you don´t miss out on anything :)

dt Whiff of joy challenges #110: Buttons & Bows + dt call

2011-08-03T09:00:00.009+02:00

Time for another Whiff of joy challenge this fortnight :)

And as the title tells you we´d like to see you create something featuring a Whiff of joy stamp and then add both buttons and bows to it!

I bought a new die from Tim Holtz last week and it cuts out this tag. LOVE IT!

Can you guess which medium I used on the ubercute Henri celebrating mouse? Yes you guessed right, it´s my second image I post using my Copics. :) Oh, I tell you guys, I have fallen hard, like a rock ;) They´re so much fun! And it´s even more fun using this amazing cardstock from Make it crafty. It was included in happy mail I recieved from my treasured friend Kylie, thank you soooo much hunny! I love it!

I also want to tell you that I have made the desicion to step down from my dt post at WOJ challenges. I will be leaving with the next challenge. I feel a little sad, I have had the honor of being part of this gorgeous gang a year :) Because so many of the dt members are leaving, our lovely team leader Jane is hosting a DT CALL with this challenge. All you have to do is add DT after your link when you take part of this challenge.

So I encourage you to take part, add dt after linking and maybe it is you whom will be part of this gorgeous team in the future.

Jane and the other ladies are such cuties so grab this oportunity! :)

Before you head off to your craft room/space getting ready to play with your WOJ stamps you have to promise to check out the amazing work made by my talanted teamies here

I´m a Little darling

2011-08-02T21:09:00.000+02:00

Some of you might have read about me having a secret on Facebook today!
I had planned on holding on to it a little longer, at least until I had my first card ready but I just can´t...;)
So here I go:
I got an email this weekend that made me very happy :) :)
The woman who sent it is one of the crafters I admire the most in all of blogland and her name is Mindy. She was wondering if I´d consider being a full time designer for Love to stamp, the online store that holds the very cute stampbrand Little darlings. The brand is owned by another very talanted crafter namely Angie.
Apart from my other dt bosses (that are located around the globe) I have actually had the pleasure of meeting Angie IRL at the Maggie store where she showed the visitors at the grand reopening how she colours with di´s. Let me tell you, the result was gorgeous! I´m sooo exited to be part of this amazing team. Mindy and Angie are of course acompanied by other stunning dt members as well and it´s going to be an honor working alongside them as well :) They are: Angela , Janiel, Lena-Katrine, Myrna and Ruby

I can´t wait to get started :) Doing the happy dance ;)

dt Deep Ocean challenges #5: Sea

2011-08-02T09:00:00.004+02:00

Time for another challenge over at Deep Ocean this fortnight :)
I´ve been looking forward to this one ever since TOMIC had their sea themed one. Unfortounately I didn´t have time to join in then but I´ve been longing to put some of these Magnolia stamps to good use. :) Feels good! And can you see what I did? I put on some red details...I promised you I wouldn´t make something red til christmas so I´m quite chocked my self. (For those of you that doesn´t know I consider myself one of those that really should stay of red because it never turns out to my satisfaction ;) I love to see red details in your blogs though!)) It all started out with that lifebuoy ;) I mean let´s face it, they are usually red and white right? LOL

I have used four Magnolia stamps and I don´t think either one is from the same collection. They´re gorgeous though. I have tried to make a net for the sea horse and placed some seashells inside it. The "bubbles" was part of a blogcandy I won from my fabby friend, Chelsea. Thank you hunny :)
The red flower is from Prima, the blue lilys from Magnolia and the light yellow cherrie flowers are WOC.
The charm comes from the Maggie store in Borås. The cake doily is also from the Maggie store. Sentiment from WOJ.

Don´t forget to check out the divine work made by my teamies here. Thank you for letting me be part of this awesome gang! :)

dt Magnolia Down Under #107: BINGO!

2011-07-30T23:00:00.003+02:00

Can you all guess what I did this thursday? I don´t think you can? ;)

In the wee early of this month me and a friend went to Borås to visit the Magnolia store and I had so much fun and shopped loads of great and of course very neccessary stuff! A while ago another friend, Petra asked if anyone would like to come with her. Hm? I didn´t think for a second ;) I said YES immediately ;) All of a sudden we had a car fully loaded with gals in for some serious shopping! Christina, Anna and Petra: thank you so much for your company on this amazing roadtrip - I had sooo much fun! We will have to do that again :)

I have promised myself not to buy anything craft related for three months now! Argh! How will I survive ;) Well..I started thinking it through and decided to make two big exeptions - Copics and Spellbinders Grand Calibur and two small ones: glue and cardstock. I always seem to need those..

And I definately need a E00 sketch marker too :) And while we are on that subject I´d like some tips from you Copics ladies on which colours I can use for skin. Now I´m using RV 21 for blush on the cheeks, E 11, E 00 (one that I bought wrong - it´s an original marker..:) and E 000. I want one darker than E11. Thank you soo much in advance.

Oh, boy! I´m rambling on and on today! Back to the reason I´m posting tonight ;)

IT IS TIME FOR ANOTHER challenge with us ladies at Magnolia Down Under :) Yay!

I´m so exited about this one because I have never been on a team that has arranged one like this: Let´s play BINGO!! Pick a line down below:

I went for the FLOWERS PEARLS and LACE one.

I made this tent card featuring this darling Tilda that is new to me. She was part of a collection of last year but I didn´t fancy her then? What was I thinking? :o I LOVE HER! too...;)

The patterned papers are from Pion design´s collection "Minnenas ateljé". Tilda is coloured with my di´s on 300g watercolour paper. The little chipboard butterfly is a gift from my friend Kylie. Thank hunny, I love it :) I added some lace I bought at the Maggie store undernieth the frame I made using my Spellbinder dies. The charm is also from the Maggie store.

I also have to tell you about the sentiment! One of my friends, Linda, is the lush designer behind a set of lovely sayings. Both in english and swedish :) I can´t find a link showing them because they are sold out. They´re so versitale and there is always a sentiment that fit´s each card on there ;)
I´m sure you can contact Linda for more information :)

PLEASE, don´t forget to check out the beautiful work by my lovely teamies here. You won´t regret it! :)
We would be so happy if you´d join us :)

Added loads of Stickles star dust to her wing things and bubbles.

Thank you so much!

2011-07-28T23:25:00.001+02:00

When I started out with this hobby two years ago I could never have imagined I would get to know so many kind and warmhearted friends :)
In this post I want to share with you my sincere thanks to all of you for showing such great support and leaving such loving comments on the first card I mdmade with my Copics :) I'm overwhelmed! I'm very grateful for all of the tips and tricks too :)

Thank you so much cuties!

Meet Lil Little Lolita Lilith - with COPICS!!

2011-07-27T20:41:00.000+02:00

OMG!! I´m sooo not sure about doing this or not...;)

But sometimes you got to risk a little bit..and put yourself out there but guys: PLEASE be gentle! ♥

So...some of you know that I bought my first Copic markers in may/june and that I´ve been practising a bit every now and then when time has allowed me. It turned out to be so much harder than I thought it would be! I think the technique is quite different than colouring with my di´s. I´m still not happy with my end results and now I´m considering actually taking a course..I think it´s more easy achieving a good result when you have loads of colours to choose from, I´m going to have to get my self some more..How sad ;) LOL!

Anyways now I decided to go ahead and publish this card..or should I. I guess we will all know in a while ;)

I´m showcasing a little lass with loads of attitude today! She is named Lil Little Lotita Lilith and is part of the latest release by Tickled pink stamps.

She is so cool, don´t you think? That umbrella is rocking, I want one!

The patterned papers are from Panduro and the big pink rose is from Prima, the small ones are WOC. The beautiful sentiment is also from TPS and was part of a release earlier this spring.

I had great fun following this weeks sketch by the talanted ladies over at Sketch Saturday.

Efterlysning

2011-07-25T09:41:00.000+02:00

Om någon vän i bloggland kan hjälpa mig vore jag väldigt tacksam..jag har lyckats slita ut min älskade bugga och önskar därför köpa en Spellbinders Grand Calibur istället.
Kanske någon känner till en affär med dem på lager (som inte har sommarstängt / semester ;)) Eller så känner ni någon som skulle vilja sälja sin? Men då skall den vara i bra skick.

Stort tack för hjälpen på förhand!
Affären skall finnas i Sverige ;)

Kram!

{PINK} candy winner

2011-07-23T10:40:00.000+02:00

Today is the day I´ll tell you cuties who is the winner of the {PINK} CANDY I arranged to celebrate being a guest dt for Anonyme Scrappere last week.

I had some help from Mr. Psychicscience.org to pick my winner! I´m so thankful and amazed by all of you gorgeous peeps that wanted to enter :) THANK YOU SO MUCH from the bottom of my heart! Your comments were all so kind and your congrats made me so happy :)

Most of all I´m very thankful I had so many new followers although you didn´t had to become one in order to be in the running for my prize. You all made my day! ♥

So enough of my rambling ;)..59 darling peeps commented and number..

Random numbers generated Jul 23 2011 at 10:35:46 by www.psychicscience.org

is the lucky winner :)

That is Kathy and her gorgeous blog is named Distressed stamper. Congrats hunny!

If you could please email me your addy as soon as possible at this emailadress: louise.fraenell@hotmail.se

Thank you! I will send the parcel out for you as soon as I can :)

Meet awesomely cute Lil little Kellitta from TPS

2011-07-22T09:10:00.001+02:00

As I have told you before in my {PINK} candy post I really adore the latest release called Lil Little´s from Tickled pink stamps! So far it´s my all time favourite range :) But I say that everytime, dont I? He,he,he! And for all of you digi fans: lovely Kellie, owner and founder of TPS shared a surprise on the TPS blog today. Digiweek is supposed to be over for this month BUT they will be available throughout the weekend too!!

For this twisted easel card I chose to work with Lil Little Lolita Kellitta and I have inked her with distress ink pads on 300 g watercolour paper :) She´s such a darling. Made her blond this time ;)
I went for a very shabby chic and maybe a little bit vintage, what you think? :o I don´t consider my self to have a natural talant for this style but I soooo love the cards I see in friends blog´s when they go vintage! I bought the clock die from Tim Holtz a couple of day´s ago and I´ve been dying to use it :) Since I´m so lucky to have such great friends in blogland I sometimes get happy mail :) I loooooove happy mail! Don´t you?
These cardstock corner adornments is a gift from my dear friend Kylie in Australia and I´m so into them :) I´ll probably end up putting them on everything for a while ;) He,he,he! Thank you hunny! I also won a truly gorgeous blogcandy from Chelsea that had this ribbon and pebble inside :) Thank´s to you too!
The lush papers are part of a paper pad from Melissa Frances called 5th avenue, I don´t have many left though..*sniff, sniff* I´ll have to get some more! :) The sentiment in the lower easel part comes from TPS and the circular sentiment is a Lily of the valley.

I´d like to enter this card in the current challenge with the talanted ladies over at Wild Orchids Craft challenge and they are celebrating being around for a whole year now :) Congrats! I must say I feel it´s not that long ago they arranged their very first one though! ;)
The challenge this fortnight is creating after this stunning sketch created by another one of my treasured friends, Dena :) It´s a great one hunny :)
All of the flowers exept the biggest one that are Prima, comes from WOC :)
Besides creating using the sketch they also want the card to be a birthday themed one. So this is for someone celebrating theirs in august. ;) Well, that´s the only lead I´ll give because I know she´ll read this for sure ;) He,he,he! *LOL*

dt Whiff of joy challenges # 109: Kylie´s sketch

2011-07-20T09:00:00.008+02:00

Hiya everybody!
I had an amazing evening yesterday togheter with a friend, I laughed my heart out ;) So much fun!

Today I´d like to show you a card I made for the new challenge with us ladies at Whiff of joy :) We had so many gorgeous entries again this time and it was so hard to pick our top 3 but we did ;) We hope for many inspiring entries this fortnight as well!
We would like you to create following this utterly amazing .....

....sketch by my lovely and extremily talanted teamie, Kylie. I had soooo much fun with it and I love it that it leaves so many things to your own imagination! :) You can make pretty much anaything with it :) Thank´s hunny, I´ll use it again :)

I made a just because card this time but I do actually know exactly whom I made it for. One of my most treasured friends is experiencing a huge crisis in her life and I hope this can help cheer her up. :) It´s nothing really but I wan´t to remind her I´m here for her always ♥ no matter what.

I LOVE this colourcombination of aqua and brown :) So these papers from Maja Design where just what I wanted to team up little miss Melinda blowing kisses with :) She is so beautiful! One of my fav Whiff of joy stamps :)

I hope you´ll click your way over to our challenge blog and be inspired by the awesome work made by my cute teamies :) And of course...join in!

dt Deep Ocean challenges #4: Ribbons

2011-07-19T09:00:00.002+02:00

He,he,he,he!! I just realized I must have published this post this morning without any written text to it ;) I loooove it that you are able to schedule posts and the just not think about them anymore. That way I´m free to enjoy the splendid weather. But of course it´s a little nicer to wiev when you actually add some text too ;)

So here I go, a few hours late. (which reminds me I have to edit the post I scheduled for WOJ challenges tomorrow ;) he,he,he!))

So this is my card for the new challenge over at Deep Ocean. We are so, so thankful to all of you whom has joined in and we are hoping you will again this time ;) It´s another real easy peasy this fortnight as well: RIBBONS. All you need to do is add some sort of ribbon to your project and link back to us and your qualified to be in the running for our price. :)

So hurry on over to the challenge blog and allow my talanted teamies to inspire you with their dazzling work. By then I´m sure you will enter ;) He,he,he! :)

I have made a center stair card. I made it after a tutorial from the Magnolia Ink magazine, it´s not the latest one, I´m pretty sure it´s the one before that. ;) The always inspiring Monique has made a very good and easy to follow step by step description for us all. :)
I chose to work with an old scenestamp from Magnolia, the swing. I bought it from a fellow crafter at our last scrapmeeting. It´s amazing that it can come to good use here with me now ;) I hate the thought of it just laying around in a drawer being neglicted..;)
TIlda however is from the latest Magnolia collection called Sweet Rainbow. She´s one of those I first decided to not buy and then saw around in my dear friends blogs and immediately knew I had to have ;) The sentiment is also from Magnolia and the butterfly is a doo hickey die.
All of the flowers are from WOC, I adore those small blue ones, I have never had them before and saw them over at my treasured friend Dena ´s place. Gorgoues ha? The butterflies are made with a punch from MS.

I have to hit the shower now because this mama is off to meet a friend at a restaurant tonight! I´m looking forward to loads of laughter and catching up. Well, first I´m going to try to pretty my self up ;) He,he,he!

DT Magnolia Down Under challenges # 105: Create a scene

2011-07-16T23:01:00.004+02:00

YAY! Time for me to show you another dt project that I made for Magnolia Down Under challenges where we would love to see what you create when keeping our theme for this week in mind: you need to create a scene :) I have had soooo much fun making this stair easel card :) I first saw this fold at my lovely teamie Camilla´s blog. She made this amazing card using the same technique. It so beautiful, you don´t wanna miss out on that ;)

It´s such beautiful summer weather here in Sweden right now and I try and enjoy every second of it. My hubby is back at work and me and Signe is just living the easy life ;) Taking each day as it comes is pretty nice! Anyways..even though I love the sunny weather I can´t help myself, I still have an urge to create and make cards. Sometimes I feel a bit guilty for staying inside while the sun is beaming ;) Summer is not very long in Sweden ;) But I still find myself inside at my desk..So I wanted to create a card that shows what I´m feeling. This card says: "In sunshine or in rain, my love for Magnolia never drain".

In the back easel I have tried to create a very summery looking lo and in the little tag I went for a more cloudy feeling with Tilda in summerrain and matching papers, also from Magnolia so is the awesome sentiment. The sunny papers are from Sassafrass lass and I love them, when I saw them at the Magnolia store it was love at first sight ;)

Everything is inked with distress ink pads on 300 g watercolour papers. I added loads of stickles Star dust to them all ;) The little lock and key is from Melissa Frances.

Maybe you can see how the card is put togheter best in this pic.

I´d like to enter this card in the current challenge over at the TOMIC blog where the theme also happens to be "Create a scene". Hurry on over to see the gorgeous creations made by the dt.

Guest dt for Anonyme Scrappere and {PINK} candy

2011-07-15T09:00:00.006+02:00

WARNING, this post is picture heavy...;) I hope you will bear with me til the end..

I´m so exited to share all the fuzz going on here today!

A few weeks ago I was asked by a lovely friend in blogland, cute and very talanted Anja, if I was intressted of guesting the gorgeous challengeblog of hers that is called Anonyme Scrappere :) Of course was my answer and I´ve been dying to tell you all about it ever since. And guess what? I got to pick the theme of this weeks challenge too. Those of you that follow me or read here frequantly know off my great passion for flowers so it wasn´t a hard decision at all: FLOWER POWER. So in order for you to join us and be eligable for the delish price you just have to create something with lush flowers on it. No biggie! We would love for you to join us if you can find the time :) Anja is the team leader and owner of the blog but the dt is one amazing group of ladies :) Don´t forget to check out their lovely work!

Thank you Anja for this lovely opportunity and for thinking of me :)

Some of you might also know that my awesome bosslady at Tickled pink stamps, Kellie, has recently released an all new stampcollection consisting of the cute Lil Lads and Lolitas illustrated as kids. Cool ha? They can be found here and is named Lil Littles. I have loads to celebrate at the moment. I have been asked by some off the most talanted ladies in blogland to be their guest dt this summer, my followers are increasing (THANK YOU CUTIES! :)) and yesterday I got an another email I´ve been looking forward too a looong time. It said I have been admitted to the education at Malmoe University I have applied for. I´m going to study there for one and a half years and will be a remedial teatcher at graduation. YAY!

Kellie has been kind enough to sponsor a blogcandy to help me celebrate!

The blogcandy consists of one unmounted rubberstamp from the latest release called Lil Little Lolita Ivy and looks like this:

Auw! Stunning :)

And one other unmounted rubberstamp from a previous release but I´ll keep the image a secret til the winner sees it :)

I also added a Prima paper pad 6*6 called AnnaLee and a cardbox I made and filled with {PINK} flowers and ribbon.

If you want to be in the running for my candy you need to leave me a comment on this post. I would love it if you want to add your self as a follower but it´s you don´t have to. :)

My blogcandy:

The cardbox I made looks like this on the inside. The sentiment comes from Stempelglede and is one of my favorites :)

You can join in on this candy til friday next week at 9:00 am swedish time and I will announce the winner on the following saturday. Thank you for your generosity Kellie!

So I´ll tell you a little about what I have made for this challenge. :) (If you´re still here ;))

My friend Kylie always inspires me with her absolute fabolous creations and she has been creating some gorgeous LO´s lately and she´s the reason I decided to make one for the first time in about nine months! We went to Turkey on our vacation this year and we had a blast! Unfourtunately our four year old daughter was hospitalised for one night due to problems with her ears. :( She even had infusion! My heart broke when the harsh nurse set it on her..The picture on the lo is my daugther and much loved husband Johan in the hospital. My daughter struggled hard to keep her spirits up and me and Johan was so tired! You can see it in his eyes but I love the picture! The title says: Daddy and me in swedish. Can you see the love between them?

I put it on an deep edge canvas frame and it´s now hanging in our living room.

loads of lovely flowers from Prima, Magnolia and WOC.

Dt Whiff of joy challenges # 108: Lace and pearls

2011-07-06T09:00:00.004+02:00

Time for another challenge this fortnight over at Whiff of joy :)

We want to see you create something that features two of my absolute fav embellies: lace and pearls! Come on, you just can´t go wrong there ;)

I choose to work with a stamp from the Ladybug collection, released earlier this spring. She is gorgoues and is actually namned Miss Ladybugs.

Paired her up with some papers from my fav paper pad at the moment, 5th avenue by Melissa Frances :)

Head on over to the challenge blog to see the gorgoues work made by my fellow teamies!

I´m guesting A spoon full of sugar this week

2011-07-05T09:00:00.011+02:00

A while back I recieved the sweetest email from a treasured friend in blogland, wonderful Ingrid. She told me it was her turn to set the theme for one of the challenges over at A spoon full of sugar in july. In addition to this she also got to pick someone she´d like be her guest. And..she asked me! Thank you so much Ingrid! It means so much to me, it´s a huge honor ♥

If you feel like joining you just have to make a project that features SEWING / STITCHING.

Ingrid is far from alone as a dt, the other ladies are also very talanted, please head on over to the challengeblog to take a look and getting inspired by all of their lovely work. Thank´s for having me, ladies :)

Now onto my own project :) This is a very special card for me, it´s really close to my heart. I made it with tones of love ;) It for my hubby. We are celebrating 10 years as a couple and 5 years as a married couple on august 12th. I wanted to use some of the stamps from my all time favorite Magnolia stamp release, the Wedding collection. When hubby saw Tilda with veil last year he said she looks adorable ;) That she and I had a certain resemblance. I´m not sure I agree, if there is its not very big ;) This is me on our weddingday:

As you can see here I have always had a thing for pink ;)

Not a striking resemblance ha? ;) But if hubby thinks so I´ll agree ;) He can have Tilda with veil. I think I made this just as much to myself since it´s supposed to be in our home. Not a card that strikes you as very masculine but I´m sure he´ll treasure it. The dp is from a paper pad called 5th avenue by Melissa Frances. The sentiment is one of my favourites by Tickled Pink stamps. It is so beautiful.

I have managed to fit lot´s of things I prefer working with on there. And loads of sewed detail. :)

So hurry to your craft space and get creative with needle and thread :)

I´m also entering this card in the current challenge over at the TOMIC blog which is easel cards. Even if you´re not planning on joining in you still have to go check it out because the DT has made some truly gorgoues cards! :) Beautiful beyond words!

Over with the very talanted ladies at Just Magnolia and hÄnglar & stÄnglar challengeblog they are arranging a real easy one right now, namely anything goes. In addition to that you can also choose to add a shabby chic feeling to your card, I think I managed that one as well? ;) He, he,he! Beautiful work by the dt here as well.

The same goes for the ladies in the dt at another Magnolia challenge called Totally Tilda whom has inspired me to take part in their distressing challange. Suits me just fine since I distress like everything ;)

Thank you so much for checking in with me today!

I´d love it if you told me what you think :)

Hugs xXx

Louise

Blog hop Denise´s gorgoues papers: Couture collection

2011-07-03T23:30:00.006+02:00

I´m so happy to tell you all about this amazing blog hop I´m honored to be a part of today :)

One of my talanted teamies over at MDUC, miss Denise has her own line of patterned papers! She is releasing a new one today and it´s called the Couture collection and they are available through Meg´s garden and that´s why we are celebrating! Thank you so much Denise for giving me this chance to play with these awesome papers :)

I have choosen to match this gorgoues one with a Magnolia image called Hawaii Tilda. I think some of the delish flowers in the paper are a perfect match to the one in Tildas hair ;) I didn´t wan´t to run off using to many of the papers on one card because you wouldn´t be able to see the beautiful pattern. To match that I only added frames around her using the Tilda´s swedish lace die and one big flower from Prima along with one smaller from WOC and a pearl pin. The ribbon was part of a candy I won a few months ago at Laila´s place.

As usual Tilda is coloured with distress ink pads on 300 g watercolourpaper. Some stickles were of course added to her dress, otherwise it wouldn´t be a Louise creation, right? ;)

There are some of these fab papers up for grabs IF you participate and comment on every stop along the way. If you arrived here from Karen´s always inspiring blog you´re right on track. If you didn´t and wan´t to start from the top you should hop on over to Meg.

You have a few days to do all the commenting if you´re not up to making them all today. Last day is july 11th. So hop along to see all of the gorgoues creations!

Thank you so much for looking today!

Hugs xXx