Tilda with balloon

Hi all!

It´s been a while again since I posted, I have had so much to do at work this week. Two of my colleges is sick and that means loads of work for the rest of us. When I´ve come home I´ve been to tired to even think about crafting. :(

I´m glad to say my mojo is back so it´s been kind of frustrating ;) 

I have made a birthday card using one of my favorite stamps from the latest Magnolia collection "So special". This is Tilda with balloon and I made decided to dress her up in green :) The beautiful dp´s are also maggies. 

I´ll keep it kind of short today because in Sweden friday evening is kind of "holy". We are celebrating the end of the week by eating real good food and sweets togheter with the rest of the family. It´s called fredagsmys. = kind of like cozy friday ;) So I´m off to have some cozyness now :)  

Stamps: Tilda with balloon, star border from Magnolia´s "So special" collection

Papers: So special collection "Grandmas wallpaper" and "Love letter". White and black cs.

Tools: Spellbinders nesties petite ovals and petite scalloped ovals, Magnolia Doo Hickey dies: "Vintage tag" and swirl. 

Embellies: Big black gardenia flower and orchid from Magnolia, green cherrieflower from WOC. Black lace from Magnolia, Tim Holtz filmstrip ribbon and alphabet stickers from MME.

You´ve got Purse-o-nalety!

Good morning!

Or at least it´s morning here in Sweden right now ;)

Just checking in to tell you it´s my turn to post a tutorial at the Whiff of joy inspirations blog. You get a little hint from the pic above what I´m showing there today :)

I have a very dear friend named Lena whos is very into creating in 3D. She gave me a handbag made out of paper for my birthday last spring and she inspired me to make one of my own :) I think this is a fab giftbag! I usually make a matching wallet where I place a voucher or giftcard.

I hope you feel like skipping over to the tutorialblog!

Have a great day!

CLP challenge # 32 + guest dt call

Happy saturday everybody!

For me the weekend is very welcome, a great pause in everyday life :)

I made this easelcard for the current challenge at CLP. (Crafting life´s pieces) It is run by my dear friend an dt buddy Chelsea. Chelsea and her lovely team has made some very inspirational cards for us to glance at following this scetch:

That is also what everyone you and I need to do to enter! Isn´t it beautiful? I had tonnes of fun when I made my interpretation :) Thank you ladies!

And you know what? The team will choose one very lucky lady whom will have the honour to guest them for a month! :D *Keeping my fingers crossed*

This Tilda is so cute, she´s walking around spreading lot´s of love. Perfect for any occasion but especially for valentines ;)

Stamps: "Tilda spreads love" and "shooting stars border" from Magnolia. Sentiment from Lily of the valley.

Papers: cs from Bazill and patterned papers from a paper pad called "Pastel" by Crafty secrets.

Embellies: big glittery roses brown and pink from Scraproom, smaller roses from Wild orchid crafts.Big brown pearls, lace from Magnolia, ribbon from Panduro. Stickles star dust, bling from Stämpelgården.

Tools: nesties heart and scalloped heart from Spellbinders

Colored with distresser on 300 g watercolor paper.

Have a lovely saturday!



DT Fuzzy Wuzzy Mid month reminder for January :)

Me and some of my lovely dt buddies over at The fuzzy wuzzy challenges is here again :) We´d like to remind you all you have two more weeks to join in on our january challenge which has the theme " anything goes".

We are so thrilled so many of you has already joined in! That makes us so happy! Thank you!

I made a joy fold card this time. I love those nearly as much as the easels so I guess I´m going to have to show it a bit better ;) Those easels just keeps poppin out ;) Ha,ha,ha!

I have used some truly lovely things from my dt pack from Whiff of joy. The image is called Puff heart dragon and he´s so cute, don´t you think?

I took this photo to better show you the utterly stunning heart lace border die, also from Whiff of joy. Both these products were released as a part of the Valentine collection.

Image: Puff heart dragon (Whiff of joy)

Papers: pink and grey bazill cardstock, Tim Holtz and The girls paperie.

Flowers: Big pink rose Wild Orchids Craft, lilys from Magnolia

Embellies: ribbon from Scraproom, alphabet stickers MME, bling and pearls from Magnolia,  a photocorner from Melissa Frances and lot´s of Stickles star dust.

Tools: sewing machine, heart lace border die from Whiff of joy

Colored with distess ink pads on 300 g watercolorpaper. 

Tip of the day!

Malin, the owner and illustrator behind the beautiful stamps from Papilio is offering all costumers a 30% discount on all christmas stamps. Click the pic to go shopping!

There´s one thing we all know for sure ;) We will celebrate christmas this year as well :)

DT Whiff of joy challenges # 96: Chocolate, teal and creme

Today it´s time for me and my very talanted dt buddies at Whiff of joy challenges to post a new challenge again. This time we want to see all of you create magic with a color theme. Chocolate, teal and creme make a stunning colorcombo! I have never used them togheter before but I´ll definatly will again. They marry well, don´t you think?

I made a stair step fold card using some truly amazing stamps from Whiff of joy. (For direct links check my list at the end of this post.)

Since I never before combined these colors I decided to try and make a project that was sligthly challenging for me. That is not to use any flowers at all and also no ribbon. And you know what? It was much easier than I thought it would be! I´m so happy with the end result :) For those of you who know me a bit better you also can imagine I struggled a bit with this one. Gorgoues ribbons and flowers is something I feel can never be used to much ;) But visiting some of you, my dear friends all around the world, I have seen the most stunning projects without any. I wondered if I could make one and be happy with it and I managed! It so much fun to make something diffrent at times ;)

We are so happy to see so many of you decided to come play with us the last challenge and we´re hoping to meet you all again. It so much fun looking at all of your diffrent projects and see all of the diffrent interpretations.

My dear dt buddies has made some simply stunning projects for you all to inspire from. Don´t forget to give them a visit to and spread some love ;)

Here they are:

Anne, Kylie, Chelsea, Chris, Gio, Jane, Kathrin, Manuela, Michele and our talanted january guest Kristy.

Grab your gear and join us :) Happy crafting!

Papers: Chocolate bazill cardstock, patterned paper from MME "Lost and found"

Stamps: Melinda with bouquet and Lying Matthew with sentiment "Thinking of you"

Embellies: alphabet stickers from MME, halfpearls and rhinestones from Magnolia.  

Tools: Spellbinders nesties Hearts and scalloped hearts, Spellbinders fancy tags, Spellbinder petite oval and scalloped petite ovals, heart banner die from Whiff of joy.

Colored with distress ink pads on 300 g watercolorpaper.

It´s been quiet here but..

...I´ve been working on some dt projects for Whiff of joy :) I have had so much fun and I decided to challenge myself and make a card that isn´t really my style but I´m so happy with how it turned out! Sorry to say I can´t show them to you all just yet. Hang tight ;) They will be posted in next week :)

My daughter, Signe is now three and a half years old and is so eager to try this hobby too :) She is so cute playing around at my table! She made her very first card on saturday. I can´t resist showing it to you all, I  think she´s a star on the rising :) Ha,ha,ha!! ;) Mummy´s pride ♥

Maybe she went a bit overboard with the stickles? No....you simply can´t ;) ;)

And in the afternoon I found her sitting on the toilet reading some real important news ;)

I´ll be back with new projects soon :)

Hugs to you all and I wish you all a lovely week :)

MDUC Challenge #78: Sketch

Hi there!

I´m so happy I managed to make an easelcard for the challenge over at the lovely MDUC blog :) It´s been more than a while since I entered :(

The challenge this week was to follow an amazing looking sketch made by my very talanted friend Karen.

It was a delight to work with! Thank´s so much hunny!

I actually feel a tiny bit ashamed though...Ii have had this cutiepie Tilda in my stash for quite a while now but she has never seen ink before! :o *blush* Tilda is as usual inked with distressers on 300 g watercolorpaper.

There´s not to m uch time left to enter but if you´re quik you might manage ;) Even if you don´t I  warmly recommend a visit at the blog! The dt´s has created pure magic as an inspiration for the rest of us!

To finish off my posting I just want to tell you all: TODAY IS FRIDAY!! ;) ;) Yay!!

Have a lovely evening and take care!

Lily of the valley challenge #79: Lenas sketch

Did you know I was lucky enough to win the last challenge over at Lily of the valley challenges? Yay! I can´t wait for my price to come in the mailbox ;) They have a new realease out with some awesome stamps suitable for Valentine cards and I simply coulldn´t help my self after looking at all of the sneak peaks available at all of their very talanted dt´s blogs. I feel january is going to be a poor month ;)

I made a card for this weeks challenge as well. It´s all about making a card after this stunner sketh, made by Lena Katrine.

I must be on a roll now beacause I was also the lucky winner of Leilas  blogcandy!! Double YAY! A yummie package arrived at my mailbox with lovely dp´s, ribbons and flowers :) Thank´s hun! I already put them to good use ;) The pink dotted ribbon is so cute, Leila :)

Even if you don´t have the time to make a card for this challenge I really hope you at least have the time to check out the challenge blog :) I f you´re into Lily of the valley stamps you certainly won´t get disseapointed! The dt´s has made some truly awesome cards as an inspiration :)

I started working again this monday after three long, lovely weeks off :( I´m so tired! But I love seeing all the kids! I keep saying to my self it will only be a while before I feel like I never had time off ;)

NEWS! Stampkit subscription

Katharina and Whiff of joy has some exiting news to share with us all :) This year we can all buy a stampkit subscription :) I think it´s a wonderful way to make sure you reiceve all the amazing stamps from the kit for sure :)

As Katharina so well puts it at her blog:

♥ Back to the roots: all kits are secret (brand new stamps illustrated by Elisabeth Bell, not to bee seen before you receive your kit)

♥ A4 !! size (super large stamps), unmounted, uncut rubber plate


♥ available for pre-order only


♥ quaterly new kit

Learn more about this by clicking the pic below!