Feeling a bit mad..

at Blogger this fortnight..

Things is not going according to plans..

Hopefully I will feel better tomorrow ;)

Arrrgh!



Shhh...baby sleeping ;)

I´m back to show you another card I made for a baptism. As I have written about before my hubbys coworker ordered two cards (you can see them in my last two postings) and she was so happy with them she ordered yet another baptism card, this time for a little babyboy. He will be given the name Mathias.

Went with another tent card :)

I inked up this little stunning baby from Magnolias Cozy autumn collection released in 2010. I think it´s ment to be baby Tilda, doesn´t she look kind of girlie? But...I still think it´s suitable for a baby boy card. ;)

I can´t believe it´s friday already ;) The weeks seems to fly by right now but a weekend off is always welcome.

I have been to a sale at a lovely scrapstore today, Marie and Millan the owners of Stämpelgården has decided to shut down their buisiness. :( It´s always fun shopping cheap but I was so sad meanwhile today..Marie and Millan was kind enough to show their faith in me by assigning me my very first dt spot.

Thank you for everything! ♥ We have had so many good times togheter and it was with great sorrow in my heart I read about the closing earlier this week :( I´ll see to it that we will meet again cuties :)

I´ll edit this post later, adding my material list for those interrested. I have to take a break now, my daughter is so tired...I´m off reading a fairytale for her now ♥

Pink shaker card for baptism

Hi, I´m just here a quickie today to show you the second card I made for my hubbys coworker Jeanette. The first one was the weddingcard I posted yesterday and as I told you then she also ordered a baptism card for a little girl. She will be given the name Wilma. :) Cute ha?

I decided to go with a shaker card as I wanted to make something extra. You probably all remember the very inspirational shaker card Lillemor had published in Magnolia Ink magazine this autumn using this stamp. Gorgoues! I think it´s a splendid idea for a baptism card. :)

I´m entering this card in the current sketch challenge with the very talanted ladies over at Sketchy colors. Ellen is the maker of this very inspiring sketch:

Made by Ellen

Over at the stunning challenge blog Sukkersött it´s all about making a project that includes these three ingridients: lace, pearls and flowers :) I thought that sounded pretty fun so I decided to join in :)

Materials:

Papers: light peach and pink cs from Bazill basics, Patterned papers from my absolute favorite collection right now from Graphic 45: Bride and baby. Love them!

Stamps: personal stamp on the back from Whimsy stamps, Magnolia baby stamp from Cozy Autumn collection 2010, on the inside a sentiment from Inkido.

Tools: all edges is distressed with TH distresser tool and vintage photo, all edges is also sewn. Nesties petite oval + scalloped petite ovals and classic circles and scalloped circles from Spellbinders, Magnolia Doo Hickey die Dragonfly, heart edger puch from MS.

Embellies: alphabet stickers from Making memories (says On your baptism day), pink thickers, flowers from WOC and Magnolia, black rhinestoneswirl from Prima and bling from Magnolia, pearls inside the shaker box from Panduro, stickles star dust from Ranger on the stamped image.

Inked with distressers on 300g watercolorpaper.

Love is still in the air: present card

WOW! I like this being off work thing ;) My craft mojo is raising high and I can´t wait to get it on again tonight ;) He,he,he!

My hubby called me yesterday asking if I could make two cards for his coworker, her name is Jeanette. Of course I can I said...then hubby informed me it is for two very special occasions, one wedding and one baptism. YAY! And...they had to be finished by thursday! That is quick knowing I can only create on the evenings or well..when my little sunshine has gone to bed ♥ ;) And for two that special occasions. A "regular" card takes like two evenings for me (one for inking and one for putting it all togheter, but then an evening is between 19.30 and 22 for me. What can I say, sleep is important for me and my functioning and my sunshine is always bright and shiny early ;)) But I couldn´t pass on this opportunity, I love to help people out making somebodys day extra special ;)

I thought long and hard about this weddingcard, I wanted something special and I felt like trying out a new fold. Then I came to think off the splendid lady named Dena whom posted a lovely tutorial on her blog some time ago about how to make a Present card. I was so amazed by her beauiful card and wanted to make my own right away! So now I have tried it out :) Thank´s for a stunning tutorial hunny! ♥

I feel satisfied, now I´m hoping Jeanette will be too :)

Thank you for visiting me today and for all your sweet, sweet words, the mean a lot to me :)

I´m entering this card at the current challenge over at Just Magnolia. They have a theme called Love is this week. The dt´s has made some pretty amazing projects for us all to inspire from.

Materials:

Papers: peach and baby blue bazill basic cs, patterned papers from Graphic 45 "Baby and Bride" collection.

Stamps: from Magnolia Wedding collection.

Tools: nesties circles and scalloped circles, heart and scalloped heart from Spellbinder, TH Distresser tool, all edges are sewed.

Embellies: flowers from Magnolia, Papirloftet and WOC, ribbons from Panduro, tulle from Papirloftet, bling from Magnolia and pearls from Pema, charm from JP Hobby, alphabet stickers from Making memories.

I have painted with distresser on 300 g watercolorpaper.

Hoppy Easter to all

Hi everyone :)

I have an easter card featuring some real cutie Maggies to show you today :)

Decided to make another tentcard tight away, they are so much fun and I like it that you still have a lot of space to embellish ;) Some fold doensn´t and I prefer the ones that do ;)

I´m aware there is still a long time til easter but I have had like a craving to do eastercards for a while now ;) I realized yesterday I unfortounately didn´t buy that many out of last years "Hoppy easter" collection and that is such a drag! I adore them and I guess my fascination has actually become even bigger than a year ago ;) Love that sentiment! Took lot´s of pics on this one, hope you bear with me ;) On the Tilda in egg stamp I used some "rock candy" cracklepaint so it really adds to the cracked apperance but I couldn´t photograph it as well as I had hoped..If I mention it, you might discover it ;) Some of you cuties in blogland has been wondering how a tentcard looks from the side and the last pic shows you ;)

Here in Sweden lot´s of kids has a break from school. That means I could take two days off from work :) I hope I feel like making a card tonight as well, have the feeling a cold is about to bless me though..that wouldn´t a great surprise since I was home with Signe so many days last week cause she had a fever and a cold. Waiting for my hubby to bring me some meds..

I´d like to enter this tent card over with the extremely talanted ladies at MDUC Challenges. They want us to distress our projects this week and as you know - I´m a big fan of that!

Papers: light yellow and light pink bazill basic cs, patterned papers from a paper pad called "Bunny Love" from Best creations Ink (bought it at the Maggie store in Borås this friday ;)) 

Stamps: Hello Tilda! and Bunny Tilda from Magnolia, sentiment also from Magnolia.

Embellies: bling from Magnolia, flowers from WOC and Magnolia, yellow brad and feathers from Stämpelgården, checkred and rose ribbon from Scraproom and the yellow ribbon is from Panduro.

Painted with distresser on 300 g watercolorpaper.

Maggies for sale

Hi there!

I´m here to tell you today I have some Magnolia stamps for sale again. If you´re interessed I´ve started a new blog for my little market called Louise scrapperiemarket.

You´ll find the stamps there :)

Now I´m off to my craft table to get working on an easter card, it´s itching ;)

DT Fuzzy Wuzzy mid month reminder: Birthday wishes

Hi ya all :)

I´m here to tell you all you still have 2 more weeks left to enter our on going challenge over at Fuzzy Wuzzy, we want to see your projects made for birthday celebrations :) Besides that it should also feature an animal/critter in focus. One of our teamies, the amazingly talanted and Kellie, owner and founder of Tickled pink stamp is very genourosly sponsoring us with a superfab prize consisting of either 2 digis OR one rubber stamp of your choice!! She´s got some pretty stunning stamps in stock :)  So throw your self over your stash and contribute! We would be so thrilled!

I have used one of these fab stamps named Mollie Mittens with flower on my card for todays reminder post. I think she is the sweetest thing! :) I just saw that Kellie has decided to add another price: one winner will recieve this wonderful Mollie stamp! 

 I felt like trying a fold I have never done before and my choice was a tent card. If you haven´t tried this fold you definately should - very easy and so much fun. I made it after Sandie´s tutorial found here.

This is actually a birthday card for my daughter Signe, she turns four in may so still some time til then but when I laid eyes on stunning Mollie I immeditely knew I wanted her to feature this card. Both Signe and I are true pink lovers so the colorcombo was not a hard choice ;) The sentiment is in swedish and comes from Inkido. It says:

"Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow but live today". I´m pretty sure she won´t understand the context but this is a saying I try to live after myself. Not always easy but surely something to think about :)  

I hope you have a great day!

Stamps: Mollie Mittens with flower, sentiment from Inkido

Papers: White and light pink bazill basic cs, dp´s from Riddersholms design

Tools: leaf die from Magnolia, nesties (petit scalloped ovals, petite ovals) from Spellbinder

Embellies: flowers from WOC, white thicker (no 4), halfpearls and bling from Magnolia, alphabet stickers from MME, ribbon from Panduro.

Colored with distressers on 300 g watercolorpaper.



A little bit of Sweet pea...

I have made my very first card featuring a Sweet pea stamp! I bought it from Hjerteboden, a webshop in Norway. I have always been very fascinated with their looks, I think they´re simply gorgoues :) After seeing one of the cardmakers I admire most, supertalanted Camilla, ink them in a more scandinavian style I just could´t resist anymore. ;)

I can hardly belive it´s already thursday. Sometimes I feel the week is just mondays and fridays.Well...out of those somehow friday feels better! ;) So it´s a good thing it´s friday tomorrow ;)

I´m entering this card with the lovely ladies over at Sketch Saturday. You can see the sketch you need to make your on interpretation off here:

To finish off my post I ´d like to thank all of my new followers and of course all of you whom visits me on a regular basis! You have left the most sweet and encoureging words behind on my last card :) Thank you lovelies!!

Stamps: Image from Sweet pea and sentiment from Lily of the valley

Papers: patterned papers from Basic grey´s Capella collection, light yellow and grey cs

Tools: I have cut out the shape for the sentiment using a die from Whiff of joy. I have used a die from Spellbinders called "Fancy tags" on both sides, Martha Stewart butterly punch.

Embellies: Flowers from Wild Orchid crafts and Magnolia. Bling from Magnolia.

I have painted with distressers on 300 g watercolorpaper.

Have a great day!



A greeting of love

Today it´s exactly one week til Valentines day :) I made this card for my hubby yesterday. Don´t worry, he is used to recieving some not that manly / macho cards ;) Since I´m a true romantic I want him to have something that is "me". If it´s not, it would feel strange. ;) I´m sure he´ll like it!

I used my absolute favorite Tilda stamp from Magnolias latest collection "So special". She is called Tilda with big ribbon. The window was also released in that collection.

Now I have done all the cards I need to in time for valentines so I´m thinking about eastercards now, anyone else? ;) I actually have some Tildas from the easter collection 2010 that I have never used before...Looking forward to that!

Not sure when I´ll have the energy for a while though. The situation at work is still a bit up side down with a lot off colleges having to stay home fro diffrent reasons..I sure hope things will go back to normal soon ;)

I enjoyed the weekend very much! I hope you did as well :) 

 Me and my buddy Annette created togheter all day long yesterday and this saturday we went on a little roadtrip around Scania searching for yet undetected scrappinggrounds. We found two new stores but we actually just had time to visit one, Scrapnet, before the other one closed for the day :o He,he,he! I could just wander around for hours looking at beautiful things ;) The owner was so nice we ended up having a long chat ;) I also felt like buying some new Martha Stewart punches so on the way back we stopped at Pema as well. If you head on by you really shouldn´t miss out on a visit.

Well, my hubby Johan, just came hoem from work and I don´t want him to see the card before monday so I have to wrap things up here now ;)

Hugs!

Papers: Light peach and green cs from Bazill, patterned papers from the new collection Sagan om våren "Liljekonvalj"samt från Graphic 45 Bride to Babies collection.

Stamps: Tilda with big ribbon, sentiment: "a greeting of love" and window, all from Magnolia

Tools: Martha stewart punch hearts, sewing machine, the leaf is a Magnolia doo hickey die.

Embellies: flowers from Prima, WOC and Kort o Godt, alphabet stickers from MME, bling from Stämpelgården, Ribbons from Scraproom.

Colored with distressers on 300 g watercolorpaper.

This card is entered in the following challenges:

♥ Sukkersött: Vårkort i grönt och rosa

♥ MDUC #83: LOVE

♥ Wild Orchid Crafts: LOVE is...

♥ Just Magnolia: Anything goes + ribbon

In march I´m turning more pink than ever...;)

It´s time to make this very good news OFFICIAL!!
I´m turning more PINK than ever :) YAY!! I´m going to be a guest dt for

in march!! I feel so honoured Kellie and Kylie asked me and I´m truly looking forward to working along side with some of the most talanted ladies in the buisiness!! :) Thank´s Kellie! ♥ Can´t wait to be a pink lady!

Hope you all are having a great time this saturday! I´m off to my little craftingcorner now for some qualitytime  :)

DT Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges: Happy birthday!

It´s time for februarys challenge over at Fuzzy Wuzzy!

For starters we´d like to thank all of you lovelies whom decided to play along with our january challenge :) We had a record of entries and we are so happy! Please come join us again :)

We have another STUNNING prize up our sleves for you. Our sponsor this month is Tickled pink stamps :) and I ensure you all they have some amazing digis and rubber in store for you all!

Go check them out:

If you´d like to play along our theme is BIRTHDAYS :) AND we´d also like to point out that your projects needs to include an animal or critter to be in for the running of the fab prize. Our challenges is simply all about animals!

I made a card featuring a stamp called "Teddy Romeo" from LOTV. I think he´s so cute! I think he´s suitable for a lot of diffrent projects, not only valentines. :) He´s bringing a rose for the birthday girl.

My dt buddies has outdone themselves this time and I hope you run over to here to check it out :)

Otherwise you can click my links ;)

Emma, Ingrid, Julia, Kelly, Kylie, Kellie, Stephanne and Sue

Great job, you guys ♥

Papers: Grey and white bazill cs, Patterned papers from Magnolia

Stamps: Teddy Romeo and calender sentiment kit from LOTV and OF COURSE I added some stickles star dust to the rose.

Tools: Nesties circles and eyelet circles from Spellbinders

Embellies: silver ribbon from Panduro, Flowers from WOC, Brad and blue bling from Stämpelgården, alphabeth stickers from Basic Grey and white fabric thicker (letter b), Rhinestone swirl from Prima

Colored with distresser on 300 g watercolorpaper.

DT Whiff of joy challenges: Love is in the air! ♥

Hi there everyone!

I´m so happy you decided to pay me a visit today :) Don´t you feel like love is in the air? Valentines is one of my favorite days of the year and I have all the reasons I need to make my cards full of romance and lot´s of embellies and flowers - just the way I like best ;) And also pink! My, wouldn´t want to forget that ;) Ha,ha,ha!

It´s love for a new LOVEly challenge over at Whiff of joy! We would like to see you create with LOVE in focus :) My dt buddies has made some awesome cards to share with you all so please head on over and join us!

I made an easelcard in pink and peach. LOVE that colorcombo!

I´m also entering this card on the current challenge hosted by the LOVEly ladies at Friday sketchers! They have an amazing sketch made by my good friend Jorunn :) Thank you hunny! Had tonnes of fun with it :)

Papers: pink and peach cs from Bazill, patterned papers from Websters pages "Hollywood" paperpad.

Stamps: Melinda hugging heart, Fairy useful sayings from Whiff of joy

Tools: Heart banner, Fancy heart border die, Nellie Snellen rectangular lace die, Spellbinders nesties heart and scalloped hearts, Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Embellies: Lilys from Magnolia, daisys from Gurlee girls store, roses from Wild orchid crafts, Magic Moments brads from Whiff of joy, Bows from Pema, alphabet stickers from MME and bling from Magnolia.

Painted with distressers on 300g watercolorpaper. I also added Stickles star dust from Ranger to the image.