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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!

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. 

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!

GDT Whiff of joy: Handsome Ben is bringing chocolates

I have to make my post a quickie today :) My hubbie is off to work, he is on call this week, and they had something planned in :( I hate it! But that´s the way life goes, hopefully he will be home again before I know it and then we are going to a furniture store. We are looking for a new dining table and some matching chairs. I´m sure it will change how I see my house. We have a big open space and everything is tied togheter there and to see those uggly old things makes me feel...well...tired of them :o

Would you look at that, and I promised to keep it short...

I created this easelcard yesterday featuring the amazingly cute Valentine Ben from Whiff of joy. I was so happy to hear both Nora and Ben would be back again in this valentine collection :) The sentiment says "Two hearts that beats as one" and is from the Wedding sentiments kit. In my mind there´s no company put there with so many great sentiment kit´s as Whiff of joy. They always seem to have a on in store ;)  I made an attempt at a card suitable for a guy but I ended up adding flowers and lace anyway. ;) Well, I just can´t leave without them :)

I wish you all a great day! Thank´s for your visit and I´m so happy to see my latest postings have so many comments. I live for those ;) ;) ha,ha!



DT Whiff of joy challenges # 95: Jane´s sketch

Good morning!

After a little break we´re back in business over at Whiff of joy challenges again :) And I have some exiting news for you too. We are going to have a guest dt join us each month of 2011 and in january it´s the talanted Kristy guesting. We are all looking forward to see her work :)

This time we would like you to create a card after this superb sketch by my teamie and treasured friend Jane

I sure had a lot of fun follwing this sketch, great job Jane! Thank´s ♥

I made a shaped easlecard this time, that was a lot of fun, so I´ll definately do it again :) The dp´s are from a paper pad from Prima called "Ana Lee". The image is called Charlotte on carpet and was released in the Happy mail collection. I think she´s so pretty :)  The sentiment is also from Whiff of joy. (The one that says "Love letter", the other one is from Magnolia)

Now we would like to see what your interpreations would look like! We love to see and enjoy each and every entery. I´m always amazed about how diffrent but beautiful every endresult is. Thank you all for participating, hope you will this week too! So come on, head on over to your craft table and get on with it! And of course, dont missout on my teamies cards, they´re all so fabulous!  





GDT Whiff of joy: Henri with heart balloon

Yesterday I got happy mail from Katharina, the owner of Whiff of joy. As I have written about before she recently realeased a Valentine collection with 6 new beautiful stamps and some adorable new dies. Those of you whom are followers or readers on a regular basis knows about my love for Henri, illustrated by Alison Acton. You should have seen me doing the happy dance, my hubby was laughing at me totally amazed about my happiness "couse of some stamps". He obviously has no idea what he´s talking about! ;)

Well, today I´d like to show case my very first Valentine card for 2011. I think Henri is cuter than ever holding on to his heartballoon. Maybe he´s off to a romantic dinner with the love of his life, Betty? :D  Now I can´t wait to paint the rest of them lovelys :)

With love...

....from us all at Whiff of joy with the ever so generous and fabolous owner and founder Katharina at the head sth: here´s our christmas greeting´s video!

Like we´re all saying in this video I´d like to thank you all for following my blog and leaving such encouraging words for me before you head off. :) I´m so grateful, it really means a lot to me :) I´d also like to thank all of the other stunning looking ladies for their support and for inspiring my so much and for being my friend :) Katharina, thank´s once again for this opportunity, it really means the world to me :)

And before I go...have you seen my chrstimas tree? I was soooo happy with the way it turned out this year in all it´s glory..well...at least before I got to see what a tree should look like anyways ;) ;) *ha,ha,ha* I can bearly stop laughing..mine looks like something....not that splendid ;) *embarrassed* Well..it might not look much in this world but it´s ours ;)

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!
Hugs!

GDT Whiff of joy: Melinda blowing kisses

Good morning in blogland

I made this card yesterday for the Friday sketchers challenge #133. It´s my very first entering there. I have always admired their lovely sketches and there´s a first time for everything.

The sketch is made by Aud and look´s like this:

When I was getting started I chose the image first (I always do) and then which patterned papers and after that I inked stunning little Melinda blowing kisses from Whiff of joy. And then...nothing..I was all out of ideas so the sketch really came in handy ;) Thank´s!
You can see the other products I´ve used on this card from Whiff of joy at the bottom of this posting.

I feel I´m ready for Santa to come now ;) Everything is baked, wrapped and decorated. Can´´t wait to see the rest of the family, enjoying the very tasty food and watching the true joy in my daughters eyes. What about you? All set? :o

 

GDT Whiff of joy: Nora wishes Happy new year!

Hi everyone! ♥

WOW! We had an amazing blog hop yesterday! I was full of admiration for my fellow dt and gdt members at Whiff of joy. They have created some truly stunning projects and cards :) If you missed out on all the action yesterday, it´s not to late. Go to Katharinas blog and follow the order til the end ;)

I´d like to thank all of you who visited me yesterday, I have never had so much comments and lovley words left for me before and let me tell you, I could easily get used to that. ;) Thank´s and I hope to see some of you return again.

I made todays card some days ago but I haven´t gotten around to upload it til today. I´m entering the current challenge at Sketchy colors which is about creating after a lovely sketch made by the fab norweigan cardmaker Lena Katrine. It looks like this:

I ended up turning it around a bit. The sketch was a lot of fun! Thank´s!

The lovely lady Nora with rose from Whiff of joy´s new year collection was my choice for this card. Isn´t she a stunner? And I think she´s sooo adaptable. I can see her on many diffrent projects for diffrent occasions ;) and that´s always a big advantage, love that in an image.

I have also used the new romantic swirls 2 dies which were also part of the new year collection released in december.

Well, I have lot´s of things to take care of today. Are you all set for christmas?? :o I´m soooo....not! I have some xmas pressies left to shop, but hey! That shouldn´t be a problem. My hubby tells me I´m like a big black hole ;) ;) No matter how much (or few) money I have left, I´m always up for getting ride of them as well ;) A good quality in a cardmaker....or not ;) *Ha,ha,ha* Luckily I know he says this with lot´s of love in his voice :) I´m like the happiest girl in the world, my hubby is so supporting! Love him! 

Have a great day!  

BLOG HOP DAY!

YAY! Welcome to my place :) I´ve been looking forward to this all week and it´s been so much fun making this card for my very first blog hop. Decided to go for another card featuring the stunning lady Willow with cookies. I wanted to find a fold I havn´t tried before. After some consideration I decided on an apron card and this little Willow is just perfect for that.  The sentiment is part of this lovely kit of Christmas sentiments, also from Whiff of joy.

Head over to Katharina´s blog, she´s starts off this blog hop :) Make sure you don´t miss anyone on the way!

Nana is before me and after stopping by here we´d like to see you over at the Inspiration and tutorial blog. Now for a little twist! Somewhere along the way I know there´s a prize! It involves 30 euros to spend in the Whiff of joy store! AMAZING PRICE!!

And hey, if you´re not the winner Katharina still offers a 20% discount to all of her costumers until dec 24th.

And I´ve decided to make ita bit easier for you (not miss out on something sweet) Here´s the order:

And I´ve decided to make ita bit easier for you (not miss out on something sweet) Here´s the blog hop order:

Katharina

Jorunn

Jeanette

Michele

Pops

Tanja

Jane

Sonja

Inge

Debbie

Murielle

Kylie

Michaela

Gio

Karen

Sandie

Nana

Louise (<---------YOU ARE HERE)

Inspiration and tutorial blog

GDT Whiff of joy: Box of chocolate

Hi there everyone :)

Today I´d like to showcase a little box I made last night. It features stunningly looking Ben when he´s celebrating! Think it´s a perfect gift to bring on new years eve :) Besides Ben I have also used two other newproducts from Whiff of joy on this project. I don´t think I can live without them anymore ;) I made the border using this lovely die and the circled sentiment stamp is from this amazing set of "Cheers to you stamps". The patterned paper comes from Maja design´s new line called "Vill du ha fika?". Flowers comes from Wild Orchids craft.

Ben is inked with distressers on 300 g watercolorpaper.

My lunchbreak is over now so I have to stop my posting now..But I hope you´re all doing good! :) You´re all so generous with lovely words. :) Thank´s a lot!

I´d slso like to enter this card in the challene over at Sketchy Colors. It´s all about using the colors brown and creme this week :) Fab I think! ;)