Angels exist - you're one of them

Good morning! 

 Have you been missing me? ;) God knows, Ive missed you all! Ella has been sick on and off for quite a while now. I feel so sad for her, its been everything from a cold, to another cold to feeling ill and throwing up to "just" having a fever..

This is why I haven't been around much lately. I just wanted you to know where I was at. Im not going to stop making  cards I'm just busier that I normally am. This is why Im so thankful to see some of you are still around! Warms my heart. 

     My mother asked me to make a card for one of her friends. I have some favorites that I will never give up on and this sure is one that I keep retuning too. Her name is melinda and she was illustrated by Elisabeth Bell for Whiff of joy a couple of years ago. If you want to know which colors I've used you need to go to the Copic marker sweden blog. I also added some stickles star dust to her cute wings. 

The sentiment I placed on the heart is from one of my fav stores, Gummiapan, and says "Angels exists - you are one". I thought it worked really well with Melinda. 

I hope you like my creation and please know Im super happy you stopped by! 

Love, 

My top 10 of 2013 (Ops, its a top 13 but don't tell anyone)

 Its a bit of a tradition for me to end the year sharing my top 10. 

This year will be no different, even though I didn't create anything between September and late December. 

Here it is:  

TH Distresser Januari 2013, Image Magnolia  

TH Distresser February 2013, Image: Whiff of joy 

TH Distresser February 2013, Image: Magnolia

TH Distresser March 2013, Images: Magnolia 

TH Distresser May 2013, Image: Magnolia 

TH Distresser May 2013, Image: Magnolia 

TH Distresser June 2013, Image: Magnolia

TH Distresser June 2013, Image: Magnolia 

Copic Sketch Markers July 2013, Image: WEE stamps 

Copic Sketch Markers July 2013, Image: Magnolia 

Copic Sketch Markers July 2013, Image: WEE stamps 

Copic Sketch Markers July 2013, Image: WEE stamps

TH Distresser August 2013, Image: Magnolia 

Thank you so much for taking a look! 

I always enjoy making a top eh, eh 10 because it gives me a reason to reflect on the year that has past. I think 2013 is the year I can say I started using my Copic markers. In 2014 I will hopefully like the result I get using them. Muhahahahaha! 

Hope to see you in the new year! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 

Lots of love 

Charming at LLC

Hi there friends and followers! 

Hope you're enjoying your weekend? Mine has been a wild mixture of the continuance of renovations to our house, giving medicine to the kids, watching a great swedish thriller to creating this card. Everything is all good, however Id love to leave the medicine part out. Hopefully they will both feel much better next week. 

So sunday already ha? Woah, time flies. I know I write that a lot but really? 

Well sunday means its my turn to try and inspire you all over at the lovely Live and Love crafts blog. The weekly theme is CHARMS and my fellow DT members has created some truly adorable and charming projects all week so don't miss out ;) 

I want to showcase another birthday card I made for a very treasured friend (gosh, I hope she misses out on this post, her birthday is not until next week ;) lol) 

I have colored up one of my absolute fav stamps, she´s from Whiff of joy. She is called Musing Melinda and was part of a collection E. Bell illustrated years ago called Guardian Angels. Im so happy she's part of my collection. I actually don't know if she´s still for sale somewhere ;) 

I have all the products I used from LLC listed at the end of this post, just click the pic and it takes you right to the very spot. I just want to mention a few things. As I told you about earlier this week Sandra is having a clearance sale atm and there are some truly amazing finds to be made. For an example I used flowers from Magnolia called vintage orchids on here and they are part of the sale - such a bargain! I also just have to tell you about the overly gorge charm! I could get poor only from buying all of the new charms available...there are sooooo many! ;) 

Im also entering this card into the current sketch challenge with the amazingly talanted ladies over at CLP Challenges. The sketch for february looks like this: 

Even the sketch it self is beautiful, don't you think? ;) lol! 

Thanks ladies, I had lots of fun with it :) 

Thanks so much for checking in with me today! 

Hope you like my creation :) 

Thanks for all the amazing words you leave me, both here and in the LLC store blog. 

Means the world, xxx

My top 10 of 2012! Happy new year!

Good morning friends and followers! 

Today is New Years Eve and to tell you the truth I can hardly believe it!! Where has the year gone off too?? My word! 

This has been the most amazing year of my life where I finally after many years of trials and obstacles gave birth to my second child. Little Ella came to us and completed our little family in the most splendid way. She is our little sunshine! And our oldest daughter has made me proud so many times this year as well. She has handled the getting a big sister business very well! I must admit I was worried during my pregnancy that she would backlash and have a major breakdown and or be kind of a badass towards Ella. Simply because she has been the only child in our family and is very spoilt. (of course) but she still amazes me with her awesome big love towards Ella and she takes care of her in the most loving of ways. Im impressed! But then again, she is my darling! ;) 

This time off year I usually list what I feel are my top 10 cards and so I will this year as well. Why break a perfectly good tradition? ;) If you want to take a look at my previous listings look  here (2011) and here (2010). 

I think its hugely fun to look at those and see the progree Ive actually made during the years ;) 

The cards of 2012 is not listed in any particular order, although I must confess I like number 1 the best! 

Because off the unexpected way this turned out. I usually have a finished project in my mind before I start off but this one turned out way different. As you can see I wanted to practice making red cards that I hated to do in the past and then I went crazy and added lots of soft pink and I loved them together. They marry well I think ;) 

I jut love the image! My very first Saturated Canary rubber-stamp and it was love at first sight! Besides that I surprised my self with coloring her lush hair red. Cool! 

A christmas card that I truly enjoyed making! The challenge was for MDUC and it was to be song inspired and as you might see I chose "Hark the herald angels sing". My teamie Camilla Stöen Bakke (that I admire a lot)  had made a fabby tutorial on how to make pop up cards the week before and I couldnt wait to try one. 

The inside of the pop up card

I have a special bond to anything australian because I have so many amazing friends there via my dt position at MDUC and this image is so close to my heart because of that :) 

Im loving the pastel colors! 

My last christmas card of 2012 and is on my top 10 because I colored with red and ended up loving it ;) 

I love this stamp from Wee stamps and this card means a lot cause it represents my own " comeback" in my mind. As I got pregnant I was feeling very sick and decided to quit making cards and creating. I actually started selling some of my stash and then as months past and I still had my dt position at MDUC (cause I wouldnt ever want to leave them!! :)) I started to feel it was fun again. Today Im very thankful I didnt end up quitting ;) 

I made this card for a coworker of mine as i was going on maternity leave as a thank you for the three good years we had together with the amazing class of students we taught. Linda is very special to me so thats why the card is I think. Besides that Im loving the color combination. The blue and yellow are also the colors of the swedish flag and to transfer that into a card was a lot of fun :) 

Talking about special people, my mum (of course) is another one of those. This is the birthday card I created for her this year. Im so into that image Elisabeth Bell has designed for Whiff of joy. She´s angelic! A shaker card needed to find its way to my list too ;) 

The last one is also for my mum...;) She must be good! ;) 

This is an easel card I created for her on mothers day :) 

I ADORE that stamp and she felt like a perfect fit with that store window also from Magnolia. 

Thank you so much for wanting to see my top 10 2012. 

I cant wait to see yours, have you made one yet? 

Lots of love, Louise 

PS: I will be back tomorrow with two post. One for Live and Love Crafts and the other one for Deep Ocean challenges, hope to see you then ;) 

Shaker card for my mother featuring cute miss Melinda from WOJ

Oh my! This is my second posting in as many days ;) It was a long time since I did that but I´m having so much fun crafting! :)

Today I´d like to showcase another birthday card :) I made this one for my mother, she turn 61 on june 18th. She is really into black but...I was very selfish making this as it has all of the elements I love myself ;) Ha,ha,ha! 
The stamp is such a cutie and one of my all time favourites! She is illustrated by the lovely Elisabeth Bell for one of my fav companies, Whiff of joy, she was part of the Guardian Angels collection.
Today I´m kind off in a hurry so if you have any thoughts or wonderings feel more than welcome to email me about them and I will answer as soon as I can :) 

With this card I want to enter the following challenges:

CLP Challenges: one of my absolute fav sketch challenges! Love to join in, their sketches are soooo lush :) This month they want us to follow this one:

Wild Orchid Challenge: they have a fav challenge as well this fortnight ;) It´s anything goes! Yay! Love those :) Don´t forget to add at least one WOC product to your project :)

The shaker box I made :)

Thank you all so much for checking in with me again today!

You guys spoil me with your wonderful words!

Big hugs xXx