MDUC Inspirational picture

Welcome friends! 

Time for a new challenge over at Magnolia Down Under tonight :) This week we want you to get inspired by a lovely picture. Here it is: 

Isn´t it beautiful? They girlys did a great job finding it :) Love that it is so sheer and pretty and at the same time it leaves a lot to your own imagination :) We would be thrilled if you wanted to join in! Please, grab your gear and show us your version of a Maggie creation keeping our picture in mind :) 

I decided to make a birthday card for my hubby, he is celebrating his 37th birthday on july 31st! Wow, time flies, he´s getting old ;) Ha,ha,ha! 

So of course I wanted to have a go at a more male card. To tell you the truth that´s really not my cup of tea but..well..sometimes the mojo still grabs hold of me and I could use the practise ;) 

So I chose to work with an Edwin that was released very early on but he´s one of my favs because he is really in a festive mood! And that´s what birthsdays are all about, right? I created a scene with some balloons and the Happy Birthday sentiment also from Magnolia. The arrow and the two gorgeous stars are grungeboard from TH that I firstly painted with di crackle paint Picket fence and then added some glue to and some truly gorgeous glitter from Martha Stewart. The papers are from Kaiser Kraft. The speech bubble is made with a die from Magnolia. I have added some alphabeth stickers from Making memories too. 2 buttons and some pearls later and it´s a male card...or at least a fairly male card ;) Ha, ha, ha! 

Do not forget to jump on over to our challenge blog to see all of the stunning creations my lovely teamies has created for this one! They are amazing! 

Thank you so much for looking!
Big hugs xXx

Just LOOK at what I got!!

OMG!!! I feel like the luckiest girl in the whole wide world :) My life is so exiting at the moment! Our little babygirl is due in only five days (I don´t feel the teeniest tinyest little indication of her wanting to come out though ;)), I´m going out for dinner with a lovely friend tonight, just awaiting the new Maggiestamps I ordered to come in the mail AND look what I got!!! It´s almost to good to be true ;)

You know how we all have that special person in blogland that we deeply admire? It´s usually more than one but then there´s that ONE. Ha,ha,ha! After me starting off doing cardmaking in 2009 it didn´t take me long to find her AWESOME blog. Her name is Camilla Stöen Bakke and she lives in Norway. Since then I follow her every step and I´m ALWAYS so amazed of her stunning, stunning work :) Look at that coloring - it is divine! So shabby chic and very inviting for the eyes, right! Besides this I have also found out during the years she is a fantastic person that I have come to treasure a lot as a friend :)

Therefore it was a dream come true to find out she had picked my entry as her personal favorite in the TOMIC anniversary celebration challenge with the theme anything goes a while ago. If you where picked you could win a card made by someone in the Magnolia DT. I would have loved to recieve any of them beacuse they are all so beautiful!

Here´s my entry:

And look what I won! The most stunning of cards made by lovely Camilla!

I borrowed this amazing picture of Camilla Stöen Bakkes amazing creation from her own blog, Cards by Camilla!

Isn´t it just the most gorgeous thing you´ve ever seen??
And I can tell you it´s even more beautiful in real life!

So if you by any chance have missed out on Camillas beautiful blog you just click any of my links up here and you´ll come right there!
She is an amazing crafter :)

Thank you so much dearest Camilla for doing this! YAY!!

I promise to be back with something I made again real soon ;)

Big hugs xXx Louise

More Saturated Canary!

Hi friends and followers!

Welcome back to my place! I was so happy when I logged on this morning because I noticed I know have 440 followers! Wow! That is HUGE :) You guys make me feel like the luckiest girly in the world :) I can also feel some candy coming on ;) So stay tuned!

As most of you know by now me and hubby are expecting a baby, she is due on july 18th so she still has 10 days to please mommy ;) Cross everything you have so that I don´t have to go past due date. My wish is a little early :) As I´m waiting..and waiting I have decided to take things slow relax and suddenly my crave to craft is huge as well. As you read in my latest posting I recently tried to work those Copics again because I have found a new stamp label that I´m soooo into! I´m truly loving them :) They are Saturated Canary and is illustrated by the AMAZINGLY talanted Krista Smith. So if you´re into digi´s and for some unbelievable reason missed out on these hurry on over and get your self one :)
In the post I wrote up on friday (scroll down) I´m telling you all about an amazing giveaway that is arranged by my lovely friend Angie Hunt. She is the owner and creator of the lovely Little Darling stamps and her store named Little Darlings is going to be the first to stock the Saturated Canary stamps in rubber. This will happen sometime mid july and until then she has decided to give away three never seen before S.C rubberstamps. All you have to do is to join the Little Darlings facebook group
So do that and I´ll see you there!

I have made a shaped card this time, I used the large dies by Go Kreate! to achieve the shape. The dp´s are by Pion Design "Grandmas old schoolbook" and Melissa Frances "Fifth Avenue". The saturated canary is called Circus Trixie and is in my opinion like the cutest - EVER! ;)
She is inked with Copics and I´m kind of happy with this result as well. However I was sweating like a pig inking her hair...man, that was tough and I´m not nearly satisfied, going to take a lot of pratice but at least I dare show it off now ;)
Flowers from WOC, Prima and Magnolia. The lovely pebble is from Websters Pages and the heart tag is by Magnolia. I have stamped some circular sentiments by LOTV on there and in the upper right corner of the image. Some faux lether string from Panduro Hobby togheter with a cute strawberry charm that I bought at the Magnolia store in Borås.

I´d like to enter my card in the following challenges:

I followed the new sketch over at the gorgeous sketchblog called The sketchy challenges. They want us to create after this amazing sketch this fortnight:

Thanks girls I loved working with it!

Over at one of my fav challenge blogs and also a past dt position for me, Deep Ocean challenge, they have chosen a complete fabby theme for this fortnight which is SEA OF LOVE.

Papertake weekly want us to create pretty much anything ;) It´s an ANYTHING GOES challenge this week :)

And over at Bunny Zoe´s it´s a theme of GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS!

Thank you so much for checking in with me today!

Big hugs xXx Louise

My first ever Copics card! And finally a Saturated Canary

Hi everybody and a warm welcome to my place!

My word! Today I´m asking you guys to be extra gentle (not that you´re ever saying anything bad ;)) but I´m so nervous publishing this! You wouldn´t believe!

I have had Copics for about a year now and in the beginning I practised the hell out of those...but nothing helped, I couldn´t seem to get anything right - ever and my waistbasket got full very quickly ;)

In february I decided to sell them since I just stored them but nobody showed any intresst. Exept for the Ciao once that I managed to sell. I regret that now! ;) I guess theres a meaning with everything because I have been lurking around the Saturated Canary shop for ages now wishing I could try one. They are so gorgeous don´t you think? I truly adore them all! They are illustrated by the supertalanted Krista Smith, thank you sooo much Krista for bringing us these amazing images! I have been thinking I´d wait a while because my friend, Angie Hunt, will work togheter with Krista and will be the first stockist of the Saturated Canary stamps - IN RUBBER! This will happen sometime in mid july but I simply couldn´t wait ;)

I will be the first one to run into Angies online store Little Darlings where she also sells her own supercute line of stamps named just that! I have had the luck to be invited to join her team for LD last summer and unfortunatly my term with them was way to short since we found out we were expecting another baby and I felt like rubbish those first few month. I miss them all!

AND! DONT MISS THIS:

ANGIE IS ARRANGING A GIVE AWAY FOR EVERYONE OF THOSE WHO JOINS THE LITTLE DARLINGS GROUP ON FACEBOOK! ONCE THEY REACH 500 MEMBERS SHE WILL KINDLY GIVE AWAY THREE NEVER SEEN BEFORE OF THE SATURATED CANARY IN RUBBER!! JOIN THEIR GROUP HERE FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN!

Hope you do and I will see you there!

So...back to my own project with this gorgeous digi called Ellies birthday :) She is soooo adorable :) I inked her up with the few colors (42) I had left which wasn´t the easist thing to do. The weather is really cloudy in Sweden today as well so I´m so sorry for the bad pics. :(

I paired her up with the amazing dp´s from Bo bunny called Country garden collection. I follwed the amazing new sketch over at CLP Challenges, it looks like this for the month of July:

Amazing ha? I had so much fun :) Thank´s you guys!

And...I also thought I´d upload my very first Saturated canary card to their challenge blog which you can find here: Saturated Canary challenge blog. They want us to bling it on this week so I also added a Prima bling swirl and some star dust to the gorgeous Ellie. Besides that I have added a bling string to the very buttom of the card. 

 

Thank you so much for checking in with me today and pls...be gentle! ;)

Big hugs Louise xXx (whom now has 12 days left til the baby is due ;))

MDUC: Shabby chic meets Scrappfabrikens monthly challenge for June

Hi and welcome friends!

It´s already time for me to tell you all about our new challenge at Magnolia down under, wow time flies doesn´t it? ;)
This week I´m even more exited than usual because of the theme we have chosen! It´s time for us all to get SHABBY AND CHIC! YAY! Gotta love that right? We hope you will be able to join us, we are so thrilled about all of your amazing projects :)

I decided to make a "just because" card and then add a more personal text with alphabeth stickers when I know whom it´s for :) As I told you about before there´s a lot of special birthdays to celebrate in june for us so I kind of ran out of cards ;) Great to make new onces now!

The patterned papers are from Pion Designs latest collection, "Grandma´s old schoolbook"! When I recieved them I instantly fell in love, my word - they are amazing :) The Tilda I finally chose to work with is also from a previous release (I´m sorry to say I´m not sure which one...) She is amongst the once I simply couldn´t part from when I had to sell some of them because my craftspace is so much smaller now. I have painted her with di´s on 300 g watercolorpaper and then added some Stickles Star dust to various places of her. The gorgeous rolled flowers are from Kort & Godt and I colored the seam binding from WOC my self. The cute strawberry is from the Magnolia store in Borås. And can you tell I used one of my newest items on here?? Oh, yes! The memory box dies have finally reached scrapstores in little old Sweden and I immediately had to get the Wrought Iron Gate. Cute ha? Toally shabby I think! As well as the cheese cloth :)

I´d like to enter this card in the current challenge arranged by a swedish scrapstore, Scrappfabriken. They want us to create something showcasing strawberries. Today is the last day to enter :) But I made the deadline ;) If you win you get a chance to be their gdt for the month of august :)  

Thank you so much for looking! 

I´m so grateful you aren´t loosing patience with me, only 18 days to go today til our baby is due :) 

Big hugs xXx

Busy bee

Hi everybody!

I now have about three weeks left til the baby is due! My word, it´s exiting! I sometimes feel I can´t remember anything about giving birth, it´s been five years since I did it last time. My friends keeps telling me it will come back though ;) Ha,ha,ha! I will have to do it, can´t run away now ;) Anyway, I bet you´re wondering why it´s been so quiet in here? :o
Well, since I will be away from blogland for a while around the babys birth I have decided to be prepared and finish off my creations for MDUC now and then schedule the posts! There are so many amazing challenges coming up I don´t wanna miss any ;)
Besides this my little five year old daughter and me are now on our summervacation! We are doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that so I´m kind off a busy bee right now even though no new posts goes live here at the moment I´m crafting a lot ;)

I have been taking some pictures of my precious little girl that I´d like to show you all in the meantime: 

Here´s little Signe in the middle of a field busy picking flowers for this years maypole. We had terrible weather as you can see nothing summery about this picture ;) 

Signe at the playground. 

Baking rhubarb pie 

Hugging Minnie and Mickey mouse outside the Disney store in Copenhagen.

So I´ll see you all on saturday if not before when I´m showcasing my dt card for the new challenge at MDUC. 

Thank you so much for checking in with me, love Louise xXx

MDUC: Let´s play BINGO! Birthday card for Josefin

Welcome friends!

Oh, I´m so happy to see you here, today I will tell you all about our latest amazing challenge at Magnolia down under that just went live! It´s one of my fav themes this week and I will keep it a secret no longer ;) Join us in a game of BINGO!

Check out the lovely bingo board down here, pick your favorite line, grab your gear and I´m sure you will dazzle us with your amazing creations. We are looking forward to them :)

We are sponsered by Tilda´s town and there will be a gorgeous prize for our winner. :)

Now I´d like to tell you a bit about my own creation. :) I´m experiencing quite a buzy time right now with loads of special birthdays coming up! So I´m making loads of birthday cards. I´m so sad to say..one of them made it´s way back to me this week!!? I sent it at the Postoffice but obviously they had counted the postage all wrong :( But I´m glad it came back in a wa because I have had cards disseapear on me to :( I have sent it off again today from a diffrent postoffice and now I´m hoping it will reach Maritha sometime next week. So sorry hunni!

This one is for Josefine whom turned 14 yesterday. She is our neighbour, the bestest kind ;) I have teatched her in a class when she was younger so we knew the family very well before we moved here. When I gave birth to Signe, she and her friend was frequent visitors in our home. Now it´s probably more the other way around but inspite the fact she´s already 14 she takes the time to play with her every now and then :) They are a bit like sisters now five years later! And she is the worlds bestest babysitter too :) We are so glad to have her in our lifes :)
I think maybe the card turned out a bit too..childlish? :o
Well, nothing to do about that now, will have to think about it next time though ;) Signe whom was at her bithday party yesterday says she really liked it so that´s good news. :)

The patterned papers are from the most gorgeous paperpad 6*6, named "Lost and found - market street" by My minds Eye. Especially love the really romantic one with rosebuds all over. I must admit I felt a bit sad to part from it ;) Tilda was part of a release quit some time ago and is one of the ones I decided to keep as I had to sell most of them off because I have much less space now. So an absolute fav!
She is inked with di´s on 300 g watercolorpaper. The big beautiful white flower was a gift from my awesome friend, Jane. Thank you so much hunni! I lurv it!
The rest of the flowers are all by WOC. The alphabeth and number stickers are from Making memories and a whole bunch fo stuff is from the Magnolia store in Borås: such as the lace and ribbon, the MS edger punch, the tag and the sentiment I added to it, the beautiful little strawberry charm and those cute blings strings. I added loads of stickles star dust on various places of Tilda as well as I have sewn and added some DI crackle paint Picket fence on to the edges.

Now before you head on off my blog you have to promise to run over to the Magnolia down under blog to check out the AMAZING creations my teamies made for this challenge :) Marvellous!

I´d like to enter the following challenge with this card:

Cute card thursday: where you can join in by doing one or the other of the following ;) Clever I must say! Ha,ha,ha! Make a drink inspired card and or use a punch ;) It´s my first time joining in :)

Thank you so much for checking in with me today!

Makes me so happy! An extra big thanks to those who end up leaving me some love before you head off :)

Have a great saturday and sunday!

Big hugs xXx

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

Happy birthday Maritha!

Welcome everybody!

Today I´d like to showcase a card I made for a bloggingfriend of mine that is very dear to me, her name is Maritha :) She always writes me the most encouraging comments and it does mean the world to me that we have been following each other for a long time now. I do hope the card has arrived at her place by now though otherwise she will see it here first and that wouldn´t be much of a surprise, right ;) Her birthday has come and gone quit some time ago and I had a card ready that I could just add her name to but I really wanted to make something for her with her in mind and then it takes some extra time nowadays. ;) I have five weeks left of my pregnancy and right now it feels like she could come any second. She is pushing her way down, practising her big entry like a maniac. Besides this I managed to stretch my left side in some weird way and let me tell you: that hurts like giving birth ;) Ha, ha, ha! I have been sitting up sleeping this night, hope I don´t have to do the same tonight...

Well...enough of my waffling and on to Marithas card :)

I have used some truly scrummy papers that I just bought, they are by Prima and is called Fairy Belle. The only thing that bothers me sometimes with papers this lovely is the way you don´t want to cover the whole front with loads of detail. Those of you whom knows me will understand what I mean. I LOVE adding details too ;) So bit of a conflict there. I mean who could cover up that lovely fairy? And I see I have a bit ;) Ha,ha,ha! The pom pom ribbon is bought at the Magnolia store in Borås, so is the lovely Tilda that was part of a collection about two years ago I think, don´t know which one though! Absolutely adore her! She is one of the few ones I decided on holding on to as I had to minimize my stash. She is colored with di´s on 300 g watercolorpaper. All of the flowers are WOC. Now, let me tell you about how I stamped on Marithas name on that banner by Spellbinders. I made them using my latest find ;) They are also from Prima and is called Prima Press alphabeth clear stamp set which I bought here at the lovely swedish store Scraplagret

You add the letters you want to a small "box" and then you just stamp away! So cool! I have been waiting for something like this to come out, I just didn´t know about it ;)

I´d like to enter my card in the following challenges:

TOMIC: (The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge) They are celebrating the 1st anniversary of this lovely challenge blog by chosing a truly lovely theme: ANYTHING GOES! I love this challenge and I would have liked to join so much more often but time flies, I knew I had to this week though because: YOU CAN WIN A CARD MADE BY SOMEONE IN THE DT!!! Oh....that would be soooo scrummy! Keeping my fingers crossed!

Lovely hÄnglar or sweet Magnolia: use your favorite color sheme!

Mine is pink, blue and white with a splash of brown :) My first time joining this lovely challenge, exiting! Found it through one of my bestest blogging friends this morning, Jane.

Midweek Magnolias: ANYTHING GOES! I have joined ones before and I´m so sorry to say I have totally missed out on the fact they were arranging a dt call...So would have loved to join another Magnolia challenge ;) You can always try out :) Good luck to the new and "old" girlys there!

Now there´s nothing left for me to do but wish you all a great day!

Hope to see you soon!

Big hugs xXx

MDUC: Seeing double! Giftcard for my coworker

Hiya all of you lovelies!

Time for another fun challenge with us ladies at Magnolia Down Under tonight! This week we´d like to see you create something with the words "seeing double" in mind. Add two of the same embellies, two images, one mini and one ordinary and so on ;) Besides this the only thing you have to remember is to use something Magnolia, an image OR a doo hickey die..

We are looking forwards to seeing your beautiful creations!

I am soon on maternity leave and this friday is the last day of schools in my hometown. I have been teatching a third grade togheter with the most splendid and talanted teatcher, Linda. This card is for her since our paths are dividing. Feels a bit sad I must say, I have learnt so much from her and we have had great fun with our class. She really LOVES blue so of course the card had to be mostly blue ;) I used some of the amazing dp´s from Maja Designs latest collection: "Vintage summer basics". I likey, likey!

This cute to the boot Tilda was part of the "Summer memories" collection by Magnolia. So is that gorgeoues die I have been using in the upper right corner! I bought them both at the Magnolia store in Borås. We just HAPPENED to swing by there when we were on our weekend in Gothenborg. ;) Ha,ha,ha! NOT at all planned by sneaky me ;) 

I also bought the heart tag there but it was not part of this collection so I can´t really say which one...

The sentiment is also Magnolia as is beautiful blue lily flowers and the lace. (I might just have bought the whole store ;)) The small cute bows and the cherry blossoms are from WOC. Tilda is inked with di´s on 300 g watercolorpaper. Alphabeth stickers from Making memories and the edger punch is from MS. Charms and bling from Panduro Hobby. As always I have sewn around the edges, placed some stickles star dust on various places on Tilda and added some di crackle paint picket fence for a more shabby end result :) I hope you like what I made Linda, I´m very happy with it myself :)

I´d like to enter the following challenges with my card:

Just Magnolia & hÄnglar and stÄnglar challenges: Anything goes

Magnolia Stamp lovers: Square cards

Do not forget to head on over to the MDUC blog to see the more than stunning creations made by my awesome teamies! You´re in for some serious inspiration!

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

I know I´m not such a great blogging friend at the moment and hardly visits you back ;) I have had my daughter at home with me a lot last week, but I´ll better myself again, it´s a promise ;)

Big hugs xXx