A coral butterfly

Over at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog this weeks challenge is to use the distress ink abondoned coral. Since I don't have it yet I used a ink from Wplus9 called Flamingo ( closest I could get).

I used a watercolor paper from Tim Holtz and I first put a layer of Tumbled glass on it and then I put Broken China on it through a stencil. I then splashed water and ink on top of the paper.

The butterfly is a die called Paulina from SSS. I used a different stencil on top of the butterfly and put the Flamingo ink on it.

To make the butterfly pop more I put a piece of vellum underneath the butterfly. The Grattis is a die from Roxstamps.

Happy Birthday card to a boy

Made a birthday card for a little boy who turns seven today. Happy Birthday William!
 Thought I would enter it in Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog since the theme is Happy Birthday.

Today should also have been my dads birthday but he sadly passed away last November so instead of making my dad a card I got to make William one instead. I don't know William but I made one for his siter a month ago and I think it is just fair to make him one too. I hope he gets it in time.

Supplies:
Stamps from SSS/Mama Elephant, K-designs and Avery Elle.
Dies: Balloon dies from SSS

Birthday cards

I am on a roll making cards now, so today I am showing you two cards. The first one I made for a little girl who turns 3 soon and she loves cats. The second  card is for a woman who likes steampunk and celebrates her birthday on Thursday.  I hope they will like their cards.

The cats is a stamp from Simon Says Stamp and the diecuts are all from Lawn Fawn. The letters also comes from Lawn Fawn. I got help from my oldest daughter to color the cats

On this card I used papers and a stamp from K-design.

retro sketches #148

I just felt like making cards by using sketches today so the first card I made was for retro sketches #148. The sketch looks like this:

And here is my card.

I used a stamp set from mamma Elephant called Super Duo, that SSS sold during their Stamptember last year. I also used a cityscape die from Paper Smooches and some star dies from Simon Says Stamp.

A CASE on Gayatri's card

I have been following a Blog for a while called K and R Designs and she makes amazing cards so you have to check out her Blog! Now she is having a little challenge for us. She like most of us Pin things on Pinterest and she wants us to CASE a card that she has pinned. She pinned this beautiful card by Gayatri, that I also pinned in my own way ( I took a photo of it with my mobile phone). I do have Pinterest but I never pin beacuse I never go to my side on Pinterest

Here is my take on Gayatri's card.

I used white embossing powder and then I colored the big cups with distress markers ( tea dye, black soot, fired brick, chipped sapphire, broken china and weathered wood). The stamps comes from two different card kits from Simon Says Stamp, The stamp sets are called Hand Lettered Winter Wishes and What's Brewing?.

I am also entering this card in Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog and this week it is Anything Goes.

Lots of leaves

Today I made two similiar cards with two different techniques. I used my new stampset from Hero Arts called Scattering leaves.

On the first card I pressed (spiced marmelade, mustard seed, mowed lawn and fired brick) mini distress inkpads on the stamps and then I sprayed them with water before I stamped  on water color paper.
On the second card I pressed the same mini distress ink pads onto the stamps and then stamped it directly on the paper. But after I stamped I took a damp brush and painted on the leaves to make the colors blend. This technique gives you more control of the result.

 On the first card I embossed the greeting that comes from Simon Says Stamp and on the second card I stamped a greeting that comes from K-design.

 I enter these cards in Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog and the theme this week is Anything Goes.

Have a nice day!

CASology Week 113: Grass

Made another card today, this time for the CASology Challenge: Week 113:Grass. I was going to do a one panel card with a the dog and the grass in one panel but I messed it up and then I didn't have the energy to make another one like that, so this is how it turned out.

The grass is a die from Lawn Fawn and the clouds too and the dog comes from Simon Says Stamp.

The Amazing Crop was amazing

I was away at a big crop a couple of weeks ago called Amazing Scrap. It was in the center of Linköping and we got such an amazing goodie bag and my friends and I had so much fun. I also made four cards. Thought I would show them to you today.

The first three cards I made with papers from a Simon Says Stamp card kit. It was so handy to bring a card kit from Simon Says Stamp with me to the crop.

This card is made of a lot of diecuts, I used dies from Lawn Fawn.

On this card I used dies from both Lawn Fawn and Pretty Pink Posh. The cute stamps comes from Lawn Fawn.

This card I made by using a stencil that we got at the crop and paint. I also distressed it with different colors. The stamp comes from K-design.

A fox for the Foxy Foxes Challenge

I wanted to make a card but didn't know where to start when I saw this challenge to make something with a fox on it over at the Foxy Foxes Challenge in the Moxie Fab World. The challenge ends tomorow so hurry up if yoy want to play along.

Anyway I grabbed my still unused Into the woods and Happy Trails stamp sets from Lawn Fawn and got inking. I even masked the fox and the trunk ( never do that). I coloured the fox with a ink from Jenni Bowlin called Chicken Feed and the trees and the background I coloured with various distress inks. The hello I stamped first with black ink on the paper but I didn't like it so I stamped it again with one of my new inks from WPlus9 (Flamingo) that I won at a Bloghop over at the CAS(E) Study Challenge Blog. I am so happy that I won! They are great inks, love them! I cut the hello stamp out and put it on 3D dots over the black one and it looked so much better. The clouds and grass are dies from Lawn Fawn and the paper is also from Lawn Fawn that I got in an old kit from SSS last year.

Lovely leaves turned into lovely feathers

The Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge has a lovely inspiration photo this time, and I got so inspired that I had to make a card for it. I started yesterday but it took so long time for the card to dry before I could finish it so that is why I am entering it in the last minute.

 

I was so inspired by the colors that I used nearly all my red distress inks to make the background on watercolor paper. Then I sprayed it with Mr Huey's mist called Shine that made the card shimmer. I don't have any leaves stamps but I found some feather dies from SSS that I gold embossed. The stars also comes from SSS and I diecut them out of a black glitter papper from DCWV. And the Happy Birthday stamp is also from SSS.

It was really difficult to photograph this card and the colors are not right, well I hope you like it anyway.

 I hope you have a wonderful day today!

I am alive!

Yes I know it has been too long since I showed you anything, but I am alive and kicking I just haven't felt like blogging.

But I have some good news I have been accepted as a regular DT over at En Liten Butik !!!  And to celebrate this I am showing you some cards I made for them in August. I have learned this technique from the wonderful and talented Laura Bassen.

The stamp comes from Simon Says Stamp and the butterfly diecut  on the card belove also comes from them.

If you want more information and a tutorial on how I made them you can go here.

The Cutting Edge Blog Hop

Paulina over at Pretty Pink Posh has arranged a Blog Hop called the Cutting Edge Blog Hop and  everyone can join in and make cards as long as you use a diecut on the card. And since I just bought some nice dies from Pretty Pink Posh I wanted to use them and join the Bloghop.

For my card I used the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Film Strip and their sequins called Spring Mix. I also used a stamp set from Simon Says Stamp called Best Fishes and the coordinating dies to the stamps.

More homework

Today even though I am so tired, ( a sideeffect of one of the antirejection medicins I am taking ) I managed to make a card for Day 3 of Stretch Your Stamps 2. Debby Hughes showed us how to stretch alphabet stamps and she used an alphabet stamp set from Lawn Fawn called Milo's ABC. And it might be the first time that I have a stampset they using in the onlinecardclasses. Wow!! I kind of CASED Debby's card.

 I can never decide which photo I like the best so again I am showing you two nearly the same:)

It doesn't show so well but the word on the cloud is happy.

I used a small stencil from Heidi Swapp, I stamped the words with ink from Simon Says Stamp and I also used distress inks. The balloon die and the happy die comes from Simon Says Stamp and the stars from Studio Calico.

Homework- Day 2

Today I managed to make another card as part of my homework for Stretch Your Stamps 2. Young Laura Sterckx showed us how she distressed a card so it got an ombre effect, This is my take on that. The die comes from Simon Says Stamp and I so love the little border aound it that you can diecut in another color but I think I have to match them up better next time:)

Happy Birthday Fishes!

On the last Wednesday every month Simon Says Stamp has something called Work It Wednesday. This last Wednesday in July the theme was blue. I just made a Birthday card for a friend of us who comes from Australia and loves to go fishing, thought my new SSS stamps where perfect. And of course it fits perfect with the theme.

Of course I made the ocean with my beloved distress inks and I coloured the fishes with my copics.

Week 1 -Day 1 and card number 3

Ok you might get bored of me today, but I made a third card. This time it is made of the same bit of watercolored background stamp like the previous card. I think I might have went overboard with the pearls though. The tag is a bookmark tag from SSS.

Week 1 - Day 1, Card 2

I also made a card inspired by Kristina Werner and her technique of watercoloring background stamps. So I made this using a die from Simon Says Stamp that I never had used before. The hello die is from Lawn Fawn.

I used glossy accent on the hello die to make it shine. I put on two coats.

On the cutting edge

I found another new challenge blog called The Cutting Edge. The Cutting Edge Challenge Blog is all about die cutting and since I have a couple of dies I thought this challenge was perfect for me. Their Challenge # 5 is soon closing and I am glad I finished the card on time.

I am also entering this card in Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog and the theme this week is Anything goes.

Supplies I used:

Hello die from Simon Says Stamp

The flowers are stamps and dies from WPlus9

Varous inks from Simon Says Stamp and Hero Arts

The stamp sweet girl is from Lawn Fawn

I also used Wink of Stella glitter pen eventhough it doesn't show on the photo.

Birthday Fishes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog has a challenge now that runs out soon and the theme is Mid-summer. For me summer is sun and swimming in the sea or lakes rather, and fishes lives there so I used my new SSS stamp, die and stencil set to make this card. I was inspired by Nichol Mcgouirk when I did the card but she makes embossing on and using vellum so much easier then it was for me:)

A close up on the fishes and the air bubbles that I put glossy accent on.

I used distress ink on a Tim Holtz watercolor card and placed it on a white cs and then I also watercolored the fishbole's background and stamped with distress inks too. The fishes and the chest is colored with copics.

Hello with Pink Paislee

Hi!

Today I have made a card for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the theme is spots and dots. I used the SSS July Card kit for this card plus a stamp and die set that I bought that coordinates with the papers. I put a bubble cap from Epiphany crafts on the hello stamp.

Next I want to show you another card I made with the SSS July Card kit. It is a CASE of one of Lorraine Aquilina's cards. I only used things in the kit except the bubble cap.