Let's celebrate

Heya! Who's counting the days til summer holidays finally begin? I definitely am. I won't go to any longer holidays abroad this summer, but I hope to do one or two one-day trips aound my country. Maybe to the Coast. That wouldn't be bad. ;)

I never have any birtday card on hand when I need it so I decided I would make a few. And this is one of them. I fell in love with this adorable image from Yumi and Fumi handmade. It's perfect for birthday cards as well as for other occassions. And it's a pleasure to colour too. :) I coloured Fumi with Promarkers and paper-pieced the gift she's holding with champagne sparkle paper - it's very beautiful in person. The other papers are various scraps that I had in my drawer. I distressed the edges with TH tea dye and antique linen distress inks. The ovals are made with Spellbinders die, butterflies are Cheery Lynn die, the leaves and the big flower are Marianne design dies, the middle flower is TH die and the small flowers are made with my craft punch. I also used 2 different embossing folders - Craft concepts' cottage floral embossing folder and  Cart us' trendy flowers embossing folder. In the center of each flower I added a purple crystal from my stash. In the left upper corner you can also see a skeleton leaf peeking from behind. I bought a pack of these leaves ages ago (of course back then they were something I couldn't craft without), but never used any of them. *sigh* I even forgot I had them. So now that I re-discovered them I hope to put them to some use.

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:

The sketchy challenge: Kylie's sketch

Yumi & Fumi handmade: Time to celebrate
Crafts and me: Something old (that skeleton leaf has been in my drawer forever lol)
Created with love: Anything goes
Charisma cards: Lots of layers

Have a beautiful day! Hugs! xx

Card for a very brave little girl

Hey hey! I hope you are enjoying on your weekend. We're having a beeee-utiful day today. Sunny and pretty warm, but at the same time not too hot. Exactly the way I like it. He he. I had to work yesterday (in the morning) and in the afternoon my sweetie and I went to some furniture shops to have a look around (and of course I stopped by some other shops too :P). We are planning to buy most (if not all) furniture in Ikea, but we still wanted to check what's available here. Nothing really caught our eye though. I had the feeling that I was looking at the same pieces all the time, they were just positioned diferently. So much about their creativity. :S Luckily Ikea isn't very far from here. ;)

The card I want to show you today is made for a special girl. Have you heard about Maddy? I saw her picture on several blogs so I clicked on it to read her story. It's really touching. She's such a brave girl! If you want to read her story, please click here. It's really easy to make someone's day. Even a simple card will do. Maddy loves getting cards in the mail and I am more than happy to send her one.

Here's the card I made for her.

I chose the adorable Fumi with gift from Yumi and Fumi handmade as my main image. Isn't she a cutie? I colored her with Promarkers. The gift she is holding was paper pieced - first I stamped the image again on the kraft piece of paper and cut the gift out. Then I embossed the gift and added some glitter glue on the embossed parts.I raised Fumi on foam pads. The beautiful flowery paper I used for the background is from Studio Light. I used several different dies and punches on my card. The borders were made with my border punches, the small flowers with my flower punch, the "bigger" flowers are made with TH Tattered floral die, the ovals and the yellow "ornament" behind the ovals are Spellbinders dies and butterflies were made with Cheery Lynn die that was a gift from my sweet friend Rosie.The white oval behind Fumi was embossed with Cuttlebug's swiss dots embossing folder and the other white piece of cardstock was embossed with Craft concepts' cottage floral embossing folder. I inked TH flowers with TH tea dye DI which was also a gift from Rosie. Thank you so much sweetie!!! The pearls are from my stash and the ribbons are from Crafty ribbons - I used 35 mm New Turq satin ribbon and 25 mm grosgrain ribbon.

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:
A creative romance: Anything goes
My mum's craft shop: Dies, dies, dies
Deep ocean: For a girl
Card and scrap: Use flowers
Papertake weekly: Anything goes
Bearly mine: Dies and/or punches
Creative card crew: Punches/dies

So much from me today. Enjoy your day! xx

Ribbon ring

Hey, hey! :) How are you? How was your weekend? Mine was fine. :) My mother-in-law (to be) celebrated her birthday yesterday. It was fun and we had a nice time. There was also lots of yummy deserts and cakes and of course I had to try them all. He he. ;)

I have something a wee bit different to show you today. Not a card. Actually, it's not even a paper project.  Shocking, I know. :P After quite some time I made another piece of jewelry. ;) I made a ring, using silver edge satin ribbon black and 3 mm black satin ribbon from Crafty ribbons. Here's what the ring looks like ...

What do you think? It's the first time I made naything like it. It's very easy and fun to make (and very quick too) so I think I will make more of these in the future. :)

I'd like to enter this ring to the following challenges: 

The paper nest dolls: Ribbon and lace

Sister act: Anything goes

ABC challenges: O for open (anything goes)

Through the craftroom door: Anything goes

Also, before I go, I want to let you know that Crafty ribbons blog is now on Blogger. And Ali and Tony are giving away a fab ribbon prize to one lucky person at every 100 followers. Want to know what you can win? 60 different dotty ribbons (see blog for the picture)!!! And all you need to do is to become a follower of Crafty ribbons blog. First draw is when they reach 100 followers. :)

Also, today the "nautical week" started at Crafty ribbons blog. many fantastic nautical ribbons available in the store that are just perfect for summer. And on the blog you will see lots of inspirations using them. :) Psssst, you can win some as well. ;)

Good luck! :)

Earth tones

Hello my dear friends! I hope you've been enjoying your week so far. I had a terrible headache yesterday, but I'm ffeling much better today so I can't complain. Plus, I don't have to go to work tomorrow, so that's even better. He he.

Have you entered our "anything goes with ribbon" challenge at Crafty ribbons challenge blog yet? Not yet? I hope you will! You still have one week to enter your creations in the challenge. Who knows, luck might be on your side this time and it will be you who will win the amazing ribbon prize that Ali and Tony are offering.

The other day I was playing with my leftover pieces of paper and my dies and here's the card I made with them ...

I bought a whole pack of kraft paper a short while ago and couldn't wait to start using it (this is the only thing that wasn't a leftover scrap lol). So I used it for the back of my card and then added a piece of white cardstock, which I embossed with Cuttlebug's embossing folder over it. I inked the edges with TH antique linen distress ink. The yellow cardstock and the green paper are just some leftover scraps of paper that I had in my drawer for a while. I punched the edges on the yellow cardstock with my border punch. The ribbons are from Crafty ribbons - I used the khaki grosgrain ribbon, which is currently out of stock, but there are many other colours available so have a look at the other grosgrain ribbons and the lemon polka dot ribbon. The big flower was made with TH Tattered floral die. Behind the flower I added a piece of white cardstock over which I stamped with Viva decor stamp. For stamping I used TH distress ink. On the side I used gold sequins. The swirls are part of Marianne design flower die and the corner is Spellbinders die. The butterflies are made with my craft punch.

I would like to add my card to the following challenges:
Deep ocean: Ribbons and/or laces
Rhedd and Rosie's challenge blog: Blooming lovely
Ooh La La: Inspired by nature
Sister act: Anything goes
The rubber buggy: Anything goes
Simon says: Anything goes
Oozak: Anything goes with earthtones
Craft-room challenge: Use your scraps

Fly free

Hey hey! :D I'm really tired today. I almost fell asleep behind my computer earlier. Crazy! I think I'm going to bed early today and I think I will sleep like a baby.

But first I'd like to show you a card that I made a while back. This was my attempt to make a card for a guy. Hmmmm ... I'm not sure whether I succeeded or not. I'll let you decide on this.

I used brown and yellow cardstock and K&Co and Folia papers on my card. The yellow cardstock is embossed with cottage floral embossing folder. I created the border with my craft punch. The doily, buttons and crystal flowers are from my stash and the ribbon is from Crafty ribbons - you can find it here. The circles are Spellbinders dies and on the white circle I stamped with Stampabilities' Faded text background stamp. The bird is Close to my heart stamp and I heat embossed it with Ranger's Queen's gold embossing powder.

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Oozak: Anything goes with earthtones
Challenges 4 everybody: Anything goes
Here come the boys: Must have buttons
Pile it on: Put a bird on it
Sweet pea stampers: Birds of a feather
Di's digis: Winged things

Have a great week!

Christmas with Magnolia

Hello, hello! How are you? I'm having a laaaaazy Saturday. The weather is yucky (clouds and rain) so I'm not feeling like doing anything except crafting of course. ;) Would you believe that in some parts of the country we even got snow?! At the end of May. Crazy!

I swear I have a black hole in my room. Things keep going missing. I've been looking like crazy for one stamp today, but I couldn't find it. And last week I was looking for something too, but still haven't found that thing. Grrrr. I hope that once I start packing (in a couple of months) I will findall those "lost treasures". lol

Today I have another Christmas card to show you.

Isn't this Tilda adorable? My friend let me borrow her stamp so I could make a card with it. :) I really like this little Tilda and she was a pleasure to colour. I colored her with Promarkers and on her halo, star and on the wings I added some glitter glue (click the bigger image to see this). The purple paper is actually a recycled wrapping paper and the star paper is from Folia. it's hard to see on the picture, but I "hid" the doily behind the image too (if you check the bigger image you should be able to see it on the left side of the card). On the white cardstock behind Tilda I stamped with several different snowflake stamps. I used several different ribbons on my card. The gold stars are from the star ribbon that you can find in the Crafty ribbons store and the other ribbons are from my stash. I also added some sequins from my stash.

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Cute card Thursday: Tie it up
Time for Magnolia: Bingo (ribbon or lace, bling, anything but square)
Marvelous Magnolia: Doily delights (doily is a bit hard to see, but it is behind the image, see on the left side of the card- better seen in the larger image)
Passion for Promarkers: Anything goes (anniversary challenge)
I love Promarkers: Anything goes
Fab'n'funky: Ribbon and/or lace
Winter Wonderland: All tied up
Card makin' mamas: Rubber stamp
Tilda's town: Christmas
It's a Magnolia challenge: Anything goes

Enjoy your weekend! Hugs! xx

Mini pizza box with flowers and butterflies

Heya! What a day I had yesterday! I was at work in the morning and in the afternoon I kept running here and there, gathering all the papers for the apartment. But it was worth it because at the end we signed the contract. Need to get some more things done on the bank so the next couple of days will be stressful, but if everything goes well we'll get the apartment keys in the beginning of June. After that the "fun" starts. You know, the renovating. It's going to be a lot of work, but I'm looking forward to it. I already have my eyes on some furniture pieces that I saw in Ikea. :D

But instead of me babbling about my apartment, let me rather show you another mini pizza box that I made. Told you, I'm hooked on those. ;) If you want to make one as well, check the tutorial here. Again, I changed the measurements so my box is 10x10 centimeters.

I used purple cardstock for the base of my box and then decorated it with scraps of paper from Arty collage's nature collage kit. On the center I used a piece of white cardstock which I inked with TH antique linen distress ink and embossed it with Cuttlebug's swiss dots embossing folder. Flowers and crystals are from my stash. The butterfly is Inkadinkado cling stamp. It was stamped with Memento rich cocoa pad and then I covered the white parts with glitter glue.  I also used several different die cuts on my box - they were made with Marianne design die, Spellbinders die and Cart us die.

I would like to enter my box to the following challenges:
CLP: Sketch
Live and love crafts: 50 shades of lilac
Everybody art challenge: Flowers
Crafts and me: Lots of layers
Dream valley: Animals
Bearly mine: Anything goes
Card and scrap: Layer upon layer
Milk coffee: Load on the flowers
Moving along with the times: Embossing

So much from me today. See you again soon! Hugs! xx