Angels we have heard on high

Heya! How are you doing? Have you had a good week so far? Mine's been very busy so I'm really looking forward to the weekend. Not only because I can relax a bit, but also because I am going to the chocolate festival (if it's not raining that is). For a chocoholic like me that'll be like heaven on earth. He he.

Some time ago I made this Christmas card, using a sweet Flying angel Tilda. 

I really like red, white and gold colour combination, but for some reason I don't use it very often. However, I think it's perfect for Christmas cards. I've had this corrugated cardstock and the gold cardstock (the one I used for decorative borders) in my stash for what seems like forever so I'm really happy I put them to some use. The pretty cardstock with stars is from Folia. The white piece of cardstock which I used behind the image was embossed with Anna Griffin's embossing folder. See the red gifts behind the image? That's actually a trim/ribbon, which my sweetie bought me around Christmas. It's from Folia. The pom-pom ribbon and gold thread came from my stash. I used Nellie Snellen dies for the stars. The music paper is from my early teen years, when I was going to music school. I still have quite some of the music sheets left and they come really handy when I'm making cards. He he. The string of gold gems was cut from a gold mesh that I had in my stash. The buttons are from Crafty ribbons.

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

Tilda's town: Clean and layered or fussy and fancy

Marvelous Magnolia: Ribbon or bow

Time for Magnolia: Anything goes with Christmas

Allsorts: No flowers

7 kids college fund: Anything goes

Stamping sensatons: Use those dies and/or punches

My mum's craft shop: Anything goes

Natalie and Amy's challenge: Embossing

Sparkles Christmas challenge: Inspired by a Christmas carol/song (Angels we have heard on high)
CRAFT: Christmas

Welcome spring

Heya! I hope you are fine and that you've been enjoying your week so far. I've been pretty busy with work, but I had some "me time" as well. On Saturday morning I went to the hairdresser and had my hair shorten - quite a bit if I may add. It's a big change, but I'm happy with the new haircut. I wonder why it took me so long to get  to the hairdresser! I was supposed to go to a school dance on Saturday evening (that's why I made the appointment at the hairdresser at the first place), but I got some terrible news just a couple of days ago (my dear friend lost a battle to leukemia), so I stayed at home.

On a happier note, the spring has finally come which means there are many sunny days ahead, the flowers are blooming, days are longet etc. Gotta love spring! So I decided to make a spring card for the "anything goes with ribbon" challenge that just started at Crafty ribbons blog.

I inked this adorable Tilda and coloured her with Promarkers. Around the image I stamped with Arty stamp from Kaisercraft and sprinkled some gold embossing powder.

Some flowers are from Wild orchid crafts and the rest are from my stash. Doily and pearls are from my stash as well. Papers are from Wild rose studio. The big butterfly is a Cheery Lynn die and the small butterflies were made with my craft punch. The ribbon is from Crafty ribbons - you can find it here.

I hope you will come play with us!
Have a wonderful day!
Hugs! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
7 kids challenge blog: Anything goes
A creative romance: Spring flowers
The rubber buggy: Spring flowers
Simply Magnolia: Bingo (pink, punches and/or die cuts, flowers)
Tilda's town: Flowers
Time for Magnolia: Flowers everywhere
Stamp and create with Magnolia: Spring flowers
Lovely Hanglar or sweet Magnolia: Girls only
Divas by design: Anything goes
The cutie pie: Cute with dies and punches
The ribbon girl: Girly - Magnolia only

Joyeux Noel

Good morning. A new week just started so it seemed appropriate that I post a new card on my blog as well. It's another Christmas card that I made a short while ago. However, this one is a bit more vintage than the previous one.

I got the inspiration for this card from Tina. I love her style. All her projects are always so detailed and have this vintage feel. Love them! So if you haven't visited Tina's blog yet, you might want to stop by to see some shabby gorgeousness.

But enough babbling, let me rather show you my card ...

Earlier this year I got my hands on this gorgeous Vintage Christmas stamp set from Stempelglede that I've been wanting for a looong time. And now I have it thanks to one very sweet person. Yay! :D The image I used on this card is from this stamp set. Papers are from my stash. I sprinkled some embossing powder around the paper as well (see corners/edges). From behind the bow you can also see peeking some bead strings. Those are from my stash. And so is the doily that's peeking from behind the image.

I also used lots of lace and ribbons from my stash on my card. Sequins and pearls came from my stash as well.

One of my favourite ribbons is a tan satin ribbon from Crafty ribbons. I used it to make this big bow for the card. In the center of the bow I glued the foam heart that I've had in my stash for ages.

In the left upper corner I added some wooden snowflakes and a crochet embellishment.

I hope you like my today's card.

Have a wonderful week!

Hugs! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Craft all day: Anything goes

Craft-Dee bow: Anything goes + handmade bow

A creative romance: Seeing double

Inky chicks: Lace up your card

Creative inspirations: Vintage/shabby chic

Sparkles Christmas challenges: More than 3 embellishments

Bunny Zoe's crafts: Monochrome

Card and scrap: Use lace and/or ribbon

Is it too early for Christmas cards?

I guess you could answer with yes or no. I mean, it's only March so Christmas is still faaaaar away, but at the same time, making all the Christmas cards in November/December never really worked out for me. So for me it's definitely better to start working on Christmas cards early, even if this means March. I've made a couple of those in the last week or so, but I won't show you all at once (I know, I know, I'm bad; he he :P). Today I'd like to show you a Tilda Christmas card.

I used the adorable Flying angel Tilda image for the center of my card and coloured her with distress inks. 

The papers are from Magnolia and Folia. I used lots of lace and ribbon on this card. They all came from my stash. The found the bead string I used around the image at the wedding department in one of the stores the other day. Pearls and feathers are from my stash. 

I used LLLC poinsettia dies for the flowers, Spellbinders scalopped circle and circle dies and Sizzix die for the small snowflake that I put in the center of my bow.

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

The sketchy challenges: Sketch

Deep ocean: Lace and pearls

Lovely Hanglar or sweet Magnolia: Flower power

Kit and clowder: Wings

Divas by design: Use Magnolia stamp

CRAFT: Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's: Patterned paper
Stampin' for the weekend: Anything goes
Crafty little fairies: Things with wings
7 kids college fund: Anything goes with die cuts
Sparkles Christmas challenge: More than 3 embellishments

New heights

Hey hey! Do you also have the feeling that weekends are very short? They are gone before I know it! I hope you at least had a nice one. I enjoyed every single minute. :) On Friday I gought a new laptop and I put it to test this weekend. ;) So far it's looking good. It's definitely much faster than my old one.

My mum had her birthday in February and my dad bought her something she's been wanting for a while - Sizzix Big Shot starter set. And that gave the rest of us lots of other options for gifts as well (you know you can never have enough dies, embossing folders etc.). Ever since she got her new "toy", she's been hooked to her craft space. He he. The other day she did some more shopping and one of the things she bought was this adorable Gorjuss stamp which she kindly let me borrow so I could use this cutie on my card as well.

The image is pretty big/tall (taller than I anticipated), so I cut some of the books off. As usually I did the coloring with distress inks. Lace and yellow trim are from Webster's pages and flowers and other embellishments came from my stash. Papers are from Prima. Butterflies are an Inkadinkado stamp. I just coloured them with distress inks and cut them out with m scissors. The decorative oval is Spellbinders die and the corner is Whimsy die.

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
7 kids college fund: Anything goes with a twist - die cuts
ABC challenge: H is for hair
Crafty girls: Anything goes
Izazovi i slatkiši: Cvetiči/Flowers
The squirrel and the fox: Spring or Autumn
Card mania: Something new (new stamp)
Craftyhazelnut's: Patterned paper
Craft-alnica: Vintage roses (upam, da je dovolj "vintage"; vrtnice pa so na papirju, ki je skoraj prekrit *ups*, rjava vrtnica desno zgoraj in rumena vrtnica na sredini velike rože levo spodaj)

Ribbons and bows

Happy Thursday! Not long now for the weekend. Are you looking forward to it? I am. :) I'm planning to go to the movie, watching the new 300 movie. I hope it'll be good.

It's time for a new challenge at Crafty ribbons and this time we would like to see some ribbon and bows on your creations. I doesn't get much easier than this, does it? Be sure to come play with us, because you can win an amazing prize, donated by super sweet Ali and Tony from Crafty ribbons.

Here's the card I made for the challenge ...

I am not the biggest fan of green, so I don't use it often on my cards/projects, but I wanted to do something a bit different this time. I've had those papers in my stash for quite a while so I thought it would be nice to actually put them to some use. ;) The image is from Sugar Nellie. Isn't she adorable? I coloured her with distress inks.

A friend of mine let me borrow her Memory box butterfly die so I could make some butterfly die cuts. In the center of each butterfly I put a transparent pearl. The bigger flower is Marianne design die and the yellow flowers are from my stash. For the center of the bigger flower I used a button from my stash. Gems and doilies are from my stash as well. I used 2 diffent ribbons on this card - a 25 mm grosgrain ribbon and vintage butterflies ribbon - french creme. I love the vintage butterflies collection - it includes lots and lots of beautiful vintage ribbons.

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

The sugar bowl: Mother's day or a Special lady

Simon says: Mother's day/Special girl

Papertake weekly: Bingo (gems/die cuts/flowers or gems/ribbon/buttons or butons/free/flowers)

Natalie and Amy: Anything goes

Bearly mine: One for the girls

Cute card Thursday: Girls, girls, girls

Crafty sentiments: Lots of green

Inky impressions: Go green

My creative moments: Anything goes

Pretty in pink

Happy Wednesday! :) I hope you've been enjoying your week so far. Mine's been pretty good. Yesterday it was Fat Tuesday and I really enjoyed seeing people dressed up in all those costumes; some costumes were really good!

I didn't dress up, but I was being creative in my own way - with papers. ;) I made this card ...

I received these beautiful papers from a friend of mine (thank you sweetie!). The image I used is a sweet Marci from LLLC. I coloured her hair and skin with distress inks. The balloon, dress, shoes and hair accessories were paper pieced. All of the dies I used on this card (decorative square behing Marci, swirls and flowers) are from Marianne design. Small flowers in the corners were made with craft punch and I put a crystal in the center of each of them. For the center of the bigger flowers I used golden brads from my stash. The white piece of cardstock was embossed with Anna Griffin's embossing folder (Acanthus). I also used a 25 mm grosgrain ribbon from Crafty ribbons.

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Sweet stampin': Cute

Crafty girls challenges: Anything goes

Crafting from the heart: Anything goes/Use dies or punches

Loves rubbestamps: Anything goes

Papertake weekly: Anything goes + optional extra: make your own flowers

Let's craft and create: Embossing (wet or dry)

The ABC challenge: G is for girls

Marianne's design divas: Kraft (Marianne design products used are: flower die - LR0128, square die - CR1203, swirls behind the flowers - cut from the LR0248 die)

7 kids college fund: Anything goes