My little world

Spring is coming

2012-03-02T17:06:00.001+01:00

It was another beautiful sunny day in this tiny European country. So nice! Are you ready for the weekend? I am, but I know I will have lots and lots of work. There are quite some (work) things that I need do by Monday so my weekend will be busy. But I hope I'll manage to do some crafting too.

The other day I had some time on my hands and I made this card ...

I used the sweet Tilda with peony stamp and colored the image with Promarkers. The pink and blue papers are from Provo Craft and the green one is from Heidi Grace. I made the flower myself (in case you are wondering how, you can check the tutorial I made here). The butterflies are made with the craft punch. The doily and feather are from my stash and the ribbons are from Crafty ribbons.

Don't forget, today is Friday freebie at Crafty ribbons blog. Just leave a comment if you want to win the 20 voucher for the Crafty ribbons store. It doesn't get any easier than this, does it? ;)

I hope you are all enjoying your Friday. I wish you a wonderful weekend! Hugs!

I'd like to enter my card to the follwing challenges:
Stampin' sisters in Christ challenges: Variegated colours
Flutter by Wednesday: Open challenge
Just Magnolia: Anything goes
Deep ocean: Spring
Simon says stamp: Anything goes

Celebrate your mum

2012-03-01T17:35:00.005+01:00

Hi everybody! How are you? I'm feeling great. The sun is shining, it's warm outside ... The spring is coming. Yay! :D It's so nice to have some beautiful sunny days again, I was really getting tired of all the fog and clouds.

We started a new challenge at Crafty ribbons today. Our theme is "Celebrate your mum". We want you to make a card for your mum or your grandma or someone wlse who has been like a mum to you. Of course we have amazing prize for one lucky winner too. ;) Have you seen the new ribbons at Crafty ribbons store? There are so many new ribbons to choose from; you gotta love them! I'm in love with these vintage roses ribbons. I think I can easily say these are my favourites. And guess what ... You can win some. Yes, you can. Because this is the prize for our challenge this time. How cool is that?! Here's the picture of the prize ...

You have to admit these are gorgeous! ;)

Now on to my card ... I used the gorgeous papers from Voorjaar and the sweet Tilda with peony stamp which I colored with Promarkers. Around Tilda I stamped with Recollections stamps (from their Paris set). The doily and the pearls are from my stash and the beautiful ribbons (all of them) are from Crafty ribbons - I used red and sable satin ribbons and red polka dot ribbon. Here's my card ...

So much from me today. I hope you'll come and join our challenge. :) Hugs! xx

I'd like to enter this card to the following challenges:
Just Magnolia: Romantic doily
Paper crafting journey: Anything goes
Simon says stamp: Anything goes
2 sister challenge blog: Anything goes
Bunny Zoe's crafts: Celebrations
Divas by design: Spots and/or stripes
Lothian crafts: 2 main colours (mine are red and brown)
Little darlings: Pearls

Scrapbook

2012-02-25T21:21:00.000+01:00

*This is a picture heavy post!*

Heya! I'm catching the last moments of my vacations. It was good to be able to stay at "home" for the whole week and just relax. I wouldn't mind if I got an extra free gift though. *wishful thinking* He he.

Today I want to show you something new ... It's a scrapbook that I made for my mum's birthday. I made it from brown paper bags and it took me quite some time to finish it, but it was worth the effort. I really like how it turned out. This was the first time I've done an album from paper bags (and it's actually only the second scrapbook I've made). I took pictures when the tags were missing (I had them on my desk - I only thought of that when all the photos were already taken and uploaded to my computer and I really didn't feel like taking all those pictures again). Also, I blured the photos. Sorry about this, I know it doesn't look very nice, but my mum *hates* even just the thought of having *any* of her photos online somewhere.

In this album I used products from MANY different companies so I can't list them all, but if you have any questions just ask and I'll answer if I can.

Ok, enough babbling, here are the pictures ...

The front cover of the album.

First and second page - there's a "pocket" on the bottom of the second page and you can open it

Second page - "pocket" on the bottom (on the right side there's a tag missing)

Third and fourth page (on the "small" fourth page the tag is missing)

Fifth and sixth page

Seventh and eighth page

Ninth and tenth page

The back cover

That's it. I hope you liked it. :) My mum was very happy with it. :D

Have a wonderful day! Hugs! xx

How to make your own patterned paper - tutorial

2012-02-18T19:19:00.001+01:00

Heya! Today I have a new tutorial for you - I will show you how to make a patterned paper using Tim Holtz distress ink, stamps and glitters. I have quite some glitters but I barely ever use(d) them. So I decided to do something about it and I came up with the idea to use them to make a nice patterned paper. Here are the pictures of the paper I made tutorial for. I hope you like it and that you'll give it a try. :)

Oh, by the way, use the kind of glue that is transparent and non sticky once it dries.

If you have any questions, just let me know. :)

Have a wonderful weekend!

Paws for thought

2012-02-16T17:31:00.000+01:00

Good afternoon! How are you doing? I've been so tired for the last couple of days. No idea why though, but I am sure looking forward to getting some more sleep tonight; I don't need to go to work tomorrow so I can sleep a bit longer. :D

Today a new challenge started at Crafty ribbons. Our theme this time is "Paws for thought". We want to see some paws or animals etc. on your project. At Crafty ribbons store you can find the cutest paws/animal print ribbons. We are also giving some of those away as a prize for our challenge winner. Look, here's what you can win ...

Aren't these ribbons just amazing? I love them! If you want to see some amazing work my teamies did with these ribbons hop to Cratfy ribbons challenge blog and check out their projects. :)

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book at a time (and I'm also very good at losing bookmarks *blush*) so I'm always in a need of bookmarks. So I decided to make a bookmark for this challenge.

I used the Silly Moo ribbon and black ric rac ribbon. The papers are from Provo craft and the butterfly is MS punch. The button and pearls are from my stash and the tag was made using the Spellbinders Fancy tags die. I also used the butterflies edge punch and pearl pen from Viva decor.

I hope you'll come and play with us!
Hugs! xx

A thank you and a winner

2012-02-14T20:30:00.002+01:00

Hello! Today's post is gonna be a very short one. I just want to thank 7 very special ladies (you know who you are) who helped me with the surprise (you know what I'm talking about ;)). Thank you very, very much from the bottom of my heart. I really appreciate what you did. If you ever need (help with) anything, just give me a shout! :)

As promised, one of you will receive some crafty thingies to play with as a "thank you". I wrote the names of all of you down and then I asked my boyfriend to pick someone. Aaaaaaand .... The winner is ....

Squirrel, it's you. :D Congrats hun!!! :D Will pm you in a bit.

Thank you all again for being so sweet!!! Big hugs to all of you!! xx

For a baby boy

2012-02-02T15:54:00.002+01:00

Hello! How are you doing? Are you looking forward to the weekend? I am 100 % ready for it (yes, I know it's "only" Thursday lol). I'm planning to do lots of crafting over the weekend. Fingers crossed I'll actually manage to get around to do it.

Today I want to show you a card for a baby boy that I made for our new challenge at Crafty ribbons. Our theme for this challenge is "One for the men" or "Boys". I think this theme is one of the hardest for me. I never, ever know how to make a card for a man/boy. I was thinking hard about what to make for this challenge and then I found this cute digi image on the internet (I'm sorry, but I lost the link :( ) and I decided I'd make a baby boy card. I love bright colours so I had to use red and yellow papers on my project. ;)

I colored the image with Promarkers. The beautiful red ribbon is from Crafty ribbons, the gems are from my stash and the papers are from Heidi Grace. I raised the image and the sentiment on foam pads. I printed the sentiment from word (the sentiment is in Slovenian and it means "sincere congratulations") and cut it out with Spellbinders Fancy tags die.

We are sponsored by Mulberry crafts and one lucky person, who will participate in our challenge, will receive this gorgeous prize ...

Wow, right? I wish I could take part in this challenge too!! lol Anyways, I hope many of you will come play with us! :) Have a nice day!

I would like to enter mycard to the following challenges:
Divas by design: Anything goes
Secret crafter: Ribbons
Hooked on craft: Something new
Cards for men: Seeing red
Do you stack up: Anything goes

Paper flower tutorial

2012-01-28T19:30:00.001+01:00

Hi everybody! Today I made my very first video tutorial - I made a tutorial on how to make these paper flowers using the TH Tattered florals die.

I was SO nervous. Gosh! I hope you will like it. Sorry if I made any mistakes and for my accent. English isn't my first language as you could probably guess. lol So, here's the video ...

I decided to also do a step by step tutorial (with pictures) here on my blog. So, here we go ...

What you need:
- TH Tattered floral die,
- glue,
- a stick or something like this (I used a bbq stick),
- a button or pearl or brad or something similar for the center of your flower,
- paper.

You will need 2 of the biggest flowers, two of the smallest flowers and 2 of the middle size flowers (the 6 petals ones).

Take one big flower and roll each side of the petal towards the center so you'll get sort of a pointed look.

Do this with all the petals on both big flowers and both medium size flowers.

Now take the smallest flower and fold each petal on half. Do this with all the petals on both small flowers.

Now take the two biggest flowers, put some glue on the back of one of them and place that one on top of the other.

Now take the two medium size flowers and repeat this step.

Do the same with the small flowers.

Now take the big and the meddium flowers and put some glue on the back of the medium flower. Now place the meddium flower in the center of the big one.

Now take the small flower and place it in the center of your bigger flower.

Now take a pearl, a button or something like this and glue it to the center of your flower.

And you're done. :)

I hope you like this flower and that you'll give it a try. If you do, I'd love to see it. ;)

Have a great day! Hugs!

A request

2012-01-24T21:52:00.001+01:00

Hello everybody! Today I don't have any project to show you, but I would like to ask you for a favour. I can't say much on here, but if you are interested in what it is, please leave a comment below or send me an email. And don't worry, if I tell you what is this all about and you decide you can't or don't want to "take part" in this, that's fine. :) However, I will send a little something (no, I'm not telling you what that is, it's a surprise :P) to one of you that will help (I'll probably ask my sweetie to draw a winner). The winner will be announced on my blog on Valentine's day, February 14.
I wish you all a wonderful day! :)
Hugs!

Love is red and black

2012-01-19T11:00:00.005+01:00

Phew, another day is over. I'm very much looking forward to the weekend so I can relax a bit. I am planning to do as little as possible - mainly I just want to rest and craft. Do you have any extra plans for the weekend?

Today a new challenge started at Crafty ribbons blog. As Valentines will be here before you know it, we decided to have a "love" challenge; the theme of our new challenge is "Love is red and black". Look at what I made ...

I used different ribbons from Crafty ribbons - I used heart string in red colour, 6 mm grosgrain ribbon and black 25 mm sheer ribbon. I also used a border punch. The red dp is from Folia. I cut the hearts free-hand out of white cardstock.

I hope you will come and play with us! :) There's also a wonderful prize to be won.

Oh, and don't forget to check the Crafty Ribbons challenge blog to see if you won any of the prizes from the blog hop. ;)

The winner of my blog hop prize is Cathy Lee. Congrats hun! :) Please e-mail me with your address to claim your prize.

I'd like to enter my project to the following challenges:
Paper Play Challenges: Ribbon every which way
Crafty Creations Challenges: Valentine theme
The pretty little ribbon: Be my Valentine

Favourite colour combination

2012-01-18T11:00:00.002+01:00

Heya! First I'd like to apologize because I haven't been visiting your blogs very often lately. I'm having a very busy time at work and barely have any free time. I promise to visit you all as soon as I have some more time on my hands.

Today started a new challenge at MMCS challenge blog and for this challenge we want you to make a card or another project using your favourite colour combination. I have quite a few favourite colour combinations, but this time I decided to go for pastels. I love soft pastel colours and I really like combining these colours - pink, blue, yellow and a little bit of brown. Here's my card ...

I made this card for a very nice lady. I hope she will like it! The card is already on its way, but I don't think is has reached its destination yet. I used some solid colour paper from my stash and pink paper from Artsy collage Nature collage kit. The image is a Sweet Pea rubber stamp. The doily is from my stash - it was originally white, but I colored it with TH Brushed corduroy distress ink. The pearls and lace are from my stash and the "thank you" ribbon is from Crafty ribbons. I colored the image with Jolly and Faber Castell pencils. I also used diamond Stickles.

I wish you a wonderful day!
Hugs!

Here come the girls

2012-01-11T22:10:00.001+01:00

Hi there! We have a new challenge for you at MMCS blog. Our challenge this week is "Here come the girls". Here's my card ...

On my card I used the lovely Willow with champagne stamp from Whiff of joy. I don't see this stamp in the MMCS store, but they have many other wonderful Whiff of joy stamps that you can choose from. On the edges I stamped with clear stamps from Hobbycraft. I colored the image with Promarkers and gold glittery gel pen. The ribbon, crystals, flowers and charm are from my stash. The DP is from Heidi Grace.

I'd like to enter this card to the following challenge:
Whiff of joy challenges: Charms and bling

That's all from me today. Sorry for the short post, but I've had another loooooooooong day and I am exhausted.

Hugs!

Starting early

2012-01-08T16:13:00.001+01:00

I always end up doing Christmas and New Years cards at the last minute. Last year I was off to a good start, but unfortunately it didn't go on like this through whole year so again I was in a rush when December came. So this year I REALLY want to do my best to have a pile of Christmas and New Year cards ready in time. This was my New Year's resolution (along with "eat less chocolate"). Hopefully I can make it.

Here's my first New Year's card I made in 2012.

I used the cute Lily of the valley angel stamp and for the first time ever I did some paper piecing - I paper pieced the dress. I love the result and I really don't get it why it took me so long to try paper piecing. I'll definitely do it again! I colored the rest of the image with Promarkers, Faber Castell pencils and TH Shabby shutters distress ink. On the wreath I also used Viva decor pearl pen and on the wings I used diamond Stickles.The star paper is from Folia and the brads and snowflake confetti are from my stash. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons (from their Pink Kitty pack that is now for sale and you can get it for only £1).

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

Sweet stamps: Winter

Lili's little fairies: New beginnings

Crop Stop: Go for the gold

Totally papercrafts: Sketch

Simon says: New something (new stamp, new technique)

Well, that's it for today. I hope you had a nice weekend and I wish you a great week ahead! Hugs!

Crafty ribbons blog hop

2012-01-05T10:00:00.002+01:00

Hi everybody! Remember when I told you about a little "secret" in one of my previous posts? Well, now it's the time for the "secret" to be revealed. ;) I was talking about the fabulous sale at Crafty ribbons and about the Crafty ribbons blog hop that starts today.

You definitely want to check out the sale, because now you can get many fabulous ribbons for a great price, just £1. Wow, right? And that's not all ... Each of the DT has some fabulous ribbons to give away on their blog for those who will join the blog hop, so be sure to visit them all. There are sooooo many fabulous prizes to be won!

Here's what you can win on my blog ...

(image is by Crafty ribbons)

It's a Christmas bear pack. :) To be in the chance to win these fabulous ribbons all you need to do is to leave a message on this post, saying that you are joining us on the blog hop. As simple as that. :)

But wait, there's more. ;) At each stop there will be a word to collect (in case you haven't figured it out yet, my word is "fabulous" ;)). Once you collected all 12 words, work out the phrase and leave it in the comments back in the Crafty ribbons challenge blog. Each of you who will get the phrase right, will get in the draw for the main blog hop candy. The main blog hop prize is a £20 voucher for the Crafty ribbons shop.

You should have arrived here from Carol's blog, but if you are just joining us for the blog hop now, go to the Crafty ribbons challenge blog, where you will find the complete list.

But did we stop here? Of course not! ;) We also have a new challenge for you and the theme is "New beginnings" (new baby, new job ...). We will randomly draw the winners of the challenge AND the blog hop. See, I told you there are many prizes to be won ... ;) The challenge winner will receive a ribbon bag.

CONTENTS MAY VARY!

Right, now on to my card. I am always short on baby cards so I made one for this challenge.

This one was a bit different for me because I didn't do any stamping. I can hardly believe it myself. lol I used the DP from Provo Craft and I made the baby pram using the circle Spellbinders dies and my border punch. I embossed the yellow paper on the back of the pram with Cottage floral embossing folder from Craft concepts. The pearls are from my stash and the sweet teddy bear ribbon is from Crafty ribbons.

Now I want to send you to Tessa and Anke, who have another beautiful card to show you, another fabulous pack of ribbons to give away and another word for you to complete the phrase. :)

All the winners will be announced at the start of our new challenge, that is 19. 1.

Have a wonderful day and I hope you'll have lots of fun hopping around the Blogland. :)

Something new

2012-01-04T11:17:00.004+01:00

Good morning! How has been your week so far? I've been trying to catch up on things but.

Today we started a first challenge in this year at MMCS challenge blog. And our theme this week is "Something new". We would like you to use a new crafty tool/stamp/embellishment that you got from Santa (or bought it yourself) or you can also make a car about a new job, a new car etc. Our sponsor this week is Jellypark.

On my card I used my new stamp from the Peace and joy stamp set.

I just used some papers from my stash. The golden circle confetti and white ribbon are also from my stash and the Christmas ribbon is from Crafty ribbons. I embossed the white paper in the background with Cuttlebug Fleur de lis embossing folder and the white paper behind the image is embossed with Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder. I used Spellbinders dies to ut out the ovals.

I hope you'll come play with us this week!

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges:
Simon says stamp!: Something new
Top tip Tuesday: Anything goes
Papertake weekly: Anything goes
Bearly mine: Anything goes
Pile it on: Anything goes

First post in 2012

2012-01-02T19:26:00.001+01:00

Hello everybody! First of all, let me wish you a very happy New Year! May the best of 2011 be the worst of 2012. I would also like to thank you all my followers for your nice comments, they mean a lot to me. Thank you very, very much! *big hugs to you*

I decided that in my first post of this year I will show you a necklaces that I made some time ago, using wire and semi precious stones. These necklaces are super easy and super fun to make. And I just love how they look when you are wearing them too.

Necklace in green tones.

The close-up of the center of the necklace.

Necklace in brown tones.

And the close-up.

I hope you like these necklaces. :)

So much from me today. I'll be back soon with more cards and ... This part I'm not telling you. *naughty grin* You'll have to wait for the right time. But don't worry, the "secret" will be revealed in a couple of days. ;)

Hugs!

Wall hangings

2011-12-28T20:42:00.000+01:00

Hello everybody! How are you doing? Are you enjoying this holiday season? I hope you were good this year and that Santa left lots of (crafty) goodies for you under the Christmas tree! :)

Today I want to show you what I made to give as Christmas gifts to the ladies in my family (my mum, my grandma ...). *This is a picture heavy post.*

My mum got this:

My grandma got this:

My aunt got this:

And my mother-in-law-to-be got this:

I had a lot of fun making these wall hangings. I used the cork and painted it with white acrylic paint. Whe the paint dried, I stamped on the cork bard with Viva decor floral embellishments clear stamps. I used different ribbons from my stash. The butterflies are MS Monarch butterfly punch. I made the flowers myself, using the Tim Holtz Tattered florals die. For the big rose I followed this tutorial, for the small roses this tutorial and for the brown flower I used on the wall hanging I made for my mum I followed this tutorial here. I received this Tattered florals die from my sweet (and very creative) friend Rosie - thanks a lot hun! I loved making flowers with it. :)

Here are some more flowers I made with this die (following th tutorials mentioned above) ...

And the flowers, which I made up myself - using this same TH dies (I haven't seen any tutorials for flowers like this online, but if it exists, feel free to let me know; or if you want me to do a tutorial, just let me know).

Ok, so much from me today. Have a wonderful day and happy holidays! :)
Hugs!

A wish for Christmas and New Year

2011-12-25T09:00:00.001+01:00

Yay, Christmas is finally here. In my opinion this is the most magical day of the year and I just love it. I hope you have a lovely Christmas, surrounded with your lovedones and filled with love and happiness. And as for the New Year ... I wish that year 2012 for you will be filled with lots of special moments and that your wishes will come true. May the best of 2011 be the worst of 2012. :)

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! xx

And to get you even more in the Christmas spirit here's one of my favourite Christmas songs; Bryan Adams - Something about Christmas time

Sketch challenge at Crafty Ribbons

2011-12-22T15:32:00.001+01:00

Hello everybody! How are you? I'm enjoying the sunny day we have today. It's still very cold, but beautiful too. We finally got snow a couple of days ago and now everything is white. Perfect for this time of the year. I just hope the snow will last til Christmas.

Today started a new challenge at Crafty ribbons challenge blog. Tessa and Anke made this wonderful sketch for our 9th challenge.

My lovely teamies created wonderful card for your inspiration so jump over to Crafty ribbons challenge blog to have a look at them.

And here is my card ...

Another Christmas card, of course. ;) I inked the cute Penny Johnson's stamp from Stampavie and colored the image with Promarkers. On the white parts of Santa's dress and hat I used diamond Stickles. I raised the image with foam pads. The gold and red dotty paper are from Folia and the blue paper is from my stash. I embossed the white paper with Cuttlebug's Swiss dot embossing folder. The doily is from my stash and the Let it snow ribbon is from Crafty ribbons. You can find it here.

The prize for this challenge is Bev's bag.

CONTENTS MIGHT VARY

We hope that many of you will come and join our challenge. We are looking forward to see your creations!

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Passion for Promarkers: Celebrations

Keeping it simple

2011-12-21T17:40:00.000+01:00

Hello everybody! Today started a new challenge at MMCS blog - this is our last challenge for this year, next one will start on January 4. And because we know you are all busy with last minute Christmas preparations we decided to have the easiest of all challenges for you - anything goes. So bring it on, show us all your lovely creations, we can't wait to see them. :) You have 2 weeks to link your creations to the challenge blog. And you can win a great gift too - we are sponsored by our sweet Kitty who is giving the lucky winner £10 to spend in My mum's craft shop online store.

I made a Christmas card for this challenge. I kept it very simple.

I didn't use any DP, I just used white and red cardstock. I embossed the white cardstock with Snow flurries embossing folder from Sizzix. The ribbon is from my stock and so is the fabric reindeer (I bought a pack of them last year and completely forgot I had them *blush*). I printed the sentiment from Word (it's in Slovenian and it means "happy holidays"). I used Petite scalloped ovales large, Petit ovals large, Classic scallop circle large and Standard circles large Spellbinders dies. On the cardstock behind the deer I stamped with snowflake stamp from Folia. I also used some silver glitter glue.

I wish you all a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by. Hugs!

Cute and funky Christmas

2011-12-14T10:07:00.004+01:00

Hi there! :) How are you feeling today? We are another day closer to Christmas. Do you have any plans for Christmas yet? Have you been good this year so that Santa will bring you lots of presents? ;)

Yesterday I changed my cell phone ringtone to "We wish you a merry Christmas" - Disney version (I love this version - I'm a big kid lol). For the last couple of years this has been my ringtone at this time of the year; I'm making it a tradition. lol

Anyways, enough of my babbling. Let me rather tell you about the new challenge we have for you at MMCS challenge blog. We are all in the Christmas spirit so this week we want to see your cute and funky Christmas creations. Here's the card I made for this challenge ...

I used the sweet little Pickle with poinsettia stamp from Wild rose studio - isn't he just soooooo cute?! <3 I colored him with Promarkers and Faber Castell pencils. On his Christmas hat I added some diamond Stickles. The red swiss dot paper is from Folia and the rest of the papers are from my stash. The music paper is actually one of my music sheets from back when I was still going to music school. I colored it with TH brushed corduroy distress ink. The ribbons are from my stash and so is the little bell. I've had this one for a long time and have absolutely no idea where I got it. Unfortunately it's hard tp see this on the picture, but I actually raised Pickle on foam dots.

I'd like to enter this card to the following challenges:
CropStop: Music is all around us
Take time for you: Christmas
Paper Sundaes: Anything Christmas
Hanna and friends: Winter card
Stampin' for the weekend: Christmas
Timbroscrapmania: Bow

Purple and white

2011-12-13T20:12:00.000+01:00

Hello, hello! How are you? I have been busy making Christmas cards; I never learn, I always leave everything til the last minute. *blush* One of the cards I made is this one ...

I didn't use any patterned paper for this card, I just used white and purple cardstocks. I embossed the white cardstock with Cuttlebug Fleur de Lis embossing folder. The image is sweet Flying angel Tilda from Magnolia. I am always connecting angels with Christmas so this image seemed perfect for my card. I colored Tilda with Promarkers and Jolly and Faber Castell pencils. On the wings I used diamond Stickles. To make this card I also used different Spellbinders dies, pearls and ribbon from my stash. The sentiment "vesele praznike" is in Slovenian (I printed it) and it means "happy holidays".

I'd like to enter this card to the following challenges:
Just Magnolia & hAnglar and sTanglar challenge blog: I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Hanna and friends: Winter card
Paperminutes: Clean and simple (lots of white)
Creative card crew: Tis the season

Traditional colours for Christmas

2011-12-08T17:17:00.001+01:00

Hello, hello! How are you today? I'm in the mood for singing and dancing (partially that's also because I just saw the fab card my friend Rosie made). Don't worry, I'm not going to sing anything to you, I will rather tell you about the new challenge we have at Crafty ribbons. The theme is "Traditional colours for Christmas". We have a wonderful sponsor for this challenge too - we are sponsored by the lovely Bev from Mulberry crafts.

MuberryCraftsUK online shop is a Home-Based business run by Bev .

At the moment we are focussing on providing miniature flowers made from genuine mulberry paper for crafts use - although we have a small selection of non -paper crafts too. Why mulberry paper? Because they are robust, realistic look and last longer than ordinary paper and it provides a sustainable income for people in the cottage industry. In due course we will be introducing more of other craft materials which is not related to mulberry paper.

Look at all the goodies the lucky winner will get!

In bag ...

Goodies out of bag ...

Wow, right?

For my card I used combination of red and white.

I used the cute Christmas angel clear stamp from Kars and the fabby ribbon from Crafty ribbons. Icolored the image with Promarkers and I used diamond Stickles on the wings. It's a bit hard to see on the picture, but I embossed the white papper with Sizzix Snow flurries embossing folder. The corner is a Spellbinders die and the snowflakes are made with my craft punch. The crystals are from my stash. I hope many of you will join our challenge. We can't wait to see your creations. :)

And the winner of my birthday candy is ...

2011-12-07T19:22:00.000+01:00

Today is the day to announce the winner of my birthday candy. I used random.org to get the winner and the lucky number is ..... 38.

Dora, that's you. Congrats!!! :D Please contact me by Sunday evening to claim your prize. :)

Traditional Christmas

2011-12-07T18:38:00.000+01:00

'tis the season to be jolly ... I'm already in the Christmassy mood. I just hung a cinnamon scented sachet in the hallway of my apartment. It smells soooooooooo good! I am also working on my Christmas gifts and Christmas cards. I really like this time of the year. :)

One of the Christmas cards I made was also for this week's challenge at MMCS challenge blog. The theme of our challenge this week is "traditional Christmas". So I used the traditional image of Santa - it's the rubber stamp from Recollections. I love it!

I just used some solid colour paper in bronze and champagne colour; they are both glittery, that's why they look a bit "strange" on the photo (as if the quality of the picture was bad). I used a border punch and a Spellbinders corner die. On the die and the snowflakes I used some diamond Stickles (I love Stickles!!). The snowflakes are wooden, I just colored them with white acrylic paint and added Stickles and crystals on them. Oh, I also used the Sizzix snowflake embossing folder and some lace and a doily lace from my stash.

I'm sure you are all into making Christmas cards now, so I hope many of you will join our challenge this week. :)

Birthday candy

2011-12-06T21:50:00.000+01:00

As promised, I'm here with another candy. My birthday is in November so I thought I'd share some goodies with you. ;) I hope you like what I bought and that many of you will join my candy. Here's the picture of what you can get.

I know everybody hates rules, but unfortunately there have to be some to make this fair for everybody. But don't worry, there aren't many. ;) So here's what you need to do to be able to win ...
1.) You must post a picture of my candy on your blog and link back to my blog.
2.) You must use latin alphabet; all entries written with cyrillic letters will be deleted!
3.) Leave your info with Mr. Linky. Be fair and only enter once please. Multiple entries will not count!

In order to be in the chance to win a candy you need to do all of those things above.

I'd love it if you were a follower, but it's not a must. Only follow me if you like my blog, not just because of the candy. Also, I love it when and if you write a comment on any of my post. But please keep your comments in English or Slovenian. Thank you!

My candy is opened for everybody everywhere. The candy will close on December 6 and the winner will be announced the day after.

Keeping warm

2011-11-30T15:38:00.000+01:00

Brrrr, it's so cold outside. I'm glad I can be in where it's nice and warm. We don't have snow yet, so that's a plus, but I thing that sooner or later we'll get some. After all, it's almost December. I can already smell cinnamon, oranges, cookies ... Yup, that's proably the reason this is my favourite time of the year (despite the cold). ;)

This week's challenge at MMCS challenge blog is "Keeping warm" - a perfect theme for this time of the year, don't you think so? I was asked to make some very simple (meaning: without many embellishments) Christmas cards and I was trying to do this with this one.

On this card I only used some ribbon from my stashn, 2 crystals that also came from my stash and some Icicle Slickles.The green paper is from Provo Craft and the rest are just some left over pieces I had in my drawer. I used the lovely image fromHeather Ellis. I colored the image with Promarkers and Faber Castell pencils. For the snowlakes I used border punch.

I wish you all a wonderful day!

Hugs!

A tag

2011-11-24T12:08:00.002+01:00

Hello everybody! How are you doing? I'm taking it veeeeeeeeeery easy today. It's just one of those days when you want to do as little as possible, you know? ;) I might do some crafting later today or I'll just try and catch up with leaving comments on blogs. That sounds like a good plan too, doesn't it?

Anyways, at Crafty ribbons we have a new challenge for you. We want you to make a tag. A small one, a big one ... It doesn't matter. As long as it's a tag, everything is ok. :) Here is the one I made ...

I used a thin white cardstock and colored it with TH Brushed corduroy distress ink. Then I stamped on it with Stampabilities Faded text background stamp and Swirl stamps from Viva decor. The butterflies were made with my MS Monarch butterfly punch and I stamped over them with the Faded text background stamp. The little flowers were made with a punch too. The pearls are from my stash. The brown cardstock is a left over from a cardboard box. I inked it up with TH brushed corduroy ink. The ribbons I used are from Crafty ribbons - I used Organza swiss dot ribbon and Velvet saddle stitch ribbon.

So .. Are you curious what can you win this time? Should I tell you? ;) Ok, I will ... You can win some gorgeous embossed velvet ribbons (like you see on the picture below). They are also available in the store here.

Happy crafting! :)

Things with wings

2011-11-23T16:18:00.001+01:00

Hello everybody! How are you doing? I'm still stuck in bed most of the time, but my knee is getting better. I'm having sutures taken out on Monday and hopefully everything will be fine and I'll be up and running around again in no time.

Also, a big hello to all my new followers. *waves* Thank you for joining my blog; I hope you like what you see here. :) I noticed the number of my followers is already over 200. My goodness, I have never thought I'd get this many followers. Thanks to each and every one of you! xx

This week's theme at MMCS challenge blog is "Things with wings". And we have an amazing sponsor this week - Emerald fairies. Don't you just love their images? I do! And if my printer wasn't acting up, I'd definitely make a card with one of their lovely digi images. *sigh*

Instead I used the cute boy ona star image which I printed out quite some time ago and it is a freebies at Angelique's blog.

I colored the image with Promarkers and on the back I did some shading with Faber Castell pencils. On the wings I put some glitters. The papers are from Heidi Grace designs and from Provo Craft. The ribbons and buttons are from my stash.

I hope many of you will come and play with us. :)

Mix and match papers

2011-11-16T21:40:00.000+01:00

This will be a very quick post ... I just want to tell you about the new challenge that started today at MMCS blog. This week's theme is "Mix and match papers". We want you to use different design papers this week. I used papers from Provo Craft (the pink one), from Heidi Grace designs (the green one) and from Sizzix' Little Sizzles (the butterfly).

The flowers are from my stash and the lace is from The paper Studio. Beads are also from my stash. The image is adorable angel Tilda from Magnolia. I colored the image with Promarkers. The butterfly was made with my MS punch and the circles were cut with Spellbinders dies.

I hope you'll come and play with us this week. We have a great sponsor too - Elizabeth Bell is offering 2 of her digis to the lucky winner.

Nutella cake with bananas

2011-11-13T21:06:00.000+01:00

Today I want to show you the cake I made for my birthday. Tadaaaaaammmm ...

Have you ever eaten a Nutella cake with bananas? No? Then you definitely HAVE TO give it a try. It's soooooooooo good! I had it once or twice before (when I was eating out I ordered it as a desert), but til now I have never made it myself. And since I always like to try something new (and because I just LOVE Nutella), I decided to make one this year. I found a recipe online and I was very surprised that it was so easy to make. Really, no complications. And it was done pretty fast too. And it was oh so yummy - not dry, not too sweet, it was just perfect!!! Definitely one of my favourite cakes (saying this, I should probably add that I am usually not so keen of chocolate cakes, I always prefer fruit cakes). Everybody else seem to like it too; it was gone in no time. :D I'll definitely be making it more often!!

Button box

2011-11-10T14:38:00.000+01:00

Hello everybody! Brrrrr, it's cold outside. Luckily I can stay inside where it's warm, sit behind my desk and do some crafting. :D

Right, let me tell you about the new challenge at Crafty Ribbons challenge blog. The theme for this challenge is "Anything but a card". So put your thinking caps on and get creative. Me and some of my lovely teamies decided to show you the button box(es) that we decorated. What button boxes I'm talking about? Hop to Crafty Ribbons page and you'll see. ;) Oh, you didn't know that you cen get buttons at Crafty Ribbons? You can, you can. They have lots of gorgeous buttons to choose from - spotty buttons, stripe buttons, Christmas buttons ...

Here's how I decorated my button box ...

All the ribbons and buttons I used are from Crafty ribbons; the buttons are from Christmas Berry button box and the ribbons I used are Velvet saddle stitch ribbon - fuchsia/black and 6 mm Grosgrain ribbon ( I *think* I used "ivory" colour, but I am not 100% sure). I made the flowers myself out of newspaper paper. I made the tag with Spellbinders' die and I stamped on with a "Beautiful" stamp that came from "Find your style" set by Close to your heart. Pearls on string are from my stash and the butterflies are a left-over which I get when I use my border butterfly punch. All the DT papers are from Sizzix' Little Sizzles pack.

Oh, another thing before I go ... You are probably wondering what is the prize for our 6th challenge, right? Let me tell you, it's a really nice one. ;) The winner will get to choose ONE of Bev's bags. They are both filled with lots of lovely ribbons (see picture below) so I believe it'll be a tough decision. ;)

Sugar and spice

2011-11-09T10:25:00.001+01:00

Sugar and spice - that's our new challenge at MMCS blog. As usually you have one week to enter you creations to the challenge and once again we have a wonderful sponsor. Sweet Krista from Saturated Canary is giving the lucky winner 2 images of their choice. Isn't that great? I love her images. :D For this challenge I made a tag.

I used one of Krista's images - the lovely Nevaeh, which you can find here. I colored the image with Promarkers. All the papers I used are from Provo Craft. I made the butterfly with MS monarch butterfly punch. The flowers are from Crafts. and the ribbon is from m stash. I also used the flower border punch and TH brushed corduroy distress ink.

I hope you will come and play with us. :)

Thank you!

2011-11-02T19:36:00.000+01:00

Hey there! Another loooong Wednesday came to an end. Well, almost. I hope you've been having a nice week so far and that you managed to do a lot of crafting. I did. ;) And one of the things I made is also a "thank you" card, that I made for this week's challenge at My mum's craft shop. Yup, today we have a brand new challenge for you. We want you to create a "thank you" project (can be a card or something else). I made a card.

I used the lovely Tilda with peony stamp and colored the image with Promarkers. I masked Tilda and stamped over it with Stampabilities' Faded text background stamp. I stamped the word "hvala" (that's Slovenian for "thank you") with G Studio's clear stamps. The paper in the back is from my stash and so are the flowers, ribbon and pearls. The rhinestones are from Kaiser. I used the blue piece of paper and embossed it with the Cuttlebug's Swiss dots embossing folder. Then I inked the embossed dots with copper ink. The corner was made with Spellbinders' die. I also used the border punch and Hobbycraft's clear stamps

As always, we have a wonderful sponsor this week too; this week Heather Ellis is giving the winner 3 digi images. I hope many of you will come and play with us!

And the winner is ...

2011-11-01T13:32:00.000+01:00

Soooo, it's time to tell you who was lucky enough to win all those fabby ribbons, that were kindly donated by Ali and Tony from Crafty Ribbons. I used random.org to get the winner. And the lucky winner is ...................... No. 50. That is you, Regina. Congrats! :D You have til Friday evening to contact me to claim your prize.

If I don't hear from Regina by Friday evening, I will choose another winner.

To those of you, who haven't won anything, I'm sorry. But don't worry, very soon (in a few days) you will have another chance to get some goodies. In a couple of days I'm going to post another candy on my blog. So stay tuned. ;)

Calling all the ribbon lovers

2011-10-31T22:25:00.002+01:00

As promised here's a new candy. :D If you like using ribbonson your projects, you will definitely like it. ;) Sweet Ali from Crafty ribbons kindly gave the DT some of their fabby ribbons to offer them as candy. Isn't that very generous of her? Look at all the ribbons you can win ...

Wow, right? And these can all be yours. All you need to do is mention this candy in you blog (sidebar) and leave your name with Mr. Linky (if Mr. Linky is missing just leave a comment and I'll add you myself). We would really, really, reeeeeeeeally appreciate if you also hopped to the Crafty ribbons challenge blog and become a follower, but it's not a must. However, you might enjoy our challenges. :) Every 2 weeks you have the chance to participate in the challenge and win some yummy ribbons. Not bad at all, huh? ;) New challenge starts on Thursday so keep your eyes on the challenge blog. :D

IMPORTANT ... Please keep your comments in english or slovenian. I do speak/understand bits of a few other languages as well, but not good enough to understand everything you are saying. I don't understand a word in russian or french for example and my italian is very limited too. So if you want to participate in a candy and you comment (which is optional but I really appreciate every single comment) the least you can do is to use one of the online translators (if your english isn't good enough to write a comment) and then write your comment in english. From now on I will delete all comments that are not in english or slovenian. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but comments and candy entries I don't understand and/or can't even read (in cyrillic) aren't really "my thing".

This candy will close on October 31st and the winner will be announced the next day. Good luck to all of you!

Let's play bingo!

2011-10-27T14:20:00.000+02:00

Hi there! Today a new challenge started at Crafty ribbons challenge blog - we want to invite you to come and play Bingo with us! :D Now, doesn't that sound fun?! I hope many of you will come play with us! Here's the Bingo board ...

We also have some fantastic prizes for you - this challenge is being sponsored by sweet Bev from Mulberry crafts. Look at all the fabby flowers she is giving to the lucky winner ...

And that's not all ... Ali and Tony from Crafty ribbons are giving one lucky follower of the Crafty ribbons challenge blog the chance to win one of Bev's bags (winner's choice). So many gorgeous ribbons ...

Don't you just love all the prizes? I wish I could participate in this challenge too!!! ;)

I created a girly card for this challenge. I used my brand new Dress up Marci stamp from La-La Land Crafts that I received from my very sweet and very talented friend, Rosie. If you have a moment, please stop by her blog to see all her amazing creations. I colored Marci with Promarkers. For the beads on the necklace I used paint. I cut the circle and scalloped circle with Spellbinders dies. I also used Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder and MS monarch butterfly punch. I've been wanting this punch for soooo long, but couldn't get my hands on it. So when I finally got it (again, thanks to Rosie), I was over the moon. This is definitely one of the things that I'll be using A LOT. :D The ribbon is - of course - from Crafty ribbons. The flowers I used are stickers - they are from my stash. And so is the paper. I would love to give you the info about the brand, but unfortunately I have no idea where it is from. Here's what my card looks like ...

What are you waiting for? Come play Bingo with us! :D

Get spooked

2011-10-26T16:02:00.001+02:00

Hello, hello! How are you? I hope you are having nicer days than we do. It's been cloudy and gray here for the last couple of days and today it was also raining in the morning. Typical autumn weather I suppose. I already miss warm sunny days. But I admit that autumn has its charms too; e.g. leaves in all the beautiful colours. And of course Halloween is in this time of year too. ;) Halloween has only been getting more popular here in the last couple of years. I can't say it's my favourite holiday, but I sill plan on carve a pumpkin or two. :P

At My mum's craft shop challenge blog we have a perfect challenge for all you Halloween lovers. We want you to create a spooky card/project. This week we are being sponsored by Sassy Cheryl's digis - they are giving the lucky winner $5 to spend in their store.

The DT got some of their spooktacular Sassy Cheryl images to play with. On my project I used the cute witch, which you can get here.

This was supposed to be a candy bag, but I didn't have any candy at home, so I put some of my buttons in the bag to give you the idea what it'll be like once it's filled with candy (I'm off to do some shopping later today). This bag was very easy, fast and fun to make. I followed tutorial I found on this site. I colored the image with Promarkers and some Crayola markers. The ribbons are from Crafty ribbons and the buttom on the ribbon flower is from my stash. I also used the Spellbinders dies to cut out circles and scalloped circle. I drew the bats myself on the black piece of paper, cut them out and glued them on the bag.

I hope you'll join our challenge. We can't wait to see all your spooky creations. :)

I'd like to enter this bag in the following challenges:
Crop Stop: Halloween
Ribbon carousel: Halloween
Paper play: Use black
Simon says stamp!: Anything goes
Through the craftroom: Happy Halloween
Craft your days away: Halloween colours

Santa's little helper

2011-10-19T12:19:00.000+02:00

Hi everybody! I'm not feeling well today, so this will be a very short post. I just want to get back to bed asap.

Today a new challenge started at MMCS blog and this week's theme is "Food and drink". We have a wonderful sponsor this week - Wild rose studio. They offered the lucky winner 2 stamps of winner's choice. Wonderful, right? They sure have loooooots of fabby images to choose from.

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

I used the cute free digi from Angelique - you can get this cutie on her blog. The red paper is from Provo Craft and the green paper is just a left over piece from my stash. I stamped over it with Single snowflake stamp from Stampabilities. The gorgeous glittery ribbon is from Crafty ribbons. I colored the image with Promarkers. The snowflakes are made with my punch and in the middle of each snowflake I glued a crystal from my stash.

I hope many of you will come and play with us this week. I can't wait to see all your lovely creations. Hugs!

Ribbon and lace

2011-10-13T22:07:00.003+02:00

Hello everybody! I'm very happy to see you here. :) I'm going to do some blog hopping tomorrow and will stop by your blogs and do some commenting.

Today a 4th challenge started at Crafty ribbons blog. This fortnight's challenge theme is "ribbon and lace". I doesn't get much easier than that, does it? lol I hope many of you will come and play along with us. We have a great sponsor for this challenge. The sweet Krista from Saturated canary will give the lucky winner two of her incredibly cute images. The DT was lucky to get some of her images to play with too and we used them on our cards. I used the fab Tressa the princess image. Isn't she cute?!

I used some papers, doily lace and pearls from my stash and the gorgeous ribbons from Crafty ribbons. I colored the image with Promarkers.

I'm off to bed now. It was a looooooooooong day today. See ya tomorrow! :)

Remind you of a song

2011-10-12T22:26:00.000+02:00

Hello everybody! How are you doing? Enjoying your week so far? I've had. a very busy couple of days. It was crazy. But things settled down now so I hope it'll be a bit better from now on.

As every Wednesday, even today we have a new challenge at the MMCS blog for you. And today's challeng is "Remind you of a song". It was a hard choice for me of what card to make, because I have quite some songs that I love. But at the end I went with Robbie Williams' song Angels and I made a card inspired by this song ~ needless to say I kept listening to it over and over again while crafting and "sing" (if you can call this singing lol) along.

This cute Tilda image was just perfect for my card. Isn't she just sooooooo cute?! I also love these papers from Scrapwork's Formal affair. I colored Tildawith Promarkers and I used Stickles on her wings. The ribbon, lace and pearls are from my stash. I made the snowflakes with a punch. The sentiment is in Slovenian and it means "happy holidays" - I just printed that one.

I wish you a wonderful day! :)

Another Christmas card

2011-10-09T22:07:00.001+02:00

Grrrrr, today I was going to do some blog hopping and comment on your posts, but Blogger doesn't allow me to leave comments. :S Another glitch I guess. I hope it'll be fixed soon.

Today I had a lazy day. I just did some more bobbin-work (I made another clover) and I also made a Christmas card. I keep reminding myself that I *must* make some more Christmas cards (the sooner the better), but somehow I always end up doing something completely different. Knowing myself it'll be "last-minute-rush" with these cards again, even though I started in January. So much about my organization. *blush*

Here's the card I made today ...

As you can see I used that cute birdie digi, which I got here. I colored the image with Promarkers and I added some Stickles on the cap. The ribbon is from Crafty ribbons and the other things (star confetti, pearls and doily) are from my stash. I got this paper with a swap some time ago, but I *think* it came with one magazine. Not sure though.

I would like to add this card to the following challenge:
Crop Stop: Dainty doily

Yay, I did it! :D :D

2011-10-08T18:59:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I finished my very first lace (Slovenia is well known by Idrija laces and I recently started learning how to make these). I've always liked Idrija laces, but as they are all completely handmade, they can get really expensive, so I though I might as well give it a shot and try to learn how to make them myself. So earlier this year I bought all the things I needed and about a month ago I started learning how to do these.

For my first project I chose ... Butterfly, what else?! lol This wasn't the easiest one to start with, but it was worth all the efforts. I love how it turned out.

And today I made another lace - a four leaf clover. I need to make three of these for the gifts. :)

These laces are both completely handmade. These are bobbin laces (click to get to wiki if you want more details), which means you make them with bobbins - obviously. lol You also need a pattern. I'm just a beginner, but I really like making these laces and will definitely make many more.

All creatures - great and small

2011-10-05T20:23:00.000+02:00

Heya! It's wednesday which means we have a new challenge for you at the My mums craft shop challenge blog. This week's theme is "All creatures - big and small". I hope lots of you will come and play with us. :) Oh, and before I forget, we have a great sponsor this week too - Di's digis is offering 4 digi stamps to the lucky winner.

First let me apologize because my piccie isn't the best. The weather wasn't on my side when I wanted to take pictures so the colours aren't the best (I tried to do some Photoshop magic on the piccie, but unfortunately I'm not very good at these things).

For this card I used stamps from the Kanban's Autumn Silhouettes set. Isn't the owl just too cute? I colored it with TH disters ink. The paper I used is from Provo Craft and the flower lace/ribbon and leaf are from my stash. The butterflies are made with a craft punch and the crystals in the middle of each butterfly are from my stash.

I hope you are having a nice day! Hugs!

Wishing you well

2011-10-04T20:02:00.001+02:00

Hello everybody! I hope you are having a nice week so far. Mine is ok, but nothing special. Pretty much the usual stuff. Work, crafting when I have some free time ... Stuff like that. One of the cards that I made, looks like this ...

I was going for a vintage look so I used the scissors on the paper edges. To be honest it's not my favourite card - I feel like there's something missing. Probably because I always add (many) more embellies on my cards. I wanted to add some more on here too, but I didn't like how any of them looked, so I just left it like this. I do love this butterfly stamp though. It's from the Close to your heart "Find your style" set. The sentiment is a G Studio clear stamp. I made the flower myself using the Spellbinders circle dies, orange paper from my stash and a gold brad, which I also found inmy stash. I also used Stampabilities Faded text background stamp, Cottage floral embossing folder, TH brushed corduroy distress ink and some ribbon that I've had in my drawer for quite some time. I bought it quite some time ago and I really like it, but haven't used it before. The green paper in the back is just a left-over piece from my stash so no idea about the brand, sorry. The brown paper is from Provo Craft and the other green paper is from Artsy collage's Nature collage kit.

I would like to enter this card to the following challenge:
Crop Stop: World card making day
CLP challenge: Sketch

Phone charms

2011-10-01T21:23:00.001+02:00

Hello everybody! I'm back again with something new today.

The other day I was playing with beads and I got this idea that I could make some phone charms. I don't know about you, but I love having a charm on my phone. The moment I get a new phone, I will add a charm to it. lol These were really fun to make and I still have some more ideas. I will definitely be making more of these in the furture.

Here are the ones I made so far ...

I used some charms and some glass and metal beads from my stash for these. What do you think?

BOO-tiful Halloween Projects - Pretty Spooky

2011-09-29T14:32:00.000+02:00

Hello, hello! Thanks for stopping by my blog today. It's great to see you here. :) We have a new challenge at Crafty ribbons challenge blog for you. The theme of our challenge is BOO-tiful Halloween Projects - Pretty Spooky. We want you to create something for Halloween - can be a card or something else. At Crafty ribbons they have so many fantastic Halloween ribbons and the DT was really lucky to play with some of them. Hop over to the Crafty ribbons challenge blog and check the fabby work from my teamies, they all did an excellent job! :)

And here's my creation ...

This was a plain white box which a decorated with lots of ribbons (they are all from Crafty ribbons) and some orange pearls from my stash. I also used Spellbinders circle and scalopped circle dies. I drew the bat myself on a piece of black cardstock, cut it out and glued it on the orange circle.

You can even win some of the ribbons from the Crafty ribbons Halloween collection by playing with us at this challenge. Here's what we have ready for one lucky winner ...

Aren't these ribbons just great?! If you want to win them, just participate in our challenge here. :) You have til 12 October to link your creation(s) to the challenge. Good luck!

Dress up + DT call

2011-09-28T18:41:00.002+02:00

Another Wednesday and another challenge at MMCS blog. This week's theme is "dress up". And as usually you can win a nice prize by participating in the challenge. :) This week we are being sponsored by The poodles parlours and they are offering 4 digis to one lucky winner.

I made a tag for this challenge and it looks like this ...

I used the image from our sponsor and colored it with Promarkers. I stamped on the tag with Viva decor stamps. I made the flowers myself from some left over pieces of papers that I found in my stash and I put pearls in the middle. The little butterflies are made with the "Picture punch" craft punch.

We also have a DT call on the MMCS blog, so if you want to join, you can find all the details here.

I hope many of you will join the fun this week! :)

Candy winner

2011-09-27T21:44:00.000+02:00

Hello everybody! I just got the winner of my candy. :) Unfortunately the random.org site wasn't loading for me for some reason so this time I went to randomizer.org to get my winner. And the lucky number was ...

That's you, Lorraine.Well done! :) Please send me an e-mail with your addy so I can send you the candy. :) You have til Friday evening to send me an e-mail. If I don't her from you by then I will choose another winner.

To the rest of you ... Don't be sad because you didn't win this time. Any minute I will offer a new candy on my blog. ;)

Mmmmm, candy ...

2011-09-26T23:59:00.004+02:00

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Hello, hello! Today (August 7) is a very special day. You're asking "Why"? Because it's my boyfriend's birthday. Yay! :D And because I want to do something nice for you on this special day as well, I thought I'd post a small candy on my blog. How does this sound? Good? I sure hope so. ;)

Here's what you can win ...

~ A pack of Viva decor - My paper world: Flower embellishments clear stamps,
~ a scrapbook kit - decoration set,
~ page panel "A day at the beach" by Cock-a-doodle design,
~ Paper Bliss' adhesive embellishments,
~ pearls on string,
~ some doily laces,
~ some decorative leaves.

Wondering what you have to do to have the chance to win these goodies? Just follow these simple rules ...

1. You must put a picture of my candy on your blog (sidebar) with the link back to my blog. (I will check!)
2. Leave your name with Mr. Linky - comments won't count though feel free to leave a comment too. :) (Please only enter once.)

3. OPTIONAL - this does NOT increase your chances of winning the candy!
I'd love you to become a follower of my blog (if you don't follow me already). But it's not a must. Only follow me if you like my blog, not just because of my candy.

If Mr. Linky is missing/not working for some reason, let me know (leave me a comment) and I'll add you myself. But be sure to leave me the link to your blog in your comment.

Only people who are actually doing some crafting (any type of crafting, but you should have at least a few posts of your creations made before I wrote this post) can win this candy. So if you only have blog to post candy on it, you do NOT qualify!!!

Candy will close on September 26 (another special's person birthday ;)). The winner will be announced the next day.

This candy is open to everybody - will send worldwide. :)

Here are some closer pictures of the candy ...

Boys and girls

2011-09-21T19:01:00.001+02:00

Bye bye t-shirts and welcome long-sleeved tops. Yes, autumn is definitely here. It has been knocking on the door for a while, but I guess it decided to stop waiting for somebody to open the door and just came through the side entrance. ;) And now is here ... And it brought rain, wind and colder days. Ah well, I guess autumn has its charms too; I'll be nice to see all the colorful leaves on the trees and I'm looking forward to eating some chestnut too. ;)

This week at My mum's craft shop blog we have a nice new challenge for you. This week's theme is "Boys and girls" and we are being sponsored by Pollycraft digi stamps; they are giving 4 digi images to the lucky winner. :). You can either make something for a boy or girl or you can just use boys/girls on your products. Whatever you prefer. :) I made a tag/card for my aunt's birthday.

I used the lovely image from Polly craft and colored it with Promarkers. All the DPs are from Provo Craft. The little butterfly is a clear stamp from Folia and the Happy birthday stamp is from G studio. The big flower is from my stash.

I hope many of you will come play with us this week. :)

Before I end this post, I want to remind you of my candy that you can find here. You have til September 26 to enter. And after that I already have some more goodies to offer you. ;)

Hugs to all of you!

Anything goes

2011-09-15T14:14:00.000+02:00

A new challenge just started at Crafty ribbons blog. And this time we have a theme that (I think) everybody loves - anything goes. You know what that means, right? You can do ANYTHING you want for this challenge. We would love if you used some ribbons on your project (esp. if they are from Crafty ribbons), but it's NOT a must to use ribbons on your project.

I made 2 things for this week's challenge: a little box and a bookmark.

I made this card from the white cardstock. I colored one side on the cardstock with a blue ink and then I stamped over it with Stampabilities Single snowflake stamp. From the Christmas Gingerbread tags ribbon from Crafty ribbons I cut two tags and glued them on the box. With the punch I also made some snowflakes. In the middle of each snowflake I put a crystal from my stash. The Happy Christmas is also a ribbon from Crafty ribbons. This one you can find here.

At home I had this metal bookmark that used to have a charm, which unfortunately got lost some time ago. And as I thought it looked kinda boring without a charm, I decided to do something about it. I went through my bead boxes and I found this lovely purple flower bead. I thought it was perfect for what I had in mind. I also added some other beads in matching colours and at the top I made a small bow using a piece of ribbon from Crafty ribbons. I'm happy with the result. :)

I am really happy to be working with such talented ladies. Really, they are so full of ideas and their creations are wonderful. Do jump over to Crafty ribbons challenge blog and check out their work as well. You definitely won't regret it! :) And feel free to enter our challenge too. We're looking forward to seeing all your lovely creations.

I wish you all a wonderful day! Hugs!

Happy birthday

2011-09-14T18:25:00.000+02:00

Happy birthday, to you, happy birthday to you ... It's good you only read these words and not actually heard me singing. lol No, I don't know anybody who would have birthday today. The reason I sarted with these words is that we have a "happy birthday" challenge for you at MMCS challenges blog. Easy one, huh? ;) I hope many of you will join the fun and play with us. :) We also have a sponsor this week ... We are sponsored by Jens digis.

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

This card was made on request. It's for one little girl who just celebrated her birthday at the weekend. :) I used the sweet Tilda with peony stamp and I colored the image with Promarkers. I just printed the sentiment - it's in Slovenian and it means "Alja (that's the girl's name), happy birthday!". :) The ribbons are from Crafty ribbons and the flowers are from my stash. All the papers are from Provo Craft. I also used Tim Holtz's distress ink and my craft punch. I like these little butterflies - they come out when you punch your paper. :)

Please hop over to MMCS blog to see all the fabby cards my teammies made for this challenge. And of course you are invited to play with us. ;) We can't wait to see your creations. Hugs!

Little winter birdie again

2011-09-13T20:47:00.004+02:00

Hello everybody! How is your week so far? Mine is great so far. :) Days are just flying by and I really can't complain that I am bored. On the contrary, I actually wish my day had more than just 24 hours. Do you know this feeling?

I'm sorry because once again I'm behind with visiting your blogs and commenting on your creations. I was going to do it this morning, but I was without internet connection. :S So I promise I will do some blog hopping tomorrow and will visit your blogs then.

I managed to do another Christmas card today - yay for me. lol I used the lovely winter birdie stamp from Sliekje - visit her blog here, she is very talented and very nice too, because she's sharing her digi images for free with everybody. This birdie is definitely one of my favourites and I just know I will use it on many Christmas cards this year. ;)

I wanted to make a card where I wouldn't use traditional colours - green, red, silver and gold. I'm a rebel, I wanted to use some pink! lol Since I didn't have any pink Christmas paper, I made one myself. I colored the white sheet of paper with Tim Holtz's Spun sugar distress ink and then stamped over it with Single snowlake rubber stamps from Stampabilities. The Christmas papers were a gift in one craft magazine. The ribbons are from Crafty ribbon and the snowflakes were made with my punch. I colored the image with Promarkers. I also used Spelbinders' circle and scalloped circle dies for this project.

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

Crop Stop: Spellbinders
Oldie but a goodie: Christmas in September
Digi design: Anything goes

Little winter birdie

2011-09-09T08:52:00.000+02:00

Hello everybody. It's Friday again. Don't you just love it when the week comes to an end and you know you have the whole weekend ahead of you to do whatever you want? I do. :P

Today I want to show you another Christmas card I made. I must get stuff together and make more, more, more of Christmas cards.

I found this image a a short while ago at this blog. Isn't it cute? This lady is very sweet and she is sharing all those adorable digi stamps (there are LOTS of them) with people for free. So if you have a moment, I'm sure she would appreciate if you stopped by and give her some feedback on her work. :) I colored the image with Promarkers. All the DP are from Provo Craft and the ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons. The sentiment says "happy holidays" and I just printed that from Word. I used the snowflake punch for the snowflakes and I put some crystals from my stash.

Speaking about Christmas cards and all that, I want to remind you that we still have a "Festive cheer in September" challenge running at Crafty Ribbons challenge blog. Feel free to link your festive creations in the challenge. You have a chance to win some yummy ribbons as a prize.

Lots of layers

2011-09-07T20:21:00.000+02:00

Heya! I'm here again. :) Today I'm going to show you the card I made for this week's challenge at MMCS blog. This week's theme is "Lots of layers". Perfect challenge for me as I always like to add tons of layers on my card. lol This week we are sponsored by The paper shelter and they are giving the lucky winner 20$ to spend in their store. They have the cutest digi stamps so I'm sure you will find something you like in their store. :) I used their "The final touch" stamp which you can get here.

All the DP I used are from Provo Craft. I colored the image with Promarkers and Boreado markers.The lime green ribbon is from my stash and the other two ribbons are from Crafty ribbons. I really like their ribbons, especially the polka dot ones. :)

So much from me today. Have a nice day ! Hugs!

On the wings of a butterfly

2011-09-02T21:16:00.001+02:00

Yay, it's Friday already! Can you believe it? And I know I have a whole weekend of doing "nothing" (meaning nothing stressfull) in front of me. I'll have all the time to do some crafting. It doesn't get much better than this, does it? ;)

Today I want to show you a card I made for a friend of mine. She helped me with something and in return I got her some chocolates and I made this card.

She's a designer so I wanted my "thank you" card to be a bit different. As you can see I did a lot of stamping on this card. For my main image I chose the fab butterfly stamp from Close to my heart "Find your style" set. I absolutely love this image. Or I should beeter say - I love the whole set. lol So Rosie, if you are by any chance reading this, THANK YOU again for such a great surprise! In the background I stamped with Viva decor - My paper world: Flower embellishments clear stamps (the same stamps you can win in my candy!). The papers are from K&C. I made the flowers myself. The doily was originally white, but I colored it with TH Brushed corduroy distress ink (I also inked the edges with this ink). I wanted to add some bling on the butterfly - and I did this with diamond Stickles - I LOVE stickles. I made distressed edges with my scissors. I also used some ribbon and lace from my stash.

So, what do you think of this card?

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

Crop Stop: Sketch (great sketch!)

Paper Play: Make your own flowers

The sisterhood of crafters: Flower power

Hooked on craft: Things with wings

Scrapbook sisters: Anything goes

Die cuttin' divas: Fall colors

Do you stack up: Friendly critters

Bearly mine: Flowers, flowers, flowers

Festive cheer in September

2011-09-01T11:29:00.000+02:00

Today is the day ... It's here, our first challenge at Crafty Ribbons blog. Yay! How exciting is this?! I hope you will come and play with us. We all know it's never too early to start making Christmas cards and we also know that you can never have too many of them, that's why our first challenge is "Festive cheer in September". Yup, that's right, we want to see some Christmas cards/products. And as much as we'd like to see some fabby ribbons from Crafty Ribbons, it's not a must to use ribbon on your project. You have 2 weeks to enter your project.

Of course we have a prize for you too. What is it, you may ask? Well, the lucky winner will receive a selection of yummy Christmas bauble ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.

Aren't these ribbons just gorgeous? And they are perfect for all the upcoming Christmas projects you'll be working on. :)

For this challenge I made a Christmas card. I really need to stock up! I used the lovely Mr. Snowman image from Heather Ellis which I colored with Promarkers. The DP I used are from Provo Craft and the doily is from my stash. I also used the polka dot ribbon from Crafty Ribbons. I made the snowflakes with a punch and the crystals I used are from my stash.

So much from me today. I really hope you will stop by the Crafty Ribbons challenge blog and play with us at our very first challenge. Come on, you know you want to. ;) He he. Hugs to all of you.

1, 2, 3

2011-08-31T16:26:00.000+02:00

Wow, can you believe today is already the last day of August?! Where does the time fly?!? Don't forget that tomorrow, on September 1, we'll have our first challenge at Crafty Ribbons blog. Be sure to check it out.

And today we have a challenge for you at My mum's craft shop blog. This week's challenge is called 1, 2, 3. Are you scratching your head, thinking what this means? It's really simple; we want you to use 1 of one thing, 2 of another and 3 of yea another thing. I hope you understand what I mean. It's probably best if you check the blog and see the fabby work from my teamies for inspiration.

I used 1 image, 2 glitter dots and 3 flowers.

I used the cute image from Tiddly Inks. Tiddly inks is our sponsor this week and they are giving the lucky winner 10$ to spend in their store. I colored the image with Promarkers. The papers I used are from Provo Craft and from Sizzix' Little Sizzles. The glitter dots are from my stash and so are the flowers. I completely forgot I had those so it was a nice surprise when I found them in my drawer.

I hope you will come and join our challenge this week. Hugs!

Flowers and butterflies

2011-08-30T09:03:00.001+02:00

Hello, hello! How was your weekend? Did you have a nice time? I had some friends over and we had lots of fun. :)

I only managed to do one card this weekend - this one was made on request. A friend of mine saw this card on my blog and asked me if I could make something similar for her. And this is the result.

See the yeellow paper I used? It's actually a stationery sheet from Diddl writing pad. I have finally found some new use from this pad that has been sitting in my drawer for a while. He he. I made the flowers myself from the colorful transparent paper. The butterflies are a digi from the MTME Bold botanicals set. I colored them with Jolly pencils. In the back I stamped with Faded text background stamp from Stampabilities and I inked the edges with Tim Holtz's distress ink. I also used border punch and a piece of ribbon from my stash.

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges:
Crop Stop: Anything goes
The paper shelter: Die cuts and punches
Just add ink: Just add ... Something from your stash
Flutter by Wednesday: Anything goes + butterfly, angel or fairy
Papercrafting journey: Anything goes
Lothian crafts: Anything goes

This is so exciting!

2011-08-26T17:09:00.003+02:00

I'm in, I'm in ... Woohoo!! Wondering what I'm talking about? Remember when I told you they are having a DT call at Crafty ribbons challenge blog? Well, I applied and I was one of the lucky few who got selected to be a part of the team. I'm so happy! :D Those of you who have been following me for a while know that I love using ribbon on my projects. I just can't wait to show you all the things I'll make with yummy ribbons from Crafty ribbons. ;)

We're having our first challenge on September 1 so be sure to check the Crafty ribbons challenge blog then. I'm sure you won't want to miss that one. Oh, oh, and that's not all. It's still not too late for you to join a followers candy on the Crafty ribbons challenge blog. There are lots and lots of fabby ribbons to be won, so do stop by, have a look around and become a follower for the chance to win all those goodies. :) The candy will end on August 31. Here's a peek on what you can win ...

See, I told you there's a lot of fab ribbon to be won. He he. ;) Good luck to all who enter! :)) And I hope to see many of you playing with us on our first challenge on September 1. Hugs!

Choose your own sketch

2011-08-25T08:38:00.000+02:00

Good morning! How is your week so far? Having a nice time? I have been doing this and that and time just flew by. I can't believe it's Thursday already. Do you have any plans for the weekend yet? I have 2 friends coming over and I'm sure we'll have lots of fun. :)

As you already know, each Thursday is a new sketch challenge at MTME blog. This one is a bit different because you have several sketches you can choose from.

I chose this one ...

And here's my card ...

I used the lovely MTME digi stamp from Take time for petal perfection set, which you can find here. I colored the imafe with Promarkers. The ribbon, swirls and flowers are from my stash and the DP are from Provo Craft. The swirl was done with Marianne design die.

Sue's sketch

2011-08-24T15:45:00.001+02:00

Sue, my sweet teamy at MMCS challenges, did this fab sketch for this weeks challenge. I love it. I hope you guys do too and that you'll play with us this week.

We're being sponsored by MMCS; Kitty is generously giving the lucky winner £10 to spend in the MMCS online store. They have tons of fabby items in the store so be sure to check it out.

I decided to make another Christmas card. I have the feeling that time flies by so quickly, so before we know it there will be December and with it all the joy it brings. I am actually looking forward to this time of year - Christmas is my favourite time of the year.

I used the cute Penny Johnson's Santa stamp from Stampavie and the fab papers from Scrapwork's Formal affair. I made the paper with snowflakes (under the image) myself - on a white cardstock I stamped with Stampabilities' Single snowflake stamp using the Versa color copper ink and then I went over the whole paper with Tim Holtz's distress ink. Confetti are from my stash and so is the ribbon. I colored the whole image with Promarkers.

So much from me today. Can't wait to see your creations besed on this sketch. :)

Yellow and brown

2011-08-21T18:09:00.001+02:00

Hey! Phew, what a hot, hot day we have today - again! I do like summer and sun and warm days, but tht's a bit too much. We've been having over 30 degrees Celsius for the last week or so. And it looks like it's gonna stay like this for at least another week.

It was too hot to go out today, so I just stayed in and watched some TV, I finally replied to some e-mails and of course I also did some crafting. :) Here's one of the cards I made today ...

This card was made by request. My co-worker saw a card I made some time ago and asked me if I could make a similar one, just in yellow and brown tones. And this is the result. I used the sweet Flying angel Tilda stamp for the main image. Isn't she just too cute? This is definitely one of my favourite Tilda stamps. I colored the image with Promarkers and yellow Faber Castell color pencil. I used glitters on Tilda's wings. You know, just to add some bling to the card. ;) I just used plain brown and plain yellow papers from my stash. I did embossing with Floral Cottage embossing folder. I inked the edges with Tim Holtz's distress ink. I used a tiny flower punch for the flower and put pearls in the middle. I also used some ribbon from my stash - I love this yummy brown ribbon. :D

I would like to add this card to the following challenges:
Crop Stop - Pearls
Papertake Weekly - Bingo (pearls, ribbon, free - glitters)
Challenge up your life - No patterned paper
Paper crafting journey - Anything goes
Bearly mine - Bring on the bling
Creative inspirations - Use your favourite stamp

Bracelets

2011-08-20T10:13:00.000+02:00

Good morning everybody! It looks like we're going to have another nice sunny day today. A perfect start of the weekend. :)

I don't have any new cards to show you today, but I do have something else. I want to show you two bracelets that I made the other day.

The first bracelet that I want to show you was made with metal and glass beads. I've had the idea for this bracelet for a while, so it was high to make this idea a reality. So I went through my boxes of beads to find the beads that I thought would be perfect for such bracelet. I chose transparent and silver beads.

The second bracelet is also made with glass beads, but that one comes in combination of pink and black. Don't you just love how these colours look together? I know I do. ;) I got these fab black beads with flowers some time ago and I couldn't decide what to use them for. The first idea was to use them for earrings, but then I changed my mind and rather used them for a bracelet.

So much for now. I'm off to do some crafting now. :) Have a nice weekend everybody!

MTME sketch challenge

2011-08-18T10:56:00.002+02:00

Hey hey! I'm back with another card. :) This one was made for this week's sketch challenge at MTME blog.

Here's the sketch ...

And here's the card I made ...

I used the papers from Provo Craft and this lovely image is from MTME Bold botanicals set, which is available in the MTME shop. The image is colored with Promarkers. The flowers and confetti are from my stash. I hope you'll give this sketch a go too, because we'd sure love seeing what you'll come up with. :)

Calendar page

2011-08-17T13:24:00.002+02:00

Phew, it is a typical hot summer day today. And if the weathermen are right, it's not gonna get much better soon - according to them we still have some very warm days ahead of us.

We have a perfect challenge at MMCS for these warm sunny days. This week's theme is Summer time. We want to see lots of sun, ice cream etc. - anything that reminds your of summer. So, what are you waiting for, get creativ!

Oh, and you probably want to know what the prize is this week, right? ;) It's a £10 voucher which the lucky winner can spend in MMCS online store.

I made a calendar page this time.

I used the plain yellow and plain red papers. I printed the calendar from Word. The flower is from my stash. The butterflies are a left overs from border butterfly punch which I bought recently. And the swirl was made using the Marianne design die. The sweet image is Kiki La Rue from C. C. Designs. I colored the image with Promarkers.

Have fun crafting! :)

DT call at Crafty ribbons

2011-08-16T22:35:00.000+02:00

Hello my lovely readers. How are you? We had a holiday here yesterday so this means my "weekend" was a bit longer this time. I could get used to it. lol I had so much fun this weekend - I had absolutely no time to be bored. I was going on some trips around the country with my sweety, one day we had a picnic ... Yup, a lot was going on.

But I don't want to bore you with the details about my weekend. I'd rather tell you more exciting news. Did I get your attention? I hope I did. ;) What I want to tell you is that a new challenge blog will start running on September 1 - a "Crafty ribbons challenge". I can't wait! :D At the moment they are looking for some new DT members so if you are interested in joining, hop to their blog and see what you need to do.

Don't you just love using ribbons on your creations? I sure do - ribbon is one of my favourite embellishments. Here are some of my (already seen) projects where I used ribbon(s) ...

Told ya I love ribbon. lol If you do too and want to be in this DT, why not give it a try? ;)

Have a wonderful day/evening!

A new sketch

2011-08-11T21:09:00.000+02:00

What a strange day regarding temperatures we had today. In the morning it was so cold that I wished I had a jacket on when I was walking towards my car (and it is just a few meters). I even turned the heat on when I was driving to my work. In the middle of August. Crazy, huh? And in the afternon it got hot; even a t-shirt was almost too much.

And what's going on in the "Blogland"? At the MTME blog we have a new sketch challenge for you. It's a really fab sketch. Check it out ...

I had so much fun with it! I went for pink and yellow tones this time. You'll see piccie of my card any second, but first I'd like to apologize because the picture isn't the best. I made this card late in the afternoon/nearly evening and I was planing to take a picture the next day (at daylight). But it happened so, that later that evening I was asked if I had any cards that would be good for a birthday and so this one went "bye bye". Before I gave it away, I took a picture. First I did it with flash, but it was horrible, because the embossed paper had that shiny look and you could barely see anything in the picture. So I had to take a picture without flash. And unfortunately my Photoshop skills aren't oh so great, so this was the best I could do. Ok, enough rambling, here's the picture of the card I made ...

For the first (but definitely not the last ;)) time I used MTME digi from the "Take time for petal perfection" set that you can find here. The bottom pink paper is from Provo craft and the embossed paper is just a left over piece from my stash. Flowers, crystals and pearls are from my stash as well.

I hope you are all enjoying your Thursday!

Sports and hobbies

2011-08-10T20:36:00.000+02:00

Hey, hey! I'm back again with another project. Yup, we have a new challenge at MMCS Challenges for you. This week's theme is "Sports and hobbies". Remember, you can use any products and you can do whatever you want (acard, a tag etc.) as long as it fits the theme. I made a card. :)

I use the wonderful yellow paper from Provo Craft. The image is from The Greeting farm. I colored it with Promarkers and regular red marker (no brandname on it). The ribbon is from my stash.

I can't believe I didn't add any embellishments on this card. So not me. But I still like how it turned out. Personally I like the bright colours. What do you thing?

Well, I hope you'll join us this week. :)

Sympathy

2011-08-04T08:34:00.000+02:00

I am not very keen of making sympathy cards. But I was asked several times if I had any. So now I try to have at least one or two made. You know, just in case.

At MTME blog we have a new sketch challenge for you. This week's sketch is very simple and when I saw it I thought it would be great for a sympathy card.

And here's my card.

I used the plain white and plain black papers for this card. I embossed the white paper with Cottage floral embossing folder and inked the edges. I wrote the sentiment in MS Word (it's in Slovenian and it means "sincere condolence") and printed it out on a white cardstock. The butterfly is from MTME Bold botanical digi set.

Verde que te quiero verde

2011-08-03T16:30:00.003+02:00

That's something Federico Garcia Lorca wrote once. :) I can't say I'm a big fan of green though I have to admit that I'm slooooooowly (and I mean REALLY slowly ;)) starting to like it more. But nonetheless I still decided to make a green tag for this week's monochromatic challenge at My mum's craft shop challenges.This week we are sponsored by Poodles digi doodles; the lucky winner will receive 4 digis of their choice.

See, I told you it's all green. He he. For the background I used the green paper from Provo craft over which I stamped with Fluid motion acrylic stamps from Inkadinkado. The cute girl is a digi from Poodles doodles. I colored her with Promarkers, Faber Castell pencils and green glitter gel pen. I made the flower myself from the old newspaper sheet which I inked with Tim Holtz's Shabby shutters distress ink. The crystal and butterfly confetti are from my stash.

I suggest you hop to the My mum's crast shop challenges blog and also check the great projects my teamies made. And I hope you'll join our challenge too. :)

I'd like to add this tag to the following challenge:
Sir Stampalot - Whatever you fancy
Allsorts - Free and easy
Craft us crazy - Anything goes

Christmas in August

2011-08-02T18:36:00.002+02:00

Wow, I can't belive it - I'm actually writing a second post in one day. But I just made this Christmas card and I wanted to show it to you. I'm such a show-off, I know. lol

I finally got to use this sweet digi stamp from Heather Ellis. Isn't this snowman just too cute? I'll definitely make more Christmas card with this stamp. :) The image is colored with Promarkers and Faber Castell and Jolly pencils. I'm thinking I really should get a red Promarker too - that would make my coloring much easier (and better). The papers are from Provo Craft and the lace, doily lace napkin and pearls are from my stash. The snowflakes were made with my Xcut punch.

I'd like to enter this card to the following challenges:
Crop Stop: Anything lace
Papertake weekly: Anything goes
SFC: Christmas card
Sweet stampin' - Christmas in July
Crafty creations - Christmas in July
Totally Gorjuss - Christmas in July

Earrings

2011-08-02T13:49:00.000+02:00

The last couple of days I've been really into jewelry making. In just a few days I made more pieces of jewelry than I did in the last couple of months. It felt good playing with wire and beads again. I'm addicted to wearing (and making :P) earrings so it's no surprise that among other things I also made these two pairs of earrings.

I received these gorgeous white glass beads some time ago with one swap. There were only two in a pack - perfect for earrings. :) I combined them with black seed beads and black glass beads from my stash.

And this is another pair of earrings I made. For these earrings I used these fab dark purple round beads, light purple (pinkish) ground glass beads and black crystal beads.

For a baby girl

2011-07-28T17:04:00.000+02:00

My friend is about to give a birth to a baby girl. I am expecting the happy news any time now. :) And that's why I decided to make a baby card for this week's sketch challenge at MTME blog. This week's challenge is a bit different, because you can choose from 6 different sketches. I chose this one for my card.

And here's my card.

The Piglet paper is from my stash and the pink paper is from Provo Craft. I used the image from MTME "Bringing home baby" set, which you can find here. Icolored the image with Promarkers. Flowers are from Prima and the crystals and ribbons are from my stash.

I hope you will come and play with us this week. :)

Fab and funky

2011-07-27T09:00:00.006+02:00

Good morning everybody! How are you? Enjoying your week so far? I sure hope you do. I know I am. :) I just wish it would be a bit warmer. I mean, it's only a bit over 20 degrees Celsius in July. Brrrr ... But at the same time that's a good excuse for staying in and doing some crafting (especially considering the fact that the weather hasn't been all that great for the last couple of days either). He he.

So, if you are looking for something to do too, why not join us at this week's challenge at MMCS? This week's theme is "Fab and funky". And yes, we have a sponsor too. This week's sponsor is Whimsy stamps - they offer lots of digi and rubber stamps. They are offering the lucky winner 5 digi stamps of their choice.

Want to see what I came up with for this week's challenge?

For this card I used some pieces of paper that I've had in my drawer for a while. I don't know the company name, I'm sorry. The image is Kenny K's Download Diva. I thought this image would be perfect for this challenge. :D I colored the image with Promarkers. The flower is from Prima and the button, ribbons and pearls are from my stash.

I hope you will join the fun and play with us at this week's challenge!

I'd like to enter this card to the following challenges:
Crafts and me: Ribbons
SFC: No sentiment
I love Promarkers: Anything goes
The shabby tea room: Relax and enjoy + colours from the photo (yellow, green, pink and neutrals)
Sir Stampalot: Anything goes

Sketch time

2011-07-21T20:22:00.000+02:00

Look at this fab sketch we have for you at My time made easy blog this week ...

Isn't it great? I like it a lot and I really enjoyed making this card. Here's what I came up with ...

Again I chose a MTME digi stamp from Bold botanicals set whichyou can find here. It is, without a doubt, my favourite MTME digi set. All the flowers are gorgeous and I simply love that butterfly. Seriously, it's a great set, a "must have" if you ask me. :) I colored the image with Faber Castell pencils. The orange paper in the background is from Sizzix' Little Sizzles set and the rest are from Provo Craft. The ribbon and pearls are from my stash.

I hope you will join us at this week's challenge! :)

For a teen

2011-07-20T19:10:00.002+02:00

Hey hey! :) How are you? I'm tired - another busy day at work. But I'm home now and hopefully I'll manage to do some crafting. I want to make a few more pieces of jewelry or at least make a card or two. We'll see.

As you probably already know by now, Wednesday is the day when a new challenge begins at My mum's craft shop challenges blog. This week's theme is "For a teen". You can make a card, a bookmark, a tag ... anything really. So what are you waiting for? Grab your things and get crafting. ;) I can't wait to see what you'll make! :D Oh yeah, and we have a prize too. ;) This week we are sponsored by My mums craft shop. The lucky winner will get £10 to spend in their store.

I decided to make a corner bookmark. When I found out what this week's theme would be I knew exactly what I'll make. One of my younger friends (she's a teenager) has a birthday in the beginning of August and she LOVES reading. So she's getting this bookmark. :D The image I used for my project is from The greeting farm and I think it's just perfect for this girl. I hope she will like it.

I colored the image with Promarkers and Jolly pencils. The papers are from Provo Craft. The swirl is Marianne die and the stars were made with a craft punch. Ribbon is from my stash.

Sketch challenge at MTME blog

2011-07-14T22:42:00.001+02:00

Another very quick post. I seem to only be doing short posts lately. I really miss blogging, but it's pretty hectic around here lately so my free time (which includes crafting and blogging) is very limited. *sigh* Well, at least I can't complain I'm bored, right? ;)

At MTME blog we have a lovely new sketch for your this week.

For my card I used Provo craft and Sizzix Little sizzles papers, some crystals and ribbon from my stash and Tim Holtz's distress inks. The butterflies are from Be dazzled set which you can find here and the flower branch image is from So fortunate set that you can find here.

I hope you'll join us at this week's challenge. :)

Swirls and pearls

2011-07-13T10:00:00.002+02:00

Heya! This is gonna be a very short post. I just wanted to let you know about the new challenge at MMCS blog. This time we want you to use some swirls and pearls on your creations.

I used Marianne design swirl die and I used a small pearl on the mouse's hat. :) The green paper is from Sizzix' Little sizzles and the other one is from Provo Craft. I used a punch to make snowflakes. The image is a free coloring from Elizabeth O. Dulemba. The image was colored with Faber Castell and Jolly pencils. The ribbon and pearl are from my stash.

Enjoy your day! Hugs! :)

New sketch

2011-07-07T10:00:00.001+02:00

Wow, can you believe it's Thursday already?! I've been so busy lately that I have the feeling that time is flying by so quickly. Do you already know what you're going to do this weekend? I sure do - have lots of fun. At least that's the plan. lol

Anyways, I wanted to let you know that you can join our weekly sketch challenge at MTME blog. :) Here's this week's sketch ...

And here's the card I made ...

See this gorgeous flower? I actually did 2 layers of it, but unfortunately you can't tell this from the picture. *sigh* The flower as well as this fab butterly are from the new Be dazzled set which you can find here. All images were colored with Promarkers. Papers are from Provo Craft and ribbon and crystals are from my stash. It's a bit hard to see, but I also did some emossing - I used the Floral cottage embossing folder.

Have a nice day!

Stars and stripes

2011-07-06T09:00:00.002+02:00

Yup, there's a new challenge at MMCS blog. This week's theme is "Stars and stripes". Want to see my take on this challenge? Here it is ...

I used the adorable cupcake mouse image from Mel Jen, who is our sponsor this week. I colored the image with Promarkers and Faber Castell pencils. The papers are from Sizzix's Little sizzles pack. I made the banner myself - I used some solid brown paper and patterened paper from K&Company. Flowers and crystals are from my stash. The swirl was made with Marianne design die.

I can't wait to see your take on this week's challenge. :) Hugs to all!

Sketch time

2011-06-30T21:33:00.000+02:00

Have you visited My time made easy blog today? Not yet? Then go there now - we have a new sketch challenge for you. :)

Here is the picture of this week's sketch ...

And here's my card ...

You could have seen this lovely butterfly stamp on quite some of my cards. I really like it. It's a MTME digi from Bold Botanical set. I colored the butterflies with Promarkers. The big butterfly is made with a Sizzix die.The flower paper is from Folia, the yellow papers are from Provo Craft and the orange paper is from Sizzix (Little sizzles). The ribbon is from my stash.

I wish you all a wonderful day. :)

Something old, something new

2011-06-29T12:57:00.002+02:00

Phew, how fast time flies by. Do you have the same feeling? I can't belive it's almost July already. Do you have any plans for the summer yet? Going anywhere?

At My mum's craft shop we have a new challenge for you this week - it's called "Something old, something new". This probably doesn't need any extra explination, does it? It's just what it says - we want to see something old, something that you have had in your drawer for a while, combined with something new, something you recently got or purchased.

This week are are sponsored by A day for dasies. They are generously giving the lucky winner a 12$ gift voucher for their store. They have really lovely stamps, so their store it's really worth checking out. The DT was lucky because we were given some of their stamps to play with.

My something new was a digi stamp and the papers, ribbon, lace and brad were my something old. The image was colored with Faber Castell and Jolly pencils. For the wings I used glitters. All the papers are from Provo Craft.

Lady with a bike

2011-06-25T20:42:00.000+02:00

A friend of mine needed a birthday card and asked me if I could make one for him. Of course I said I could. :) He gave me the image (no idea where he got it) and told me that if possible, the lady should be wearing dark blue clothes and the bike shouldn't be colored. He left the design up to me. It took me quite some time to decide which papers to use (I didn't want the card to look boring), but I thing the result is pretty good. It actually turned out better than I expected to be honest.

I used papers from Provo Craft. Flowers are from Prima and the brads are from my stash. And so is the lace. As I already said, I don't know where the main image is from, but I can give you the info about the sentiment ("happy birthday") - that's the G studio clear stamp. :) The main image is colored with Promarkers, Faber Castell and Jolly pencils. All the dies (corner dies, circle and scalopped circle dies) are from Spellbinders.

Have a wonderful weekend!

One of the boys

2011-06-22T19:31:00.001+02:00

That's the theme of this week's challenge at MMCS Challenges blog. Our sponsor this time is My mum's craft shop and you can win a £10 gift vaucher for the MMCS online store.

To tell the truth I'm always a bit nervous when I need to make a card for a boy. I always want to add lots of ribbons, flowers etc. but I know I can't. So I really had to try hard to keep this card "clean". lol I hope you like it!

I think this image is perfect for a boy's card. It's a Skater Ian Rubber stamp from The Greeting farm. I colored the image with Promarkers. The papers I used are from Provo craft. I also used some gold brads from my stash. I made the stars myself - I just drew them free-hand and cut them out. Simple, right?

Enjoy the rest of the week!

Male bracelet

2011-06-18T19:26:00.000+02:00

I was challenged if I may say so. I was talking with one of my co-workers the other day and among other things we also talked about the jewelry I was making. He asked me if I am also making men accessories. I told him that I do this as well, but not very often. Then we talked about this for a while and I told him that if he sent me a few pics of bracelets he likes, I could try and make him something similar. And here's the result ...

This bracelet was really easyand fun to make so I will definitely be making more like it. It's called "hemp bracelet" in case anybody is interested in trying to make one too. There are quite some video tutorials on how to make a bracelet like this one.

A new sketch

2011-06-16T20:01:00.000+02:00

Each Thursday we bring you a new sketch at MTME blog. And this Thursday is no different. This time we have the following sketch for you to follow ...

And here's the card I made based on this sketch ...

I used a MTME digi from the Keep strong set, which you can find here. The yellow paper is from Provo Craft and the rest of the papers are just some left over pieces I found in my drawer. The ribbon is from my stash and so are the star stickers.

Enjoy your day!

Seeing spots (+ a new winner again)

2011-06-15T19:42:00.000+02:00

Heya! How are you? Enjoying your week so far? I sure am. :) Yesterday I took a whole afternoon off and I went to the cinema with my friends - we went to see Kung fu panda 2. It was awesome. :D Yeah, yeah, I am a big kid. lol But seriously, who doesn't like this panda?! I had a good laugh and I really enjoyed.

Now, on to today's card ... Today a new challenge started at My mum's craft shop challenges. We want to see spots or dots on your creations this time. And yes, we have a prize for you as well. ;) This week our sponsor is Di's digi downloads; Di is generously gibing the lucky winner 5 digi images. The DT was lucky to get some digis to play with and here's the card I made with one of them ...

Isn't this image just too cute? It's called "Giving bear" and it can be found here. I colored the image with Jolly and Fabe Castell pencils. All the papers I used are from Provo Craft and the flowers, crystals and ribbon are from my stash.The swirl was made with Mariane Design die.

I hope you'll join us at this week's challenge! :)

Oh, and once again I didn't hear from the winner of my candy, so here it is yet another winner. This time the number chosen at random was 34 and this means the lucky winner is Beth Ullman. Congrats hun! Please e-mail me with your address within the next 7 days so I can get the candy out to you. If I don't hear from Beth within 7 days, I'll draw another winner again.

Strawberries

2011-06-11T21:41:00.000+02:00

Mmmm, who doesn't like strawberries? Especially when they come with whipping cream or/and chocolate. Yum, yum! I just ate a whole bunch of them no cream or chocolate added though. First I was going to use them for a pie, but they didn't last that long. Plus, now I got some blueberries (I LOVE those) and I think I will use those for a pie or some other cake.

A friend of mine asked me to make a birthday card for his friend. She loves strawberries, so he asked me if I could make a card with strawberries. I didn't have any strawberry stamps, so I searched the internet and I found this cute free Strawberry Shortcake coloring page on this site and I thought it would be perfect for the card I was going to make.

I colored the image with Faber Castell pencils and Promarkers. The green paper is from Provo Craft. I used Spellbinders' Fancy tags die. The happy birthday stamps and alphabet stamps are from G studio. Ribbon, butterfly confetti, crystals and doily lace are from my stash.

I wish you all a wonderful weekend! :)

A very quick post

2011-06-09T21:46:00.000+02:00

I'm very short on time, so this will be a very short postIf you swing over to MTME blog you will see we have a new sketch cahllenge for you. I hope you will join us. :)

Here's this week's sketch:

And here's my card ...

I used Sizzix' Little sizzles papers and the great MTME digi - it's from Chase your dreams set, which you can find here. The big butterfly is made with Marianne designdie and the small butterflies were made with a punch. Ribbon is from my stash. I also used TH distress ink.

I hope you'll play with us this week! :)

Punch it challenge at MMCS and a new candy winner

2011-06-08T19:39:00.001+02:00

Here I am again, bringing you news about the new challenge at MMCS challenges blog. This week's challenge is "Punch it". That's right, we want you to bring out those punches and use them :) We are being sponsored by Kenny K this week and we will have THREE winners this time. Yes, you read this right, there will be 3 winners. Hop over to MMCS challenges blog to check out the fab work by the DT and to see what the prizes are.

Here's the card I made ...

I used the fab Uptown Angel digi, which you can get here. I colored the image with Promarkers. The brownish pattern paper is from Sizzix' Little sizzles and the rest of papers are from Provo Craft. The bif butterfly and the swirl are Marianne Design dies and the small butterflies are made with a punch (Iborrowed that one from my friend). Over all the butterflies I stamped with Stampabilities' Faded text background stamp. In the back I used a doily lace. The crystals are from my stash.

I hope you will join us at this week's challenge at MMCS challenges blog! :)

I'd like to enter this card to the following challenge:

CLP challenge blog: Sketch

I haven't heard from Sandra H by today, so I drew another winner of my candy. Using the random.org, the lucky number this time was 18 - this is you, Rebekah. :) Congrats! Please send me an e-mail with your address within the next 7 days so I can get the prize next to you. :)

Fly away

2011-06-02T21:28:00.001+02:00

Wow, it's Thursday evening already. Where did this week go?! O.o Not that I'm complaining though. I mean, who wouldn't want the weekend to come asap?! He he. I'm not sure what I'm going to do though. Do you have any plans yet?

Today I want to show you the card I made for this week's challenge at MTME blog. Yes, we have a new sketch challenge for you. :) Check out this week's sketch ...

And here's the card I made ...

I used the fab digi stamp from the So fortunate set, which you can find here. I colored the image with Promarkers and Faber Castell pencils. The butterfly was made with the fab Spellbinders' die. I LOVE it. I just know that's one of the dies I will be using a LOT. lol Scalloped circle and circle are Spellbinders' dies as well and the swirls are Marianne Design die. The papers are from Provo Craft and the crystals and ribbons are from my stash. I also used Tim Holtz's distress ink on this card - to ink the edge of the circle.

So much for today. I wish you all a fab day! Hugs!

Things with wings challenge and candy winner

2011-06-01T19:32:00.001+02:00

Hey hey! I'm in a very good mood today. No special reason, I just am. :) I hope you are having a great day and that you are in a good day too.

Today we have a new challenge for you at My mum's craft shop challeges. This week's theme is "Things with wings". We just want to see something with wings on your card - butterflies, fairies ... We are sponsored by Poodles digi Doodles - the winner will get 4 Poodles digi Doodles digi images of their choice. DT were kindly given some of their digis to play with. I chose the cute Bitsy bug image, which you can get here.

The yellow and star papers are from Sizzix' Little Sizzles pack. The swirl was made with Marianne design dies and scalloped circle and circle were made with Spellbinders' dies. I colored the image with Promarkers and Faber Castell pencils. The lovelybutterfly confetti are from my stash and so are the little crystals.

I'd like to enter this card to the following challenges:
Allsorts challenge: Things with wings
A gem of a challenge: Sketch

Before I go, there's one more thing I need to do ... I need to announce the winner of my candy. ;) I'd like to thank everybody who entered this candy. If I could, I would give everybody something. But there can only be one winner. And this time the lucky winner is ...... no. 23 - Sandra H.

Congrats hun! :D Please send me an e-mail with your address so I can get the parcel out to you.

If I don't hear from Sandra within 7 days, I'll draw another winner.

Candy

2011-05-31T23:59:00.001+02:00

This post will stay on top til the end of May. For newer posts scroll down.

All details about the candy and sign ups (Mr. Linky) can be found HERE.

Pizza muffins recipe

2011-05-31T18:23:00.002+02:00

Heya! I got several e-mails about the pizza muffins I made on Sunday so I thought that instead of replying everybody individually, I would make this post.

I got the recipe from the Slovenian book "Od kruha do kolačev". The recipe is for 12 muffins, but I doubled the ingredients, so I got 24 muffins. Anyways, since I know most of you don't speak/understand Slovenian, I thought I would translate the recipe. So here it goes ...

What you need ...

For dough:
400 g flour
2,5 dl milk
1 ts sugar
1 ts salt
1 pack of dry yeast (1 pack here means 7 g)
3 tbs olive oil
a bit of oregano

Other things:
50 g ham
50 g champignons (mushrooms) - not a must
50 g cheese
1 tbs olive oil

Sift the flour. Add yeast. Mix together (with a spoon). Add all the other dough ingredients (milk, sugar ...). Kneed til you get a smooth dough. Let the dough rest in a warm place for about 35 minutes.

Cut the ham and champignons on small pieces. Grate cheese. Add ham, champignons and half of the grated cheese to the risen dough. Mix well, so there are ham etc. all around. Divide the dough into 12 pieces, which are about the same size. Put them to the muffin baking tin. Add some cheese on top of each dough piece. Put the baking tin into an oven, which you preheat on 200°C Bake for about 20-25 minutes.

That's it. :) I'm not very good at writing or translating recipes, so if there was something you didn't understand, feel free to ask (either leave me a comment here or send me an e-mail.

Pizza muffins

2011-05-29T21:55:00.000+02:00

Hello! I hope you had a nice weekend. I was a good girl. I actually managed to do some things around the house. Plus I baked pizza muffins. My mum made those last weekend and they were so good that I just had to get the recipe and make them myself too. The best part is that they are really easy to do and they are yummy! I also managed to do some crafting. Getting up earlier really pays off, you can actually do something with your day.

Pizza muffins I made ...

So much from me today. Talk to you again soon. :)

Sympathy card

2011-05-28T19:36:00.000+02:00

Hello everybody! It's finally weekend and this means I have some free time. I actually have quite some things I should do over the weekend, but I decided they can wait til tomorrow. I know postponing things you can do now on later usually isn't a good idea, but I reeeeeeally wanted to have a day off.

Before I go to today's card, I want to share a great news with you - My mum's craft shop is offering FREE P&P all weekend on all UK orders. I'm sure you don't want to miss this great chance, so jump over the MMCS now, have a look at all the fab things they are selling and order your favourite items. ;)

Now, let me show you my card ...

It's a sympathy card I made on request (and I need to make a few more). To be honest, I wasn't even sure where to start, but I think at the end it turned out all right. I used some black and white papers. White peaper was embossed with Cottage floral embossing folder from Craft concepts. I inked the edgess with Versa color black ink and Tim Holtz's Weathered wood distress ink. The ribbon and crystals are from my stash. I wrote the sentiment (it is in Slovenian and it means "Sincere condolence") in Word and printed it on the white cardstock. I also used Labels eight Spellbinders dies on this card.

I hope you are having a nice weekend!

Ready for another sketch?

2011-05-26T20:54:00.000+02:00

Yup, it's that day again - the day when we have a new sketch challenge for you at MTME blog. Are you curious what today's sketch looks like?

Here's the card I made based on this sketch ...

I used digi stamps from the MTME Bold botanical set, which you can find here. I colored the images with Promarkers. The swirl was made using the Marianne design sie. Papers are from Provo Craft and the ribbon and confetti are from my stash.

I hope to see you play with us this week!

Favourite colours

2011-05-25T06:26:00.002+02:00

Oh dear, I've been a really bad blogger friend lately. :( I am really sorry for not visiting your blogs more often. I miss blog hopping and seeing all your beautiful creations. I wish there were more hours in a day. *sigh* But I am thinking of you and whenever I (will) have some free minutes I (will) try to pop in.

Today we have a great new challenge at My mum's craft shop challenges blog - we want you to use your favourite colours. Easy one, right? We are being sponsored by Meljen's Designs this week. The lucky winner will receive 4 (yes, that's right, not one, not two, not three, but FOUR!!) digis of their choice. How great is that?!

Melissa generously gave DT some of her images so we could use on our cards. I chose the adorable Cupcake Mouse, which you can find here.

Isn't this mousie just too cute? I love it!! Just look how it's peeking our of the cupcake. I'm all "awww". lol I have so many colours that I like and I was reallytempted to use them all (though if I did that, card would be a rainbow. :P So I only used my top favourite - blue, purple, brown and yellow. I colored the image with Faber Castell and Jolly pencils. Embossing was done with Floral cottage embossing folder. Yellow paper is from Provo Craft and the purple paper is from Nature Colage kit from Artsy colage. Flowers are from Prima. Pearls and ribbon are from my stash.

I hope you will join us this week at our challenge. Hugs!

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges:
Sketch Saturday: Sketch