I'm on TGF DT *excited*

Hey, hey!

I've been wanting to share this news with you for a while, but couldn't. Today s finally the day that I can shout it out ... I'm on The Greeting Farm 2016 DT. Woohoo!!! 

They have tons of adorable rubber and digi stamps (as well as paper pads, dies etc.) so be sure to check out their store. 

Our first challenge of 2016 starts on January 1 and I hope many of you will participate in it. See you on the first day of new year! :)

Hugs! xx

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Merry Christmas!

Hello my crafty friends. I want to wish you a magical Christmas. I hope you'll get to spend this special day with your loved ones and that there will be lots of joy and laughter. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Favourite thing about Christmas

Good morning my crafty friends! :) How are you doing? Are you ready for Christmas? Have you bought/made all your Christmas presents yet? I am pretty much ready, just need to pack everything and I'm planning to do this over the weekend. This year I'm being very organized - I'm even surprising myself. lol 

In the evening they are opening up a Christmas town in town square and I'm planning to go and check it out. There will be some music shows, stalls with ideas for last minute gifts etc. Should be fun. And I just might get another thing or two to add to the gift bags. ;)

What would you say if someone asked you what was your favourite thing about Christmas? This is the theme of our challenge that just started at Crafty ribbons blog. I've said it before, but I'll say it again - I love everything about Christmas. So while this theme looks super easy, it might also be a bit tricky. I mean, seriously, how to choose just one thing?! O.o I like the food, Christmas lights and decorations, time spent with family and friends, the smell of cinnamon and oranges ... So when I saw this challenge I started scratching my head, thinking what to do. At the end I decided to make a card which presents sharing joy, giving gifts and spending time with your friends/family. 

I think these adorable penguins from Whiff of Joy show those things perfectly, don't you agree? Papers I used on this card came from DCWV and from my stash, grosgrain ribbons are from Crafty ribbons and the other embellishments came from my stash. I received the Christmas ornament die cut and the greenery die cuts a while back with a RAK from my friend, so unfortunaltely I can't tell you what's the brand of those, but I can tell you that poinsettia was made with LLLC die, bigger snowflake is a Sizzix die and smaller snowflakes were made with craft punch.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Faber Castell and Giotto pencils. On the hats I also used liquid applique and Stickles. It's very hard to see in the picture, but I also used Stickles on poinsettia. You know me - I love me some bling. He he. ;)

I hope you are ready for the most magical time of the year and that you will share your favourite thing about Christmas with us.

Have a wonderful day and happy holidays! xx

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

Craft heaven shop: CAS or Fussy and fancy (Fussy and fancy for me)

Live and love crafts: Sparkle

Bunny Zoe's crafts: Sparkle

Scrap and craft inspiration: Anything Christmas

Emerald faeries: Merry Christmas

Sweet stampin': Christmas presents

The ribbon girl: Anything goes

Deep ocean: Anything goes
Hiding in my craft room: Super scraps Saturday

Shaped Christmas card

Hello my crafty friends! How are you doing? I'm enjoying my time off. On Saturday me and my sweetie went to the capital - they turned on the Christmas lights and opened the "Christmas town" the day before and we were curious what it was like. While we were there we also did some Christmas shopping and I met with my friend for a coffee and chat, while my sweetie went to the book fair. I was pretty tired at the end of the day, but I had a wonderful time. I'm all ready for the most magical time of the year. :)

We have a new challenge for you at Crafty ribbons blog and this week we want to see your Christmas themed shaped cards. This was quite a challenge for me, as I don't have any dies big enough to just cut out the base for my card, so I had to experiment. I have to admit I am quite happy with the result. It turned out better than I expected.

Again I chose the non-traditional colours. I just love purple and blue in combination with gold and/or silver for Christmas. I only used scraps of paper on this card. Image is from Mo Manning and I coloured it with Promarkers, Faber Castell pencils and Giotto pencils. On the white parts of hat and dress I used liqued applique for the fluffy look.

From Crafty ribbons store I used H/C saddle stitch tan Christmas ribbon, gold stars Christmas ribbon and volcan viscose lace - beige.

I hope many of you will participate in this challenge. I can't wait to see what you'll make. :)

Have a wonderful day! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Inky chicks: Merry Christmas
Wags 'n Whiskers: Ribbons and/or pearls
Papertake weekly: Anything goes
Card mania: Christmas
Sparkles Christmas challenge: Die cuts for Christmas
Through the purple haze: Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper
AnMa Creatief: Anything goes

Christmas sock

Good morning my crafty friends. How are you doing today? I had a very busy day at work yesterday and today is gonna be a crazy day as well, but after that I'll be able to relax a bit. I hope to be able to do some crafting over the weekend. I still need to make a couple more Christmas cards and I want to be working on those. Are you done with yours yet?

I enjoy doing Christmas swaps (either just card swaps, but also Secret Santa or surprise Christmas swap) and I'm always up for them, so I signed up for one of those on Facebook and the card you see here was made for my swap partner. I hope she will like it!

This card was also made for the new challenge that started on Crafty ribbons challenge blog today. This week we want to see your Christmas creations with ribbon and Christmas sock(s). You are probably wondering where is ribbon on my card ... It is there, I swear, I didn't cheat. ;) See those golden stars? They are cut from the Christmas ribbon - gold stars.

I coloured the image with distress inks and I added a lot of glitter too. Love me some bling. :D He he. Papers, doily and crystals came from my stash.

I hope you'll join our challenge. I can't wait to see your Christmas creations! :)

Have a great day! xx

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

Wags ' Whiskers: Embossing (I used embossing folder for the stars)

Inky chicks: Silent night (Christmas card)

House Mouse and friends: Use plaid

Sparkles Christmas challenges: Christmas decorations

Love to scrap: Anything goes

Sweet stampin' Christmas: Stars
TimbroScrapMania: Christmas is coming
Simon says (Wednesday challenge): Christmas
Sugar Pea designs: Home for the holidays

Little bee

Hey, hey! How are you doing? I hope everything is fine with you. I had a terrible pain in my back over the last couple of days, but luckily it's getting better. Today I even managed to sit down for a while. Looks like all the rest and massages helped. Due to the back pain I couldn't do any crafting this weekend, but I do have a card to show you - it's a card I finished last week and I haven't posted it here yet.

On this card I used tons of those small leftover scrapf of paper that I had in my stash. In the past I had all of those in one big box, but a while ago I sorted them out by colours and since then I'm using them much more, so going through that huge pile of all the small and big pieces of cardstock and decorative paper was definitely worth it.

Image is from Mo Manning and I coloured it with distress inks. It's a bit hard to see in the picture, but I covered the wings with glitter glue and on the flower I used gloss gel for the shiny look. All of the embellishments came from my stash. 

So much from me today. Have a wonderful day! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
The ribbon girl: Use any image
Little miss Muffet: Anything goes
Cute card Thursday: Birds/animals
Crafty calendar: Sparkle, bling and embellish
Bastel Traum: Glitter (wings are covered with glitter)
Scrapbook stamp society: Anything goes
Creative inspirations: Anything goes (+ optional sketch)
The sisters of craft: Anything goes
Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper

Candy winners

Hey, hey!

This is just a quick post to announce my candy winners. Thank you all who participated and for all the lovely messages you left me. :)

And now to the winners.

The baby candy winner is ...

That's you Debra.

And the Christmas candy winner is ...

That's you Kath.

Congrats ladies! :) You have one week to claim your prize. If I don't receive an e-mail from you within one week I will draw another winner.

Have a great day! xx

Sharing THE news and some candy :)

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Hello everybody! Remember when I was teasing you a little (just a little ;P) with some news that I couldn't share back then when I was writing that post? Well, today's the day that I can *finally* tell you what that was all about. I will stop beating around the bush and just say it ...

WE'RE EXPECTING A BABY!!!! :D :D :D

Can you tell that I am excited? lol It was sooooo hard to keep this for "myself" (of course our family and some friends knew before, because my baby bump is getting pretty big lol). I wanted to tell everybody as soon as I found out, but we decided to wait for the ultrasound to see if everything is ok. And I'm happy to say that everything looks great so far. :) The due date is in the middle of February and apparently we are having a baby girl. :)

So ... I couldn't possibly share this info with you and not offer some candy along with it, right? ;) So I put together some crafty goodies that you can win. There are 2 candies to be won. Since this happy post is all about the baby, there's one small baby candy, and because Christmas is not far away and because that's my favourite holiday, I decided to give you a chance to win some Christmas goodies as well. :) 

This is a baby candy.

Since we are expecting a baby girl I added all those girly thingies in the candy - flowers, a pack of butterfly embellishments, lace, butterfly ribbon, adorable Penny Black rubber stamp, K&Co dimensional stickers in pink (of course :P) and baby library pocket with insert card.

And this is the Christmas candy.

This contains some beautiful chipboard tags, poinsettia stickers, Paper smooches Christmas stamp set (Joyful greeting), a pack of red brads, cute Christmas robin ribbon and C. C. Designs spring stripe stencil. I know it says "spring" in the stencil name, but I think this stencil is very versatile and really pretty so it can be used all year long for any occassion.

I know some people don't celebrate Christmas and if you are one of them and therefore don't want to be in the draw for the Christmas candy, please just mention this in the comment. Otherwise I'll pick the winner of Christmas and baby candy randomly.

And what do you need to be in the draw for the candy? Not much really ... Just leave your name with Mr. Linky and share one of the candy pictures above on your blog. That's all. You don't have to be a follower, but of course feel free to join my blog if you fancy what you see here. :)

Candy will close on November 7.

Have a wonderful day! :) xx

Purple for Christmas

Hi everybody! How are you doing? I'm good, just tiiiiired. I haven't been sleeping so well over the last couple of days; hopefully this will change soon. 

A new challenge started at Crafty ribbons blog today and this time the theme is "Monochrome Christmas" (+ ribbon). I find monochrome theme quite challenging to be honest. I was thinking about what colour to choose for this challenge and I decided to go with purple - something a bit different, not the traditional Christmas colour. 

I used different scraps of purple paper from my stash along with the gorgeous morlaix lace and clermont lace that are available at the Crafty ribbons store. I also used wedding satin ribbon from the store. To make the ribbon more "interesting" I stamped over it with a snowflake stamp. the main image I used on this card is a rubber stamp from Hero Arts. Unfortunately it's very, very hard to see in the picture, but I covered the trees and parts of the snow with glitter glue. Then I sprinkled some frantage all around the image. A the end I glued some sequins around the card for some extra bling.

I hope you'll come play with us. I would love to see your monochrome Christmas creations! :)

Also, don't forget to enter my candy, it ends in 2 days. 

Have a wonderful day! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Papertake weekly: Anything goes + optional extra Christmas
The paper shelter: Layer on layer
ABC challenges: U is for unlimited (anything goes)
Natalie and Amy's challenge: Winter scenes
Penny black and more: Anything Christmas
One crazy stamper: Christmas/winter
The ribbon girl: Anything goes card challenge
AnMa Creatief: Christmas/Winter
Through the craftroom door: Anything goes

Festive florals

Hey, hey! How are you doing? I had a wonderful week - I had the whole week off and therefore I could relax and do all the things I like doing. :) We went on a couple of short trips, did some baby shopping and I did some crafting - once for a change I'm ahead of things. ;) Yesterday we went to a "Halloween" party as well. It was fun. Until this year we were the ones organizing it, but this year we have a lot on our plates so we were glad our friends decided to take the organization in their hands. As I said, it was a lovely week, but it went by too quickly. Did you have (or went to) a Halloween party?

Now that the scary part of the year is behind us, we can focus on the magic of Christmas. ;) I'm working on my Christmas cards and I'm feeling pretty organized as it looks like I won't have any of those "last minute" cards to make. Christmas gifts are a whole other story though ... *ooops*

Anyways, I was asked to be a guest deigner at the Stamping sensations blog and I gladly accepted the invite - thank you Brenda for having me! :) This month the challenge is "Festive florals" and we hope to see lots of your wonderful festive creations.

Here's what I made for this challenge ...

I decided to go for a bit vintage look so I inked up one of the Stempelglede stamps that I like a lot. Again I used a lot of leftover scraps of papers from my stash on the card. All of the embellishments came from my stash as well. I made the flowers myself using the La La Land poinsettia die. On the edges I added some glitters to add some extra bling to the card. :)

I hope you like this card and that you'll join us with our challenge at Stamping sensations. 

Have a wonderful day! xx

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

Bunny Zoe's crafts: Shabby chic Christmas

Simon says stamp (Monday challenge): Throwback (I chose challenge "Stamp and punch/die cut" from September 2015)
Simon says stamp (Wednesday challenge): Anything goes
Sweet stampin': Dies and/or punches
Wags 'n Whiskers: Not a square
Noor design: Anything goes
Craftyhazelnuts's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper
Craft heaven shop: Layers with an option Christmas

Boo!

Hey, hey! How are you doing? I'm enjoying my free week. Can't believe it's almost over though. Where did the time go?! O.o 

Today I have a Halloween card to show you. Say WHAT?! Yup, you read that right - a Halloween card. You probably know that I am not a big fan of Halloween and that I usually don't do Halloween crafts, but yesterday my sweetie asked me if I could make a Halloween card for him. I was a bit surprised by his request, but of course I said I would do it. He asked me if I could include a witch, black cat and possibly even some pumpkins on the card. Oh, and he aslo asked that the card isn't cute. I put my thinking cap on and went to work. It proved to be quite a challenge, because I don't have a whole lot of Halloween stamps, dies or embellishments, but at least it got me thinking outside the box and put my creativity to test. ;) Here's what the card looks like ...

First I drew the template for the tree. None of those that I found on the internet were exactly what I wanted so I grabbed a pencil and drew one myself. I added some tiny pieces of cheesecloth on the branches for the spider webs. At the end I also wrote "boo" using my white pen. I made the pumpkins and bats templates myself as well. On top of each pumpkin I glued some googly eyes so it looks like as if someone is peeking from behind.

Pumpkins, bats and cat are raised on foam pads which gives the card some extra dimension.

I gave this card to my sweetie earlier today and he loved it. Yay! :D I'm glad I accepted his challenge as it was nice to make something different. 

Have a wonderful day! xx

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

Hiding in my craft room: Any holiday (Halloween)

Noor design: Halloween/Autumn

The ABC challenge: T is for two (2 pumpkins, 2 bats, 2 pairs of eyes)

Through the purple haze: Halloween/Magical

Die cuttin' divas: Happy Halloween

Papertake weekly: Take your pick (colour theme)

Deep ocean: Halloween

The paper shelter: Halloween

Inky chicks: Halloween

Orange, purple and black

Hey hey! :) I'm back again. I had a crazy week at work, and couldn't wait for the weekend. Yesterday me and my sweetie did some baby shopping. Also my parents came along, because they said they wanted to buy a couple of things as well. Isn't that nice of them? It sure helped!! :) We bought a bed, a few clothes and some some other small things. It was fun! :)

Then today I finished a card I started working on last week. I stepped out of my comfort zone and decided to make a card in black, orange and purple colours. Soooo not me. But one challenge I wanted to participate in asked to use those colours so I gave it a go. And here's how the card turned out.

I use lots of leftover scraps of paper from my stash on this card. I've been trying to use as many of those as possible and I think I'm doing pretty good. 

Image is called Jade and is from The greeting farm. She's coloured with Promarkers and Faber Castell pencils.

Ribbons, flowers, sequins and those teeny tiny pearls came from my stash.

So much from me today. Have a wonderful Sunday - what's left of it and don't forget to enter my candy. :) xx

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

The greeting farm: Black, orange and purple

Cute card Thursday: Anything goes

Art by Miran: Anything goes

Sugar Pea designs: Anything goes

Crafter's cafe: Black, purple, orange and/or ghosties

Love to scrap: Anything goes

Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper
Allsorts: Orange/purple/black all or any two

Reindeer

Hey, hey! :) How are you doing? Good, I hope. I'm having a bit crazy week at work, but after this day comes to an end things will calm down. 

A new challenge just started at Crafty ribbons blog and this week our theme is "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer". So this means we would like to see reindeer on your creation - and it doesn't have to be Rudolph. ;) 

I like red and kraft colour combination so I decided to make a card in these colours.

I embossed the reindeer with gold embossing folder and then I used scissors to distress the edges of all the layers I used on my card. Doily, gold stars and gems came from my stash and ribbon is from Crafty ribbons - you can find it here. Stars were cute with Nellie Snellen dies and then embossed with Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Ok, so this is all for today. I hope you are having a great day! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Creative inspirations: Anything goes
Crafty creations: Don't be blue
Stamp and create: Brown or kraft
Sparkles Christmas challenges: Distress it
Inky impressions: Make it krafty
Craft your passion: Anything goes
Crafting from the heart: Anything goes
Penny's paper crafty challenge blog: Anything goes
Papertake weekly: All about the base

Flower raft

Hello my crafty friends! How are you doing today? I have to say I had a very productive day today. I did some housework, finished something for work, finished a card and I even did some beading. I was busy. ;) One lady asked me to make a necklace for hers daughter-in-law-to-be birthday present. I haven't done any beading in ages so it was nice to make something else besides paper crafts for a change. While I was going through my stash of beads and pearls I noticed I have so many that I couldn't use in a couple of years. I completely forgot I had so many ... Eeek. I think I should put some of them to use and make some more bracelets, earrings etc. Now all I need is time ...

I can't show you the necklae I made today, but I can show you a card I finished earlier. :)

To make this card I used lots of leftover scraps of paper from my stash. I combined those with some flowers, dotty ribbon, lace, gems and pearls. 

I coloured up this adorable mouse with Promarkers, pencils and distress inks. 

Unfortunately you can't see this in the picture, but I covered the flower with gloss gel, which gives it a really pretty shiny look. 

Hope you had a lovely Saturday and that you have a pleasant Sunday ahead. xx

P. S. Don't forget to enter my candy. :)

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

Timbroscrapmania: Anything goes

The ribbon girl: Anything goes with an image

Creative inspirations: CAS or Fusy and fancy (Fusy and fancy for me ;))

As you like it: Monochrome or colour (colour for me - I think it's more interesting and more "fun")

House Mouse and friends: Pink or Anything goes (I was going to make a completely pink card, but got lost on the way *oops*, so I think it's anything goes for me, though I did try to add quite some pink thingies on my card as well ;))

Craft heaven shop: Lace and flowers

Sparkles monthly challenges: Pearls and/or lace

Creative card crew: Ribbon

Love to scrap: Ribbon or lace, oh my!

Christmas candles

Hello my crafty friends! First of all for all the sweet comments you left on my baby post and for all the emails. Each of them is very much appreciated. You are all so kind! Thank you!! xx

How are you otherwise? I am a bit tired, but otherwise I'm fine. Luckily I don't have to do any extra stuff for work this afternoon so I can just relax and do some crafting. It's gonna be a long day tomorrow so I really need to recharge my batteries.

I would like to show you a card I finished yesterday. 

I thought it was high time I start working on some Christmas cards and this is the one I just finished. I used some leftover scraps of paper from my stash for this card and some snowflake die cuts that I received from a friend of mine a while back. Image is from Sweet Escape Digis and I coloured it with Promarkers and pencils. On the Christmas decorations (baubles) I also added some glitter glue.

Gift shaped "ribbon" is from Folia and crystals, star shaped sequins, pearls and doilies came from my stash.

Have you started working on your Christmas cards yet?

So much from me today. If you haven't already, check my candy here. ;)

Have a great day! xx

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

Little Miss Muffet: Anything goes

The paper shelter: Xtra vaganza

Penny's paper-crafty challenge blog: Anything goes

Art by Miran: Anything goes

The ribbon girl: Everything goes with an image

Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: use patterned paper

Sisters of craft: Anything goes

Oh Christmas tree

Hey, hey! :) Phew, I can finally breath again. The last two weeks have been absolutely crazy. I've been so busy with work that I barely had any time for other things. But things are calming down and now I can breath again. Time to start playing "catch-up" again me thinks. lol

Are you in the mood for making some Christmas projects? I hope so, because we have a countdown to Christmas "event" ready for you at Crafty ribbons blog. Til the end of the year all our challenges will be somehow in connection with Christmas and I hope you'll play in many (if not all) of them. During this "event" all our challenges will only last 1 week. And this week's theme is "Christmas carols". I chose "Oh Christmas tree" as my inspiration and the result is this card.

I'm sorry for the crappy photo, but I was finishing this card at the very last minute. I didn't use any stamps, but I used this pretty Christmas tree die cut that I once received with RAK for the center of my card. I randomly glued some teeny tiny pearls on the die cut.

Papers are from DCWV and pearls, sequins and cheesecloth came from my stash. I also used some gorgeous volcan viscose lace from the CR store. 

I hope you'll come play with us this week. Have a great day. xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
The ribbon girl: Add lace and pearls
Papertake weekly: Anything goes
Word art Wednesday: Anything goes
Wags 'n Whiskers: Use a die cut
Bizzy Becs: Anything goes

Autumn colours

Hey, hey! Can you believe it's October already? September flew by so quickly for me! I have no doubt it'll be the same with this month as quite a lot will be going on. Autumn is already here and the leaves have already started changing colours. It's pretty. Now I just need to get my hands on some chestnut too ... ;) 

Anyways ... Let's talk some crafty things now ... I was asked to be a guest designer at Stamping Sensations blog and of course I said yes. The theme this month is "Autumn colours" and I decided to make a birthday card. At this time of year many of my friends and relatives have their birthdays so I thought I better stock up. 

I went through my stash and brought out some leftover pieces of papers in brown, orange and yellow tones. I also found some dimensional stickers (flowers and yellow frame) in those colours so I decided to use those as well. Image is from House Mouse and I coloured it with my pencils.

I embossed the white cardstock behind the image with Mpress embossing folder. Doily, brads, ribbon and pearls came from my stash.

I hope you'll join our challenge this month. Can't wait to see your autumn creations. :)

Have a wonderful day! Hugs! xx

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

Love to scrap: Anything goes

Deep ocean: Autumn

Dream valley: Recipe (pearls, patterned paper, flowers)

Little Claire's designs: Autumnal theme
House Mouse and friends: Autumn/Halloween or Anything goes
Timbroscrapmania: Use metal (I used brads)
Papertake weekly: Take your pick (colour theme - autumn colours and technique theme - embossing)
Creative inspirations: Anything goes
Scrap and craft inspiration: Autumn colours
Simon says stamp: Anything goes

No stamping

Good morning my crafty friends! How are you doing? I'm having a very busy time at work right now. It'll be like that for another week or so, but after that I expect things will calm down a bit. 

Can you believe that September is almost over? This month just flew by for me. So much has been going on ... 

A new challenge started at Crafty ribbons blog today and this time we want to see lace somewhere on your project. I love using lace. I think it gives the project that perfect elegant, elegant and feminine touch. At CR store they have lots of gorgeous lace that you can choose from, so go take a look.

As for me, I decided to use Chantilly cotton lace - callac.

I was going for a shabby chic and romantic look with this card. I used several leftover scraps of paper from my stash and distressed all of them with my scissors and distress ink. I made this flower a long time ago with TH tattered florals die. 

Besides lace I also used some pearls and doily. To make decorative borders I used my craft punches.

I hope you'll come play with us. I can't wait to see what you can make with lace. :)

Have a great day!

Hugs! xx

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

Through the craftroom door: Anything goes

Craft your passion: Anything goes

Crafting from the heart: Anything goes

Bizzy Becs: Anything goes

Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper

Pink and black

Hello my sweet friends! How are you doing? I hope you've been enjoying the week so far. I've been busy with work stuff, but I am enjoying it. My throat is getting better, which I'm very happy about. Looks like honey and lemon did their magic. In case anybody wants a recipe for a home-made "medicine" that helps getting your immune system better, here it is ...

What you need:

1 liter honey

6 lemons

1 ginger root (be careful with ginger, because it has a very strong taste; remember you can always add more, but you can't take any out)

What to do with those stuff:

Squeeze lemons and either squeeze or grate ginger root (if you grate it, make sure it's very, very finely grated) - I prefer to squeeze ginger root though, so I get juice out of it. Mix everything together and voila, you're done. :) Easy peasy, right? Again, be careful with ginger, because it has strong spicy taste. I love it (I love spicy things) and I usually use one big root (sometimes even more), but you might want to start with a small root or only half of the root and then add more if you want. You can either drink this on its own (a table spoon of this syrup in the morning and another one in the evening seems to work just fine), or you can make a tea out of it. Just put some syrup into the tea cup and pour hot (not boiled!!!) water over it. Yum! I can't have ginger right now (boohoo :( ), so I was making this mixture without ginger. It was ok, but I missed that spicy "touch". ;) Anyways, this thing is awesome - trust me, better than those pills etc. - and it helps. And it tastes sooo good too! ;) Maybe this is also an idea for the Christmas gifts this year - to give to your loved ones. :)

Ok, enough about that now. Let's talk some crafty things ... Today I'd like to show you a card I made with some leftover scraps of Prima's paper. Most of them are scraps from the Romance novel paper pad, which I absolutely love (I don't want to throw away even the tiniest little piece).

I love pink and black colour combination and even though I'm "scared" of using black on my projects I thought I'd give it a go. I created the background using several stripes of paper, which I inked with distress ink. As you can see I used lots of different lace and some flowers on this card.

I didn't do any stamping for a change. Instead I chose those beautiful butterfly die cuts to be in the center of my card.

In the center of each butterfly I put a crystal - you can never have too much bling, can you? ;)

So much from me today. Have a wonderful day! :) xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Cheery Lynn designs: Things with wings
Deep ocean: Shabby chic
Papertake weekly: Animal magic
Frilly and funkie: Stamps be gone
Scrap and craft: Butterflies
Craft heaven shop: Anything goes
Simon says stamp (Wednesday challenge): Die crazy
Craft-alnica: Živali
The ABC challenge: R is for recipe (pink, dies and/or punches, lace)

Atered trinket box

Hello everybody! I'm sorry I haven't been visiting your blogs lately. I just started a new job on Thursday and it's keeping me busy. I know it's only been a couple of days, but I'm enjoying it so far. I have quite a lot of work and I'm still adjusting and figuring out stuff, but otherwise so far everything seems great! 

On the other hand I've been starting to feel that I'm coming down with sore throat. Yikes! Not something I want! So I've been googling to get some ideas how to prevent this from getting even worse and how to heal it (preferably over the weekend). Right now lemon, honey and tea are my veeeery good friends. ;)

Yesterday when I went shopping I saw firt Christmas decorations in the store. I was like "Seriously?! It's only September!" I love Christmas - it's my favourite time of the year - and each year I'm waiting impatiently for it to arrive, but Christmas decorations in September ... That's too early even for me. What do you think about that? When do they put Christmas decorations on shelves where you live?

Speaking about Christmas ... Christmas cards are definitely something I *should* start working on already. And some Christmas presents too. If I don't start soon, I'll be in big trouble (again!) when the season comes. If you'd like to start working on your Christmas projects soon too, you might want to check out the Crafty ribbons store. Why? Because they just added some gorgeous festive ribbons and buttons to their store. You can see all of them here. I'm hoping to find some time to play with those over the weekend.

For today, I have something a bit different to show you. A box.

I had this La La Land Crafts trinket box in my drawer for a while, patiently waiting for me to find some time to decorate it. And I finally came around to do it. :) I took some scraps of paper from my stash, some embellishments and went to work. 

This is what the top looks like.

I used several different dies from different companies, some gems and sequins, Viva decor stamp and button for the center of the star. And voila, this is the result. :)

This is what the box looks like opened up.

Ok, so this is what's been happening on this side of the world. I hope to do some blog hopping later today to see what have you been up to. 

Enjoy the weekend! xx

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

Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper

Craft stamper: Take a stamp

Hiding in my craft toom: Super scraps Saturday

Cheery Lynn designs: All about texture

Simon says stamp (Monday challenge): Stamp and punch/die cut

Die cuttin' divas: 3D project

Scrapy Land: AG + dies (Spellbinders, Cheery Lynn, Whimsy stamps, Sizzix-TH)

Creative inspirations: Vintage

Allsorts: Buttons (I used a button for the center of the star)

Little Miss Muffet: Anything goes

A poppy for you - just because

Good morning my crafty friends! I hope you had a lovely and relaxing weekend and that you are ready for this week's challenges. I did some crafting over the weekend and yesterday we had some friends over in the afternoon so besides a little bit of crafting in the morning I also did some baking.

One of the things I made is this card with the adorable Fergus with poppy image from WRS. 

Papers are from different brands - I'm clearing out my stash. ;) All of the embellishments came from my stash as well.

I coloured the image with distress inks. I like the soft look they give.

I raised the image on foam pads for some extra dimension. 

Have a wonderful week! Hugs! xx

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

Papertake weekly: Anything goes

The paper shelter: Embossing

As you like it: Favourite layout and why (my favourite are cards with lots and lots of layers - I think the layers give the card more dimension/depth and make the card more interesting and fun)

Crafty Catz: Anything goes

Allsorts: Lots of layers

The ribbon girl: Add flowers

Penny Black and more: Anything goes

Craft stamper: Take a stamp

Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper

Butterflies and birds

Hello my crafty friends! How are you doing? Do you have any plans for the weekend? I'm hoping to do some crafting and if the weather is nice I might also do some hiking. We'll see about that.

After a break we are back with a new challenge at Crafty ribbons blog. As usually you have 2 weeks to enter our challenge and be in the draw for a fabulous prize kindly donated by Ali and Tony. We thought we would start with an easy challenge so the theme is "Butterflies and birds + ribbon". I don't know about you, but I love using butterflies on my creations. I just love those little critters. :)

This card will go to one very special lady who is currently fighting cancer. She's a very brave lady and I wish her lots of strenght fighting this nasty illness. I hope this little card will brighten her day.

A while back I received some gorgeous papers and die cuts from a friend of mine (thank you so much girl!) and I used a couple of those on my card. For a change I didn't do any stamping on my creation. The big red flower is handmade and I finally put some of my long forgoten beads to some use - I used them for the center of the big flower. The other flowers are store bought. The dotty ribbon I used on my card is from Crafty ribbons and can be found here.

So, I think this is it for today. I hope you'll come play with us! Have a wonderful day! xx

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

Crafty calendar: Bingo (pearls, kraft, flowers)

Allsorts: Roses

Cheery Lynn Designs: Anything goes (CL die used: butterfly)

Inky chicks: Hearts

Marianne's design divas: Anything goes (MD dies used: Anja's leaves 2 - LR0227, Flower fantasy - LR0128, Rectangle - CR1202)
Simon says stamp (Wednesday challenge): Anything goes

Christmas in August

Hey, hey! Hope you had a relaxing weeken and that this week started off good. I did some housework and since the weather was so nice I also did some hiking. Nothing extreme though, just a short walk. I also did some crafting. And I made a Christmas card for a change. September is nearly here and this means December is not far away either so I thought I better start thinking about Christmas. I still have 2 or 3 Christmas cards from last year, but will need to make the rest. I don't mind though. I just LOVE Christmas and everything connected to it. And Christmas cards and decorations are one of my favourite things to make. :)

I actually made this card for a Christmas in August card swap that I participate in. I hope the lady I made this for will like it.

For this card I decided to use a Stempelglede stamp and papers from DCWV - I just love the shades of light and dark blue with a touch of silver. Around the image and also on papers I sprinkled some white embossing powder.

I received those snowflake die-cuts from a friend of mine a while back and I thought they would be perfect for this project. I covered them with glitter glue to add some bling to my card.

The white "dots" are actually glittery brads that I had in my stash and besides those I also used crystals, doilies, sequins and lace to decorate my card.

Have you started working on your Christmas cards yet?

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

Live and love crafts: Blue

Papertake weekly: To die for
Little Claire's Designs: Christmas
Die-cut divas: Favourite holiday (Christmas)
Noor design: Christmas
ABC Christmas: Q - quantum leap (I'm using D - die cuts)
Winter Wonderland: Christmas carols/songs (Christmas carol "Angels we have heard on high")
Inky impressions: Christmas in August
Sister Act: Anything goes