Blog giveaways

I just entered 2 blog giveaways today - both for scrapbooking items. :D It's pretty hard to get scrapbooking stuff where I live so pretty much all the scrapbooking stuff that I have were sent to me by my sweet friends from around the world or I swapped for them. Today I was killing some time on the internet and I found out about those giveaways. And I thought: "Oh, I wanna try my luck too." Why not, right? Both blogs are also full of great craft ideas, so I think you really should check them out. :)

The first giveaway is held by Beth - click here to get to her blog. She made such a great giveaway package that I am sure every crafter would love to have. Thank you Beth for doing this! :) I have only been following her blog for a short while, but I really like it. I think her crafts are really amazing and she also posts weekly tutorials on her blog. Isn't that great?! You really should have a look at her blog if you haven't already.

The second giveaway can be found here. Aren't the items you can win just amazing? Just imagine all the things you could do with with those papers etc. I already have tons of ideas. lol

If you want to enter these giveaways too, great. But if not, just pay a visit to these blogs and maybe you'll find some ideas for your next craft project. :)

Happy holidays!

It's Christmas eve tonight. I hope you've all been good this year so that when you wake up tomorrow morning you'll find lots of presents under the Christmas tree. ;) Have a nice evening, surrounded with your loved ones. I wish you a merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. May the year 2011 be full of love, joy, happiness and little miracles. Leave yesterday's worries behind and focus on what's in front of you. As they say: "Give each day the chance to be the best day of your life." Happy holidays!

Cards again ;)

Here are some more Christmas cards that I made this year. I used different techniques and different materials. I fell in love with the cute little angels and made quite some cards with them (bellow you can see pictures of two of them). The pattern for this little angel I found on my friend's blog. She's very creative and she made different patterns that she uploaded to her blog so everybody who wants them can download them for free. The pattern for the angel I used for my cards can be found here, but feel free to look at her other entries too. Visit her blog by clicking here.

And here are the promised pictures of the cards I made (for larger view click on the picture) …

The two angel cards (the quality if one picture isn't the best, I'm sorry about that)

Cards with cookie recipes – I printed the recipe for cookies and placed it on the card. I decorated the cards with ginger men/candy cane and matching paper.

I had a couple sheets of Christmas paper and I cut out the pictures and made cards with them. Here are the results …

Let it shine … Here are two of the shiny/sparkly cards I made this year.

And some other cards.

Cards, cards, cards

It's almost December and with it Christmas and New Year. My favourite time of the year. :D I absolutely love Christmas lights, decorations, food (oh yum, yum), carols etc. I even like Christmas shopping. ;) So, I've made quite a few Christmas cards this year (and I'm definitely not done yet, I am planning to make many more). I've already posted pictures of some of them, but today I'm about to post a couple more ...

For this card I used dark green cardstock, light yellow paper, patterned green paper and a piece of patterned gold cardstock out of which I made a tree. The tree is glued to the green patterned paper with double sided 3D foam pads so that gives the card some sort of 3D look. Around the green patterned paper I added gold border stickers and around the bottom of the yellow paper I wrapped a green ribbon with gold stars.

 

For this card I used bright green cardstock, orange paper and patterned paper. I cut a square out of the orange paper that was slightly smaller than my card. On the edges I used gold border stickers. Out of an envelope I made a pocket, which I decorated with the patterned paper, orange paper and button. Once the pocket was finished, I glued it to the card. Inside I inserted the "recipe for the New Year", which I previously printed on a white sheet.

This card was made out of dark red cardstock and plain very light yellow piece of paper which was just a little bit smaller than my card. I cut a "window" in the yellow paper. On the top of the "window" I added eyelets. Through eyelets I put a gold decorative "rope" (the kind you can use for crafts) and which I previously attached gold and red stars. On the bottom of the yellow paper I glued a reindeer ribbon in matching colours.

As you can see, the next card is made out of different kinds (and colours) of paper. The card itself is made out of a bright green cardstock, but for this product I also used patterned red paper, dark green cardstock and patterned gold cardstock. In the center of the card I glued a picture of a teddy holding a present, which I cut from the wrapping paper. As you can see, I also used gold border stickers and gold holly shaped confetti.

For the next card I used light blue cardstock and different shades of blue paper (some patterned and some not). I also used shiny silver paper, on which I glued the tree I previously cut out of the white wavy cardboard. I decorated the tree with blue circle confetti. The left side of the card I decorated with different blue cardstock and silver snowflake stickers.

The other day I went to the store and saw this incredibly cute Santa stamp and just couldn't resist, I had to buy it. I stamped the image on the white piece of paper, which I cut with my Sizzix Big Shot die cut. I've only been having Sizzix for a short while, but I love it. I coloured the stamp and also the background. Then I inked the edges and glued the stamped paper on the red patterned paper. To the corners of the red paper I added gold star shaped eyelets. Then I glued the whole thing on the bright green cardstock.

I just wanted to share some of  the most recent things that I've created ... For larger view, click on the image. :)
Here you can see a red and white ring which is made of seed beads and glass leaf-shaped beads.

 

I also made this bracelet. It's made of different shaped pinkish glass beads and white seed beads.

 

And here's another bracelet that I made. This one is made of round shell beads, seed beads and creamy white round beads.

I also made two different necklaces. One comes in brown and gold tones and the other one comes in dark gray and white black tones.
Here's the once in brown and gold tones ...

And here's the one in dark gray and black tones ...

For the side part and the clasp I got idea here, but the middle part is my own creation. Here is the closer look on the middle part ...

Some of my newest creations

In the last couple of weeks I've been feeling pretty crafty. I've tried some new things and created quite a few things. Here are just some of the things I've made so far (as always, click on the image to see a larger picture) …

These earrings are made out of the beautiful shiny wax beads in two different sizes, seed beads and and glass beads. Because of their shape and shiny (but not too shiny) looks, these earrings are great for every occasion.

 These earrings are small but sweet. They are made out of wire, glass beads, seed beads and slightly bigger wax beads which I used in the middle.

These flowery looking earrings are made of wire and two smaller beads

 

I also made one jewelry set (necklace + earrings + bracelet). For all the items in this set I used a variety of beads in white and pinkish colours.

necklace

bracelet

 

earrings

 

Just a quick post

It's been a while since I wrote anything on here. This is partially because I'm a bit busy with work at the moment, but also because I'm a bit lazy when it comes to uploading pictures to computer and editing them. *blush* But anyways, here I am again with 2 new things that I made just last weekend.

Black and silver necklace

I've created this necklace using nylon wire and black and silver beads of different shapes. I made it for a friend of mine.

Black and silver bracelet

I wanted to make a bracelet that would go together with that necklace above and I came out with this. I used the same seed beads as I used with the necklace, plus some round silver beads.