Flowers for your birthday

Hello everybody! How are you doing? I'm ok, just tired. I was sick last week and even though I am fine now I still don't have a lot of energy. But I'm hoping I'll be back to my old self soon.

Today I have a bright and happy card to share with you...

I decided to keep the design pretty simple to make the image stand out more. This adorable girl is an older LOTV stamp. I coloured the image with my polychromos. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted. I have quite some washi tape in my stash, but for some reason I barely use it. However, I used some on this card - to create the striped background. It's really quick and easy and I like the effect so I am sure I will use this "technique" again in the future. Do you like to use washi tape on your creations? Do you use it often? I didn't use a lot of embellishments on this card, just a couple of crystals.

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

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

Allsorts: Anything with happy, bright and sunny colours

Simon says stamp (Wednesday challenge): Use dies and/or punches

Bizzy Becs: May anything goes

Creative fingers: Anything goes

We love Chocolate Baroque: Bright sunny colours

Snowy the snowman

Hey hoy! How are you doing? Spring is in full swing here - finally. Oh, how I missed it... I'm enjoying the warmer sunny days now. :) What about you? What's been going on where you live?

I haven't been doing much papercrafting lately. Or any other crafting at that matter. I did some beading, but that was pretty much it. I've been pretty busy with work and when I was not working I usually spent time with my family - we either went for a walk, for a daily trip somewhere... Time well spent, don't you think so? 

Anyways, I might show you what I made with beads some other time, today I want to show you another Christmas card I made last year, but haven't posted it online yet. 

I absolutely love CAS cards and I really admire people who can do them. I wish I was one of them, but I (almost) always end up adding several layers (and usually even quite a few embellishments *ooops*). This card is pretty much as CAS as I can do...

This adorable snowman is a SB stamp and he always makes me smile. Isn't he adorable?! I love using him on my Christmas/winter/holiday projects. I coloured this lil fella with polychromos and I added liquid applique on the white parts of his hat. I LOVE that stuff. It's so easy to use and gives such a nice fluffy touch. Love, love, love it.

I raised the "frame" I created with dies, snowman and sentiment on foam pads to give the card some dimension.

So much for today. Have a wonderful day! xx

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

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge: Anything Christmas goes

Scraps of life by Scrappymo!:April Rudolph days challenge

Simon says stamp (Wednesday challenge): Anything goes

Stempelgarten challenge: Spring colours (yellow and green)

Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper

Ally's angels: Anything goes

Happy 40th birthday

Some time ago a friend of mine asked me if I could make a card for his co-worker. And he had some additional requests as well: he wanted me to use an image that would look like his co-worker (if possible), write the number "40", use some tulips and also use an image of the cake somewhere on the card. I wasn't sure if I could fulfill his requests (especially the one about the image looking like his friend), but I knew I wanted to try and do my best. It was definitely a challenge. 

I was most worried about finding the perfect image, but when I saw the photo of the birthday lady I knew I have the perfect image for the card. Later he told me that when the lady received the card her first words were "oh, that's me". :D So, score!

Here's the card I made...

The image I used is from Santoro. I coloured it to look like the birthday lady. :) Since this card was made some time ago I can't remember which image (from what company) I used for the cake. Sorry! I did the colouring wih pencils.

The gorgeous papers are from K&Co. I embellished the card with pearls and some gorgeous flowers from I am roses and from my stash.

So much for today. Have a lovely day! xx

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

Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper

Simon says stamp (Wednesday challenge): Happy birthday

Cardz TV: Anything goes

I am roses: Anything goes

Creative fingers: Anything goes

Allsorts: Anything goes (optional: monochromatic)

Cute card Thusday: Anything goes

Black and white Christmas wreath

Hello everybody! How are you doing? I hope everything is well where you live. Do you have any plans for Easter. I'm planing to cook some traditional meals and we will probably colour a few eggs, but that's pretty much it.

I didn't make (or better said: finish) and Easter cards this year. Shame on me, I know. Luckily my lil one saved me - she made quite a few and we sent those to our relatives. 

Well, since I don't have any Easter creations to show you you, I thought I'd share with you another Christmas project that I made quite some time ago, but never posted it here.

I made this Christmas wreath from scratch. First I made the base from old newspapers and then covered it with ribbons, Then I made some flowers from ribbon and felt and glued them onto the wreath base. All of the ribbons used on this project are from Crafty ribbons.

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

I'd like to enter my project to the following challenges:
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge: Anything Christmas goes

Scraps of life by Scrappymo!: March Rudolph days challenge

Creative fingers: Anything goes

Big lacy snowflake

Hello everybody! How are you doing? Good, I hope. 

I know that with Easter just around the corner I should probably work on Easter cards, but my lil one is taking care of that this year, so I can work on other cards/projects. I will share those with you a bit later, today I want to show you a Christmas card I made some time ago, but haven't shared it here yet.

To make this card I used papers from Maja design, a WRS snowflake die and some embellishments. I kept the whole design pretty simple. I separated the layers with foam pads to give the card some extra dimension.

Have a wonderful day!

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge: Anything Christmas goes

Simon says stamp (Wednesday challenge): Use 2 or more patterned papers

Cardz TV: Anything goes

Bizzy Becs: Anything goes

Creative inspirations: Lace and pearls

Yummy cookie

Hello everybody! How are you? It's weekend! Yay! :D Do you have any plans? I am not sure what we'll do yet, but I know I want to relaaaaaax.

Today I would like to yhare with you a pretty simple Christmas card that I made. Please excuse the bad pictures. Unfortunately I don't have any better ones. :/

It's no secret that I love TGF stamps so of course I had to use one of their cuties on my card. I coloured the image with polychromos, fussy cut it, placed some foam pads on the back and glued the image on the card. The design paper I used is from Folia and the ribbon is from Crafty ribbons. Besides the ribbon I only used some colourful pearls to embellish the card.

I hope you will have a wonderful weekend. Bye bye for now. xx

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

Simon says (Wednesday challenge): Anything goes

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge: Anything Christmas goes

Scraps of life by Scrappymo: February Rudolph days challenge

Cardz TV: Anything goes

Spring wreath

Heya! Some time ago I was asked to be a guest designer at Craft-alnica blog. I accepted the invitation so today I am joining a bunch of very creative ladies from their design team with the new challenge. The new fortnight's challenge is to create a spring flower wreath for mum.

This is what I made...

First I created the template for my wreath from cardstock. Then I covered it with ribbon and decorated it with some flowers, butterflies and other embellishments. All the flowers except the big white one are from I am roses. Other embellishments are from my stash.

I hope you will come play with us this fortnight.

Have a great day! xx

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

I am roses: Anything goes

Simon says (Monday challenge): Anything but a card

Bizzy Becs: Anything goes