Waffle Flower Challenge - Oktober, 2015

Over at Waffle Flower there is a challenge going on and the technique of the month is embossing. There is also a sketch and a photo inspiration.




 

I needed to make a card for a friend of mine who lost a friend in cancer last week. I wanted to make a card in white and in bright colors. I find it so hard to deal with death. It feels like someone has been erased from a movie. It's like watching Pretty Woman and instead of Julia Roberts there's a white silhouette where she was supposed to be. I don't think I'll ever get used to it.
This technique illustrates that feeling a bit too. I stamped and embossed the pot with flowers two times and painted one image with watercolors. I cut the watercolored image slightly smaller and attached it to the uncolored image before I attached it all to the card. The die cut sentiment is also embossed.
I wanted to use this stamp of potted flowers from Waffle flower because I've seen it used in a similar way and also because this friend and I ordered these stamps together a while ago.

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Waffle Flowers - Potted
INK & COLOR:
Versamark
Papermania - Embossing powder - Seafoam White
Winsor & Newton - Watercolors
DIES:
Waffle Flower - With Love

Hobbyworlds oktobertävling

Cancerfondens Rosa Bandet-kampanj genomförs under oktober varje år och på Hobbyworld har man så passande en tävling med samma tema," Rosa bandet". Och till den tävlingen har jag gjort ett julkort helt i rosa.
Bakgrunden är gjord genom att jag stämplat en textstämpel lite slarvigt och sedan har jag stansat ut en mistel och använt som en schablon och duttat ut distress stain och distress paint. Jag har hållit mig till samma färg men använt olika distress-produkter.

MATERIAL:
STÄMPLAR:
Penny Black - Wonder Collection
Hero Arts - G2679 Thanks
INK:
Distress Ink Stain - Tattered Rose
Distressed Ink Pad - Tattered Rose
Distress Paint - Tattered Rose
StazOn - Jet Black
DIES:
Magnolia Doohickeys - Mistletoe Lace, Snowflake & Mistletoe
ANNAT:
Martha Stewart - Crafter's Clay and mould (start set)
YouDo - 3D Crystal Glaze
Glitter från Panduro
Stickles - Crystal
Symaskin
Ett rosa band

Scrap och tings månadsutmaning 15 september - 14 oktober

Jag trodde aldrig att jag skulle få ihop något till den här utmaningen hos Scrap och ting och var på väg att ge upp några gånger. Jag hade bestämt vilka stämplar som jag ville använda men fick liksom inte ihop dem med någon rad på bingobrickan. Och inte heller färgerna - orange, brunt, grått och vitt?! Men skam den som ger sig!

Jag hittade på ett pappersblock längst ned i mina gömmor (aldrig använt) som skulle passa färgmässigt. Och till slut fick jag ihop en rad med glitter (embossingpulvret), spets och ränder(mönsterpappret i olika lager) tillsammans med ett Halloweentema!! Inte illa! Men jag behövde ju någon kul text också som syr ihop temat med ett kärlekspar, lite sött så där, och Halloween. Det tog ett tag det också men till slut så kom det - together forever! Jag är riktigt stolt över att jag fick ihop det! Jag gillar verkligen utmaningar! Det är så himla roligt att utmana sig själv till att både göra någonting man inte brukar och att använda saker man heller normalt inte använder! Det här var en riktigt, riktigt rolig utmaning!

 

MATERIAL:
STÄMPLAR:

Dracula och skelettjej - okänt märke
Studio G - alfabetsstämplar
BLÄCK:
StazOn - Jet black
EMBOSS - embossing ink
Judi-Kins Sternenstaub - Schwarze Diamanten, Weisse Diamanten
PAPPER:
Prima marketing - Songbird Collection

Cardabilities - Final Sketch Reveal #132

Celebrate the wonder
(74 Days until Christmas!)

I found a really, really pretty sketch at Cardabilities: Final Sketch Reveal #132. It seems like it is the last? Such a shame, I just found the blog. I am in love with this sketch though and I will use it again. I love when the main image isn't in the middle of the page. I really, really liked creating after this sketch.

I started by playing around with some distress inks on a piece of watercolor paper. I find it really hard to get that beautiful watercolored look that everybody else is getting. I stamped with a text stamp, made some splashes with the distress ink stains and added circles by coloring in an old lid.
Since Christmas is coming up (74 Days left!) I had that in mind and decided only to use greens. I also found some nice mistletoe dies I wanted to use.
I sew the border die onto the card. Since I dont have a stiched die yet I sew on my sewing machine without a thread around the borders.
The frame is made out of Marta Stewarts Crafter's clay and I have had it lying around for ages. It's really fun to make them out of the clay - it has such a nice texture! - but I don't know what to do with the frames after I've made them. I think they really looked nice on this card! Finally I stamped a sentiment in the frame and filled it with 3D glaze and some glitter.

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Penny Black - Wonder Collection
Hero Arts - G2679 Thanks
INK:
Distress Ink Stain . peeled paper, crushed olive
Distressed Ink Pad - Peeled Paint
StazOn - Jet Black
DIES:
Magnolia Doohickeys - Mistletoe Lace, Snowflake & Mistletoe
OTHER:
Martha Stewart - Crafter's Clay and mould (start set)
YouDo - 3D Crystal Glaze
Sewing machine

Gummiapan - Challenge #5

Skål ta me fan!

I was thrilled last Friday when the goodie bag I won from challenge #1 at Gummiapan finally arrived. I thought it had been lost in the mail and it really made my day.! The new challenge is 'Something to eat/drink' and some stamps in the goodie bag fitted perfect for that theme! Lucky me!




I won a challenge!!

Happy mail day!

So, I wanted to use the stamp of the glass and the sentiment 'SKÅÅÅL!' ('cheers!'). I decided to make a background with the sentiment since it was kind of small. I stamped the glass in black and masked it. Then I stamped the sentiment in different distress ink colors. I mounted this card on another piece of card which I embossed with dots. I was thinking that the dots could symbolize bubbles. I tied some baker's twine on the card and attached another sentiment made with my dymo. That sentiment says 'skål ta me fan' (cheers damn it') and I think it makes a few Swedes smile! In the '80 there was a show on tv called Jacob's Ladder and the host ended all shows with uncorking a bottle of champagne and said 'Skål ta me fan!'. Those were the days!

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Gummiapan - cocktail glass, SKÅÅÅL!
INK:
Distress Ink Pad: peacock feathers, seedless preserves, worn lipstick, spiced marmalade, squeezed lemonade
StazOn - Jet Black
OTHER:
Embossing folder from Cuttlebug
Baker's twine from Ordning & Reda
Dymo

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Clean and Simple Christmas

When I went through my sequins for the card I made this morning I found some really nice sequins in Christmas colors so I decided to make another card by using them. At Simon Says Stamp I found this challenge - Clean and Simple Christmas. Lucky me!
I wanted to use a stamp from the stamp set but I also wanted it to say something with Christmas. A friend of mine uses the expression 'Sweet' (even though she is Swedish) so I came up with 'Sweet - it's Christmas'. Maybe I'll sent it to her? I masked off the 'You're so' on the stamp and then I stamped the rest of the sentiment with some alphabet stamps I had.

 

 

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Studio Calico Sandlot Card Kit
Studio G - alphabet stamps WM0174
INK:
StazOn - Jet Black
OTHER:
Washi tape - Little B
Sequins
Baker's Twine from Leila's General Store
Overhead transparency sheet



Sparkle and Shine Challenge 15

I love these gumball machine stamps!

Sparkle and Shine Challenge has a challenge which looked like a lot of fun. The colorful dots made me think of sequins and the sequins made me think of a shaker card!

 

The challenge was to be inspired by the photo and to use sequins. I didn't have any sequins from Pretty Pink Posh, who is sponsoring the challenge, so I used the ones I had.

I wanted to keep my card quite clean so I just used black ink to stamp with and the sequins stood for the color. I cut a hole in the front of the card and used a overhead transparency sheet to both the front and the back of the shaker piece. On the inside of the card I stamped 'You're so sweet'.



The inside of the card says 'You're so sweet'.

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Studio Calico Sandlot Card Kit
INK:
StazOn - Jet Black
OTHER:
Sequins from Dollarstore
Baker's Twine from Ordning & Reda
Overhead transparency sheet