Paper Smooches: May 2017 challenge - Flowers

"Now life starts"...

Two of my colleagues at work are retiring shortly and I was asked to make them a card. One colleague is a medical secretary who likes bingo, the other one is a nurse who likes travelling and motorbikes. I was planning on making the cards in the same style but as I went along I changed a few things.
I used a really pretty flower die from Paper Smooches and decided to play along in the May challenge of Paper Smooches.

To the medical secretary I found a really nice paper with typewriters - it is sooo pretty, but unfortunately I don't know the brand. There are gold foiled accents on the paper and I found some kind of self adhesive gold foil from which I die-cutted the flower. The sentiment is stamped with an alphabet from Concord & 9th. Love it - I don't have to write the sentiments any longer! This colleague also likes bingo so I made a background with a bingo stamp.

"Now life starts"

To the nurse I found a paper with a travelling theme. Instead of die-cutting a circle I used a manilla tag. She also loves motorbikes and inside the card and outside the envelope I have used a washi tape which looks like a highway! So clever! I'm a bit proud of myself, actually! 😉

"Now life starts"

The front - love vellum envelopes!

The back - with an alphabet washi and a highway washi!

MATERIAL:
DIES:
Paper Smooches -  Adorable Array Die
La Coppia Creativa - Cerch Cuciti (circle)
STAMPS:
Concord & 9th - Sophisticated Script Stamp Set
Prima - Bingo
PAPER:
Simple Stories - You Are here! - Item #6209 Boarding Pass
OTHER:
Vellum envelope
Manilla tag
Alphabet gold stickers - Panduro
Washi (the highway one comes from Sirapiparis)

Virginia's View Challenge # 22 (Summer Challenge)

What's up?

I have made a card for the Summer Challenge over at Virginia's View. The theme is: All About Color.
I wanted to make a really colorful card. I stamped and masked some flower stamps to fill a whole background and them I added a little cat peeking up from the flowers. All colored with Copics. I love all the cards with the cute cats and dogs that I see nowadays and I wanted to create something similar.

Swe scrapbook - vecka 27 - teknik/mixed media - embossing

Här har jag gjort ett litet snabbt och enkelt CAS-kort som inspiration hos Swe Scrapbook.  Embossing, både torrembossing och embossing med pulver, är ju väldigt läckert och gör väldigt mycket för ett alster. Det ser väldigt avancerat ut för dem som inte är inne i scrapbooking-världen.
Jag har helt enkelt embossat med vitt embossingpulver på ett vitt kort och över det så har jag limmat fast en hälsing som jag har stansat ut i vitt pärlemorskimrande papper. Krångligare än så behöver man egentligen inte vara!

Wonderful

Even more 'With love'...

With love

So, here is my final 'with love' card for a while! I'm entering the following challenges with it:

In the June challenge of En Liten Butik you are supposed to be inspired by a quote by H C Andersen. I couldn't agree more with the quote. ("Att bara leva är inte tillräckligt, sade fjärilen, man måste ha solsken, frihet och lite blommor.")

"Just living is not enough, said the butterfly, one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”  

Hans Christian Andersen

Allsorts challenge Blog is having a gorgeous photo to be inspired from. I love those summer colors!

The theme of Hobbygarasjen in June/July is: Alt er lov.

The theme of Hjerteboden är: Sommer.

The theme of Deep Ocean Challenge Blog is: Color of Summer.

My card is very simple. I have had these really pretty wood buttons shaped as butterflies for a while, just waiting for a project like this. When I tried the inlaid cutting technique a few weeks ago I ended up with this panel that I liked and didn't want to throw away. The ribbon is also from another project, I think it was white from the beginning. The die cut and white embossed sentiment is a left over from other projects in June. So in all, I already had all of these stuff just lying around so the card was quick to make, for a change! And that was really nice!

MATERIAL:
DIES:
Sizzix - Floral panel 661085
Waffle Flower - With love
INK:
Tsukineko - EMBOSS
REPRINT - White embossingpowder
OTHER:
Ribbon
Butterflies buttons

Paper Smooches June Challenge

What a wonderful world

Paper Smooches is having a challenge now in June and the theme is: Layers. That sounded like a lot of fun so I decided to play along.

When I was coloring the flowers for my previous projects in June I ended up with a lot of colored images that I wasn't pleased with. I really hate to throw stuff away so I sat looking at the pieces and turning them round wondering if I could use them in my art journal. All of a sudden I saw that the back of a image was really pretty. I started playing a bit with it and added a few layers and ended up with a really nice card after all!
The layers of the card are the actual card with some adhesive paper lace on the edges, two die cut panels, one chipboard frame painted with crackle accents and then filled with glossy accents and some micro beads, a chipboard butterfly painted with crackle accents and some Diamond Dust, adhesive letters and a die cut sentiment.

The front, which isn't very nice

The back, which is a lot nicer!

MATERIAL:
STAMP:
Unknown
DIES:
Crea-Nest-Lies - CLNestXXL 36
Paper Smooches - Kudos words J3D149
OTHER:
3D Crystal Glaze - YouDo
Crackle Accents - Ranger
Diamond Dust - Floracraft
Chipboard (unknown)
Adhesive paper lace (unknown)
Letters - Panduro

More 'With love'...

More 'With love'!

When I was making cards yesterday I did a whole lot of painting before achieved the result that I wanted. Not all of them were bad, but they didn't have that soft look that I wanted. One of them was painted with Copics and the colors were a little stronger. When I tried that one on a bright green panel I got a whole different look that I also was happy with. I added some distress color around the flower to make it pop and then I added some Wink of Stella on the flower.
I'm entering this card to the June challenge of Scrap Africa (mood board). I just can't get enough of those pretty colors! I love those shades of green, turqoise and pink.
I'm also entering the June challenge of Seven Hills Crafts (sketch). I'm really not good with sketches, I have to follow them almost completely. I have just made the panel bigger on my card.

The mood board of Scrap Africa

The sketch of Seven Hills Crafts

I did a WHOLE LOT of painting yesterday!

I am in LOVE with these colors!

MATERIAL:
STAMP:
Unknown
DIE:
Waffle Flower - 310021 With Love
Crea-Nest-Lies - CLNestXXL 36
COLOR:
Tsukineko - Emboss
Embossing powder - Reprint - White
Copic - E40, BG000, BG72, R21, R30, G82, G40, G24, YG03
Distress Pad: Broken China
Wink of Stella - Gl. Clear 999
OTHER:
Sequins

With love

With love

When I saw the photo inspiration in the June challenge at Waffle flower I just knew that I had to play along. I love that summery palette of colors. I even found Copics in the exactly right colors (later I changed to distress colors because I didn't get the look that I wanted).

Berry71bleu also have a mood board in their June challenge with lovely soft, summery colors. The photos in both challenges are exactly the style that I want in my home. The photos makes me happy and full of life, and sooo creative!

I'm also very much into flowers at the moment. It might be the season! We are having a lovely weather here in Sweden and everything is so beautiful right now. Sometimes I just go outside, sit down on the porch and just look at the garden and the greenery and just sigh with happiness! I love this season!
I have a stamp set with flowers which I just got and like very much, but I don't know the brand of it. I think it's of a cheaper brand, but it's very pretty anyway. I decided to use that one and I went for a soft look and a quite CAS card. As I mentioned, I started out with my Copics but I didn't get the look that I wanted, so after a lot of trial and error I moved on to my distress colors. I white embossed the image on watercolor paper and then I painted the flower with Distress Markers. I also gave the background a wash to make the flower pop out a bit. I painted with Wink of Stella around the flower and added some sequins. Finally I die cut the sentiment and white embossed that as well.

Photo inspiration of Waffle Flower

Mood board of Berry71bleu

Close-up

MATERIAL:
STAMP:
Unknown
DIE:
Waffle Flower - 310021 With Love
Crea-Nest-Lies - CLNestXXL 36
COLOR:
Tsukineko - Emboss
Embossing powder - Reprint - White
Distress Markers - Evergreen bough, Bundled Sage, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Shabby Shutters
Distress Pad: Evergreen Bough, Shabby Shutters
Wink of Stella - Gl. Clear 999
OTHER:
Sequins