My life is a Hitchcock movie

Got up hours before the family this morning - mainly due to a hysterical bird sitting in the neighbour's tree screaming its little heart out, for company I assume...
I was not an animal lover this morning I assure you! But the craft room has a very positive influence on me - which is good for the lovesick wildlife - and I definitely calmed down and managed to kill two birds with one stone (pun totally intended) as one card fits both the Penny Black challenge and the Papertake weekly and I made a gable box for the Secret crafter Saturday challenge where the theme is shaped cards, and the box also perfectly fits the Our Creative Corner challenge to use ones favourite colours and I absolutely adore creme and pink.

Would that actually be four birds? ;)



Card for Penny Black saturday challenge and for Papertake Weekly Challenge



Box for Secret Crafter Saturday challenge and for Our Creative Corner challenge.

Magnolia 2

This is my contribution to this week's challenge on Just Magnolia. The criteria is pink and green and I'm not really happy with the card cause the camera shows colours it made up itself - that's artificial intelligence for you. But that's life, can't wind myself up over a picture, it's Friday!!

Confusing names

it might be the fever raging but I've become annoyed with the duality of the names here on the blog. Pysselfröken is a very Swedish name - not available as a blog name btw - and without the Ö the word makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, well in English it's just gibberish anyway, hence the chosen nick of Mummylade for blog name. But all comments and such in the blogworld are signed Pysselfröken...
Enough I say! Since I write all posts in English anyway (since I'm too lazy to write everything twice) I might as well have a nick that people understand, therefor I've changed nickname and mailaddress and all, so if I've messed up in any way, shape or form and can't ever log back in to the blog again you'll know why.

Signing off for a hot cup of tea now, fingers crossed that Blogger doesn't go bonkers on my next login attempt, and yes, I will change the header ... soon... ;)

Gable box

My oncoming cold is making my head numb and my neck and back hurts and my nose is so stuffed I can hardly breathe - stay home from work? Wouldn't dream of it, Tuesday is my day with my ninth-graders and I just can't be without it.

And to keep from crafting I would most likely have to be dead and I'm not - it's just a cold and since I'm female I will survive it ;)

So... for today I have a gable box with one of Dustin's gorgeous dragons on. It's also my contribution to this weeks challenge at Creative Card Crew.

Super blog candy!

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A spring card

Love my newly purchased stamps! I know it's "old" but it's new to me ;)
I made a card to fit both the Friday sketch and the April challenge at Nettan's. I made this card rather simple and didn't use a single flower...gasp...

I thought these stamps would be tricky to colour due to all the details but it's really fun so now I can't wait for the Elisabeth Bell summer collection that I have preordered.

Magnolia challenge

Finally the Magnolia challenge arrived and I have waited exitedly for it. It was a great sketch to follow and I enjoyed making the card. My chestnut roan chalk is in horrible condition right now though and desperately needs a replacement so the choice of green is partly to be able to chalk with moss green ;)

Black and white

This card actually works for two challenges, both for the Monochrome Madness at Creative Card Crew and for the "to die for"-challenge at A Spoon Full of Sugar. It's far from the overly supercute themes I normally do but I just love the little demon. The background paper is the image of black denim and I put shimmering silver on the roses but that's hard to tell in the picture, I know.