Scraplyckan

Scraplyckan has sold a competition kit and I bought it just for fun. You had to use the items for the kit when you made the card and ONLY those. Oh, I really wanted to add things from my stash but no,no. You had to use at least two of the three sent pearl hats but there were no pearls in the kit :(, so I used liquid pearl maker - that counts as glue, right? ;)

I've sprayed some of the designer paper (that I punched out flowers from) and the napkin thingie with gold mist but that has to be ok... And I used Ranger's crackle paint as background but it doesn't show that well in the photo, hence the detail picture below.


Well, now I'm gonna go out and sit in the sun for a while, it's really hot outside - probably cause the vacation is over soon =)

Take care

Tuesday morning sketch

Carol tipped me off about a sketch blog called Tuesday Morning sketches and I really liked the sketch so I made a go at it, using another image from Mo's digital pencil. Ordered some stuff from my sorta local scrapshop yesterday and it was delivered to my door this morning - very sweet - and it included the pages of a 19th century Bible that is gorgeous to use for vintage cards and it was perfect for the image of little Em praying. It's a bit tricky to spot the two transparent ribbons with gold edges - but they are there!

TPE and PTW

I just have to start by saying; Mo's Digital Pencil... WOW! That lady is incredible!!! Her images are just to die for, and they are cheap, and she's very nice and friendly, and delivery is swift, it's just... WOW! Got my little mouse today and just had to use it - even though the weather is lovely (true crafter - yes!) so I combined the recipe from The Pink Elephant with Papertake Weekly's four season, the obvious season being winter and christmas :) and this is what I came up with.

Floral Whiff

Today I combined the awesome Whiff of Joy sketch with A spoon full of Sugar's floral theme and this is the outcome. The distressed background has so much glimmer that I didn't put any on the flowers.
Me and the wee one could actually go for a swim in the nearby lake yesterday afternoon and the weather today is as nice as yesterday so we might go again, yay!

You have a nice day now.

MDU #19

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The theme for Magnolia down under is Winter is here, a bit of a depressing statement in August, but it is getting colder...
I used Tilda on skates and found a great paper to match it with. Very simple card with no punched leaves cause that friggin´company never delivers :( .

Sugar bowl #16

Followed the sketch at Sugar bowl - a sketch totally to my liking btw - and made another Christmas card. The snowman is so adorable and fun to colour. I started out with papers in wine red and light blue but ended up with this combination instead. The wine red is still there but I distressed a background with peeled paint and liked it more so I tossed out the blue paper. I had to write the sentiment on free hand glancing on a Magnolia text stamp cause I didn't want all the text.





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Angel bag

Today has been an ok day weather wise but I wish the sun would come out now. I wanna go to the beach before I'm due back at work and next week is the last day of the vacation...

Well, well...

StampArtic's challenge for the summer is to make a bag of some sorts so I decided to make one (courtesy of Sarah) using my new angelstamp from Whiff of Joy. And I thought I would enter it in Whiff of Joy's monthly challenge as well, I know it's not a traditional wedding treat bag but it would be awfully cute for little bridesmaides ;). But then I realized StampArtic don't allow contributions to be combined with other challenges =(.

I ordered a new leaf punch but it hasn't arrived yet, hence the lack of greenies.

I didn't want a velcro closing so I used a brad on the lid, a brad (not so closely put to the paper) on the bottom of the pocket, a small rubberband between the brads and a pearl through the rubber band to grip when opening the purse. Did that make any sense?

Give-away!!!

It's time for me to give away some bits and bobs.

There have been causes to celebrate in July (my daughter turning 18, 10 year anniversary with hubby, the sun has come out on occasions, I haven't broken a single bone...) but that's not the main reason.

I've had some thoughts about blog interactivity - such as paper swaps and such, but the question I have to ask myself first is; is anybody reading this?
I can't really flatter myself by looking at the hit counter cause that bugger counts challenge check-ups and every time I go in myself to make sure a new post doesn't look like jibberish...

So, here goes;
The candy on the picture is up for grabs if you post a comment to this post before August 15. Please post about the candy on your own blog, if you have one, to spread the word. I won't ask you to follow my blog if you don't want to, trust me I'm already stunned and overwhelmed by the followers I actually have.

/Hugs