Lime and lemon square

Happy Birthday Card (marbled card)

Pastel and present

Thank You Card

I found some marbled paper from the early 90s in my stacks of random things. I decided to use it for my latest card project. I combined it with some purple and light green paper found in the craft stores. The light green flowers are cut out from a floral paper sheet. 

I used a scallop punch from Knock Outs for the small scallops. The bigger scallops are cut out by hand. You can also create a scalloped edge, without using a punch. I create my bigger scalloped edges, by using a glue stick, pencil and a pair of small scissors. I put the cap of the glue stick on a paper and move my pencil around the cap and draw a half circle. Then I create my next half circle beside the previous half circle, and repeat the process until I have enough of half circles in a row. (Did that make sense? If not, just ask me to explain it in a more coherent way. ) 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Make your own Embellishment!
Any die will do
Memories Are Made Of This

The beauty of simplicity

Peaks and valleys

Blue me away

These are my first 100 % recycled cards. 

I used a base of recycled, handmade paper as the background. I wanted my cards to be rough around the edges, so I didn't cut the paper. Instead I tore the paper into rectangular pieces.

For the Peaks and valleys card I cut an old newspaper into stripes. I coloured the stripes with Indian ink and watercolours. I made the houses out of newspaper. The foundation of the houses is newspaper-white with a touch of white watercolour. The ceilings are coloured brown/orange with Indian ink. 

For the Blue me away card I made the sky out of handmade paper, which I painted with blue watercolour. The dandelion with seeds was found in a newspaper. I wanted to intensify the original colours in the dandelion, so I filled it with white, yellow, green and blue watercolours. I also gave the seeds a little touch of colour.

I am entering the Peaks and valleys card into the following challenge:
Colour it up

I am entering the Blue me away card into the following challenge:
Joy's Summer inspiration

Hoppy day

Maybe this is the lamest card ever in history. I blame it on the lamest pun ever: "Some bunny loves you". I should have left the bunnies out of this, because bunny puns are hard to find (and right now I insist on finding puns for my cards). Lesson learned: bunny puns suck. 

I had a lot of details going on in this card (maybe too many?).  

I hand-stitched the edges, so now I can be a part of Fabulous Friday Challenge - Stitching! Yay!

I also paper pieced my card, so now I can take part in DYSU #75 - Paper Piecing.

Sometimes a pencil sharpener is needed in order to make a good point

How to make your old pencil look like new:

Step 1: Cut a piece of paper (gift wrap paper, patterned paper or paper from magazine pages) that is as long as the pencil and wide enough to reach around it. 
Step 2: Apply plenty of glue on the paper and take some extra glue around the edges.
Step 3: Roll up the paper around the pencil. Be sure to glue the paper properly on your pencil, so that you can sharpen your pencil afterwards.

Why don't you freshen up your old pencils by covering them with some nice paper? It makes writing more fun. :)

Cheers to the future

Studentkort (high school graduation card)

Spread a little joy today

Card with marbled details