Yellow out there

Card for my Babcia

For this card I used marbled paper as my background. I marbled lots of paper last Summer, so I still have some in my stash. I purchased the blue/yellow ribbon in the fabric store in town. I have realized that fabric stores have lots of supplies for card-making/scrapbooking. The blue flower button comes from there as well. 

I created the digi girl, but thought she (the blonde girl) looked sort of plain, so I did another version of her (but quite so different) as well. Look below for the different versions of my digi girl.

Swedish girl -
free digital stamp

Actually, this is the first time that I have made a digi and felt satisfied with the result. I like my black-haired girl so much that I will make more of her (will update later in July - she will probably be a common guest at my blog from now on). I might as well give her a name. Molly. She looks like a Molly, to me. 

Come out of your seashell

For this card I used the digi stamp Water Babe from A Day For Daisies. The tails were coloured with just "normal" coloured pencils and then painted with metallic sand paint to get the right glow. For the skin I used ProMarker - Almond (I actually tried ProMarker for the first time hehe). I covered the mermaid's head with sea glass in green and brownish.

The shell template came with the July issue of Crafts Beautiful. I printed the template on light purple paper. Then I put a layer of Metallic Sand Paint on it. I decorated with some molluscs, sea glass and freshwater pearls.

So cute it’s a crimson

Here's another postcard of mine - this time in crimson red and different shades of green.

 



The beautiful floral paper is part of the Composition and colour collection by Alison Kreft. The jam jar image can be found in Papercraft Inspirations issue 88 and the strawberry in Papercraft Inspirations Issue 52. The red flower, green flower and leaf came with Let's make cards issue 57. The butterfly and tiny flowers are made from shrink plastic. 

The digital stamp Strawberry girl can be found here at my blog, since I've created here. So, here she is in all her glory.

Strawberry girl -
free digital stamp

Strawberry girl -
Colour example

Thank you - Free Digital Stamps, for featuring my strawberry girl. :)

 I would like to enter my card into the following card challenges:

The Sugar Bowl: Challenge 103

Dutch Dare Card Challenges - 218: Flutterby butterfly 

By Lori Designs Challenge - BLD47

Addicted to stamps - Challenge 57 (Band/ribbon, flowers, text/sentiment)

Incy Wincy designs - photo inspiration
Allsorts challenge - Week 208

GingerloftChallenge - Happy Birthday

Ps. While you're here, why don't you check out my other digital stamps and backgrounds here and my templates here.

Monday motivation

Here's a card to make someone's Monday less blue and more colourful. It's a colour explosion!

 

 




















With this card I would like to share some Summer feeling. It's almost Summer here by now ~ that means the season of flowers and bright colours. I have collected a bunch of flowers from different places. I have been looking around for flowers in my garden and in the local craft store. What you can see in my card is a mix of a bunch of random flowers that I have found.

I made the digi myself. Since it took ridiculously long to create her, I hope at least someone would like to grab her and paint her (and give her some love?).


Painter girl - free digital image/free digi

Painter girl - my painted version

 

Card template

 












































 








I love colours. This background/template is as colourful as I could imagine.

Baby blue

For baby Edith

For this card I played with different shades of purple, blue and turquoise. I made two of the three backgrounds myself (look below if you want to save one or both of them). I made this card for Baby Edith's baptism day. I didn't want to make a typical kind of baptism card, with crosses and such. Instead I wanted to focus on the person, who is being celebrated. That is baby Edith. Not baby Jesus.


Kofi Annan once said: "To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there." As a little child, you start with small things; you pick your favourite toy and eventually you pick your own socks. You know what? It all starts with socks. (Or in the struggle between a well-meaning parent who is trying to put your socks on, and you who keep insisting on pulling them off.)



Template - baby sock

Template - frame

Background - mixed media painting
(alcohol + acrylic paint)

Purple background with white lace 

Before and crafter

From an old table-cloth...

to a new postcard!

Template for Congratulations card in Swedish
Mall till Grattiskort/Födelsedagskort/
Gratis Gratulationskort

Tea time talk and flora fantastique

 












I think May Flowers are so flora-dorable. For this card I used some of my old May Flower pins. 

I find the paper with tea cups to be absolutely tea-riffic. It came with issue 57 from Let's make cards.  

Don't you find the digital image to be pre-tea cute? You can grab it here if you want to.