All eyes on you

It's time for a new challenge at The East Wind with the theme "Spring ". Deadline: March 15st  Midnight EST~ March 25th 11:55PM EST

      ~Simple and Useful Rules~

• Apply with any of your own creation. 
• Only new creations. 
• No backlinking.
• As much as we love to see TheEastWind Image used, any other images are also welcome! But to make it extra special for using TheEastWind Image, you can enter twice for your first entry with a TheEastWind Stamp. -> So one entry with your blog post and the next one with your blog itself so we have you twice for the random draw.
• You can enter 3 times if you are not using TheEastWind Image but if you are using one you can enter as many times as you want. 
• The winner will be picked randomly, while the the favorites will be picked by each designer.

Here's my card for the Spring challenge. I have used the digital stamp named Aurora Floral Kiss by the East Wind. (It's now at sale, so why don't you check it out?) The backgrounds were made out of some marbled papers I had left in my stash.

 

I have used Copic Ciao - Chamois and the following Promarkers: Cocoa, Sandstone, Buttercup, Burnt Orange for the skin. The other parts have been painted with acrylic paint (mostly Traditional Craft Paint), glitter glaze and Stickles.

The yellow flower comes from Pysselmakaren. The paper borders come from this 24 sheets multipurpose vintage paper deco stickers set. 

Ps. I have submitted this card to the following challenges:

ABC challenge: H is for hair  

Color Me Creative Challenge - Show some skin

Crafting for all Seasons - Spring into Spring 

Love to Scrap: Create your own background

My Sheri Crafts: Celebrate Spring  

One Stitch at a time: Use a digi 

Pink Gem Challenge: Special lady 

The Crafter's Cafe: Flowers  

The Squirrel and the Fox: Autumn or Spring

Today the sun shone

It's time for the second challenge at The East Wind. 

- The theme is: "Use a digi". 

- Deadline: March 1st Midnight EST ~ March 10th 11:55PM EST

Simple Rules

- Only new creations. No backlinking. 

- As much as we love to see TheEastWind images used, any other images are also welcome! But to make it extra special for using a TheEastWind image, you can enter twice.  So one entry with your post and the next one with your blog itself so we have you twice for the random draw.

- You can enter 3 times if you are not using TheEastWind image but if you are using one you can enter as many times as you want.

- The winner will be chosen randomly. The favorites will be picked by each designer! Winner+Designers picks will be announced on 13th (6am EST) March on the East Wind blog.

Big Thanks to Prize Sponsor Etchythings

PRIZES

*Winner will get 'Lucy Loo Spirit of Rose' Rubber Stamp by Etchythings + 3 digital stamps. 

*Each Designer's favorites: 1 digi + 30% coupon code (30 days)

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Here's my card for the challenge. I have used the monthly Aurora freebie. Sign up for the news-letter at the East Wind and get your freebie too. 

I have made the background out of some newspaper sheets (and not ordinary paper) which I have painted with purple, silver, golden and white acrylic paint. I have done so before (here for example) and I like the result. The difference between painting on ordinary paper sheet and newspaper sheets is mostly the power of absorption. I also think you can get some really interesting and unique patterns by painting on cut-outs of newspaper/magazines, for example like the bigger circle to the right. Here's another example.

The crumbled golden circle comes from the sealing of a wine bottle. Hehe.

The yellow and floral border comes from this 24 sheets multipurpose vintage paper deco stickers set. 

Ps. I have submitted this card to the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge: Spring is coming (although it's snowing in Sweden :( )

Challenges and candies: Spring around the corner

Crafting with dragonflies: Use a freebie

Creative Fingers: Anything goes 

DL.ART: Use an image of a girl or lady

Eureka Stamps: Add a butterfly 

Hiding in my Craft Room: Spring colours

Love to create: Anything goes

Ruby's Rainbow: Texture 

Scrappy Hands: Mixed Media 

Through the Craftroom door: Anything goes

Timbro Scrap Mania: Monochromatic

Swept up in Love

Card for my grandma on her day (21:st January). 
Let the old people's home see some colour - yeah. And glitter too.

I painted with acrylic paint, glitter glaze and stickles. Therefore it's a bit messy maybe, as I didn't always manage to follow the lines with that kind of medium. (Still I love painting with acrylic paint.)

The gorgeous image Funky Hipster Vintage Girl with Tutu in Love
comes from Unky at the East Wind - here. I have used a template by Digi Darla - Digi Darla's Die Cut Flower Shapes 2.

Ps. I have submitted this card to the following challenges:
Aud Sentiment: Any Sentiment 
Cute Card Thursday: Warm it up ( warm colours) 
Die-cut Divas: Make it glitter
Paula Holifield Crafts: Celebrate 
Seize the Birthday: Coloring

A Midsummer Night's Dream

I'm a guest designer at Fitztown for September. :) This is my first project, which is a bookmark. I created it for the Anything but a card challenge at Fitztown. 

I have used Fae 16 by Morgan Fitzsimons. 

The stitched border is painted with green acrylic paint first and then golden. The left corner is made with the Soap Bubbles technique (soap mixed with lots of water and golden acrylic paint).

Card recipe 
*Image: Fitztown

   - Skin colour: Promarker Almond

    - Hair: Promarker Cocoa, Burnt Orange, Pumpkin

    - Clothing: Promarker Buttercup, Promarker Pumpkin &  

      Promarker Burnt orange, Stickles Diamond & Orange Peel

    -Wings: Stickles Diamond, Stickles Green, Stickles Orange Peel, 

      Stickles Yellow & Stickles Cinnamon

    -Flowers: Promarker Burnt Orange, Promarker Pumpkin,  

     Promarker Mint green, Stickles Eucalyptus, Stickles Fruit  

     Punch and Stickles Orange Peel     
*Border: Green acrylic paint, golden acrylic paint

*Background painted on black paper with golden acrylic paint and
  Chalk-Ah-Lot: lime 

I have submitted this bookmark to the following challenges:
Anything but a card: Hitting the books (book-mark)
Artistic Inspirations: Anything but a card
Gingerloft Challenge: Anything but a card
Penny Black Saturday: Anything but a card
Lexi's Creations: Anything but a card 
The Crafty Bloggers Network: Things with wings

Leave your wings with me

Mixed media painting (similar to this)
with a fairy image from the Stamping
Chef.

The fairy is painted with ProMarker - Almond (for the skin) and nail polish. The flowers come from the local craft store, and so do the leaves in the corners of my card (I have painted them with green and golden acrylic paint). The little ladybird bead comes from Pärlgården. The background is painted with green, blue, purple, golden and orange acrylic paint mixed with soap (the latter is especially important if you want to create the kind of effect that you can see in the photo). The white stone, which you can see on the right side of my card, was found at the beach. I like to incorporate some natural items in my creations. 

I would like to participate in the following challenge:

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog - Fantasy/fairytale 
Simon Says Stamp

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 

Frosted fairytales and fairy dreams

Abstract art

Here's some 'abstract art' of mine. I've created a collage in mixed media.
I have used the following materials: paper, acrylic paint, glitter glaze and
cutouts from newspapers.