Felicia and Crabby

We've had some rain these couple of last days - and it's been really windy. However - they are saying that it will be sunny and warm during the weekend and that's something that I am longing for. I am soo looking fwd to just relax, fix a few things around the house and finally send off those final images for the next release of Anki's Sweethearts. Yes - they will be a second release - so stay tuned ;-))

I wanted to show you a small card that I made during the scrapevent featuring Felicia and Crabby. DPs from SU. Cut out the scallop boarder with my nesties as well as Felicia. Coloured her with my copics - starting to really enjoy those. Added one of my glazed brads and of course a heart charm. Don't know why - but I just love hearts. A friend of mine and I really got into the heart period a couple of years ago, but we had to stop talking about it - because people started to bring us only gifts with either hearts on or heart shaped ones. Love it, but it should be delicate ones - so if you get too many - then you don't enjoy it as much - if you know what I mean.

Well - hope you all will have a wonderful Friday.
Kram - Anki

Almost going blue

Just a very short post from me today.

Those of you that know me well know that blue is not my colour. I think it looks great on others, but on me - nope.....I guess that's why I normally don't do any blue cards either.
Well - here's a card almost in blue...hihi......that I made just for fun.

Coloured the cute litte baby with my copics. I now know that it's from Marianne Design (Dutch company) - thank you Renata for refreshing my memory.
DPs from SU - must say that I love those. The image was sent to me by one of my lovely blog-friends - Renata. Sentiment from my sweet friend Aud in Norway and her own design - Aud's design. Ribbon from SU.

Easy and superquick to make.

And we are one day closer to the weekend ;-)

Kram - Anki

WoJ Gift bag

Must say that I still love making the gift bags that I found ages ago on Angie Juda's site. They are so fun and easy to make and you can add whatever you want. Love it!.

The SU papers are perfect for this of course - since they have a matching colour on both sides of the DP. Keep on praying that SU will decide to enter the Scandinavian market;-))

I stamped Melinda hugging heart from WoJ on my aquarelle paper. Coloured her with my SU markers and aqua paint brush. Added some stickles to the heart, shimmerz to her wings, jeans and hairband.Highlights with my white gel pen.

Used my Word window punch from SU to make the handle and added some ribbon from SU as well. Chalked he edges around the image (that was cut out with my nesties of course). Added some roses where I twirled the stem.

Hope you'll like it.

Kram - Anki

Gift set for Mother's Day

It's getting closer to Mother's Day for many of you. (In Sweden it will not be Mother's Day until the last Sunday in May - please see my previous post for more details on that) Our sweet Suzanne - who know can say that she is 35 - Happy belated b'day dear - wanted us to create a gift set to celebrate Mother's Day for TIOT17.

I must say that I first struggled with this challenge. Not that I don't love making gifts, but I wanted to come up with something different. Something that I had not tried myself before.

So to buy me some more time to think - I started with the small card above to go with the fresh flowers that I plan to pick.

I used the Violet Cupcake from Lockhart (please check out the new Lockhart stamps that Susana has received). Coloured the image with my copics and cut it out with my SU punch. Used my flower punches as well and added some Bella Baubles. DPs are all from SU.

Then I needed to find out what gift I wanted to make. Browsed through the web to find a tutorial and found one on how to make coasters on SCS. Even if I did not have the porous tiles - I thought it would be fun to try. So here's the result.

I got to use my heavy white coasters that I had purchased from Angie Juda a long time ago.

I inked them up with my Distress ink - antique linen - to get an "older" look.

Used my Memento Rich Cocoa for my Happy Word Stamp from Susana's own line.

I stamped the words on the backside of the coasters first.

I stamped my little Sassafrass with Rich Cocoa Memento ink on the front side of the coaster. Masked her and stamped the Happy Word Stamp on the front side as well.

Then I coloured the cute little Sassafrass with my copics and added shimmerz to her wings.

Repeated this so that I got 4 (almost) identical coasters for my gift set.

They were not dry when I took the picture - and therefore I could not tie the pink ribbon from SU around them to show you how the final gift set would look like.

Also - I am thinking that I might have to add a cover of varnish to make sure that there's not ink everywhere around the house after using them.

Hope you liked this project and want to try it yourself or come up with a different gift set idea for Mother's Day. Please upload your projects to SCS or PCP using the keyword "TIOT17".

Looking fwd to hear from you.

Kram - Anki

Flowers for Mom

Time flies and Mother's Day is getting closer. Well - it's closer for some of you around the blog world. I still have plenty of time - since we don't celebrate Mother's Day until May 31st this year in Sweden.

We always celebrate Mother's Day the last Sunday in May. The reason why we are a couple of weeks later is apparently because of the fact that Spring arrives later in Sweden - and also then the possibilitiy of picking fresh wild flowers.

I needed to see why we have different dates around the globe and got it all from Wikipedia.

So if you want to know more about it - read all about it on Wikipedia.

This weeks challenge over at RoP is hosted by me. I realized that it was a very long time ago since I made a folder card. Actually - I think it is almost 1.5 years ago - when I first started this cardmaking hobby of mine ;-) So this week the challenge is to make a folder card with Mother's Day in mind.

For my card I used pink cardstock as the base. Then one layer of DP from SU - in Choc chip - love brown and pink together - don't you?? Then I added a layer of DP from Inkido with a lot of loving and caring Swedish words.

Then I picked another brown DP from SU and cut it out with my nestie. Coloured my little Miss Anya from GF and also cut her out with my nesties. Chalked around the edges with pine cone. Added some pearl hearts from stash, dew drops and a glazed brad for the "lock". I attached some velcro underneath - so that you could easily open and close the folder.

Needed to add some my new roses for the final touch :-)

Below you see a pic of the folder card from the side.

I plan to put in some gift vouchers for flowers or something for the garden at my parents place. Well - I still have plenty of time to think about what to put in there, but I guess many of you don't - so what are you waiting for - pop over to our challenge and join us.

Also - I will have a quick tutorial up on our RoP tutorial blog on Wednesday - for those of you that hasn't had the time to ever make one.

Looking fwd to see what you will come up with and please - make sure that you check out the rest of the DT projects.

Kramis - Anki

Sweet little one

I'm back from the local scrapevent were approx 80 ladies and 1 guy spent the day crafting between 10-22 - or actually - most of us were already there at 9:-))

It was hosted by our local craftshop Pysselakuten and we did not have to think about anything. Coffee and sandwishes, lunch, afternoon coffee with cake, dinner and then of course drinks, snacks, candy and fruit the whole day. I can tell you - Liza's (the owner for Pysselakuten) hubby needed to fill those bowls several times during the day;-)) You always need sugar when you craft - right?

As always I was pleased to be surrounded with talented ladies and friends. However - this is the first time ever - I did NOT shop. Amazing - right??? ;-))

So now I have some cards to show you and I will post them one by one - so for once I am ahead...hihi...

First out is this little card that I made featuring Young Julia with Purse.

I coloured her with my copics and for once I made her blond (I normally colour her with dark hair. I guess it is because my little niece Julia is the inspiration to this image.)

I cut her out using my nesties of course. Don't know how I could live without them earlier ;-)

Used the DPs from SU - and I know that these are the colours that I normally use during the fall, but I wanted to make a colourful card this time and therefore no soft Spring colours.

Punched out the flowers with my two flower punches purchased at Pysselakuten. Added the spacers that I received from my wonderful friend Marlene and the cute little handbag charm.

Well now I need to finish off those taxdeclarations. The due dates are tomorrow - so not much time left. Hope you will have a wonderful Sunday.

Kram - Anki

B'day card for Lars

Another sunny day here in Sweden. Must say that I do not really want to spend it indoors to finish of the tax declarations, but I guess I have to......

Just wanted to share the card that I made for my brother-in-law who turned 40 yesterday.

I coloured Charlie Bond from WoJ with my copics - I think he is just perfect when you need to make more masculine cards - if you know what I mean. Cut him out with my nesties.

I also printed out the Swedish Happy B'day song. Teared the paper and chalked the edges with pine cone. Added some buttons from stash and cut out Lars and 40 with my Revolution. Alphabet = Eliza.

My brother-in-law is an electrician - so I found some cables to attach to the card. Can't say that it was easy to make them stick to the papers...hihi....

Added some dew drops as well and highlights with my white gel pen.

This time I even got the time to make the inside of the card. Not as nice as my lovely blog- friends Rach, Marlene and Judy, but... I wanted to make a fun collage with Lars and went to My Heritage - to see what celebreties he lookes like. If you have not tried this - it's so much fun ;-)) Used the left overs from my DP and chalked the edges with Pine cone. I also printed out the meaning of his name - Lars.

Well - hope you all will have a sunny day and time to enjoy it.

Kramis - Anki