One for the boys

That's what our lovely DT-friend Peta set up as the next challenge for us over at RoP.

Well - being a Mom to a cute little son - this is easy - right ;-) Well- nope - since Peta did

not want any cute embellies, flowers etc on the card.

Hm.......well - luckily I have some wonderful stamps with cute little boys (I know that people keep on asking for more images of men and boys - but then in the end - it's the cute little girl stamps that sells. I guess it's because of the fact that we want to put as much flowers, embellies etc on the cards - right - or???)

So I coloured little Edwin with my copics - using more brighter Summer colours (Well - I do hope that the sweet owner of RoP - Summer also loves them...hihi.....sorry - could not help myself...)

Used my DPs from Basic Grey and SU. Chalked around the edges with pine cone. Wanted several layers as you can see. Added buttons from stash and instead of thread - I used the metallic green flowerthread that I purchased in our local flowershop.

Then I added the little train, suitcase, tickets and railroad crossing - that I had received from Lim. So now it could be used for a boy who likes to play with trains or for someone leaving for a long journey.

Hope you like it and please note - no blings, no stickles, no flowers..... ;-)

Sorry also for the bad pics - but the card was finished late yesterday - so not the best time

to take pics...

Kramis and pop over to our challenge and join in.

Anki

I just made 10 000 visitors!

So of course this is something to celebrate.

We've had a wonderful day outdoors today. We visited a farmer colleague - close to where we live. They have an "open house" today and tomorrow.

Isac just loved it. He got to sit in several tractors - pretending that they were his of course. Well - that smile tells it all - right?? :-)

He got to see cows, pigs, hens, rabbits, goats.......well the list can go on.

The rest of the day we spent out in our own garden and finished it with a BBQ.

So here are also some pics from the flowers we have in our garden at the moment - and the first one is of course from one of our apple trees.


Isac went to "dreamland" rather quick after this day and we are getting ready for the Eurovision Song Contest.

So - have a great Saturday and I will be back tomorrow with some candy to celebrate the

10 000 mark!

Kram - Anki

Do the Victoria Case hop

Finally it's Friday and we get the chance to actually display the new stampline - exclusive for SCACD by Victoria Case.

I got to display the cute little girl - the stamp is called Follow your heart - and of course Susana has created some matching sentiments - called Susanaments ;-). These will of course also work on any other project you are doing. So remember to check them out as well.

I coloured her with my copics and added shimmerz and smooch to her shirt. Her shirt reminded me so much of the folklore shirts that we used to wear as kids and that's why I wanted it to be white.

Cut her out and added her on 3d dots over all the different layers of DP from Laura Ashley.

Added some pearl hearts from my stash, flowerthread in green (close to lime green).

Ribbon from SU. Flowers from stach as well as the spacers.

Heart charm and Susanament from SCACD.

So if you are ready and want to see all the stamps - join us for the blog hop. If you want to start from the beginning - you pop over to Suzanne's site. However you can do the full blog starting from here. The next stop is then Susan's site .

Looking fwd to read your comments about the new VC line.

Kram - Anki

They key to my heart

This week Suzanne challenged us to make a card using her sketch below.

A sketch that we could interpret in any way we wanted, BUT the tricky part was to make a card that is not square or rectangle shaped.

Well - piece of cake when you have the nesties - right...hihi....

So I cut out my card shape using my scalloped nestie and then the second layer with my circle one. The third one - using my DP from SU - cut out with an even smaller circle and then finally - the image with an even smaller nestie. The nesties are just perfect to make layers - don't you think??

I coloured my image (stamped her first with my Memento Rich Cocoa ink)- Emilia with heart - with my copics. Added some white gel pen for highlight. It just hit me - Emilia with heart was actually released - together with the rest of the first edition of Anki's Sweethearts - on Valentine's Day this year ;-)). Backflash - that put a smile on my face ;-)

Then I added a pink SU ribbon (after punching a hole with my SU punch of course).

Attached the cute roses that I purchased in our local craft shop - Pysselakuten.

I found some flowerwires/thread at our local flowershop - in pink. Perfect to attach charms with or make some of your own embellies. I attached the little key charm with this wire.

I added some baubles around the scallop circle - just as extra bling ;-)

Hope you like it and want to participate for this week's TIOT. Please upload your project/card on SCS or PCP using the keyword "TIOT18".

Kram - and don't forget to check out the rest of the DTs cards.

Anki

More fun and big news over at SCACD

Finally I can announce that Victoria Case has created a complete new exclusive series of stamps for Susana.

The very first serie is called "the Hearts and Hugs Collection" And they are def. worth waiting for. So if you want to see this new exclusive line of stamps - well make sure that you are around on Friday May 15th then the entire collection will be revealed.

You can't wait?? Well - to keep you busy - Susana has another AMAZING blog candy ready for you. All 9 new Victoria Case for SCACD stamps together with a signed and coloured image by Victoria. So what are you waiting for - pop over to Susana's store blog - Follow Your Heart for all the details.

Once you are done there, hop over to Victoria's Blog and see how you can enter to win her blog candy as well!! Yes - she also have a blog candy up for grabs.

Get ready for the blog hop on Friday to follow the reveal of each of these stamps.

I guess this put you all in a wonderful stamp and Spring mode - right ;-) Well - don't forget to check out Susana's store! She's a lot of new fun things in store for you. Also she has 15% off ALL Spellbinders (excludes Impressabilities) thru Sunday the 17th and the SMIRKS are only $1.50 each!!

Kram and go now and get yourself a chance to win some candy and some of that new stuff or Spellbinders, SMIRKS and....well - I guess you all know what you need to stay a happy crafter ;-)

Anki

Thank you Tara

Just wanted to show you what arrived in our mailbox and really made my day. We have been ill - seems like we have a stomach bug going around - so we've been down - one, by one....

Anyway - back to this lovely card that arrived from my sweet blog-friend Tara.

If you have not seen her stunning cards before - please make sure that you visit her blog. She is so talented and her playlist on her site is just my taste ;-))

She sent me this stunning card together with a lot of goodies - just as a thank you for me helping her sort out some ordering issues with Magnolia (she finally go her order after a few phone calls from me).

Her friend had also made this very cute and just wonderful little bee charm. Isac wanted him right away and of course I could not say no - even if I could see him hanging on my bag.

Well - hope you all are having a great Sunday and we are trying to get the whole family up and running again :-)

Kram - Anki

You make me smile

We had a Monochrome challenge at the Scrapevent. I decided to go for green - not the colour that I use the most, but.....I think it turned out rather cool or what do you think?

Picked up my Sweet little Rockstar Anya from RoP. Coloured her with my copics - all in green shades. Cut her out with my nesties. Added some prima flowers and white roses.

Must say that I wouldn't have made the greens to match that well if I hadn't had the SU DPs that I got from my sweet friend Elizabeth. They are sooo great - always matching perfectly as well as the ribbon.

The sentiment is from my sweet Norwegian friend - Aud's Design.

And yes - needed to have some green stickles - since she is a rockstar - right ;-))

Oh - almost forgot - added some dew drops as well.

Also - make sure that you check out the news that Summer has ready for you as well as the returning guest program.

Hope you will have a wonderful weekend.

Kramis - Anki