Sweet little one

My order arrived safe and very fast from Roses on Paper. Sometimes I believe that Hawaii is the city next to where I live - because normally the mails from Summer arrives faster than a local one within Sweden *lol*. Do you have a private RoP Charter Summer???

I knew I needed to have Flutter Anya - isn't she adorable??

Coloured her with my copics. Used the DPs from Basic Grey Sugar. Cut out the paper flowers with my punches, chalked the edges with pine cone and added the center bling from Bling it.

Added some shimmerz on her wings and stickles to her little top.

The little charm is from my stash - attached with scrapperfloss to the Basic Grey Brad.

Sentiment from SU.

Hope your week has started well.

Kram

Anki

Thinking of you

Hope you all are enjoying the long weekend. We had 4 days off!!! Wonderful!

Monday tomorrow - so back to work and reality land - and not much craft time left...sniff....

Well - I am glad that I got to colour some images today and to make this card for the

Copic Create Challenge - Blonde Hair. This weeks price is sponsored by Magnolia-licious.

I thought it would be a good idea to practise more with my copics - still in need of more colours as always of course ;-)). Decided to colour Emilia with heart from Anki's Sweethearts.

Got to use my new lovely DPs from Basic Grey "Eva".
Added ribbon from the Doodlebug Cupcake collection. Cut out the flowers with my punches - chalked around the edges with pine cone and added spacers from my sweet friend Marlene.

Sentiment from Susanaments. I added some dew drops for blings and used shimmerz on the heart and stickles on her shirt.

I got to take this picture outdoors tonight - can you tell - it's not dark here at 21.00 anymore!!!

Kram - Anki

Thank you Marlene!

We just got home from our tour to the Southern part of Sweden and

there was this package for Isac waiting.

Well - it was from my sweet blog-friend Marlene (hope to meet you in real life soon sweetie).

Here's the very cute card she made for him with the image Isac with skateboard.

And then - this little Mini Cooper waiting for him - can you tell that he is pleased ;-))

Marlene - he also loved the plastic wrapping - he is popping all the plastic baubles as I am writing this....hihi........

Kram and thank you sweetie!

Anki and Isac

Fun project for a b'day

My sweet neighbour asked me if I could make a b'day card for her brother

that turns 40 this weekend. Of course I could. I asked her what he likes and she said -

besides his family - he loves his little red cottage/summer house.

Well - I first looked through all my stamps - but no house.

I then thought of drawing one myself, but no.....too boring.

Then I got this idea - why not build a house of paper. I asked my sweet DT colleagues at RoP

if they had any links to any nice templates. While they were searching - I found one myself (but now I have misplaced the link.....sigh)

I cut out the template on white cardboard. Attached DP from SU and glued all the sides together. Added black cardstock as the roof. Cut out the windows and the door from the template and coloured them with my copics.

I stamped Charlie Bond from WoJ and coloured him with my copics. I think he is just perfect. Then I decided to make a little fireplace out of matches (my hubby was upstairs and suddenly he shouted - have you burnt something?? I told him to relax - I am just burning matches to make a fireplace for a card ;-))) Crafting has no limits - right??? *lol*

Cut my cardsock in the regular 6" x 6" size. Added some DPs from SU as the lawn and flowers. Glued the house to it and then the "fireplace". The burnt ends from the matches became the charcoal.

Stamped over the blue DP with my blue ink - using my scallop circle to get the cloud effect (don't know if you can tell). Added the sentiment from Aud Design - saying Happy B'day i Swedish. Made a birch - needed a tree to get the scene more realistic ;-).

Finally I added Charlie to the card to give a toast for Stefan who turns 40 (the name is cut out with QK Eliza and added to the roof).

What do you think? I must say - it was a lot of fun to create.

Kramis - Anki

PS. The fireplace is there to give him a hint on what he is getting as a b'day gift - can't reveal it here of course - but I guess you all get the clue....

Engagement card

My sister Pernilla's brother-in-law got engaged early May in Florida.

She wanted me to make an engagement card for the lucky couple - and of course I said yes.

Also - I would like to say congratulations to Pernilla and her hubby Lars - because today is their wedding day (well - don't want to say how many years they have been married now - but it's a long time. Another funny thing is that they also got engaged years ago in Florida - so I guess that Lars little brother thought it would be perfect for him as well ;-)

I went through my stamp inventory and found this couple from my Hänglar and Stänglar stash. They had not seen ink since last year...(I can hear some of you go: WHAT??? - but since they are easy to get hold on here in Sweden - well - then they are not that special - don't get me wrong - but it's always that you want to have the things you can not get hold of - right??)

I used the DPs from Inkido - the "love collection" - a lot of warm words - like Kärlek = Love,

Kyssar = Kisses, Vänskap = Friendship etc. I also added one layer of pink DP from SU.

Chalked all the edges with pine cone.

Cut out the three hearts with my SU punch. Added flowers, spacers, pearl hearts (on the green flowerwire), Bella baubles and then stickles on their jackets. Smooch on the heart - to give it more a metallic look (does not really show here on the photo). Highlights with white gel pen. Cut out their initial's with my QK alphabet - Eliza.

I even made the inside of the card this time. Not as lovely as my blog-friends Rach, Marlene, Judy and Iris does - but.... Used the left overs from the DP and cut out the hearts again with my SU punch. And I did put a handmade sign on the back - but of course I forgot to take a picture of the back of the card. You can't remember everything - can you?? *lol*

And now we are going to have a 4 day long weekend - yeah!!! So happy when we have holidays and a bridge day off from work.

Kramis - Anki

PS. Sorry for the bright photos - but I could not get a perfect light....)

My Sweet Friend

I have been dying to enter some challenges, but have not had the time to do so.

When the lovely Summer set from WoJ arrived this week - well - I knew - I better find some time to colour these cuties. So I finally got to enter a WoJ Challenge again. The theme this time is Friend.



I coloured this little cutie with my copics. Added some frosted lace stickles and lime green stickles. Stamped the strawberries (also from the Summer kit). Attached them and some scrapper floss to attach the sentiment to (also form the Summer kit).

All the DPs are from SU. Chalked around the edges with pine cone and just wanted this card to be very simple - only some layers of DPs and the sentiment so that the little girl can be in the center. Isn't she cute??? Oh - and I did add some drew drops as well.

Well - looking fwd to share some more cards with these cuties soon.

Kram - Anki

Dream Big

This week we are supposed to use a lot of flowers over at Susana's Store blog. Well - that's easy right - ladies? We all love flowers - at least if I go around and visit your blogs - then I am sure to find at least one flower on each and one of your cards - right?? :-)

I decided to colour my brand new sweet Belle with my copics- from the Victoria Case collection - exclusive for SCACD. I wanted her little stage to become full of flowers - but then - if I picked too many - then her cute ballerina shoes would not show ;-))

So I just added a few - to look like she just had received them on stage after her little dance performance. All the flowers are from my sweet friend Tara in Canada - thank you sweetie.

(They were in the suprise package she sent me as a thank you for helping her sort out her Magnolia order).

Used the Laura Ashley DP - Contemporary - since they contains a lot of flowers in different soft colours. Chalked around all the edges with pine cone.

Added the Cupcake ribbon and the Susanament "Dream big" - since I think little Belle is dreaming about performing her little dance in front of a large audience one of these days....

Oh - and yes - I added some shimmerz on her little top as well.

Also one other thing - I guess you already have noticed it - but I really have a thing for stamping the images these days with Memento Rich Cocoa. I think it gives the images a more soft look - or what do you think?

Hope that you would like to join us for this weeks TIOT and hope to see your projects soon.

Upload your projects with keyword "TIOT19" on SCS or PCP.

Kramis and make sure to see what the rest of the DTs have been up to.

Anki