Balloon Birthday Shaker

I found these balloon dies in my stash and decided to make a shaker card with them. I used a paper with clouds on it from the Amy Tan Stitched collection. I think it turned out really fun! I once decided it was more space efficiently (is there such a thing?) to pour all my sequins in one jar,  I really wish I hadn't. Now I'm to lazy to separate the colors for shakers. I wish I had put just one color in each balloon but this is fun too. It's also my post for DESIGN in PAPERS today. I really love shaker cards, they are fun to make and to shake. 

I'm glad to be back to normal schedule after the holidays, I have loved every moment but I have gotten absolutely nothing done exept playing a lot of Dragon Age in the night time. That and eating... 

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I recently got my hands on the Stitched collection by Amy Tan. I'm so in love with it I have a hard time cutting the papers. I have been lovingly flipping through the papers for a week and finally I could cut in one to make this card for my DT post for DESIGN in PAPERS this week. I got a bunch of the matching decos to and it's really easy making cards even without any stamps. I loved these die cuts and stickers. They made me happy :)

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I really adore the Homemade collection by Pebbles, the papers are really me. I made another DT-card for DESIGN in PAPERS with them and the Blissful Botanical stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn. I almost never think about stamping on patterned paper but it really looks kind of cool! Especially on the text paper. I did some shading with the Spectrum Noir Blendable Pencils to make it pop a bit and added details with a white gel pen.

In other news: I've started a facebook page for Pretty Crafty stuff. I'll be sharing inspiration and news there and I hope you will join me there. You can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/prettycraftystuff

I'm working on some new files for the shop, they are called Peace on Earth and You're Brilliant. Want a sneak? 

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope to see you soon again :)

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I had some unblogged cards laying on my computer and since it’s raining and everyone in my family is kind of busy with their own stuff at the moment I thought it would be a great time to get ahed and fill up some empty days in the blog.

Here is a card I made from the leftovers from a bookmark I blogged earlier. I just added some stickles and inlayed the XOXO and the feather in the backgound that I think I might have made with distress inks (I honestly can’t remember). I just added a simple stamped greeting from Hero Arts.

I got inspired by a facebook challenge, one night one challenge. The theme was book cards, and we should add something stamped, some lace and flowers. I made this card using an old stamp from Some Odd Girls. I colored it with Copics and used the Pen Pals collection from Pink Paislee.

I usually don’t do these one night challenges because i always is short of time and end up panicking and this time too. When I had made the card base and colored my image I had like 20 min left to decorate and photograph and add the card to the gallery. Pheeeeww! I was so stressed out! Luckely I had some kind of plan in my head otherwise I would never have made it. And guess what? I won! I got some really nice scrap goodies in an envelope a few days later, among other things a cute stamp from SOG. I love those stamps and now I have two. Yay! (I’m really bad at buying stamps to color, I always end up getting a new set of sentiments for some stupid reason. I just never learn.)

That’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by. Let’s see if I can edit another video too maby. Fingers crossed :)

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This LO I made for DESIGN in PAPERS with lots of Plus One decos. It turned out great I think, love the contrast. The LO is about how my son loves this pink blanket even though it is very thin and got holes in it. I cant throw it away because he think it is so soft and loves it so much.

I don’t have too much time writing today so I hope you enjoyed the pictures. I have so much to do at school, I was editing photos in high speed yesterday to be done in time for the first semi in the Eurovision song contest. At the same time I was running some computer simulations on my school computer trying to figure out what is wrong with my project. Oh well, I thought I could take a few minutes this morning while having my coffey typing up some blog posts so on I go now. Have a geat day!

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I keep making LOs with my daughter, she loves having her picture taken and my son makes these funny faces everytime. But he asked me if I couldn’t do a LO with him on it so I looked through my stash of printed photos and found this. He is such a clever boy. He thinks of the most amazing things and it reminds me of myself. I took this picture when he didn’t see me, so no funny face ;)

I made it for DESIGN in PAPERS this week, using some more wanderlust and a piece of a Maggie Holmes paper and an overlay.

I’m happy with this one, it’s soft and dreamy just like my son. Thanks for stopping by!

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I made these two cards for DESIGN in PAPERS using the Wanderlust collection from Studio Calico. I really like how they turned out, it is such a fun collection with all kinds of styles.

I used some transparent letters from the same collection to spell out the word Hej! (hello). They are really cute and comes in many colors in a little book.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Today is my first solo post for DESIGN in PAPERS and I made a LO. I had a scrap piece of the grey striped paper from Studio Calico Wanderlust collection laying on my desk. Then I saw the umbrella and I started thinking. This was a really fun LO about my daughter who always concentrate 100% on everything she does, it is really hard to get her attention when she is in her own little world. Here she is watching tv.

I had so many great embellishment to pick from and I love making LOs when I have lots of supplies. I wanted sort of an whimsical look.

I just loooooove these foam thickers from American Crafts. They look so nice since and I love the handwritten effect since I have terrible handwriting. You won’t see me jumping onboard the brush script trend any day soon ;)

Here’s a close up of my cute umbrella shielding my daughter from the rain...

I painted the background with a faint green watercolor glaze. It doesn’t show up in the pictures as much but it ties in the green puffy sticker with the rest of the design.

I’m really happy with this LO, I hope you got a bit inspired! Thanks for visiting!

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DESIGN in PAPERS bloghop

This post is in swedish, sorry to my international readers!

Hej och välkomna till DESIGN in PAPERS kick-off, tävling och blogg-hopp!

Äntligen får jag avslöja en av mina scrappiga hemlisar som jag gått och burit på ett tag nu.  Jag har den stora glädjen att få vara med i det sprillans nya och galet talangfulla designteamet för DESIGN in PAPERS. DESIGN in PAPERS är grossist, så om du som privatperson vill köpa någon av våra produkter så hänvisar vi till våra återförsäljare. Men inspirationen ska du såklart inte missa för det kommer massor av den varan i bloggen.

Nu har du chansen att vinna fina priser från DESIGN in PAPERS genom att delta i blogg-hoppen och/eller LIFT-tävlingen. Mer info om tävlingen finns i DESIGN in PAPERS blogg http://www.designinpapers.se/. Du kan även vinna en liten RAK genom att kommentera på min blogg, mer info om det längre ned.

Har du följt blogg-hoppen ska du ha kommit hit från Maries blog. Har du kommit vilse eller om nån länk inte funkar så har du dem samlade här:

Alex

Birgitta

Marie

Maya (du är här)

Petra

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Jag fick den underbara serien Wanderlust från Studio Calico att jobba med. Serien består av en riktigt rolig blandning av stilar, allt från grafiska mönster till "handmålade" motiv i härliga färger. Jag har gjort ett par kort för att visa hur snyggt det blir att kombinera papper i serien.

Det första kortet kombinerar mjuka konstnärliga färgduttar med grafiska illustrationer i svartvitt. Jättesnyggt ihop!

På det andra kortet har jag kombinerat papper som är mer lika i stilen. Inte lika stor kontrast gav ett mjukare resultat.

Material:

• American Crafts Dies Amy Tan Plus One


• Studio Calico Wanderlust 12x12 pad


• American Crafts Roller Stamp - Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm


• Studio Calico Essentials Natural Wood Veneer Shapes - Stars


• Tonic Studios Funky Tape Runner


• Fjäder die (privat)

Du har också möjlighet att vinna min egen RAK som jag lottar ut bland de som besökt min blogg och kommenterat. Lämna en kommentar innan midnatt den 22 mars så har du chans att vinna lite blandade godsaker ur DESIGN in PAPERs sortiment.

Hoppa nu vidare till Petras blogg och se vad hon har kokat ihop för fint!

Tack för att du tittade in och happy hopping ;) Lycka till!

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