Those suffering from good taste - avert your eyes NOW

LOL ... you still looked. Big hugs for your bravery!

My friend asked me to make another baby card which I cheerfully did. Then I showed it to my Beloved who stared a while and announced:

"Jordan's Wedding!"

Now I understand most of you won't have a clue who Jordan is or what's the story with her wedding so here's a little picture:

And here's my card:





I kinda suspect Beloved was on to something!! lol

So all I'm going to say is that I used an actual rubber stamp and I do not remember the make (edited: found out it's by In2Stamps!) but I totally adore it. It's coloured with distress inks and stickled excessively.

Papers are from DCVW and flowers from different sources. Corner dies from Sizzix, tulle from my stash.

I still would like to enter this card into following challenges:
Totally Papercrafts - Photo inspiration
Totally Gorjuss - Bling it on
Pixie Dust studio - round things on card (card candy, flowers)
Stampavie and more - Birthday card for a girl
Digital Tuesday - Cute People
Inky Impressions - Flowers, Card Candy, Watercolouring
One Stop Craft Challenge - Birthstones
A Spoon Full Of Sugar - Celebrations

Thanks for looking and happy crafting
Hugs
Annika

Baby girl - awwwww

My friend asked me to make a card for her friend's relative's baby girl... I know, I got a bit confused as well. But then I dug into my Mo Manning folder and came up with this:

I had loads of fun colouring the image and glittering it up to my hearts delight. It's all Copics this time, no inkpads in sight.

I made the frills on the bottom punching golden vellum and then layered some lace and frilly ribbon on top. 

The papers are from American Crafts (mmmmm....llluuurve those) and the wee bit of sewing was done by hand. The gems I just found from my bling drawer. They matched. What can I say.

The sentiment inside is from Whimsy Stamps digital sentiment set, I think it's called Bundle Of Joy.

I made a matching envelobox using Martha Stewart scoring board. Used the same patterned paper and trimmed the box with satin ribbon to finish it off nicely.

I would like to enter this card into following challenges:

Digital Tuesday - Vellum

Creative Inspirations - card for a child

Totally Gorjuss - Bling It On

A Spoon Full Of Sugar - Cute And Girly

Charisma Cards - 3D

One Stop Craft Challenge - Summer Breeze

Crafty Creations - Encouragement/Celebration

Die Cut Dreams - Lace it Up

Rosie D's - Easel Card

Paper Sundaes - Easel card

Mo's Challenge - LOVE 

Thanks for looking and happy crafting

Hugs

Sentimental Sundays Challenge - New Beginnings

It's Sunday and time to show you my fist card for Sentimental Sundays Challenge. Since the theme was New Beginnings this time I went for a baby card. I know it's not a very traditional one but who says all the baby cards need to be soft pastels and frills??? Not me, obviously, lol.



This very fun image is from Mo's Digital Pencil and I used the sketch on their Dream Team blog!

The sentiment was computer generated and printed on patterned paper. The image was colored with Copics, cut out with Nestabilities circles and sponged with Memento and Distress inks. I managed to smudge the image with grey a little as well but didn't have time to go and color in a new one, so sorry about that!


I used Nestabilities to cut out the stars and clear plastic stars I colored with Copics. The ribbon is from my stash. Papers are from 6x6 Prima pad I've had for over a year and never used!Please check out the gorgeous work from the rest of DT on Sentimental Sundays blog and don't forget that Ann has a freebie sentiment set for you every Sunday!

Have fun playing our challenge, the only rule we have is that you need to have some sort of a sentiment on your project, be it a card, layout, 3d item - whatever; and it has to fit with a weekly theme. We are all very excited and dying to see your creations.

I would also like to enter my card into following challenges:
ABC challenge - Unused
Totally Gorjuss - Round and round
Stamp Something - Celebrate something
Creative Inspirations - Congratulations
Thanks for looking and happy crafting!
Hugs

One, two, three, all together - aaahhhhh...

Our friends just had a baby boy and luckily (hehee) I had a perfect image to fit the bill! It's from Phindy and it's called Contentment (it's also available in African-American version). I love the beautiful serene air of the drawing and the feel that you are witnessing a beautiful private moment between mother and the baby.

Colouring was mainly done with Prismacolour pencils to keep the soft feel, I only laid some base (lazy me) with Copics.

Papers are from MME, lace is from my stash and the sentiments are from Whiff of Joy. The border punch I used is I THINK from Woodware.
Nestabilities dies were used to make flowers, image matting and the label inside. Shadow-stamped image inside is from Joanna Sheen.


Remember, there's still plenty of time to enter Phindy's Place second challenge - Use Ribbon. You could win yourself some gorgeous artwork! :)

I would like to enter that card into following challenges:

Digital Tuesday - flowers

Dare u 2 Digi Stamp - flowers

Pile It On - Spring (to me flowers and new life always personify spring time!)

Meljens Place - For the little ones

Sundays With Crissy - Make it a Combo

Thanks for looking and happy crafting!
Hugs
Annika

"Cute" overload

Hi all!

Well, it was a pretty good night for a change, both smallies slept until 7 o'clock and I'm a lot perkier today. Loads to do so it won't be a long post.

Here is a baby card I made for our friends:

This time I pulled out my Prismacolour pencils, for some reason I always tend to go for those when I make baby cards. Gorgeous image is from Mo, huge AWWWWW factor there!

Baby cards are a perfect excuse to POUR embellies on so I really went to town. Kinda shows, eh?


Flowers are from Prima, Wild Orchid Crafts & Papirloftet. Leaves punched with Carl & MS punches. The doily I just found. Yes, that's the sort of organized cradft room I have. Chipboard is found too. And the button. And lace. Used vintage glass glitter and MS ultra fine glitter, sprayed all the flowers with Glimmer Mists.

Papers I dug out from old neglected K & Co pad I once again discovered in my drawer.

To accommodate all that abundance I had to constuct a big 8x8 card. Yes, I was happy and had loads of fun.

So there.

I would like to enter that card to following challenges:

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - You and me and baby makes three (self explanatory, duh)
Stamp Something - Something Girly (hey, there's flowers!)
Quixotic Challenge - leave it out (come on, there's LOADS of leaves)
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Flower Power (yeah, well, there's loads of flowers too)
Simon Says Challenge - Mother's Day/Girly (and there's bling too ... and lace ... and a DOILY, for Heaven's sake!)

Thanks for looking!

Hugs
Annika

Another (messy) baby card

For some reason baby cards never work out the way I have intended lately. Must be bad karma ... or just general lack of planning and vision. Or something like that.

I still adore that sweet Elzybells stamp though and there are details I like ... just not all of it. Funny but the inside actually looks better than outside to, bad cardmaker, bad!
Image stamp is from Elzybells Art Stamps, sentiment from Cornish Heritage Farms.

I coloured the image with Prismacolour pencils, the cloud was just hand cut without any template. Patterned papers are from DCWV Baby Girl stack, Graphic 45 & Sassafras. Flowers inside are from a bunch of cheap fabric blooms from local supermarket I pulled apart, LOADS more to use up. I used Imaginisce brads as centers. Flowers on front are from Prima. Lace is also from Prima, ribbon from stash.

Letter stickers are American Crafts plain white ones smothered in Stickles, decorative corners are Sizzix die, pin from Fancy Pants. Jump rings, charms and pearls from I got from Ebay. I also used some Melissa Frances stickers and Flower Soft in Ivory & Baby Pink.

Thanks for looking!

Annika