I guess this could be called...

manufacturing! but I just love putting all these different colors together. Here are 23 more color variations. :D

FINALLY!

my card mojo kicked in. I thought it had left me for good and was seriously thinking about giving up and selling all my stuff! Sheeesh.... but today I am happy :D Yesterday I designed a card and then I just couln't stop. I love making series of cards, and before I knew, I had finished 15 cards :D YAY! I am estatic! :D

All fifteen of them :D

and a few close ups :D

First card of the year

My little scraproom has been in a total mess since christmas, not a chance to get anything done in there. :Þ But yesterday I did a little tidying up and naturally I NEEDED to play a little afterwards. I christmas card I got from one of my stamping sisters was sitting at my desk, and I have been wanting to make a special card for her. In the process I got to do some experimenting with some new stuff.

The dress stamp is an old one, but still one of my favorites! It is heat embossed in black on heavy watercolor paper. I colored it using Distress ink (refills) and some mica powder mixed into it. Turns out REALLY purty. I added a little water to the ink where I wanted the color to be a little thinner. NOTE: I only used ONE color for this, the inks are just so great, they change color on their own! :D gotta LOVE IT! The big rose was inked in the same way.

knit and crochet

Hi! It's been a while... so HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all! I had a wonderful time during the holidays with my family and friends, LOTS of good food and a bunch of nice gifts.

I didn't do much scrapping or card making before christmas, I had a lot of left over christmas cards from last year, so I didn´t need to make any this year, came in handy when I was running out of time, but also I was a little sad, not making any cards for this christmas.

I did however make a bunch of scarfs and a few hats and mittens to give for christmas. I also made a bunch of tatted and crochet necklaces. I might show you those later :D But as I was getting ready to wrap all this stuff, I remembered to take documentary photos.

The perfect secret santa gift

We have a wonderful tradition at work for christmas. We each draw a name out of a hat (a bowl actually) and at our little christmas get togheter at work we give that person a gift. That way we can make the gifts a lot more personal. I made this big snow globe for my college Elva, and the photos are of her cute twin sons on one side and of her and her hubby on the other side.

It is that time of year again...

The most wonderful time of year! I love christmas preperations and the Advent is for me a time to spend with family, baking, cleaning (within reason :Þ) and decorating. One of my favorite decoration is the Advent wreath. I used to make it a circle, but last year I decided to go out of my "box" and found this clever candle holder. It has a trey underneath that makes it possible to water it and keep the spruce fresh. And the scent is heavenly :D Have a joyous Advent!

simple and easy x-mas cards

I made these cards for an Icelandic magazine called "Húsfreyjan", the christmas edition. The goal was to create a few christmas cards that even beginners could make without having or buying a lot of fancy stuff. They can be made using only paper, scissors, glue and a few embellishments.

Glamorous shoe card

Here is another take on my shoe card. I just can't get enough of these :D I used the a couple of the roses I made yesterday and some speciality paper.

Flower power :D

You may have wondered why I only bought white flowers. Well, here is why. I would LOVE to have all the possible color combinations available in all different kinds of flowers, but that would cost me LOTS of $$$. Most of the time, when I cannot choose a color for flowers or chipboards and such, I buy white or blank ones. That way I have more possibilities to use them. I have all kinds of colors to color with in my stash and to show you what you can do, I did a little experiments this morning on those flowers to show you. It is super easy to do PLUS you get your own unique flowers :D

Here you can see all of them together for sizes. The large flowers are about 2" wide.

These were all done using just watercolors. Pretty simple, you can color them as much as you like and the watercolor almost paints itself if you just let the paper suck it in.

The green one I sprayed with Tattered angels glimmer mist. (olive vine) and the cream one, I didn't color at all, I only used a damped brush to put some really shiny gold powder on the edges. This powder is a cosmetic gold powder, it is a little more coarse than mica powders but not as coarse as fine glitter. It looks like a slightly coarse powder of real gold. (pretty neat huh :D)

First I randomly and very loosely painted this flower with yellow watercolor. Then I used orange stickles on the edges. This one turned out prettier than I thought it would :Þ

Here I first painted the whole flower with MM speciality glace-gold paint. It turned out quite flat I thought, so I added some of that pretty gold powder I have and then I used black ink loosely on the edges.

This one is my favorite I think. It was such a nice surprice. First I used black ink (with a brush) to color the flower totally black. Then I used a little of the gold powder on the edges just for fun, and OMG it looks STUNNING dont you think ?

These two were hard to capture on photo. They are both really shimmery. The white one I first sprayed with Grapite glimmer mist and then put some silver stickles on the edges. The blue one (sorry about the shade) I just painted with Shimmerz Blingz.

I have not made a single scrapbook layout since August...sigh...but an occasional card has been whooped out from my craft den :D Here are a couple of tri-shutter-fold cards that I just love making. I think they are just perfect for cards with memories, as they can stand on their own like a mini scrapbook/picture frame :D

This one is a sympathy card, for my FIL's brother who past away just recently. He was a great bird collector and a sheep farmer. The personal note is written on the back.

This card was alot of fun to make. It was for a sweet lady I worked with. She just retired and we held her a farewell party and gave her a present and this card. The pictures I used are all from work. I choose red and gold since they are totally her colors :D A personal note is handwritten on the back.

Here is another photo taken from the side. Sorry it is not in focus, but I just wanted to show off the pictures from dressing up at work. We have so much fun there :D

Update and eye candy :D

I am so sorry, for my total absence here these past two months. I started working again in september and at the same time I decided to change my diet (to the better). It is great, but SOOO much work. I am spending 5 times the time I used to in the kitchen now. I am slowly getting the hang of it and finally getting some scrapping done.

I managed to shop a bunch of wonderful roses a few weeks back from iamroses . They are just so gorgeous don´t you think :D

So here is my peace offering, a little eye candy for you guys. I hope you forgive me for totally neglecting you guys!