MDUC: Jingle bells

Hi there! 

Welcome to my place, especially as Im amazed you guys still find your way here ;) lol! 

I made a whole card! And it fits perfectly with this weeks theme for the new challenge over at Magnolia Down Under. Its JINGLE BELLS! 

WELCOME to join in! We would love to meet you there! Please head on over to look at the amazing stuff my highly beloved teamies made :) 

I made a shaped card, cut with my Go Kreate die. It features one of the new Tildas released just a few weeks ago. She is colored with distress ink pads on 300 g water color paper. Signe was with me as I put the card together and somehow the red must have touched with water because it spread at at some places over the image. I didn't think it was disturbing though so I decided to try and cover the places with a little white and now I act like nothing happened ;) lol I should know better by now than having Signe with me during the "I will actually make something something" moments. :( My word, she is cute, being everywhere and so on but my gosh! I got to watch my properties ;) I thought it would have calmed down by now but its still the same. All though, that really doesn't make much of a difference as I raid my boxes now too. 

Good news on the progress of building my new craft room! We have a contractor! However, they are very busy at the moment and cant make any promises to start before christmas. Im really REALLY missing you all by now and you would have laughed your heads off if you could see me whilst my desire to craft gets the best of me. I open the box closest to me and I start patting them...OMGosh! Im not normal am I ;) (Be good and answer yes...otherwise...don't answer ;)) 

I hoe you will like my make :) 

Lots of love 

Gingerbread Tilda in Lappland

Hi everybody and a warm welcome to my place 

Today is sunday and its my turn to host the amazing Live and Love Crafts blog. This week us in the dt has showcased the new and utterly stunning paper collection from Pion Design called "Wintertime in Swedish Lapland". I have anxiously awaited this years christmas collection as the one for last year was awesome and I was not disappointed :) There is some truly beautiful red, blue and brown sheets! 

After my little vintage adventure last sunday I wanted to play with a Tilda and my distressers again. My choice was this cute to the boot little Ginger bread Tilda and I colored her up so she would match my fav sheets. I used the backside of "Christmas bell" and one 6*6 paper (the red one). Thats one of the things I adore most with Pion papers, there is often a backside that is just as lush as the front. Around Tilda I added both Snow-tex and Frantage in shabby white to make it look like it was snowing.

I wanted to make a little more wintery bouquet of flowers and my choice of roses fell on the burgundy 10 mm and the deep red 15 mm ones. The beautiful little red and yellow apples are perfect for xmas cards so I had to add some of those too :) Oh, and of course that adorable little cherub! 

The bow is made from Organza ribbon 15 mm. I added a charm tied in jute ribbon and it is my all time fav christmas charm that Sandra stocks! Love how the text dangles down :) The copper rose got a touch  of white frantage too. 

Luckily Sandra also stocks my absolute fav Magnolia christmas die, the spruce and I added lots of snow and distress ink crackle paint in picket fence to it to make it frosty. 

Im hoping you will like my make this week :) 

Lots of love, 

Santa Tilda is coming to town

Hi there fellow crafters and friends! 

I´d like to welcome you to the start of our new challenge running all throughout august over at the Live & Love crafts blog. We have another amazing theme that was really fun to work with, its WARM or COOL colors. This is also a GDT card for Noor! Design. 

I chose to work with warm colors. Let me tell you it turned out to be a big challenge as everything about winter season is cold ;) And my gosh, its a good thing white is neither warm or cold but a complimentary color (as well as black) because then I could use that freely ;) lol

Heres a picture to help you see which is which if you're not sure: 

The stamp is a Tilda from Magnolia and I colored her with distress ink pads on 300 g watercolor papers. 

The papers are from Maja Design. The collection is called "Its christmas time". Look at that cute Santa peeking out ;) I felt I had to also add a couple of christmas apples and the mini apples are perfect for that. I paired them up with the amazing berry pin. It looks a bit like a snowball don't you think? A very fashionable snowball but still ;) As always you can see all the products Ive used from Live & Love crafts at the end of this posting. 

In this picture you can also see the beyond lush snowflake die from Joy Designs (Noor! Design) a little better. 

Here´s the BEAUTIFUL laser-cut snowflake I was talking about. Its designed by cute and incredibly talented Jolanda Bergman for a newly started dutch company called Dutch Doobadoo. 

Do not forget to take a look at the gorge creations by my talanted teamies :)

Thank you so much for being here today :)

Christmas in june at LLC

Good morning and welcome to my weekly inspirational post for the Live and Love Crafts blog

I must admit this weeks theme was a tad bit challenging, especially as its warm and sunny in Sweden at the moment. By now you would have guess what it is, its Christmas in june. It couldn't have come at a better time though because every year I say: "This year I will start my christmas cards early" and so on and I hardly ever do. This is still fairly early so I guess its better than past years anyways ;) lol

Once I got started I listened to past years christmas playlist I put together on Spotify and the christmassy feelings slowly started welling up. After having rated my christmas stamps box I decided on these two cuties from Magnolia. Aren't they sweet? They remind me of my little girlies. I colored them in using my di pads. Its been a while since I used them so I felt a bit rusty. Man, I just cant say this enough times...I LOVE Frantage. Its even more perfect for christmas cards! And these papers! These papers blew me away when they were released last year! Im such a sucker for everything pink and the "Silent night" collection from Pion Design is just unbelievably pretty! Don't you think? The great thing is...they are still on clearance sale in the Live and love Crafts store. I promise you, I have a little stock of my own in my house now ;) lol

Im hoping you like this :) 

Lots of love, 

Tis the season to be jolly!

Hi there friends and followers! 

Today I want to show you my winter wonderland card for Live and Love Crafts and its also my dt card for Magnolia Down Under where we posted a new theme last night and that is FLOWERS.

I used some winter alike kind off frosty flowers me thinks to suit both themes. ;) 

The lovely dp´s are by Pion design and I´ve used two for my card. They are from a 6*6 paper named Blue Pansy. Im such a sucker for anything Pion, if you´re in the market for shabby papers, look no further ;) The stamped image is a Magnolia Tilda from an old christmas collections and she´s inked with  di ink from pads , which is currently on a reduced price in the LLC store. Ive used Pumice stone, Weathered wood, Vintage photo, Black soot, Walnut stain and Tumbled glass for her clothes and shoes. The skin is colored with Tattered rose and Vintage photo. For the cheeks I used a hunch of Spun sugar, Worn lipstick and barn door. The shadows behind Tilda is Tattered rose and Vintage photo. You can see it fairly well in my picture below:

To embellish my card I choose to work with white jute ribbon. The lovely lace is named Jolie and is placed on top of the jute. You can also see one of the ever soooo cute Vintage wood mini sewing spools. I was ecstatic to find those in my dt pack ;) 

Besides that I have sewn all edges and also used Crackle paint Picket fence a little here and there and also on the acetate I added to the spool. The alphabet stickers are by Prima. The flower is a Kort og godt rolled rose in creme. 

The big lush flower is a gardenia in creme that I placed together with some more rolled roses and the Kort og godt decoration berries.  

I made a tag using a heart spellbinder that I added some Vanilla cream shabby seam binding and Jute twine too. Look at the gorge love hanger and the charm named round vintage photo frame pendant. However I didn't add a photo to it, instead I chose to cut out one of the roses from a white organza rose trim. 

Hey, do not forget to head on over to the LLC inspiration blog to check out what my teamies have done with this theme earlier this week. And of course you wouldn't want to miss out on the lovely creations over at the MDUC blog. 

Lots of love 

Jute Ribbon (40mm)	Kitchen Craft Cheese Cloth	Maya Road Love Hangers	Ranger Stickles Glitter Glue	Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint
Tim Holtz Paper Distresser Tool	Round Doilies 5.5"	Maya Road Organza Roses Trim	Maya Road Vintage Wood Mini Sewing Spools	Lace "Jolie" (32mm)
Shabby Seam Binding	Gardenia Flowers - Cream	Kort & Godt Decoration Berries	Round vintage frame pendant	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads
Snow Tex	Kort & Godt Rolled Paper Roses	Pion Design Blue Pansy	Jute twine

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