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Happy Monday!

I have a quick card to share today. I am working from home and treated myself with an hour lunch break spent by my craft table. I love my work! :)

It’s another Christmas card, I’m playing along with Jingle Belles again this week.

The challenge prompt is We Three Kings – to use at least three patterned papers. I used some fab Christmas Song papers from Riddersholm Design. The stamps and die are from Heartfelt Creations.

I used this week’s sketch from Mojo Monday. Love it! :)

And I’m entering it in Simon Says Wednesday Challenge – anything goes.

Back to work for another hour or so. Have a great new week!

Tesa

Riddersholm’s Christmas Challenge

Hi!

The coming weeks until Christmas, Riddersholm Design is hosting a weekly Seasonal challenge going live every Sunday. It’s open for everyone world wide and you do not need to use Riddersholm’s papers. We start this up really easy – any Christmas project goes! :)

And I’m such a dork, or simply crazy busy, or both, I never got it that the sign above wasn’t a sketch… It’s my tenth blond moment this weekend alone. I’m slowly going down…

Anyway, it worked pretty well as a sketch, and I do like my card though I once again went berserk with the snow pen. Note to self – stay CLEAR of the snow pen!

I so love this year’s Christmas papers from Riddershom – A Christmas Story. They have this warm and vintage look that is so perfect for any seasonal project. On this card I teamed them up with some Heartfelt Creations stamps: The Petite Poinsettia PreCut Set and Poinsettia Bells and Bows PreCut Set.

Some glitter on the sentiment and on the flowers. Then BAM snow pen! :)

Love the canvas tags!

We hope to see you play along with us this week. Anything Christmas-y goes! Link up your blog post HERE!

Thanks for stopping by!

I’ll be back in a few hours with The Rubber Café’s New Release Blog Hop. Hope to see you back then!

Tesa

Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop

Hi!!! This is my second post for today, so scroll down for my Skipping Stones Design Sketch Card.

We are having our monthly Heartfelt Creations Alumni blog hop with 5 participating blogs and to win the prize of a $25 Gift Certificate from Heartfelt Creations  you want to visit them all and leave comments. One winner will be drawn from one of the blogs randomly. The hop is open until Friday November 3rd and the winner will be announced on Saturday 4th.

Here is the full blog hop list:

Dina Kowal

Tesa Broman – you are here!

Olga Jewell

Kristina Andersen

Linda Payne

I have two cards to share today. I’ll start with one of my new favorite flower stamp set – the AMAZING Aster:

The set is called Delicate Aster PreCut Set and the flowers are cut out with the coordinated Delicate Asters Die. They are heat embossed with copper embossing powder and layered. The papers used are from the Classic Editions Paper Collection. The flower is mounted on die cuts from Spellbinders Labels One and Decorative Labels One. I left it without sentiment.

My second card is a Christmas card – can’t have to many of those…

The focal stamp is the Poinsettia Spray PreCut Set with additional poinsettia layers from the Petite Poinsettias PreCut Set. Sentiment is from the Holiday Poinsettia Candle PreCut Set. I added loads of stickles for some serious sparkle. :) The papers are from Riddersholm Design – A Christmas Story.

To continue the hop, go over to the one and only amazing Olga and have fun!!!

Tesa

Happy Birthday!

Hi all! Happy Wednesday!!!

It’s such a good day today! I’m going to a mini crop with friends tonight and I’m going shopping in my LSS for some new goodies before I go there. Couldn’t be better! :) Especially since my LSS got the Basic Grey Aspen Frost papers the other day. Love that line! :)

We have a birthday lady at work. She is turning “something” on Thursday and I got to make the card. She likes fall colors and bling, so I used the purple and goldish colored paper from Riddersholm Design – Chantilly Dawn and teamed it up with the AMAZING Delicate Aster PreCut Set from Heartfelt Creations. I got these babies from HC to make my Design Team Finalist projects with, and let me tell you I had some serious fun!!! You’ll see the result in a couple of weeks when the finalists are announced – either I’m one of them or not. The suspense for this position is killing me! :)

I stamped and heat embossed 8 flowers in different sizes and cut them out with the coordinated Delicate Asters Die, dry embossed some to shape them and then layered them for a fall Aster flower. I finished it off with some Diamond sparkle mist so it actually shines a bit.

I added small Zva rhinestone swirls for the extra bling. And look at that patterned paper! Not hard to understand why it’s a favorite! I’m proud to say I de hoarded it and cut into my last piece of it.

Here is the inside. Kept it clean with lots of space for all the friends and co workers to write their names.

I used this lovely sketch from Try Stampin’ on Tuesday:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!!!

Tesa

Many Thanks

Hi all! Happy Monday!

What a weekend! I got tons of stuff done, like cleaning my house and meeting a job related deadline and going to an art exhibition and having a dinner for some friends and… phew! I didn’t spend one minute in my scrap room though. So I have a serious paper craft urge right now and I plan to make it up to myself tonight. :)

Today’s card is a black and pink creation for The Rubber Café using Floral background and Many thanks.

This Floral Background stamp is a beauty and perfect for heat embossing. I used my new Decorative Labels One for the card base and an Inkit flower from Riddersholm Design.

Have a fab new week!!!

Tesa

Christmas Cards…

…are super fun to make. Especially when the one has such gorgeous papers like the A Christmas Story line from Riddersholm Design. I love the colors and the subtle patterns. And the fact they come in both full 12x12 size and in a 6x6 paper pad. This card is made with the larger papers.

 

I used this week’s Mojo Monday sketch. It’s a great one!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

Feature Friday–You’re amazing

Hi! Let me just say T.G.I.F!!!! :)

I’m sharing a card for Skipping Stones Design’s Feature Friday today. I pulled out the ah-mazing Victorian Summer set and stamped away. I simply adore this flower. It’s so full of details and was super fun to work with.

The flower and butterfly are heat embossed and layered. And I added some pearls for some extra flair.

All the papers are from Riddersholm Design, the new line A Christmas Story.  The polka dot paper is one of my favorites!

I used this lovely sketch from Sunday Sketch and Stamp.

Thank you all for the sweet comments on my Heartfelt post from yesterday. It warmed my heart and sure made my day!!! You are the best! ♥♥♥

And thank you for stopping by today! Have a fantastic Friday!!!!!

Tesa

Christmas Cards

‘Hi! Happy Saturday!!! Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

I will start enjoying mine in a few hours, after I’m done with cleaning the house. I so not like cleaning. It might come as a chock, but I do prefer making cards. :)

Riddersholm Design has released new fabulous winter papers A Christmas Story that comes both in full size and as 6x6 paper pad. I’m so happy about the new paper pads, I like the smaller size patterns when making cards. The colors of this new line is AMAZING! Check it out!

I so love the colors and the soft patterns tone in tone. The flower is a white Ink It Cherry Blosson that I colored with a mix of Aged Mahogany and Vintage Photo and water (and some glitter for the shine!). I experimented until the tone was right to go with the paper. Once happy with it I saved the mist for future use on coming projects with these papers and flowers.

The stamps are from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps. The sentiment is called Gift of the Season and the hexagon snowflake (which is a favorite of mine!) is from the Clearly Beautiful Ornament Set.

I used this lovely sketch from Try Stampin’ On Tuesday.

Next card is using the same paper pad as the first one. Couldn’t put it down, once I started… :)

The stamp is a new red rubber release from Prickley Pear. They will be up shortly in the web shop.

I played some with stickles and glossy accents to make the light and berries pop.

For this card I used Freshly Made Sketches #53. It’s a great one!

I’m also blogging these cards over at The Prickley Pear Blog. I’m stepping down after three years and it feels a little strange. I’ll have my last blog post with PPRS up on Monday.  :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

You’re an inspiration

Hi! Happy Wednesday!

If you are looking for my Rubber Café Blog Hop Post you find it HERE!

If you want a chance to win my favorite stamps and dies you can enter my give away HERE!

I’m in the middle of a CRAZY week. University started Monday and the whole place is turned upside down. I met our new students and they are amazingly young… and nice! :) And young! :) I got home last night and was totally wired up so I went down to my scrap room and practiced some card making therapy.

The papers are from Riddersholm Design – Fleamarket. Love them, they are in my favorite colors!!!

And check out my new butterflies stamps and die from Prickley Pear!!! They are called Mini Butterflies Clear Stamps Set and Mini Butterflies Die. ♥♥♥

You will see a lot of these babies in the future. :)

I have some exciting news too!!!!

II was accepted on Skipping Stones Design’s new Design Team! Wohoo!!! I’m super thrilled and so honored!!! The girls on the team are AMAZING – check it out HERE and the stamps – oh boy! So much fun and cleverness AND beauty, I can’t wait to start playing!!! :):):)

Got to go, a couple of hour work awaits. Thanks for stopping by!!!

Tesa

Heartfelt Creations Alumni April Blog Hop

Hi and welcome to this month’s Heartfelt Creations alumni blog hop. We have six participating blogs and to win the prize of a $25 Gift Certificate from Heartfelt Creations  you want to visit them all and leave comments. One winner will be drawn from one of the blogs randomly. The hop is open until Friday 27th and the winner will be announced on Saturday 28th.

Here is the blog hop list:

Olga

Carla

Tesa – that’s me!

Selma

Clare

Linda

And here is my project for today, a treat box and a little card to go.

I used my all time favorite flowers: Botanical Floral 1 and Botanical Floral 2 with the coordinated Spellbinders dies Rose Creations Shapeabilities.

The papers are all from Riddersholm Design – Chantilly Dawn collection.

The sentiment is from the Inspire Me Sentiments Pre Cut Set.

I’ve bought a wonderful scented soap from the Eco store that will fit in the box and I hope my friend will enjoy this.

Now hop on over to amazing Selma and check out what she has in store for you!

Thank you for playing with us!!!

Tesa

Just Because

Hi folks!

Prickley Pear is sponsoring the Card Patterns’ sketch challenge this week. What a great combo – favorite stamps and favorite challenge! :) I had to play (of course!) and to make it even more fun I teamed it all up with some favorite papers from Riddersholm Design – Chantilly Dawn. Here is my take:

The stamps used are the Just Because sentiment and the beautiful Flower Silhouettes.

You find the challenge HERE. Go check it out! The DT did AMAZING cards with the Prickley Pear stamps!!! :)

Have a great day!

Tesa

Prickley Pear Monday

Hi! A happy, happy Monday to you!!! Hope the weekend was a good one! I should have worked but I was a really, REALLY bad girl and spent most of the weekend not working. Guess I needed that. And the boy and the house needed that… ;P

I have a Prickley Pear card to share today. I’ve used one of the beautiful clear stamp sets that coordinates with the Scalloped Circle Die. It’s called Clearly Beautiful Flowers Stamps Set.

The papers used are from Riddersholm Design, Turquoise Hills collection. One of my all time favorite lines. Just adore the soft blue on blue pattern!

I used this week’s sketch over at CPS.

The Prickley Pear Blog is jammed with beautiful Design Team projects and you can find them HERE! And there is a Prickley Pear Sketch Challenge going on too, it’s open for everybody, no Prickley Pear products needed. You find it HERE!

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa