my piece of paper

Hi there!

I have made two cards for Isabel Cristina using her new
digi stamp set "Me time". This is such a fun stamp set, I can
imagine making cards using this stamp set and treat someone
with a voucher for a spa treatment, a facial or a massage! 

This is the first of the two cards!

This stamp set comes with a lot of fun accessories
like shelves, a rack with towels, rubber ducks, shampoo bottles and
much more! There are endless posibilities with these cute bears!

You´ll find it in Isabel´s Etsy store!

For this card I used the bear soaking his feet in a foot bath,
in the comfort of his own living room! I placed him sitting in his
comfy chair on a rug, I used patterned paper for wall paper,
I added a wooden floor and a skirting board, made
from a piece of white scrap paper, as well!

Images and the floor were colored with Copic markers.

 Thank you so  much for stopping by today!
Tina

Hello!

Today´s card is both sent and recieved, so
I won´t spoil any surprises for the birthday girl!

This is my first time making a tall card, I decided for a grassy
hill for the mice and a cloudy sky where the balloon could fly!

I love these super adorable mice, this set is
Stacey Yacula´s  "It's a Mice Time to Celebrate" from MFT!

The sentiment stamp is from Gummiapan.

I colored the images with Copic markers, the grass, the
clouds and the sky were colored with Distress Inks,
Mowed Lawn and Tumbled Glass.

My initial idea was to fit all the mice to the front of the
card but that didn´t work out as planned, so I placed one of the
mice and the cake inside the card as a little surprise!

My friend Lori does this all the time
on her cards and its such a nice detail!

Thank you so  much for stopping by today!
Tina

Hello!

We are now already half way trough the 30 Day Coloring Challenge,
hosted by the lovely Kathy! There are so much inspiration
to be found during these Coloring Challenges!

Below are my coloring for the third week!

Day 10, stamps: MFT

Day 11, stamps: Heffy Doodle

Day 12, stamp: Stampingbella

Day 13, stamps: Hello Bluebird

Day 14, stamps: Hello Bluebird / Gummiapan

Day 15, stamps: Mama Elephant

Day 16, stamps: Hello Bluebird

 Thank you so  much for stopping by today!

Tina

Hello there!

Today I share my second card that I made for
Isabel Cristina using the "Panda Party" set! 

These pandas are so adorable and were so much fun to work with!

There are a lot of pandas coming with this digi
stamp set, as well as presents, gift bags,
party hats, star balloons and sentiments! 

I printed the images out, colored them
and cut them out with my Scan n Cut.  

I colored two pieces of cardstock with Distress inks; 
Twisted citron, Evergreen bough and Mermaid lagoon.
I used one of them as the backdrop and the other piece I
die cut in three pieces using a stitched rectangle die,
I then adhered the three pandas to the three die cut pieces!

Thank you so  much for stopping by today!
Tina

Hello!

The other night I was watching a video by
Jennifer McGuire making bridge cards, I always make
regular A2 or square 6" x 6" cards, but these cards looked
stunning and quite easy to make and I had to give it a try! 

Please visit Jennifer´s blog for tips and tricks, where
she shares a couple of different designs and layouts!

As I was having this Curvy Girl from Stampingbella
all colored (with Copics) and cut out, just sitting on my desk waiting
to go on a card I decided to use her for my premiere try!

I choose a pink card base for my bridge card, I cut it to
5 1/2" x 5 1/2" or 14 x14 cm. I used patterned paper and
the colored Curvy Girl, for a quick kind of CAS card.

Because of the way the card base is folded the
finished card stands pretty good on its own.

As this is not a traditional card, where you write your
message inside, you can either write your message on the back
of the card or adhere an extra panel to the back of the card.

The coolest thing about it is that you just slide the card to
one side, and it goes flat and fits perfectly in a size A2 envelope!

Thank you so  much for stopping by!
Tina

Hello!

Its time for my weekly post where I share the tags I colored
from the previous week during the 30 day Coloring Challenge!

 I am so happy I decided to use this tag die set (from Heffy
Doodle) as it is so much fun to create little scenes with!

Below are my tags from week two, day 3-9!

Day 3, stamps: Mama Elephant

Day 4, stamps: Avery Elle

Day 5, stamp: Stampingbella

Day 6, stamp: Isabel Cristina

Day 7, stamps: MFT

Day 8, stamps: MFT

Day 9, stamps: Hello Bluebird

Thank you so  much for stopping by!
Tina

Hello!

Let me introduce you to Isabel Cristina´s
super cute Panda Party digi set! Today I share
one of two cards I made using this set!

This set comes with so many cute images, and
for this card I used one of the pandas, gift bags, star
shaped balloons and the Lets party sentiment! 

As you can see below, so much cuteness in this set!

You´ll find this set and many more in Isabel´s Etsy store! 

For this card I layered all the images!
If you are curious how I layer images in a Word document on
my PC, please see my blog post from a few months ago. 

I choose soft, beautiful colors for this card, my favorite
pink Copic combo and beige/light brown!

The blue shading around the images was also
colored with Copics, B02-B01-B00 and B000.

Thank you for stopping by today!
Tina

Hello crafty friend!

I made a custom order wedding card some time ago and
short after Igot an order for a similar one. This client wanted
blue or green instead of red that I used on the first card.

I combined this beautiful soft blue cardstock with soft sparkly gold!

When I was asked to color a mustache and a beard
on the groom on the first red/black/white card I was quite
nervous to ruin it, this time it wasn´t as nerv wrecking!

I colored the images with Copic markers and the soft
”background” were colored with Distress Inks.

 The banner and lettering with the names were hand drawn by me! 

Thank you for stopping by today!
Tina

Hi there!

Summer is here and how about a bunny picnic card!

I have made this card using the "Picnic bunnies"
digi stamp set from Isabel Cristina! 

As always, her stamp sets comes with lots of cute images and sentiments!

You´ll find this set in Isabel´s Etsy store!

Making my card, I layered a couple of images, to get one
image only,to learn how I layer images in a Word document on
my PC, please see my blog post from a few months ago.
I colored it with Copic markers and then fussy cut it. 

The background was made using Distress inks for the sky and
grass, I used a grass die for the grass at the bottom of the panel.
The tree crowns were made using a cloud die!

Thank you for stopping by today!
Tina

Hello!

It´s time for a new 30 Day Coloring
Challenge, hosted by the lovely Kathy!

 THE GOAL OF THE CHALLENGE is to color something daily,
even if it’s a few minutes, but certainly not required.
It’s an ‘anything goes’ challenge; color whatever you feel
inspired to do. Some days you will have more time than
others but, it’s just about adding more time to color
and carve out a little time for you!

ANYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE 30 DAY CHALLENGE! 
If you want to participate you can jump in at any time
during the challenge. If you miss a few days don’t
feel like you have to catch up. 

You can read more about this fun challenge on Kathy´s blog!

I will color tags this time around too, I have purchased a
new tag die set, I like its landscape format! 
This seven piece set is called "Tag along dies" from
Heffy Doodle! The tags can be made with or without a frame, as
you can see below on the tags I made for day one and two!

Here on my blog I will share the tags I have made during
the previous week, at the beginning of the following week,
on Instagram I will share one tag every day during this challenge!

Below are my tags from day 1 and 2, from week one!

Day 1, stamps: My Favorite Things

Day 2, stamps: Hello Bluebird

Images were colored with Copic markers, backgrounds
were colored with Distress Inks and Distress Oxide Inks.

Thank you for stopping by today!
Tina

Hi there!

Today I share a card I have made using a new digi set
from Isabel Cristina, called "Bella & horse".

You´ll find this set and many, many more in Isabel´s Etsy store!

There are so many images and sentiments coming with this
set, great for making the most adorable cards for horse loving girls! 

Making my card, I layered a couple of images, 
to learn how I layer images in a Word document on my PC, 
please see my blog post from a few months ago.
Then I printed the image out and colored it with Copic markers.
When colored I cut it out with my Scan n Cut.

 The background was made coloring a circle with Distress inks
for the sky, the grass and the ground, I then adhered my image
to it and colored a small portion of the ground as well as the white
areas in the fence with Copics to see the grass through the fence!

Thank you for stopping by today!
Tina

Hello!

I was asked to make a special birthday card for a lady
turning 75, requested were the á la mode stamp from MFT
with the little lady holding a huge glass of champagne
(discontinued), leopard print, diamonds and gold! 

This card was so much fun to make! I dug deep into my drawers
and boxes and found the beautiful diamond brads that I
placed in the center of the large gold/leopard print flowers.
I had totally forgotten about them andthey were perfect for this occasion!

I did fill in the outlines of the image with a pen, and apparently
I wasn´t too steady on hand when taking the photo´s...
sorry about the poor, blurry, un sharp photo quality, but I wanted
to share this card anyway. And I added grey Copic along the edges
of the image and dotted with the colorless Copic as well, for some depth...  

I added golden details, the scallop edges in two of the corners and
the flowers, using a thin golden sparkly glitter paper that die
cut perfectly in my Cuttlebug, (I have other glitter papers that
are just too heavy for the Cuttlebug). For the flowers I used a punch,
I made two layers of petals for each flower, on the larger ones
I curled the golden petals slightly upwards to get a glimpse
of the leopard print ones underneath!

Image was colored with Copics, the letters were die cut,
using the QuicKutz Moxie Classic Unicase Alphabet Die Set.

To finish off the card I sprinkled some sequins
in clear and different brown colors, adhered
them to the card using Glossy accent!

Thank you for stopping by today!
Tina

Hello!

Birthday card made using the cute critters from the
"North star" stamp set from Hello Bluebird. 

As they all are looking up, origanally to look at
the stars at New Year´s, I thought they could look at an
orange/yellow sun or moon in the summer instead!
It looks like they are reading the sentiment, right?!!!

 Images were colored with Copic markers, background
sky and sun/moon were colored with Distress inks.

The wishing you love & laughter sentiment comes with the
stamp set, the Happy Birthday is from an old (discontinued)
a´la mode stamp set from MFT. 

Thank you for stopping by today!
Tina

Hi there crafty friends!

This cute "Oddball nurse" from Stampingbella
has been on my wish list for a long time.

Get well cards are great to have on hand so that you quickly can
send a card of encouragement for someone who is sick.
 I don´t usually have get well cards ready to get in the mail
and by the time I have made the card and got to the post
office the person is doing great and back to work already!

As I am still in pink mode there was no doubt what color her uniform
would be! And I had to give her some pink eye shadow as well! 

I colored her and the blue shadow with Copic markers, the
sentiment, saying Get well in Swedish is from Gummiapan.

I will ink up this cutie and make some cards in
different colors, ready to be sent out if needed!

Thank you for stopping by today!
Tina

Hello!

I got a request to make a very special birthday card...
featuring a handyman, a boat, a dog and archipelago!
I managed to tick three boxes out of four! 

At the time I was asked to make this card I had
just ordered the "Hard working dudes" stamp set from
Kraftin´Kimmie, talk about coincident!

The handyman was the easy one, just stamp and color! 
The archipelago and the dog took me a while to figure out,
but after some googeling I came up with a few photos as
inspiration and then started to  draw free hand.

All images were colored with Copic markers!

 Thank you for stopping by today!
Tina