Congrats - Case study #194

My card today is for CASE study. This time we are CASE-ing this fabulous card by Pamela Ho:

I used Lawn Fawn Dies and stamps. It is also for Simon Says Stamp challenge; Father's day

Have a great Sunday, hugs, Karin

WooHoo! - You did it!

There's a new Trend Watch challenge up at Paper Smooches Sparks challenge and I decided to give it a try. This time it is all about patternes and I chose to focus on the pattern in one of the squares. In case you couldn't tell which square (-; I cut it out!

I'm also entering this for the celebrations challenge at the Kraft Journal and the Anything goes challenge at Papertake weekly.

Beautiful Patterned Paper!

There's a new fun challenge up at Lawnscaping - use patterned paper and I had to make a card right away. As always other challenges are in the back of my head while I'm creating and influencing my designs. This time it was the colors from CR84FN and the Doily challenge at Moxie Fab world. Here's the result:

The patterned papers I used are from Lawn Fawn's wonderful Bright Side collection and the stamps are LF; Critters in the Burbs and Claire's ABC's.

I'm also entering this for the Anything goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp .

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

A Double-Doily Card!

Hi!

I know I'm last minute with my entry for the Doily challenge at Moxie Fab World's  Card Creations Inspiration weeks but I had to finish the crocheted doily first and somehow time really seems to fly now. The end of term is always extra busy at work )-:

Anyway, here it is. I used Hero Arts stamp Flower Dot bg (Super pretty bg stamp that looks just like small doilies too!) for the pink bg and embossed my white cardstock with PTI text embossing plates. I used colors from A blog Named Hero Kraft, Pink and white a Lifestyle crafts die for the flower and added a button and bow for the challenge at Crafty Catz. I'm also entering this card for the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says stamp and for the favorite embellishment challenge at Let's ink it up.

My favorite embellishments, if I go through my blog posts, are quite clearly homemade fabric flowers - I didn't think I was a very "flowery" crafter but I seem to use them all the time...

Have a wonderful day, hugs, Karin

Glittery Flower!

At CAS-ual Fridays this week they want to see CAS cards with glitter and bling. Glitter is usually not my thing but I think the result this time was quite OK:

I used Crafters Companion Glitter spray for the flower and before it had dried I added some Martha Stewart turqoise glitter. I had Stickles for the leaves and added some rhinestone bling too  - inspired by the heart and colors from A Blog Named Hero's Blog Banner ( just a little darker turqoise than I remembered... (-: )
+ I was once again inspired by the beautiful pictures at Jay Gees Nook - especially the beanbag - chair ( edited thanks to Jessie!) or whatever it might be called in English....

I'm also entering this for the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

WMSC # 100 !!!

It's a very special day over at the Waltzing Mouse sketch challenge today - we are playing our 100th sketch today - WOOHOO!!! And we are celebraiting in style by having extra prizes - if we have 50 players we will give away two full sets of wonderful Waltzing Mous stamp sets, 100 players = 3 give aways etc
 +  this time you are also playing for something EXTRA SUPER fFUN - We are also going to be selecting a Guest Mischief Maker spot to one lucky winner.   The Guest MM will create samples for the next 4 weeks and be awarded a special discount at the WMS store. The Guest MM will also receive a special badge to show off on her blog. Wouldn't want to miss that chance!!!

For my Birthday card I used stamps from Say it Loud and Teeny Trees, patterned papers from October Afternoon and dies from Spellbinder and Lifestyle crafts.
Pop right over to the Waltzing Mouse Sketch challenge for all the info you need  and for wonderful inspiration from the rest of the Mischief Makers and some of the DT's.
This is sketch # 100;

I'm entering this card for my niece's B-day for the "For the ladies" challenge at Stamp and Create,  the flower challenge at Young Crafters Unite and the "Anything goes" challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Have a wonderful day, hugs, Karin

Sweet dogs!

One of my favorite artists and bloggie friends, Melania Deasy is releasing a new set of stamps today - super sweet dogs + "props" and when she asked me a few weeks back if I'd like to help her by making a card for it I of course said yes!

Pop over to Melania's blog; Deasy Designs to see the full set and view other very inspiring projects from some amazingly talented cardmakers. I'm back tomorrow with another card for her next set; Faries.
I'm entering this card for the Anything goes challenge at Simon says stamp and the circles challenge at Crafty Creations.


Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Sweet Fairies!

I'm back today with a card for my bloggie friend, Melania Deasy's release of a new set of digi stamps. The sweetest Fairies; !

Pop over to Melania's blog; Deasy Designs to see the full set and view other very inspiring projects from some amazingly talented cardmakers.
I'm entering this card for the Flower Challenge at Young Crafters Unite, the "For a girl/ Lady challenge at Stamp and create and the "Anything goes" challenge at Simon Says stamp + Something with wings at Ladybug crafts ink.

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Playing with Mama Elephant and watercolors

Those of you who follow my blog know that I used to paint a lot of watercolors when I was younger and that I am on a mission to get back to where I was then (skillwise) through my Sunday Watercolor exercises. Here's my latest SWC post!

I think it's because I've painted quite a lot of watercolors that I haven't fallen head over heels with the new Watercoloring trend in cardmaking.
But today I thought I'd share a technique that I haven't seen anyone using yet - it's a technique popular among watercolorartists to get nice impressionistic texture to their paintings. I used that technique both for lanscapes to get grass or rock texture but also as a great starting point for abstract paintings.


It is super easy, you mix your colors and then cover a piece of watercolor paper with them. Before they've dried you take a piece of plasticfilm that you wringle and then spread across your piece of paper. You let it dry and then you simply pull off the film and see what you got!

Hope you'll give it a try - and if you do - please let me know so I can come and see the result!!!

I'm entering this card for the challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Mama Elephant's color challenge.

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

WMSC 99

The weeks really fly by and it is Saturday again - and Saturdays are great because that means  I get to introduce a new sketch at the Waltzing Mouse Stamps Sketch challenge.
This week we have another great sketch from Lynn:

 For wonderful inspiration from the rest of the Mischief Makers and some of the DT's  and for all the info you need for your chance to win a full set of WMS of your choice go straight HERE!

I used WMS Gingham and Co so I can enter the Gingham challenge for the Card Creations week at Moxie Fab world. I'm also entering this for the flowers challenge at YCU.

Have a great day!

PTI May BlogHop

                       

Another month has passed and it is time for the May bloghop at Papertrey Ink! This time we got a wonderful picture to inspire us - and here is my take on it.

Stamps; Tiny Treats Christmas, Tag its #2 and wonderfully whimsical.
PTI paper; Bitty Dot Basics

I'm entering this card for the flower challenge at YCU, and the fabric challenge at the Craft Room

Have a WONDERFUL day and a WONDERFUL Hop,

 hugs, Karin

A star challenge at Lily Pad Cards

New challenge at Lily Pad Cards! This challenge is all about STARS and this is what I came up with:

I've used papers from My Mind's Eye and Kaiser Craft, Stamps from Waltzing Mouse and dies from Lifestyle Crafts.
Our sponsor Is the wonderful Simon Says Stamp So if you want the chance of winning a 25 $ gift certificate to SSS pop over to Lily Pad Cards right away for all the info you need.

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Waltzing Mouse BlogParty

Party Time over at the Waltzing Mouse and there is plenty of time to join. For all the info you need just click HERE.
This month's challenge is to use felt or cozy fabric on your card.
I made my heart embellishment from something very cozy -  a glimmer "fiber" called Angelina that I sometimes use with my students when we work with embroidery. It is fun and "festive" to use as it is or you can mix fibers from different colors to get really cool effects .You shape your "wool"and then iron it to fixate it. You can also give your piece of Angelina "fabric" texture using your rubberstamps - but I'll have to come back with a tutorial for that when work has slowed down. My rose is also fabric and handmade from a  bias strip (-:

                        The WMStamps I've used are from Gingham and CO and Fancy Frames.

I used the colors + photo at The RibbonGirls as inspiration and

I'm entering this card for the flower challenge at YCU.

Have a great day and a great party, hugs, Karin

Mikael - You make my life sparkle!

So many fun challenges at Moxie Fab world I want to join them all - just wish I had more time...

Well, here's my entry for the Card Creations Splatter Challenge:

This card is also made for the; For a Man challenge (my DH!) at Simon Says Stamp. I used stamps from Purple Onion and Hero Arts. I splattered my background with gold paint to make it sparkle and colored the frog with flex- and promarkers.

Before I leave I'll show you a card I had published in the May/June issue of PaperCrafts (p.75) under the section: Dressing up Dad:

 For this card I used stamps from Ippity by unity; The Man. Paper from My Mind's Eye and 7 Gypsies.

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Guest designing for Lawnscaping!

Guess if I was excited when I got an e-mail from the super sweet and very talented Laurel Beard asking me if I would like to guest design for her on Lawnscaping. YES!, YES! YES! was of course my answer (-: -  I LOVE Lawn Fawn's cute stamps!!!
So today I'm showing you my sample for their new challenge; Embossing. I dry embossed my white cardstock and then heat embossed the sky before distressing it.

The stamps I've used for this card come from 3 wonderful sets; Bon Voyage, Critters ever after and Claire's ABC's.
The sponsor for this challenge couldn't be better - Lawn Fawn (-: So pop right over to Lawnscaping for all the details you need and for your chance to win some Lawn Fawn stamps!!!

Thanks Laurel for inviting me - I really, really enjoyed it!

Have a great day, hugs, Karin
I'm entering this for the Spring (=love right!!??)  is in the air challenge at By the cute and Girly.