SW: Örebro Castle

I use  Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 300 grams Arches rough or fine.

I also share my watercolors and cards here:  My Instagram

If you want to see more of my watercolors, you can view them HERE or in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Paper Smooches April #4 From our Home

Hi Everyone!

I'm here with a new project for Paper Smooche's  This time I made a Little sweet card to go with a gift, maybe homemade. The Best Buds and Biffy Bungalows are just perfect for these types of cards!

 

Paper Smooches supplies :

Stamps:

Best Buds

Biffy Bungalows


Dies
Best Buds Icon dies

Here is where you'll find the Paper Smooches online store!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my  Paper Smooches PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Sunday Watercolors: Goldfish

Fish are excellent subjects if you want tp practice painting watercolors. They are simple in shape but with lots of colors to look for and try to .

I use  Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 300 grams Arches rough or fine.

I also share my watercolors and cards here:  My Instagram

If you want to see more of my watercolors, you can view them HERE or in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive Blog Hop + Giveaway

 

Hi Everyone!

I'm so excited and honored to be part of Altenew's fantastic Blog Hop called: Celebraiting Parents, to honor and raise awareness of the Celebrating Parents Card Drive: "Our goal is to send cards for the elderly that lives in nursing homes or shelters to let them know they’re not forgotten". Please check out the Celebrating Parents Card Drive and join this great cause by sending in cards.

This card will make a Beautiful Mother's Day card or a monogrammed Thank You/ Birthday Card. I used the Lovely Peony set to create my wreath. I used watercolors to color the flowers and the M is diecut with my top favorite Inline Alpha die set. For my ordinary watercolors I Always use Arches but the paper I used for this is Canson's student paper wich is great and very affordable for cardmaking when you want the cardbase to match too.

 

20% of the profits earned from the following sets (Best Dad, Painted Rose, Penned Rose, Extra Special, and Best Mom) by 6/17/2018 will be donated to Food Bank of Central New York to support seniors in need.

For my next card I mixed some stamps from the two sets Best Dad stamp and die bundle and

Hug Me - Stamp and die bundle. I used copic markers for my coloring and the DAD is diecut using the wonderful Inline Alpha die set.

Don't miss that you get save 35% Off on the Best Dad Stamp & Die Bundle from 4/20/2018 until 4/23/2018 at 11:59 pm EDT. No coupon code needed to enjoy this deal.

 

This Peony here is stamped on Arches light weight paper and colored with watercolors. The background is inked and spattered with watercolor. And once angain I used the Beautiful Inline Alpha die set for my diecut letters. The stamped sentiment is from Best Dad stamp and die bundle.

Once again I combined stamps from the awesome sets

Best Dad stamp and die bundle and Hug Me - Stamp and die bundle to create a sweet Father's Day card - The bg stamp of Boston - My favorite city in the World! (I was an Au Pair in Lexington MA when I was 20 and fell in LOVE <3 a="" from="" href="https://altenew.com/products/sketchy-cities-america" is="">Sketch Cities America
. I used kraft cardstock and Derwents colorpencils.

Can you tell that I LOOOOVE the Hug Me set!!!!???!!! It is such a great set for so many occasions.

Hug Me - Stamp and die bundle
Sketch Cities America


For my projects I used the following wonderful AltenewProducts:
Best Dad stamp and die bundle
Daisy stamp set
Hug Me - Stamp and die bundle
Sketch Cities America
Inline Alpha die set
Peony
More than Words

If you are doing the hop you should have come here from my amazingly talented friend Emily Leiphart and continue on to the fabulous Marge Yoon. But befor you do, don't forget to comment here below for your chance to win one of two generous prizes from Altenew:

 

Prizes:

Altenew is giving away $50 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. Be sure to leave comments by May 6th at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew blog on Mother’s Day, May 13th, 2018.

+ I am so lucky to also get to draw a winner from those of you who comment here on my blog for a $20 gift certificate to the Altenew store -YAY!!!!. I will announce the Winner by 5/10/2018 !

Here is the full list of blog hop participants:

Altenew

Kathy Racoosin

Kristina Pokazanieva

Svitlana Shayevich

Vicky Papaioannou

Rubeena Ianigro

Olga Moss

Reiko Tsuchida

Laurie Willison

Laura Jane

Erum Tasneem

Barb Engler

Nina-Marie Trapani

Enza Gudor

Isha Gupta

Laurel Beard

Mayline Jung

Emily Leiphart

Karin Åkesdotter

Marge Yoon

Heidi Jakobs

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

 

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Paper Smooches April #3 Birthday Bear

Hi Everyone!

I'm here with a new project for Paper Smooche's 

Paper Smooches supplies :

Stamps:

Sentiment sampler

Dies:

Bear and frog: http://www.papersmoochesstamps.com/Bear_Frog_Card_Dies_p/m1d-17-371.htm
Here is where you'll find the Paper Smooches online store!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my  Paper Smooches PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge: 3D cards

Hi Everyone!

I'm here to share a card for the new Lawn Fawnatics Challenge. This time our theme is 3D cards and this is my take:

I started by making a cardbase from White cardstock and then diecut a stitched rectangle.

I then stamped and colored some cute summer images and adhered them to my card with tape and foam adhesive.

Make sure to pop over to the Lawn Fawnatics blog for lots of wonderful inspiration from my talented teamies and of course to play along for your chance to win 25 $ to the Lawn Fawn Store!

Supplies I used for this card:

Stamps:

Mermaid for You

Dies:

Ocean wave border

Shadow Box

Other:

Memento Ink

Scotch foam tape

Tombow adhesive tape

Lawn Fawn Cardstock

MISTI

Mini Scoring Board

Ink Blending Tools

You can shop your Lawn Fawn products HERE

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Sunday Watercolors: Roses

I use  Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 300 grams Arches rough or fine.

I also share my watercolors and cards here:  My Instagram

If you want to see more of my watercolors, you can view them HERE or in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Published Card Saturday: Because Flower

Hi Everyone!

It is Saturday so I'm here to share a published card . This card was published in the  summer  issue of Scrapbook and Cards Today 2017,  
You can find more info about their Amazing magazine here:  Scrapbook and Cards Magazine  .

Products from MFT stamps

 

Have a great Day!

Karin

 

My Instagram

My Pinterest

Pastel Bunny!

For some of my favorite challenges I have created this card using adorable stamps from Avery Elle:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Inspired by Beatrix Potter's stories (Peter Rabbit etc)
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - texture
AAACards - Spattering with masking fluid to create rain / drizzel effect + inking
Copic Marker Sweden - pastel
Cupcake inspiration - Bunnies
SSSworkitwednesday - Inking






I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Paper Smooches April #2

Hi Everyone!

I'm here with a new project for Paper Smooche's  and this time it's a tag!

Paper Smooches supplies :

Stamps:
Blossoming Buds

Best Buds

Comforting Hugs




Dies:

Gift Tag dies

Here is where you'll find the Paper Smooches online store!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my  Paper Smooches PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin