A Passion for Papertrey - Polka Dots #1

What a great challenge! First I'd planned to have the whole pocket in polka dot cardstock, but it didn't go well with the fish so I decided to limit it to the corners and the edge.

For this card I've used the PTI gel card template and the PTI Library card which fits perfectly into the gel card pocket.

Winter in August with Penguins

Two wintery cards in August!

I've used QK Penguins

Alphabets: Honey Bee, CK Typist

Papertrey August Blog Hop Challenge

Phew - Spent half the day chasing brownbags - we don't use them as much here in Sweden as you do in the States. Finally found this one meant for organic muslix - hurried home to complete this little brownbag project while Ted (my 1½ year old had his nap). Only to realise I might have missed the whole bloghopping thing that Ive been looking forward to trying for so long. Anyway here's my contribution - A flower pot/bag and a bag of sweets for my hubby - whose got a VERY sweet tooth. Someone who loves sweets is fondly called GOTTEGRIS (candy-pig) - sounds terrible translated - anyway felt I had to explain my choice of stamp for the clothes pin.

Still keeping my fingers crossed that I haven't missed the bloghop - because now I'm extra excited to see what everyone else has come up with.

Tuesday Trigger Dress

First I didn't think I'd enter this week's Tuesday Trigger Challenge at Moxie Fab World, but when I opened my scrap box this morning I couldn't resist any longer (-:

So here's my little "dress-card". Have a great Saturday, hugs Karin

Hat and mitten embellishments!

For this week's color splash challenge at The Play Date Cafe they even encouraged us to submit sewn items, paintings, crochet, journal pages,knitted pieces, jewellery, etc and say that anything goes in The Play Date Cafe as long as you use their color story as the focus of your project this week.

So I decided to decorate my newly knitted Hat and mittens with flowers and leaves, using embellishments from my scrap drawer. The stones are much more "orangy" in reality, but I had to use the flash for these and then I think, because they are shiny,  they picked up lots of red tones from the yarn in the hat. Anyway, this is how it turned out:

You find the pattern for the hat and mittens HERE!

Sugar Scrub Recipe

On Wednesday I'm leaving for Sicily with my mum and sister and I've made them milkboxes with sugarscrub. Suguar scrub an exfoliating body scrub which will smooth and soften your skin as it increases circulation. It is really easy to make and makes a neat homemade gift.
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Here's a recipe:

Ingredients:

2/3 cup light brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup almond oil
5-10 drops essential oil (grapefruit)
2-3 drops of food coloring


Combine the almond oil and essential oil in a bowl. Add the sugar and mix thoroughly. Store in a clean, glass jar.

To use the sugar scrub, gently massage in circular motions over your entire body... but not your face. Wash off in the shower or tub.

Voilá... ultra smooth, glowing skin!

Simple card for simple gift

Quickutz: Lamb

Menu and Chocolate Boxes for our Wedding

Mikael and I got married last week! A beautiful day at Helgumannen, a small fisherman's village on Fårö (Gotland). Afterwards we had dinner at Furillen Fabrik and for that I'd made small chocolate boxes as placecards and menues with pictures of Helgumannen on.

Quickutz alphabet: Uptown Girl

Gel-a-Tins Blog Hop! Win fabulous stamps!!!

Today is the first day of Gel-a-tin's Blog hop with ELEVEN chances of winning some of their fabulous, super quality stamps! You just can't miss that!!! All you have to do is comment on one or all of the DT's Gel-a-tins posts. So if you just happened to stop by at my blog today start at the beginning:

1. gel-a-tins blog

2. Ellen

3. Karin (That's me!)

4. Cassie

5. Jessica

6. Cherie

7. Natalie

8. Gladys

9. Sharm

10. Angela

11. Sheree

The lucky 11 winners will get to pick their choice of one of these three stamp sets:

For more of their fabulous stamps visit their brand new web-site: GEL-A-TINS.

The hop will run till the 10th of July and winners will be announced on Monday the 11th at the Gel-a-tins blog. Jessica, our coordinator will draw winners from the comments on each of the Dt's blogs so make sure you stop by and comment at each of them - promise some great inspiration too!.
Also make sure you become Gel-a-tins Follower - then you'll have an extra chance at winning!

Here's a little flashcard project I made with my favorite Gel-a-tin sets; Pet shop, Little Buddies and School letters:

Pop-up giftbox

Tina showed us how to make this really neat pop-up and close gift box - so useful!

Spring is here!

Strawberry Box for someone Berry Special

A little Strawberry box filled with strawberry candy strawberry. HERE is a link to a site where you can download the template.

GRATTIS

 

My new paper crinkler tool!!!

I'm in love with my new tool for making corrugated paper that I just bought at Panduro! Here I've used it to finnish off the two ends on this little gift box/bag.

PTI November Blog Hop!

WOW time flies - can't believe it is soon December and time for a new PTI blog hop!!! Very inspiring photo this month too (-: The stamps I've  used for my card are from Tiny Treats Christmas and Tag its #2. Patterned Paper is PTI Bitty Dot Basics.

I'm also entering this card for the Medallions challenge at Moxie Fab World,  the Holiday Challenge at the Ribbon Carousel, and the Christmas Challenge at ABCDt

Does anyone else feel like a martini?

There are so many cool and fun challenges going on over at Moxie Fab World I feel a bit stressed (-: Working full time again is not a good combination with loving this cardmaking hobby as much as I do. At least, with this card I can combine three challenges in one (-:  ; The National Dog Day and the Random Fun; Alcoholic Beverages and CAS-ual Fridays .

Cheers, Karin

Stamps from Skipping Stones Design and Patterned Paper from Cosmo Cricket.

Ted's Nightlamp

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Promised to put up a picture of the lamp I made for Ted. The ricelamp is from IKEA and then I just painted an old flowerbasket white, braided some white yarn for the ropes and made little sandbags of fabric and tied a satain ribbon around. Really easy!

Lill-killen is laughing!

What a week-end! First I got lost in the deep forests of Landvetter, while orienteering and was 10 min. from a 500kr fee for not returning our car in time. (just joined a carpool!)

Sunday was spent in Slottsskogen. First we took part in a "pram-race" which was not really a race but more of a quiz-walk/tipspromenad. Think we got all the answers right but didn't win anything - hmm.)-:

After that we had a music quiz for some of our friends. It was fun to see everyone but we'd made the quiz too difficult this year which felt bad afterwards...

Söderling beat Nadal -unbelievable! Feels good to have booked 2 days in Båstad for the tennistournament there in June! This is a pic of Söderling from 2007 when we were there.