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Hi Everyone!

I'm here to share a new card that I've created with Sunny Studio Stamp's adorable new summer release! For today's card I used a super sweet set called A Bird's Life.

I simply diecut a stitched csalloped square and then stamped 4 of the cute bird houses in each of the corners. I stamped the sentiment to the center before I stamped, colored and fuzzy cut a bunch of the adorable birdies from the set. When I had them all ready I placed them out where I thought they fit the best and used tape adhesive to tape them to the card - so fun playing with these cuties (-:

I then made a cardbase with a blue panel matted to it before I adhered the scallopped square to the card with foam adhesive.


You can shop them HERE and if you want some amazing inspirations from the awesome Sunny Team you should pop over to their blog HERE



Sunny Studio Supplies I used:
A Bird’s Life





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

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

I'm entering this for some fun challenges too:

Sir stamp-a-lot, A blog Named Hero

Copic Marker Sweden - Gult är fult, men fint på kycklingar!

Create with stamps, TheHeartDesiresblog

simplylessismoore, Penny Black

Deep Ocean, paruscardmakingchallenges

wordartwednesday

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge: Outstanding Occasions

Hi Everyone!
I'm here to share a card for the new Lawn Fawnatics Challenge. This time our theme is Outstanding Occasions and this is my take:

When I saw the theme info I immediately knew I wanted to make a baby card so I could make use of one of my favorite Lawn Fawn sets: The Hello baby set - I just ADORE the sweet critters in that set! I paper pieced the umbrella and I colored the adorable bunny with color pencils.
Make sure to pop over to the Lawn Fawn blog for lots of wonderful inspiration!


Supplies I used for this card:

Stamps:
Hello Baby
Home sweet home

Dies:
Stitched rectangles
Stitched circles


Other:
Memento Ink
Scotch foam tape
Tombow adhesive tape

You can shop your Lawn Fawn products HERE
I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER
I want to play too so I'm entering this for the baby challenge at Create with stamps

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Sunday Watercolors : Rose

It is Sunday and time for me to share a new watercolor. This time I have a soft rose in one of my top favorite color scheme. I use Winsor Newtons Professional watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 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 greatday, hugs, Karin

Published Card Saturday HB-day Butterfly

It is Saturday and time for my Published Card Saturday feature. This time I'm sharing a card that was published in the issue 106 of Paper Crafter. I got the chence to play with some new stamps from Kaiser Craft.  It is a GREAT Magazine and their blog is awsome too - make sure to check it out HERE!

 

You can view more of my Projects here: My Instagram and My Pinterest

Have a great day! hugs, Karin

Paper Smooches April Release #2

Hi and welcome to a new post with Paper Smooches  latest release! This time I played with the super fun  Pineapple Crush 2 - a set full of fun sentiments that also compliment the Pineapple Crush stamp set!:   

With this set you can create all your favorite drinks (-: 

Paper Smooches supplies :

Pineapple Crush 2

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 Watercolor: Meet Elsa

Here's a new pet portrait - this time of a sweet little    -dog named Elsa.

I use Winsor Newtons Professional watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 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 greatday, hugs, Karin

Published Card Saturday

It is Saturday and time for my Published Card Saturday feature. This time I'm sharing a card that was published in the issue 105 of Paper Crafter for a Pop-up cards section - so fun to make!. It is a GREAT Magazine and their blog is awsome too - make sure to check it out HERE!

You can view more of my Projects here: My Instagram and My Pinterest

Have a great day! hugs, Karin

Lawn Fawnatics Friday Inspiration

Hi Everyone!

It's my turn (Karin's) to share some inspiration on the Lawn Fawn blog for the Fawnatics Challenge. There is lots of time to come and play along with our new challenge which is Interactive Cards! The one I've made for today could sort of become interactive if you send along a piece of string and let the reciever know that the tag can be removed and made into a cute book mark.

Instructions:

Diecut a stitched rectangle from watercolor or textured paper (this one is 140 lb wc paper from Daler and Rowney)and dry emboss it for extra texture. Then make a cardbase, slightly larger than the rectangle from the same kind of paper you used for the rectangle .
Stamp and die cut the tag and stamp sentiment to upper center.
Diecut grass and tape to bottom of the tag Before adhereing your critters and flowers
Stamp your critters and flowers, color and die or fuzzy cut them. Use Memento ink if you want to color with copics.
Stamp sentiment at top center of the tag.
Adhere tag to rectangle with foam adhesive and then adhere rectangle to card base with foam adhesive.

Hope I've inspired you to come and play along with our fun challenge. You can win 25 usd to spend in the Lawn Fawn store! YAY!!!
Make sure to pop over to the Lawn Fawn blog for lots of more Amazing inspiration!!!



Lawn Fawn Supplies I used for this card:
Stitched rectangles
Tag You're it
Grassy Border
Critters in the Burbs

Other:
Memento Ink
Scotch Foam tape


You can shop your Lawn Fawn products HERE

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

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Paper Smooches April Release #1

Hi and welcome to a new post with Paper Smooches  latest release! This time I played with the super fun  :  Pineapple 1 die 

I diecit my Pineapple and then inked the different parts before assembling it aain and adding the fun eyes and mouth! This die is both sweet and so fun to play with! I LOVE it! Check out what my talented teamies have made with it by visiting the Paper Smooches blog HERE.

Paper Smooches supplies :

Pineapple 1 die 

Pineapple Crush

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 

Happy Easter with Sunny Studio

Hi Everyone!

I'm so excited because super sweet Mendi , owner and designer at Sunny Studio Stamp's asked me if I wanted to design for them for April and May and of course I said Yes - I LOVE her super adorable stamps and awesome dies!!! For my first post I played with a wonderful Easter set called A good egg stamp set. You can shop them HERE and if you want some amazing inspirations from the awesome Sunny Team you should pop over to their blog HERE

Sunny Studio Supplies I used:

A good egg stamp set
and for more even/beautiful result use; A good Egg die set

Instructions:
Start by inking a piece of cardstock for the background with distress ink. I used Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans, Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint and Forest Moss.
Stamp, color and die cut the images. I used copic markers.
Diecut a frame from white cardstock and then make a cardbase which is slightly larger than the fram and that will have room for the sentiment to be stamped underneath it.

Adhere the inked piece of cardstock to the cardbase and then adhere the frame on top using foam adhesive.
Atach the colored and diecut eggs to the background with tape adhesive and then adhere the chickens to the card with foam adhesive.





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

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 


I'm entering this for Copic Marker Norway: allt er lov

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge: Interactive cards

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

Make sure to pop over to the Lawn Fawnatics blog for lots of wonderful inspiration!




Supplies I used for this card:

Stamps:
Mermaid for you

Dies:
Stitched rectangles
Stitched circles
Journaling card
A birdie told me

Other:
Memento Ink
Scotch foam tape
Tombow adhesive tape
Wobbler spinner

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 

I'm entering this for Copic Marker Norway: allt er lov

PS DT Blog Hop = Exciting News

Hi everyone!
I am so excited today beacause this is my first post as member of the Paper Smooches design team. I think those of you who visit me regularly know how much I LOVE Kim's amazing designs and can understand exactly how super happy I was when she e-mailed to ask if I wanted to join! YIPPIE!!! 

PS DT Blog Hop

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches APRIL 2017 release with you!  TWO new stamp sets and SIX new dies will be available to purchase at 8:00pm PT on April 2nd.  You will find our new products HERE once they go live.  The release date was postponed one day because Kim will be out of town until April 2nd.

To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up a prize! 

The prize - a $25. gift code to choose what you like at the PS online store.

Here are the details:

• FOUR winners will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the design team blogs and the PS Blog to win the $25. prize.
• Just leave a comment on any of the design team blogs listed below or the PS blog for your chance to win!  (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify but it increases your chances) 
• Deadline: You have until midnight PT on Sunday, April 2nd to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, April 3rd to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.  

Alice Wertz

Jill Hawkins

Karin Akesdotter (me!)

Laurie Schmidlin

Michele Boyer

Savannah O' Gwynn

Teri Anderson

To increase your chances of winning:

• Tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop
• Tell us that you Tweeted about our hop
• Tell us that you posted on your blog about our blog hop

(which means that you have up to three extra chances to win on each blog)

For my card I used an absolutely WONDERFUL new die  set called Cross stitch die and it makes a great textured bg for your images and cards but it is of course also PERFECT to use for embroidering - cross stitching. What is so awesome is that the set also includes dies with pixels and x-s to build your own cross stitched look images from paper - super fun!
The pattern I used for my embroidery I found on pinterest HERE. But there are thousands of great sites with patterns pefect for this sized project. Also remember to serch for beading patterns. My next projec will be to make Minions embroidery for my som from THIS pattern.

Paper Smooches supplies :

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 Watercolor: The Archipelago

It is Sunday and I'm here to share a new watercolor.

I use Winsor Newtons Artists' (- Professional as they now are called )watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 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 greatday, hugs, Karin

Sunday Watercolor: Rose

It is Sunday and I'm here to share a new watercolor.

Photo credit to;
I use Winsor Newtons Artists' (- Professional as they now are called )watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 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

I'm entering this for Kathy Racoosin's fun 30 day coloring challenge!


Have a greatday, hugs, Karin

Published Card Saturday

It is Saturday and time for my Published Card Saturday feature. This time I'm sharing a card that was published in the issue 105 of Paper Crafter for a Pop-up cards section - so fun to make!. It is a GREAT Magazine and their blog is awsome too - make sure to check it out HERE!

You can view more of my Projects here: My Instagram and My Pinterest

Have a great day! hugs, Karin