Some cards up my sleeve

Sorry for the bad pun, but I couldn´t resist it! I actually made some Christmas cards that I intend to send to friends and family. Trust me when I say cardmaking is a struggle for me - don´t ask me why. So here they are:

*stamped image- Magnolia*text stamp-Pysseldags*patterned papers - 

own design from Reprint Hobby*ribbon and bling-Reprint Hobby

*stamped image-Penny Black*text stamp-Pysseldags

*patterned paper-own design/Reprint Hobby*ribbons-Reprint Hobby*

*stamped image-Skaparkällarn*patterned papers and text stamp

-own design/Reprint Hobby*ribbon-Reprint Hobby*

*stamped image-Penny Black*patterned paper and stamp

-own design/Reprint Hobby* pearls-Reprint Hobby*washi tape-Studio Calico*

*stamped image-Penny Black*text stamp-Gummiapan

*patterned papers-own design/Reprint Hobby*Ribbons-Reprint Hobby

*stamped image-Penny Black*text stamp and patterned paper

-own design/Reprint Hobby*ribbons-Reprint Hobby*

Today I also realized I´m 6 cards short so this coming week I know what I have to do in my craft room. Luckily I have some colored images finished that I can use for my cards!

I hope you enjoyed todays post!

Hugs, Carina

Det lackar mot julkortsdags....

Jag insåg att julkorten måste vara klara redan nästa vecka till onsdag så om jag ska kunna skicka dom med julfrimärken så det är dags att sätta fart på julkortsverkstan här hemma!
Här är mitt senaste alster:

I just realized that my Christmas cards have to be finished for next Wednesday if I wanna send them with the special Christmas stamps. So I have to speed things up with the Christmas workshop at home!
Here´s one of my latest Christmas cards:

Jag använde den HÄR jättegulliga God Jul-stämpeln från Pysseldags. Den passar så bra till allt möjligt eftersom den inte är jättestor. Jag älskar verkligen teckensnittet på God Jul dessutom.

Det gulliga tomteparet kommer från Art Impressions och alla fina papper är min egen design som du hittar hos Reprint.

I used a really sweet little Christmas word stamp from Pysseldags. The adorable Christmas couple is from Art Impressions and all the patterned papers are my own design which you can find at Reprint Hobby.

Nu hoppas jag att ni alla får en riktigt trevlig helg!

Hope you all get a wonderful weekend!

Cheers, Carina

Härliga höst!

Många brukar säga att hösten är mörk och tråkig men jag håller inte alls med! Nja, kanske i november då när det är inga löv kvar och det regnar i så fall. Annars är det ju helt fantastiskt vilken färgfest vi bjuds på när vi är ute, luften är klar och hög och det luktar så där härligt mustigt ute. Man kan vara inne med gott samvete och kura ihop sig i soffan eller favoritfåtöljen med en filt, en bra bok och en stor kopp härligt te. Det gäller bara att se positivt på saker och ting och göra det bästa av det.

Nu ska jag sluta babbla och istället visa ett kort som jag har gjort med just hösttema:

Textstämpeln kommer från Pysseldags och du hittar den HÄR. Jag har använt digistämpeln och kombinerat den med en annan digistämpel från Wee Stamps. Motivet har jag färglagt med ProMarkers. Bakgrundspappret kommer från Reprint. Allt annat som jag har använt är sånt som jag har hemma - tror att både blommor och blad är från Prima Marketing.

Textstämpeln kommer jag att använda både när jag gör layouter och till mitt PL-album så det är verkligen en allround-stämpel. 

Hela helgen kommer jag att spendera med mina pysselvänner på Falköpingsmaran - kanske vi träffas där?

Ha det gott!/Carina

Resan är som ett spel

Du kanske känner någon som ska bort på en resa över lång tid eller kanske nyss har kommit hem från en? Kanske någon du känner ska ut på äventyr? Eller du kanske helt enkelt känner dig lite filosofisk?
Hur som helst så gillar jag verkligen texten på den här stämpeln för den kan få så många olika innebörder. Jag tyckte också att det var kul att para ihop den med den söta stämpeln med tjejen på scootern (från Tiddly Winks):

Närbild på texten:

Närbilden på tjejen som jag har färglagt med Distress markers:

Den läckra textstämpeln hittar du HÄR i den uppdaterade Pysseldagsshopen. Annat som jag har använt är mönstrade papper från Reprint och washitape....

Ha det så gott!

From me to you

Hejsan!
Något som jag beundrar bl a många norska kortmakare är att de lägger tid även på insidan av sina kort och det tänkte jag ge ett exempel på idag. Först framsidan med det söta vintagemotivet och den hemsnickrade vimpel-girlangen:

....och här har ni insidan med Pysseldags läckra stämpel "Från mig till dig" i fokus:

De mönstrade papperna kommer från Tim Holtz och Reprint. Vintagemotivet kommer från ett klippark från Reprint. Spetsar och band hittade jag hemma i mina lådor - kommer inte riktigt ihåg varifrån. Jag har också använt en die från Spellbinders till etiketten med stämpeln på.

Today is my blog day for Pysseldags. This time I´ve made a card that´s decorated both on the outside and the inside. The text stamp is of course from Pysseldags and linked. Other things I´ve been using are patterned papers from Tim Holtz and Reprint (my own design). The vintage pic with the girl is also my design for Reprint. The laces are from my stash and the banner on the front I made myself.

Hoppas ni får en underbar dag!

Hope you get to have a great day!

Long time - no see

Hi there!
I´ve been on hiatus for a while due to health issues but now I´m planning to get back in swing with things here again! There´s a lot of stuff that I want to share with you so I won´t be writing much this time.
So let´s start with the latest projects and then work backwards....

Today I´m blogging over at Pysseldags with three journaling cards for a 30 Days of Lists challenge I´m doing at a Swedish PL group. I´m gonna show you the whole spread when it´s finished, but here´s the ones for today:

Since this is going into my Project Life album I´m using the same core kit - Midnight Edition. I am still in love with it and I even bought the whole digital collection. So all the cards for this project has been custom made in my mac before printing adding dates, weekdays etc.

Yesterday Ju Kneipp released some new wonderful products and I made this one:

I used Painted papers #1,  A lot of photos vol.1 and Capturing: Getting´digital

Earlier this week I blogged three really simple Easter cards for Reprint using only white, smooth cardstock, some beautiful stamps and Distress Ink Pads:

And here´s more....

• For Pysseldags using their hashtags stamps:

 ...and all my digital lovelies....

Credits: Beyond Adorkable by Jenn Barrette (from Feb Printable Pack, ScrapStacks)

Credits: Lemon Drop by Tracy Martin Designs, part of March Scrap Pack.

Credits: Little Black Dress and I heart you: Frames by Juliana Kneipp

Credits: Project Spring - Feeling lucky by Juno Designs and Amanda Yi

Credits: Story of my life by Juliana Kneipp and Libby Pritchett

Credits: Winter Wedding page kit and Winter Wedding Add-ons Bundle by Laitha´s Designs.

And yes - there´s two layouts with the same pic of me! ;D Not that I have that big ego but I kinda like the pic....

Next week I´m going to participate in an arts and craft fair in our neighbour town/village Habo working for the store owner of the local bookstore/interior design/hobby store called Ugglans bok och present. I will run some Make n´ Takes AND making stuff for people to see! 

EEEEK! I´m super excited about this! So next week will be busy, busy!!!!

Hope to get back to you soon - take care!

Yay! Christmas cards!

Hellooo lovelies!
Time to share some of the new Christmas cards that I made with the colored motifs I showed you earlier this week.  So far I´ve done four - but more are coming!

#1:

The cute Santa is from Nilla´s Stamps, green background paper with stars is one of my designs for Reprint Artstamps and the pearls comes from there too. The lace and pearl ribbon is oldies from my stash.

#2:

...and a close-up to show that I´ve used some glossy accents + stickles on the snow globe:

The Christmas angel is from Mo Manning. Red background paper 

from Reprint. I also used one of my favorite frame dies from Spellbinders.

#3:

...and from another angle:

This little cute stamps reminds me a lot of our dd when she was younger. It comes from Saturated Canary. All background papers are designed by me for Reprint Artstamps.  The lace is old.

#4:

Again a stamp from my fav Mo Manning and I´ve used that frame die from 

Spellbinders.  Background paper from Reprint. I´ve also used a snow pen.

Thanks for popping by - and I would love a comment from you... ;D
Hugs, Carina

A little of this and a little of that

Hope you like my new blog design! I decided it was time for a more autumn looking feeling.

As stated in the blog title this is really gonna be a mix of everything this posting.
This past week I blogged at Reprint and at Allt om Scrap. For Reprint it was this card:

Credits: All material from Reprint

Over at Allt om Scrap we´re running a template challenge and here´s what I did:

Credits: I respect me mini kit by The Sissy Sparrows  + My heart is full papers and ellies by Captivated Visions.

You can find out all about the sketch and the wonderful prize you can win by clicking HERE.

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Today Juno Designs released a new gorgeous collab with Amanda Yi called Project Fall - Pumpkin Patch:

Too bad pumpkin patches are really hard to find here in Sweden since I totally adore Halloween and wish so much that it was something that was big here too. Lucky me that there´s loads of NON pumpkin themed stuff in here...I made two layouts and one is actually about pumpkins.

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I got the most wonderful box in the mail the other day from Reprint jampacked with goodies:

So now I´ll be putting on my creative thinking cap and go all Christmassy here making cards....

Hope you all get to have a wonderful weekend!

Cheers, Carina

Two new cards and a load of layouts

Here in Sweden it´s super hot and we´ve just been taking a swim in the lake. It felt so good to cool down a bit. This is summer at it´s best!

Yesterday we went and celebrated a newborn and a 17 year old so I can finally show you the cards I did this week:

Credits: *Teen Fairy Mia - digital stamp by Mo Manning*patterned papers from Basic Grey*flowers - Prima* half pearls, paper doilie, lace - Reprint Artstamps* text stamp OM840H Grattis Hurra - Reprint Artstamps*versafine black*Spectrum Noir pens- Crafter´s Companion*

Credits: *Tiny Baby digital stamp - Some Odd Girl*patterned papers - DCWV* cardstock-Bazzill*Ribbons- DCWV*Spectrum noir pens- Crafter´s Companion*

I actually made two more cards but I can´t show them yet since they´re for the Formex Fair in August 2013. 

When it comes to digiscrapping I´ve been a really lazy girl lately so I have a lot of layouts that I´ve sadly haven´t got around to post here. I don´t wanna hoard you so I´ll just show you the latest ones and come back with more in another posting.

Credits: 

Carefree Spirit - July 2013 Art Social Collab Created by

 Etc. by Danyale, Forever Joy Designs, Wishing Well Creations, and Mari Koegelenberg, MSA.

Template by Mommyish.

Credits: Good Enough by Red Ivy Design, ScrapOrchard 

Credits: 

In The Forest by Orchard Girls, Chelle's Creations, Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs, 

Dream Big Designs, Amanda Heimann 

and Kristin Aagard Designs, Scraporchard 

Credits:

Summer Fun by Heather Roselli & Mari Koegelenberg, SSD 

Credits:

Water Play by Juno Designs & Stolen Moments, ScrapMatters  

Credits:

In the City by and Lyndsay Riches and Scrapping with Liz, 

Laura Banasiak, WM[squared] Designs and Sugary Fancy Designs, Scraporchard 

That´s it for now!

Hugs, Carina