Monday motivation

Here's a card to make someone's Monday less blue and more colourful. It's a colour explosion!

 

 




















With this card I would like to share some Summer feeling. It's almost Summer here by now ~ that means the season of flowers and bright colours. I have collected a bunch of flowers from different places. I have been looking around for flowers in my garden and in the local craft store. What you can see in my card is a mix of a bunch of random flowers that I have found.

I made the digi myself. Since it took ridiculously long to create her, I hope at least someone would like to grab her and paint her (and give her some love?).


Painter girl - free digital image/free digi

Painter girl - my painted version

 

Card template

 













































I love colours. This background/template is as colourful as I could imagine.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Challenge 44 - The Cutie Pie Challenge blog
Challenge 65 - Love to create challenge blog
Challenge 211 - Stamp with fun
Color throwdown - 242
Utfordring 74- Nordsalten hobbyklubb
HSS Color Challenge #159

Girls, girls, girls - Joanna Sheen Challenge
Challenge 164 - One stitch at a time

Use a digi - Crafts and me challenges
CCEE1320, Let it all hang out or over
Flower Power - Simon says

Baby blue

For baby Edith

For this card I played with different shades of purple, blue and turquoise. I made two of the three backgrounds myself (look below if you want to save one or both of them). I made this card for Baby Edith's baptism day. I didn't want to make a typical kind of baptism card, with crosses and such. Instead I wanted to focus on the person, who is being celebrated. That is baby Edith. Not baby Jesus.


Kofi Annan once said: "To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there." As a little child, you start with small things; you pick your favourite toy and eventually you pick your own socks. You know what? It all starts with socks. (Or in the struggle between a well-meaning parent who is trying to put your socks on, and you who keep insisting on pulling them off.)

I enter this card into the following challenges:
Challenge 80: Baby - Aud Sentiments Challenge
Challenge 145: Pastels - Papercraft Star
2 Sisters Challenge Blog 44: 1-2-3  (1 sock, 2 embellishments; flower button and flower ornament, 3 background papers)
Lilac and lace - GingerloftChallenge
Challenge 36: Lace - Delicious Doodles

Template - baby sock

Template - frame

Background - mixed media painting
(alcohol + acrylic paint)

Purple background with white lace 

Before and crafter

From an old table-cloth...

to a new postcard!



 I enter the following challenges:

Birthday, Birthday, Birthday - 4 Crafty Chicks

JAI 166 Colour combo challenge - Just Add Ink

Challenge 56 - No Squares Allowed - Dream Valley

Challenge 19 - No Digis Allowed - Charisma Cardz

Simon Says.....Flower Power !

Challenge # 222 - Crafty Creations

Template for Congratulations card in Swedish
Mall till Grattiskort/Födelsedagskort/
Gratis Gratulationskort

Tea time talk and flora fantastique

 












I think May Flowers are so flora-dorable. For this card I used some of my old May Flower pins. 

I find the paper with tea cups to be absolutely tea-riffic. It came with issue 57 from Let's make cards.  

Don't you find the digital image to be pre-tea cute? You can grab it here if you want to.

I am entering the following card challenges:

• {PIN}spirational Challenge #55

• HIMCR #95 - Hiding in my craft room  

• Challenge # 58 Pretty In Pink - Whimsy

• Challenge #169 Lots of Pink - Fab 'n' Funky Challenges

• Challenge #161 - One stitch at a time

• Challenge #220 - Crafty Creations Challenges

• Anything goes - Our creative corner

• Challenge # 173 - The Corrosive Challenge Blog

Because I store my tea-cups in the kitchen:

• CCEE1317 In The Kitchen - CCEE Stampers

Flora-dorable

 

For this card I made my own digi. I was inspired by some paper-dolls which my mum used to draw for me, when I was a kid. The red-headed doll is meant to be me, while the blonde doll is supposed to be the girl I'm a mentor for. Her birthday is coming up, so I made this card for her.

The flowers in the corners come from my garden. Basically, I picked some flowers and put them in my scanner. Instead of using dried flowers, I used scanned dried flowers. Lol. Don't ask me why (less messy maybe?). The other flowers come from the local craft store. I have painted them though - with nail polish (I paint almost everything except my nails with nail polish). 

When it comes to the papers, I purchased some of them at the local craft store Pysselmakaren, while I painted some (not with nail polish actually, but acrylic paint).

Why don't you save us? We are friendly.

 

I enter the following challenges:

• Challenge 180 - THE COLOUR PURPLE - Crafty Catz
• Stamping Dragon Designs challenge "Spring has sprung"
• CHALLENGE #43 - LOTS OF LAYERS - Cutiepie
• Color Throwdown #240
• Pile It On #17 - April Showers bring May Flowers
• Challenge #49 - Color Palette - Creatilicious Challenges
• Challenge # 60 @ Tammy Scrapin Corner Theme: Lots of Layers
• Challenge #131 - Floral Frenzy - Crafts and me challenges

Hearts full of dots - part 2

Why don't you pick a heart card? It could make someone's day - yay! Some other colours can be found here: part 1. Hearty hugs!

 

Hearts full of dots

Here's a heart, or actually many of them (look below for different dots and different shades of colour). While they are far from perfect and have some imperfections, I'm still quite happy about the result. What do you think? :) Why dot you take one? 

I'm entering this card into: CFC99 at Cas-ual Fridays. Yay fun! I'm also entering Challenge 5 - Spots or Stripes.

 





Heart card template



Here's part II (warm colours)