Thinking inside the box

For this project I needed an envelope...kinda. I found this altered box in my 'might do something with this later'-pile and just added the scentence. 

Inside, I wanted to put this greeting "card", made for my mother-in-law on her 75th birthday.

I used scrap papers from the stash with an adorable design, but sadly have nooo idea what brand it is. I'm sure some of you know though. :) The front  with the picket fence hardly needed any embellishment. I just added the dragonfly, the scentence and a few mini flowers, to create a 3D effect.

A closeup on the flowers.

Here's also a heart charm and what I believe to be a seashell pendant in a rich copper tone. As you might see, I heat embossed the greeting also in copper, to match.

The punchinella is copper too, that's why it's there. No other reason. :)

Page 2 with lots and lots of hearts stamped all over. The stamped crown is heat embossed in....ja, you guessed it; copper. To make the words I put paper strips in my old Dymo and punched away. Super neat!

Flip side of page 2 and front of page 3. And a little minitag in between.

Chipboard numbers, but really a closeup of the cute cute paper. Swirls and roses, and the color combination...yum!

On the back, it's brown/creme with garden plans...or something. Swirls too.
And I added yet another scentence.

Last, but not least. The butterfly was already there, so I just added the "Kramar" and the two stamps at the very bottom. Sometimes, less really is more.

Hugs.

This is what it looked like when finished. I wanted to keep the backs fairly simple, but not totally naked. For the very last one I added two grass stamps in blue, and a doublestamped "Enjoy".

Daycare christmas gifts 2012

Guess what we gave this year. :)

I found these tiny boxes in my stash. With a stamp, a few punched out snowflakes and a christmasy tape, they turned out super cute. 

Added a gem too. There's always room for bling. :)

So, if you guessed bracelets, you were right! :) Not too hard to guess was it?

Match this

These are just a few of the matchboxes I made for the Easter fair....

All of the matchboxes were unique, but I forgot to take the camera with me, so this is what's left. :)

Gift box

Lately I haven't been crafting that much in paper, but a few days ago I made this flowered gift box for my sister-in-law. Made and made...I merely decorated the box, but that counts for something, neh? :)

It was a plain white box that I covered with paper, this velvety blue/brown around the most part but for the sides I used a paper with the same blue print, without the brown velvet. Then I decorated with a paper bow, some flowers and butterflies. I put my greeting on a coffee stirrer, almost like a sunflower, raising above it all.

Flutterings...

Another butterfly. :)

The cute paper roses I've won from a blog challenge over at Scrappekammeret. This is the first time I've got a chance to use them.



sheer roses

The making of the Sunshine bag made me wanna do more see-through stuff, so here's another one for you.

 A rose is a rose is - in this case, a rub-on. I found a paper with the same rose shape as the rub-on (not even from the same brand), and used that for the backdrop.

It would have been even more cool if the roses were facing the same direction, but as it were they are laterally reversed. Naja, you can't have it all. :)  

 For the sentiment I made a tag and glued it to the inside of the bag, with a white rub-on frame on the outside. Both tag and frame continues around the corner, wich gives a nice touch.

So, once more, from the top. As you can see, I decided to go without the handles this time. The rose in the back already covered one if the holes so I just put a butterfly sticker over the other one.
To match that, I used a cute little charm along with the ribbon and bow on the front.

Now, I just need to find something to fill it with, and someone to give it too. :)

It's no fun without some nice blog challenges, so here goes:

Simon says stamp - Anything goes

Stamping with the dragon - Anything goes

DYSU - Ribbons

Crazy4 - Layer it on

Crafty Catz weekly - Things with wings

Secret crafter - Ribbon

MAWTT - Blooming marvellous

Crafts 4 eternity - Clean and simple



Sunshine in a bag

As promised, no more christmas.  So how about I give you sunshine in a bag? It's just about time for some spring feelings. :)

I've got these adorable little plastic bags/boxes whatever you call it, and I just felt I needed to do something where I used the fact that they are transparent. 

 I came up with this 3D-look that I think turned out pretty nice. What do you think? ;)

The super-duper cute birdies are a see-through puffy sticker I've been longing to use but never found the right place for, until now. The row of flowers are cut from a scrap paper piece, and on top of that some sort of semi-transparent nylon flower, with a brad center.

I used various papers from my "leftover"-stash to create the backdrop. The sky already had clouds on it, but I added a few more, plus a cutout cloud for depth. For the sun a "check me out"-yellow and a bit of "spot on"-green as grass. ;)

I added a cloud and a hot air balloon to the front because I didn't want the knots to show...and I also had a little mishap with the cloud so now the front is all bubbly... :( Naja, happens.
Anyway. Later I found that the front cloud added a really cool effect to the whole thing, see? Ooh I like it when these things happen, unintentionally.

So, this is the back. I just cannot leave it with a white side facing out, so I added this sky piece with a pink birdie. Almost looks like it's saying something with the beak open like that, but I never found out exactly what....

I'm entering my bag in the following challenges:

Whoopsi Daisy - Anything but square

Dream Valley - Anything goes

One stop craft - Spots and ribbon

Timbroscrapmania - Wings



The very last of christmas

This week, while coughing and snoring (aint THAT typical January, seems I'm always struck with a cold this time of year) I went along and tossed out the trees - all three of them!! :) - and put my christmas back in the boxes. Always a bit sad to do so, cause we really like the holiday season in my home. But since we don't wanna have christmas ALL year around, it's bound to be done. 

Anyway. While doing that, I realised I forgot to post this little happy snowman greetingbox. Oh noo!!

It's app. 5 cm in diameter and if I remember correctly, the box was originally a bubblegum container. The lovely mr. Snowman is a sticker.

There were no actual purpose for doing this, but it's been a while since I last made a box like this and that's purpose enough for me.

A string of pearls, kinda. The lighting varies a lot in these photos, I'm sorry for that.

Wishing a merry christmas.

The following photos show the reverse side of each circle. 

Of course I had to add a little something to the bottom of the box too.

My next post won't be christmasy, I promise!! :D

More matchboxes, and a tag to match

Sorry you guys, it's been a while since I posted anything here. It's just... this time of year is craaazy, and I love it! :)

I decorated some more matchboxes, this time as part of a christmas gift for my son's teachers.

 They're all different, but still goes kinda well together.

I also made some quick tags, that I think turned out really well. Just three stamps, and a little extra red for the bow. Sweet!

And here's a snapshot of the finished gift.

Merry christmas y'all!