Racer boy

Vrrrrrroooom! This little guy loves anything with an engine, and quite a few things without one. A paper filled with cars seemed fitting.

I inked the edges green on this multicolored paper, and followed it up with green bubbles/circles and an arrow. The blue is matched up with bubbles and the tags, and so on.... His mother wanted happy colors and not just "standard" boyish theme with blue tones. I really like the outcome.

I had this skyscraper stamp in my drawer that I colored in grey shades....it made the blue background look like sky (with flying cars I guess... :)) and added some weight to the base.

The tiny cars are stickers, just the right size for the road. Arent they adorable?

 



After negotiations, I was allowed from my boys to glue this cutie onto here.

A yellow bike button to match the yellow cab.

Name embossed in green along the side.

 

 

I haven't entered any blog challenges in a looong time, so now's about time. Today, I wanna play along in the following challenges:

 

Cupcake craft - Cool men

OLLCB - It's a man thing

Craft your passion - Make it cute

Simon says stamp - Anything goes

Aud sentiments - For a child

Creative card crew - Masculine

Stampin' for the weekend - Anything but a card



Little lady

A dear (and luckily very patient) friend of mine ordered some letters for her family a while back. The first one, made for a sweet princessy little girl is all about pink and cuddly and cute...

Pink - of course - background paper with flock flowers. On top of that a lace border in the bottom, a stamped row of hearts and a yummy cupcake bow...

The centerpiece cupcake stack is stamped one by one directly onto the background and then colored and blinged (my personal fave is the cherry on top!). Kitty is stamped on a different paper, trimmed and adhered. Notice the itty bitty butterfly too.

Fit for a princess.

Girly girl flowers with gemstone. The "pistils" are actually snowflake brads - on spring break I like to think. ;) 

 

Stay tuned, there's more to come!



On the wishlist

Last week my little baby turned 5....wich, I guess, means he's really not a baby at all. :O
On his wishlist was things like LEGO and a Star Wars-sword and a real horse (yikes!) and - bless his big big heart - "one of those letters you do mom, they are so pretty". Who can resist such a cute request? I sure can't, so here's what I made for him:

He wanted a red letter, and I found this cool paper that is boyish but not too childish in style, filled with bikes wich is good in two ways. 1. He loves bikeriding, and 2. I finally got a chance to use my bicycle-buttons!

Again I used the wired heart, with a smaller heart inside. For me, the big heart symbolizes our love, protecting and embracing his - the smaller - heart, and life. 
I also tagged it with his date of birth, using "supercool, real screws" to attach it. :)

Just hangin'.

The hearts and &-sign are stamped directly onto the H, and then embossed. The sentiment is pieced together from two stamps (I love you and Friends are forever). 

A tree for growing, and a dog because he LOVES dogs. If he could, I bet he'd be a dog....

He wanted his name on there too. :)

Fabric bookshelf

I've put my old sewing machine to good use these past weeks. I'm almost expecting it to fall apart from all this unusual pressure. LOL

Anyhow, this is my latest project, a couple of "bookshelves" for my boys. :)

 Made out of fabric of course, I don't have a magical sewing machine that can handle wood.
So, my kiddos picked out this fabric at IKEA, and I also got the perfect-sized IRJA curtain rods over there. 10 sek a piece, can you believe it?! I bought 4 for this. 
Since I'm a true novis at sewing, I'm sticking to straight pieces of fabric, and only zig-zag and simple straight seams. Easy peasy.

 A couple of (fairly straight) seams later, and some drillinghelp from my handy handyman man haha ...here they are! Some of the teddybears quickly found their home in there too.

A closeup. For now the rear rod is just resting on the brackets, but I think I'll have to come up with a solution to make it stay there.

Kids love it though :) *phew*

baby girl baptism

I had to have a break from snowmen, santas, tinsel and wrapping paper, and decided it was perfect time to make the card for Ebba's baptism. It ended up very very pink....

 For the front I used a border punch with cute little hearts, a greeting stamp and big bold bow threaded through the card. (Yep, I did trim the ends before giving it away, seems I was in a bit of a hurry to take these pics ;))

 A really sweet paper for this card. With the delicate flower branches it needed only very little effort to look stunning, so I just enhanced the twigs with a thouch of ice stickles in crystal and pink. To match the bold-colored bow I matted the greeting with a cherry paper, again with the heart shaped border.

For the chrisom I tried something I've thought about since I made the wedding dress card (Here comes the bride[card]); to make a chrisom with the same technique. :) I soon discovered it needed a few adjustments as I went along, but the original idea is still there with the folded skirt (even though you can't see it in these photos).

The pink petticoat is stamped with a floral swirl, then heat embossed in Bridal for that shimmering look. For the hemline a touch of ice stickles. The vellum dress is open to reveal the petticoat. For the borders I used a pair of pattern scissors and then the tip of a pen to make the dots....wich aren't that visible here...naja. You can see the glittering twigs a bit in this pic though.

I needed something to draw attention to the chrisom without taking over the card, so I made the dress "fall out" from a small chipboard frame. A flower sticker in the same color as the bow looks nice on the top, and pearls are always pretty (and covers up the joint between the top and bottom part of the dress).  

Cute, huh? :)

I'm also entering in the following blog challenges:

Simon says stamp - Anything goes
Aud sentiments - Anything goes
Top tip tuesday - Anything goes
Charismacardz - Anything goes
Secret crafter - Anything goes

Happy birthday greeting box

It's been a while since my last mini box, but this weekend I had a chance to make a box for a birthday girl. It's a girly girl box with lace and "diamonds", all in pink of course. The lace is really more pink than this...hm. A pink birthday sticker fitted perfectly on top.

 Flowers, and more pink, inside...

My son wrote the greeting (the girls name) inside, and I embellished each square with a small flower/butterfly/note sticker. That's it! Easy peasy. :)

Baby Ebba

Letters in pink and white for Ebba, a cutie pie baby girl. All papers used are from DCWV's Nana's Nursery Mat Stack: Baby Girl.

Itty bitty paper roses are mandatory. :)

Being a word nerd I of course adore this cute text-paper, and it fits perfectly here. I let the paper speak for itself and just added a few stamped hearts before mounting it to the letter. Some butterflies and the circle with 'Our' and I'm done.

Here I placed the word 'lovely' in a frame, and added a delicate stroller from Karen Marie Klip, embellished with Paper pen-pearls.

The swirl die cut wasn't the right color so I heat embossed it several times to make it fit in. The word 'little' in shape of a banner, and a sweet bunny doll I found in Shanghai (from a set of paper doll-stickers, sooooo cute).

Paper roses again....I'm addicted! For the 'girl'-flag I simply used a pin, and the ragdoll is another Karen Marie Klip.

And, as usual, I'm entering in a blog challenge too, namely:

Simon says stamp - Anything goes

neoLeo

Ok, finally!! :) This is what I've been up to in between vacations and trips here and there.

A friend asked me to make letters for her newborn, and she wanted them green since she loves that color. I've added a little blue because it's a boy, and because just green would make it a bit flat. ;)

L is for Loved

 You've already seen a little bit of this in my last post, with the cute deer. I added two hearts on his little tush, and embossed ear and chest with Silver pearl. Also coated the eye with Glossy accent for extra dimension.
Perhaps I should mention the background paper aswell. It's a simple square pattern, with randomly added stamped stars. First a filled star, and on top of that a starry outline stamp wich I embossed. Pretty cool result I might say. :)

 The zinc tag with ribbons, an adorable stroller charm and a heart (with some extra left over pearls, great for making "new" embelishments of old stuff), all pinned together with a star shaped brad.
(The word 'Vår' translates into 'Our'.)

 Is it a bee? A fly maybe? I dunno. I do know it's kinda cute, and adds extra detail. I like. :)

 Flowers are always nice. These are fabric ones, and I've stamped on them with darker blue for extra effect. The center brad is really a snow flake.... but it's alright for this purpose also, no? :)

You've seen this one on other projects, if you've visited my blog before. I like it. I also like to make it just barely visible, on the side of a project. So I did just that this time too. ;)



E is for Enchanting

This was a quite messy background paper, so it needed a lot of embellishment. That might sound weird, but to add large objects on top makes the background less noisy. Luckily the word here (Underbara/Wonderful) was a long one. I also added a strip of paper at the bottom, with some of my beautiful stitching (LOL, this is why I'm doing scrap, not clothes), three buttons and a safety pin.

An itsy-bitsy tiny little car.

 Two of the letters was switched into these lovely fabric stickers.

Darling penguin on the loose, again. This time with embossed body and Crackle accent belly not to hide the lovely paper too much.

Butterflies fluttering by. 

O is for One of a kind

This one's also very much patterned, and yet I added some more. :) All the hearts on the left are stamped, in various colors and some even embossed. The pennants read 'Unge', wich translates to 'Kid'.

 Leaving a footprint...

 Super cute baby stroller from Karen Marie under the retro trees, and a wire heart resting at the bottom of the O.

 The pennant/clothes line.... I often use scrap pieces of paper from the other letters, that binds the project together in a nice and subtle way.

 Floral top.

 Did I mention I like white on white stamping? ;)  This is stamped on the side of the O...

I've also found some really neat challenges for this post, check them out:

Moving along with the times - Don't be square
Crafts and me - Anything goes
Clear it out - Summer projects
One stop craft - Sentimental
Crazy 4... - Shape it up
If the shoe fits.. - Show us your green
Sentimental sundays - Flowers (+ sentiment)
Whoopsi daisy - Anything but square
Scrappekammeret - Sommerbilde (inspiration från det gröna, och de blå blommorna)
Craft us crazy - Anything goes in August
Papertake weekly - Anything goes
The stamp man - Show us some stitching

Fingers crossed!! ;)

till en liten höna

Jag är en härmapa. :) Jag blev så förtjust i den lilla kycklingen jag använde för ett tag sen, så när jag fick anledning att göra en presentbox åt en liten tjej var dekorationerna självskrivna.

I'm a copycat. :) I became so fond of the little chicken I used some time ago, so when I got the opportunity to make a gift box for a girlie the decorations were axiomatic. "Axiomatic", now I've learned a new word too, cool :D

 Naturligtvis (och lyckligtvis) blir det aldrig exakt likadant, och den här gången blev det en hemmagjord blomma med blad, och några dew drops i rosa på toppen av den genomskinliga asken.

Naturally (and luckily) it won't ever be the exact same, and this time I used a home made flower and leafs, with some rose dew drops on top of the transparent box. 

 Blomman är gjord av tre stansade cirklar, varav en lite större med vågig kant och två mindre helt runda. Jag knycklade ihop dem, inkade kanterna lite slarvigt och fäste ihop dem med en brad. Bladen är utklippta på frihand, skårade med ett falsben för att likna bladnerver och inkade i kanten.

The flower is made of three punched circles; one scalloped and two smaller plain ones. I crincled them, inked the edges a bit sloppy and put them together with a brad. The leafs are cut in a free form, scored with the bone folder to imitate the veins, and inked along the edges.

Asken var röd, så för att binda ihop färgerna lite bättre fäste jag först ett vitt sidenband och sen en rödrosa rosenmönstrad tejp över. Skarven doldes med en grön knapp. 

It was a red box, so to bind it all together a bit more I attached a white silk ribbon and then a pink/red rose patterned adhesive tape on top of that. I covered the seam with a green button.

 Inuti asken, under silkespappret, hittar man denna söta lilla sak med egenhändigt textiltryck.

Inside the box, underneath the tissue-paper, you'll find this cute little thingie, with personal print.

 Min klassiska "tillverkningsstämpel" på magen....

My classical "tag of origin" on the belly...

...och i nacken ett litet tryck med flickans namn.

Nu återstår att se om såväl beställare som mottagare blir nöjda. :)

...and for the neck, a small print with the girls name.

What's left now is to see if the customer and the recipients will like it. :)

Yes, of course I wanna enter into some challenges too. :) Here they are:

Easy Craft Projects - Pretty pastel colours

The sisterhood of crafters - Button box (use button)

Papertake weekly - Pale, pretty pastels

Dutch dare card - Altered projects
Scrappekammeret - Lag en egen dekorasjon
Whoopsi Daisy - Birthday challenge
Paper romance - Anything but a card
Crazy 4 - Bring a giggle to the world
A spoon full of sugar - Things with wings