Vintage cake stand

Just a few days before christmas I came up with the idea of making three tier cake stands as christmas gifts for my family. Great idea!
NOT so great that I decided this a bit late.... However, a quick raid to the thrift shop and a browse on the internet later I luckily had all the parts needed AND a drilling-willing husband (noo, I did not find him online :P), so I made it in time for christmas. Just in time I might add.
I didn't have time, however, to take pictures.  Ja okey, I forgot. There were more important things to focus on right then and there. :)

I've later corrected my mistake, so out of the four cake stands I've managed to photograph three. Tadaa!

The one I kept for myself. Picture's from christmas eve and we've filled it with homemade candy. Yummy! You can't see it here of course, but it's green-ish and top and bottom tiers have similar empire? baroque? OLD depictions that ties it together nicely. 



Cake stand #2, for my mother-in-law. Pale green and pink flowers for this one. The openwork saucer on top is  the icing on this cake.

 

The third one I gave to my mother. It has brighter flowers and gold lining, although the top bowl is more of a bold border.

 

 

I think I may have to make some more of these, as soon as I have time to shop for more vintage plates. It was FUN!

 

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?

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

give me an X

Once again a big Xmas. This was an order from a friend, for a friend. :)
Don't think I'll ever get tired of making letters, I looove letters in any shape, and combined with christmas it just can't go wrong. ;)

 A greyish colorscheme, with a hint of red for highlights. I choosed a striped paper for the X, and used quite a lot of stamping over it, to get a softer look.

 I've grown kinda fond of these pine cone-stamps, and they really look great here! A few strokes with a red pen on the ribbon, a bloodred heart (what else?), and a touch of red around the edges and I'm done.

I also matted the "merry"-tag with red paper, and found a punch with a santa-hat in my stash that's just so funny for the silver reindeer.

I've entered in the following blog challenges with this post:

Secret crafter - Anything goes
Charisma cardz - Anything goes
Crafty catz - Santas hat
Top tip tuesday - Anything goes
Aud sentiments - Anything goes
Dream valley - Christmas
Paper play - Christmas
Dutch dare cards - My favorite things
The sisterhood of crafters - Black, white + 1 color
OLLCB - Anything but a card

Season's greetings

I wish you all a wonderful holiday!

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!

Bigger bolder Xmas

I got a request for a bigger "Xmas" letter, so I made one in 18 cm instead of my usual 7 cm.

 The X is made with shimmering white cardstock, stamped  randomly with a vintage christmascard stamp in black.

 The "merry"-tag and an adorable little reindeer in silver glitter.

Since the X was bigger, I had to make a new template for the "mas"-part. I changed the font also because it looked better this way. :) Onto the already heavy patterned paper I stamped and heat embossed a swirly stamp in black. A mother-of-pearl heart, and a couple of rhinestone embellished snowflakes felt right here.

Christmas treats

This year it'll be super fancy christmas candy in this house...or atleast that's the plan. LOL
We bought chocolate molds and will give it a try with filled chocolate, along with the usual knäck and marzipan figures of course.
Anyway, this made me think about making a box for all the goodies. Now, I don't know if it means we'll fail, or that we'll eat it all at once, but this box is only 9x10 cm... :D The cute deer from The greeting farm 's Forest friends was just right for this.

A touch of Glossy accent on the eye.

I made a little window to display the treats, cutting a hole through the lid and covering it with acetate from the back, and with a scalloped border on the front. 

I needed chocolate for this photo, but we still haven't made any "real" ones, so I'm just using a trial batch here. :)

More merry xmas

I almost forgot to post these! Xmas letters that some of my friends have ordered. :)
If you want one too, here's the post where you can order: Xmas came early
There's still a little time to make them before christmas. :)

 This one's in red, white and gold.

 Here's a black, white and red Xmas.

I neded a box for the black/white X since it would go by mail. Of course I couldn't stop myself from decorating the box also.
All displayed items are stamped with lovely christmasy stamps from Viva Decor.

Let it snow

Today's post is a really quick snowman card. That is, it CAN be quickly made, if you wanna. I choose to put a little more effort into it today, with ice stickles, paper pen, heat embossing and even a hat. :)

 But it can be made also with the three circle punches on top of each other, and some pencils to draw arms and charcoal pieces. A felt carrot nose and felt scarf and it would be nice and easy even for kids.

 Handwritten sentiment cause I had no stamp with this text...

 For the hat I used half of a punched out circle, a scrap piece for the "brim" and a blue dew drop on top.

Hi there. ;)

I found a few challenges for my little snowman:

Craft your passion - Let it snow (isn't that just perfect? :))
Whoopsi Daisy - Colors of winter
DYSU - # 46 Splash of blue
MAWTT - Let it snow (an other one, yay!)
Fab 'n' funky - Baby it's cold outside

Xmas came early

Idag satte stora julfeelingen in. Jag vill pyssla julsaker, NU!

Slängde ut en fråga lite sådär bara, och det visade sig att jag har flera supersöta vänner som vill köpa en sån här Xmas-bokstav av mig.  Åååååh så kul, då har jag ju giltig anledning att julpyssla. ;)

Xmas, med ung. utseende som på bilden, ca 7 cm hög, kostar 100:- plus ev. porto.

 Jag tänkte såhär dårå, för jag har alltså inga färdiga bokstäver; Du som vill ha en Xmas, var snäll och lämna en kommentar på det här inlägget så får jag lite koll på ung. hur många jag ska knåpa ihop. Om ni har speciella önskemål ang. färgerna så fixar jag nog det. :)

KRAM på er!

diggin into the scrap heap 1

Few days ago I stumbled across this super cool idea about making use of  scrap papers at Paper Crafts Magazine's Freebie Friday (haha, guess it was last friday I found this then :)) and  Betsy’s Scrap Basket Challenge – Revisited. I just fell in love!

 Originally this was one big square card, but I suddenly decided to cut them in half. Good choice I think. ;)

 The lower half covered with strips of scrap in teal color scheme, with hints of red. A red/white twine and a shiny round button resembling a christmas tree ornament. Simple, fresh.

The top of the card had all these stripes sticking up, and I meant to cut them....but came up with this idea instead. I kinda like it. A felt swirl completes it nicely.

But by now I got my brain boling with ideas about scrap pieces....

Seamless trees

Today I've been trying on some of my latest stamp additions, and since the last sets of stamps were christmasy - christmas cards is what you get. :)

 This card base was leftover from the deer card a few days ago (I cut a larger square card in two, and took a piece of this one to make the deer), and that, along with the shape of the trees, inspired me to make this 'invisible opening'-thingie. Can you spot the opening? ;)
 
 Maybe here?

 Peekaboo!

 I'm not really sure this is a santa. He looks more like a gnome to me, especially in this 'down-to-earth' costume. :)

Second card got a real simple layout. Too bad you can't really see the lovely shimmer in this card though....
Anyway. Lots of embossing here; first stamped and embossed the outline in black, and then added some extra grace to it with Palm green details. All done!