Thanksgiving card

Here is a card I made for the Graphics 45 Challenge. You can find details on their blog.

It's a new kind of easel/tag card.

This is the card with the easel bit down/closed.

Here is it standing up

And here finally is the tag that slides inside the card.

A piece in progress

In August I was the lucky winner of the amazing Tara Orr 's giveaway. I won the most amazing amount of stash, amongst it this little Bo Bunny album

Not being American I felt I wanted to alter it so I made it into a little wedding album with photo's from my son's wedding. I had great fun creating the backgrounds with paint, mists, inks, stencils and stamps. I am not really a great scrapbooker but I did enjoy embellishing the pages, here are some of them:

Second Snazzys DT project featuring Kaisercraft and TH products

Here is a tag I made for my second project for our DT.

More details can be found on the DT blog (see post below for a link)

Snazzys October Project

Today it is my turn to present a project over at the Snazzy's DT blog. This month we are featuring Kaisercraft products. If you want to see how I made this and see some other cool projects by my fellow team members, please head over there by going to Snazzys Design Team Blog

Look what the postie brought

Well today is my big day (don't ask, it's one of those with a zero in it)...
I want to say a big thank you to all my blogging and facebook friends who sent me good wishes from all over the world. Thank you also for all the beautiful cards!!! (you know who you are).

I could not resist though showing this wonderful surprise package that arrived to day in the mail from my dear friend Cindy
Is n't it amazing?

Crafty Christmas tags

While working on some bigger art projects which I cannot yet show, I have been relaxing doing some crafty Christmas projects in between.
All stamps from Waltzing Mouse.
The strips to make the stars with come from Vivi Gade. A tutorial of how to do these, can be found here

New kind of slider card

This time of year always seems to bring out the card maker in me. I just love making different kinds of Christmas cards. Usually I don't really like what I call "cute" cards, but I could not resist these new digi stamps from Mo Manning. Papers are Vivi Gade and Pion Design.

As you can see the main image is like a large tag that slides inside it's holder. When you pull it out you see the Christmas sentiment (Waltzing Mouse).

Here is another sample with the same idea.

Here finally is a simple easel card using the same stamp

Fashionable Stamping Challenge 6 "Anything but a card"

Here is my contribution to the latest challenge of Fashionable Stamping Challenges. I created a tealight gift box. A tutorial for this can be found here

I used Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden papers for my box and stamps from Waltzing Mouse stamps plus various spellbinders dies.

Here is a little tag still to fit in the pocket of the left side

Yet another birthday card

Autumn seems to be the time for birthday or so it seems.
Here is another card for a crafty friend whose birthday is coming up soon.
All images(apart from the central sentiment one) are either hand drawn or die cut. I let myself be inspired by the awesome American illustrator Tasha Tudor.
Here is a picture of the inside of the card

Birthday card for a crafty friend

This is a gift card for a blogger friend. I am also putting it in for Waltzing Mouse challeng 68.
Can you tell I like WM stamps? Though I have to say only the little tag has a WM stamp on it, the others are all stamps I had in my stash already and I can never remember where they were from....

The papers are old Graphics 45 bits that were still lying around. I think they are both from the Botanica bella range though the green may have been from the Renaissance collection.

Waltzing Mouse Challenge 67

This week the challenge at the WM challenge blog is to create an ornament of some sort.
As I have fallen in love with Scandinavian style Christmas things I made this Danish woven paper heart.
Papers are from Vivi Gade and the stamps from Waltzing Mouse.

Last week I was really lucky as I was picked the winner which meant I could choose a set of WM stamps. How lucky was that!

Vintage Notebook

Here is a little note book I created. I made it with stamps I have had for a very long time. I think the main image is from Oxford Impressions, but I'm not sure.

Here you can see both what the cover looks like and the inside pages. They all have this little digi stamp on that I created myself from a Dover freebee.

Monthly Calendar page for October

It's amazing how time flies by! It's October already, so time for the next monthly calendar page. Here are some pictures of my pages for this month.

For those of you who don't know, this is a challenge hosted by Kate Crane of the Kathrynwheel. You can find links to many more pages over on her blog here

The embellishments are a mixture of real dried flowers and leaves and die cuts. Images are from Seneca Ponds crafts and digital collagesheets.com