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

DT Project

Today it is my turn to show a project on the Snazzys design team blog.
Here you can see a sneak peak. To see the full project and see some amazing projects of other DT members go to Snazzys Design Team Blog

Waltzing Mouse Challenge 66

I just recently discovered Waltzing Mouse Stamps and I have to say they are brilliant! Today I decided to participate in one of their challenges where you had to follow a sketch and use at least one of their stamps.

Papers are from Bo Bunny and Pion Design.

Fashionable Stamping Challenge 5 "Vintage"

The theme on the new challenge blog Fashionable Stamping Challenge is "Vintage". Of course I could not resist...

This is a simple easel Christmas card. Papers are from Pion Design and the stamps used are from Katzel Craft (main image), Stempelglede and Waltzingmouse Stamps (sentiment). If you want to see other entries go to fashionablestampingchallenges

Box card

Work is rather stress full at the moment and I find that doing crafty card projects is just the perfect de-stresser. As it is my daughter's birthday next week and she wanted vouchers for her favourite clothes shop I decided to make her a gift box/card, just a little more exciting than just handing her an envelope...
I used Melissa Frances papers and stamps by Crafty Individuals and Tim Holtz.

This is the outside of the box.

This is what you see when you open the card.

Here you can see the inside. I made a little pouch to put the gift token in.

This finally is the little tag I made to go with it.

If you want to know how to make the box, there is a great tutorial (and a way more beautiful box )here

Easelcard/notecard holder

Inspired by all the beautiful papers that are around, I don't seem to be able to get away from making cards at the moment.
Here is an easel card that is also a little note card holder:

This is what the card looks like closed:

I have used papers from Bo Bunny's Father Christmas Collection. The stamp is a Tilda stamp by the Swedish company Panduro. A tutorial for this card (as well as many other projects) can be found here

Last of the witches ATCs

Here is the last of the series of witch ATCs created for the VPI yahoo group swap.
The background was created with multiple layers of paint, stamps, texture paste and vintage book pages.

The image is from a Lunar Girl collage sheet, the witches hat from a freebie from Constance Taylor, you can find it on Flickr. Finally I challenged myself to embellish with little bits of scraps that were flying around my very messy craft table...
I am also putting this in for the Simon Says Stamp and Show

3 Halloween ATCs for a swap

This year I find it really hard to get in the mood for Halloween, but as I had signed up for a swap in the VPI yahoo group, so I had to get going.

The one with the ribbon at the bottom has a freebie image from Land of Nod studios, the other two have images from a collage sheet I purchased last year.