Another slider pop up card

As I said earlier, there are a lot of birthdays these days... I have made another slider pop up card... this time for one of Susie's friends. (The white underneath the card is the envelope, if anyone was wondering....)

I really enjoy making these cards... sooo much fun, I'm sure there will be more. Ssshhhh... I'll tell you a little secret... I've bought some new stamps on ebay... and hopefully they're in the mail finding their way to me as we "speak"... Can't wait to get them... and make lots of new cards with them...

What I did this easter...

Easter this year was spent at my parent's cabin at Bortelid... it's always good to sit down and do crafty stuff there... this year I just brought some wool- and some cotton knitting yarn. And knitting needles, of course... (I guess it's about time I blog about this as easter is already almost a faint memory.... haha...)

First I knitted a... don't know what they are called in english... it's kind of a flat, warm cushion for bringing along in your backpack when out skiing (or hiking) for sitting on in the snow... This picture shows it before felting...
... and this is the finished product. It became nice and thick after felting it two rounds in the washing machine.

I also made a couple of new Ballband dishcloths.

...and a new set of pot holders. I guess by now you have figured that my favourite colours at the moment is lime, turquoise and blue...

I think this set will cheer up my kitchen.

Double slider card...

Another one of my already stamped, coloured and cut out fairys has been used... This card, like the previous one, is for one of Maja's school friends. There are a lot of birthdays these days...
I found it so fun making interactive cards, that I wanted to try another style too... When you pull the ribbon on this card, a piece of card slides out from both the top and bottom of the main card..

Like this....(press play to see the card move):

Just a couple of close ups of the sliders...

You can pull the sliders quite far out of the card, so there was plenty of space for Maja to put her greeting above the snails...

Slider pop up card...

I promised to show the card I made with the stamped and coloured cut outs from my previous post, and here it is: Tadaaa... (the colour is all wrong... the card is more purple in real life, not blue as here)
If you pull that little ribbon at the top, the card topper will slide and pop up to an upright position... like this...
If I show it from the side, you can see the "mechanism"...

And here is one of the little fairys that I stamped, coloured and cut out a few days ago... I mounted her on 3D foam tape to make her stand up from the base...

I have stamped a "happy birthday" greeting in the space that is revealed when you pull the topper up... this is also where Maja put her message to her friend...

Card toppers

I've been playing around with my stamps and new watercolour pencils again... Stamping, colouring and cutting... It's always handy to have a few card toppers lying around for when I want to make a card...

The watercolour paper I used this time wasn't as heavy/thick as the last time I was stamping and cutting (for these cards here...) and that made the cutting part much easier... I'm not sure which paper I prefer though... the heavier paper made it harder to cut out small details, but then again it made the cut outs more sturdy...I've used one of these cut outs for a card already... I'll show you that another day... (I don't want to show it before the receiver has got it...)