Cards made in 2011

Another post showing everything I've done since february... lol... maybe I should start blogging a bit more often again.... Well, this time I just want to blog all the cards I made this... ehm... last year.

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For Christmas I needed a few small things to give away, so I made these small post it note holders. They were really quick and fun to make.

Here you can see all the postit note holders I made....

This card was for my sister in law's birthday. She plays the guitar and she had just done a project with spiders at school... The left picture is the front of the card, and the right is a peek of the inside...

My niece was one in October.... this is the card I made for her.

This mermaid was for one of Maja's friend's birthday.

...and another mermaid for Susie's friend.

It's always hard to buy prensents for people that have everything... so for my mum's birthday I made her a set of five cards for different occasions. When I think about it, this was probably a stupid thing to do since she is one of the few people that buys cards from me on a regular basis.... The set consisted of:

A wedding card...

a new home card....

a happy birthday card...

another birthday card....

and a card with no sentiment...

they were all decorated on the inside as well...

I think she was pleased with the present, and I know that she has already given some of the cards away.

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The next two cards was for Maja's friends too...

And way back in january last year, I made this sliding pop up card for some friends of ours that had a baby girl.

Well.... this was kind of short and sweet... lol... I guess I should have added what stamps (companies) and materials I've used but I can't really be bothered listing all that for all these cards. And I think that would have made for a really boring post as well....

Mojo monday challenge no 111 and some exciting news...

Boy, do I have some exciting news today.... I've got myself a JOB!! Woohooo!! Nothing's on paper yet, but the headmaster at Maja's school promised me a job, starting January. I'll contact him a bit closer to Christmas and work out all the details, but he has promised me work 3 days a week. I'm sooo excited! On the other hand, that means I can no longer spend my whole days with Susie... I can't remember if I already mentioned that she has got a place in a new built nursery (it's not quite finished yet...), anyway... she is starting nursery at the end of this month (if the nursery is finished by then...lol...) or beginning of December. So this is going to be a big change for both her and me... and for the rest of the family too, of course, not having me at home all the time....

Well, over to my card. This card was made using sketch 111 from the Mojo Monday sketch blog. You're probably bored by the stamp I've used by now.... I know... It just happens to be my favourite at the moment...Image is coloured with water colour pencils, and I've matted the image on some soft pink pearlescent paper... the off white strip to the right is also same type of paper. I think you can see the shimmer in those pearlescent papers a bit better on this pic...

It's really hard to photograph my cards at this time of year... not much daylight, and lamp light gives the photos the wrong colours... ach well, you get the idea....

A wedding card

I don't seem to get into blogging again after the summer hols.... a week or two between posts.... not good, not good at all! And everything I post about is stuff that I made a week or two before I got it posted... hrmph... I'm gonna try to improve....

Anyway, here's a card I made weeks ago... not for anyone in particular, just wanted to try out a new technique. I masked a heart shape on the card and rubbed ink directly onto the cardstock and stamped some swirls on top... so no fancy papers here....
I used the wedding couple from the Caketopper set by The Greeting Farm, the sentiment is from Kort og Godt and the swirls and butterflies from.... hmmm... can't remember what company right now and can't be bothered to go downstairs to check it out....

The couple is coloured with water colour pencils and mounted on pop dots for dimension and the butterflies are only glued down in the middle so that the wings stands up a bit....

Thanks for looking and a big thank you to those of you that still checks in and leave nice comments even though there is so little news in here...

A wedding card

I have totally forgot to show you the wedding card I made for my cousin's wedding this summer... I had been wanting the Caketopper stamp set from The Greeting Farm for absolute ages, but couldn't really afford it... So when I got the invitation to the wedding, I was so thrilled to have an excuse to buy this stamp set.... It came in the post just in time for me to be able to make the card before I went away on holiday... so if the card seems a bit simple, it's just because I had to rush it a bit....

Well, without further ado, here it is:

Again, I've made a pop up card. It's so much fun to make these cards.... I don't seem to be able to stop...

You just pull that flap at the top... and voila... up it goes! I was in such a hurry to get this card finished that I forgot to put on the ribbon to pull out the card at the top... would have made it a bit easier to pull out... ach... never mind, it's too late now anyway. I have also stamped a greeting on the "pull out flap" (or whatever it's called....) It says "Beautiful Life".

Apart from the Caketopper stamps from The Greeting Farm I used a few other "old" ones. The image is coloured with water colour pencils and the sentiment and bells are mounted on 3d cushions.

10 year wedding anniversary!

Yesterday, 19th June, was our 10th wedding anniversary. It's so strange to think about that I've been married to my lovely husband for that long. We'd been together for 10 years before we got married as well, so that brings us up to 20 years together... phew... That makes me sound very old, doesn't it...?? (I don't feel that old though)

I still have my wedding bouquet.... This is what it looks like now.... 10 years after... and if you look closely, you can see the caketopper in the bottom right corner.

...and this is what it looked like back then (sorry for the bad scan);

I also still have my wedding shoes. They are the same as my mum got married to my dad in, back in 1971... so they have turned a bit yellow.

They're still in their original box....

...and if you look closely, you can see how much you had to pay for a nice pair of wedding shoes 38 years ago... 39 Norwegian kroner (that would be about £3.90 or $ 6.20)

And here we are 20 years after we met... still happy together...

To Switzerland and back

Last weekend I was in Switzerland with my family, to attend Pirmin and Angelas wedding. It was a beautiful wedding in a beautiful old church set in even more beauiful surroundings. Even the place cards were beautiful... decorated cookies... wow!
We didn't understand much of anything anyone said in their speeches (or in the church)... If they only had spoken "normal" german instead of "Käse Deutsch" (as my hubby calls it...) we might have stood a chance... but it didn't really matter because all the people at our table during dinner spoke english very well and we all had lots of fun.


The girls had a ball of a time. Maja was so lucky as to be allowed to hold the brides bouquet at the party... she was sooo thrilled... and they both loved the table decorations as it was big bowls filled with water, candles and rose petals... why are children always so attracted to water??


This was just a short trip, going there on Friday and coming back on Monday. But we had a great time, we even managed to squeeze in a short hike up in the mountains behind the hotel.

As for the present... the place mats... I only managed to get four of them done in time. I was up past midnight two days in a row sewing, but... I really struggled with the quilting (the thread kept breaking), so things took much longer than expected. I will finish the last two asap, and send them in the post though...
I just had to add this photo of Susie...

Wedding card

I had to make a wedding card quickly this morning. I didn't have time to come up with a completely new card, so I just used the same lay out as my previous card (the birthday card for Maja in a earlier post). It's quite interesting to see how when I changed just a few elements how I got a completely different card.

This one is for Malin and Charlie. Congratulations!!