Mini pizza box with flowers and butterflies

Heya! What a day I had yesterday! I was at work in the morning and in the afternoon I kept running here and there, gathering all the papers for the apartment. But it was worth it because at the end we signed the contract. Need to get some more things done on the bank so the next couple of days will be stressful, but if everything goes well we'll get the apartment keys in the beginning of June. After that the "fun" starts. You know, the renovating. It's going to be a lot of work, but I'm looking forward to it. I already have my eyes on some furniture pieces that I saw in Ikea. :D

But instead of me babbling about my apartment, let me rather show you another mini pizza box that I made. Told you, I'm hooked on those. ;) If you want to make one as well, check the tutorial here. Again, I changed the measurements so my box is 10x10 centimeters.

I used purple cardstock for the base of my box and then decorated it with scraps of paper from Arty collage's nature collage kit. On the center I used a piece of white cardstock which I inked with TH antique linen distress ink and embossed it with Cuttlebug's swiss dots embossing folder. Flowers and crystals are from my stash. The butterfly is Inkadinkado cling stamp. It was stamped with Memento rich cocoa pad and then I covered the white parts with glitter glue.  I also used several different die cuts on my box - they were made with Marianne design die, Spellbinders die and Cart us die.

I would like to enter my box to the following challenges:
CLP: Sketch
Live and love crafts: 50 shades of lilac
Everybody art challenge: Flowers
Crafts and me: Lots of layers
Dream valley: Animals
Bearly mine: Anything goes
Card and scrap: Layer upon layer
Milk coffee: Load on the flowers
Moving along with the times: Embossing

So much from me today. See you again soon! Hugs! xx

Mini pizza box

Good morning! I'm so happy today! Yesterday we found out that the bid on the apartment was accepted so now we just need to go to the bank and get all the papers etc. ready. I'm really excited! :D

Today I'd like to show you a mini pizza box that I made. I first saw these boxes on Rosie's blog and fell in love with them. I just knew I will have to make some myself too. They are just perfect for all those small embellishments and/or for doilies ... And they are super easy and super fast to make too. I'm hooked on them and I blame Rosie for this. *whistling innocently* ;) You can check the tutorial here. I don't have a scoring board and my cutting mat only comes in centimeters, so I adjusted the measurements a bit - I made my box 10 x 10 cm. My doilies fit inside perfectly, so I'm really happy. :D

Here's how my box looks like ...

I made the box out of a grey cardstock and then covered it with leftover scraps of papers from my stash. As the main image I used the adorable Yumi from Yumi and Fumi handmade. Isn't she cute?! I colored her with Promarkers and added some glitter glue on the heart on Yumi's sweater. On Yumi's cheeks I also added some blush with TH spun sugar distress ink.I raised Yumi on foam pads to give the box some dimension. I decorated the right side of the box with half of the doily over which I layered stately pink ribbon from Crafty ribbons. On the ribbon I glued some yellow flowers that I made with TH Tattered florals die. For the center I used pearls from my stash. The small flowers on the left side of the box are made with my craft punch. I kept the side on the box pretty simple. I just layered some pink, blue and white cardstock, which I embossed with Craft concepts' cottage floral embossing folder.

I'd like to enter my box to the following challenges:
Yumi and Fumi handmade: Anything but a card
The paper nest dolls: Pearls, pearls, pearls
Simon says: Flower power
Delightful challenges: Bingo (add dimension, ribbon/lace, glitter/sparkle)
The squirrel and the fox: Here come the girls
One stop craft: Anything goes
Creative inspirations: Inspired by: Anything goes
Challenges for everybody: Anything goes
Top tip Tuesday: Box clever

Enjoy your day!
Hugs! xx

Christmas card with Tilda

Heya! How are you? Enjoying your weekend? I hope so! My sweetie and I went to check one apartment on Friday and we really liked it. It's not very big, but it's good for the two of us. Of course there's A LOT of work that needs to be done, but in general the apartment isn't bad. I've even picked a place where my crafty corner will be. He he. We'll call the real estate agent on Monday to place our bid and then we'll go from there. Fingers crossed everything will be ok.

Yesterday I got some more free time and I managed to do some crafting; I made another Christmas card. I hope you are not sick and tired of seeing those yet. ;) I really want to make plenty of them over the year so I'm not going crazy when December comes.

Here's my card ...

This time I use a Magnolia stamp. This one is still one of my favourite Magnolia images. I colored Tilda with Promarkers and Faber Castell pencils and then I also added glitter glue on her wings and the white part of her dress. I used some TH spun sugar distress ink on Tilda's cheeks. Around Tilda and on the banner I created above I used some gold star confetti from my stash. On the banner I also added some gems. Those came from my stash as well. The papers are from Folia. The die cut behind the image was made with my new Spellbinders die that I got from my sweet friend (she knows who she is - thank you SO much girl!!! *mwah*) On the bottom of my card I added a mesh that I've had in my stash for a long, long time. Over it I layered a  red velvet bling ribbon from Crafty ribbons. Those stars that I added on top of the bling ribbons are from Crafty ribbons too - you can find them here.

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Natalie and Amy: Things with wings
Time for Magnolia: Wings
Through the craftroom door: Anything goes
Papertake weekly: The sound of music (inspired by one of my favourite songs - Robbie Williams' "Angels"), I also used Kaisercraft's music notes stamp for the embossing
C.R.A.F.T.: Christmas
Abc challenge: N for Not just one (make a card with 3 or more embellishments) - my embellishments: ribbon, gems, confetti
Cupcake craft: Lots of layers
Bearly mine: Lucky dip (I chose diecuts, ribbon and gems)

So much from me today. Have a great day!

No design paper - again

Good morning! How are you doing? Has the week been good for you so far? I hope it has. I've been getting through some stressfull time at work, but I think tomorrow things will calm down. At least I really hope they will!

I have only done a little bit of crafting over the last couple of days. Hopefully over the weekend I will have more time for that and I will catch up with commenting etc.

But even with the lack of my free time, I managed to create a card for the midway reminder of our current challenge at Crafty ribbons challenge blog. The theme is "no design paper" and you still have one week to enter your creations. Who knows, you might even get lucky and win a fabby ribbon prize. ;)

This time I created a more girly card. Here's the picture.

As you can see I did a lot of embossing on this card - I used Cuttlebug's swiss dots embossing folder and Craft concepts' cottage floral embossing folder. I also used several different dies. The scalloped oval is a Spellbinders' die, the butterflies are Cheery Lynn die and the flower is a Tim Holtz die. I created the border with my new craft punch. I cut the scalloped oval from the white cardstock and then stamped over it with Stampabilities' faded text background stamp. Then I inked the edges with TH weathered wood distress ink. I covered the whole flower with glitter glue and then added the big crystal for the center. I used 2 different ribbons from Crafty ribbons on my card: 15 mm polka dot - lemon ribbon (back) and pink ribbon stately - you can find this one in a bargain basket or you might also get it in a jam pots.

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:
CropStop: Use embossing folder (NSD challenge)
Crafty bloggers network: O's and X's challenge (die cut or punch, flowers, ribbon)
One crazy stamper: Flowers
Tuesday throwdown: Smell the roses
Simon says: Flower power

Well, that's all from me today. Have a great day! xx

Another Christmas card

Hello! I hope you had a lovely Saturday. I was doing some bobbin work and I even made a couple of cards.   So as you can see I had a lovely, relaxing day. I was going to do some paper work, but then I postponed it to tomorrow. Not that tomorrow I will have any more "energy" for that, but I know it needs to be done. But I won't wore you with that. I will rather show you one of the cards I made a couple of days ago.

I know Christmas is still far away, but when December comes I never have enough Christmas cards, so my New Year's resolution was to make Christmas cards through all year. This way I might actually have (close to) as many as I need when the time comes.

I was following a sketch at the Sketchy challenges, but I am uploading this card to enter it to the challenge. *ooops* This would teach me to check the dates more carefully. I used the adorable Pickle stamp from Wild rose studio as my main image. I colored this little fella with Promarkers and Faber Castell pencils. On his cap (the white parts) I added some glitter glue.  I raised Pickle on foam pads to add some dimension to my card.  The dies behind Pickle are Spellbinders and the big snowflake is a Marianne design die. After i cut the snowflake out I embossed it with Cuttlebug's swiss dots embossing folder. Small snowflakes are made with my craft punch. Gold sequins are from my stash. The star paper is from Folia and the brown paper is from K&Co if I'm not mistaken. The ric rac ribbon is from Crafty ribbons and you can find it here.

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Deep ocean challenge: Sparkle
Winter Wonderland: Pppppick up a penguin
Dream valley: No squares allowed
ABC challenges: Make it sparkle
Really reasonable ribbon: Sparkle, bling and ribbon
Creative card crew: Bling
Through the craftroom door: Anything goes

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Christmas in May

Good morning! How are you? It's been my first week at work after the holidays and it went by pretty quickly. I mean, I know it's "only" Thursday, but anyway. Just one more day to go to have some free time again. Not bad. ;)

Today a new challenge starts at Crafty ribbons challenge blog and it was up to me to choose a theme. And I chose "no designer paper". Yup, this means you have to stay away from all those gorgeous papers pads. Not an easy task, I know. ;) But trust me, you can create gorgeous cards and other projects even without them. My teamies did a fab job so be sure to hop over the challenge blog and check them out.

We also have a yummy prize for one lucky winner. If you want to know what it is, hop over to the challenge blog. ;)

I made a Christmas card for this challenge.

I only used white cardstock for this card. For the background I used a piece of white cardstock over which I stamped with Kaisercraft music notes stamp and then I inked the edges with TH vintage photo distress ink which was a gift from my sweet friend Rosie. On the smaller piece of cardstock which I used on the bottom half of my card I stamped with several different snowflakes stamps.The white cardstock behind the image was embossed with Cuttlebug's swiss dots embossing folder and then I inked the edges with TH antique linen distress ink. The image was embossed with Queen's gold embossing powder from Ranger. I inked the edges around the image with TH vintage photo distress ink. The two bigger snowflakes are Marianne design dies and the small snowflakes were made with my craft punch. The doily, crystals and those tiny golden stars are from my stash. The bigger golden stars are actually cut from a gold stars ribbon that you can find in the Crafty ribbons store and the lace is from Crafty ribbons too.

I woul like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Papertake weekly: Anything goes
Forever friends: Anything goes (monthly challenge)
Whimsy stamps: Anything goes
Paper crafting journey: Anything goes
Stamping sensations: Embossing and texture
Sparkles Christmas challenges: Favourite festive colours (I love gold!)
Card and acrap: Use doily
Artistic inspirations: Monotone
DL. Art: Anything goes
Crafts and me: Lace
CropStop: Use embossing folder (national scrapbooking day challenge)

I would love to see what you make so I hope you will come play with us.

Have a beautiful day! Hugs! xx

Flowers and butterflies

Good morning! How did you spend your May 1? Did you have a nice time? Do you have any special tradition on this day? 

Today I slept much longer than usually. I was at my parents place yesterday (it's sort of a tradition that we have picnic there on May 1) and didn't come home til late evening. It was fun. There was lots of yummy food and we also played some games, Activity being one of them. If you don't know this board game you should definitely check it out, we always laugh real hard when we are playing it. :D

So, now on to my card. We are half way through with our "anything goes with ribbon" challenge at the Crafty ribbons challenge blog and today I want to show you a card I made for this challenge.

For my card I chose the rose stamp from Viva decor that I've had for a while, but for some reason never used it. *ooops* I colored the image with Faber Castell pencils and then I covered the blossoms with Viva decor gloss gel. For the background I used rose paper from Folia. The small flowers were made with my craft punch, the decorative border with my border punch and the butterflies are made with Cheery Lynn die that I received from my sweet friend Rosie. Love, love, love these dies! Thank you hun! The corner is a Spellbinders die. I raised the image on foam pads and then glued it on the white cardstock which I embossed with Cottage floral embossing folder and inked with TH antique linen distress ink. I used 3 different ribbons  from Crafty ribbons on my card: 25 mm sheer ribbon with satin edge (this one is currently sold out), light blue saddle baby ribbon and butterfly ribbon - fibre orange. Are you wondering where I used the butterfly ribbon? I covered the narrow strips of white cardstock (those that I used for layering) with this ribbon. I really like how this turned out. 

I would like to add my card to the following challenges:

Sketch and stash: Sketch (my neglected stash in my stamp and my new stash are the butterfly dies)

My heart pieces: Add embossing (dry or wet)

Bearly mine: Anything goes

Wags 'n whiskers: May flowers

The paper nest dolls: Emboss it

Stampin' for the weekend: Die cuts and/or punches

Crafts and me: Floral frenzy

Die cuttin' divas: Anything goes

Artistic inspirations: Lots of layers

Fresh brewed designs: Lots of flowers

We have a yummy prize for one lucky participant too. Are you curious what the prize is? Hop over to the challenge blog and you'll find out. ;)

Have a wonderful day! xx