A Tea Light Card (DT MiC)

Hello everyone!
I have a special DT card for you today, with a gorgeous Make it Crafty stamp called Gumnut Flower Girl. I love her, she looks so pretty and cool at the same time :) I made a Thank you card with this stamp, with Maja Design papers and a new folding I haven't tried out before, a Tea Light Card! I used this tutorial to make it. Very easy and very beautiful to give away!

This is my card... The frame is made of clay from Martha Stewart, I had actually already made it of this colour, so the only thing I did with this frame was to paint Inka Gold Platinum on it to make it shimmer :) I have also used Crackle Accent on it!

I have coloured the stamp with Distress Ink pads and I also put on some Inka Gold Rose Quartz on the flowers in the image.

Distress Ink pads used:
Hair: Scattered Straw, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain
Face and skin: Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo, Worn Lipstick
Dress and leaves: Bundled Sage
Flowers: Picked Raspberry

All the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, I finally found these gorgeous spiral stamens and I LOVE them! Also I have been longing for the gorgeous Chrysantemum flowers and now I finally have them! I put on Crystal stickles on all the flowers. I have also found love in those berry stamens, they're so beautiful! The butterfly charm is also painted with Inka Gold Rose Quartz :)

Here you can see how it looks from the side!

And opened! You make the box separately from the card so it's incredibly easy! The papers are from the Sofiero paper Collection of Maja Design, love them! I cut the whole in the gift box with a die from Spellbinders Nestabilities Opulent Ovals and I put scented candles in the gift box.

That's all I had to show you today, please try out this gorgeous stamp and the card folding too! I had a lot of fun making this card :)

Have a lovely Sunday all!

xoxo Madeleine

A Christmas scene (DT Make it Crafty)

Hello!

Christmas is upon us and today I want to show you a DT card for Make it Crafty that took me some time to finish! I made a Christmas scene with three stamps: Bethany Winter Jacket, Fairy Gift and Cold by light. This was a tough one, but I made it with few mistakes haha :) This scene is also inspiration for the Easy colour challenge over at www.makeitcolourful.com, where you're supposed to use green and red :) 

This is the card! This is very unique to be one of my cards, no embellishments and only the image to focus at! :) I made this scene with what hopefully is a little sense of humor.. :) Bethany is pointing at the Fairy who is hanging from a Christmas tree! :) The papers come from First Edition's Silent Night. 

That's all I had to show today! It is very challenging colouring a scene like this, but I dare you to try it out, because you learn a lot on the way!

Take care
xoxo Madeleine

Elves swinging... (DT Make it Crafty)

Hello everyone!

Today's DT card is a Christmas one, with Make it Crafty's new digi stamp "Elves swinging on baubles" :) It was fun to colour this stamp, and this card is made and inspired by a sketch I found at milolilja.net :)

Here's my card!

Here's the stamped image! I have coloured it with Distress Ink pads and used Frantage Enamel Shabby White around the stamped image and finally I put on some Platinum Stickles around the edges. The text "Merry Christmas" is stamped with a Magnolia stamp.

Here's the inside! All the papers come from a paper pad called First Edition Silent Night. The little white square is cut with a Spellbinders Nestabilities Majestic Elements Opulent Ovals.

That's what I had to show you today, I hope your Christmas card making are going well, have a little looksie at www.makeitcrafty.com if you want to find some fine digi stamps! ;)

Thanks for stopping by, take care!

xoxo Madeleine

Emo Willow (DT Make it Crafty)

Hello everyone!

Today's DT card for Make it Crafty is with this month's 1$ digi stamp, Emo Willow Gift. I also hope to inspire you to make a card with this month's sketch challenge, that looks like this:

And this is my card! I have used Maja Design's gorgeous Vintage Frost Basics paper collection (all the blue papers) and First Edition's Silent Night collection (the beige paper) and a shiny white paper behind all the design papers and papers. The text stamp is from Magnolia and the snowflakes are cut with a punch from Martha Stewart. 

Here's Emo Willow, I have coloured her with Distress Ink pads and used Frantage Enamel Shabby White around the image. The circle behind the image is cut and embossed with a die from Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Scalloped LG.

And here's the inside with Maja Design's paper.

I hope you get your digi stamp and I can't wait to see your interpretations on the sketch! Remember to put your card in the sketch challenge folder in Make it Crafty's Facebook group to enter the sketch challenge! :)

Thanks for stopping by, have a lovely day! :)
xo Madeleine

A Magic Card, Thank you! (DT MiC)

Hello!!

Today's DT card for Make it Crafty is a new folding - Magic card that I tried out using this great tutorial. I used the gorgeous papers from the Papermania "Summer bloom" collection, one of my favourite paper collections! The stamp I chose for this card is beautiful Pearl from Make it Crafty, that you can find here!

This is my card! I have fell in love with the clay frames that I make with molds from Martha Stewart, it's just such a beautiful embellishment on cards! This one I have coloured with Inka Gold Rose so it's a bit shiny too. I used letter stickers to write "Thank you" in Swedish and put on some Crackle Accent. The butterflies are cut with a Martha Stewart punch (a favourite of mine!) and coloured with Inka Gold Rose as well. The laced edges are cut with a Martha Stewart punch as well.

Here she is, Pearl! I have coloured her with Distress Ink Pads and used Frantage Enamel Shabby Pink around the image. The oval is cut with one of my new dies, Spellbinders Nestabilities Majestic Elements Opulent Ovals! I love them :)

Distress Ink pads used:
Hair: Scattered Straw
Face and skin: Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick
Dress and mask: Spun Sugar
Feathers: Black Sooth

Here you can see more of the card folding, how it's built! The tutorial above is great, I can really recommend it :)

Here's the back of the front of the card, I have cut out a butterfly with Spellbinders Wonderful Wings and coloured it with Inka Gold Rose!

Here's the inside. I cut out and embossed a frame with Spellbinders Nestabilities Decorative Elements Gold Labels Four, to write your greetings on.

I hope you try out this folding, it's fun and easy and I hope you liked gorgeous Pearl too ;)

Take care!
xoxo

North Pole Tilda Christmas card - round 2!

 Hey everyone!!
Today I want to show you my second Christmas card with North Pole Tilda! I love this stamp and hope to do a couple more cards with her before Christmas! :P

This is my card! 

This is Tilda, I have coloured her with a Distress Marker and Distress Ink pads. I have used Frantage Enamel Shabby White around the image and put on some Platinum stickles around the edges of the stamped image.

Distress Markers used:
Hat, jacket and shoes: Picked Raspberry

Distress Ink pads used:
Hair: Squeezed Lemon, Scattered Straw, Wild Honey
Trousers and gloves: Seedless Preserves
Face: Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick

This is a decoration I made with the new Vintage Frost Basics papers from Maja Design! I cut out a little Santa Claus, glued it on to a glass cabochons with Glossy Accent, and then I glued it together with the charm. Easy! ;)

Here's my new Magnolia dies, Peacock Feathers that I just love, they're so gorgeous! Below it, I have put on a frame of clay from Martha Stewart that I have used letter stickers and then put on Crackle Accent.

Here's the Magnolia Heart tag, that I cut out with another piece of Maja Design's Vintage Frost Basic paper. I have used two winter charms, a snowflake to the left and a Christmas tree to the right :) The paper snowflake is cut with a Martha Stewart punch and I have put on some Crystal stickles.

All the flowers and berries are from WOC and the swirl to the right is a die from Craft-Too.

Ooops! I almost forgot! I have used Go Kreate's GORGEOUS card shaping dies for this card, Go Kreate Large Frame Frilly #5. It's one of my new favourite dies :D

That's all for this time, thanks for stopping by!
xoxo Madeleine

An easel drawer box card (DT Make it Crafty)

Hello again!

This DT card is a very special card to me. I have been developing this card during a month now I think and I've finally finished it :) It's a very fun folding, an easel drawer box card, super simple!! I used this tutorial to make it. :) The stamp for this DT card is called Tiny Lina and you can find her here!

Here's my easel drawer box card!

And here it is standing up.

Here's a photo from the side so you can see how it's built.

Here's Tiny Lina, isn't it a gorgeous stamp!? I fell in love with her the moment I found her. :) I have coloured her with Distress Ink Pads and for the dress I used my very first Distress Marker, Picked Raspberry! The nuance between the pad and marker actually differed, so I am very pleased with my purchase of it and might buy more of them.. :) I have made a corner of paperclay from Panduro and I used Platinum stickles on all the edges on the card and also Frantage Enamel Shabby Pink around the image :) The sign in the lower right corner is made with clay from Martha Stewart and I have used Glossy accent over the paper sign. All the flowers are from WOC and I have put on some Crystal stickles on them.

Distress Inks used:
Hair: Squeezed Lemon, Scattered Straw
Skin: Tattered Rose, Peack Feathers (the eyes)
Dress: Picked Raspberry Distress Marker
Butterfly: Mowed Lawn, Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry Distress Marker

This is how the box looks when the drawer is drawn out! I have used Marianne Design papers on the card and in the drawer. The button on the drawer is from WOC as well. The square in front of the front is cut and embossed with Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Seventeen.

And here's the back!

I truly hope to inspire you to try out this very easy folding and this goooorgeous stamp from Make it Crafty, I will be using this one a lot!! :)

Take care!
xoxo Madeleine

Fluttering Sapphire Fairy card (DT Make it Crafty)

Hi everyone!

Today I want to show you a very simple but yet elegant card, that I made with the Spellbinders Nestabilities Majestic Elements Radiant Rectangles and this month's 1 dollar digi stamp from Make it Crafty: Fluttering Sapphire Fairy. I made the card base with the dies from Spellbinders and used a design paper (I don't remember where I got it from or which brand it is) on some of the parts. Also, I hope to inspire you to try out this month's colour challenge - skin and muscle definition over at www.makeitcolourful.com! 

Here's the card! I used a great birthday stamp from Roxstamps that I just love - it says "Hurray on your birthday!" 

I coloured her with Distress Ink pads, and used Diamond stickles on her wings. Around the image I have put on some Frantage Enamel Shabby Pink.

Distress Ink pads used:
Hair: Squeezed Lemon, Scattered Straw, Wild Honey
Skin: Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo (Great for muscle definition it turns out!!) and Worn Lipstick on her cheeks
Eyes: Peacock Feathers
Clothes and wings: Milled Lavender

Here's the inside, I kept it quite simple but used the Spellbinders dies here as well.

Some of the Spellbinders are just great to do simple cards with and sometimes those cards don't even benefit from using a lot of decorations - the dies make the card! 

I know a lot of US feared the new colour challenge this month, but really dare to try it and join the fun in the Make it Crafty Facebook group! And don't forget to buy your Fairy digi for just 1 dollar! (You'll have to join the Facebook group to get the code)

Have a lovely evening!

xoxo Madeleine

Big Bob's little gift (DT Make it Crafty)

Hello Everyone!

Today's DT card is made with a new stamp "Big Bob's little gift" from Make it Crafty that I just LOOOVE! He's like a man's man and it was kind of funny to make a very "strong" "masculine" card with him.. This DT card is hopefully an inspiration for those of you who want to enter this month's sketch challenge at the Make it Crafty group on Facebook. This is the sketch... :) and I have stretch it a little, so I would love to see your interpretations on this sketch :) 

... And here's the card! I have used the new winter papers "Cold Winter" from K Designs on the whole card. I recently bought the gorgeous "Post Card"-stamps from Magnolia and this is the first card I used them on, it's already some of my favourite stamps!! The text "God Jul" means Merry Christmas in Swedish and are cut with a die from Roxstamps!

Here's the man of the men, Big Bob :) I have coloured him with Distress Ink Pads and chalked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Hair: Squeezed Lemon, Scattered Straw, Wild Honey

Skin: Tattered Rose

Shirt: Barn Door

Trousers: Chipped Sapphire

Shoes: Black Sooth

Gift: Squeezed Lemon, Scattered Straw, Deep Forest

Here's a close-up at the snowflake from Joy of Craft. I have used a little Diamond stickles on it and I glued a stone on it.

I really hope you try out this gorgeous sketch and enter this month's sketch challenge!
Take care! :)

xoxo Madeleine

A book card (DT MiC)

Hey Everyone!

How you doing? I've been out for a little while, but now I'm back with a new and to me, very exciting project for this weeks DT inspiration for Make it Crafty! Today I want to show you my very first book card! This is one of the most fun and exciting projects I have done so far, you can even make more of the book pages and make it a good present box. I just made my first one, but am already working on another, with more space within it. ;) You'll see in a couple of weeks!

Anyway, here's my book card! As you can see I used Chantelle at the Races digi stamp for it, which you can find here. 

Here she is, Chantelle at the Races. I have coloured her with Distress Ink pads and played around with gel- and glitterpens on parts of her. On the flowers on her dress and the hat I used a pink gel pen and then a glitter pen and her shoes are glittered with a glitterpen. I have put on Platinum stickles around the image and used Frantage Enamel Shabby white on it. I also chalked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Distress Inks:
Hat and dress: Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick Scattered Straw (Feathers)
Face and skin: Scattered Straw, Spun Sugar, Squeezed Lemon, Worn Lipstick
Hair: Squeezed Lemon, Scattered Straw, Wild Honey

Here's flowers from WOC, I put on a little Diamond stickles and painted a little white acrylic paint on them. The swirl is from Craft-Too.

A close up at the other flowers.. As you can see I have used gauze behind the image and decorations. The little butterfly charm is bought from China and the ribbon is from Slöjd-detaljer.

Here's a close-up at the Magnolia heart tag I made out of Maja Designs Sofiero Collection. The key charm and sentiment charms is also from China. I've put on some acrylic on them as well. The ribbon I think I have gotten in a swap i participated in. Here you can also see a corner made of clay, the mold and clay are from Martha Stewart.

Here's a close-up at the congratulation sign. The frame is made with a mold from Martha Stewart and the letters are stickers I bought on Kreatima in Stockholm. I've also put on a lot of Crackle Accent on the frame.

Now you can see it's a book card! :) I have only used papers from Maja Designs Sofiero Collection on the whole card.

I want to give cred to Stämpelkällan for the great tutorial of this book card, you can find it here. It's in English too, so you can all try it out! :)

Here's the inside! I have cut out and embossed the frame inside with Spellbinders Nestabilities Gold Labels Four. The butterflies are made with a punch from Martha Stewart and the same paper from Maja Designs Sofiero Collection as on the Magnolia heart tag.

I have used a Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch to make the frame of the pages. I also chalked all the edges on the whole card with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. The text is a stamp from Roxstamps and I stamped with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink and covered it with some Perfect Pearl powder to make the text shimmer. The text says something like this (in Swedish):

"Forgive fast
Kiss slowly
Love long
Laugh a lot
and never regret
something that made you feel alive!"

The back of the card..

That's all for now, I really hope you try out this tutorial and make a book card of your own.. Imagine to get one of these on your birthday, or as a thank you.. hmm, maybe I will do a thank you book card next time... ;)

Take care!
xoxo Madeleine