A Golden Christmas Card!

Hello!

Today I share a Christmas card I have been dreaming about doing! It's not traditional with red and green colours but more greyish, white and golden! I totally enjoyed making this card and it's different from my other cards because it's not a coloured image on this one!

Here's my card!

I found these beautiful vintage angel images in an etsy store and was so happy when I found it! It's perfect for Christmas cards :) I have just printed out the image and used Frantage Enamel Shabby White on it. I have inked the edges with Distress Ink Vintage Photo and Inka Gold Old Silver to make it shimmer. 

I only used white flowers for this card and inked them and the stamens with Inka Gold Old Silver. I have also used Spellbinders Shapeabilities Foliages die for the flower arrangements.

Here's a close-up at a decoration I made with paper from the Maja Designs Vintage Frost collection, a glass cabochon and Glossy accent. After it had dried I glued it on to a raisin charm and inked it with Inka Gold Old Silver.

I stamped the sentiment "A joyful Christmas" by Magnolia with clear embossing ink and gold embossing powder and then heated it. I simply cut the sentiment with a scissor and glued it on to a sewing roll :) 

I used GoKreate Large Frame Frilly #5 for the card's shape. I used papers from the Maja Designs A gift for you collection for this card. It fit perfectly together with the image I bought on Etsy :)

I am so looking forward to making more Christmas cards! 

Happy crafting!

xoxo Madeleine

My entry to the Whimsy Stamps DT call!

Hi everyone!!

I am pretty excited to share this card with you, since it's my entry to the Whimsy Stamps DT call!! For the 1,5 years that I have been crafting, one DT I always wanted to be on is the Whimsy Stamps DT!! They have so many beautiful stamps and different brands so there's always something for everyone. 

Here's my card!

I have had a lot of fun making this card and I will tell you all about it! :) i have used Maja Designs Coffee in the Arbour collection for this whole card and to make the edges around the card I used a Martha Stewart punch.

Here's a close-up on Silver Fairy by Sylvia Zet from Wee stamps that is a brand Whimsy Stamps sells.

I have stamped the beautiful image with clear embossing ink, poured bright opaque white embossing powder over it and then heat embossed it. That gives such an awesome effect with white outlines! 

I coloured the image with Copics, the colours I used were the following:

Hair: E53, E43, E57

Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20

Outfit and flowers in hair: R85, R83, R81

Wings: V17, V15, V12, V01

After colouring the image I inked the background with Distress Ink Tea Dye. Then I stamped over it with my new gorgeous stamps from Stempelglede Vintage Garden with Distress Ink Vintage Photo. Finally I poured Frantage Enamel Shabby White randomly and heat embossed it. Voilá! :) 

Here's a close-up at one of the flower arrangements. I have used a wonderful leaf die set by Marianne Design and put Frantage Enamel Shabby White on it. I have used papers from the Maja Designs Coffee in the Arbour collection for the leaves. The cabochon is handmade and I made it with a gorgeous paper I found on etsy.com (ovals) and a glass cabochon and a charm to frame it with. I have put gesso on top of it.

Here's a close-up at the butterfly I cut with a Memorybox die called Theo Butterfly. I cut it in Maja Designs paper, but decided to cover it with Frantage Enamel Shabby Pink instead and I love the result!! The gorgeous lace is a little something I found on Aliexpress and it's just one of my favourite laces right now!

Here's a close-up at the larger flower arrangement. I have used a Magnolia Doohickey die here called Heart Swirl. I have put some Crystal stickles on the flowers and then gesso on top of them. 

Here's a little close-up at a gorgeous die-cut made with Spellbinders Little Darlings Lovely View die. I used Maja Designs paper for it as well and then Frantage Enamel Shabby Pink on it. The little butterflies are made with a Martha Stewart punch and inked on the edges with Distress Ink Vintage Photo.

Well, that's my card for the DT call, I am keeping my fingers crossed I make it to the team!! 

Happy crafting :)

xoxo Madeleine

A Christmas tag Saturated Canary

Hellooo!

I have gone mad for tags and they are just a blast making!! Today I have a Christmas tag to show you :) I have coloured a Christmas image from sayurated Canary that came with a magazine last year. 

This is my tag!

I have had fun with my bigshot for this tag, the dies used on it are:

Memorybox Frosted Spruce Tree

Memorybox Small Blooming Poinsettia

Impression Obsession die100-F

Spellbinders Little Darlings Lovely View

Here's the lovely digistamp from SC. I have coloured her with Copics and listed the colours below:

Hair: E29, E25, E21

Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20

Scarf: BG49, BG13, BG01, BG000

Coat: BG78, BG75, BG72, BG70

Boots: R69, R85, R83, R81

Socks and bow knot: R85, R83, R81

I have used the Stempelglede Vintage Garden stamp set on the edges of the image and the flowers and tree die-cuts with Distress Ink Broken China. 

Here's a close-up at one of the IO snowflake dies :) I have glittered it with sticky embossing powder and Crystal glitter.

A little close-up at the tree and flower. 

Here's a close-up at the sentiment by MajaDesigns in Swedish that means "Wishing you a Happy Christmas". I have stamped the sentiment with Distress Ink Broken China and then put on Perfect Pearl powder to make it shimmer. Love the effect!

That's my Christmas tag! 

Happy Crafting :)

xoxo Madeleine

A Birthday Book Card

Hello everyone!

A close friend of mine turned 50 in September and I decided to make one of her favourite cards, a book card! I had a LOT of fun making this card and I had her in mind the whole time :) She loves birds and butterflies so that was a given to use on this card.

Here's my card! I have used Marianne Design Clock die, Lalaland Heart banner die and Magnolia Heart Tag die for this card. The dove die-cut is made with a MemoryBox die and the leaves under the flowers are also made with a MemoryBox die. 

The paper I used is from Maja Design Sofiero Collection. The butterflies are made of Martha Stewart Clay and molds and inked with Inka Gold Silver and chalked around the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. 

I bought a new stamp set that I have been craving for for a LONG while now and I am SO in love! It's Stempelglede Vintage Garden stamp set with lovely dotty swirls and they are just gorgeous for making that little extra on the stamped image! I actually fell so much in love with it I had to stamp it all over LOL! 

This is my coloured image by Mayzyart, this particular stamp is called "Looks like rain Xandra". I coloured her with Copics and used the following combinations:

Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20.
Hair:
Dress and gloves Green: G99, YG67, YG63,YG11, YG000 Pink: R89, R85, R83, R81
Umbrella Green: YG67, YG63, YG11, YG000 Pink: R85, R83, R81
Posca pen for white dots.

This is the inside! I used a new die from Cottage Cutz (my new favourite brand of dies!) in the shape of a Champagne glass and inked the paper with Inka Gold Old Silver to make it shimmer. I also used the Memorybox Dove die. I also used a new Spellbinder die I bought this summer from Stamps Alive! called Lucious Labels One to make the frame for greetings.

To the right inside the book card, I have made a little plate with a stamp and clay, inked it with Distress Ink and Inka Gold Old silver (on the edges) and put a bird made of clay on it. The sentiment goes something like this:

"Friends are the wings that lifts your feet when your own wings have forgotten how to fly"

That's all I had to show you today! 

Happy crafting!

xoxo Madeleine

This year's first Christmas card!

Hello!

Earlier this week I was surfing around on the Internet trying to find some inspiration for making a CAS card - CAS stands for clean and simple. I thought it would be fun to have a Facebook group where crafters could inspire each other and help one another to find her/his way to making more CAS cards. So I created one and it has grown so fast and the feed of inspiration is just wonderful! If you would like to join us, just search for CAS Cards on FB and the group will appear :) 

Now this is my very first Christmas card this year and I have an ambition to make more CAS cards for Christmas... :) 

The very definition of CAS to me is not to have lots of embellishments and that there has to be large white areas. I must say I love this card myself, because I used an embossing folder that I bought this spring but haven't found the inspiration to use it until now! :) The embossing folder is from Spellbinders and called Paisley.

The sentiment is in Swedish and means Merry Christmas in kind of an old Swedish. I have stamped it with Versamark embossing dye and used gold embossing powder over it. Love it! The gold around the frame is made with stickles as well as the edges on the rest of the card. The ribbon was a wonderful gift from a good friend of mine :) The frame with the sentiment was made with Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Fourteen.

Well, that was my first real CAS card and Christmas card this year! 

Happy crafting!

xoxo Madeleine

Sneaky Tilda tag!

Hi!!

I had a lot of fun making this tag.. Colouring Sneaky Tilda with no line technique was wonderfully therapeutic! I have bought my very first digital design paper and found a gorgeous set of tag sized vibrant paper that I used on this tag. 

Here's my tag! 

I have used digital little oval images, put a glass cabochon over and then glued it to a charm frame. I love making my own embellishments!

The leaves are made with a Memorybox die, and the butterfly in Martha Stewart clay. I used a gorgeous pearl ribbon I just bought at WOC and I love it!

Here's a close-up on Sneaky Tilda! I have coloured her with Copics and used Frantage Enamel Shabby Pink around the image. I have actually tried a new marker, N5 to inforce the shading in her skin and I like the result! For you who don't know about the no line technique, it's when you stamp with a very light colour (or print images with light colours or light grey) and colour as usual but it gives a totally different effect, with no harsh black lines. I used Memento Grey Flannel and stamped twice and used the second stamped image because the lines are very very much lighter than the first stamped image. 

Copic combinations:

Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20, N5, W7 for eyes

Hair: E29, E25, E21

Dress: R85, R83, R81

Bow knot and shoes: V15, V12, V01, V000

Posca pen for white dots

Here's the back of the tag. I have used the same tag sheet as on the front of the tag, but a different design from it. 

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

xoxo Madeleine

Tilda with rose lace dress in green

Hellooo!

Today I want to share my lastest tag! I coloured this cute Tilda with rose lace dress up a couple of weeks ago and today I finally got her on a tag! I LOVE the green I got with my Copics, I was actually aiming for a more soft green but at the end this turned out great to this paper I have used from K&Company. 

Here's my tag!

The butterflies are made with Martha Stewart clay and inked up with Inka Gold. I have also used a Lalaland die for the leaves under the flowers. 

Here's a close-up at Tilda. I have had fun with my Posca pen and made little white dots everywhere lol :) the combinations were:

Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20

Hair: E43, E53, E50

Hat: R85, R83, R81

Dress: G99, YG67, YG63, YG03, YG00

Happy crafting!

xoxo Madeleine

Tilda with a big big rose chocolate card

Hi everyone!

Today I want to share my birthday card for a very good friend of mine! Her birthday was in September and I decided to make a true fall card! I have used amazing papers from Bo Bunny and they just made the card top notch!

Here's the card!

Here is a close-up at Tilda with big big rose. I have coloured her with Copics and stamped with a Magnolia stamp set around the image. 

I have used a die from Lalaland to make the flags with Happy B-day. I used the Bo Bunny paper and put on Crystal stickles on it. The flowers are mainly from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Here are the colour combinations:

Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20

Hair: E43, E53, E50

Dress and shoes: V12, V01, V000

Rose: R85, R83, R81, YG63, YG03, YG000

Posca pen for the white dots

 

Here's another close-up at the large butterfly from Magnolia. I have also used a Martha Stewart punch to make the other butterflies and out Stickles on them as well.

I adored making this card and it's such a joy giving something like this to someone, it's both love and chocolate - what more can you ask for right? ;)

Happy crafting!

xoxo Madeleine

Tiddlyinks black and pink card!

Hi!!

This card is one I made for a friend of mine, and it was a challenge! Her favourite colour combination was black and pink and to be honest.. It's not one of my favourite combos to do cards with - BUT! I am really happy with how this card turned out. This is a CAS card a la Madeleine lol!

Here's the card! 

I have used a Tiddlyink digistamp called Celebrate joyfully. I actually coloured this stamp in the beginning of my Copic journey but to be honest I wouldn't colour her much different today! 

I have used Joy Crafts dies for the butterfly border and the big butterfly and a Martha Stewart punch for the small butterflies. I put some Crystal Stickles on the big pink butterfly to make it stand out a little. 

The sentiments means Happy Birthday and is a stamp from Roxstamps!

Here's a close-up at the beautiful stamp. The colours I used were:

Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

Hair: E29, E25, E21

Dress: pink: R89, R85, R83, R81 yellow: Y000, Y06, Y17

Shoes: E29, E25, E21

Thank you for stopping by!

Happy crafting :)

zoxo Madeleine

Decoupage storage for Copics

Hi!

Today I want to share my idea of storage for my Copics - I decided to use old cans, paint them white and then do decoupage with them. This is the result! 

I have used napkins from Sagen and first I used mod podge and then I used a layer of glitter varnish. 

Tadaaaa!! :-D I adore this storage because it fits perfect in my shabby decorated home :) and the seven cans hold 101 Copics markers! 

Thank you for stopping by, would love it if you left a comment with your storage solution - I can never get too much inspiration ;)

Xoxo Madeleine

Pixie Dust commission cards!

Hello!

I have not one, but two commission cards to share with you today :) The cards are made for two daughters and I was going to do them similar but not alike so I decided to use the exact same material for both cards but make the layouts differently. I used the same stamp to colour, Pixie Dust from Saturated Canary and coloured them in different but similar colours. All the embellishments and die-cuts are alike but placed differently.

Here's my first card!

So this is Pixie Dust no 1.. I coloured her with Copics and a white Posca pen (to make the white dots). Here are the combinations:

Hair: E57, E43, E53, V15, V12
Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20 Eyes: BG13
Wings and partial sleeves: R85, R83, R81
Top: V15, V12, V01
Bottom: BG09, BG05, BG01, BG000, BG49, BG05, BG01, BG000
Bag: R89, R85, R83, R81
Dust: R85, R83, R81

And this is my second card!

Here are the combinations for this cutie!

Hair: E57, E43, E53, BG49, BG13, BG000
Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20
Wings, bag and dust: V15, BV00, BV000
Top: R85, R83, R81
Bottom: BG49, BG13, BG01, BG000

Here's a list of all the materials and embellishments I have used for these two cards:

Gokreate Large Frame Frilly #5

Spellbinders Nestabilities Decorative Elements Elegant Ovals

Spellbinders Nestabilities Imperial Gold Labels Four

Memorybox Swirl Butterfly

Lalaland Heart Banner

Cottage Cutz Fancy Ornate Birdcage

Lace from Live and Love Crafts

Flowers

Cabochon charm

Printable Paris ovals

Glass bottles

Ballerina and key charms

Crystal Stickles

Spiral stamens

Cheese clot

Paper from Maja Design

White wrinkled fabric (on the birdcage)

Inka Gold Rosequartz and 

Turqouise

Doily

Thank you for stopping by, happy crafting!

xoxo Madeleine

Tilda with Rose Lace Dress Tag

Hi!

I have gotten crazy about making tags! Here's another one from me, in blue! I have used the white embossing lines technique for this stamp, which means that you stamp the image with Embossing ink, pour some white embossing powder on it, shake it off, heat it and voilà! White embossed lines! ;) It gives such a cool effect and I totally adore colouring these images up! Up until now I have only tried Magnolia stamps, perhaps the effect will look cool on other brands as well? :)

Here's my tag! I have used a GORGEOUS paper from K&Company called Jubilée Specialty Paper pad (Code 30-388963) on both sides of the tag.

I bought a beautiful piece of fabric that I ripped apart into strings that I use for the tag hole. It's wrinkled and sooo beautiful!

The butterfly and bird is made with Martha Stewart clay. The cabochon to the left is home made with an image from this store.

The stamped sentiment is from Forever Friends and called Black and Gold stamp collection. I stamped it with Distress Ink Broken China. I cut a scalloped circle with Spellbinders Nestabilities Scalloped circles.

The butterfly, bird and metal birdcage is inked with Inka Gold Aquamarine.

I have coloured this Tilda with Rose Lace Dress from the Pink Lemonade collection of Magnolia, with Copics. I have also stamped around the image with a Vintage stamp set (totally adore them!) with Distress Ink Broken China. The combinations are:

Hair: E57, E43, E53
Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20, Eyes: W7
Hat: E18, E15, Y17, Y15, Y11, Y00
Bow on the hat, dress and shoes: BG09, BG05, BG01, BG000

Thank you so much for stopping by, happy crafting! :)

xoxo Madeleine

Flower Ballerina in a CAS card

Hello everyone!

Today I finished a card with a beautiful stamp from Aurora Wings called Flower Ballerina that I bought some time ago but haven't had the chance to colour up until today! :)

Here's my card! A CAS card - so not me! :D The text stamp is in Swedish and means: "Forgive quickly, Kiss Slowly, Love long, Laugh a lot and never regret the things that made you feel alive!" It's such a gorgeous stamp and I adore the message.

Here's a close-up at Flower Ballerina. I coloured her with Copics and the combinations are:

Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20

Hair: E57, E43, E53

Dress, shoes and flowers: RV99, RV95, RV93, RV91

Glitter pen for details

A very clean and simple card from me today, it felt great doing that for a change! :)

Happy Crafting!

Shaky A Guest DT projects!

Hellooo!

I've been kind of absent here the last couple of weeks, have had a lot on my plate but now I am feeling AWESOME, because I just made my biggest dream come true.. I got a job as a teacher in school! I have an education so I can teach in both preschool and school and the jobs in the early ages at schools in Sweden are HARD to get and I have finally got one! :D

But that's not all the fun that has happened - I was asked by talented Loshakerato Alberto to be a Guest Designer for his stamp brand Shaky A stamps! I was so honoured and said yes immediately! I decided to do two tags that you can use as bookmarks, although there are some embellishments that are a little elevated, it's no problem using them as bookmarks :)

Here is the first bookmark... I have used a gorgeous pink design paper from Inkido Beautiful Memories Collection (Inkido is closing its production so this paper will soon be very rare! :( ) The stamp from Shaky A is called Princess of my life and you can find it here. The beautiful lace is something I just bought at Live and Love Crafts, it's sooo beautiful!! The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the clay embellishments are made with Martha Stewart clay and molds. I have coloured the stamp with Copics and the combinations I have used are the following:

Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20 (eyes:) BG49, BG13
Hair: E18, E15
Hat and dress: R89, R85, R83, R81
Vails: R85, R83, R81
Wings: Y17, Y15, Y11, Y000
White dots: Poscapen

And here's my next tag/bookmark! This is made with a Shaky A stamp called Magic Everyday and you can find her here. The design paper is the same as the one above and the lace is a different one I just bought at Live and Love Crafts. The colours I used to colour this stamp up are the following:

Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20 (eyes:) YG03, YG67, YG11
Hair: E29, E25, E21
Dress: Purple: V09, V15, V12, V01 Pink: R85, R83, R81
Wings: Y17, Y15, Y11, Y000
White dots: Poscapen

So, that's what I had to show you today! Thank you very much Alberto for this opportunity, totally enjoyed colouring these two stamps up - they are very colouring friendly ;) If you want to see more of Shaky A stamps, visit the Etsy store here.

Happy Crafting!
xoxo Madeleine

A Magnolia tag with Summer Buzz Tilda

Hiii!
Today I have made a tag with a Magnolia stamp called Summer Buzz Tilda. I have found that tags are pretty amazing to craft, and I keep in mind that they could be used as bookmarks, so I try and focus my enhanced embellishments to the top and the flat ones on the bottom of the tag.

Here's my tag!
I have used Maja Design paper (although I am not sure from which collection or what the paper is called, got it on sale somewhere this summer :D ) I have used gorgeous laces and a piece of striated paper (the white one behind Tilda). I used a Martha Stewart punch to make the butterfly on the upper right corner that I inked with Inka Gold Rose Quartz. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the little clay embellishment in the left corner is actually a gift from a dear friend of mine, Jenni :) Thank you sweetie! I embossed it with glitter as usual!! :D I wrapped the image with a pearl lace, love the effect it gives!

Here's a close-up at Summer Buzz Tilda!I used Frantage Enamel Shabby Pink around the image.  I coloured her with Copics and I used the following combinations:

Hair: E29, E25, E21
Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20, W7 (for eye lashes)
Dress and bow know: E04, RV34, RV11
The picnic basket: The bottle: Different E30's Basket and baguette: E30's and Y11, Y000 Blanket: RV34, RV11
Grass: YG67, YG63, YG03,
White: Posca pen

Thank you so much for stopping by! Happy crafting! :) 

xoxo Madeleine

TiddlyInks DT call entry!

Hello!!

Today I have a special card to show you! TiddlyInks are having a DT call and I think that's a DesignTeam I should be on if any! :D I adore these stamps and keep my fingers crossed I'll go all the way :)

Here's my card! I have used Maja Design's design paper from the Sofiero Collection (my fav!!) and the card's shape is made with  GoKreate Large Frames Frilly#7. The mask die-cut is made with one of Spellbinders Shapeabilities Venetian Accents and I have also used sticky embossing and pink glitter powder to make it glitter! The clock die is from Marianne Design Craftable Dies. The bird, corner and butterfly in clay are made with Martha Stewart clay. The little cabochon is handmade with paper from this store and the glass cabochon and charm is bought from different store at Aliexpress. The little glass bottle is also bought from a store at Aliexpress. The flowers are from both Wild Orchid Crafts and Aliexpress! I have also used Stickles Crystal on all the flowers.

Here's a close-up at my coloured image! I coloured this stamp called Wryn and Emmy BFF which you can find here, with Copics. Here are all the combinations I used:

Wryn:
Hair Brown: E29, E25, E21 Purple: RV99, RV95, RV93, RV91
Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20
Dress Purple: RV99, Rv95, RV93, RV91 Green: G29, G28, G21
Shoes: E29, E25, E21

Emmy:
Hair Blonde: E18, E15, Y23, Y21, Y11 Purple: RV99, RV95, RV93, RV91
Skin: E000, E04, E11, E21, E00, R20
Dress Green: G99, G29, G28, G21 Purple: RV99, RV95, RV93, RV91
Shoes: E29, E25, E21

Stars: Y17, Y15, Y11

White dots: Poscapen
Glitter: Gelly pens

So with this card I am keeping my fingers crossed I have a chance at getting on the fabulous Tiddly Inks DT! :)

Happy Crafting!

xoxo Madeleine