Commissioned Birthday card

Hi dear crafty friends. Today I'd like to share with you a masculine card I did for a friend of mine who asked for a Birthday card for her brother. I cringe a little bit when someone asks me for a masculine card, as it always takes me a while before I decide on what to do. I do not have many options or ideas when it comes to plan a man's card, but anyway - this time I did it :)

Thanks to online resources I printed this man tag and planned from there, using some stuff I had. I took the "be adventurous" theme.

I kind of liked it in the end, when everything came together, but I always remain a little bit skeptic... duh!! 

These are free words I found on Pinterest, and I love adding them to cards, they always boost a little bit - at least in my opinion :)

Last but not least I added my insert with some positive wording.... and Voila'! The card has now reached its destination, so it is safe for me to share!

Many blessings!! 

Wedding Card

Hi my dear crafting friends


I hope that everyone is looking forward for Spring which is now near. I love Spring, but I dread the terrible heat that grips our island for many months which follow.

Today I would like to share a Wedding card I did during these days, it is very different from my comfort zone, but at the end I liked it.

I used a lot of dies for this one, the precise detail the cutting add to the card are always eye catching. Things I also added are flowers, flat backed pearls, small white bow, lace and some glitter dust for that shine.

I hope it shows on the photo, but I tried to capture the shine on the champagne glass. Cheers to all newly weds.

The following is the message on the inside of this card. 

I hope you all have a wonderful week, even amidst these times of world wide health problems. May God bless each one of you.

Christmas Joy and Cheer!

I hope you are all doing well, and that you are having a wonderful family time this festive Season. Christmas is one of my favourite times, even though this year is the first one without mum - so you feel that pain within you - but the Peace and Joy it brings in all environments is amazing in itself!

To wish you all a lot of beautiful things for this Christmas Day and the coming year, I am sharing with you a Christmas card I did for one of my Sisters - I just love how it turned out!

I did not want to use traditional colours for this one, and I chose a main of brown shades - then I added some olive green touches; as it is the the recipient's favourite color.

One might not associate these colours to go well together, but it is a very beautiful combination; it looks really cool in real life! Not even I thought I would like them together. 

I used quite some dies here, from some tag dies, to a JOY word, including the nativity scene, and some leave die, the one I used as a base of grass and leaves. This I embossed with Distress ink for added dimension. 

I cut the JOY word for three times, to add thickness and dimension. Later on I decided to cut one out of brown cardstock and cut out the Nativity scene figures for some more interest. The papers I used are mostly Pion Design - from the Long Time Ago in Bethlehem collection. 

Another detail photo for you, the Betlehem houses can be seen here, used as a background for my scene - together with paper doilies, stamped background, rhinestones, brads, etc.

Wishing you the very best my friend. Thank you for being here and for sharing my crafting journey. It is such a wonderful way to spread love with a handmade card - cause one dedicates time, resources, creativity, and adding a personal touch that you know the recipient will love means that you are attentive to the person's personality. That also means love! 

Happy Christmas. May Christ finds a warm place in your heart to stay. Sending you love!

Challenges: 

Ally's Angels Challenge  - ATG

Allsorts Challenge  - ATG

Die Cutting Divas Challenge - 3 Stars, 2 Die cut tags and 1Bow 

Through The Craft Room Door  - ATG

Shopping Our Stash - Celebrating Christmas

Everybody Art Challenge  - Winter landscape or Christmas colours

Lemon Shortbread Challenge - ATG

Tilda is feeling under the weather

Hello again my dear crafting friends. I would like to share with you my latest card - a Magnolia get well soon card. For this card I decided to use this cute Get Well Tilda - Tilda with bunny slippers. Winter is coming and with it the flu season has already arrived :)  So a Get Well Soon card can come in very handy.

I coloured my image on Langton water colour paper using distress reinkers using mostly vintage photo and tattered rose for the skin tones; broken china, faded jeans and weathered wood for the blues; and antique linen, vintage photo and walnut stain for the browns - the same I used for the hair, adding scattered straw.

I also based my card having in mind some challenges I would like to participate in, knowing also that I already have a good use for this card! :)

The papers I have used are Magnolia papers and the smaller pieces are from my stash. Buttons are .... and sentiment is Word generated. the pills are from a Magnolia die. Love these so much!

I hope you enjoy my card! Wishing you an awesome weekend! Remember to smile! :)

The inside of my card looks like this:

Some challenges for this cutie:

TOMIC November challenge - Blue and brown

2 Sisters on the Blog  - Sketch

The Paper Girls Challenge - Family - This goes to one of my family members, with flu

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Always Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut Challenge  - Anything using patterned paper

Love to Scrap challenge -  ATG

Crafter's Castle challenge  - ATG

Ally's Angels Challenge  - ATG

Stay well :)

A Vintage Birthday

Thank you for being here to share this crafting journey with me; your friendship is a Blessing. 

I am sharing another vintage/shabby card, which I loved doing this last weekend. 

I just loved working with this image, but I did not like cutting in the few Maja papers I have!! I prefer looking at them lol!! but they are made for these type of projects, so what's the use to leaving them in the safe box?! :)

In this photo you can see a detail of the flowers I added, and a "be happy" ticket. It doesn't show in the photo but I added tiny bits of shine... very subtle. 

Another side of the card. The "special delivery" id from Tim Holtz ephemera pack. I love these small additions :)

I really hope that you like this card as well, and that you can share with me new tips or where can I improve in these cards. 

A view of the inside of the card. In the photo it shows as if it is on the lavender/ light purple shade, but actually it is pinkish - light pink on the same scale as the front of the card.

Some challenges for this card as well :) 

PIP Challenge  - Challenge 1946

Jan's Digi Stamps  - ATG 

A Bit More Time To Craft - Challenge 104 -ATG

Creations in Pink - Mainly pink

Not just Cards  - November challenge

Have a good week sweet crafters!! 

Many Blessings sent your way!

A Birthday Hanglar

I'm so happy and grateful to God that autumn has finally kicked in on our island! I just looovve the sound of rain, wind and thunder; they make me feel so homely and cosy :) During the weekend I coloured and assembled this Birthday card, this time it's not a commissioned card - just for fun.

I always loved the HAnglar and Stanglar stamps, and I was so happy when during my crafting break I learnt about their comeback. They are really adorable!

I used Copics to draw my image and gave t he last fine strokes with Prismacolours. Later on I decided to fussy cut the image and create a background to compliment the Magnolia papers I chose for this card; drawing a brick wall, the cloudy sky and I stenciled some flying birds with Copics as well. 

I added some Stardust glitter glue to some of the stripes of the socks, and to some of the flowers I added to embellish this cutie. 

 Some detachable tags, I looove adding these to my cards. They add some interesting and fun touch; and look lovely too.

 A close up of the image and colouring . Sentiment was done with a Dymo hand machine. Distressing and gesso was added to the card as well.

Flowers as mentioned above. I hope I managed to capture the bit if shine in the largest rose; I sprayed it with some shine - not too much though, to keep it shabby.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did to create it. Have a wonderful week, and never forget to thank God for all you receive. 

Have an awesome day! 

Let's get the fun going with a challenge or two: 

Avenue613 challenge  - ATG with scrap your stash - used scraps of paper to die cut leaves and tags , pieces of twine 

Crazy4challenges Blog - Add an element with texture

After a year, I am back!

I am finally back to the Blogging world with my crafty creations!! Phew what a year this has been for me, it has surely marked my life in so many ways!!

I was surely disappointed to say that after all the effort I did to convince myself to return to blogging to share my creations and my Blessings with all my crafty friends, I find that for the second time... Grrr!!!! ... I couldn't access to my previous Blog and had to start all over again!!!!
This is my third Blog, hopefully it won't happen again!!! I preferred to have all my previous work here, but anyhow! Let me come to the card I would like to share with you.

This Birthday card came out really beautifully, and it was difficult to give it away! :) At least I hope it will be liked and appreciated!

It was difficult to cut again in my Sofiero Maja papers but I knew that they will get my mojo back. Three months ago my mum died of lung cancer, after two and a half years of intense suffering, and for the first two months I was so tired and trying to get my mental energy back, that I did not create anything at all.

But I missed crafting, and especially the contact with my crafting friends from all over the world. Hopefully I will build again the contacts, and the beautiful and healthy interaction that was so part of my life.

The details of these papers are amazing, and they make me fall in love with vintage images and style again.

Instead of the usual Happy Birthday greeting, I added this detachable round sentiment which opens up to some more detailed surprise.

Some beautiful and delicate flowers were a must with this card! And I just loved adding some trims, brads and an embossed background.

Next photo is of the inside, using some more of the same papers, and other stuff from my stash.

I hope that I can reach out again to all of you soon, and please let me know if you've been here! Would love to hear again from you. May God bless you, and keep shining!

Will be entering this card for the following challenges:



Word Art Wednesday Blog  - ATG

Lemon Shortbread Challenge  -ATG

We Love to Create Challenge  - ATG Mixed media