Graduation-card

My Goodness, I do apologize for not having posted - AGAIN! Oh well... 

Anyway, this is a card that I made today, for my niece's graduation-party tomorrow. I bought her a very nice gift and this card is quite complementary to it. I don't think she reads my blog, but just in case she actually does, I won't tell you what the present is..! 

The colours - expecially the pink butterfly - is not as bright in real life as in the picture. Somehow the scanner picked it up like this. And the pink butterfly is actually a die and IRL the wings are pulled up a little to make it 3D. And the stamp is from Panduro. 

Santa Christmas-card

I am so very sorry that I don't post more regularly! Anyway, here is another Christmas-card, those are really the most common cards I make. This card is for a challenge with Merry Monday Christmas Challenge, where the task was to use a Santa! 

Have a great day! I hope to be back a little sooner next time! 

Another card

Another card I made the other day! The cat is coloured in with watercolour-pencils and I also put on some stickles on the bow on the cat's head.

Card for Markus

I've had a guy doing his internship at my job the past few months, with me as his mentor. He's sooooo good and he will be an absolutely great social-worker. He will end his internship at the very same day as my last day at this job, next Friday April 27. I made him this card and hope he will like it. He's very into nature, so hopefully it's not too girlish for him with flowers... The sentiment "Lycka till" means "Good luck".

Cards and prices

My goodness, a whole month since I last posted here! Time flies!

I have got an order for 8 Christmas-cards, so I'm working on them. One of them is the one above. People at work tend to like my cards, so I decided to up the price. For two reasons: if they are a little more expensive, people might not order so many, and that would give me more time for my own cards. And also, cardmaking IS artwork and it should be treated like that. And people should pay for it. It's so easy to say that I do it just for fun and it's fun that people like it as well. And it IS! But it's also much work involved, and the papers, embellishments and ribbons are not inexpensive either! 

Springcard for a challenge

Oh well, it might be a little late to show a springcard... Nevertheless, here is one I made recently, for a challenge. It should be something spring-related, a stamped image and a ribbon. So, here it is, folks! In reality, summer is here and has been here for a while already. Today it's rainy and dull, though. Hoping for it to clear up tomorrow!

Busy!

Spring is here! It's soooo good to be able to go outside and the air is warm and nice. And no snow left!

This deco is themed "Silly Cats" and I found this picture and found it so adorable and funny. Cats really are so special and unique, noone is like the other. I am a huge cat-lover, can you tell?

I have been very busy this last month - both with work and the commuting (I work full-time and commute 45 minutes each direction), but I have also some orders of cards that will have to be ready by the end of April. 40 of them are wedding-invitations that a friend asked me to make for her. I have made 26, "only" 14 to go! And also, a co-worker asked me to make her 4 birthday-cards. She will retire by the end of the month, so I'll try to have them ready for her next week. And of course I will have to make her a "goodbye"-card as well!

I will try to remember to get pictures of it all, and upload here!

A very special card

A little while ago, a colleague and friend asked for a very special card. Her best friend had just passed away from cancer and she wanted a card to lie together with her flowers by the coffin at the funeral. A very special request and soooo delicate! It really had to be just right and I really had performance anxiety about this, but it turned out pretty good, I think! My friend had requested the card to be pink and she also had chosen the picture with the angels.

Christmas-card!

I am home with a slight fever, but I did manage to craft a little bit yesterday. I figured it's time to get some of the Christmas-cards ready, and this is what I came up with. I am pretty happy with the result. I stamped a Christmas-tree purely in green, cut it out and mounted it on a small square of green card-stock (that I actually cut ouyt with a nestability, if you look closely you can tell it's not quite even on the edges. It's supposed to look like that!). Then I glued some red bling-stones on it to look like Christmas-ornaments. Pretty!

The fever is on its way to leave, thank goodness. Yesterday I was beginning to think I would be stuck with it for a looooong time, but today I have a little more energy.

Card

Here's a card I made for a dear colleague who changed jobs and stopped working at my job. I hope she liked the card, it's a little different from other cards that I made, but I like it! The "stem" of the flowers I made with yarn that I tied ribbons around, so they became little leaves. And the "Lycka till" (= Good luck) I embossed.

Other than that, I've been home with a sick child today, he has a little fever. Nothing much, just enough to stay home from school. Another thing thatis sick also is my car, I left it at the car-workshop this morning, will hopefully get it back tomorrow afternoon.

For my mom

This is a card I made for my mom's birthday. I am pretty happy with how it turned out, very summerish and nice. And the most important of all: my mom liked it!

Now I have only one more week to work, then it's VACATION! I just can't wait for it. This year's vacation is a little on the late side for me, I can tell. Next year I will try to get it earlier. I am really tired now and try to do as little as possible when I am home, just so I can keep it together and not crash again. But I will be fine, no worries! Just one more week and then I will be free for 4 weeks!

No vacation in sight...

A card I made for my niece Julia who turned 12 the other day. Just like the rest of us, she's very into cats, so I thought making her a card with a cat would be a good idea. I think it turned out pretty cute!

At the moment I am feeling pretty sorry for myself. I have 3 whole weeks to go before I start my summer-vacation! Yeah, I chose it myself but now I wonder how stupid I can get! Three more weeks is a LOT! I want it now! *sigh*

Cat-card

This is a card I made for my friend Annica's 40th birthday. She likes cats, so I thought this stamp would be appropriate...

Other than that, I am home from work today, since Gustav has stomach-flu. Not nice! I just hope I will escape it! The nice thing about this, is that I have more time to craft! Yihaa!!

Oh, Spacegirl challenged me to reply to these questions:

1. What kind of food do you eat a lot? Well, if I cook the food, I like when it's simple and fast. Pasta is good, but I also often make home-made fries with fried salmon. Yummie!
2. When you are the guest of a party, do you help out with cleaning or do you stay seated? Actually, I often help with the cleaning, I like to be busy...
3. Where do you prefere to be when you're blogging? At home, by the computer. It IS a laptop, but I prefer to have it in one place...
4. Do you often buy lotteries? Nah... If I ocassionally buy them, I never win...
5. In what city or country did you have the best vacation? France...
6. What TV-channel is your favourite? TV4, I think...

Christening-card

These days I mostly make Christmas-cards, but yesterday we went to my niece's christening, and of course I had to make her a card as well! This is what I came up with, and I must say I am pretty satisfied with how it turned out! I didn't want to make the ordinary pink, girlie card, so I made this green, red and gold one.

Other than that, I must confess that I am a little tired now. LOTS to do at home before Christmas and I am also work-training. It's pretty stressful, but I try to keep it out and just take it as easy as possible. One step at the time, trying not to get too stressed...

Thank-you card

A special-ordered card for my friend Caroline at work. Her daughter just received her drivers-licence and Caroline wanted to thank the person who taught her to drive. So I made a thank-you card with a Bella-car stamp! And guess what? She was so pleased with the card and showed it to "everybody" at work, and they thought I should make a few and put in a box in the lunch-room, for sale! That's flattering! I guess I will give it a try, and make some... :o)

Wedding-card and Vintage Halloween

Today I have a couple of new things to show you! First a wedding-card! I didn't know I was going to make one at first, but the stamp just yelled that it should be there. And who am I to argue with that..?

The next thing is a Vintage Halloween deco that I made for my international yahoo-group LovelyDecos. It's going to a friend here in Sweden tomorrow, in the mail. I'm pretty happy with it - especially the little bat in the right corner!

Summer-feeling

Today i made this card, it's got a bit of a summer feel to it, don't you think? And... have you noticed I like pink? LOL! This time I tried to mix it up with some blue as well, and I am pretty happy with the result!

The patterned paper is PaperSalon and the stamp is from Lotta R Design. And of course Prima Flowers - I just LOVE them!

Wow, this has been a busy week - at least in comparison to what I'm used to, LOL! Some of you might know that I'm on sick-leave due to a burn-out depression (3 years now) and I've got doctor's order that I NEED to take it easy and get plenty of rest. Well, this week I have rested, but I have also had a lot of appointments, so I haven't had much time for card-making or deco-ing. But this evening I made this card! I don't know yet who will end up getting it...