Sorry!

Please forgive me my absence! Things have been very hectic at work and I'm kind of beat when I get home in the evenings. Now things are lightning up and I hope to be able to be more present soon, and to have more energy to do more crafting!

However, this is one of my newest decos, the theme is "First kiss", isn't the picture sweet?

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.

Where do you get your inspiration?

One thing that's been on my mind lately is where we get our inspiration from? Obviosly, it's different for everybody. Where do YOU get your inspiration? Is it from other peoples work, or nature? Or colour-palets? For me, using sketches is crucial. I have a little sketch-book that I made myself. In there I have drawn sketches that I found on various blogs, sketch-challenges etc. I just cannot do without it! If I forget it at home when I go to craft-gatherings, I am completely lost! LOL! It's not that I use the sketches straight off, sometimes I do, but other times there's something with the sketch that just makes me take off. Like this deco above, it doesn't look much like the sketch I had when I started.

So, my question for you: where do you get your inpiration?

Frogs

Aren't this pic of the frogs CUTE?! And funny?! I just can't stop smiling when I see it... I just had to use it for a "Frog" deco that I made not long ago.

I haven't been crafting much lately, I'm sorry to say. I would want to, but have been working pretty much and also have had other things to attend to... Hopefully things will lighten up soon!

Sweden!

This is a deco with "Sweden"-theme. It's really summery and really Swedish. And I like it a lot! Summer is now approaching, and I cannot wait for the weather to improve! These past few days have been really rainy, but tomorrow it's supposed to be good. I hope so! :)

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.

Layout!

It's not often that I do layouts for my scrapbook-album, but here's one that I made tonight! It's a picture of the first time my mom met her new grandson, that is, my son Gustav... I really like the picture, there is so much love!