Guest designing at ISMAKI challenge blog.

I was honoured to be this week's guest designer on the well-known and wonderful ISMAKI-challenge blog. Here's my card - and the sketch to go with it, you will find at the ISMAKI-site. Please visit them, and it would be fun if you would participate in this weeks challenge too :-)
Thanks for stopping by!!

Experimenting

I've had the day off from work, and I've been playing with my stamps all day! :-) I've experimented more with pop-ups. Really fun! I haven't made the cover for the card yet, that'll have to be some other day. Tfl!

More pop-up Summer & Sea!

I've just finished another pop-up card. So much fun. All stamps are as usual by Magnolia. Thank you all for wonderful comments on my last card. Hope ya'll had a great weekend. :-)

Detail:

Front:

I was asked to explain how I made the pop-ups. I don't know how to explain, I just do it... I figured a picture was worth more than words. The important thing with this kind of pop-ups, is that all the folds are 90 degrees. And also be sure that the elements won't obstruct each other when the card is being closed. Good luck on your pop-up!

Summer & Sea-collection

New stamps from Magnolia arrived in the mail this weekend. I've made this pop-up-card with them so far:

Sentiment by Norsk Stempelblad. All other stamps by Magnolia.

Detail:

Three more cards

" Lapp Tilda", "Kökssoffa", coffee stains and heart are all by Magnolia. "Takk" ("thanks") journaling-stamp by Norsk Stempelblad, Papers by 3ndy Design, flowers by Prima. I know I've said it before: Lapp Tilda is my favorite. She's too cute!

The large swirl along the edge is by Autumn Leaves. Sentiment by Tim Holtz. The rest of the stamps is by Magnolia. Paper by 3ndy Design. :-)

Sentiment by Norsk Stempelblad. All other stamps by Magnolia.

Have a great week!

Shabby Chic Tilda

The cute Tilda-stamp is from the Shabby Chic-collection by Magnolia. Papers from Making Memories, flowers by Prima. Round sentiment by Maya Road, and codestamp by Autumn Leaves.

Troll

All stamps and materials available from Magnolia.

Love

Here's another card from the February issue of Ett Trykk. This one was the one making the cover :-) It has sort of been published on this blog before, as I had a pic of the magazine here, but this is a bigger and better picture of it.

Yesterday I held a Magnolia-class. I haven't had time to scan the cards yet, and Im off to work now. But I will try to get them scanned tonight.

Wishing you all a great thursday!

Just a card

Here's one of my cards that was published in the february issue of Ett Trykk. All stamps by Magnolia. :-)

Tilda in the City

Tilda has been seen in the city lately. Enjoying the urban life with a caffe latte at a fancy coffee shop, and visiting the local museums for the inspiration. She even sat down in the park to watch the funny little ducks in the ponds. Welcome to the big city, Tilda.



Stamps used: "Edwins stad", "Lapp Tilda" and "Bench". Paper by Basic Grey "Recess", and EAN-code stamps by Autumn Leaves.

I know have told you before, but I still get questions on how I colorize my cards, so I'll repeat it here. I mostly use Tim Holtz's Distress Ink by Ranger. Put a small amount of ink on a piece of plastic, glass or your acrylic block, and use a water brush to paint. You use it the same way you would with any watercolors. The colors can be mixed together, and you can lighten them using more water. It is important that you use watercolor paper. I use fine grained, cold pressed paper with a 200 g weight (90 lbs), but you can use the paper of your liking, as long as it is ment for watercolors.

The white highlights are gel-rollers. I use any gel-roller I have laying around for this. Draw a small line of highlight, and then quickly smudge it a little with your finger, before it dries. repeat this untill you have the shade you want. You may also highlight without smudging. this will make the highlighting more sharp, and is suitable for shiny objects like i.e. balloons, cars etc.

Also, thank you all for your wonderful comments. I really appreciate them all!! I know I have been tagged by some of you, I just haven't gotten around to do something about it. I should really try to set some time a side for that...

Aren't they the cutest?

Here are some cards from the Magnolia-class I held earlier this week. "Tilda i särk" is my new favorite! She's sooo darn cute. And well... Edwin is a star. :D

Framed Magnolias, and a few other cards...

I've had this Ikea-frame laying around for ages, always planning to do something fun with it. And so today - I finally got around to do something about it. The photo doesn't really do it justice, because it is layered with 3D- foam, so that the parts has un-equal height. So much fun! I think I need to stop by Ikea again and get some more of these cheap frames.

I've also made two other cards, but without Magnolia-stamps this time (allthough one of them is featuring a Magnolia-flower... *lol*). Sometimes it's fun to do something completely different, and the shabby/vintage style is one that I really like.

TFL!

Knight wanted

More new stamps from Magnolia. The horse is just adorable, and so is Tilda.

Long time, no stamping

I got the most beautiful stamps from Magnolia. I must admit, I'm not the most romantic person out there, but the new Magnolia-stamps even made me want to make more valentine-cards.

And yes, I say "more".. I've already made a bunch of valentine-cards, as I was chosen to be the featured "Artist of the Month" in the February issue of "Ett Trykk".

You can see more previews on their blog. See? I'm a "cover girl" too! One of my Magnolia-cards made the front cover as main picture! I'm really proud!

Santa Edwin

Still not much time for cardmaking, but I couldn't resist making this one with Edwin - the cutest santa ever, don't you think? All stamps by Magnolia. Letters cut with Cricut. Coloring done using Pantone's Tria-pens (Promarkers) and Derwent Pencils. Embossed snowflakes, and white gel-roller.

Cards from my class today

I had a class on christmas cards using Magnolia-stamps at Steffens (my LSS and also my employer) today. We made two of these cards, and a gift-tag. So much fun hosting classes. I love to meet all the nice fellow stampers out there :-)

Twinkle, twinkle little Star

A real twinkling Tilda, in Sonja Henie's footsteps. She has everything needed to be a star! Painted with Twinkling H2O by LuminArte, and plenty of Stickles (glitter-glue) by Ranger. Mounted on patterned paper with glitter details. All stamps from Magnolia, off course!

It's been too long...

...since I last updated this blog! Time really flies!

I've got a bunch of wonderful, new stamps from Magnolia. They are all so gorgeous, I didn't even know how to decide wich ones to try out first.

Here's a card I made yesterday. I've started working on more, and I need to do the final touches on them tonight, before I can scan them.

Also, EllenK gave me this award. How nice is that?! :-)

I'm supposed to give it on to ten people that inspire me and make me smile. That's a difficult one, because there are sooo many of you!!

All of you that reads and comments on my blog, inspire me to make and upload new cards, and every time I get uplifting comments it makes me smile. That's why I will give this on to all of you who has given me such comments.

Thanks for stopping by!

All About Christmas

Thanks again folks, for all your wonderful comments! I feel so bad for never taking the time to really browse all the inspiring blogs out there, and being so sloppy with leaving feedback myself. I hereby promise to take some time for this the upcoming weekend. Life's just been too crazy lately.

As you can see, I'm all christmas lately. Working in a scrapping-/stamping-/craftstore, christmas season are really starting these days. I've been thinking only christmas since September 1. I just hope my christmas spirit will stay strong till Desember 25. at least.

I think I'll manage, especially with cute christmas Tildas and Edwins helping me along.

Did she paint her house?

Yesterday it was red, today it's blue. And it is just as pretty that way! Tilda is taking a walk in the blue hour.

Oh, and did you notice? I've added a slideshow to my blog. Isn't it cool? I will do something about the design on this blog, I promise. I know it looks kind of boring as it is.