3 years from start

Hello!

Three years has now passed by. I can't believe that I've had my blog for three years!

This last year some things has changed around here:

I've a new layout for the blog.

 before

after

I've also now a DT job - which I find very fun and challenging!

Hugs
Evelina

Two weeks blog hop + challenge Seasonal Tags at CCC

Good morning!

We've now reached the final challenge at CCC this year. This means more prizes for you to win and longer time for you to complete your project.

And this last one is going to be a special one. The theme is seasonal tags - Christmas or New Year, it's your choise. The challenge will run for TWO WEEKS.

We are also holding a blog hop over at CCC during this period - leave a comment on each DT's blog post and finish at CCC. You have more chance of winning prizes if you play in the challenge AND the blog hop since we'll randomly pick winners from those that do both.

Tag - Tim Holtz

DP - Bo Bunny

Image - Pion Design

Lace - Scrapbooking4you.se

Pom-pom trim - LLC

Jute ribbon

Rolled roses, cream - Kort og Godt LLC

Roses - WOC

Magnolia vintage berries - LLC

Pearls

Pin

Distress ink pad

CHALLENGE: SEASONAL TAGS
We have 4 great PRIZES over this next two week break and more than one way to WIN!

We will post our challenge today, and it will stay open for 2 WEEKS for any of you to enter and play in!  We will choose TWO WINNERS from the challenge entries! If you also join us in our BLOG HOP and leave each of our fabulous DT members some love on their blogs, then you will have a chance to WIN a  sponsored prize as well, we will choose TWO WINNERS from the BLOG HOP comments!!

Start the blog hop at ANNA's and follow your way down the list! We are looking forward to your visits! You can always go back to CCC  if you lose your way to get back on track!

Anna

Bernie

Corrinne

Deena

Evelina

Helen

Jamie

Lindsey

Lou

Meighan

Michele

Peggy

Crafty Creations Challenge Blog

 

CCC is back again on January 2nd.

Hope you've found some inspiration!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Hugs
Evelina

Winter scene at CCC

Good morning!

Here in northern Sweden we finally have some snow! Yes, probably a little too much at once, but at least it helps you get that Christmas feeling :)

This week at CCC we would like to see something wintry on your project. I've used a LOTV stamp named Christmas Star and some white and blue DP from Maja Design to get that wintery feeling.

I've also added lots, and lots of flowers. White carnation flowers, white and icy blue roses in different sizes. All of them are from WOC. The hearts peeking out is a die from Spellbinder. And some white pearls on top of that.

Challenges:
Ribbon Girl - Ho ho ho
Simon says - Anything goes
Addicted to stamps - Christmas time #44
PTW - Anything goes 

Hope you've found some inspiration!

Christmas is coming at CCC

Hello!
The Saturday's scrap event near town was a perfect ending of a great week. It was a great event, even though I did't produce that much.

This week at CCC Christmas is coming and we want you to make something that has to do with Christmas. For me that means spending time with your loved ones and eat good and feel good. So therefore I've made a card of the sweets that we eat (and must prepare) before Christmas - with a recipe hidden inside.

Papers from Maja Design

Pearls

Lace

Ribbon

Recipe stamp

Challenges:
PTW - ribbon and pearls
CCCC - anything goes #24

Hope you've found some inspiration!

No flowers at CCC

This week at CCC you are not allowed to use any flowers on your creation. I found that really hard and I think I actually did quite good during the circumstance.

DP - from stash

white cardstock

pearls

pearl swirl

pearl ribbon

martha stewart punch

pink ribbon

vintage brad

Challenges:
Bearly Mine - anything goes #60
Charizma cardz - recipe #43

Hope you've found some inspiration!

Halloween spooks

Hello!
This week at CCC the theme is Halloween spooks. I've made a card and used black, orange and green. Now it's your time to spook!

Image - WOJ

Text - WOJ

Roses - Wild Orchid

Cheese cloth

Crisp ribbon

Organza ribbon

Blach rhinestones

Spider charm

Challenges:
SFTW - something spooky


Hope you've found some inspiration!

Wedding picture on a canvas

Hello!
After a few weeks I'm finally done with my first canvas project. I've used a wedding picture of my grandmother and gradfather to be the central of my piece.

DP - Maja Design (1923 and 1922)

Cream cardstock

Edges are distressed with Walnut stain

Fake stitches

Numbers in glitter - Scrap-Perra

Small letters - Scrap-Perra

Pearlswirl - PY hobby

Pins, heart hanger and pearl flower - LLC

Keyhole - Melissa Frances

Flowers - PY hobby, Wild Orchid, Kort og Godt and LLC

Ribbon/bow - Pysseltagen

Charms (key and watch) - PY hobby

Challenges:
Bearly Mine - pearls and swirls #56
Craftsandme - anything goes #105
Creative Inspiration - anything goes #184
DivasByDesign - anything goes #56
Papershelter - love beats all #85
PartyTimeTuesdays - anything but a card PTT#89
PennysChallenge - anything but a card #97
PinkGemChallenge - flowers #57
TuesdayAlchemy - anything goes #35

Hope you've found some inspiration!

Challenge #191 picture this

Hello!
For me September passed by in a hurry. I can remember me working a bit, going to school and sort of doing a card, but everything else is just a blur and now it's already October!

I've actually made an investment when it comes to craft. I've bought a lamp, Ott Light, which makes my crafting space so much whiter, brighter and lighter. Truly one of the best investments so far! :)

I'm going to show you my interpretation of the challenge we have at CCC this week, which is picture this. We want you to follow and be inspired by this picture below for your next project.

And here's my result.

Image - Mejlen's design

DP - Bo Bunny

DP - Paper pack Bookprint

Coloring medium - Distress Markers (pumice stone)

Roses - Wild Orchid

Heart pin - Live & love crafts

Love hangers - Live & love crafts

Lace

Pearls

Challenges:
Wild Orchid - Anything goes

Hope you've found some inspiration!

Autumn leaves

Hello!

Wednesday again, which means challenge time at CCC. This week's theme is Autumn leaves.

I've made a clean and simple card for this challenge.

Color medium - Distress Markers

Leaves - Prima

DP - Kaiserkraft

Candi

Hope you've found some inspiration!

Fairy Lily in lilac and challenge at CCC - move it

Hello!

I've had an eventful week with a hectic start at the University and a lot to take in, the workout at the gym has begun seriously now and I haven't got used to being alone with my sister now when our parents have left the cold country Sweden for warm Majorca. The last one isn't really a burden in the same way as the rest, because I'm really enjoing just being the two of us, but it's just a very strange feeling.

This week at CCC we want to see some movement on your card with e.g. dies, coil spring etc.

Image - Fairy Lily sitting on flower
Flowers - Wild Orchid
Heart punch - Martha stewart
Pom pom trim - Live & love crafts
Coloring medium - Distress Markers

Challenges:
The ribbon girl - add pearls
Bearly mine - anything goes
Allsorts - layers #171

Hope you've found some inspiration and I hope I'll see you att CCC!

Magnolia and DT at Crafty Creations Challenge

Hello!

Today is a very special day. It is my first DT post for Crafty Creations Challenge and I'm so excited!

With that said I would like to present to you our challenge this week - #185 Summer scene! Take a look at CCC's blog for some inspiration!

Here's some inspiration from me.

Magnolia stamp - Tilda offshore (borrowed from Heléne, thank you!)

DP - Maja Design - life by the sea

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Sentiment - LOTV

Charm - Anchor from PY Hobby

Cheese cloth

The edges are colored with Distress ink in the color walnut stain.

Challenges:
Creative Inspirations - Bingo #178 (pearls, flowers, blue)
Tilda's town - Anything goes #15

Hope you've found some inspiration!

Totally Tilda DT call

Hello!
A couple of days ago i finished making my card for the Totally Tilda DT call. In order to apply you had to make a NEW card with the color inspiration from this photo below.

Here is what I came up with.

White cardstock

DP - Dana Morin design - lullaby little star #LUL-504 (dreamstreetpapers.com) the back of this paper has flowers on it

DP - Paper maze - dottie collection - pink dottie #0169

 DP- blue dotted paper from stash

Heart punch - Martha Stewart

Border heart punch - Martha Stewart

"Time to celebrate"-text - Lili of the Valley

Edges inked with Distress ink walnut stain

Flowers - Wild orchid

Cheese cloth

Pearls

White organza ribbon

White zick-zack ribbon

White bow made of white organza ribbon

Round heart die - Spellbinder (frame around Tilda)

And last, but certainly not least, Tilda borrowed from a friend (thank you Mummylade)

 Hope you've found some inspiration!

Baby album page 3 - sleepyhead

Hello!
I while ago I finished another page in my baby album. And now is the time to show you that piece.

white cardstock

DP (large background) - PY Hobby and Papermania in the color parkstone pink

DP (circles) - from stash

brads - PY Hobby

rhinestones - PY Hobby

flowers - all from Wild Orchid

charm

alphabet (large, glitter)

alphabet (small) - scrap-perra

Challenges:
BearlyMine - anything goes #46
WildOrchidChallenge - round in circles #55
CharismaCardz - pink + 1 (white) #30
CuteCardThursday - clean and simple #228
DivasByDesign - flowers #46
ThePaperShelter - glitz and glimmer #75

Hope you've found some inspiration!

Gorjuss in the rain

Hello!

Up here in northern Sweden the weather has treated a little bit of this and a little bit of that - sun, heat, rain, cold, hail and thunder...

So lately I haven't been too inspired to do a lovely summer card. I decided to stick to the rain, otherwise it might get too messy to try to bring all the weather together at once. At least rain has some connection to summer compared to hail.

stamp - Gorjuss

cardstock - silky white, texture white and bling in silver

DP - from stash

roses - wild orchid

crisp ribbon - live & love crafts

organza

bling

pearls

 She is coloured with Distress Markers (black soot, broken china, victorian velvet, antique linen and pumice stone).

Challenges:
TotallyGorjuss - pearls #142
ThePoodlesParlour - anything goes
SimonSays - anything goes

Hope you've been inspired!

A box filled with...

Hello!

I went through my pictures of made stuff and found something I haven't published. It's a box - very easy to make - in which I filled up with some treat for the hostess at a tea party. She really appreciated it.

Design paper - think it could be from Riddersholm design, but I'm not sure

Punch - Martha Stewart

Brads

Ribbon

Stickles

And of course cardstock for the bottom

1. Make the chest (a box but without the lid) out of a square for the bottom. You can choose which size you want.
2. Score about 2-3 cm from the edge into the paper on every side.
3. Cut among some scored lines so that you are able to fold and fold up the edges so it looks like a chest. Glue or use double sided tape so that they stick together.
4. Take your DP and cut it so you have a stripe of 15-20 cm wide paper (depends on how high you want your box to be).
Note! Cardstock/DP are in size 12x12 inches (30,5x30,5 cm) and because of that you might want your chest to have a circuit of maximum 12 inches (30,5 cm) to be able to avoid seams.
5. The decoration is then up to you!

Hope you've found some inspiration!

Distress Markers from Tim Holtz and Ranger - Red hair

Hello!
As I said in my earlier post, I would come back and tell you about my progress coloring red hair.

Here's the result.

scattered straw - lightest

barn door - middle

fired brick - darkest (main color)

scattered straw - lightest

barn door - middle (main color)

fired brick - darkest

The first one got a more intense red color in her hair, while the second girl got more of a pinkish tone - and you have probably already figured out why, but I'm doing to write it anyway - I've used two different colors as the main color.

This is why I love coloring this way - you have endless color combinations! You could add some aged mahogany or some brown for a different effect.

Happy coloring!

Baby album page 2 - a la vintage style

Hello!
This creation was a hard one to handle. The layout began with the color pink, which didn't quite fit. Then I gave up on it and started to make a card. When I began to make my card I remembered my lastest investment - Maja Design papers - and I got an idea. I tried my idea - cut some papers and now I'm finished! What a detour!

Maja Design - vintage summer basics (1921, 1891, 1908)

White cardstock

Spellbinder

Lace

Ribbon

Pearl lace from Live & love crafts

Flowers from Prima

Pink tassel from scrapbooking4you.se

Pearl swirl from PY Hobby

Charm - stroller from PY Hobby

Cheese cloth from Live & love crafts

Pins from Live & love crafts

Ribbon slider from Wild orchid

Flower decoration from scrapbooking4you.se

Wooden decoration - crown from scrapbooking4you.se

Small roses

Petals

Leafs

Challenges:
TotallyPaperCrafts - lots of layers #125
WildOrchidChallenge - shabby chic #54
ABC-Challenge - T for two (two pins)
CreativeInspiration - bingo #171 (glitter - on the flowers, flowers - everywhere, ribbon - along the paper edged + bow)
Mayzyart - anything but a card #005
PTW - all things girlie #72

Hope you've found some inspiration!

Distress Markers from Tim Holtz and Ranger

Hello!

Lately I've been coloring a lot with my Distress Markers. I know I've said this before but I love them! This coloring technique fits me!

Below you'll find some results.

 Trying to do some blending

 The technique starts to set

 Not too detailed - really fun to color - as well as the Lillybelle

I also want to share my hair coloring combo with you - even if you want to color from the brightest blonde to the darkest brunette - this combo is a winner!

scattered straw

mustard seed

wild honey

spiced marmelade

tea dye

vintage photo

walnut stain

If you don't like the most bright and intense colors you could just skip the color mustard seed and spiced marmelade.

To color the hair of my Gorjuss I've used black soot and pumice stone.

I'm trying to color some red hair - I'll get back to you on that!

Happy coloring!

Shopping at Live & love crafts

Hello!
This week I received a package from Live & love crafts with a little bit of everything in it.

Papers from Magnolia

 Pearl lace in white and cream

 Roses with glass pearls

 Tim Holtz hinge clips

 Mixed charms (bird cage, passport, sewing machine etc)

 Crispy ribbon in white and brown

 Notting Hill keyholes from Melissa Frances

 White flowers from Maya Road

 Magnolia stamp - Tilda with winding flowers

 Crystal and heart pins

During this weekend I've tried my new Tim Holtz Distress Markers and I just love them! I don't have any picture on my painted images to show you yet though...