I found a stamp I got from my mother last Christmas and I realized I haven’t used it yet, so I used it and made a card!
82nd birthday card
My grandfather turned 82 yesterday and I made a card for his birthday, and some cake.
I chose to use elements that I know he likes, such as raspberries, motorcycles, gold and shooting. He has been shooting in competitions for as long as I can remember and he took me and my brother for practice once a week when we were younger. I loved it and every summer I asked if we could go shooting with air pistols which he always brought with him to our summer house.
First I thought of adding a plain white or kraft tag but then I remembered I had some old paper targets left from my practice so I cut a tag out of one of them. Such a damn good idea I must say!
The raspberries are a few rhinestones glued together on a piece of paper, painted with some stickles to make them more pinkish.
My friend Jennie made the layout for me and the more I look at it, the more I like it. It’s interesting how much positive feedback I’ve gotten from showing the picture of the card. Now I just have to analyze what makes this card so god damn fab!
Since there is a challenge at 2 sisters challenge blog with the theme “just for dad” I decided to enter with this one. Exciting!
I’m also entering the current Alota Rubber stamps challenge (alota109): make a wish. I wished my grandfather a happy birthday (and more to come!) with this card. I think he liked it, he watched all the details for a long time.
A closeup on the raspberries, so happy to use my bling stash!
Here’s the cakes I made, roll cake (directly translated from Swedish; rulltårta), it might actually be called Swiss roll when translating it. I prefer to call it roflcaek. Anyway, the red one is filled with mashed fresh raspberries and the brown one is filled with a nut creme! Next time I’ll make one with lemon curd and maybe some strawberries.. *drool*
50th birthday card
My mom asked me to make a card for her old friend who turned 50 the other day. Here’s the result which was based on a sketch challenge but I was too slow entering so it’s closed. But it doesn’t matter, I like the card anyway and it was fun to make!
I wanted to use something close to nature or cows as she is a farmer who has a lot of beef cows (?). Unfortunately I had no fitting stamps for that nor did I have cow patterned paper or anything like that. Instead I went for pale natural colors and my mom got to choose the patterned background paper!
Still practicing on coloring blonde hair, it’s so much easier when you know which colors to use and how. Thank you youtube!
25th birthday card
One of my cousins turns 25 in a few weeks and I made this card for her. Her favorite colors are red, black and white (if I recall correctly), she also likes stars and to make movies. I know she wouldn’t appreciate a girly card and I’m not sure I like how masculine this card looks but at least it has some glitter, that’s not very masculine, right?
The card was inspired by this week’s Mojo Monday Challenge #296
Mother’s day
I made a card for my mother for mother’s day here in Sweden, it’s celebrated a few weeks later than in most countries in the world.
I used the current Mojo Monday challenge for the layout. My mom loved it!
The stamp says “To my beloved mother” in Swedish.
The collecting matching papers work and results!
A three in one and one!
This weekend I finally got some crafting done, I wasn’t in the mood for anything else so I just let myself sit and craft. It was something I needed, and I guess the cleaning will have to be done this week instead, he he.
Next week I’m going to a party for my mother’s parents in law. They both turn 80 and inspired by the card me and Jennie made for Malin, I decided to give them a 3 in one card.
Here’s the front, I used the sketch from this week’s Freshly made sketches challenge #86 to make a Dalarna inspired card. They both enjoy spending time in their house in Dalarna so I figured it’s one, among other, thing they both like.
The background is dry embossed and slightly sanded, the card looked so flat and boring before I decided to try that technique.
Here’s the inside of the card, one page for Britt and one for Rolf, I tried to use colors, stamps and patterns they might like. I hope they like it. I know Britt like green and purple and she makes jam and lemonade in the autumn, delicious! Rolf is a carpenter and he likes to fish so I thought both the stamp and background might work.
These two cards are based on the current challenge at seize the birthday
Instead of cleaning and taking a walk I made a last card for the pink gem challenge #80. It became a wedding card, I realized all my colored humans are brunettes so I decided to practice on coloring blondes. I found this lovely stamp from wee stamps in my stash and I played around with different light brown and yellow nuances. I think I need to purchase more nuances fit for blonde hair.
I’ll add a sentiment later on when the stamps I’ve lent out to Jennie are returned, it would be a shame to ruin the card with my horrible handwriting.
