A No Title Card

Sometimes you need a "no title card". A card that you can use for almost every occasion.  This is a card in that category. 

I used this to write a gift certificate inside, where my niece got a day with me doing our nails at a beauty parlor. She loved the idea, but she still need to use it... we need to book a date. :)

Photo borrowed from SweScrap.

I was inspired by this cute sketch made by LillBlomman for the inspirational blog SweScrap,when I made this card. I really liked the three sections in the sketch, that I interpreted with three pieces of pattern paper. I turned the sketch to the right, to make a more rectangular card.

The card is based on two pieces of cardstock, where I did drips and splashes with Dylusions ink on them.

To frame it, I chalked the edges with Faded Jeans Distress Ink Pad and Mixed Media Inx in the color School House. I also did some doodling. :) It feels like I am not done with an art project before I do some doodling on it. It's kind of my feature. ;)

The stars on the sketch turned into hexagon wood veneer on my card.... and they, of course, got some doodling as well. I drew some stitches around the edge of the pattern paper blocks, and I also drew with a white pen around them to make them pop out from the page. Trying to make an optical illusion...
 

I used a border punch from Fiskars to create this border, that looks like a torn out page from a note book. I like it! :)

On this one I also tried to give it a feeling of standing out from the page, with the doodling, by using a black and a white pen to create shadows.

Have a great day in the sun! :)

When the baby came

Over at the Swedish inspirational blog, SWEscrapbook, we do a lot of scraplifting from amazing card makers around the world.

Picture borrowed from AnnaBelle.

In the beginning of april we lifted the talented AnnaBelle O'Malley from the US. I just love the happy colors and the flowers on her card.

So that was what I was inspired by when I made my card. Happy flowers in happy colors.

This is a card that I gave to one of my best friends when she got an adorable daughter this spring. All the love to you two. :)

I used Dylusions mist and a flowery TCW mask.

The mists that I used were Bubble gum pink, Calypso Teal and Lemon Zest. Love that combination of colors. :)

This is the back of the card. I kept it kind of simple with a canvas colored ribbon, over the (crazy) misted background. Letting the background speak for itself.

The stamp is a children's song in Swedish, about when a little baby came to the world. I used my embossing powder, Ranger Perfect Medium Pad and my heating tool, also from Ranger. Love the effect of embossing - it looks so luxurious. 

Cute close up! :) I love working with the different characteristics of the Dylusions mists. They blend differently, depending if the paper is gessoed or not. This cardstock is not gessoed, so you can see the drops of different colors of the mist, in the petals of the flower. 

One of the girls in the Design Team at SWEscrapbook did those cute banners for us to use. Thanks, Hannahoj. :)