Teeing off! {Lili of the Valley}

June 18, 2021June 16, 2021 ElinLeave a comment

Hi! I have a 50th birthday card to share today, featuring the Teeing Off image from Lili of the Valley that was released a few weeks ago.

The card was made on order for a golf-playing tinsmith whose favorite football team (European football) is Liverpool. I wanted to include as many of the elements as possible, and made a slimline card with patterned paper from Papirdesign, P13 and 7 Dots Studio.

I used lots of foam tape for dimension, and varying widths of the patterned paper layered and criss-crossed across the card. I used the Slimline Starter die set from My Favorite Things and also the Stitched Trad. Tag STAX dies to create the tags. The reinforcers are made with the Tag Builder Blueprints 6 die set, also from MFT.

Through one of the reinforced holes, I pulled a piece of Cherry twine from Whisker Graphics and dug through my stash to find a ball charm, perfect for a football fan. I wanted to include a little bit of metal because of his profession, and started by stapling the twine to the tag. I also fussy cut a few footballs from patterned paper from Papirdesign that I scattered across the front.

I fussy cut my golfer and added him to the front of the card using foam tape.

I created a circle with the recipient’s age and covered it with a thick layer of Glossy Accents. Glossy Accents takes a long time to dry, so I made this little piece before starting on the rest of the card and put it somewhere safe to dry for a few hours. Once it was time to put the card together, I’d completely forgotten about this little 1″ circle, and only found it after I’d handed the card over to the woman who ordered it. Thankfully, I was able to meet up with her the following day to add it to the card, but of course, all my photos were already taken, so I snapped this super quickly with my phone just to show what the card should have looked like all along.

I was asked to try to put the Liverpool team song somewhere on the card, and I figured that one of the insides had just enough space. The other inside has plenty of room for a personal message to the recipient.

On the back of the card I used more patterned paper, more fussy cut footballs and also a sentiment from Norsk Stempelblad AS stamped in Memento Ladybug ink.

I also added my personal stamp to the back of the card, on a white football with splatters. Back in February, Create a Smile had a two week collaboration with Sommerabend where you could order personal stamps. I got this one and an address stamp. I’ve been creating cards for over 10 years, but never had a personal stamp until now, and I’m so happy with how they both turned out.

I felt like I hadn’t hit the brief in terms of the tinsmith part, so I decided to die cut the letters of his name in foil sheet and add to the front of the envelope. I put a couple of layers of plain card stock die cuts behind each foiled letter for dimension, and used an old hammer from Tim Holtz to add a little texture to the letters. A few footballs on either side of his name to complete the look.

Not a whole lot of Copics required for an image that mostly reads as red and white.

Lots of hearts {Mo’s Dream Team}

August 22, 2018August 15, 2018 ElinLeave a comment

Hi everyone. I’ve got another birthday card today, this time featuring Bowl of from Mo Manning. The image comes with separate images to put in the bowl, I chose hearts for my card today.

I’ll admit, I struggled putting this one together. I had a stray pink Copic streak on the left side of the image, and no matter how times I used my blender on it, it was just too stubborn to go away. I decided to cut it off, I wasn’t about to redo the entire image. I sort of had a plan, but that didn’t really work, so I wound up diecutting a scrap piece of 7 Dots Studio patterned paper to go behind my image.

I used the same patterned paper for my sentiment strip, which I stamped with a Norsk Stempelblad AS stamp and then diecut using one of the Fishtail Flag Frames dies from My Favorite Things. The pink patterned paper behind the sentiment strip is actually the other side of that same patterned paper. I thought it fit my Papertrey Ink Berry Sorbet cardstock pretty well, in addition to the pink in the actual image. The pink cardstock is debossed with an impression plate from Papertrey Ink and then diecut with a stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things. I also added some enamel dots in coordinating colors, as well as a couple of scraps of some doilies I had in my stash.

I popped up the entire image using foam tape – lots of it, I’m not shy when I use foam tape.

Birthday {Mo’s Dream Team}

July 18, 2018July 13, 2018 ElinLeave a comment

Hi everyone! We’ve reached Wednesday, you know what that means. It’s Mo Manning day!!! Yay!

This time I chose Birthday Fairy Lee and colored her up in yummy, summery colors. I found some scraps of patterned papers that matched and turned all of it into a fairly clean and simple card.

I diecut the banners, as well as the main panel, using dies from My Favorite Things. MFT dies are my favorite, they’re so versatile. I glued part of a doily underneath my banners and stamped a Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment on the biggest one (It says “BIRTHDAY – a special day that brings together people you love” in Norwegian).

I used a small star punch for my yellow stars, and added a few veneer ones from Studio Calico to put something on the front that wasn’t made from paper. I added a couple of enamel dots to finish it off, simply because the pink color matched everything else perfectly.

I put a tiny cluster on the inside. Another banner diecut using an MFT die, another veneer star and also a polaroid frame, diecut with another MFT die – told you they’re my favorite. A couple of punched little pink hearts and another Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment (Happiness is being one year older), and my card was done.

Hurra! {Ett trykk}

October 2, 2016June 7, 2016 Elin1 Comment

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Jeg syns jeg stadig nevner ordene ”sjelden kost” her, og i dag gjør jeg det faktisk igjen. Sånn er det å være i designteamet til Ett trykk, vi får oppgaver som enkelte ganger er langt utenfor komfortsonen, men det er også noe av moroa. I augustnummeret av Ett trykk var det mixed media vi skulle prøve oss på, og dette er et av mine bidrag.

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Jeg må innrømme at jeg faktisk har fulgt en tutorial. Riktignok har jeg brukt helt andre ting på mitt kort enn det som var på tutorialen, men rekkefølgen for hvordan jeg har gjort det er den samme som på tutorialen. ET0416 Mixed media1 front hele skrått Vanligvis lager jeg relativt enkle kort, så mange operasjoner med stensiler, maling og uvante måter å gjøre ting på er ikke hverdagskost hos meg. Men jeg har da prøvd, og det er kanskje vel så viktig som noe annet.

ET0416 Mixed media1 front skrått Da hele kortet var ferdig sprutet jeg hvit, svart og sølvfarget maling over hele kortet. Spesielt blomstene blir mer livlig av det, men det er jo smådråper over resten av kortet også.

Sniktitt {Mo’s Dream Team}

December 30, 2015December 30, 2015 ElinLeave a comment

Jeg har en ekstra liten godbit på lager i dag. Vi i designteamet til Mo Manning har nemlig fått leke med noen av de nye motivene som kommer i nettbutikken om ganske kort tid. Jeg falt for snøballmotivet første gang jeg så det, det må være et av de søteste motivene EVER, så jeg har laget en liten gaveeske med den lille jenta på.

I have an extra treat in store today. As part of Mo Manning’s Dream Team I’ve had the pleasure of playing with some of the new images that are being released very soon. I fell in love with this snowball image the first time I saw it, it has to be one of the cutest images EVER, so I made a little gift box using the adorable little girl.

Mo Manning On a Snowball eske Oppi esken skal jeg legge en hjemmestrikket klut som jeg holder på med – i turkis for å matche motivet og esken. En liten bursdagsoppmerksomhet, resten av bursdagsprosjektet kommer senere. Jeg har stemplet tekststempler fra en stempelplate fra Norsk Stempelblad AS på snøballen.

I’m planning on putting a dust cloth I’m knitting inside the box – in a nice turquoise color to match the image and the box. A tiny little birthday gift, the rest of the birthday project is coming later. I stamped sentiments from a Norsk Stempelblad AS stamp set on the snowball.

Mo's Dream Team On a Snowball eske Heidi Som vanlig avslutter jeg med fargene jeg har brukt. I tillegg har jeg også brukt B90, som er en farge jeg har laget selv.

As usual I leave you with the colors I’ve used. I’ve also used B90, which is a color I’ve made myself.

Dot dot dot

August 11, 2014July 30, 2014 Elin1 Comment

Arkene fra den polske produsenten 7 Dots Studio forbinder jeg med klin og klæsj-prosjekter. Jeg er ikke så veldig klin og klæsj av meg, så jeg har lekt meg på en litt annen måte med dette herlige arket fra Illumination-serien. Jeg tenkte umiddelbart at jeg skulle benytte meg av parallellogrammene i arket ved å skjære ut noen av dem for å få hull og proppe andre opp på 3D-puter. Som sagt, så gjort.

Jeg lagde meg også en slags stensil med to lag med “parallellogram-hull”, som jeg brukte til å legge på litt embossing paste fra Wendy Vecchi for enda mer struktur og liv i fronten av kortet. Parallellogrammene som er proppet opp på 3D-puter har fått et tykt lag med glossy accents.

Bokstavene mine har jeg laget ved å stanse ut seks lag i forskjellige farger kartong som matcher mønsterarket. Det gamle Studio-alfabetet til Quickutz passer perfekt til dette, siden fonten er ren og enkel uten snirkler, serifer og andre unødvendige elementer som ødelegger. Jeg har brukt kartong i fargene Melon Berry, Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist og Soft Stone fra Papertrey Ink, og Lemon og Audrey Blue fra Simon Says Stamp til å lage bokstavene mine. Aqua Mist-kartongen er den øverste, og den er dekket med glossy accents. Jeg har også satt på noen enamel dots fra My Mind’s Eye.

Baksiden av kortet har jeg gjort meget enkel, bare noen biter fra mønsterarket, noen enamel dots og et tekststempel fra North Star Stamps som jeg har stemplet og embosset med klart embossingpulver. Kartongbasen min er Melon Berry-kartong fra Papertrey Ink.

Happy birthday {CopicMarkerNorge}

January 31, 2014January 30, 2014 Elin1 Comment

Our current challenge at CopicMarkerNorge is a bingo one. There’s still a couple of days left before the deadline, feel free to join us!

My card for the challenge is a birthday card I sent to our CMN boss lady Siv, her birthday is today. I chose to do a magic card this time, the center part is about 6×6″, so this card is quite large. I’ve taken out products that I rarely use for this one – patterned paper by Melissa Frances (Betty-Ann), Patternscape Design (Brokade 2), and 7 Dots Studio (Love Me), along with Prima flowers. The “wings” are made using a Martha Stewart PATP punch (Vintage Lace) on the Bazzill Rain cardstock. I’ve also used a Magnolia doohickey die (Antique Lace) for the horizontal panel on the center of the card front, and the edges are inked with Creamy Brown ink.

The image is “Policia” by Sureya on DeviantArt, colored (of course) with Copics. The colors I’ve used are at the bottom of the post. The image is diecut with a Lifestyle Crafts circle die.

A closer look at the flowers, I’ve also used some pearl stamens by Kort & Godt that I’ve tucked underneath the flowers. I hardly ever use Prima flowers, not because I don’t like them, but because they’re difficult to combine with roses and because this particular corally salmon pink color (shockingly, it’s the only color I have) is a tricky one. The color did, however, match the 7 Dots paper perfectly, making it an easy choice!!

On the first inside I’ve stamped a birthday song (stamp by North Star Stamps) with Memento Rich Cocoa ink on a piece of Vanilla cardstock I’ve diecut with a Spellbinders die (from Grand Decorative Circles One). I airbrushed the diecut with BG53 and 45 before removing the cardstock from the die. I added FabScraps pearls around the circle.

On the second inside I’ve made a pocket to make room for a tag with a personal greeting, diecut using a Magnolia Doohickey die (Jolly Tags). I’ve added a seam binding bow to the tag and a jute string bow on top with a button from My Mind’s Eye to finish it off. The Stempelglede text stamp on the pocket is stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and I’ve added 3 pearls from Kort & Godt as the last little finish on this second inside.