Heartfelt Creations’ Alumni Blog Hop

Hi! Welcome to this month’s Heartfelt Creations’ Alumni Blog Hop! If you came here from Kristina’s blog your right on track. The hop starts over at Olga’s blog so if you haven’t been there you might want to start from the beginning. :)

This month we are 6 participating blogs in the hop and if you leave a comment on the blogs you have the chance of winning a $25 gift certificate to the Heartfelt Creations’ web shop!!!

And here is my card!

I’ve used Botanical Floral Basket PreCut Set and Decorative Layered Basket Die from Heartfelt Creations and the papers are from K & Company.

Next stop on the hop is LINDA!!!

Enjoy! :)

The card is based on this week’s Sketchy Colors sketch and I picked the color scheme from #56: blue, white and brown.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

Season’s Greetings!

Hi! Hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas! :) Ours has been great. It’s been filled with birthday celebration, family and good food and lots and lots of love. A little short though…  Tomorrow it’s back to work again and it’s crazy. Totally crazy. I hope I will find more time to scrap than I did the last couple of weeks though. I miss it!!! And the blog tours… Need to get back to those! Good for my soul! :)

First card I’ve made in two weeks is for SCS Featured stamper challenge. Today’s featured stamper is one of my absolute favorite card makers – Chupa. One amazingly talented lady. And I loooove the card that came out of this scary adventure:

The stamps used are all from The Rubber Café. Warren & Frosty are the cutest couple around. :) I colored them with distress inks and cut out and mounted on a background stamped with 18th Century Proclamation and inked up with some Tea Dye Distress ink. The papers are from MME.

You find Chupa’s card HERE.

And here is my big boy who turned 11 on Christmas Eve. ♥♥♥

He is one happy boy, he got himself a Play Station 3, something he NEVER thought would happen. :):):) Spoiled rotten. ♥

Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Tesa

Card Patterns #146

Happy Sunday! We are having such a beautiful day here – a bit chilly and a blue sky with a wonderful SUN! Don’t remember when I last saw that one… I’ll take my boy for a walk after lunch and enjoy the weather!

I have this week’s Card Patterns’ card to share. It’s very special since it is my last as a member of the CP Design Team. I have had six wonderful months on the team and I’ll miss it so much!!! But – I’ll play along and the new team that will start right after the holidays are one awesome bunch of talented ladies… Loads of inspiration to be expected!

This week’s sketch is wonderful! And our sponsor is Independent Stampin’Up Demonstrator Catherine Pooler!

Here is my take – lots of yellow. Starting to long for spring already…

The beautiful papers are from Stampin’Up, provided by Catherine Pooler. I’m also using Scalloped Circle Die, Clearly Beautiful Butterfly Set, Scalloped Circles Spring Clear Stamps Set and Look For Beauty red rubber stamp from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps.

Thank you all for a super FUN term! I’ll miss it so much!

I have a second card to share. One I did this morning for my co worker whose nephew got engaged last month. She wanted something sweet. Hope this is sweet enough.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

LESSology #8 Altered Frame

Hi! A new challenge is up at LESSology blog and here is my project - a few days late and a dollar short… Well, busy life right now! :)

The #8 Challenge is all about altering FRAMES!

Soooo, I brought out an old goldish colored frame I got at a flee market ages ago and decided to frame one of the Vintage Chrismtas tags from Riddersholm Design. So a Vintage frame it is. I went over it with two coats of Gesso before I added an uneven coat of Crackle Paint - Antique Linnen.  I wanted a more white color so I gave it another coat of Gesso before inking the edges with chalk.

The inner part of the Frame got some fun Puffies from The Rubber Café, and the lower corner is decorated with diecut leafs and a Poinsettia made of stamps from Heartfelt Creations.

The LESSology Blog is filled with awesome frame inspiration from the Design Team and we’d looove to see you play along with us! All info HERE!!!

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RIddersholm Design has a new sketch challenge up and running!

I really loved this sketch, perfect for the last minute cards…

The papers used are from the I Believe collection and are called In Santa (purple) and In Angels (white). Both awesome! :) The stamp used is from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps – Great little One.

You find the challenge, DT inspiration and linking tool HERE!

Have a beautiful Saturday!!!

Tesa

Happy Lucia!

Today we are celebrating Lucia and I thought I'd share the simplest card ever with a super cute stamp from Anette Blåberg/Tisdagar med Tina with Lucia theme.

Yesterday it was my blog day over at The Rubber Café. Pugs have a special place within the heart of this company (to say the least - you HAVE to check out their blog and webpage!!!! ). And of corese there are stamps sets dedicated to the awesomeness of pugs. Like A Pug For The Holidays.

Have a beautiful Lucia day!

Tesa

Prickley Pear Monday

I have such a fun Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps project to share today I can hardly wait. :)

I’ve made a snow globe scenery using my Pumpkin and Snowman Clear Stamps Set, Pumpkin and Snowman Die and Evergreen with Star.

Totally hopeless to photograph but you get the picture… The base was originally a bright pink and I’ve painted it with gesso but had to cover it with some outside decoration to make it look ok. Everything is glued down with Glossy Accent so it will stick how many times you shake the globe to get the snow flying!

The snowman is soooo cute!

The background is stamped with the Evergreen with Star rubber stamp on water color paper. It’s heat embossed with a sparkling white embossing powder and then colored with Distress Stains Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutters. Some sparkling mist finish it off. The ribbon outside was white but colored in with Distress Stains Peeled paint, so the colors match in real life, but on the photos not so much…

The Prickley Pear Blog is filled with DT inspiration! Some pretty amazing cards!!! You find it HERE!

Thank you for stopping by!!!!

Tesa

JOY!

I loved this week’s trigger over at the Moxie Fab World!

The rustic white and all the colorful ornaments spoke to me and I decided to go for a CAS card using the Christmas Tree Trimmers from YouDo.

The stamp used is from Prickley Pear – Victorian Ornaments Clear Stamps Set – and stamped with silver ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

Card Patterns #144

Hi!

There is a new fun sketch up over at Card Patterns!

The sponsor is My Craft Spot

And they carry the best twine and hand dyed ribbon there is! :)

Here is my take.

I used the new Warren & Friends stamp from The Rubber Café called Cuteness! Donovan & Warren. I adore these two.

A little close up. I colored it with Distress inks and added some glossy accents on their noses and eyes. And some glitter pen sparkle on the presents and ribbons.

And when I had my inks and stamps at hand, I made another CAS card. This time with the Deck the Halls stamp.

I teamed him up with some Spellbinders nestabilities – Circles and Lacey Circles. I thought he was so cute and I liked the cleanness of the card so I didn’t want to mess the front with a sentiment. I put it inside instead.

Both sentiment and image are from the Christmas Tidings set.

We had an hour of garden work this morning. It was absolute horror. Trying to catch the leafs in a storm isn’t easy. But that’s what happens when you are a master in procrastination. At one point you HAVE to do it. (and that point was met like three weeks ago but we haven’t been home…). Anyway, it’s done and my boy and I spent the rest of the day with baking ginger bread. Love this yearly tradition, we play Christmas music, goof around and make awesome ginger breads!  

He needs a hair cut. AGAIN!

Now We’re off to a Harry Potter Movie Marathon. Need to get some pop corns popping!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Tesa

Riddersholm’s Sketch Challenge #3

Happy Friday!!!

It’s wonderful to see the end of this week coming! :) It’s been a good one. Lots of work and actually had some time to make a few cards too! :) And play with my boy. He told me yesterday after an evening spent at the shooting range that he likes to hang with me. I do believe it’s the ice cream treat talking. But still…

It’s time to reveal this weeks sketch over at Riddersholm!

I so loved working with this sketch! Fun and so many possibilities. I actually tweaked it quite a bit but I think you still see the main elements in it!

For my card I teamed up my two favorite products – Riddersholm Design’s papers and Prickley Pear stamps. Yummy! With the addition of a new fabbie doily die!

I simply adore these snowflake papers in white, beige and purple from the I believe line!

Check out the wintery butterfly! It’s from the Clearly Beautiful Butterflis Set from Prickley Pear. It’s heat embossed with color box ink and clear embossing powder. Love the beautiful snowflakes and the text that reads Hope Love Joy!

We hope that you will play with us! All info about the challenge can be found HERE!

Tesa

Heartfelt Alumni Blog Hop

Hi and welcome to the Heartfelt Creations’  Alumni DT Blog Hop! If you arrived from lovely Olga’s blog, you are on track, if not, simply continue since it’s a circular hop! If you want to start from the beginning, you should go to Dina!

We have loads of Heartfelt inspiration AND a fantastic prize – a $25 gift certificate to the Heartfelt Creations’ web shop!!! All you have to do is leave a comment on all the participating blogs no later than Friday midnight EST to be in the draw! The winner will be anounced on the blogs on Saturday!

Now over to my card!

I decided to ink up one of all the beautiful stamps I got in my welcoming package but never had time to use since I was sprinkled with new stamps every month… :)

I've used the Regal Poinsettia 2 PreCut Set and a sentiment from the Holiday Poinsettia Candle PreCut Set.

Lots of gold and dimension on this card. I love the MME papers!!!

Here is a close up of the sentiment. It's gold embossed on the kraft paper. It's more visible irl. I went over it with a copic too to make it stand out more.

I used this fabbie sketch by Chupa for her Sketchbook Saturday Challenge #39:

Next stop on the hop is

MARSHA!

And here is the full blog hop list:

Dina,  Selma, Karen Taylor, Olga, Tesa (that's ME!), Marsha, Carla, Debbie and Linda!

Have fun and thanks for stopping by!!!

Card Patterns #143

Hi! Happy Saturday! Hope you are having a great weekend! We do -  visiting my parents. We’ve spent the day with games, a walk in some mighty windy weather (storm coming tomorrow!) and some crafting. My mom and I did a never ending card for a friend. Now a delish dinner of lamb and wine awaits. Yummy!!!

I LOOOOVE the sketch of the week over at Card Patterns!

And we have a great new sponsor – The Craft’s Meow

The stamps sent to me hasn’t arrived yet, stupid, stupid postal service! :( But check out the Card Pattern’s blog cause the rest of the team has used som mighty fab clear stamps from the Craft’s Meow on their cards!!!

Here is my take:

The stamp is A Wish for Peace from Prickley Pear. It’s heat embossed with gold embossing powder. The paper is from Jillibean Soup.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

Riddersholm’s Sketch challenge #2

 

Riddersholm Design is hosting a sketch challenge every week until Christmas. A perfect inspiration for your seasonal card making! :)

Here is the sketch:

I used a paper from the The Day Before line called The Presents and also a Tag from The Day Before Cut Out sheet.

You find all the infor and more inspiration from the Design Team in THIS post.

Hope to see you play!!!!

And speaking about fabbie Riddersholm Design papers, here is a card set I did using the In Santa paper from the I Believe line.

The stamps are from The Rubber Café, the Warm Wishes Set. I found the tutorial for the pouch (which was super easy and fun to make) on SCS, and it contains three cards and home made envelopes to go.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Tesa

The Rubber Café Stuff :)

Hi all! Phew what a crazy week. Soon over, that is gooood! :)

I’ve been a bad The Rubber Café blogger, I have quite a few things to share, that should have been up weeks ago. Anyway, better late than never! I’ll start with a new card though. I got me a bunch of Warren stamps the other day – and they are super CUTE!!!!

So simple, but I didn’t really have the time but felt the urge to ink this cutie up and color him. This stamp is called Presents from Warren. :)

Next up is a gift box with the Pine Wreath.

And finally an ornament using the Winter Bird.

The stamps are truly amazing, and a little tip for European readers – I think The Rubber Café has the best international shipping around.  A flat rate of $ 1.99 up to orders of 1,8 kg! Just sayin’!

Thanks for stopping by!