#62 - Holliday Cheer

So my friend Chelle where talking about having an altered canvas swap, and I really liked the sound of that. I have always looked at others canvases but been to afraid to try them myself. And I decided that if there where going to be a swap I would want to join, and if I would join I needed to have tried it out first. So I bought a couple of canvases on my way home. I also had a whole bunch of pine branches that had been left over from another project (post is coming soon) so I wanted to use them up to. And to really jump into the deep end I decided I wanted it distressed. I liked how it turned out, hope you like it to. And as the stamp is from Simon Says stamp and the Simon Says Stamp Challenge this week is Anything Goes I enter it there.




XOXO Mi

#61 - Sending Cheer

So another project, a gift card holder. As I'm still using my favorites, this time it's the Simon Says Stamp Monthly Kit, they are so wonderful makes me want to buy more of most of the things in the kits. I'm using Cardstock, pattern paper and wax seal from the December kit and twine from the November kit. So entering this in this weeks challenge to over at Simon Says Stamp Challenge, which still is favourites.



Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzil
Pattern Paper: City Sidewalks Collection by Pink Paislee
Ribbon: Beetle Black Doodle Twine by Doodlebug Design
Wax Seal: BasicGrey Stamp: Gnome For The Holidays by Simon Says Stamp

XOXO Mi

#60 - Star of wonder

Have a card for you today, the challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Callenge this week is Simon Says.... What's Your Favourite?? And as I have been playing with all these Simon Says Stamps that quickly became my favorites I just had to make another card with them. The Stamps I'm using is coming from two stamp sets, Music 2 My Ears and Merry Everything.



Supplies:
Stamps: Music 2 My Ears & Merry Everything by Simon Says Stamp
Ink pads: Memento Rich Cocoa
Pattern Paper: Home for Christmas by Fancy Pants Designs
Cardstock: Bazzil

XO Mi

#59 - A Wintery Thank You - A Card Tutorial & Giveaway

Wanted to use my new stamp Christmas Wishes, but didn't want to make a Christmas Card.



Do you want to win this card? ** Be a subscriber to my channel and comment on the video or follow me on my blog and comment on this post. The giveaway is open international and will close at the 29th of December **

Supplies:
Cardstock: Core' dination Tim Holtz Distress Collection, Neenah Desert Storm
Stamp: Christmas Wishes, Mullberry Wood, Crafter's Companion
Pattern Paper: Winter Wonderland, My Mind's Eye Spectrum Noir Pens: EB2, EB3, EB7, TN5, TN7, TN9, CT4, CR4, CR8, BG1, BG2, BG5, DG2, DG3, DG4

XOXO Mi

#58 - Warm Heart

There is challenge over at Lawn Scapings, a color challange. Hope you like my card and my video.







Do you want to win this card? ** Be a subscriber to my channel and comment on the video or follow me on my blog and comment on this post. The giveaway is open international and will close at the 22th of December **

Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzil Cherry Splash, Neenah Desert Storm
Stamp: Merry Everything - Simon Says Stamp, Warm Heart S.w.a.l.k - Crafter's Companion
Pattern Paper: Aspen Frost - BasicGrey
Spectrum Noir Pens: Skin FS4, FS8, TN2, TN3 Hair EB6, EB5, EB8 Clothes CR6, CR11, DR5 Gloves BT1, BT2, BT3 Shadows IG1, IG2, Penguins IG3, IG5, IG7, CT4

XOXO Mi

#57 - Playing with dies

This is what comes out after you find a die-cut skeleton on your scrap heap. I also want to enter this card in the Simon Says Stamp Challange





Do you want to win this card? ** Be a subscriber to my channel and comment on the video or follow me on my blog and comment on this post. The giveaway is open international and will close at the 15th of December **

Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzil, Neenah Solar White 216gsm
Pattern Paper: Winter WonderLand - My Mind's Eye
Sentiment Tag: Aspen Frost die-cut shapes - BasicGrey
Die: Gift Box - Simon Says Stamp

XOXO Mi

#56 Giving - A Mulberry Wood Card Tutorial and Giveaway

Today I struggled little with inspiration i'm a bit under the weather and that makes creating a little bit harder. But I think It turned out alright.





Do you want to win these cards? ** Be a subscriber to my channel and comment on the video or follow me on my blog and comment on this post. The giveaway is open international and will close at the 8th of December **

Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzil, Centura Pearl
Pattern Paper: Simon Says Stamp Christmas Kit
Sentiment Tag: Simon Says Stamp Christmas Kit
Stamp: Giving Mulberry Road by Crafter's Companion
Spectrum Noirs Used: Trees DG2, DG3, DG4 Trunk EB2, EB4, EB6 Bodys TN3, TN5, TN7 Horns BG1, BG2 Christmas lights CR11, CG4, CT2

XOXO Mi

#55 - Thanks with Sky

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving here in Sweden (kind of obvious why), so when Simon Says Stamp Challenge was Thanksgiving/Thank You this week, I of course choose Thank you. But then I started looking for sentiments, and I realized that I only own 5 thank you stamps. Then I started thinking and I realized I haven't sent out that many thank you cards, I mostly make Christmas/birthday cards. So this kind of new for me. I decided to in up Sky from The Toread Collection, you might see that this is my favorite stamp collection at the moment. She is paired up with some Bo Bunny Papers from the Serenity Collection. Hope you like her



Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzil, Centura Luxury Pearl
Pattern Paper: Bo Bunny - Serenity Collection
Stamp: Crafter's Companion - Toread Sky
Spectrum Noirs: Skin: TN2, TN3, FS4 Clothes: CR6, CR11, DR5 Hair: TN6, TN8, EB8

XOXO Mi

#53-54 Santa and Rudolf - A Card Tutorial

So Thursday I received a package from Simon Says Stamp in the mail, and of course I was eager to start playing with it. These are the first two cards I made and I thought I would not only share what I did but also how I did it.



Do you want to win these cards?
** Be a subscriber to my channel and comment on the video or follow me on my blog and comment on this post. The giveaway is open international and will close at the 1st of December **

Supplies:
Stamps, Pattern Paper and Bling: Simon Says Stamp Holiday Card Kit
Ribbon: Crafter's Companion
Spectrum Noirs Used:
Rudolf: Body; GB8, GB10, EB7, GB4, GB8 Collar: DR4, Horns and banner: IG1, IG2, Frame: GB4, Background: LG1, LG3, LG5
Santa: Skin: FS1, FS4, FS8 Hat and body; CR7, DR4, DR5, Gloves and leggings, JG2, JG5 Bootys: GB8, GB10, EB7

XOXO Mi

#52 - Mulberry Wood, Wish Upon A Star, Owl Card

This weeks video and card or should I say last week, I'm about a day late, is featuring the Mulberry Wood Stamp, Wish Upon A Star. I really love these owls, they where really the reason why I bought the kit from the beginning, but I haven't had the opportunity to ink the stamp up until now. And they are cute aren't they, I paired them up with one of my new 6x6 pattern paper pack from fancy pants design. The stars are painted with a Sakura Metallic pen in gold and all the snowflakes are painted with a white gel pen. Hope you like it.





Do you want to win this card?
** Be a subscriber to my channel and comment on the video or follow me on my blog and comment on this post. The giveaway is open international and will close at the 24th of November **

Supplies:
Card: Bazzil Basics, Centura Luxury Pearl
Pattern Paper: Fancy Pants Design - Home For Christmas
Stamp: Wish Upon A Star - Mulberry Wood by Crafter's Companion
Spectrum Noirs Used:
Background: BGR1, BGR2, BGR3, BGR4
Owl: TN1, TN2, TN3, TN5, TN7
Leafs: DG1, DG2, DG4
Trunk: EB2, EB4, EB6
Hat and socks: CR7, DR4, DR5
Snow: IG1, IG2

XOXO Mi

#51 - Aurora the Toread with flowers

This card is entered into two challenges, the Spectrum Noir Challenge, which this month is Flowers. And the Simon Says Stamp Challenge, which this week is Get in Shape!





Do you want to win this card?
** Be a subscriber to my channel and comment on the video or follow me on my blog and comment on this post. The giveaway is open international and will close at the 17th of November **

Supplies:
Card: Bazzil Basics
Pattern Paper: Kate Knight - Spring Fling
Stamp: Aurora - Toreads by Crafter's Companion
Spectrum Noirs Used:
Skin: FS4, TN2, TN3
Hair: EB3, EB6, EB8
Leafs: DG1, DG2, DG4
Trunk: TN7, TN5, TN3
Dress + Flowers: LV1, LV2
Basket: TN5, TN3, TN2
Lips: PP3, PP5

XOXO Mi

#50 - Happy Toread, Happy Birthday

So after some moving I'm back, and today it's with another toread. And who isn't better to say happy birthday with then Happy. And birthdays is also the october challenge over at Crafter's Companions challange blog , I also want to enter the sketch challenge over at The Craft's Meow they have amazing stamps hop over and see.



I have also made a video when I made this card, and as usually with my Sunday videos you can win the card. All you have to do is either be a follower here on the blog and comment down below, or be subscriber on my youtube channel and comment on the video.

Materials:
Cardstock: Centura Luxury Pearl, Tim Holtz Core'dinations
Pattern paper: Papermania, Birdsong
Stamp: Toread, Happy
Lace: Gift from Angie
Spectrum Noirs: Skin: FS4, TN2, TN3 Club: TN8, TN6, TN7 Greens: DG1, DG2, DG4 Light Brown: GB8, GB9, GB10 Hair: EB6, EB7

XOXO Mi

How to make a wish upon a star, and the winner of the Teddy Bo & Co Giveaway

Hi, So I've been moving this weekend, and didn't get anything crafty done all the week before. So I didn't have a Sunday video to post, instead I made a video of when I draw the winner, but I had to make it contain a little bit more. So I show you how I do the Wish Upon A Star stars that I use as notes for the drawing. Hope you enjoy! And yeah the winner of the Teddy Bo & Co Giveaway was youtuber tecat7175.



XOXO Mi

#49 - Toread, a fall card

So got my toread stamp from create and craft, and I really wanted to make a card with aleast one of the cute little guys. And its being fall I made him up in fall colors.



The Spectrum Noirs used for the card:
Skin: FS4, TN2, TN3
Club: EB8, TN8, TN6, TN4
Clothes: CG2, CG3, CG4, GB1, GB3, GB5, OR1, OR2, OR3

XOXO Mi

#48 Teddy Bo & Co - A card video

All of my bfs brothers has had their birthdays, so I needed to make some cards for them. Male cards are quite hard, you have to weigh the maleness against all those things you want to add. My bf wanted me to add a duck, but at that moment I totally forgot about the little shuffle duck I have from the popcorn stamp set. So instead it became a Teddy Bo & Co stamp that became the focal image. I also got to play with my new embossing folder from Darice to give the card some texture. Hope you like my card and the video.
** If you want to win this card follow me on my blog and comment on this post, or be a subscriber to my channel and comment on the video. The giveaway is open international and will close at the 20th of October **



Materials:
Cardstock: DCWV, Immortal love
Pattern paper: From stash
Ribbon: From package from Angie
Stamp:Teddy Bo & Co
Spectrum Noirs:Bear; TN1, TN2, TN3, TN4 Clothes; JG1, JG5, JG7

XOXO Mi

#47 - A male birthday card

So I need to make a couple of male birthday cards, and that is not the easiest task, not that I do very girly cards, but most of my stamps are more at the girly spectrum. So I went into my ecraft cuttingfile library again, and found another bird. I also wanted to use this weeks lovely sketch over at Mojo Monday. I also thought I enter this in Simon Says Stamp Challenge that this week is Anything Goes. The color combination was inspired by Papermanias 6 x 6 paper pack Birdsong that I have had in my stash forever. Hope you enjoy my card!



Materials:
Cardstock: Bazzil Basics, Core'dinations
Pattern paper: Papermania, Birdsong
Cutfiles: Bird, circle: Fundementals 1 Scalloped Circle: Jen Allyson Designs
Stamp: Polka doodles, Stamp Doodles free with Papercraft essentials
Flowers, ribbon and leaf: From my package from Angie

XOXO Mi

#46 - A cross stitch card

Here is the third and final video about cross stitching, where I show you how to mount your card in an aperture card. If you want to win the card, comment on this post and be a follower or comment on the video and be a subscriber to my youtube channel. I will draw the winner on the 13th of October and announce the winner in the video on the day after. Enjoy!



Then winner from the Cross Stitching - How to stitch giveaway is SamBamKablaam.

XOXO Mi

#37 - 45 Another kind of christmas

Have been cleaning my apartment all day because tomorrow we will have a showing of it as we are moving soon and need to get it sold. So this mean I'm not allowed to let my craft table be the terrible mess its usually is. And I bought the Let's Make Card Magazine, Issue 54, yesterday I decided that I would challenge myself to only use the products in the kit. I was allowed to add adhesive though. These designs are so color full and so full with pattern, not how I usually craft, but it was really fun, a big challenge. And here are those nine cards I made. Hope you like them.

Supplies:
Card Kit: Let's Make Card Magazine, Issue 54

XOXO Mi

#36 - Owlrly

So my ecraft has just been standing collecting dust, mostly because the software isn't on my main computer. But I thought it was time to play around with it, and I have been watching alot of how to tutorials on youtube with owls, so when I found that I had an owl on one of the sd-cards I just had to use it.





Materials:
Cardstock: Core'dinations, Bazzil Basics
Patterned paper: Prima, Botanical
Ecraft SD-card: Jen Allyson Designs

XOXO Mi

#35 - Pumpkins

Over at SpectrumNoir.com they have started a challenge. The first challenge is holidays, well Halloween is a holiday isn't it? I wanted to make a Halloween card but I found that my stash was lacking just that kind of stamp. So off to the web and look for digital stamps, then I found this wonderful site JustInkLined, they have a whole bunch of lovely digital stamps and I found precisely what I needed. Hope you like it!



Materials:
CardStock: Bazzil basics
Pattern paper: Purple paper, Free Digital Scrapbooking Green paper, Shery K Designs
Ribbon: No name brand
Stamp: Pumpkins, JustInkined
Spectrum Noir Pens: Pumpkins; OR1, OR2, OR3 Stems; CG1, CG3 Shadows, eyes and mouths; BG1, BG2, BG4, BG4

XOXO Mi

#34 - Monocrome

Over at Mojo Monday they have this wonderful sketch, and over at Simon Says Stamp Challenges the challenge this week is emboss it. And I got so inspired by both. I do a lot of cards with colored stamp characters, but I thought I make something different this time. So this is my card I'm entering in both challenges. The butterflies is heat embossed in silver, the background is dry embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder. Hope you enjoy!



Materials:
Cardstock: Bazzil Basic
Pattern paper: No name scrapbooking kit
Stamp: No name stamp
Embossing folder: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Perfect Paisley
Embossing powder: Ranger, Embossing Powder Silver
Flower: Victorias Design House, Scrabooking
Glitter: Spray and sparkel, Silver

XOXO Mi

So as the first video I made had a little longer deadline for entry, I'm made a little winner video. But wanted to leave you with something crafty so its also a little tip on how to make an aperture card a little more framed.



XOXO Mi

Cross Stitching - How to stitch

Hi lovelies!
I back with the second part of the cross stitching videos, this time I show you how to read the pattern and how to stitch ordinary cross stitches, quarter cross stitches and back stitches.

As usual I have a little giveaway, this time a small All Our Yesterday kit that contains everything to make a cross stitched card. To enter either be a follower on this blog and comment down below or be a subscriber on my youtube channel and comment at the video.

Congratulations to ChelleBB who was the winner of the Cross Stitch - Preparations video.



XOXO Mi

#33 - Mince Pies

Been spending these last days coloring stamps with my Spectrum Noir Pens, finding that a whole bunch of them is running out of ink, well they are well used. I wanted to make a card with the stamped pictures and I knew that Mojo Monday Challenge always have great sketches, and I really like this weeks. So this card is entered in this weeks Mojo Monday Challenge.



Materials:
Cardstock: Core'dintions
Pattern papers: Cosy Christmas 6x6" Paper pack by Forever Friends
Stamp: S.w.a.l.k. Unmounted Rubber Stamp - Mince Pies by Crafter's Companion
Spectrum Noir Pens: Skin: FS1, FS3, TN2; Hair: TN2, TN4, TN6; Shoes: TN4, TN6, TN8; Pants: TB3, TB5; Shirt: DG1, DG3, DG4; Gloves: CR7, CR10, DR6; Pies: TN2, TN4
Flowers, leaves and pearls: From stash

XOXO Mi

#32 - A Purr'fect Christmas

Over at Crafter's Companions Monthly Challenge Blog the challenge for September is Gold, and not having that much gold in my stash I found this to be the perfect challenge, making me have to really think about how to do it. And as it is Sunday I have also made a "how to" video for the card. And as usual when I do my videos there is a little giveaway, to be in to win the card comment on the blog and be a follower and you are in the drawings. (Another way to join is to be a subscriber to my youtube channel and comment on the youtube page, but you only get one entry either way.)



Materials:
Cardstock: 12x12 Cardstock Core Essentials - Darks by Core'dinations
Pattern paper: Printed from Christmas in Mulberry Wood Papercrafting CD-ROM by Crafter's Companion onto 160 gsm cardstock
Stamp: Mulberry Wood Christmas Rubber Stamp - Purr'fect Christmas by Crafter's Companion
Spetrum Noir Pens: Cats: TN4, TN6, TN8 Trees: CG2, DG3, DG4 Star, Baubles, Tinsel: CT1, CT2, CT4 Box: TN2, TN3, Snow: IG1, IG2
Ribbon, flowers: From stash

XOXO Mi

Cross Stitching - Preparations - A Video

So have a schedule now posting my videos every Sunday, and with every video I have a little giveaway, sometimes it's a card, sometimes craft supplies or what I made in the video. This weeks video is about cross stitching and how I prepare my cross stitching projects. I'm giving away a pattern booklet and some Madeira Cotton Threads, to be in to win just subscribe to either my youtube channels or be a follower here on the blog and comment either the video or the blog post. I draw a winner for this video on the 15th of September.



XOXO Mi

The Craft Barn

The Craft Barn has an amazing craft candy for us. Hop on over and take part you too!



XOXO Mi

#31 - To a great friend

The challenge over at Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge Blog is Best Friends. I immediately knew I wanted the use the Friends Stamp from the Strawberry Kisses range by Crafter's Companion, but I also knew that I wanted to do something different with it than I usually do. And this is the result. Hope you like it. I enter this card in the Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge Blog challenge.



Materials:
Cardstock: Luxury Centura Pearl A4 Printable Card Pack - Snow White Accents by Crafter's Companion, Tim Holtz and Ranger Distress Collection - 36 pack (12 x 12) by Core'dinations
Pattern paper: Raspberry Road Designs Luxury Paper Collection free with cardmaking and papercraft magazine
Stamps: Strawberry Kisses - Friends Stamp Set by Crafter's Companion, Ali B Designs free with crafts beautiful magazine.
Border Punch: Martha Stewart

Spectrum Noirs Used:
Dog: (Body) TN4, TN6, TN8 (Nose) CR4 (Patch) IG1, IG2, Blender
Cat: (Body) BG4, BG6, BG8 (Nose, Ears) CR4, (Bow, Strawberry) CR7
Pillow: (Top) CR7, CR9, CR11 (Middle) CG1, CG2, CG4 (Bottom) CT1, CT2, CT4

XOXO Mi

#30, Let's fly away

Found inspiration on the internet, have been following a a youtuber Wendy Cranford, she makes wonderful cards with stampin up products. Well living in Sweden I'm not able to buy any stampin up products, so I made this from products from my stash. I also made a video showing you how I made it. If you like my cards and want a chance to win one, comment on the youtube page telling me which one you want (you will be needing to be subscribed to my youtube channel), and I draw one winner the 8th of September 2012.







Materials:
Cardstock: Core'dinations Vintage Collection Flower Power, Luxury Centura Pearl A4 Printable Card Pack - Snow White Accents by Crafter's Companion
Pattern Paper: Let's fly away! Paper pack free with Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine
Stamp: Ali B Designs free with crafts beautiful magazine.
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Adhesives:Mini Foam Pads by Crafter's Companion, Extra Strong Permanent Glue Tape Pen by Crafter's Companion

XOXO Mi

New Craft Channel

Hi, Have been feeling like my main channel has been little messy, with both craft videos and ordinary vlogs. So I have started a new craft channel, www.youtube.com/craftybit. I'm starting out with a video showing how I made the #23 card, it has a little giveaway attached to it the info is in the video and in the description of the video (you find that by clicking on the watch on youtube button on the video player.



XOXO Mi

Making videos

Think I told you a while ago, but here it comes again. I make videos and put them on the internet. My channel is a mix of craft videos and weekly vlogs, together with my tries for music videos. I try to post my craft videos here on the blog but it's not always they find their way here. So if you wanna see my craft vidos or all of the others too click this LINK.

Have a lovely day!
XOXO Mi

#29 Flower Fairys - Card

The waterfall card making was so fun so I just had to rummage through the rest of my Crafter Companion CDs to see if I had more. And indeed I had, this comes from the Flower Fairy triple cd. The sentiment is a rubb-on from the Fairyopolis kit.




XOXO Mi

#28 Christmas with Popcorn 2 - Card

As making waterfall cards was so fun I just had to keep going. This cards is from the Frosty and Bright CD from the same triple cd pack as the last one.


XOXO Mi

#27 Christmas with Popcorn 1 - Card

Have had this Popcorn Christmas triple-CD for a while, and though I make some of the projects that comes with it. This is The waterfall card from the Warm and Cozy CD. Really liked making waterfall cards they give an extra element to the card.



XOXO Mi

#26 Playing with dies - Card

Won a Sizzix machine and startkit from a competion on The Making Spot webpage, so I have been playing with it alot. Here I used a cuttlebugembossingfolder for the background and nestabilities for the sentiment and stamped picture. The stamp is a Wee Stamp from Whimsy Stamps that I colored with my spectrum noirs.


XOXO Mi

#25 Making roses

Found a tutorial on youtube on how to make paper roses with a five petal flower punch. I really love the look on the flowers so I made many. This is a card made with flowers I made based on the tutorial.