Off to Sweden.

My very good friend and neighbor Liz is going to spent a semester in Sweden. She gave a farewell party, so I made a card for her. I wanted it to be kind of swedish-looking, and I got to use my newest stamp ( thanks Mom. ;) ). I thought, it would look cute to stamp the heart in red!
I embossed the card with an embossing folder and my Big Shot and punched out some hearts to match the colors and the heart in the bird house.
I hope, Liz liked the card; at least she said so. And I hope, she has an amazing time in Sweden and meets a lot of great people. I'm going to miss our handcrafting sessions. :)

Same Style, Different Colors!

This is the birthday card I made for my great aunt. Basically the same card as the one before, just different colors. Quick & simple. :)

New Birthday Card

I spent the last week at my Mom's place. On Saturday, a good friend of mine celebrated her birthday and this is the card I made for her.

For this card I had the chance to use my Mom's handcrafting stuff. Of course she owns A LOT more than I do, like this beautiful embossing folder, the flower punches and the label dies.
Unfortunatly, the pic doesn't show this too well: I colored the embossed flowers with the turquoise ink pad.
Inside I put a little giftcard holder and stamped some flowers.

Again, it took me hooours, but I'm rather happy with the result. Too bad you almost never get to keep the cards. ;)

My First Scrapbook II

Now, here are two more pages of the scrapbook I made for my friend. As on the last page on my first post, here, too, you can pull out hidden pictures. But it's a little different here: I fixed the pictures under the background paper (or photo) with thin strings, so they can only be pulled out to a certain extent. The rhinestones are kind of like little handles that you use to pull out the photos.

I really like the 'Thanks' - clear stamp on the first page. I used a litte rhinestone to check 'all of the above'. The rest...is quite obvious, I guess. :)

Happy Birthday...

...to my wonderful and talented Mommy. Here is the card I made for her using all kinds of new stuff I got for Christmas: my new bow maker (although I kinda messed it up, I think), the stamp (I used color pencils to color the rose) and the round border punch (finally got one, thanks Mom!). It took me a while to put the card together and in the end I decided to keep it nice and simple. However, maybe next time I'll make the rose look 3D.

But I think, since it is my very first card using a stamp, I'm quite happy with result. I think, I'm going to start stamping some more from now on. ;)