3rd of Advent and a Bday Card

Happy 3rd Advent!

Now it's not many days left till Christmas! :)

I have a friend whos birthday is on the 31st of December. So I thought I make a Holiday card and a bday card in the same.

I used Christmas colors and made gifts in the middle - just a little something I saw on Pinterest.

Have a nice Sunday and thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Cards Part 2

Hello there!

Here's another set of X-mas cards I made. I like to use different tecniques for each item I make.

This one is layers, layers and more layers with embossed heart that says "Merry Christmas".

For this one, I got some "Pinspiration" (Inspiration from Pinterest). I placed rhinestones on a plastic sheet and the made a bow - and done! Love it!

Here, I used rhinestones and the dots that are leftovers from the Thickers sheet. Perfect for a simple card or just embellishment!

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Christmas Cards Part 1

Hello hello!

This year I decided to make my own Christmas cards. I'm not that much of a card maker, but when I know for who the card is, it's more fun. I've tried to keep them all simple so that they won't be to bulky or heavy in the envelopes.

Here's a card with a glitter heart of felt.

Here I cut out a stencil and stamped "Merry Christmas"/"God jul" in gold and red. 

On this one it's mostly washi tape and adhesive which I poured loose glitter on. 

Looks maybe as more work, but it's only ribbon  cut short and glued to the cardstock. Over it I've used paper from BoBunny's Snowfall.

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Advent Calendar w/ Winterland from Fancy Pants

Good evening!

One day I turned overambitious and created an advent calendar for a good friend of mine and her little family. I already had the photos in mind so it was just to decorate. I tried not to open the calendar myself, then they probably wouldn't close that well.

I've kept it simple, since I didn't have much time, with just a few decorations. 

Stamping, glitter glue, double adhesive tape with glitter poured on it, mini pearls, thickers and more is what I've used. 

Behind some of the numbers I wrote something for them to do - just little simple things.

The great thing was that she loved it! :)  

Have a great night and thanks for stopping by!

Advent Calendars

Good evening or maybe I should say "Happy Halloween"!

Here in Sweden we don't really celebrate Halloween, but people still have parties and dress up and kids go around the block asking "Trick or treat?!", just for fun.

Anyway, I started to think about advent calendars in scrapbook format, when I stumbled upon this:

It's a whisky advent calendar! It's neat and would fit really well for my dad. The only thing is the price... The one I was looking at costed  £150 (about 1500 SEK). Pretty much for liquid of ca 75 ml.

So my dad came up with something else, still a calendar with things you can open but with the name of a whisky. Then you (he) can go and try it out! And for smaller whisky collections you can repeat some of the best ones. Simple and a little fun for the whisky fan. Can also be done with other things.

And then I started to think about advent calendars in the 12"x12" format and found this nice one made by Erdbeerlöckchen: 

There's always these "photo-a-day"-challanges and I thought I would take a photo each day until Christmas and make it like a calendar with lids that can be opend. I've always like the little albums people create about the days in December, but felt it was too much (and too much PL for me). So this is a great way to document everyday until Christmas :)

And this one (above) is my own. My mom sewed and hand stiched it for my siblings and me a long time ago. Last year I hung little peieces of Milka Chocolate (Austrian milk chocolate) in it. Haven't made up my mind yet what I should hang this year.

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Christmas craft

Last year I decorated these candles and wrapped them into cellophane, as a little give-away to my friends. It was really easy; I bought inexpensive candle decorations. Picked them apart and together again with some wire and then put it around the candle. Done :)

Wonder what I'm gonna do this year... Any ideas?

Have a nice evening!