Nicks Tag and "Because of your smile" mixed media layout

 Hi,

Today I have two different projects to show you.

We are still playing along with the "Whats your favourit color" challenge, and while I was crafting and making my Tags with Lindys flat magicals that I shared on my IG channel earlier this week, my son joined in on the fun. He is 6 years old and I really love and enjoy these moments spending time together like this.

He wanted to join in the challenge with his tag so the first project I`m showing today is actually Nick`s. 

All by himself he applied Lindys flat magicals from the Words of wisdom set. These are so amazing! Next, he picked out the stamp he wanted to use, applied Versamark ink and stamped the floral from Tim Holtz on the tag. Since he made the tag for me- knowing red is my favourite color he the applied red embossing powder all over. I helped him heat up the embossing powder and put the ribbon on. I totally love how this turned out. More interesting then my own tags I must say. hehee. I would never have thought of using red embossing powder ower the colors on the tag- but it worked out perfectly. 

I was working on a mixed media layout using one of my favourit mother/son silhuette pictures I came across. I found this online and I`m not sure to whom the credit for this picture should go to. If you know please let me know so I can give properly credit for it. 

I kept the embellishment simple since the colors and all the splatter on the picture is quite demanding for the eye. I did use numbers for the dates my sons are born 19-5-8 on my layout. I glued on some wooden stars that I painted with gesso and I used a butterfly stamp on wellum and fussycut them gluing two and two tohether. The beautiful stencil is from Prima Finnabair Art deco wall using Graphite sand. It has that lovely sparkle to it. I also used Tim Holtz Bricks stencil and sprayed ower with some Lindys just to add a bit more soft color to my layout.

So Nick is entering his Tag to:

Simon Says: What’s Your Favorite Color? | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Thank you for stopping by, we hope we inspired you to create something too, maybe together with a family member or a friend.

-Christine💮

Fun technique on Christmas Tag

 Hi,

This years first Christmas project is a tag using a really cool and stunning technique. I used Tim Holtz  absolutely  stunning Holiday knit stencil with texture paste and Lindy`s embossing powder in red and dark green on top. Being a Norwegian this stencil with the traditional Norwegian knitting pattern is right up my alley, and I`ve knitted something similar. The stencil is from an older release but you can still get it.

See the shiny effect you get from the embossing powder on top of the texture paste. So cool.

I kept my embellisment simple just adding a pointsetta and some ribbon to my tag

I`m entering:

Simon Says: What’s Your Favorite Color? | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

I was the lucky winner:  

My favourite colours are red, orange and purple/burgundy. So my red goes from into the blues and follows the color wheel into the yellow color. So I picked red as my favorite color for this challenge. 

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you got some inspiration to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Hugs,

-Christine

Romantic card

Hi,

Today I`m sharing one of the cards I made today. But first, Wohoo!!! over 10.000 views. Thank you for every click. This is so fun for me.💗

Okay, back to my card. I am so in love with how this turned out so I`m actually thinking about transfering it to a canvas so that I can put it up on the wall.

The papers are from Peon design and I dread the day I run out of them since they are the brand I bought the most papers from, but sadly there hasn`t been anything new for almost two years. But for now I still have some left. I distressed both my layers of papers around the edges going for a more feminine and romantic look and feel.

I made a flower wrath finding matching beautiful flowers in my stash from WOC. The butterfly is also something that I`ve had for years.

The picture doesn`t quite make this card justice, its soo pretty in real life.

I would like to enter this card to:

Simon Says: Take Flight | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

So happy and proud to get a designer spotlight:

SheepSki Designs Challenges: CHALLENGE #78 MAKE IT FEMININE (sheepski-designs-challenges.blogspot.com)

Crafty Catz: Anything goes optional with Dies (craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com)

Colorful Options: September 2023

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you liked this card and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Hugs,

-Christine💮

Coffee with my Bestie

Hi,

Lets just start todays blogpost with a few seconds pause to think about the little things in life that gives us joy and makes life beautiful. For me meeting a friend enjoying a good cup of coffe is one of them. But a good cup of coffe is enjoyed well alone too😁

This adorable image is Fluffy Frannie from My Besties. I love how cute and versatile this image is. I colored her with my Copic markers and I`m so happy with how this card turned out. 

My sentiment is stamped using Archival ink in coffee and the sentiment translates into "Enjoy your day" and is from a local craft store. The leaves are die cuts using Marianne design and La La Land dies. The papers are from Maja design.

Copic colors that I`ve used:

Skin, listed in the order used: E000- E00- E21- E11- E04, R20

Hair: E43- E44- E47- E49

Outfit: R000- R00- R30- R32, B91- B93- B95- B97- B99, 0 blender

Hat: E30- E31- E33- E43

Flowers: Y11- Y15- Y38, E43- E44- E47- E49

R30- R35- R37- R39

R20- R22- R35

Y11, YG03-YG17- YG99

Stool: T1- T3, W3, C5

Grass: G94- G99

On the inside I stamped a little positive saying and I stamped it off center to leave some space for a personal message. It`s about how positive thinking breeds positive things in life. The norwegian stamp is from Papirdesign.

I`m entering this card to:

Simon Says: Stamp It | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Simon Says: Stamp It | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

(2) Facebook Copic Marker Norge 

(2) Facebook Bikuben Hobby

Thank you for stopping by, have a nice day and enjoy life one cup at the time.

-Christine💮

Birthdaycard and fun surprise pop up ball giftbox

 Hi,

Today I`m back to share a gate fold card with bellyband and a matching gift box with surprise pop up balls that I made for my sons birthday. 

It was finally time to use these gorgeous papers from Wild Rose Studio, Man About Town that I have been hoarding for years. 

For my cards closure I made a belly band and popped up the scallup circle aswell as my sentiment on pop up dots to add some dimension and a little intrest. I added som Ranger stickles in Black diamond that have glitter in it. The birthday sentiment is in norwegian from Kort & Godt (M-180) On the inside a stamped an old sentiment that I love and find so beautiful. Its from Bildmålarne but I don`t think it`s available anymore.

I kept the gift box plane on the outside, just decorated it with the pattern paper. I used some black ribbon for my pull to open the box.

My son just moved to do a one year " Soccer in Europe" on a boarding school. He has always loved to play soccer and when I went to Karen Burnistons YT channel to see how to assemble my new pop up ball die, I got inspired to do a surprise football pop up balls gift box when I saw a snowball in a box assemble tutorial. This was so fun to gift and my son loved it and found it very cool.

Inside the box I made a little pocket where you can put a gift card, money or a tag to write a personal message. 

And here is a small clip from our birthday picknick outside his school opening the pop up ball gift box.

I`m entering this to :

Simon Says: Anything Goes | (simonsaysstampblog.com) - I was the lucky winner!     

Winner – Anything Goes Challenge | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog: SEPTEMBER 2023: Challenge #115 Crafts Galore Encore (cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com)

Knutsels en Kadootjes: We gaan pockets maken bij Knutsels en Kadootjes...

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you liked it and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too :)

-Christine💮

Art Journal - Adventure, Sir Vagabond in Japan

 Hi, 

Today I`m so excited to share my latest mixed media art journal layout. I totally love how it turned out and it`s definitely among my top favorites. 

This time I have been playing in my new A5 stone paper journal from Vicky Papaioannou`s Create Happiness collection from Stamperia and this is the first time I came across stonepaper. I was very facinated with the properties of this paper. 

I used the gorgeous collection Sir Vagabon in Japan also from Stamperia and this layout actually goes over 3 pages. I love that this beautiful girl sits by the window and looking through you can see the samurai from the next page. For my backgrounds I used distress oxide sprays in Lost shadow and Stormy sky and then I very light handed went over with some Tumbled glass. I also added some splatters with white, black and gold paint. This is my first time trying my oxide sprays, or any distress oxide product, and I do understand the love for these products. The stone paper was also very impressive to work on. It does not tear but you can easily cut it. It takes water, sprays, modelingpaste and heat beautifully and the pages stay flat. 

On my first page I used a small script stamps from the Create Happiness collection and a small lace circle from and old Prima stamp set to add some interest on my background. The stencil is Bricked from Tim Holtz. On all my pages I went around the edges with Vintage photo and Black soot. I love how the modeling paste pickes up some of the colors from the beackground and makes everything look so coordinated.

My window is actually from the Stamperia Blue Dream collection and I have used acetate on it. I used my craft knife to cut out the window without any problem. I went with the title Adventure as I think its a perfect start for an Art journal and its also from the in Japan papers. I love to travel and I really want to travel to Japan some day.

On my next pages both my stencil and the two stamps are from Vicky`s Create Happiness collection. I keep using these again and again as I find them very versatile. Then I added some splatters using Lindys Moon shadow mist. 

I had to work some on my window on this side since its actually two smaller windows cut apart and then glues togeter using one window from the Blue Dream  8*8" papers and the other from the ephemera. So there are some overlapping and difference in texture but I really don`t mind and I focus more on how happy I am to have made it fit my project.

On all my images I traced the edges with a black pen to avoide any white on the edges. I also used Vintage Photo and Black soot on all the pieces befor gluing them down. As always I added some finishing thouches with my white sakura gel pen.

I am so pleased with how this turned out and I had such fun creating this project.

Here a link to my IG reel on this project if you want to take a look 💖

CKN Design- create happy days crafting (@ckndesign_craft) • Instagram-bilder og -videoer

I`m entering this to:

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge Blog: Welcome to Creative Artiste Challenge #97

Simon Says: Anything Goes | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge

Classic Design Challenge Blog : Classic design Challenge September # 9

So excited to be among the best technique winners!

Hope you liked it and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Thank you for stopping by,

-Christine💮