Sweet little Monkey

This is my second entry to The Paper Shelter's challenge 271 this week. I looked at Pinterest before I did my cards, and found one monkey and one penguin. It's very easy to do this monkey, you'll only need one big circle for the head, two small circles for the ears, one heart for the face, one oval for the mouth and you'll need to paint the mouth on the oval, cut out the eyes and if you like paint them. The little piece that should be the hair on the head I cut out freehanded. I then cut out the sentiment: Grattis that is Swedish for Congratulations. I put on some stars and flatbacks, voila! I got a perfect card for a child. When I send it I will cut out extra pieces for one more monkey and put inside the card, if the child likes to do one more. For background paper I used The Paper Shelter's WinterBreeze, A very useful digital paper that you can print out and use. It come's with six different paper and it's nice both for Christmas cards and Birthday cards. 

Here is the challenge

Card for children

 I did two cards for children this week. I looked at Pinterest for inspiration and found this little penguin, I thought if I send it to a child I know, I can cut out one extra and send so the child can put it together. I used my ovals and circles for the body and eyes, the heartshaped die for the wings, feet and stomach. The sentiment "God Jul" is Swedish for Merry Christmas. The background paper is from The Paper Shelter's collection "Matching with Halloween". I also diecut some stars to put on the card. I didn't want to put on pearls and stuff if the card goes to a small child that will eat them ... lol ... I'm funny that way always afraid to hurt children.

Well here's my first entre to The Paper Shelter's challenge 271 A card for a Child.

If you want to enter this challenge check it out here

If you want to buy their paper or digital stamps do it here

Card for children

 I did two cards for children this week. I looked at Pinterest for inspiration and found this little penguin, I thought if I send it to a child I know, I can cut out one extra and send so the child can put it together. I used my ovals and circles for the body and eyes, the heartshaped die for the wings, feet and stomach. The sentiment "God Jul" is Swedish for Merry Christmas. The background paper is from The Paper Shelter's collection "Matching with Halloween". I also diecut some stars to put on the card. I didn't want to put on pearls and stuff if the card goes to a small child that will eat them ... lol ... I'm funny that way always afraid to hurt children.

Well here's my first entre to The Paper Shelter's challenge 271 A card for a Child.

If you want to enter this challenge check it out here

If you want to buy their paper or digital stamps do it here http://www.thepapershelter.com/

Frost Girl for challenge 270

Frost Girl

My second entre in this weeks challenge at The Paper Shelter is also a Christmas card. For this card I used a scalloped card, blue paper from stash, background paper from BoBunny, the digital stamp TPS Frost Girl from The Paper Shelter, silver snowflake from Tim Holst's die, and the sentiment God Jul. I also used different shades and sizes of blue flatback pearls.

Snowmen for the Challenge 270 at The Paper Shelter

This weeks theme for the challenge is Pearls. I love to decorate my cards with pearls, so I sat down and made 3 cards for the challenge, Christmas cards. Here is the first one, I used TPS Most adorable Snowmen for this one. I colored it with Copics. The poinsettia is from Marianne, I cut it out and sprayed it with white Perfect Pearls. Then I put on some flatback pearls and the sentiment God Jul (Swedish for Merry Christmas ).

Napkins for background

Napkins is an easy way to make nice cards from. They're often very nice with beautiful pictures or patterns on them. I pull off the top layer and put it on some cardstock, first I put on plastic cooking wrap over the cardstock, put the napkin on the top and then put it between some thin paper and iron on it with a hot iron until it sticks. When its cold again I cut out the piece that I am going to use for the cards. Napkin is very soft, so I like to make a frame of cardstock and put in front of it just to be safe.
It's easy, cheap and you can make gorgeous cards with this technique.
Here you can see some of the cards I made for Christmas using napkins. I will post more when I make more cards, got a lots of napkins laying in a drawer and wait to be used. My mother always finds the nicest napkins, and when I go there and drink coffee or eat dinner I always save one for a card.

#269 Halloween

This weeks challenge is to make Halloween card. I will enter this in The Paper Shelter's challenge for Halloween nr 269. I must say that I am not at all satisfied with the photo, the light is not accurate, but I am out in the last minutes with this so it have to do. Next time I will take my pics in daylight, it works much better. 

I used The Paper Shelter's #A beauty to die for. The spider's web is cut out with my Brother ScanNCut. The pumpkins is my own design and the ghosts and bats is from an Halloween die. I used ProMarkers and Copics to paint and did it on Windsor and Newton paper.

Fancy Pansy For Challenge 266

Here is my third entree to #ThePaperShelter's #Challenge266 Blooming Days. I used a scalloped card, blue cardstock, background paper from The Paper Shelter's collection Vintage Flowers.

The Pansy is my own drawing and cutting, I colored them with Copics. The sentiment "Grattis" is Swedish for Congratulations.

I also used butterflies, flatbacks and paperflowers.

My second entry to Blooming Days challenge

Here I used the #SiBelle digital stamp from #ThePaperShelter. I colored it with Copics and Promarkers. I used a C6 scalloped card and red cardstock. There are butterflies I cut out with my dies and there are flatbacks on the card and on the butterflies. I finished it with flowers, and I must say I really love this picture and I am very happy that it turn out to remember about the summer, like she is sitting in a café in Paris with flowers all around her.

Blooming days

This weeks challenge at #ThePaperShelter is about flowers. #Blooming days the theme is, and flower on cards are just lovely. Visit The Paper Shelter's Blog and see all beautiful cards, great for inspiration.

I decided to join in the #challenge266 and my first card this week is a Christmas card!

I used The Paper Shelters stamp The most adorable snowmen and colored it with Copics and ProMarkers. 

I used a scalloped card, red and white cardstock, I embossed the white cardstock with big polka dots and used Crealie's die to cut out the circle in the middle. The white Poinsettia is from Marianne dies and I used it on white and green glittery paper and finished it by adding some lime green flatbacks. I added some red and white flowers to, it's nice with flowers on Christmas cards, if they match the card.

Cards of many folds

I couldn't resist to make a Halloween card with many folds. I will entree this card in #ThePaperShelter 's challenge #263 #Cardwithmanyfolds. I used their digital stamp A beauty to die for, paper from their collection Matching with Halloween and some brown and orange paper from my stash. I also cut out some bats and ghosts. I used Copic and Promarkers to color the stamp.

The open card.

Card closed.

My first entree to The Paper Shelter Challenge Card of many Folds

I never made a card like this before, just used to do the classic folds. But this is my first try and I did enjoy it so there will be more. I enter this card in #ThePaperShelter's #Challenge #263 Card of many folds. I used up some old papers from my stash and diecut the word "Grattis" (Swedish for congratulations) and die cut some flowers, cats and chains. I also die cut the bow and the circles. I finished it of  by putting on some flatbacks. Now I will make more of this folding, there is also a challenge in the facebook group "Kortutmaningar" that I will like to enter. And lucky me, at The Paper Shelter you can enter 3 cards! So my saturday evening is saved ... 

My first easel card ever

My second entree to The Paper Shelter's challenge 264

Halloween Card for challenge #264

This is my second entree to The Paper Shelter's challenge 264. I folded the card to 3 sections and glued on The Paper Shelters background paper Matching with Halloween. Then I took the pumpkin digis I made myself and colored them with Copic and ProMarkers. I easily traced them out with a scissor and glued them to the card. The sentiment is handwritten with a white pen on to black cardstock. I finished it by glueing on some simple flowers. I didn't want to put to much decorations on it because I wanted the pumpkins to be the main part of this card.

My first entree in The Paper Shelter's Challange 264

#challange 264 add a number

For this challenge I made a card using Jurassic Love. 

 I used a black cardstock from bazzil and some green and violet cardstock. I used copic to paint the digi and finnished the painting by drawing a small black outline. I traced it down with scissors and cut it out.I moved the two little hearts from the original and put them on these sweet dragons. The sentiment is written in my computer. I also used some flowers and wooden butterflies and a piece of violet organza string. I love this stamp, #Jurassic Love is the cutest.

Welcome to my blog!

Hi there,
My name is Kicki, I live in Sweden. This year I started to make digital stamps, background paper and cuttingfiles for Brother ScanNCut. In this new blog I will post how I use my creations in cardmaking. I will also post photos of cards I enter different challenges with. And of course, my digital items are for sale on Etsy; just search for KickiDigis!