Easy Fold-Over Cards

Lately I have been hooked on making a simple fold-over card, that you can easily make into a gift card/tag-pocket card. Once again I have taken part in a live scrap-a-long with Yasmin Tölche from Bikuben. As I had planned to do the actual scrapping/cardmaking with a good friend of mine a couple of days after the live, I decided to just watch the live the evening of. Unfortunatley I had misunderstood when the live started, so I turned it on about an hour late, therefore, I quickly decided to rewind it to the beginning. It looked like it was an easy and fun card to make, and since I realized I have made something similar before, I decided to give it a go anyway, using completely different papers than those Bikuben had sold in their scrap-a-long kits, and save the actual scrap-a-long papers for the scrapping date with my friend. However, Since I came into the live an hour late, it got a bit too late to finish the two cards that I had started on, therefore I decided to continue them the next day.

These are the two cards I made on my own:

....and.....

As you can see, they are both made with a gift card/tag pocket. Then during my scrap-date I made these two cards, first a masculine card:

Then a more feminine card:

As I knew I would be in need of a wedding card pretty soon, I decided to adapt this style of card into a wedding card holding a gift card. This is what I came up with:

The card is now delivered to someone who is going to the wedding, as I am not going myself. These are the only cards I have made in a while, as we are enjoying rare warm weather in the south of Norway these days, and I would much rather sit outside and enjoy the sun, than spending time inside crafting!

Mice, more mice, and an elephant!

It is not a secret that I am a huge fan of Lawn Fawn´s critters, especially their adorable mice! Their latest addition to the ever-growing family of mice, is the "Just Plane Awesome" stamp and die-set. Whenever I buy one of their sets, I like to stamp it, color it, and die-cut it, so that I have it ready to go, should I want to make something with it. Naturally, I did the same with this set. Therefore, when I had an idea for a card last week, all I needed to do was make a background, and place the mice in their places, and voila, I had made a fairly quick card. I matched it up with the Norwegian saying "den som intet våger, intet vinner", which basically translates to "the one who nothing dares, nothing wins", as I find the mice to be very daring as they fly through the air holding on to their paper planes.

The second card is made using another recent set from Lawn Fawn; "Fly High". On this card I also used already stamped, colored and die-cut elements placed on a background that is fairly similar to the on my first card. However, I made a fairly big mistake when I was putting the last touches on this card. I was attempting to make flowers using Nuvo Drops, which didn´t work out at all. I had to wipe it all off, and it left rather big colored marks on the lower part of the card. Luckily, I managed to cover the mess with flowers and a couple of mice.

Easy to make Mini Albums

Here are two examples of fairly easy-to-make mini albums. I got the idea and inspiration from a scrap-a-long I was part of in March. I loved making them, and I will make more, for sure.

The first phot is of the album I made while following the scra-a-long, while the sunflower one was made afterwards.

Here are some photoes of what the albums look like inside:

And a few showing the sunflower one, where I have tried to make the beautiful Maja design papers shine.

And lastly, a photo of the two fronts alongside each other.😊

For a Diva! (Til en Diva!)

This is another card that I made for the Spring Scrap-meet at Bikuben.The challenge for this card was to watch a given youtube tutorial and make a similar card. I watched the tutorial, but chose to follow a Mixed Up Craft tutorial for a more elaborate card of the same style. Mixed Up Craft calls it a "Flip Flap Card".

When you pull a tab, the card opens and reveals the inside of the card. For this card I have chosen to use two stamp-sets from the Norwegian company Kort & Godt. I used the Diva-images, colored with coloring pencils, as well as the sentiments from these sets.

Quick and Simple: Easel Cards

Lately I have been in need of making cards that are quick and simple. I haven´t made more than a few easel cards before, but I remembered that they are fairly straight-forward cards. Therefore I have gone for easel cards twice recently, for cards I needed done quickly. I must admit, though, that the actual process of making the easel-mechanism is quick and simple, the decorating - not so much so.🫣 The first card, "Bon Voyage" challenged me somewhat when I tried to decide what to put behind the wheel of the VW Beetle. I had made the actual Beetle some time ago, when I first bought the dies, and I have had it sitting on my desk reminding me to use it for something. SO when I took part in a Challenge called "Vehicles", I thought it was a perfect fit. I didn´t for the life of me think that it would be so hard to find something to fit inside the car! When I initially made the car, I had thought that I would build some sort of critter-scene around it, but then, when I was actually making the card, I couldn´t find any critters that were suitable.😂 Instead I found a freebie online, that I scaled down and colored in. I adjusted the background to suit the new drivers.

My second card is a confirmation card for the son of some of my sister´s friends. I was told that the card needed to show that it was a card for a gamer. I immidiately had some concern. #1 I don´t really make confirmation cards, and #2 I don´t have a lot of confirmation stamps and dies that can be used for a gamer. To solve my concerns I needed to ask a few vital questions. Is he a computer-gamer, or a consol-gamer? What games does he like to play, and so on. The answers I was given was that he is a computer-gamer and that he is a big fan of "Terraria". My immediate thought was; "good, he only plays one game!" I had, however, never heard of the game Terraria.🫣 Thank goodness for Google, Etsy and Pinterest! The image I chose was fairly large, and to accomadate the size I ended up with a large easel card. Since I don´t know the game, I hope that the image is recognizable to Terraria fans. To make it into a confirmation card, I added a teenager, the necessary wording, and his name. As the easel-stopper I chose a picture of one of the characters, "Ash".