Happy Anniversary to an old collegue - and a birthday card

Hi There,

I hope you've all had a wonderful Christmas holiday (some of you might still be on holiday).

On December 23rd I was invited to celebrate a 12½ year wedding anniversary with a collegue of mine at the school and her husband. The celebration was held in the café area of the school where a lot of people can be gathered.

I had bought a gift card for a Romantic dinner for 2 persons for the happy couple and instead of presenting them with the original box for the card, I'd made one of my personalized boxes.

When I got the boxes I also bough a christmas red one, already knowing I was going the this celebration. I had bought the dies for the decorations and as a symbol of the family (dad, mum and two kids) I made four decorations. The holders are made with copper coloured paper as is the 12½. I had some fir dies which I used in the corners. Seen in retrospect I should have put some red berries on them. Well, that's too late to remedy now. 

On the lid I added a great border that I have - also in copper coloured paper. The border goes all the way round - yes, also on the back, and that's the finishing touch that make the box so special for the occassion in my eyes.
In the box I put some pale green paper, which matched the background paper and on the top of that rested the gift card.

Next I had to make a gift tag of course. And I used this awesome garder die in combination with his house (I don't remember, if that's the same die set) and a flag set, where I could make a Danish flag. The sentiment is written on the back.

I had to leave the celebration early as I had to go to the north of Jutland to celebrate Christmas with my family and I wanted to arrive there before it got too dark.

Right - now to the birthday card.

I have a great friend whose birthday is in the middle of December and I wanted to send her a nice card of course.

I'd bought the bauble die in early october (I think it was) and of course this should be used for a December birthday. I used some nice stickers as ribbon to hang them on and added some fir branches as well.

Then I added a kind of pocket die at the bottom - I honestly don't know why, other than I thought it looked nice.

There's probably a lot of ways to use that "pocket" die, but right now, my head is quite empty for ideas, so if you have any, please let me know.

That's is for now, but feel free to leave me a comment if you like my projects and if you'd like to see my cards/projects etc. on a regular basis, please join my blog or my instagram.

And of course HAPPY NEW YEAR, I hope you have a prosperous and productive one. 

Be happy crafting!

A couple of boxes

Hi there,

Today I just fetched my glasses from the shop - WHAT a relief. I felt a huge difference the minute I put them on. I've been straining my eyes for 1½ week now wearing my old glasses, so you can imagine what I felt like putting them on again.

Well, back to the important things.

While not being able to colour very well, I made these 2 cute boxes (and two not yet assembled, but also with a Christmas theme.
Front of box 1:

The back has no decoration on the roof and no door. Otherwise it's the same.
And both sides

 Front of box two:

The back is decorated like the back of box 1. 

And both sides:

The base carton I bought at a hobby outlet with colouring on it in mind, but when I wanted to make the houses, I found that this carton was perfect for it.

The window die cuts are a little too big for the box, so I ended up cutting a little bit of each side.

The first box I gave to my colouring buddy, Susanne, who is always great to exchange ideas with and a great, and very knowledgeable card maker, that I get lots of inspiration from. The second box I've given to my big sister, who needed a little chearing up as she's been hit by the flu and missed her holiday abroad. The text on the side says "Christmas hugs" in Danish.

Both boxes took some time to prep as there's no less than 14 rows of snow (10 for the roof and 4 around the house) for each house, and there's only one die for it. And a lot of other bits and pieces. I'm glad I'm a patient crafter.

Please feel free to leave me a comment if you like my projects and if you'd like to see my cards/projects etc. on a regular basis, please join my blog or my instagram.

Be happy crafting!

No problem

Hi there,

As promised last weekend I'm going to show you my monthly Kit and Clowder November 2019 pencil class today, but first the result of my visit at the eye specialist clinic.

Good news! After eye dripping, photos and a general eye check by a nurse, I was called into the specialists room and was told that I have 100% vision on my right eye and much to my surprise 90% vision on my left eye. My problem is that my eyes do not work together - can be remedied by a new left glass in my glasses and that I have beginning cataract. The latter will not need any operation for the next 5 - 10 years (hopefully 10 years) depending upon how fast it develops.

Well, I went back to the optician and told them what was said, and it being Black Friday, I had hoped to be able to get the glass half price since I got completely new glasses a year ago and they are not very cheap - but NO, that only applied for completely new glasses. In the end the price would be almost the same, so I thought I'll make do with a new glass in my three sets of glasses and was able to save just a little bit by doing this.

I had to leave all my glasses at the shop. They'll send them to Hungary to fit the new glass and it's going to take a couple of weeks before I see them again. Luckily I'd kept (just in case) my old glasses from last year, otherwise I would not have been able to drive home as I cannot see a thing without my glasses - which is weird considering the above message from the eye specialist. :-)

But overall it was good news! And now to the pencil class.

I love the November classes which usually feature a Christmas theme. The Paper Shelter digi is called Holy Night and it's soo cute.

We do not have the best light for taking photos here in Denmark at the moment, it's so dark outside so taking a decent photo is not possible. I have the flashlight on, which is why the colours are much lighter than they are in real life. The sky should be much darker (Holy Night). However, considering the vision problems I'm quite satisfied being able to colour within the lines even though it was a strain on the eyes.

I LOVE how the deer turned out and the clothes too. The white specks on the rear end of the deer should be done with white pencil, but I didn't think they were white enough so I used my white Poska on top of the pencil. I also used my white Poska to dot in the snow all over the image.

It was an awesome image to colour and I love the Paper Shelter images which are so cute.

I think that's all for now. Please feel free to leave me a comment if you like my projects and if you'd like to see my cards/projects etc. on a regular basis, please join my blog or my instagram.

Be happy crafting!