Well, Halloween is almost here and I'm sure all the little witches, goblins, and ghosts are getting ready. It looks like Mimosa and her little cat are getting ready to go out and do some haunting.

This has to be the sweetest little witch I have ever seen.

The stamps is Mimosa Witch. I have colored her with copics to match the colors in this fun Halloween paper- Lollipop Lizzy from Imaginisce. I stitched around the edges of the layers and then added a few prima flowers up in the corner. I sprayed the roses with my copic airbrush to turn them black and green to match the paper. Then I added some black rose ribbon along the side. I love the way black tulle looks on Halloween projects. The sentiment in the corner is from the Bildmalarna fall kit. I stamped it on textured cardstock to give it kind of a distressed look. Don't forget, this is an anything goes challenge, so please link your projects.

My Bildy Bookmark

I have a 9 year old daughter I am always encouraging to read. So, I thought maybe if she had a cute little bookmark, she might get inspired to read more. The current challenge on Bildmalarna Blog is to make a bookmark- perfect!! For this challenge, used a Bildmalarna stamp, Rose Mimosa, she is just so sweet looking.

I have colored her with copic markers to match the colors in this new Basic Grey pack called Olivia. I can't get enough Basic Grey paper, I love it all. I added a couple of swirls that I made with my irock and the swirls pattern. I love the little bit of bling and elegance it adds to the card.

My Little Candy Corn Witch

I have had some unexpected time off from crafting due to a family tragedy. I think I am ready to jump back in with both feet and try to get caught up on my challenges. This little card is for the Anything Goes challenge on Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central. I absolutely love this little Mimosa witch stamp. She is a super cute little witch. My daughter was a candy corn witch for Halloween last year, so when I saw the ruffles on her dress, I knew she would make a perfect candy corn witch too. So, here is a picture of my little candy corn witch

and here is the card she inspired.

I colored Mimosa and her little cat with my copics. I cut her out and then put her on a circle that I turned black with my black soot distress ink. I then matted that circle on one of the new beaded circle nestabilities. I added a spider web border that I cut with the new deep edge spider web punch from Martha Stewart. I finished the card off with a bow topped with a candy corn button. I hope you can join our anything goes challenge we would love to see what you make!!!

A Fun Slider Card

The current challenge on Scrappy Frogs is to make a slider card. This is a really cool kind of card that I hadn't tried before. You can see the tutorial and video here. I used one of the new Fall Bildmalarna stamps on my project. I think this stamp is adorable!!! The main image I used is called Mimosa Wonderful Day.

When you pull the top layer out of the little notch, the bottom card slides out too. Very cool I have no idea how someone came up with this one.

I masked the image and placed her sitting against the Autumn Tree. I used some paper with some fun fall colors and colored my image with copic markers to match. I have become so conscious of my copic coloring now that it takes me forever to make a card. I added the sentiment I beleaf in you (from House Mouse) because it's perfect for a Fall inspired card. I hope you can join us on Scrappy Frog and make your own slider card.

Bildmalarna Birthday!!!

I am determined to have birthday cards ready for people when it's someone's birthday. I make cards all the time and I never have one ready to send when it's someone's birthday. So, for my embossing project, I have used my Cuttlebug Happy Birthday folder and made a birthday card.

I call this cute little guy Tosse with gift. He was a part of the Summer kit. I colored him to match the colors in this Basic Grey Cupcake paper pack. The background was done with my copic airbrush system. You have one more day to get the Fall kit and I know it's going to be a great one!!!!

Some New Bildmalarna Projects

I have been playing with my adorable Mimosa stamps from Bildmalarna and created a few projects for some different challenges. This first card I made for theBildmalarna Blog 3 favorite colors challenge and the Friday Sketchers Sketch challenge.

I used one of my favorites for this card- Mimosa Butterfly. She is colored with my 3 favorite colors- pink, green, and brown. I added some lace and ribbon, a sentiment from Label Accents, and some butterfly rhinestones. I airbrushed the label shape while it was still in the nestie after being embossed and I love the look of the white border all the way around. The paper for this card is from Basic Grey.

I made this second card for the Scrappy Frogs Girlie Girl challenge.

I used this sweet looking Mimosa from the Summer kit which I absolutely love!!!! By the way, order quick, there are only a few more days to order the fall kit. I know it will be just as great as the summer one. I used paper from My Mind's Eye for this card along with some silky trim I found in the fabric section, some prima flowers, and Magnolia chandelier garland. What's more girlie than silky lace, flowers, and chandelier garland?

Wedding Wednesday

It is Wedding Wednesday again on Bilmalarna Blog and it was my turn to create a wedding project with these adorable new wedding stamps. I chose to feature Mimo and Mimosa at an outdoor wedding this time and masked them with this arbor stamp. I cut the image out with a nestabilitie, but the wedding couple was actually larger than the arbor, so I cut out Mimosa's dress so that it would hang out of the nestabilitie when I cut it. I can't remember the name of this technique right now or I would post a link to the tutorial. I went over the entire image with shimmer chalk to give it a soft feel and then finished the card off with some lace and prima roses to add to the soft vintage feel of the paper.

Another Sketch Challenge

Seems like I have been doing a lot of sketch challenges lately. This one is for the challenge at Bildmalarna Blog. I love Bildmalarna stamps, the characters are absolutely adorable!!! So, here is a picture of the sketch we are using.

Here is my card.

I used this absolutely adorable of image of Mimosa in a bath tub that was part of the Bildmalarna Summer kit. Now, this kit is no longer available, but you can still get the Fall version at Bildmalarana.com. My color palette was inspired by different shades from the Cosmo Cricket background paper that I used. I also used a piece of the new Cosmo Cricket core'dinations cardstock which coordinates with the paper and comes pre-embossed. Mimosa is colored with my copic markers. I tried to grunge the image up a little bit by adding some shadows with my W1 marker so that the colors wouldn't be too bright and would go with the distressed vintage look of the papers. I finished it off with a grungy paper flower. This was made with 8 scalloped circles cut with my cricut. I then sprayed them with water, wadded them up, unfolded them, put a brad through all the layers, and then squeezed it into a flower shape. If this sounds confusing, if you look for paper flowers on youtube, you should be able to find the video.

Summer Fun with Tossa

We are having a Summertime Fun challenge on Scrappy Frogs and I thought this little image of Tossa would be perfect for that. First I started with the sketch from Friday Sketchers. I think my sketch printed out a little crazy, so it's a little bit off. Here is the sketch.

Here is my version.

This image is from the Bildmalarna Summer collection. It is called Tossa Frog. I used Basic Grey Lime Rickey paper because it screams Summertime. I colored Tossa and her cute little frog with my copics. Tossa has a slight sunburn on her cheeks, nose, and shoulders. I airbrushed the background with B000 for the sky. I then added some of my blue crystal lacquer for the water. I love this stuff! You can use it with or without color underneath it for different looks. I used a blue pinwheel from the stickers that came in the pack with the paper for the sun.

Wedding Wednesday

Everyone knows that June is the month for weddings. In honor of this, we will be having Wedding Wednesdays on Bildmalarna Blog every Wednesday during the month of June.
Each Wednesday, you will see projects featuring the adorable new Bildmalarna wedding stamps created by our fabulous design team. Here is my first project featuring the stamp Wedding Couple and Wedding Text.

I colored my wedding couple image with copic markers. I outlined and shadowed her dress with E50 to give it a touch of ivory coloring. I added self adhesive pearls along her hemline and one for Mimo's cuff link as well. I airbrushed the label shape behind the couple as well as the silk flower up in the corner. I found some wedding ring buttons and added them onto the ribbon. I used the Wedding Text stamp as the sentiment and stamped it on a bracket shape I cut out with my cricut. Be sure to check out Stephanie's project for this week also. You can see her project here.

Each Wednesday, you will see projects featuring the adorable new Bildmalarna wedding stamps created by our fabulous design team. We would also like all of you to show us the projects you have created with the Bildmalarna wedding stamps. You don’t have them? Don’t worry, they will be marked down on both www.bildmalarnastamps.com*** and www.stampingscrapping.com during the month of June so that you may purchase them and play along with us. You will be able to link your projects to the Wedding Wednesday post for a chance to win a Bildmalarna stamp of your choice at the end of the month!

In addition to this, ALL ORDERS PLACED for the Wedding Bildmalarna stamps during June will go into a drawing. TWO lucky people

Will win ONE Bildmalarna stamp of their choice.

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10% off the entire collection on your order ONLY on www.bildmalarna.com

By posting in the comments section all 4 Wednesdays on the Bildmalarna Blog www.bildmalarnablog .blogspot. Com and entering at least one wedding project of your own, you will be eligible to win 3 SURPRISE Bildmalarna stamps!

Father's Day with Mimosa

Bildmarlarna Blog is having a Father's Day challenge. This was a hard one for me, do you need to use a boy image to make a father's day card? I only have a daughter, so her father is going to be getting a card from a girl, so I went with a girl image. I used the adorable stamp Mimosa Hello. She looks so sweet smelling the flower with the little butterfly on it.

I have colored Mimosa to resemble my own daughter who recently got pink highlights in her blond hair, so I gave some to Mimosa as well. It was a challenge to not make the card too girly. I had one done and I was adding some turquoise lace to it and I thought, this is way too girly, no way it can pass for a father's day card. So, I started over. I picked more masculine looking paper and colored Mimosa's outfit to match. I then cut this adorable Mimosa out with a labels 4 nestabilitie. The Happy Father's Day sentiment is a stamp from the Scent With Love stamp set Label Accents. I added a large grey scalloped border and brad I made with my chatterbox easy brad maker. Now of course those brads are brass, so I had to airbrush it to turn it a deep grey to blend in better with the card. The card looks so bare without ribbon and bows and flowers, but I guess that's what it takes to make a masculine card.

Birthdya by Bildmalarna

Our current challenge on the Bildmalarna Blog is to create a project using the color scheme of red, yellow, and blue. I decided to make a birthday card using the adorable new stamp Mimosa's Birthday. I think this stamp is so cute I love how she is feeding the birthday cake to her little teddy bears.

I used paper from the Die Cuts with a View Farmer's Market stack and I colored the image with copic markers to match. One thing I did to add a little bit of dimension to the card is to go over certain parts of the image with crystal lacquer. I added it in brown to the table and benches, red to the balloon and the rose on the cake, and black for the bear's eyes and nose. I love how this product has color already in it. You can add a little bit of copic underneath for dimension and then color the rest with the crystal lacquer. I embossed the yellow cardstock with the cuttlebug birthday folder and and sanded it to bring out the embossing a little better. The sentiment I used was actually part of the summer kit from Bildmalarna (this kit was full of adorable stamps and sentiments). I went over the stitching around the edges and the words Birthday Wishes with my turquoise spica marker to add a little bit of sparkle.

We would love for to play along with us on the Bildmalarna challenge blog. To play, post a copy of your project into the inlinkz found under this post on the Bildmalarna blog.