Astrids Cards

Christmas card

2011-09-27T14:43:00.000-07:00

It's been quite a while again since I posted here, so I thought it was time to show another card.
This one was made using Waltzing Mouse sentiment stamp and the little character is an old Panduro stamp.

For the back ground I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Finally some more cards

2011-08-29T14:29:00.000-07:00

Here are my first Christmas cards for 2011. High time to use up some of these scrapbook papers that have been lying around for far too long.

Star card closed.

Star card open.
You can find a tutorial on how to make these here:starcard
And finally a trifold envelope card

Teepee Card

2011-07-05T11:24:00.000-07:00

Sorry I have not posted on this blog for such a long time, but today I finally made another card which I thought would be worth posting here.

The other day I found this great tutorial on Youtube on how to make teepee cards. You can find it here

These cards are great as they are eye catching and easy to display, yet you can send them flat in an ordinary envelope.

I used paper from the Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden line. The stamps used were from Stempelglede and Crafty Individuals. After stamping I cut them with the largest of the Spellbinders nestabilities labels Four die. Here you can see each of the three sides.

Card made with Pink Paislee

2011-06-06T06:44:00.001-07:00

Here is a card made with the Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden collection.
I made the card for a trade I am in inone of my my artgroups. Each piece had to have a quote starting with "Life is like a..." I very cleverly (not) covered up one of the words in my quote with embellies, ah well...

Going away

2011-05-15T14:50:00.000-07:00

I am going away for the next 10 days or so and made this card for the people I am staying with. The idea and lay out came from a card I saw in the latest issue of Craft Stamper. I just changed a bit and used different stamps as I did not have the ones used in the magazine.

2011-04-09T03:02:00.000-07:00

Here are two of my latest cards. The top one uses some new stamps I got from Stempelglede, the bottom one an image from the Graphics Fairy. The background paper is available as a freebee on my other blog http://astridsartisticefforts.blogspot.com

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Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Two cards created with new stamps

2011-03-06T15:58:00.001-08:00

The main images are from stamps by La Blanche. Othere images mostly from Paper Artsy.

Websters Pages card

2011-02-16T11:45:00.000-08:00

Here is a new card made with paper from Websters pages. They do digital downloads which is brilliant as you can size them to your liking. The final card is 5 x 5.

Graphics 45

2011-02-12T13:47:00.001-08:00

Here are some cards I created with the help of Graphics 45 papers

Card and matching envelope

2011-02-11T13:53:00.000-08:00

It has been absolutely ages and ages since I have posted here but I have completely run out of cards so I will just have to make some more. Here is one with a matching envelope made with Websters Pages paper.

Blog Candy

2009-04-22T15:10:00.001-07:00

There is some amazing blog candy over at Debby's, go check it out!!

Confirmation card

2009-04-20T07:23:00.001-07:00

New cards

2009-04-19T13:28:00.001-07:00

Here are some new cards created with things I got while in Australia recently.

Something for a Rainy Day

2009-03-26T13:35:00.000-07:00

Just finished another card using Sugar Nellie stamp. I think I went a bit over the top with all the embellishments. I had no prima flowers in the right colours so I just punched them out of paper previously colourd with glimmer mists and over stamped.

Birthday card

2009-03-23T09:43:00.000-07:00

Another cards using my Sugar Nellie stamps and some new ribbon

Easter card

2009-03-21T14:49:00.000-07:00

2009-03-14T15:25:00.001-07:00

Decided that I wanted to create a new blog just for my cards. I ahve of course been making cards for quite a while, but just recently I have become very inspired by some of the work of Scandinavian and Dutch card makers, and I wnat to get better at making cards in that sort of style. As it is very different from my other work I thought i would create a special blog just for those.Here are my first cards