Birthday card and envelope

My friend had her birthday in the beginning of March and I wanted to make her a card.

I love using Distress Inks with blending tool, and adding droplets of water.

First I stamped the image with Archival Ink, and coloured it with my distress ink and water.
I then added some rubber cement on the images and used various distress inks with the blending tool.
I´m quite happy with the outcome of this card :)

A while a go I saw this cool tutorial on Kristina Werner´s (link will take you to her blog) blog about using rubber cement to write down the name, and then use distress ink and blending tool on top. This gives you a really cool effect.

Knitting projects

A long time ago I started knitting, but I never got around to finish the pieces I started and I just didn´t find the peace in knitting. Just before Christmas I decided that I wanted to knit something for my little unborn girl. It started off with a couple of knitted baby shoes:

Which was a delight to make, because they were so fast and easy to knit. I think I used about 1-2 evenings on each shoe.

I then saw this adorable baby hat, it was way to advance for someone like me who is used to only knitting back and forth. But I thought I would give it a go and see how it turned out. A couple of not so noticeable errors, but will definitely be used.

A long time ago I bought all this yarn from Sandnes Garn, named Easy. I was going to make some baskets to have in the dressing room, but I never got around to make them.

I searched on Sandnes Garn, and I found these free recipes (clicking the link will take you to the site for free recipes, unfortunately it´s all in Norwegian) and decided to make a hat for myself. And yesterday I just finished my hat, the last threads are fixed and it´s all ready to use.

Maybe a few lucky persons will get one for Christmas.

So here in Norway where I live, we have really hard winters. This year it´s been down to about -26/-27℃. Just before Christmas my belly started to be too big to be able to close the zipper on my jacket, and I thought: "What can I do about it?". I still have all this yarn "Easy" and I got an idea for a belly-warmer. It´s not the nicest looking piece of clothing, but it works, it keeps both my belly and breast warm.

So now I´m hooked on knitting, and are planning my new project.

It´s just so peaceful and joyful to knit. And I can do it everywhere and best of all I can do it while my boy is awake. Me sitting in the chair and him playing on the floor. Perfect balance!

Thank you for dropping by

-Cecilie

Secret friend

I mentioned in my last post what 2015 will bring for us, including a new baby girl due in April.
This is the reason behind my card. I´m part of a forum for expecting mothers, and we had this secret friend exchange. I made a card to go with the present I bought.

The words in Norwegian "Lykke til med siste innspurt" translates to English "Good luck with the final leg/final stage of your pregnacy".

My card is inspired by such a great talented woman, Kristina Werner (by clicking her name, it will take you to her blogpost). I have been following her blog for a while and she does so many cards which I love and gets inspired by.

Thanks for dropping by

-Cecilie