Statsraad lehmkuhl - Tall ship card

This Easter my dad turned 70!

He has a deep love for all things that float on the ocean, 

fishing boats, dingys, tall ships, did I say boats? The sea etc etc.

So my brothers and I decided to give him and organise a great 
surprise for his big  

seven 0.

 

We booked him on to a working holiday on the tall ship the 

Statsraad Lehmkuhl! 

He will be sailing to from Bergen to Ullapool.

This year the Tall ship celebrates 100 yrs of age,

it just happend to be docked in Bergen when we were over there for Easter.

 I captured some photos of it.....

(above photo borrowed from the program.)

A beautiful norwegian tall ship, 

that i also have had the pleasure of sailing from 

Bergen to Orkney, 

The Shetland Isles and back to Bergen.

The trip of a lifetime!

Well, we needed a card to enlighten him of his trip this summer....

So, I made this envelope card:

Dad was needless to say blown away,

over the moon,

and is getting his sea legs ready for the trip!

Have a nice weekend.

Nina x

 

Vintage Birthday greetings

Here is a card I just made for the newest

challenge over at 

Vintage Utfordringer #77

Where we want to see  

Stiching - real or fake.

I dug out and blew the dust off my sewing machine 

and used real stiching on my card.

We have some great sponsors for this challenge,

Papercraft Scandinavia & The Ribbon girl!

so get sewing or make-pretend sewing 

on a vintage project and join in!

The challenge is open until 

28th March 10pm EST.

 My card;

I hope you are able to join in!

Regards Nina

Tag fun!

There is just 

sooo 

much eye candy to be found on Pinterest!!

I was drawn by an unknown force into my hobbyroom yesterday

a sheer overload of inspirational exhillaration came over me!! hehe.

Tags were to be my chosen form of expression,

One hour later and I was out of breath, covered in paint,

thinking 'WTF just happened?!'

Without further a do...fotties!
(click on them for a larger view)

An update on my Art Journal pages to come soon :O)

Vintage Design team challenge # 53: Sketch

Wow 2012 came and went quickly!

It was a very good and creative year for me, 

with far too little time devoted to blogging and 

visiting my blog-friends out there!

I plan to change that in 2013.

I will be posting photos of the projects that I didn't get time 

to post in 2012 soon, 

Everything from more furniture renovating, canvas painting to cards

 but first I want to tell you 

about the newest challenge over at 

Vintage Challenges.

Andrea has made a great sketch to follow.

and the team have made some beautiful inspriational cards.

I cut out the die hearts from a scrap of aquarell paper 

with test paint colours from another project and applyed 

a thick layer of glaze.

Sketch to follow:

Here is my take on Andreas Sketch:

 Here you can see a close-up of my new fabric tape,

I'm loving it!

 I really enjoyed working with this sketch,

all the layers makes it easy to give a lovley vintage feel.

 Card nr 1

 Card nr 2.

I have used design papers from Macaulay Arts, 

MME, Minne Hjørne and Maja Design 

I have given all of of the papers edges a 'going over' 

with Distress Ink 'Old Paper', 'Vintage photo'

and a rub with a sissor edge.

I used Tim Holtz paints and Dyans spray to distress the 

old peice of corrigated cardboard.

Play with the sketch as we in the design team have done, 

You can rotate it as you will, 

but the sketch must be recognizable and
 as always here at Vintage challenges,
vintage style 

This time also you get extra time 

to deliver their submissions, 

In fact, until 

d 28th of Jan. 2013 at 10pm.

I look forward to visiting your blogs 
to see what you've all been up to, 

and gathering my 'left-out' projects from 2012 to show you.

Have fun! Hugs Nina

My cards published in Ett Trykk mag.

Earlier this year I was very happy to see two of my 

cards published in 'Ett Trykk'  magazine 

('One Stamp' in English)

Here are the cards.....

This is the card tyed shut with a peice of vintage seam binding,

The wooden birdcage from Kaiser is glued just on one side.

 Here is the card open.

I hadn't made a card with this fold before and

I'm quite pleased the way it turned out.

Here is card nr 2,

A really simple card, 

but it is close to my heart all the same.

Hope Autumn is treating you all kindly! 

Mines been a BUSY one so far!

Regards Nina x   

Vintage Design Team Challenge #42

Helloooo 

A Design Team card I made for Vintage

Our challenge this time over at the Vintage Challenges is SO

easy this time EVERYONE should join in ;OD 

Its 'Use stamps' ! 

(On a vintage/shabby project as always).

The sponsers are 'Crafty Individuals' 

they have loads of cool stuff!

You have until the 28th of June 6pm to enter.

The background papers are from Panduro

Tilda collection, the dress is paper pieced 

with scraps one of which was a 

lovley quality peice of old wrapping paper.

Punches used are Martha Stewart Doily, 

Retro flower punch small, medium and large.

The dress stamp is from

KreativeHender

Half diamond blings in the flower are from Storyteller.

Ribbons from MinneHjørne

Entering this in for:

Allsorts challenge #159 - paper piecing/piercing
(open til 22/6)

Have a lovley week 

Nina xx

Wms sketch

Here is a card I have made for the 

Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge.

The Sketch

Whilst I already had my papers out and stamp inked

I made a couple of tags too.

All Of the papers I have used are from MME.

The Text stamp is from Waltzing mouses 

Vintage Banners set.

Brads from Doodlebug.

Its maybe not so easy to see from these photos 

but the paper the 

text is stamped on is semi transparent. 

I am also entering for the CCC. challenge
where they want to see your sentiment as the focal point.

Thank you to so many of you that

 take your time to leave your comments :O)

Have fun!!

Nina x