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

Handmade book

Another project I made in 2012.

A book I made using lots of Tilda -panduro papers  inside,
and Macaulay Arts design paper on the front cover.

Distress inks and roughed edges......

 Above; a peek inside the book, 

Above; with some plain bazzil pages  inbetween the design papers

I clipped out and glued in some co-ordinating borders.

 Above; the back side.

 Above; for the front plate I used a die cut from Heidi Swapp, 

I just distressed it with ink and the pattern shone through.

Above; you can see the leftover threads, 

hidden under the book spine.
  I used my sewing machine to bind the pages.

Happy Birthday!

Wow, its been a while since I posted here. 

This dosen't mean I havn't been creative,

I have been a very busy bee,

Including spending a fab weekend at a Scrap-meet (Skitreff),

last weekend, with so many tallented lovley ladys all in one building its enough to

BLOW YOUR MIND!!

Always great to meet faces from the Blog world and get to know some new ones too.

I've just not had the time to take photo's and post my projects :O)

So its 'catch-up time' now....

Here is a birthday card I made a while back for a 6 yr old sweetie.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Totally Papercrafts - challenge #89 - Layer upon layer.

Pixie dust studio - challenge # 97 - Happy Birthday

Hope you are all well, and enjoying the cosy Autumn weather :O)

 (Hot soup......homemade rolls.....cups of tea...... wood burning stove litt........ 

grilling sausages in the woods...candles litt....woolly rugs to tuck up in.... not to mention the beautiful colours it brings.....aahhh I love Autumn) 

ENJOY!!

Hugs Nina xx

Teabag christmas cards

Time flys when you are having fun is how the saying goes and boy is it true!

I went to see A-Ha in concert one of their last ever :O(

Fantastic!!

T'was a birthday presant for my husband and it was not easy keeping it a secret!

I have been busy the past couple of weekends showing

and helping other people make paper crafty bits and bobs.

Mostly family and some friends too.

It has been great fun, just seeing how happy and proud they are of the end product.

This teabag card was one of the projects,

I found some measurments on the net, but ended up having to make my own cos I couldn't make it all fit together and work!

I am thinking about making a tutorial with my measurments if anyone is interested?

Without further a do, here are the little sweeties....

They are only 9x9.5cm! So cute!

Inside

Backside

I have used some super-sweet blue snowflake paper from 'Little yellow bicycle'

And some blue spotty paper from inkido.

A little stiching round the panels and a good distressing all over with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo.

I used spellbinders to chomp out bits on the inside sleeve and Marvy snowflake punch.

I am entering these into the following challenges:

The Stampman - Challenge # 11 - Take any 3 colours - Christmas theme.

Stamp Something - Christmas colour combo something.

T.P.C - Challenge # 45 - Xmas punches.

Kort O Mania - Utfordring # 29 - Lag et julekort.

Yeehoo, Hope to find time soon to pop round and do some of my own blog hopping again soon!

I look forward to it :O)

With wishes for a wonderful weekend for you all

Hugs Nina xx

Origami Star card and patchwork tree.

Hey lovley peeps, Hope everyone is enjoying there week so far, its almost the weekend! Lol

Things are quietening down here now after Kim had his ear operation and Scott is almost over the neumonia he had, I almost got a full nights sleep last night!!

Thats almost worth writing down in the book!

Without further a do, onto what this blog is about... the crafty stuff :)

I am working on chirstmas cards at the moment (for a change).

For this first card I folded some nice thin papermania paper into a star shape

OR-I-GA-MI style

The ribbon is from Panduro, and the stamp is from mmmmm my cupboard... no that won't do, my brain seems to be somewhere else today, it must be in shock of having had some sleep!

erm hehe I can't find the stamp now either! I give up, anybody know where its from??!

Next I wanted to try out some patchwork style work again and ended up making this tree card.....

and a close up...

Lol and i've just realised that I have taken a photo of this card before it was finished!

I was feeling that there was something missing but didn't want to loose the simpleness of it,

in the end I embossed the text 'God Jul' in the top righthand corner which helped alot.

These lovley packages are from Magnolia and the crimbo tree is made from papermania scraps :)

Both cards are painted with Tim Holtz distress reinkers.

Back with more soon!

And just before I go I want to say Thank you sooo much for all the lovley comments you ladys give me, I really enjoy reading them :)

Hugs Nina xx

ps. How funny that so many of you thought It was a real pepperkake in my last post, I am flattered that some thought that I could have written that text with icing!! I think I might of been a

'masterchef cake lady'

if I had! hehe :)

Baby bunting.

Just thought I would show you one of my other non- paper projects I have had going on.

This is a baby bunting (a row of small flags to hang on a nursery wall) for a girl.

I got 2 orders both for girls, so to save time I made them identical.

The lovley fabric and ribbon are both bought from Panduro ( a local hobby shop) and they are from the Tilda collection. They are 3 meters in length.
I think they are rather scrummy :O9