Happy Easter!

Hello my dear friends !

I am back again, didn't do WOYWW because I had a long day and wanted to finish off all my cards for Easter - I will show you my cards and also some little Easter baskets I have made for my friends at work...
Today is Good Friday - most of you people in England and Europe are starting your Easter holidays - we are not off today - will start our holidays tomorrow - actually just a prolonged weekend! The sun is out but I must say we are having a proper April this year with weather going from very warm and sunny to bitterly cold and windy and lots of showers! Still I am hoping that means I will have a lovely May in England :-) .
Okay lets get up to business then....
Here are my cards.....They are all photos from my phone....I have used various techniques, mostly coloring and die cutting - I still can't get myself to do the stenciling with modelling and embossing paste - it is quite messy and I have so little space on my desk - as I move my "workspace" to the terrace I guess I will start on that sort of technique...

I am having a bit of a love affair with dies and die cutting as you can see on this card....

Next up is die cutting and coloring....ohhh these cute bunnies....

This card is a bit of a modern approach - I like Debbie Hughs cards so sometimes I try to go a bit into a more CAS way but still - it is so hard not to put an embelishment on....

These 2 cards are one of my favourite - The background on one of them is embossed and then lightly tapped with various TH DI, the other is just watercolor painting and both have added die cuts...The hollyhocks die is one of my favorites at the moment!!!

This chic is really cheeky!!!Makes you happy just to look at it!

These 2 cards are made with Graphic 45 papers - it was a tough call cutting into them but totally worth it as they are just sooo beautiful!

All of these cards will be entered into a challenge at MAVELU internet craft shop - their challenge is Easter so I think my post totally suits the challenge!
As last I would like to show you my little Easter baskets - they were my first - I am not really a paper crafter but I think I did well....

Yes of coarse there are chocolate eggs in them!

Thats all folks - see you next week - have a lovely Easter - enjoy time with your family and friends!
Lots of love, hugs and Easter blessings to all,
CARDARIAN

WOYWW, I am back with cards!

Hello my dear bloggy friends!

I have been away from WOYWW for a very long time...I think it is the longest I have been away from blogging since I started! There have been many reasons I was away - between work, trying to sort out my pension, my mom being ill, and a tragedy that has struck our family recently - my moms brothers house burned down and my auntie died in the fire - my uncle has now been left without a wife, a home and everything really at the age of 88! How sad is that? On top of all these things my health hasn't been very well and my DBF has been suffering with bad pains in his knee! I will be honest I could some Wednesdays write the WOYWW post but I know I couldn't come back to any of you kind people that comment because I am just so busy so week after week it was the same! I hope that after all these bad times things can now just go to better - I am still an optimist! I hope I will be able to resume my regular blogging!
So what have I been making all this time I have been away you ask??? Lots and lots of cards! Actually sometimes I think that is what keeps me going.....My desk at the moment is very clean - I mean clear as I cleaned it yesterday after I made a card for my friend Donna from Doings of Doone. She won't be looking at my blog because she will be away this week so I can show the card!

 

 It is made with all the "elements" of  "modern cards" - bits of paper - some was from a paper pad some I made myself, then there is vellum, sequins and die cuts! It is hard to decide when to stop adding things - maybe I went to far with the embellishments but I wanted it to be a happy card! 

These are photos from my phone so not very good but I have a few taken with my proper camera you will get to see them too...

So this is something I made for my boss who has celebrated her 10th anniversary working in our library -  I made this wall hanging for her to remember .....we are librarians so books in piles are a must! :-)

Here is a card I made for somebodies 50th birthday...a friend of mine asked me to make it....

My boss also got married this spring so I made a card for her wedding - I used a Julie Nutting doll stamp and then "dressed" her up as a bride - I really liked that card - one of the nicest I have made this year....

The picture isn't very good here is a close up.....

and the dress.....

So that was the wedding card and now I will just show you 2 more....one I made for my nephew - he is into trains and it was his birthday......

 And here is one of my Easter cards.... I will show more of them every day this week....

This is not a card but it is a photo I took today in our faculty garden and I just love that sun shining on those bright yellow flowers.....

Have a lovely week and I will try to get to as much of you as possible! I better sign up soon  at Queen Julias headquarters now otherwise the clock will strike midnight and I will turn in to a mouse.....

Love and hugs to all of you...

Cardarian

WOYWW, a happy birthday card!

Hello my dear friends!

I hope that all of you are safe,  away from high waters and other bad things happening around the globe! We are at the moment just having rain,  day after day - some areas are  flooded, but most of the country is not so that is lucky! Of course the damage in the woods is still very much visible even though foresters are trying to do as much as they can to clean up all the broken trees and branches!
I haven't been doing much crafting just a card every now and again! This is a card I have made for my DBF who's birthday is Friday - he doesn't look at my blog much so I can show you what I have made!
I ordered this amazing die from Dies to die for! It is a Poppy stamps die and is supposed to be a background die so it cuts out all these happy birthdays but it is made very cleverly so you can use both what you cut out and what is left but without all those bits falling out and then ! 
So what I made was I used the die and cut out the "background" ( it turned out to be the for ground)  in silver cardstock and then used Derwent Inktense Blocks to make an ombre background! I think it looks really good !

I also made an envelope with my WRMK envelope maker! It sort of matches the colors on the card!
I didn't really plan how the colors would be peeking through the die but I think they turned out to be just in the right place! Also I think it is quite a nice card for a man! No flowers or anything just the fact that it is a birthday! Ha, ha...
Have a lovely week - I will try to come around as much of you as possible! I do have a few birthday parties to attend though! :-))
If you are wondering what that WOYWW is in my title go here and find out!

Lots of hugs to all of you
CARDARIAN

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Hello my dear friends!

I haven't been blogging for more then a week - I just have so much worries these days I just can't get concentrated and blog properly but as it is Valentine's day I thought I would do a quick post! We finally have sunshine after days of snow and ice and rain! I am not sure it will last for long but I am happy to see the sun...I am watching news from England every day and thinking of all the people there suffering from the horrible weather that keeps battering England - I hope for you all that it soon gets better and life returns to normal! 
Today I am showing a Valentines card I made for my DBF....used Simon Says Stamp background stamp with hand drawn hearts which I inked up with Versamark and then put some red embossing powder on! When that was all done I colored in between with H2Os for a bit of shine and "watercolory" look! The sentiment is a die cut from Simon Says Stamp big love you die, I also added ribbon and I cut a heart out and covered it with sequins! So I basicly used all the stuff that is "in" at the moment except these pastes everybody is using - I find them quite messy but do use them sometimes! Anyway here is my card....

Wishing you all a lovely Valentine's day and hopefuly the weather will get better over the weekend!
Lots and lots of hugs and love to everybody!
CARDARIAN

WOYWW from frozen Slovenia!

Hello my dear friends!

I hope you are all well and hopefully not suffering either in floods, cold weather or snow! We are not that lucky as we have had an unusual weather phenomena called "zled" a sort of frost - everything is covered in ice! It happens when it is cold and it rains and the rain turns into ice and it starts building up on trees and shrubs and well everywhere - of coarse it is most devastating on trees because the ice is so heavy the branches just break off under the heavy weight - so we have had about 3,5 million m3 of trees broken or destroyed by this catastrophic ice. 
Here are some photos that look quite "romantic" but in fact they are deadly....

Everywhere you go you can hear the trees cracking and then suddenly a big tree or branch falls on the ground! The road I usually go to work on is closed all  week because of the danger of trees falling on cars! So that is what we have been fighting here all week!
On the crafty side I have made a few things....here is my desk where you see my moleskin and an envelope..and both sides of the desk a lot of crafty junk....:-)

Well lets have a look what I have done with the art journal pages I showed you last week...
This....

changed into this....(and this is my Romance for the Crafty Individuals challenge)

and this.....

changed into this....

I also made a birthday card for a friend, I used a Christy Tomlinson She stamp and lots of different acrylic paints, beads and lace, it is almost like a mixed media project! I quite like this one....

So there that is all from me - sorry it is such a big post but I hope you enjoyed it anyway! Hope to see you all at Stamping Ground....
Lots of hugs and love to all of you...
CARDARIAN

WOYWW, Art journal + card

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen!

How are you this January (not very cold) morning? Well I guess it is cold in some parts of the world but as of yet we haven't seen a proper winter - I am not really bothered as I don't engage in any winter sports but some people like snow....It has been mild and that means my heating bill hasn't sky rocketed yet!
So lets have a look at what is on my desk today....I have been doing some art journaling  - I usually show cards - which I will do today too but every now and then I dabble with art journaling...first let me show you my sunflower page... I think I really needed a bit of sun in my life - the sky is ever so dull here...I stamped the flowers with a stamp my daughter bought for me in France a few years ago... Flowers are on almost everything I make so they will certainly be a part of my art journaling....

As you can see I gave the page some dimension with beads and punched butterflies, the sentiment says "lets dance in the sun wearing wild flowers in our hair" Ohhh I can't wait for the summer to come......

Next up are 2 pages - they are not finished yet but at the moment I am still thinking what to do...the theme of feathers has been in my head for a while - I have this lovely peacock feather stamp from Deep Red and I have a feather die from Simon Says Stamp - they both motivated me for these next pages...
First up this very elegant page....as you can see I stamped  the peacock feather several times and embossed it with glittery embossing powder...used a Prima stencil and a stamp by Crafty Individuals...I think it is coming along just fine .....needs more of course.....you will probably see it finished next week...

Next up is my other "feather page" - this is far from finished but I just had to use that die - I die cut the feathers and then colored them with Twinkling  H2Os added a bit of glitter....I stuck them to a page that had some stenciling on it just something I used on my moms 80th birthday card which you will see in a minute...

I will see what I do with that one.....
And now the card I made for my mom... I didn't have my camera when I went to my moms so I took the picture with my phone - not the best but it is what it is....I used a stencil and Dylusion sprays for the background, lace, die cut letters and greenery and lots of Prima flowers, a few pearls and Stickles...

So there - that is it for today...I am not sure if I got round to all that came to visit me - I will try today! I have done another 400 km trip to my mom but it was worth it as she was very happy we came to see her, but as she seems to feel better now I think I will skip a few weekends of driving down there - it does wear me out!
Have a lovely crafty week and I will see you again soon!
Lots of hugs to all of you...
CARDARIAN

WOYWW, A messy desk and 2 Bday card!

Hello my dear friends!

I was away last Wednesday as I had to take my mom to the hospital as she had a check up on her healing and I am very happy to say she is much better - she was actually told she doesn't need crutches anymore unless she walks a very long distance! Also her arm has healed well so all in all she is ok and I think she is very happy about it! I think the thought that she would have to go into a home really scared her so she did all she could to make herself better! I spent the whole weekend there - we went shopping, she had a new ID card made (as she will be 80 on Saturday!)  and I cleaned the house for her so she is ok for a while!
As you are now updated with all the goings on here in Cardarian's land I will now show you my messy desk!
What you are looking at is an already half tidyed up desk - I had a 15X15 cm space to make my card - I think I have some illness called messinitis as I can never have a nice and clean tidy desk!
 

I will tell you a secret  - I have gone absolutely mad about dies! I am just so in love with the Memory Box ones but also others - they are so intricate and versatile you can do all sorts with them! So you will probably see quite a few cards with these dies on my blog in the next months! Of course I haven't stopped doing stamping - I also love rubber! Oh well to be honest I love everything crafty! I think that is the reason I can not decide on any style! I like to do all sorts - I would be bored with just one technique for the rest of my life! Here is one of my latest creations - I used a few dies a stencil and an embossing folder of course you can't make a card without a bit of TH DI and my newest toy the Wink of Stella pen - love it!

Here you can see that lovely shine from the Wink of Stella pen... 

This card was made for a friend of mine who's birthday is today - she already recieved the card so I am ok to show it...
Next is a card I did with more stamping - I have combined two stamps and I really like the outcome and also dies and flowers which I jazzed up with a bit of gold color - this was a card for another one of my friends....

I now have to put on my thinking cap and make a really nice card for my moms 80th! You will see that soon...
I hope you have all heard about this mad thing that goes on somewhere in England - people congregate and show their messy desks! The leader of all this madness is a lady called Julia at Stamping Ground  - go over there and see what it is!
My dear friends I wish you all a lovely week
Lots of hugs to you,
Cardarian

WOYWW, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014

My dear friends and bloggers!

First of all I wish you all a 

stay healthy, happy and loved! I am sorry I haven't been around lately although I did intend to show off all my cards but because my mom had this unfortunate fall the last months of the year have been busy so I was unable to blog, neither have I sent out many cards.....things are looking much better now, my mom is getting better so I hope things will go back to normal and I will be able to resume with my regular blogging and communicating with all you lovely people around the world! Thank you so much for all your kind comments and I hope you are able to forgive me if I haven't come back to you - I try hard but sometimes I just can't! 
Anyway as you can see I have made my first card of 2014 and there will be more projects on display soon!
Jump into the NEW YEAR with lots of optimism and hope - that is what the world needs and of course CREATE, CREATE, CREATE!!!

Lots and lots of hugs and love to all of you

CARDARIAN