Lawnscaping challenge no. 78: clean and simple

Hi!

Today I want to share the card I made for the Lawnscaping challenge.
This is the challenge:

I made this card for my grandfather's 80th birthday, and thought it perfectly met the challenge:

Have a great weekend!


 
 

A Pintastic Week - 16.03.2014

Hi everyone!

I thought I'd start a new series, in which I round up my favourite pins of the past week. It is also an attempt to blog more regularly, I hope I won't fail you here. So let's get to it!

1. A lovely card by Laura Bassen from Doublestick Heaven.

2. These cute Easter Egg Boxes on the Damask Love blog.

3. An amazing new pattern by By Hand London, the Flora dress (on my wishlist!!).

4. A tent made from scarves! I am already looking forward to summer... Unfortunately, I can only trace back to this pin, so if anyone knows the original source, please tell me!

That's it for this week, I hope you all had a great weekend!

x Birgit

 

Burdastyle 04/2014

Hi!

I just bought the new Burdastyle issue, and I thought I'd share my two favourite silhouettes.

The first one is this fabulous jumpsuit. I love how clean it looks, they made a great fabric choice for this one!

 

I also fell in love with this maxi dress. It makes me long for summer days where I will be able to wear it - that is, if I will be able to whip this one up by then, I have a million things I want to make, haha.

 Pictures' source: burdastyle.de

What do you think of the April issue?

Have a great weekend!
x Birgit

Floral card and handmade gifts

Hi!

Surprise, I have more than only a card today for you! It may seem as if I'm only making cards lately, and apart from my gown, I am. BUT today I'm also sharing some small gifts I made for a friend's birthday.

This is the card I made her: 

The dies I used are available (for free!) HERE, I used the flowers 1 and the flowers 3 sets.

Pictured above are the small handmade gifts as part of the 'how to survive writing my thesis'-package (I also gave her cupcakes and a shower set):   

- the little bunny is meant to wrap your headphones around, based on this one;
- confetti party card as seen on Twee meisjes in de stad;
- leather bow hair tie, as made by Oh the lovely things.

Hope you like it as much as she does!

Birgit

A simple birthday card

Hi!

This is the second card I made with my Silhouette Portrait, and this time, I didn't copy someone else's work ;)
I made this for a guy, so I kept it really simple, just cut out the lettering and the stars. For those wondering, the font is Bauhaus 93 and it is just one of the fonts that comes with Microsoft Office.




























Now excuse me while I go work on my dress, I have about 5 weeks left to finish it and I have tons to do!

Have a great day!

Birgit

Happy - CASE Study Challenge #179

Hi!

What? Two posts in one day? Don't get used to it! And yes, it is another birthday card, haha. But it is the first time I am participating in a challenge - yay!

This is this week's CASE study challenge:

 

And this is what I made, inspired by the above:

 

The font I used to cut the 'happy' - can you tell that I really like my Silhouette Portrait? - is called 'Pea Mily Mix' and can be found here.
I should probably pick another backdrop next time, but I had to shoot it really quickly - and with no natural light - since the card has to be delivered in the morning already... Hope you like it anyway :)

Love,
Birgit

 

Happy Bird-day!

Hi!

After what seems like ages, I thought it was time to put something on the blog again! I really need to make a blog agenda or something, so I would post more regularly... I made a few things over the last two months that I haven't blogged about yet, you will see them here soon.

 

As for today, I recently got a Silhouette Portrait (as a gift for my birthday), so of course I wanted to test it immediately! This is the first card I made using it. I cut the bird and the birdcage with the Silhouette, the branch, flowers and the sentiment are done by hand.

  

I must confess however that I did not make an original card. I saw the card below on Glitter Me Silly (a great blog that I follow) and I loved it! So I knew that this was the first thing I was going to try once I got my Portrait. Unfortunately, I wasn't in a very creative spirit that day, so my card is basically a copy of hers (I really hope she won't mind). Therefore it is only fair that I credit her properly!

This is hers: 

Source

Beautiful, isn't it? The link just below the picture leads you to her original post.

See you soon for another post!

Birgit