I’m a Craft Your Passion Challenges DT!

If you were wondering where the heck I disappeared, the answer is Lapland. My god-son had his communion this year and in our neck of woods, it’s a big deal. He was so cute in his suit and Justin Bieber- hair. Of which I didn’t tease him AT ALL! It seems as I’m developing as a grown up.

 

Now to the actual news: I’ve been selected as a DT on Craft Your Passion Challenges!!! I sent my application thinking there’s no way I’m going to make it but to my surprise, I got a congrats e-mail in July telling me I got in! This week was my first time creating card for them AND also my first time doing rounds commenting on people’s cards. Now that’s hard work but I did manage to say something special about everyone’s card.

Hey! Another sign that I’m maturing! Hah! Some people said that this day would never come! I totally showed them.

This week the challenge theme is Anything Goes and I used a sponsor image by Sassy Studio Design, Nurse Heather:

 Luckily I have plenty of nurses in my family and friends so I will get plenty of use out of this image. The card I created for the challenge looks like this:

 I used mix of Papermania and Crate Paper and the sentiment is something I typed myself and then printed. For colouring I used ProMarkers except for the skin, which is coloured with a Copic. Phew! Now that I’ve gotten my first DT- card done. I can focus on creating next few. I also have to write a blurb about myself (little bit late but it’s not easy to write a winner introduction to oneself. Proof can be found on my About- page) and find a decent picture of myself. Okay, there’s already one picture of me on the show but I don’t like it at all. Luckily I went out in Lapland so there’s some nice GoingOutAndHavingNiceDoAndMakeUp- photos available.

Over and out. Thrifty Finn

 

 

A Gift For My God-daughter

Couple of weeks ago my god-daughter turned 14. Eep! She is so cute and sweet and adorable and smart and every possible nice thing one can say about a person. Few months ago she asked if I could do another mini album for her, only this time about horses. How could I say no to her? For few months I stalked her Facebook- page, downloading every photo I could possibly use in the album. (In May I had enough photos but then she finally got her OWN horse, so of course I trashed the old photos, the album HAD to be about the new horse. Naturally.)

I used mix of Crate Paper and October Afternoon. Again I printed most of the pictures half size so I could fit two per standard photo sheet. The album base was a Papermania Bare Chipboard Album.

This is the cover. I made a stencil for letter E after the horse Elli, spread some glue and then covered the shape with glitter. I used transparent glitter but considering the background pattern, I would have been better off with coloured glitter.

The first spread. I also used those Jillibean Soup journaling stickers I got as an extra when I ordered the Crate Paper- kit. I love that yellow paper.

I had to include pictures of her sisters too! They have a brother too but I didn’t have a picture of him. I tried to stalk their mother’s Facebook too but there wasn’t a single one I could use. His loss.

 That’s their cat, Topi. The not-so-lean, killing machine.

 Hugsies! I’m so looking forward to meeting this horse the next time I go visit home. I won’t ride it of course. I’ll be just looking at it. From a safe distance. Say 50 meters and use my mighty zoom to photograph it.

These pictures were taken with iPhone. Had I spent more time setting the layout of my print  outs, I could have fitted three of these per sheet.

More iPhone photos. The bottom one is very artistic.

This is my favourite page. I love how Elli is all perky and set for a photo shoot when Sonja is still doing her hair.

 Elli in her stable. The text says it’s wonderful!

 The last page was the first one I did. I left the frame empty so Sonja could add her own comments there.

 Sonja was very concerned that would I remember to put the year on the back. No worries. I did remember.

Probably for the first time in her life, Sonja got a present from me on her actual birthday! I sent this on the day I got stuck in Helsinki. My original plan was to take it with me to Tampere where I would buy something extra to go with it but since I had spare time for no fault of my own…I ended up buying a make-up set from Accessorize where I pestered the sales girl about the quality of it. Can a teenage girl use it? Is it safe? Is it, is it, is it? When I was satisfied that the make-up wouldn’t blind my precious god-daughter I bought it together with some nicely packaged lip balm. I wouldn’t have but it was on sale. And right by the cash register. When I finally made it to the post office and was packaging the present, I remembered I hadn’t photographed the pages. What to do? I hawked an entire packing station to myself and fired away. All the while hoping the security wouldn’t show up. It didn’t but when I went to pay, I got very judgmental looks from the clerk.

Again, is everyone’s life this much hassle or is it just me?

Happy Scrapbooking Times!

By Thrifty Finn

Simon Says Stamp: Use Dawny’s Sketch

I solemnly swear that this is the last challenge card for this week. The theme was to use this sketch:

My goal was to make a card that would be suitable for various occasions and recipients and I came up with the theme licorice. The text “Lakua!” means “More licorice!”. I think this card is perfect for any kind of sweet tooth.

Comments are welcomed!