Doggie Christmas November 30, 2008
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It must have been one of my weak moments when I agreed on making 20 cocker Christmas cards for our (or more like our dogs’) breeder. I struggle with two of the same and now I was to make 20! Lucky for me, all 20 didn’t need to be the same so I came up with a ‘recipe’ and made all 20 cards with different patterned papers, fooling myself to think that all the cards were really different. It was all good fun once I got going. I even cracked a joke in Finnish which doesn’t happen too often. I love plays on words but am incapable of making any in Finnish. How weird is that? Anyhow, this time I managed one. ‘HAUskaa Joulua’ means ‘Happy Christmas’. The first three letters are in capitals because that’s what the dogs say in Finnish. They don’t go WOOF, they go HAU.
Here is a picture of what they look like. Click the image to see all 20. The cards are not as crooked as they look. They were just laid on the table not so flat.
Snow, snow and more snow November 29, 2008
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Well, we are disappearing under a ton of snow. It has been snowing non-stop for ages and I have been putting off ploughing all day but might have to just get on with it tomorrow if I ever want to get out of here again. There is almost a knee-high layer of snow on the drive and garden. I might live in the countryside but hillbilly I’m not and therefore do not have a tractor so all the ploughing is done with just elbow grease. It’s a good thing that I have rye in my wrists, as the Finns put it 
Since it’s so topical, I made a snowy card Don’t know why I don’t use vellum more often since I like the look and feel of it. The text on the card says ‘warm Christmas greetings’. I like using it with anything snowy.
Kreativ Blogger Award November 22, 2008
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I received this award from Sue. Thanks very much Sue!
To receive this award I must pass it on to 5 people whose blog inspires me.
The rules:
1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.
2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Put links to their blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees.
Well, it’s always difficult to nominate inspiring blogs because there are just so many of them. But, here goes, in no particular order:
Dan, Billie, Jerseygirl, Sulie, and Lynn.
To melt or not to melt November 15, 2008
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For a long time I have wanted to try alcohol inks on holographic card. As it happens, I don’t have any holographic card so I ended up wrapping ordinary mat card with holographic sticker sheet. Alcohol inks worked just fine on it. Again, I wanted to emboss a white snowflake on the card. As I was reaching for the heat gun my brain funtions switched on and I realized that the holographic sticker sheet is actually plastic and would melt with the heat. Being no scaredy cat I went bravely ahead melting the embossing powder in very short bursts. It took forever but the powder melted and the holographic sheet didn’t. How cool is that?
Some candles November 13, 2008
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I have been meaning to decorate some Christmas candles for some time. When I finally got to make some I run out of Christmassy steam and ended up with…monkeys. Doh!
All Christmassy so far. This one says: Happy Christmas.
Snowflakes. That’s still Christmassy, right?
This one could be disguised as partridge in the peartree, if you really wanted to.
And then we have monkeys. It says ‘Monkey do’ on the other side.
Can’t see the wood… November 10, 2008
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… for the trees. In this country, if you can’t see the wood nor the trees there is something wrong with your eyes ;) The forests are the Finnish green gold, as they say and they are everywhere. I started a book on the subject although I’m not sure if it’ll become a book of all things Finnish or book of trees or something entirely different. Anything is possible…
Both of these pictures are taken in North Carelia in Eastern Finland. I thought it’s as good a place as any to start since I’m half North Carelian anyway. The sky on the second picture was a bit wishy washy so I coloured it with watercolours before sanding the edges.
Black and Plum November 5, 2008
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Another Christmas card. I tried a new colour combo with alcohol inks: Pitch Black and Wild Plum. Cool. In fact, über-cool. I did it on pearlescent card so there is a slight shimmer too, which is also cool. Snowflake and ‘Merry Christmas’ are stamped and embossed in white and the whole thing is outlined with a stardust pen.
