Happy New Year! December 31, 2008
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A year used to be a very long time. Nowadays blink and you missed it. I did. I’m not sure what happened to 2008. I usually make calendars to send to people together with their Christmas cards but this year I just didn’t get round to it. So now I have been making calendars like no tomorrow. This one turned out quite well, I think and I only did it with my left hand! I don’t think there is a saying like that in English but there is in Finnish as well as in German (Das mach’ ich mit links). It’s a silly saying since I do just about anything and everything with my left hand anyway.
I’m on a roll December 30, 2008
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I made some more necklaces again. I know, I’m going to have grow a second neck to wear them all. These ones were done by rolling up strips of paper and embossing with UTEE afterwards. These are by far my favourites so far.
Wooden delight December 27, 2008
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I have been stamping and crafting for days like a woman possessed. I missed out on Christmas but came up smiling this morning!
I like handmade jewellery but stringing beads is not my idea of fun. I prefer making the beads. I took some wood and paper (and being in Finland that is not a problem, ha) and set to work. My obsession for all things oriental took over me again so I chose Japanese newspaper. I coloured it first with Distress Inks and glued strips then onto a wooden ball with gel medium. This is what it looks like:
Obviously, no idea what the writing says. For all I know it’s stocks and shares or something equally boring but I don’t care. Can’t read it anyway. Isn’t it übercool though? Here is another one:
And one more. This last one uses a bambu tile which has been painted black with black gesso and then wrapped in Chinese paper and finished off with red wire.
Day 24 December 24, 2008
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Last one! Merry Christmas!
Day 21 December 21, 2008
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This is the card for day 21:
One fat book December 20, 2008
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I have been working on this book swap with a friend of mine since last summer. We swapped 10 x 10 cm sized books. We came up with a theme for each page which we then decorated on both sides. We were going to make about 8-10 pages but ended up with 20. Just couldn’t stop. For the cover we had to send something for the other to include on it. I received some stamped images and I chose to use some cute hedgehogs which I coloured and then glued onto fragments. Here are the covers I made:
And then the pages. I suggest you go and get yourself a cup of joe first because there are loads of these pages to look through. Here we go:
1st theme: Time
2nd theme: Birds
An odd ball is translated in Finnish as an odd bird. Since the theme was birds I decided to call it an odd bird instead of a ball. Makes sense, doesn’t it?
3rd theme: Butterflies
4th theme: Romance
This one didn’t come out at all the way I saw it in my head. Absolute rubbish.
5th theme: Summer
The girl is a magazine cut-out, gessoed and coloured. I’m not very good with this technique but I like the way this one turned out.
6th theme: Winter
I just love snowflake stamps!
7th theme: Femininity (what a silly word!)
8th theme: Men
Another gessoed magazine cut-out but I’m not too happy about this one. The jeans turned out quite nicely though.
9th theme: Autumn
Teddy’s rain gear is coated in clear embossing powder and it looks like real raincoat and wellies material.
10th theme: Home
11th theme: Cats
12th theme: Christmas
13th theme: World
14th theme: Royalty
15th theme: Buttons
16th theme: Fantasy
Fairies don’t really do anything for me, but dragons…aaah. I especially love this little one!
17th theme: Shapes
That’s a great song: the windmills of your mind!
18th theme: Stars
19th theme: Waiting for Christmas
When we were kids we were bullied all autumn until Christmas to behave since the elves would be listening behind the windows and they would report any naughtyness back to Santa. Hence the second page…
20th theme: Oriental
One of my most favourite themes. I love all things oriental!
If you are still here, well done! You made it to the end.
Day 20 December 20, 2008
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Here is the card for day 20.
Day 19 December 19, 2008
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Not long now. Here is the card for day 19.
