Gleaming Dragonflies

There are some beautiful photos of dragonflies at Inspiration Avenue's blog!
Here's something I made after giving the challenge a good night's sleep...

I think they are perfect for cards and gifts! :)

Beside the inspiring pictures I applied the instructions of Clare Youngs (Papercrafting in No Time, 2010). Btw, in case you have read the book, I sketched my own patterns for these dragonflies...
This was a quick project in which one needs very little materials: some clothe spins (these were about 2 inches long), sequins, craft gems and glossy papers in three colours.

Thank you for looking!

Pssst! You might want to know that...

It's time to celebrate! It's all about Vintage and Beauty -challenge is one-year-old! Congrats! By clinking the picture of their yummy blog candy below you're gonna find more details of the birthday party. :)

Thank you TMTA!

 I read yesterday that Think Monday - Think ATC -challenge is coming to its end. Sad to hear about that. I have enjoyed the challenges. With ATC cards you can do various things and have different themes. Even those that wouldn't fit in greeting cards

 I hope I will find another ATC challenge, right now there's none I know of... If you know any, please leave a comment.

Now here is a collection of every ATC I've made for TMTA. Hope you enjoy watching it. :)

Travelling

Got inspired of the theme of travelling in Crazy Amigo Challenge.

Here's my entry:

Thank you for looking!

Tired but looking forward to this weekend!

I'm glad it's almost Friday!  I have to share exhausting tidings so you might understand my relief. Hope you won't mind...

In Tuesday morning I happened to spill some hot tea all over my keyboard and pile of craft things... What a mess! Luckily the keyboard now works, whew. It just needed a day to get dry. The craft things I had to throw away were only left-overs and few paper flowers, which was not so bad.

Back to Tuesday! Somehow I got in time to work but there were bad news waiting. A new exhibition of our project lacks the person keeping it open. So it's up to us to keep the exhibit open for citizens. It's not so bad but the days are getting longer than office hours.

And, naturally, we have to carry our current tasks along, blah... Well, enough about that. I'm happy that this will be over in few weeks.

Now some good news... This weekend I can compensate the lack of hobby time by going to a craft event! It's Passion for Crafting. Yay! :)

To get to right mood, let's put some pics at the end. Here are some old challenge cards from my other blog. I thought you might enjoy seeing them here because I continue to participate on this blog.

Here is my interpretation of Sunday Postcard Art's theme "Shabby Chic". Made in November 2011.

This one, made also in November 2011, is my first card for the It's all About the Vintage.

Colourful summer

In this summer I have been photographing more than ever. I have been somewhat sick all the time so I got energy from colourful flowers that I took photos of. It was also a good way to have light exercise. :-)

These four pictures are actually taken in end of May in Estonia. The weather and nature were already in summer mood.

In Finland we our first summer flowers looked like this:

In July and August me and my boyfriend took a walk or made a bike trip to nearby nature...

It seems to me that I have been getting better in photographing. It's great to catch the mood of the moment in a picture! Sometimes I draw my surroundings, but the other times camera is handy - especially with butterflies!

Tea for fairies

I take part to Inspiration Avenue's challenge "Fairies".

I read also about their blog party, Fairies Tea Blog Party.
Maybe that's why the hot tea smells fairylicious? ;-)

This was the first time I participated for Inspiration Avenue. I think I'm gonna visit again to see other great challenges.

Thank you for looking!