For Inspis Challenge

I take first time part to Inspis challenge.
The challenge was to use this design in the card:
/ Ensi kertaa mukana Inspis-haasteessa! Alla kortin luonnos:

I made card for Mother's Day which is 11th of May in Finland.
/ Valmistauduin jo äitienpäivään tämän kortin myötä. :)

ATC about Easter

Hi! I have had less energy than usual last days due to a flu. I guess Spring time has its ups and downs... It is certainly a plus that I managed to get an inspiration for Lace and powder -blog's challenge "Easter". The Easter time is something I look forward to, because we are going to spend few days with our friends and just relax. :)

/ Heippa! Vaikka flunssaisuus on vaivannut, sain aikaan ATC-kortin Pitsiä ja puuteria -haasteeseen. Aiheenahan on pääsiäinen. Itse asiassa odottelen kovasti pääsiäisviikonloppua, koska näemme silloin kavereita ja otamme ihan rennosti. :)

Hope you have a relaxing Easter time as well!

Waiting for Spring

Taking part to It's All About Vintage and Beauty's latest challenge "Dreams of spring with lace".

I personally welcome warmth and light of Spring.This thought made me choose a warm colour palette for my card:

What a lovely family photo! The picture is one from Vintagearkku. Thank you! :) The big crocheted circle and earth-coloured round buttons are from recycling centre, orange lace I dyed myself years ago and white fabric ribbon I bought few days ago.

Thank you for looking!

ATC Cards in Vintage Spirit

I was surprised about the new challenge of It's All About Vintage and Beauty - they encourage us to make ATC cards! Hooray, I say! ;-)
More specific subject is children, and of course the vintage spirit is essential!

In my ATC cards the children sail to marine adventures and enjoy about summer days. :-)

Edit: Just went through some of the other beautiful cards posted for this challenge. Seems like ATC cards have inspired especially Finnish craft bloggers, and some of them made their first ATCs. Hopefully we'll see more from them... I have been making ATCs for about five years and have got somewhat fond of the concept. :-)

By the way: Just two weeks ago I found a new challenge that focuses on ATCs. It's Fun With ATCs.

Inspirational Paris

The Sunday Postcard Art challenged us today to think of France.

My first thought was Paris, but it felt almost too easy. So I started doing other things - and found myself thinking of Paris once again. I especially remembered all the the artists I love who have lived there. You might say they turned my head and inspired this card:

The artist that I chose for this card is Alphonse Mucha. I adore his style - in example the female figures of the posters: beautiful and unique in their time.

Thank you for looking!

Happy Halloween!

Taking part to Sunday Postcard Art's challenge "Retro Halloween". I think my early concept of Halloween, back in 80's, looked very much like this:

Classic ghost outfit looks still fun! ^_^ Although I have grown too big to use linens, lol!
Thank you for looking & enjoy the festivities!

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.

Doilies!

Here's my entry for It's all about the Vintage and Beauty -challenge. The theme was to use doilies.

I used a piece of blue doily along with background papers and quite a stripe of white doily when I made the big rosette. The edges I coloured with Vintage Ink.

Mixed up Vintage

Here's my entry to It’s all about the Vintage and Beauty -challenge #23: Kaikki käy / Anything goes.

I started doing this card thinking a friend of mine who loves fine arts and all vintage. I thought it would be interesting to mix up different vintage items. The experiment turned out well, I think. The Mona Lisa tag and the label of old perfume go together surprisingly well.

Thank you for looking!

Vintage hats

With this card I take part to Crazy Amigo Challenge. The theme is Hats.

This was perfect theme to use that picture of vintage hats. I have been saving the pic for years. Glad I could finally use it!

Thanks for looking & hope you like the card!

Clothing advises for a gentleman

Taking part to Collage Obsession's latest challenge Inspired by Television or Film.
My inspiration came from British TV serie Jeeves and Wooster.

Dreaming of new clothes...

In my Finnish blog I just took part to It's All About the Vintage's challenge: Dreams, brown, cream, pink.

While making this card I got carried away by my art critic -side... It was absolutely necessary to use pink with brown tint as a paper colour. Luckily I found the right shade from a craft store. I think it was worth the trouble. ;)

Thanks for looking!