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Good eve,

Sandy here popping in quickly with Tina's project for this week's theme, Upcycle/Recycle.

Here's the upper part:

Tina has recycled cardboard and used it as a layer.
The cardboard she has applied some gesso to. 

The lovely lilac/purple papers are from Maja Design's Enjoying Outdoors collection.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugz from Tina & Sandy 

Maja Design - Enjoying Outdoors - Autumn picnic	Maja Design - Enjoying Outdoors - Colourful	Maja Design - Enjoying Outdoors - Scent of lavender	Round Doilies 4.5"	Kitchen Craft Cheese Cloth
Shabby Rose Organza Trim (35mm)	Lace "J'Adore" (72mm)	LLC Shabby Seam Binding	Pomegranate Apples	Kort & Godt Curly Roses
WOC Open Roses, 20mm	WOC Open Roses, 10mm	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Reinkers	Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool
DecoArt Media Gesso

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Farewell our Sweet Shabby Chic Princess

Hi Everyone,

It’s Sandy here…if you’ve visited earlier this morning, you’ve already seen DT Member Louise’s post,  informing that she’s stepping down from the team. If not, please click HERE  to view her last gorgeous card for LLC.    

It always breaks my heart a little when a Design Team member is departing; with Louise being Swedish just like myself, even more so. It’s a bit like losing a soul mate on the team. However; I’m not the only one who’s going to miss her greatly; all the LLC DT girls will and that’s why we have prepared a little surprise for Louise today!

If you visit this blog regularly, or you follow LLC on Facebook or/and Instagram, I bet you haven’t missed out on what Louise’s favourite colour is…

….that’s right… PINK it is!!!

Naturally our tribute to Louise had to be a PINK one.  I wanted to do something a little bit different this time and Eulanda came up with the idea of a card slide.

So if you feel like indulging into some PINK BONANZA this Sunday, please hop along and check out the gorgeous card and projects that will soon be landing in Louise’s mailbox.  Please note that this is not a blog hop; we don’t have a specific order and the DT members haven’t linked their posts, but you can refer to this list:

Alyce

Becky
Elin
Eulanda
Sandy
Tracy

The DT members are saying their goodbyes on their personal blogs, but I would nonetheless like to highlight some of Louise’s amazing cards and projects, created during the 9 months she’s been a member of the LLC Design Team:

 

If you would like to see more of Louise's work for LLC, please click HERE.

Sorry Louise for stealing your thunder on the day you’ve posted your last LLC card...
We hope you forgive us though, because this is really ABOUT YOU, FOR YOU and because WE CARE.

Lots of love,

Sandy, Alyce, Becky, Elin, Eulanda, Tina & Tracy

If I had a rose...

Hi everybody! 

Louise here with you today :)  It is not without tears this time as its my very last as a DT.

I have had to make the decision to leave for two reasons. We are outgrowing our house and my little place in our bedroom needs to give place for new closets and this means I wont have a special place to craft. At the beginning before my stash was this big (OMG! How did that happen) I lived in boxes crafty wise. I cleared my kitchen table as I wanted to make a card and took out my boxes but that just wouldn't work anymore. The other reason is my little girls. They are both so young still and I want to spend as much time as I possibly can with them until they grow up a little bit and I can dig into my boxes lol! I feel I have used to much of my spare time to make cards lately.

As I said in the beginning of this post, its not without tears though. I know Im making the right call but it is tough leaving the amazing friends I have met during my time here. Besides the hugely talented dt girls Ive worked with I have also been fortunate enough to have worked together with the most awesome boss anybody could ever ask for. Sandra, thank you for believing in me and allowing me to use your beyond gorge stock to make my cards. I will never forget you and your beautiful personality. 

To the rest of the dt girls I want to say thanks for all the laughs and all the help. Im so proud to have been working alongside you. You are very sweet and Im fortunate to call you all my friends. I will be stalking you all to see your wonderful makes in the future. 

This week the dt has been showcasing the lovely WOC flowers. I made a card in the shape of a flower and used a lot of WOC goodies of course. To name a few I chose the lilys, a wild rose and the cherry blossoms. I was blown away by the hip rosebuds so I had to add two of those as well. The stamp is inked with Copics and the motive is by Magnolia stamps. 

If i hadn't been using my all time fav LLC product on my good bye card it just would be crazy so the seam binding that is handmade by Sandy had to be there too, I choose a blue one today. Don't you just love the clay heart? I doooooo! 

I also decided to add one of the cute keys - they are so shabby me thinks :) 

Thank you so much for all the time you have taken out of your so busy schedules to comment on my creations for LLC :) For that Im eternally grateful :) 

Lots of love, 

Gingerbread Tilda in Lapland

Hi everybody and a warm welcome to my place!

Louise here with you today. This week us in the DT have showcased the new and utterly stunning paper collection from Pion Design called "Wintertime in Swedish Lapland". I have anxiously awaited this years' Christmas collection as the one from last year was awesome and I was not disappointed :) There are some truly beautiful red, blue and brown sheets! 

After my little vintage adventure last Sunday I wanted to play with a Tilda and my distressers again. My choice was this cute to the boot little Ginger bread Tilda and I colored her up so she would match my fav sheets. I used the backside of "Borders" and one 6*6 paper (the red one). That's one of the things I adore most with Pion papers, there is often a backside that is just as lush as the front. Around Tilda I added both Snow-tex and Frantage in shabby white to make it look like it was snowing.

I wanted to make a little more wintery bouquet of flowers and my choice of roses fell on the burgundy 10 mm and the deep red 15 mm ones. The beautiful little red and yellow apples are perfect for Xmas cards so I had to add some of those too :) Oh, and of course that adorable little cherub! 

The bow is made from Organza ribbon 15 mm. I added a charm tied in jute ribbon and it is my all time fav Christmas charm that Sandra stocks! Love how the text dangles down :) The copper rose got a touch  of white frantage too. 

Luckily Sandra also stocks my absolute fav Magnolia Christmas die, the spruce and I added lots of snow and distress ink crackle paint in picket fence to it to make it frosty. 

I'm hoping you will like my make this week :) 

Lots of love, 

Legend of Princess Alvilda - a female pirate

Hi everybody and welcome! 

It's Louise here with you today.

This week our theme is "Once upon a time" and that is just a lucky strike isn't it?

I seem to have been telling stories for a while now ;) 

I immediately knew I wanted to make a somewhat cool card because I had already chosen my fairytale.

It's the legend of Princess Alvilda. I doubt that you have heard of her.

As the Pirates of the Caribbean movie was launched I watched it just because Johnny Depp was starring. Okay, so come on - so did you right?! ;) And then I was soooo sold! That movie is like the bestest...ever ;) Johnny isn't the only one doing an awesome job portraying his character, so is Kiera Knightley. I must admit I had no idea there actually were female pirates so I started searching and they weren't many of course. BUT there were some and o boy! All texts about these woman said they were some of our first feminists. Alvilda was a viking princess whom was known to defied every man who crossed her path. She immediately fascinated me as I live in the county she did once here in Sweden. 

Most historians agree that Alvilda did exist once however the stories about her has been proven to be somewhat more of a fairytale. 

I found a text about Alvilda in a book written by Anne Wallace Sharp "Daring female pirates" as I was looking into this and of course I had to share a short version of the legend with you all.  

Alvilda's father was the king of Gotland and she was his only daughter. Once she became of age he locked her up in the tower of their castle! There she was guarded by poisonous snakes and lizards. The first man to get past these animals alive to ask for Alvilda's hand was the only one worthy enough the king thought. However he had also stated Alvilda had to agree to marry. It's not known how many men died trying to get to Alvilda. The only one who was successful in his attempts was a prince called Alf, of Denmark. However Alvilda didn't want to marry and her mother ended up helping Alvilda escape and she also managed to talk some servants into coming along. These servants are also supposed to have been against the marriage. Together they managed to steal a ship and made it to the sea. She eventually was known as the terror of the Baltic sea. She mostly targeted Denmark. Historians believe it was a form of revenge. The Danish king ordered Alf to exterminate the pirates and he was eventually successful. Although the ladies did put up a good fight the were outpowered in the end. As Alf was about to execute the captain, Alvilda's helmet fell off and exposed her long hair. Alf couldn't bear the thought of killing her and again proposed marriage. Alvilda eventually caved and said yes because this time she had no other choice. This was years later after being independent for a long time. 

Alvilda was a pretty cool woman me thinks ;) 

So my choice of image was easy, it was one of the pirate Tilda's that was released a couple of years ago by Magnolia. She is colored with my distress ink pads on 300 g watercoloring paper. The pirate ship card is cut out using my Silhouette Cameo and then I altered it a little adding more sails to it. I hardly don't think Alvilda's ship was this cute though ;) I added some truly cool charms to it. LOVE that skull with the rose! I also added some of the utterly stunning sea shells. And well, what do you know? I couldn't stay away from the flowers this week either ;) I cant tell you how happy i was to find out Sandra now stocks them!   

As always all the products I've used can be found in the Inlinkz gallery at the end of my posting. 

I hope you will like my make :) 

Lots of love 

Another (Magnolia) princess visits Sofiero

Hi there LLC friends and followers! 

Louise here with you today and this week is all about our fav color combos. Well..I knew it had to involve pink cause otherwise it just wouldn't be me ;) I've worked a lot with the amazing Sofiero paper collection from Maja Design lately and it involves a lot of green as well and since I love the papers so much green is growing on me. 

I've once again chose to work with a little Magnolia princess. My inking is done with my Copics and is hugely inspired by my lovely, very treasured friend Jane of Jane´s lovely cards. I'm so impressed with the way she inks and 'Ive been wanting to have a go at her technique for a while. She explained it to me and it was noooooot easy. Mine doesn't resemble hers a lot but I'm pleased anyways. My Copic inking is hopefully improving a bit because I practice a lot ;) 

The papers are by Maja Design and it's a limited edition collection so if you haven't bought yours yet you should before Sandra runs out! 

Since I'm such a sucker for flowers I´ve been going a little nuts using the new WOC flowers that are new in stock! Omgosh! Sandra bought all the right ones! :) YAY!! 

And there are two more items I feel I have to mention; look at that amazing little cloudberry! I'ts eye-catching - love it! And that beyond beautiful princess rhinestone charm was just a must on here. Let me tell you it involved some serious "am I going to use it or not" issues. If i used it I wouldn't have it anymore and then I realized I can just buy a new one! lol ;) 

I hope you liked today's make! 

Lots of love, 

Pure happiness!

Hi there LLC friends and followers! 

It's finally Sunday again and my, (Louise), turn to host. This week we have been inspired by a song and it's not just any song it's "What a wonderful world".

You can listen to it here: 

Isn't that a lovely version of this amazing song?! The lyrics are so beautiful I think. As I listen to it I always get a feeling of happiness so I chose to work with the Tilda image I find to be most happy looking. She´s taking a leap into the air because she cant stand still ;) 

I colored her with my Copics and what do you know, my hands automatically went for the lilac markers ;) lol! 

Around her I´ve used some shabby white frantage and as I can be pretty literal about things in my crafty life I was turning my LLC box up and down looking for a charm I knew I had and thought would work really good with this theme. It's called earth but heck, I can call it the world if I want. I also knew I had to once again work with the amazing vintage lilac patterned papers from Pion Design. They were part of the "Alma's sewing room collection".

As always you can find all the products I've worked with at the end of this posting. Before I head off I want to show you some close ups: 

Thank you so much for being here with me today!
Be sure to come back tomorrow when Tracy is back to dazzle you all with her amazing creation.

Love