Friday 29 November 2013

A lot to love

Just because the world needs more love. Not hate. No, we don't need that.


Love all freebie
Some parts are hand-drawn while others are made digitally. 
N.B. the font is named Cookie Monster by Des

Ps. I have spread some blog love here:
*Aud Sentiments: Any sentiment
*Creative Fingers: Anything goes
*Paper Crafting Journey: Bling it up 
*Word Art Wednesday: they removed my entry three times. They clearly need more love.
Gay couple digital stamp
Lesbian couple digital stamp

Ps. 2.  Apparently I managed to get a Christian Fundamentalist here: someone who abuses the words of the Bible from a wishful thinking to get simple, clear rules of complex moral issues. At first it amused me, but then it really infuriated me. I'm not going to sugar-coat it. I assume you were not brought up in Europe in the shadows of the Holocaust, and therefore didn't learn from an early age that prejudices against people are bad ALWAYS. Even if you didn't learn that lesson, you should at least be able to learn from the reality which you are living in today. In that kind of reality, hate crimes against LGBTQ-people take lives. Bullying takes lives. 

If you are really concerned about other people's salvation, then you should really know that you could become liable to Biblicism. Biblicism can at worst become a form of idolatry, which is a serious crime against the First Commandment.


The Bible is really a book about God and NOT a book about human sexuality. Also if you claim to be a Christian, then it's Jesus that you should follow and not Paul. (Unless you are a Paulinian.)

The Christians who condemn homosexuality, think they are morally superior and therefore within their right to impose their morals on other people. Reality check: they are not. They condemn a group of people, based on certain Greek and Hebrew words, which they do not even understand. Most likely they follow a translation of the Bible, which hasn’t taken into account recent (i.e. less than 150 years ago) discoveries of Greek text materials (including papyri and inscriptions) that shed new light on Greek vocabulary. How can it be just and Christian to condemn a group of people, based on words like malakos and arsenokoites/arsenokoitai (which can’t even been found in the Greek translation Septuaginta of the Bible, 300 BCE)? It can't be justified. 

Hate can never be justified. God was not hateful. God's love was for everyone. 

~Well, that is if you believe in that sort of thing.

Wednesday 27 November 2013

No two snowflakes are alike

Here's another card with a lovely Sweet Pea Stamps image. (I think they are my absolute favorite stamps out there.) I have used an image by Elaine Cox named Christmas Bird.


I thought this digital image would be perfect for a snow globe, so I created one using this program. I put some Stickles: Diamond around the snow globe. 
  
For the fairy's hair I used Promarker: Pumpkin and Burnt Orange.

I colored the eyes with Metallic Pens by Papermania. For the cheek and lips, I used nail polish (Isadora). I used Stickles: Fruit Punch, Waterfall & Green for the fairy's wings, clothing and hair decorations.

I used Traditional Craft Paint Sun Gold mixed with white acrylic paint for the fairy's skin. I mixed Traditional Craft Paint Mercury Grey with white acrylic paint for the snowflakes.



The black/grey background with white streaks is what I call accidental creating. I painted a completely different image with white and grey acrylic paints and used an ad magazine (Åhlens) as an underlay (to protect the table from paint splashes). When I meant to throw the magazine away, I thought "hey, this surface looks quite interesting now". So I ripped off the paint stained page and figured it would be great as a background for this card. I actually thought it was pretty cool.

Finally I glued my card base on a page from the magazine Julefrid (2013 s. 93). The page was originally a photo of a snowy landscape painting.

I have submitted this card to the following challenges: 
A gem of a challenge: Sparkles 
Charisma Cardz: Christmas
Crafting By Designs: Christmas or Winter
Creative Moments: Anything goes/vintage
Glitter n Sparkle: Show us some snow
My time to craft: Special Christmas 
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge: Frame a female
Pile it on: Non-traditional Christmas
SweetPea Stampers: Lots of texture 
The Crazy Challenge: Snowy Winter

Santamental

A Christmas card (will post the full card recipe soon). 
The Santa Claus comes from Paper Craft Inspirations

I have submitted this card to:
Charisma Cardz: Christmas 
Christmas Card All Year Round: Winter Wonderland 
Eureka Stamps: Santa is on his way
Incy Wincy Designs: For the men in your life
Lexi's Creations: Christmas
Shopping our stash: Holiday or Winter
The Crafty Bloggers Network: Christmas 
The Cutie Pie Challenge: Cute scenes and backgrounds 
The Shabby Tea room:  Christmas is coming (include red, white & brown)
Totally Gorjuss: Child's Christmas
Winter Wonderland: Photo Inspiration challenge

Tuesday 26 November 2013

Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear

To my deer sister (pun intended)

Card recipe
Beads: Pysselmakaren
Button: Pysselmakaren
Reindeer: Pysselmakaren
Reindeer paper: Cardmaking Papercraft Issue 111
Snowflake paper: Panduro - Paper Pad Winter
Snowflakes: Pysselmakaren
Stickles: Waterfall

I have submitted this card to the following challenges:
Clear it out Challenge: Snowflake (I bought the snowflakes last Winter)

Creative Craft Challenge: Non-traditional Christmas colours
Creative knockouts: Snowflakes 
Ladybug Crafts Ink: White & blue
Make my Monday: Contemporary Christmas
ScrapbookerPhD: Christmas without green or red
Sentimental Sundays: Winter Wonderland
Shopping our stash: Holiday or Winter
Southern girls: Round round baby right round
Sweet Stamps: The holidays

Make today a beautiful day

Card for Vaeh at Sunshine Mail
Card recipe
Button: from my stash
Image: Squigglefly 
Font: CookieMonster by Des
Liquid Pearls: Baby Blue
Promarkers: Cocoa, Burnt Orange, Sandstone, Mint Green

I have submitted this card to:
Crafty Girls: Anything goes
Creative Moments: CAS 
Delicious Doodles: No designer paper
4 Crafty Chicks: Anything goes 
Party Time Tuesdays: Anything goes
Sunshine Mail: Anything goes 
Through the craft room door: Anything goes