Maree('s) Muses

It's been painfully long since I ventured into any papercrafting and I've been missing it sorely. Come spring, my mum had an important birthday and we were giving her concert tickets... Naturally, it fell to me to handcraft a birthday card/ticket holder. For your esthetic pleasure, I am here to share the result :) I had a colour scheme, then I went a bit mad in a craft shop when I bought anything and everything that could potentially be used for the colour scheme and spring mood... The finished card turned out rather well, I think :) I particularly enjoy how the yellow striped paper, unexpectedly, works well with the butterfly pattern :) One thing that I've learned from my online crafting gurus: mixing patterns is about colours, which obviously need to match, and the size of the patterns, which need to be different. The inside with the tickets looked like this:  I still had a lot of the material left and was in a spring creative fit, so I decided ...

Before I forget, I have a little poll going on over there on the right side ----------> somewhere in the bar, where you can vote and let me know what kind of content you would like see more of on Dance the Drizzle. So go ahead and tick some boxes :) Now to business: this is what I've been up to during the weekend: Basically I pulled out a little box of beads and other components that I had put aside more than a year ago with the noble intention of making myself some earrings in green and blue, as my collection had been missing something decent in those particular colours. Well anyway, as the weather finally remembered that it's supposed to be freezing cold in January, I've spent the weekend tucked up at home, safe and warm, watching endless hours of British crime tv series and making these lovely sparkly bad boys. It proved to be a little more time consuming than I had expected. Turns out that the first one of the pair is just really difficult as you...

Now that all the cards I've made this year have been recieved by my dear friends, I can finally show you what they looked like without spoiling any surprises :) I've been at a bit of a loss for inspiration this year. All I knew was that I wanted to use some bits of patterned paper that I got recently. (A stationery shop nearby opened a new section with lots of papercrafting supplies and it's all so dangerously cute! I must consciously try to avoid going there or else large amounts of money would end up being spent on papery things.) Anyway, in the end I only made a couple of cards for my nearest and dearest friends. It all turned out quite simple, heavily based on the patterned paper and then touched up with cute little bows and a few drops of glitter glue, just to give it some sparkle. Except for this one, which I made for my Whovian buddy and general cultural friend. It's a card that's bigger on the inside, like the tardis, and making it lit...

So, I finally got into a little bit of cardmaking again. It's been too long. But it always is, when I first need to clear my desk area to pull out all the paper crafty supplies. When I finally did, I wanted to make something autumny. My sister has asked me to make a get-well card for her friend and it took me a looooong time (my sister could tell you how long) to come up with a suitable idea. In the end, all it took were some buttons and white gel pen (that I gad to make a special trip for, because the one that I had decided to die on me. tragic loss.). I think this is the most autumny card I've made so far :) I'm very happy and proud of this baby :) This next card is a little something that happened quite spontaneously. I was on a train,

You already know what I have been listening to recently, but I couldn't resist and had to share some more about what I've been doing. Among a lot of boring but necessary things that have kept me busy, I have been looking into improvements and things I could do for this blog. And the big news is:  You can now follow Dance The Drizzle on Bloglovin' if you want to !!! If you are not aware of it, Bloglovin' is basically an online environment for you to read all of your favourite blogs, keep track of what you've already read, etc. That's all I know. I'm new. But I've heard only good things about it and many bloggers that I read swear by it and recommend it. So I thought, why not give it a try. If you are on Bloglovin', follow Dance The Drizzle here. Anyway, now for some artsy stuff: There's nothing I love more than spending endless hours (I wish!) watching my current favourite TV series and making some crafty magic happen at the same time. S...

Me and Cards I like crafty things! And my favourite craft activity, or maybe the one I am most proficient at, is card making. I do not consider myself "visualy" talented, like I'm not very good at drawing and stuff, but this type of visual expression is very close to me. I have been making cards for a couple of years now. Luckily the internet is an overflowing well of inspiration. My favourite paper-crafty person is Kristina Werner , whose videos have taught me a great deal about different techniques, compostition, etc. Especially at the beginning I really could not afford to buy any of those "professional" patterned papers, fancy stamp sets and hole punches. Not that I can afford them now. But at least every now and then I treat myself to some nice and uselful addition to my crafty drawer. I must say I quite enjoy the challenge of using up all the possible material I can find at home, like scraps of gift-wrapping paper, left over lace, buttons, ribbon,.....