Saturday, February 17, 2018

A drumroll for the winner!

Drumroll, please!!!


The winner of the Spellbinders Blog Hop giveaway this month is Bee Jay!

Bee Jay, please contact me or Spellbinders right away. Please email socialmedia@spellbinders.us by 02/18/18 with the subject line Spellbinders February 2018 Blog Hop winner from Sharyn Sowell's blog.

Congratulations, Bee Jay!

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Living valentine



Last year Mr. Wonderful and I took a romantic trip to England. And you know I had scissors and paper in my pocket!


The Flower Garden collection is about to ship, and we're celebrating with a blog hop today...

so I thought I'd give you the inside scoop and show you a valentine made from some of the dies.



The Cotswolds are like the best old storybooks come to life.
Endlessly inspirational.


And it was so much fun to bring those flowers to life as hand cut paper, then watch Spellbinders turn them into crafting dies for paper, fabric and more.





I used the bird topiary die and the swallow and heart die from Spellbinders Joyous Celebrations collection for the birds and florals and lettered a bit with a dip pen and liquid watercolor.




Crafting dies make it easy to reproduce the hand cut paper and make romantic pieces of your own...
Maybe wedding or valentine or party decorations, cards or felted crafts...


Ready to hop to my friend Debi Adams' blog? Click here!

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Time for Swedish fika (and scissors!)


Winter is my favorite time to cosy up and create. There's a lot of sipping and snacking involved these days. My grandma, a beautiful Swedish artist with a gift for baking called this "fika."


Long quiet hours with the soft sound of scissors snipping and rain beating on the window panes are the hallmark of the winter months. Tiny bits of black paper pepper the floor and half-finished work covers every surface. 



But that's not all. 

I celebrate the joy of winter by snuggling in with paper and scissors and endless cups of tea... 
and that's been about all I've wanted to do for months.




True to my Scandinavian roots, candles and that most delightful of all Swedish rituals, fika is a daily must. We stop for coffee or tea and a snack of muffins or fruit or crackers and cheese every afternoon... because this is how we turn the long dark days of a wet northern winter into the season of comfortable delight.



Spring is just around the corner, friends. But for now, pour yourself a cup of something delicious and get the creative mojo flowing. 
Celebrate winter the Scandinavian way!


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