Anything goes or for a male over at Creatalicious Challenges

Morning and hello!

Well, it's afternoon but I start as I always do. :) It's time for a new challenge over at Creatalicous Challenges. As always you have the chance to play along with our Anything goes challenge and this time with the option For a male. Our generous sponsor for this challenge is 

Dr. Digi

is offering 2 images of winner's choice

Welcome to the brilliantly bizarre brain of Dr. Digi's House of Stamps.  Here you will find monsters, aliens, odd balls and Dundertons as well as many many more wonderful digital stamps for the crafter with a sense of humour.

My card is made up with the fabby image called Ambrose Dunderton. Just like all the images from Dr Digis house of stamps this is a joy to colour. I love these fun and charming images and the card made with these images is always a hit. I have used my promarkers to colour with and I have actually used a paper pad with a Christmas theme. I have some left overs from it and I might even get a card or two more out of with with non Christmas theme and a card or two with Christmas on it as well.

As I have an kind of huge stash of dots of all kinds; enamel , card candy etc I try to use some of them up from time to time, even if it I love to have all of them left. I never seem to have the right colours left, that's why I want to keep them all. :) I have also used some really thin drawing paper, kind of like vellum, but a bit thiner and some jute ribbon from my stash to keep the card going. Nice and simple, just as I like it at the moment.

Anyway, I hope you take some time and come and join our fun for this two week long challenge. It's always anything goes and then an option if you wish for more of a challenge.

Take care and do something that makes you happy.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
TTCRD - Anything goes
I love promarkers - Anything goes option 3 different embellishments (AG)
Dragonfly Dreams - Use black (alot or little)

Make it square over at the Paper Shelter

Morning and hello!

A new week filled with fun challenges. Mine is starting off with this one; Make it square over at the Paper Shelter. It should be nice and easy to play along with. Hope you think so too!

Well then, I bought myself a new paper pad the other day as I needed some more card stock, a few hundred or so. Yes, I know but I always feel that I very little of them. And I did actully only had 5 black ones left. Now a nice stash again, and a new paper pad. From Maja Design, called Holiday at the Alps or something like that. I have already managed to get it into the stash, and not much energy to dig it out again. 

It's not only the paper pad which is new. The image is one of the newer ones from the Paper Shelter. It's called a Cheerful Snowman and it's a real cutie. I love snowmens. They look adorable with their round shapes and fun faces. And today was it enough colouring for me as well. It became a great match with the paper pad. I added a few enamle dots as well as a piece of web from my stash. The sentiment is from Hänglar & Wings. Fabby sentiment that fits perfect with the snowman image. 

As always, we have a gift voucher up worth $30 when you play with the Paper Shelter brand. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning 3 digis of your choice. Nice and easy to play along, right? You can enter our challenges up to three times, but at least one of your creations needs to have a TPS image on it.

Take care and do something that makes you happy!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

TTCRD - Anything goes
Christmas at Sweet stampin - Anything goes option stars
Simon says - Anything goes

Clean and simple over at Passion for Promarkers

Morning and hello! 

Another week has passed and it's time for a new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers. The challenge where you have to use your promarkers to have a chance to win the always fabby prize from our sponsors.

This week are we sponsored by Di's Digi Stamps and the winner have a chance of winning a gift voucher worth $6 to spend in the store. How nice isn't that?

For my card have I used three stamps which is probaby some kind of record for me and CAS cards. For the little Santas have I used very, veeeery old stamp from Imaginisce called Santa Gnome. The lines are stamped with a grey ink pad from Memento and the stamp is from a stampset called Love Always from Concord and 9th. And last but now least is there a sentiment stamp from Gummiapan saying in Swedish "En riktigt god jul" (A merry Christmas). 

I have for once made the card in A6 format which I rarely use. But I had some cleaning done the other week and realized "OK, I have about two tons of envelopes and where is my cardbases? Well, I found some A6 ones... I have to start writing more letters again to get rid of all these envelopes. I don't think I will be able to throw them all out. Anyway, in this little clean up seance of mine did I found some really, reeeeely old cardstock from when I started my cardmaking journey as well, so why now use the ones that doesn't make me sick? And the card is the result. Yay! Some really old stuff used with newer one and I got another Christmas card done. 

Our theme this week is set to "Clean and Simple" and of cours you have to use your promarkers to have chance of winning the gift voucher. A nice and simple challenge we hope as we want to see many, many entries for this one.

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

TTCRD - Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything goes
The Holly and the Ivy challenges - Anything goes
Corrosive Challenges - Anything goes
CraftyHazelnuts Christmas challenges - Anything goes
Colour Crazy Challenges - Anything goes

Up, up and away! over at the Paper Shelter

Morning and hello!

Time for a new dt-project, this time for the Paper Shelter. I have been digging deep in the ever growing library of TPS images and this one is actually one of the first ones that came up in the store, 8, 9 years ago or so. But first our theme this week is set to "Up, up and away!". That means that we want to see something that can fly on your creation. What it is, is totally up to you. I actually set this challenge with dear old Santa in mind. Yep! That is how my mind goes. But it's up to you to find something that you think is fitting for the challenge.

I have used one of the smashingly fun images from the set called "Funny Giraffes". I went with the flying one of course as we have flying as our theme this week. It's such joy to colour this cartoonish image. I adore this one and it's not the first time I use it, and probably no the last one. 

I have paired the image up with some cloud dies from Gummiapan and some left over papers from the paper pad of Pink Paislee called Wild Child. It's one of my favourite ones, but some papers are hard to use. However, this is perfect for this image. I have used some glossy accent on the glass parts of the image. There is also a left over die from another project. I have also used a few enamel dots to pop some energy into the card.

As always, we have a gift voucher up worth $30 when you play with the Paper Shelter brand. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning 3 digis of your choice. Nice and easy to play along, right? You can enter our challenges up to three times, but at least one of your creations needs to have a TPS image on it.

Take care and do something that makes you happy!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

TTCRD - Anything goes
arty divas - anything goes
Digi Choosday crafting challenge - Anything goes
Crafting by Designs - Anything goes
Fab'n'Funky Challenges - Feature a Creature
I love Promarkers - Anything goes

Just for fun

Morning and hello!

Time for a new card from me just because it's fun to craft and create. I have done some more distress ink colouring and a bit of relaxing time for me.

I have used an old image from Bildmålarna. I don't remember what it's called and it sure looks a bit summer like with hanging the laundry outside. But it could be a good reminder of the warm summer day that has bin this year and the new ones coming our way again in just a few months.

I don't remember which paper pad I have used for this card. It might be a polish one... It's nice colours and I love the fantasic flowers on the panels. The colours are a bit muted and I love that, at least from time to time.

There is some rows of bakers twine in pink and some cotton lace tied into a bow where I have added a butterfly charm. The fabby cat die cut is from Magnolia, Sweden. One of my favourite dies even if I don't used it that often. Not all images fits with it. Except the border die I have used is there no more decorations on this card. Still it looks kind of busy, in a nice way according to me. :)

Anyway, hope you like my creation and that you take some time to do something that you enjoy!

Love n hugs

Marie

A card just for fun

Morning and hello!

I have another card for you today. I have created just for fun and that was a while since I did that. I have done some distress ink colouring which I don't do very often, but now was it a fun thing to bring a bit new energy in my crafting again. The colouring might be a bit "worse" than my Promarker colouring but it was fun.

I have used an old Tilda from Magnolia, Sweden for this card. I don't remember what she is called or from what collection she is from. I do however love the attitude of this image. The designer papers is a mix of left overs from other creations. I think Glitz have a main part of time. 

I have used a fiskars punch for the middle panel and on it have I added a light blue ribbon. The bow is tied with another blue ribbon with dots. Some more decorations are some card candy, some flowers from my stash and to top all of it all have I used a few die cut clouds. I decided to make the card into a birthday card with some fun and much loved letter stickers from Panduro. Wish I had a ton of them!

Anyway, I hope you like the card I have created. Take good care and do something that you love!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

TTCRD - Anything goes

Autumn colours over at Passion for Promarkers

Morning and hello!

It is already time for a new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers once again. The weeks just fly by doesn't they? This week's theme is set to "Autumn Colours". So something fall / autumn would be nice. 

Sponsoring us this week is Uniko Stamps that over one stamp set to one lucky winner. The stamp set has to be in stock. That will be one lucky winner of our challenge!

For my card this week have I dug out a Magnolia stamp from last year I think. I have used used it to practise some water colouring but now I thought it would be perfect to use for this autumn challenge as it kind of has a halloween theme to it. I have of course coloured with my promarkers, just like you should if you want to have a chance of winning the prize from us. 

I did also dug out my Walking in the forest paper pad from Maja design for this card as I realized that I have used up all my Halloweenish designer papers. It's strange, I don't celebrate halloween but I do love a good halloween paper pad. I do my best not to add anymore to my collection of never ever stop growing paper pads but this year I have been good at least for a month or two. LoL

I have used a bunch of die cuts from different brands for this card. There is a few spellbinders, a few MFT, and I think I managed to add a Lawn Fawn die into mix as well. I had to clue on how to decorate the card this time so die cuts and a bunch of orange golden sequines is what I ended up with. A fairly plain and simple card, still with extra details.

Anyway, I hope that you will come and join us here at Passion for Promarkers. It's always great to see what you create for our challenges. So do come on and join us!

Take care and do something that you enjoy and makes you happy!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

TTCRD - Anything goes
Arty divas - Anything goes
Shop our stash - It's pumpikin Spice
Crafty Hazelnut´s patterned papers challenge - anything goes dp's
Let's craft and create - Anything goes/ colours of fall

Merry and bright over at the winter wonderland

Morning and hello!

It's me again! I am back with a new dt-project for the Winter Wonderland today. We have the theme set to Merry and Bright, and you can interpret in a suiting way for you. Happy colours, a happy image etc.

We have a new sponsor for this challenge called Sherry West. And here comes some info about our sponsor

 Sherry West who is the owner-designer of Sherry West Art is a digital and rubber stamp artist,
colouring book artist and the author-illustrator of a very silly new children's book title "It's Raining Cats!  It's Raining Dogs!  It's Raining Bats! And Pollywogs!" (Morgan James Publishing) which is available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and more.

She is a member of the Society of Children's book Writers and Illustrators, an ESL teacher, a published educational curriculum writer, award winning poet and semi-pro photographer who work has been accepted by Getty Images.

Married for 20 years to a very patient guy with 3 really funny kids, 2 fluffy dust bunny chinchillas, 1 huge hairy dog and 13 random cats.

Her art is being sold as rubber stamps by Stamp Addicts in the UK and has appeared on Hochanda twice.

Etsy shop

Sherry West Art Blog

Facebook 

Facebook Colouring and Crafts Group

Prize for the winner - TO BE ADDED

I have used the fabby image called, well I can't find the image in the store so I hope to add this info as soon as I can. Anyway, it's a cute angel that I thought would be fun to colour in some nice blue shades and white and add the touches of yellow for the stars with my promarkers and some glitter glue on top of that. I have used some dp's from the mega pack of papers from Dovecraft called Christmas Fancy. Sometimes I wonder why on earth I got this pad as the patterns are pretty hard to work with on cards. However I love the bright, fun, modern colours so every now and then, I dig the pad out.

I did use my image fairly large this time. I wonder if my printer make things bigger than I want them to be? It feels that way from time to time. Or I might have to make my cards bigger. LoL I have raised the middle panel up on foam tape as well as the image. I found some nice lace with black string attached to it. Then a bunch of pearls, two swirls and some flowers. A fun, happy card is done!

Anyway, I hope that you want to you want to play along with us this month. Only a few months left until Christmas is here and you know you have your fabby cards ready to go in the mail.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
TTCRD - Anything goes
Colour crazy Craft challenges - anything goes
Creative fingers - anything goes
Christmas at sweet stampin - Anything goes option christmas decorations

Let's celebrate over at The Paper Shelter

Morning and hello! 

Time for a new fun challenge over at the Paper Shelter. This week do we celebrate that we have had 400 regular challenges over at the Shelter. Many years and many challenges. On top of these have we had a whole bunch of other challenges like bloghops and special challenges. We hope for many more challenges.

This week do we have the theme of "Let's celebrate. We're 400 regular challenges old!" over at the Papershelter. That simply means that we want to see you make some celebration cards, LO's or what ever you fancy. Just as it get your thoughts going to celebrations.

I have used the new fabby image called Cupcake Birthday and coloured with my promarkes. I have added some sparkle with some glitter glue from Tim Holtz as well. This time in yellow. I have used a paper pad called The sweet Life from MF.

My dear old punch from Martha Stewart has been put to use again to manage some interest. A piece of lace and a few enamel shapes is also added. For the sentiment have I used some letterstickers from Doodle Bug in two different styles. Some letters is kind of used more than others...

As always, we have a gift voucher up worth $30 when you play with the Paper Shelter brand. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning 3 digis of your choice. Nice and easy to play along, right? You can enter our challenges up to three times, but at least one of your creations needs to have a TPS image on it.

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

TTCRD - Anything goes
Addicted to stamps and more - Anything goes
Crafting by Designs -  Anything goes
A bit more time to craft - Anything goes
The creative crafters - Anything goes