Guest designing for Forever Friends challenges

Hi there! Hope you had a better start of your week than I am. Been "hit" with a cold, again. I think it is number 5 for this year. And with that comes the back pain. I love my life at this moment.

But back to the more fun stuff. There is a new challenge starting over at Forever Friends challenges today and as Bearly Mine is sponsoring a few of us from that team is guest designing for this "Punches and Dies" challenge.

As I didn't have and Forever Friends stamp, well I found a few that is for Christmas and I wasn't it Christmas mood, I used a sticker sheet that I found laying around. I think I got it from a card making Magazine a few years ago. Never throw anything away, you never know when you need it right? LoL

Designer papers used is Mini dots, Just Plaid and Spring Delights. Dies used is corner die from Magnolia, Lace border from Memory Box, Butterfly punch from WoodWare and so is the leafy punch. Flowers are from Prima and pearls from Bunny Zoes.

Better get back to bed as the world is spinning again and I need to rest again, still after spending two days laying flat in my bed, I need to get back in there. Wonder if this comes from the hockey game I went on last Friday or the stables last Tuesday? Probably a combo, the back pain wouldn't be this bad if I had kept away from the Stables but it was nice being there cuddling some horses. I just forgot that I can't use my arms above shoulder hight. ;)

Anyway, thanks for looking. Hope you'll come and join us over at the Forever Friends Challenges this time around.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card

Mr Santa

Hello and welcome to a new Friday here with Mi. Hope you're fine and have a good start of you weekend. Mine is a bit so so, fighting with the Insurance Office to get the right sick leave money and the union is not helping out with the certificates that I need, so for now stuck in between these wonderful places and during that time I lose a fourth of my income. Life is great! And all this just because I am trying to get back to working life again. Is it really worth this? No, not really at this point, maybe I can see it in a another light later on, who knows? At least the Employment office do what they can to help me out here. Always something I guess.

Last Friday Bearly Mine Design had three brand new digi sets up in the store and I have finally managed to make a card using one of them. Christmas Traditions in lovely greens and red colours. I have paired the papers with my favourite Santa from Sugar Nellie and coloured him with prisma and polychrome pens. Not the best colouring in the world from me but I was mad and it was dark and then you get this. LoL And it smeared as I forgot to fixate it. Oh well, nothing is perfect and certainly not this card. The wonderful white/greyish designer paper is from another one of the Bearly Mine Digi sets called Christmas Light. My poinsettias is made with a Doo Hickey die from Magnolia. Have also covered them in diamond glitter glue from Rangers, golden rod is used around the circle. Some big pearls used in the corners from Rox Stamps. In the middle a embossed panel.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
The sugar bowl - Sketch with autumn theme (not followed here) LoL
Crafts and Me - Anything goes
Deep Ocean Challenges - Anything goes

Some more stunning products

Hi fellow crafters! Donna has been busy again and created to wonderful new digital paper sets called Petunia Parade and Rose's dream. They goe on sale tomorrow and are really yummy looking. You will be spoiled for choice of wonderful flower papers. Combine them with the perfect Just plain and Mini dots and you can make the most stunning cards. Here is a preview of the stunning papers.

You find the papers in the Bearly Mine Store! Happy shopping!

Love n hugs

Marie

Some news

Hello and happy Friday to you all! I am just here to share the brilliant news that my dear boss Donna over at Bearly Mine Designs has a brand new digiset out for sale today. It's called Patchwork Party and is filled with wonderful patchwork (of corse). You don't have to do any stitching or any thing just print a sheet and you are ready with your work. There is some lovely ones in here so why don't you pop into the shop and have a look for yourself.

Love n hugs
Marie

A new Promarker card

It's Christmas critters theme over at Passion for Promarkers this week and just as usual I turn my card in late. :) Have spent the whole evening at the Vet's again with the cat. Took out some stitches, looked at some new wounds and got some med for him. Lots to do for the vet this evening so everything was delayed. And now I am tired as I have spent the whole day up on my feet. Doctors and physio therapist and what ever. And I really need to find a vinter jacket now. It starts to get chilly around here.

Now for my card, well it's a whole little bunch of them as they are not bigger than 10 cm or something like that. I need to make 50 cards for a friend and I have to keep to the clean and simple look. Don't want the cards to get too heavy either. So I used these cutie Rudolphs for my cards and some DP from Bearly Mine Designs. Love the look of this one.

Now I'll spend some time in the sofa and then my comfty bed. I am soo tired!

Love n hugs
Marie

Hello again!

It's time for a new challenge over at the Paper Shelter and what's it all about you wonder? Curious hey? We are going for the theme of Halloween this week. OK, not my favourite holiday of the year and I don't celebrate it at all. I'm not much for scary things at all, I don't even like high speed. LoL But with these cuties from the PaperShelter it's very easy to make a halloween card, even for me.

I have used the little cutie Bewitched Night. I totally adore this little cutie and she was such a joy to colour as well. There is as with all the images from the PaperShelter also a pre coloured  version available for all you that don't have the time to colour it. My little witch is paired up with some freebee papers from Bearly Mine design.

As always you have the chance of winning a voucher worth $20 if you use one of the PaperShelter images in the challenge. News for this challenge is, if you use any other brand you have a chance of winning THREE digis of your own choise. How lovely isn't that?

OK people, time to start creating. Have a wonderful day and see you over at the Shelter!

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
I love Promarkers - Spooky!
The Pink Elephant- Trick or treat

Another Christmas card

Here comes a new Christmas card from MI! Donna at Bearly Mine has a new wonderful digi set out now called Christmas Wishes. It's a lot of wonderful brown and blue papers, right up my alley. It's wonderful! If you didn't know it, you really need to go and get it. LoL

Well, I have a whole bunch of LOTV images that I have not had any chance to ink up yet, but yesterday was a good day for it. Took a new med and it kind of kept me awake half of the night, but it was good this time as I didn't feel the pain in my back. So this week over at LOTV Challenges the theme is Missing you, and I thought that this dear little image from last year says it all. A card or a letter to a beloved friend or family member, letting them know you are thinking of them.

Love n hugs

Marie

Have a wonderful afternoon!

Here comes a new Christmas card from me. I have used one of the wonderful new images from LOTV and that's good because I followed the sketch that is this weeks challenge over at their challenge blog. :)

The little darlings are coloured with promarkers and has got a touch of a stamp from Stempelglade as well. Love this stamp with the stains. My "God Jul" stamp is a no name stamp with distress ink. My designer papers are from Bearly Mine and is called Christmas Glee and Christmas Swirls. Two lovely new christmas sets from Bearly Mine. Flowers, metal and pins are as usual from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Now time for a really hot bath and then another soccer game that hopefully goes better than the last one that we lost. :(

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Lili of the Valley - Sketch
Christmas Inspriations - Glitter

Friday again!

Time really flies that's for sure. It's soon time for a game of soccer on the TV but I thought that I pop a card in between. Even the kids are up and waiting for the game. I kind of want them to sleep in tomorrow as I am home alone with them. And if there is something I really hate, it is to get up in the morning. :)

So this card has been sitting on the desk for a few weeks now and I never got around to post it (once again). It's made after a sketch that I followed before, Sugerbowl I think... The darling Snowflake is coloured with the trusty promarkers/triamarkers and the DP are from Nitwit collections. A MFT die, a snow flake die from Woodware and some roses from I am roses and I was done.

I also have a little Chrismas card that I forgot to post this Wendsday. It went up on the challenge blog but not here. Sick kid and a confused mind does those things to you. Well, I had made two cards for that challenge so no big deal. It's a very sweet Michelle Perkett image together with some lovely papers from Bearly Mine Design. The same snow flake punch has been working again and this time I coloured them with white hobby paint and drowned them is glamour dust. Some gemstone is also used here. I enter both this cards over at Passion for Promarkers and I love promarkers, as both has Anything goes theme this week.

Now the big soccer game!

Love n hugs
Marie

A quicky note here in the morning!

Donna over at Bearly Mine design is holding a sale this week with some smashing prizes. Just take a look at what discounts you are up to! Great! If I was you I would hurry over to Donna's store get myself some bargins! There is a couple of new relizes in the store as well. Both for you who love Christmas and for you who adores fairies. Hurry up and take a good look!

Stay crafty!

Love n hugs

Marie

Bling it on at Bearly Mine's

Another two weeks has passed and it's time for a new challenge for you all over at Bearly Mine Challenges. This time it's really nice and easy as the theme is Bling it on!

For my card this time I made it really easy for me as my hands is on vacation. Well that how it feels anyway. Having trouble to get in touch with my left arm and hand but it's there, I can see it! LoL I used one of the lovely papers from the Christmas Frolics digi sets and I just needed this one as it looks as it has many different designs on it. Perfect! I combinded it with some red ribbon and a few die cuts to get the card a little lighter. I back the sweet Lenny on gold card and added some gemstones in his tree to really let it bling! A few flowers from Prima, Wild Orchid, Kort och gotd and I am roses. Some pearls from Bunny Zoe and I was done. Lenny also got a tiny bit of flower soft on his clothers. Nice and fluffy.

So very easy this week, but I still hope you can get some inspiration from it. Until next time, I look forward to see what you come up with over at the BMC challenges. Oh, by the way my lovely friend Lenny here is from the Stamp Fairy and he has a whole bunch of lovely friends as well. Check them all out over at the Stamp Fairy. This week as well we have lots of lovely prizes up for grabs. How about all of this?

 LOTV - $10 Gift Certificate

Bearly Mine Designs - 2 Digi Sets of the Winner's choice

Stamp Fairy - 2 digi's of the Winner's choice

The Paper Shelter - £15 Gift Certificate

Love n hugs
Marie

Sunday eve and finally some sunshine

It has been pooring down all day once again. Has been kind of nice but tons of pain everywhere during the night so I took a long sleep in this morning. Still in pain and very tired. Early eve for me tonight, just thought I would share this card with you before.

Lili of the Valley has the theme of Roses for their challenge this week and I thought I enter this card that I did a few weeks back while I also had tons of pain and noting could get me to sleep, not even my sleeping pills. Oh well, better times will come... Sparkles forum challenges has the theme of One for the girls, and I enter my card there as well.

I have use one of the adorable LOTV images combinded her with some papers from Bearly Mine Design and flowers of all kind from Wild Orchid Craft and some from I am Roses. She's coloured with aquamarkers this time.

Have a lovely eve!

Love n hugs
Marie

Good afternoon!

Just a quickie note to let you all know that Donna over at Bearly Mine has a Midsummer sale going on right now. Pop on over and get yourself some bargin digi set or all or one of the mega sized CD's, papers for all kind of cards. Just click the logo and it take you to the store!

Hope you're having a wonderful day!

With love n hugs

Marie

We have a new challenge over at For Fun...

... this time we are challenging you with folds. Your card should have 1 + 1 fold, not more, not less. I can't remember what this fold is called, first time I made it, probably not the last one. I hope my pictures shows what I've done. LoL

We are sponsored by the lovely Bugaboo Stamps this week. Be sure to pay them a vistit. For my card I have used this little cutie called "sitting on strawberry". So many cute lovely images. She's coloured with my dear promarkers and the papers are from Bearly Mine design "delish delight". Such a perfect match! My flowers are from Wild Orchid and Prima. The carm from  Pagoni.

Don't forget to pop by the For Fun Challenge blog and see what my teamies has been up to. I'm sure there will be tons of inspirations for you.

Time to clean up in the mess around here. A dear friend is coming for a visit and it will be nice if she actually can enter the house without tripping on all toys the little guys has placed everywhere.

See you over at For Fun!

Love n hugs

Marie

Afternoon to you all!

Hot like crazy here today and I have got absolutly nothing done here today. Not a bad thing, I got a surprise visit from my sister in law, mum and two sweet kids. It's wonderful not doing anything just relax.

Lucky for me the weather wasn't that good the other day and then I got a card done. And as I droped by the challenge blog over at TOMIC I saw that my card fitted their challenge this week. Their theme is Shimmer and pearls this time. I got some glitter going on the flowers and then there is some shimmer sprayed on as well but the photo shows absolutly nothing of that. But it's there, and so is the pearls...

This time I have coloured with distress inks for a change, kind of relaxing. Flowers are from WOC, Prima and Kaiser Kraft for a change, pearls from Bunny Zoe. The white corners are also from WOC, but silver in original, covered with some hobby paint from Panduro. DP are from Bearly Mine, Summer's roses.

So with this I leave you today, short and sweet.

Love n hugs
Marie

Hello summer!

Mid summer Eve coming up tomorrow and I have been fixing and baking in the kitchen the whole morning. I thought I take a break and show off one of my cards that I have made lately.

I have used a bunch of designer papers from Bearly Mine, the striped one in green with roses are probably my all time favourite, I just love it and have to stop myself from using it all the time. :)

The stamps I have used is from Sweet Rainbow collection which I totally adore! The very best images in a long time from Magnolia I think. And when I got my club kit the other day I was very happy to see so many Edwins, and especially the tennis player. Awsome!

OK, back to the card, DP from Bearly Mine, that was done... Flowers from Wild Orchid and so is the lace and pearls from Bunny Zoe. The images is colored with pro- and triamarkers. Kind of experimented a bit here with only colouring parts with colour on the back ground stamp and the rest in a warm grey scale. I really like the result as it makes the Tilda image stand out great. :)

I would like to enter this card to the TOMIC challenge blog which has the theme of summer.

Have a wonderful weekend, stay crafty!

With love n hugs
Marie

Another week at the Papershelter

Morning to you all! Mid week again and it's time for the weekly challenge over at TPS Challenges. This week is a nice and easy one, again. :)

Punches and dies!

How fun is that? Great fun if you ask me. On this card I have combined to of the wonderful digi stamps from the PaperShelter; Little Sylfie and the Mushroom castle. I thought they would go great together. I have been a tiny bit of cheeter this week however as I used the pre coloured castle together with my own hand coloured Sylfie. A tiny bit of lack of time showed it's face but I'm happy with the result. The frame around the castle is raised on foam pads, so IRL it looks a bit more dimensional. (Does that really spell like that?) Oh, well I'm a bit "mushy" in my head at the moment after having spend lots of ours yesterday talking about numbers.

Back to the card before I totally lose control over this thing... Frame and castle circle is made with the trusty spellbinders of different sizes. Then there is a whole bunch of punched leafs of different sizes. Also one of the new wonderful Magnolia dies is used for a little swirl peaking out at some places under the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. Pearls from BunnyZoe and DP from Donna's Bearly Mine Designs. This time from the digi sets (Summer's Roses and Damask Delight).

As usually if you use the a PaperShelter image you can win a $15 Voucher to spend in the TPS store, if you don't use a TPS image you can still win one of the lovely images. There is so many to chose from, you probably end up with more than one. :)

I see you over there in a while I hope. Look forward to see all your stunning creations. All links is up in my sidebar, both for Bearly Mine Designs and for the PaperShelter Challenge.

Love n hugs
Marie

New digi set over at Bearly Mine

Over at Donna's Bearly Mine design there is a new digi set that you really should check out. A whole bunch of lovely new summer rose papers for us all to use on our cards. A bargin too!

You find the link to the store in my sidebar. You'll love all of the papers, I sure do. :) Can't wait to see what you all create with them. Be sure to take part in the new challenge over at the challenge blog starting 7th of June. See you there!

Love n hugs

Marie

This will be my last post for today, I promise!

Oh no, not her again. Oh yes! I am back again, third time today. Some things you can't controll and this is one of them. As a guest designer for the lovely gals over at Sisterhood of Crafters I kind of need to post on the right day, don't I? Thought so, I am ever so naughty and post it fairly late not to crash in to the rest of the challenges today. To make things even "worse" I've got three cards for you for this post. Yepp, things happens when you find out things early as I did with this challenge and I had the time so here we go. Oh, before I forget, the theme over at the sisters this time is Nice and fun isn't it?

Buttons!

 I thought so at least. You see about a year ago did I get so many old buttons that you can't believe it from my friends over at the local cat shelter. I still try to "get rid" of some of them. That's when this "classic" was born in my mind. It's a Christmas card, very clean and simple. Just glue your buttons in the shape of a Christmas tree. Then it's up to you if you want to add more to it or now. I rarely do. I love the clean look of it. Here I have used some glitterations from Anitas to ad a little sparkel and the red DP is from Bearly Mine Designs. You find the link in my sidebar. Lots of lovely digital papers to get from Donna. A snow flake embossing board has done it's magic for the back ground as well.

Then my second card. I have used one of my absolutly favourite stamps ever. It's from Lily of the Valley and is a real treasure. The cutes thing. They have so many lovely stamps suited for boys cards and now they have a new set out. Yummi too! I have paired this little guy up with DP from Bo Bunny, Time something I believe they are called. Added some wooden buttons, some metal corners. I also stamped a few Prima stamps on the paper like the key and the text stamp to give some more life to that part of the DP.

And then my last card for this challenge. I/we where asked if we wanted to use a sponsor digi for this challenge as well. And as I had the time and didn't want to think about the pain that haunts me at the moment I thought why not? So here it comes. The image is called Butterfly garden (from 2 cute rubberstamps), and with that name there was only one option, that's right some kind of garden. I made a bunch of pin wheel flowers from dp that I got from a magazine when I started this paper crafting journey. Buttons in the middle as center points of the flowers. The backing paper is from the same old mag.

Then it was time for the image with the little cute butterfly. I printed it twice and one of them I had flipped so he has his watering can the other way. Coloured them up the same and monted the little fellow on foam cushins. The larger one I have put on a stripe of acetate so he is free hanging in front of the flowers giving them all the water they need. IRL you don't see the acetate but on my photo it got a "nice" shine to it as the sun was so bright. :) I have used some glossy accent to give a little shine to the water from the cans.

And this is what happens when you give me a challenge of buttons. I kind of went mad. I am amazed if you still are with me. Anyway, thanks for looking, and a big thank you to the sisters over at the challenge blog for having me. This challenge I will really do my best to go around and give some love to all that enters this fun challenge. Blogger seems to have a will of his own these days and I have not been able to do much commenting at all the last one and a half week. Sometimes lucky sometimes not at all. This would never happen if Blogger was a she, would it? LoL

With love n hugs for you all

Marie

Challenges for my fishing card:

Passion for promarkers - All the 2's  (I've got two metal corners, two buttons, two die cuts (lace and circle), and two shades of brown/beige for the whole card. And there is two keys on the card as well)

Time for a For Fun challenge again

Good morning! Wendsday and mega posting again. Today I have three posts going up so bare with me OK. I try to spred them over the day. This time at For Fun we have the theme of

Show you pride!

In other words use the colours typical for your country. (Oh boy, my arms are playing games with me today, weather changes on it's way. Did I tell that I really R E A L L Y love winter? Hate the mess the weather is playing with me during this time of the year).

OK, quickly back to my card before my arms give in for real here. Since living in Sweden I had to go with the cheerful blue and yellow. Finding inspiration for those colours, not easy I will tell but then I found this lovely image over at our sponsor this week and it made it lots easier. My digi is called "Fairy and daisy". Not my normal choise of an image, but this was so lovely, may be because it goes so well with the daisy DP? :)

I had the Designer papers chosen long before I had my image so they kind of set the tone of the card as well. By now you all know that I absolutly adore the designer papers that Donna makes over at Bearly Mine designs and these are no exceptition. The bright yellow is from the "grunge collection" and the daisy paper is from the spring set "". Just a few flowers, poppys these are white (as you didn't see that), but on the island of "Öland" just a bridge away (6,7 km long), there is tons of red poppies of to bloom in a few weeks. Looks wonderful.

I end this here as I have to more posts to write and it's not a funny day for this. The docs really have to find some good meds to help out here. I go nuts! No more complaining. I hope to see all your wonderful creations over at For Fun this week.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card: