Pins and Pearls

Morning and welcome back to my little corner of the blogging world. I am so tired and frustrated by all the illnesses that passes by this house. P is sick again and as usual it's fever and cough. Oh well, how fun life is. Some day it has to turn for the better. Hopefully we get to see a doctor later on today. Yesterday they were all busy and I made my call by 08:00. Wonder how many of the 8 doctors that was actually there? Hmmmm....

Ok, feels better now so we can go on to this weeks challenge over at Passion for Promarkers. This weeks host is me! I have set the theme to "Pins and Pearls" as I have tons of pins but never ever uses them. It would feel good to lower the stash a bit. Like that would ever happen. LoL Anyway, I think I should use the pins I have and enjoy doing it as they look really pretty and add great detail. Pearls are almost always on my cards so that is not much of a challenge. Remember that you can use any kind of pin, just as it shows that is one. You can even make one on your own.

I have use a lovely sweet image from the Paper Shelter for this card. One of my olderst friends used to play the flute and do it really well. I was thinking of her the other day and as her birthday is coming up soon, I might even get this card in the mail for her. Hope I will. It has been a horrible year when it comes to sending my cards. They are just stacking up. Of couse she is coloured with my Letraset Markers. Remeber that you have to do that as well when entering our challenges.

Sorry about the bad picture. I have really big trouble getting good photos for some reason....

My designer papers are from Bildmålarna Sweden and is called the Soft Collection. Bildmålarna has by the way a new summery collection out. They are sooo lovely both the stamps and the designer papers. Love them to bits. I have kept the design fairly simple as I love the blue paper and didn't want to cover it too much. I even used the dp in it's full size. I used a die cut to frame the image and to tone down the pink a bit I used some chunky embossing powder. A few butterflies made with a MS punsh and some flowers from WOC us also used together wish some lace to finish the whole thing off. Not to forget the pins and pearls that is.

Sponsoring this challenge is A day for Daisies with a gift card worth $12. 

Well, it would be nice if you would come and join us in our challenge for this week. And don't forget to take a look at the fabby work that my teamies has made for your inspiration. A new creation is coming up here tomorrow. How busy it will be. Then it's time for a new challenge over at the Paper Shelter.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Party time tuesdays - anything goes
Love to scrap challenges - Anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody - Anything goes

Passion for Promarkers 5 years old (read young)

Hi there! It's a big day today. The Passion for Promarkers blog is celebrating it's 5 birthday. Congratulations! From my first day of making cards this challenge blog has been my "home", the reson to why I started to use the Letraset products and to continue making card. I always fall back on my Letraset markers even if I have a good set of copics (too soft to colour with for me), I have the aquarel pens, the aquamarkers, distress inks etc. A never ending story of colouring mediums and still it always turns for the best with the LM's. Even if I wish they would have kept their really really wonderful and thick markers paper because nothing measure up to that quality even if it was expensive.

The theme set for this great and easy challenge is "Use your die cuts" and so I have, both on my card and to make my watering can. Now, the watering can is made after a tutorial found here. It is in Swedish but I am sure you can find some translation for it. Thank you to the designers and owner of Kristinas Scrapbooking for putting this great project up on your blog.

As you probably know by now when PFP has a celebration going on, we do it in style and have tons of sponsors to make a great prize draw for all of you. And one of our sponsors is Michele R and her lovely wonderful designer papers which I have used on both my projects. I have printed them on Bazil white cardstock, with my laser printer on both sides to get a dressed up feeling on both in and outside of the watering can. You find Micheles designer papers here. And while I am at it, the image is from the Paper Shelter and is found here.

Here they are both of my projects. Together! :) Me and by brothers with families gave mum some big citrus trees for her 65th birthday last week and to remind her of watering them... tadaa a watering can!

Them image is from the Paper Shelter and of course coloured with my Letraset family. I don't do lilac that often. It's not my favourit colour but for some reason this project was totally right in this colour scheme. And Micheles lovely papers are almost a match to some of mum's curtains that she uses for summer. The die cuts used here is the butterflies from Joy Craft, the Doo Hickey border from Magnolia and the lovely stitched circle from MFT found a Dies to Die for. A real treat besides that it's great service from that store as well. :)

This is a little side shot. The colours are not that much vintage photo as it looks. It was really bad light when I took this picture. I have used pearl string from Rox stamps and I thing the lace is from there as well and I did colour it with distress inks. Die cuts I have used to make this charming little can is circles in various sizes. To make the wholes for the water coming out I used so pearls and I raized the top part of the pouring spout. You see it better on the photo below.

Here you also see that I have printed on both side of the cardstock and I actually reinforzed the can with an extra layer of cardstock to make the whole thing a bit more stable. The flowers are from WOC.

A final shot of the can with it's matching tag. I have just cropped one of the roses from the main image from the Paper Shelter and used a single flower from the image as I didn't want it to get too big. Still feel that the tag is a bit big, but it is a die cut and that's what our theme is. :)

Ok, if this all was not enough this is our sponsors of the week. Lots of goodies to be won, provided that you use Letraset markers of any kind on your creation. And for this challenge only, you have the limit of three (3) entries per crafter. Anyway, I and the rest of both the teams that is taking part can't wait to see what you will come up with for this challenge. 

This is the fabby sponsors of this great celebration challenge!

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Letraset are offering one lucky winner a pack of 12 Promarkers - Set 1

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Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a prize of $10.00 worth of digi papers

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DigiStamp Boutique are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher

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Polkadoodles are offering one lucky winner 2 digis from their Work & Play range:

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Little Claire designs are offering one lucky winner a beautiful Silhouette Elephants clear stamp

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Angel Crafts are offering one lucky winner – prize to be confirmed

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Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card / watering can
Craft my life - No cards challenge so I enter my watering can here
Artistic inspriation - Anything goes /dies/ punches
Craft your passion - Lace and pearls (both of them found on my watering can)
Fitztown - Feminine
Challenges for everbody - Anything goes
All sorts challenges - Purple Passion
Crafting at the weekend -Anything goes
The krafty hands challenges- Anything goes
Totally gorjuss - Lace

Sketchie time

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to my last post as a guest designer for the Papertake Weekly Challenges. It has been a great joy to give you all some inspiration with my creations together with this talentet team. Thank you for having me from the bottom of my heart. It has been a blast!

This is the last challenge of the months which means that it's sketchie time, and I do love that. It's so good to get a creation started by using a great sketch and Dawny's sketches are always great fun to play with. I always go back to the gallery and search for my Mojo when it's gone. Always give me a start for a card that I might not be in the mood to make.

This week's card is totally nuts when it comes to colours. I think I have used every single base colour there is to make this birthday card for yet another one of Philips friends. I used an old Magnolia stamp showing of Edwin as a super hero and let Philip decide the look of him and what designer papers we where going to use. If you ask a five year old, you just might end up with something like this. The designer papers are from a Super hero paper pack (digital) by Carina Gardner. Actually the dp's are great, maybe even more if you use them on a bigger page. I love the designer paper showing of the town. It's just stunning! I made my card following sketch #85, I guessing there is a sketch #86 up for you to use as well by now, and then there is the rest of them as well in the sketchie gallery.

Well, time to sign off for this time. I do hope you come and play with your sketchie cards this week. I will be on the commenting rote for this week as well. So I can't wait to see what you all come up with. Now time to take care of my sneezing son that is sick again, and don't I start to feel it coming sneaking up on me as well...?

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Through the craft room door - Anything goes
Created with love - Anything goes
Challenges for everybody - Anything goes

Give me a "P" for Passion for Promarkers

Morning everyone! Time for a new challenge over at the Passion for Promakers blog. This weeks theme is "Give me a "P" ". So things starting with  a "P" is what needs to be on your creation this week. I had no clue on what to do for this challenge at first as I suddenly didn't know one word starting with a P in English. LoL

Then I found this adorable image from Sugar Nellie and in it I found three "P:s" .Penguin, presents, pals. Then I went on with pink, purple and pearls. I had poinsettias on my list as well, but those I forgot to add. They become pink cheery blossoms instead. And of course the image is coloured with Promarkers. LoL

The designer papers are an old stack from DCWV that I have not used in years. About time to do it now I guess. I also made the card into an easel card. I have left the white space so that I can adapt it after who I will send it to. The snow flakes stamped around the pals is from Maja Design. The lacey border is made with a die from Memory Box. A gemstone swirl from Prima is also added to the mix in this card together with a doily, some pearl stars and a black lace from ROX stamps.

Sponsoring this challenge is Dies to Die from and you find them here. Lots of great dies and other things to be found here. Check them out! The prize is a voucher worth £10. So come and join us in our look out for clever "P's".

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Challenges 4 everybody - Anything goes
Colour me Creative challenges - Anything goes
Jingle belles - Pink Christmas

A new week

Hi! Hope you're feeling better than me. Spitting headache so sitting here in the dark writing and trying not to feel stressed. Even took a bath that was so hot that I might be boiled by now. Early bed and hopefully it's gone tomorrow. It feels like a bad hangover or something, but the only thing I have taken is a pain killer the other day that totally knocked me out. Will not happen for a long time now. :)

So this week over at Passion for Promarkers they have the lovely challenge of "boys and their toys". I really wanted to join in that challenge. Coloured up and image but it didn't get any further than that. So I took a look in my file with unpublished cards and lucky for me I found a card that I made late last year and have not published yet. Some times you can get lucky, but now it's almost only Christmas cards left in that file. LoL

The image is from LOTV. Still my fave company for boy's images. They are just adorable. Of course it's coloured with my Letraset family. The designer papers are from My Mind's Eye maybe... It was quite a while since I made the card. Just a sentiment saying Happy Birthday in Swedish and a die cut border to add some decoration for the card. In the corners some card candi.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Passion for Promarkers - Boys and their toys
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
The Crazy Challenge - Birthdays (This is a birthday card for a little guy turning 6)
Challenges 4 everybody - Always anything goes

A new challenge up at Crafty Card Makers

Hi there! Looks like I'm having trouble with my internet connection and blogger once again. I kind of high jacked the last part of this  post from the CCM blog, but do pop on over to see what all my teamies has been up to. They have done some stunning job for this challenge. 

My card is made with one of the new wonderful Christmas stamps that the Paper Shelter has out this year. This one is called Candy skiing and is a real cutie. (Yes, this one too). He is coloured with my Letraset family and the designer papers are from Christmas Traditions from Bearly Mine Design. I have kept the card really simple but still decorated with lots of different snowflakes made with various punches from mostly Martha Stewart. Love those, can't have too many of them. In the middle I have put some card craft candy to make them less shiny. It became a little too much of a golden look. LoL

Sorry about the photo, I'll try to retake it tomorrow when the light is better.
So now I hope to see you join us over at the Crafty Card Makers this time around, punches and die cuts, could it be easier?

Love n hugs
Marie

Ps: Sorry about this strange post, but hey! It's at least up!

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody - Always anything goes
Dream Valley Challenges - Anything goes

"Our challenge this time is hosted by BettyC and she would like you to use more than 1 punch or die cut. You can have a combination such as 1 punch and 1 diecut as that equals two, or two punches, two diecuts. You can use more if you wish as long as there is at least two in combination or two of either on your creation.

Please remember to check the rules and make sure you follow the criteria.

Mr. Linky is set to block anyone that doesn't link back to Crafty Cardmakers and to the actual post being entered, so if you have problems please check first that you have linked correctly.  

We are sponsored by Hobby Art with this fabulous prize of two stamp sheets

We are also sponsored by Milk Coffee Digital Stamps

with a prize of 5 Digital Stamps "

Monday eve

and now I am officially tired! LoL Good start of the week, right? After me and mum was on the bike ride work out last Friday I have been very tired in my legs. I think they are about half a ton each in weight, but we had fun. Well mum had fun and that's the most important thing. It means she will go with me again. It's fun to have her to work out with; we nag, we cheer, we curse and then we start over again. Had another work out today and now I can't feel my legs. So, so very tired. Maybe I should start to listen to my physiotherapist and slow down a little. I have topped this evening off by carry soil bricks that we got from my parents as they are redoing their garden. I didn't do much of the carrying I think my four year old and six year old did more than me, but they have the energy for it. They are sleeping really well right now and I don't look forward to tomorrow morning. They will be so tired they too.

And now to my card for today. I have not shown this one here yet. I took part in a designer call here in Sweden and it didn't work out. Maybe next time but now I can show what I have done here instead. Always good to have a couple of cards stand by when the mojo isn't working for you like it should. I have pieces ready on my table to just jump in to a form of a card, and it just don't happen. Wonder why?

This little stamp is from... arrggh I can't remember. It's totally lost in my poor head. Anyway, she was a must when it came to creating two cards. She is coloured with my Letraset family. Flowers and the rest of the decorations comes from Molly's Scrapbooking. A really wonderful internet store here in Sweden. The designer papers are from Magnolia, bought at Mollys. All stuff used here was a must for the card. It was a special kit made up that you should compete with. Anyway, I had fun doing it and that's the most important thing. Now I have to take care of my wrist that I hurt when we picked up the soil bricks. No, I didn't drop one, I fell of a low wall with a lose brick on it and stopped the fall with my wrist. So clever! It was only a few decimeters high and it would have been better to just fall without trying to stop it. Typical! Good that I have a doctors appointment on Thursday. LoL

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Passion for Promarkers - Lace and swirls
Challenges for everybody - Always anything goes
No Matter which challenge - Die cuts and/or Punches
Come and get it Challenges - Tic Tac Toe (the top line with pearls, lace and die cuts)