Just a little more of that Christmas thing

Hello and good evening! I am normally writing my post in the morning but I do it back wards this time. I have a sugar nellie card to show today and since I will be sending it away really soon I thought I blog it before it find a new owner.

It's a DT call over at the sugar bowl, may be I should add my card there as it's one of my favorite stamp companies. I started off with their images when I began to blog my cards 5 years ago. Well, maybe I will, may be I won't take part. Have not decided yet...

But I can at least talk about my card, right? I have had this image coloured for a while now and it's done with distress inks and markers for a change. I normally go with my Letraset gang. And even if I have tons of Christmas papers to use for my cards I was in the mood for something else. So a big jump right into my box of left over cardstock. You know the bits and bobs that get left behind but now thrown away. That's what my card is made of this time. I used a few embossing plates to make the whole thing a bit more interesting.

Sorry about the photo, it's really dark and I don't have those fancy cameras or light to take a good picture. This had to do. :)

I have used a Marianne die for the "design circle" and the other stitched one is from MFT dies I think. Love that one too. The flowers is made with the die that came with the fancy circle and another Marianne design die. I have only added a few pearls in the middle of the flowers and ribbon for decoration. I a have also used a die from ROX stamps that says Merry Christmas in Swedish and that finish my card off.

Ok, better get to bed now as it's quite late and I have school tomorrow as well. Slowly getting closer to the end. WooHoo! Just a month and a half left now. Got expanded with one month but I can live with that.

Anyway, love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Papertake Weekly - Paper play
Sugarbowl - dtcall
Sugarbowl - anything goes
Come and get it challenges - Merry Christmas
Corrosive challenges - Anything goes

It's Passion time

Hello and good morning everyone!
Hope life treats you well and you have had a wonderful start of the week. Here we are recovering from a bunch of colds but that should pass as well I hope. Rather sooner than later would be good. :)

It's time for a new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers today, and guess what? Yepp! It's my turn to host and as I always are in deep need of cards for boys, I chose that as my theme: One for the boyz. And it really needs to show that it is for male. Nothing more, nothing less. With two boys in the age of birthday parties with friends, I always seen to be rushing around like mad trying to make up some birthday boys cards. I can have this theme for ten weeks and it still wouldn't be enough. LoL

Well, well time to talk about the card then. For a big change I have use a High Hope image. Wish that would happen a little more often than it does. But they are hard to get here in my little corner of the world. Anyway, this stamp used to day did actually Willy win when he took part in his first challenge ever over at the wonderful friendly people over at High Hope Challenges. They even offered him a guest designer spot. I will never forget that. So sweet!

Back to the card. Most of Willy's friends plays in the same soccer team and this little guy does as well. So a soccer card it was, once again. Have lost count of how many it has been by now. LoL He is of course coloured with my Letraset family and paired up with some lovely dp's fitting the theme from YouDo. A dynamo piece with the kids name and a big "7" to tell how old he is was put on. Two soccer ball-buttons that I cut down to make them flat was added to the mix. The inside was also decorated but that part is private and you don't get to see it! :)

Clearly Besotted Stamps is sponsoring us this week over at Passion for Promarkers. I am not really sure what 
the prize is but I will ad that to the post as soon as I have figured that out. I am still lost in that Yahoo group. 
When I managed to find my way around, the place gets a new look. Typical! LoL

Well, time to go and hopefully do something crafty. I really hope that you will come and play with us over at 
PFP this week. I am so looking forward to see what you come up with for this challenge. I need some boyz 
themed inspiration!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Cutie Pie Challenges - Cute one for the boys
Digi sketch Challenges - For the boys (T)
OLLCB- For the men
Tammys Scarpin Corner - Happy birthday
Come and get it challenges - Happy birthday
Glitter and sparkle Challenges - Male cards
Eclectic Ellapu - For a boy
High Hope Challenges - Punches and dies (Lots of die cut circles here)
High Hope - GDT call

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)

More Christmas, are you bored yet? :)

Ok, officially only 41 more makes for my Christmas card order. How can speed this up? Oh well, I just smile and keep enjoying what I do. The only way to get there I guess. If I am luck I've got an older bunch stored away.

This card is made using one of the new Tilda pads. Christmas house is it called. Tons of red and pink in this one. New for this time seems to be that the little motives is precut and you just have to push them out to much joy for my kids. Had to stop them doing that before they went too far.

I have added some stickles, pearls and a few tied bows to the design and I followed the lovely sketch from Come and get it Challenges.

Now dinner and then some shopping for food. Have to get it done before my partner goes to way before the weekend.

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
Come and get it Challenges - Sketch (A lovely one)
KB Challenges - Anything goes
Christmas inspiration - Die Cuts or punches (the image is die cut, and the squares are also die cuts)

Sunday and the sky is pink and blue

It has been a lovely warm and nice day here in Kalmar today. Now the sun is setting and it's getting late. Have spent most of the day outside and are now both tired and a tiny bit sunburned. Maybe summer is on it's way? We had snow earlier this week so I'm not convinced yet. :) Since the weather has be great to day, just cold winds, did we take the kids to a farming school not too far from here and watched together with about 3000 other people when they let their cows out for the first time this season. Lots of fun! Oh boy! Cows are really big, especially when they come jumping and running towards you. Can't believe I wanted to have at least one before. To my defence, I just wanted a little red mountain cow, not a beast! LoL

Ok, I do actually have a card to show you as well. It shows a Lili of the Valley image that is coloured with my promarkers and some copics I believe. DP are from Bearly Mine. Took them out of the scrap box, so I can't really remember from which set they are. Sorry Donna, you have created so many now, it takes forever to find out. :) Roses and hearts are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the pearl string from Stämpelgården when it was still around. I miss them always the best of service. Please come back!

Love n hugs
Marie

I would like to enter this card to a few challenges:
Come and get it Challenges - Birthdays
Creative Cowgirls Challenges - Anything goes
Dream Valley Challenges - Flowers
Crazy for challenges - Flowers,
Lili of the Valley Challenges - Animal antics