Make it feminine

Morning to you! Hope you enjoy the lovely time of fall or spring where ever you are. Here it has been a few days with lots of winds but nice anyway. I love this time of the year. Nice and cosy. :)

So it's posting week here on my blog again. Time goes by so quickly don't you think? We start off with the first card of the week, being made for the fun challenge over at Passion for Promarkers. The theme is set to "make it feminine". That means that we want to see all things girly, not that hard right?

I almost always making cute cards. This time I went the other way, well not a nasty look but a more adult style. I have used a stamp from Stempel Glede and the set "Vintage garden". I have coloured it with aqua markers from Letraset this time as I was going for a softer style. Overdozed on the colours anyway, but it was worth a try. LoL

Then there is tons of flowers because I think that belongs on a feminine card together with lace, pearls, ribbons, swirls and the lovely wooden birds that I found hiding in my stash. I have also been at it with one of the swirly stamps from the same stamp set as the main image is from. A little extra detail how to speak. And even if it's hardly not visible, I have also used a piece of washi tape. Didn't want the designer papers from Maja design to be compleatly plain.

Sponsoring us this week is Bugaboo who's offering 7 digis to our winner. Thank you for that!

Thanks for looking!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Deep Ocean - At least one flower
TTCRD - Anything goes
Bunny Zoe - Lace
Crafting at the Weekend - Anything goes

Five or more flowers to your creation

Morning everyone. How are you? Hope everything is fine and you are in a great mood. I'm at home with a sick kid and have started to feel the cold he has as well. Life is great! When my pain is less, there is a cold knocking on the door and that often leads to new pain in the joints...Life is fun! LoL

Well my friends today it's Wednesday again and we have a new challenge up for you over at the Paper Shelter. This weeks theme is Five or more flowers, optional to add a sentiment as well. (Not counting any on your dp's or image). They have to be added to the creation some how. Well I got carried away watching a gardening show on TV and that was not the smartest thing I have done, at least not a flower themed card and a gardening show at the same time. I ended up with a little tooooo much. LoL But no time or energy to remake this one so here we are.

Anyway, here it is. My creation of the week. I have used some old dp's from a Prima pad that I cleaned away before I wrote this. I think it's from the Madeleine pad. As seen I have used tons of flowers from WOC, I am Roses and Prima on this card. Also quite a lot of stickles, pearl string and clay swirl that I made with MS clay. My lace is once again from the lovely Gail. Yes, I know, colours of fall, but I happen to love the fall so deep oranges and brow it is. LoL The lovely brown pearls and the tag die is from my dear friend Annelie and the text sentiment is from Bildmålarna. They are perfect in size. I don't like big blurry sentiment stamps so these tiny ones are the bestest!

As always we have a 30 $ voucher up for grabs if you play with a TPS product. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning 3 digis of your choice. There was some really stunning TPS cards entered to our last Fairy challenge. Great joy to see them!

On top of this is another challenge going on, Veronica and the Papers Shelters World Cup challenge. Buy the they soccer image and colour him in the colours your winning team has. Who do you thing will stand as a winner when the WC is over. I have a card on the go for this, but have a bit left before it's finished. I will show it when I am done with it...

Another little reminder. There is still a day left of our DT-call over at the Paper Shelter. Ending tomorrow 23:55. Nothing has been decided yet so there is still a chance of getting picked to the team. The new members will be reveled on Sunday hopefully.

Love n hugs
Marie

Deep Ocean challenges - Lace and pearls
Every body art challenges - Non Cute
Fantastic Tuesday challenges - Anything goes
The shabby tea room - Anything goes

A new card finally

Hello there every one! Hope you are doing fine? I'm keeping my head up and feet down but that's about it at this moment. I am normally stabilized by this time going from winter and spring to summer but not this year for some reason. Every little thing that I do goes into my fingers at the moment and making cards with stiff fingers is something I have yet have to learn. So while this goes on, it's a bit more quite here. After all the crafting should be fun and enjoyable, not causing trouble. I am ever so grateful that all you wonderful followers bare with me and keeping leaving such wonderful comments on my creations when they show up every now and then. Also a big big BIG thank you for picking my two latest cards as either top 5 or winner in different challenges. If feels so warm and I feel so blessed. So from the bottom of my heart thank you!

Ok, now time for a card as well. This one has been laying on my desk for a while and as usual I never managed to get the photo taken in time. So even when I am done in time for my DT commitments I am late. LoL I have to do something about that. Two picture added, not sure which one is the best to use...

The image I have used for my card is from the Paper Shelter and is called A mucha influence - Spring. It's an oldie but a really goodie that is a joy to colour. She is paired up with some lovely pink papers from Panduro hobby, but I'm affraid I covered most of it up. LoL How did that happen? The card really didn't turn out like I had expected or planed from the beginning, but hey that happens every now and then. Flowers are from WOC, the berries from Magnolia and so is the angel attached to the bow on the heart tag (drowning in all lace and ribbons) in the right corner of the card. Some feathers, pearls,  a heart charm and some punches and dies are also used for this creation.

We have a new challenge up for you all over at the Paper Shelter this week and it's called Pink/white or Blue/white. That means we want you to use either of this colour combo on your card or creations. You can use some other colours but they need to be seen very little off. The dominant colours needs to be pink/white or blue/white. Playing with our brand, the Paper Shelter products will give you a chance of winning a gift voucher worth $30. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning three digis of your choice. I do hope you will come and join us in the fun.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Rhedd and Rosie Challenges - Ribbon and Lace
Deep Ocean Challenges - For a girl
Wild Orchid Challenges - Lots of layers

More blooms

Morning to you all. Midweek already, how fast does the time pass by? Still in tons of pain as my knee refuses to go back to normal again. It's probably the warm moist weather that gives all the trouble for me. I hope that it will settle soon as the pain is dreadful and I get so horrible tired of the pain. Oh well, keep smiling and it will be fine, some day. Wish it was fall again. Less pain and better air, high and clear hopefully. :)

So Wednesday means a new challenge over at the Paper Shelter and this week is a bit special to us. We have managed to reach and pass the magical line of 1000 follower of our beloved challenge blog and we are so grateful for that. It's such a milestone for us all, and I am so blessed to have been on this journey from the beginning. So to celebrate this we are having a little more prizes to give away this week. We are giving someone the normal $30 gift certificate and then we have another one worth $20 to give away as well. And the best part is that these prizes are open for everyone, not only the ones playing with the TPS products. So come on and join us in our challenge this week which is "Make it bloom". It should not be so hard to join in, right? We want to see at least two flowers on your creation, may it be on the dp, the image or as decorations, we don't mind, as long as your creation is blooming.

For my card I have used the team favourite called Adorable Cowgirl. She is coloured with my trusty Letraset Family. She is paired up with some wonderful designer papers that I believe is made for this image from NitWit collections. :) So perfect for this image, and the best part is that they have another set that is going in red and blues if you feel that is a better pick for your card. But I went girly with browns and pinks for this one, as the card was made for one of my nieces on her birthday. And they are girly girls both her and her twin sister. LoL

The flowers are from Magnolia, Wild Orchid Crafts and I am Roses. So a big mixture there. The lace is also from WOC. A swirl from Prima is also used together with some pearls from Bunny Zoe's.

So the them is Make it Bloom, please do come and join us and help celebrate our big milestone over at the Paper Shelter this week.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Crafty Sentiments - Lace and Pearls
Deep Ocean Challenges - Fantasty and flowers + DT call
Lexis Creations - Lace or/and ribbon
Sparkle and Sprinkle Challenges - Use a digi
Challenges 4 everybody - Always anything goes

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

I am back!

Hi there and welcome to my little corner of the world! I am so tired today and my legs are so heavy. I must be weighing a ton, at least. Oh well, that's the prize you pay to work out! It's a good pain, don't get me wrong. But I wasn't prepared for this stiffness and heavyness. I do hope it will be gone by Friday when I will do a little indoor biking with my mum. First time ever for here, second time for me. I am actually high on the thought that I managed to convince her that this was a good idea. Let me get back to you on Friday to see how it all went. LoL

And here comes a card as well! Yepp! I have been at it again and this time I have used the Paper Shelter image Licence to Frost found here. Isn't she a doll? I love this pretty image and for once I am really pleased with my colouring. This time I have used my dear old Family of Letraset. They have by the way a brand new waterbased neon marker set out. I will try to use them on an image soon.

My designer papers are from Bearly Mine Design and from the digi kit Spring Mist if I remember right. I have even made some dry embossing on the spotty paper. Also joining in is a bunch of dies from Magnolia, Marianne design, Spellbinders and Cheeryl Lynn. Flowers are from Wild Orchid Craft, I am Roses and The Ribbon Girls. Metal corners are from WOC as well. Butterflies from Altheas Mix. Stickles and gesso is also used on the card. Hope you like it.

And the card is made for our new challenge at the Paper Shelter where we have the theme of Tag! You're it! With that said we want to see at least one tag on your card, or you make a tag and decorate it. It's up to you. I do hope you'll come and join in the fun! We have also got an extra $10 to our voucher, so now it's worth a wooping $30! It can be yours if you play with a TPS image in our challenges, otherwise you have the chance of winning three (3) digis of your choice. That's lovely too! Come and let us see all the smashing TPS images out there, I know you have them!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Make it Monday - Always anything goes

Deep Ocean Challenges - Things with wings
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes with option shaped card
Crafty Cardmakers Challenges - Winged things

Another thank you card

Hello! Good to see you all again. Here comes another one of my thank you cards for the kids teachers. Only a few to go now. LoL

As most of the others I got the distress inks out for this and used a Faye Witthaker image. Love them all to bits. The designer papers are as the others from Maja design and the paper pad Skärgårdsliv. I am so in love with them. LoL

And like the other cards a fairly simple design with very few decorations. A few flowers and pearls from WOC and that was it. :) Sorry about the crappy photo. Had to take it before I gave it away and photo time only showed up early in the morning so the light got kind of strange. It was fairly soft IRL.

I enter this card to the following challenges:
Deep ocean Challenges - Sea of love (sea related DP's and the kids are by the beach maybe sending a letter of love)
Everybody art challenges - Summer
Loves Rubberstamps Challenges - Sweet summer days

Love n hugs
Marie

Another thank you card from the kiddie bunch

Good evening! Back again and really tired. Spent the whole day at the zoo with the kids, Mats and a friend of mine. I write this in a big blur as I am so tired that I can hardly see. Still I want to get this card posted as I have a whole bunch of them I would like it if I get them posted before the summer comes to an end. LoL

So once again a Faye Wittaker image from Joanna Sheen paired up with some lovely papers from Maja Design's Skärgårdsliv. Coloured with distress inks and one or two cat paws. It never fails, one of my cats always walk in the wet paint. Either on the pallette or directly on the coloured image that is not dry. Not much of decorations, just enough to make them a little more than just flat. LoL

I'll enter the card to the following challenges
Little Red Wagon - Inspired by the beach
Divas by Design - Red Blue and White
Crafty Sentiments Design Challenges - Summer time
Deep Ocean Challenges - Sea of love
Paper Take Weekly - Anything goes

And with this I say good night. It's a day tomorrow as well and I really need to get my sleep.

Love n hugs
Marie, really tired and really happy with this wonderful day!

My second Wendsday challenge

Hello and good morning! Again I might add. It's Wendsday again and you all know what that means here in this blog. Yes that's right double posting and this is the second one today. We have a lot of love going on in different challenges these days and the Paper Shelter is no different. We have the theme of Be my Valentine.

As soon as I saw this cutie with the gold fishes I know I had to make a card with it. Now it didn't turned out as planed so this have to do. The designer papers are from Eco Park flowers from Wild Orchid and the rest from my ever growing stash. My little darlings are coloured with Copics as they was nicer to me and didn't mess up the print. I have now managed to sort that and I am back with the dear old Letraset family. I also felt the need to make a shaker card out it and last night my boys was shaking like crazy with the card. :)

Oh, I bought some storage for the third brand of markers; Spectrum Noir. They are perfect for the copic pens. Tons of the markers goes in there and easy to bring along. Just a little tip on the way.

So as usual we have the big old $20 voucher up for grabs when it comes to a winner who have used a Paper Shelter image. Three lovely images of your choice if you have used another digi or stamp brand. Lovely as always.

So with this I invite you to come and join us for our challenge this week over at the Paper Shelter.

Love n hugs

Marie


Challenges for this card
Deep Ocean Challenges - Love
Party Time Tuesdays - Valentines
Top Tip Tuesday Challenges - Love / valentine's