Icy colours for an icy day

It's snowing here again. Well, it has been snowing on and off for almost a week. It's probably around 30 centimetres with snow here by now. Nice and bright, and really cold. We normally don't have this much snow around here, near the coast and everything. I enjoy it, but it did arrive a tiny bit too early this year. Wonder if it will stay all winter? Hope so as it is nicer with snow than rain. :)

Finally card using the lovely Bearly Mine papers again. Once again I've gone for the blue ones, guess my favourite colour? ;) Most of these papers are from the lovely Christmas Delight and the one with the dotty one in the back is from the digi kit Christmas Wonderland. Pop on over to Bearly Mine to have a look for yourself.

The image is from "The stamping Bazar". A real cutie called Jolly Josie. Totally adorable to a cat lover like me. She is coloured with my lovely promarker pens. My flower decorations is a mixture of Prima and Wild Orchid's flowers. Probably went a little too mad with the flower but have not used any for decorations for a long time. Lost the touch a bit I think. :) The blue half pearls are from Bunny Zoes.

I enter this little creation to the following challenges:
* Bah! Humbug! - Felling the blues (last challenge of the year. Thanks girls, I've got more cards than I need!)
* Die Cut Dream's Christmas Challenge - Use a die Cut (spellbinders has been put to use here)
* The stamping bazar - Sketch to work with.

Now time to play some kiddie computer programs with the youngerst one, home sick again.

Take care and enjoy your day!
Hugs,
Marie

A Magonlia card

Could not sleep again last night strangely enough. I was up the main part of the day and the night before that with a sick kid again. :( It was a very long night let me tell you that. Now it's getting better and I do hope that the little one won't get this as well. Spent a lot of hours in the laundry room again...

The stamp is one of my all time favourties from Magnolia, Snowy with star. He has gotten some snow flakes around him, flower soft snow and lots of glitter glue. He is coloured with my promarkers. For the decorations I've used a ribbon from Wild Orchid Craft and I think that the pins are from there as well. Card Craft Candy, dew drops from the flower shop, and a charm from Bunny Zoe makes other parts of the decos together with the snow flake from  Panduro.

There is a few Challenges that this card fits into this week:

* Just Magnolia - white + one colour (blue in my case)

* Die Cut Dreams x-mas challenge -  Anything goes

* A spoon full of sugar - Anything goes

* Totallygorjuss Challenge - Not so traditional x-mas colours

* Papertake weekly Challenge - Cut it out (Border with DH Magnolia lace)

* I love promarkers - Anything goes, with a little bit of sparkle
* Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Christmas without red and green

Now of to some rest and maybe read a story to Willy who has been out playing in the snow for a little while. It came this night and I didn't have the heart to tell him to stay in even if he is still not totally well. He had a blast out there but not so much energy.

Hugs,

Marie

Finally! I am back!

Only two, almost three days late compared to what I wrote Friday morning. We got hit! Yepp, we got hit of the tummy flue. Well the kids did especially the youngers one. There is some crazy thing that goes on out there. This should be some kind of special tummy flue for the young kids, almost only two year old gets it. Guess how old my youngerst is? Right two. Thank you flue God! Just what we needed and I really love to do laundry. Baaah. Well it was short and "sweet" and it seems to be over now and now we just have to recharge our batteries to start off the new week a little later on today.

The card that has been put on hold is this blue and silver creation. (Please tell me why my cards always loses colours when they go and visit Mr Blogger? What am I doing wrong?)The reason for this colour choise is the "Totally Tilda Challenge Blog" where the theme is "Blue and Silver", then we have the "I love Promarker challenge" were the theme is "Icy Colours". To top it of the "Die Cut Dream X-mas Challenge" has "Snow flakes" as their theme. The sketch is from "Paper Take Weekly". Image is of course from Magnolia and the designer papers are from Bearly Mine Design, the new Christmas digi set called Christmas Dreams is used for this card together with a plain blue one and some scraps from one of the other sets. Yummi papers! There is a sale going on at Bearly Mine Design with 15% off and Donna herself has a wonderful blog candy up at her blog. So pop on over to have a look for yourself.
With that mixture of challenges going on I end up with this. Once again I have gotten some help from my oldest son (four years old). This time he was intrested in the distressing part with the inky things from T.H. It got a tiny bit too much but and we still have it on our hands as well. Kind of looks a bit taned. Kind of nice in this rainy weather. Anyway, it was fun and we would probably be at it still if he was allowed to. A little promise of him being able to try it again another day and a got play with the vacum cleaner got him of the ink pads. He still loves to help cleaning and this time it was something that really needed to be done. He had fun and I got to take care of my stuff. Mean mother, ain't I? Letting the kids play with the VC to get some cleaning done.
So something seems to be going on with Mr Blogger as well tonight as it now is huge trouble to save what you do in here. Hope this will be solved soon. Take care and enjoy your new week.

Hugs,
Marie

Ps: Monday morning and I am finally able to put this up. Thank you for that Mr Blogger!

Magnolia Christmas time

So here comes a little more Christmas for you all to look at. :) Once again this little sweetheart from Magnolias christmas stamps from last year. Last week I did a card with her in pink this week I go for blue. :)

I have coloured her with distress inks, used DP from Bearly Mine Design. A stamp from Stempelglede (grunge flourish hearts) for the corners stamped in frayed burlap from Tim Holtz. A heart ribbon from Altheas Mix and my last embellishment is a die cut star in acetate that I have put some glitter stickles around in golden rod. The same colour that I've used on the other stars on the image. (I do hope that my ribbon counts as an embellishment)

With this card do I enter these challenges:

* Bah! Humbug! - Favourite cuties

* Die Cut Dream's X-mas challenge - 3 papers, 2 embellishments and one handpainted image.

Have a good evening! Now time for dinner and then some shopping for food!

Hugs,

Marie

Another little creation of mine

Hi to each and every one of you!
This is my creation for the day. I have used one of my Magnolia Tildas from last years club kit. She is coloured with distress inks on water colourpaper. It's wonderful to use a brush every now and then to colour my images. It's not that much to say about it really. Tons of glitter and sparkle (diamond dust in the white parts of the stripy DP and stickles around the circle and on the flowers), DP from Dovecraft I think, flowers from Wild Orchid craft, gems from Anitas, ribbon from my stash, then add a little creative love and I end up with this sparkly creation of mine. ;)

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges:
* Totally Tilda - glitter and sparkle
* Just Magnolia - Anything goes
* Die Cut Dream's Christmas Challenge - glitter, ribbon and gems

Take care and enjoy the rest of the evening!

Hugs,
Marie

Another day, another Christmas Card

Hi all! Todays card is made with one of the sweet new Christmas stamps from Lili of the valley and as I give most of my cards to a cat shelter, what is a better fit than some Christmas kittens?

The card is made for the challenges that is going on at Winter Wonderland - holly, red and green. And Die Cut Dream's Christmas Challenge which has the the theme of Furry things. DP are from DCWV I think and some huge bling stones from Panduro, card candy in the corners, glitterations from Anitas and some stickles from TH. The image is coloured with my beloved promarker pens.

Now some dinner and then off to a meeting at Kindergarten.

Have a good evening!
xMarie

Some sentiment challenges

Todays card is made for the challenges Bah! Humbug! and Die Cut Dreams Christmas club were the theme is Text or sentiment only. No pictures or images.This came fairly easy this time, maybe that's why I am so early with this post. Nice and easy, and most of all fun to make.

The ribbon is from Stämpelgården, the flowers and leaves from Wild Orchid Craft, some card stock from Panduro and Basil, stickles glitterglue in golden rod and christmas red and I was done, after embossing the white panel with swiss dots for a little more intrest to be added to the card. Hope you like!

Hugs,
Marie

OK, winter time again.

Yes I know we have about 25 degree celicius outside and I am making Christmas cards. Totally nuts, I know, I know. But it is very relaxing I must say. No hurry just do as many as I like to and feel good about it.

So this card is for Winter Wonderland - Strawberries and cream (for me that's red and white)
and then we have Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club - Artic Winter (That will be tons of snow for me that)

I've used one of my images from Prairie Fairy, I don't remember the name of it but is cut isn't it? Not a lot to colour as it is a little snow man. I have put some polar white flower soft here and there to give him a more "snow" feeling. First time I used that stuff and you will be seeing more of that in my X-mas cards. Love the little 3D feeling it gives. Snow flakes are punshed with MS Artic flake in red and the coverd with more Flower soft. Some cardcraft dots are also used. The DP are all from Pink Pretticoat. Love the clean and simple look of those. Of course it's all coloured with promarkers.

Now it's time to hit the gym before it gets too hot. Have a good day everyone!

Hugs,
Marie

X-mas time again

I was supposed to be outside repainting the garden furniture when it suddenly started to rain. Surprise! Lucky for me I hadn't started yet. So with that out of the picture I decided to put this all white card up before I go down in my little oasis and finish of some curtains that has been laying around for a little too long.

This card did I make with my oldest son yesterday, well he decided to make a bunch of them. Once he got he hang of it was nothing stopping him. You know how three year olds can be. We do now have a forrest of Christmas trees in the basement. :) He has glued buttons like never before.  

So we are entering this card of ours to the

Winter wonderland challenge - as a festive tree and for the

 Die cut dreams Christmas Challenge - all white. It's time to fix the curtains.

Take good care everyone!

Hugs,

Marie

Two cards for you today

I got lucky and won at Susie and Vikki's Christmas Club last week and got a chanse to guest design for them, and here is the two cards I made for this purpose. The challenge has by the way change name since Vikki has left it to spend more time with her family and have also gotten a new job. Congrats to that! The challenge is now called Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club. Pop over and join the challenge. It's nice to get a head start with all those X-mas cards, even if it's a bit strange feeling making the cards in the middle of the summer. :)

The lovely sketch is made by Vikki, thanks for that. It was such a joy to work with and suited more than one style of card. That is always good.

The red one is made for my youngerst nephew Felix. He will be about one year old when it's X-mas again. Nice and clean for kids that age. The image used is also from my prize last week, a digi stamp called "Roocat in Stocking". It's really cute and of some reason it reminds me of Felix's dog Rocky a huge rottweiler. But he behaves like a big kitten, he and one of my own cats are the best of friends. DP are all from PinkPrettycoat. The image is coloured with promarkers. The image is by the way from Prairie Fairy Designs which you can find here.

My second card is made with an image from Whiff of joy from last year. DP are all Magnolias. Flowers are prima and wild Orchid crafts. Half pearls from Stämpelgården. This one is coloured with distress inks.

Time for some rest and maybe a little card making as well. The weather here reminds me of fall with lots of stong winds and rain every now and then, so what better do than go and make a card and rest for a little while?

Have a good day everyone!

Hugs,

Marie