Gingham, plaids and checks

Hello and good morning and all of that! Hope your doing fine and enjoying your week so far. Just letting you know that we have a new challenge up over at Passion for Promarkers and the theme

Gingham, plaids or checks

How does that sounds for a challenge? Nice and easy I hope. So use either or more on your creation. Colour with your Letraset Markers and then come and play with us. This week we are sponsored by the Digi Stamp Boutique, and the prize is a voucher worth £10 to spend in the store. How great isn't that?

Here is a snap shot of my card. It shows baby Edwin from Magnolia. Of course coloured with my Letraset Markers. He is paired up with som lovely dps from NitWit / Lili of the Valley. It's a combo from Pastel Dream and Up in the air, I think the pads are called.

The decorations is only made with two small paper punches in two sizes from Woodware. The sentiment is made with two kinds of alphabets from Panduro. Nice and easy for a little kid turning two.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Papertake Weekly - Happy... (Happy birthday in Swedish)
Fan-tastic Tuesday - make it square
Magnolia Down Under - Happy birthday
Crafting from the heart -  Anything goes

Perfect Pearls

Hi there and welcome to the busy week. It's time for a new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers and this time we go with a great simple theme: Perfect Pearls! How strange it is when you should make a challenge with something that you use on almost every card you make, when it becomes the challenge theme it's suddenly hard to get it together...

Well, well. I did manage to get a card together in the end even if it took some time. Lots of illnesses going around at the moment and both kids are unwell but lots better today. Spent half the day at the hospital with the olderst yesterday. Did some tests and found out that his asthma is back. Not good but it's better than not knowing. Maybe he will get it a little more easy now when practising soccer and all that. It will take a while before the cough is gone but it will be lots more easy for him.

Anyway for this weeks card I have used my favourite Tilda from Magnolia. I don't remember what it's called but maybe Tilda with big tulip pot or something like that? She's coloured with my Letraset Markers on the old real deal heavy paper from Letraset as well. I have some left of those pads and it's a treat to use them every now and then. :) The designer papers are from Prima and the collection called  Sunny Days. For once I was lucky and found something that matched the image. The red is perfect to my red tulip. The black lace comes from my friend Gail in the US. Isn't it lovely?

My only decorations for the card is my pearls. Bought those at Bunny Zoe, just as always. Maybe I'll ad a sentiment to the card later when I know who it's for, but not sure yet. I am glad that it was this simple theme this time around because I have turned my crafting room up side down as I didn't like the way it was, too messy. Even worse now but will end up better I hope. LoL

Our sponsor for this challenge is Digi Stamp Boutique. The prize is a voucher worth £10. Nice isn't
it?

Ok then, time for you to start crafting. I look forward to see what you will be up to with this nice theme for this weeks challenge.

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes with twist use a die cut (the image is cut with a die from Memorybox)
TTCRD - Anything goes
Cardmanina Challenges - Add some red
Sisters of craft - Anything goes
Lovely hÄnglar or sweet Magnolia- pearls and lace

Snowflakes

Morning and hello to you all. How is your week so far? Hope you're enjoying life and make sure you have some crafting time as we have a new fun challenge up for you over at the Paper Shelter. This weeks theme is snow flakes. Nice and easy I hope? You can use any snow flakes your creation. It can be brads, embossed ones, coloured ones, stitched ones, on your dp's, in your image etc. If they are hard to spot tell us where to look for them ok?

Well, I had actually another card made for this challenge but when Veronica introduced this sweethear of an image, I just had to use this one in stead. It's called "the most adorable snowmen". Isn't it just the cutest?

The image is coloured with my Letraset markers as always and for the most part I have used the new set of limited edition markers that I got the other day. That's kind of why I have such bright red colour combo. Wanted to see if they was as nice as I was hoping. A little to bright for my taste, Last year's winter edition was better. Well, it's always fun to add something new to the stash and they will be used so that won't be any problem. LoL

I have used Dovecraft paperpack Modern this time. I believe that one is from last year... As the theme is snow flakes I added a few of those as well as a snowy border. I also used tons of snow on my image in the form of Flower Soft. I love that fluffy stuff. To match it up and balance the card a tiny bit I have also used a die cut from Magnolia that got really well covered up by my big bow and smashing looking snowmen charm. Isn't adorable? Some pearls and a few letter stickers to add a sentiment and I am done for today. Please be sure to pop back tomorrow for my new inspiration card for the AUD sentiment challenges.

As always we have a gift voucher worth $30 up for grabs if you play with any TPS product. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning three (3) digis of your choice. Come on now crafters we know that you love these images and we would love to see you use them on your creations. 

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Card Mania - Use your dies (snowflakes, snowy border and under the big bow a Magnolia die)
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Add some ribbon
TTCRD - Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - 3 or more dps
Bunny Zoe - Snow

Any sentiment except birthday

Morning everyone! Time for a new Aud Sentiment posting for me. Can't believe that two weeks already has passed me by. It's the turn of the B-team of the Aud sentiment challenges to give you some new fresh inspiration. On you creation we would love to see a sentiment that isn't birthday related.

This time we're sponsored by Stamp Art Design. The winner have a chance of winning five of these sweet images.  Nice right? Great! Then take some time and make a card for our challenge and you are half way there!

For my card I have used the super cute image called Snow Mail. I just love my snow men and for this one I had the perfect sentiment made by our own MC. Sending snowy hugs could come from no one other than a sweet looking snow man.

I have coloured my snowy friend with my Letraset Markers. Also a tiny touch of Prisma Pens is used for a little more shadowing.Thank godness that I picked an image with little to colour as my hands are so unstable at the moment. But everything works out, just takes a bit of extra time. I have used designer papers from NitWit collections. I think that they are from two different sets. Sorry I am a bit blur in my mind because of my meds, don't saying that I wouldn't be if I wasn't taking them. LoL

To ad details to my card I used a whole bunch of bits and pieces that I have been keeping since last winter season. So my snowy trees, wing covered with glitter and embossing powder, and snow flake has been ready to find their card a long time. But better late than never right? The snow flake border with gem stones is new for this "winter". Doily and ribbon is also from my stash.

Ok my friends. This was all from me for today. It was good seeing you all again. Please come back soon and I try to have something ready for you to see. I'm entering my final stadge of studies at the moment so I am fairly busy with that, but you never know. Take care!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes

4 Crafty Girls - Anything goes

My heart Pieces - Use a digital image

Crafting by designs - Anything goes

Pennys Challenge - Anything goes

Through the Craft room door - Anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes

oh I do like to be beside the seaside

Hi there! Finally back with a little post from MI. Still struggling with my depression and just can't wait for the fall when things normally get easier for me. A few months more...

So we have a new challenge for you over at Passion for Promarkers. This week's theme is set to "oh I do like to be beside the seaside". That means we want to see creations connected to the sea, water and beaches. I have shown a card earlier with one of the new Bildmålarna images when Mimo and Mimosa are dressed like sailors and here comes a card with little Mimosa. She is coloured with Letraset markers which you also have to use to enter our challenges. I did a use a tiny bit of a grey Prisma pen to tone down the white in the clothes.

The designer papers are also from Bildmålarna and now I have almost used up all of the papers I bought. I don't think that has happend before. And do you know what the best part is? I have not bought anymore to replace them. LoL I have used tons of flowers to decorate the card and some half pearls, you always need that. Some corrugated paper that I white washed just like I did with the first card. There is also a tiny bottle filled with sand from my favourite beach outside Kalmar, a charm, so hemp string representing the rope. The bridy tag is also from the designer papers...

I am affraid I have a bunch more of these cards, they are simular but not totally looking the same. I did a bunch of these as gifts for Philip's teachers who he has now left behind to start school in the fall. I did also make matching picnic baskets for them all, five in total so not strange that the papers are all gone by now, almost... I will show the baskets and the rest of the cards another day. As I don't get much crafting done at the moment, I spread them out a bit. Can always pretend that I am crafting as often as I used too...

Our sponsor for this challenge is Letraset with a markers set and Crafty Sentiment Designs whos offering three digis to a lucky winner. This is really a lovely challenge so please come and join us for this one. 

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes

Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes

Through the craft Room door - Anything goes

Twisted tuesday challenges -Pearls + twist Lots of layers

The artistic stamper - by the seaside

Bunny Zoe's - Layers