Summer...

Hi and good morning to you all. I am back with my latest creation for Passion for Promarkers. The theme of the week is "Summer lovin". That means something you love that has to do with summer. Swimming, beach, playing a game in the garden, going on a date etc.

For this challenge I have made a really messy card, but at least I had fun making it. My (step) dad turned 70 the other week and me and my brothers gave him a trip with a submarine! He loves the sea and well, we thought this was a "little" bit diffrent. I would never ever even go down in one of those tiny spaced thingies, but he seems to look forward to it. And that what set the theme for my card. I was actually trying to make a 3D submarine but it kind of looked... to be kind weird. So this is what I ended up with instead. You know when things works better than they are supposed to? Not often but it happens and when I made this card it was such day. I just wanted a tiny bit of silver flakes to the wild waves but instead everything got stuck and I think that's why I looks a bit messy.

I used a lot of the new dies from the first Limited Editon kit of dies from Magnolia and paired them up with some Magnolia designer papers. Well, one Magnolia paper. The back drop for all the images is a photo that has been taken of an huge aquarium. Thought it was fun. I have also used two layers of plastic sheets and put tons of hair gel in between for a water look with air bubbles. I saw this somewhere and had it poping up when I gave up on my submarine. The diver image is from the Paper Shelter and is only a part of an image that also comes with a mermaid. She is however replaced with a yellow submarine that is from a free colouring book on line. Can't give away a card without a submarine when we're giving away a ride with one right? Besides my dad likes The Beatles. LoL

For the inside of the card I used a copy of some sea charts and an image of a compass. I put the whole diver, not only the legs into the right side of the card and then I wrote up the card up. But that part you don't get to see, for our eyes only. :) Of course all the images and some of the die cuts are coloured with Letraset products which you also have to do to be able to take part in our challenge. I have also used some glossy accent on the gelly fish bodies and on the glass parts of the diving suit.

Sponsoring this challenge is Whiff of Joy with a stamp for one lucky winner. Don't forget to use Letraset products to colour with so you have a chance of winning this lovely prize!

Hope to see many of your fabby summer loves in our challenge the coming week.

Thanks for looking and take care

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Creative Card Crew - Sea / Beach
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes
Party time Tuesday - Anything goes
Papertake weekly - It's a Jolly holiday

Splitting headache

Good evening everyone! My head is hurting, my knee is killing me, every joint in my hands are messing with me still I am posting today LoL It was a long time since I made a card just for fun of it and finally I got some time for it, or not but did it anyway. I really should have done a few exercises of accounting this evening, but I decided to go with card making instead. I have one of those rare nights hen all my boys are gone. The kids are with granddad and grandma and my partner is meeting his childhood friends tonight playing volleyball in one of his friends' pool. And since I have to be in school tomorrow, I had a great chance of getting the kids out of the house. LoL They can't be home alone tomorrow can they? I will watch an episod of Midsummer Murders when I am done here and then take an early night... Doesn't it sound good?

So here comes my card as well. I have had this image coloured up for years and obvious hasn't got around to use it before. Well, tonight I felt a surtain urgde to use it and paired it up with some Maja Design papers from the collection "Sofiero". Nice and soft colours.

Sorry about the photo. It started to rain and the sun was setting. I fix this tomorrow...

At least I got it up here. :) The yellow looking ribbon is actually natural white...

Didn't turn out one bit better, only darker. Too much light...

I used a few ribbons as decoration together with a single rose and some bling stones from stash. Also used the broad ribbon to tie a bow and get a little dimension to the card. I got a great set of dies from Annelie a while ago with three different small labels. They are perfect for a few of my sentiment stamps saying "congrats" in Swedish. Now this card design turned out perfect for the die so on it went. Maybe the card turned out a bit unbalanced but it was fun to make and that's the main thing today.

We have a new challenge up by the way over at Passion for Promarkers. The theme is Christmas in July. I so should have joined the gals for that one as I have yet to start my Christmas cards. Maybe I only make them for all the kids around us this year? Well, we'll see how it all turns out in the end.

Well, thanks for looking. See you soon again hopefully. Time to take care of my sore body and give it some rest.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Aud sentiments - Anything goes + dt call
Cardmania - How charming (charm placed beside the bow/rose)
Craft-dee-Bowz - Anything with a hand tied bow
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes
Papertake Weekly - Buttons, bows, bling (bling and bow found here)
House of cards - Add a bow

Make it manly!

Hello and welcome to my little corner of the world again! I hope you're doing fine and that life treats you kind. Here it's the same old same old. A bit of pain, some colds and so on, but it has been worse so happy smiles. Well, went to the doctor with Philip yesterday only to find out what we already had kind of figured out. I am not the only one with light astma in the family. So some treatment for that and we'll see what happens. Hopefully it's something that he will out grow (read when he finish day care as Willy had the same it's gone when he isn't spending any time in that house anymore)...

It's midweek again and it's time for my B-team over at the Paper Shelter to host this weeks challenge. This week we are doing the theme "Make it Manly (a card for a boy or man)" theme justice. Really fun! Well that is what I think but I know that many is having trouble with this theme, but give it a try. It doesn't have to be that hard you know.

Once again I have used an image from the set called Happy Times and this time the kiddo is jumping on his trampoline. Having a great time! My boys love to jump on their trampoline and of course there needs to be at least one ball on there as well, otherwise no fun. As always the image is coloured with my Letraset markers, just because it's the fastest way to colour for me, not saying that it's very fast. LoL

This cards dp's are from a First Edition pad which I don't remember the name of at the moment, but it's all in blue, green and some beige colours. Really lovely actually even if it's a bit too much of glitter on some of the papers in my opinion. Is glitter really for boys? Well, maybe a little. A also used a green paper from the pad to back my panels with. Some papers you just know that you don't want to use on any creation and if they are low on details why not use them as backing card?

For decoration I have used a few little pennants made with a die from Die-Namics and some card candy in different blue shades to go with the dp's. Of course this was a card for one of Philip's friends earlier this year.

As always when we talk about the Paper Shelter we have a gift voucher up for grabs. It's worth $30 if you play with a Paper Shelter product. Playing with another brand in our challenge gives you the chance of winning three digis of your choice.

Ok, enough of me talking here. Just come and join us over at the Paper Shelter for this week's fun challenge.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Crafting for all season - Boys will be boys
Simon says stamp - Anything goes
A random fan challenge -Anything goes
Die cutting divas - For the boys
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes

Spring is here!

Morning and welcome to my little post today! We have a new challenge up for you over at the Paper Shelter today and our theme is "Spring is here". So this week something with spring feelings to it. Like soft pastel colours, Easter images, flower images. You know that light feeling you get when spring arrives, well many get it but I don't as for me it's the starting point of the thunder season. I even called the doctor a few weeks back, and they sounded a bit well confused and said that thunder season had not started yet, and then they thought I just wanted to get help well a head. The day after the thunder struck about everwhere in the South part of Sweden. Considering that, I was actually late booking my appointment with the Doc. I still have a week before I get to see her about this. I do hope she has some brilliant idea to help me out with this. I'll do anything except watch and listen to the thunder. Chills runing throw my back just thinking about it...

Ok, you might say: Hey didn't you show that card for your last TPS challenge? Well, not really but almost. I got this card started and wanted to replace the first one with this, but I got sick and didn't find the time to finish it. But here it is! I do love these cute rabbits and for some strange reason I love making Easter cards. Having a hard time understanding that since we do nothing during this celebration. Well. this time we will spend a day at the football / soccer field as Willy has his first out door tournament of the year on Sunday. Hope the weather will be nice and sunny.

So the image once again is called Little Easter Bunnies and they are coloured up with my Letraset Markers. This time as well I have used the First Edition pad called Spring Drop. Nice and a good spring feeling to it. This is actually the left overs from the other card. LoL A little less in the cut up collection to use later on = never. No sentiment on this card and some spring flowers instead. The daffodils came from a blogging friend of mine, Annelie. Check out her stunning work here. An old ribbon, probably bought on some sale somewhere on line gave a little balance to the card. Also some sweet lovely yellow pearls has been put to use here. To finish off you always need some butterflies. I think this is my forth card in a row with these little creatures on. Oh well, you can never have too many butterflies around.

As always when we talk about the Paper Shelter we have a gift voucher up for grabs. It's worth $30 if you play with a Paper Shelter product. Playing with another brand in our challenge gives you the chance of winning three digis of your choice.

Hope you will take the time to joy us for some spring inspiration this week over at the Paper Shelter. And just as always my teamies has been doing some amazing work to inspire you. Go on, take a look!

Challenges for this card
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Use some pastel colours
Papertake Weekly - Happy Easter
Digi Galore - Flowers
A random Fan Challenge blog - Springy pastel colours
Card Mania - Easter

So sentimental

Hi and hello everyone! I am back with a new little creation to show you all today. It's the Team 1's turn over at Passion for Promarkers to bring you some inspiration. And this weeks theme is set to "So sentimental" (add a sentiment to your creation).

A few weeks back I saw to wonderful sets of stams from Sheena Douglass made up with wonderful butterflies. I got the first one I ordered the early last week. And they are really lovely IRL as well, but VERY big. My cards are not so big so a bit of rethinking when it came to this card. At least the sentiment is the focal point. LoL

Anyway, I used my butterfly dies once again and coloured the back drop in with my Letraset markers. This time I let my pink collection work. I used some designer papers from Panduro's Tilda range from last spring called Country Escape. I always fall in love with the papers and then I find them really hard to use as the patterns are fairly big and quite bold most of the time. I really need to learn this, I love them for the moment and then, well....

I used a big lovely spellbinder die for the sentiment and it was just about to get it in the frame. It's stamped with some archival ink in some kind of brow. I took some flowers from my pink box, added a little bunch of white flowers too and some gesso on top of the strongers coloured pinks as well. Then added some glitter on top of that before the paint had dried. Gives a nice shabby look when dried. A few pearl strings and a few butterflies made with an MS punch gives the final touches to this card. Not much of colouring I know but sometimes things doesn't turn out like expected.

Sponsors, we have sponsors to this challenge as well. Let's see who it can be this time?
Whiff of Joy is sponsoring us with a stamp and  Angel craft is sponsoring  with a goodie bag.

At least we are all on our feet now, only me with a sore throat so hopefully we will heal here now. It has been four hard weeks with flu, colds and tummy flu on top of that. I think I need to start my grateful thoughts again, it really could be a lot worse than colds and things like that. And I have not had as much pain in my joints the last months. You see there is always something to be grateful about.

Until next time

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes
Inky Chicks -  Butterflies
TTCRD-Anything goes
Love to scrap - Anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody - Anything goes

Embossing of any kind

Morning everyone. Hope you have had a great week and are able to enjoy all the little flowers that starts to bloom right now. The tulips are starting to show up and I love those. When they bloom spring is here. :)

It has been a hard week with lots of colds going around the house. Thought I was out of it when it started again late on Sunday, so yet another day with fever and running nose. Might have used more energy than I got and that's why it's breaking out a second time in four days. Just have to "like" it I guess.

Today starts a new challenge over at PFP and the theme set for this week is embossing of any kind, dry or wet that is. This was a really hard card to finish, not because I don't like the them, but because I had to redo it three times. My first brilliant idea with wet embossed pieces in black and white to build a soccer ball didn't work out. It looked fabb and lovely till the pieces started to pop off my card. The glue didn't like the mix of plastic feeling and paper. LoL Oh well, I will give that a go again when I have a little more time.

So instead of a soccer ball shaped card I ended up with this. Now it might look strange with a "6" and a winning soccer champion but the boy who it was for turned 6 the other day. The image is from the Paper Shelter and is of course coloured with my Letraset markers. The dp's are from Magnolia and the star punches use is from Wood ware. The grass is made with a die from CC designs I think.

It might be hard to spot the embossing but the dark green edge is embossed with a spotty pattern and since it is a winner I am showing off, I did some wet gold embossing around my circle / ball.

Sponsoring us this week is Polkadoodles, but I don't know what the prize is so you have to go and check out the challenge blog to find out. I am sure it's a great prize!

And as I have fairly little time at the moment I also take the chance to promote the World Cup challenge that TPS has on facebook. It will last all the way to the end of the World Cup this summer when we know which country is the best the world when it comes to this fun game! Can you guess my winner? Yepp! Even if they hardly didn't make it to the WC, I think France will stand as winners when it's over. You know we can't all believe that Brasil or Agentina will win. LoL

Ok, signing off for now and hope you'll join us over at PFP this week.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown challenges - Make it pop (Head and all the clothes are cut out and added on the image, the image itself is also up on foam dots)
Challenges 4 everybody - 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

3 or more designer papers

Good afternoon lovely crafters! Sorry being late with my TPS post today. I'm in terrible pain at the moment and have to write one handed. Not that simple I must say. My neck and left shoulder is killing me today well and has for the whole week, just not as badly as it is now.

So better make this one short. We have a new challenge up for you over at the Paper Shelter. This week we want you to use three or more designer papers. A really good reason to use up all of those scraps that we all have laying around. I managed to use up a few of my od pieces of designer papers together with some new sheets, but no left overs this time. Yippie!

My image is called Victoria and just click her name and you come to the TPS store. I love the look of this sweet gal. I love the old fashion looking type of image she is mixed with some kind of modern twist. She is paired up with some lovely looking dp's from Maja Design, Vintage spring. Just love this pad, well and the rest of the Vintage collection. LoL

I coloured little Miss with my Letraset Marker family in pink and grey shades. I do love my grey markers, especially the warm greys but this time I went with some of the others. A whole flower gardern from WOC and I am Roses is also used. A joy butterfly border and a Magnolia Doo Hickey border is also used for some fancy cutting. To back the image I used an old piece of corrugated paper and covered it a little here and there with some paint. Also used that on the flowers for a shabby chic look. The butterfly border is also covered with a thin coat of glitter spread all over when the paint was still wet. A row of pink gem stones from Bo Bunny anchor it all. Also did some faux stitching around the panels with a white pen.

As always we have our great gift voucher up for grabs if you play with a TPS product. Either image, paper or some of the other products you can find at the shop. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning three digis of your pick. 

Ok, finished for today. I think I will take a really hot bath now and see if my pain can ease a bit. I knew it was bad to remove the painkillers but I got like flu symptoms like my youngest had last week, and I had to find out if it's the meds or the flu I got. Well, both is really bad I will tell you, but at least if it had been the flu it would have been gone faster. Now I need to find something that helps a bit and doesn't make me feel sick. I really need to get back to school but with this pain I can't. 

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Make it Monday - Always anything goes

Bunny Zoe - Stitching

Fan-Tastic Tuesday -  Anything goes

Digi Makeover challenge - Anything goes

Anything goes using Letraset products

Morning everyone! Time for a new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers and Team 1. This week we have an easy one for you set by Nic and it's "Anything goes", well using either any markers from Letraset or the Aqua pens.

This is a card made with one of the many stamps that I own from Magnolia, and that I never get around to use. Yepp! Have been in my really, reaLLLYY big box of unused Magnolia stamps. I see them in the store, buy them because I see some kind of purpose with them and think they are cute. And then straight to the unused box for a year or maybe three. Wouldn't be so bad, if I just didn't keep adding more and more to that box. Not to speak of the second box of stamps of all other brands that is laying around. I think that I like many other crafters could probably make a new card each day of the year and still use new ones every day.

This stamp however, even if it has been laying around I had a plan for, but I thought my niece was to you for a card with that stamp last year, so this year I made her that special card for a three year old birthday. I think the image is called Tilda with Teddy and it's a totally sweet image. Really cute! Like so many others. LoL I have paired her up with a mix of designer papers from a First Edition pad. Of course it's all coloured with Letraset markers and this time I also used som Prisma pens on the little teddy to get a little softer look of it.

I also used quite a lot of dies on this card as I thought it would be nice to use up some left over card stock as well. All flower and swirl dies use is from Doo hickey, Magnolia. Love those dies. A piece of lace, charm and a bow tied with creme satin ribbon. Well, in the photo it looks more light yellow than it really is. The colour of Tildas bow and the "real" one is quite simular in colour for real. The lovely brown heart shaped pearls comes from my dear blogging friend Annelie.

Sponsoring us this week is Polkadoodles with this lovely prize of  

Dollie Daydream Girl Talk Bonus Edn.

Ok, see you around one more time today when I show my last card for the Papertake Weekly challenges, as my three months of guest designing there is over after today. How sad! :(

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anthing goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Cute or Sweet
Magnolia-licious Challenges - Anything goes
Fashionista Challenges - Anything goes