What a day

I am so tired today and it feels like I have done, well, nothing! LoL And I really have not. This day was set to go back to the gym and try to figure out how I will deal with my work outs as I get so much pain in my back whatever I do, hard work out, light one, rowing, walking. You name it and I pain it! So after a week without doing nothing that would give my back even a little chance of be painful has been avoided the last week and a half. And today, time to rock on again. It went fairly good but I am so tired. It took the whole day just to go there, do the work out, get a little massage of the chair they have at the gym and then home to eat. Totally drained for energy again. However, totally love how the work out went to day even if it was a short and little one. I have pain now, but only muscle soreness, and just a little touch of pain around my sensitive part of the back (the thoracic spine where I have both a herniated disc and displacement between two vertebrae) just in line of each other. But the main thing is that it isn't how it was two weeks ago. Now I just wait and see what will happen tomorrow with my oh so lovely back. :) Keep your fingers crossed that nothing major will happen. I so miss my hard work outs and want them back!

A week ago or something like that I had a pirate card to show here and now it's time again. The same stamp from Lili of the Valley but this time paired up with some designer papers in red and blue from Magnolia. How well they work for this kind of cards! I have so much dp hoarded that I have told myself that this year no more designer papers will be bought if they are not for boys card. It's a lack of those papers around here and I have given me the go ahead to buy Swedish brands of designer papers. Let's see how that will work out.

So here comes my last Pirate card for a while. Coloured with my Letraset family in one of my favourite colour combos. Red, white and blue. So fresh for some reason. A star lace die from Magnolia is used to take up the stars from the blue paper. A "net" ribbon to have something to stuck the charm into and to pick up on the sea theme. Some card candy in two of the corners and a sentiment saying "Happy Birthday" in Swedish and my card was all done. The little guy who got it loved it and it makes it so worth doing these cards even for the kids.

Crafting hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Bunny Zoe's Craft - Anything goes
Love to create Challenges - Anything goes with a sentiment
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Make My Monday - One for the boys
Lili's Little fairies - Anything goes

A new little card

Good morning, I am back with a new card to show today. This time I have made a LOTV card for the Lili's Little fairies challenge "Black Magic". I have been doing so many pale cards lately that I thought it was fun with some black and bright pinks and silver to that. The little penguin is coloured with my Letraset family. Totally adore my markers, and other colour mediums as well. LoL But for some reason I always go back to the markers.

Enough about that. The designer papers are from and old stack from DCWV if I don't remember wrong. Have not used it for years but I looked in all boxes filled with different designer papers and this popped up, I had forgotten all about it. Oh well, so was it with my gemstones as well. They hide in a box and now found those to and got them to work for me. My snowflakes are made with a Whimsy Die. I just adore these snowflakes. Just a little big, why does everything has to be that? Big I mean.

Now I have to leave the computer as my hands are not working with me today. Weather change, it's a lot colder even if the sun is shining. The air is much more crisp than before. Hope it stays this way then I might get some rest from the pain in the coming days. On the other hand I am going to the doctor tomorrow and then it can be good with some pain. LoL

Also a big thank you to the lovely DT over at Passion for Promarkers that picked my ballerina card for their top five this week. Thanks so much gals. It means the world to me. You are the ones who got me into this blogging stuff from the beginning.

Remember to be grateful for what you got and what will come your way. Life is good even when it's hard...

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Lili's Little fairies - Black magic + DT call
Papertake Weekly Challenges - things that makes you go awww (and that is what this little cute penguin did when I first saw him. :) )
Tuesday Throwdown Challenges - You're a gem!
Use it Tuesdays - Anything goes (the hoarded piece is my designer papers, many years old and the gemstones)
The Cutie Pie Challenges - No flowers

Hi again!

Good afternoon to you all! Hope the day has been great and you have enjoyed your life. I've been sleeping which I sooo needed. I am heading right into a period of pain and if I am lucky I can stop it before it get terrible. Keep your fingers crossed. Resting and work outs is what the coming month will be about, and hopefully this will stop. Well, I need some help from the weather too, it can't be to moist or wet, then I will be toast! LoL

I have another card to show today. It's a shaped card and I am really bad at making them and need to exercise that way lot more than I have. Not to talk about my bad hand cutting skills. LoL Oh well, take it for what it is and the thought is what's counts right? I got a friend that enjoys handbags, clothes and shoes so I had to make something like that for her birthday and this is the result of that.

The image used is one of the older ones from Lili of the Valley. Coloured with my Letraset family. My designer paper are left overs from a Panduro Tilda pad. Flowers, lace and ribbon is from Wild Orchid Crafts. Swirly die is from Magnolia and the image is cut with spellbinder dies. A pearl maker from Waco is used around the bag and some glitter glue from Rangers and an old button finish it all of. Hope it doesn't scare you away from my blog. I don't know what to think about this creation. But hey, a challenge is always a challenge and this time I gave myself one.

Take care and see you back soon

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Lilis Little Fairies - Anthing but square + DT call
Passion for Promarkers - Swirls and lace
Wild Orchid Craft - Layer it up (hope my four layer + lace counts)

A card made

Hello there! Sitting here once again. It's really hot outside and I don't have any engery left. Was spending the whole day out yesterday in the rain with my parents, kids and partner at Astrid Lindgrens värld. One of our famous writers that mostly wrote for kids. There is a whole kind of amusement park dedicated to her, filled with theater and puppet theater, and games people played in the early 1900's. Good to get away but I am really paying for it today. Sitting here trying not to think about that. 

I was also planing to show a card I made about a week ago or so. The image is from Lili of the Valley, coloured with my Letraset family, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, letter stickers from Panduro, lace is also from WOC, the designer papers are Maja Design; Vintage summer, pearls from Bunny Zoe. And it is an easel card but I never took any pictures of it standing as it wasn't completly dry when I took the pictures in the middle of the night. It was picked up then...

Ok, I feel that I am not funktioning very well here so I better sign of and go and rest instead. 

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

The crafty Pad - To die for (all circle elements are made with dies)

Lili's Little Fairies Challenges - Oh so girly

Crafts and me Challenges - Add some lace

A new card

The kids are playing with a friend this early evening and leave me alone for some time. It feels good. It's some kind of Police game going on as it sounds. I have will try to figure out a way to let the kids have friends over when I am home alone. That has not been working too well before as I have felt so bad and been in so much pain. Now I picked them up from kindergarten and allowed them to take a friend with them home. It felt really good and I feel proud of myself taking on that challenge that comes up when three loud guys get together. LoL

It was kind of strange not having to make a Wendesday post two days ago. I missed it after one week. How strange! Does anyone need a team member for the middle day of the week? LoL Anyway, I might get some more cards made that I could enter other challenges with this way. I have thought that I should play along with the Passion for Promarkers challenges for ages and have not gotten the time for it and the same with Lili's little fairies. This week I mangage this. Woohoo!

Back to my card then, sorry I really don't know when to keep quiet. I have use some wonderful Eco Park papers that only has spots, dots and lines on them in bright wonderful colours and since the theme over at Passion for Promarkers is red white and blue I used these colours for my card. The image is from Lili of the Valley and is called Big Present. Isn't it cute? And I got a card made for next week's birthday marathon. Two parties in two days. And three cards need to be done. The kids knows how to keep you busy don't they. As almost always the image is coloured with my Letraset family. Just some stars used as decorations together with a star doily and a happy birthday in Swedish together with the kids name. The star border is made with a die from Magnolia, the star doily is from Spellbinders.

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
Passion for Promarkers - Red white and blue
Lili's Little fairies - One For the boys
Here comes the boys - Anything goes