Challenge time

Morning to you all! Hope the day is filled with sunshine and happiness. Myself is preparing to go to "Folkuniversitetet" where I have my "get back to working life" meeting of the week. Should have been the stables as well, but I am in way too much pain for that today. My right leg is refusing to straighten out at this point. So no good idea going to the stables then, besides I got tons of pain when I went there last. I am not really sure it's such good idea to be there for me unfortunately.

We have a new challenge up for you over at the Bearly Mine Challenges this week. The theme is set to "Spring flowers". That means we want to see some of them on your creation. Not that hard I hope?

For my card have I used one of Donnas new digi sets called Floral Surprise and Mini Dots. Don't ask why I used that soft organge mini dot stripe, I should have gone for something more bold but now it's too late. LoL The image is from The stamping boutique and is called Tulips. Tulips was my grandmothers favourite flowers and I had here in my mind when making this card. It's a little more than a week since she passed now and I will miss her dearly. She was over 98 years old and very senile so it was a blessing for her, still...

The image is coloured with my Letraset Family and added details with my Prisma pencils. The daisy flowers are from the Ribbon girls and I made the leaves with a boss cut die. Gemstones from Magnolia. And the card design is inspired by a sketch from Little Claire Designs. I love the clean look of this design even if I have altered it slightly. Artistic freedom, right?

Our sponsors this week is I am Roses and The Greeting Farm. More info is found over the challenge blog.

Do please come and join us and spread some flowers into the world! We could all use some colours in our lifes.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Little Clarie Designs - Sketch and spring theme (Nothing says spring more to me than tulips, hope I have not gone to far from the sketch, wasn't my attention to mess it up.)
ABC Challenges - 1 - 2 - 3 (I have used 3 designer papers, two daisy flowers and 1 image)
My Craft Spot - Anything goes
Sparkle and Sprinkle - Use a digi

Here comes For Fun!

This time I have really challenge myself with the For Fun Challenge. Yepp! I try to do that every now and then, but this time I think I have taken water over my head! I wanted to do one layer, CAS card. And this mess is what I ended up with. Wanted to trash it, but I am a little short of time at the moment so, it had to go like this.

Our theme is Crochet flower(s) over at For Fun. So we want to see at least one of those bought or hand made. I make my own as I find it very relaxing sitting infront of the TV with yarn and needle of all kind. I have combinde two different ones and glued them together. It was a little to pale with only the white on this card, my photographic skills has gone on holiday and therefor my colours are a tiny bit strange looking. Oh well, should not complain, we all have those days. The flower image is from our Sponsor Little Claire's and the sentiment stamp is from "Prickig Form" if I do remember right. Not to be found anymore.

This week we are sponsored by the lovely Little Claire. Be sure to swing by to have a look at all wonderful stuff they have over there. This is what Little Claire has to say: Little Claire Designs are a UK design company who are taking the cardmaking and scrapbooking industry by storm in the UK after 9 years craft retailing we now design and manufacture our exclusive ranges and hope to branch out to Europe and the US in 2012. We have 4 great new Digi DVD’s coming out in July 2011 full of our images to add to your collections.
We design, cd’s, Digi’s, stickers, cutting dies and clear stamps, we have a very low postal rate so everyone in the world can enjoy our designs and hope everyone likes the latest challenge using our designs. xx Little Claire xx

Now it's time to go and take a little rest and gain some new energy, I seem to have lost it somewhere.

Love n hugs
Marie