It's time for a Bearly Mine Challenge again

Good Morning to you all! I nearly forgot it was time to post this challenge. It has already been another two weeks, and we are back with a new challenge for you all. This week we are doing

Die cuts and Lace

Tons of lovely dies and punches out there that you can use for this challenge and I bet there is almost as many different styles of lace as well. I've gone for a fabric one but you might like a paper one. What do I know? :)

As usually we have a lovely bunch of sponsors that support us this time as well. Be sure to pop by and give them your support. Where would we be without them?

Fred She Said - $20 Gift Certificate

Crafts and Me - 6 Digi's of the Winner's Choice

Teddy Bo - Teddy Bo Trio

Bearly Mine Designs - 2 Digi sets of the Winner's Choice

With all this said I might show you a card for inspiration as well. Don't freak out now, but I have made a Christmas card. I know we're getting close to summer and all that but I totally fell in love with this image from Crafts and Me and knew I just had to make a card with it. Sometimes you can't help yourself, can you? LoL This wonderful image is called "Gift of Winter".

I have used lots of snowflakes that are punched out by my sons that believes punching is a way of life. They would probably do it for hours if I let them, but being three and four years old I think they should be out and play as well. That is so I can get left alone and keep doing my crafting. ;) The swirls are from a Marianne die, and the sentiment circle is made with two different spellbinders. Before I forgot, the sentiment is from LOTV, but I had to retype it as it didn't fit the style of the card, and it was kind of too small in it's original form, but I felt it was as made for this card so here it is. I have used a left over paper piece to "stamp" the snow flakes on the sentiment circle with Faded jeans distress ink. Suddenly my snow flake stamps had gone for a walk and still hasn't shown up. Hopefully they will be back in time for the rest of my Christmas cards.

I have covered my swirls with diamond dust and the snow flakes are cut in silver mirri board and silver card. All of them has pale blue pearls on them. The swirl stamps are from Whiff of Joy and to have even more bling and swirls I cut up one of the chrystal swirls from Prima. Still lots left to use for another card. Sneaky me! Lace is from Wild Orchid, the pearls from BunnyZoe. And the designer papers are from Bearly Mine's "Christmas Wonderland" and "Christmas Fun" (The lower one)

OK, I better let you go now, I talk waaay tooo much even here in my blog. Never knows when it's time to keep quiet. I hope you enjoy your crafting and pop on over to the Bearly Mine Challenge blog to see what my teamies has been up to.

Love n hugs for you all

Marie

Challenges for this card
Crafty Cardmakers - Embossing (All the swirl around the image is heat embossed in silver)
Stamps r us - Going digital (Both my image and the DP are digis)
There she goes - Easel cards (Just what I have done! :) )
Papertake Weekly - Pale Pretty Pastels (Hope my icy colours count as that)

It's birthday time at For Fun this week!

Hi everyone! I am back again with another card for the For Fun Challenges. It is already one year since Helen started this challenge blog and this week it's time for birthday celebration, with that in mind it's not strange that the theme for this weeks challenge is

Birthdays!

This time we are sponsored by the lovely Michell Perkett Studio. Please do visit this lovely digi store. There is some wonderful digis.

Michelle Perkett is an artist who believes the world can always us more kindness, innocence, inspiration and color. She lives in beautiful Southern California, and has an incredibly unique, and positively happy style in her art. She has a magical store filled with angels, fairies, mermaids, and wonderful images, bound to delight you!

Michelle’s first love is her art. She has run her art business for over 6 years and is spreading worlwide with Etsy and devoted crafters. She tries to live the way she creates her art; with love, happiness, peace, harmony, joy, friendship, kindness and inspiration and hopes that she inspires other people to do the same.

Lately I've started to use more and more digi stamps and that means more and more promarker and copic colouring. For me that comes with a "cleaner" style of my cards as well. This one is no exception but with some extra swirls and punches it becomes a little more. The digi stamp I've used this time is called "Bella the Baker". I've added some glossy accent to all of the flowers for some nice shine. Coloured with promarkers she is. The flowers are made with a die from Marianne's and so is the swirls. A heart boarder punch from MS is used along with some ribbon that was a free bee from a Magazine some year ago. The designer paper is from my friend Donna's store, and I actually think this is one of here freebees. Not certainly sure as I have a smaller mountain of her papers printed on my desk. Easy acces you know. :)

So I do hope you will join in with our birthday celebrations over at For Fun this week. We would love to see you there! And with this, love n hugs for you all,

Marie

I am also entering this card to the Challenge over at Michell Perketts challenge blog The theme is open, all you have to do is to use a MPS image on your creation!

A card made for "Kort i Fokus"

This card I show you today I start to take part in a Swedish challenge called "Kort i Fokus" but I never finished it in time. It is like that every now and then you know. I couldn't decide if it was ready or not. In the end I didn't put anything more on it. Maybe a little sentiment would have been nice. Not too late before I send it away is it?

Anyway, I've used an image from Whiff of Joy, coloured her with inkadinks brights. Flowers are from Wild Orchid crafts, spellbinders scalloped and ordinary circles are used, ribbon from Panduro, DP bought from Skaparlusten, Punsh from MS. A pink pearlmaker has also been out to decorate the card.

Hope you'll have a wonderful day!
Hugs,
Marie

Get sketchy no 26

Time to try a new sketch challenge, Get Sketchy. A nice a and simple design that I liked to work with. The sketch looks like this. Have tried to get this out on the blog the whole day but blogger has not been working very good today, at least not in my computer. But now finally, here we go! :)

For my card I have used DP from Panduro once again. Sorry but I like the colours in them. And I want to use as much of the scraps that I posible can when I like them. :) Don't save and don't use them later... But I have got my eye on some wonderful papers from MME. Favourite brand of mine. The image used on this card, is once again from Bildmålarna.se As I think "Mimo" is so cute. He is coloured with distress inks. Papers as I said from Panduro. Have used Swiss dots for embossing the brown cardstock. Cardworks Candy in the corners, MS boarder punch and a Swedish "Happy birthday" sentiment from Magnolia. That my friends complets my card. Hope you like!

Time to go to bed and hopefully get some sleep. Not that easy since Sweden just took another gold medal in the Olympic games, the cross country ski team (men) did a wonderful race tonight. Wonder if I might have any skiing stamps to make a card with? Hmmm...

Take care and hugs,
Marie