It's time for some fun again

Good morning fellow crafters. It's time for a new challenge over at For Fun today. This week we are doing a colour challenge. We want your creations to be Brown, yellow and red. Jepp! The colours of fall.

This week we are sponsored by Digi my World again. Thank you so much for that. What you can win, you find out if you pop on over to the For Fun challenges.

For my card this week I have used the Yeehaw cowgirl. Coloured in all those fall colours. DP are from one of the collections from Papermania. Star pins from Inkido, pearls from BunnyZoe. A very clean and simple card. Some images isn't ment to have tons of decos around them, and for me this is one of them. :)

So I hope to see you over at For Fun this week and I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
Make it Monday  - Anything goes
Come and get it Challengs - Red brown organge
I did it creations - Anything goes

Morning to you all!

A very long night has finally come to an end. Someone that what wants to buy a fighting knee joint? I'm so tired of it! So much for an op, changing from one kind of pain to another. How fun! NOT! OK, I'm done complaining. On the bright side, I made a card during the night. It would have been a big waste of time just laying around doing nothing. So I used the PFP sketch again and came up with this.

The papers are from Papermania and the image is a Mo Maning one, I just adore it. Well I adore all images with cats on it, that's just who I am. Flowers are from Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts. The lace is also from WOC. Coloured with promarkers of corse.

Love n hugs

Marie

The papershelter challenge is back!

Happy Wendsday! It's time to celebrate dads around the world as it seems. The theme of the week is...

Glad for Dad!

Here in Sweden we don't celebrate that until fall comes, so I went for a birthday card instead. Felt a little closer to home. It's male and it says "Congratulations" in Swedish. As there is a bunch of bikers in the family I can use this image over and over and over. Have I ever told that it's one of my top threes ever? Don't ask me why. It is just like that, unexplainable. :)

This time colored with my dear old promarkers/trias and combined with a bunch of papers from MME  may be? I do need to write down what I do or make the posts right away. I have the memorie of a gold fish. Buttons from Papermanina and stash. In the buttons some bakers twine in black and white. Dies used are from Sizzix (the stars) and the gate thing is from Tim Holtz. A dynamo stripe that says the congrats.

The prizes is just as always a digi of your own choise if you enter without a TPS image and a wooping $15 voucher to use in the TPS store.

I was also lucky enough to see that the challenge over at Simon says stamp has the theme of Fathers day / male card so I enter this one into that lovely challenge.
And with this I leave you for now, stay tuned for the For Fun post later on today. The link to the challenge is found in my sidebar.

With love n hugs
Marie

Here comes the For Fun challenge

Hello again! Second post for today and now it's time for the For Fun Challenge which is to use a bunch (at least three) of the following colours

Purple, pink, blue, yellow or green

This should be a great colour combo for a spring card, and or Easter that is coming up soon. For this challenge we are sponsored by MelJens again. Be sure to pay them a visit and look at their fabby selection of digis.

With all that said, here comes my card for you to take inspiration from. I have managed to use all the colours in the challenge. Candies are great that way, comes in all colours! :) I have combinded the whole thing with DP from Papermania I believe that have been laying around unused for ages. Pearls from BunnyZoe and flowers from the one and only Wild Orchid Crafts.

And with this I leave you for today.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Create4Fun - The lovely sketch

At just For Fun this week...

...Mardi Gras is coming. OK, this was really hard. I had no clue about that event. Thanks to Google I could learn a bit about it. (We don't have many of these happenings here in Sweden.) And it looks like if you don't have a costume on you should wear the colours

Green, purple and gold

And that is what you are supposed to use on your cards for the challenge over at For Fun this week. Had a little trouble finding an image for these colors and had to think long and hard about it. Then I thought of this little uninked Tilda from Magnolia that I have had in my stash forever, and she do look fabby in Mardi Gras colors if I might say so. :) I have colored her with Aquamarkers from Letraset and some twinkling H2O's for the golden details. It might not show very well in the photo but it's a nice golden glitter to it IRL.

This time it's DP from Papermania that is used. Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and half pearls from BunnyZoe. Some stickles is used on the flowers and butterflies as well. Ok, I think I leave you with that. As usual one of my kids is sick, so it will be a day spent infront of the TV and tons of cartoons and may be a book or two.

Take care and love n hugs for you all,
Marie

Hi and hello!

I am back! Have finally managed to get a card together for a few challenges. The day has so many more hours when you don't sleep during the day. - smile - It helps even more when the kids are away at kindergarten. Being (quite) healthy again. Gives back a little more energy and now do I start to feel a little better from my flue as well. In other words just a little bit more happiness around the house at the moment.

This little cutie of an image is from LOTV and I've coloured with my promarkers. Such wonderful little friends they are, the markers I mean. The designer paper this time is from Papermania if I'm not totally lost. Love the colours here. I feel that I need a little spring time in my life. I am not a spring person, but it feels like we are running out of sun light around here at the moment. But the days are slowly getting longer and that's nice after this long winter. The sketch is from Dawny at LOTV, and to be fair it should be a sentiment right bottom as well, but it looked wrong of some reason so I left it out for now. Looked unbalanced, probably because I have not used any decorations on this card.

So now I leave you to go and watch a recorded (!!!) game from the world cup of Hand ball. Yes, I know record is nuts, but when they play at 18.00 there is now way with kids around that you can enjoy the game. So recorded it is. I wish I had been there. Love this game!

Challenges for this card:
Passion for Promarkers - All you need is love
LOTV - Sketch
I love Promarkers - K.I.S.S. (Keep it sweet and simple)

Take care now and love n hugs for you all.
Marie

Vintage or Shabby Chic at Passion for promarkers

Hi all!

This week at PFP the theme is vintage or shabby chic. I got a great idea from a new blogging friend who had made boxes like these. Thanks Annelie! Such a fun project and practical little gift as well. I thought of decorating a matching candelight as well but there is too little time at the moment.

For my vintage look I've used as Santa stamp from papermaina, DP from Bearly Mine Design, a swirly stamp from Heidi Grace, big flower from Reprint and the roses from Wild Orchid Craft. Some half pearls from Bunny Zoes and stickles from TH. Some golden embossing powder is also used. Lots of gluing and this is what you end up with.

Have a wonderful day!

xMarie

Just Magnolia meets Let's ink it up

For the first time in months I finally found the time to take part in the Just Magnolia Challenge were Dawny has drawn a lovely sketch for us all to follow. I turned my card into an easle card this time as it is kind of fun to make them. At Let's ink it up the theme is favorite stamp with the twist of a charm. Let's ink it up does also have a DT call if anyone is intrested in giving it a try. And charms are added. I won some wonderful sweet fabric butterflies in a christmas challenge. A goodie bag filled with different decorations and I totally fell in love with this butterflies.

It was really hard to photograph this card today. One minute cloudy, the next sunny and the wind is awful. The card was about to take off during the photo shoot. :) DP are from Papermania, flowers from WOC, butterflies from Altheas Mix and the metall one is from Pagoni, web ribbon Bunny Zoe and the half pearls from Joanna Sheen.

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Marie

Bildmålarna goes Passion for Promarkers

My second finished card for today and I am pretty amazed that I got it together. The colouring took forever as I had a friend from Stockholm here this week and everytime we sat down to make cards and scrap we talked so much that nothing much got done. :) But it was a lovely time! Thanks Ewa!

The card is made with the sketch from Passion for Promarkers with the fall colours that is the theme. Bildmålarnas challenge has bling and glitter for a theme.

This image is from Bildmålarnas new August kit and this is the sweetest of them all in my mind. She's coloured with promarkers of course and so are the croched blings as well as they were white and green with silver in the middle. On with some fall colours and some golden glitter and the fall was suddenly here. Some punched flowers and leafes and half pearls. DP are Papermania and I absolutly hate them but this card tured out really great. The boarder is made with one of the new Magnolia dies.

So of for some TV-watching and hot cocco. Having a sour throat and are freezing. I do think fall is really here!

Take care and hugs,

Marie

Passion for Promarkers sketch and theme

Good evening to you all! here comes another card made by me for the PFP challenge. Pop on over and look at the great sketch on the blog. Up this week is a sketch together with a theme. Many blogs out there want us to make male cards this week as it seems to be Father's day around the corner. Here in Sweden it comes in November or maybe October so it feels a little bit early to do a card for that day. But we have many brithdays coming up and then it will be really useful to have a few male cards around as well. :)

The image is from Lili of the Valley. DP are from Papermania. A die cut star made with the Spellbinders and some old buttons from stash. Not many left of those wonderful wooden ones now. How will I survive? :) Much more fun to work with those than the plastic ones.

It's short and sweet today as I have spent "some" time writing letters today. And my body says - Hey, enough is enough and I better listen to that. I don't want to get sick again.

Take care all of you!
Hugs,
Marie

Good morning out there!

Back in the blog land again. Finished a card last night and now I finally got the chance to take my photos of it, "in between" the rain showers that seems to be the theme of the day here. Cherry blossoms are in full bloom now. When it started it only took a day and now the whole tree is covered in flowers. Looks lovely.

For this card I kind of got flower crazy. Tons of roses both on the DP from Papermanias Henbury lane and with the roses from Wild orchid crafts. There is also a few fantasy flowers inside the card together with roses and hydrenias from Prima. Glitter, half pearls, charms, hatpins, butterflies, pearl string, metal string... all covers my card this time. The images are from Magnolia from the latest collection "Fairytail". I've used "Midsummer Tilda", "Fairy Tilda" and "Fantasy flower". The card closes with a magnetic button.

You wont believe how much fun I had making this card. I spent most of the other day down in the basement where I got all my stuff and worked on this card and another one that I altered between while this was drying.

So with this said I want to enter my card in to a few challenges
* Passion for Promarkers - theme mythical/fantasy (my little fairies are there, two of them)
* Papertake weekly - say it with flowers
* Just Magnolia - one for the girls
* Simon says - tent card and charms

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,
Marie

Just a card

Had a little time left over the other day and came up with this lilac card. It's all coloured with promarkers. Even shale is used, first time! I'm so proud of myself. And do you know what? My collection of promarker pens are now complete! Every single colour now lives in my crafting space! Woohoo! They are so cute! :)

Well back to reality! This card is made in lilac and silver with a stamp from papermania I think. I thought I needed so more grown up stamps to complement all my cuties. So I started of with this one.

Now back to normal boring life, cooking dinner! Order out may be?

Take care and hugs for you all,

Marie

Passion for promarkers week 49

This week it's time to follow a sketch and to make your own flowers at Passion for Promarkers. Can't believe that I found this hard. Maybe because my mind is of trying to create some wedding invitations for my brother and his fiancé. I have only a rought sketch ready, but hey! I have several more days to make them, eeeh? Well, there is always night time. :)

Michelles sketch looks like this

My card is made with yet another one of the sweet images from Lili of the Valley. They are really growing on me and are becoming big time favourites for me. Delish to colour as well. You really should try some of this cuties. :)

So, since my card is a little small and my DP kind of busy I decided to have a little different look at the sketch and used only the "outside"/stripe of the circle. I also replaced one of the layers behind the image with a piece of acetate. So all layers are there just a little harder to spot them compared to if I had used papers instead. Have used raffia in a natural colour to fit in with all my green and brown colours.

Have done two types of square flowers, a little more "boyish" I hope. The small ones just a couple of squares glued together in different angles with a bling stone in the middle. The bigger ones are also made from squares that I have cut into the corners, and folded one piece into the middle from each flap. In the middle a tiny square and a button. At first I only wanted the big ones but they looked to bulk on the side of the image so they ended up like this instead. Inspiration came from my youngest kids kindergarten ward where they have a huge "wheel" like that. It's so much summer in that. Used to have those when I was a kid as well, and run around in my grannys garden with my brothers. Those where the days ha?

Papers are from MME, buttons and bling Papermania and it's coloured with the promarkers of corse.

So this is all from me for today. I wish you a wonderful evening and hope it's warmer where you are! Brrr, has anyone seen spring?

Hugs,
Marie

Ps: I think I enter this for the Lili of the Valley challenge as well. The theme there is Here comes summer. It's not typical summer colours but the boys having cookies out and drinking lemonade could really be my own two ones.

Lili of the Valley challenge No 51 and PFP

G'day!
After a cold and snowy night! Yep, you read right it snowed again last night, all covered in with , but now it has started to rain. Thank you for that! I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw all that white stuff again. Never thought I would be pleased with some rain coming down. :) A first for everything I guess.

Todays card is made for two challenges Lili of the Valley and Passion for Promarkers entry no 2. (Theme in the garden) I've used a real cutie from LOTV stamps. "Me and my cat" I think it's called. A little girl and her cat sitting on a stair with a BIG flower pot behind them. Really sweet. The card is based on Bev's wonderful sketch of corse, looking like this.

My little card

Papers are from the ever so popular Papermania "Rose Garden". Most cards I've seen has used the pinky stuff, I thought that I go with the green and blue. Goes well with my lilac and blue colours for this card. I've used some cherry blossoms and pin from Wild Orchid Craft, some leafs made with QC, olive coloured ribbon. Silver charm from Pagoni, half pearls from Inkido and some bronze coloured stickles from Rangers. Of course the little darlings are coloured with promarkers.

Have really good day!
Marie

Tilda as Snow white

Sunday again! Doesn't the weekend pass way to qickly? Grey weather today as well and as a letter in the mail my joints are not feeling too well. I just want to go and sleep and wake up when it all has passed. What a wonderful dream!

Last night when Mr Sandman forgot to pay me a visit I made this card with one of the new Tildas from the Spring kit. Lots of sweet stamps in there. I've coloured her with my promarkers and used DP from Bo Bunny I believe. I've bought so many stripy ones recently that I can't hold them apart. Lace is from Wild orchid crafts. I coloured it with one of my promarkers to fit the colours. Flowers are from Panduro but I kind of embossed them with the Swiss dots instead of keeping the original look. Buttons from Papermania, half pearls in gold from Bunny Zoe. Letter stamps from Panduro as well.

My white pen kind of ruined the image as it smeared the red colour. Please prettend that it's not there. -LoL-

The card is for following challenges

* Just Magnolia - sketch and option of Thank you

* Cupcake Craft Challenges - Childhood Memories (Snow white representing all books that I used to read as a kid).

* Simon Says challenges - Movie theme. I guess my move is pretty clear isn't it? :) And the flowers are dry embossed...

Well of to bed for some rest and heat on my back. Take care, who knows I might even get back later on with a new card if some energy pops up again. :)

Hugs,

Marie

Passion for Promarkers "The young ones"

Hi and hello!
MI here again. Have produced a little card again. Huge problems getting this together. The young ones are not my theme, that's for sure. And I have to put TWO birthday cards together for my nieces who turns 6 years old today. Yepp! Twin girls! Lucky for me I still have some time to do it as they are away and ski in "Sälen" and won't be home for some days. But I do need to get them done during the weekend. Hope there will be some new Magnolia stamps in my mailbox tomorrow. That would make it easier.

Well then, time for me to show of this strange card of mine. It's as the header says made for PFP.
Here we go...

All dressed in pink, and I used brown ink for this image. Maybe that's why I don't get in together for real. DP are from Papermania, Sweet nothing I think it's called. I love the back ground paper, but it was harder to work with than I thought. The little "Tindra" girl is from Magnolia, have used a few clear dew drops in the corners and BB cardstock in purple and white. Also a white pen for the fake stitching to get more white in to the card. Holds it together better that way.

Well friends, this was all about this little creation. Hope you'll have a good evening!

Hugs,

Marie