Two word sentiment

Morning and hello! What a week I had so far, chasing my tail every single minute but now it soon weekend and I really need that.

I am here to share with you a card made for our second week of the challenge "two word sentiment" over at Aud sentiments. This is yet another birthday card I've made and well. I am not sure about this one. I love the colours and the dps and everything but... Maybe because I had to rush the card fairly much. It has been so much going on here lately and my craft room is still not ready. I have stuff in the whole living room and the TV-room and really no place to sit down to do my creations and then it gets hard to motivate myself. I hope that we will finish the roof later on this week and then in with the new floor so that I can get my stuff into the room again in some kind of order. Can't wait for that but it's going slow, really slow. So much to do, such short days! LoL

The image is called Cupcake Honey and is found over at Scrapper's delight. She's coloured with my Letraset Markers and then paired up with my NitWit/LOTV dp's. They are so lovely and colourful. And easy to find as most of my dp's are stashed away. Didn't thought it would take so long to finish my room. LoL As decorations have I used a doily and some "e-dots" that I got from my blogging buddy Annelie. A border punch from somewhere is used to cut one of the panels with. Letter stickers from Panduro to say "Happy Birthday Elin" in Swedish.

Well, I think this is all for today. I am really tired and it's quite painful in my back at the moment, end of the week you know. I see you tomorrow again with a new creation for the Winter Wonderland.

Love n hugs

Marie

Papertake weekly - Happy anything (Happy birthday in this case)
Scrapper's delight - Anything goes
Digi galore - It's all about her
Daring cardmakers - Bake off (cup cakes etc)

Gingham, plaids and checks

Hello and good morning and all of that! Hope your doing fine and enjoying your week so far. Just letting you know that we have a new challenge up over at Passion for Promarkers and the theme

Gingham, plaids or checks

How does that sounds for a challenge? Nice and easy I hope. So use either or more on your creation. Colour with your Letraset Markers and then come and play with us. This week we are sponsored by the Digi Stamp Boutique, and the prize is a voucher worth £10 to spend in the store. How great isn't that?

Here is a snap shot of my card. It shows baby Edwin from Magnolia. Of course coloured with my Letraset Markers. He is paired up with som lovely dps from NitWit / Lili of the Valley. It's a combo from Pastel Dream and Up in the air, I think the pads are called.

The decorations is only made with two small paper punches in two sizes from Woodware. The sentiment is made with two kinds of alphabets from Panduro. Nice and easy for a little kid turning two.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Papertake Weekly - Happy... (Happy birthday in Swedish)
Fan-tastic Tuesday - make it square
Magnolia Down Under - Happy birthday
Crafting from the heart -  Anything goes

Bingo + sentiment

Good morning to you all! Hope you had a good week so far and that you'll have a great weekend too when it's here. Had a bit of a tough days with a little bit more pain than I had for a few days. Time to slow down in other words. It's my own fault as I got so much energy from the work training that I have over done it. Time to pay the prize but it will be fine soon I hope.

It's time for the B-team over at Aud sentiment to bring you some inspiration for our Bingo challenge. On top of making one of the rows complete in the bingo board you need to have a sentiment on your creation. After all we are named AUD Sentiments, so always a sentiment when playing with us, ok?

We are sponsored this week by  My Artistic Adventure - and in addition we are pairing up with Add a Little Dazzle for this challenge. This means that we will have TWO WINNERS this week! A Gift Certificate to Add A Little Dazzle and a $10 Gift Certificate to My Artistic Adventure.

For my card have I used Vintage Easter postcards 1. I used one of the images with blue around them and made the size match my card. I have once again used Maja Design Vintage spring for my card. And before I forget it I tell you that I match up both middle rows : something pink, flowers and glitter/bling and the rows that goes with paper punch, flowers and lace. 

My mind likes clean shapes and straight lines, well supposed to be straigth at least and this card really shows that. Three different dp's and then the cute topper that reminds me of my granny who always sent Easter cards, often painted by an artist that used his/hers mouth or toes to draw and paint. I still have them. I never do any decoration or stuff like that for Easter. Stopped doing that when the cats I had before decided that they where there for them to "kill". But I really enjoy making my Easter cards. This year I even think I have to send some away. LoL

I don't remember where the lace punch used is from, but I find it sweet. :) The flowers are from WOC and I am Roses. Lace is from Pysseltagen, it might be Prima as brand. Pearls from Bunny Zoe, stickle from Rangers. The pink flower dots are from a store here in Sweden that isn't around anymore. Feathers that is hardly seen from Panduro I think. 

Well, I think this is it. I hope you like my creation and will come and join us over at AUD sentiments this last of our Bingo weeks.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Creative Knockouts - Border time
Inspiration Destination - Anything goes
Clear it out challenges - Anthing goes/anything goes (clearing item: dps)
Papertake weekly - Anything goes twist flowers (hand made, didn't get that far)

A new year and a new post

Good morning and welcome back to MI and a new crafty year. I wish you all the best for the new year and hope it brings you just what you wish for. I have taken all the time I could not to touch the computer the last few weeks because I wanted to give my shoulder a chance to heal. Well, it didn't help so, time to call the doc and see if she can help me out.

Even if it has been a time with lots of pain it has also been a lot of fun and that's good. Have spent quite a lot of time watching soccer! This time of the year is filled with indoor tournaments for the boys and it's a lot of fun to watch them play. And the coming weekend we'll be going and just watch a tournament without any of the kids playing. When I grew up I used to spend days watching this tournament and we're talking 25 - 30 hours in three days here. I still enjoy it, a lot even if I can't spend all that time watching it now.

Well, now the free days are all over and it's time to get back to normal again. And I can't think of a better way to start the New Year of 2015 off, than a challenge over at Passion for Promarkers. This week we have a sketch as our theme and it's a bit tricky but fun to work with. I think I need some bigger dies and a better die cutting machine and...

This is the fabby sketch. Told you it's a bit tricky but I am sure that you manage to figure something out. I do love the look of this sketch and have a few more ideas on how to use it. As I only have small circle dies my card became quite small but it's also a perfect fit for this little image that I have gotten from my co team leader from the Paper Shelter, Nannieflash. It's a BeBunni image from Crafters Companion. Isn't it cute? Thanks for the lovely stamp Shirley!

I used some scrap paper for this creation, I think they are from Bildmålarna and from Kaiserkraft if not misstaken. I used my old but favourite punch from Fiskars and a ribbon. Only a few little flowers from I am Roses and some letter stickers from Prima spelling out "Thank you" in Swedish. Thought the image was perfect for that. Now, my card looks a bit crocked, but it keeps rolling standing, so I left it like that. It's small and easy to send and I love that.

Well now, I hope you give this great sketch a go and join us over at PFP this week. Me and the rest of the team are all on stand by to come and see what you will do with this magical sketch. Don't forget to use Letraset products to be able to have a shot at the prize and the top spots!

Our sponsor of the week is Letraset with a Manga set of pens for one lucky winner. That's one good prize isn't it?

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Clear it out - Anthing goes and iteme to clear out: Anything goes = scrap pieces of dps is used on this card
Loves rubberstamp challenges - anything goes
Paper take weekly - anything goes
TTCRD - Anything goes

Lace

Such wonderful theme we have for you over at Passion for Promarkers this week. The theme set by my lovely teamie is "LACE". Isn't that just wonderful for a theme? I love lace and have to keep myself from using it on every card I make because they would pretty much look the same then I think. But today it's ok to use it, and then I make a really simple card.

I have used James the bear from Lili of the Valley. This old is an favourite of mine and I coloured quite a few last year of them. Hope I don't send him to someone who has already gotten him on a card. LoL I have paired him up with the wonderful Paper pack from Dovecraft called Krafty Christmas once again. I love this pack, such lovely mix of craft, red, white and blue. I took inspiration from sketch 80 I think from PTW and started from there. I have really gone overbord with all the flowers on this one. Two different kind of glitter glue from TH is used. Red and Picked fence. Some pearls from Bunny Zoe and the lace comes all the way from my friend and teamie Gail over at the Paper Shelter.

Sponsoring this challenge is Letraset with a pack of flexmarkers. How great isn't that? Sometimes I wish I could join the challenges. LoL Lucky you who can enter so come on crafters. It's a nice and easy theme this week.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Creative card crew - Christmas joy
Papertake weekly - 2 or 4 legs
LOTV - Anything goes
Sweet stamp blog - Lovely layers

Oh Baby!

Good morning to you all. Hope you had a great time while I have been home watching sick kids again. It was a whole month since last so not too bad. LoL Another thing happening last week was that I have become an auntie again, to another little baby girl. So the theme set this week for our Passion for Promarkers challenge was very fitting; "Oh Baby!"

I have had this image coloured for a while and have done it with my Letraset Markers and some Prisma pens. I have paired the wonderful image from Teddy Bo with some wonderful fresh designer papers from Lili of the Valley / NitWit collections... I have used the pads called Pastel Dreams and Up Up and away. For the first time in ages I have also made my card an easel one. Fun, fun, fun!

A big bunch of flowers from WOC and I am Roses. Pearls from Bunny Zoe, charm from either Bildmålarna or ROX stamps (short memory or way too many charms). I have also used a few pearls swirls from Prima. Some details made with stamps from LOTV, Magnolia and Stemple Glade. The straws used for the pennants is from Lagerhaus. Ribbon from stash and yes it is bright but not as bright as showing on my photos. Eerk! I have used some gesso on top of the flowers and then some old lose glitter that I found laying around.

Well, that's about it for this card. Sponsoring us this week is Letraset with a set of Metallic markers. How useful for the coming Christmas season. Remeber that you have to use Letraset products to have a chance on the prize!

Ok my friends. I see you tomorrow again with a new card for our new challenge over at the Paper Shelter. Until then...

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Papertake weekly - Super fly (any things with wings)
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything goes
TTCRD - Anything goes
Bunny Zoes - Animals (bird and two bears)

Stars or hearts

Morning everyone! A new card for you today. Today is TPS-day here on my blog and for this new challenge over at the Paper Shelter, which by the way has the theme of Stars and/or hearts, have I made a card using both. 

We are quite a few who has used the same image for this challenge so there is plenty of different inspiration going on for the challenge and the image "Reach for the stars". I however couldn't help myself and used DP's with hearts on to pair up with the image. They come from an old collection from Bildmålarna that I really love. 

I have coloured my image on some craft card with prisma pens this time. I had a period of doing that and this is a left over from that period. I have only used a few die cuts to decorate the card with. The star border is from Magnolia and the stars in the corners are made with a Joanna Sheen confetti die. 

As always we have a gift voucher worth $30 up for grabs if you play with any TPS product. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning three (3) digis of your choice. 

Sweet and short today as Philip my youngest is home from school having fever for the third day in a row. Wonder when it will break? And will Willy stay of the cold? The story continues. And I who just started a new class. It will be late work tonight I think. Sorry about by photo by the way, a very bright sun of fall is shining today. I need to learnn how to handle this. I am still working with my messy craft room to give it some more space hopefully and to that I hope it will come a place to take better photos. :)

Enjoy your day!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes
4 Crafty Girls - Anything goes
My heart Pieces - Use a digital image
Crafting by designs - Anything goes
Pennys Challenge - Anything goes
CCC Digi challenge - Things with wings /digi
Doodle pantry - Any digi goes

Sketch time over at Passion for Promarkers

Morning and hello everyone! Hope you're having a great week so far. I feel fine and just wish for the rain to go away. Hate having to ride my bicycle when it rains. LoL Well, I could go by the bus but it would take me about an hour longer each way. And that I am not in the mood for...

This week's theme over at Passion for Promarkers is a sketch looking like this. Isn't it lovely?

I've been a bit naughty and turned the sketch one step to the left, and then I actually was even more naughty putting the ribbon on the back of the circle and made it way broader. And well, the ribbon turned into a "paper ribbon". 

My image(s) are from the the Digi Stamp Boutique who is sponsoring this week. The cuteste little snow men on earth is from the set "Snow fun". Aren't they totally cute? Of course coloured with Letraset Markers. Just like you need to do if you want a chance on this weeks prize. I have used designer papers from my Christmas box and I am guessing a bit here. I think that they are from Dove Craft and from DCWV. 

All the little snowflakes are made with a punch from Wood craft. Gemstones from stash just as the ribbon used for the bow. Pearlstring from ROX stamps. Pearls from Bunny Zoe and the dotty things have I gotten as a bithday gift from my friend Annelie. The punch used for the middel part is from Fiskars, an old favourite. Circle dies are from sizzix. Walnut stain around all the dp's and the image for definition. I got a bit of shadows on my photo once again. Sorry about that. I am remaking my crafting room/office and it will be better when I am done with that. Just take a "liiiittle" time. Too much to dive into without planing which was done during the weekend when a lot of other things should have been done. LoL

Ok my friends. Time for me to let you go. This week is a busy one here at my blog, so keep visiting. Anyway, have a good week and see you soon. Tomorrow if you're up to it. Time to show of a new Paper Shelter card. 

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Paper take weekly - Die cuts
Clear it out challenges- Anything goes (Stash: old papers)
Digi Choosday - Pearls and bling
Try it on Tuesday - Use your stash (Old papers finally getting to work again if they ever have before) :)

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

A forgotten card

Happy Swedish National day! To the rest of you happy Friday. Taking a few minutes to write a few words and post a card before a long day at the soccer fields starts. For now the sun is shining, just hope it will do it for the rest of the day as it's the final day of soccer school tonight as well. Would be nice if it wasn't so wet then. :) It started with rain the other day, ok yesterday and for Willy's game starting in an hour and a half there is some sunshine. Please stay that way!

I found a card laying around in the computer and I don't think I have shown this one before, if I have I appologize. This card was once again made for a friend of my kids. I have used one of my favourite boy images from the Paper Shelter for this card and it's called Extreme.

He is coloured with my normal Letraset markers and paired up with some designer papers from Echo Park which is perfect for boy's cards. I'm sorry that the photo is such strange one, but the card is long gone. I will see if we can fix it later on.

The only decorations is a few Card Candies in brown. Some foam letters to spell the name of the kid and his age. Nice and easy, just as a card for a boy should be in my opinion.

Ok my friends, it's time to leave for the first hours at the soccer fields and then we get home for a while to rest before we start over again. LoL

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Paper take weekly - Anything goes
4 crafty Girls challenges - Anything goes
CRAFT Challenge - Fathers day / Male
I Love Promarkers - Digi does it
Simon says - fathers day Male 
Papermake up stamps - Anything goes
Corrosive Challenges - Anything goes

A late girly girl...

Hi and happy to see you here. Having huge trouble with my hands not wanting to work with me, I am a bit late with my new card. My fingers are looking a bit like little sausages this week, and they hurt, badly. Can only get better, can't it?

Better try to keep this short. Takes forever writing with one hand. The new theme over at the Paper Shelter is Girly Girl card. That means we want to see a card that is what you woud think of thinking girly. Like pink, pearls, ribbons, lace. An image with a gal or something that you "connect" with girls like make up, clothes, etc.

Well then, I have taken a half finished card that I started weeks ago and used it to make my girly card. It was really not this that was planned from the beginning. It was good that I had something that was pre cut. Help me finishing this card. The DP's are from Maja Design, vintage spring.

The image is called Just me. She is so sweet and I really enjoyed colouring her even if it took me forever this time. She's a real doll. She is coloured with my Letraset markers.

I gave up on the photo. I am really having a hard time getting a good photo of this card. This have to do... grr

I have used a few dies from Magnolia and Joy crafts. A MS punch that I finally bought after thinking long and hard about it. I don't regret it. It's very useful and looks lovely. Flowers from WOC as well as the chees cloth. Pearl string, lace,  ribbon and the zip handle from ROX stamps. Pearls from Bunny Zoe and the doily from Panduro. The rose lace is from WOC or The Ribbon girls, can't really remember. Walnut stain used for distressing the edges.

As always we have a gift voucher worth $30 up for grabs if you play with any TPS product. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning three (3) digis of your choice. Isn't that just great? 

Ok this is it from me for today. I hope you'll come and join us over at the Shelter this week. It's always so great to see what you come up with for our challenges.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Paper take weekly - Pretty pastels + gdt call 
Everybody Art challenge - Shabby Chic (hope this counts...)
Bunny Zoe - Flowers and charms
Fitztown challenges - Shabby Chic
Lexis creations - Ribbons and lace
Simon says - M  challenge  (Here M stands for Maja design (dps), many details and the colour of Magneta in all forms)

Yummy food!

Morning! Welcome back to my quiet little corner of the world. I nearly didn't have any post for you today as almost didn't get my card over to the challenge blog. I fell a sleep and for a really long time. LoL It was a good nap but now I am totally lost as I didn't get much sleep last night. The fresh air took the best of me I think, I am not used to being out side as much as I have the last days. Lots of soccer going on for the kids at the moment. Practise and games. We loose but have fun anyway. Well, don't tell Willy that as he is a really sore loser. Well, on Saturday we're at it again. LoL

I am still not well, surprise, surprise! However, it seems like they might be on to something as I got treatment for astma last week and it looks like it might be helping. Still totally clogged in my nose and my eye are running. A bit hard to breath still, but a step forward as it feels. Can't believe that they (= the doctors) manage to find yet another new fresh diagnosis to give me. I think it's number 8 or something in that neighbourhood. At least it might explain all the colds and stuff I have been getting this year. Also cycling on my bike around 20 kms each day has broken down my very unused body and have added to the illnesses. Lets hope it turns around now. I am so tired of all this by now.

Ok, on to something more fun. We have a new challenge up for you today over at Passion for Promarkers. The theme set is "Yummy food". Fun and lots of great images to choose from when it comes to this subject. I didn't realize how many images had food in them before this challenge. There is tons of them!

So some images you just love to bits but don't know what to do with. This is one of those images. I don't remember when Veronica over at the Paper Shelter made this, the only thing I know is that I had yet to use it. It's called Yummy Lethal weapon. A perfect image for me who loves making meatballs. LoL I don't cook much at all, but I love making meat balls. Special flavour? Taco spices! All kids favourites and my brothers love them too. Always have to make them for our birthday parties here. So It might be me who uses the slingshot.

She is of course coloured with my Letraset markers and paired up with some great old designer papers from Magnolia Sweden. I have such big pile of Magnolia papers and I hardly ever use them. Isn't that sad? So I will try to use up some of all the old papers I have got, but to be honest, some I have no clue of why I bought...:)

I didn't use many decorations either, only some pearls and some never used dies from Doo Hickeys (Magnolia again). I even manage to find my silver paper that I have been so careful to save up as we don't have any scrapbooking store here in Kalmar anymore.

Ok finally we have a sponsor for this challenge as well. The kind people of is giving away one stamp to our lucky winner! How great isn't that? And don't forget to take a look at what all my lovely teamies has been up to. There is really some yummy cards for your inspiration over at the challenge blog!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Papertake weekly - Anything goes with option no dps
Digi chooseday - For the kids
Throught the craftroom door - Anything goes 
Crafting from the heart - Anything goes
Papermake up challenges -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

Butterfly kisses

Morning and welcome back to a new slow week here at my blog. The time is so limited at the moment and I am happy each time I manage to get a card done. On top of that I have turned my crafting room up side down and is trying to get a better use of this small room. That means new shelfing in the closets. and since I have to make them on my own, it take so much more time. I can't do very much as I have (always as it seems) nowdays pain in my left shoulder and neck. At least it is a little better since I got the injection a few weeks ago.

Ever since I was a kid I have loved pens, paper, colouring mediums and all things in between that. And I still do enjoy it alot. Which means I have so many different kind colouring mediums that a few gets forgotten. Like my Aquamarkers from Letraset for example. I was sitting the other day trying them and see if they had dried out on me and if they had not decided if I should keep them or not. Only one had dried out and since it was quite nice playing with them, they are staying. And since I felt that I didn't want to throw away all of that expensive paper I for some reason used to try the markers on, I decided to use the scribble scrabble for my card today.

Now, it is a really simple card and totally different from all my cute images that I use almost all the time, I am not sure what I think of this card. At least i think it's a card for a grown up. LoL A really good thing about is that I use only left overs too. I should do that more often.

Anyway, I took my very colourful water colour paper and used one of my butterfly dies and made the base layer with it, and then cut some more butterflies with the matching detailing die. I used a few die cut circles as a back drop to the butterflies and monted bot the circles and the butterflies with foam pads to raise them up a bit. Used some really old golden glitter sticker "lines" from Anitas to give a little more interest to the card and I was done, almost. At the last minute I decided to add some stickles to the butterflies and of course some glitter that I smeared out on the little flying creatures. I love the clean look that the card got and I love the fact that I dared myself to use stuff that I normally would have thrown away, and I made a card in a total different size than I normally do to. It's almost always my boys who uses this size of the card base.

So a fun card to make in all and I feel great using up all of those little pieces that I never would have used otherwise. And maybe most of all, it was great fun to use the Aquamarkers again. I am sure that it was about two years since I last used them. I think I will try to use them a little more. I just need to practise what colours to use for skintones before I get an image out in public again. LoL

With all this said (long post today, sorry) I hope that you will come and join us over at Passion for Promarkers this week. You need to use your Letraset markers to play along and have a chance of winning the lovely prize of the week. We are sponsored by Crafty Sentiments  that offers one winner three digis and Letraset who is offering a 6-pack of flexmarkers. Both great prizes to be won! Good luck everyone!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Anything goes (final challenge)
Crafting from the heart - Anything goes
Love to create - Anything goes
Papertake Weekly - Bingo (Die cuts, free, glitter)
Left of Center Challenges - Anything goes

Anything goes

Morning all you happy people! How are you doing? Hope your having a great week and that the sun is shining on you! Doing my best to cheer every one on here. LoL

It's midweek again and that means a new challenge over at the Paper Shelter and this time we are really going easy, and that has a reason. Stay tuned for that and have a look at the Paper Shelter blog on Friday. For now you have to enjoy our "anything goes" theme that will be on for the coming week.

Follow me regular you know that I have two sons with lots of friends and that means lots of boys cards. This is one in a long row of them. This was for a friend of my youngest son. I love these cheerful little guys that Veronica and Pedro draws. They are fun, charming and keep putting a smile on my face.

This image is called  Extreme! He is coloured with my Letraset markers and paired up with some great designer papers from Echo Park. What would I do without that brand when it comes to boy's cards. Always fun and cheerful they are. I have use one of the recent sketches from Papertake Weekly as just love them. They are really made for use over and over again. No extra embellishments here just die cut star with the birthday boy's age on it. It doesn't need more, and well I wasn't really in decorating mood either. LoL

I hope to see you come and join us and see what the rest of the gals has been up to. There is some great inspiration for you all to have a look at. 

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Make it Monday - Always anything goes

The sisterhood of crafters - One for the boys

Divas by Design - Let's hear it for the boys

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenges - One for the boyz

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes

Giving thanks or thank you

Good afternoon and welcome back for my second post of the day. I am so pleased to be one of the guest designer for Papertake Weekly, you have no idea just how much I enjoy being a part of this challenge blog for this period. To follow our "giving thanks or thank you" theme this week, I AM the most grateful for this chance. So a big thank you for having me. :)

My olderst brother always says you should start everyday with felling grateful. First for yourself and who you are, then you spend some time feeling grateful for those close to you like family and very close friends. Then you end that moment with feeling grateful for your "outer circle of friends and acquaintances" that comes your way like the cashier at the grocery store for example. Doing this every day will give you a chance of feeling and knowing that you have a pretty good life after all. It should also give some awareness of what you can do to improve as a person and how you feel about others. I did those exercises each and every day for a few months last spring and that was a time of feeling high of life. Magical experience, but after a while I started to feel that I know all of this and in just a few weeks lost the feeling of it all. I don't do this every day now either, but I do from time to time and it's such good way of looking at life. It only takes about 15 minutes per day, and for me it was a bit of energy boost to know that life is good. Give it a try, gratefulness is something the world really needs today.

Ok, maybe I have gone to far with this part of thankfulness, but I actually believe that there is too little of that merchandise in this world. The tiny little word Thanks and a little smile can change someones dull, grey and lousy day. Give it a try, just for today, smile to someone that you don't know, hold the door open for someone when you're entering a store and say hello. It's just so simple and it will take you far much longer and higher than you ever thought. Just try it, ok? Well that's my kind of thanks giving. We don't celebrate it here in Sweden, so why not make a new version of it? I know I will and with that doing it will take me where I wanna be...

Ok then, time for why you are here. My card for the challenge over at the Paper Take Weekly. Theme giving thanks or thank you. After what I wrote above here you will never in a million year believe how much trouble I had with this challenge. I saw cards going in orange and brown with strange fruits or what ever it is in those baskes, and I thought oh no, I can't do that. And I couldn't. LoL But thankfully ( :) ) the theme said thank you as well. Got a tiny bit easier then. But still hard, so thinking cap on and suddenly a bit of shabby chic thoughts showed up in my little brain. Marie, you got about a ton of papers from Panduro that you nerver use, take the chance to use some of them and make a thank you card without and coloured image, just you and the designer papers. And that is very I landed with this card. And I plan to make some more of those as I think they can be useful from time to time.

Anyway, I used some spellbinder dies, some MFT dies and an alphabetic one from Tim Holtz. Can live without those can you? Then dived right through my pile of Panduro papers that I thought I needed for a long time. They are nice and good quality and all that but I find them hard to work with and making good looking cards with, so I am grateful I got it together this time. I used an really old sketch from CLP that is sadly closing down after this challenge. I love the inspriation you get from that team, it makes me a bit more brave in my creating. Anyway I added a "curtain" at the top and put a bow on it. It doesn't show that well on this photo but the high top part is laying flat and the wavy edge is raised on foamdots. The spellbinder panel is also raised on foarm dots but now as hight. Gives the card a little depth. I used two different papers from this old Tilda pad and it's all done in shabby chic style. I could had added some whitewash paint on as well but for today it's ok. Some roses from WOC, ribbon from Panduro and pearls from Bunny zoe makes my creation whole.

If any of you actually read all of this from me today, I am the most impressed and not to forget I am really GRATEFUL you did. Hope I have atarted a thought somewhere within you, which can help you to grow as a person, maybe not today or tomorrow, but the day after that, who knows?

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Bunny Zoe - Vintage / shabby Chic (I do hope that this counts as shabby Chic)
Craft-Dee BowZ - Anything with hand tied bow
Created with love - Anything goes paper craft
Lexi's Creations - Thanks or thanks giving

Geek week

Morning everyone! Hope life treats you kind. Feeling ok today, a bit tired but ready to get on with what ever the day brings.

Today it's Tuesday again and what does that mean? Oh yes! It's time for a new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers. A new fun theme called Geeks - images wearing glasses is what you get from us this week. A really fun theme with tons of charming inspiration from the team. You really should pop over to the PFP blog and check it out.

I've had this image from The Paper Shelter called Learning is fun coloured for a long time now and finally got to use her. I was looking for the right designe papers to  go with her. These ones used here is from Echo Park and the digital collection called Paper and Glue. There was even a dp having glasses on it. My lucky day! ;)

I used the latest sketch from Papertake Weekly as I liked it. My second creation with it. I would get lost without the lovely sketches out there. My image is of course coloured with my Letraset family. I kept the design really simple without any extra decorations. Only a few pearls to tie it all together somehow.

We have a sponsor for this challenge as well and that is our dear friends over at Letraset offering a 6-pack of flexmarkers for one lucky winner. I wouldn't mind that prize myself. :)

Ok then, see you back tomorrow when I have a new creation up for the Paper Shelter.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Papertake weekly - Anything goes
Throught the craft room Door - Anything goes
Card Mania - Anything goes
Digi Make over Challenges - Lots of layers
Challenges 4 everybody - Anything goes

Fall is here...

...and I love it. At least today. The sun is shining and the air is so crisp and lovely as it only can be during fall. The trees has started to change colours and it looks amazing. Give it a week or two and they will all be on fire. It's just amazing!

The card I have to show you today is an order I got from a wonderful lady. It has been on my unshown folder for a while now as I have been saving it for show later on. LoL Don't ask me why. With all the pain that was going on during the summer, I am really proud that I managed to make this and keep it together. I hope that the lady who got the card liked it.

For once I have done no colouring on the card. I have use an image from a cutting sheet from Pion Design. All the designer papers used is from them as well. Tons of flowers from WOC is used together with some feathers, hat pins, flowers from Magnolia, glitter stickles, glossy accent. A bunch of cut out by hand butterflies, pearls, lace and probably something more that I have forgotten about here. I have also used a sizzix alphadie to cut the numbers. As it was a give by hand card and not mail card I made a little box for it as well for the receiver to keep it in. Just plain and simple. The die cut sentiment is from Rox Stamps that has the most amazing swedish sentiment dies. Hope there will be a few new ones with "tack (thanks), kram (hug) and some more versions of grattis (congratulations)".

Well, I think I keep it short and sweet today. I am actually in the mood for doing some more creating today. Have just finished one card that is on the drying surface at the moment. That will pop up later on this week. Until tomorrow when we have a new PFP challenge up for you hosted by yours truly, have a really lovely time.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Bunny Zoe - Use something blue
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
Parade your crafts - Birthdays (70 birthday here)
The Squirrel and The Fox -  Happy Birthday
Hiding in my craftroom challenges - Lots of Layers
Sisters Act Challenges - Anything goes
Papertake Weekly - Make it Sparkle

An old one but never shown...

Hello everyone and thanks for all wonderful and lovely comments on my cards this last weeks. These really makes my day. It has been wonderful to read them and feel the inspiration coming back to me again. Besides it has been a good break between looking into all wonderful applicants to our design team call over at the Paper Shelter.  Talking about that, it's still a few days left to enter and I would love it if you took part in it. There is quite a few spots to fill again and our team are very delightful to work with and all the gals are wonderful. So don't miss the chance of being in one of the best teams out there. You will not regret it.

Saying all this good stuff about the paper Shelter should involve me showing a card using a TPS image, but I don't have any ready for you to see. For that you have to wait until next week when there is a new challenge both on the TPS challenge blog and Passion for Promarkers as well. :)

This card of mine was actually made last year. I never got a chance to show it and as the BIG holiday is coming up in about 100 + days, it might give someone, some inspiration to make a Christmas card. LoL I know I need the inspiration myself, I have about 37 more of them to make. That means I have managed to make the overwhelming amount of 3 Christmas cards for this year so far. LoL

The image from Magnolia is colored with distress inks and paired up with some lovely designer papers from Dove craft or PaperMania I think. Flowers from WOC and so is the lace. It was a box card made for one of Philip's teachers as their Christmas gift. I really should get those stamps out again and start coloring shouldn't I? Could anyone please finish of the cards for me when I have the colouring done? LoL I have actually put all the Christmas stamps that never have been used in one big bag and plan to use at least a few of them this year. Some things you just feel you need to have right here right now and then never uses them anyway. I have tons of that stuff, that I reeeaalllllly need right here right now and then it just get piled up in boxes waiting to be used. LoL It's time for a treasure hunt in those boxes let me tell you.

Now however, I have an evening filled with soccer ahead of me. The "big" team is playing against Irland late tonight, and in just a little while it's time for the U21 national team to take on Poland. Go Sweden!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes option Christmas theme
4 Krafty Girlz Challenges - Anything goes
CRAFT Challenge - Christmas
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything goes

Challenge time

Hello and summer greetings to you all! Hope you are having a good day so far. We here in Kalmar are having a rainy day, well they say it will be later today and that is totally ok after a whole week filled with sunshine. I'm happy for the less warm temperatures and bit of ironing today. I'm not kidding, I look forward to it. Love to seen when the piles of laundry gets lower and lower. It feels so good to see something get done. :) And it's relaxing to spend some time alone as non of the boys loves the laundry room, well exept Willy then who loves to get the mashines going. :)

Had a blast of a (birth)day yesterday. Went to one of my favourite towns, Karlskrona with my little family. Had a nice day on some boat rides and a very relaxing day with some fabby food to finish it all off. :) It feels like the day after today and it was so worth it, pain and everything. :)

And here is why you might visit today. My card for this weeks challenge over at the Paper Shelter. This week we are doing the theme of "Swirly Girly". That means I/we want to see at least one swirl on a card made for a girl/female of any age. Nice and easy as last weeks challenge was pretty hard I think with an inspirational photo. But it is good to be challenge from time to time, don't you agree?

For this card have I used the lovely Faery Emma. She is coloured with my usual Letraset family in green, gray and pink. The designer papers are from Bildmålarna. I love those papers more and more and wonderful soft colours. Can't wait to see what they have coming during the fall. The fence die is cut in a dp from Maja Design and was a left over from another card. My swirls are from Prima, say it in pearls collection. Flowers are made with Magnolia die and so is the leaf. The swirls are beige but looks green here, sorry my photographic skills stinks. LoL

I can't wait to see what you all come up with for this challenge. I am so looking forward to see your inspiration for us using this challenge. And as usual we have the normal $30 gift voucher up if you play with our brand of products. Play with another brand gives you the chance of winning three digis of your choice.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
Paper Minutes Challenges - Anything goes
Party Time Tuesdays - Wing it
Papertake Weekly - Old, new, borrowed, blue (My dps is new from Bildmålarna)
Through the Craftroom door - Anything goes
C is For Challenge - Flowers