A Magnolia card for a birthday boy

Hi there! Sitting here while the kids are toring the house down. It sounds like it anyway. Promissed them a surprise if they could leave me alone for as long as it takes me to finish this off. At the moment it doesn't sound so good. Home alone with the little monsters until Sunday when my partner in "crime" gets back home from a buisness trip. At the moment if feels like he will be gone forever. Of corse my bXXXXX body woun't play fair with me either, so on top of being alone, I have pain that I don't even wish for my worst enemy.

 The insides upper part of the card.

So as my olders is going to a five year olds birthday party on Sunday and W didn't want to make the card this time I have spend the day working with it between contacting doctors of all kinds.

Here is the inside that will be completed with a white circle to write on, when I have figured out what to write. A few days left to do that. :)

Have used soccer Edwin and the goal scenery from the Winner takes it all collection. Coloured the little guy in the local teams colours. Used the Magnolia soccer designer paper together with another green one that is abit older. Raised the laces inside the card, but made them flat outside not to take the focos from the main image. And I kind of needed the space. :) Now I just need to write down the birthday greeting and maybe add another "5" on the inside. I play along with the Just Magnolia Hänglar challenges witch is distressing this week and at the TOMIC challenge the theme is set to sporty + a sketch. Thanks for that theme, I had a hard time trying to figure out what to do for one the best buddies in W's life at this point.

Love n hugs
Marie

Hello there!

Here comes another one from me for today. It's now time for the Paper Shelter to start our new challenge for this week. And this week we are celebrating Harvest time so we want to see the colours of green, orange, yellow and browns.

As always we have some lovely prizes up for grabs. If you use the lovely TPS images you have a chance of winning a voucher worth a wooping $20. WoW! If you don't use these cuties, you really should. LoL, you still have a chance of winning a lovely prize that is three digis of your choice. Yepp! Pedor and Veronica raised the prize for you a couple of weeks ago, so come on a join us now.

I have use this litte cute gal called Autumn is coming! I totally adore this image and really try to get my kids to feel the joy over this stunning season of the year. She is coloured with promarkers and triamarkers. Some flowers from stash and some cardcraft candy finish the card off together with some string and a leaf charm. DP are some old that I had forever.

Hope to see you over at the Shelter again this week. I love, and so do the rest of the team to look at what you create!

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card


Challenges for this card

Good morning!

It's that day of the week again when I double post. As always I start with For Fun as that challenge goes up first. This week we really have a challenge for you. We are doing Halloween and/or fall but you can NOT use the colours orange, black or purple. That is a challenge, isn't it? I who don't even celebrate this spooky holiday had a really hard time figuring out how to do this.

Once again we are sponsored by Bugaboo digistamps, you find out what the prize is when you pop on over to the For Fun blog. I have used this little cute wizard for my card, placed him on a bench from...gosh who had made that one? Can't really remember at the moment, might be CC designs. He looked like he needed somewhere to sit. My gost comes from a scrapkit that I bougth from Mollys scrapbooking last year. Told you, don't do halloween, at least this is now used. :) The designer papers are from Bearly Mine design and the third CD, Extream III.

Have a wonderful day and see you over at For Fun soon!

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card

A happy birthday

A good evening to you all. I'm back with a quite simple card that I made the other day. As always my mum askes for a card in good time. Plenty of time to figure out what to do, NOT! Two days this time, drives me a little nuts but hey it's my mum. :)

One of my uncles turns 70 years old on Sunday. Can't believe that! He does not look a day older than 50. It's like that when you keep fit and keep your mind working I guess. One way he keeps fit is when he plays golf that's why the theme is golfing. The image comes from Mo's digital pencil and is coloured with my letraset family once again. May be I should use all those distress inks I've got before they dry out? LoL

Not much of decorations here. Not the style of my uncle. I have used a few cardcraft cand just because they reminded me of golf balls. I followed the sketch from Sweet sketch Saturday as it was a good fit for my golfing theme.

No with high speed to the bed before my new meds kicks in. It totally knocks me out for now, hope it gets better when I'm more used to it. But for now, I enjoy being able to sleep for a loooong time. :)

 Love n hugs
Marie


Southern girls Challenge -  For a boy / Man
Sweet Stop Sketches - sketch

A new For Fun Challenge

We have a new Wendsday and a new challenge over at For Fun. This week we are doing pumpkins, but no Jack - O- Lanterns. Just plain pumpkins. We are sponsored by the lovely MelJen, be sure to pop on over to her store and find you some goodies.

My image is coloured with promarkers, cut out with a spellbinder die and placed over two dotty ribbons from Joanna Sheen. She has a lovely selection of them to smashing prices and no postage to be paid. I have also used a doily from Panduro, metal corners from Wild Orchid and designer papers from Bearly Mine Designs. You find the link to the right. This is from the Grunge Day digi set. I love that brown colour and it goes so well with the colours of fall. I do hope you join us over at For Fun this week. We had some problems with Blogger acting up but we are working on it.

There is also a new challenge up for the Paper Shelter. This time the theme is "We love animals", how fun is that? Just a clean simple wonderful challenge for you all.

And at last, I have been so lucky the last few weeks with many top three/five placements on different challenges. I am so grateful for it. I having a hard time believing that I have been top-5 on the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog three weeks in a row. I'm very humble and very happy about it, not to forget proud. The PFP challenges was the reason to why I started my blog about two years ago. Thank you to all of you.

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
I love Promarkers - Autumn Colours
Digital Tuesday Challenge - Fall colours
Make it Monday - Always Anything goes

It's time for a new BMC challenge

Hello folks! I bet you have been waiting for this, a brand new challenge for each and everyone of you. This time we are doing Easel cards. So much fun! It's always good to have one of those laying around for a special birthday, or maybe Christmas, or halloween, or .... You get it don't you? Now when we have a lovely challenge like this we like to give away some goodies as well. This time five (!) of you have the chance of winning some yummy crafting goodies.

So my inspirational card then. I have used two digis from Kenny K and coloured them with my Letraset darlings.  Did alot of cutting, felt like forever when I was doing it. :) I used Bearly Mine Design Shabby Vintage designer papers.  Used some lace, lots of flowers and a few metal corners to bring on some bling. I used dimond dust Gold for the Devilish Donnas's wings to add even more sparkle. The flowers (which is also from Joanna Sheen) are more or less drowned in glimmer mist (Old lace). Some golden pearls from the lovely Nikki from Bunny Zoe and my card was done.

This is our lovely sponsors for the Easel Card Challenge

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

Fred She Said - $20 Gift Certificate

LOTV - £10 Gift Certificate

Delicious Doodles - 4 Digi's of the Winner's choice

Kenny K - 5 Digi's of the Winner's Choice

Oh, forgot, my sentiment says happy birthday in Swedish and comes from Scraplagret. Enjoy you day and be sure to join us over at Bearly Mine Challenges this time. You have two weeks to come up with a creation or two. See you around!


Love n hugs
Marie

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Challenges for this card
BunnyZoes Craft Challenge - Lace it up!
Crafty Card makers - Anything goes
Birthday Sundaes - Birthdays in fall colours (hope my brown, apricot/burnt orange and cream counts)

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

Another Christmas card

Here comes a new Christmas card from MI! Donna at Bearly Mine has a new wonderful digi set out now called Christmas Wishes. It's a lot of wonderful brown and blue papers, right up my alley. It's wonderful! If you didn't know it, you really need to go and get it. LoL

Well, I have a whole bunch of LOTV images that I have not had any chance to ink up yet, but yesterday was a good day for it. Took a new med and it kind of kept me awake half of the night, but it was good this time as I didn't feel the pain in my back. So this week over at LOTV Challenges the theme is Missing you, and I thought that this dear little image from last year says it all. A card or a letter to a beloved friend or family member, letting them know you are thinking of them.

Love n hugs

Marie

It's time for the B team again over at The Paper Shelter

Hello again! A busy day as this is the second post in a few hours. :) It's now time for a new challenge over at The Paper Shelter. We had tons of entries last week and hope you will join us for this weeks challenge as well. This time we are going for Embossing of any kind! A tiny bit, a lot of it, it's up to you. Dry or wet, anyway, any kind, or maybe a little of both?

The Paper Shelter store is filled with news and some new products called printables. Very sweet boxes of different kind, scrapbooking material etc, and of corse a whole bunch of new wonderful images. For my card I have used the sweet little Sorcerer's Apprentice. Isn't he the cutest? He is coloured with promarkers. A irongate die that has been both dry and wet embossed, and old watch that is also embossed in gold, some stars and a ticket gives him company. The designer papers are from Bearly Mine designs and is actually one of Donna's wonderful freebees.

The Paper Shelter has also decided to raise the value of the winning voucher, so now do you who use a Paper Shelter image the chance to win a wooping $20 voucher to spend in the store. How great isn't that?

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card

 

Good morning to you all!

It's already Wendsday again and time for a new challenge over at For Fun. This week we have the theme of Kids at Play. So in other words; we would really love to see some fabby cards where kids of all kind are playing.

This week we are sponsored by Di's Digi Downloads once again. Thank you so much for that! The image I have chosen to use is called Painting Fun as at this period my own boys spend a lot of time painting. The messier the better. Wasn't too happy about finding a drawing right on the table the other day, of some reason no one had made it either. It was just there. Strange that pens can draw on their own.

Anyway, I decided to make my card into a birthday card for my youngest nephew as he has his birthday coming up later on this year. Kind of felt that it suited him. I kepy it very simple as I don't think a two year old needs a lot of decorations. Just tons of colour!

Okidoki, I hope to see you around the For Fun challenges this week too as it is such a joy to watch what you all are creating.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card

Have a wonderful afternoon!

Here comes a new Christmas card from me. I have used one of the wonderful new images from LOTV and that's good because I followed the sketch that is this weeks challenge over at their challenge blog. :)

The little darlings are coloured with promarkers and has got a touch of a stamp from Stempelglade as well. Love this stamp with the stains. My "God Jul" stamp is a no name stamp with distress ink. My designer papers are from Bearly Mine and is called Christmas Glee and Christmas Swirls. Two lovely new christmas sets from Bearly Mine. Flowers, metal and pins are as usual from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Now time for a really hot bath and then another soccer game that hopefully goes better than the last one that we lost. :(

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Lili of the Valley - Sketch
Christmas Inspriations - Glitter

It's Christmas time again!

Good morning to you all. I'm back with a new card for you. Over at For Fun this week we are having a Christmas Challenge once again. And just as always when it comes to Christmas in the end of the month,  we are sponsored by the lovely Michelle Perkett. Such lovely images.

For my card this week I have used the lovely "Winter" from the Four Seasons set. She is totally adorable. I have coloured her up with my promarkers using only very pale colours in green. I have used some designer papers from Prima in wonderful blue green and red. Great combo! Tons of stickles is also added and I have used a punch from EK Succes together with a ribbon and some snowflakes. I might even manage the stamp limit for one stamp with this one. :)

So come on and join us over at For Fun this week. You know it's not that long before you need to have your Christmas cards done!

Love n hugs
Marie

Here comes Bearly Mine Challenge; Flowers, Flowers, Flowers

We have a wonderfully easy challenge for you this time just as my title tells you; We had a  Flowers, Flowers, Flowers!

For my card have I used one of last years relizes from Bildmålarna. I truly think that this Tossa stamp is my all time fave from them. Can it has something to do with the flower she's holding in her hand? My favourite flowers! She's paired up with some wonderful papers from Donna's Christmas Wonderland. Love those colours. By the way, Donna has a whole bunch of new sets launching during this week and on top of it all she has a sale going on. You really should pop on over and take a look.

My flowers are from Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts, ribbon as well. The brad was a white one but coloured it in with a promarker. Some card Craft candy in the corner finish it up after a touch of glitter glue on top of them.

As always there is a whole bunch of wonderful sponsors that gives away prizes to the lucky winners.

Bildmalarna - 1 rubber stamp

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

Sew Many Cards - 5 Digi's

Teddy Bo Quintet

With this I leave you for today. I hope you play along with us once again and join in the fun. You have to be in it to be able to win it, or how is it you say?

With love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card
Stamps r us Challengeblog - Anything goes
Crafts 4 eternity - Anything Christmas
Passion for Promarkers - Anything goes (using letraset markers)

And now time for the Paper Shelter

Here we go again! Now it's time for the Paper Shelter to stand in the spot light. This week we really have an easy challenge for you all. We want you to use your die cuts and punches. Something that we use one very single card more or less I guess?

For this card I have use the wonderfully cute image "Lets make a pic-nic", she totally cute and kind of reminds me of the Sarah Kay images. Love those too, but for some reason I hate to colour them. This is way much more fun to colour. My little doll is paired up with a DoveCraft paper pad again, Sugar n Spice I believe it's called. My flowers are a mix from WOC and I am roses. The butterfly is from Altheas Mix. Die cuts used here is the lace from MFT, the large rectangle and scalloped one from Spellbinders. In the flower mix I have some leaves that is punched with woodware punches.

As always you can win $15 voucher to spend in the Paper Shelter store if you are using a TPS image on your project. If you don't, you can still win one digi of your own choise. Great isn't it?

So with all this said I welcome you over to the PaperShelter blog. Me and my team can't wait to see what you all come up with for this easy challege! So what are you waiting for?

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Papertake Weekly - Dies to die for

It's Wendsday again, and it's double posting again

So first off is the For Fun Challenges. This week we are going Back to school and we do that with the lovely people over at Digi Doodles. The prize is a $10 gift certificate to spend in their store. Great isn't it? I for sure think so.

For my card this week I have use the image Day dreamer as I kind of use to do that when I got bored in school. Didn't we all? - smile - She's coloured with promarkers and the designer papers this week is from Prima. I don't remember the pads name at the moment. The flowers is from the same range and the roses is from Kort & Godt. I have used some golden rod (stickles) on the dp to make it a little sparkly, it gave the whole thing some more dimension. The butterflies are cut from left over papers. (Sorry about my picure, the cam battery died on me again.)

I really hope to see you over at For Fun this week.

With love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Party Time Tuesdays - Back to school

Good afternoon!

Monday again and I have the kids home sick again. Second time in two weeks, may it not be like this the whole term. One at home is OK, but not both especially not when I don't feel too well either. Spend the whole day sleeping yesterday because of a nasty cold, was up quite late and finished this card for the neighbour who has a 20 year's party to attened later in the week. This "kid" loves cards and bikes so I went with my all time favourite male image from the Paper Shelter. He is so cool! :)

This is how it turned out this time, and I thought I enter it to the challenge over at Cards for Men were the theme is Anything goes.

My bike birdy is coloured with promarkers and teamed up with dp from Tim Holtz and some die cuts as well. The black corners are from Wild Orchid Craft. They started their lifes as silver corners...

Have to leave, have to make some dinner now. Take care!

Love n hugs

Marie

Bling it on at Bearly Mine's

Another two weeks has passed and it's time for a new challenge for you all over at Bearly Mine Challenges. This time it's really nice and easy as the theme is Bling it on!

For my card this time I made it really easy for me as my hands is on vacation. Well that how it feels anyway. Having trouble to get in touch with my left arm and hand but it's there, I can see it! LoL I used one of the lovely papers from the Christmas Frolics digi sets and I just needed this one as it looks as it has many different designs on it. Perfect! I combinded it with some red ribbon and a few die cuts to get the card a little lighter. I back the sweet Lenny on gold card and added some gemstones in his tree to really let it bling! A few flowers from Prima, Wild Orchid, Kort och gotd and I am roses. Some pearls from Bunny Zoe and I was done. Lenny also got a tiny bit of flower soft on his clothers. Nice and fluffy.

So very easy this week, but I still hope you can get some inspiration from it. Until next time, I look forward to see what you come up with over at the BMC challenges. Oh, by the way my lovely friend Lenny here is from the Stamp Fairy and he has a whole bunch of lovely friends as well. Check them all out over at the Stamp Fairy. This week as well we have lots of lovely prizes up for grabs. How about all of this?

 LOTV - $10 Gift Certificate

Bearly Mine Designs - 2 Digi Sets of the Winner's choice

Stamp Fairy - 2 digi's of the Winner's choice

The Paper Shelter - £15 Gift Certificate

Love n hugs
Marie

The paper Shelter is back and now it's team B's week

Morning to you all! Here comes a new challenge for you from the PaperShelter. Our theme this week is stitching faux or real. Very easy isn't? I want to see many lovely entrys over at the Shelter.

This will also be my first challenge as a team leader for Team B. We are now 16 lovely people that are here for your inspiration, half in the A team and half in the B team. Shirley takes care of the A team. And how she does it! You rock gal!

So for my card this week I have used this wonderfully sweet kitty image coloured with Promarkers and the papers are also from the PaperShelter. Sweet isn't it? Veronica and Pedro keeps busy designing all those lovely papers and digis. As the theme is stitching I have added some faux stitching around the image and the outline of the DP.

My flowers are from wild orchid, Kortd og godt and I am roses. Big mix here. :) Some dew drops made with pearl maker pen and then some pearls from Bunny Zoe as well. Topped of with some glitter on the flowers.

Now be sure to pop on over to the Paper Shelter and join the fun. As always we have a $15 voucher as a prize if you use a TPS image, and one digi of your choise if you use another brand's stamp/digi.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card

Hello Sunshine!

Had a wonderful day out on the sea yesterday, sun burned not that nice but still. It's time for a new challenge over at For Fun challenges today. And this time we have a very lovely theme; Anything goes. So here we are ready to comment on all wonderful entries. Be sure to keep us busy.

 We have a lovely sponsor this week as well and today they are called Digi My World. They are offering $10 voucher to spend in their store. What a lovely prize isn't it? You can read more about them on the For Fun Challenge blog.

So for my card have I use to matching digis, the Gone fishing sign and the little fisher guy. Of some reason my fishermen always end up green and blue. Guessing something with a brand of clothes we have here in Sweden that makes tons of strong out door clothing. LoL My DP this time is from Dovecraft once again. You are able to write your messege under the little fisher man...

The images are coloured with my lovely promarkers, even better now with the new extra nibs you can get. Great idear Letraset! They work like a charm, just that I have to buy a 150 more of them or so. LoL. So this is it for the For Fun Challenges today.

Also a short little note. A new challenge is going up on the Paper Shelter Challenge blog today and the theme is Flowers, Flowers, Flowers. We now have two altering teams to give you all the inspiration you can possible need. This week it's The A team that gives you all the inspiration with the lead of Shirley. They have some smashing cards for you to get inspired by, and next week does my own team take up the challenge to challenge you! Be sure to join in, both this week and the next one too.

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Paper Take Weekly - Anything goes

Craft your passion - Anything goes

It's Bearly Mine Time again

Goodmorning! When you read this I am hopefully on my way to Karlskrona and a little trip with the olders passenger ship in Sweden. I so hope that the weather will be good and that we have a good time. Keep your fingers crossed. :)

So we have a new challenge up for you today, a really great one. We want you to Charm the spots/dots out of us! In other words use spots/dots and at least one charm on your project. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

For my card have I used one of the lovely digis from Tickled Pink Stamps. I so adore those. She's coloured with my promarkes and the papers I have used is Simply Dots and one of Donna's vintage papers. I've used a bunch of dies from T. H. and some flowers from different places, charms comes from Pagoni. The ticket is also from T.H, and the odd stamps comes from crafty individuals. Metal corner from WOC.

We have a bunch of sponsors for you this week as well. So with all those wonderful prizes up for grabs be sure to start crafting right away.

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

$20 Gift Certificate

Tickled Pink Stamps - 2 Digi stamps or 1 rubber stamp of winner's choice

Crafty Ribbons

 Crafty Emma - £10 Gift Voucher excluding p&p

Don't forget you can enter the challenge twice if you like too. Twice the chance to get chosen as our winner. We do hand pick our winners so it's almost as a top five with a prize. LoL

So go a head a start creating, we are ready in the team to start commenting on your fabby creations!

Love n hugs
Marie

A few challenges for this card