Christmas Cheer 8-22

Morning and hello!

A brand-new day has started, and we are already at the end of August. The kids are back in school, and routines starts to come back to life again. As good as it is to be on holiday as good is it to get back to normal again.

I have spent some time with my Christmas stash and have created a card for the coming holidays. Once again did I end up with a stamp from Hänglar and Wings. They are my happy place at this point. It has really lasted for a long time by now. 

This cutie is from the set called Pepparkakor 2020. It's a set of two bigger images, two smaller ones and some sentiments. I have paired this sweetie with some designer papers from Poland if I remember correctly. I don't have the pad close to me at this point. I love the paper in the background. Such smashing colours and an especially useful pattern to that. 

I have decorated with some doilies, some gemstones, a charm, and flowers from my stash. I am happy about how this card turned out. A big bow finishes my card off.

Okie my friends, time to finish for this time. I see you all soon again. More Christmas creations will soon come your way!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

The Holly and the Ivy - Anything Christmas

Addicted to Stamps and more - Christmas

Simon Says - Anything goes

I love promarkers - Anything goes option pretty papers

 

Just 4 Fun 21-22

Morning and hello!

After a more silent period from me here on the blog am I back again with a Just 4 Fun card.. I made this during Easter time but didn't have the energy to post it. It's a hÄnglar and Wings image from Last year that I have coloured up again. I love how the trousers ended up.

I have paired some Echo park papers together with Lawn Fawn papers. They matched up good when it came to colours. I had fun colouring with Copic markers as well as some Promarkers.

I dug out some flowers from my stash as well as some ribbon and then added some Nuvo drops to that. Those drops are used a lot on my cards. They are easy to use and even if they have some drying time are they nice to use.

Well, this is all from me for today. Whish you a great day and do take some time to create!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Addicted to stamps and more - Any occasion

Simon says - Layer it upp

 

Happy Birthday over at The Paper Shelter

 Morning and hello!

It's a cold day here in my corner of the world and I never thought that I would say this, but I will: I want summer! My favourite time of the year is normally fall but not at this moment. I want to sit outside and craft and listen to a good book. And I want to do it now. :)

Anyway, it is Wednesday and it's time for a new challenge over at the Paper Shelter and that is pretty close to a sunny day, right? This weeks theme is set to "Happy Birthday", hope you all like that theme.

I have used an old image called Victoria. It is one of my all time favourites and I think I have used the image not too long ago. I coloured more than one because I couldn't decide what designer paper I would match the image to. But now have I decided and I went with a mix of Maja Design papers. I think it's both Vintage Spring and Vintage Fall but not totally sure. The paper pads has fallen apart and are a big bunch for me to dig in to. 

I have had a 3 day cleaning in my studio, still some left to do but I need some more boxes for storing and organizing. Anyway, I have seen all the stuff that I have hoarded over the years and it's kind of use it up time now. 

Besides that I went with pink card stock today so have I used some silver glitter stickers as a border around the card, some lovely crystals that I have had a hard time using as I got them from a friend who commit suicide some years ago. We where "just" pen friends but I still miss her. I have also used a few Prima flowers from my mega stash of flowers. Even some brad got used for the center of the flowers. To finish it all of have I used some ribbon and bow, and a sentiment stamp from hÄngar and Wings.

This will be all for today. I hope that you take some time and come and play along with us over at the Paper Shelter challenges. You don't have to use a TPS image even if we love it when you do. There is always a $30 gift voucher up for grabs if you play with our brand, playing with another gives you a chance of winning three digis of your choice. 

Take care every one and do something that makes you happy!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

TTCRD - Anything goes

Crafty Creations Challenges - Anything goes

I love Promarkers - Anything goes / option Food

Simon Says - Anything goes

Get creative Challenges - Anything goes

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

Make it manly!

Hello and welcome to my little corner of the world again! I hope you're doing fine and that life treats you kind. Here it's the same old same old. A bit of pain, some colds and so on, but it has been worse so happy smiles. Well, went to the doctor with Philip yesterday only to find out what we already had kind of figured out. I am not the only one with light astma in the family. So some treatment for that and we'll see what happens. Hopefully it's something that he will out grow (read when he finish day care as Willy had the same it's gone when he isn't spending any time in that house anymore)...

It's midweek again and it's time for my B-team over at the Paper Shelter to host this weeks challenge. This week we are doing the theme "Make it Manly (a card for a boy or man)" theme justice. Really fun! Well that is what I think but I know that many is having trouble with this theme, but give it a try. It doesn't have to be that hard you know.

Once again I have used an image from the set called Happy Times and this time the kiddo is jumping on his trampoline. Having a great time! My boys love to jump on their trampoline and of course there needs to be at least one ball on there as well, otherwise no fun. As always the image is coloured with my Letraset markers, just because it's the fastest way to colour for me, not saying that it's very fast. LoL

This cards dp's are from a First Edition pad which I don't remember the name of at the moment, but it's all in blue, green and some beige colours. Really lovely actually even if it's a bit too much of glitter on some of the papers in my opinion. Is glitter really for boys? Well, maybe a little. A also used a green paper from the pad to back my panels with. Some papers you just know that you don't want to use on any creation and if they are low on details why not use them as backing card?

For decoration I have used a few little pennants made with a die from Die-Namics and some card candy in different blue shades to go with the dp's. Of course this was a card for one of Philip's friends earlier this year.

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.

Ok, enough of me talking here. Just come and join us over at the Paper Shelter for this week's fun challenge.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Crafting for all season - Boys will be boys
Simon says stamp - Anything goes
A random fan challenge -Anything goes
Die cutting divas - For the boys
Fan-tastic Tuesday - 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)

Happy Halloween

Hi you all! Bet you think I have fallen of the Earth or something. Well, it does feel like it and nothing going my way when it comes to card making this week. Making the cards goes ok, what doesn't work at all is laying them where I normal do and wait for them to dry, before the Crafting Cat Tage walks all over them with muddy paws! The only thing helping agains this would be to look the door to my crafting room and I don't have a key for it. LoL And no just closing the door won't help as he is one of those door opening cats, and not only the easy way, both ways. I sometimes wonder if he has some ghost or spirit helping him as it is very strange sometimes.

I am normally not the one making halloween cards as we don't celebrate it but many of my boys friends does as they are having their birthdays around this time of the year. So with a short notice and an invite to a tiny birthday party for my youngest one later on today, they will only be four party animals there. Perfect one! I had to make a card for Olle. He is now 5. This card did I manage to keep away from the cat at least up to now. I have used an image from an old kit from Bildmålarna. The sweetest bat ever! I don't know the name of the stamp and I can't find it over at Bildmålarna either.

My designer papers are print outs of Echo Parks wonderful designer papers. I love it that many of the big brand comes in the digital form nowdays too. It makes it easier to store all the papers and you can use your favourite ones over and over again. My little bat is coloured with my Letraset family in warm grey, cyan, yellow and orange colours. I have used the new sketch from Paper take weekly as well. I always go back to those when I need a clean look for my cards, and more worked ones I run over to CLP challenges to get my inspiration. (Two photos looking almost the same, they suddenly look blurry both of them, oh well, take a pick, I really need to get a daylight lamp of some sort. This isn't working anymore, sorry about the photo).

Ops! Back to my card (never learn to shut up do I? :) ) I used some form alphas to spell out the name of the friend, a sticker for the "5" and the dynamo writer my grand dad bought in the early 80's. Still working like a charm and I know that he loves that I uses it. Need to get some more black "ribbon" for that before I forget it... Some web ribbon from Bunny Zoe's that I coloured in with a black marker, a spider charm and some twine is my only decorations on the outside. Have a fun die cut bat on the inside from my stash but as always (nearly) I keep the inside to myself.

Time to get the boys in the shower as they have been out playing soccer and now looks like drowned cats and smelling like dirt. Well, maybe it fits the theme of the day, but I get flashbacks from when I lived with my parents and my youngers brothers always smelling like dirt. Don't like that smell at all. LoL

Have a lovely Halloween everyone!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Papertake weekly - Sketchie free for everyone (also having a dt-call for the coming three months)
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Creative Moments - Anything goes / Halloween
I love Promarkers - Anything goes
Simon says - Anything goes

Surprise!

Morning! I know second time this week and it's only Wednesday. Well, to be honest this will probably be my last entry this week. But I am glad I could do these two. Still feeling crappy. It's like someone is pulling my head from my back in a rubberband and just let it go and I have a bouncing head. Only 11 more days before I meet my new doc. Hope he is a wizard, or she. Going to a new place and have no clue of who I am going to see. A shot in the dark how to speak but it can't be worse than before. Ok, enough about this. It's just feels good to get it all out cause it's so frustrating!

We have a new challenge up for you over at the Paper Shelter today and the theme is "Lace and Pearls". You have to use both on your card otherwise it won't be in the draw. As always we have a gift voucher worth $30 up for grabs if you play with a TPS product. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning three digis of your choice.

My card then, well since my arms doesn't work so well at this moment I used an image I coloured earlier this summer for another challenge but didn't manage to finish it. It's a lovely image coloured with my letraset family. I like the idea of combining the tougher the subject with the motorcycle along with lace and pearls.

I used the sketch from Papertake Weekly as I needed some inspiration to get going. This card is also raised from the base with few layers. Designer papers are from Papermania and are called happy days.

This will be edited later on today as I have an appointment early this morning, didn't get my project totally done as my arms gave in... grrr never finishing anything lately. So no photo yet... On top of that I burned my arm earlier. Don't cook, anything when you can't really feel your hands. It's all covered in ice and "silver salva" (special lotion for horses and pets, all natural and super effective on any wounds) and hopefully it will be fine, in a week or two. LoL Lesson learned!

Edited: Didn't get away as planed, sick kid and had to stay at home instead. Actually didn't mind even if I feel sorry for Philip. Was good not having to go on the bus as they are fixing up the roads in town at the moment, and the busses are late and it all that comes with it. If he feel up to it later I will sit down with him and fix his summer memory for pre school. Have not been able to do that yet. But I actually feel a tiny bit better today, hope it's a good sign and that I can keep cool and don't overdo anything. Keep your fingers crossed!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Paper take weekly - Newest sketch, just rotated it...
Digistamps 4 joy - Anything digi goes
Divas by design - Lace
Simon says - Anything goes
Created with love - Anything goes
Make it Monday - Anything goes

A new little creation

Hi you all! It's evening here in Kalmar and it has been warm today. Spent a few hours outside working with my flower pots and getting some seeds into the dirt, finally. Now I am freezing like crazy, heat chills I guess. Paying with some back pain but it was so worth it for once. I'm a happy gal! :)

After having this card working little by litte during two weeks or something, it's finally finished. I normally colour my images without any idea of which papers to go to the image, and so I did this time. But for once I was lucky and had just the perfect match for the image. Love it when that happens. It's not the first colour choice I would normally make either but you end up in your comfort zone way too often, at least I do. So this was a nice break from all pink and blues. :)

The image is by Sugar Nellie and is coloured with my normal Letraset family. The back ground is made with Prisma Pencils and an eraser to soften it all down. I am heavy on hand when I colour. LoL The designer papers are from My Minds Eye and the paper pad called Stella and Rose Hattie Papers.

I followed the sketch from CLP challenges as I always love those and try to play along with at least one card each month. A bit in the nick of time this month. :) Anyway, flowers from WOC covered with some gesso, a key charm, a feather, two different kind of lace, a ball ribbon, some diamond dust here and there and some pearls from Magnolia. I think that is about it... Have a lovely evening!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Passion for Promarkers - Ribbon, lace or twine
CLP challenges - sketch
Sugar bowl - Anything goes with Sugar Nellie image
I love Promarkers - Use Dies (but no punches)
Simon Says - Anything goes
Creative Moments - Lots of layers

Spring time

Hello and welcome back to my little corner of the world. Hope you're fine and ready for what ever life has in store for you. Despite this cheerful greeting this morning, I feel sad. It has been a hard time as one of the kids over at my youngest day care passed away about a week and half ago. It was very sudden and unexpected. So at the moment are we both here at home and over at the day care spending a lot of time with working with the grieving process. Here it shows in tantrums, anger and sadness. If I only know what to say...

This is how it looks when I look out this morning. The question is: Is this spring? LoL Snowing again, well at least it's not that bad as they said on the weather report that it would be. Best yet to come maybe?

It felt good to get that out, and now I will try to write something about this little card of mine. I have not been very inspired to make cards as you understand, but have done my best in this hard period. We have a new challenge up today over at the Paper Shelter and the theme is "Spring". And since I have always felt that spring starts with Easter here in Sweden, I made another Easter card with this fun and cheerful image called Easter Masterpiece. Nice and easy to colour and this time I have really kept my colouring really simple. To get a little more life in the empty corner of the image I used chicken wire stamp from Magnolia and a sentiment stamp from LOTV. Should have used brown ink, I know but it can't always be perfect, can it?

Once again I have used the Paper Pad from First Edition called Spring Drop. Love the colours in this pad, but I hate, or maybe dislike the glittery ones so by now I have torn all of the most glittery stuff out from the pads I have and gave them to the school. Kids in the age of 7 or so loves their glitter and they will be put to good use.

I have been a bit lazy and used the left overs from my last TPS card when I also made an Easter card. It was all I had energy for. A string is also added to the card and a little charm. Some die cuts from the Spring Drop pad is used to decorate the card with as well. Pearls from Bunny Zoe's is also used.

As always we have the 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.

So this week's theme over at the Paper Shelter is "Let it be Spring". So all and everything that you connects with spring time will fly this week. Pastel colours, Easter, sunshine, etc. Just bring it on and make the world a little lighter.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Paper Take Weekly - Easter treats
Digistamps For Joy Challenges - Celebrating Easter
Simon Says Stamp - Easter / Spring
Celebrate the Occasion - Easter
Digital Tuesday - Easter

Another day and another card

Keept myself busy last night as well, not only by writing letters. Had a few friends to catch up with. Cardmaking takes up quite alot of my time and my poor pen pals suffer out of this. Sorry you all! I do my best!

This card is one made for
* I love Promarkers (a sketch),
* Simon Says stamp (colour challenge pink/blue, green and brown) and since it's an open theme at
* Passion for promarkers I enter it there as well. Massive dose of prices there this week. Check it out!

The sketch....

The image I've used is from the latest club kit from Bildmålarna.se. Mimosa in the bathtub or something like that. Really sweet. Flowes are made by retro flower punches and added with some dew drops, brich leaf from a woodware punsh. Velvet ribbon and the DP are from a local supermarket. Have added some glitter glue in the bath as well. After all it is a bubble bath. :)

So of to get some rest before my little monsters get back home again.

Have a really good day 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

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.

A little bunch of challenges

A few challenges are up again, and I made a card for three of them.

* Just Magnolia - Anything goes
* Simon says - Things with wings
* Papertake weekly Challenge - A lovely sketch

For this card I've used a few of the new Magnolia stamps from the club kit and coloured it all with my promarkers. Roses are from Joanna Sheen this time, and the buds from Stämpelgården. DP are all Magnolia as well. Halfpearls from Bunny Zoe and kaiser craft.

Really short this time but I'm running out of time...

Hugs,
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