Tagged sentiment

Hello and good morning! What great day it is! If plans hasn't change I will doggy sit my favourit doggy from tonight until Sunday. I can't wait! I love that Staffordshire bullterrier to death. He is the first dog ever who "liked" me before anyone else in my little family. My partner Mats has some kind of magic touch with these creatures and connects with them right away. I never do, except with this sweet heart. I am not sure that I will return him on Sunday...hehehe

The motive I have used for this card comes from Lili of the Valley and is called Festive Lantern. A nice classy looking image that I adore. Unfortunatly I don't have that many young men in my life who I can send cards like this too. "Sad eye" here... Oh well, I am happy to have those I have aint I? Ok, I feel my sleeping pills kicking in now, I don't take responsibility for what I write after this. LoL

I have used my favourite skech for this card. I comes from Papertake weekly and has number 85 on it I think. I love it, but when I first saw it I thought it was hard to use but at the moment am I using it for two or three cards per month I think. But you can always give it a little make over to suit you better. But I like it this way. Looks stable. Once again I have been lurking around in my favourit pad of the year Back to basics Christmas with Dove Craft. Those pads really keeps me going. As almost all the time have I been using my Letraset Markers for this colouring as. well. I have kept it simple as I don't want to spend a fortune on stamps when I can use them for craft material instead. LoL

Anyway the theme over at AUD sentiment that this card is made for has the theme of: "place your sentiment on a tag", I have used two as I am not tag person, but this worked out fine I think. It says Merry Christmas in Swedish. I used a Tim Holtz die do make the tags and then some letter stickers to "print out" the words. Couldn't help myself, so I added a little snowflake to the mix as well. :) Some brown and white bakers twine, a few cream pearls that I have gotten from Annelie is also used, and of course some stickles. You don't have a Christmas card if you don't have some sparkel on it, do you?

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We are very lucky to team up this challenge with Rick St dennis! Rick has an amazing background in the art world - you can read about it HERE.  What is fun for us in the DT is that there are such a variety of subjects and images... I love to peruse his shop for my next creative idea!  Rick generously provided each of the DT with an image to showcase for you as well as a PRIZE package for our winner!

Ok my friends, I see you back tomorrow again. Then it's time for my card for the Winter Wonderland. How fun that one will be to show. :) I wonder how on earth I am going to get good photos of that...hmm Well that will be tomorrows problem won't it?

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

paper take weekly - 2 or 4 legs

MilkCoffee Challenge - Hand coloured image

Southern Girls Challenge - Lets here it for my boy

I love Promarkers - A male Christmas

Two Ribbons

Good morning! Fourth day in a row! Shocking I know, and do you know what? This is how it will be in the future. I have joined the lovely people over at Winter Wonderland Challenges from today and this is my first challenge in this lovel group. I so need some motivation to get all my Christmas cards done and now there is no escape from that. Feels good and I am so glad that they wanted to have me on their fabby team. Isn't it strange? I am on four different teams now, all are bi weekly and I manage to have all my postings in the same week. Wonder who's messing with me? LoL

The challenge of the week is to use two ribbons and luckly for me I had two images coloured as well. I coloured this image with my Letraset markers and Prisma/Spectrum noir pens. One of my lovely cats has been at it again. Made me really late with my card, but I got there in time, just. LoL A big muddy paw print right on top of my almost finished card. Thank you Tage!

So my card then. I have used a Tiddly Ink image that I bought a while back but I never managed to make a card from it. I couldn't decide which dp's to use. Today I manage and used a few different paper packs from Dove Craft. Those close to me know that for my winter creations I just love to use my snow men and that's why I bought that pad. I love the snow man paper! Then matching them up with a few snow flakes and some season greetings. Just perfect!

Except the ribbons that I have used. The white one with some woven dots on it reminded me of snowballs and the natural colored ribbon is from Pysseltagen in flax and it says Merry Christmas in Swedish. I have also used a few snowflake punches and a few new dies. First up is my new Joy! die in the shape of a half snowflake. I just love it! It's so pretty and I have covered most of it up. LoL The tree is from the new Magnolia DooHickey die club. It's a nice looking tree but I think I like the older ones better. Well, I might get used to the big holes in it and it starts to look better. Who knows. There is a whole bunch of other dies that needs to be tried out as well. Hope I get a little time for that in the coming days. But first I need to make two more birthday cards for 8 year old boys. Plenty of time, needs only to finish by tomorrow around 1700. So much fun to work under preasure! Well, not at all. At the moment I don't like it at all.

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Well my friends, thanks for looking and I am so looking forward to be a part of this team so thank you once again for having me.

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

A creative romance - Anything goes
Sisters Act - Anything goes
Crafty Little Faires- Sparkle and bling
Southern Girls -We got the winter blues
Sparkle forum christmas challenges - Snowmen

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