Challenge time

Morning to you all! Hope the day is filled with sunshine and happiness. Myself is preparing to go to "Folkuniversitetet" where I have my "get back to working life" meeting of the week. Should have been the stables as well, but I am in way too much pain for that today. My right leg is refusing to straighten out at this point. So no good idea going to the stables then, besides I got tons of pain when I went there last. I am not really sure it's such good idea to be there for me unfortunately.

We have a new challenge up for you over at the Bearly Mine Challenges this week. The theme is set to "Spring flowers". That means we want to see some of them on your creation. Not that hard I hope?

For my card have I used one of Donnas new digi sets called Floral Surprise and Mini Dots. Don't ask why I used that soft organge mini dot stripe, I should have gone for something more bold but now it's too late. LoL The image is from The stamping boutique and is called Tulips. Tulips was my grandmothers favourite flowers and I had here in my mind when making this card. It's a little more than a week since she passed now and I will miss her dearly. She was over 98 years old and very senile so it was a blessing for her, still...

The image is coloured with my Letraset Family and added details with my Prisma pencils. The daisy flowers are from the Ribbon girls and I made the leaves with a boss cut die. Gemstones from Magnolia. And the card design is inspired by a sketch from Little Claire Designs. I love the clean look of this design even if I have altered it slightly. Artistic freedom, right?

Our sponsors this week is I am Roses and The Greeting Farm. More info is found over the challenge blog.

Do please come and join us and spread some flowers into the world! We could all use some colours in our lifes.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Little Clarie Designs - Sketch and spring theme (Nothing says spring more to me than tulips, hope I have not gone to far from the sketch, wasn't my attention to mess it up.)
ABC Challenges - 1 - 2 - 3 (I have used 3 designer papers, two daisy flowers and 1 image)
My Craft Spot - Anything goes
Sparkle and Sprinkle - Use a digi

Sketch time

Morning fellow crafters and friends. Hope you had a good start on you day and that you are ready for a new challenge from us at the Bearly Mine Designs. This week Donna is providing us with a lovely sketch to work on. Feel free to rotate or flip but we must be able to see the sketch in your creation. Great! Can't wait to come and see what you do with this one.

This week I have used one of the Paper Shelter pre coloured images as I messed up card number one and card number two that I made for this challenge. Not that clever to forget to attach half of the card and then think you have followed the sketch. Second one got lovely dirt print from my cat Tage. He is really living on the edge at the moment. Grrr!

So that left me no option a late card making night it was and I was so nervous and still are. So hard concentrating.  I am heading for the stable this afternoon for the first time in about 15 years. I suddenly feel afraid of horses! My gosh! I spent four and a half year riding in school while the others was doing their sports. At that time you wasn't allowed by the doctors to take part in the normal sports education but riding, cycling and swimming was ok. It didn't hurt your joints. Now they say, do as much as you can without getting more pain. It will not be any riding lessons but a class about leadership and things like that. Still nervous if you wonder. :)

I show the second one I made as well, didn't like how that turned out but it's done and I show it anyway. I have used a TPS image here as well and that's also a bit big for the sketch, but at least I have coloured it all by myself. LoL Here is designer paper used from Floral Breeze and paired up with a Marianne die swirl and some punched flowers. The lace border is made with a Magnolia die. Added a charm for decoration on this card as well.

So this little image called Mucha Influence Spring will help me out this time. She's pre coloured, told you that before and the designer paper is from the digi set called Paper lace. A doily is added just as the sketch suggests or a circle if you prefer that. I went for doily and then added some flowers and tried to get some text into them instead of just plain text.

Sponsoring us this week is Marianne Design and Letraset. From Marianne Design you have a lovely set of dies up for grabs and from Letraset you can win a set of skin tones markers. They are great and most of you probably know that I usually use their products to colour my images. I just get adventurous every now and then and use something else, like today. See you over at Bearly Mines!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card

Bear time

Hi there! I am back again trying to write something up here for my new card. I am really tired today. I hate spring even if this spring seems more like winter. We had -16 degrees Celicius last Saturday. That's nice. I do get so tired when the spring comes, maybe because I am always going into a period of pain during this time. Me or rather my body can't stand the changes between temperatures and the moist that comes with it.  Oh well, fall will be here soon again. LoL

It's time for a new challenge over at the Bearly Mine Challenges and this time we are doing the easy one, "Anything goes". Bet we'll have one or two entries this week. :)

This time I have used a sponsor image from Teddy Bo and Bea. Isn't she cute? She is coloured with my Letraset family and some Prisma pencils for some extra shadowing. Designer papers are a sky free bee from Donna, Gingham and Summer Light. Flowers are handmade most of them with dies from Marianne Design, and Memory Box. Two roses from WOC and I am Roses. Lace is from the super market and pearls from Rox Stamps, Sweden and Bunny Zoe. The heart in the upper corner is from Magnolia, a puch is used for the lace panel and it's from X cut.

Sponoring our challenge this week is Crafty Sentiments with a lovely stamp and Teddy Bo gives away three digi Teddy Bo trio images. See further details on our challenge blog.

So I bet I see you around this week. Talk to you soon again.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Throught the Craftroom door - Anything goes
ABC Challenges - Bring on the flowers (second entry)
Crafty Boots Challenge - Flowers
Forever Friends Challenge blog - Lots of Flowers

Mother's day

It's Tuesday again and I have a new card to show you. I am so tired today, I don't seem get any energy back  after all colds, flues and infections I get all the time. Oh well, it must turn sometime, but it seems like I have to have wait a little longer for it.

My card is made with a wonderful digital image from Sugar Nellie, isn't she adorable? All images in this range is such a joy to colour so if you have not done that yet, I really recommend you to try one out. This one is coloured with my Letraset family and some Prisma pencils for a little shading around the image.  I have used the wonderful digisets called Gingham and Floral Dreams. Flowers are from Ribbon girls, and Wild Orchid Crafts. A butterfly punch is also used for some extra details. A few pearls and glitter glue from Rangers is also used as a finishing touch. Sentiment says "On Mother's Day" in Swedish.

It's soon time to start celebrating your mum's over in the UK, here in Sweden we don't do that until May, but it never hurts being in time for once, right? So for our new challenge over at the Bearly Mine challenges this week we have Mother's day as our theme. Hope you come and join us in our challenge this time around.

Our sponsors this time is Kenny K offering 5 images of winners choice. There are some new lovely steam punk images out in their range now. You should really check them out.

Also sponsoring us is Marianne Design with two lovely dies for their fabby range. I wouldn't mind winning both of these prizes. :)

So do come and join us in our celebrations of our mum's this week over at Bearly Mine Challenges. We love it when you play with us.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Bunny Zoe Challenges- Flowers and Pearls
Creative Creations Challenges - For mum
Fashionista Challenges - Pink
The Sugar bowl - Anything goes with Sugar Nellie (Happy 100 challenges!)
Songbird Challenges - Mum, I love you (Mother's day)
Passion for Promarkers - One for the ladies

Another one from the infirmary

Morning folks! Hope you're doing way much better than me and my family. All four of us are now having fever and finding life great. But hey! There will be better days for us as well I hope. This is the 5th day with fever for me but at least it's going down. I'm more worried about the youngsters, I am so hoping that they won't get it as bad as me and Mats. Tons of popsicle is the recipe to cool them down here. Get some energy from it and fluids as well. :)

Oh well, I did make a card for our new fun challenge over at the Bearly Mine Challenges which this week is "Ribbon/ lace/twine". You need to use at least one of these items on your card to be able to take part in this weeks challenge. Not a very hard one right? :)

I like the most members of the team has used a Fred She Said image on their creations this week and my teamies has done some wonderful job. I kind of doesn't want to show mine as I am not too pleased with it. I love the image from FSS, and I really wanted to make it more justice but nothing has been working around here. Still being behind after last sick period with the kids, I didn't have much time for my card. Neither did I know that I would be knocked out by fever. I didn't even managed to get a reasonably picture take of the whole thing.

On the positive side, I got a card together and that's wonderful and then you can also see and realize what a smashing work my teamies has done! That is what I call the bright side of life! LoL Talking of bright so is my card IRL, my brain and the weather has not been very cooperative so this mess is what I ended up with.

Ok, let's see. The lovely blooming image is from Fred She Said and the wall in the lower part is from Magnolia. In their (FSS) version they have a lovely cracked wall, but I wanted to be a little different. I have done some extra cutting again and raised the flowers over the wall and then one more of the flowers. I had more of them prepared but lost them somewhere between here and the basement. The lady bugs are all covered with glossy accent for the perfect "buggy" look. They are really shiny when you look at the real deal during the summer. One of my kids pointed that out to me last summer, so he was very happy to see the sleek bugs. :)

For decorations I have used a bunch (can you call three a bunch?) of buttons, lace on the side of the wonderful green Dotty designer paper (Dots). I have also made my own "lace" using MS punch that goes the other way. The card was drowning when I put the real lace on there too. LoL After adding a big of the same green coloured paper to the white MS lace I got some ribbon around there which is looking a bit odd her on the picture. Also tied a ribbon bow and got a big funky daisy to hang from it. The blue designer paper is from  the digi set that is called Spring Blossoms.

I leave you with this and hope that I soon will be able to tell you that life is all sunshine again!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card

A new lovely image

Hi there! It's busy week here at Kompis-kort. Second posting in two days and this week has been a struggle to get everything done in time. Two sick kids, myself getting the b-y bug again and feeling really heavy in my head. Oh well, it's still a fairly new year and I am still trying to meet what ever life brings with a smile. So not easy at this time, but it can only get better. Smiles!

I have messed this card up so many times during the colouring prosess. Nothing has worked out, and when it has, of course I have been there one too many times and had to throw it away. That's how good things goes right now. Anyway, after all that struggling I got a card together using the wonderful sketch over at CLP challenges for Februay. I so do love their sketches. Take a look if you haven't been around and play along. You always have a month to complete your card, so plenty of time. Sorry, went off the road here.

Back to my card. I have used Spring Mist and Rose's Dream to create this card in soft pastel colours. My Bildmålarna image (isn't she the cutest) is called Mimosa Gitarr. The text stamp used inside is also from Bildmålarna. All their new images are so lovely and cute. Love them. She is coloured with my normal Letraset family and a dash of Prisma pencils. I'm so happy my new blush arrived in the mail the other day so I could do my normal skin colouring. How addicted can you be to a single marker?

A set of a stamp and a die

Four digis of winner's choice

We have some lovely prizes to be won over at Bearly Mine Challenges as well this week. Marianne Designs and Meljen's is sponsoring us this time around. And our theme? It's Anything goes this week. So plenty of cards and other creations to look at I hope.

Time to go and finish off tomorrows creation for the Paper Shelter, and there we have a little harder challenge. Drop by tomorrow to find out!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
CLP - Sketch
Bildmålarna - Use at least three hearts
Crazy Amigo Challenges - Hearts
Digital Tuesday challenges - Hearts (The designer papers are digisets)
Loves Rubber Stamping - Anything goes

Another one to share

Good morning to you all. I am back again. I can't believe how quick the last two weeks went and now I have a new three day posting going. It feels good, wish I could have it like this all the time. The only thing is that I doesn't seem to be able to get out of my colds and don't have much more energy than making my dt cards. I hope this will change really soon as I do love my card making but at the moment I feel behind whatever I do. I am still behind with my letters but is really working on that part as it has been on a hold for a while. Have not forgotten about my dear old pen friends, I have just not had the energy for it. It is like that every now and then. I will make better in the future, promise! I will at least try! LoL

This week I have brought out one of my Magnolias. I do love them but hardly ever seem to use them. It will change from now on. I find the Magnolias most fun to colour when I use the distress inks and aquamarkers from Letraset and now there is a even wider range of colours from Letraset. It's time to bring the brushes out again. So this image is coloured with distress inks. A post card stamp from LOTV and a sentiment stamp from Bildmålarna is also used on this card. A mix and match in other words.

My designer papers are from Bearly Mine Design and is from the set called Floral Breeze. Lots of yummy pastels there. A really lovely set that you really should check out. It's stunning designs in there. I have used some lace together with some ribbon that is woven into the lace and all of that comes from WOC. My roses are also from WOC and the big lace flower is from Magnolia. Charms bought at Pagoni here in Sweden, I have actually added three of them. Just couldn't help myself, and I felt as I have so many of these hearts why not use them? LoL The berry clusters are from Magnolia also. Pearls from BunnyZoes.

And of course being Tuesday we have a new challenge up for you over at Bearly Mine Challenges. This week we are playing Tic Tac Toe. That means you have to have four rights in a row. Like from top to bottom, from left to right etc. You get it right? I have filled up the line that starts with Lots of Layers and goes from left to right (second row). Which one do you pick?

We have a whole bunch of sponsors for you this time as well and it's really lovely prizes to be won. You really need to play in this challenge, I am telling you. Listen to this: Whiff of Joy - one rubber stamp, I am Roses - gift voucher worth $35 and Crafter's Companion -  a gift voucher worth £10. Told you it's a lot of wonderful prizes to be won this time. Am I right or am I right? Just take your pick on our Tic Tac Toe game plan and get creating, nothing to wait for.

So I see you all over at the Bearly Mine Challenges.

Crafty hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Friday Sketch challenge - Sketch that the card is made by (it's a lovely one, thanks!)
Make It Monday - Always anything goes
Lovely Hänglar sweet Magnolia- Ribbon or lace (I got bot on my creation)
Totally Tilda Challenges - Tilda in Trousers (Hope short ones count)

Second time this week

Hi! Hope you have had a good day so far and are enjoying life just like it is today. I'm here to bring you a new design team card for the new Bearly Mine Challenges that goes live right now.

Today is the first day when the kids are back in school and kindergarten since before Christmas and it's very silent and strange around here. After this I thought I would sit down and do a card or two as it now has come to I have all my three design team commitments the same week. So every second week for a while now you see me three days in a row. Scary or what?

This time we have a sketchy theme for you to follow and it looks like this. A fun and lovely sketch to work with and not my normal style as I usually work with squares and rectangles on my card designs. The boss, no not Bruce Springsteen, Donna has made this for us all to work with. I really hope you will join us in this adventure. You see it in it's big and lovely glory over at the Bearly Mine Challenge blog

I have used one of the very adorable images from Sugar Nellie to work with this time and she is coloured with my Letraset family. She might have gone a little bright but I like here. I have of course used Bearly Mine Design Papers on my card and these ones are from a few different sets. I just have to remember which ones... Let me get back to you on that one. I love my brown colours and they are so suitable for this old fashinon looking images. Love them to bits!

For decorations on this card I have used a few flowers from I am Roses and Kort og Godt, some half pearls, a butterfly die from Magnolia, some golden stickles and a few leaves. So the designer papers then; they are from Floral Fantasy (the rose paper on the narrow panel), Shabby Vintage (the big one) and the small stripes is from Summer's Roses. See I got there in the end, I really need to start writing down what I use for my cards. LoL

  

Sponsors, that I know about and Donna has been working hard behind the scenes and have found tons of lovely sponsors for our future challenges.This time we have two of them the Paper Shelter who I happen to design for (and tomorrow we have a new challenge up for you) and Little Darlings Rubber stamps. The Paper Shelter is offering a $20 gift voucher as a price and Little Darlings is offering one rubber stamp as a prize for this challenge. Great right?

I really hope you will join us in our new challenge. I am so looking forward to start my design team work again after the holidays even if it now seems like they passed a little too quickly. I for sure hope you had a really lovely time with near and dear ones.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything goes
Inky Chicks - Anything goes (First Challenge)
Oldie but a goodie - The designer papers, the pin and the image is oldies (but never used - shame on me). LoL

Another posting...

...I'm on the go here! One on Sunday and now it's Tuesday and I am not even feeling well. Not my joints this time. I have a b----y cold that won't give in and now I'm hard of hearing. It feels like I walk around and scream all the time, because I don't have a clue of how loud I speak. LoL

It's time for some celebration here at my blog, well we have "Winter Birthdays" as our theme over at the Bearly Mine Challenges this time and this challenge will go on for two weeks or so. That means we won't be back with a new challenge until 2013 and then will Shirley and her A team let us challenge again.

For my card have I used yet another image from the Paper Shelter and this one is called Snow angel. I didn't have time to use her for a Christmas card but she works well for winter birthdays as well. She is coloured with my Letraset family.

The design is fairly simple but looks like a lot of work have been done! My kind of card! LoL I found the sentiment stamp laying around my table and I don't have a clue from where it comes, probably Lili Of the Valley as they has tons of wonderful sentiment stamps. Just wish they would make them in Swedish. :) Flowers and berries are from WOC and Magnolia. Might be one or two flowers from I am Roses as well. The broad ribbon is from The Ribbon girls and the lace from Molly's Scrapbooking. And the designer papers are from Pastel Christmas from Bearly Mine Design. Gosh! I really have cloggy memorie at this time, more than usual that is. Let's say it is the fever speaking, ok and let us hope that it will pass quickly. As always I have used some stickles form Rangers and this time I went with some sparkly Silver and some frosted lace.

Our sponsor this week is Donna from Bearly Mine designs. She offers two digi sets of winner's Choice for all of you that plays with us this time around.

So now let's see all of those forgotten birthdays that do take place even during the Holiday season. I have a niece that decided that it would be good to have her birthday 1st of January. LoL I can't wait to come and see what you all create for this challenge.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
Passion for Promarkers - Use the word "happy" in your sentiment
Bunny Zoe Challenges - Celebration!
Fashionista Challenge - Winter
Paper Playtime Challenges - Winter fun

A little more of that coming season

Morning to you all. I am back with some more Christmas inspiration for you  all. It's so cold today and it's snowing like crazy outside my window. Winter is truly here now. It's one good thing with it at least, my oldest love being outside again. It's wonderful to see him out there, building stuff in snow that isn't possible to build with as it's so cold.

I have a little card to show as well and this time it's all about Santa. With only twenty days before he arrives here in Sweden we thought we have that theme over at the Bearly Mine Challenges this week. Santa is coming! We want to see all your santas poping up on your creations. I for sure can't wait.

 My Father Christmas is coloured with Prisma Pencils this time and he is paired up with some lovely designer papers from Bearly Mine Designs called Christmas Glee and Mini dots. A very useful set the last one. I love i! I have kept this card a little cleaner as it is for a child. Two decorations a christmas three made with a Marianne die and a wooden reindeer. What would Santa do with out his loyal pets that takes him all over the world, right?

I also have a second card for this challenge as I thought it looked a little bare over at the challenge blog with three teamies away. So this is also made for the challenge. I normally don't have two cards in the same posting but everything has exceptions. LoL This card is made using a Magnolia stamp that I really love and it's coloured with my Letraset family on craft card. Over at PFP a few weeks back they had this as a challenge and I really wanted to join in there but got sick, only got to the colouring part. So this is what became of that image. I love the colouring on craft with markers. If you have not done it, try it! It's fun!

I have kept this card fairly simple as well with just a few decorations on it. So Christmas trees made with a Magonlia die and a snow flake die. A gem stone from an old neckless in the middle of the snowflake, a few pearls and a seal for Christmas presents is used as decorations together with a ribbon from Molly's Scrapbooking. The designer papers are from Bearly Mine Design and the set Christmas Wishes.

We have a great sponsor in Kenny K this week. They are offering five digis of your choice if you are picked as the lucky winner of the week. Come and play with us! You surely has just a few of those Christmas cards left to do, right?

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for card 1
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Die Cuttin Divas - Holiday spirit
The stamping Boutique - Holiday cards
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges - Bingo (Snow, Reindeer, glitter)
Lollipop Craft Challenges - Happy Holidays

Challenges for card 2
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
Die Cuttin Divas - Holiday spirit
Paper take weekly - Anything goes
Ribbon Carousel - Holiday spirit
The stamping Boutique - Holiday cards

More of that Christmas spirit

Hi there! Hope you had a good week so far. Myself is preparing to have the window cleaners over tomorrow so everything in the windows has to go. Thank you God for not having me clean the windows as well. LoL Can you believe that we only have about a month before we go in to the Christmas week, again? This year has really passed by so quickly, and this is the best time of the year. Don't you think?

I have a good collection of Christmas cards by now but there is still a few to make and here comes one of them. We have the theme of snowflakes over at the new challenge of the Bearly Mine Challenges. Nice and easy challenge I'm guessing. I have used a image from Wee Stamps by Sylvia Zet, very cute and lovely. Last year I used this image for a scrapbook page that I made about the snow we got in November and stayed to the end of March the year after. It's cute and lovely. She is coloured with my Prisma pencils for a change. Have realized that I do much better coloring with them when I don't have a lot of pain in my arms and are more relaxed.

Ok, for my card's decorations have I used some half pearls, snow flakes made with dies from Whimsy stamps and Martha Stewart punches. A ribbon is also used. My designer papers are of course from Bearly Mine Designs and are from two sets: Pastel Christmas and Winter Swirl. I do hope that you will come on over to the challenge and join us for this weeks challenge. Silver mirri board is also used for the snow flakes and that's why my photo wont really work for me.

Sponsors do we have this week as well and this time we have the lovely people from I am Roses as a sponsor and they are offering a gift voucher worht $35 to spend in their store as a price. Isn't that just wonderful?

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Glitter n Sparkle Challenges - Lots of layers
Joanna Sheen Challenges - Cold and Frosty
The Crafty Pad - Christmas

Finally back

Hello, hello hello! I am back, finally back! It feels like I have been gone forever but I have just been busy as the kids has been off school for a week. Less time to do your normal things then, and last Saturday we celebrated W. 6th birthday with relatives and close family. I have even been so busy that I forgot to make him a card! Now I have to do it afterwards as he says he needs his yearly card. LoL So typical for him! A bought one was not ok, cause mum makes them much better, he said. Guess if I got some energy back after that?

I have a new card to show and this time I have a birthday card made. My youngest son was at a birthday party a few hours before W started his, so I had to make a card for the neighbor's daugther as P said you have to have a card when you go to a party. They are well trained my boys aren't they?

This is what I came up with for Ebba. P picked out the image himself and gave me rebuff on my colouring. He wasn't happy with the colours I started with, so I re coloured Tilda wit Daisy and he was a happy kid. I coloured her with distress inks.  I paired her up with some designer papers from Bearly Mine Designs called Petunia Parade. With some black cardstock it made the whole card a little more interesting for a kid.

I also used some glitter strips from Anita's and used a good amount of silver coloured stickles. All the dies used on this card is from Doo Hickeys, Magnolia. For some more fun details I also used a pearl pen from my stash to make a few dots here and there.

And since it is Tuesday and my week to host the challenge over at Bearly Mine Challenges, I better tell you all our theme for the week. We are going all in and have Anything goes this week. So I bet I will see you over at the Bearly Mine Challenges, right?

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
Marvelous Magnolia Challenges - Anything goes
The Cutie Pie Challenges - Distressing (here it's made with distress ink)
Paper Take Weekly - Anything goes with the option Christmas

Christmas is coming closer and closer...

Hi there! How are you all doing? Fine I hope. I am happy that it is today and not yesterday. Had a very long appointment with the MRI machine yesterday as they are looking for inflammations in my right foot. I wasn't prepared  on how bad they were with the needle. Two tries this time and every time I ask them not to put the needle in my right arm because it won't work. It's out of order when it comes to this subject. Countless blood test has gone wrong in that arm and it filled with scars. Do they listen? Nope! I really love the health care. I think that if someone knows my body, it would be me right? So really smiling about having that over and done with. Today is a new day. And tomorrow too, then it's time to meet the foot specialist in the orthopedic clinic. Keep your fingers cross that they find something that is easy to fix. 

Oh well, how lucky I am to have this blog to ventilate all my frustrations at. Now time for something more fun hopefully. Taadaa! A new card is up. This time I have used my lovely Santa from Magnolia Stamps, Sweden. I have paired him up with some lovely looking designer papers from Bearly Mine Design. They are called Festive Fun and is one out of three new Christmas sets Donna has out. There is also Christmas Traditions and Pastel Christmas found in the shop. Lovely sets all three of them. If you scroll down a bit you find a card made with the Christmas Tradition set. Yet to come is a pastel Christmas card. :) 

My dear old Santa is coloured with distress inks this time and then I have given him some shining surroundings with some golden rod glitter from Rangers. A doily from Nelli Snellen is used. The text is saying God Jul with means Merry Christmas in Swedish. My flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and so is the golden corners. The rest is from my way too big stash, wonder how I will ever use it all up?

It is Tuesday today and it's my turn to host the new challenge over at Bearly Mine Challenges. This week's challenge is Easel cards. The only not so fun part about them is to take their picture. LoL I hope you will come and join us in our new challenge. Maybe make a Christmas card as that time is soon here and I for sure can't wait for it. I look forward to have the cozy evenings at home with candle lights and playing board games. Just wish that P wasn't such a bad looser and makes it not as fun to play. But what can you expect from a four year old? LoL

Our sponsor this week is Fred, She Said Designs. You have the chance of winning a gift certificate worth $20 to spend in their store. It's filled with lovely sweet images. I am sure you find something you love there, so please stop by and check them out.

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Make it Monday - Always anything goes

All beautiful Cards challenges  - New to you
Wild Orchid Craft Challenges - Silver or Gold

Miss Halloween

Hi there, hope you are all doing well. Here it's better than during the weekend but I have a bit left to feel like my old self again. My body decided it doesn't like my meds alonger so it has gone right to the tummy. Yeah! Life is fun sometimes. So for now, no more medication for me, a detox is going on again, and I don't even take any hard meds at the moment. Have to find some kind of solution to this soon, the pain is killing me.

Anyway, while this goes live (hopefully) am I off with W. class and ice skating! My gosh! Keep your fingers crossed as I have not been on my skates since I was about 17, and that is... well, lets just leave it with that it's way too long ago. LoL I have even had the skates sharpened for this event. After this I might need both cast and new meds, can't wait to see how this will all go with 60 kids and maybe 10 adults. Lots of skates to tie, I might not even get out on the ice.

A card is made as well and since I wasn't feeling well at all this weekend I have not been able to colour my own image. Lucky for me I have the wonderful images from the Paper Shelter that also comes pre coloured. So for my card have I used Miss Halloween. A real cutie found here. She is paired up with some yummie designer papers from Bearly Mine Design and the Happy Haunting digi set.

Flowers are a mixture from Prima and Wild Orchid Craft. The corner stamps are from MME and the pearly swirly is also Prima. A border punch is also used together with some spellbinder dies. Pearls from my stash.  Feathers from Magnolia, Sweden. Some glitter is used on the flowers as well.

The card is made for our new challenge over at Bearly Mine Challenges and our theme is Pearls and Swirls, a real favourite isn't it? Come on and join in the fun! Our sponsor this week is the Paper Shelter that offers a gift voucher worth $20 for one lucky winner.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - always anything goes
Paper Playtime Challenge 85 Trick or Treat + diecuts or punch

A little card again

A good morning to you  all! Hope you are feeling a lot better than I am today. My shoulders are killing me and therefore I have not been very active on my blog lately. Just breathing hurts... I am so tired of this and today, I have a meeting with the employment office as well. Oh, how much I long for that and so inspired I am. Not! I have no clue on what to do with all this pain and the doctors as usual finds nothing, and still I can hardly move.

Ok, feeling better now when I have been complaining a bit, a tiny bit at least. It's time for a new challenge over at Bearly Mine Challenges, and this week we have a simple one for you Add a sentiment! Yep! You only have to add some text to your card to be able to play with us.

For my card I have used Bearly Mine Design's Christmas Light digi set and let them be a card together with the lovely Christmas Shopping from Kenny K's. As always a joy to colour in with my Letraset family. My sentiment is from You Do! and says Happy Christmas in Swedish. Flowers and ribbon are from WOC, snowflake die from Whimsy, doily made with Cheery Lynn die.

Our sponsor this week is Kenny K's and the prize up for grabs is 5 digis of winner's choice. Wonderful prize isn't it? So what are you waiting for? Come on and join us for our challenge this week.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
CLP Challenges - Sketch

Digital Tuesday Challenges - Say it with flowers
Try it on Tuesday Challenges - Lots of layers (tons of different dp and CS on this one)

A good day

Hello there everyone, I hope you have a good day with lots of smiles. I hope that for me as well as I have been feeling so low a few weeks now. Hopefully it's only the effect of me going of the anti depressive a couple of months ago, and that I will be back to my normal self soon. The psychologist told me it could take at least a couple of months more before I get stable. And let me tell you it feels like forever right now. Didn't thought it could get any worse after last week. I was wrong and we leave it with that, ok?

Luckyly for me I have been bright enough to colour in a whole bunch of images when I had my good days, so I have used one of those for this card. It's paired up with some lovely designer papers from Bearly Mine Design. This set is called Christmas Wishes and I just love the blue, brown and white together. My image is from Tickled Pink, but the name of it I have forgotten. I have coloured her with my Prisma and Polychrome pens.

To give the card some decoration I have used a Prima flower together with a bunch of rose buds and small roses from Wild Orchid Craft. The spiral and feathers are from Magnolia, Sweden. Pearls from Bunny Zoe.

The card is made for our new challenge over at Bearly Mine Challenges this week and our theme is very simple this time. Anything goes it is, so do come on and play with us. Our sponsor is Donna over at Bearly Mine Design. Two sets of your choice is up for grabs so hurry up and join us.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
A and T Emerald Faeries - Use a doily
Try it on Tuesdays - Anything goes
Anything goes challenges-  Early Christmas
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges - Tic Tac Toe (Middle row with blue glitter and snowflakes), glitter on the dress and flowers, and two of the dp are covered with snowflakes, blue image)

Hello

and good morning to you all! Hope your day started well. Here we are ok, but it's the most busy week in ages, since before summer I would say. Doctors, employment office, health insurance office, physio, "shoe doctor" etc. I'm grateful that I am alive! If I was longing for last weekend, this is nothing compared to how much I want it to be weekend this week. I know, here and now. But for now that is not working with me even if I know it has to be like that. I do my best and take it one day at the time. I just wish it wasn't so moist outside! My body is not feeling to well in this so lets hope for high and dry fall weather soon and not this.

This is a card made by Mi, well of course it is. I was just looking for a different way of starting my rumblings about my card. LoL It's a quite simple card for the new challenge over at Bearly Mine Challenges. I have used the wonderful pink and orangeie digi set called Cheeky Days. Love the colour combo there. I have paired the papers up with the lovely Gypsy Dance from the Paper Shelter. She is coloured with my Prisma / Polychrome pens. One of my first time doing a whole image this way, so please don't laugh. At least not so that I can see it, ok? 

As we are having the theme of Anything that glitters over at the Bearly Mine Challenges this week, I have glitter all over the card. Not that it normally shows, but this time it does for sure shows on the clothing the dancer is wearing. It doesn't look that bad IRL, it just shows on the picture and it shows really well. LoL. On my flowers are there some frosted lace stickles from Rangers. Gems from my stash and pearls from Rox Stamps here in Sweden. Flowers are from WOC and Kort och Godt. Feathers from Magnolia. All the edges are distressed with some ink from T.H. 

We do have a sponsor for this challenge as well and that is no other than the Lovely Donna from Bearly Mine Designs. Two digi sets of your choice is up for grabs. You don't want to miss out on this. The new Christmas set is to die for, called Christmas ligths and was put up in the shop a few weeks ago. Go and take a look. You find all the links you need to the right here on my blog. 

So please come and join our game. We are waiting for you! And a big thank your for leaving a little trace of you when you're leaving.

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
Eureka Stamps - Anything goes
Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Lots of Layers
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes

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