Use a circle over at Passion for Markers

 Morning and hello everyone!

It's me again. Long time no seen. I have been a bit lazy when it come to my cardmaking lately. I have spent more time with my crochet hook, making my small toys for kids at hospitals. It have been a good time when it comes to that.

Anyway, we have a new challenge up over at Passion for Markers today and this week's theme is set to

Use a circle

Our sponsor this week is Rachel Anne Miller who will spoil one lucky winner with a gift voucher worth £10.

Thank you for that lovely price!

For my card have I used a lovely image from RAM digital stamps called Friendship Mouse. Isn't it cute? I love it, it's so sweet and I love the lady bug. I have a special relationship to that insect. My grand dad used to call me Maria Nyckelpiga which is a character from a book. He always called me that and it was only him doing that. I think about him when I see one.

 

I have colored with a mix of markers from different brands. The designer paper is from Echo Park and the paper pad My favorite summer. As I printed my image pretty large was there not much space left for more than one dp. I added a ribbon to give some texture and details and I dug around in my flower stash and used a few of those as well. I also used a pink metal thread to give some more details with the flowers. 

It was great fun to make a card again and use my metallic dies again. It was some time since I did that. This is one of those times when I wish I had a bigger die cut machine to get a larger circle but it turned out ok anyone. I have used plenty of circles on my card: for the image, the card shape and there is plenty of layers as well. 

I hope you like what you see and there is plenty of inspiration over at our challenge blog Passion for Markers. We hope to see you there and I look forward to get some inspiration from all of you!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Try it on Tuesday - In the garden

Unicorn Challenges - Not square

A cut above - Anything goes with at least one die cut

Pammies Inky Pinky fingers - Anything goes

Spring colours over at Passion for Markers

Morning and hello to you all! 

Hope you all have had a good start of your day and that you are ready for a new challenge over at Passion for markers? Our challenge this week have the theme set to "Spring colours", and I for sure would love to have some spring now. It's so cold during the evenings and I keep freezing the whole time. 

 

 We are sponsored by the lovely company Polka Doodles that offer one lucky winner a prize of three digital images of winners choice. Thank you for that!

Well then, for my card have I used the sweet image called Butterfly flowerpots. You find the lovely image in Polka Doodles store. I have coloured with copic markers and spectrum noir markers. After having tried to colour this lovely image a while ago and totally fail it due to my hands acting up again but the other day did I manage to colour it fairly ok at least. 

I am so pleased that I chose to colour one of the pots in black, as I have black flowerpots myself, it doesn't always have to be a terracotta pot. :) My designer papers are a mix of Echo Park papers, paper pads that is almost gone. I have mixed them up and also have some Easter papers that is almost gone. A last try to use them a few more times even it it's just scraps left of them. No waste here!

The only decorations on this card is a sweet die cut border from Lawn Fawn and some pearls made by Nuvo Drops in white. There is so many colours going on in this creation so I decided to keep it to a minimum.

Now is it your turn to make a spring card or project. Have fun doing that and don't forget to link up to our challenge blog over at Passion for Markers!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Polka doodles Challenges - Anything goes

Try it on Tuesday - Spring

A place to start - Anything goes option - Hip to be square

Christmas Cheers-19-23

 Morning and hello!

It's the last day of November 2023 and it's time for yet another Christmas card made for friends and families this year. It's so much fun to make these cards all year long. 

This card is made with a hÄnglar and Wings image that is a bit older. It's called hÄngla med lykta. It's retired but still a lovely image, that I really enjoyed coloring and I have used mainly promarkers for this one. I have paired the lovely hÄngla together with designer papers from Maja Design. The papers are from the paper pad called Christmas Wonderland. 

I made a few flowers that is typical for Christmas here in Sweden. I have them only as fake ones as they are poisonous for cats, and besides that do they not like the heating system here. Too much moving air! A white ribbon and a few die cut trees made with a Magnolia die and then some pearls to that. A good match for this Christmas card!

Hope I have been able to bring some inspiration for you with this creation. Until next time, take care and do take some time to do something for yourself!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

The Holly and the Ivy challenge - Anything Christmas

Try it on Tuesday - Traditional Christmas

Dream Valley Challenges - Anything goes

Pammies inky pinkies challenges - Anything goes

Just for fun 45 - 21

Morning and hello!

It's time for a new card from my craft studio. I have spent a few days playing with some fall/halloween images from hÄnglar and Wings. This image is from the set called Bus eller godis. This is the witch from the set and on 31st of October will I show the second image from the set.

I have coloured with a mix of different markers and used the paper pad from Echo Park called I love Halloween. I have only used a a web ribbon and a satin ribbon for decorations for my creation. The patterns on the papers are quite busy so that is enough.

Have a lovely weekend and do something that makes you happy!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

TTCRD - Anything goes

Creatalicious Challenges - Anything goes option black and purple

The paper funday challenges - Anything goes option halloween / purple

Try it on Tuesday - Halloween time

Paperminutes - Med hatt

Lovely lilac and lemon

New challenge over at Passion for Promarkers this week the theme is Lovely Lilacs and lemon. A nice and easy challenge for you now when spring is on it's way.

All the world champion ships of skiing is over for this time and now more time to craft, if  I just hadn't turned my craft room over to a mess. Well, actually that room is starting look tidy but the rest of the house, maybe not that much. My whole living room is filled with my craft stuff and my desks and drawers and you name it. It's such a mess! But will be worth it in the end. I had just planned to paint one of my walls. Well, I am now heading from three walls and wall paper on the fourth. Not much but it will look great I think. Anyway, I am so pleased with my almost nutsy decition to pain the walls dark, daaark, daaaaark green. Almost black. It it totally smashing.

The feeling of the room is that it will be little and I need more light sourses in there but it will be great. Luckly I decided to go white on my furniture in there so it will be great and give some light to the room. I can't wait to get this finished that's for sure. I will even have a new floor and roof. I am kind of robbing my kid of that. His room should have been done first but one thing led to another and so on. It's a bit hard on my crafting at the moment. Have stuff everywhere and in the middle of it all one of my cats sits and looks at me like I am totally crazy. The worst part is that he probabaly is right. LoL

Well my friends now when I have written what I felt I need to get of my chest I am ready to tackle my card for today. We have the theme of lovely lilacs and lemons this week and then I thought: Ok not my colours but I want to do something nice with the theme anyway, challenge myself so a big dive into some wooden mounted stamps that I've had for a few years. Looked at them again and thought why not? So an enormous lilac stamp fitting the theme became my choice. Colour it in with my letraset markers and found real joy in that. It looks ok and then the hunt for the dps; Maja design came to my rescue again and found  matching dps.

My card looks like this and I build up a fairly big flower cluster in matching colours. Not very easy this time. I just with I could have done it a bit smaller, but at least it looks kind of nice. Then some pearls and a piece of lace that matched into the creation as well. Over all it looks quite ok and I am please with the card. And I remember why I don't use that stamp that often. Its really big and hard to get a crisp image from when you stamp it. A bit hard to colour too but this went ok.

Some green stiff string from prima, glitter glue, tons of flowers and pearls is used to decorate the card. Some lace tide into a bow and a heart shaped charm to finish it all of and the card is done, almost. I did also use some glossy accent to highlight the water drops on the leaf and then added a fem more around the card.

Sponsoring us over at Passion for Promarkers this week is Crafty Sentiments Designs - three (3) digis is up for grabs this week. And they are of the winners choice. Couldn't be any better could it? 

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes + optional flowers
Clear it out challenges - Anything goes + Anthing goes of stash (dp's in this case)
TTCRD - Anything goes
Try it on Tuesday - Pearls for girls
Bunny Zoes - For the girls

Sketch time over at Passion for Promarkers

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

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

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)

My favourite bear

Good morning and hello! Hope you are doing fine today and enjoy your day. Sitting here really tired and very slow in movements. It's one of those days, but with some mind exercises I plan to change that after I have gotten this done. LoL Hopefully something will change. I will try to make this one a short post. I have been so chatty the last time that I need to keep quiet for a while. LoL

This card of mine features one of my favourite bears. He is so cute or is it a she. Doesn't really matter, it's cute! I have had this one coloured forever and I have another bunch still laying around. You never know when you need them. I find them good for card for kids in all ages and with two fellows going to parties all the time, you need these.

I have kept my card very simple this time. Just some card candy and a net ribbon as decoration. I have used a Basic Grey pad for my designer papers Max and Whiskers if I don't remember wrong. I love the colours in this pad and to make the card pop a bit I choose to put the paw printed paper what feels like up side down to me. Artistic freedom, isn't that what they call it? As always when it comes to digis my Letraset family has done the work for me.

Now this card is made for our new challenge over at the Paper Shelter and we have an easy one for you this time; Anything goes. I hope to see many of you joining us this week. It's such joy to see what you create, especially with our Paper Shelter images. As always we have our $20 voucher up for grabs if you use our images on your creation and if you don't you are still in the draw for three digis of your choice.

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
Passion for Promarkers - Lots of Layers
Try it on Tuesday - Anything goes
Craft your Passion - Anything goes