Christmas is coming over at the Paper Shelter

Morning and hello! I am here again and this time I present a new card for the Paper Shelter challenges. Our theme this week is Christmas is coming so it should not be that hard to play along. As always I am a bit late with my card. But this week was really special as I spent yesterday at the hospital with my youngest. He smashed his right foot in a gymnastics gear in school and had to be driven home by a class mates mum that help us out. She is the best! We saw a doctor and did some x-rays. Luckly it's only a bad, really bad bruise and spraining. He will be fine but it will take a few weeks before it's healed. Myself = tired! And today do I have tons of catalogues to make price lists for at work today, and yes they all has to be finished today. Let's say that my boss really knows the art of living here and now. Not so good all the times.

Ok, for my card. I have used the fabby image Dear Santa and I have once again used the pre coloured image. I had to make a really fast card as the time ran out, again. I used some fabby designer papers from Echo Park from the pad called Home for Christmas. I have used some enamel dots, star shaped as I thought it was a nice addition. I also tried to use a dp that had some mail boxes on it, but I think that only one is showing. Thought that would be nice together with Santa reading his letters.

As always, we have a gift voucher up worth $30 when you play with the Paper Shelter brand. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning 3 digis of your choice. Nice and easy to play along, right? You can enter our challenges up to three times, but at least one of your creations needs to have a TPS image on it.

So for now, take good care and do something that makes you happy!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

TTCRD - Anything goes

Let´s celebrate over at Passion for Promarkers

Morning and hello! With darkeness and mist going from morning to night at the moment it's pretty nice to sit inside and create. Well some creating, some trying to fix my scrap room again. It's shrinking and fast. I have pulled out a stack of designer papers about 50 cm high or so that I will give away to a school or something just so I can get a little more space. Did it help? Nope but I feel so much lighter. I will go throw a bit more of my stuff and let go of it. I probably have a bunch of 6 x 6 paper pads that I don't use either then someone can put them to use.

Well, I managed to get a card done for the Passion for Promarkers challenge in all this mess as well and it's so good to have it done as well. I have used one of my favourite digis from last year from Sassy Cherryl and coloured him up with my promarkers and tria markers. It's something you have to do to be able to win our prize of the week.

I then took a look in my scrapbox of Magnolia papers and they are many that's for sure and never ever used those either. But some day I will and today I used a few scraps at least now is only the rest of the stack left. I paired them up with some pomegranate cardstock from Bazzill, fave brand for that. Then out came my big shot and a whole bunch of letters and stamping for the sentiment on the card. Maybe I should have gone with happy Christmas or something but a snow man needs the snow.

Our theme this week is Let's celebrate so maybe I should have changed it but I use my imagination and believe that the snowy celebrates that it is snowing.

Our sponsor this week is Time for tea designs which offers 3 digi images for one lucky winner! Thank you for that! Do take a look in the store. I am pretty sure you will find something that you like.

Now time to have a look and see if there is something more I can get rid of without feeling bad, but that will be when I get back from work and have done some more creating.

Take care and do something that makes you happy!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
TTCRD - Anything goes

Winter fun over at the Paper Shelter

Morning and hello! I am back again with a new creation for the Paper Shelter. I can't believe that it already has been two weeks since I had a challenge here. Time goes so fast and we already have November, well at least we have tomorrow. ;)

Our theme over at the Shelter is "Winter fun". I thought that we need so fun to do during the dark month before Christmas. It also gives a chance to get a Christmas card or two done before we need to send them all on the way to near and dear.

I have used the image called "Snowball fight". I have used the pre coloured image as I have tons to do at work again. I kind of messed up at work the other day and deleted some stuff that I shouldn't have. Hopefully it's possible to restore the whole thing.

I have used an old paper pad from Panduro which I don't know what it was called. I have actually managed to finished the whole big pad off even if I still have a few back grounds for a few more cards to use. At least I have finished I have used them. I have decorated my card with tons of die cuts that I took the time to make today. I have used a few Magnolia dies like the snow man, the trees, the fence and the snow flakes are from Lawn Fawn. Tons of silver glitter paper for the snow flakes and spica pen is used on the snow man.

As always, we have a gift voucher up worth $30 when you play with the Paper Shelter brand. Playing with another brand gives you the chance of winning 3 digis of your choice. Nice and easy to play along, right? You can enter our challenges up to three times, but at least one of your creations needs to have a TPS image on it.

I wish you all the best and hope that you take some time to do something that makes you happy!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

TTCRD - Anything goes

Anything goes or Embossing (wet or dry) over at Creatalicious Challenges

Morning and hello! It’s time to show a creation of mine again. I have two posts coming up today, thought it would be a good idea to start with the first one. Sometimes I am brilliant… 😉 We have a challenge going live for you today over at Creatalicious Challenges and our theme is set to “Anything goes or embossing (wet or dry)”. Anything goes you all fix nice and easy but do challenge yourself and do a little more with your creation. It’s always nice to be a little more than you think you can handle.

Little Blue Button Stamps

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We are sponsored by the lovely Little Blue Button and one lucky winner will receive a gift voucher worth $10 to use in the store. You have plenty to choose from so you won’t be disappointed.

So, to my card for this challenge. I have used the lovely image called “ Miss Lilly Princess” and coloured the image with my Letraset Winsor & Newton markers. My go to even if I have been cheating a bit behind the scene lately and coloured way with my distress inks. I hardly ever colour any other images than Magnolias with distress inks for some reason and I am still not happy about the result. I will work on that for a little longer. I have two new Magnolias for Halloween, but I think they could go all the year around as they have an owl and a cat together with Tilda. Maybe I even get a card together with one of the coloured images.

As I wrote on my post on Monday I have been busy changing some stuff in my craft room as I miss out on workspace. My desks are very narrow, and I need more space to be able both to scrapbook and to make cards at the same time. Well maybe not at the same time but without having to move everything around the whole time. What it has led to is that I sit in bed and scrapbook and do my cards here in the craft room as I can’t colour without strong lights now. The meds are eating some of my eyesight for the time being. Hopefully it will pass, otherwise it will be a hard life. 

Anyway, I found when I was reorganizing my 6 x 6 paper packs/pads my old lovely Bildmålarna design papers. They are so pretty that I had to use some of them for this card as well. I think it’s from the Spring or summer collection they had last year being in business. I miss them, I adored both paper and stamps and all the fabby charms they offered. Still have a few unused, both stamps and charms. So more of that coming up. I think I will try to make a real effort to use all my stamps at least once the coming year. That is from those which has not been used yet. I don’t want to think about how many they are, so I won’t do that. 😊

I decided to use some of my flower stash as well as a golden heart charm to decorate the card. Two die cut hearts have I also used. I love these tiny little die-cutting sets that costs almost nothing. Most of the time they are very useful, especially when it’s shaped like hearts, stars or stuff like that. I did also use some card candi as I have two million of those as well I think. But I still love those as a replacement to when I need bigger pearls which I don’t have that many off.

Ok then people! Have a good day and do plenty of what you love! Craft away and don’t forget to link it up to our challenge at Creatalicious.

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Christmas or Winter over at Passion for Promarkers

Morning and hello! It’s Tuesday again and we have a new fun challenge for you over at Passion for Promarkers. Hosting this week is, well I am. I have picked the theme of Winter or Christmas, so it leaves you some more options. Me who really is a winter person loves the snow and all that comes with it, except that I must take the bus to work instead of taking my bike. It takes so much longer to go by buss. Even if I only have about 4 kms, it takes about 45 minutes to get to work by bus. I must walk a lot and get tons more pain. So maybe I don’t like winter as much anymore. 😊But Christmas is still nice.

So, I have dug out one of my Snowy Magnolias just as I do every year. To me the snowmen images is still the best ones they have done there. He or she, hard to tell right? Is coloured with my Promarkers and Triamarkers even if I am running very low on those pens by now. You know, to have a chance on the prize for this week’s challenge you must use the Letraset / Winsor & Newton markers some kind of version. Easy peasy, right? Of course, you must follow the theme as well.

Sponsoring this challenge is UNIKO STAMPS and they offer one lucky winner a stamp set that is in stock. 

I dug some more in my stash today and found a new place for all my paper pads. Well, I have been working on that project since the beginning of September or so but now I’ slowly getting there. I have a small craft room and I need workspace so now are all my paper pads going down under my desks. In lovely wooden apple boxes from IKEA. I have two sizes of them and the small ones fits the 6 x 6 paper pads good and under I can store stuff that I don’t use that often. Perfect! I have for example put all my diamond paintings in one of them. Later, I will hit the shelfs in my closets as well to free up some space. Never ending mission but I am pretty sure that the room is shrinking!

Back to my card, as I said I dug around in my paper pads and found yet another favourite of mine. My Bildmålarna papers, this one is called Winter Wishes. They went out of business some years ago and I really loved what they had going, both the stamps, paper pads and my beloved charms. Miss you tons! I kind of miss Hanglar Stanglar as well, but I saw in a scrapbook store that they are back Hanglar & xxx something. Looked nice.

I used up some of my pre-cut snowflakes and a Christmas tree decoration as well. Thought it would be nice to get some stuff out of my stash. Can’t believe that it never gets empty here, it should. I am not crafting that little. 😊I have used some lovely lace and some golden string as well to make a little more stuff go on at my card. Have also used a few different Spica pens to add some glitter to the card. Christmas needs some sparkle, am I right or am I right?

Ok then happy people! Take good care and do something that makes you happy! Like play along with us over at Passion for Promarkers

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

TTCRD – Anything goes