Merry Christmas!

Hello again! I hadn't plan for two postings today but then Woopsi! February ends today and it's the last day to enter Hjertebodens Christmas blog challenge. And I have managed to make three X-mas cards this months and it's time to use them. LoL

So this time it's one of the lovely LOTV images that have focus. Had it coloured for ages and never got around to use it. I have used some Basic Grey designer papers from Nordic Winter pad. A super bunch of flowers and  tons of glitter as well. Even if my photo doesn't show it that much. Promise it's there! Sentiment from Magnolia and lots of pearls here and there.

Never thought I would get this done. One of the boys has chickenpox and now we are just waiting for the other one to get it, but we don't want him to have it now. Can someone stop it please? My partner in life has his big Four O birthday next week and we have planed a little trip during this time. Fingers crossed!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Hjerteboden Juleblog - Christmas Bingo
ABC Christmas Challenges - D is for Distressing
The crazy challenge - Anything goes
The craft Place Challenges - Anything goes

Once in every fourth year!

Happy birthday to you all that only age once every fourth year. I hope you have the best day ever! I was sitting here and wondered who if any I know that has his or hers birthday today. Then I suddenly remembered that I do have a dear friend that has her birthday today, but we never send eachother cards for our birthdays. We have been pen paling for years now. Can it be 15 or so? Something like that, so this card is sent of to Germany where my friend lives.

Why I talk about this leap day? Well that's our theme over at the For Fun Challenges. Maybe it should have been last week so that you had time to make a card and send it, but as we are nice people over here you can make just any birthday card even if we prefere to see Leap day birthdays ok?

We are sponsored by the lovely people over at KNK designs. Lots of sweet and lovely images. I have have used the Detective Kolar and his sentiments, I have paper pieced his coat and gave it a nice green collar and hat. The designer papers are from Basic Grey. Ribbon from Joanna Sheen and some card candy to add some details as well.

And this is what happens almost every time I try to take a picure of my cards. One of my cats called Tage thinks it's the perfect time for some cuddeling. I am not agreeing totally with this, but it's way better than him walking around in my not dried cards. He always manage to give me some fur on the cards that I don't see until I have prepared my picture for the blog, and today I was not in the mood to fix it. Can you see it? LoL

Hope you come and join us in the fun! Links to the For Fun Challenges is found in my sidebar just as always.

Love n hugs
Marie


Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges - Photo inspiration (Colours brown and red with a dash of some more)
The sisterhood of crafters - Use a digi
Digital Thuesday Challenges - Things that leap (29th of February birthdays)

More Magnolia birthdays

Here comes another one of my coloured Tildas that I made when I was in the hospital in January. I guess that so far is that the only good that have came out of it. No, that is not fair but I do have a lot of pain, very often. Not when I walk but afterwards. Bl---y h--l! No fun to be me then. I'm of to see the doctor tomorrow and hope he can help me out. He really needs to check on my foot as well as I believe I have much of my leg trouble coming from it.

Back to the fun part, card making. I was practising colouring at the hospital when I couldn't sleep. And this is one of the gals that made it from the cut how to speak. I tried to colour blond hair as it isn't my colour but now I think I start to get the hang of it.

I know that most little gals wants their cards pink, but my own favourite colour is blue so every now and then I need to colour in blue. At least I took some designer papers that have both pink and blue on them. They are from the Wild Rose Studio. I also have a heart shaped doily under all the flowers together with some spiraly things from the Magnolia shop that I visited last weekend. Went to see my brother then and while we wasn't far away from Borås then, we passed by there. I think I have to go back there soon again. Both to my brother with girl friend and to Borås. Thank you for the most wonderful weekend in a really long time both of you! It was great!

As always when we have been away the kids get sick. First we had them home with colds, we thought. Now it has moved on to chickenpox for the youngest one and the oldest is probably following in his foot step. So much fun! Not!

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
Just Magnolia & Hänglar Stänglar - Romantic doily
Magnolia stamp lovers challenge blog - Punches (heart doily punch from M.S)
Totally Tilda Challenge blog - Die cuts and punches ( MS punch and then the rectangles that frames Tilda)
Moving along with the times challenges - Lots of layers

Sentiment time

Oh dear God, I am back again and I am not really sure that I want to show this card at all. You know days when you really don't get anything together and just ad and ad and ad... and it never ends? Nothing improves and you can't go back because everything is glued down? This is one of those. There was no time to make a new card so here I am, stuck with this mess. Maybe you can use it as an example of how you don't make a card?

I have use a favourite image that I have had colored for ages and I really mean that, ages! It happend on a challenge that me and a teamie both had colored this image and we had without talking to eachother or any other contact, colored her in the exact same colors. Strange how it can be, so I saved mine till now. :)

The cool gal is colored with my Letraset Family as always (almost) and paired up with some designer papers from Prima. flowers, pearl string and all other messy decorations from my stash and Wild Orchid Crafts. The sentiment is a cut out from Prima as well. I love the sentiment even if it cause a lot of trouble on my card. LoL

So you all wonder what is the challenge on the Paper Shelter blog this week? What can it be? What can it be? Better tell you, right? Our theme is Add a sentiment. That you manage quick and easy. So please come and join us and let us see what you come up with. Anything will be better than my mess. Can't wait to see what you want to show us.

As always we have a gift voucher up for grabs if you take part and play with a Paper Shelter image. It's worth $20. You get three digis of your choice if you play with a different brand of images. Quite cool that too I think!

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card

For Fun time!

Good morning! And happy Wendsday to you all. It's time for a new challenge over at For Fun and this week we are doing a reciepe challenge. Use one sentiment, two different ribbons and three buttons or brads.

I have used a bunch of stuff from a Panduro Tilda paper pad. I believe it's called winter bird. I just added the metal corner from Wild Orchid Crafts to my card. I also decorated it inside, but of corse forgott to take a photo of it. It was given to a dear old friend of mine on his birthday. The sentiment reads "When I count my blessings, I count you twice". I know it's hard to see but I have used two different ribbons on my card, a sher ribbon under the dotted one. I just wanted to have a thin edge around the white one.

This week we are playing just for fun over at the challenge blog. I do hope you come and join us anyway. It's always fun to see what you all comes up with. 

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Make it Monday - Always anything goes