Hello

Hi my dear friends. I am back again with a little card to show you. As I am off on vacation this week and half of the next one, I have only taken with me a limited amonth of scrap material. That was a real challenge to make the card with just this little but I got there in the end. I don't have any software to edit my card or nothing. So back to basic. LoL

I have made a Christmas card with one of the wonderful images from the Sugar Nellie. Love it to bits and she is coloured with my Letraset family. Added some glitter glue for sparkel on her wings and on the snowflakes. On the big snow flake I fixed a snow flake charm. The designer papers are from Bearly Mines' Christmas Sparkle. Love the rich wonderful colours in that set.

A white snow flake charm from YouDo and flowers from Wild Orchid crafts. Some lace from Molly's scrapbooking and some flattened "pearl hoods" in the corners and I felt ready.

The card is made for our new challenge over at Bearly Mine Challenges where we have the challenge theme of Anything goes, so why don't you join us in our adventures over there?

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anything goes

Ps: Gosh I miss my computer at home, feel so lost with this one. LoL

Challenge time over at TPS

Hello there dear friends! I am back and I am typing fast as I have had such problems with the internet access and blogger the last week. Felt totally lost and had tons to do needing the computer and the net. How typical isn't that?

Had a blast of a day yesterday or not. First the cat to the vet for some surgery, then one of the kids throw up in the car, then the internet again and to finish of a lovely day the washing mashine broke. Isn't life just wonderful? My brother would have told me to be grateful. It couldn't be much worse. LoL At least I am feeling good even if I am so stressed, but it will pass.

Now to my card. This image has been laying on my desk just waiting to be used just like the others I have been using the last couple of posts. I am not friends with my printer either as it keeps smearing the ink colouring with my dear promarkers. It's fine using the copics but with my crappy hands it's easier to hold on to and colour with as they are bigger.

Ok then back to the card, coloured with my letraset family and some metallic markers from the same gang. Papers are from Maja Design Vintage Summer. Love those so much that I don't want to use them. LoL Some gesso on a metallic star die made with spellbinders. Flowers from WOC, and so is the metal corner and lace. Charms from Bildmålarna, the rose ribbon from the Ribbon girls or WOC. I don't remember. Some distress ink is used to distress all the edges. Pearls from BunnyZoe and metall spirals from Magnolia, Sweden.

As always we have a $20 gift voucher up for grabs if you play in our challenge over at the TPS challenges with a TPS image. (Gosh what a strange sentense that became). If you play with another brand you can win three digis of your own choise. Nice too right?

With this said, I hope that you come and join us for our Metal embellishment challenge over at the Paper Shelter this week.

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
I heart Promarkers - Gold, silver, bronze (Going with silver here)
Simon says Stamp Challenges - Anything goes
Celebrate the Occasion - Star struck
Shopping our stash - Something new (the designer papers used)
Make it Monday - Always anything goes

"Guesting" in the A team

Hello! My internet access is behaving a bit strange here so I hope this will be written before it goes down again... 


I am back with my vintage card style. Second in a row. It's also the first time I make a shaped card. Don't have any dies for big stuff but got these ovals a while back. Needed a card for MIL, so I took it all to one piece. I am guesting the Bearly Mine Challenges' A team this week as Donna is feeling poorly and there is alread one team member short as one is leaving us. Hope to see you around Laine!

I made the card with another image laying around the desk, printed ages ago to be used on a card. Of couse never got around to it, but now when both printer and the net is acting up, it got used. LoL Bad things is not always bad are they? 


So oval dies from Spellbinders. Image. Ahh, flowers from Wild Orchid Craft and a few from I am Roses, so golden glitter stickles. A butterfly from Altheas and I was done. Fairly simple actually. Saves me tons of time that's for sure as I am probably the slowest colourista out there. Oh and some pins as well, pearly stuff is never wrong when it comes to vintage is it?

Sponsoring is our own Donna. Mr Randoms chosen can pick to sets of your choice. Enjoy! Lots of great stuff to pick from.

I am making this short and sweet as the internet is wobbly and I need to take the cat to the vet as well. Cat fight in it's real meaning. LoL He looks terrible.

Love n hugs
Marie

Time do flies by

Hello there near and dear! Hope you are doing fine. I'm feeling a bit low and feel that I have a new era going in my head. Been without the antidepressives for a month now and it still hasn't stabilised the way I want it to. It's a roler coaster at the moment. Smiling and laughing one second, crying the next, agry after that. Feel a bit strange. Hope this will settle soon as it's very time consuming and drains my energy. Even if it's really hard now, I am very glad to be off the pills. I just wish it wouldn't take so much energy and time to get "normal" again, whatever that is. LoL

Back to why I am here...It's mid week again and I have a new card for the Paper Shelter Challenges with the lovely theme of Anything goes. I am stepping in to the A team this week as we are running a little short of card here this week. You have not missed that we are having a DT call, have you? If you know that your colouring skills are excellent, please do try out to our big warm team. You only have to make a card every second week. And only comment during that week. You also get tons of lovely images to work with and even matching designer papers if you want to use them as well. Only great and fun stuff!

Oki, I got lost again. I know, I am a hopeless case when it comes to this. Can't stop writing when I finally start doing it. I have used the beach kid from the Happy Time collection and I love him. He is almost as cute as my favourite birdy. I have used designer papers from Echo park. I totally love them and had to buy them twice and in full size as well. I know. Don't know when I ever is going to use up all the papers I have laying around. It's a lot! I kind of sorted them the other day. They will last a lifetime, anyone know what I am talking about? They look so pretty, I really must have them. Promise to use them up right away etc. I should give myself buyer's stop at this point. But soon all the lovely X-mas stuff will be here...

The card... it's decorated with some die cuts using a die from All that Scraps. Love them! So many fun shapes and fast service too. Too bad that I have not realized that before. They are also having a DT call by the way. Some charms from Bildmålarna. A net kidnapped from some garlic and I was finished, well after I had added some dewdrops to remind me of the water and the sea surrounding the beach boy. LoL

As always there is the three digis up for prize if you play with another brand than the Paper Shelter. A gift certificate worth $20 if you play with a TPS image. Great isn't it?

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
Tammy's scrapping corner - Summer time!
Cupcake Craft room challenges - Layers
Everybody art challenge - Summertime
Make it Monday - Always anything goes

It's time again

Sitting here writing this post to be scheduled for tomorrow. It's cold today, not more than 18 degrees Celcius and I am freezing. Who stole the summer? I promise when the kids goes back to school and everyone starts to work again, then will the heat be back. LoL

This weeks challenge over at Bearly Mine Challenges is "Girly Birthday card". With that we mean tons of glitter, pink, purple, flowers, lace, pearls etc. As my hands has been a bit off this last week or so, I used a Vintage picture that I had stacked away. I am not sure where I got it from or anything, but it suited this purpose. So no colouring this time, how strange. It doesn't happen very often when I make cards. I kind of took inspiration from a blogging buddy of mine; Annelie who always makes the most stunning vintage cards and creations.

Back to my creation my papers are from the digi set Roses dream lovely papers in that set. I bet you all will love them if you try them out. They are paired up with some lace in two different makes, one very broad that started out as white but when me and my distress tool was done it has a light version of vintage photo. Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts in vintage colours together with some pearl pins of two kinds. I have also stuch a piece of T.H filmstrip under the largest flower arrangement. Some pearls from Rox stamps and BunnyZoes. Tones of glitter stickles in golden rod and diamond. Have also used a doily made with a cherryl Lynn die for the inside of the card, and some jolly old ovals from Spellbinders where there is space to write a little greeting.

We are sponsored by The Ribbon Reel. Be sure to check them out. Up for grabs are a gift voucher worth £10. So this will be it for today. I do hope you come and join us in our challenge and that you enjoy playing with us.

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge blog - Dust it off (the image has been laying around on the desk for ages, printed ready to go without no inspiration)
Wild Orchid Craft Challenge - Shabby Chick