In these confirmation times....

Hello sweets!

Today i`m gonna show you a couple confirmation cards i`ve created. It`s nothing fancy, just clean and simple....ok...my kind of simple anyway, lol. Weeell the first one at least, lol. 

For this first card i have only used DP from Pion Design. On the image i sprinkled some white enamel from Stampendous and gave it a little round with the heatgun.

I have put a piece of cardstock behind the picture to raise it a bit from the surface and then added some beadstring around it.

The roses are from Kort & Godt while the metal swirl is from Korthobby.

This next one is not so CAS as i wished for, hahaha....Well, anyway....i made a card, lol. I actually don`t remember what paper it is, so if anyone knows, feel free to send me a little note. Appreciate that a lot.

The chippie i just kept plain. I added some lace and some flowers with a ribbon behind them. To finish it off i added a sentiment.

Look at this yummy gorgeous glitter on the rose. I just love it. 

Hope you all are enjoying your weekend. Thanks for visiting.

Colourful and simple

Hi everyone!

Today i`ve been home with a massive headache. It felt like my head was going to explode. But now i`m starting to feel a bit better. So here i`m sitting all alone in the darkness, thinking i have some blogging of old stuff to do, lol. Well i`m not the fastest to blog my creations but i hope you`ll bare with me anyway.

Last year i attended a crop with Irit Landgraf as one of the teachers. Amazing lady. So soft and delicate in her presence. I emediately took a liking to her.

With that said, i want to show you the two layouts i created during her class. They are not exactly my "style" but i really like how they turned out. And it made me want to try out this style some more. Hope you like them.

All papers and embellishments are from The Hip Kit Club which is one of the design teams Irit is a part of. I love the combination of colours and design of the papers. 

.I just adore this pic of my youngest daughter. The photographer really caught the essence of her. She allways has a smile ready for anyone. She is strong minded and also know how to charm anyone, lol. I`m afraid she`s gonna become a heartbreaker when she grows up, lol. This pic is about 5-6 years old.

Irit also explained the prosess of blending the colours without mucking them up. And i really like how they acted on the paper. We used watercolour paper as a backround using distress inks to blend.

This next LO is showing how you can use your scraps and still manage to create something great with them. This one is quite simple but i think i pulled it off. 

This pic was taken for her first day at school. And it is about 2 and a half years old. You can see she still has that lovely smile. My little baby sweetheart is growing older so fast. 

Thanks for joining me today. See you soon.

Blue Fern Studios April Challenge

Hello Everyone!

I think i found the previous challenge over at Blue Fern Studios so much fun that i decided to enter this next one as well. Here is the sketch of April:

And here is my take on the sketch:

I was challenged in using a sertain colour combo in this layout. Usually i use 3 or maybe 4 main colours in my creations but i was given 5 colours to incorporate in this layout. These are: Light pink, light blue, light peach, light green allmost mint-ìsh and lavender. Not exactly colours i usually combine so this was a real challenge for me. The most difficult part was to find the right colour green since i sometimes mistakes it for beeing the colour light blue, depending on the lighting. Pretty annoying if you ask me, lol. 

Well anyway...i started gessoing the whole paper to prep it for the wet colour later on. Next i added some texture using a stencil and some modelling paste. I also painted the chipboard pieces and gave them two coates of Distress Medium Creasing. 

After everything had dried i started mounting all the elements i had picked out. 

I followed the sketch pretty close though. 

I just love this butterfly. I have had it for ages. Don`t remember which company though. A bit senile you see, lol. 

The text is a rub-on. Thought it would go nicely with this LO.

Don`t know if i managed to catch it on camera but i have used clear wink of stella brush on all my flowers to make them look shimmery. I think it has such a beautiful effect on the items covered with it.

All the chippies are from Blue Fern Studios. I just looove their designs. 

To finish off the layout i used some pink H2O paint, blended into a thin transparent colour. I then added it around the photo in random places. Also put some onto the stenciled background as well. I just had to be careful so i didn`t get the other papers wet. I think it turned out pretty well. I hope you like it as well.

This will be entered into the Blue Fern Studios April Challenge

Thanks for visiting me today.

My Besties Challenge #30

Hi everyone!

Now we`re up and running with this year`s last challenge over at My Besties Norway.

 

For my card i have used IMG440, available here.

I have used a LOT of colours and here they are:

Skin: Vanilla, Saffron, Oatmeal, Tan and sunkissed pink for the cheeks

Hair: Cocoa, Mustard, Saffron, Buttercup

Eyes: Azure, Cool aqua

Lips: Coral, Pink mittens

Hat: Shale, Burgundy, Crimson, Poppy, Lipstick red, Pink mittens, Holly, Forest green, Green shoot, Ice grey # 2, Icicle, Blender

Outfit: Shale, Burgundy, Crimson, Poppy, Lipstick red, Pink, mittens, Sunkissed pink, Ice grey #2, Icicle, Blender, Khaki, Mustard, Buttercup, Holly, Forest green, Green shoot.

Shoes/mittens: Umber, Fire wood, Khaki

 

This snowflake is a piece of chipboard from Dusty Attic. I`ve painted it with gesso before i put on a coat of Crackle paint. I finished it off with some diamond dust and a snowflake brad on top. I also inked the edges a bit with distress ink, vintage photo.

 I also had to put on this cute little resin angel as the last finishing touch.

Other products used:

Designpapers from Maja Design and Marianne Design

Diecuts from Marianne Design

Metal corners from Live and Love Crafts

Bells from Korthobby

Resin-angel from Nille

Pearlstring from WOC

For all "furry" dots i have used Fairy dust from Korthobby.

That`s it from me today. Hope you like my card. Thanks for visiting. Please make sure to visit our challengeblog over at My Besties Norway. And don`t forget to enter the challenge as well. Love to see what you create.

Finally back

Hi everyone!

Today is the first time i`m being creative since i have moved. I`ve been a bit stressed out course i haven`t managed to get my craft room completely up and running yet. Yesterday when i was doing this card i couldn`t find anything of the stash i needed so i was completely bummed out by this. First i couldn`t find the cord to my printer to get an image printed and coloured up. Luckely i had a 3D decoupage set from Sherri at hand so it saved my project this time. Then my heat gun has dissapeared and of course and i had decided to use paint on my creation. So i had to wait for it to dry up....and my patience is like zero, lol. And of course i couldn`t get a decent pic of the finished result either so my evening was absolutely "perfect".... not, lol. Well anyway i finished my card. Poor Eva Gro patiently sat and waited for me to finish up. She`s just such a sweetheart. 

Well... This is my first card in ages. I`ve been moving and we have been in between housing so we have lived for a month and a half at my brother in law. It went very well but i`m so happy we finally are in our own house. So all my crafty stash has been in a container for...well... at least 8 months. I had to pack everything down before the showing of our old house. My craftroom was made into a loft livingroom. 

So now i`m just bubling over with creativity. I have so much i want to do but i have to be patient...yeah me...patient. Not a good combo, lol. Have to get my room up and running first. Now it just looks like a bomb has hit the place. Not good, lol.

Ok i have to stop rambling on now. Here is my card.

Today we have a new challenge going live at My Besties Norway. The theme set is:

Distressing: Inking and/or tearing

For my card i have used Tina Tatter 3D decoupage set. She is just such a cutie. 

I have ruffled up all the edges and painted them with gesso to get the shabby look. I embellished with a rose trim from Marianne Design and roses from Papirhobby. Rosebuds from Kort og Godt and Metal corners from Live and Love Crafts.The bling swirl i don`t remember where it`s from. I`ve lost the package it was in.

Ok, so that was all from me today. Thanks for sticking by me through all my rambling, lol. Please hop on over to My Besties Norway and join us for this challenge. Good luck everyone!

Challenges i`m entering:

One Stitch at a Time - Anything goes with a flower
That Craft Place Ltd - Shabby chic
 Di`s Digis Design - Girly
Brown Sugar - Anything goes
Card Makin Mamas - Vintage or shabby chic
Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything goes
C.R.A.F.T Challenge - Add a charm/use metal (i used metalcorners)
Southern Girls Challenge - Girly / Shabby chic
Divas by Design - Pretty in glitter

My Besties - Finally in Norway

Hi everyone! 

The day has finally come! My Besties Nowegian Challenge Blog is having the Grand Opening today. We are two designteams which will be alternating on giving you inspiration every other fortnight. I really hope you all will join in our challenges as often as possible. You have the advantage that all our upcoming challenges are listed under the rules tab. That way you have a loooong time to get your creations ready in good time before the challenges goes live.

I`m so lucky to be working with a lot of talented girls and i hope you will visit them too and give them your love and good luck wishes.

Well, that`s the info so lets get on to the fun.

Our first theme is:

ANYTHING GOES

Nice and easy start huh? I think this has to be allmost everyone`s favourite theme, lol

For my first DT card for My Besties i have used Img 725. Isn`t she adorable? When i first saw these cute images i was a bit worried course i thought they had so much small details, but i was totally wrong. When i sat down and started colouring this cutie i was really surprised about how easy it went so my advise to all of you that think the same as i did. Please just have a go, you may get a big surprise, lol. At least i did.

The colours i have used are:

Skin: Vanilla, Saffron, Oatmeal, Tan, Sunkissed pink

Hair: Cocoa, Mustard, Buttercup, Saffron

Eyes: Midnight blue, Denim blue, Pastel blue

Dress: Dusky rose, Budding rose, Pink mittens, Ice grey #3, Icicle, Sakura gelly roll pen (white)

Pants: Ice grey #3, Icicle, Sakura gelly roll pen (white)

Socks: Dusky rose, Pink mittens, Pink lobster, Iced pearl

Roses: Pink lobster, Iced pearl, Pressed leaf

The sentiment is from Marianne Design which is one of the new collectables series. These contain three stamps and a coordinating die to cut out the sentiment. I just loove these.

The flowers are from several companies don`t remember exactly as i have had tem in my stash for a while, lol. At least WOC is represented here, lol.

Just look at this cute dollface. Such a total heartbreaker, lol.

Wow...it`s not often i get to post two cards in one day, lol. I feel really pleased with myself right now, hahaha. I hope you have enjoyed visiting me and i looove comments, lol. I`m just saying :-)

Thanks for visiting me today and please do me a favour and come and join in on the fabulous fun we are having over at our new challengeblog. Here`s the link to My Besties Norwegian challenge blog!

Challenges entered:

Hiding in my craft room - Freestyle
 Pumpkin spice - Anything goes
Sweet Stampin` challenge blog - Spots and stripes
Totally Gorjuss - Texture
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything goes
Addicted to Stamps - Anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody - Anything goes

Use at least 2 die-cuts

Hi everyone!

Over at WhoopsiDaisy we have a new challenge for you today. We want to see at least 2 die-cuts on your creations.

For my card today i have used an image from
sheet # 434 
Diecuts are from:

Marianne Design - Creatables Hearts LR0159 
Marianne Design - Craftables Border stitch CR1250
Tim Hotz Alterations on the edge - Butterflight
Spellbinders - Floral Ovals

Colours i have used are:

Skin: Vanilla, Saffron, Oatmeal, Tan, Sunkissed pink

Hair: Cocoa, Mustard, Buttercup

Dress: Slate, Winterberry, Lavender

Other colours used: Light peach, Peach, Eggnog, Icicle, Lush green

Chipboard corner piece is from Make it Crafty and covered with frantage embossing enamel Aged Wine, from Live and Love Crafts.

Metal embellishment is from Wild Orchid Crafts and the flower is from Nille.

Now i`m going outside to enjoy the first glance of sun we have had in over a month. It`s not so hot yet but at least the sun is out, lol. Wow, imagine beeing so happy just to see a little bit of sun, lol. Hope you all have been more lucky with the weather this summer than i have.
Thanks for visiting me and don`t forget to hop over to WhoopsiDaisy challenge blog and join our challenge. This should be a nice and easy one and good luck everyone!

Challenges entered:

Card and Scrap - Lace or ribbon
Emma`s Cards UK - Lace and pearls
Ladybug crafts - Favourite embellishment (mine is the new frantage embossing enamel)
Creative Creations Challenges - Anything goes

Challenge #24 at Marianne`s Design Divas

Hey peeps!

I`m bit late with my creation for this challenge and i`m sorry for that. Sometimes life gets in the way. I`m sure you know what i mean, lol. Anyway, here i am back with my creation for this latest challenge over at Marianne`s Design Divas. The theme set this time is:

Layer it up

It means we would love to see lots of layers on your creations. The more the merrier.

But first: our sponsor this month is the fabulous Cuddly Buddly
They are giving away this yummy prize for a lucky winner

There is also a surprize pack from Marianne Design for a second winner.

Today i want to show you a card i made using this cute image from Wee Stamps called Rosetta. I won her in a challenge a while back. I just haven`t been able to get to use her untill now. I think she is soooo adorable. It was a challenge for me to manage to colour the roses. I`m not so good with them, lol.

Marianne D products used:

Vintage ornaments 3 LR0273
Border stitch CR1250

Decorative tags LR0154

Flower doily LR0129

Butterfly CR1205

Small flower trim FR1101 

Colours used:

Skin: Coral, Sunkissed pink, Blush, Tan, Baby pink for cheeks

Hair: Umber, Tawny owl, March hare, Tan

Clothes: Slate, Winter berry, Lavender, Soft mauve, pink lavender

Roses: Shale, Burgundy, Crimson, Poppy, Baby pink, Pine, Forest green, Pear green

Ground: Umber, Sandstone, Blender

This ornament is the vintage ornament 3 and is one of three in the package. Looks fabulous i think. Below you can see a chipboard corner-piece from Make it Crafty. It`s covered with Frantage aged wine embossing enamel from Live and Love Crafts.

Challenges entered:

Crafts and Me - Anything goes
I love ProMarkers - Anything goes
 Inky Impressions - Summer
Lady Anne`s - Anything goes
Anything goes Challenge Blog - Anything goes
LEJ Designs - Anything goes
Sweet stamps - Anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Anything goes
Card Mania - Pearls and/or gems
Incy Wincy Designs - Things with wings
Love to create - Fairy tale or fantasy
Stamps + Fun = Creativity - Fairy

Well, that`s all from me today. Hope you like my card. Please hop on over to Marianne`s Design Divas and join our challenge. Thanks for visiting me.

ProMarker Norge Utfordring #21

Heisann folkens!

Jeg har merket meg at det er rolig der ute i bloggland. Regner med at de fleste er i feriemodus og at det kreative kommer i andre rekke. Jeg har det litt sånn jeg også for tia selv om jeg ikke har gått ut i ferie enda. Vel, uansettt er det en ny utfordring på gang hos ProMarker Norge så hopp over å ta en titt da vel. Vi har en fabelaktig sponsor denne gang og vi i DT har vært så heldige å få noen riktig så lekre motiver å leke med.

Sponsoren denne gang er:

http://lacysunshine.weebly.com

Til mitt bidrag har jeg brukt et motiv som heter Elanor painting butterflies. Er hun ikke supersøt? Jeg har også brukt chipboard hjørner fra Make it Crafty, papir og dies er fra Marianne Design. Blomster fra Wild Orchid Crafts og Kort og Godt, samt blonder fra WOC. Pynteserviett, perler og bånd fra eget stæsj. Har hatt det så lenge at jeg ikke husker hvor det er kjøpt. Seniliteten lenge leve !!!

Her er fargene jeg har brukt:

Hud: Vanilla, Saffron, Oatmeal, Sunkissed Pink, Tan

Hår: Cocoa, Mustard, Buttercup

Øyne: True blue, Sky blue, Powder blue

Kjole: Dusky rose, Budding rose, Pink mittens, Winter berry, Lavender

Sko: Umber, Cocoa, Cinnamon, Boysenberry (FM) Dusky rose, Pink mittens

Sommerfugler/malingsspann/kost: Fuchsia pink, Boysenberry (MF), Lime zest, Bright green, Ice grey #1,3,5, Cocoa, Tan

Himmel: Polar blue, Denim, Powder blue, Glacier blue (FM), Blender

Mark: Umber, Sandstone, Blender

Da er det bare å hoppe over til ProMarker Norge å finne ut hva utfordringen går ut på. Regner med å få se mange bidrag, hehe. Lykke til alle sammen!