My first Halloween card -ever!

Ooohhh... I'm on a roll... two cards and two posts in two days... Yay!

I made this card for two challenges. I used sketch #16 from the Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge blog. And over at Stamping for the weekend this weeks challenge #21 is "A Haunting Good Time"... so I thought I'd combine these two and use this cute halloween image that I got in that goody bag from Ida.
I used water colour pencils to colour in the image, and here you can have a peek inside the card where I stamped a couple of pumpkins.

The skull charm is actually something I cut off of my summer shoes when I had to throw them away due to wear and tear. Sometimes it comes in handy to collect everything and never throw away anything that might come in useful some day....

The "ribbon" is a bit of purple/blue tulle that I've had for years and years stashed away from a previous sewing project (I never throw anything away...lol). I sewed a couple of lines of orange shiny yarn on to keep it folded and for the added effect of the orange lines, of course.

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Thanks for looking, and I really appreciate the nice comments you leave.

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EDIT; When I was submitting my card to the Tuesday morninng sketch challenge I found out that I could enter it in a challenge at the TSG blog too.... they have the same sketch... Brilliant!!

Truly scrumptious - Challenge 18

The children are in bed sound asleep.... finally some time for blogging. I think they both were pretty tired after last night... Maja had a friend staying over, and they were giggling away till waaay past their normal bedtime. Poor Susie woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep because of all the monsters in her room.... in the end, I had to let her sleep between me and hubby... and even then it took her ages to fall back asleep... she was too busy telling us all about the scary monkeys (was it monkeys, not monsters?) in her room and the cows in our ceiling....???. Lol... the joys...

I decided to join a challenge to see if that would help me find my card making mojo again. I found a great sketch over at the Truly Scrumptious challenge blog. This weeks challenge was a sketch AND a theme. The theme was Autumn, and here's my card.
The main image was in that goodybag I got from Ida a few weeks back, so I don't know who it's by... anyone? The pumpkins and the corner stamp I won in Maria Therese's candy a while back. I think they're WOJ, but am not entirely sure. Images are coloured, as always, with water colour pencils....

Here you can see a bit of the inside. I stamped the pumpkins inside with VersaMark ink (and the text on the front too)....

Oh... almost forgot to say that the main image and pumpkins are mounted on pop dots (never a card without pop dots...lol...)

A wedding card

I don't seem to get into blogging again after the summer hols.... a week or two between posts.... not good, not good at all! And everything I post about is stuff that I made a week or two before I got it posted... hrmph... I'm gonna try to improve....

Anyway, here's a card I made weeks ago... not for anyone in particular, just wanted to try out a new technique. I masked a heart shape on the card and rubbed ink directly onto the cardstock and stamped some swirls on top... so no fancy papers here....
I used the wedding couple from the Caketopper set by The Greeting Farm, the sentiment is from Kort og Godt and the swirls and butterflies from.... hmmm... can't remember what company right now and can't be bothered to go downstairs to check it out....

The couple is coloured with water colour pencils and mounted on pop dots for dimension and the butterflies are only glued down in the middle so that the wings stands up a bit....

Thanks for looking and a big thank you to those of you that still checks in and leave nice comments even though there is so little news in here...

Generous people!

Sorry for not posting more often... but I've been so busy lately... well, not really busy, but not able to use the computer much or do any crafty stuff. The girls and I spent the entire autumn holiday week at my parents house, apart from the last weekend when we went to my parents cabin at Bortelid. When we got home from our autumn break, I had to prepare Maja's 7th birthday party.... We had 14 noisy girls around... and we had good fun. Then I had to organize a friends group evening for some of Maja's school friends.... and this weekend my parents came to see us... and hubby is off work this week, so he's keeping me company in the evenings... so not much computer time....

Since I haven't crafted much lately I thought I'd show some of the lovely things I've won! Some people are just soooo generous... I love entering blog candys but don't really expect to win... but then a couple of weeks ago I won this fab journaling stamp set from Monica/Lottens lille scrappeverden :
And this very generous surprise from Ida/Littles stash & dash was waiting for me when I came home from my autumn break...

And some people's generousity really surprises me... I've been following Sipusa's blog for a long time and a while back she'd knittet a really cool pink skirt that I commented on. I said something like that I liked the skirt and wouldn't mind having one like that myself.... and guess what.... I got an e-mail back from Sipusa where she said I could just HAVE the skirt if I wanted it!!! I mean, she'd knitted it for herself, it wasn't a blog candy or anything, and then she just gives it away to a person she's never even met... What do you think? Isn't it just the coolest?

A bit THANK YOU to Monica, Ida and Sipusa. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm so lucky to have such good blog friends.