Create4Fun Challenge week 47

This Christmas card is for the Create4fun Challenge week 47. It's the second week in a row that I use their sketch for my card...
The santa and presents are coloured with watercolour pencils and the trimmings on santa's clothes is painted with shimmering watercolour paints. One of the presents is mounted on pop dots for some dimension. Stamps from Anitas and sentiment is Hero Arts.

Today was Susie's first day in nursery. Hubby and I were both with her the whole time (two hours) and she seemed to settle in fine. She'll go back tomorrow for another short day to get used to being there, and I think we'll have to leave her alone there for a wee while.... wonder how she'll take that.... ach... I'm sure she'll be fine (it's probably worse for me...lol...).

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Maja has got the cold.... pretty badly... she stayed home from school yesterday, but she seems better now. I think the worst thing about being home sick was that she couldn't go to her riding lesson in the afternoon either.... At least we got her to go to school today, but we picked her up early to go and get the swine flu shot... all four of us... so hopefully we won't get the flu now...

Charisma Cardz challenge #46

I've had this Christmas tree coloured in for weeks now, but not gotten around to using it... so when I saw this weeks sketch at the Charisma Cardz blog, I thought it would be perfect for my tree...
I have coloured the tree with watercolour pencils and then used some of my sparkly watercolour paint on the stars, hearts and the blue background. The stamp is a freebie that came with a magazine I bought.... last year, two years ago?? Can't really remember. I guess I could go through all my magazines and find out, but I can't really be bothered...

We went to the opening of the new nursery, where Susie will go, yesterday. The mayor was there for the opening, and we were able to walk around and have a look inside. It wasn't quite finished yet, but I don't think there were too much left to do. I certainly hope not since the children will start on Thursday.... Ohhh, I'm so excited... and a bit anxious... my baby is starting nursery.... how will I cope without her with me all day every day... Well, looking at the bright side, it might give me time to do some Christmas shopping.... lol...

Create4Fun Challenge week 46

Yay! 'nother Christmas card done! I used the sketch from this weeks challenge at the Create4fun challenge blog.
The two backing papers are free downloads from a scrapbook site, but I can't remember which one... guess I should start writing the url on the back of the papers so I can find back if I want more of them.... The stamped image is from Panduro, and I've painted the snowflakes with my shimmering watercolours. Glittery heart from Nille.

Maja had her 3rd riding lesson yesterday. I think she is having so much fun (I'm actually a bit jealous on her.... I want to ride horses too....). I'm really impressed on how relaxed she is around the horses and how well she is riding already.... Poor wee Susie isn't feeling well today... guess I better go downstairs and pamper her a bit...

One card - three challenges...

Wooohoooo.... finally a Christmas card! I guess I better get properly started on my festive cards soon...

For this card I used the sketch from the Friday Sketchers challenge #78. And after I started making it, I found out that this card would fit into this weeks challenge at Charismacardz too... #45- Merry and Bright.
Oh... and I used some sparkly watercolour paint on the angel, some pearlescent paper and a glittery star so this card fits challenge #86- Glitter me Silly at Cute card thursday as well.... You can see the glitter/shimmer a bit better on this picture (Sorry about the dark pic, but you couldn't see the shimmer when I lightended it... click pictures to see them bigger).

The angel image is from and old set of Christmas stamps I've had for ages by Anitas and the sentiment is Hero Arts. The red paper is some yummy Tilda paper I just bought and the turquoise paper I printed off some scrapbook page (can't remember wich one though).... The star is from Nille and ribbon from stash. Image is coloured with watercolour pencils and then painted over with some sparkly watercolour paint.

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Here we have already had some snow.... it didn't last long though... It's been raining all day today.

Mojo monday challenge no 111 and some exciting news...

Boy, do I have some exciting news today.... I've got myself a JOB!! Woohooo!! Nothing's on paper yet, but the headmaster at Maja's school promised me a job, starting January. I'll contact him a bit closer to Christmas and work out all the details, but he has promised me work 3 days a week. I'm sooo excited! On the other hand, that means I can no longer spend my whole days with Susie... I can't remember if I already mentioned that she has got a place in a new built nursery (it's not quite finished yet...), anyway... she is starting nursery at the end of this month (if the nursery is finished by then...lol...) or beginning of December. So this is going to be a big change for both her and me... and for the rest of the family too, of course, not having me at home all the time....

Well, over to my card. This card was made using sketch 111 from the Mojo Monday sketch blog. You're probably bored by the stamp I've used by now.... I know... It just happens to be my favourite at the moment...Image is coloured with water colour pencils, and I've matted the image on some soft pink pearlescent paper... the off white strip to the right is also same type of paper. I think you can see the shimmer in those pearlescent papers a bit better on this pic...

It's really hard to photograph my cards at this time of year... not much daylight, and lamp light gives the photos the wrong colours... ach well, you get the idea....

Halloween witches and some cute cards (not mine)

Just thought I'd start with sharing a picture of my ehm... scary.... witches. They were going to a halloween party for the first time, and had a great time. And I don't think we'll have to buy them sweeties for a while.... lol... they were both over the moon with all the sweets people were giving them... they got so much they couldn't eat it all.
Maja was so thrilled when I told her that I'd found a card challenge for children. The greeting farm blog had no less than three challenges for those under the age of 13 last week. Maja entered the Colour challenge with this wedding card.

She chose to use the couple from the caketopper set for this card, but she really wanted to use Alice from the Wonderland set too, so she entered the Bling challenge with a card with Alice on.

She did almost everything herself... the stamping, colouring, choosing the papers and layout. The only thing I helped her with was cutting the papers to the right size and punching the leaf border on the Alice card.

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Susie didn't want to miss out.... so I helped her stamp some images that she could colour in and gave her some pieces of paper. She did all the colouring and gluing by herself... she even punched the hearts out herself. She needed a bit help with getting the excess glitter off the card though... I think it turned out quite good for her very first card. She entered this in the Bling challenge.

Well, have to keep this short... I've left Susie downstairs watching a film... don't think it will be long until she notices I'm gone....