Our summer holiday!

Summer is almost over, and I guess there will be a bit more time for blogging in the months to come...

For our holiday this year, we borrowed my parent's camper van and drove through a few countries in Europe, seven to be exact (not counting Norway). We started off taking the ferry from Norway to Denmark. While there, we visited Legoland and this was the only day thorugh our three week long holiday we had rain...!! Then we drove through Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium to get to Maubeuge in France, where we visited some friends we hadn't seen in 12 years. After staying with them for a lovely weekend, we drove back to Belgium and then through Luxembourg to get to our dear friend, Edith, in Switzerland. We stayed with her for almost a week before we decided to start making our way home again.

We spent some time in the Rhine Valley (Germany) and also a couple of days in Denmark before taking the ferry back to Norway, where we visited my parents and met up with friends and family before we had to leave the camper van with my parents and take our "normal" car home.

That was the short version... hehe... don't want to bore you with all the small details... but instead I'll show some photos to tell you what we did...:

The girls would take every opportunity to have a bath in the hot, hot weather....
and we would take every opportunity to drink some good wine. The wine in the photo is a bottle we found in Edith's basement. I think it had been there for some time... the wine is even older than me (unfortunately it wasn't good anymore.... what a shame to waste such fine wine....)

we saw some farm animals/birds....

...and some wild animals/birds (stork)

We took a lovely boat trip on the river Rhein...

... where we saw some fantastic castles. There were sooo many of them!

We ate delicious food...

.... used tons of sun screen lotion

... did a bit of sight seeing

Not all the camp sites were crowded....

We even had time to sit down with a coffee and a good book...

and, of course, some more swimming!

What a great holiday!!!

Ahoy matey!

Can you believe it's only tomorrow left, and then this school year is over? Wow, time flies! It's going to be very sad to say good bye to my pupils... I hope I will be able to work with them after the summer... better get on with that application...

Over to my card; I have used another of the digi images I won recently. "Captain Jack" by Pink Gem Designs. I have paired him with a freebie background by Dustin Pike that I downloaded ages ago (I used only half the original background).
Both digi images are coloured with Promarkers and Captain Jack is mounted with 3d foam on a panel which is also mounted on 3d foam.

This card is for the following challenges:

Everybody Art Challenge: challenge #95 - Sketch

Simon Says Challenge: Pirates
Die Cut Dreams Challenge: Green and blue colour combo for a teenage boy

One Stop Craft Challenge: Week 85 - One for the boys

Creative Inspirations: Challenge 65 - One for the boys

Crafty Cardmakers: Challenge 23 - Cards for men

Raise the Bar: Challenge 23 - What a special guy

Sweet fairy on a cloud....

I can't believe it's almost summer holiday... just this weekend and then two more days at work and then I'm off all summer. I don't even know if I have a job to go to after the summer hols are over... But I found out yesterday that the school I'm working at are looking for more people, so I'm going to put in an application one of the nearest days, and hopefully I'll get to stay in the job I'm already in.... cross fingers!

Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary. Married for 11 years... I haven't made hubby a card though... so I'll have to show you another one I made. This one is for Maja's best friend's birthday on Sunday.
I have used one of my new digi images that I won for commenting over at Passion for Promarkers Weekend workshop last week. The image is from Pink Gem Designs. I have altered the image slightly by removing the stars that were next to the girl. I have used my Promarkers to colour the image, the heart border and to lay a shadow around the edges of the papers. I have also added a bit of shimmering water colour to the girl's dress, wings and crown. I guess you can see the shimmer a bit better in the photo below (click on picture to see it bigger). The sentiment is computer made, and it's mounted on 3d foam tape.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

The Pixie Cottage: Challenge #23- Sketch

I love Promarkers: Challenge #19- Bears

Thanks for visiting and for all your lovely comments.

A small brown pony...

Oh my... what happened...? Two posts in two days... lol...

This morning I took Maja to her riding school for her first... ehhh, don't know what it's called in english (Rideknapp)... it's kind of a skill test where she shows that she knows how to handle the horse, brush it and such things. And then, when she passed, she was given a certificate for her wall and a wee pin for her shirt (or helmet or whatever). So I thought that my latest card was kind of appropriate.... This one I have made for one of her school friends that she also rides with...
The horse is a digi image I found on a colouring in page ages ago, and the sentiment is computer made. I have used Promarkers to colour in with. And I don't think it turned out too bad this time. I used the blender pen for the spots/dots on the horse (you might have to click the picture to see it better). The image and sentiment is mounted on 3d foam.

I'm entering this card into these challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday: Sketch #52

Charisma Cardz Challenges: Challenge #22 -Flowers

Stamp Something: Digi Day Challenge

Anyone for Anya, sketch #10

So, it's been a while... still haven't found my blogging mojo even though I should have plenty of things to blog about... like Maja started playing with the school band, the school strike, our national day and so on... I just don't really feel like it.... The creative, card making mojo has to a certain degree found its way back though.

I stamped and coloured the image on this card for last weeks Anyone for Anya challenge, but never made it into a card in time to enter that challenge (which was "double trouble"), so I decided to use the ready coloured image for this weeks sketch on the same blog instead....
The images are from The Greeting Farm's "Wonderland" set. I masked Alice and then stamped the mushrooms. The image is coloured with Promarkers. I'm not too pleased how the colouring turned out on this one though. I guess I still need a lot more practice. Sentiment is handwritten, and the flower is homemade.

Image is popped up on 3d foam.

Just a card....

Good morning! It's been a while since my last post... I don't really feel much like blogging lately. Don't know what it is... I guess I just feel like I don't have anything to say/write about, and second there is soooo many nice blogs to read out there, so I spend a lot of time reading other blogs....

I haven't done much card making lately either. Only one card the last couple of weeks... where did my mojo go?? For the firs time in, like, forever I've made a card that isn't for a challenge. A while ago I saw a really cool flower digi stamp somewhere. I can't remember where, and I couldn't find it again, so I decided to draw my own flowers resembling what I think those flowers in the digi looked like....
I've used my ProMarkers to colour them in with. The flower panel is mounted on 3d foam.

I also wanted to try to make my own flower embellishment. I used a circle punch to punch out a few circles from an old book. I then tore off the edges to get different sized circles and also to get a rougher edge. I crumpled the circles and then added a bit of colour with a felt tip pen. Then I layered them and fastened them with a golden brad. After I had fastened them together I spritzed them with water and then crumpled the whole thing together and left it to dry. The water also made the felt tip run a bit and therefore softened the colour. I think the flower turned out ok, and it was good fun making it.

Well, I better go and do a bit of dusting and grocery shopping... my inlaws are coming to stay for the weekend, and also spend 17th of May (Norways national day) with us. The girls are all excited to see them again, and can't wait for them to arrive.

Friday Sketchers #99

Oh, that's my weekend started already... It's so nice not working fridays... Don't know where this week has gone though. Time flies too fast. I can't wait until tomorrow night when my parents will come for a visit. The girls are soooo excited!

Maja is going to a birthday party this saturday, and I made this card for her to give to her friend. I'm also entering it into the Friday Sketchers challenge no 99.
The image is coloured with ProMarkers. I made the flower in the corner with a couple of punced daisies for the top flower and then I made the bigger one in the back from a couple of punced circles and a corner rounder, and then added a gem for the centre. I also used my ProMarkers to colour the flower.

Thanks for looking!

CPS- card sketch #163

Oh, it's a nice day out there today, so I'll be quick. I want to go outside with a book, a cup of coffee, my girls and their bikes and enjoy the sunny weather. We've been indoors for days since my girls haven't been feeling well most of the week... and it's been snowing as well this week, but today it's all good!

My card today is for this weeks sketch challenge over at CPS (Card Positioning Systems). I've done paper piecing for the first time on this one (the dress), and I'm quite chuffed how it turned out.
Image is by Panduro and is coloured with ProMarkers (blush, dusky pink, lemon, canary, apple and forest green). Image is also mounted on foam tape for some dimension.

I made the flower using two punched daisies that I coloured with ProMarkers, folded the petals and glued together. Easy peasy and very nice....

Have a nice day, everyone!

Two more robots...

I'm having so much fun with my Spot's botz stamps... I just had to make some more cards with them. I made this one for Maja to bring to her friend's birthday party the other day. I used the Pixie Cottage challenge #14 - buttons and a sketch.
The metal button is something I found in my stash... and I thought it was perfect for this card. The ric rac and the bot is coloured with ProMarkers.

This next card I made for the Stamp with Fun challenge no 52... a while back.... just forgot to blog it.... Gave it to my mum for her birthday at the end of march...

I guess I should have blogged a bit from our easter hols, but I don't feel like I have the time and energy to be blogging much at the moment...

Card Patterns challenge 57

I just really enjoyed playing with my new Stampendous Spot's botz stamps, so I had to make another 'bot card... I have used sketch no 57 from the Card Patterns challenge blog for this one.

Image and sentiment are mounted on 3d foam for dimesion. The bot is coloured with Promarkers (Cool Grey 2, Blossom and Rose Pink)
Thanks for looking, and HAPPY EASTER to all my readers!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #38 and some robots

This card is for the Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge this week.
The 'bot is coloured using my new Promarker pens (apple, forest green, china blue, cornflower and some cool grey 2 for the shadow under his feet).

Isn't that robot the cutest?? I have used my new Stampendous Spot's Botz stamps for him. I just bought them the other day, and I can tell I'm going to have lots and lots of fun with them, making different robots.... This is what the stamp set looks like;

Just bits and pieces so you can build your own robots. Here are some more 'botz I've made up (click on the picture to view it bigger);

The bottom ones are coloured with my new ProMarkers. I'm still a newbie to these and I can see that I need a LOT of practice... the top one is coloured with watercolour paints (no, not my trusted pencils...)

Friday Sketchers #94

We just had some more snow this morning... can't really say I like it... but the word is, that it will dissappear before this week comes to an end. Can't wait to put on some lighter shoes and not put on so much clothes...

Made this card for challenge #94 at Friday Sketchers. I used a few new things on this one... The scalloped edge was made with my NEW Martha Stewart Scallop Two Dot punch and the pink flower border was made using my NEW Martha Stewart Daisy border punch on each side of a 1' strip of paper. I also coloured the flower borders with one of my NEW ProMarkers (can you tell I had my birthday not too long ago...??). The stamp isn't really new, but I've never inked it up before, so I count that as new as well...

The image is mounted on 3d foam for some dimension and I've added some extra flowers for added interest.... oh, and I've used my trusted watercolour pencils for the colouring in (I didn't have any paper or ink that worked well with my new Promarkers....)

Thanks for looking!

A crocheted necklace and some mittens

I've wanted a fairly long necklace for a long time now, but haven't been able to find one I liked, so when I saw this "Coral" pattern over at Ravelry, I decided to crochet myself a necklace....
I wasn't quite sure how it would turn out so I just grabbed some old old old old wool from my stash to start with. It turned out I didn't have enough to make the necklace as long as I wanted it to be, so I had to dig through and see if I could find some more of the same. I found a wee bit in a darker shade... never mind. I think I like the necklace anyway... even though it's not as long as I wanted it to be. I might even have to make another one. A longer one. I have some shiny yarn I bought years ago that I think would look nice...

I have also been knitting a bit lately. Another Ravelry pattern.... These are called Aili's mittens. They were really easy and fun to knit. And I do loooove lime and turquoise together. The mittens are also very thick and warm.

Knowing Maja, it was only a matter of knitting half a mitten for myself before she wanted some too.... So she got to choose colours for hers. Pink and dark blue.

And now Susie has started asking about when she will get mittens like that too... I better take her wool shopping sometime next week....

Sketch Saturday week #93

I think spring must be right around the corner... the weather has been brilliant for days now. Today I took my coffee and a book with me outside, so I could sit and enjoy the sunshine while Susie was playing in the big heaps of snow still in the car park outside our house. And it was actually sunny all through Maja's riding lesson this afternoon. Weeheee! Maja's class has just started galloping now (2nd time today), and I don't think I have ever seen anyone with a smile as BIG as Maja's when the horse picks up some speed... lol...

Well, over to my card... The sketch I have used is from this weeks challenge over at Sketch Saturday.
The image is a digi I found on the net a while ago, I didn't note down from where... It's coloured with watercolour pencils.

Thanks for looking and taking the time to leave me a wee comment!

Friday Sketchers #91

Finished this card just in time to enter it into the Friday Sketchers challenge this week.
This is just a quick post as I need to find my bed now... nite nite!