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!

Happy birthday, Susie!

Three years ago I had a baby girl at 22:23....I can't believe she is 3 already! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUSIE!

Papertake Weekly Sketch #34

Just a quick post from me today. I made this card last week for my neighbour who was 5 on Saturday. I used this weeks sketch from Papertake Weekly Challenge blog, and have until tonight to enter it into this weeks challenge....

Thanks for looking!

Sketch Saturday Challenge #89 & Charisma cardz wk 6

Ahhh... I just put the girls to bed, and it's already quiet! Bliss!! I had to bring Susie with me to Maja's riding lesson today, that may have tired them both out... lol...

The challenge over at Charisma cardz this week is "Think male" and I have used this weeks sketch from the Sketch Saturday challenge blog for this card. It's for my brother's birthday on Saturday. Hope he doesn't look at my blog before then... I should have mailed something to him a few days ago, but you know how it is... leave everything to the absolutely last minute... I'll put it in the post tomorrow...
I usually find it really hard to make cards for men, but this one came together surprisingly easy, for a male card that is...

Just a detail of the card. I used silver gel pen to make the line on the black flowers and around the circle and sentiment. The sentiment and image are also popped up on 3d foam. The blue paper is pearlescent, so it shimmers real nicely in real life...

Thanks for looking. And I really appreciate all your nice comments.

Kellie's candy

For a chance to win these gorgeous stamps, go and have a look at Kellies blog HERE. You have until 18th feb to enter the draw (my Susie's 3rd birthday!!).

Friday Sketchers #87

A morning post for a change. Maja is at school, Per is at work and poor Susie wasn't feeling well yesterday and is still asleep. Better use my time well though 'cause she'll probably wake up soon...

Work is still fine even though some days are really challenging.... Teaching isn't always a walk on the bright side... Well, enough of that... here's my card for the Friday Sketchers challenge this week.
I finally managed to ink up my "Me Time" Anya by The Greeting Farm. I won the "Me Time" set on a blog hop at Amy's blog (you better go and have a look, she's awesome!) ages ago and have just waited for an opportunity to ink her up....

I used some shimmering water colour for the foam and her head band and slippers. I guess you see it a bit better on the bottom picture.

Stampin for the Weekend Challenge

Oh gosh! I can't believe how long it has been since my last post.... Sorry! With my new job I don't feel like I have the time and energy to blog anymore, or to make cards or other things for that matter.... I'm sure it's just for a short period of time until I get used to spending so much time away from home... lol.... With that said, I must admit that I enjoy my new job as a teacher even though it's very challenging. It's soooo many new things to think about...

Maja was invited to a friends birthday party this week, and I thought that would be a good opportunity to join a card challenge again.... For this card I used Fionas sketch over at Stampin' for the Weekend.
The stripy paper is the backing of the packaging of some stamps I bought ages ago... Recycling is goooood! I think the ribbon is recycled from something as well, but I've had it for so long that I can't remember from what it came from anymore.... The Skipping girl image is a rubber stamp I bought off ebay a while ago but haven't inked up before. I don't know who it's by... The cat and the sentiment is mounted on 3d foam for dimension.

Thanks for looking. And I'll try to post a bit sooner next time.... ;)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I just want to wish all my readers and followers a very HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hope 2010 will be a good one for all of you!

Here is Susie and Maja Siobhan just before we went out singing for the neighbours yesterday... (aren't they the cutest....??)
I also wanted to share a couple of pictures of what my world looks like on the last day of this year - a sunny and crisp day (about minus 14 degrees Celsius outside):

I love the snow- isn't it just beautiful?!

Some new and some old knitting....

I've been knitting... I always have some knitting lying around for times when I need an excuse to sit down and do very little, but still look like I'm doing something, if you know what I mean. I'm not very good at blogging my knitting though. I tend to start using my knitted stuff as soon as it's finished.... like the beret on this photo.... I knitted it over a year ago, and I've used it loads... I didn't even have a picture of it... sheesh... I used a free pattern from Garnstudio for the beret, you can find it HERE.

I thought it was a good opportunity to blog my beret now with my NEW fingerless gloves. I used the same yarn on them as I used for the beret, so now I have a set.... The yarn is from my stash. It's really oooooold... it was something I got after my late grandmother, and I 've had it for years and years (gran died in 1995, so I guess I've had it since then.... and I'm sure she had it in her stash a while before that...) Lol...

The free pattern for these nice gloves is made by Ruth/Ullhedina. The gloves are a perfect fit. They're knitted on two needles back and forth, so they're really easy to knit up. I'm already planning on making some more of these. Ohhh... and look what hubby brought home.... a Nespresso machine! Wow... I'm luuuurving it! It was supposed to be a shared Christmas present from him to me and from me to him, but we couldn't wait until Christmas to start using it.... lol...
Well.... off to make myself a coffee....

What a cute mouse!

I went to a friend of mine on Tuesday to make some cards together. It's been ages since I saw her even though she lives just a ten minutes walk away.... Anyway.... It was so nice seeing her again and we were chatting away so much that I only managed to get one card finished.... not that I ever manage to make more than one card in one day. It takes me forever...
I borrowed the stamp from my friend, and forgot to find out who it's by... silly me... The mouse is coloured with watercolour pencils.