Butterfly butterfly...

I can't believe how warm it has been here lately. It certainly doesn't feel like March. The week end was really warm and sunny... so hot that I could walk around the garden without a jumper or jacket on. The girls have been playing in their bare feet on the decking and I've managed to tidy most of my flower beds. I wonder how long it will last.... It won't be much snow left for easter, that's for sure....

I bought some new embossing folders and butterfly dies on saturday, and I could hardly wait for the sun to set on sunday so I could go inside and play... I've just been playing around with my new stash and this is what I came up with...

I have used QuicKutz flowers and retro squares embossingfolders. The butterflies are Cheery Lynn Exotic Butterfly small. I also got the QuicKutz parquet metal embossing die and some sentiments stamps, but I didn't use any of that on this card.... which means, of course, that I have to go and play some more soon....

Here's a peek of the inside....

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday- challenge 209- Anything goes.

Maja and Milo

Things are really busy at work at the moment. I'm preparing one to one meetings with all the parents of my class to tell them about their young ones progress at school (can't, for the life of me, remember what it's called in english....), so I haven't had any time to play with my stamps and paper this week, which means I don't have anything to show....

So I thought I'd share a couple of photos of Maja from this weeks riding lesson instead.... Maja's always complaining that she never gets to ride the bigger horses in the stable.... But this week she rode Milo.... Isn't he just beautiful??

She was sooo chuffed! Really enjoying herself. I was just scared he would take off and run away with her.... or make her fall off... and hurt herself.... but I guess that's just the mum talking... lol... They looked really good together.

Maja and Milo.... so cute!

Two new dresses for Barbie

All of a sudden Susie really needed some more clothes for her Barbie dolls. I guess I wasn't really hard to persuade to knit her some... :) We had a look at THIS great web site for something to knit, and Susie picked out quite a few things she wanted....

I started by knitting the dress on the right in the pic (this is pattern no 10 on the web site). I'm not sure about the green "fur", but that was the only furry yarn I could find in my stash. I know I have some other colours somewhere, but I didn't want to spend the entire day looking for it. And Susie really wanted the green trim anyway.... I have knitted the dress in the round, even though the pattern said to knit back and forth... I couldn't be bothered with sewing it together after knitting... The dress is really snug and it fits perfectly!

It was quite a quick knit, so I decided to cast on for a second dress. The one on the left is no 1005 on the web site (wich is Swedish by the way).... I have knitted this one in the round as well, AND I've altered the back by knitting some shaped ribbing for a snugger fit on the doll.

I finished the second dress after Susie went to bed, so I'm quite excited about what she has to say tomorrow morning when she sees it....



Holly Hipster

I've made another card... This time I have used Holly Hipster by Charmed Cards & Crafts. She was real fun to colour with my Promarkers. I have also played around with my new embossing folder... I just loooove the polka dots it makes, and I know I'm going to use it loads! I have also played with a few of my new cutting dies... OOoohhh, it's so much fun!

I have added some dots with liquid pearls around the image... I really like the effect that gives. Why haven't I tried that out before??

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Card Patterns: 154 Sketch.

Allsorts Challenge: 143- It's your choice.

The Sisterhood of Crafters: Use a digital stamp.

2 Sisters Challenge: #80- Anything goes.

Saturated Canary

I've got a new favourite! Saturated Canary digis are the cutest! You just gotta love them all. This is my first card using a SC image, this one is called Hand-Me-Downs...

This is a quick and simple card, using a few pieces of scrap paper that was still lying on my desk from previous projects. Better to use them than to throw them out, right? I have used Promarkers to colour in with. I've also used some stickles on her dress... you can see it a bit better on the pic below.

I would like to enter this card into these challenges:

2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Challenge #80 - anything goes.

Just some lines - Girlie girl challenge.

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Getting Digi with it.

Allsorts - Week 143 - It's your choice.

Thanks for looking:)

Winter holidays and a card

Just a quick note today as I'm busy baking. We're having a wee party for Susie this afternoon... it's her 3rd birthdayparty since her birthday a week ago...

Since my last post, the girls and I have spent a few days in Kristiansand with my parents. It was good to see them again. Susie got her ears pierced while we were away... she was so tough, no crying or anything.... Isn't that pretty??

 Maja wanted a second piercing in one of her ears too.... cute...

Here's a quick card I made last week. Just for fun... Image by Mo Manning, coloured in with Promarkers. It's a christening card... It's always nice to have some cards lying about just in case...

Thanks for looking. Hope you all have a very nice week end.... I'm sure there is plenty of cake for this afternoon... so just pop by if you want some.... lol....

What a star...

I would like to start by saying a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my little sunbeam SUSIE who is 5 years old today! Wooohooo!

I had to make a card for a birthday party on really short notice, and this is what I came up with:

I had coloured the image a while ago, but hadn't gotten around to using it. So the card was quite quick to put together. I think maybe I should start having ready coloured images lying around for times when I have to throw a card together really quick....

I'm entering this card into these challenge:
Flutter By Wednesday #190 - Anything with wings.
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything goes.
Divas by design - challenge 22 - Wings and things.

The fat lady...

Just a quick post today. I made this card a couple of weeks back. I'm not sure if I'm really pleased with it although I find the image quite amusing... The image is called "Krilla Rocks" and is by scrapmagasinet.no. I really like her fat hips... lol... I have used my Promarkers to colour her with.
Can't remember which ones though...

A peek of the inside.... decorated with some leftover scraps from the front and a panel to write on.....

Thanks for looking.

Ice skating

Yesterday was such a nice day, a bit on the cold side, but the sun was shining and there were no wind. So we couldn't waste it being inside all day. I decided to take the girls ice skating. There is fantastic ice at Maja's school.

When we arrived, Susie could hardly move forwards on her own, so I had to push or drag her around the ice. But after watching Maja for about 20 minutes, she suddenly just figured out how to do i herself.... Thought I would show you a little video... this was taken about 25 minutes after arriving at the ice....

So much fun!

Look alike hat for Maja

A couple of months back Maja left her favourite hat at the dentist's waiting room. A week later, when I went to pick it up, it wasn't there anymore. It was just a shop bought pink thing with sequins on it, but she hasn't found a hat that she was happy with since, so I decided to knit her a new one.
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I have used Lille Rosin's pattern for the look a like hat from her blog: http://lillerosinquilt.blogspot.com/2009/02/look-like-lua-fra-vm-i-alpin-2009-det.html
(blogger won't let me highlight anything anymore, and that makes it hard to make the link look a bit nicer...) Hope the link works though.
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I cast on the same amount of stitches as the pattern said, but didn't increase as many stitches and made the hat a bit smaller than the pattern said, and it fits perfectly! Maja is very pleased, and I don't have a problem with getting her to wear a hat anymore....

House down...

Today we decided it was time to eat the gingerbread house we made for Christmas. We were supposed to do it last week end, but we were so busy that we didn't have time.The girls really enjoyed the task... lol...
... and it's all gone to pieces... ;)

Even though it was very fun to smash the house to pieces, I think eating it was even more fun....

After eating all that gingerbread (we didn't really eat it ALL), we headed outside to play in the new snow... sooooo much fun. The girls played outside for over two hours. This was Susie's first time skiing this season.

She came home without her ski poles though... I think they dissapeared when the snow plow drove past where they were playing.... well, we might find them again when spring comes...

I cased my 9 yr old daughter's card....

Last weekend we had two birthdays to make cards for. First, Maja was going to a birthday party on Saturday. She borrowed my stamp, Promarkers and Cuttlebug to make this card for her friend:
She was really pleased with her card, and I, too, liked her card so much that I cased it for the birtday card I was going to make for the birthday we were going to on Sunday.... This is what I came up with:

I have used a Pink Gem Designs digistamp, coloured with my Promarkers. I have also used an alphabet die that I borrowed from a friend to make the letters and the number.

...the inside...

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Thanks for looking. Hope you all have a great week end!

Froggety frogg...

This is my first card this year. I got a Cuttlebug for Christmas, but I didn't have any dies to try out, so a friend of mine borrowed me her dies to play with. I have made her this card as a Thank You...

The image is "Beach Baby Jayme" from Crissy's Digi's for Whimsy Stamps, and she is coloured with Promarkers.

Cards made in 2011

Another post showing everything I've done since february... lol... maybe I should start blogging a bit more often again.... Well, this time I just want to blog all the cards I made this... ehm... last year.

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For Christmas I needed a few small things to give away, so I made these small post it note holders. They were really quick and fun to make.

Here you can see all the postit note holders I made....

This card was for my sister in law's birthday. She plays the guitar and she had just done a project with spiders at school... The left picture is the front of the card, and the right is a peek of the inside...

My niece was one in October.... this is the card I made for her.

This mermaid was for one of Maja's friend's birthday.

...and another mermaid for Susie's friend.

It's always hard to buy prensents for people that have everything... so for my mum's birthday I made her a set of five cards for different occasions. When I think about it, this was probably a stupid thing to do since she is one of the few people that buys cards from me on a regular basis.... The set consisted of:

A wedding card...

a new home card....

a happy birthday card...

another birthday card....

and a card with no sentiment...

they were all decorated on the inside as well...

I think she was pleased with the present, and I know that she has already given some of the cards away.

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The next two cards was for Maja's friends too...

And way back in january last year, I made this sliding pop up card for some friends of ours that had a baby girl.

Well.... this was kind of short and sweet... lol... I guess I should have added what stamps (companies) and materials I've used but I can't really be bothered listing all that for all these cards. And I think that would have made for a really boring post as well....