Oriental delight...

It was kind of hard to get up this morning to get Maja to school.... too many lazy mornings during summer holidays... This afternoon I'll take her to her riding lesson. THAT is something she's looking forward to! It's good to be back to "normal"...

I managed to make another card yesterday evening. I think that must be a record... two cards in one day. I'm so slow when it comes to picking the right papers and embellies and stuff, so most days I don't have time for more than one card. Well MOST days I don't even have time for cardmaking at all... lol... Anyway, here's my card:
The oriental girl image is from the "Four dolls" set by Hero Arts and the sentiment is by Kort og Godt (it says Good Luck! in Norwegian). The girl is coloured with water colour pencils and I've also added a bit of shimmering water colour paint on top (it doesn't show wery well in the photos though). Punch by Martha Stewart. I used the same punch for the "ribbon" as for the bottom of the DP. I just cut a 1" strip of paper, coloured it green with the same colours that I'd used on the girl and then punched the border from both sides of the paper strip. Easy peasy!

I'm entering this card in two challenges:

2 Sketches 4 You - sketch #59

One Stop Craft Challenge - Challenge 93 -Oriental delight
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Thanks for looking!

Oriental card

Just a quick post this morning as I'm off to toddler group with Susie in half an hour...

I made this card for the oriental challenge over at Simon says stamp challenge blog. I used sketch #68 from Sketch Saturday. So I'll enter this card in both challenges.
The oriental stamps are from Hero Arts. Images coloured with watercolour pencils. One fan and one of the lanterns are mounted on 3d foam. Oh... and I've used an eyelet to hold the corner down... haven't used those in a loooong time (almost forgot I had any...)

Thanks for looking!

2sketches4you - 1st Annual Ultimat Card Showdown - week 1

The challenge blog 2 sketches 4 you is having their first annual ultimate card showdown... and they've got great prizes so I thought I'd give it a go! Here is the card I made using their sketch...
Thought I'd make a summer card. The stawberry is a free stamp I got with a magazine ages ago, and I've used the flower border from HeroArts "Four dolls" set for the green background.

A close up of the strawberries. They're coloured with water colour pencils (surprise surprise...) and one of them is mounted on pop dots.

You might get a better look at the pop dotting on this picture... and also a little peek of the inside.

Birthday card

I made this card on Sunday afternoon... just in time to enter it into the HeroArts weekly challenge. I just haven't had the time or energy to blog it before.
I used my new Four Dolls stamps from HA on this card too. The background and the sentiment strip was made with Whispers words stamps from Docrafts. On the bottom picture here you can see that the girl and two of the lanterns are mounted on pop dots/3D foam.

I also wanted to share another giveaway with you... Head over HERE for these goodies (ends 15. may):

New stamps

I finally got my new stamps... bought on Ebay... and sent from the USA, so it took a while from I bought them till I had them in my hands... Anyway... the two sets of stamps I got are the "Four dolls" from Hero arts and "Butterfly beauties" from Stampendous. Aren't they gorgeous?
So the last couple of evenings I've been playing with my new stamps (of course...) and I made this card:

I made this card for the weekly challenge at the Hero arts blog. This weeks challenge is to make a card inspired by a card from the "win a day at the blog challenge", and my card is inspired by this card made by alnette.

The girl is mounted on pop dots for some dimension. The background paper is from Dovecraft. In addition to the HA and Stampendous stamps, I have used a background script stamp from Kort og Godt.