Something different

Just a quick note tonight as I'm tired and want to go and sit on the sofa with a cup of tea and a book...

I have challenged myself again.... I wanted to use a different image from what I normally do, and I wanted to use my watercolours. I haven't used my water colours in absolute ages, so I found it a bit hard to get it to look the way I wanted. It was good fun though. This is what I came up with:

I'm quite pleased with the result, if I may say so myself... lol....

The card goes into the following challenge:

Sentimental Sundays - Challenge #99 - Celebrating Earth Day.

Ett trykk - Kort som inneholder noe gult.

Thanks for looking. I really appreciate your comments:)

Yellow miss Anya

As the weather is getting warmer and the sun is coming out more I felt like challenging myself and use a colour I hardly ever use.... Yellow. Why I never use yellow, I don't know... I just never feel like picking up my yellow pens and papers... I think my card turned out quite bright and cheery though.... The sentiment is stamped on a tag that is tucked behind the image so you have to pull it out to read what it says...

Image is Miss Anya by The Greeting Farm. Coloured with Promarkers. I have cut a Marianne Creatables frame in half and put one half behind each side of the green paper. I've used an embossingfolder on the card itself and distressed with an ink pad. I've also used a scalloped die, a tag, some ribbon, paper twine, and a "diamond" heart.

I'm entering the card into these challenges:

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - challenge # 159 - Freebie week.

Ett Trykk - kort som inneholder noe gult.

Thanks for looking.

Ms Ivy...

The parent's meetings at school are finally over and done, so hopefully things will calm down a bit now. The weather here is changing between really hot spring days, to snowy and windy, to wet and cold... You never know what the next day is going to be like.... and it will also change between all the types of weather in the one and same day.... can't wait for the weather to settle down a bit too... lol...

I have made this card for challenge #203 over at Sketch Saturday, so obviously, I have used their sketch...

Image is Ivy KETTO. Isn't she cute. I got her from a friend (thank you!!). Coloured with Promarkers. I have also used a couple of different paper tapes from Panduro for the vertical stripes. Sentiment from Kort & Godt. And as a final touch, I have added some Liquid Pearls (you can see it a bit better on the pic below) and some bling...

Thanks for looking.

For my mum

Oh, I almost forgot this card.... I made this ages ago, but I wanted to give it to my mum for her birthday, so I couldn't post it on here since she reads my blog.... It's been almost two weeks since her birthday, so I guess I'm in the clear with posting it now...

Image is one of  the sweet, sweet Saturated Canary girls. As always, I have coloured with Promarkers. NO design paper on this one, only plain paper that I have stamped with different stamps. I have also used an embossing folder to make dots on the black scalloped circle. To make the cute edge around the image, I have cut a Marianne Designs Creatable frame in half and glued it behind the die cut image panel. I've also added a bit of liquid pearl on the frame. To finish the card off I have added a MS punched border, some ribbon, flowers, pearls and a flourish.

Thanks for looking! Hope you're still enjoying your easter hols:)

Scrapping with a friend...

About a week ago, I went to do a bit of scrapping with my friend Renate. We had so much fun. We talked and coloured and talked and glued and... you get the picture... Renate made a couple of cards while I was there, but I only managed to make one... I know... I'm quite a slow scrapper.... lol... I didn't even finish the card entirely before I went home... It got quite late.... so the flourishes behind the image/sentiment were done at a later date...

Image is a gorgeous Gorjuss girl, and she's coloured with Promarkers. The red/pink DP is Tilda, but I can't remember the turquoise paper. Sentiment is from a Kort & Godt set. I've also used two different paper tapes (Panduro), a doily, lace and a metal corner that I got from Renate. I also went home with some other goodies. She's soooo generous that lady!

We must do this again soon, Renate!

I'm entering this card into this challenge:

ProMarker Norge - utfordring #4 - Turkis + en valgfri farge

Thanks for looking.

Miss Anya

I try again... if I blog the card right away, I might manage to enter it into the challenge I made it for... not like last week...lol...

Image is Miss Anya by The Greeting Farm. Coloured with Promarkers. The butterfly is Cheery Lynn Exotic Butterfly small. I have also used a MS punch and the sentiment is by North Star Stamps.

I'm entering this card into these challenges:

Sketch Saturday - week 201 - sketch

Anyone for Anya - Teal

Stamp with fun - Challenge #155 - No eastercard

Simon Says - Anything goes.

Thanks for looking!

Shopping girl...

I made this card for last weeks Sketch Saturday Challenge, but I never got round to posting it in time for the challenge.... Anyway, here is the card, challenge or not....

Image is Juliet from the digi set "Girls About Town" by Charmed Cards and Crafts. I have used my Promarkers to colour in with. The mat behind the image and the stripe with the sentiment on is also coloured with Promarkers. Sentiment is by Kort og Godt (S-200) and it says "to a wonderful lady". I have used a Martha Stewart punch, and paper tape from Panduro. Can't remember where the DP is from. I have also used a text background stamp on the card blank as well.... don't remember what it is though, and can't be bothered going upstairs to check... Oh, and I've also added some rhine stones next to the sentiment, but I think they almost disappeared on the black background.

Thanks for looking, and HAPPY EASTER to all my readers!

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.