Wednesday 30 November 2011

The PaperShelter challenges

Hello and happy Wendsday to you all! It's time again for a fun and easy challenge over at the Paper Shelter. We are doing it really easy for you all this time as we go for the theme of Anything goes. I expect to see many of you playing with us this week.

I also hope that you visit our challenge blog tomorrow as we have a big surprise up for you very very soon. So stay tune for that!

My creation for this theme is a big one. I have used some of the wonderful things that are a part of the Christmas Wishes. It's filled with stuff that makes it so easy to make candy wrappers, greeting cards with CD's, envelopes, boxes etc. I even made a candle with some of the stuff. Sissors are a great tool! I love how easy it is to use these digisets. It gets done in a few minutes. Wonderful during this time of the year when we all are so very busy.


I also invited a green guest for this project. The dragon card is made with the same little fellow as the other stuff, but he actually lives in the PaperShelter's sister store Folkvangar. I just couldn't help myself, just needed to have him as an ordinary card as well. You find him as a digi at the Folkvangar store. My green friend is paired up with some stunning designer papers from Bearly Mine designs called Christmas Frolics.


As always you can win a voucher worth $20 if you use a TPS image on your creation or three digis of your choice if you use another brand of image. Stunning prizes as always!
So I better sit down and start waiting for all lovely creations that will come around here this week. I know I will be busy commenting!

Love n hugs
Marie


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It's For Fun!

Good morning and hello! When you read this I'm at the hospital working my butt of at a three week rehab period. Hoping that I will feel better and have more energy. I know for sure that I won't be having that during the eves. LoL
So to keep it short and sweet, we are celebrating Christmas over at For Fun this week, so we want you to show us your Christmas cards, just like you have every month that has five Wendsdays in it during the year. And as usual we are sponsored by Michelle Perkett. This time have I used the very sweet Christmas Kisses. The images is such a joy to colour. She's paired up with some old Dovecraft paper and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. Some bakers twine and a snowflake finish the whole thing off.

I do hope you come and join us over at FFC this week. I look forward to see your stunning creations.

Love n hugs
Marie


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Monday 28 November 2011

Another one for PFP

Even if I know that I have three weeks at the hospital coming up now. Started today and are really tired. I couldn't sleep the other night so another card got made. Nothing relaxes me more than colouring so that's what I did. And when I was finished with that I realized that time was way too much, but keept going anyway. The theme over at PFP is still "swirls and sparkle". New challenge up tomorrow. How fun!

I love this paper pad from Prima. The colours are to die for and it works perfect together with Kraft card stock. I die cutted a few trees like so many other crafters out there. A Magnolia swirl and a bunch of flowers and berries from WOC that I covered with dimond glitter glue. My trees got some glamour dust over them to ad some more sparkle over the card. Over at Craft your passion the theme is anything christmas so I enter there as well. Lili of the Valley are brave and have the theme of Anything goes, I play there as well.

Now however it is time to go to bed, early tonight. A very long day tomorrow. Lots of work outs and new people to meet.

Have a wonderful eve!

Love n hugs
Marie

Sunday 27 November 2011

Passion for Promarkers

Good afternoon and happy advent! Christmas is almost here. Favourite time of the year. Just love it. So for the challenge over at Passion for Promarkers' theme this week "Swirls and sparkle" I just had to make a Christmas card, again. Over at I love Promarkers the theme is Anything goes so I enter this card there as well.
I have used an image from The PaperShelter, so totally cute. Coloured it with my Letraset Family. Designer papers from Dove craft. Flowers from WOC. Swirls and snowflakes with lots of glitter and so is it on Santas hat and the cute little rabbit as well.

Very short and sweet this as my hands hurts like (not so nice word here). Enjoy your day!

Love n hugs
Marie

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Hello again!

Second post for today and that means PaperShelter time. This week I playing with the A-team again, substituting the whole month of November. Lots of fun of course. This time the theme is Christmas Sparkle (using red, green and gold). That's nice and classic isn't it? The greatest passion of mine is to make Christmas cards so this was right up my lane.

I have used both the digi and the papers from the PaperShelter. The wonderful digi is called "Getting ready for Christmas" and the papers are from the paper pack called Christmas Spirit. Lovely papers in rich red, green and golden colours. Perfect for all those Christmas cards. The banners says happy Christmas in Swedish.

Some card craft candy together with some flowers from Wild Orchid Craft tops the card of. As always I have coloured my image with my Letraset family.


As always there is a voucher up for grabs worth $20 if you is the lucky winner picked by Mr Random. If you are chosen and have been playing with another brand of stamp/digi, then you win 3 digis of your choise. Great that too, isn't it? I can't wait to see what you lovely crafters comes up with for this challenge.

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
Everybody art Challenge - Christmas
I love Promarkers - Anything goes

Hello there!

Another Wendsday is here and I am back with my double posting. As always starting with the For Fun challenge where we this week have the theme of Thank you/ thankful for. Sponsoring us this time is my lovely boss over at the Paper Shelter. Thanks Veronica! Love the sweet images.


My little birdies are as usual coloured with my Letraset family. Love them dearly. LoL Designer papers are from Dovecraft, back to basic II. Love the colours in this pack. Just yummy!

So with this said, I hope to see you back over at FFC this week. Would be great to see what you come up with. It might even be time to start making all those thank you cards for all the gifts that might be coming your way from a guy dressed in red, who knows?

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
Sweet stop Sketch Challenges- sketch



Tuesday 22 November 2011

Time for a new Bearly Mine Challenge

Hello and good morning to you all! Hope you are doing fine and are ready for a new challenge over at Bearly Mine. This time we are doing it very easy for you all as we are going for the theme of  "Your favourite things". How is that for simple? We just want to know what your fave stuff is.

So here comes my list. I love my Letraset family, they are my bestest friends. :) I also love Donnas papers of corse otherwise I wouldn't be on this wonderful team. Flowers, glitter, gold... Who doesn't love that? And Tickled Pink images, who can resist? Not me that's for sure. This is how my favourite things turned out together.
As always we have a whole bunch of lovely sponsors that provide all lucky winners with some goodies. How about these prizes? Tons of goodies, right?


Bearly Mine Designs - 2 Digi Sets of the Winner's Choice
Tickled Pink Stamps - 2 Digi's or 1 rubber stamp of winner's choice
Whimsy Stamps - 5 Digi's of the Winner's Choice

So I can not wait to see what you have as your favourite things. I might even get a few new favourites, who knows? And that's all for today, almost. Our boss here at Bearly Mine is being poorly. I hope the doctors finds out what's wrong soon so we see you back here in blogging land. Miss you!

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
PaperTake Weekly - Christmas Crackers
Create me pink - Digi stamp challenge 
Digital Tuesday Challenges - Sparkle and Shine

Sunday 20 November 2011

Time for Passion for Promarkers

Good Evening to you all! It's pooring down rain here today. So dark and wet. Shouldn't it be snow that comes down by now? Oh well, to a contrast to all darkness outside; Passion for Promarkers has the theme of White on White this week. Thought I would enter that one, as well as Just Magnolia Hänglar Stänglar which has the theme of ribbons.

A lot of embossing to get some contrast again. I have used  snowflakes and Swiss dots. There is also a bunch of dies used from Magnolia as well. Two big brads with pearls on them is center pieces in the flowers, and around the used Marianne die I put even more pearls from dimension. In the back ground a silver grey and white ribbon from Joanna Sheen.

Enjoy your evening!

Love n hugs
Marie

Wednesday 16 November 2011

A new challenge over at the Paper Shelter as well.

You know it's Maries magical Wendsday again with two posts in one day. Wonder if I ever will get used to this? I impress myself every time. LoL

So this week I am playing with my "own" team, the B team from the Paper Shelter Love you guys! You always make me so proud! As I love winter and snow the theme was simple for this challenge. Snow flakes is our theme this week. They can be on your images, on your paper, as embellishments you name it. I actually wouldn't mind some snow right now, or how about next coming weekend when first of Advent is here. Very early this year. Love this time of the year! Yum!


Ok, back to the important stuff. As always we have a voucher up for grabs if you use a PaperShelter image. It's worth $20. If you enter with another company stamp or no stamp at all you are up for a choice of three images of your choice from the Paper Shelter store. Wonderful isn't it?

My card then. I have used the lovely image called Warm in the winter. The little gal and her kitten is paired up with some designer papers from Bearly Mine Designs called Christmas fun. On the edges and on the flowers I have added "some" heavy gesso from the art store. Wanted some snow effect and it looks fine on the flower but my printed paper "ate" the gesso. Got a little messy look. Oh, anyway flowers are from WOC. The big snow flake is made with a die from Cuttle bug I think. Rest of decos from my stash.

Hope to see you join us over at the Paper Shelter this week.

With love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
Delightful challenges - Snowflakes
Craft your passion - Let it snow
Paper Sundaes - Use digital



A new challenge over at For Fun

Hello! Hope you are doing a lot better than me. The flu has cought me and I feel totally lost in space. And it's not just me that is sick. Both kids sounds like old mashines and have high fever. This really is the down part with the fall, all infections that starts to "visit".

This week we have a recipe challenge for you all. You have to use One food item, two designer papers and three buttons, eyelets or brads.


The clear Dollar stamps has been kind enough to sponsor this challenge for us and have provided us with a bunch of fun, and cute stamps and sentiments. A big thank you for that.

I have used the ChocolateBox-truffle together with the sentiment Candy is sweet. I loved colouring the image, as it was kind of bold and still some details to it. I paired it up together with some designer papers from Dove craft. Added some buttons from Crafty Emma's store and added a golden border around the image. Also a ribbon from Panduro is added for something a little extra happening.  A very clean and simple card, but all I had energy for this week.

It will be fun to see what all you other people comes up with when joining our challenge. See you over at For Fun.

Love n hugs
Marie


Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Always anything goes
Stamps R Us - Bling it on (hope the golden frame counts as bling)
2 sister Challenges - Anything goes

Monday 14 November 2011

Long time no seen

Has had a lovely visit from a friend last week, and on top of that both my boys got sick. So nothing much has been done here lately. However, I found a card that I have not put up here yet, so I thought why not?

It's a very clean and simple card. This will probably go over sea when it's time to send out this years X-mas cards, and as I have around 30 pen pals around the world it would be too expensive to decorate them too much. The postage is way too expensive in this country. LoL Money that I could spend of crafting goodies. :) The image is from LOTV and the designer papers are from Bearly Mine Designs; Christmas Swirls. Have just used a metallic "ribbon" in the shape of snow flakes and some flat pearls. The little Christmas buddy is coloured with the letraset family and some polycroms. I enter this card to the challenge over at LOVT where the theme is Creature Comforts.

Love  n hugs
Marie

Wednesday 9 November 2011

New challenge at the Paper shelter too

Morning once again! Yes, I know I am back again. The whole month of November I will be double posting all Wendsdays. I'm guest playing over at the A team as well. We lost a dear member of our A team due to lack of time. Strange how much time it takes to live. :) So you'll be seing double of me over at the Shelter for a while.

This week the theme is set to All in Pink! How fun is that? I fell in love with this little ballerina as soon as Veronica sent it over and now was a perfect time to use her. All dressed in pink. I have paired her up with some Nitwit papers that has been laying on my desk for a while. Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and so is the ribbon. Pearls from Bunny Zoe. Sentiment from Magnolia Sweden.


The prize up for grabs is as usual a gift cerificate worth $20 if you use a Paper Shelter image. Three (3) images of your choise if you use a stamp or digi from another company. Lots to play for isn't it? Hope to see you there!

Love n hugs
Marie


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For Fun time again

Morning! It's mid week and it's time for a new challenge over at For Fun.We would like you to thank your military.  Let me tell you this is a really hard challenge when you live in Sweden. We hardly have any military to talk about as the politicians give them less money each year. On top of that this country is calling itself neutral. So with that in mind and nowere to send a military thank you, I made a thank you card that can be sent to anyone. So a thank you card it is. The sentiment says "Good friends make good times better and bad times easier. Thank you for being my friend!"

I kind of covered the whole card with roses around a heart made with spell binders. Then my boys came and thought it needed even more flower and on they went. They are very good at following the lines. :) A piece of lace and some liquid pearls and some half pearls and we was done. The designer paper is from Bearly Mine, and the digi set Paper Lace. The flowers is a mix from WOC and I am roses.

I hope you join in our challenge. If you like me don't have much of a military around, make a thank you card to someone that deserves it.

Love n hugs
Marie


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Tuesday 8 November 2011

A new challenge over at Bearly Mine for you

Good morning! Hope you all are doing fine and are ready for a new challenge over at BMC? This two week period we are doing One for the Boyz. So anything for the boys/men in your lifes will make us happy.
As usual we have a whole bunch of sponsors that gives some lovely goodies away if you are chosen as a winner in the coming challenge.


Bearly Mine Designs2 Digi sets of the winner's Choice
 Di's Digi Downloads - 3 Digi's of the Winner's Choice
 Kenny K - 5 Digi's of the Winner's Choice
 Delicious Doodles - 4 Digi's of the Winner's choice
 Emerald Faerie Garden - 4 Digi's of the winner's choice

For my card I have used Helga Frost from Kenny K's coloured with my Letraset Family. Left the card quite bare this time. A big snow flake made with Spellbinder create a flake. Donna's designer papers from the digiset Christmas Wonderland and in the inside I have also used the fancy circles. Also a brown ribbon for Helga to sit on and some metal corners from Wild Orchid Crafts.

With this said, I hope to see you all back over at the BMC challenge blog. I can't wait to see what you create and I am sure that my teamies are looking forward to it as much as I am.

Love n hugs
Marie

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Wednesday 2 November 2011

Christmas time over at The Paper Shelter

Good moring to you all! It's time for a new challenge at the Paper Shelter. Now when November is here we are dealing with all over Christmas card. So this week we are doing Christmas Fun over at the Paper Shelter. Couldn't be easier could it? Do pop on over to the Paper Shelter and look at all the new sweet christmas images that are in the store. You won't be disappointed.


I have used one of my favourite Christmas images for this card. It's called Holy Night. The designer papers are also from the Paper Shelter and it's from the paper pack called Christmas spirit. It's filled with rich lovely green, red and yellow/golden papers. Some are already matched up like the one I have used here. Just added the image. Perfect when you are in a hurry, or like me doesn't have hands that work together with you all the time. :)

My decorations are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the muchrooms are from the supermarket. Normally used in the advent candle light holders around Christmas. The metal corner are also from WOC.


As always there is a gift voucher worth $20 up if you is the lucky winner. If you enter without a TPS image you can win 3 three digis of your choise. Great prizes both of them.

It would be wonderful if you poped on over to the Shelter and joined in the fun. We love to see you there.

Love n hugs
Marie


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It's fun time!

Hello and good morning! It's finally Wendsday again and time to play with For Fun again. This time we are having a birthday celebration. We would love to see birthday cards for your best friend. I kind of cheeted a tiny bit and did a birthday card for my youngerst niece. Can I say that she is my favourite youngerst niece? LoL


We are sponsored by the lovely Bugaboo once again. This little cutie is called Scene it Brithday Bears. That's why my card is for my niece. The image is so adorable and what could fit a little one year old better than a bunch of bears? OK, back to my card again. The image is coloured with promarkers. The designer papers are from Dovecraft. The letters are from Prima. I totally love them. So stylish and perfect size. I need some more of those. The little cup cake is a brad that I had for ages.

I hope that you come on over to For Fun and join us for this simple and fun challenge.

Love n hugs
Marie


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Tuesday 1 November 2011

A new quicky post

And a new fast make card. That means no colouring. This card is made with scraps, a Tim Holtz die cut, a Magnolia snow flake stamp and some bling. Also used is a Prima stamp on the Rain deer. 

I would like to enter this little card in the challenge over at Bah! Humbug! as their theme is Die cuts. The cute little wooden button is from Crafty Emma's store.

Now time to prepare for dinner and then finish of some more cards for my have to complete list. Hair cutting on the oldest kid is also on for tonight. I hate doing that.

Love n hugs
Marie