Die cut cacti

I’ve been looking for cacti stamps, have found none,  so I was delighted when I came across this cacti die set from Marianne. I cut the parts and used my promarkers to color all the bits and pieces.
I used a MFT stitched frame die and kept the cut in the die while adding green DOx.
Then I used my script stamp and randomly added grey ink. A bit of splatter, 2 stamps used to make the birthday sentiment and my card was ready.

This card is for:
Happy Little Stamper - July Anything Goes with Dies
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Creative Knockouts - #256 Sew It Up

Christmas in July - Photo and freebie

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, you can see them all in this post. For day 7 we have a photo challenge and the DT members are using this week's freebie.


As Santa is enjoying a day on the beach I decided to use my boat and waves die set from Poppy to make the background. Santa and the die cut boat are colored with Promarkers. I framed the panel using my new and much loved MFT dies.

This card is also for:
C.R.A.F.T. - #477 Christmas
Die Cuttin' Divas - #379 Christmas in July
Passion For Promarkers Challenge - #454 Dies and/or punches 

Christmas in July - Colors

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, you can see them all in this post. For day 6 we have a color challenge.

I started out picking my DP - as soon as I saw the colors I knew this DP would be perfect colorwise. Then I colored the image Teddy Bear Winter topper, I cut around the teddies to make room for an embossed background. Then I used my MFT dies to frame the panels of  DP and image.

This card is also for:
Back To Basics - #8 use an Embossing Folder
Fab 'n' Funky - #404 Christmas
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes Christmas

Christmas in July - Photo

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, you can see them all in this post. For day 5 we have a photo challenge.

I used a striped and a dotted paper to make the background and  added white seambinding ribbon from my stash. Santa is die cut with a fancy circle die, I used my ovals for the sentiment and a die cut snowflake with some liquid enamel dots. in the top left corner.

This card is also for:
Sketch Saturday - #523 Sketch
Brown Sugar – " 280 Two patterned papers
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - #395 Anything Christmas Goes/red

Christmas in July - Bingo

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, you can see them all in this post. For day 4 we are playing bingo.


I used the horizontal middle row. My three colors are aqua+orange+grey. I have used a new release, the image is part of the Christmas in July winner's set.
I kept it really simple, cutting my DP with MFT stitched dies and mounting the snowman behind the panel. Three die cuut snowflakes and a sentiment and my card was ready.

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Non Traditional Christmas (Colors)
Crafty Cardmakers - #216 HOLIDAYS/VACATION
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - #32 Anything Christmas Goes

Christmas in July - Sketch

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, you can see them all in this post. Day 2 is a sketch.

I used the image Winter Bird 2, colored it with Promarkers and cut it with an MFT die. The die cut frame is also MFT and the Santa with sleigh is from Marianne. The red/kraft colored papers are Tim Holtz ones, the musical notes strip was a leftover from my stash. I used my Dymo to make the Christmas sentiment.

This card is also for:
Sweet Stampers - #22 Christmas
Crafty Catz - #426 Anything Goes/dies/punches option
I love Promarkers - #362 Anything goes/Christmas option

Christmas in July - Baby it's cold outside...

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, and day 1 is a really easy one,  Baby it’s cold outside.

I used a snowman for my card. I sponged blue DI on the background, added drops of water for snow effect and also white frantage. I cut the panel with a MFT stitched frame die.
A subtle detail, which is almost invisible in the photo, is that I masked off the snowman and stamped a few trees with white ink and heat embossed with frosted embossing powder. Quite nice in real life.
The sentiment is a combo of dymo and a Tim Holtz die cut.

This card is also for:
Tuesday Throwdown - #401 - Stitching - Real or Faux (Stitched frame)
Creatalicious Challenges - #143 Anything Goes/Option No Patterned Paper
The Merry Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes

Beverage

Today I have two cards to share for the  Twofer Card challenge where the theme is beverage. For both cards I used the champagne bottle and glass stamp that was part of freebie set with a magazine recently. I also used a sweet mouse from Penny Black. The frame dies are from MFT, I used the two largest ones.

Card 1) Happy New Year 2019

This is the first card I made. I stuck a freebie paper onto the card base and added sticker numbers. I stamped the mouse and masked him before I used champagne bottle and glass stamp. The bubbles came with the same freebie set. I stamped and cut out one extra glass. I covered the glasses with glossy accent.

This card is also for:
Crafty Friends Challenge - #88 Food / Drink
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper

Card 2) It's your day (birthday card)

For my second card I used a DP from Lawn Fawn. The cheers sentiment came with the same freebie set.The larger sentiment is from KaiserKraft. I used a part of a doily for table cloth and ounted the mouse and one glass on foam.

This card is also for:
Inkspirational - #165 Birthday
Fab 'n' Funky - #402 Gingham

Yellow flowers

For this card I’ve used a Penny Black flower stamp together with grey ink.
I colored the image using both yellow DI and Promarkers. I added blue DI with a brush to get a light color on the background, then I added a bit of splatter.
After adding the sentiment I felt the card felt a bit empty so I used a script stamp and grey ink.

This card is for:
Allsorts - #476/477 Flowers All Over
Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments Challenge - #207 Flowers + A Sentiment

Flamingo, Pink and Hello

It's a rare one for me, but this is a card with no stamping at all, I've only used die cuts.
The flamingo was a gift from my sister, I colored with my Promarkers and added a little WoS on the wings.
The sentiment and lace frame are MFT dies, the sand banks are made with dies from Poppy and the tall flowers I've used for grass and straws are from Tim Holtz.
I colored with blue DIs to make the sea.
I added the panel onto a piece of kraft card stock.

This card is for:
City Crafter Challenge - #420 In The Pink  (pink, flamingo, hello)
Crafty Cardmakers - #215 At least 2 dies/punches
UnstampaBelles - #81 Fancy frame or border

Trees and snowman with stocking

I have made this card for this week's challenge over at Catch the Bug - it's Anthing Goes week.

I've been digging through my stash of ready made items, which were intended for but not used on previous cards. There I found the snowman from Bugaboo as well as the squirrel (Lawn Fawn) and the stamped trees and stocking (Panduro). I just cut the panels and the banner (dies fro MFT), embossed the smaller panel and used a tree stencil (Tim Holtz) on the larger one. The sentiment came free with a magazine.


This card is also for:

Christmas Cards All Year 'Round - Tree

Sweet Stampin - Christmas in July
Sparkles Forum Christmas - #90 Christmas Stockings
Winter Wonderland - Snowmen

In the ocean

It's Thursday and Oldie but Goodie day over at Catch the Bug.
It's very hot and I envy this little monkey his dip in the ocean.
I made a pocket of vellum to make the water and stitched it closed after adding a few fish and starfish sequins. I ct the image in two to pop the upper part on foam on the water surface.

This card is also for:
Crafting By Designs - July Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Red roses

 It's been almost a month since my last post. But after a change of internet solution (which wasn't the smoothest), a holiday and a funeral (my Father in law) everyting is getting back to normal. A part from the weather, 30 degrees celsius isn't exactly normal, but I'm not complaining.
I treated myself to this stamp set of roses earlier this week and thought they would be suitable for the sketch over at Sunday Stamps.
I stamped the roses with red and black ink, a grey one for the script background and I also used a new set of dies to make the frame. 

This card is for: 
Sunday Stamps - #182 Sketch
The Library Challenge - The Rose Garden
Moving along with the Times - #74 June Blooms

Floral corner stamp

Tuesday is new release day in the Bugaboo shop and this is one of of the images you will find in the store today.
I printed it twice and cut out the large pink flower, the red rose and butterfly and mounted them on foam for extra dimension. I also used some of my clear stamps to add some extra print. There's WoS and glitter glue detailing as well as some sequins. 
I used blue DI to color arond the flowers and grey DI to distress the edges.

I haven't been able to spend much time in blogland lately due to very poor internet connection. They are changing internet solution in my building and it's apparently taking some time to get it all good and fixed. So several evenings with no internet at all, plugged in or wireless, and some periods where loading of a website takes what feels like forever. Waiting for better days ahead:)

This card is also for:
Crafty Calendar - Three of Something (sequins)
Crafting With An Attitude - Anything Goes

Sketch with a bee

There's a new sketch challenge over at Catch the Bug and this is my inspiration card.

 
I used a sweet bee image - you can find it here - and colored it with Promarkers. A strip of leftover DP and a piece of washi tape were added.

We're having +30 degrees Celsius here in Oslo and the weather has been fantastic for a long time now. But with no air condition I'm looking forward to the coming week with temperatures of 20 something...

My card is also for:
Send a Smile for Kids - Anything goes 4 Kids
Sweet Stampers - #20 Birthday
Aud Sentiments Challenge - #204 Summer + A Sentiment 

52 Christmas Card Throwdown Guest designer spot

I was invited to be a guest designer for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, and I love making Christmas cards and sketch challenges are my favorites so I was really happy to see this great sketch.

I chose Tim Holtz' fab car die set as my main feature on this card and I teamed it up with 3 different scraps of DP. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I sed glitter and frantage for snow and an extra wintery feel.

This card is also for:
Craftaholics R Us - #22 Gingham
A Snowflakes Promise - #51 Anything Goes

Balloon and monkey

This little monkey is the Bugaboo freebie this week.
I used a simple layout and made a quick card. 
I cut the image with a wonky stitched die, added a stamped sentiment and layered the panel onto a background of two DPs.

This card is also for:
Crafter's Cafe - #196 All Creatures Great and Small
Send a Smile for Kids - Anything goes 4 Kids
Crafty Gals Corner - #166 Anything Goes

Bride and groom

I was inspired by the bookcover over at Marina's challenge and made this wedding card.

My inspiration was the bride, the car, the colors and my DP had a banner printed on it - quite fitting. I used sand ink and a freebie stamp and held my breath while stamping as it was the last thing I added to my card. The image is from Stamping Bella, colored with Promarkers and lots of WoS on her dress.Several dies used and a paper from Maja.


This card is for:
The Library Challenge - Brideshead Revisited
Crafty Friends Challenge - #84 Letter B is for... (bride) 

Butterflies X 2

Today I finished two cards for Twofer Card challenge where the theme is butterflies. My butterfly stamp is from Penny Black.

Card 1 - Roses
For this card I used a freebie set of Alternew roses. The butterflies are stamped with sand colored ink and I attached a pearl to each butterfly. The label is stamped and I chose an old looking paper.
This card is also for:
Allsorts - #468 Happy Birthday
Fussy and Fancy - #212 FAVORITE FLORALS

Card 2 - Wildflowers
Here I was inspired by the colors yellow, blue and green. I used a TH stencil and the sentiment as well as the butterfly are Penny Black stamps. The butterfly is popped on foam and I kept the die cut wildflowers white.

CAS Colours & Sketches - #272 Color Challenge
Penny Black and More - Anything goes
Crafty Calendar - Things with Wings

Sketch With Santa

There’s a new sketch challenge over at Catch the Bug and since I feel I’m behind schedule for my Christmas card makes I chose this fun Santa. I cut him into a tag shame, adding ribbon and twine. The DP is Maja design. A stitched Christmas sentiment stamp in Norwegian, and again some sequins. They seem to be on all my cards lately.

This card is also for:
A Snowflakes Promise - #51 Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft - #56 ANYTHING GOES
Winter Wonderland - Christmas in the snow

Say it with flowers

I have made this card for this week's challenge over at Catch the Bug where the theme is 'Say it with flowers'.

I've been digging through my piles of DPs again, where I fond two to combine. The imag has been colored with Promarkers and DIs together with water. The sentiment is made up with two staps fro different sets. I die cut a frame with a MFT die and stapled on some gold squins.

This card is also for:
Always Fun Challenges - #56 FOR A FEMALE/MOM
Artistic Inspirations - #199 ANYTHING GOES
Cut it Up - #147 FLOWERS

Color and sketch - Tim Holtz Runway image

May is a month full of bank holidays and days off work. Today I've enjoyed a 2 hour walk in the sunshine, a little time in my craft room to make this card, and tonight I'll be wathing the Eurovision semifinals part 2 on TV.

For this card I used an image from Tim Holtz, colored with
Promarkers. The sentiments are made with two stamps, one from Penny Black AVD one from Pavduro. Three yellow enamel dots were added.

My card is for:
Color Throwdown - #492
I love Promarkers - #358 CAS
CAS Colours & Sketches - #271 Sketch Challenge

Card made with a kit from a magazine

I made this card with a Hunkydory topper and paper from a set called `Love Christmas`, which came free with a magazine a while back, I'm not sure which.
I cut the paper into sections to mimic the sketch over at 52CCT,  then attached the reindeer topprt onto a die cut star shape made with dies I received from Mervi (thanks!).
I stitched around the edges and added frantage, a die cut + Dymo sentiment and I stapled on a few sequins.



This card is for:
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Sketch Challenge
Back To Basics - #2 Use a CD or Kit From Magazine
Sparkles Forum Christmas - #88 Reindeer

Flowers for mum

I have made this card for this week's challenge over at Catch the Bug where the theme is 'Anything Goes'.

I've been using more DPs again lately. I have a huge amount of papers and I love them. Spots have alwas been a favorite of mine and I think the color of the paper matched well with the image colored with Promarkers. I also used a scrap for the panel and the border is made with a die that came free with a magazine.


This card is also for:
Addicted to Stamps and More - #290 Photo Inspiration
Shopping Our Stash - #352 Mother's Day
Die Cut Divas - Flowers