Purple Fairy & Flowers

I wanted to make a feminine card with flowers, lace and other girlie details.

I love this fairy image, but I haven't used it more than once or twice, so this image was the starting point. I decided to use this lovely paper with purple roses, so with that I had the color scheme set.

A good start, but then I decorated everything upside down on the backing paper and had to do a lot of make over.. Oh, well.

I spend a lot of time decorating feminine cards, trying to place flowers and lace here and there, before I'm able to make up my mind... I ended up with some flowers at the bottom left corner, a butterfly sticker, a chipboard with sentiment and lace. Oh, and lots of liquid pearls to make the swirls!

The image is colored using watercolor pencils and the wings are decorated with glitter glue.

I enter this card into these challenges:
1) Divas by Design - #37 anything goes
2) Whimsy Inspiration - #41 bingo (pearls - image - flowers)
3) Craft Room Challenge - Birthday
4) Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - Fairies
5) Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - #61 Something With Wings
6) Shopping Our Stash - #53 May Flowers
7) Ooh La La Creations - Make it Girly
8) Whoopsi Daisy - Fairy Magic
9) Stamp and Create - One for the Ladies
10) Deep Ocean Challenge - #26 Swirls

Bear & Birds singing Christmas Carols

A Christmas card in May!
I've used a stamp from "Ladybug and Friends" with a bear and two birds singing Christmas carols. The image is colored with watercolor pencils, and I've added glitter to the wings and to the red berries.
I've used two papers - a patterned one as backing paper and a plain blue one for the circle and the panel underneath the strip of lace, I've also used 8 blue rhinestones.

I enter this card into these challenges;
1)Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Tweet Christmas (Use Birds)
2) Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - #74 Christmas Foliage
3) Winter Wonderland – Sing a Song
4) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Pink & Girlie

I must admit I'm a bit out of my comfort zone when making girlie cards - and all in pink too!!! 
But I discovered this beautiful sketch and thought it would be a perfect starting point for the beautiful La La Land stamp I received as a gift from Kasey.
I have distressed the edges of the oval panels with Milled lavender colored ink. And I have also used lace and flowers.
 
I participate in these challenges with this card:
1) Sketch Saturday - SKETCH* #209
2) Send a Smile for Kids - Anything goes for kids
3) Delightful Challenges - 5 or more flowers
4) Truly Scrumptious - #81 Pretty in Pink
5) Everybody-Art-Challenge - #194 Laces & Shapes
6) Sweet Stamps - #66 Anything Goes
7) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Little Ghost shaped card

To make this card I enlarged a stamped image and cut it out to make my template.
I embossed the paper and drew a line of glitter glue along the edges. For the eyes I cut out two circles, added buttons and rhinestones.
It's not my greatest card, but I think the ghost ended up to be quite cute, and I think this card could be perfect for a little birthday boy.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Less Is More - #69 Not a Square
2) One Stop Craft - #184 For the Boys
3) Paper Crafting Journey - Anything for Kids
4) Just Keep on Creating - #2 Anything Goes
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

A glittery Wedding card with peel offs

This card is a combination of old and new stuff. 
The backing paper, the lace and pearls are left overs. 
The white paper is embossed using a new embossing folder.
The birds are peel offs and the sentiment is a rub on.
I have used a Martha Stewart punch around the edges.









I will participate in these challenges with this card:
1) Crafty Calendar - Things with Wings
2) Just Some Lines - Show us those Birds
3) Totally Gorjuss - #133 Something New (embossing folder)
4) Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday – Weddings
5) Simply Create Too - Wedding
6) Charisma Cardz - No flowers allowed
7) Do You Stack Up? - Birds
8) Southern Girls - Die-cut or punch
9) Creative Belli - #144 Wedding
10) Card Makin' Mamas - Punches

Little Cowboy - Monochromatic

I really enjoy making cards for boys and men, and this time I went for a monochromatic look.
I have used watercolor pencils to color this sweet Stampavie image. I have added a birthday sentiment in Norwegian and I have also used a stamp to make the banner.
I have tons of buttons - I have hoarded them for as long as I can remember - so I have added a few of those too.

I enter this card into these challenges:
1) Paper Crafting Journey - #10 Anything for Kids
2) Sassy Studio Designs - #126 Hats off to you
3) S J Papercrafts - All about the boy plus use something old from your stash (buttons)
4) Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - For the Boys
5) Allsorts challenge blog - #156 Happy Birthday to Someone Special
6) Fairy tale challengeblog - #41 Boys+Men
7) Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Anything goes
8) Poodles Parlour - Monochromatic
9) Penny's Paper-Crafty - #80 Anything goes
10) Stampin With The Dragon - Birthdays & Boys

The Man and the Sea

The kraft  paper has been torn to appear as sand. I printed a border from Birds Cards to make the waves. The clouds, the man and the birthday sentiment have been stamped.

 I enter this card into these challenges:
1) Twisted Tuesday - Vacation + Twist Keep It Simple
2) Lollipop Crafts - Make a Splash (water)
3) Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Summer holiday
4) Whoopsi Daisy - Shape It
5) Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - For the Boys
6) Phindy’s Place - Summer is Coming
7) Dutch Dare Card Challenges - #165 Shaped cards
8) Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything Goes
9) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

CAS new born Baby Boy

 

My favorite color combination is kraft and blue. That is the starting point for this card. I also wanted to make a clean and simple card, and I decided to go for a design with lots of empty space.
I have used a Martha Stewart punch to make the borders of the blue card, and I added a bit of pearly glimmer mist.
The teddy bear is colored in kraft paper and there's a bit of blue glitter blue on the ribbon around his neck.
The sentiment is stamped. The only embellishment is a blue ribbon bow and a star metal charm.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Less Is More - #68 a BABY or a CHILD
2) Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - #63 New Baby
3) Incy Wincy Designs - Kraft and 1 Other Colour
4) Charisma Cardz - Use metal charms
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Fairy silhouette

My first card in two weeks!
I have used only 2 colors - black and pink. The fairy is a digi stamp. The only embellishments are 3 pink roses. I have added glitter to the flowers and the fairy's wings.
The sentiment says "happy birthday" in Norwegian.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Joanna Sheen Challenge - Happy birthday
2) Paper Sundaes - Pretty in Pink
3) Robyn`s Fetish - Anything Goes
4) Crafty Calendar - Things with Wings
5) Crazy 4 Challenges - #C4C137 A Birthday Card
6) Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - Wonderful Wings
7) Fairy Tale - Things with Wings
8) Pattie's Creations - Recipe (flowers, glitter, sentiment)
9) Shelly's Images - Anything goes
10) Make it Monday - Anything Goes 

CAS Yellow Stars

I must admit that this week's LIM challenge - Yellow - has been a challenge! But then I started to think about what my favorite items and techniques are: kraft, stars and embossing. And there you go! I have used kraft, I have used my star dies and an embossing folder with quilted pattern!

I enter this card into the following challenges;
1) Less Is More - #66 Yellow
2) CAS-ual Fridays - CFC51 Birthday card
3) Inked Paws - Clean & simple
4) Paperminutes - #215 Stars

Onesie for a Baby Boy

I used a sketch from "Try Stamping on Tuesdays" as inspiration for this design. I am hooked on kraft paper at the moment, so I created my background with embossed kraft. The onesie is cut out manually, and I added a rubon to it. I used 2 different DPs, light blue ribbon and a little tag, which has also been embossed.
















I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Try Stamping On Tuesdays - SKETCH*- #64
2) Cute Card Thursday - For the boys
3) My Mum's Craft shop - #55 embossing
4) Craft Room Challenge - Emboss It
5) Crafty Cardmakers - For the Boys

Twas the Night before Christmas...

The sun is shining outside and I think we're going to a have a fantastic spring day here in Oslo. That didn't stop the urge to make a Christmas card :)
I think this Northstar stamp is my favorite Christmas stamp! That cute little boy in his pyjamas, hanging up his stocking in anticipation of a visit from Santa!
My choice of colors comes from the inspirational photo at Winter Wonderland - that image is such a great one!
I have used purple spotted paper and the paper with sentiment I have printed. I have used some glittery stickers on each side of the card, a sticker star and I have tied a a bow with silvery pearls. I added glitter glue around the ovals - these are cut out using dies.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Winter Wonderland - Photo Inspiration
2) Christmas Cards All Year 'Round - Christmas Carol (Twas the night before Christmas)
3) Christmas Crafting - Twas the night before Christmas
4) Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Glittery
5) Craft Us Crazy - Favourite stamp company and/or found inspiration

CAS Yellow Flower on Kraft

The image is a freebie from Anji's Antics and I thoght it would be great for the color challenge at Less Is More - #66 Yellow.

I added a punched paper with yellow ribbon, a little bit of glitter and a rub-on sentiment. I used kraftpaper for the card base.

Girl with flowers

I have used a rubber stamp from "Bildmålarna".
The kraft paper has been embossed with cherry blossom-pattern, and the pattern has been distressed with purple ink.
I have used pink ribbon to make a frame around the kraft paper, and then I have decorated with white, pink and purple flowers.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge – Ribbons
2) Crop Stop - Embossing
3) Inspired by Stamping - Kraft, pink, purple - photo inspiration
4) Pixie Dust Studio - Flowers
5) Paper Pretties - Flowers
6) Anything Goes Challenge - #66 Things With Wings
7) Craft Room Challenge - Emboss It
8) Sassy Cheryl's - #113 May Flowers
9) Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes

Summer scene

I created this summer scene with a digi from Shelly's Images  and a rubber stamp from Stamping Bella.
I manually trimmed a design paper with sand and shells and kraft paper to make a frame around my image. I have not used any embellishments, other than the 3 letter stickers to form the sentiment.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Shelly's Images - No punches or die cuts
2) Moving Along With The Times - Summer sunshine
3) Can You Digi It - #8 Sunset & Sunrise Inspirational Photo
4) LEJ Designs - #1 Anything Goes
5) Creative Mondays - Anything Goes
7) Make it Monday - Anything Goes
8) The Crazy Challenge - Summer/Beach
9) Mo's Digital Challenge Blog - Anything Goes


 

Wild Wild West

I have used a sketch from "Crafting when we can" as inspiration for my design. I used stars instead of circles, otherwise I kept close to the sketch.
The Core'dinations paper has been sanded, the stars are cut out using dies, the ticket with sentiment is stamped. The cowboy is a digi from Digital Delights, and the cactus is printed from WordArt as I don't have any cactus stamps and I did want to add some color to my design.



I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Crafting When We Can - #17 Sketch time
2) Fab 'n' Funky - #119 celebrate maleness
3) Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge - One for the Boys
4) Kaboodle Doodles - Add some Dimension
5) LEJ Designs - #1 Anything Goes

Très chic Gift Bag

I downloaded a digi from this webpage: Free Vintage Digistamps. You can find some really awesome digis there!
I used Distress Ink color Old Paper to give the image and doily a faded look.
The swirls I stamped, then I added liquid pearls color Platinum.
I added black ribbons at the top and bottom of my card base. I made a bow on which I attached a little Eiffel Tower metal charm. I also added a metal flower and a handmade one with a brad.
The sentiment and the postage stamps are rub-ons.

 I enter this gift bag into the following challenges:
1) Make it Monday - Anything Goes
2) Tammy Scrapin Corner - Anything Goes
3) Come and Get It Challenges - Anything But a Card
4) Dream Valley Challenges - For a Special Lady
5) Paper Sundaes - Ribbon and Pearls
6) Delicious Doodles - BINGO (flowers+pearls+brads)
7) Polka Doodles – Shabby Chic / Vintage
8) Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes
9) Paper Crafting Journey - Vintage
10) Creative Craft Challenges - Anything Goes

CAS Tree branch with flowers and dragonfly

I have used a Memory Box die to cut out the tree branch from kraft paper.

The flowers are handmade. I tore the paper as I didn't want them to look too neat.

The dragonfly is cut out of a design paper, and I have added some Star Dust glitter glue to its wings and in the middle of the flowers.

The sentiment I made on my computer and printed it. 

Except for the white card base I have only used scrap papers. Feels good to make use of those scraps from time to time too.

A clean and simple card with pastel colors!

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Shelly's Images - Pastels, kraft & flowers
2) CAS-ual Fridays - Flowers / Trees
3) Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday – Rolled Paper
4) 4 Crafty Chicks - No stamping

YIHA!

I've had this Core'dinations paper for a while, but I didn't feel I had any stamps or images to use with it. I won a challenge at "Cards for Men" and the gift was digis from Digital Delights by Louby Loo, and one of my picks was this cowboy silhoutte. This is the first time I use a digi, and to use it I had to invest in a printer first (yippee - a printer is so great to have when papercrafting!).
I used a ticket stamp with greeting for the sentiment, and I have used dies to cut out the stars - using scrap papers only. The Core'dinations paper has been sanded to bring out the star pattern, and I have also sanded along the edges to give a distressed look. The kraft paper stars have been distressed with brown ink.

I think the theme is perfect for a boy - what little boy has never played cowboys and the Wild West, even dreamt of being a cowboy himself....
This was a really fun card to make!









I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Here Come The Boys - #26 Hobbies (playing Cowboys in the Wild West)
2) Sentimental Sundays - #100 Cards for Kids
3) Craft Your Days Away - #44 Just for Children
4) Send a Smile for Kids - For the Boys
5) Truly Scrumptious - #79 Distressing + diecuts/punches
6) Crafty Sentiments - For A Child
7) Cards For Men - Texture
8) Digi Makeover Challenge - Birthday
9) That Craft Place Challenge Blog - One for the Boys

CAS Birds and Clouds

I used a sketch from "Less is More" Challenge Blog as inspiration for the layout.

I wanted to go with gray and white colors only. The ink's color is called "London Fog".
To give the card just a tiny bit of sparkle I added Star Dust Stickles to the birds' wings.

I have used stamps for the birds, clouds and sentiment, the fence is cut out using a die.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Less Is More - #65 Sketch
2) Crop Stop - Birds
3) Inked Paws - Clean & simple
4) Fab 'n' Funky - #118 no DP
5) Paper Pretties -PPC203 clean and simple

Enjoying life!

I think this Stamping Bella stamp is so fun and just perfect for a card for summer!
I have colored the stamped image using watercolor pencils.
I chose papers in bright, happy colors, mainly pinks and yellows.
I have used a polka dot embossing folder on the sides, and I even embossed the yellow flowers that I cut out using dies.
I tried stitching for the first time on a card! I used a dark pink thread, and to add some more yellow I used yellow ribbon.












I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Raise The Bar – Flowers / Tropical Images / Paradise
2) Glitter Geeks - Stitches
3) Fairy Fun Fridays - Anything with Flowers
4) Totally Papercrafts – Colour Challenge
5) Craft Room Challenge - Ink It
6) Ribbon Carousel Challenge - #50 Anything Goes
7) Creative Mondays - Yellow and Sunshine
8) Make it Monday - Anything Goes
9) Our Creative Corner - A Recipe for Mother's Day Challenge

CAS White&Gold

For this card I have only used white and gold paper. I used a die to cut out the border at the bottom of the card. I printed the text and added only a little charm with ribbon as I wanted the card to be clean and simple.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Less Is More - #64 How Charming
2) Fussy and Fancy - Punches / Dies
3) Shelly's Images - Anything Goes
4) Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - To Die For
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

X-mas Card Red&White with stamp "Mimosa Snowflake"

I got this stamp from "Bildmålarna" yesterday, and I just had to use it straight away.

I have used two Sizzix embossing folders, one with snowflakes and one with dots.

I have also used two different dies, the oval and the label on which the sentiment is stamped. Both dies are from x-Cut.

I have added Diamond glitter glue around the embossed background, around the ovals, on the snowflake in the girl's hand and on the sentiment.

Red and white paper and 2 red buttons- that's it!






I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Shopping Our Stash - #48 April Showers Rain Or Snow Or anything water related! (snow)
2) Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - #69 Lots of Layers
3) Bearly Mine - #31 Embossing
4) CES Challenges - #82 Button it
5) Fussy and Fancy - Punches/Dies (dies)
6) 52 Christmas Throwdown - Snowflakes
7) Glitter Geeks - Red and White
8) Polka Doodles - Red and White
9) Stampin' For The Weekend - Sparkle and Shine (Diamond glitter glue)
10) Moving Along With The Times - Merry Christmas

Liebster Award

Skye at ...blue sky nominated my blog for a Liebster Award: "This award is given to up-and-coming bloggers who inspire you and have less than 200 followers. The Liebster award takes its name from the German word meaning "Beloved, Dearest or Favourite"".


Once nominated, you then:
- Acknowledge the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them
- Give the award to 5 other bloggers, who have less than 200 followers and let them know through a comment on their blog
- Post the award on your blog

My nominations:
Gunn at MsPlums Place
Kasey at Paisley Wings & Crafty Things
Birgit at Cards R Fun
Lin Monika at LinM's scrappekrok
Meighan at Stampin with Meighan

Sketch -blues, whites and browns

My inspiration for this card I got from a sketch at Frosted Designs. I am sure that I will use this sketch  several times in the future!

I wasn't planning to go for a vintage style when I started out, I meant to keep the card rather clean, and I think I ended up with a result somewhere in between...

I have used three different design papers, flowers, lace, ribbon and a metal butterfly. The image is cut out from a design paper, the text is stamped.




I enter his card into the following challenges:
1) Frosted Designs -Sketch #16
2) Crafts and Me - #80 Vintage
3) Prairie Fairy Fridays - #77 Anything with Flowers
4) Paper Pretties - Card for Girls
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes
6) Whoopsi Daisy - Anything Goes
7) Paper Sundaes - Anything Goes
8) Craft Your Days Away - #42 Metal
9) Shelly's Images - Anything goes

Candle Holder - Recycled Jam Jar

I read somewhere that Norwegians burn over 200 million tea lights a year. Apparently this means that we have the highest use pr inhabitant in the world, with approx 40 pr person! Must be due to our long and dark winters...
Anyway, I tend to keep empty glass jars - I clean them and remove the labels, and then I make my own candle holders. Before I started making cards, and really got into paper craft, I used to decorate them with decoupage, using paper napkins, or stickers.
In general I decorate the top and bottom of the jar to let the lights shine through.

For this jar I have used: lace,  ribbon, paper flowers, rub-ons (butterfly and birds) and a die-cut swirl.
For the choice of colors I got my inspiration from challenge #26 at The Ribbon Reel.



I know I might be disqualified for some challenges (though I think most accept "projects" and not only cards), but I just wanted to share an idea based on recycling. It's also an activity which is great to do with kids, let them decorate the empty jars with whatever they want (they will surely come up with great ideas themselves!).

I enter this candle holder into the following challenges:
1) The Ribbon Reel Challenge Blog - #26 Going Green
2) Make it Monday - Anything Goes
3) Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Anything Goes
4) Ditzy Craftymess - Anything but a Card
5) Just Keep on Creating - #1 Anything Goes
6) I Brake for Challenges - Anything but a Card
7) Do More with Less  - Recycling with Sonia Suprabha Venugopal

Christmas Door with Gingham

I love this stamp from Papermania - I think it's really Chritmas-y.
I started this card with my stamped image, and I decided to go with papers that would pick up the reds and greens from the image.
I used plaid design paper in red&white and green paper for the pine branches.
I have a lot of buttons, so I decided to add a bit of colors to the branches with those, and I also used a bit of white lace.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Christmas Crafting - #10 Gingham
2) The Crafty Pad - #166 Bounty of Buttons
3) Crazy 4 Challenges - #C4C132 Using Buttons
4) Use It Tuesdays - Anything Goes (hoarded supply: buttons)
5) Anything Goes Challenge - #64 Anything goes

Christmas in grey and pink

I just love this paper with trees in different shades of pink on a grey background. I think it's a nice variation from the more traditional Christmas colors.
I wanted to keep the background neutral so I just embossed the white paper.
Tilda has been colored in different shades of pink to match the design paper. 
I wanted to keep the card rather simple, with few embellishments, so I have only added white twine and a tree charm, which I think suits the theme of the design paper. The sentiment is stamped on grey paper.







 
I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Winter Wonderland - Pretty in Pink
2) Sparkles Christmas Challenge - #15 Colour Me Happy
3) Divas by design - #30 Charmed
4) Polka Doodles - Pink
5) Bunny Zoe's Crafts - #23 Ribbon or Twine
6) Hiding in My Craft Room - HIMCR42 - Super Scraps Saturday
7) Sassy Cheryl's - #110 Anything Goes
8) Top Tip Tuesday - #74 Spotty, Dotty
9) Christmas Card Challenges - #20 Twine

Card with fairy - Black, White & Red

For this card I have used 3 colors - black, white and red. I have added lace, red roses and and a rub-on text.The dotted paper is distressed, the black oval is cut out with a Spellbinders die.
I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Pile It On -#15 All About S... (spots)
2) Crafty Purple Frog - #38 Let's get distressed
3) Paper Play - Things with Wings
4) Flutterby Wednesdays - #198 birthday card
5) Fairy Fun Fridays - Anything Goes
6) Twisted Tuesday - I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
7) Crafting When We Can - Things with Wings
8) Robyn`s Fetish - #102 Anything Goes
9) The Squirrel & the Fox - #15 Things with Wings
10) Crafts and Me - We are going 3-D

CAS Christmas Tree - 3 shades of green

OK. First of all, green is not my favorite color. Second, I love CAS cards but it's not something I master. Third, it's impossible for me to take a good picture that really shows the true colors whenever greens are involved...
But still, I couldn't resist to have a go at the "Less is more" challenge! If one never tries, well... So I look at this card challenge as a good learning experience!
The tree is made of papers in 2 different shades of green. I used a die and glued the strips together before I cut a triangular shape. The ribbon is also in a shade of green, I used a dotty embossing folder to make the background appear as snow. The star at the top of the tree is a brad.


I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) "Less is More"  - Week 62 Three Shades of Green
2) Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge - #67 White Christmas
3) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Gift Bag - Black, White and Kraft with Feathers and Hairpin

For this gift bag I have used kraft paper, black paper, 2 design papers, rub-ons, lace, feathers and a hairpin. I have used Spellbinders dies.
I enter this gift bag into the following challenges:

1) Gingerloft - Anything but a Card
2) Paper Sundaes - # 115 Sundae Bar (Kraft, Lace, Die Cuts)
3) The Crafty Pad - #165 Just Die-delicious
4) Just Keep on Creating - #1 Anything Goes
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes
6) I Brake for Challenges - Anything but a Card
7) Oozak - Anything Goes
8) Anything Goes Challenge - #64 Anything goes
9) Craft Room Challenge - Music
10) Creative Craft Challenges - Anything But A Card

Monochromatic Stepper Card with Butterfly Hair Pin

This stepper card is made in different shades of browns. The bird in the the tree and the birdcage are stamped images, the tree and fence is cut out using dies. I have added a bronzed butterfly hair pin, some flowers and lace.












1) Paper Sundaes - # 115 Sundae Bar (Kraft, Lace, Die Cuts)
2) Robyn`s Fetish - #102 Anything Goes
3) The Crafty Pad - #165 Just Die-delicious
4) The Squirrel & the Fox - #15 Things with Wings
5) Fairy Fun Fridays - Anything Goes
6) Flutterby Wednesdays - #197 open
7) Just Keep on Creating - #1 Anything Goes
8) Paper Pretties - Monochromatic
9) Bling It On - Monochrome
10) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

CAS Angel Girl sitting on a Cloud

I have used a Magnolia stamp, colored with green and pink. The background papers are cream and  purple. The text is stamped with purple ink. The edges of the cloud and the angel's wings are decorated with glitter glue.

 I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) "Less is More"  - Week 61 Lucky Dip/Picture Inspiration
2) Crafting When We Can - #15 Things With Wings 
3) Hiding in My Craft Room - #40 Freestyle
4) Penny Black and More - Oh so Cute
5) Whimsy Inspiration - #32 no patterned paper

Heart-shaped male easel card

I have used a Kenny K stamp. In my opinion this Showgirl is rather fun and elegant, and the perfect image for a male card.
I have limited the colors to black, white and red, and the only embellishment is a black handmade paper flower with a red brad and white ribbon.


I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) CES Challenges - #79 No Girls Allowed
2) Crafty Ribbons - Black & White with one other colour
3) Karens Doodles - Make it for a Male
4) Love to Create - Masculine
5) Hotshot Craft blog - #6 Red
6) Saturday Challenge - #179 A shaped card
7) Fussy and Fancy - Anything but a Square/Rectangle
8) My Mum's Craft shop - #50 Stamp It

Baby Girl Angel sitting on a Cloud

I just got this really cute Magnolia stamp and I thought it would be perfect for a baby themed card.
I have only used pinks and white, apart from the rub on text. I have used a lot of glitter glue, around the edges of the cloud and on the angel's wings, the lace on her shoes and on the ribbons in her hair.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Ditzy Craftymess - #5 Baby theme OR Anything Goes
2) Inspire Me Fridays - Anything goes
3) Poodles Parlour - Spots & Dots
4) Stampin' For The Weekend - Anything Goes
5) Crafty Purple Frog - Anything goes
6) Little Red Wagon - #126 clouds
7) Paper Pretties - Bling
8) Craft Room Challenge - Bling & Glitter/Sparkle
9) Shopping Our Stash - #45 Circles Or Dots
10) Shelly's Images - Show Us Your Stripes!

Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe

The inspiration for this card was chocolate cupcakes, so I have only used browns and beige.
The recipe I found on the web, and I moderated in Word. The recipe is not glued to the card, so it can actually be used!
The stamps I've used was a free gift that came with a magazine I bought.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) The Crafty Pad - #163 Sketch
2) Pollycraft - #133 mmmmm Choclit
3) Divas by Design - #28 use a stamp
4) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Card for Baby Girl

I have used different design papers from KaiserCraft and stickers on this card.
I wanted to keep it rather simple, with a clean design, so I cut out 6 squares and used some buttons, rhinestones and a bows embellishments.

I enter this card into the following challenges:
1) Frosted Designs - Grids
2) Creative Mondays - Anything Goes
3) Make it Monday - Anything Goes
4) Lollipop Crafts - Anything goes
5) Totally Gorjuss - #124 Spots and Stripes
6) Card Makin' Mamas - Buttons

Gift bag - Pink&Orange

For this gift bag I had the challenge at Shelly's Images - Kraft, Pink, Orange and Embossing - in mind. It indeed turned out to be a challenge!
I cut out a bird, free hand, and embossed it. I used pink and orange feathers for its tail. Than I added different embellishments and details in the same colors.
I'm not convinced that the combination of orange and pink will ever by a favorite of mine, but considering how I struggled to piece this together, I'm quite satisfied with the result.
And I love challenges that force you to try something new!

I enter this gift bag into the following challenges:
1) Shelly's Images - Kraft, Pink & Orange + Use Embossing
2) Crafty Catz - Spring
3) Fairy Fun Fridays - Spring
4) Creative Mondays - Anything Goes
5) Incy Wincy Designs - #137 Things with Wings