Bingo + Christmas

I have made this card for this week's challenge over at Catch the Bug - it's bingo week - my choice was top horizontal row.


The image is Snow friends, colored with red and grey Promarkers, blue DI and glitter, glue and embossing, were used. Dynamo and die cut sentiment, seambinding ribbon with a little metal bell attached. Paper from Tim Holtz.

This card is also for:
Aud Sentiments Challenge - #215 Ribons & Bows +A Sentiment
C.R.A.F.T. W,5E #491 Christmas
Addicted to Stamps and More - #318 Holiday

Inkspirational DT card and wreaths for Twofer Card challenge

Today I have two cards to share for the Twofer Card challenge #11 where the theme is `wreath`. For both cards I used a wreath die from Hero Arts. 

Card #1) Inkspirational DT card - Magic
My first card is my DT inspiration card for Inkspirational - our theme is "magic". Polar bears and sentiment from Lawn Fawn, paper from Tmm Holtz and die cut snowflakes and sentiment.
Please head over to the Inkspirational blog to see what the rest of the crew have made.
This card is also for:
Cutie Pie Challenge - #129 WINTER LAYERS
Moving along with the Times - #84 Winter Animals
Fab 'n' Funky - #416 Include an Animal

 

Card #2) Autumnal birthday card  
Here I used the Hero Arts wreath and dies from Tim Holtz,
This card is also for:
Crafty Cardmakers - #222 LOTS OF LAYERS
Crafting By Designs - Give Thanks/Autumn Colors
Crafty Creations - Always Anything Goes
Die Cuttin' Divas - #395 Birthday 

Three snowmen in pink, blue and green

Thursday is "Oldie but Goodie" day over at Catch the Bug, and this is my DT card featuring Three snowmen, colored with Promarkers in colors inspired by the challenge over at 52CCT.

I mounted the image on top a heat emossed and inked panel, added a die ct border ribbon and a metal charm. 

This card is also for:
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Color Challenge
Sparkles Christmas Challenge - #95 Embossing
Addicted to Stamps - #168 Ribbon

Blue and white Christmas card

My card today features two cozied up polar bears from Lawn Fawn. I fussy cut them and paper pieced their scarf from a left over piece of Lawn Fawn paper. I stamped the trees on another scrap piece and added glitter glue.
I used blue and black DIs for the background, heat embossed the sentiment and added two die cut snowflakes and a die cut frame.

This card is for:
Christmas with the Cuties - #21 WRAP UP WARM
Crafty Calendar - Paper Piecing

Bear chef

I have made this card for this week's challenge over at Catch the Bug - the theme is 'something  yummy'.
 I used a little bear chef, colored with Promarkers and fussy cut. I made my layers with papers from Tim Holtz and an embossed paper.
I added a Christmas greeting and ribbon.




This card is also for:
Back To Basics - #15 Sketch
Send a Smile for Kids - Happy Holidays / Anything Goes 4 Kids
Crafter's Cafe - #207 Male

My fourth Christmas gift tag this year

I've made this tag for Catch the Bug's Anything But a card Monday post.

Each year I set myself the goal of making all the Christmas gift tags. Maybe this will be the year I will actually reach my goal?

This is the fourth gift tag I’ve made so far, featuring a snowman from Bugaboo, placed onto a stenciled background using a Memory Box stencil, blue DI and a brush. I also stamped a Christmas greeting and added ribbon and twine.

This tag is also for:
Craftaholics R Us - Tags Only
Craft Rocket Challenges - #54 Christmas Is Coming
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog - #4 Anything Goes

Inkspirational, photo challenge

We have a new challenge for you over at Inkspirational and this time the challenge is to take inspiration from the photo.
I was inspired by the colors. I used a never before inked flower stamp with kraft colored ink and I sponged the flowers with orange DI. I also used a brush and blue DI fo the backgound. The flower centres got liquid gold pearls and I stamped a greeting using the same ink as for the flowers. I placed the panel onto a DP from Loawn Fawn, I slit a little pocket for the bottom left corner.

Please come over to the Inkspirational blog to see what the rest of the crew have made.

This card is also for:
Addicted to Stamps and More - #316 Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - #436 - ANYTHING GOES W/OPTIONAL TWIST MUST HAVE A SENTIMENT
Seize The Birthday - Birthday + Option Of: Foliage

Feminine Christmas card

I made this card with a Hunkydory topper which came free with a magazine a while back.
The topper being quite large I just added a die cut frame of red glitter card stock, using a Lawn Fawn die.
I also I added a heat embossed greeting on vellum, three die cut snowflakes with a pearl on each. This was a really quick make.


This card is for:
Allsorts - #491 Pearls and/or Gems
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - #409 Anything Christmas Goes - optional theme: For Someone Special
Daring Cardmakers - GO GLITTER
Fab 'n' Funky - #413 Christmas

Autumn Fox

I have made this card for this week's color challenge over at Catch the Bug - I loved the colors in the photo.

I used the image For Fox Sake,  colored with Promarkers. The DP is Kaisercaft, wooden printed, and I had a left over piece of orange corrugated paper in my stash and raffia. The leaves are Lawn Fawn die cuts and I dipped them in a DI and water mix. 


This card is also for:
Addicted to Stamps - #167 Autumn Colours
Creative With Stamps Challenge - #31 Halloween or Leaves
Sweet Stampers - #25 Autumn or Halloween

Chihuahua

Thursday is "Oldie bt Goodie" day over at Catch the Bug, and this is my DT card featuring one of the sweet dogs from the Chihuahua Puppy set. It's colored with Promarkers and fussy cut.

The papers are from Kaisercaft, so even the tag with the birthday greeting. I used stitched dies for the papers and I added white ribbon and gold string and a attached a gold heart charm.

This card is also for:
Sweet Stampin - Chevrons and Stripes
I love Promarkers - #368 Anything Goes/Option of Birthday
Southern Girls - #195 Animals

Inkspirational, use vellum

We have a new challenge for you over at Inkspirational and this time the challenge is to use vellum.

There are lots of ways to use vellum. I usually use vellum for adding sentiments, but this time I went with a shaker design. To avoid any spots of glue showing I chose to stitch my vellum in place after having added sequins for snow. 
The reindeer are stamped and I used a half circle snowflake border die and a stitched die to frame in the scene.

This card is also for:
Simply Create Too - #143 MAKE A SHAKER CARD
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - #38 Anything Christmas Goes
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog - #3 Anything Goes

3 tags

Each year I set myself the goal of making all the Christmas gift tags. So far this goal has not yet been achieved.
Trying again this year by making them in batches. Here are three with Stocking Santa Star, made for Catch the Bug's Anthing But a card Monday post.
They are all colored a bit differently and with different colored sparkle and backgrounds.

These tags are also for:
Allsorts - #489 Christmas
Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Santa, Elf, or Fairy
C.R.A.F.T. - #486 Christmas
Addicted to Stamps and More - #313 Holidays 

CTB Sketch #617 - Reindeer

The weeks pass so quickly, it's already time for another sketch challenge over at Catch the Bug and this is my take on it. 


The image is Chibi reindeer, colored with Promarkers, and the DP is Lawn Fawn. I used several brands of dies. As a final touch I added fantage for snow.

This card is also for:
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes Christmas
I love Promarkers - #368 Anything Goes/Option of 3 of a Kind
Passion For Promarkers Challenge - #465 Animals
Sparkles Forum Christmas - #93 Christmas is for Kids
Christmas with the Cuties - #20 FOR A CHILD

Chrismas card with golden reindeer

Seeing the sketch over at 52CCT this design idea came to mind.
I bought this reindeer die from Marianne last weekend, so I die cut one in gold paper and popped it onto a circle and added sequins to mimic the sketch.
The DPs are from a  Kaiserkraft pad with lovely blue and gold papers.
The merry die is from Tim Holtz and I used my Dymo again.
Since there's no staping and coloring involved and I knew what to make this was a ver quick card indeed.


This card is for:
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Sketch
ABC Christmas Challenge - U for Upon/V for Very Quick
Winter Wonderland - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES 
2 Crafty Critter Crazies - #19 Anything Goes with a Critter

Inkspirational - Comfort

Wohooo! I'm now a DT member of Inkspirational! This is my first challenge and the theme is Comfort.


I chose to use my new stamp set from Concord&9th and colored inks, I die cut a frame and added a paper strip of a Lawn Fawn DP

This card is also for:
Alphabet Challenge - N is for Nature

Spotlight techniqe and Freebie Friday

Happy Friday! I'm here to show you my card featuring the Freebie Friday -  you can pick it up at no cost in the Bugaboo store.
I printed the image in large size and hadn't really pre-planned what to do with it. Then came the idea to try the technique spotlight stamping, I’ve never tried it before although it’s not a new one for many of you.
I just added a sentiment and drew lines around the borders. It was a really quick and easy card and I do like the spotlight effect - I will use this technique again.

This card is also for:
Pile It On - Think Big and/or One-Layer Card
Cardz 4 Galz - #81 What's New
Crafting With An Attitude - Anything Goes

GDT at Fussy&Fancy - Fall Bingo card

I won a guest designer spot over at Fussy and Fancy Challenge, and this is my card. The challenge is a fall bingo board and I chose the row of  bow cheesecloth, red, string and kraft.

I started adding lots of layers of red, kraft and brown DP,  a combo of panels and die cut frames. Then I added the image from a DP and tucked cheesecloth and die cut leaves underneath it. I used string to attach the tag with the stamped birthday greeting.


This card is also for:
Cardz 4 Guyz  - #204 Autumn/ Fall Leaves
Allsorts - #487 Atumn Glory
Die Cut Divas - Autumn and Halloween
Crafty Gals Corner - #175 Fall

Two puppies and sketch

There’s a new sketch challenge over at Catch the Bug and this is my take on it. 

The images are from Birthday puppies set, colored with Promarkers, and the DP is Lawn Fawn.  I also used a die and my Dymo to make the birthday sentiment in Norwegian.

This card is also for:
Through the Purple Haze - Bright Colours
Addicted to Stamps and More - #311 Anything Goes
Sweet Stampers - #24 Bright Colors

Stella witch

Tuesday is "New release day" over at Catch the Bug, and this is my DT card.

I usally don't ake (m)any Halloween card, but witch Stella could be used for other themes as well. But this time I chose to go with Halloween colors with papers from Lawn Fawn and a sentiment from MHKDesign.
I thoght the cheese cloth could sort of serve as cobweb.

This card is also for:
Creative Knockouts - #264 2 Or More Pattern Papers
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper

One Layer Card with Flowers

Today I've got a floral one layer design to share. I've been away for a good week, I usually have trouble finding mojo after a break, but I was inspired by the layout, colors and bold title on the book cover at the Library Challenge, so I got to work and had fun.

I used rose stamps from a Dina Wakley set. To add color I sponged with yellow, pink and green DI. I also added some blue arond the image to accentuate it. As a final touch I used a small script stamp and coordinated the colors with those of the flowers.


This card is for:
Less Is More - #380 OLC Florals
The Library Challenge - Oscar
Penny Black and More - Feminine

Sheep and balloons

I have made this card for this week's challenge over at Catch the Bug - it's photo week - I was inspired by the colors.

I used a Bobblehead sheep (not yet in store) and balloons, colored with Promarkers. I've used stitched dies from three different sets, for the background, the frame and the tag. Kraft paper, a strip of Tim Holtz DP and white twine.
My sister has three young boys so she seems to be in constant need of birthday cards for young ones and I think this one could work for either a boy or a girl.

This card is also for: 
Simply Create Too - #142 USE STITCHING (REAL OR FAUX)
Crafty Gals Corner - #174 3 or More Layers
I love Promarkers - #368 Anything Goes/Option of Animal

Fox and sketch

There’s a new sketch challenge over at Catch the Bug and this is my take on it.

I used a paper printed on both sides with fall colors and a leftover piece of orange paper with spots. The image is colored with Promarkers and sky is stenciled with blue DI. I used several stitched dies from MFT and MB, as well as a scalloped one from Spellbinders I think. I stamped athinking of you sentiment.

This card is also for:
Aud Sentiments Challenge - #212 Fall + A Sentiment
Cardz 4 Galz - #80 Thoughts Of Fall
Cute Card Thursday - #547 Dies & Punches

Bingo time

I have made this card for this week's challenge over at Catch the Bug - it's bingo week - my choice was the bottom row: sentiment + sparkle + Bugaboo image

I used Winter Birds - Skate, colored mainly with blue and grey Promarkers as I wanted it to match this beautiful DP from a Kaiserkraft paperpad. I cut the middle with a MFT stitched die and placed the cut back in. Gold mirri paper used for the panels, there's glitter and I even remembered to add some ribbon before it was too late. My sentiment is a combo of Dymo + a Tim Holtz die.

This card is also for:
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog - #2 Anything Goes
Sparkles Forum Christmas - #92 Blue and Gold

Autumn and bear

OK, so the weather changes from cold to hot on the same day, my nose is running, I'm sneeezing, it's raining outside - fall is on its way. So my card today is inspired by that 'in between' period and the theme of bear.
The image was a freebie one, a few years ago, colored with Promarkers. There's lots of texture with hessian paper, corrugated paper and string. I added a few flowers and glitter enamel dots.
I also want to say congrats to Mervi, she's celebrating her 10th blogaversary - well done!

This card is for:
Allsorts - #484 Bears
Brown Sugar – #282 All creatures great and small
The Library Challenge - #15 Winnie the Pooh
Mervis's 10th blogaversary Challenge - Birthday

Bird

I've made another Christmas card, this time using no stamps.
The bird image is cut out from a DP and I placed it in top of a leftover piece from a Tim Holtz DP.
I like using kraft paper and for the background I gave it a whitewash with gesso and I used a striped embossing folder.
Die cut greeneries, string and a fabric sentiment sticthed in place.


This card is for:
The Library Challenge - #14 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Allsorts - #483 Things with Wings
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - #35 Anything Christmas Goes

Wildlife

Wednesday is "Humour me" day over at Catch the Bug, and this is my DT card for "National Wildlife Day".

I did something I usually don't do - I made something different than an A2 size card. This is a stepper card and it was easy to make as I have a die for this.
I had fun using different dies to make the scene and I chose a patterned bluish paper for the sky.  The sentiment is a birthday greeting in Norwegian.

This card is also for:
Papercraft Challenges - #19 Animals
Crafty Cardmakers - #217 ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

Stella Says Sketch #614 - Christmas reindeer

There’s a new sketch challenge over at Catch the Bug and this is my take on it.

The image Reindeer Christmas Goodies is so detailed so I figured it would work fine with a simple sketch like this. The image is colored with Promarkers.
I added three paper strips leftovers from Tim Holtz papers and three die cut snowflakes.
I also used two of my favorite stitched dies from MFT.

This card is also for:
My Time to Craft - #378 Christmas in August
Crafter's Cafe - #203 3 of something (snowflakes and patterned papers)
The Merry Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas goes
I love Promarkers - #364 Anything Goes/Option of Die or Punch