Inkspired by Paris!

This card came together over several days. Originally I had paper pieced this girl (digi from La La Land) for another card but changed my mind. Her beret reminded me of France, so I decided to go for a French theme.
The Eiffel Tower die was part of a Spellbinders die set I bought just recently, but I didn't buy the set for the tower specifically.
The brown DP has Paris post marks - a lucky coincidence!
I added 3 brown flowers and punched kraft butterflies.
I often struggle to decide upon a sentiment, but in this case I wanted to add the tickets with "To" and "From", as they can relate to both travel origin and destination or to names of the receiver and giver.







This card is for these challenges:
1) Inkspirational - Anything Inkspirational Goes  (inspired by Paris)
2) Inky Impressions - #95 Bingo (Flowers+Kraft+Die/Punch)
3) A Gem of a Challenge - #64 Holidays (Paris - a great weekend destination!)
4) Die Cuttin' Divas - #100 Anything Goes
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Blue and White Vintage Card

I started out making the background according to the Sweet Stop Sketch. Went for blue DPs as I rarely use blue (New Year's Resolution - try something new). Felt it lacked something, so added stitching (love stitching). Then it got tougher... I can spend hours and hours on one card! I paper pieced an image - changed my mind. Heat embossed a male silhouette image - changed my mind again. An hour of thinking - went for vintage. What image should I use... Another hour of thinking. Went for an angel with wings. OK so now for embellishments. I won't tell you that story, but ended up with cheese cloth (love playing with that stuff!), die cut elements of kraft (another favorite of mine), using a new set of Spellbinders dies and a butterfly punch, 3 flowers and some pearls. Phew!!!

This card is for these challenges:
1) Sweet Stop - SKETCH #195
2) Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge -Tic Tac Toe (Blue+Circle+Flowers)
3) My Time to Craft - #206 Things with Wings
4) Southern Girls - #61 Get Krafty
5) Crafts and Me - #117 Vintage
6) LEJ Designs - #37 Stitching Real Or Faux 
7) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Inkspirational sketch and other inspirational sources

I was away on travel this week and I came across a great crafting shop. I purchased lots of new stuff included on this card: DPs from Maja Design and My Mind's Eye, cheese cloth, butterfly punch, and a Spellbinders die from the "Fancy Framed Tags One" set. And today I could sit sown and play with my new toys!
The stamp is from the Film Strip Sentiments from Whimsy Stamps that I've had for a little while. I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder. I've also used some black distress ink for the edges of the papers.
This card kind of evolved during the making process, and it turned out quite different from what I had in mind originally.

My tip:
I usually decorate the inside of my card as well, but I seldom take a picture of it. I've done it this time, as I wanted to share my tip with you. Card making can be quite an expensive hobby, so I try and make the most of my papers. For this card, the first layer is made with the floral paper. I cut out a square from the middle - this square I keep for the inside of my card. From the second layer I cut out a circle. It's a great way to try and be economic, avoid the card being too heavy and at the same time make the inside of your card!

I love to look at all the different blogs out there to get inspiration for my cards. For this card I had the Inkspirational sketch in mind. I also wanted to make a card with layers + I love to add some some stitching around the edges + I needed to make a birthday card. So this card is for these challenges:
1) Inkspirational - #4 Sketch
2) Top Tip Tuesday - #94 Lavishly Luscious Layers
3) Try It On Tuesday - Let's Get Stitchy Real Or Faux
4) ABC Challenges - Birthday Cards
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Paper Pieced Owls in the Wood

I've picked inspiration from several challenge blogs for this card.
When I saw the sketch over at Feeling Sketchy, I knew I wanted to use my Darice wood grain embossing folder! I used white paper and added a little bit of brown ink to enhance the pattern,
Also, I have a thing for owls. So I cut out come circles, used my "Branching out owlies" stamp from Stampingbella on scraps of different brown DPs, separated the owls from each other. I placed them on part of a kraft die cut tree branch, made with a Memory Box die. I stamped their eyes on white paper, added a little touch of orange to their beaks and mounted the eyes on foam.
I really struggled with the sentiment - tried different papers, greetings - couldn't get it quite like I wanted to be, then decided to go with a row of tickets, cut out of a DP. I'm not entirely sure that it will count as a sentiment over at Sentimental Sundays, as I haven't added any names yet either, but I thought I'd give it a go:)

This card is for these challenges:
1) Feeling Sketchy - Sketch #43
2) The Paper Girls Challenge Blog - #24 Wood elements
3) Totally Stampalicious - Paper Piecing
4) Paper Playtime - Use some Brown
5) Sentimental Sundays - Negative Space
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes 

Birthday Card with my Favorite Male Image

I've used my favorite male image for this card - "Brothers" from Mo's Digital Pencil. The reason I love it so much is that the boys remind me so much of my two youngest nephews, now aged 4 and 5 1/2. I've colored the image using ProMarkers. I rarely use blue colors, so this is my take on a blue, brown and white card! The blue papers came free with 2 different magazines last year, and the brown one is a leftover. I panelled the papers on kraft. The inspiration for this design is the the sketch over at "Seize the Birthday". I added a stamped cloud and a fence created with a Marianne Creatables die. The sentiment is rub on with a birthday greeting in Norwegian.

This card is entered in these challenges:
1) Seize The Birthday - #2 Sketch + Masculine
2) Here Come The Boys - Bingo (blue+die cuts+patterned paper)
3) 2 Sisters - #127 Brown, White & Blue
4) Send a Smile for Kids - Anything goes 4 Kids
5) Moving Along With The Times - Happy Birthday
6) Fab 'n' Funky - Get Moving
7) Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog - #16 Sentimental
8) Card Crafter's Circle - #58 Layers
9) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

My first CASEd card?

This is my first attempt ever of casing a  card. I say "attempt", because I'm not quite sure that I've got the concept right. I was inspired by the card layout, but I changed the shape to a square card, and I added two fussy cut birds mounted on foam - I don't know if I'm "allowed" to do just that. But CASE or no CASE - I enjoyed making this card!

I've used a DP from the Bo Bunny Crush Collection, panelled it onto a strip of organza before I attached it to the black paper.
The sentiment (from Kanban) and the birds (from KaiserCraft) have been heat embossed in white.


This card is for these challenges:
1) Inkspirational - #3 CASE
2) Card Makin' Mamas - Clean and simple
3) Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - For the birds
4) Top Tip Tuesday - #93 Fur Or Feathers
5) Gems of Inspiration - Emboss It
6) Totally Papercrafts – It's embossing time

Kenny K Cowgirl

Out with  the pink and girly and in with the brown and masculine!
I've used 2 different DPs - one with a fabric print and one with animal print. The one with animal print was one of the first DPs I bought, and for some reason I've never used it - at first because I liked it so much and wanted to hang on to it, then is disappeared in the bottom of my pile of papers...
I love cream and brown colors, and I think they would work well with this sassy cowgirl from Kenny K. I've colored her using Promarkers - I have now a "I love to color with Promarkers phase", but I won't  forget my beloved watercolor pencils ...
I tried the layout with some different die cut shapes too behind the image, but decided against it and kept the design clean. A bit of suede and metal, a ticket with sentiment, and voilà!

This card is for these challenges:
1) Feeling Sketchy - Sketch #42
2) Digi Haven - Grand Reopening
3) LEJ Designs - #36 Use Metal
4) Craft your passion challenges - #145 Gone Country
5) Emergency Crafters - New Years Resolution
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Purple, Silver and White Christmas Card

The theme of 52CT this week is the combination of purple, white and silver. Most of my Christmas cards traditionally include the combination of red and white, but one of my favorite colors is purple, and some of you might know I have a weak spot for, well, spots.
So I stamped the reindeer on a purple DP with spots, using a Tilda stamp. I love the little wings on the reindeer's back, and I love that I can easily cut them off too. I used a white gel pen to color the wings and the antlers, and I added some silver glitter glue to the ribbon around its neck. The trees were already die cut, left overs from before Christmas, using the Marianne Creatable tree die. I tore a piece of a watercolor paper to make the snowy ground. The background paper is a purple DP with snowflakes.
I wondered whether to stop there, but I have lots of purple rhinestones and decided to add some to the trees, and I added glitter sticker letters to make the sentiment - Merry Christmas in Norwegian. I think this card would work as a winter greeting card too, without the sentiment. If I need a last minute card I might do just that. But there are only 11 and a half months left until Christmas, and I need to make Christmas cards as well - might as well get an early start.


This card is for these challenges:
1) 52 Christmas Throwdown - Purple, Silver and White
2) That Craft Place - Snowy Christmas
3) Totally Gorjuss - #166 Spotty
4) Jellypark Challenges - Winter Animals
5) ABC Christmas Challenge - A for Animal
6) Christmas Cards All Year 'Round - Anything Goes
7) Love to Create Challenge Blog - #48 Sparkle and Snowflakes
8) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Inkspired by hearts

I wanted this card to be non cute, non pink and non masculine, and I wanted to make something different from what I usually make. I don't know if I succeeded with just that, but at least I had a fun time making this card, with the heart on the Inkspirational image as inspiration.
I've used 3 different DPs for this card - 1 for the background with golden music notes and 2 for the hearts  - I used an embossing folder to create the pattern on the large heart.  I added cream colored lace and leaves and a metal hair pin with butterfly. I've inked all edges with walnut stain, and I machine stitched around the card base with gold thread.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Inkspirational - #2 Photo
2) Paper Creator's Crafts - #3 Love is all around
3) Brown Sugar - Butterflies
4) Flutterby Wednesdays - #222 Anything Goes
5) Craft Room Challenge - Valentines
6) The Squirrel and The Fox - #35 Anything Goes
7) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Embossed Snowflakes

I was the lucky winner of It's all about the Vintage Christmas Candy, and this sweet winter angel was part of the package I received. I just love the current sketch over at Feeling Sketchy and decided to use the image for this sketch.
The DP I used came free with a magazine I bought last year. I attached the DP onto cream colored paper. All edges have been inked with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  I attached the panels onto kraft and machine stitched around the edges.
I heat embossed snowflakes using stamps from Papermania and white embossing powder. I added white pearls in the center of 3 snowflakes, and I used another two for the panel with the sentiment, which is stamped with coffee colored ink.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Feeling Sketchy - Sketch
2) Broken Box Stock – Winter/Snowflakes
3) Simply Create Too - Let it Snow
4) Little Miss Muffet Challenges - #51 Winter Birthdays
5) Pixie Dust Studio - Winter
6) Fab 'n' Funky - Winter
7) Creative Stamp Friends - Snowflakes
8) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Birthday Card with Spots and Squares

Another card with a Mo's Digital Image - this one's called Veronica, isn't she a sassy birthday girl!
I've colored the image with red, blue and grey Promarkers. I added shadows with blue and black distress inks.
I've used a KaiserCraft clear stamp to make the banner - I stamped directly on some left over DPs in blue/aqua colors.
The chevron border is made with a Memroy Box die, and the sentiment is stamped and heat embossed with black powder. I also heat embossed with silver around the border of the image.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Charisma Cardz - #53 Birthday Cards
2) Wags 'n Whiskers - #95 Celebrations
3) Crafty Creations - #204 Something New (image)
4) Crafty Sentiments - Sparkle & Shine/Glitter
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Purple, Green and Cream

This design is inspired by the sketch over at Sketch Saturday.
I've used a much neglected Spellbinder die to make the frame for the image. The image is a digi from Mo's Digital Pencil. It's called "Bunches" and is new to me. I colored the image mainly with purple, blue and green Promarkers.
The purple paper with spots came free with a magazine. I've had the corner chipboard for ages and the metal flower charm was part of a candy I won. I've also used some cream colored leaves and brown pearls.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Sketch Saturday - #240 Sketch
2) Mo's Digital Pencil - #167 Anything Goes with a Mo!
3) Card and Scrap - #46 Brug metalpynt
4) My Heart Pieces Digital Stamps Challenge - Gettin Girly
5) Crafty Calendar - What's new? (Image)
6) Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - Something new (Image)
7) Glitter n Sparkle - Anything Goes
8) Jellypark Challenges - Old and New (Old die+chipboard, new image)
9) Totally Papercrafts – Something New (Image)
10) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Feminine Birthday Card

I would never have thought I would be having a pink phase!!! I think I've made more cards with pink this past week than during the whole of 2012!
I've used a freebie I found on a website (sorry, can't remember which one, if someone knows, please let me know so I can update this post and my digi library). The image is colored with Promarkers and is attached to a circle of kraft paper.
I've used 2 DPs from Panduro for the background. I tore the paper with scripture and attached a string of silver pearls to it. I also used 3 pink pearls and a silver peel off stickers for the sentiment for sparkle.
The design is inspired by the The Sweet Stop sketch.

This card is for these challenges:
1) The Sweet Stop - SSS192 Sketch
2) Sweet n' Sassy Digi Challenge - Something New (the silver pearls, a digi I've never used before)
3) Link Up For Pink - #8 Dash of Pink
4) 2 Sisters Challenge Blog - #125 Anything Goes
5) Oozak - Anything goes plus pink and bling
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

It's a Baby Girl!

I made this card for a friend of mine who just gave birth to her first baby - a little girl!
I kept the design clean, with a pink, white and kraft color scheme.
I just got this Mo digi  - I think this sweet baby has the cutest face! I colored the image using ProMarkers.
I placed the image on a kraft panel and die cut a swirl, using a Memory Box die, and decorated it with pink pearls.
The sentiment, in pink writing, is a cut out from a DP.
The striped DP and ribbon is from a crafting set from Ikea that I received as an advent calendar gift in December.

This card is for these challenges
1) Alota Rubber Stamps - New Born
2) By the Cute & Girly - Cute and girly
3) Digi Galore - Something New (image, paper and ribbon)
4) Really Reasonable Ribbon - My new toys and ribbon (image, paper and ribbon)
5) Unique Crafters Challenge - New Beginnings
6) Crafty Sentiments - New
7) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Sweets

Since I often end up making square cards, I thought I would start this year with a circle shaped one!
For this card I've used kraft paper, a DP from Graphic45's "Little Darlings Collection" and a doily.
I've had these Magnolia sweets stamps for quite some time, but I haven't gotten around to using them. I stamped quite a few sweets, cut them out and colored them in different pastel colors. I added stardust stickles, glitter and glossy accents to them, but I'm not sure if it can be seen on the photos - I find it so hard to take photos that show sparkly elements.
The image is made with a stamp that came free with a magazine I bought last year. The birthday sentiment is a rub-on.

I enter this card into these challenges:
1) Fussy and Fancy - Furry Friends
2) Robyn`s Fetish - #140 Use a Doily
3) Stamptacular Sunday - Doilies Galore
4) Party Time Tuesdays - #101 Celebrate
5) ABC Challenges - Shiny and Sparkly
6) Whoopsi Daisy - Celebration
7) Through the Craftroom Door - #51 Anything Goes
8) Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog - #152 Anything Goes
9) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

My Favorite Five of 2012

Debby has a candy over at her blog. To participate you need to pick your five favorite cards of 2012.

I think it's so interesting to see what cards people pick. My experience is that the ones I'm most happy with myself isn't necessarily the ones that give me the most comments or prizes. The feeling I had during the making process also influences how I feel about a card afterwards.  

So here goes for my favorites:






My first card is from February - the month I started my blog. I was quite new to cardmaking at this point, so I'm very proud of how this flowery card turned out, and I love papers with spots!


My second card is my favorite CAS card, made in July. The sentiment is in Norwegian and says "I love you". I was picked top 3 for this card over at LIM, an achievement I was very proud of as I find CAS the most challenging cards to make, and there are SO many talented CAS crafters out there!


My third card, also made in July, is my favorite vintage style card. I had so much fun making this one! The weather was really bad and I was in a mood for Christmas.


My fourth card I made in October. I love wood grain, I love kraft and I love owls! I was new to heat embossing at this point, and I had such a fun time playing with my new tools, as well as paper piecing the owls.


My fifth card, made in August, is a favorite because the image reminds me of my two youngest nephews. When my sister spotted this card, she contacted me to say that she HAD to get this one for her birthday! And so she did! I like making male cards as I'm a bit clumsy when it comes to pinks and flowers and all those girly details, but also I have mostly men in my family, so it's also a practical side to it.

Pink and Pearlie

I've made a birthday card with some of my new goodies!
The Kenny K digi was a Christmas gift from me to myself. I colored her with pink ProMakers and added pink glitter to her boa shawl. Her diadem is sparkled up with Stardust stickles.
The Die-namics musical notes dies I got as an advent calendar gift from my mum, as well as the DP. The DP was part of a crafting package she got at IKEA, it contained several DPs, stickers, tags and ribbons.
I added glossy accent to the music notes. The sentiment is stamped.The black lace and pink pearls are from my stash.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Craftymess challenge blog - #24 Show Some Sparkle/Bling
2) Totally Gorjuss - #164 New (image, DP, music notes dies)
3) In the Pink - #10 Pink and Pearlie
4) Shelly's Images - Out with the old in with the New
5) The Squirrel and The Fox - #34 Party Time
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Kenny K Tag

I hope you've all had a lovely time and enjoyed the holidays. I haven't posted anything for nearly 2 weeks, not because I've been too busy with Christmas preparations, but I've been on holiday to Rome, Italy, and then I've been  with my family for Christmas.

I got the DP with clocks as an advent calendar gift and I thought it would make a great background for a male tag. I've inked the edges with walnut distress ink. The image is a digi from Kenny K, colored with ProMarkers. The sentiment is a rub on and can be translated to "congratulations" or "happy birthday". I've used some jute and twine.

I enter this tag into these challenges:
1) Crafty Boots Challenges - Lads tags
2) C.R.A.F.T. - #186 not a card
3) Craft Room Challenge - Make a Tag
4) I love Promarkers - #148 anything but square
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Not a Christmas Card

I needed to make a male card for an upcoming 18th birthday!
I didn't feel that teddy bears or cute little boys would be quite right for this occasion, so I went for this Kenny K Digi - I hope it's within the limit of decency...
I still have some way to go with my coloring skills, especially with markers, but I'm fairly satisfied with how this one turned out as I'm no hair and skin expert!
I've used a wood patterned DP as background. The ones with spots and squares are leftovers.
I've used die cuts for the number and stickers for the sentiment. The only embellishments are some die cut stars.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Here Come the Boys - Anything Goes
2) Totally Papercrafts – For the Boys
3) Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Red and White Christmas Card with TeddyBea

It's so hard to get anything resembling a decent photo now - it's dark outside when I leave for work and it's dark when I get home... I so look forward to Christmas Eve, but I don't care much for Winter - I would gladly have skipped January-March...

I just love this TeddyBea image - I think she's perfect for so many different occasions. This time I colored her outfit in different shades of pink - colors I don't use very often. I cut the image using a circle shaped die. I felt there was too much white space, so I manually cut an inner circle so that more of the lovely gingham patterned paper from Forever Friends' A Christmas Tale Collection could be shown.
The snowflakes and large poinsettia are made with Marianne Creatables dies, and the smaller flowers are cut outs from a DP. I've sprinkled the snowflakes with glitter embossing powder and heat embossed them. A bit of glitter glue is added to TeddyBea's wings and to the little star. The border at the top my card is made with a Magnolia die. The sentiment is made with a stamp that came free with a magazine I bought, it's heat embossed with white powder.





This card is for these challenges:
1) 2 Sisters - #120 Snowflakes
2) Totally Gorjuss - #160 Oh No Snow
3) Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog - #149 Use the color red
4) Stampin' For The Weekend - Let it Snow
5) Crafty Boots Challenges - Christmas
6) Charisma Cardz - #48 Christmas
7) ABC Challenges - #8 Let it Snow
8) Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Christmas with Snowflakes
9) Forever Friends - #51 Christmas Cards
10) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Birthday Card with TeddyBea

The inspiration for my choice of colors is this week's theme over at A Gem of a Challenge.
I've used TeddyBea as image, colored her with Promarkers and added stardust glitter to her wings.
I attached her to a piece of scrap paper I thought fit the colors of her dress.
I made room for a tag with a personal birthday greeting behind this panel. For the tag I also used a the little piece of pink lace I had left and a star metal charm.
All edges have been machine stitched.
I die cut a chevron border, using a Memory Box die, and some stars.
I attached 3 flowers - two of them are purple, they seem blue in the large photo, but the smaller detailed one shows the colors as thet look in real life.
The stamped sentiment has been heat embossed using white embossing powder - today's advent calendar gift!


This card is entered in these challenges:
1) A Gem of a Challenge - #60 Lavender and Lace
2) Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog - #10 Use some Metal
3) Hiding in my Craft Room - #74 Super Scraps Saturday
4) Sweet Stampin - Dies and Punches
5) Jellypark Challenges - Stars are Brightly Shining
6) Crafting for all Seasons - #41 Flowers
7) The Teddy Bo Challenge - Anything Goes
8) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Christmas Stockings

I've used The Sketch File sketch as inspiration for this design.
I love red and white colors for Christmas and papers with spots, hence my choice of DP to make the panels. I machine stitched around the edges, not too straight, for a rough look.
I used 2 different stamps from Panduro to make the stockings - colored only with a red Promarker. I attached some jute for the string, tied a knot in each end to attach the little metal bells. The Christmas sentiment is stamped.

This card is for these challenges:
1) The Sketch File - Sketch
2) Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - PPC235 Christmas inspired
3) Ooh La La Creations - Spots & Dots
4) Paper Playtime - Christmas Colors
5) Panduro Hobby - Jul
6) Shelly's Images - Christmas is in the air
7) PaperPlay Challenges - #49 Christmas is coming
8) Pattie's Creations Design Challenge - #58 Christmas card
9) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Falalala...

My second card using these carolers and lamp post digis from Mo's Digital Pencil- just love these ones, they're so fun to color too!
I've also used two stamps for the sentiments - one located on the red circle and the other one is stamped directly on the DP, beneath the image.
I've used pearl straws (yesterday's advent calendar gift, btw), red and brown flowers and a tied bow with a little bell as decorations.
I've torn the edges of the music note paper to give it a distressed look.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog - #148 Use Circles
2) Lollipop Crafts - #95 Happy Holidays
3) Whoopsi Daisy - Christmas Cards
4) Love to Create Challenge Blog - #44 Holiday Cheer
5) No Matter Which Challenges - Christmas
6) Cupcake Craftroom - Anything for Christmas
7) The Squirrel & the Fox - Summer or Winter
8) Pile It On - Embellishments
9) Sugar Creek Hollow - #40 Distressing
10) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Card made of Wrapping Paper

This card is inspired by this week's "Just Us Girls" sketch. I immediately thought of a Christmas gift when seeing this sketch. So the paper I've used is actually wrapping paper, and I added a red ribbon with silver edges to create the illusion of a wrapped up gift. I tied a large bow of red ribbon and I attached a little silver bell to it. The sentiment is made with a stamp from Panduro, heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I machine stitched with silver thread around the wrapping paper and attached it all to a silver card stock base. Finally I added 3 snowflakes as embellishments.

This card is entered into these challenges:
1) Just Us Girls - #165 - Sketch
2) Card Makin' Mamas - Silver and/or Gold
3) Fab 'n' Funky - #148 - 3 of something (snowflakes)
4) Try It On Tuesday - Christmas Sparkle
5) Sisterhood of Crafters - Embossing

Vintage Christmas Gift Bag

My mum, my youngest sister and I have a tradition of giving each other advent calendar gifts  - we give 12 presents to each person, so that makes 24 in total since we are 3 persons. It's perhaps a quite childish thing to do, but at least it gets me out of bed each morning, which normally is quite hard as I like to stay warm under the covers and I'm not a typical morning bird! Today I received a Rachelle Anne Miller clear stamp which I look forward to ink up!

This gift bag contains a gift for my sister for the 5th of Decemeber.
I've used a new die, the Spellbinders Basic Lattice die. I've covered it with flowers, a vintage image and a die cut tree. The flowers have got red and diamond glitter glue on their petals.
The sentiment is a leftover from a DP I used for another card. The background paper has been sprinkled with glimmer mist - it doesn't show on the pictures, but in real life you can see the sparkly effect. I've also tied a bow onto which I've fastened a snowflake metal charm. I've added pearls in each corner of the bag.





This gift bag is for these challenges:
1) Craftymess challenge blog - #23 Vintage Christmas
2) Sparkles Christmas Challenge - #23 Button or Bow
3) The Cupboard Trilogy - #6 Frosty Winter
4) 2 Sisters Challenge Blog - #120 Christmas Sparkle
5) Jingle Belles - Anything Goes
6) Card Crafter's Circle - Bearing Gifts
7) Fussy and Fancy - I Love Christmas
8) Totally Papercrafts – Anything Christmasy but a card
9) It's All About the Vintage - Glittering
10) S J Papercrafts - Christmas plus optional: mix up the alphas

Criss Cross Wedding Card

This is a card I had to do in a hurry for my sister - she needed a wedding card urgently. I usually spend quite a few hours on my cards - I'm a slow cardmaker - but I hope it turned out OK for the occasion...
I've used a black and white DP with love sentiments and a DP with roses. I've decorated with white tulle, soft pink ric rac ribbon, some pearls and a metal charm.
There is no stamped image, only a stamped "congratulations" sentiment which I've heat embossed.
I've used a Martha Stewart punch for the edges of the card inside the envelope.


I enter this card into these challenges:
1) Penny's Paper-Crafty - #104 More than 1 fold
2) ABC Challenges - Anything Goes
3) Pile It On - Anything but a Christmas Card
4) Paper Pretties Monday Challenge - Anything Goes
5) Joanna Sheen Challenge - Anything Goes excluding Christmas
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes  

TeddyBea Tag with Glitter and Pearls

I've decided to try and use some of those scraps for my next projects, so I've made a Christmas gift tag with some leftovers.
I've used a TeddyBea digi for the image, and she's been colored with Promarkers. She's also got a touch of diamond glitter glue on her wings. I've also added glitter glue to the edges of the die cut star.
I've used 2 Christmas clear stamps for the sentiment and the stamp mark.
For embellishments I've used some red ribbon, two roses and five pearls.

This tag is for the following challenges:
1) Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Tags or Gifts
2) Moving Along With The Times - Use 3 elements beginning with the same letter (Red, Roses, Ribbon)
3) Sassy Studio Designs - #153 Christmas Anything BUT a Card
4) Glitter n Sparkle - Ribbon and/or Lace
5) The Crafty Pad - Add some Glitter
6) Totally Gorjuss - #159 Don't be Square
7) Divas by Design - #63 Glitter and Sparkle
8) Anything Goes Challenge - #82 Tags
9) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Easel Card with non-traditional Christmas Colors

For this card I've used 2 DPs, brown paper and kraft.
The image is a digi from Mo's Digital Pencil. I've colored it using Promarkers and Distress Ink, color Old Paper.
I attached a ribbon with a stocking metal charm and a bow.
I've used a clear stamp for the sentiment.
I've used circle dies and a label die for the sentiment.
I've decorated with light blue pearls and blue and white flowers.


I enter this card into these challenges:
1) Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Diecuts/punches, ribbons and charms
2) Come and Get It Challenges - More than 1 Fold
3) Dream Valley Challenges - Non-traditional Christmas
4) Sentimental Sundays - Easel Card
5) Christmas Cards All Year Round - Shaped or Fancy Folds
6) That Craft Place - No Squares Allowed
7) 52 Christmas Throwdown - Pearls (2nd entry)
8) Crazy 4 Challenges - #C4C164 Put a bow on it
9) Totally Gorjuss - #159 Don't be Square
10) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Carolers

I made this card of scraps from 3 different DPs and kraft paper.
The images - digis from Mo's Digital Pencil - has been colored with Promarkers, and I used a brush to add a bit of blue Distress Ink for the sky.
I used a Marianne CreaTables die to make the trees - one in vellum and one in white paper.
The swirl is cut out from a DP.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Addicted to Stamps Challenge - Christmas Time
2) Card and Scrap - Christmas
3) Hiding in my Craft Room - #73 Christmas
4) Kraftyhands - #5 Christmas
5) Paper Creator's Crafts - All about Christmas
6) Creatalicious Challenges - Winter
7) Challenges 4 Everybody - Always Anything Goes
8) The Squirrel & the Fox - Anything Goes
9) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Angel Bears

I used The Sweet Stop's sketch as inspiration for this design.
I machine stitched 4 panels of vellum note paper onto kraft paper, using silver thread.
I attached a Crafter's Companion decoupage image onto a cloud of light blue paper with silver heat embossed edges.
The chipboard snowflakes came free with a magazine, I attached pearls to their center, as well as one pearl in each corner of the card. The sentiment - "Merry Christmas" in Norwegian - is made with alphabet stickers.

I enter this card into these challenges:
1) The Sweet Stop - SSS186 Sketch
2) Christmas Crafting! - #16 Decoupage
3) Sparkles Forum Challenges - Christmas is coming
4) Crafty Ann's - Birds or Animals
5) Totally Papercrafts – All Stitched up
6) 2 Sisters Challenge Blog - #119 Winter Wonderland
7) Crimbo Crackers - Anything goes Christmas
8) Crafty Creations - #197 Christmas Is Coming
9) 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown - Pearls
10) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

A CAS Christmas Card

I've used an embossing folder with spots to make the background.
The image is made with a a Sarah Kay stamp (Stampavie) , and I've colored it with Promarkes.
I've used two different Marianne CreaTables dies for the tree and fence.
The snow on the window and fence is made with a snow pen.
The tree has glimmer mist, and I've heat embossed the edges of the card for some glitter and sparkle.


This card is for these challenges:
1) Moving Along With The Times - Let's go dotty
2) Addicted to Stamps and More - #4 CAS
3) Craft Room Challenge - Punches & Die Cuts
4) Try It On Tuesday - Christmas Sparkle
5) Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - #37 To Die 4