A red car for Christmas

Finally. A Christmas card made. I treated myself to the fun car die set from Tim Holtz before Christmas, I made a couple of last minute cards with it, but didn't blog them. This card is fresh out of my craft room.

I made the background with a blue Distress Oxide ink. I used my most used stamp set, and also my favorite one, from Hero Arts, stamping the the snowflakes and the tree line with white ink also from Hero Arts. Then I stamped the trees a second time with green DI. Another favorite used on this card is the dymo sentiment teamed up with a die cut Merry from the die set used. I love all my stitched dies, here I've used a hill one. And I finally got to use one of my much loved, but oh so tricky to use washi tapes.

This card is for:
Rudolph Days challenge - January
Try It On Tuesday - Fire and Ice
Allsorts - Old Favourites
My Time to Craft - Transport
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes Christmas

Enjoy your day and eat a lot of cake

Saturday is here and today I'm going to do exactly what I want to, I have no fixed plans for today, nothing that must be done or fixed. Oh joy! The only thing I have on  list it to publish this card for the latest challenge over at Catch the Bug and this week we have a photo for you. I picked inspiration from the shape of the umbrella and made my own sunray background.


The doggie is colored with Promarkers, I attached it to a strip of vellum with an embossed sentiment saying "Enjoy your day and eat a lot of cake". White string from my stash.

This card is also for:
Alphabet Challenge - V for Vellum
Shopping Our Stash - #338 You say it's your Birthday!
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

OLC Cute, Colors and Love

I don't usually make (m)any Valentine's or loved themed cards but I' going to make a few this year and send the off to Christina Hor for her "Cards for Little Hearts" drive - you can read more about it here. I also made this card with 3 challenges in mind the are all mentioned below.
I made a one layer and used a stamp that came free with a magazine a few years ago. It hadn't seen ink yet, but now that I have a stamping platform it's so much easier to use stamps of any quality - I believed I inked this up 5 times.
The sentiment is put together with 3 stamps from different sets.
The colors are subtle also IRL, but even more so in the photo. I sponged and splattered a blue DI and used an orange and grey one and watercolored the image.

This card is for:
Color Throwdown - #477
The Paper Players - CAS Love Notes
Less Is More - OLC Cute

Love pup

I don't usually make (m)any Valentine's cards or loved themed cards. But I've got many papers and images for this, so I thoght I'd make a few and send them over to Christina Hor for her "Cards for Little Hearts" drive - you can read more about it here.
The adorable pup is from Bugaboo and I used envelope stamps from my new Lawn Fawn set. The paper I've had for a few years and I'm not exactly sure of the brand.
I was inspired by the sketch over at Sunday Stamps.


This card is for:
Sunday Stamps - #170 Sketch
Dream Valley Challenges - #171 LOVE
Send a Smile for Kids - Anything Goes or Thank You

Two cards with the same feather stamp

Today I have two cards to share, the reason for this being that they will be entered into the new Twofer Card Challenge, where you have to use the same product to make cards for two different occasions. The first challenge is abot feathers. I used an older feather stap from a Fiskars set.

 Card 1 - Thank you

I teamed up the feather with stamps from a, to me, new stamp set from Lawn Fawn I just couldn't resist. I subtly brushed grey and pink ink to the ground and added only a tiny bit of color, the red heart on the envelope and their yellow beeks. I used a black pen to draw the lines to sort of frame the scene.

This card is also for:
Pile It On - #138 Thank You and or/ Shades of Black & White + Optional Pop of color
Daring Cardmakers - Black, White, Pop
Moving along with the Times - #63 CAS
Sparkles Forum Challenges - #100 Thank You

Card 2 - Best wishes

As per challenge requirement I used the same feather stap, but this time with a "best wishes" sentiment for a birthday card.
I also went with layers and used a DP, but no colors.  The frame is staped and I used a gel pen to add some white detailing.
I don't know if you'll agree, but I feel this card is slightly more on the mascline side and I opted for a vintage look.

This card is also for:
The Male Room - #77- Vintage
Crafting with Dragonflies - Anything Goes Cards only
Crafty Catz - #400 Anything Goes option/Males Birthday

Monster cute

Over at Catch the Bug we have a new sketch challenge for you.

 
I'm continuing to build up my stash of masculine birthday cards. This monster image is so cute and I can see him being used for more cards in the future.
The backgrond is embossed and I die cut some banners.

This card is also for:
Simply Create Too - #134 Use Embossing
Sweet Stampin - For men
Cardz 4 Guyz - #186 January Blues

Last day of the birthday bash

Over at Catch the Bug we're having a week long birthday bash - Bugaboo is celebrating its 8th birthday. For day 7 the DT members are using the funny bird image on my card,  and this is also the Friday freebie. The challenge is to use the colors below + sprinkes.

My bird is colored with Promarkers and I've added sparkle and glossy accent. I also added an extra balloon, a sticker onto which I attached black thread for string.
The backgrond is cut out with a die and behind the panel I added a DP with pink flowers and green leaves.

This card is also for:
Dies R Us Challenge - #89 Kids Kardz
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes
Craftaholics R Us - #3 Anything Goes

I made this card (instead of texting)

Over at Catch the Bug we're having a week long birthday bash - Bugaboo is celebrating its 8th birthday. For day 5 it's about making something funny and including a cupcake somewhere.

I love Jodie's chickie images and here another one called Chickz happy birdday chickie. I colored it with soft colores and fussy cut it. I used a lavender colored paper and DI and stencilled the heart pattern. I sed a black pen to doodle the lines. The sentiment is a combination of two  - one from Lawn Fawn (my new element) and a Penny Black one.

This card is also for:
Allsorts - No Patterned Papers
Passion For Promarkers Challenge - #427 Something New (sentiment stamp)
My Time to Craft - Something New (sentiment stamp)

Birthday gift bag

Over at Catch the Bug we're having a week long birthday bash - Bugaboo is celebrating its 8th birthday. For day 3 it's about making something for a birthday that isn't a card.


I made a small gift bag onto which I stencilled some numbers, stamped a greeting and a border and added a banner and tiny pearls. The image is colored with Promarkers and there's glitter glue on the cupcake.

Hey chickie - sketch

Over at Catch the Bug we're having a week long birthday bash - Bugaboo is celebrating its 8th birthday. For day 2 we have a sketch challenge.

I love the colors and patterns of these DPs from a paper pad I received as an advent calender gift. I added the die cut image to a die cut doily and made the sentiment large. In retrospect maybe I should not have added the flower with the leaves, but at the time I felt the card was too top heavy.

This card is also for:
Shopping Our Stash - #336 - Out With The Old & In With The New (new DPs and flowers, old dies and pearls)
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner - #156 Anything Goes

Bold and bright birthday wishes

Over at Catch the Bug we're having a week long birthday bash - Bugaboo is celebrating its 8th birthday.
For day 1 the theme is "bold and bright birthday wishes".

I made my card using the image Make it Snappy Birthday chickie. I seem to alwas have a pink phase during January and pink was my choice for this card. Silver die cuut leaves, pink flowers and pearls and birthday greeting in Norwegian was added.

This card is also for:
4 Crafty Chicks - #385 No Blue Colour
Cute Card Thursday - #512 Something New
Craftaholics R Us - #2 Patterned Paper
Moving along with the Times - #62 Flowers

Sketch and Birthday puppies

Over at Catch the Bug we have a new sketch challenge for you.

 
I need to build up my stash of masculine birthday cards and I felt this puppy image would be great teamed up with some brown papers I found in my scrap box. The dymo sentiment was laying on my desk and the bithday greeting was a negative die cut from another project, so this came ttogether quite quickly.

This card is also for:
Brown Sugar - #274 Birthday
4 Crafty Chicks - #384 Dies &/or Punches
Seize The Birthday - Birthday

Birthday troll as Friday freebie

My card today shows this week's Freebie Friday -  you can pick it up for free in the Bugaboo store.

I gave this sweetie pink skin and purple hair, using Promarkers for coloring. I added a little flower to her hair to make her extra pretty.  The background is stencilled, and I added some silver sequin stars and a birthday greeting in Norwegian.


This card is for:
I love Promarkers - #349 Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner - #155 Anything Goes

CAS, sketch and stamping only

Happy New Year! I hope you all are well. This is my first post in 2018 and in a few weeks, I'be been busy enjoying December and Christmas activities.
I've gone clean and simple with a wood mounted stap from Penny Black, being inspired by the sketch over at LIM.
I watercolored the image using DIs and I used a powder brush to add the subtle blue backgrond. The sentiment says "the best mum in the world".


This card is for:
Inkspirational - Stamping only
Penny Black and more - CAS
Less Is More - #360+361 Sketch

Penguins in snowflake

I'm here to show you my card featuring this week's Freebie Friday -  you can pick it up for free in the Bugaboo store.

I fussy cut the images and placed them onto a blue backgrond sprinkled with white mist. I arranged them into the opening of a negative die cut I made using a Memory Box die. I sponged or rather brshed, blue ink arond the edges of the snowflake. Added three glitter pearls and stamped a Christmas greeting.

This card is also for:
4 Crafty Chicks - #381 Christmas/Winter Critters
C.R.A.F.T. - #446 Christmas
Glitter n Sparkle - #269 Wintery

Naked stamping - no coloring

We have just had a week of Christmas chaos over at Catch the Bug, and now we are back to or reglar Saturday challenge which runs for a week. The challenge is "naked stamping" - no coloring allowed but ou can use colored inks.
I printed off the the cute Snowflake snowan three times and made a selfie inspired card using my photo strip from Marianne.
There's little color on my card, red mirri card was used for the "merry", green card stock for the branches and one single red pearl was added to the silver glitter heart pendant.

This card is also for:
Cards und More - # 199 Snow(men)
Sparkles Forum Christmas - #83 Snowman/men
Addicted to Stamps and More - #271 Anything Goes

Christmas Chaos - Photo and freebie

Over at Catch the Bug we're preparing for Christmas - it's Christmas Chaos week with lots of prizes to be won. For day 7 we have a photo inpiration for you.
And since it's Friday you can get the image I used for my card as this week's freebie in the Bugaboo shop.
I cropped and printed the image three times to make the photos for my film strip. The red paper has a nice shimmer, so I just added a border of scrap paper and added a silver heart and some greeneries.

This card is also for:
The Merry Christmas Challenge - #46 Anything Christmas
Crafty Gals Corner - #151 Anything Goes

 

 

Christmas Chaos - Colors

Over at Catch the Bug we're preparing for Christmas - it's Christmas Chaos week with lots of prizes to be won. For day 6 we have a color challenge:

I find color challenges to be quite tricky myself.  Most of the time I just choose colors and items along the way, but for color challenges I try and be extra organized. I select a non colored image, collect markers and papers with the right colors, someties also embossing powders and other mediums. Then I plan what colors to go where and I get started.

This card is also for:
Craftaholics R Us - #48 Christmas
Crafting By Designs - Christmas
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Christmas Chaos - Bingo

Over at Catch the Bug we're preparing for Christmas - it's Christmas Chaos week with lots of prizes to be won. For day 4 we are playing BINGO.

I used the row of  pearls, sentiment and plaid. Plaid paper, pearls added to the bables and a Christas greeting in Norwegian. And I used my favorite embossing folder to make the snow and added some greeneries.

This card is also for:

Winter Wonderland - Traditional Christmas Colors - Red and Green

Crafty Catz - #395 Optional twist: Let It Snow
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes for Christmas 

 

 

 

Christmas Chaos - A gift card holder

Over at Catch the Bug we're preparing for Christmas - it's Christmas Chaos week with lots of prizes to be won. For day 3 we want to see something other than a card -  you can create anthing that can be used for or as a gift.

I've made a gift card holder using a plain white strip of paper. I stamped the sentiment directly onto the card base, and the flip was die cut with a scalloped stitched border die. Then I used a strip of patterned paper to make the belt. I die cut my snowman and the scalloped circle, as well as the tags.

This gift card holder is also for:
C.R.A.F.T. - #444 Christmas Present
Brown Sugar - #273 Anything But A Card
Simply Papercraft - #53 Anything Goes

Christmas Chaos - Sketch

Over at Catch the Bug we're preparing for Christmas - it's Christmas Chaos week with lots of prizes to be won. For day 2 we have a sketch.

I colored this skating bird with Promarkers and sponged blue DI around it. Added WoS for sparkle and frantage for snow. The backgrond is heat embossed and sponged with green DI. Added a string and an old skate charm from  stash along with pearls and a sticker sentiment.

This card is also for:
Cards und More - # 198 Things with Wings
Cute Card Thursday - #506 Things With Wings
Shopping Our Stash - #331 Snow Much Fun
I love Promarkers - #348 Winter

Christmas Chaos - Merry&Bright

Over at Catch the Bug we're preparing for Christmas - it's Christmas Chaos week with lots of prizes to be won. For day 1 we have a nice and simple challenge theme - "merry and bright".

I used the image Candy Cane Penguin, colored it with Promarkers and added glossy accent to the candy. I cut ot an opening on the DP and panel and added a doily and die cut trees in the background. The sentiment is old, it was something that came free with a magazine at some point, I tucked some die ct sprigs underneath it.

This card is also for:
Moving along with the Times - #59 Christmas Animals
Aud Sentiments Challenge - #194 Christmas + A Sentiment
Everybody-Art-Challenge - #413 - Anything Goes

20 more to go...

I thought I was doing well on my Christmas cards this year, but I still lack many cards. Here is a quick and easy one, just a colored image and an embossing folder used for texture.

Later today starts the Christmas Chaos week over at Catch the Bug, it's a great opportnity to make those last minute cards... I need about 20 more. Yikes!


This card is for:
Cards in Envy - IT'S ONLY PAPER CARD CHALLENGE
The Merry Christmas Challenge -  #45 Anything Christmas
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

 

 

Frosty the Snowman

Today starts a new challenge over at Catch the Bug. It's a color challenge, I usually find those to be a bit tricky, but seeing the photo I knew I had the perfect DP for it. I love the knitted pattern.

My snowan has been colored with Promarkers, I added it to a blue panel I misted with white.
I die cut a few sprigs and the merry sentiment from a perfume box wrapping, it's dark green and velvety. I added a bit of glitter and a few white berries, and I finished off the sentiment with my Dymo.

This card is also for:
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes for Christmas
Crafting By Designs - Christmas
Fab 'n' Funky - #372 Inspired by Song, Movie or Book (Frosty the Snowman)

Birthday card with Stella and balloons

Over at Catch the Bug we have a new sketch challenge for you. 

Even though the time for sending out Christmas cards is "just arond the corner" I made a non-seasonal card - playing with a fun Stella image for a birthday. With it comes a really fun sentiment related to Facebook and birthday wishes, but as I believe the receiver is not on Facebook, she might not even know what that is, so I chose not to use it.
I cut the image with a doily die, brand unknown, and the scalloped border was made with a MFT die. The papers are scraps from my stash, I added pearls and stamped the birthday sentiment in Norwegian with white ink. 

This card is also for:
Sweet Stampin - Birthday
Seize The Birthday - Birthday + Optional Topping Of Circles
Creative Knockouts - #220 Border Time

Santa with gold star

Today starts a new challenge over at Catch the Bug and it's BINGO TIME!


The bottom row of ribbon, button and sparkle was my choice.
I stamped the blue paper and my tag with various snowflakes from Hero Arts. The Santa was colored with Promarkers and a white gel pen and the star is covered with a thick layer of gold glitter.

This card is also for:
Passion For Promarkers Challenge - #421 Let It Snow
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - #19 Anything Christmas Goes
Christmas with the Cuties - #11 TAGS

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Christmas cats

This is my DT card for "National Button Day" and the "Humor me Wednesday"-post over at Catch the Bug.
The image is named Meowy Christmas and I colored it using Promarkers, fussy cut it and mounted it on foam.
I stamped the panel with a plaid stamp from Tim H and a sentiment. I used leftover strips of paper to make the borders of silver and red along with a piece of tassel ribbon. Finally I added som sequins and red sparkly buttons for extra color.

This card is also for:
Show us Your Pussies - Furrything goes
Cards und More - # 197 - Anything Goes With Red
A Snowflakes Promise - #46- Anything Goes

New sketch challenge over at Catch the Bug

Today we have a new sketch challenge over at Catch the Bug. As Christmas is approaching, and far too quickly too, I decided to go for Santa, colored with Promarkers. I made him some  snowy hills and used a leftover piece of freebie paper for the background. I punched a few silver stars and stamped the sentiment. 


This card is also for:
Craft Rocket Challenges - #43 Christmas Is Coming
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes for Christmas
Crafting With An Attitude - Always Anything Goes