Lots of Frosty Layers

December is here! We are enjoying advent calendars,

a little scrapping, shopping for Christmas,

(and reading for finals...).

Today the weather is a little stormy, so even if it was

supposed to be light now, its just grey/blue-ish.

That is the reason for the poor quality of my images.
Edit:
Wednesday was clearer, so I took a couple new pictures!
And I have told people that I want a photo tent for Christmas. ;)

So, this time I almost feel like I took it a little to far?

I went a little crazy with papers, ribbons and flowers,

I just kept adding more and more layers, and still I originally

wanted a bit more, I just could not make it fit. :p

I love those Maja papers!

This time I distressed all the paper with my Tim Holtz

distress tool, the one that scrapes the egde.

I think it has been years since I did that the last time,

but it just felt right now. It has also been like a year and a half

since I made a easel card.

This is that the inside look like. I promise you,

this card does NOT fit in an envelope!

I used sheer ribbon from Wild Orchid Crafts,

and lace from Ribbon Girls.

See the two kinds of snowflakes?

Sweet Patricia was so nice to send me some

in the mail, thank you so much!

Patricia also got me that wonderful seem binding ribbon,

it two kinds of blue/turquise and white.

On the right it is tied to a Prima plastic pagacing,

on the left it is fastened to a tag.

Those pink flowers I made a few years ago I think,

from pink toulle gluet to a bazzil sircle.

I had almost given up using them,

they always seemed a bit to "neon" in color

to fit when I tried. Today they felt just right.

Funny how that happens?

The white flowers are from WOC,

and the petals from Kort og Godt. 

I added the letters 13, this card is for my sisters birthday.

They are from American Crafts, but I painted them,

and added Star Dust Stickles.

The blue flowers are from Prima.

The star dies are from Memory box, just love them!

I added acrylic paint to all the ribbon and flowers to

tone it down a bit, and add a frosty winter look.

I also used some Prima Snowball-pearls here and there,

do you see it? The tag is a Magnolia Doohickey. 

Tilda was colored with Distress Reinkers,

and I added Stickles and Liquid Pearls around the image. 

Amongst all the other things I also used cheese cloth,

a bit heart doily, and a sircle doily under the snowflake on the bottom, 

and my Tim Holtz snowflake edge die. 

Challenges

Magnolia-Licious - Holiday Special

Kort o Mania - Bildeinspirasjon

Papirdukkene - Dies

Magnolia Mania - Stars

Totally Gorjuss - Snows the way to go

Marvelous Magnolia - Anything Goes

Creative inspirations - Anything Goes

Wish you all a wonderful December,

thanks for visiting!

Hugs

Christmas Fair, Cards, Matchboxes and more

Yesterday I participated in our little country Christmas Fair

with my mother in law who makes these beautiful candles,
and a friend of hers who sells santas and a bit of this and that

to decorate with. Love thos Santas, I got one for Christmas a few
years ago, a bit smaller than theese though.

So as we where getting redy for the opening of the fair,
I realised I forgot to take images for my blog.
I have been making a few cards,
decorating lots of matchstick boxes,
and I even made some gift tags.
So this post is just a mix of all the things

I made for the fair, not everything will be shown up close,
but some things I will participate in challenges with,
and for those I will link to the challenge under the picture
that goes with it. I hope that wont be too messy. 

Starting out with some images from our stand at the fair.
The lighting was dark and cosy, and we dont have much daylight

right now either way, so getting proper images can be tricky. 

Some matchboxes and a bag-card,
a bit of a white and vintage corner. :) 

More matchboxes, a great way to use left over paper!
I also used some stickers from Heartwarming Vintage,
they are so pretty but I struggle to use them. 

This Edwin-card I have posted earlier, 

and one of the larger matchboxes, 

decorated in a clean and simple manner. 

I rarely make anything special of gift tags,
I just dont have enough of a surface to work with,
and I struggle to balance anything out.
For the fair I actually made six pacages with five tags in each,
three with thees tags, and three with star shapes,
as you can see in the next picture.
I used Magnolia Doohickeys for both,
a mixture of cardboard, kraft and vanilla paper,
distressed the edges with Walnut stain,
and stamped a sentiment on all the tags
(except for the one with the Martha Stewart
snowflake punch-out). The sentiments are from
Lili of the Valley, and the one in Norwegian
I think is from Papirloftet.
For a finishing touch I misted the tags with
Glimmer Mist Chalkboard. 

On each of the pacages of tags I added some Christmas Charms too.
The star tags have the sentiments "Peace", "Love", "Joy" and "Noel",
along with the norwegian "God Jul".

Begge knippene med til/fra-lapper ønsker jeg å
delta til Card and Scraps utfordring. 

This card is a bag card, the image is from a Pion paper,
and I also love the pion patterned paper. I used my
snowflake edge die from Tim Holtz, a Storyteller Poinsettia,
and a ribbon to tie the card shut. 

This card is one of my favourites from this season.
It is another paper bag card, for this I used my Martha Stewart
doily hearts edge puncher.
I love the papers from Pion,
and I also used a Doohickey tag, decorated with a
Prima Trinket and a heart pearl charm, tied with string.
but it is a bit out of focus. I used cloth, lace, striped ribbon,
BoBunny searl swirls, some red berries and a rose,
and my last tiny little cinnamon stick. 

With this card  above I wish to join Deep Ocean Challenge, 
favourite color combo. For Christmas my favourite colors
are white, craft(vintage brown) and deep red.
Jeg ønsker også å delta på Vintage Utfordring - Jul. 

These are large matchboxes. I added handles from Tim Holtz,
and left over papers. For the left one I used two doilies and a die cut,
cinnamon sticks and cloth, a red ribbon, and a bell tied with string.
For the right one I used my Martha Stewart lace edge puncher,
a little lace, a snowflake from Melissa Franses that I paintet white
and decorated with a pearl and string,
and I dabbet some liquid pearl around the box. 

Jeg deltar med begge fyrstikkeskene til Nordsalten Hobbyklubb
sin utfordring "lys", og også til Vintage Utfordring - Jul. 

Another one of my Pion papers, just love them!
This one was a lot of work and punching,
I layered strips punched with my lacy Martha Stewart Punch,
and cut the tree shape afterwords. I used tape from Panduro,
and covered the tree with LOTS of Star Dust Stickles. 

Med dette kortet ønsker jeg å delta hos Kort O Mania sin juleutfordring. 

And for last, I just want to show off my new Holiday decorations,
the first one up this year. I just love colors like this for Christmas,
but at the same time I like the clean "northern" style with lots of white
and nature, and vintage style too.  I suppose I'll find myself a nice blend
after a few years, make it personal. :)

Hope this post was not to cluttered and messy,
and that it broke no challenge rules.
I wish you all a lovely week!

Edwins Gift

This is my third and last of the cards that where published in
Ett Trykks Julehilsen Magazine. 

With this I am also proud to tell you that now my blog
has been wieved more than a hundred thousand times!
I can hardly believe it, that anyone wants to visit to se
something that I made, its just strange.

Thank you all so much for the love and comments,
I love both getting visitors and visiting others. Sometimes
it just makes my day, and I get so much inspiration through blogging.
I think I feel some Christmas Candy comming up,
lets see what I can throw together. :)

The papers I have used are from Websters pages and Inkido,
I think? The card was made in May so I'm having a hard time remembering. 

I only have a few Edwin stamps,
and I think this is my favorite Edwin.
I colored him with Distress Reinkers. 

The flowers are from Petaloo,
I added acryllic paint to make them frosty and softer.
I also used some clear buttons with string. 

I used two Doohickey Tags,
and a big bow made from lovely ribbon from
Wild Orchid Crafts. 

Challenges:
Tildas Town - Favorite Tilda/Edwin

Simply Magnolia - Over the Edge

Magnolia-Licious - Winter

Frosty X-mas Tilda

This is the second of my cards that was published in the

Ett Trykk Julehilsen-magazine. 

Since it was my first chance to have something publiset,

I wanted to make a card that showed off my favorite style,

with pink and shabby details. 

The paper from Maja design. I used a heart doily;

cloth and white mesh from Ribbon Girl. 

Tilda was painted with distress ink. I used Liquid Pearl

all around, Star Dust Stickles on the details,

and the entire image is covered with a heavy layer

of Chalkboard Glimmer Mist. 

These letters are from American Crafts, they where white but

I still added some acrylic paint for a shabbyer look,

and stickles on top. 

These letters are from Prima,

and they got the same treatment at the other ones. 

I used pearl string all around the blue layer,

and in the corner I tied a twine bow from WOC,

and added two beautiful pearl charms and a little bell. 

Here I have used flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts,

A Magnolia Doohickey,

a snowflake from my Martha Stewart Puncher,

a brance from the same big plastic snowflake

that I used on the Noel Angel-card,

and a bling pearl from Ribbon Girl.

I added white paint on the flowers and other details

on the card for a shabby, frozen look. 

Challenges:
Magnolia-Licious - Anything Goes

Ribbon Girl - Stripes

Deep Ocean Challenge - Winter
Simply Magnolia - Anything Goes

Noel Angel

This is one of the Christmas cards I made that was published in
the Magazine Ett Trykk!
This is the first time I get to show it of here in my blog. 

I have used papers from Inkido, and lots of old book pages,
a doily, a tag, and some pacaging.

This beautiful Tilda was painted witn Distress Reinkers,
and I added Diamond Stickles to her wings. 

The letters are from Loopy Lou, 

and I added Star Dust Stickles to them. 

I used both of my Martha Stewart Punches,
Jute mesh, lace, red and white ribbon, cloth, string,
and a lovely heart charm. 

The chipboard snowflake was painted white,
I added Stickles, and a pearl. I also used
plenty of smaller pearls and liquid pearl
around the card. 

This gorgeous snow flake was stuck on a Christmas gift
from a friend, I just love it and thought it was perfect for this card. 

Simply Magnolia - Anything Goes

Tildas Town Challenge - Anything Goes

Flowers and banners *CLP*

Okey, so this card comes with some sad news.

This november challenge at CLP sketch challenge will be the very last one.

Thank you so much Chelsea for having me on your wonderful team,

thanks for all the fantastic sketches you have made,

and good luck on the next and most exciting chapter in your life!

This card was for yet another birthday party,

there have been a few of them this fall.

This is the gorgeous sketch I have used.

Please, pop over and join us! :)

I colored Tilda with Distress Reinkers,

and added some Liquid Pearl.

I used papers from Maja Design, Poppydesign,

some leftover paper and Magnolia pacaging. 

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts,

and I also used two pink bells from Panduro,

a white ribbon and a brooche from Ribbon Girl,

and those little tuille leaf fans-thingies from Kort og Godt.  

I used a doily, pearl string, and little glittering snowballs from Prima.

This little bling thingie here is also from Ribbon Girl. 

I added some acrylic paint and dabbet with Liquid Pearls

all over my card. 

Challenges:

Magnolisa-licious - Anything Goes

Midweek Magnolias - Lots of layers

Icy Pink Skate Princess

Another birthday party for my daughter to go to,
I just love that I get to make super girlie cards for someone
who I know are super girlie girls who will love pink and sparkles
as much as I do. ;)

For this card I used Maja Design papers. 

The Magnolia Image was colored with Distress Reinkers.
I added Liquid Pearls around, and misted it with Glimmer Mist. 

The frame is from Panduro, the letter from Prima, and I added acrylic
paint and Star Dust Stickles, and Liquid Pearl.
I used lace and ribbon from Ribbon Girl. 

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts,
and I used little Prima glittering snow balls in between.
I also used some pearl swirls from Bo Bunny. 

I have added cloth behind the image,
two trinkets from Prima, and clear pacaging from Prima as well.
All over I have added acrylic paint for some frosty texture. 

Challanges:
Magnolia-licious - Anything Goes

Card and Scrap - Merkedager

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Bingo (flowers, ribbon, glitter)

Lovely Hänglar - Sparkle

The Ribbon Girl Challenge - Spots and Dots
Sketchy Colors - Sketch
Tildas Town - Bling

Creative Inspirations - Anything goes

ABC - X-tra Special