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

Christmas Lifts

I was one of the 40 scrappers who where asked to participate

in "Ett Trykk"s special edition magazine called "Julehilsen" (Christmas Greeting).

I will show you my cards later, I was so proud to be asked,

but for now I have to say that the magazine was really worth the money.

I got loads of inspiration, and here are two cards that I sort of lifted

from that magazine. Again I have used pieces from my left over pile.

Baby's firsh Christmas *New sketch at CLP*

Today is the first day of November. Can anyone please but a few more
weeks in between now and Christmas? I have so much schoolwork to do,
and just no desire, ideas or inspiration that helps me to do it.
Feel a bit like I'm drowning under the pressure.

Oh well, enough complaining.
This is my take on this months gorgeous sketch at CLP Challenges!
 I used papers from Inkido, they are so lovely for Christmas. 

And this is what the sketch looks like. :)
Hope you'll pop by to join us, as this is the last sketch of 2012!

This is the first time I use this adorable image, it was given
to me by my dear sweet Elaine. Thank youu!

I colored him/her with Distress Reinkers,
and used Star Dust Stickles on the fur,
and Liquid Pearl around him. 

I colored the seem binding ribbon myself, I wanted more
of the dark red in the details.
I used Aged Mahogany, a little drop of Vintage Photo and a drop
of Fired Brick, plus Chalkboard Glimmer Mist.
The heart charm, the mesh and the velvet ribbon are
from Ribbon Girl. 

The flowers I have used are mainly from WOC,
and the bling strips are from Storyteller. 

These little flowers are from Kutt Ut,
and I think that last flower is from Papirloftet.
I also used a bit of cheese cloth, but I don't like this one,
it is way to fine. 

I used a sentiment that says Merry Christmas in Norwegian,
I think it is from Papirloftet.

Hope you all will have a wonderful November!

Challenges:
Papirpikene - Julekort

Wild Orchid Crafts Challenge - Bling it up

Sparkling Winter Tilda

Yeeey, I have a Magnolia card to show you,
and I tell you, it was a lot of fun to make!

I used two papers from Poppydesign.
I chose them because they matched the image so well,
but I struggled really hard to find other things to match it.

Tilda was colored with Distress Reinkers.
I smudged some Gesso over it to make if look a bit older
and lighter. I also used Star Dust stickles on her, on all the dies,
and on the flowers.

I used three dies from Magnolia. A star, leaves and a swirl.
I used some seem binding ribbon, and angel charm, and the two
brads are from Making Memories. 

I used a ribbon from WOK, a ribbon, mesh and pearls from Ribbon Girl.

The pearl detail on the bow is also from Ribbon Girl.
Gosh, I love those "bases" for the pearls etc. 

I struggled a lot to find the right flowers. Suddenly I founds some
gorgeous Prima roses that I think I got in my calendar last year.
They haven't matched anything I have made before, but now they
where just the right colors. They where just too big.
So except for one, I took off a few layers of the flowers to make them smaller.
I also used tulips and roses from WOC. 

This is the backside of the card. I made it a single page card,
because I didn't have enough paper to make it a fold card.
I used two of these new larger heart doilies I just got. 

I realize now that I forgot to use a sentiment,
so strictly this does not have to be a Christmas card, but that
is what I was thinking when I made it. The angel makes it Christmas,
I think. ;)

Another show of the snow. THIS looks like Christmas,
with snow lying on the trees. I took this picture yesterday,
I actually went skiing! Gosh its hard, but good exercise.
Think I'll go skiing today to, the weather is lovely!

Challenges:
Sketchy Colors - Sketch

Totally Gorjuss - Things with wings
Tildas Town - Merry Christmas
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Jul

Magnolia Mania - Three Dies

Simply Magnolia - Sparkle and Swirls

Lovely Hänglar Only - Girls only

Christmas Kleenex

To all my followers, I just want to say I am so sorry!
I have been a terrible blogger lately.
I have just been going through this scrap-drought,
and in between school, a bit of work, and working out,
I just didn't have the time or energy to scrap or blog.
I just didn't want to either.

Yesterday I finally got this wave over me,
and I made this Kleenex cover with  my daughter hanging over me.
We had a real nice time together.

I have decided to make a few of these to give away this Christmas,
so I really hope the drought is over.

Winter suddenly came, so the lighting was bad.
In order to get a close to normal shot, I had to put my box in the window.
I used Christmas papers from Inkido, I just love them!

The ribbon that goes around the box I believe was a gift from some
sort of swap. The seem binding ribbon is from WOC.
I used my Martha Stewart Snowflake punch, and covered the snowflakes
with Icicle Stickles, and a bling from Ribbon Girl in the center. 

I have to say, I love this piece of bling that I got from Ribbon Girl!
They have so much nice stuff! 

And at last I want to show you quickly what we woke up to today.
We had maybe an inch of snow yesterday, and it came down hard
all night (its still snowing like crazy!).

I hope you will forgive me for being such a crappy blog friend,
and I hope you are all having a wonderful week!

Challenges:
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Jul

Totally Gorjuss - Bling it up