Create *Marvelous Magnolia DT*

Right now I am at my last week at scool,

I study online and travel to my school three weeks

per semester, and this is my last week of my very last semester.

I just cant believe I am almost done, has it been four years already?

I have applied for jobs and everything,

and I feel both excited to work, scared to death about my last

two exams, scared and nervous about the responsibility about

being a techer and about having to go to an interview...

And so happy to be almost done at the university!

Yes, so many feelings!

Today I want to show you a birthday card for a special someone 

who's birthday is comming up. :)

And again, no flowers! Unless you count the button.

This card is my card for our midway reminder at

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge!

This time, we want to se ribbons or bows. 

I used papers from Prima and Maja design,

and a doily behind the image. 

Tilda was colored with Distress Reinkers,

before I sprayed Chalkboard Glimmer Mist over her.

The Doohickey tag is removable, 

and has Lily of the valley-sentiments on both sides.

The angel charm was a gift, I think they are so pretty. :)

I used white string and a white button, both from Ribbon Girl. 

The lightboulb is from Prima, and I added some pearls.

I think the whole card was very inspired by Elaine, in fact!

She makes the most beautiful cards. :)

Challenges:

Tildas Town - Clean and layered or fuzzy and fancy
Lovely Hänglar Sweet Magnolia - Girls Only

Sketch Saturday - Sketch

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!

Leftover paper cards

I was asked to make some new cards for the local store where
I sell some of my cards, and I was finally inspired to dig into my leftovers.
For  me to throw away a piece of paper, its gotta be real small!
Yet I am not that good at using the leftovers.
So I sat down and sorted the pieces according to color,
and made theese three clean and simple cards. 

Flutter by

This is the last of the tree cards I made during the scrap night with my SIL.

The paper is from Inkido, and the image is from Papirloftet.
I also used my Spellbinders label one (witch I got a smaller set for today so finally
I can use them more and get a smaller frame, jeey!). And I used my Martha Stewart
butterfly punch, and Star Dust Stickles and pearls.

School is starting soon, and I hope during fall I will get a lot of inspiration.
At least I got a lot of moneys worth of inspiration today,
at my yearly visit to a big and beautiful scrap store. :)

Challenges:
Come and get it Challenge - Things with wings

Sketchy

I got my scrap room all set up yesterday, and then I invited my
sister-in-law over to break it in. I made three cards, one of them was this,
done after the sketch at Sketchy Colors. 

The papers are from Pion. I used a sentiment from Papirloftet,
flowers from WOC, and a swirl die.

 Blogland seems a bit quiet,
maybe everyone is traveling?
Hope you all enjoy the last weeks of summer. 

Fantastic Four?

Four more of the "simple" cards I am making for selling at the store.
Simple may be the wrong term though,
most of the times I struggle more with these than I to with my
shabby and over-detailed-lots-of-layers-magnolia-cards.
So clean/simple is totally not the same as easy!
As I am wrighting this I am lying flat on my couch,
just worn out from painting ceilings and walls etc. in our new house,
and preparing "the big move".
Lots of hard work ahead...

The paper is from Maja Design and the sentiment is Magnolia.
I have used a doily and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

I believe the paper is from Bo Bunny, I just love it but it never
went with anything I wantet to make.
I added a sentiment from Papirloftet, and a strip of lace
and a couple of pearls. 

This little monster I got in a secret friend-swap once.
The front of the card is layered and pieced together with
left over paper pieces. 

For this I used Maja Papers, tags, string and an envelope.
The tickets are from Tim Holtz,
and a bit of pacaging from Prima. The image is from Sagen,
I think? 

1 Bazzil - 3 cards

So Sunday turned out to be a massive card-day,

I actually made seven cards in total.

These three where made from one Bazzil Cardstock

that I split into three 4x6 cards.

Cards like this is what I sell most of,

and the store has been clean out of cards for ever now,

so I am making up a batch to last for some time,

I hope. :)

This one was made without any Designer Paper.

All four sides is covered with paper from an old book.

I used a doily, some pearls, roses from WOC,

and a plastic branch. The image is from Pretty Vintage, I think.

These papers are from My Minds Eye, I love their style!

I used a sentiment and one single rose. 

On this last card I used papers from Maja Design,

a vintage image from Sagen I think, and seem binding ribbon

and a key.

Hope you are having a better July than we are,

I have hardly seen the sun since June.

XX

Anne

Clean and Simple

Today I just want to show you a clean and simple card that
I made for a confirmation we where in last weekend.
Very simple indeed, but I kind of like it.
Wish I could have inspiration to do this kind of
cards more often.

I have also been working on a lot of other cards,
in spite of the fantastic summer weather we are having.
I have actually been sitting outside reading for my exsams in my bikini.
And oh, by the way, now I officialy have a bachelor degree in education!
So proud of myself. ^^ Only one year to go!
So in between sunbathing I have made Christmas cards,
and some other cards you will se later. The Christmas ones you
can't see for several months, and I have a special reason for that. ;)

This card was made from left over papers, I think they are from
Safrass Lass and Bo Bunny. The ribbon are from Ribbon Girl,
and the dragonfly is from Wild Orchid Crafts, I believe.       

Challenges:
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenges - Ribbons or laces