Christmas in July

The first Christmas creation of the year!
I just have to say, I think cards like this are SO hard to make!
I dont know why, I think I have a bit of trouble with Christmas cards

in general. I`m not comfortable with red, and its just difficult.
But on the other hand I do believe I am going to make a bit of "boring"
cards like this (not that I think seing other people post these cards are boring,
but I do find them a bit boring to make), because I think this is something I could
sell at the market before Christmas. So just now I had an idea
that I could make magnets for Christmas with my Magnolias etc,
so I could use them more.

I used papers from Poppydesign, doilyes, flowers from WOC and Kort og Godt,
pearls, brads, snowflakes from my Martha Stewart puncher, and some berries I cant seem
to remember where I got. The sentiment is in norwegian, about friendship.
I used Diamont Stickles on the snowflakes.

This is the first of the three cards I plan to send to Hjertebodens Juleblogg.
I also join Totally Gorjuss at their Christmas Challenge. 

Tinker Tilda

This adorable Tilda is a new favorite of mine.
She is so adorable! The only thing I dont like about her is that her hair
is so terrible hard to color!

This card is for my daughters friend from kindergarten,
she lives next door and turned 6 today, so she is starting
school this fall. We are going over there in an hour or so,
for an outdoors birthday party.

The papers I used are Magnolia and Inkido.
I used my Martha Stewart puncher, and it BROKE today!
One of the little pins just fell out, so I had to overlap the punching a bit
not to get missing holes in the pattern. I also used a bit of lace, and a doily.

This cute image from Magnolia I just had to paint green,
she reminded me so much of Tinkerbell.
Now I regret doing her bow in pink, it totally should have been green

too. Oh well, whats done is done, and all that.
I used Icicle and Liquid Pearl. 

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, Prima,
Storyteller and Kort og Godt.
I used some pins too. 

The letters is from American Crafts,
I dabbed some acrylic paint on, and used Icicle Stickles
on them and Tildas wings. 

I used some bling from Prima.



Challenges:
Cutie Pie - Glitter and bling
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Barn

Tildas Town - Favorite Tilda (at least it is this week)
Midweek Magnolias - Birthday
Creative Inspirations - Sketch
Scrap a long - Sommer
ABC - Surprise

Happily ever after

Here is the other card I made the other day,
its that wedding time of year.

I have this sentiment stamp that says (in norwegian) "and then they lived
happily ever after", but I didnt like the front of the letters,
so I made my own verson by cutting out the word happily and
using thickers instead. I covered the letters with acrylic paint,
and a looot of glitter.
The papers I used are from Pion, I think?

The base of the heart is a heart doily. 

I used a lot of flowers, some from Wild Orchid Crafts, some from
Kort og Godt, some I have no idea.
I used my Martha Stewart  butterfly punch,
and my heart lace-punch.

As you can see I used the hearts that came out of the puncher
to embellish a bit more. I also used pearls and liquid pearls,
and corner dies from QC. 

Challenges -
Deep Ocean Challenge - Sea of Love

Wild Orchid Challenge - Punch it out

A gift from the heart

Wow, a vintage card!

Or maybe Shabby?

I made some card to sell at the store,

I think people like the vintage looking cards more,

and after all, if they think Tilda is too childish,

I need to offer them something else.

I rarely make cards with vintage images.

I got some of these gorgeous images from Pretty Vintage

when I was a part of another design team,

but I keep saving them because they are so pretty,

and also I have so many great stamps I want to use!

But scrapping with vintage images is fun too,

and it goes so fast when you don't have to color an image.

I used all papers from Maja Design,

an piece of Bingo-board, a doily, and a tag from a dress.

You can also see a few small bits of magic mesh. 

The flat flowers are Prima (I want more of those!!),

and the others are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

The brads are from Papirloftet. 

I used a butterfly charm, lace, pearls and pins from WOC, and a Prima flower.

I used my edge puncher and butterfly puncher, both from Martha Stewart.

The sentiment I think is from Magnolia. 

Sketchy Colors - Skisse 120 farge 115, rosa, mint og hvit.

Card and Scrap - Vinger

Vintage utfordring - Anything goes

Kort O Mania - Sommerfugler

Summer time *CLP Challenge*

Its a new month already,

and that means a new sketch at CLP Challenge!
This is my take on the sketch. 

This card is a birthday card for my father. 

I used papers from Pion, such lovely patterns. 

At this moment I just cant remember where the image is from.

I think I won it in a challenge, and I`m pretty sure its a norwegian design.

He is colored with Distress Reinkers.

I used little clasp-thingie from Tim Holtz. 

I used roses from Wild Orchid Craft,

the spiral flowers are from Kort og Godt,

and some cute berries. Just love berries like this,

should have some in all colors.

The green flowers are from Petaloo. 

I used some doilies, a tag, some seem binding ribbon, string,

and peals and lace from WOC. 

Challenges:
Cutie Pie Challenge - One for the boys
Deep Ocean Challenge - Welcome Summer

Wish upon a star

My mother in law turned 50 yesterday,

but she has been away, so I finished her card today,

she is coming home tomorrow.

There will be a big party for her next weekend,

with her sons and some nephews in their band covering

some of her favorite songs. There will be a bit of Rolling

Stones, and a whole lot of different stuff.

Its going to be FUN!

Tomorrow there will probably be some cake-eating,

so I have the card ready. Well, Its actually a bag,

but I still dont know what we are getting her,

so I`ll do the last fitting later. ;)

I used papers from Maja Design.

I tried to keep it light, and use not to much stuff to make

it heavy or dark.

The image is colored with Distress Reinkers.

I used some Star Dust Stickles, and Liquid Pearl. 

I used some Magnolia Dies flowers,

and squeezed in some roses.

The brads are Papirloftet, and the roses and stars

are from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

I used some butterfly charms, twine and pearls from WOC,

lace from Ribbon Girl, Magnolia Tags,

and my Martha Stewart Punch. 

With this bag I join these challenges:
MDUC - Paper bag
Magnolia-Licius - Neutrals and Lace
Papirdukkene - Lotto (Øverst vannrett)
Card and Scrap - Bruk roser
Tildas Town - Celebrate
Midweek Magnolias

Second Birthday

Another layout from me.

I was so happy, I just had to go scrap a bit.

Want to know why?

I got the grade of my last exam today,

and I got an A!! *bragging* My very first since starting university.

I feel so proud and relieved. I also passed my other exam,

got a respectable C. Damn physics almost screwed me,

so I`m just happy I passed.

I have had this "image" laying on my scrap desk for 16 months now,

it is the birthday greeting my mother in law put in the newspaper for Sofie.

In Norway its very common to put images and a greeting in the local

newspaper for children and round birthdays for adults.

So finally I made a page with it,

inspired from the great sketch at Once upon a...Sketch.

The papers are left over pieces from Pion, and I think it was a

little piece of Maja Design in there too.

I used a doily, some lace, flowers from WOC, Prima and

a few unidentified ones. Swirls from Prima too. 

The letter is from Prima, its a bit of a short title.

I really suck at making titles.

I got some new clips from Tim Holtz, love them!

I also used some lovely pins that I got from a sweet friend. 

Challenge:

Once upon a...Sketch - Sketch + birthdays

Can I ride my bike?

These pictures of my daughter riding her three wheel bike,

with her new pink heart shaped bucket, I took earlier this month

when it was nice and sunny. We where going to visit the

girl next door for Sofie to play with.

The house in the background is where we live now.

Its VERY orange, but cosy. I love the area around our house,

see the old dirt road, I get all sentimental and remember how

it felt running on roads like that in my bare feet as a child.

You know I`m a cardmaker, I rarely try layouts anymore

because I just cant do it right, I feel.

It never gets the way I want it. I guess I need other kinds of embellishments

to decorate layouts. An excuse to shop?

This time I got so inspired by Ingvild Bolmes challenge

at Scrappehuset. She want to see us use a series (2+) of images,

and one is the background, and the other are cut outs,

and comming out of the image. Then we are to embellish

to make the area around fit with the images.

I have loved that style for a while, with the cut out

pictures and making the LO look like a fantasy world,

so I just had to try. 

And look at this. Normally I use some sort of amazing paper,

and then I cover it all up with flowers. This time:

No patterned paper, and no flowers...

I think something is wrong with me!

Here is another one of my problems in regards of doing layouts.

I do not have a photo printer! But I really wanted to make this,

so what do a scrapper do? We take what we have.

So the images are simply regular copy paper.

I used a nest with eggs and branches with leaves from Prima.

The letters are from American Crafts and Loopy Lou.

I used a doily, a couple of tags, some buttons, a tag envelope,

and a piece of cardboard from packaging.

The butterflies, twine and stars are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

The hanger is from Tim Holtz.

I also used a couple of zipper-thingies,

and some acrylic paint with some magic mesh as

a stencil.