Birthday bottle tag

I whipped this together yesterday for a birthday party.

I didnt know the size of the bottle, so I just made a big hole.

The papers are Maja Design, Inkido and Poppydesign.

I used a doily, cheese cloth, a ribbon and pearl-embellisment from Ribbon Girl

and my Martha Stewart lace puncher, and butterfly puncher.

The framing of the image and the whole for the bottle neck

is Spellbinders. 

Tilda was colored with Distress Reinkers.

Her hair is colored with Aged Mahogany and Walnut Stain,

and a little Black Soot.

The skin is Tattered Rose and Vintage Photo,

and Aged Mahogany for blush.

For her clothes and the gift I used Victorian Velvet

and Pumice Stone, and Diamond Stickles. 

The flowers are all from Wild Orchid Crafts,

and the swirly things are from Kort og Godt. 

Love this embellishment!

I also added some pearls here and there,

and two kinds of lace (but I almost covered up one of them).

Challenges:

Scrap a long - Glitter og stas

In the pink - Luscious lace

Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Alt er lov

Card and Scrap - Bruk punch

Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything but square

Creative inspirations - One for the girls

Midweek Magnolias - In the pink with ribbons and pearls

Addicted to stamps - Struktur/Fabric

The Ribbon Girl Challenge Blog - Pink and Ivory

Top 10 of 2012

Yesterday I sat down and looked over my blogging for the year.
At first I figured I had hardly made anything worth while this year,
The last half of the year has been very dry.
But to my surprise I had forgotten most of what I have made,
and I did find me some favourites.
Think I'll go over to just create stuff like this,
and completely blow off everything else scrapvise. :p

So here, in random order, is my top 10 for 2012!

The confirmation gift set I made for my sister

A Wedding card, The sentiment is "And then they lived happily ever after". 

The card for my daughters third birthday. 

Baby Boy

Happy new year!

Today I have a baby card to show you,

I am going to be an aunt, any day in January the baby is comming, 

and I am sooo excited!

They have been trying for a long time,

and now the baby is almost due. :)

The ultra sound said it was going to be a boy,

so I have one card ready. I think I'll put the name of the baby

on it after he is born, they havent told anyone or decided the name yet. 

This card is my take on CLPs new sketch!

I have used some gorgeous papers from Maja Design.
The edges are distressed with Walnut Stain. 

A little peak at the new sketch, I love it!

I love this "charm"/frame, it even has glass on it. 

I have used some pompoms, loopet organza trim,

and regular organza trim tied in a bow.

I also have used pearl string, and pearles-in-a-row.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, and the white swirlies

are from Kort og Godt.

I used three baby charms. 

This is a piece of a die cut that I clued on some bazzil and cut out.

Like how it lookes.

I used some more pearls, and Star Dust Stickles on the image frame. 

This little baby is of course from Magnolia,

and so is the corner stamps. 

I inked him with Distress Reinkers.

Skin - Tattered rose and Vintage Photo, Aged Mahogany.

Clothes - Faded Jeans and Pumice stone.

Wings - Wethered Wood and Faded Jeans

Shading - Wethered Wood.

Challenges:

Magnolia Down Under Challenges - Anything Goes

Simon says Stamp - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - New

Lovely Hänglar Only - Anything Goes

Kort O Mania - Anything Goes

Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Happy New... (Baby!)

Happiness be yours

Today is the 13th of December, Lucia Day.

Me and my fiancee have been together for 9 years today,

so he actually surpriced me with roses and a gift (Gilmore Girls on DVD).

Its not often he does stuff like this, so it was very nice. :)

So today I ditched the school work I really should have been doing,

and made this wall hangable card for my sister.

The images are a bit poor, put it could have been worse I think.

At least the colors are all right. ;)

I used papers from Maja Design,

a heart shaped doily, and I inked the edges of the papers

with Distress Ink, Walnut Stain. 

I colored Tilda with Distress Ink. Her clothes are a mixture

of Victorian Velvet and Walnut Stain.

For skin I use Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo and Aged Mahonagny,

and for the rest I used Pumice Stone and Black Soot.

I shaded with Wethered Wood and Black Soot.

The fur edges on her clothes are lined with Martha Stewart Flocking.

The Wings I got at Panduro. I originally was not planning this,

but I strumpled across them as I was searching for fitting

embellishments, and I just had to use them.

Maybe a bit much, but whatever. ;)

The flowers I used are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I made some of the flowers smaller by removing a layer of them,

and I put some Snow Wrighter on them.

I love the sparkely snowflake, I dont know if you can tell,

but its made entirely out of rhinestones. It is from Ribbon Girl. 

The Lace and mesh is also from Ribbon Girl. 

I used Martha Stewart Snowflakes that I punched out,

and a Doohickey tag, some twine, pins and seem binding ribbon from WOC, 

and a big heart charm from Ribbon Girl. 

The sentiment is from Magnolia, and I added some little pearls.

I also used Snow Wrighter on the corners in the card,

and I used Chalkboard Glimmer Mist all over. You can rell if you look for it. ;)

Challenges:

In the Pink - Pink and Pearlie

Papirdokkene - Vinterdrøm (en rosa vinterdrøm, dette da)

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Cute Christmas

Come and Get it Challenges - Tag, your it!

Totally Tilda - Tilda Sitting Pretty

Addicted to stamps Challenge - Bingo (Fav colors, lace and ribbon, snowflake)

MDUC - Christmas Bingo (Snowflake, Stickles, Doohickey)

Totally Gorjuss - Oh no Snow

Tildas Town - Celebrate Christmas

The Ribbon Girl Blog - Christmas

Deep Ocean Challenges - So This is Christmas

Simply  Magnolia - Tis the Season

Scrap a long - Jul

Card and Scrap - Engler

Christmas Gifts

Hello all my sweet friends and visitors!
I have again neglected my blog, I have been preoccupied with school,
the stomach flu, school and school.
I have also been making a few Christmas gifts,
theese are what I wanted to show you quickly today.
I have an exam tomorrow, so I have to dive back into my
books right now. Being sick really made me fall behind on my schedule.

These are kleenex-covers that I am giving away for Christmas.
Both are made with Pion papers,
I used peals, Martha Stewart butterfly puncher,
and dies. I also used Star Dust Stickles. Very simple embellishments,
the papers are so lovely in themselfes and I didnt want people to think
they where unhygienic with to much flowers etc. 

I hope you all are having a lovely December. :)

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

Got the sniffles?

I made another Kleenex cover, and I have several more to make.
Yesterday I even started to ink up a few images,
and I'll try to make some cards today.
Hopefully the drought is over. :)

Sorry about the messy images! I don't have a good place to
take pictures of larger creations. Guess I should buy that photo tent I'we

been wanting for a while now, because soon it wont be much daylight here at all. 

The paper I have used is from Pion. Love the color of it!
This box is intended for my uncle, so I tried to make it not so feminin. 

This time I used some flowers. The colors I chose was inspired
by another one of the papers in this series. 

The bottle is from Panduro, and inside it is a piece of the same paper
that is on the box. The flowers are from WOC. 

The berries are from Storyteller, I think. 

The lace was a gift, and the button is vintage. 

I got a few questions about how I made the last box.
This is how I cut the paper, I even added the strip at the bottom that
I don't use. So I only have to use one sheet of bazzil, and possibly one
sheet of design paper, that depends on the pattern on the paper. 

This is how it looks from the bottom. There is no bottom,
so its just a hollow cover that I put on the box. That makes it easy to change the
kleenex box, but it is still quite solid and easy to grab. I know that,
because I've had a box like this in my living room for more than a year. :)

A bit of a follow up on the snow picture.
The weather have been so terrible, it has been almost stormy for days.
Rain and snow and hail and sleet.
Yesterday it cleared up for a while, so Sofie and I snuck out and made a snowman.
I haven't done that in so many  years, but I think he turned out quite handsome. ;)

Challenge:
Thats just so cute - noe til en mann