Lisbeths kort og scrap

PINK Birthdaycard

2012-01-28T13:42:00.001+01:00

Another Blogpost from me today - thought I'd use the weekend to post some of the things I have made recently. Then I should do a little tidying in my picturefolders on the PC - I try to see through it and sort it at the end of every month...
Well - it seems like I'm back to girlycards, at least this must be said to be "girlygirly".
I've used Kraftcardstock for the base of the card, the DPs are Hanoverian V&A - supercute papers!
I've had the flowers in my stash for ages, here I've put a liquid pearl in the middle of each flower, then I "painted" both flowers and butterflies (Martha Stewart punches) with Glimmerglam Glitterpaint - I LOVE how it sparkles!
The image and the banner are Magnoliastamps, the text on the outside is an old freestamp, the insidetext is a stamp from Kreativ Hobby.
The swirls are made with Spellbinders-dies.
Of course I've coloured Tilda with ProMarkers :D
The panels are sewn to the pink cardstock, before it is attached to the Kraftcardstock with doublesided tape.

Here's a close-up, where you can see the sparkle better (I think my pink-colouring has improved...)

And here's the inside, same "layout" on both sides, but reversed on one of them - I think that works the best :)

Challenges I enter this card into:
Kort o Mania - Søtt som Sukker
Deep Ocean - Sparkling and/or Glitter
Papertake Weekly - Happy Highlights
Crafts and Me - Pink and Sparkly
Charisma Cardz - Pretty in Pink

Christmascard in Green, Creme and Beige

2012-01-28T07:38:00.003+01:00

This is my fourth christmascard in January - I love making christmascards, and try to make a few every month.
I have bought some of Bildmålarnas stampimages - i think they are sooo cute - so now I practise colouring them. Tricky to find the right "touch" with new brands, I think.
I've used papers mainly from Pion. The edges are torn, ripped, sanded and distressed - quite messy around here when I finished that part - LOL
The insidetext is from Storyteller, and on the backside I used my personal stamp.

Close-up:

Inside:

Backside:

I'll enter these challenges:
Sketchy Colors - Green, Beige & Creme
NSHK - Sketch

Girly Birthday-Giftbag with Pink Polkadots

2012-01-27T09:59:00.001+01:00

It's Friday and we have a new challenge for you over at Fussy and Fancy.
This time we want to see Polka Dots - the DOTS can be on your paper, ribbons, buttons, flowers, images - wherever :D
I have made (what I think is) a really girly giftbag - with the dots on the papers (from Panduro), and on the ribbons (Panduro those too).
For the panel behind the image (SugarNellie) and the tags I used my brand new Spellbinderdie - have a feeling it may become a favourite for a while...
I've kept everything in pink shades here (It IS for a GIRL!).
The backside of the bag is made using the same sketch (Sunday Sketch & Stamp). Here I've stamped on a simple greeting (this stamp came with a magazine a long time ago, and I really like it).

Now - click over to Fussy and Fancy, to check out and join our new challenge :D

I'll also enter my Pink Girly Giftbag into these challenges:
Sunday Sketch & Stamp - Donnas Sketch
Crazy4Challenges - A Child's Birthday Card
Stamptaular Sunday - Seeing Spots
Simon Says Stamp! - Anything Goes
Little Darlings - Polka Dots
DYSU - Ribbons
Charisma Cardz - Pretty in Pink
Scrap'a'Long - Anything Goes

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Birthdaycard - Again

2012-01-22T00:54:00.002+01:00

Here's my latest card - a birthdaycard (already forgotten about my intention to make boyscards...) very inspired by the sketch at this weeks TOMIC-sketch. With that challenge I even got back to sewing on FABRIC - wich I haven't done in ages!
Papers are from Magnolia and Cardstock's from Bazzill. I used a swirldie from MarianneDesign Creatables, Punches from Martha Stewart (Edgepunch and Butterfly).
The Stampimage is Magnolia and the textstamp is from Kreativ Hobby.
The image is coloured with ProMarkers.
Edges are distressed (all with a distresstool and some with DistressInk WalnutStain too).

Here's a picture showing some details; the bow, the pin, the beadstrings, hopefully the tiny pearls I made using Liquid Pearls (White Opal) and Tilda:

I made the card as an Easelcard. The inside is made as a pocket, with a little distance to keep the "easel" standing. Inside the pocket I placed a tag (but forgot to take pictures, and now it's too dark to do it...)

I'll send my Birthdaycard to these challenges:
TOMIC #33 - Sketch
Delightful Challenges - Distressed/ Vintage
I Love ProMarkers - Anything Goes
The ABC Challenge - H for Happy Birthday
Crafts And Me - Use Pins

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Black and white Birthdaycard

2012-01-18T21:11:00.002+01:00

I have tried to colour an image in "Black and White" - as the challenge at MDUC was this week. I have tried this colouring a couple of times before, and I really like it. I find it kind of relaxing to colour "without colours" :)
To put the card together I used the sketch from Sketchy Colors (Their 100.th Challenge!), and I dusted off the sewing machine to sew around the edges.
I used papers (from Majadesign) in black/ white/ with a little touch of light pink - and added a little light pink bow and three very, very light pink (almost white) roses.
I used a black lacefabric underneath the diecutpanel (Nellies Multiframes), and tied a bow with a black lace. All pearls are made with Liquid Pearls.
I also made a few "dewdrops" on the leaves and flowers with tiny GlossyAccents-pearls.
On the banner I wrote "Gratulerer" by hand with a light grey felt-tip-pen.
Inside the card I made a giftcardpocket, and punched out panels with a Martha Stewart punch (Punch around the page).
On the left side I stamped a birthdaygreeting, and the right side I left blank for personal greetings.
All edges are distressed with DistressInk BlackSoot.
The next two pictures show the inside and a close-up of Tilda, and at the bottom of the post you'll find the challenges I'll try my luck in...

Sketchy Colors - Sketch
Magnolia Down Under Challenge - Black and White Image
Scrapperiket - Søm
I Love ProMarkers - Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Neutral Colours
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Scrappy Frogs - Lace

Heddas Calendar

2012-01-16T15:29:00.001+01:00

Hei, jeg heter Hedda. Jeg er 10 år. Jeg liker å lage kort og slikt sammen med mamma.
Her ser dere kalenderen jeg har laget. Jeg gleder meg til sommeren, derfor har jeg laget denne kalenderen gul. Jeg liker magnoliastemplene veldig godt, denne har jeg farget med promarkers.
Jeg stemplet figuren på et mønsterark og klippet ut kjolen og sokkene. Så limte jeg dem på henne. Mamma sier at det kalles paperpiecing.
Jeg pyntet med blomster, blader, bånd og ei sløyfe. Så farga jeg noen sommerfugler med promarkers og limte på kalenderen.

Hi, my name is Hedda. I'm 10 years old. I like to make cards and stuff together with my mother. Here is the calendar I made. I have made a yellow calendar, because I look forward to the summer. I like the Magnoliastamps very much. I coloured this with promarkers. I stamped the image to a designpaper and cut out the dress and the socks. Then I glued them onto the image. Mum says its called paperpiecing. I decorated with flowers, leaves, ribbon and a bow. Then I coloured a few butterflies with promarkers and glued them to the calendar.

Her er sommerfuglene:
Here are the butterflies:

Jeg skal prøve å være med på disse utfordringene:
Simply Magnolia - Anything but a card
Panduro Hobby - Kalender (de 4 årstider)
Alphabet Challenge Blog - Y for You can choose
Gingerloft - Anything Goes
OLLCB - New beginnings
Let's ink it up - Anything Goes

Tusen takk til mamma for hjelp med oversettelse og linkene :)

New Year - New Calendar

2012-01-16T11:12:00.001+01:00

A little late maybe, but Happy New Year everybody!
Here's the Calendar I made for 2012.

Since this is a calendar that is supposed to be on display and use throughout the year, I felt I had to make it suitable for the whole year. If I'd make one section for each month I'd better be starting on the calendar for 2013, to get it finished in time...
So I divided it in 4, one for each season of the year; winter, spring, summer and fall (think it sounded like a song, when I read it...)
I have used Magnolia stampimages, Tilda and Edwin that I thought fitted the seasons. Designpapers used for backgrounds are all from MajaDesign. Everything used is old stuff and stash, but the calendar is new - 366 brand new days :D

When I sat down to make this one Hedda came and wanted to make her own calendar. I'll help her put it into the blog later today (she's very "do-it-myself", and wants to have her own blog. I think she's a little too young as she is only 10 years old ("very soon to be 11", I'd guess she'd correct me, if she'd hear me or read this - LOL), but for now she'll have to borrow mine).

It'll go to the challenges at:
Panduro Hobby - Kalender (de 4 årstider)
Let's Ink It Up - Anything Goes
Papirdokkene - Noe gammelt og noe nytt (something old and something new)
Alphabet Challenge - Y for You Can Choose
Stampin' for the Weekend - Out with the Old
OLLCB - New Beginnings
Gingerloft Challenge - Anything Goes

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One Layer Card

2012-01-10T09:57:00.004+01:00

Haven't I been brave! I've made an One-layer-card!

Ever since I saw the One-Layer-Card-Challenge at Ett Trykk - Norsk Stempelblads blog I have wanted to try to make one. It scared me a bit, especially the part about stamping directly to the cardstock - it didn't give much room for mistakes...
I spent some time thinking over how I wanted the card to be, not being able to make any bigger changes as I went on...
I masked the motive together, both images, text and the sentiment on the envelope. I used pencils for colouring this time (many images since I used pencils...)
The snowflakes are stamped with Versamark, then heatembossed with white embossingpowder. I also used a white Sakura Glaze pen and doodled in some tiny white dots here and there.
The snow Tilda is sitting on (or in...) is Aleene's True Snow, painted on with a spatula (it shows better in a picture further down).
On the envelope I stamped the same image and the sentiment "God Jul" (Merry christmas), and heatembossed it with clear embossingpowder (also in a picture furter down).
All in all, i'm quite pleased with how it turned out :)

The Challenges I'll send my One-Layer-Card to:
Ett Trykk - One Layer Card
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Kraft
MDUC #128 - Anything Goes
Creative Belli #134 - Snowflakes
Heidis Hobbystuggu - Vinter
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays - Winter Something
Gingerloft Challenge #31 - Anything Goes
Papiravisen - Vinterdrøm

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Birthdaycard in Pink and Brown

2012-01-09T13:53:00.001+01:00

Yesterday I made a really girlish birthdaycard.
ProMarker Norges very first challenge say "Pink and 1 other colour". After long consideration I chose that other colour to be brown.
Finally I found a place to use the pink lace I bought years ago (at Kort&Godt). I knew it would come in handy one day ;)
...and the pink buttons... that I seem to have a gazillion of... here I used 3 of them.
I think pink ProMarkers are a bit tricky to use, I often feel the colours doesn't blend as well as I want them to, sometimes the colours doesn't look how I want them to - but as I practise and read, I have found some combinations that work quite well together, now I've even started to write them down too ;) But I've also noticed that combos that work well on Letraset papers doesn't work so well on Bristol Board, and vice versa...
Here comes a little closer picture, where it's easier to see the details, like the Glimmermist (Dazzling Diamonds) I sprayed over the whole card before I attached Tilda, the sentiment and the flowers. I've also used a pink paperdoily (Glimmermist over that too). Inside the flowers I used Liquid Beads.
All edges are distressed and brushed (quite heavily) with DistressInk WalnutStain.
And, can you see! - I even had a brown lace in my stash!

Here's the inside, clean and simple with only an embossed birthdaygreeting :)

I'll enter my pink and brown girly birthdaycard into these challenges:
ProMarker Norge #1 - Rosa og en valgfri farge
I Love ProMarkers #98 - Buttons & Lace
Sketch N Stash #78 - Sketch
Scrappekammeret #45 - Bursdag
Scrappy Frogs - Lace Challenge
NSHK #45 - Girlish
Scrap'a'Long #12 - Anything Goes
Just Magnolia #138 - Anything Goes
MDUC #128 - Anything Goes
Simply Magnolia - Celebrate
Magnolia-Licious Highlites - Anything Goes

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January Christmascards

2012-01-07T15:34:00.001+01:00

Here are my Christmascards for January for Hjertebodens Juleblogg - and for a "few" other challenges. I turned to some other challengeblogs too, and GOSH! there are many, many wonderful cardmakers out there to get inspiration from!

This will be a long post, so grab a cup of coffee and the christmascookieleftovers and stay with me for a little while :)

Hjertebodens Julebloggs challenge is to make three christmascards every month of the year, this month at least one of the cards has to be non-quadratic. I chose to make all three card as shaped cards. I used my Spellbinders to make the cardstockbases for the cards, with different dies.
The stampimages are also quite similar for the three cards, as I used my loved Magnolias (can't get enough of those...), and coloured them with ProMarkers (can't get enough om those either - LOL)
All cards are made as Easel-cards, as Christmas Craftings challenge #17 says :)

Now, I'll present the cards, one by one, to you:

The first one is for, besides Hjertebodens Juleblogg, the challenges at:
TOMIC - Sketch and colour combo Blue/ White/ Glitter. I ended up reversing the sketch, I hope they'll accept that...
Magnolia-Mania want to see SNOW in their challenge. Here is snow on the trees, in the background (heatembossed) and around...
Stamptacular Sundays challenge sound "DOILIES make the world go round", so I used a doily inside the card, for the tagpocket. I had to "lace it up" a bit, and put on some liquid pearls - I love those pearls!
Kort 'o' Mania says "Punch it! Dies it! Cut it!" in their latest challenge, so I've punched snowflakes, shapes (and DP-panels) are dies'ed, and the threes and the image are cut ;)

Here comes the second card:

The frontside-text (NorthStarStamps) is placed inside a shakerbox. It isn't the first time I've tried to make a shakerbox, but it's the first time I'm so satisfied with it that I can show it...
Deep Ocean Challenge want to see "Lot of White", so this card is mainly white, with a teeny-tiny cold, blue touch.
Creative Belli Blogs challenge #134 is "Snowflakes" - can you see all the snowflakes I've used, with glitter and pearls on ( I often wonder of it is the possibility to use glitter that makes me such a fan of christmas- and wintercards...LOL)
DYSU has the challenge "Let it Snow" going, it's a photoinspirationchallenge, and I think this card should fit that challenge quite well.
Papercraft Star also has a winterphotoinspirationchallenge, which I'll send my card to.
Creative Card Crews challenge is "Snow Day", so I'll enter there too.

Inside I used a Frosty the Snowman-textstamp from Magnolia.

My third christmascard for January has COLOURS - I felt I needed to work with bright colours after making two almost "colourless" cards...
...so I grabbed for red and green, cinnamonsticks and red rhinestones, my red "season's greetings scented"-inkpad, and my red glitterpen- the "white" spots that shows white on Tildas clothes in the first picture are actually red glitter :)

This one will go for the Crafts and Me Christmas Bumper Challenge "Anything Goes".

Materials used:
Bazzill Cardstock
DP from: Maja Design, Papirdesign, Scrappers Choice, 3ndy Papir
Ink: Adirondack Earthtones Espresso, Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark, Ranger Seasons Greetings, Versacolor Sky Blue, DistressInk OldPaper and WalnutStain.
Stamps: Images from Magnolia.
Texts from: Magnolia, Kreativ Hobby, North Star Stamps, Papirdesign, Storyteller.
Colouring: ProMarkers
Punches from McGill and Tonic
Dies from Spellbinders and Magnolia
Other stuff used: Glitter, Liquid Pearls (White Opal), Liquid Appliqué, DecoArt Snowwriter, Glimmerglam Glitterpaint (Chandelier), Rhinestones and Ribbons...

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Telescoping Birthdaycard with Animal Print

2012-01-06T09:05:00.001+01:00

Good Morning, friends and visitors :D
Here's a little card I've made for Fussy and Fancy's Challenge #53 "Happy Birthday to Us/ Use an Animal Print". This challenge is now into its second (last) week, so hurry in and join us!

I made my card as a Telescoping Card. I've seen these cards around, and think they are so cute, so I was really happy when I found a very easy-to-follow tutorial at Splitcoaststampers.

The papers came free with a magazine a while ago - very often I find free papers very thin, but these were of quite a heavyweight quality - I LIKE that, AND I like the prints and images on the papers, sooo cute!
I've even blown some dust off my brads - seem to forget to use them anymore :(
I used Spellbinders' Petite Scalloped Circle Large for the cardstockcirkles, and of course here is a litlle touch of glitter. The pearls around the frontimage is made of Liquid Pearls (White Opal).

And look: I've made a matching envelope for the card :D
I love my Martha Stewart Scoreboard!

Here's the challenges I'll enter:
Scrappekammeret - Bursdag (Birthday)
Critter Sketch Challenge Blog - Celebration
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles - Let's Celebrate

Now; come on in to Fuzzy and Fancy Friday Challenge, to see what the rest of the DT have made for your inspiration, and to join this challenge.

Birthdaycard for a Footballboy

2012-01-03T21:21:00.004+01:00

I never seem able to make up a little sortiment of birthdaycards for boys, to have ready when the birthdays come. I will try again this year - this is my first, and I have planned a few more already, so maybe I'll make it this year...
This (first) one is made as a joy-fold-card. I placed a magnet between the cardstock and the DP on the imagepanel and on the bottomoverlay to make it close better.
I have used an image from Motivet "Dexter with soccer ball" - it is such a long time since I've used these cuties, I'd almost forgotten I had them.
I coloured Dexter with ProMarkers (in our teamcolours :D), then, over the brown, furry bodyparts I put on some brown "Crushed Velvet" (bon bon flock from doodlebug design inc.)
I've tried to take a close-up of the image, I hope Dexters fur shows better here:

Because it is a card for a boy, I tried to avoid too much glitter, bling and stash, but a few rhinestones, in perfect colours for the card, cried to go with it - LOL
Inside the card I plan to use the black spaces on top for age and name of the birthdayboy (I have some leftoverscraps of the DPs used on the card, which I plan to cut letters and numbers out of with a cuttlebug-alphabet)
I used the same sketch, from Sunday Sketch and Stamp, on the middle part of the inside. On the lower part of the inside I made a pocket where we can put some money.

I'll enter this card into the following challenges:
Sunday Sketch & Stamp - Sketch
Joanna Sheen Challenges - Celebrations
Scrap'a'Long #12 - Anything Goes
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #166 - Anything Goes
Stampin' for the Weekend - Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles - Let's Celebrate!
Critter Sketch Challenge Blog - Celebration

White and Grey New Years Card

2011-12-31T06:46:00.001+01:00

I have to admit I didn't manage to make all christmascards I should have made before christmas (I sold too many at the christmasfair - can't be sorry about that, can I!), so when I heard that someone would be away for the christmasdays, I felt a bit happy - that would give me better time to make a New Year Card instead - I like to have plenty of time making a card...
But yet - though I was glad I got better time making it, I still feel kind of sad I didn't get a card out in time for christmas, and that is why I used this little Tilda-image, I think she looks both shy and excusable, and very, very cute :)
I've used papers and embellishments in white and greytones, and sprayed everything with Glimmermist (Snow Queen and Dazzling Diamonds). The swirls are made of corrugated paper, cut with a Die from Marianne Design, then I stole a greyglittery nailpolish from Hedda to paint it over with (will she ever, ever use a GREY nailpolish, although it glitters!!!)

I'm really sorry that the pictures are a bit too dark - I never seem to catch the few minutes of daylight that I should have used taking photos...

Happy New Year to:
TOMIC #30 - Happy New Year
Papirdokkene #18 - BINGO (Høyre vannrett, Glimmermist, Tall, Bølgepapp)
I Love ProMarkers #97 - Anything Goes
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #166 - Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #135 - New Year
Paper Pretties - New Year

And a Happy New Year to all Readers and to my loved Followers, I really appreciate all your visits and comments.

Christmaswishes

2011-12-30T12:56:00.001+01:00

On December 16. I was drawn as the winner of my wishlist at Kreativ Hobby, and yesterday I received the prize! 11 brand new christmasstamps! Am I a lucky girl, or what!!!
I couldn't wait to try all the stamps, I went into my room immidiately, put EZmount on the stamps and stamped on :D
Of course I had to make a christmascard too, trying my new stamps:
(No, I won't stop making christmascards though christmas is almost over - I already look forward to next christmas...)

I found the sketch I wanted to use over at Sunday Sketch & Stamp, Chose papers from Scrappers Choice and PoppyDesign, both in bluetones and designed by Vibeke Spigseth.
Then I coloured Angel Eyes Christina with ProMarkers, on the fur on her clothes I used Liquid Appliqué.
Little Darlings want to see Cold creations, which I think I've managed with this card :)
Crimbo Crackers' theme for their latest challenge is "Snowflakes". I made mine using punches from Tonic (with Liquid Pearls in the centers).
At Scrappy Frogs they have a Stitching Challenge, can you see that I've sewn around the panels :)

Tutorial Chocolategiftbox/ Sjokoladeeske

2011-12-29T10:14:00.001+01:00

Så hyggelig at noen vil ha framgangsmåten for sjokoladeesken jeg laget før jul.
Jeg har nå prøvd å lage en Tutorial, og her kommer den:

It is so nice that someone wants a tutorial for the Chocolategiftbox I made earlier this month, so; here it comes:

Du trenger:
Bazzill Kraft Kartong
Mønsterpapir
evt pynt (Jeg har klippet motiv fra et julekort som hadde samme nisser som mønsterpapiret)
100 g Freia Melkesjokolade ("Et lite stykke Norge")
2 stk Magneter
Dobbeltsidig tape
Limpenn

You'll need: Bazzill Craft Cardstock
Designpaper
decorations, if needed(I've cut images from a christmascard that had the same kind of image as the designpaper)
Milkchocolate
2 Magnets
Doublesided Tape
Gluepen

Kutt Kraft Kartongen til 7" X 10"
Cut the Craft Cardstock to 7" X 10"

Score Langside: 3 1/8", 3 1/2", 6 5/8", 7"
(Det står nå igjen 1/2" til sammenliming.)
Score on the longside: 3 1/8", 3 1/2", 6 5/8", 7"
(you now have 1/2" to glue the box together)

Score Kortside: 3/8", 7 7/8", 8 1/4"
Score on the short side: 3/8", 7 7/8", 8 1/4"

Skjær/ klipp nå etter de sorte, heltrukne linjene.
Som du ser av bildet under, har jeg skråklippet de små "tabs'ene", dette er for at esken skal lukke penere :)
Cut after the black lines.
(As you can see by the picture below, I have cut the little tabs at an angle, this makes the box close better)

Kutt paneler:
2 stk: 3" X 7 3/8"
2 stk 2/8" X 7 3/8"
2 stk 3" X 2/8"
"Lokk": 3" X 2 1/4", punch så kanten.
(Størrelsen på panelet til lokket må tilpasses punchen du velger å bruke)
Cut Panels:
2: 3" X 7 3/8"
2: 2/8" X 7 3/8"
2: 3" X 2/8"
"Lid": 3" X 2 1/4", punch the edge.
(You'll have to adjust the size of the panel after the punch you choose to use)

Svert alle kanter som vil bli synlige.
Jeg har svertet med DistressInk PumiceStone, enhver annen farge kan selvfølgelig brukes...
Distress all visible edges.
I've used DistressInk PumiceStone, but any other colour can, of course, be used...

Jeg fant motivet jeg har valgt å pynte denne eska med på et julekort. Jeg klippet det ut og svertet kantene.
I found the image to decorate the chocolatebox on a christmascard. I cut the image and distressed the edges.

Hilsningen jeg skal bruke på lokket er fra samme kort, her klippet og distresset.
The greeting I'll use on the lid is from the same card, here it is, cut and distressed.

Så kan mønsterpapirpanelene limes på boksen.
Husk å lime magneten på framsiden FØR du limer på mønsterpapiret!
Now its time to glue the designpaperpanels to the box.
Remember to glue down the magnet to the frontside BEFORE you glue down the designpaper!

Når mønsterpapiret er limt fast (med magneten under), kan du slippe ned den andre magneten slik at den fester seg på den som er under mønsterpapiret. Fest så en liten Gluedot til magneten (slik den ligger, da er du sikker på at limet blir på riktig side av magneten :) )
When the designpaper is glued down (the magnet underneath!), you can drop the other magnet down, and it'll attach to the other magnet. Put then a little Gluedot to the magnet (just do it, leaving the magnet as it is, and you'll be sure the Glue will be on the right side of the magnet :) )

Når du så bretter (IKKE limer) eska sammen...
Fold (do NOT yet glue) the box together...

...kan du lukke lokket, trykke forsiktig ...
...close the lid, and push carefully...

...og magneten vil feste seg til riktig sted
...and the magnet is fastened to the right place

Til å lime eska sammen bruker jeg Extra Sticky Tape.
Jeg bruker også en liten bit på hver av de to "tabs'ene" i nedkant (det er vel strengt tatt ikke nødvendig, men jeg liker at det sitter skikkelig...)
I use Extra Sticky Tape to glue the box together.
I also use a little bit on each of the tabs to be sure its properly closed.

Da er det på tide å dekorere og feste lokkets forsidepanel.
Jeg har limt en liten blondebit under "Gledelig Jul"-panelet. Jeg har også festet to brads på det, før jeg limte det til mønsterarket.
Then its time to decorate and glue down the frontpanel of the lid.
I've used a little bit of lace under the greeting, and put on two brads before attaching it to the designpaper.

Her har jeg gjort klar "pynten" til for- og baksiden på eska (dvs svertet kantene.
Med disse lekre papirene vil jeg ikke dekorere for mye...)
Here's the decor for the front- and backside of my box. With the georgeous paper from Papirdesign I don't want to decorate too much...

Så...
Slik ble framsiden av esken:
This is how the frontside of the box turned out:

og slik ble baksiden:
and here's the backside:

med "Et lite stykke Norge" inni :)
and inside a milkchocolate (this milkchocolate has the slogan "a little piece of Norway")

Jeg blir veldig glad for tilbakemeldinger på tutorialen; har jeg brukt for mange/ for få bilder, er hvert punkt godt nok forklart, kort sagt - hva burde jeg gjort annerledes....

I'll be happy if you'd take the time to tell me if there's anything I should have done differently
- more pictures/ less pictures, have I explained well enough - you know......

My Favourite Five Christmascards of 2011

2011-12-27T19:47:00.001+01:00

Debby of A Scrapjourney shows us her five favourite christmascards of 2011,
and encourages us to find our five favourites as well.
I've spent the afternoon looking through my 2011 christmascards (many!), and have managed to pick my five favourites,
in randomly order, here they come:

First, the chocolategiftboxcards my kids and I figured out for their teachers gifts on last day before the schoolholiday.
I simply love these norwegian "fjøsnisser" on Papirdesigns latest collection.
(A tutorial for this one will come in not so long)

Then the Double Cascade Card.
I found the tutorial for this one over at Mayas Hobbyblogg.
Isn't it decorative - and with its three tags, and quite a big backside, it has lots of place to write and stamp greetings.

On this, third in show, I'm very pleased with the colours. Papers are Vibeke Spigseth for Poppydesign - lovely, thick, sparkly papers.
I have to show a picture of the inside too, where I made a pocket for a giftcard.

The next two pictures show the mailbox I made, to put received christmascards in.
I was very pleased with the result, when I had finished this one, I remember :)

...same box, shown from the side:

...and last, my all white christmascard.
I love to work monochromatic, white too.
But white is a terrible colour to photograph in my part of the world at this time of year, with no daylight...

To pick five favourite christmascards, from a whole year of cardmaking, was rather difficult
- all my sympathy to those who'll have to pick TOP XX in different challengeblogs throughout the year!

Tealight-box

2011-12-26T16:32:00.001+01:00

Hope you all have great christmasdays with your loved ones, I do :)
Long, lazy days playing games, eating, wathing christmasmovies and doing most nothing
- I love this kind of days.
Not much of an outdoorweather, really windy and wet, but that just gives more time for indooractivities :D

Today I'll show you a Tealight-box I found the tutorial for, a few days before christmas, and luckily I bookmarked the blog where I found it.
After cutting and scoring it, I had to use a little time finding out how to fold it together - and when I found the solution, oh, how simple it was!
I made a belt - and decorated it - to put around the box to keep it closed.
- and of course, I put red tealights inside - it IS christmas!
(A couple more pictures follows, to show it from different angles, and in the end a list of challenges I'll enter with it)

I'll try my luck in these challenges with my Tealight-Box:
Panduro Hobby - Jul
Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes
Try it on Tuesday - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Christmas Lights
OLLCB - Anything But a Card
Paper Play Challenges - Christmas
Mark's Finest Papers - Anything Goes

Monochromatic double cascade card with some sparkle

2011-12-21T06:32:00.014+01:00

Good morning to you all. It's beginning to look a lot like christmas around, and I love it!
Today I'll show you a card that I made for our "Monochromatic with some sparkle"-challenge at Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge Blog. There's still one week left to join in on this challenge, and I hope you'll find the time to come around and play with us.
I found the Tutorial for this Double Cascade Card in Mayas Hobbyblogg - she sure has some lovely things in her blog, and all of her tutorials I've tried are very easy to follow :)
The pictures below show the card from different angles, and show the tags that hide inside the pockets of the card.
I've used white Bazzill cardstock and designpapers in different blueshades, from very, very light blue to a pretty dark, midnightblue I'd call it, shade. The designpapers are from Papirdesign and Maja Design.
Before attaching the DP-panels I brushed over the edges with some blue ink, and gave them a little spray with Glimmermist (Pearl).
The images are from Magnolia, coloured with ProMarkers, in blueshades those too.
I used different punches and a Magnoliadie for the snowflakes, and put on som beads and bling. And tied som blue organzaribbons in the tags - I think they gives such a lovely, sheer, sparkly touch...

Now, I'll send my card to the following challenges, I may be breaking some rules here. I read rules, but forget and mix together, so I hope I don't step on too many toes now....

Scrapperiket - Hvitt og blått

Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Winter Wonderland

Simply Magnolia - Christmas Challenge

I Love ProMarkers - Anything Goes

Crimbo Crackers - Snowflakes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes for Christmas

Little Darlings - Christmas

NSHK - Julekveld

The ABC Challenge - F for Frosty

Sweet Stampin' - Sparkle and Bling

Try it on Tuesday - Anything Goes

Passion for ProMarkers - Mega Christmas Challenge

Papertake Weekly - Last Christmas.....Card of the Year

Deep Ocean - Warm Wishes

A very merry christmas to all of you, from me

Chocolategifts

2011-12-18T23:45:00.007+01:00

WARNING: LOTS of pictures - and hopefully not so much text ;)

This is my last entry in Hjertebodens Julebloggs challenge of makeng 3 christmascards each month - I've managed the whole year now! And I'm NOT tired of making christmascards AT ALL! I still have many creative ideas to find time to...
I have made three giftboxes with a chocolatebar inside.
I made the boxes of Kraft cardstock, then decorated them with panels cut out of Papirdesigns "Vintertid" with norwegian santas drawn by Kjell Midthun.
I think these papers are absolutely fantastic! In an ordinary bookshop I bought some cards and tags with the same images to have even more possibilities with these papers.
(I've even seen mugs with these santas and little figures of them...)
All edges, both on the box and on the panels are distressed, but that is pretty much all I've done with it - the papers and images are so beautiful itself I feel I don't have to do much with them - almost feel a little afraid to run them through the cutter...
The "lids" on the boxes have a magnet, to close properly.
On the backside I used a cutout from the paper, with lines on, where we can write a little greeting.

I'll try my luck in the following challenges with my chocolategiftboxes:
Hjertebodens Juleblogg - The last month in the 3 christmascard a month challenge
Vintage Udfordring - Værtindegave til jul eller nytår
The ABC Challenge - F for Frosty
Craft Us Crazy - Christmas and/ or Humorous
DYSU Challenge - Winter
NSHK - Julekveld
Creative Card Crew - Tis the Season
Crazy4 Challenges - Santa
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmaschallenge - Anything Goes for Christmas
Christmas Crafting - Santa Claus is Coming to Town

The next pictures show the boxes in front, opened and the backside, three pictures of each card, if you'd take the time to see :)

...if anyone still is with me, I can tell you that this is the gifts that we (the children and I) made to give to their teachers on the last day before the schoolholiday - but don't tell them, it's a secret ;)

Brownish Monochromatic Christmascard

2011-12-15T01:14:00.002+01:00

Yesterday Simon Says Stamp Challenge came with a new sketch, and once I saw it I knew I would use it, and I knew how I would use it. It isn't often everything falls in place that easily, but this time it did! All I had to do was measure, cut, colour, punch, diecut and glue down in place - and here it is!
I made the card as a "three-page-card", each page a little bit shorter than the next, and decorated each page. I haven't seen this kind of card made anywhere, but I thought the sketch shouted out to be made this way...
The left pages has a little text stamped on, on the right side pages I used a Nellies Multi Frames-die to make the plates where one can write oneself.

The first "insidepage":

The last "insidepage":

A close-up of the lovely image from Hänglar & Stänglar. I coloured it with ProMarkers, and used Crystal Stickles on the cloud and the wings.

This textstamp is from NorthStarStamps. It's the norwegian translation of "The Night Before Christmas":

I'll put my brownish christmas card into these challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - SKETCH TIME!
Card and Scrap - Juleinspirasjon (Christmasinspiration)
Little Darlings - Christmas
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Things with Wings
Stampin' for the weekend - Christmas
Paper Crafting Journey - Christmaschallenge
Passion for ProMarkers - Mega Christmas Challenge
Creative Card Crew - 'Tis the Season
Scrap'a'Long - JUL (CHRISTMAS)

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White Christmas

2011-12-09T20:34:00.001+01:00

I have made a christmascard all in white, and when I tried to take photos of it, I remembered why I rarely make cards all white... I had to cry for help (from a better photographer with a better camera) to get a picture I could use in the blog...
(The Blingstones and the pearl on the pin ARE white, though they look golden in the picture...)

I made the card after the sketch from Sketchy Colors - a truly lovely sketch to work with.
With all the "White challenges" going on in blogland (and NO snow in sight here :( )I fell for it, and started on my white card. I had a really good time and great fun making it - punching, sewing, glitterpainting, embossing, colouring with ProMarkers - all things I love :)
I even made an envelope - using my brand new Martha Stewart Score-Board, I already LOVE it!
On the envelope I stamped the same image as I used on the card, but here I embossed it with clear embossing powder, and didn't use any colours on it.

Here's a close-up, showing Tilda on the card and the envelope:

I'll play along in these challenges with my White Christmascard:
Sketchy Colors - Sketch
Just Magnolia - I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
Totally Tilda - White on White (ONLY white except Tildas flesh and hair, NO shading)
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Mainly Monochromatic
Alphabet Challenge - W for White Christmas
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Candle-giftbox

2011-12-09T07:14:00.004+01:00

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge is into its second week of the photoinspiration Challenge.
If you haven't checked it out yet, you still have some days to play along there.
I've made this candlebox to inspire you to join us - I hope you like it...

This box is quite large, about 6 X 3", and the back is 9" (!), but that is because I had to make it fit the christmastreebookmark I've had for ages. I really mean ages - 10- 15 years I guess, at least... But immidiately as I saw the inspirationpicture I knew that now was the time to use it - just had to look through a few books to find it - LOL
It doesn't show very well in the picture, but on the tree I've glued down lots of goldenbrown halfbeads, and in the corners of the box I used red blingstones.
Around the box I used goldlace, goldcoloured pearlstrings and red bows.
The papers are from Karen Foster (old, that too).

The next picture show how the christmastree continues down inside the box - I decorated the inside as well...

Come on into Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge to see what the rest of the DT have made to inspire you, and join our Photochallenge :)

I'll play along in the following challenges with my candle-giftbox:
Gingerloft Challenge - Christmas and Winter
Scrap'a'Long - JUL
Tuesday Throwdown - Celebrate the season
Papertake weekly - Anything Goes, with the option of adding something dangly
Papercraft Star - A Tree
Vintage Udfordring - Lav en vintageinspirert værtindegave
Do You Stack Up - Something Old
Papercrafting Journey - Christmas
Charisma Cardz - No Cards

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Vintage EaselCard for Christmas

2011-12-03T19:13:00.003+01:00

Here's my latest christmascard. I tried to make it in a vintage style, with lot of distressing, inking, laces, a touch of glitter and bling.
Tilda is coloured with ProMarkers, in most greyish-/ skintones, using a LOT of Blender...
The text inside is from Kort&Godt.
I made the card as an easelcard, with a tag inside - you can see all sides of it, and the tag too, in the next pictures...

...and last a close-up, showing Tilda with her sparkling star...

My vintage chrismascard will go into these challenges:
TOMIC #26 - Vintage and Lace
Just Magnolia - Anything Goes with the option of sparkle
Passion for ProMarkers #128 - Sketch
Scrap'a'long #11 - Jul
Stamptacular Sunday - Anything Christmas
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Holiday Card

A little Gift

2011-11-26T20:08:00.001+01:00

Here's a little something I made the other day - maybe to be used as a little gift when visiting a friend, or maybe on ones own breakfastable...
It's a Teabox, made of papers from Papirdesign - the teabags are blue so I figured I had to use blue papers too...
The picture is a cutout from a collagepaper I cant' remember where came from, but I think this two kids playing in the snow are sooo cute (I really, really wish for a little snow now!)
The snowflakes are made with a Magnolia Die, a Martha Steart punch and a Tonic punch.
I made this teabox for the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge "Make a Gift/ Anything but a card", that is into its second week now.
Come and join us, and show us your gifts...

I'll send my teabox into the challenges at:

PaperCrafting Journey - Anything Goes

Charisma Cardz Challenges - Snowflakes

November Christmascards

2011-11-20T21:41:00.002+01:00

Today I have finished my November Christmascards for Hjertebodens Juleblogg. It's been so fun foolowing their year-long challenge of making three christmascards every month! Some of the summermonths were quite hard - but even then, sitting down in the middle of July, trying to make christmascards, I somehow managed to find the christmasfeeling and make the cards :)
At this time of year I'm bubbling with christmasfeeling, and makes a lot more than three christmascards a month, so on these three I tried to use the same style, to make them quite similar, but yet different.
This post is full of pictures, so to make it easier (at least for myself), I'll list the challenges I'll enter below each card.
It may be right to warn you, that here comes lots of pictures:

Inside I made a pocket for a giftcard.

This card will be entered into the challenges at:
Hjertebodens Juleblogg
MDUC - Debbies Sketch
Creatalicious Challenges - Christmas with Sparkle
By the Cute and Girly - Christmas Girls
I LOVE ProMarkers - Christmas Trees
The Craft Garden - Christmas, but NO red or green
Crimbo Crackers - Make it Sparkle
Heidis Hobbystuggu - Julekort med Bling/ Sparkle (Christmascard with Bling( Sparkle)

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This second card has much of the same papers (Papirdesign and Vibeke Spigseth for Poppydesign). It has a "frame", a "window", where I placed a tree. The greeting inside the frame is stamped upon a plastic sheet and placed in the frame. I also used a lot of swirls and pearls and snowflakes and the lovely ribbons from Martha Stewart, and a snowflakecharm.
(It sure isn't easy photographing the sparkly papers from Vibeke Spigseth - but I can't resist using them...)

Inside the card I had to find a creative solution to hide the back of the frontsides frame, so I used Magnolias fireplacestamp and a lot of firbranches (Spellbinders Foliage), and, of course, put on some red bling in the branches. Then I placed two Tildas by the fireplace - aren't they cute, so shy standing there, waiting for christmas - I love them :)

Here come two close-ups, of the front and the inside:

Now, my second card will go into these challenges:

Hjertebodens Juleblogg
Just Magnolia - Ribbons
Crimbo Crackers - Make it Sparkle
Heidis Hobbystuggu - Julekort med Bling/ Sparkle (Christmascard with Bling/ Sparkle)
Creatalicious Challenges - Christmas (Make it sparkle)
By the Cute and Girly - Christmas Girls

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And, finally, my third November christmascard. I've wanted this stamp for sooo long, but haven't been able to find it 'till a couple of weeks ago. I was so happy when I got it in my mail, and I love it soo :)
Again, same papers, plus one from Panduro (I may remember wrong here).
The picture below shows the insides. I used Spellbinders Lattice Rectangles for the panels. (I got this set for my birthday last month, a really surprisegift, from my aunt and uncle who was on holiday in America - isn't it lovely!)

...and a close-up of the stampimages...

My last November Christmascard will be entered into the following challenges:
Hjertebodens Juleblogg
I LOVE ProMarkers - Christmas Trees

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Small Mailbox in Red and White

2011-11-15T06:11:00.005+01:00

Yesterday I made another mailbox, this time a smaller one, in brighter, more "christmaslike" colours.
It's been quite some time since I used an Edwinstamp, so I found two of my "ChristmasEdwins", and "christmasdressed" them - coloured with ProMarkers (of course).
I used a DP from Magnolia (So Jolly). Because the paper has a waxsealprint, I made a waxseal to decorate the box with, as well. I also tied a ribbon with two bells on around a cinnamonstick - decorative and it gives a wonderful smell :)
I used dies from MarianneDesign and Spellbinders and a Martha Stewart Borderpunch - I'm sure you can see where...
On one side of it I put a paperbag with a tag inside. On the tag I stamped a little greeting, and there's place to write either a personal message or "to... - from...", if it's used as a giftbox.
The giftboxaspect is the mainreason (plus that it is decorative) why I put on the ribbon/bow on the toplid - it doesn't show very well in the pictures but there's two ribbonends hanging down, that can be fastened to the box, to close it.

Now; I'll put my mailbox in these challenges, and hope both they and you will like it:

TOMIC #24 - Use a paperbag on your project and get inspired by the photograph
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Christmas
CSAYL - Never seen ink (it's the 1. time I use Edwin with christmasgift, though he's old...)
Scrapperiket #39 - Bretteteknikk (Foldingtechnique)

Christmas Card in Kraft, Cream and Gold

2011-11-13T06:10:00.002+01:00

Early, early Sunday morning, noone else awake in the house. Sounds like it'll be a windy, rainy day. Outside it's dark, nothing to see - I'd really wish it would come a little snow now...

Well - over to what I am here for (in the early morninghours); posting my latest christmascard :)
Totally Tilda has the theme Christmas, but NO reds, NO greens and NO blues - "exciting", I thought, "can I do that"
Magnolia Stamp Lovers latest challenge is also "Christmas", but with no restrictions on the colours, "but what about combining those two..."
- then I saw the challenge at Crafty Creations, wich is Kraft/ Brown, White/ Cream and one other colour, and an idea started in my head (love those moments!)
SO - I found papers, actually only Kraftcardstock and a Creamcoloured Bazzillcardstock.
I picked the Tilda I wanted to use, and the rest of the stash, and sat down.
Somewhere in all this I remembered the Treestamp from Magnolia I have, and figured that it would be nice to have in the background, so I stamped it upon the creamcoloured cardstock and started to cut it out!
Oh my, what a fiddly process!
But I think it turned out rather nice - with glitter on
(I L O V E glitter, especially around christmas)
I used dies from Spellbinders and Mariannedesign.
Most of the trees (all but one) and the sentimentdiecut are glued down to the cardstock, on the rest I used 3D-foampads, to give it a bit of depth.
I also distressed some of the paneledges.

Inside the card I used a text from Kort&Godt.

I used a lot of different browncoloured ProMarkers, and the Blender, to get the brownshade as close to the Kraftcolour as possible.

So - here are the challenges where I'd love to play along with my Christmascard:

Totally Tilda - Christmas, but NO reds, NO greens, NO blues
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Christmas
Crafty Creations - Kraft/Brown, White/ Cream and one other colour

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Red and Green Christmascard

2011-11-12T16:39:00.002+01:00

Here comes the card I made in more "proper" christmascolours (Hedda was very pleased with this one).
Again I used the sketch from Sketchy Colors latest challenge.
The image is also on this card from Sugar Nellie, this one is Winifred, bought at Funky Kits.
And again coloured with ProMarkers.
I think these girls are simply irresistible!
I used dies from Spellbinders (Classic Ovals and Fancy Tags) and Nellies Multiframes (MFD 007).
The hollys made with a punch (of unknown producer) and some red halfbeads.
I put on three poinsettias (the colours of them were sooo perfect for this card, I just HAD to use them).
The sentiment on the frontside is from Ladybug and Friends (I love those tiny greetings), inside I used a stamp from Norsk Stempelblad (21B).
To finish it off, I sprayed the whole card Glimmermist (Dazzling Diamonds) - I just sprayed into the air and put the card through the light shower, that gave the card a very gentle glittery touch :)
Before I write a list over challenges I'll send this card into, I'll put in a few more pictures:

First the card standing upright:

Inside the card - simple, with a greeting on the upper part, and place to write that personal greeting on the lower part (I sprayed the inside too with glimmermist):

A close-up showing the supercute Winifred
(this picture also gives a little show of the glimmermist
- AND - can you see she's got teenytiny beads on her shoes - LOL)

Now; here are the challenges I'll enter with my more traditional christmascard:
Sketchy Colors - Sketch
Marianne Design - Traditional Christmas Card
Charisma Cardz - Cutesy
C.R.A.F.T. Challenges - Cute
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Christmascard in Non-traditional Colours

2011-11-12T09:00:00.010+01:00

Sketchy Colors have an absolutely lovely sketch out - again!

I loved working with this one.

I decided I'd try to make a christmascard in other colours than the traditional red, green and gold-colours, AND to keep it clean and simple - but still try to give it a christmaslook.

So, I chose green and pink for the maincolors.

The image is Victoria Standing, one of Sugar Nellie's newest digistamps, bought at Funky Kits. Isn't she just adorable???

I coloured her with ProMarkers in pink, green and beigetones - colours I picked up from the designpapers (a 6x6" paperpad I've had for years)
I, myself, was quite pleased with how it turned out...

...so, as Hedda, later that day, came into my room I was SO excited to hear what she thought (of course she had to like it, I figured...)

She was terrified that I even thought of calling it a christmascard - the colours were all wrong (Pink is NOT a christmascolour!) It had far too little decorations and bling and stash - it doesn't even have any glitter on(!)

This was all wrong, and I had to make a new, proper christmascard!

(Of course i did it, and will show that card later today :) )

Well, I think it's cute, and have decided to play in these challenges with my pink christmascard:
Sketchy Colors - Sketch

Charisma Cardz - Cutesy

C.R.A.F.T. Cahllenge - Cute

Here's the card from some different angles:

Inside the card, clean, simple and cute ;)
Here's a close-up, showing Victoria Standing - there are three more new lovely digi-girls in the Funky Kits-shop.

Be Thankful/ Feature a Sentiment

2011-11-11T14:58:00.002+01:00

Our latest challenge at Fussy and Fancy Friday is called "Be Thankful/ Feature a Sentiment".
Only thinking Thanksgiving-cards, as we do NOT have any tradition for in Norway, I found it a bit difficult to find the inspiration. Then I started thinking more different, more "what do I have to be thankful for", and the idea came right away!
Of course!
A man who's always there when we need him!
My father. A man of so much knowledge, humour and patience. No matter what we ask of help, he tries to give it. And for his grandchildren (my children), he is the one who never says no to any card- or boardgame, he takes them on boattrips. He's even learnt my son both how to drive a boat and where to drive it safe.
And - on Sunday we celebrate Fathers Day in Norway!
I made an envelope for the card, using the same sketch, from Sketch Saturday.
The backgroundpaper, with the Pappaprint (Pappa = Father) is from Papirdesign. The other papers I choose because I think they suits him :)
The sentiment and the greetings are goldembossed. I also used a MS edgepunch, and cut out an anchor from a designpaper.

Now I hope you'll come and join our challenge at Fussy and Fancy, and see what the rest of the DT have made too :)

Here's the envelope...:

...here's the card:

...and here's the inside of the card:

This goes for the challenges at:
Sketch Saturday - Sketch
Creative Card Crew - Thankful

CD Giftbox/ basket

2011-11-06T17:04:00.001+01:00

In their latest challenge TOMIC had a great Tutorial on this kind of basket. First I made a smaller one, to try if I could make it - then, while making the first one I started thinking ... Could I manage to make a bigger one... I could use it for CD-gifts and that sort of stuff.
So when I had finished the first ("the attempt"), I started measuring, to figure out how big such a basket hat to be to hold a CD - and easily enough, 6X6" was a perfect size to start with (No, that easy solution didn't come just that easy to me! - LOL)
Then I figured I had to decorate it in a kind of music/ christmas-style. I used CLPs sketch decorating the basket.
The tag doesn't show well, but the backside of it is meant for a personal greeting - all pictures of the backside of the basket (where the sentiment is) were too bad to show.

Here you can see that there's room for a CD inside the basket (even a wrapped CD).

I'll play along these challenges with my giftbasket:
TOMIC - Create a Basket
Scrapperiket - Innpakning/ Gaveposer
CLP - Sketch
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Wrap it up!
Crazy 4 Challenges - Wrap it up!

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Black and Green Christmascard

2011-11-01T11:15:00.003+01:00

This was a tough one, and I've used quite some time to finish it... I started it actually as a project for a different challenge a time ago, but found it too difficult so I put it away.

Now there's a "Black challenge" going on over at Magnolia Stamp Lovers, and I really wanted to join that challenge, so I found my "old, neverfinished" card, and sat down to finish it.
I'm no good using black, in fact it is a colour that kind of scares me - so I chose to use black for the decorative elements in the card. I even found some black glitter (!) that I used on the big swirl.
I had to gold-emboss the greeting, just to make it a little cheerier for christmas, and to cheer more up; Tilda is (again) blowing glitter :)

Inside the card I used the same papers and almost the same layout as on the outside.

So - my black and green christmascard goes into these two challenges:
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Black

Just Magnolia - Christmas is Coming

Magnolia Christmas

2011-10-28T16:25:00.005+02:00

Staying at home the last days with a sick child has given me quite some cardmaking- and craftingtime, - couldn't start any noising housework when she was asleep, could I...
Here's a christmascard I made today.
I found the sketch for it at Sketch N Stash - a perfect sketch for an easelcard, I think.
Having found the sketch, I used TOMIC's Bingochallenge to find what I'd use for the card.
Just Magnolia came with a new challenge this morning, that sounded "Christmas is coming!", so it had to be christmasstuff and -colours.
And since Magnolia Down Under Challenge's sounds "Getting Punchy" I could use my dear snowflakepunches as well as a borderpunch.
The papers are Magnolias "Bon Voyage - White weathered wood" and "So Jolly - Sealed".
I also placed a real seal, with the greeting "God Jul" (Merry Christmas) to the left of the image (of course a Magnoliaimage, coloured with ProMarkers).
Inside the easelcard I made a pocket for a tag, for the personal greeting one always want to write on a christmascard.
The textstamp inside the card is from Storyteller.
I also discovered a new Challengeblog today, Crimbo Crackers, a biweekly christmaschallengeblog. I really look forward to follow that.
(Had plenty of time searching around the internet too these days...)

Here comes two pictures, showing the inside of the card...

And a list of the challenges I'll enter my card into:

TOMIC - Bingo (Metal embellishment, Ribbons & Bows, Magnolia Patterned Paper)
Crimbo Crackers - Anything Goes
Just Magnolia - Christmas is Coming
Magnolia Down Under Challenges - Getting Punchy
Sketch N Stash - Sketch (new papers, my neglected stuff is the seal"thing" - bought several of them a couple of years ago, but rarely use them :( )

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3 B's at Fussy and Fancy

2011-10-28T09:05:00.002+02:00

Good Friday Morning, everyone!

Have you joined in on Fussy and Fancy Fridays 3B's challenge yet - if you haven't you still have a short week to do it - hurry up!
The 3 B's we want to see are Black, Border punch and Bling.

I have made a box (filled with chocolates for halloween).
The image is a digistamp, Witch Marci, from La-La Land Crafts, coloured with ProMarkers.
I used a Border punch from Martha Stewart and dies from Spellbinders and Marianne Design.
I put on some violet halfbeads, black stones and rhinestones (can you see that Marci's got one on her hat - I couldn't stop myself from putting one there - LOL...
The lid is tied to the box with a purple bow - NOT to be opened until October 31.!
On top of the box I punched two scalloped circles, stamped a halloweengreeting on the smallest and put them on - with black stones on the purple circle and rhinestones on the black circle.

You DO NOT have to make something for Halloween for the Fussy and Fancy challenge, just make sure you bring on the 3B's

My chocolatebox will go into these challenges:
Scrappekommeret - Eske/ Boks (Box)
Fashionista Friday - Spooky Fall
Stampin' for the Weekend - Spooky
Gingerloft Challenge - Halloween
The ABC Challenge - B for Boo
Alphabeth Challenge - S for Soon be Halloween
Fresh Brewed Challenge - Spooky Sweet Treats

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Halloween Treats

2011-10-27T18:04:00.004+02:00

There's a lot of halloweenchallenges going on, and I've made different things for halloween, both for my own children and for "Trick-or-Treaters" who may show up on monday :D

Halloween isn't a day we traditionally celebrates in Norway, but the last few years it's become more and more popular.
And why fight against it - I like all "days with glitter on"...

These wrapped bottles are small Coca-Cola-bottles (25cl). I made the holders out of black cardstock and corrugated paper. I put on some ribbons and bows made out of thread, and distresserd the corrugated paper with DistressInk BlackSoot. The images are Lalalands Marci and Luka, coloured with ProMarkers.

These two coca-colas go for the challenges at:
Passion for ProMarkers - For a child
NSHK - Bruk et digistempel (use a digistamp)
Alphabet Challenge - S for Soon be Halloween
The ABC Challenge - B for Boo
Gingerloft Challenge - Halloween
Stampin' for the weekend - Spooky
Fashionista Friday - Spooky Fall!
Sweet Stampin' - Halloween
Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes
Freshly Brewed Challenges - Spooky Sweet Treats
Stamptacular Sunday - Black, Orange, Purple and SCARY TOO!

...well, not only for these challenges - my kids have begged for them for days now, but have agreed to wait at least 'till saturday to drink of them :D
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And here comes a few pictures of a little more I've made for halloween:
First some Treatbags...

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...two small chocolatebars, wrapped and decorated - a little more exciting than just the ordinary milkchocolate from the shop :D

...and two lollipops.

All images are either printed digistamps or pictures from internet.
(I've used a few clearstamps, for the smallest images, and greetings)
Cardstock and papers are mainly from my scrapbox (Hedda was a great help picking out "halloweenish" papers.

Vintage Christmas

2011-10-27T10:08:00.001+02:00

Here's my latest christmascard (I felt I needed the calm in a christmascard between all the black, orange, purple and green for Halloween).

At Sketcy Colors I found the sketch and inspiration to make this card - I guess that it is no secret that some of their DT-girls are amongst my favourite norwegian cardmakers...

I used papers from Pion Design ("Stjärnhimmel" and "Vinterlek"). I distressed the edges of all panels with DistressInk "OldPaper". The snowflakes are made with a Magnolia DooHickey-die and a Martha Stewart-punch (with a rhinestone in the middle). I used Spellbinders Fancy Tags for the sentimenttag. The sentiment is a tiny stamp from Ladybug and Friends stampset ("Julehilsener").

Inside the card I continued the "snowflake-theme" and the sketch...
I made the "bottompart" of the sketch into a pocket, with place for a tag (for personal greetings).
I sew a golden snowflakecharm to the ribbon on the tag.
On the left side I stamped a christmasgreeting (Norsk Stempelblad, plate 21B).

On the backside I used the same papers, snowflake, and my personal "Handmade by Lisbeth"-stamp.

I'll enter my vintage christmascard into these challenges:
Sketchy Colors - Sketch
ABC Christmas Challenge - V is for Vintage
Alota Rubberstamps - Christmas
Simon Says - Anything Goes

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Christmas Card

2011-10-21T21:37:00.002+02:00

This post will have to be done in a hurry, as I'm rather late for the latest challenge at
Sketch Saturday, where I found the sketch I used for this christmascard.
Isn't Grace standing from SugarNellie (bought at Funky Kits) the cutest digistamp ever!
I think she's so adorable, standing there, shy and wondering - I really want to put my arms around her and give her a warm hug...

With the card I made an envelope, after the same sketch, but without the image.
I've used papers from Papirdesign, Kaiserkraft and one that I can't find the brand of (have lots of that kind...). All edges are distressed before the panels are sewn down.
The swirls are made with Spellbindersdies, and covered with Glossy Accents.
I used some red blingstones and attached a charm to one of the bows.
Before showing the rest of the pictures I'll make a list of which challenges I tried to combine my card for:
Sketch Saturday - Sketch
I love ProMarkers - Ain't it cute
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - You Choose!
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Digistempel

Now, the rest of the pictures, first the frontside...
...then the insides - a bit simpler, but with the same paper and style, and with a text from Kort&Godt

and a close-up of the supercute Grace (love her!)

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Mailbox

2011-10-17T16:03:00.004+02:00

This is something I've seen around in "my travels in blogland", but can't remember where - I've even seen a tutorial to it somewhere, but couldn't find that one either, now that I needed it... :s
(If someone know where I might have seen it, I'd be happy for a link)
I made my mailbox with a window, as I want to see, and show, the christmascards I (may) receive.
I used DPs from Papirdesign - they have sooo many lovely christmaspapers now!
All edges are distressed with DistressInk WalnutStain.
I made the "Tildatopper" of a snowflakedicut (well covered in "Aleens True Snow"), a bit if tulle, and the sitting Tilda (coloured with ProMarkers).
Inside the mailbox I used a paper (Papirdesign) that had little red hearts, so I had to give Tilda red ribbons in her hair -lol
The snowflakes are made with a Magnoliadie and a MS-punch.
In the centre of the snowflakes, and somewhere around I put on some whitetransparentgoldish halfbeads.
I also used a Spellbinderdie, for the swirls.

Now, before showing the rest of the pictures of it, I have to tell you which challenges I've made this one for:
OLLCB - Let it Snow
Card and Scrap - Lag noe som IKKE er firkantet
Stamptacular Sunday - You Choose!
Sukkersøtt - Bretteteknikker

...isn't this paper with a santaimage just perfect for the side of the mailbox - LOVE it!

I'm qiute pleased with my creamy-brown (with a little hint of christmasred) christmascardmailbox - now I'll just have to wait and hope for christmascards to put in it :D

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Thanks a lot to Gitte, who sent me the link to Pysseltagen, with the tutorial for the box :)
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Christmas Decoration

2011-10-15T11:51:00.002+02:00

This is Recycling!

I've made a christmas decoration out of an empty taperoller, the figure is from a broken snowglobe (I dusted it off too hard - YES, REALLY! - LOL).
I thought the lovely couple inside were too cute to throw in the bin, so with fear of cutting my fingers badly, I picked the figure loose - and didn't know what to do with it for almost a year, before this idea popped up...
The doublesided taperolls are always left with one layer of tape that's impossible to get loose orget any use of, so I simply left it on the roll, and attached a DP to it.
Then I cut some Spellbindersdiecuts and glued them onto the roll.
Inside the decoration I "painted" snow (Aleene's True Snow), before I glued down the couple.
I used a lot of snowflakes, halfbeads and chrystalstones.
I used a white sheer ribbon for the bow, and tied a snowflakecharm onto it.

In the next picture it's easier to see the depth of it.

...and here's the backside, same decorating.
The stamp is from an old stampset from Scrappers Choice.

I hope they'll like my christmasdecoration in these challenges:

Card and Scrap - Lag noe som IKKE er firkantet (Make something NOT square)
Jingle belles - A Caroling We Will Go (Let it snow - Dean Martins version!)

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Baubles or anything hanging (not sure they'll accept it, as it isn't a card, but I'll try anyway... :)

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Trick-or-Treat-Bag

2011-10-14T09:05:00.003+02:00

We're now into the second week of Fussy and Fancy Fridays "Fall or Halloween!"-challenge, so if you haven't joined yet, you just have a few days left...
The Design team have made lots of cards and project to inspire you - not to mention all the entries we've already got in - Gorgeous!
Be sure to hop over there to see and join in!

This is my DT-entry for the challenge - for idea and inspiration :)
I've used a digistamp from Bugaboo - isn't this Trick-or-treat-dressed girl just adorable!
I've had her for some time, but wanted to save her for some special occasion - like this :)
Yes, she is coloured with ProMarkers, and I've used a white Sakura Gelpen to highlight some parts.
The orange DP is from Panduro, a really heavyweight paper, a tough job for the Marthe Stewart Punch to punch through...
To close the bag I used a black brad (the zigzagborder below the image is also a brad), as it is easyer than a bow, for children to open and close...
Here comes two more pictures of it, from different angles (not the backside, it is just plain, with the same DP, with distressed edges...):

My Trick-or-Treat-Bag also goes into these challenges:
Delightful Challenges - Colours of Fall
I love ProMarkers - Autumnal Colours
Creative Card Crew - Spooky Fun
Stampin' for the Weekend - Colours of Autumn
Scrap'A'Long - Høst
Ett Trykk - Minst to av fargene lilla, sort eller/ og orange

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Halloweencandles

2011-10-12T09:11:00.002+02:00

Good morning everyone :)

Just a quick post, with a little thing I made last weekend.
In my house we decorate for halloween, we dress up in spooky costumes and have a really nice day/ evening (I use to dress up as a witch :D)

Here's a little candlebox I made for halloween.
Not many colours used - only black and purple, but I think it gives the right halloweenfeeling.
I used a sitting Tilda (coloured with ProMarkers, of course), and cut a few "wood"sticks to place her upon.
In the branches behind I put on a few purple and violet beads, tied a bow around the candles - and... finish :D

I'll send my Halloween-Candlebox for these challenges:

Magnolia Down Under Challenges - Halloween creations
Totally Tilda - Halloween Tilda
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Fall
Hooked on Craft Challenges - Anything but a card
Stamps R Us - Autumn/ Fall
Cupcake Craft Challenges - Halloween
Creative Card Crew - Spooky Fun

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Wrapped in cellophane, with a nice bow on, I think it makes a nice halloweentreat for a grown-up coming to visit, too
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OctoberChristmasCards

2011-10-11T21:05:00.002+02:00

Here's my three christmascards for October. Of course I both have and will make more than three christmascards this month, but these are the three for Hjertebodens Juleblogg.
I've followed their challenge of making three christmascards each month throughout the year, and wow have that been fun!
It was kind of hard to find the christmasspirit during the summermonths, but I made it!
And now, with only a couple of months left of the year, with more and more christmasspirit coming, I'm sure I will manage three cards per month.
This months cards are made with papers mainly from Pion Design and Papirdesign.
I love their christmascollections!

Sketchy Colors has an absolutely wonderful sketch for this weeks challenge. And the DT have made really inspirational cards. I loved it so much I had to make two cards with it (and have plans for a third... and a fourth...)

This first one I made in coffee and cream colours, as the option was in Just Magnolias Anything Goes Challenge. I've also used a teenytinylittlebit of red.

I used a doohickey and a punch for the snowflakes, with a whitish halfbead in the middle.
The sitting Tilda is coloured with ProMarkers.
And with the sitting Tilda and the hickeysnowflake I'll enter TOMICs Challenge# 19.

After finishing the frontside I kind of panicked when I felt the weight of it, so not making it cost too much posting I had to keep the inside simpler - LOL

(When I saw the photos on the computer I realized I had forgotten the greetingpanels inside - wonderful spellbinderpanels with cute Storytellergreetings - well, I won't take new pictures, as they are quite similar to the ones I used on the card below...
Yes I have attached them now :) )

And here's the third Octobercard. Also made for Sketchy Colors Sketchchallenge.
I felt really brave colouring these Tildas in red clothings - colouring in bold colours is a bit out of my comfort zone, so I felt pretty proud when I had finished them :)
The picture below shows the inside (same labels used for the first card too ;) )

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Halloween Garland

2011-10-09T14:34:00.002+02:00

In my house we've started to prepare for Halloween.
Lots of black, orange, purple and green coloured stash have been found.
We're looking through old stash and planning the new.

Here's a new garland I made the other day - a new garland made of old stuff, LOL...
I used Heddas cuttlebugalphabet for the letters on the garland - 9 letters, 9 banners.
I used three Magnoliaimages (2 Tildas and 1 Edwin), coloured with ProMarkers.
In the scrapbox I found different HalloweenDPs that I distressed and attached to the banners before decorating them in different ways.
The orange tickets are digistamps from Whimsy ( which I won(!) some weeks ago) - aren't the great :D

Below you can see closer pictures of the garland.

I'll enter my Halloweengarland into these challenges:

TOMIC - Halloween, everything but a card
Magnolia-Licious Challengeblog - Halloween
Magnolia Down Under Challenges - Halloween
Little Darlings - Fall or Halloween
Stamptacular Sunday - So Distressing!

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Red, Grey and Green ChristmasCard

2011-10-07T18:25:00.002+02:00

Just a quick post from me tonight, showing a christmascard I made after the sketch at Sketch Saturdays latest challenge. Sketchy Colors wanted to see the colours Red, Grey and Green, and Card and Scrap wanted Distressing or Embossing, so I chose to combine those three challenges to make this card. This is also my first christmascard for Hjertebodens Juleblogg
Below you can see the inside, where I worked after the same sketch.
I used the papers "Christmas flower" and "Christmas tree" from Pion Design, and cardstock in Green, red and grey.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blue ChristmasCard

2011-10-03T16:47:00.002+02:00

Another blue christmascard - that colour seems to be my favourite this year, for so long at least - it may change when the snow comes...
I used three different blue/white christmaspapers, from Maja Design, Magnolia and Papirdesign, and sew them together after Sketch N Stashs sketch. The image is from Hänglar och Stänglar, stamped upon Kraftcardstock and coloured with colourpencils.
I used three different snowflakpunches, painted over with Glimmerglam Glitterpaint, and put on three buttons (transparent blue and white those too).
The greeting (barely showing in the picture, as it is stamped with lightpaleblue ink, stamped on the Spellbinderdiecut), is from Ladybug and Friends.
And of course the charm, fastened to the bow, had to be a snowflake :)
I brushed over all edges with the same pale blue colour as I used for the stamped greeting.

Inside the card I used (my favourite winter) paper from Papirdesign :)
The sentiment is a digi from Whimsy.

I'll enter my blue christmascard into these challenges:

Sketch N Stash - Sketch (optional extra; 3 different patterned papers, 3 embellishments)
Winter Wonderland - How Charming
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - For a Male
The ABC Challenge - Anything Goes (Welcome back to ABC Challenge :D)

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Shabby Chic BirthdayCard

2011-10-01T16:08:00.001+02:00

As soon as I saw TOMICs latest challenge I knew I'd participate there. I loved the sketch, and the picture, meant for inspiration, really do inspire!
I rushed to find the papers and stuff I wanted to use - then I had to figure out what I wanted to do with the papers...
After a little while surfing around I came to I Love ProMarkers challengeblog.
They wanted us to "Get Distressed"... and wait a minute - wasn't that what the challenge at Magnolia Stamp Lovers was also... checking, checking... Yes, I remembered right.
Then I'll distress it - I may have come to that conclusion anyway...
So there I sat, tearing and ripping, embossing and distressing, punching and dieing - oh, and waiting for the goldcolour to dry(!) It seemed to take days to dry, but actually it was just a few (too many) hours...
Inside the card I used my new Spellbinders "Twisted Metal Tags and Accents" - aren't those swirls the loveliest! I used a Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page to make the labels inside.
On the back I used the same Spellbinderset as where the swirls came from (I used it on the outside, as well - it may be a new favourite :D).
I like to decorate all sides of the card (think it's more finished with all pages decorated), and that's what Sukkersøtt wants us to do in their challenge #139
Simon Says Stamp! has a Anything Goes challenge this time, and says they'd love to reach "the magic 1000" - I'd love to help them reach that number of participants - wouldn't you...

Below you'll find pictures of the in- and backside of the card, and a list of the challenges I'll enter my card into :)

TOMIC # 17 - Get Inspired
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Distressing
I LOVE ProMarkers # 85 - Get Distressing
Sukkersøtt #139 - Dekorer hele kortet
Simon Says Stamp! - Anything Goes

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I've tried Chlorinebleaching

2011-09-30T09:05:00.002+02:00

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge are now into the second week of the Try A New Technique-Challenge, so if you haven't joined in yet you still have a few days to do it.

For this christmascard I have tried out chlorinebleaching.
I have taken a few picture of the process (how I figured out how to do it after watching several videos on YouTube), but first I have to show the finished card, the frontside above :)

...inside...

...backside...
I've used the same sketch for all sides of the card

Here's how I made the image for the card:

First I stamped the image (Sarah Kay) with black StazOn on Kraftcardstock, and embossed with clear embossingpowder.

Then the scary part :s I painted the areas I wanted lightened with chlorine (the coats and the hair).Some areas I panted twice and other three times to get the shade I wanted.
I work rather slowly, and figured out (after a while) that it might be a good idea to open the window...

Then the fun part :) I coloured the rest of the image...

...and the background.

Now, hop over to the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challengeblog to see what the creative girls at the DT have made.
I hope this will inspire you to Try A New Technique too,
and share it with us at Fussy and Fancy.

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Christmas Ornament

2011-09-28T11:27:00.003+02:00

This is also one Marianne-inspired project!
That girl makes the most wonderful things you can imagine!
The day before I saw her christmas ornament I used the last piece of a taperoller, (those1 1/2" wide rolls) - well it wasn't the very last bit, 'cause that part wouldn't come off the roll. I was just about to throw it in the bin, when I came to think that maybe it can be used for something (isn't that what we scrappers think of almost everything that "normal" people call garbage - LOL). Anyway, I put it in the box where I put all those things that "might come handy one day".
And then, the very next day I saw a project in Mariannes blog, where I could use that "almost empty" taperoller :D
The roller is placed between the die-cuts (I've used both Spellbinder- and Mariannedies).
The stamped image is from Ladybug and Friends - oh, I think "Rudolph and Santa" are sooo cute in this Image. (It IS Rudolph - Hedda has told me so!). I stamped the image on Kraftcardstock, and coloured with pencils. I distressed all edges with DistressInk OldPaper, put on a few embelli'es - and - finished :D

Easy-peasy backside; same dies, same distressing, a greeting (from Crafty Secrets) and a few halfbeads.

I'll put my christmasornament into the challenges at:
Bah! Humbug! - Rudolph/ Reindeer
Magical Monday Challenge - Christmas in September!

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Now my next taperoller is almost empty, and I have a new idea for that one...

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Lantern for Halloween

2011-09-26T09:38:00.001+02:00

Oh, have I had trouble with this one!
Not the making of it, but with the candle inside. The candle is batteryoperated (clever!), but I couldn't find batteries that worked. They worked for a little while, but as I put the lantern on the table to photograph it, the candle stopped burning. I changed to new batteries three times, but it didn't get any better. So I dropped the whole idea of this candle, and decided to find another. Then, in the evening I walked by the lantern, and there it was; shining so bright and wonderful - and I understood it: of course - something inside the candle makes it burn when it's dark! There wasn't something wrong with neither the batteries, nor the candle!
And it will, of course, not be possible to take pictures of the lantern with the light glowing!

The lantern is made of Bazzill Cardstock (orange and black). I used a MS Punch to make the handle and the decorative border at the bottom. The Image is from Magnolia, coloured with ProMarkers. Behind her I put some black lacefabric.

Anonyme Scrappere has a challenge where they want us to make lanterns, and my lantern is for that challenge.
Luckily I figured out how that candled worked before the challenge closed (with very little margins - LOL)

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Golden Days of Autumn

2011-09-25T11:09:00.003+02:00

I have tried to make an elegant fallcard.
There are so many fallchallenges around, and so much orange and brown colours used so I wanted to make "the golden days of autumn".
We've had some wonderful autumndays where I live - sunny, a little windy, but fine temperatures (for this season...) - those crystalclear days we don't have too many of...

The card is for a grown-up birthday"girl" , so I didn't want to make it too sweet.

I used TOMICs sketch from this weeks challenge to put my card together. I made one of the elements from the sketch as a belt/ band to put around the card.
The picture beneath shows the card open.
The text doesn't show off very well in the picture, but I think it has so wonderful, swirly, girly types, I just HAD to use it :)

I'll send my Golden Fall Card to the following Challenges:
TOMIC #16 - Fall with a Sketch
Delightful Challenges - Happy Fall Y'all!

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Materials used for the card:
Cardstock: Bazzill (a pale orange colour)
DP: Core´dinations, I can't remember where the one with the golden leafswirls are from)
Stamps: Image Magnolia, the "leafswirlimage" Tilda is resting on was in the candy I won a couple of weeks ago (Thanks Helene :D)
Text Kreativ Hobby
Spellbinders Labels Fifteen, Labels Four
Nellie's Multi Frame's (MFD 020)
Martha Stewart Punch
Gold Embossing Powder
Gold Halfbeads
DistressInk WalnutStain

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Going wild with punches and dies...

2011-09-20T22:21:00.001+02:00

I have tried out some of my new punches and dies here - most of them used (a couple of times) before, but never together like on this card.
I've used Martha Stewart Punches and Dies from Marianne Design and Nellie's.
It's a birthdaycard for one of Heddas classmates, and I wanted to make it in light colours, and kind of cute, like the birthdaygirl :)
I have used most Bazzill cardstock ( just a little piece of pink scrapDP for the tag inside the card).
The image is a Magnoliastamp, coloured with ProMarkers, then laminated.
Behind the Tildafigure I fastened a magnet (and put a magnet behind one of the cardlayers of course).
Here comes a few more pictures to show it :)

My white and pink birthdaycard will go into these challenges:
Scrapperiket utfordringsblogg - Punch/ Dies
Stampin' for the Weekend - Tickled Pink
PaperPlay Challenges - Punches & Dies
OLLCB - Punches/ Dies
The Corrosive Challenge Blog - Punches and/ or Dies
One Stitch At A Time - Punch It

Girlie ChristmasCard

2011-09-19T20:56:00.002+02:00

For Winter Wonderlands challenge "Girly Christmas" I chose to use this image of Tilda under the Mistletoe - I think she is so adorable. I coloured her with ProMarkers.
The litlle mistletoes are a stamp from Magnolia too. The textstamps are from Storyteller.

To put the card together I used the sketch from Christmas Challenges (with sketches).

The papers are designed by Vibeke Spigseth, not this years, but I think they're lovely though...
Inside the card I decorated it with the same papers - these papers are actually so heavy that they are more like cardstock.

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Just a quick post from me today - busy doing most nothing :D
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Vintage Kenny K - Again

2011-09-18T23:40:00.001+02:00

I've been asked to make some birthdaycards in the time to come, and this is one of them - I hope both the giver and the receiver will like it :s (always scary to do work for others...)

Sketch N Stash has a Free Choice Sketchchallenge going on - and oh, there are many wonderful challenges to choose between... I chose sketch #6.
I think the vintage style fits this Kenny K-image perfect ( This is one of my newest buys from Kenny K - and oh, I love it!)
Can you guess the colouring... Yes, ProMarkers :D
Gingerloft Challenge wants Vintage or Distressed for their challenge - perfect for me and how I wanted to make this card :D
Truly Scrumptious' theme this week is to decorate the inside of the card - as if I doesn't always do that...
...so here comes the inside:

...same sketch used, just a little simplified ( I need to get the card properly closed ;) )

Papers used are mainly Graphic45 and BoBunny.
The textstamp used inside and on the tag on the outside, is from Kreativ Hobby.
I used goldcoloured embossingpowder on some of the words, other are left black.
I also used brads, eyelets, brown lace, brown velvetribbon, a cute little charm - oh, and Imustn't forget my new MS Edgepunch - Lovely!
And of course I used both the edgescraper and DistressInk (WalnutStain) on the edges.

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:D Jeg har vunnet :D

2011-09-17T17:02:00.001+02:00

Look what I got in my mailbox yesterday!

Some weeks ago I joined a giveaway in Helenes blog "Helenes Papercraft", and the other day the winner were picked -and it was ME :D

And look at all these goodies!

Here are flowers and ribbons and laces and charms and stamps and... - you name it!
Here's even a snowflakedie (I can easily imagine it will become a new favourite for the coming season...)

I had to take a picture from above - to better show everything that was inside.
Can you see the wonderful card Helene has made for me?

(Even in my favouritecolours :) )

Take a look over at Helenes blog to see more of the wonderful cards she's making :)

And again Hedda said, with a litlle worry in her voice: "Vi ska vel ikkje gi bort vårres Magnolia'a,vel" (We won't give away our Magnolias'), then she continues with that she shall try them first - hmm, we'll see about that...

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Now I have to see if I can find a printer - or someone who can print for me.
Earlier today my printer broke down - the "printthing inside, where the ink comes out, broke - luckily the ink stayed inside the printercabinet :)

...and I have so many LOVELY halloweendigis ready to be printed - isn't it typical!!!
:(

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Schoolbag with Bookmark

2011-09-16T09:05:00.006+02:00

The ongoing challenge at Fussy and Fancy Friday is "Back To School".
I hope most of you will join in on this challenge :)
I have made a shcoolbag with a bookmark(card) inside, I hope you'll like it - and will be inspired by it.

Here you can see the bookmark that fits in the schoolbag. Quite simple, but as it is supposed to be put into a book (childrens book) I figured there couldn't be too much "things" on it...

This picture shows the bag with "all pockets" open. If it's used for birthdaygift/ -card, the little pocket in front is perfect for some money :)

Now; do check in on Fussy and Fancys blog to see what the rest of the DT have made to inspire you...

I'll send my schoolbag to Cupcake Craft Challenges, who also has a "Back To School"-challenge this week :)

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Chocolate box

2011-09-14T22:48:00.005+02:00

I was so inspired by the little boxes Marianne has made. They are so beautiful, last weekend I made two lightboxes. While making them I started thinking of other things I could make such boxes for :)
Then, a couple of days ago, I was amazed to see the tutorial she has made for StampARTic. There she had made boxes for tea and coffee as well.
Of course I then had my project for TOMICs challenge all ready!
I had to make a box for some of the Premium chocolates I bought 2 (!) months ago!
TOMICs challenge this week is Chocolate (Brown and Cream)
Well, enough talking - here it is:

It's not big, just room for 7 Premium Chocolates. A nice little gift to bring when visiting a friend (and besides, dark chocolate is said to be healthy!)
I used brown Bazzill cardstock and Pions wonderful new christmaspapers. The ribbon, bow and flowers are creamcoloured. The Magnoloaimage (popping out of the chocolatebox) is coloured with ProMarkers. I first coloured it in browncolours, but found it a little bit dull, so I added some red, then coloured in brownshades again until I had a nuance I felt could "go with" the chocolates :)

My chocolatebox is for these challenges:

TOMIC - Chocolate (Brown and Cream)
Papercraft Star - Anything Goes

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Blue Christmas

2011-09-13T21:50:00.001+02:00

There are so many beautiful blue christmaspapers around.
The one I've used here are from Magnolia (at least one of them is a christmaspaper, but I think the other two worked so well together with it, that I decided to use them 'tough they weren't christmaspapers...)
Again I've used the little winterboy from Hänglar & Stänglar, and again I've coloured him blue (with ProMarkers, of course).
I sprayed the paperdoily with Glimmermist (Dazzling Diamonds), and while I waited for the mist to dry I handsew(!) around the panels.
The lace is so sheer I had to use a ribbon upon it to make sure it shows... :D
Inside the card I used the Magnolia christmaspaper and blue bazzillcardstock.
Around the cardstock I punched with my brand new Martha Stewart edgepuncher
(bought yesterday :D)
I used a few eyelets and a brad shaped as snowflakes both on the out- and inside, and on the inside I squeezed out a few drops of Liquid Appliqué "randomly" around (to look like snowflakes).
Now I quite can't decide wether to put such "snowflakes" on the front as well, or not...
I won't do it right now, there's still some time before christmas to make up my mind ...

Hopefully my blue christmascard will be accepted into these challenges - I think it fits...:

Just Magnolia - Sketch
Scrapperiket - Punch/ Dies
Scrappekammeret - Monokromatisk
Christmas Crafting! - Christmas Sparkle
Stamp Something - Anything Goes (my final card for their final challenge :(

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Santa Claus is coming to town...

2011-09-11T21:19:00.001+02:00

One more christmascard from me this month - and there's still many days left of september...
A little while ago I was picked as a winner of a challenge where Whimsy Stamps offered 5 digistamps for the winner to choose. One of the images I chose were this lovely Santa Claus :)
I coloured my Santa with ProMarkers, and used Liquid Appliqué on his beard. On the fur on his coat and hat I used Snow Marker. The DPs are from Papirdesign and KarenMarieKlip
(have to use some old papers before I can start cutting the new ones - LOL)
The Textstamp used on the outside is from Panduro that I never had the chance to use before.

I used the same papers/ cardstocks inside the card, and stamped a christmasgreeting from Storyteller.

My Santa Claus ChristmasCard will go into these challenges:

Winter Wonderland - Santa Claus is coming to town
Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenges - Santa
Sukkersött - Use a digistamp

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Birthdaycard in Beige, Brown and purple

2011-09-10T14:40:00.001+02:00

...well, most in purple. Isn't purple the most lovely colour of all - besides pink - and white - and red... - I think I like all colours when I think about it - LOL

Sketchy Colors challenge this week was to use the colours beige, brown and purple, and with that colourscheme I knew what papers I would use, and what kind of card I'd make. I also knew that I HAD to use my MS-butterflypunch. With all this decided I also knew which stampimage I'd use, and that she should blow butterflies from her hands (instead of glitter as I always seem to use with this image). I used the tinyest butterflypunch I could find, for these teenytiny butterflies - and think it worked quite well...
I also used Spellbinders Fancy Tags (two different, one beneath Tilda, and one that sort of goes over the topedge of the card - the backside shows it better)
The swirl is my newest Mariannedie - I think it is sooo sweet - but it's NOT easy to loosen the paper from it...

I used the same DP inside the card. I stamped a birthdaygreeting (Norsk Stempelblad AS), and used a Spellbinderdie for the writingpanel. The butterflies are inside too :)
(We have several birthdays coming the next couple of months, so I better make something else than christmascards too)

On the back of the card you can see how the Spellbinders Fancy Tags from the frontside continues to the backside.
I've also used my personal "made by Lisbeth"stamp here.

(And because I didn't use any glitter on the stampimage - or on the butterflies - I took the whole card outside and sprayed Glimmermist (Snowqueen) over it - it doesn't show in the picture, but the whole card has a slightly shimmer - supercute (I think :D)

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Besides the Sketchy Colors Challenge I'll send my "most purple, with a little beige and brown-butterfly-Tilda-birthday-card" to these challenges:
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Partytime
Papirdokkene - 2 different dies/ punches or both
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Anything Goes, The FINAL challenge

Christmascards in September

2011-09-07T22:32:00.001+02:00

Here comes my 2. and 3. Christmascard in September. Together with the one I posted yesterday (also shown further down in this post) they complete my 3 Christmascards in September for Hjertebodens Juleblogg.
I bought some Hänglar & Stänglar-stamps used earlier, and of course I had to use them as quick as possible (Hedda was terrified that someone could sell their stamp"friends", and I had to promise her that I never would sell "ours" (as she refers to it - LOL)

I HAVE to decorate the insides too - I don't feel that the card is finished without doing it.

This "blue" christmascard is for Bah! Humbug!s challenge "Xmas Sentiments/ Text", and for Christmas Crafting!s Challenge "Christmas Sparkle", too

I just have to show the inside of the card too. I think this dark blue DP from MajaDesign is sooo beautiful!

Here's a close up of the lovely Hänglar&Stänglar-stamp. Isn't he just the cutest!

Here's the card from yeaterdays post, showing my third (actually my first) september christmascard. I've used Stamps from Magnolia here.
You can read more about it in the post from yesterday :)

So this was a month with no red, green and gold-coloured christmascards - so far...
I've got my hands on the new christmaspapers from BoBunny and Pion (so lovely that I'm a bit afraid to put the scissors into them :s), and today I saw 3ndyPapirs and Poppydesigns new christmaspapers - OH! It will be wonderful days for a paperaddict like me....

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Easel-Stair-Christmas-Card

2011-09-06T23:35:00.003+02:00

I really loved the folding Maja has made on her Easel-stair-card. I had to visit her blog several times to try to figure out how she had made the card - mine may not be made the exact same way, but I'm quite happy how it turned out in the end :D
And - I finally found use of my "Last Christmas"-stamp (Magnolia) -that was also a part of the inspiration. We sat watching christmassongs on Youtube (me and Hedda), and Wham's Last Christmas was one of the videos we watched - then, hearing/ wathing it, the whole idea of this card popped into my head :D
(NO - I do NOT think it is too early listening to christmassongs!)

This picture shows the card folded together - Tilda and Edwin a bit closer...
:)

Here's the inside of the card. I've used the same papers as on the outside.
I've used a "Mini bags & Tags" from Melissa Frances. I tied a ribbon to the tag inside the pocket - both for decoration, and for showing that "here is something more".

This will be my first Septemberchristmascard for Hjertebodens Juleblogg (I have the next two ready for posting in short time :D)
I'll also enter it into Christmas Stampin' All Year Long's challenge "try a new fold"
(this is a new folding to me at least...)

Material list:
Cardstock: Bazzill
DPs: Panduro
Stamps: Magnolia, BoBunny
Textstamps inside: Heindesign, Ladybug and Friends
Ink: Adirondack Earthtones Espresso, Versamark, DistressInk PumiceStone and WalnutStain
Colouring: ProMarkers
Spellbinders Fancy Tags
Embossing Powder (Clear)
Liquid Appliqué
Snow Marker
Sakura Glaze Pen
MiniBags & Tags (melissa Frances)
Ribbon

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Vintage Kenny K

2011-09-06T21:40:00.002+02:00

Aren't they just wonderful, the ladies from Kenny K's new Steampunk Burlesque-release!
I think they're fantastic, and so fun to work with. I think I've used every single one of my browncoloured ProMarkers on this one :)
(and together with all this brown, I HAD TO colour her lips and nails RED! (with a glittergelpen))
The latest challenge at Kenny K's Krafty Girlz inspired me to try making a vintagestyled card - not the style I make the most, but I feel I kind of made it...
All DP's used are also in different browntones, and so are the embellishments/ decorations.
I've painted the flowers in GlimmerGlaze (Champagne) and GlimmerGlam (EspressoBean) - I think it gave them the shimmery metallic look I wanted here.
I used an edgescraper on the edges of the panels, on the biggest backgroundpanels I've used DistressInk WalnutStain (most to hide the white core that shows after cutting...)
I also dusted off my sewing machine, and made some stitching around the imagepanel.

Inside the card.
Simple, but same style (with a textstamp from Norsk Stempelblad)...

...and below: a close-up of Scarlett West :)

With this card I'll try me luck in the challenges listed below:

Kenny K's Krafty Girlz Challenge # 59 - Vintage/ Grunge
Try it on Tuesday - Monochrome
Stamptacular Sunday - The Sky's the Limit
Stamp Something - September Digi Day
Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Scrapperiket - Sverting/ Revne kanter

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Timetables

2011-09-03T18:05:00.007+02:00

Just before the school started I realized that the timetables we've had for some years were a bit too shabby/ too outworn, to use another schoolyear, so I decided to make new ones.

The table itself is made out of cardstock laminated in plastic, and the small pieces where I've written the subjects have repositionable glue on the back - I've learnt through the years I've had kids in school that there will be changes, and doing it this way, makes the changes easy (already the second day Hedda came home and told about three changes - and she could do the changes herself without correctionpen or eraser etc, making ugly marks :)

And, of course a "scrapping mom" can't just make the timetables and leave it with that - I had to make some more out of it - LOL - So I made both of the timetables into wallhangings, and decorated it just a little bit (I was afraid if I'd let myself loose on these two, we wouldn't be able to keep track of neither the days nor the subjects, so I kept it really clean :)

A close-up of the Tilda I used on Heddas timetable - I think this image has the same kind of shy look that Hedda has :)

This picture shows Sanders timetable.
I put a corkboard on his, and a magnetic board on Heddas.

Close-up of the image from Sanders timtable.
I used the same pencils and rulers, also Magnoliastamps, on both.
The images are all coloured with ProMarkers.
And where are the papers from - I hope someone can tell me, 'cause I really can't remember. I've had them for years - buying new schoolpapers every year, it's not easy to keep track on where they came from...

I'll try my luck in these challenges (and as always; I may have read some rules too fast, so I'm never quite sure I'm allowed into all... :s)

TOMIC - Back to School
I Love ProMarkers - Anything Goes
Magnolia-licious Highlites - Fall or Back to School Projects
Totally Tilda - Tilda back to school
If the Shoe Fits...Scrap It! - lets all head Back To School
Passion for ProMarkers - Anything Goes

Fussy and Fancy Sketch Challenge

2011-09-02T09:05:00.005+02:00

I've had some days off from work, and have tried a few new things here in my blog - I hope you like the new colours. I haven't dared to make it into a three-column-blog yet, but I've figured out a lot of new things here, so maybe one day... :s

For Fussy and Fancy Fridays Challenge # 44, A SKetch, I've made this bookcard.
I really hope you'll be inspired enough to join us on this challenge, hop on in there and see what the rest of the DT have made out of the sketch . . .
I used 200 and 250 g aquarellepapers for the book, then decorated it wit DPs from 3ndyPapir. All edges are very, very lightly distressed.
I used a stampimage from Magnolia which I, of course, coloured with ProMarkers.
I'm quite pleased with the colouring on this Tilda - I'm not sure if it shows properly here, but Tildas dress and hairband has a very soft greentone. (I've started to figure out how the Blender works :0)
The picture below shows the book from a different angle (easyer to see that it is a "book")...

I've used papers from 3ndyPapir on the inside too.
I've also made a tag that fits into the book.
The tag has the same kind of butterfly that I used on the outside, it's made with a Martha Stewart Punch.

Again; I hope you'll join in on the sketchchallenge at Fussy and Fancy Friday

I'll enter my bookcard into these challenges, and hope they - and you - will like it :
StampARTic - Shabby Chic
KB Cute Monday - Include a Butterfly
I Love ProMarkers - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew -Anything Goes

Pink Christening Card

2011-08-22T20:20:00.001+02:00

Next weekend we're invited to a christening, so I've made a card to the sweet little babygirl :)
I love working in pink, and here I felt I almost brought it to the limit of how much pink one can use in a card :s
(If you look closely you can see a little white here and there)
I made the card as a crisscrosscard, very inspired by Lena Katrines crisscrosscard in bluetones.
She has the most inspiring blog you can imagine. It's well worth a visit (almost every day), and a place in your sidebar.

Inside the "crisscross" I have the card where we can write (or stamp) the greeting, this card is also pink, pink, pink...

I decorated the back of the cards, as well. All these papers and embelli'es makes it really heavy, so I'm kind of happy I don't have so send it by mail - :D LOL :D

As always - I may have read too fast/ too little through the rules of some challengeblogs, or have mixed rules from some challenges, so with the fear of getting excluded, I'll try my luck in these challenges:

Sweet Stampin' - Babies & Little ones
Stampavie and more - Girlie
CropStop - Pearls
Card Makin Mamas - Pink
Papertake Weekly - Bingo (I have 2 rows; Free/ Pearls/ Blooms and Pearls/ Ribbon/ Free)
Creative Craft World - For a child
My Time To Craft - G is for... (Girlie, of course :D)
Try it on Tuesday - Anything Goes
Sukkersøtt - Monokromatisk

Here's what I used for the christening card:
Cardstock: Bazzill
DP's: Panduro
Ink: Adirondack Earthtones Espresso, Colorbox Rosebud
Stampimage: Magnolia
Text: an old rub-on
Colouring: ProMarkers
Spellbinders Labels Four and Fancy Tags
Martha Stewart edge puncher
Roses
Leaves
Rhinestones
Halfbeads
Pearlstamens
Ribbon
Charm
Safetypin
Crystalstickles
Sakura Gelpen
and at the back; my personal "Handmade by Lisbeth"-stamp (which Papirdesign in Bodø made for me, when they had a shop there)

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Blue Easelbox

2011-08-21T19:54:00.002+02:00

I made this one a while ago, but have forgotten to show it to you (how I can forget it, as I keep it on the bathshelf, and see it several times each day, and even have the pictures ready, I really don't understand...)
I keep earrings in it - the one we use most every day, and don't bother to run upstairs to the bedroom with everytime we change them ;)
It's made out of 4 matchboxes. I decorated both in- and outside of them. On top I've made a kind of easelcard, where two Tildas dressed in blue, are sitting. Of course they are coloured with ProMarkers.
I decorated it with Flowers, halfbeads, pearlstrings, ribbon, lace and a doily (I think that should be everything :)
And of course I used glitter and Glimmermist...
For handles on the "drawers" I used Tim Holts Hitch Fasteners.
The picture below shows it "from the other side".

I'll enter my Blue Easel Earringbox into the following challenges (and keep my fingers crossed that I've read the rules correct...) :

Sketchy Colors - Shades of Blue
I LOVE ProMarkers - An Easelcard
Sukkersøtt - Monokromatisk
Scrappekammeret - Kammerpikenes Format

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Thank you! Bottlegifttag

2011-08-20T12:00:00.004+02:00

I was working on a "Thank you"-project when a friend called and asked for a thank-you card, for a gift he'd bought. I put away my own project for this, much more exciting one ;)
The bottle in the picture is not the gift, it's just one of my own I used to take the picture :)

I've used papers from 3ndypapir. The fairy is from the net, I printed it and coloured it with ProMarkers, and put on a little glitter. Everything is distressed and embossed, I also used Glimmermist "randomly" around.

Closeup of the image. This also shows some of the Glimmermist and glitter better :)

I'll enter my bottlegifttag into these challenges:
3ndypapir - Tusen takk
Scrappekammeret - Kammerpikenes Format
Stamp something - Something To Say Thank You
Scrap'a'Long - Anything goes

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Lots of Embellishments

2011-08-19T09:05:00.001+02:00

Are you, like me, one of those who love embellishments of all kind, the ongoing challenge at Fussy and Fancy Friday will be just the right challenge for you :)
The challenge is to "Use a Lot" - 3 or more of your favourite embellishment.
(-and yes, you're right, there are 2 challenges going on at Fussy and Fancy right now :D)

I couldn't quite choose what embellishments to use, but ended up with my all time favourite; roses, and one of those I more recently discovered; halfbeads. I used 4 roses and many, many beads, of various sizes. And of course I added a few more embellies, like ribbons and pearls...
Can you see that I've tied ribbons in Tildas hair(they are tied, not just glued down!) - I just couldn't resist it :)
-and guess what I used to colour Tilda; ProMarkers of course! :)

This picture shows the inside of the card.

The DPs are from Papirdesign and from Magnolia.
Stampimage is also from Magnolia, and the textstamps are from Norsk Stempelblad.
The panels are made using Spellbinders Labels Four.
All edges are distressed.

I'll try my luck in these challenges with my embellished card in pink:
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Flowers
Catch the Bug - Distressed/ Shabby Chic
Marks Finest Papers - Distressed Card
Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

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My Monochromatic Magnolia Card

2011-08-18T21:43:00.001+02:00

This is quite new to me. Working "without colours".
When I saw the challenge Monochromatic in The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge, and then at Stamps & Fun = Creativity, I thought I'd do this "properly". I wanted to make it a bit old-fashioned, a little bit shabby chic.
I had to use a little time on the planning of this one, both which papers to use, what to do with them. And of course which Tilda to use, and how to colour her without using "proper colours"...
(for her skin I used Ivory, then Warm Grey 1, and then blended them well together . think that worked quite nice)
A while ago I bought a jar of UTEE, and have read about the use of it, but never really come to try it. Now I decided to do that. I put on five (5!) layers of this stuff on the image, then put it into the fridge.
Oh, how excited we were (Hedda and I) when we took it out of the fridge and started "cracking" it - we both think it turned out really nice.
The banners are homemade.

Inside the card I've used the same colours, and distressed in the same way.

I'll enter my monochromatic card into these challenges:
TOMIC - Monochromatic
Dream Valley - Distressing
Pollycraft - Distressing
Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Monochromatic
Catch the Bug - Distressed/ Shabby Chic

Materials used:
Cardstock: Bazzill
DP: Creative Imagination, Panduro, Glitz Design
Stamps: Image Magnolia, Text Imaginisce
Colouring: ProMarkers
Spellbinders Labels Fifteen, Fancy Tags
DistressInk, BlackSoot
Lace
a bit of sheer fabric for th big ribbon on the front

Fussy and Fancy 1000 Follower Celebration Challenge

2011-08-16T17:40:00.004+02:00

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge are having a month long 1000-follower celebrationchallenge!
Be sure to click over to Fussy and Fancy Friday, to join our celebration challenge
All we want you to do is to create a project that celebrates something - any event you need a card for. As an extra fun challenge, use our Fussy and Fancy Friday colour scheme.
Here's a reminder of the banner for the optional colour combo:
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And, of course, I've made a card that I hope can inspire you to join in on our celebrationchallenge.
I have used an image from Lili of the Valley, one of 20 free LOTV images that came with issue 89 of Papercraft Inspirations. The image is coloured with ProMarkers.
I've used DP from Papirdesign, punches, dies, glitter, beads - almost every embellishment I could think of, and here's how it turned out:

The inside is more "clean and simple" - I like the idea of being able to write a greeting without being afraid of "ruining" the card ;)

...and the back. With my personal "made by Lisbeth"-stamp, and a glittery butterfly (MS-punch)

I welcome all of you to join in on the celebrationchallenge at Fussy and Fancy Friday.
Lots of fabulous prizes from our wonderful sponsors are waiting for you :)
You have until 12 AM PST on september 16 to enter!

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I myself will try my luck in these challenges with my violet and turquoise birthdaycard ;) :

Scrapperiket Utfordringsblogg - Sommerfugler (Butterflies)

Stamptacular Sunday - Fancy Folds

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Happy Birthday

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Warm Christmas Wishes

2011-08-15T21:15:00.001+02:00

Here is last weekends production of christmascards.
Yeah, I'm still in with Hjerteboden's Julebloggs three christmascards every month-challenge, and I'm proud of it! The spring and summermonths were a bit hard, but now, as evenings are getting darker I find the christmasspirit much more easily :)
This month I chose to use Kenny K's digi-stamps on my cards.
I think these "girls" are absolutely fabulous. And so fun to colour! (And I think they are perfect images on christmascards for single boys - and for those with a bit of humour :D)

All three cards are made after the same sketch, from I LOVE ProMarkers. A really fun skethchallenge!
I'll show two pictures of each card, first the front, then the inside (as always I've made the inside as an easier twist of the sketch)
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The "Girl" on my first card, Bodacious Bev, actually isn't one of Kenny K's christmasdigis, but I think she very well can be dressed up for christmas ;)

My second card, and the one I like the best myself.
Can you see Mistletoe is waiting for a christmaskiss ;)

And my third card, KennyK's XmasHottie - georgeous image!
I found a holly/mistletoebranch on the net, which I printed and coloured to use as an "embellishment" on the card.

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I will play along the following challenges with my christmascards:
I LOVE ProMarkers - Sketch
Jingle belles - Bling on the holidays
Saturday Challenge - Christmas is Coming
Bah! Humbug! - 'KISS'mas
Passion for ProMarkers - Divas with Glam and Glitter
and, of course, all three cards goes to
Hjertebodens Juleblogg
with the yearlong challenge "three christmascards each month"

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Happy Birthday

2011-08-11T06:25:00.005+02:00

I let myself inspire by the sketch over at Magnolia Down Under Challenges to make a birthdaycard in yellowcolours. I think yellow is a difficult colour to work with. Often when I use it, I have to do like I've done this time - it has to be monochromatic...
I borrowed Hedda's Cuttlekidmachine to make the letters for the birthdaygreeting. I like this font a lot :)
After gluing the letters down I covered them with GlossyAccents - I think it makes such a lovely 3D-effect.
All edges are "torn and ripped" and distressed. I used DistressInk PumiceStone on the edges.
The butterflies are "painted" with crystalstickles. I have several butterflypunches, but it's always this one, from Martha Stewart, I come to use - strange...
I've decorated the inside just using some of the elements from the frontside.
The labels are made with a Spellbinderdie.

So - here's the challenges I'll enter my yellow birthdaycard into:
Magnolia Down Under Challenges - Sketch
Just Magnolia - Anything Goes/ Glitter
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Happy Birthday
Tuesday Throwdawn - Birthday
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Christmas Gifttags/ -ornaments

2011-08-10T23:18:00.002+02:00

For our latest challenge at Fussy and Fancy one of the ladies (Norma, with the lovely blog "from my craftroom") had made some wonderful christmasornaments. I got really inspired by those, and had to make my own. I made it into gifttags, but sure they can be used as christmasornaments after the gift is opened :)
I've used Magnoliaimages, coloured with ProMarkers. The papers used are mainly scraps and leftovers (perfect use for scraps too big to throw away, and too small to make cards out of...)
The circles are made with Spellbinders Petite Scalloped Circles Large and Standard Circles Large.The largest circle is a paperstrip (I used a borderpunch on one of the longsides) that is accordionfolded, then glued together.
So far I've made three, but I hope I can find time to make more of these, as they were both fun and easy to make - and quite decorative too, I think...
Here comes pictures of them, one by one:

...and this is the backside of one of them (all backs are quite the same; same die and stamping used):

As every month I (try) to send three christmascards to Hjertebodens Juleblogg (and last month I was the lucky winner - I still walk around smiling :)) This month I'll send my three Gifttags/ ornaments for them.

I'll also enter the challenges at:
Jingle belles - Shape-Up for the Holidays
OLLCB - Oh Christmas
Scrap'a'long - Anything Goes
Craft Us Crazy - Anything goes in August
Christmas Card Challenges - Recycle

Heddas Summercard

2011-08-06T21:58:00.001+02:00

My daughter Hedda (10) likes to sit together with me, colouring, cutting and making cards.
She was so happy when she heard that Kreativ Hobby had a challenge for children that she could enter a card into.
Above you can see the card she made. She prefers to make easelcards (I don't know why, and she can't explain it - that's just how it is...)
...and this is how it looks opened:

She's used a Magnoliaimage (actually my oldest Tildaimage, and the one she loves the most). She has coloured the image with ProMarkers.
She's even using the Spellbinder and the hot gluegun on her own (I find that very fearless :D)

I hope as many as possibleof you will write her a comment, as I know she will love to read them...

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Fussy and Fancy Christmas

2011-08-05T09:05:00.005+02:00

Over at Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge we have the challenge "Christmas in July" going on.
I hope my Pocket card here can inspire you to join us in the challenge.
On my card I've used a digistamp from Bugaboo Digi Stamps.
The image is coloured with my (beloved) ProMarkers.

This cardmaking I've seen on YouTube, in a video from the wonderful Stampin'Up! Demonstrator Dawn Griffith - her videos are so good. She both shows and explains everything so well, and has such a lovely voice - you can hear that she loves what she's doing :)

On the insertcard I've stamped a christmasgreeting. The stamp in the circle is the punched out of an identical digi as the one I used on the outside of the card (just printed slightly bigger).
The circle is attached to the insertcard with a 3D-foampad, so that the insert card sort of "hangs" on the edge of the pocket (Dawn explains this much better than I do ;) )
The red ink I've used around the edges is scented with cinnamon - it gives such a "christmasfeeling" to use it :D

Now: click on to Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge, to see what the rest of the DT has made, and check out our lovely sponsors
Bugaboo Digi Stamps
and
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My Christmas Pocket Card will go into these challenges:
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes in August
Scrap'a'Long - Anything Goes
Simon Saus Stamp! - Christmas in August

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Strawberry Tilda

2011-08-03T22:44:00.002+02:00

Tonight I will write just a short post. Coming home from work tonight I had a terrible headache. For seven years I've been sitting in my tower at the airport, in completely peace and quiet - I have never felt a headache before! But today there were a &@{*#&/ of a noise outside my windows - there's digging (with huge machines) and driving and shouting - and I had to sit there listening to it :(
It was sooo good to come home and go into my scraproom (with a little glass of wine) :)

I think this Tildaimage is soo supercute. I found both her and the papers in Sweden when we were there on a short holiday.
I've used a lot of embellisment on this one - buttons, bows bling, swirls, lace, ribbons, buttons, flowers, pearls and a little ladybugcharm that I coloured with ProMarkers.
The image is, of course, coloured with ProMarkers.
The panels are distressed and then sewn down to the cardstock. I've also used DistressInk Old Paper on the edges of the papers.
Inside the card I used the same papers, distressed and inked, but I couldn't get the pictures in the "right way" in the blog - so I simply deleted them here...

I'll enter these challenges with my StrawberryTildaCard:
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Sketch
Totally Tilda - Swirls/ Ribbon and Lace
Magnolia Down Under Challenge - Bingo, Flowers/ Pearls/ Lace
Just Magnolia - Buttons, Bows and Blooms

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Summercard

2011-07-30T21:40:00.002+02:00

Here's another of the summercards I've made. The image here is from Mo's Digital Pencil - I love these cute fruit- and berriesgirls she has :)
I even found some papers with cherriemotives (incredible what one has in ones stash...)

...inside the card. Clean and simple, ready for a greeting :)

My cherrygirl summercard goes into these challenges:
NSHK - Sketch
Stampavie and more - Summer
Stampin' Royalty - Summer
I LOVE ProMarkers - Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffet - Summer
Little Darlings - Girly
Stamp Something - Summer Fun Something
If The Shoe Fits... Scrap It! - Summer
Anonyme Scrappere - Sommerutfordring
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Free and Easy July

Christmascards in July

2011-07-30T13:02:00.004+02:00

I have made my three christmascards for Hjertebodens Juleblogg this month - it was hard to get started on christmascards in the middle of the summer, but when I first got into it I almost couldn't stop. I'm still working on christmascards... (and summercards :D)
These three cards are all made after the same sketch, but I think they look quite different though...

Here's the inside of the card.

The second is an Easelcard, also with a Magnoliaimage, coloured with ProMarkers...

...inside the card. A simplifyed version of the sketch...

This, last one, is also an Easelcard, but I couldn't get the photo of the inside into the blog....

Materials Used:
Cardstock: Bazzill, white, red and Kraft
DPs: Melissa Frances Caleb and Marc, Panduro CountryChristmas Feliz Navidad and Christmasdot, Marianne design Songbook, and one unknown
Stamps: Magnolia (images), Storyteller and Ladybug and Friends (Texts)
Ink: Adirondack Earthtones Espresso, Versafine Onyx Black, DistressInk OldPaper
Colouring: ProMarkers
Flowers: Papirdesign, Bazzill, Kort&Godt
Dies: Marianne design and Spellbinders
Glossy Accents (Ranger)
Clear UTEE
Crystal Stickles (Ranger)

Ribbons
Bell
Charm
Brads
Glimmermist

Christmas Decoration

2011-07-26T23:47:00.001+02:00

Oh, I had such a good time making this christmasdecoration - in July, in the summersun... :)
I've used two snowflakes (one leftover from last christmas, and one newly bought), some tiny bells, three christmastreeballs and some rhinestones. The old snowflake is covered in a white, almost fluffy glitterstuff (I have glitter everywhere now...)
The Image is the lovely Tilda from Magnolia, I coloured her with ProMarkers, and added some crystalstickles for the glittereffect.

In the livingroom I have some treebranches that I've painted white. I hung the decoration on the "tree" before I took the pictures - not that it made the pictures any better :(

I'll enter these challenges, and hope they'll like my chrismas decoration:

Totally Tilda # 27 - Christmas Decoration in July
2 Sisters # 49 - Anything Goes
Gingerloft - Make it Sparkle
Cupcake #152 - Shabby Sparkle
Allsorts 113 - Free n Easy
CSAYL - All About You (my favourite colours are White all year long, and red for christmas)
Kort o Mania - Anything Goes
Paper Cutz Challenge # 101 - Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Something Embellished

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