Summer, Butterflies and Summer Holiday @ Storyteller

Hi again, and thanks for stopping by.
I'm back to show you what I made for this months challenge over at

Storyteller

The theme for this months challenge is
Summer, Butterflies and Summer holiday
How you interpret this is entirely up to you,
just remember that you must use at least one product from Storyteller, if you are unsure wether you have any of these products, you can check it out here

I have made a vintage Pocket Card to inspire you to join us.
You'll find a material list further down in the post (way, way down, 'cause this is again a rather picture heavy post, I'll try to write less, just let the picture speak for themselves - mostly)

Now; several close-ups of details from the card:

Materials used on the card:

Stamp (on inside card): ST-002873

Cardstock: Bazzill Kraft cardstock (BAZT-9-960)

Flowers: Storyteller (ST-001340, ST-001531)

Leaves: Storyteller (ST-001982)

Halfpearls: Storyteller (ST-009544)

Butterfly: Storyteller (ST003993) (Sprayed with Glimmermist)

Cheesecloth (NO-00804)

Twine (AC366490)

Eyelets (WER-41583)

Dies: Spellbinders Labels Four

Punches: Martha Stewart

The image is found on the net

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I'll join the following challenges:
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Use Patterned Paper
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Get Creative #18 - Must Include Flowers
Addicted To Stamps #107 - Bingo (Lace, Flowers, Pearls/ Bling)
Sister Act #112 - Anything Goes Cards Only
Simply Create Too #88 - Old, Vintage, Shabby Chic
Hobbygarasjen #27 - Alt er lov
Dream Valley #109 - Girly
Artistic Inspirations #134 - Anything Goes
A Gem Of A Challenge #147 - Summer Time

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So Long

Summerdays With My Besties

Good morning to you all 😊
Midsummer today, but so far the weather haven’t been much summerlike.
Looking out, we have a windy, partial cloudy, cold day at Røst - yet I plan a bonfire night, eating on the porch and have a good outdoor evening.

For the new challenge at
My Besties
I’ve made a summercard
-of course I have, as the theme for this challenge is
Summer Days
The image used on the card is Sherri Baldys Img 831.
It’s coloured with ProMarkers.
I don’t know what this folding is called, but it was quite fun to make, and the card is standig steady.
This card doesn’t have much embellishments, I’d almost call it a CAS card.
the bikini decor is two really old brads I’ve had in my drawer for ages. I had to give the flowers a little touch of glitter, and attach the beautiful butterflycharm to the bow. With a little DistressInk on the paperedges I felt it was enough. Some cards - or is it the images - doesn’t need much decorations…

Standing steady..:

Opened:

Backsides:

Close-up of the image:

I hope to see you around in our
Summerdays Challenge
Just hop on over to
My Besties
See what the rest of the DT-girls have made,
get inspired
join the fun

The rules are easy:
Challenges run for 2 weeks.  They begin on a Monday and end on a Saturday. 
You can enter up to 3 cards, scrapbook page, or projects that you like. 
Please use a Bestie Image created by Sherri Baldy.
Winners will be announced every Monday.

**Another Way to Win**
Go to the challenge
Leave a comment in the comment box below the challenge to win a Sherri Baldy’s My Bestie digital image

You can find all of Sherri Baldys images in her shops
Sherri’s Etsy Store
Scrapbook Stamp Society
My Besties Store

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I’ll enter my summercard into these challenges:

The Corrosive Challenge #202 - Color Me Happy

Fan-Tastic Tuesday #40 - Summer At The Beach

Scribble and Scrap #21 - Always Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps #85 - Polka Dots

Stampin’ For The Weekend - Anything Goes

Fantasy Stampers #13 - Here Comes Summer

Brown Sugar #99 - Dots and/ or Stripes

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations #265 - Tic Tac Toe (Flowers/ Ribbon/ Digital Image)

My Besties Deutschland #4 - Alles Geht + Option Sommer, Sonne, Strand und mehr

My Besties UK - Anything Goes and Add A Little Sparkle

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So Long

Easelcard With Bestie-image

Good Saturday Morning all crafters!
I´ve gone wild in colours :)
Mostly I colour images almost monocromatic-style, so I´m not quite sure what happened with this one, other than having fun…
Luckily I had "fun-coloured" papers in a box too, so putting together this girly-card wasn´t too hard - actually, it was more fun ;)
The image, My Besties Img 824 from Sherri Baldy, is coloured with ProMarkers.
Unfortunately I didn´t list which colours I used…
I can´t remember where the papers are from either, but I think they fitted the image quite well
- and they´re a little bit sparkly, that suits me very well (LOL).
I decorated with laces and feathers, a heartcharm, a flower and some leaves. Underneath the image-panel I tucked a little pink and white tulle.
On the tags (Magnolia DooHickeys) I tied little pieces of lace.
The paperedges are inked with DistressInke Walnut Stain.
The punch Used on top and on the green panel behind the image is Martha Stewarts Floral Wine deep edge punch.

 It´s an easel-card, with the writingpanel inside:

I´ll enter these challenges with my "fun-coloured" card:

Stampin´for the Weekend - Colours of Summer

Sister Act #22 - Anything Goes

Divas By Design - Lovely Lace

Party Time Tuesdays #135 - Anything Goes

Scrapbook Stamp Society #16 - Anything Goes

Paper Craftin Journey - Anything Goes

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Dot to Dot on a Summer-like Card

Happy Saturday!
I love weekends, with plenty of time doing what I like most;
coloring and card making :)
I´ve even planned a little bit of tidying and sorting my stash…

Well, first I´ll show a card I just made.
The image is the lovely Dot to Dot, another My Besties from Sherri Baldy.
You can find lots of her images here, if you like them.
I think I tried out most all the new dies I bought this summer on the card.
(I still have some dies left on my ever-growing-longer wish list…)
The butterflies and the flower are the only things glittered on this card.
…well, the shabby white embossing enamel has gold glitter, but not so much, and it adds such a lovely touch together with the chunky white embossing enamel. I´ve used those two around the image - super cute!

Here´s the inside, with a stamped birthday greeting:

Front and back of the card:

Pro- and FlexMarkers used to color the image:
Skin: Tan, Dusky Pink, Ivory, Blush
Clothes and Wings: Blossom, Pale Blossom (F), Honeydew
Ladybugs: Antique Pink, Warm Grey 5
Blender

Material list:

Cardstock: Bazzill
DPs: old, forgotten papers :)
Stamps: Front Kort & Godt ("poststamps"), Inside North Star Stamps (birthday greeting)
Dies: Spellbinders Shapeabilities "Blue bells and Lily of the Valley", Spellbinders Petite Scalloped Circles Large, Joy! Crafts Vintage Flourishes 6003/0026, Joy! Crafts DL102 (butterflies), My Favourite Thing Swirl, Magnolia DooHickeys Doily
Punch: Martha Stewart Daisy Dot Edge Punch, Marvy Uchida corner rounder
Seambinding Ribbon, Flower
DistressInk WalnutStain
GlitterStickles Stardust
Stampendous Frantage Chunky White Embossing Enamel, Shabby White Embossing Enamel

I´ll enter the following challenges with my summer-like card:
Totally Gorjuss #197 - Die Cuts and Punches
Kitty Bee #6 - Birthday
Kort o Mania #91 - Blomster
Stampin´For The Weekend - Butterflies
Sister Act #20 - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too #44 - For A Child
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Scrapbook Stamp Society #14 - Anything Goes
Stamp With Fun #219 - Sommer
Addicted To Stamps #61 - Alles Was Flügel hast
Fab ´n´Funky #181 - Anything That Looks Like Summer
ProMarker Norge #21 - Alt Er Lov
Card And Scrap #59 - Alt Er Lov
Sketchy Colors #173 - Colourchallenge; Green/ White/ Pink

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GDT I Love ProMarkers Summer Time

If you didn´t read my post last Wednesday;
I´m a
GuestDesigner 
at
I Love ProMarkers 
this month!

Isn´t that G R E A T ???

It IS to me!!!
And of course I hope to inspire many, many of you ProMarkers-colourers to join the
Summer Time Challenge

I think strawberries just shout out summer. Isn´t Strawberry Girl from Mo Manning a perfect summerimage?
I while ago I got the strawberry dies (Magnolia DooHickey), and I´ve gone a bit wild making these berries - aren´t they cuuute! I love them!
The pink Inkido DP (Forever Summer) had such a lovely flowerprint in the bottom corner, I didn´t want to hide it underneath other papers, so I went ahead with my sharpest, most thinbladed knife and cut around the flowers so I could tuck the other papers underneath in the corner. It took quite some time, but I think it was worth every minute. 

I punched the corners of the imagepanel with a Martha Stewart punch. On that panel I also used a little chunky embossing enamel (white and copper).

Pro- and FlexMarkers used to colour the image:
Skin: Tan, Dusky Pink, Ivory, Blush, Sunkissed Pink
Hair: Gold, Mustard, Buttercup, Primrose
Dress_ Antique Pink, Pink Pearl (F), Blender
Strawberries: Burgundy, Berry Red
FlipFlops: Antique White (F), Almond
Flowers: Primrose, Pink Pearl (F)
Leaves, Grass and other green details: Marsh Green, Pear Green, Meadow Green
Shadow: Glacier Blue (F), Blender

I´ll join these challenges with my Summer Time Card:
Scrapbook Stamp Society #14 - Anything Goes
ProMarker Norge #21 - Alt Er Lov
Stamp With Fun #219 - Sommer
A Gem Of A Challenge #92 - Summer
Brown Sugar #54 - Anything Goes
Sister Act #19 - Anything Goes
Totally Papercrafts #179 - Summer Fun
Fab ´n´Funky #181 - Anything That Looks Like Summer
Challenges 4 Everybody #26 - Anything Goes

Shaped Card at My Besties

Monday morning and time for a new challenge at
My Besties
This week we want you to make a
Shaped Card
FUN - or what???
I hope many, many of you'll take the time to join us

The little cutie I have used on my Strawberryshaped card is Sherri Baldys "Strawberry Blossom"
You can find her in the Scrapbook Stamp Society Shop
Mine is coloured with ProMarkers. The tiny white "dots" are made with LiquidPearls WhiteOpal.
Over her nose I used a white gelpen to give her white, little freckles - it's SO cute :)
The Strawberryshape is made with a cuttingfile from The Cutting Cafe.
The papers are old scraps, but I found them perfect for this card.

Inside I put on two greetingpanels. The leftsidepanel is stamped with a greeting from Papirdesign.

The cuttingfile also had a template for an envelope that suits the card perfect:

I'll send my strawberry-summer-card into these challenges:
Creatalicious Challenges #52 - All About Summer
Deep Ocean #54 - Welcome Summer

2Sisters #149 - Summer Fun

Corrosive Challenge Blog #177 - Summertime

Now girls and boys; 
pop over to 
My Besties

get inspired
make your own
shaped card
and join the fun


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Wallhanging to Greet the Summer

Good morning to each and everyone of you.
It's Midsummer, I really hope the weather improves a little during the day. It's not raining, but it's very cloudy. On midsummernight we have bonfire and barbecue, not nice if it's rainy...
Well, I'm greeting summer anyway:
I made this little wallhanging the other day, to hang by my kitchenwindow.

I have used img 851 and 855 from Sherri Baldy. Both are brand new images - aren't they just supercute!

The images are coloured with ProMarkers. (Full suppplylist further down).

Around the images I used some of the chunky embossing enamel - fun stuff :)

I tried to use light colours and make it in a little shabby chic style.

 The paperedges are distressed; ripped, torn and inked with DistressInk WalnutStain.

It doesn't show well in the picture, but the pennants are attached with a white satinribbon.

I'll enter the wallhanging into these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps #59 - Gorgeous Lace

Stampin' for the Weekend -  Anything Goes

A Creative Romance #2 - Don't be Square

Totally Papercrafts #172 - Flowers and Bows

C.R.A.F.T. #212 - Recipe

Divas by Design - Distressing

I Love ProMarkers #173 - Anything Goes

Chocolate Coffee and Cards #41 - Bingo (Lace -  Ribbon - Flowers / Flowers - DieCut - Charm)

NMWC #10 - Bingo (Ribbons - Pearls -Sparkle/Glitter)

Supply List:

Cardstock: Bazzill

Designpaper: Authentique, collection Grace

Colouring: ProMarker: Ivory, Dusky Pink, Sunkissed Pink, Blush, Tan, Walnut, Terracotta, Gold, Apricot, Oatmeal, Pear Green, Marsh Green, Coral, Pastel Pink, Soft Peach, Primrose, Mustard, Sandstone, Warm Grey 1 & 3 and Blender.

Dies: Nellie's Multiframes MFD 007, Memorybox Virtuoso Music, Spellbinders Garden Weave, Magnolia DooHickey tag.

Punch: Martha Stewart leafpunch

Embossinmg: Stampendous Frantage Chunky White  and Aged Copper Embossing Enamel.

Embellishments: Flowers, Leaves, Pearls, Halfpearls, Raffia Ribbon, Rhinestone, Lace, Cheesecloth, Ranger LiquidPearls White Opal, Ranger Stickles Frosted Lace, Vintage Seambinding Ribbon (Tim Holz)

DistressInk WalnutStain to ink the paperedges.

Eyelets, twine and ribbon.

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Terrific Tilda Anything Goes for Fashionista Challenge

I'm back again, girls :)
This time I'll try to inspire you to join our
Terrific Tilda Anything Goes
over at
Fashionista Challenge

I'd also like to say
CONGRATULATIONS
to our voted winner

I have made a summercard for this challenge - and what can give you the good summerfeeling more than strawberries???
I have used DPs from MajaDesign to go with the strawberry Tilda. Tilda is coloured with DistressInks.
I used white Gesso and DistressInk OldPaper on the paperedges. Most of the panels are sewn together.

I made the banner with the summergreeting myself.
The ribbon has a strawberrycharm attached - unfortunately I couldn't get it the right way in the picture, but it IS a strawberry.
The insides and backside are simple decorated, with the same papers as on the front

Now, I hope I have given you a little inspiration to head over to Fashionista Challenge and join our new challenge :)

I'll send my Summer-Tilda card to these challenges:
Totally Tilda #72 - More than One Fold
Midweek Magnolias #62 - Colour Challenge
It's A Magnolia Challenge #57 - Alles mag
Charisma Cardz #20 - Here Comes Summer

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Summer with Bildmålarna

Now, as the summer's nearly over - though I'm still hoping for some warm, sunny days - I have made a summer card.
I think this time of the summer is the best, when we still have warm, sunny days, but the evenings are getting darker and I can light some candles - nice! (Of course I like the midnightsunevenings and light all night, but I find the darkness a little more cosy ;) ) 
This time I've used an absolutely adorable image from Bildmålarna. I guess the reason I haven't used her more is that I'm no good at colouring teddybears. I really have to do something about it!
I used the Sketch from Sketch N Stash to put the card together - a lovely sketch, with many possibilities.

Here's a closer picture of the image:

The inside, with a belt for some money or a giftcard:

Materials used:

Size: 6"x6"

Ink: Adirondack Earthtones Espresso, Versafine Onyx Black. DistressInk WalnutStain

Stamps: Bildmålarna (image), Norsk Stempelblad AS(text)

Papers: Cardstock Bazzill Kraft, Dps Bildmålarna

Other: Cheery Lynn dies (Butterflies), Martha Stewart punches (Lace Heart Edge punch and Eylet Lace PAtP-set), Magnolia DooHickey Tag, Flowers, Leaves, Charm, Halfpearls, Glimmermist (Snowqueen), pearlstrings, white ironswirl, Cheesecloth, 3D-foampads

Techniques: Coloured with ProMarkers, Distressing, Easelcard-folding.

I'll enter my card into these challenges:

Bildmålarna - Summercard

Sketch N Stash - Angies Sketch

Dream Valley #38 - Die Cuts and Punches

Addicted to Stamps #36 - Perlen und Spitze (Pearls and Lace)

Totally Gorjuss #144 - Lacy Lacy

Crafty Catz #145 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations #175 - Anything Goes

Scrap'a'Long #18 - Blomster (Flowers)

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Tilda and Edwin By the Seaside

Here's the card I've planned to make for weeks now - I've worked on it a little bit now and then, between weddingcards and colourpractises :) 

I wanted to participate in Sketchy Colors latest challenge, which were to choose my 

 favourite SC colorcombo challenge AND your faourite sketch from the 2012 challenges

That was NOT an easy challenge, with so many georgeous sketches and lovely colourcobinations to choose from! I ended up with the colourcombo fram challenge #121; Red, blue & grey and the sketch from challenge #112. 

With the colours red, blue and grey I just had to use these marinelooking Magnolias - I think they are sooo cute! And I think they give a good summerfeeling - though we haven't had much weather for boattrips this summer...

The background is also a Magnoliaimage. Everything is coloured with DistressMarkers.

The papers are from MajaDesign and the cardstock are Bazzills. The edge on the grey cardstock is embossed with white embossingpowder. All edges are inked with DistressInk PumiceStone. Behind the imagescene I've tucked a layer of cheesecloth. Oh, and a tag, made with a Magnolia DooHickey :)

In the corners I've put on some red, blue and grey halfpearls. I used twine on the tag and on the sailboatcharm - I also tied a ribbon of it, maybe not very navylike, but I couldn't help it, I wanted it to be there...

 

Here's a closer look at Tilda and Edwin down by the seaside:

Here's the inside. The leftside panel is actually not fastened yet - I thought I'd wait 'till I know what greeting I'll use before I glue it down ;)

And the backside, I used the last third of the little "poem" thats in the bottomline of the DP. 

(The first two are on the frontside)

I'll send my card to these challenges:

Sketchy Colors #124 - Favourite SC Sketch + colour combo from 2012 challenges

Totally Tilda # 52 - "Summer Fun"

Card and Scrap #36 - Brug Stempler (Use Stamps)

NSHK # 58 - Anything Goes

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