Christmas Countdown

onsdag 29. oktober 2014

Three of a Kind @ I ❤️ ProMarkers


I have made a giftbag for this weeks challenge over at
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.no

Our sponsors for the challenge are:


and


This weeks theme is
Three Of A Kind

On my giftbag I’ve used
3 Ribbons
3 Charms
3 Dies-sets ( 1 from Magnolia, 1 from Marianne Design, 1 from Memory Box))
and the image has 3 candycanes
The image is from Stitchy Bears and is named Candy Cane Tag
The tag on the image comes blank, I have stamped a little christmas greeting on it. The greeting is a textstamp from Storyteller.
DP is from Karen Foster, bought years back. Paperedges are inked with DistressInk WalnutStain.
The white berries on the image are «dotted on» with Liquid Pearls White Opal.
To keep the giftbag closed I put magnets under papers on the «lid».

From left side:

Back of the giftbag:


ProMarkers used to colour the image:
Olive Green, Pear Green
Poppy Red, Burgundy
Warm Grey 1

I’ll enter my giftbag into these challenges:
Christmas Card Challenges #48 - Anything Goes
Christmas Cards All Year ‘Round - Embellish it!
Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra - Anything goes As Long As It’s Christmas
Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge - Use Patterned Papers
Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas
Stampavie and More - No Kard
Delightful Challenges - 3’s Not a Crowd
Brown Sugar #117 - Anything goes
Allsorts #282 - Christmas
Hobbygarasjens Utfordringsblogg #19 - Jul i oktober
Craft-Room Challenge - A Vintage Christmas
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays #187 - Anything Goes

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søndag 26. oktober 2014

Shabby Chic @ My Besties Norge

Good Morning to you all.
For todays post I’ve tried to make a Shabby Chic styled card for the new challenge at
My Besties Norge

Shabby Chic
is the theme for the next challenge.
I hope you like it, and that you’ll join us for this one.

I’ve used the beautiful image called Snow girl from Sherri Baldys My Besties
You can find this, and all the other of Sherris images in her shops:
Sherri’s Etsy Store
Scrapbook Stamp Society
My Besties Store
I used lots if dies on this card - I love dies, especially snowflakedies, and the poinsettia I think is my all time favourite!
Around the image I used a little frantage. The paperedges are inked with DistressInk WalnutStain. The ribbonbow is made of seambindingribbon and has a little snowflakecharm attached. I made the pin myself.


Front-, Back- and insides of the card. The inside has a stamped greeting from Papirdesign.




I’ll join these challenges:
Hobbygarasjens utfordringsblogg - Jul i oktober
Allsorts #282 - Christmas
Brown Sugar #117 - Anything Goes
Sister Act #80 - Anything Goes - Cards Only
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays #186 - Anything goes
Crafty Calender - Bingo! (Sparkle/ Die Cuts/ Blue)
Christmas Card Challenges #48 - Anything Goes
Completely Christmas #35 - Anything Goes…With a Twist Add a Sentiment
Christmas Cards All Year ‘Round - Embellish it!
Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra - Anything Goes As Long As It’s Christmas
Sweet Stampin’ Christmas - Snowflakes

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onsdag 22. oktober 2014

No Patterned Papers @ I ❤️ ProMarkers

Good Morning Friends and Followers.
I hope I’ve done things right this time to get the post scheduled on time. Sometimes it works just fine - other times I mess it up…
Anyway, I try to post my DT-entry for the new challenge over at
I ❤️ ProMarkers

I hope many of you will join us for this challenge, which has the theme
No Patterned Papers

Sponsor for this weeks challenge is
Visible Image


No Patterned Papers - a rather tricky challenge, I thought at first. But having thought it over a little while I had the plan for my card.
I’ve used cardstock from Bazzill, an embossingfolder from Cuttlebug («Snowflakes») and dies from Spellbinders, Wild Rose Studio and KaBoks.
I inked all edges with DistressInk WalnutStain.
The little penguin image is from Magnolia - of course it’s coloured with ProMarkers
(Warm Grey 1-5, Pumpkin, Arctic Blue, Pastel Blue and Blender).
I sprinkled on a little Frantage around the image («Chunky White» and  «Shabby White»).
All dies-parts are put together with 3D-foam pads.
Inside the card I stamped and embossed (silver embossingpowder) a christmasgreeting with one of the new stamps from Papirdesign.
Here’s how my card turned out:

Inside:

Outsides:

The image «North Pole Pingy» from Magnolia:

I’ll join these challenges:
Party Time Tuesdays #186 - Anything goes
Allsorts #281 - Embossing
Sister Act #79 - Cards Only
Tilda’s Town #126 - Dies and/ or Punches
CHNC Christmas Challenge Extra - Anything Goes as long as it’s Christmas
Christmas at Sweet Stampin’ - Snowflakes

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onsdag 15. oktober 2014

Snowflakes @ I ❤️ ProMarkers


Good Morning Friends and Fellow Crafters
Wednesday again - that means a new challenge at

This week we have two wonderful sponsors:

Who are offering 1 set of PMs

and

With a Prize of a £10 voucher

The theme for this weeks challenge is
Snowflakes 

I have made a little Snowflake-hanging for this challenge.
The snowflakes are silvercoloured, so I used silvercoloured cord and a silvercoloured bead to put the two of them together.
I’ve used two digital images from My Besties, by Sherri Baldy. They’re printed quite small, so you can imagine the colouring was rather fiddly - but FUN!
Behind the images I put a little cheesecloth before I attached them to the snowflake shapes.
I also used lots of blingstones and Liquid Pearls (Opal White), some punched out, little snowflakes, a ribbonbow, some «diamonds on a string» (I have no idea what they’re called) and a banner with a stamped greeting.
Here it is, I hope you’ll like it:


Close-ups of the two snowflakes:


I’ll enter these challenges:
Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra - Anything Goes As Long As It’s Christmas
Crimbo Crackers #67 - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays #185 - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Addicted To Stamps #89 - Anything Goes
Scribble and Scrap #29 - Always Anything Goes
Deep Ocean #88 - Christmas in October
Dream Valley #92 - Anything But A Card

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mandag 13. oktober 2014

Bling It Up @ My Besties

Hello again
It’s time for yet a new challenge over at
My Besties International

this time with the theme
Bling It Up
and as for all our challenges we have wonderful prizes:

To see all of Sherri Baldys images and other items, you can visit her shops:
Sherri’s Etsy Store
Scrapbook Stamp Society
My Besties Store

I have made a set with a christmascard and a gift-tag.
The card and tag are put into a cellophane envelope, for the envelope I made a header decorated the same way as the card and tag.
I’ve used IMG384 on all parts of the set.
This time I wanted to use blue, grey and white colours. Mostly because I «needed» to use that silvergrey lace - ever felt it like that; you find one thing that you just have to use, the work everything around that single item???

Front of the gift-tag:

Inside the gift-tag:

The card:

Inside of the card:

This is how it looks «wrapped up» - a nice, little calendargift, maybe :)

I’ll enter these challenges:
Scribble and Scrap #29 - Always Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #280 - Christmas
Cute Card Thursday #342 - Anything But A Card!
Deep Ocean #88 - Christmas in October
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Dream Valley #92 - Anything But A Card
Love To Scrap! #39 - Anything Goes!
Winter Wonderland - Lace and Pearls
Completely Christmas #33 - Anything Goes…With a twist Add A Poinsettia
Crimbo Crackers #67 - Anything Goes
My Besties Friendship #6 - Alles Geht
My Besties Aussie #29 - Anything goes With A Bestie

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søndag 12. oktober 2014

Halloween @ Storyteller

Good Morning, Crafters
After some really windy days, we’ve now had two calm, beautiful autumnal days at Røst.
I love this time of the year, with dark evenings when I can light candles, christmas is slowly nearing -but first it’s time for Halloween!
In Norway Halloween is a new tradition. Not everyone seem to like the «Trick and Treat’ing», but I really can’t see the big difference from the old, norwegian tradition «Julbokk», where people dressed up ond went singing around to each others houses in the days between christmas and new years eve…

The new challenge over at
Storyteller
has the challengetheme
Halloween 
and/ or use Halloweencolours 
(Black/ Purple/ Orange)

I have decorated an old chocolatebox.
Materials used for it:
Image: LaLaLand, coloured with ProMarkers
DPs: Graphic 45 «Steampunk Spells»
Dies: LaLaLand
Pearls: Storyteller
Letters (shown from the side): Making Memories
Feathers and metalembellishments from «the big drawer in my workdesk»

The top of the chocolatebox:

The box shown from the side:

I used DPs inside the box too:

I’ll join these fun challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges #57 - Halloween Treats!
Simply Create Too #72 - Halloween
Crafting For All Seasons #87 - Too Cute To Spook
Ladybug Crafts - Autumn and/ or Halloween
Allways Something Creative #84 - Herbst/ Halloween
Cute Card Thursday #342 - Anything But A Card!
Stampavie and More #222 - Halloween
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes, Optional extra is to make a treat holder or gift for Halloween
Vintage Stamping #25 - Colour Challenge
Dream Valley #92 - Anything But A Card
Papirdokkene #63 - Høstfarger



I hope you’ll find time to join us for this challenge.
Hop on over to Storyteller to see what the rest of the DT-girls have made to inspire you.

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onsdag 8. oktober 2014

Autumn Colours @ I ❤️ ProMarkers

Good Morning, Friends and Followers.
As it’s Wednesday it’s time for a new challenge at
I ❤️ ProMarkers
and I’m here with my DT-card, hoping to inspire you to join us for it.

Sponsor for this weeks challenge is
The Paper Shelter

The theme for this challenge is
Autumn Colours

For me autumnal colours are those warm, deep, earthy tones; brown, orange, red, yellow… So I tried to keep my colouring and embellishments most in those colours.
I made my card with an image from Kenny K.
I don’t know what this cardfolding is called, but I really like it.


Inside the card:

Inside the card, fully folded out:



I’ll join these challenges:
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Love To Scrap! #39 - Anything goes
Artistic Inspirations #112 - Anything goes
Pile It On #40 - Autumn
One Stitch At A Time #221 - Anything Goes With the Colour Orange
Stamping Sensations - Autumn
Open-Minded Crafting Fun #20 - Fall/ Autumn
Allsorts #279 - Autumn
Brown Sugar #114 - Autumn/ Fall
Wags ’n’ Whiskers #139 - Fall Colours

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