Wishing you....CCWS # 71 with a twist

Hi everybody!

Another two weeks have past, so I have my exemple-card to show you for another challenge over at CCWS. All Holiday Fairies have made beautiful cards again, you can admire those on the challengeblog. 

This weeks sketch was made by our own Wilma. Actually I made 2 cards for this challenge, because Wilma changed her sketch, when I was just finishing my first card, hihi. So I have an extra card for Christmas this year :o)

We have a twist again and that is to use kraft-paper on your card. So my basic-card is kraft and I layered my stamp on kraft-paper. The designpapers are from Marianne Design, Warm Winter Wishes. Beccy's Place provided me with a nice freebie, Raggedy Angel. He was coloured with Derwent Coloring Pencils:

skin: 170-180-620

cheeks, t-shirt, bow and patch: 190-200

trousers: 610-620

shoes: 530-600-630

hair and cat: 570-560-580

bear: 710-690

ground: 510-530

wings: 010

shadow: 710

We have a somewhat unusual sponsor, namely our own Janneke. She is giving away a surprise prize. So go on over to the CCWS-blog to see what it is. Look at all the beautiful cards from my teamies and check out Wilma's sketch!!

See ya :o)

God Jul...CCWS # 52

Hi everyone!

Two weeks have pasted and the Holiday Fairies from our challengeblog Christmas Challenges {with sketches} have made beautiful cards again with the sketch Betina made for us this time. 

Well, it was a really fun sketch to work with, but because of my image, I turned AND mirrored it. 

This little man is Spritz from Saturated Canary. 

I coloured him with Derwent Colouring Pencils:

skin: 170-190-620

hair: 570

eyes: 390

mouth: 160

clothing: 160-270

ground: 220

For his wings I used stickles, Frosted Lace. From my friend Anne Karin, I got this little silver bell :o)

The sentiment is build from Tiny Alpha Stickers from Kaiser Craft. 

And the papers are Panduro's Tis' the Season. 

My mother made the flowers and I put a velvet brad in it. 

I just love my card, don't you?

Our sponsor for this week is 

So come on and check out what you can win at our CCWS-blog. You can also find the sketch and the beautiful cards, the other Holiday Fairies have made there. 

See you soon!

Juleklem...CCWS # 50

Hi everyone!

Here I am with another Christmas card for challenge number 50 (!) at Christmas Challenges {with sketches}. I made this card during a cozy get-together with my scrapping girlfriends. 

I used designpapers from Panduro, Winter. And I dry-embossed the circle. Sorry but I cannot remember which folder it was...

This penguin was donated to us Holiday Fairies by our sponsor, Meljen's Designs. Isn't he sweet?

I coloured him with my Derwent Coloring pencils:

penguin: 710-700-080

cup: 390-380

hat: 380

I also used Pigment Modellingspasta Coarse. It gives it such a nice touch. 

With this challenge we have a twist again. Use stitching on your card, real or faux. I pierced a lot of holes in my circle and stitched around it afterwards. With a nice charm, my card was ready :o)

is our sponsor for this week. 

So come on over to CCWS and join in for some fun. 

Let us in the DT-team know what you think of our cards, ok?

See ya!

Merry Christmas....CCWS # 32

Hi everybody, here I am again telling you about a new challenge over at Christmas Challenges {with sketches}. It was my turn to give you all a sketch to work with. So I hope you check it out and of course make a Christmas card with it. This is mine :o)

I used my flowerpunch to make some flowers out of kraft paper. The little flower got some distress ink, vintage photo on top, as did all the edges of the papers. 

Tilda was coloured with Derwent colouring pencils:

skin: 170-190-620

hair: 010-530

clothes: 340

socks and banner: 200

stickles: crystle

I gave Tilda also a "spray" of distress ink to make her a little bit "older"

For the challenge it is required to use embossing on your card as a twist. 

I used my embossingfolder Woodgrain from Craft Concepts. I love it :o)

This week we will be sponsored by 

Hope you jump on over to CCWS now, to check out the sketch, the beautiful cards for my teamies and of course what you can win from Judi. 

See you later!

Tis the season.....CCWS # 30

Hi all!

It's Wednesday again and another challenge at Christmas Challenges {whit sketches}. 

We have a challenge now every week. So more changes to join and win some nice goodies.

Janneke made a fun sketch and she is also giving away something to the winner. 

Thanks Janneke, you're the best :o)

My card needed some snow and I mimicked that with my snow marker.

These kids are enjoying the fireworks. It's a stamp from Jalekro and stood on a sheet with multiple stamps.

I have them scanned so I can use them several times :o)

Colored them with my Derwent coloring pencils:

faces: 170-190-620

green: 440-450

blue: 310-350

red: 150

pink: 180

brown: 620

some stickles

 With a embossing folder from Sizzix I embossed the red cardstock. I used both the positive as wel as the negative :o)

The designpapers are from Three bugs in a rug (snow much fun) and the sentiment is a rubbon from Creative Imaginations :o)

I hope you join us again at CCWS and make another Christmas card. 

It's so much fun to visit all of your blogs :o)

See ya!

God Jul.....CCWS # 28

Hi all!

Here I am again with a card. This one is for our next challenge at Christmas Challenges {with sketches}, CCWS. Carol made a beautiful sketch, a round one, so nice! Thanks Carol, it was a pleasure to make a card with your sketch :o)

I cut this card with my silhouette. First the cardbase, with a kind of hinge and then a blue circle to cover the card. With my silhouette I cut out the snowflakes in the white cardstock and made it a little bit smaller then the blue one. 

My Santa is sitting on a ribbon from Kort og Godt and I colored him with my Derwent coloring pencils:

skin: 170-190-620

hair and beard: 710

clothes and shoes: 340-360-310-720

and lots of stickles: baby blue, frosted lace, diamond

Behind him is a round piece of frosted vellum from my stash, where I stamped my sentiment on. 

I used three of the snowflakes that came out of the card and glued them with 3D-dots on the card. 

I furtheron decorated my card with my perlen pen. 

Our sponsor for these two weeks is 

Visit the challengeblog to find out what great prize could become yours. 

And of course look at all the great cards my teammates made for you too. 

Hope to see your card soon on the challengeblog :o)

Bye bye!

Happy Holidays.......CCWS # 24

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a great Easter. Maybe you did some cardmaking or scrapping? Well I did for our next challenge at Christmas Challenges {with sketches}. Renata made a wonderful sketch for us this time...and...we have yet another twist. And that is to use those great traditional Christmascolours, meaning red, green and white of cream :o) And here is my card.

I used papers from Docrafts Papermania again Enchanted Christmas. The snowflakes were crocheted by my mother and I put a brad in the middle. The sentiment is from Making Memories. I have those for ages now and I had never used them before :o)

This cutie is Emma Bear from Karen's Doodles and I coloured her with my Derwent colouringpencils:

fur: 710

bird: 520-010

coat: 130-390

shoes: 480-520

mittens: 480

The snow was made with my snowmarker.

These two weeks Elisabeth Bell is our sponsor. She will have a great prize for one of you participants. 

I hope to see a lot of beautiful cards again at our challengeblog.

O yeah...let me know what you think of my card, OK?

Thanks, bye bye!!

Happy Easter!

Hi!

I just want to wish you all a Happy Easter with this card. 

God Jul....Christmas Challenges {with sketches} # 20...and a GDT call!

Hi everybody! 

I'm sorry that I don't publish so much these days. We are very busy renovating our home. I do create, but I just don't have so much time to put it on my blog. 

Well here is another card I made for the next challenge at CCWS. Marga made the sketch, thanks girl!

I used design papers from Milton & Co, Christmas and brown cardstock.

Because I didn't have brown flowers, I took some white ones and made them brown with distress ink, vintage photo. I find it a nice combo, the brown with the pink :o)

From a little bit of paper I made this banner with my sentiment on it.

Lovely Tilda was coloured this time with my Derwent colouring pencils

skin: 170-190-620

hair: 600-630

dress: 200-240

tights: 450-480

wings: stickles

Our sponsor for these 2 weeks is 

and an amazing prize is going to be send to 1 lucky winner :o)

As I anounced in my title, we will have a GDT call on the CCWS blog. We are looking for 2 of 3 designers to join us for the next months. If you wonder how you can enter, please go to the CCWS blog to read all about it :o)

Well I hope you will make another Christmas card and join us at Christmas Challenges {with sketches}.

Bye, bye!!

Believe...Christmas Challenges {with sketches} # 17

Hi everybody!

First of all I want to wish you a Happy Newyear. 

Secondly I really want to thank you all for your comments the past year. I enjoyed reading each and every one :o)

And now we go back to daily life. After little over a week we are in our regular pattern again. 

So what do we do? Yes, we make Christmas cards :o) What better way to start the new year, don't you think?  At Christmas Challenges {with sketches} we have a new sketch for you. Made for you by our talented Claire. 

This is my card as inspiration for you all. I rotated the sketch to get more of a balanse in it. 

In this challenge we want you to use dies or punches. Well I have used both. Here you can see I used my Martha Stewart punch. The sentiment is a rubbon from Hot off the Press. 

Behind Santa you can see my die from Docraft Dielicious. The circle was cut out with my Curvy Cutter from EK success.

Santa was coloured with Derwent coloursoft pencils:

skin: 170-190-620

hair: 710

clothes: 130

gift: 480-010

shoes: 520-530-010

and stickles, frosted lace

Furthermore, I used paper from Imaginisce and ribbon from Craft Essentials.

This swirl is from Little Yellow Bicycle and the brads I bought at Nille (a Norwegian household-shop with some scrappingstuff). 

Yes, I know, we just had Christmas. But you do want to send cards this year too, don't you? 

Well, let's continue making those cards, OK? 

Especially when you can win an amazing prize again. This time our sponsor is 

So I hope to see a lot of cards again at Christmas Challenges {with sketches}.

Happy cardmaking!

Merry Christmas.... challenge # 13 at Christmas Challenges {with sketches}

Hi everyone! 

I'm back home in Norway again. We were in the Netherlands for a family celebration. I had this card on my scrappingtable when we left and I just finished it last Monday :o) Of course it is a Christmas card again. This time for challenge 13 on Christmas Challenges {with sketches}. Renata made a wonderful sketch for us, thanks girl!

The star is a felt sticker from Little Yellow Bicycle. I wrapped a little tread around it for some extra colour. My papers are oldies from Vibeke Spigseth :o)

A few half pearls and no (as my husband thought) I did not spill coffee on the edge :o)

This sweet Tilda was coloured with my Derwent coloursoft pencils

skin: 170-190-620

hair: 570-560

letters: 010-120

dress: 180

socks: 120

For the sentiment I used a piece of left over ribbon. Here you can also see that I applied stickels on the edges and draw a faux stitch around it. 

I hope you like my card and I hope you all will join us at Christmas Challenges {with sketches}. We have a wonderful sponsor and a wonderful prize!

Christmas is well on its way!