Thank you

Good morning Saturday and a very happy New Year!!

Well, another year's over and we are at the start of a new year. I usually don't do resolutions but I will try my hardest to post on my blog once a day (ok, life does have a way of messing with most resolutions hehe).
We had a lovely evening. Phoebe and I went to bed early while my sons celebrated with my oldest's girlfriend and a mutual friend they have known for year. I gather they got a little intoxicated but hey, they are all young :).

Today I have made a Thank you card. There are several challenges with this theme and it seems like an appropriate card to make to thank for all the good stuff from 2010. Following the great sketch by SUGAR BOWL, who incidently are celebrating 2 years and 50 challenge, this card will be perfect for CUTE CARD THURSDAY, ALLSORTS and PAPERTAKE WEEKLY. I have used one of Elisabeth Bells images for Sugar Nellie (don't think she's available anymore) and coloured her with Promarkers. I think she's rather perfect for a thank you card.



Materials

Image: Elisabeth Bell by Sugar Nellie
Papers: K & Co. "Bailey
Flowers: Prima
Gems: From Quixotic paperie

Thank you for dropping by and have a lovely evening, Mette

Autumn

Good morning Thursday!
Well, the sun is shining again today but still feeling the effect of this darn flu. Been feeling ill now for 1 week with aches and pains plus a sore throat and to top it all Phoebe came home from school yesterday with a temperature. Poor baby - she gets very asthmatic when she has a cold. So now there is 2 of us ill in the house and not been feeling at all like crafting. However, I did manage to make something - took me 5 days lol.

I love autumn colours so it's a good thing there are a few challenges out there with that theme. This card will be perfect for Crazy 4 Challenges and I {heart} Promarkers as both have the theme Autumn. I followed the sketch at Sweet Stop and there is a super Bingo challenge at Allsorts - I used Pearls, Stickles and ribbon. The image is Sugar Nellie and she has been coloured with ........ yes, you guessed it PROMARKERS lol. A little stickle on the leaves as it was very frosty yesterday morning. Hope you like her!



Materials:

Image: Sugar Nellie "Homegrown"
Sentiment: Inkadinkado "Kids quotes"
DP: Cosmo Cricket "Nutmeg"
Pearls: Jac's
Ribbon: Stash
Stickles: Crystal

Thank you for dropping by and hope you have a lovely day, Mette

Smile

Ok - I promise this will be the last post for today hehe. Nothing for a whole week and now 3 posts in 1 day - shocking. But I did tell ya that I'd managed to make a few cards this weekend so here goes ................

This card I made for Sugarbowl sketch. I usually don't get enough time to join but I did like this one. The optional theme Autumn fit well in with a few other challenges. The colours this season are wonderful :). So this is a Homegrown image from Sugar Nellie. Coloured with Promarkers and I have used a lot of different papers for the layout which I have in a huge tin box. The sentiment is from K & Co and the flower is handmade attached with a button. I am also entering this card into Stampin' for the weekend and Paper Sundae challenges.
Hope you like it.



Material: Image by Sugar Nellie
Papers: a mix
Sentiment: K & Co.

Thank you for dropping by and enjoy this lovely sunny day, Mette

Totally Gorjuss - Basic Grey + Sugar Bowl

Good evening! What a miserable day it's been. Grey and dull with a lot of rain towards the evening. Not a good start to the kids summer holiday. Hopefully it'll change soon.
The card I am showcasing today is for 3 challenge. I have used one of the gorgeous Gorjuss images available from Funky Kits and coloured her with my Prisma pencils as usual. The paper is Basic Grey "Sugar Rush" and MME Asaragus. Flowers are from Prima and Wild Orchids. I have printed a sentiment strip which I found at TLC :) - I just love her designs. A little glitter glue here and there and some "stitching". Hopefully gonna move my PC into my son's room and get my sewing machine out again. I really do miss sewing.

Challenges:>

TOTALLY GORJUSS - Congratulations
BASIC GREY - Stitching
SUGAR BOWL - Do it yourself.

Thank you for dropping by and have a lovely evening, Mette

1 card for 4 challenges

Another card which I made for several challenges. As always with so little time available and so many great challenges to enter it's necessary to combine but I hope it'll be ok.
This card was made for the following challenges:
Truly Scraumptious - Hidden Message
Quixotic challenge - Distressing
Crafts & Me - Sparkle
ABC Challenge - Thank you

I used this lovely image by Leanne Ellis and coloured her with Prisma pencils and blender.I used glitter glue on her wings and Crackle Accent on sash. The tag has been stamped with Versa and heat embossed as has the little greeting. Hope you like it.

Recipe
Image: Leanne Ellis
Papers: K & Co. "McKenna
Emboss powder: Stampendous "Pirate Gold"
Flowers: stash
Brads: docraft
Sentiment: hero Arts

Thank you for dropping by and have a lovely day. Hugs, Mette

Mojo 121

For the new year I have had some resolutions. 1. is to get in a few more Prisma pencils which are missing from my collection, 2. is to use items I already have in my stash before rushing out to buy new stuff - although I would love to buy it all lol and 3. well, I don't know about the rest of you but I have found that with all the new and gorgeous stamps being released all the time together with the easy availability of digi stamps my "old" stamps are gathering dust. I do feel a little sorry for them and have decided that I will use them again. I am gonna put a limit to the amount of stamps I get this year (let's see if it lasts lol).

And I am starting with this lovely stamp from Sugar Nellie which I used for this week's Mojo challenge . She was one of my first stamps I purchased when I first started in 2008.

Ingredients:
Stamp: "Picking Apples" by Elisabeth Bell
Paper and ribbon from stash
Colouring: Prisma pencils

Thank you for swinging by and hope you have lots of crafty moments, Mette

Sugar Bowl No. 26

I have managed to make another card. Although my hands are freezing and I just wanna climb under my warm duvet hehe.

This is for the Sugar Bowl challenge which has a lovely sketch together with the option "something new". i have used one of my Diane Duda stamps which I recently got. Oh yes - I have gone all quirky in my old age and I love the new quirky stamps out there as you may already be aware. I have also used my favorite colours - citrus - they remind me of summer and lemonade.

Ingredients:
Stamp: Bashful from Sugar Nellie
Papers: K & Co - Lime Garden and a forgotten pad
Flower: Handmade by moi (oh yes - I can crochet hehe)
Button: local market.

Hope you enjoyed your stay in my little corner of heaven, Mette

Quixotic challenge 4

Just a card for now but will come back later as I got 2 ATCs to post again.
This card is for the forth challenge over by Quixotic which was tearing. I love tearing paper - sometimes you need a straight line, other times I just like to see where the tear goes lol.
For this card I used bright colours - my favorite, I can't get enough of citrus colours and I used this super image by Diane Duda (love her). I haven't quit worked out why she's shaken the frog lol.

Stamp: Shaken not kissed by Diane Duda @ Sugar Nellie
DP: erm - can't remember
Flower: prima
Colouring: Prisma pencils

Thank you for popping by and have a lovely day, Mette

Sugar Bowl No 24

Two posts in one day - swoon............and this time a card - double swoon. Well, I thought I would try my hands at the Sugar Bowl Challenge as I have just purchased this lovely image from Funkykits. Been wanting this for ages and now the poor thing is in a box with other sugar girlies hehe.
For this challenge you have to create a card following a lovely sketch by Marlene and I believe you have a chance of winning some new stamps.


Stamp: Bunny by Diane Duda (Funkykits)
DP: recieved in a RAK from my lovely friend Linda
Hearts: Hobby Craft
Beads and thread from stash
Colouring: prisma and blender

Thank you for popping by and have a lovely day, Mette