DT Sketchy Colors - Challenge #134: Orange, brown & white/creme

Happy Sunday!

Sketchy Colors Challenge #134 is up and ready for you - with these colours to play with:

Orange, brown & white!

The DT have as always done a great job showing off this weeks challenge theme, so check them all out at the SC blog :)
Since it's the first challenge of the month, we're lucky to have a new sponsor for October - My Heart Pieces, so there's a great price to win if you'll enter our challenge :)

I've made a Gate Fold Card this time, using a Sarah Kay image I've had around for months, coloured with Promarkers and Prismacolors!

Joy Fold Card

Size: 6" x 6"

Ink: Adirondack - Espresso, Distress Ink - Walnut Stain & Tea Dye.

Stamps: Stampavie - Sarah Kay image, Norsk Stempelblad/Kort & Godt - sentiments.

Colouring: Promarkers & Prismacolors.

Papers: Kaiser Craft - Homemade "Rustic Recipe", Bazzill - brown & orange cardstock, copy paper 280g.

Tools: Martha Stewart - Hearts & Flourish edge punches.

Embellishments: Wild Orchid Crafts - Open Paper Roses 20, 15 & 10 mm, Semi Open Paper Roses 8 mm, Rosebuds 4 mm & Heart Shaped Flat Backed Pearls.

I'm entering this in to these challenges:

crafts and me - my sentiment exatly

crafty creations - fall colours

I ♥ promarkers - autumn colours

paper pretties - flowers

penny's paper-crafty - die cuts/punches

loves rubberstamps - all about autumn

riley & co - orange

clearly inspired - sentimental

simply create - autumn/fall

stampin' for the weekend - floral

stempelsonnen - herbst/autumn

card crafters circle - autumn colours

card makin' mamas - fall is here

by thye cute and girly - birthdays

cards galore - anything goes

crafters companion - birthdays

cupcake craftroom - anything autumn

nordsalten hobbyklubb  vennskap/friendship

a gem of a challenge - for the girls

craftymess - anything goes

sugar creek hollow - give thanks for autumn

Thank you so much for poppin' in - have a lovely day!

Hugs, Lena Katrine

DT Wild Orchid Crafts - Challenge #59: Autumn Colours

Good Morning All!

Wild Orchid Crafts Challenge #59 is up, and for this challenge we have this theme for you:

Autumn Colours!

The DT have as always all made such georgeous work to get you inspired, and there's a great price to win as usual, so head over to the WOC challenge blog and play along :)

I've made a Paper Bag Card this time, using a two georgeously cute images from Bildmålarna - masked together and coloured with Distress Markers, along with papers in beautiful autumn colours and lots of fantastic embellishments from Wild Orchid Crafts :)

Paper Bag Card

Size: 12 x 21 cm

Ink: Archival Ink - Coffee, Distress Ink - Forest Moss, Walnut Stain & Tea Dye.

Stamps: Bildmålarna - Mimosa Spring & Friends on a Log, North Star Stamps - birthday sentiment.

Colouring: Distress Markers.

Papers: Kaiser Craft - Homemade "Friendly Family" & "Slideshow", Inkido - Autumn Friendship "Jannhid" & "Angella", Bazzill - brown & kraft cardstock, Canson - Montval aquarel paper 200g, kraft paper bag.

Tools: Spellbinders - Nesting Classic & Petite Scalloped Ovals, Martha Stewart - Swirling Lace edge punch &  Vine Flourish (?) deep edge punch.

Embellishments: Wild Orchid Crafts - Self Adhesive Rhinestones, Wooden Button, String, Metal Ornament, Rose Leaf, Wild Rose 25 mm & Open Paper Roses 15 mm.

I'm entering this in to these challenges:
addicted to stamps - autumn colours
craft a scene - trees
no matter which challenge - die cuts and/or punches
one stitch at a time - autumn
the craft place - bling it on
the crafty pad - autumn colours
crazy 4 challenges - anything goes with a fall twist
ATC's and cards with attitude - anything goes with buttons and bows
craft punked - pets
crafty catz - brown & orange
fairy tale - autumn
fun with shapes and more - beastly good
craft - autumn
crafty ribbons - vintage
do you stack up - kraft & twine
paper crafting journey - sentiment
southern girls - bling
addicted to stamps - make your mark
creative belli - autumn/fall
frilly and funkie - the great outdoors
my mum's craft shop - buttons
paper pretties - punches
the paper shelter - punch it
scrapalicious usa - fall
whimsy stamps - anything goes
color throwdown - colour inspiration

Thank you so much for visiting - have a lovely new week!
Hugs, Lena Katrine

DT Lili of the Valley Challenge #68

Lili of the Valley is again ready with a new challenge, and for this weeks challenge #68 the theme is Autumn!
I'm back from my break, and I'm so happy to play along with my DT friends again :)
Please head over to the challenge blog to take a look at all the georgeous work my DT fellows has done this week, and to check out this weeks great price!

I've chose to make a male's card again - I looove these cute little fellows with sixpence - they suit cards for both boys and grown up men, I think :) The card is in the colours of brown, creme and green, with a few elements of buttons, string and methal :)

Size: 15 x 15 cm

Ink: StazOn - Timber Brown, Adirondack - Espresso, Distress Ink - Weathered Wood, Tsukineko - Embossing Stamp Pad.

Stamps: Lili of the Valley - "Lazy Afternoon", Norsk Stempelblad - corner text, AA-design - punchinella.

Papers: Maja Design - Mina Vänner DP's, Bazzill - Vanilla & brown cardstock, Letrazet - Cartridge Paper.

Tools: Spellbinders - Nesting Classic Circles, Heat Gun, Sewing Machine, needle.

Embellishments: Kort & Godt - buttons & methal, Papirloftet - string, Ranger - Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder.

Colouring: Letrazet - Promarkers.

I'm also entering this card in to these challenges:
Cards for men - Challenge 20 "Autumn"

Crafty Calendar - October Challenge "Autumn Birthday"

Paper Playtime - #19 "Ribbons OR Buttons OR Rhinestones"

Pollycraft - Challenge #64 "Anything Goes"

Ooh La La Creations - Challenge #64 "Nothing Floral"

The ABC Challenge - "E is for Easel-Cards"

Stampin' for the Weekend - #48 "Autumn Inspiration"

Something Completely Different - "Shades of Autumn"

Craftalicious - #9 "Harvest Festival/Autumn"

Secret Crafter - #103 "Easel-Card"

Thanks for visiting - have a great day!

Hugs, Lena Katrine

DT Sketchy Colors Challenge #40 V:S Unik Hobby Septhember Stamp Challenge

Sketchy Colors is back with another color challenge: Yellow/Orange, Green & Brown!

Check out the grand price and the DT's great work this week at Sketchy Colors!

I've combined our SC challenge #40 with my Unik Hobby september challenge - a cute Penny Black Slap Stick Stamp: "For Godness Sake".

I've made a friendship map, filled with loving words and bags of seeds - seeds of love!

The idea to the map, did I get from Suzanne J. Dean's tutorial in Magnolia Ink Magazine No 3.

I dedicate this project to my dearest "mommo" (grandma), that died a month ago.
She would have turned 84 years old today...

Size: 13 x 13 cm

Ink: Adirondack - Espresso, Distress Ink - Pumice Stone & Peeled Paint.

Stamps: Penny Black - For Godness Sake, Whiff of Joy - sentiments.

Papers: Maja Design - Skogspromenad " När löven faller" & "Varm nyponsoppa", Bazzill - Jam & green cardstock, Letrazet - Cartridge Paper, sketch paper, 5 white envelopes, 5 white paper bags.

Tools: Spellbinders - Labels 10, Magnolia - DooHickeys Vintage Tag, Martha Stewart - Eyelet Lace edge punch, BossKut - Daisy Leaves, Magnets (to keep the map closed).

Embellishments: Kort & Godt - pearls & berries, WOC - Cherry Blossoms & Roses, Prima - petal flowers, ribbon.

Colouring: Letrazet - Promarkers.

I'm also entering these challenges with this creation:

Penny Black - Week 120 "Indian Summer"

Stampin' for the weekend - #47 "Tag it"

Stamp Something - "Fall colours"

Fashionista Friday - #48 "Flowers"

Craftalicious - #9 "Harvest festival/Autumn"

Crafty Creations - #86 "Falling Leaves"

Truly Scrumptious - #41 "Sketch"

Papertake Weekly - "Animal Magic"

A Spoon Full of Sugar - #122 "Anything Goes"

Creative Card Crew - "Autumn/Fall"

A Crafty Little Place - #57 "Brown, green & orange"

Paper Playtime - #17 "Autumn"

Scrappekammeret - #15 "Recipe" (2DP + textstamp)

Stamp and Create - #5 "Pearls and Gems"

You can read this post in Norwegian at the Unik Hobby Blog :)

Thanks for visiting - take care!

Hugs, Lena Katrine

DT Sukkersött Challenge #51 & WOJ GD Call

Friday again - and it's time for a new challenge at Sukkersött ;) This week's challenge #51's theme, is MASKING! We would like you to mask together at least 3 different motives, into one image! And you're not allowed to use a textstamp to create the image. But of course, you can use sentiments anywhere else at your card ;)
If you need some ideas to get started, please stop by at the Sukkersött blog, to take a look at the DT's georgeous work this week!

This challenge was a great opportunity for me, to use my brand new WOJ-Fall Kit stamps - They're georgeous! So, I'm also entering the whiff of Joy Guest Designer Call with this card ;) I love the WOJ stamps, the colours of fall, and I think masking is a fun technic, so I really enjoyed myself making this card:

The front:

The insides:

The back:

Close-up of the embellies:

Close-up of the beautiful image:

The card in perspective:


Card recipe:
Size: 12x20 cm
Ink: Archival Ink - Coffee for stamping the main images and the sentiments, StazOn - Rusty Brown for stamping the pumpkins, Distress Ink - Antique Linen for stamping the background text, Distress Ink - Antique Linen and Tea Dye for inking the edges, and Distress Ink - Refills for colouring.
Stamps: Whiff of Joy - Fall Kit (Corn-corner, pumpkins and a girl masked together as the main image), Stempelglede - Sentiment, Fancypants - Bella Brush (background text), My Costume Stamps - Signature.
Papers: Bazzill - Brown, red and yellow cardstock, Graphic45 - Botanicabella Collection "Ode to a Butterfly" (the cut-out butterflies), Aquarelpaper 200 g.
Embellies: Wild Orchid Crafts - Roses, Prima - Mini Gypsos and Brown Ribbon (from a box of flowers), Kort & Godt - Pearls, Unik Hobby - Golden Hearts, Frantic Stamper - Chiffon ribbon, Golden Tread, White pen for faux stitching.
Tools: Cuttlebug - Swiss Dot Embossing Die, Spellbinders - Scalloped Frame, EK Suksess - Heart Punches, Punch Bunch - Fern (leaf).

♥ Thank you so much for popping by! ♥