Gone Shopping...

Luckily, it looks like Susie's ear ache was a one night thing. She hasn't complained about her ears at all today. Phew!

This is a card I made while I was over at my friends house the other night.

I have borrowed the border punch, the text stamp and the "splat" stamp from my friend, so I don't know what they are.... Image is Miss Anya by The Greeting Farm, though... and she's coloured with Promarkers.

This card goes into the following challenges:

Simon Says - Anything Goes.

Anyone for Anya - Girly Girl.

Dream Valley - Challenge 31- For a Special Lady

I really appreciate your comments. Thanks for looking.

Miss Anya again...

Just a quick post tonight...
Image is Miss Anya by The Greeting Farm. She's coloured with Promarkers and so is the scalloped oval border. I don't own this stamp myself, but she was so much fun to colour up that I'm wondering if I might have to buy one for myself.... lol... I have used one of my crocheted flowers again, but making it a bit more interesting by adding some torn bookpages coloured with Promarkers (Duck egg), a brad and some ribbon.

This card goes into these challenges:

ICSketches - sketch #83

Sketchy Colors - challenge 38- Red & Turquoise

Green Miss Anya

Oh, it was sooo cold this mornig... I was seriously thinking about lighting a fire in our fireplace....It turned out to be a very beautiful, sunny day though, but still a bit chilly where there's no sun. I don't want summer to be over just yet, but I guess there's not much I can do about it really... lol... At least cold weather means more time inside and that will in turn lead to more time to craft...

Yesterday I met up with Renate, a lady I met here in blogland. Turns out she lives just "round the corner" from me (it took me no more than five minutes on my bike to get to her house...). She makes the most beautiful cards, and I've been following her blog for a while now, so it was really fun to meet her in real life. I brought some of my stash, and we spent the entire morning talking and making cards. I guess I did a lot of talking because I didn't even manage to finish one card while I was there.... I finished it at home last night though...
I have borrowed Renate's "Miss Anya" stamp by the Greeting Farm (such a cute stamp) for my image. It's coloured with Promarkers and mounted on 3d foam. Butterfly border is a MS punch. Black DP is by Dovecraft - Amethyst Floral prints. The green DP is something Renate gave me, so I don't know who it's by... The green heart is handmade... I cut a piece of card, covered it with glue and sprinkeled some glitter on.

I didn't add any flowers on my card because I thought the flowers on the DP were flowers enough.... and I also think I have a thing for simple cards at the moment...

Thanks for looking!

Anyone for Anya, sketch #10

So, it's been a while... still haven't found my blogging mojo even though I should have plenty of things to blog about... like Maja started playing with the school band, the school strike, our national day and so on... I just don't really feel like it.... The creative, card making mojo has to a certain degree found its way back though.

I stamped and coloured the image on this card for last weeks Anyone for Anya challenge, but never made it into a card in time to enter that challenge (which was "double trouble"), so I decided to use the ready coloured image for this weeks sketch on the same blog instead....
The images are from The Greeting Farm's "Wonderland" set. I masked Alice and then stamped the mushrooms. The image is coloured with Promarkers. I'm not too pleased how the colouring turned out on this one though. I guess I still need a lot more practice. Sentiment is handwritten, and the flower is homemade.

Image is popped up on 3d foam.

Friday Sketchers #87

A morning post for a change. Maja is at school, Per is at work and poor Susie wasn't feeling well yesterday and is still asleep. Better use my time well though 'cause she'll probably wake up soon...

Work is still fine even though some days are really challenging.... Teaching isn't always a walk on the bright side... Well, enough of that... here's my card for the Friday Sketchers challenge this week.
I finally managed to ink up my "Me Time" Anya by The Greeting Farm. I won the "Me Time" set on a blog hop at Amy's blog (you better go and have a look, she's awesome!) ages ago and have just waited for an opportunity to ink her up....

I used some shimmering water colour for the foam and her head band and slippers. I guess you see it a bit better on the bottom picture.

Mojo monday challenge no 111 and some exciting news...

Boy, do I have some exciting news today.... I've got myself a JOB!! Woohooo!! Nothing's on paper yet, but the headmaster at Maja's school promised me a job, starting January. I'll contact him a bit closer to Christmas and work out all the details, but he has promised me work 3 days a week. I'm sooo excited! On the other hand, that means I can no longer spend my whole days with Susie... I can't remember if I already mentioned that she has got a place in a new built nursery (it's not quite finished yet...), anyway... she is starting nursery at the end of this month (if the nursery is finished by then...lol...) or beginning of December. So this is going to be a big change for both her and me... and for the rest of the family too, of course, not having me at home all the time....

Well, over to my card. This card was made using sketch 111 from the Mojo Monday sketch blog. You're probably bored by the stamp I've used by now.... I know... It just happens to be my favourite at the moment...Image is coloured with water colour pencils, and I've matted the image on some soft pink pearlescent paper... the off white strip to the right is also same type of paper. I think you can see the shimmer in those pearlescent papers a bit better on this pic...

It's really hard to photograph my cards at this time of year... not much daylight, and lamp light gives the photos the wrong colours... ach well, you get the idea....

A wedding card

I don't seem to get into blogging again after the summer hols.... a week or two between posts.... not good, not good at all! And everything I post about is stuff that I made a week or two before I got it posted... hrmph... I'm gonna try to improve....

Anyway, here's a card I made weeks ago... not for anyone in particular, just wanted to try out a new technique. I masked a heart shape on the card and rubbed ink directly onto the cardstock and stamped some swirls on top... so no fancy papers here....
I used the wedding couple from the Caketopper set by The Greeting Farm, the sentiment is from Kort og Godt and the swirls and butterflies from.... hmmm... can't remember what company right now and can't be bothered to go downstairs to check it out....

The couple is coloured with water colour pencils and mounted on pop dots for dimension and the butterflies are only glued down in the middle so that the wings stands up a bit....

Thanks for looking and a big thank you to those of you that still checks in and leave nice comments even though there is so little news in here...

A gift bag

Well... here's another thing I made a couple of months back that I haven't posted about here. Just before school started back in August, Maja was going to a birthday party for one of her school friends. I had this cute pink paper bag that was the perfect size for the prezzie... so I wanted to use it, but thought it was a bit plain, so I found my (then) new Wonderland stamp set from The Greeting Farm and some letter stamps and made a bag topper... (if there is such a word... I've heard about card toppers...)
You just have to love that little rabbit.... The rabbit and sentiment are mounted on 3d foam and the images are coloured with water colour pencils.

Thanks for looking and taking the time to leave me a wee comment. Oh... and I just wanted to remind you that I finally have got a "follower button" to make it easier to follow my blog if you like it.... hint hint....

A couple of birthday cards

Here's another couple of cards I made recently. The little boy next door turned 4 a few weeks back, and my girls were invited to the party, so I wanted to make him a card. Boy, is it hard to make cards for boys!! I don't really have any boyish stamps.... only fairys, butterflies, cute girls, hearts etc etc... Then I found this star in my stamp box... It works, doesn't it??
The star is mounted on pop dots for a bit of dimension.

Then, less than a week later, his little sister turned 2. Of course I had to make her a card too. I just thought this little rabbit from The Greeting Farm was perfect for a wee girl.

Here I have mounted the name on pop dots. And I've distressed the circle behind the rabbit with some shadow ink from Hero Arts and stamped a swirl on top with the same ink.

Well... that'll have to do. I think I'll have an early night tonight... I'm having a bad cough and runny nose, so I guess lying down in bed with my book will make me feel better... I hope....

A wedding card

I have totally forgot to show you the wedding card I made for my cousin's wedding this summer... I had been wanting the Caketopper stamp set from The Greeting Farm for absolute ages, but couldn't really afford it... So when I got the invitation to the wedding, I was so thrilled to have an excuse to buy this stamp set.... It came in the post just in time for me to be able to make the card before I went away on holiday... so if the card seems a bit simple, it's just because I had to rush it a bit....

Well, without further ado, here it is:

Again, I've made a pop up card. It's so much fun to make these cards.... I don't seem to be able to stop...

You just pull that flap at the top... and voila... up it goes! I was in such a hurry to get this card finished that I forgot to put on the ribbon to pull out the card at the top... would have made it a bit easier to pull out... ach... never mind, it's too late now anyway. I have also stamped a greeting on the "pull out flap" (or whatever it's called....) It says "Beautiful Life".

Apart from the Caketopper stamps from The Greeting Farm I used a few other "old" ones. The image is coloured with water colour pencils and the sentiment and bells are mounted on 3d cushions.

Friday Sketchers #68/ birthday card

Here's my entry for the Friday Sketchers challenge this week. It's been a while since I did any challenges, so this was good fun.
I also needed a birthday card for Maja's friend this afternoon, so it won't be staying with me for long...

The stamp is from the Wonderland set from The Greeting Farm, and patterned paper from Dovecraft. The green paper is pearlescent (even though you can't really tell from the photo) and is from my stash.