What a star...

I would like to start by saying a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my little sunbeam SUSIE who is 5 years old today! Wooohooo!

I had to make a card for a birthday party on really short notice, and this is what I came up with:

I had coloured the image a while ago, but hadn't gotten around to using it. So the card was quite quick to put together. I think maybe I should start having ready coloured images lying around for times when I have to throw a card together really quick....

I'm entering this card into these challenge:
Flutter By Wednesday #190 - Anything with wings.
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything goes.
Divas by design - challenge 22 - Wings and things.

The fat lady...

Just a quick post today. I made this card a couple of weeks back. I'm not sure if I'm really pleased with it although I find the image quite amusing... The image is called "Krilla Rocks" and is by scrapmagasinet.no. I really like her fat hips... lol... I have used my Promarkers to colour her with.
Can't remember which ones though...

A peek of the inside.... decorated with some leftover scraps from the front and a panel to write on.....

Thanks for looking.

I cased my 9 yr old daughter's card....

Last weekend we had two birthdays to make cards for. First, Maja was going to a birthday party on Saturday. She borrowed my stamp, Promarkers and Cuttlebug to make this card for her friend:
She was really pleased with her card, and I, too, liked her card so much that I cased it for the birtday card I was going to make for the birthday we were going to on Sunday.... This is what I came up with:

I have used a Pink Gem Designs digistamp, coloured with my Promarkers. I have also used an alphabet die that I borrowed from a friend to make the letters and the number.

...the inside...

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Thanks for looking. Hope you all have a great week end!

Cards made in 2011

Another post showing everything I've done since february... lol... maybe I should start blogging a bit more often again.... Well, this time I just want to blog all the cards I made this... ehm... last year.

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For Christmas I needed a few small things to give away, so I made these small post it note holders. They were really quick and fun to make.

Here you can see all the postit note holders I made....

This card was for my sister in law's birthday. She plays the guitar and she had just done a project with spiders at school... The left picture is the front of the card, and the right is a peek of the inside...

My niece was one in October.... this is the card I made for her.

This mermaid was for one of Maja's friend's birthday.

...and another mermaid for Susie's friend.

It's always hard to buy prensents for people that have everything... so for my mum's birthday I made her a set of five cards for different occasions. When I think about it, this was probably a stupid thing to do since she is one of the few people that buys cards from me on a regular basis.... The set consisted of:

A wedding card...

a new home card....

a happy birthday card...

another birthday card....

and a card with no sentiment...

they were all decorated on the inside as well...

I think she was pleased with the present, and I know that she has already given some of the cards away.

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The next two cards was for Maja's friends too...

And way back in january last year, I made this sliding pop up card for some friends of ours that had a baby girl.

Well.... this was kind of short and sweet... lol... I guess I should have added what stamps (companies) and materials I've used but I can't really be bothered listing all that for all these cards. And I think that would have made for a really boring post as well....

Hooray for you!

I guess I was on a roll, and then it stopped a bit.... maybe due to the fact that I'm working again! Yoohoo! I'm back to the same place as before... same school as Maja attends. It's sooo good to be back "in business", even though it's only 3 days a week... but can't spend my days making cards and playing with my stamps anymore... back to night time stamping... hahaha....

I needed a card for the girl next door who turned 8 the other day, and came up with this. Maja, who will be 8 in three weeks time, chose the image; a bratz girl printed out from one of those "print and colour in" pages for children.
Image is coloured with Promarkers (I didn't make a note of which ones) and mounted on 3d foam tape. Sentiment is a freebie from Create with TLC (tons of freebies on there:)) I have also used some scraps of paper and some bling...
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I sometimes wonder what other card makers do to the inside of their cards... so I thought maybe other people would be interested in seeing what I do to mine (most of the time anyway...).

I usually only add a one layer panel to the inside. Sometimes I punch one edge with a border punch (if I've used it on the front of the card), some has a stamped image on the panel and sometimes, if I don't have a coordinating stamp, I draw an image. I usually also add a thin, black double line around the edges of the panel and use my Promarkers to add some colour outside the line, and sometimes I just use an inkpad (like the one top right). Clean and simple, that's what I like...

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Thanks for looking!

Super hero

I have always admired the Whiff of Joy stamps, they are all so beautiful, but I don't have any myself.... well, I didn't until I found this cute freebie of Henry the mouse as spiderman a while ago.
I have coloured Spider Henry with Promarkers (True blue, Sky blue, Red, Cool grey 2, Rose pink, Blossom, Cocoa, Cinnamon, Vanilla and Ivory). DP is from the Black and white prints paper stack (8x8) by DCWV . Sentiment is computer made and the cobwebs are hand drawn. Image panel, sentiment and webs are mounted on 3d foam. I have also tried my hand at some distressing of the edges... that is something I rarely do, but I quite liked the effect... and there's a bit of tulle added to one side.

I'm entering this card in:

Challenge #86- Jane's sketch at Whiff of Joy Challenges.

Challenge #37- Anything goes at Bee Crafty.

Thanks for looking!

Sweet fairy on a cloud....

I can't believe it's almost summer holiday... just this weekend and then two more days at work and then I'm off all summer. I don't even know if I have a job to go to after the summer hols are over... But I found out yesterday that the school I'm working at are looking for more people, so I'm going to put in an application one of the nearest days, and hopefully I'll get to stay in the job I'm already in.... cross fingers!

Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary. Married for 11 years... I haven't made hubby a card though... so I'll have to show you another one I made. This one is for Maja's best friend's birthday on Sunday.
I have used one of my new digi images that I won for commenting over at Passion for Promarkers Weekend workshop last week. The image is from Pink Gem Designs. I have altered the image slightly by removing the stars that were next to the girl. I have used my Promarkers to colour the image, the heart border and to lay a shadow around the edges of the papers. I have also added a bit of shimmering water colour to the girl's dress, wings and crown. I guess you can see the shimmer a bit better in the photo below (click on picture to see it bigger). The sentiment is computer made, and it's mounted on 3d foam tape.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

The Pixie Cottage: Challenge #23- Sketch

I love Promarkers: Challenge #19- Bears

Thanks for visiting and for all your lovely comments.

Friday Sketchers #99

Oh, that's my weekend started already... It's so nice not working fridays... Don't know where this week has gone though. Time flies too fast. I can't wait until tomorrow night when my parents will come for a visit. The girls are soooo excited!

Maja is going to a birthday party this saturday, and I made this card for her to give to her friend. I'm also entering it into the Friday Sketchers challenge no 99.
The image is coloured with ProMarkers. I made the flower in the corner with a couple of punced daisies for the top flower and then I made the bigger one in the back from a couple of punced circles and a corner rounder, and then added a gem for the centre. I also used my ProMarkers to colour the flower.

Thanks for looking!

Two more robots...

I'm having so much fun with my Spot's botz stamps... I just had to make some more cards with them. I made this one for Maja to bring to her friend's birthday party the other day. I used the Pixie Cottage challenge #14 - buttons and a sketch.
The metal button is something I found in my stash... and I thought it was perfect for this card. The ric rac and the bot is coloured with ProMarkers.

This next card I made for the Stamp with Fun challenge no 52... a while back.... just forgot to blog it.... Gave it to my mum for her birthday at the end of march...

I guess I should have blogged a bit from our easter hols, but I don't feel like I have the time and energy to be blogging much at the moment...

Card Patterns challenge 57

I just really enjoyed playing with my new Stampendous Spot's botz stamps, so I had to make another 'bot card... I have used sketch no 57 from the Card Patterns challenge blog for this one.

Image and sentiment are mounted on 3d foam for dimesion. The bot is coloured with Promarkers (Cool Grey 2, Blossom and Rose Pink)
Thanks for looking, and HAPPY EASTER to all my readers!

Friday Sketchers #91

Finished this card just in time to enter it into the Friday Sketchers challenge this week.
This is just a quick post as I need to find my bed now... nite nite!

Happy birthday, Susie!

Three years ago I had a baby girl at 22:23....I can't believe she is 3 already! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUSIE!

Papertake Weekly Sketch #34

Just a quick post from me today. I made this card last week for my neighbour who was 5 on Saturday. I used this weeks sketch from Papertake Weekly Challenge blog, and have until tonight to enter it into this weeks challenge....

Thanks for looking!