Late congratulations with Kenny K

Hi all!

My fiance´s brother turned 40 some time ago. Of course I had to create a card for him. I wanted a woman with some heat, and what suits better than Kenny K´s images?!  There is a lot of my favorite things on this card, such as steampunk. And the design paper, it is BoBunny. And the lasercute chipboards comes from Make it Crafty.  Here is the card:

I would like to enter:

Kenny K´s Krafty Girlz:  # 74 Anything goes

Paper Sundaes Challenge : # 100 Celebrate

100 %  Norr : # 37 Steampunk

and once again Happy New Year :)

Hugs Sandra

Happy New Year!

Hi all!

Over at the Shabby Tea Room they have a lovely challenge this week. A colorful and Shabby New Year is the name of the challenge and that is really what i wanted to do with my card. I was inspired by the beautiful work of the DT´s creations and the colorful picture. :)

The template I have used is from Magnolia Ink Magazine number 4, 2010. The big beautiful pink rose was brought to me by Santa, and is from Prisma. It was so nice to work with bright colors again.

I would like to enter:

The Shabby Tea Room: week 94 - A colorful and Shabby New Year
                                                       using pink or red, blue, yellow and green


Happy New Year!

Hugs Sandra

Merry Christmas too all of you!

Hi all!

This card is dedicated to all my scrapbooking friends! I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

I think it is a stair step card, but a little different from the usual ones.

I didn´t find any tutorial, but my fiance who loves puzzles, figured out how to do it and showed me. :)

I want to enter:

Joanna Sheen Challenge - Christmas Wishes (this is my 2nd entry)

Crafts and me challenge - Anything goes

I <3 Promarkers Challenge - Anything goes

Passion for ProMarkers -  Celebrations

Allsorts Challenge - Blue and brown

Hugs Sandra

My angel :)

Hi all!

This is a fun angel to color. Next time I will color her wings more with promarkers before i add glitter. I wanted her to be the main focus in the card. I think she is that now. :)The digital stamp is from Scrapper´s delights. Rainbow Lady has also a theme with angels.

The paper is gorgeous and is from BoBunny.

If you click the image it will take you to the challenge.

I would like to enter:

Scrapper´s delight - Angelic Christmas

and 

Rainbow Lady´s Challenge - Angels

Have a Merry Christmas! if i don´t see you before. :)

Hugs Sandra

A new (for me) kind of stair step card

Hi!

I am very much into card-folding right now. And this is a different (and new, for me!) kind of stair step card. I was inspired to create this card by the two hänglar stamps on clouds. They where my main focus. I wanted them to have something to sit on! Therefore this card:

3 stamps from Hänglar & Stänglar and the sentiment is from Magnolia.

The sentiment was in the latest kit i recieved some time ago.

More traditional colors than I normaly use. :)

I would like to enter:

Joanna Sheen Challenge - It´s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

(most of my promarkers comes Joanna Sheen´s shop! :)  )

Hugs Sandra

Finally a new card - nontraditional Christmas colors

Hi!

Just a quick post with a new card. Finally! I have realized I have some trouble doing Christmas cards, don´t know why, but nontraditional colors is ok.

Stamp is from Sweet Pea.
Sentiment is from Marion82.

I want to enter:
Sweet Pea Stampers - Nontraditional Christmas colors

Have a nice day

Hugs Sandra

Christmas card for a man

Hi all! I hope you are all well in this stormy weather! At least that is how it is in Sweden today.

When I created this card, I was constantly thinking "for a man". I didn´t want it to sweet, but still a warm and cosy feeling. The image is from "the Stamping boutique".

And once again it became a easel card. :)

I would like to enter:

Paper Sundaes - # 97 Winter Wonderland

Totally Paper Crafts - Challenge 94 Christmas

Rainbow Lady´s Challenge - Challenge 180 - Cards for men

Hugs Sandra

Christmas card with image from Scrapper´s delight

For Scrapper´s delights challenge called "xmas" I have created this Christmas card. :)
The image is from Scrapper´s delight and colored with promarkers. Isn´t she a cutie?!

For once, i choise traditional colors. :)

The ribbon say "God Jul" which means Merry Christmas, but in swedish. :)

I would like to enter:

Scrapper´s delights challenge: "xmas"

Hugs Sandra

My first "trappstegskort"

Hi all!

Over at Crafts and me Challenge they have this challenge called simples!

I don´t think it is easy to do a simple card!! In fact it is a real challenge!! :)

So I decided to take the step full out. I have no decoration at all! I just have design papers and digital stamps that I have colored and used only three die cuts totally. That isn´t much for being me!

The beautiful girl comes from Crafts and me.
My two sentiments comes from Marion82. Link in sidebar. Thank you!

So, when I had to keep it simple, I wanted to try a new fold. I have no idea what it is called in english, but in swedish we say "trappstegskort". A easy one of these, said the tutorial i read. It was fun to try a new folding!! I read about it here! Thank you!

Here is my steampunk "trappstegskort"   :)

I would like to enter:

Crafts and me challenge: # 61 simples

Hugs Sandra

Lizzie from Make it Crafty

Hi all!

Today I just wanted to share a colored digital stamp with you. I realize my choise of colors is quite often...not the normal colors. I think I am gonne try and be a bite more traditional, if I can. :) Because I love to create cards with other colors, but I don´t like to give them away, then I want more traditional cards.....

But this digital image is not colored in traditional colors again. Isn´t she sweet? She takes a long time to color, because of the many many places for shades, which makes her sooo fun to color!!

I am gonne make a card of her. I had a picture in my head, but I didn´t finish it last night, which means I have forgot how I was thinking. So now I will see if i can create something nice of her anyway. Will look for some inspiration in challenges and see if I can come up with something. :)

Have a nice sunday!

Hugs Sandra

StampFairy Challenge - glitter challenge

Hi all!

Today I have a new christmas card to show you. The two digital stamps are both from Stampfairy, and are freebies. Thank you! This is my first time entering a Stampfairy challenge. :)
I have colored this cute little stamp with my promarkes and used silver glitter on my dekorations and on the little angels wings.

I would like to enter:

Stampfairy Challenge: Glitter challenge

Hugs Sandra

The Shabby Tea Room - Shabby Pastel Christmas

Hi all!

I found this beautiful picture over at Shabby Tea Room to get me inspired to do a shabby pastel christmas card! It was really fun to create this christmas card!

The sentiment comes from Marion82, as usual :)
Se link in my sidebar, When the scrap hits the fun.

Pastel pink and pastel blue, with a little touch of green and lace. :)  Here is my card:

And I think you can see the holiday theme too. :)

And the beautiful photo from the Shabby Tea Room which got me inspired:

I would like to enter:

The Shabby Tea Room:  week # 88 Shabby Pastel Christmas

Take care!

Hugs Sandra

Crafts and me digital stamp

Hi all scrapbooking friends!

Today the sun is shining in Sweden, at least where I live. :)

This weeks challenge over at Crafts and me is to create a birthday card. I wanted to see if my steampunk digital stamp could fit into a birthday card, and I think it could!

And over at Paper Sundaes they have the easy theme digital images! Me like! :)

The sentiment is from Marion82, When the scrap hits the fun (se link in my sidebar), and I think it is pretty and funny!

I would like to enter:

Crafts and me: # 60 Birthdays

Paper Sundaes: # 95 Digital images

(both my images are digital stamps)

Hugs Sandra

Card after a sketch

Hi all!

Today i have crafted a card after a sketch!
It was a fun and beautiful sketch!

I chose to do a christmas card. This is starting to feel good, all the cards I have already crafted!
I have a snowflake and vintage corner on this card. I don´t think they is easy to spot in the picture, looks more in RL...

This is one of my oldest stamps, was so fun to get it inked and colored again! And fun to see my coloring has improved since last time! :)

I would like to enter:

The Sugar Bowl: Challenge 71 Erika´s sketch

and the sketch:

Hugs Sandra

Masking rubber stamp and digital stamp

Hi!

I did it! I managed to merge a rubber stamp and a digital stamp! It was some job, i can tell you, but it worked!

The rubber stamp is from Magnolia and is from the latest release. The digital stamp is from Make it Crafty and is the background.

I combined two challenges. The challenge over at Make it Crafty is to add some texture. I wanted my Thilda to have cotton clothes on her, so i used a cotton stick to soften out the dots i created with promarkers and my blender. And over at Allsorts Challenge they wanted us to do Christmas easel card. Fun combination!

My card:

I would like to enter:

Make it Crafty: Add texture

and

Allsorts Challenge blog: Christmas Easel card

Hugs Sandra

Kenny K

Hi!

Today i have created a card for Kenny K´s challenge - get dotty!

I used this cute mouse which is October freebie from Kenny K. Isn´t he cute?
The sentiment is from one of my favorite sentiment digi designers, Marion82. Here is her website: Marion82 

I have used this lovely cardstock from Inkido with dots. I have also added flowers, glitter, a charm from Kattiz which say "kram", that means hug, in swedish. A diecut from Cuttlebug and some halfpearls from Panduro. I have teared some stripes in different shades of pink and added for more layers.

The sun is shining in Sweden today! It is a lovely autumn day!

So I took 2 pictures of my card, since the sun is standing low now, it is difficult to take a picture without shadows.

First pic:

Second pic:

I would like to enter:

Kenny K´s Krafty Girlz: - # 66 Get dotty!

Hugs Sandra

I made it to the Top 3!

Today the winners and top 3 was announced at Crafts and me. Guess if I was happy to be among the top 3!
So happy!

Here it is:
http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-58-winter-blues-and-winner-of.html

What an honnor!

Hugs Sandra

Anniversary card

Hi!

Today i created an anniversary card. I was inspired by Rainbow Lady´s Challenge where we should use silver all over our card. And it was good if we could use purple and also make an anniversary card.

To Cynthia and Geoff: Happy Anniversary!

This was fun ingredienses so i created this:

Credit to http://wordsimagined.blogspot.com/ for the sentiment i found as a freebie.

I would like to enter:

Rainbow Lady´s Challenge blog: -  

Challenge 175..... use 'SILVER + ANNIVERSARY'

Hugs Sandra

Can you see?

Tonight i wanted to try something. I used the same promarkers on the same image, but on different papers. How much does the paper play the role? Well, i have to say, when coloring on cheap paper from the grosery store (where we buy our food) or Letraset´s own paper ....It is a differense!

Which image is colored on the expensive paper? The right or the left? :)

It is dark outside now, so i had to take the picture indoors. For a card, that also makes a differense. If i can get daylight or not. 

Yes, left paper is from Letraset. It feelt so smooth and nice to color on. And the color didn´t bleed much. Me like!

Good night!

Hugs Sandra

Pink - for breast cancer awareness

Hi again!

Two cards in one day! (This card I started yesterday) This is a very special card for me. I just had to create a card for this challenge. My mother died two years ago in breast cancer. This card is for her and all the women who is struggling against cancer. I was a little sad when creating this card, but enjoyed creating it anyway.
I just had to do it!

I have an album I am doing layouts with picture of my mother. It isn´t going fast, since it is still painful. But time really heals and I want to finish it later this year. It is for my daughter. They only got one year togheter, but it was an important year.

For breast cancer awareness:

I would like to enter:

Just Magnolia and Hänglar och Stänglar challenge blog: Pink - for breast cancer awareness

Hugs Sandra

Halloween

Hi!

Today me and E have a day off! So we have been crafting! :)

I have created a halloween card. I like this stamp with the woman! It is from Sweet Pea stamps.
The sentiment is one of my favorite halloween stamps also, and is from ArtiCrafts. The designer is Rebecca Swayzee and the link i should use when using this stamp is: visualdesignbychris.com

The weather is really grey and cold here in Sweden. Brrr! The picture might therefore see a little "greyish" out! But at least i managed to take this picture while it is still some light out.

My card:

I would like to enter:

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog: - Halloween/Fall

The Shabby Tea Room: Week # 85 - Happy Halloween

inspiration from a picture

Paper Sundaes Challenge blog: - # 92, 4 toppings

 I have used black, sparkle and flowers. To stamp the stamp i have used distress black soth, but i don´t know if that count as distressing. But at least 3 out of 4.

Sweet Pea Stampers: - Halloween

Oh, I think this is a new record! Four challenges! :)

Hugs Sandra

Three challenges in one card!

This is a different christmas card. It is almost monocromatic, I just added some blue details. I have colored with my new promarkers called Ice Grey number 1-5. (I only had warm grey before these arrived, so it was fun to try them out properly)

I have used cardstock from DCWV, and two different handmade papers for layers. I have punched out the stars and then added glitter. I have added pearls from my blue pearl maker.

The stamp is from Magnolia, from the last kit that arrived some time ago. The flowers are from Prima (the big one) and from the blog candy i won from Kattiz.

My card:

I would like to enter:

Passion for ProMarkers: - Week 122 - theme "Stars"

Totally PaperCrafts: - Layer upon layer

Magnolia Down Under Challenges: - # 119 

Getting punchy (sponsored by Stempel - Phantasien)

Hugs Sandra

TOMIC

Hi!

The sketch over at TOMIC is really inspiring and the theme is sporting! I couldn´t resist this! :)
This cute Thilda is colored with promarkers, as usual. :) I added some die cuts, charms, half pearls, lace, ribbon. For once i let my pearl makers rest! :)
So tonight i have actually finished two cards. :)

I would like to enter:

The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge: - 

Challenge # 20 ~ LET'S GET SPORTY with a Sketch!

and the sketch:

Hugs Sandra

Bildmålarna

Hi!


Yesterday i received candy from Kattiz! These two stamps was in it! They are really cool. :)
Thank you Kattiz!
The theme this time is "something that has to do with music".  
This cardstock from Pion design has beautiful colors and sheet music. :)
You can never guess how happy I am over my new Pearl maker?! ;)

I would like to enter:

Bildmålarna challenge blog - number 10 "something that has to do with music"

Hugs Sandra

Card for Sweet Pea Stampers

Finally my card for Sweet Pea Stampers is finished! It took me a couple of days to create. For once did I both sides at the same time. Usually i do not the inside of the card until it is ready to be given too someone.

I took 3 photos, the card looks better in real life...

This is the front.

The sentiment is inside the card.

It is embossed and then i used ink.

I love the cardstock! It is from Prima Marketing Inc and from the Fairy Flora Collection.

This was when i tried to take a photo of both sides.

I would like to enter:

Sweet Pea Stampers: - Thankful

Hugs Sandra

Steampunk again!

I love steampunk more and more!
This is a new digital stamp i bought from Crafts and me! Isn´t she lovely? It is also fun to color! This is my first go. There will be more! And finally i could do the last touch of  this card, because my new pearl makers arrived today!

The sentiment comes from Marion82. I have her link in my sidebar. She makes lovely sentiment, and is often sharing her digital stamps.

My card:

I would like to enter:

Crafts and me - Challenge # 56 Orange

Hugs Sandra

Layout!

Finally I got an ideá how to do a layout of this old photo of E and J. It is one of my daughters favorite photos, so I wanted a good layout. I have been out of ideas, but now with autumn and Rainbow Lady´s Challenge with falling leaves, it finally came to place!

 I don´t have much different leaves so I drow them myself. I just have one kind of bought leaves, and I didn´t want them on this layout. I used a boarder punch from Ek Success. The half pearls is from Panduro. And I used 2 different alphabet stickers. The 2 green flowers are punched out from Nellie Snellens punch. The ribbon is brand new, arrived yesterday from Joanna Sheen.

The sun is shining here in Sweden today! And here is my LO:

I would like to enter:

Rainbow Lady´s Challenge:  - Falling Leaves

Hugs Sandra

Halloween card

Hi all scrapbookingfriends!

How are you all today? Good I hope!

This was a fun little card i created tonight!
For this card i needed 3 digital stamps.
Sabrina, the witch, is from Scrapper's Delights. I won a vocher and couldn´t resist this little cutie! :)
I got more beautiful things from Scrapper's Delights to show you another time!

The sentiment is a freebie from ArtiCrafts (designer Rebecca Swayzze).

The flower is a freebie from the designer Linda Tieu.

And the spider ....is scary and cute at the same time! :)

Halloween is aproaching and it is getting darker and darker, I can really feel it now!

I would like to enter this card into:

 Scrapper's Delights - "Happy Haunting"

Hugs Sandra

Thank you!

This card is special too me. I have many to thank when creating this. I want to thank darksidedesign (J) for the handmade purple rose and the wine red rose. I also need to thank create with TLC for the lovely sentiment. Further i need to thank Anna Lilja, I am 99% sure it was in her (old) blogg i got the inspiration to do the brown and wine red flower.

The orange flowers is made using Nellie Snellen punches.

The picture from the Shabby Tea Room, that I was inspired by, is this:

And my card turned out:

I would like to enter:

The Shabby Tea Room - Fall Flowers

Hugs Sandra

New Magnolia stamp :)

Today i got to use my favorite combination, what a nice challenge! An easel card was some time ago since i last created, so that was the kind of card i choise. I think it is time to try some new folding so i will look around after fun foldings later. :)

Anyway, as you can see my favorite color combintions is brown and purple. They must also be my favorite colors seperately. When i look at my cards, many are made in brown or purple. I added some yellow just to light the card up. I don´t have to do dark cards even tho autumn is making our days darker. :)

I think the new Magnolia stamps are sooo cute! This is one of them:

I would like to enter:

Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog: Favorite colour combination

(brown and purple)

Hugs Sandra

Rainbow Lady´s challenge

This week over at Rainbow Lady´s Challenge we are doing Autumn/Fall flowers. For me fall is brown and wine red. Orange and perhaps some green could have been other colors i think fit but i didn´t want to much things on my card, so I was satisfied with only a couple of flowers and some leafs.

I used acetat on my card, therefore i had to have my camera in a different angle, not to get the reflection. I used acetat as a window on my card, even tho there was no real window. Next time i think i will do a shaker card with acetat.

My card:

I would like to enter:

Rainbow Lady´s challenge - Autumn/Fall flowers

Hugs Sandra

I´ve hurt my neck...

but I think I will be back in a couple of days! It hurts to sit in front of the comp too, so can´t spend so much time in the wonderful scrapp-world. Hugs Sandra

The Shabby Tea Room - Chevrons

Hi!

I have learned a new word! Chevrons! I had to google it and also look at the DT projects at The Shabby Tea Room. But i think i understood what it was at last, so i added it in the shape of a ribbon. I chose green as my main color, it is a lovely color that i dont use that very often. The same goes for blue. They are so lovely, but tend to fall out of my mind when making cards.

This time i have used a stamp that was one of my first purchases. I don´t know who has designed it, but I like it! I used 2 different spellbinder dies, the paper is from a serie, I don´t know the name, but the green in the scalloped oval is the opposite (same colors, same pattern, but opposite place)  to the paper I used as base.

I love my pearl maker. I wish I had more colors.

My card:

I would like to enter:

The Shabby Tea Room: - Chevrons

Hugs Sandra

Sweet Pea Stampers - Fall colors

This is a birthday card i have done with the colors of fall. I have used one of the three stamps that i received from Sweet Pea Stampers as a prize. This was a very fun stamp to color, i really like it! I have used glossy accent to her eyes. My pearl maker is also tool i use often!

My card:

This picture is taken outside on our last bloming flowers!

I would like to enter:

Sweet Pea Stampers - Fall colors

Hugs Sandra

Christmas card again! :)

Again, i did a Christmas card! It will be so good when Christmas approaching and I already have some finished cards to send out.

This challenge over at Rainbow Lady´s Challenge they want us to use "White space".

I think cards become very elegant with white space, so this beautiful pyragmages that i recieved from Cynthia fits perfect i think! I think they are called pyramages or maybe decopage, i havent understood the differense between these two words yet.

*Edited: It was decopage, this. Cynthia told me in a message, thank you for taking the time to explain. :)

My card is here:

I used 3d cushion (hm...might not be the right word...) to really get the 3d effect.

I would like to enter:

Rainbow Lady´s Challenge - "White space"

Have a great weekend, wherever you are!

Hugs Sandra

Less is More

I saw that "Less is More" wanted to reach 1000 cards in their challenge, so ofcourse i wanted to help them in their quest. :) I saw this a little to late, so i can only create one card. I am not used to do clean and simple cards, so this was a fun challenge.

My card:

Less is More - Week 33 1000 challenge

Hugs Sandra

Cute little pumpkin

become a halloween card. :) The image was a freebie from Pink gem design some time ago. I had 2 challenges in  my mind when creating this. Both A gem of a challenge and Kaboodle Doodles challenge where I should add Lots of layers. I like my spiders who comes crawling over my card. :)

BOOOOOO:

Challenges i would like to enter:

A Gem of a Challenge:  #30 sketch

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge: #85 Lots of Layers

the sketch:

Hugs Sandra

Stamps from M i C

Hi!

Ofcourse i have to participate in I <3 Promarkers challenge and M i C challenge!
I am a little in a hurry tho, so i have to make it short,

This is my card for the challenges:

I would like to enter:

I love Promarkers - Travel/Transport

Make it Colorful - Black and Orange

Hugs Sandra

Vintage and Felt!

Oh how i love to combine 2 challenges and see if they fit! I think these 2 did just that. :)

The Shabby Tea Room have a challenge called Vintage White, but we could also do a card monocromatic and use brown, which i did. I used Tim Holtz stamp, I think I haven´t used it before, but my memory often fails me, so maybe I have...But so fun to do vintage! Me like!

Paper Sundaes have a challenge where we should use felt. And i have had some felt flowers for some time now, and didn´t know when to use those. Oh well, i still have some left, so have to go and look for more challenge later on! :) At least 2 came to use!

I have used: stamp from TH. Dies from Martha Stewart, Magnolia and Cheery Lynn Designs. Distress ink - brushed corduroy. Cardstock from DCWV. Pearls from Panduro.

Thank you for fun challenges!

Challenges i would like to enter:

The Shabby Tea Room - "Vintage White"

Paper Sundaes - "Felt"

Hugs Sandra

Scrapper´s Delights!

I find new cool places all the time! My latest finding is Scrapper´s Delights. They had this girl that fit perfect in my layout about Emma who wants to go to school. It is a little early since she is only (in the picture) 2 years old. If you have red my blog before you know she turned 3 years old a little time ago. :)

Here is my layout:

This was my best photo of my layout.

And at Scrapper´s delight they wanted us to also post a picture of the prize.

Scrapper´s Delight -  "Back to School"

Hugs Sandra

Sweet Pea Stampers - Favourite colours

Hi!

Purple is one of my absolute favourite colours! And i love to add black and also some grey.
I had to figure out what this girl could say, and i am not sure it is proper english to say " The most beautiful thing i know is you". I don´t think you could be a thing...but i like the way it sounded, so i chose those words. :)
I have used Word to write it out. Pearls, glitter (ofcourse! can´t live without it!) and flowers are also favorite things. This is my card! :)

I would like to enter:

Sweet Pea Stampers - Favourite Colours

Hugs Sandra