Magnolia's Tilda thinking: Friday Sketchers and Just Magnolia challenges

Hi, for the third time tonight!!!
Here is my 3rd card made after Janneke's sketch over at Friday Sketchers

The base is Bazzill and the designer paper is from Doodlebug??? I'm not quite sure, but I think so... The flowers are from Prima, the roses were a gift from Lene in Sweden. I made them more orange in color and added some Stickles to them. Tilda is stamped with Staz-on ink (black) and cut out with Nestabilities, Labels One. The edges are distressed with Tim Holtz Walnut Stain distress ink and then I added some Stickles to the edges as well.
The pearls I used to soften the corners are from Kuttut.


The brads are from American Crafts and the ribbon was a gift from Hanna Kj, an Icelandic scrapper.

This card qualifies for following challenges:
Friday Sketchers - Janneke's sketch
Just Magnolia - Favorite Color Combo

Well, that's all for tonight.
But stay tuned because I'll post some LO's soon. I've done like 15 of them that I´ll share with you soon.
Hugs to your part of the world from my little village in Norway.

Magnolia's Bridal Couple: Friday Sketches and Just Magnolia challenges

Hi again!!!
Here comes the second card made after the same sketch made by Janneke.

The base is a cream colored Bazzill and the designer paper is from somewhere, I don't know the name - sorry.
The Bridal Couple is stamped with Staz-on ink (black) and colored with water pencils and then I added some Stickles to the lace on her dress, the bouquet, the flowers and around the edges, which I also distressed with Tim Holts Walnut stain distress ink.


The flowers are from Prima and Skrapp og gaman, the pearls in the corners and the string of pearls that I use along with the flowers are both from Kuttut.

This card qualifies for following challenges:
Friday Sketchers - Use this sketch
Just Magnolia - Favorite Color Combo

Magnolia's Loving Bridal Couple: Friday Sketches and Just Magnolia challenges

Hi everyone!!!
Well, after some days of cardmaking, trying to take pictures of the cards and then transferring them to the computer - they're FINALLY here!!!
I've actually made 3 cards, using the same sketch so there will be 3 posts with 3 different cards.
This is the first one: Magnolia's Loving Bridal Couple.

The picture is not so good but it is taken in daylight and I tried to brighten it a little bit.
The base is a white Bazzill and the designer paper (the red one) is from BoBunny - Holiday Magic Wish. It's actually a Christmas paper but I think it fits perfectly to weddingcards, don't you think??? The white designer paper is from somewhere... I don't have the name, sorry. I used pearls to soften the corners and a string of pearls along with the flowers, both are bought at Kuttut.com The image was stamped with Staz-on ink and colored with water pencils. I also added some Stickles to the dress, the flowers and around the image which was cut with Nestabilities, Labels One.
The big flower is from Magnolia and the small ones are from an Icelandic store Skrapp og gaman



The ribbon was from Skrappa, an Icelandic store that doesn't exist anymore :/


This card qualifies for:
Friday Sketches challenge - This sketch
Just Magnolia - Favorite Color Combo

A weddingcard using Tilda with Love Rice

Hi everyone!!!

Well it's time for some more cards I think ;o)

My friend, Jónína, also asked me to make a weddingcard for her, she is attending a wedding in June and needed a card.

Well, I don't have any weddingstamps so I had a little problem on my hands. I checked out Papirloftet, a Norwegian online Scrapbookingstore, but they didn't have anything that I liked. So... I desided to go with the Magnolia stamp "Tilda with Love Rice" and it really came out quite well, I think!

The papers are from Bazzill and The Paper Company. Flowers are from Prima and the roses are from Papirloftet. I also used the Flower lace punch from Martha Stewart. I don't know where the charm is from, sorry. Tilda is coloured with waterpencils (but Copics are on my wishlist, that's for sure!). I also added Stickles glitter to the roses, Tilda's bow, apron, shoes, hearts in the basket and to the hearts she is throwing in the air.

Here is a close-up of the Stickles glitter, I overdoesed it with glitter!!! Wedding is all about the glitter, right???

Here is a close-up of the roses in the bottom right corner. They got some Stickles glitter as well.

Here we have a close-up of the flower/rose combination, charm and the "weddingday" stamp that has 3D cutions under.

Here we have more of a closup of the flower/rose combination and the charm. The rose has a Stickles glitter. I made a bow to fasten the charm in and glued it on.

Well, that's it for tonight.

Now, I'm just gonna lay back and relax. I've been over my head in the kitchen the last two days baking for my 30th birthday, that's TOMORROW!!!

I feel like I'm turning old... :o/

Graduation card, blog hop and a sketch from Friday Sketchers!!!

Hello everyone!!!
Well, here I am with my newest card :D
This one is made for my oldest and dearest friend of all, Jónína.
Her brother is gratuating soon as a carpenter (not finished with the workpart though, only school) and she asked me to make a card for him.
This card is made with the Friday Skechers sketch 101
That sketch was designed my dear Jacque and of course I had to participate!!!
This is a Magnolia image, Edwin with a balloon, papers are from Bazzill, Shabby princess and DCWV.
I also used my new Nestabilities classic oval circle and classic scalloped circle. I gave myself those two Nestabilities sets as a birthday present because I'm turning 30 on Sunday, May 16th!!! :O

Since the boy is graduating as a carpenter, I wanted to have some screws on the card because I felt it needed a connection to his gratuation. I tried to find a Magnolia Edwin which had a hammer in his hand, but didn't find one... So, this was the best thing I could do. The screws are from Tim Holtz (the small ones) and I think the large ones are from Making Memories.

Here is a close-up of the Nestabilities and Edwin. I desided to follow my favorite cardmakers advise, Jacque, to round the edges of the image a little bit for a dimension. This became so cute!!! I surely recommend it to anyone :D




The layer under the image and the Nestabilities are on 3D cusions for more dimensions.

I hope you liked my card. And I would love a comment or two and some more followers ;o)

A new card!!!

Hi again!
Yes, when I finally got around to do some cardmaking, I sure managed to do more than just one!!!
This one was supposed to be for a spring-challenge, but I didn't finish it in time... But here goes anyway. It doesn't show, but there is Stickles on the apron and the broom.

Mother and daughter cardmaking time!!!

Hi everyone!!!

Well, finally I manage to get my ass going and make some cards!!!

Last Saturday me and my little girl (who is turning 6 years in just few weeks!!!) sat down and did some cardmaking!!! We used the sketch over at Midnight Madness Challenge Blog and we had sooo much fun!!! What a great idea to have two different verisons of the same sketch :D

Just perfect for mothers and daughers (or sons) to have some quality time together and do some cardmaking. At least, we had a blast ;o)

Here are our cards...

Ástrós Erla's card:

My card:
I didn't help Ástrós Erla very much. She chose the papers, flowers, ribbon and the image all by herself. She also did all the colouring herself. I only helped her glueing everything together and fixed the image a little bit for her (she asked me to) where her colouring had gone a little bit out of hand ;)

One Card - 4 Different Challenges!!!

Hi, there!

Yes, belive it or not but I managed to make just one card this evening and combine 4 different challenges at the same time!!!
It sure was a challenge, I can tell you.
First of all, I used this sketch from Friday Sketchers:

And this is how my card turned out like:

This card also fits the following challenges:
Just Magnolia - Monochrome theme
Daring Cardmakers - Getting punchy with it; Use your newest punch (corner punch from EK Success)
Quixotic Challenges - Birthdays

Quixotic Challenges is a brand new Challenge blog and this is their very first challenge!!! If you participate in all their challenges each month you will maximise your chances of winning a monthly prize that they'll have ;)

Oh, and I promised you a picture of my little princess, holding her card proudly and here she is!
Her name is Ástrós Erla (Ást = love) (rós = rose).

A House Mouse card for the Friday Sketchers Challenge

This is the beautiful sketch this week over at Friday Sketchers challenge blog:

I think it's just fantastic and this is how my card turned out to be like.

I just love this House Mouse stamp; Berried. I embossed some of the berries with UTEE (Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel) but realized afterwards, that I should have colored them darker before embossing them. Oh, well... Better luck next time ;)

Here is a closeup of the berries:

"Get well soon" card for the SSS challenge and Just Magnolia challenge

I decided to combine two challenges into one card. The Simon Says Stamp challenge; Get well soon and the Just Magnolia challenge; this wonderful sketch:

Well, as always when you start off making a card, it usually doesn't always end up like the original sketch. Right???
That at least happened to me this time. I was going to make an oval circle (like the sketch says) but, then I realized that it would hide the embossed flower and I wanted to have that flower on the card... So, I decided to skip the oval circle and have the flower instead. I added some Stickles to it to make it "pop" a little. The text is in icelandic "Láttu þér batna" which means in english: "Get Well Soon".

Papers are from Bazzill, Chatterbox and the ribbon is from BoBunny.

Here is a closeup of the flower ;)

MMSC24 - Midnight Madness Challenge

I made a card for the MMSC 24 - Midnight Madness Challenge on Friday night.
I was quite happy about how it turned out, actually.
This is the sketch:

My dear daughter wanted me to take a picture of her with the card, she thought it was sooo beautiful ;)

And here is the card itself:
Papers are from Bazzill and Shabby Shoppe. The stamp is from House Mouse: Berry full - Mudpie.

Here is a closeup of the flowers. The pink ones are from Kristin Margret (they were a RAK) and the rose is from Lene (my blog candy gift).

A card for Friday sketchers challenge, the Stampartic challenge and Incy Wincy Designs Challenge!!!

Hi there :)

Long time no written, well sort of at least ;-)

I've just had the best day with my darling daugter, Ástrós Erla and my hubby, Viðar.

First we went to the cinema and saw Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure and after that we went to IKEA. We are planning to buy a new kitchen table and we were looking at our options ;)

I made a card on friday night using this sketch from Friday Sketchers:

This is how my card turned out. It was quite a challenge, since we don't celebrate Halloween here in Iceland and this is my very first Halloween card, ever!!!
I got the stamped image and nearly all the papers and embellishments from Lene, it was in my Blog candy :D
This card also qualifies for the Halloween challenge at Stampartic and Incy Wincy Designs challenge no 14 ;)

Just Magnolia sketch challenge

Just Magnolia have this great sketch challenge this week and all you have to do is use this sketch and a Magnolia stamp!!!



This is the sketch:



And here is my version:

The stamp is from Magnolia, papers are from Fancy Pants and Bazzill and flowers are from Prima.