12 Days of Christmas - Day 12

Day 12 and I made it!
I set out from the start to make a card for each and every one of the 12 challenges in Catch the Bug´s 12 Days of Christmas challenge, and in the middle of work, family and Christmas preparations I wasn't sure I was going to make it. But thanks to really inspiring challenges I really didn't have a choice to not complete this challenge. So thank you Catch the Bug for two really fun weeks of cardmaking. Through-out the challenges I've been trying to display different types of cards and techniques. I really love the Bugaboo stamps and I hope you will seriously consider me for the spot as a guest designer.

So here is my last card. The theme for day 12 is "use a Christmas song as inspiration". I had the song "All I want for Christmas" (atleast I think it's called that, often sung by Mariah Carey) in my head while making this card. I'm thinking the postcard is the little girls letter to Santa telling him what she wants for Christmas.

12 Days of Christmas - Day 11

Day 11 - almost there, yay!
"Use plaid" is the theme for Day 11 over at Catch the Bug. After some sorting through my paperstash I realized that I actually had more plaid petternd papers than I first thought. For all the other 11 challenges I have made cards that I intend to give away to friends and family. These 12 days have been full of intense crafting and I've actually made this card for myself to keep as a memory of this time. And what better to wish a crafter like me, than a "Merry Craft-mas".

12 Days of Christmas - Day 8

"On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me eight maids-a-milking." Over at Catch the Bug this translates to a challeng with the theme "Milk and Cookies". I have used this Holy Cow image and cut it out as a circle to represents the shape of a cookie. For this card I used my sewing-machine to add stitches around the edges.

12 Days of Christmas - Day 7

My cards for the Catch the Bug´s 12 days of Christmas keep on coming. For the 7:th day the task is to create a card with the image below as inspiration.



I chose to pick the colours, the branches and ribbons from the inspiration picture and this is the result:

12 Days of Christmas - Day 6

Day 6 and the theme is "use humor" in Catch the Bug´s 12 Days of Christmas Challenge. I think this frog from Bugaboo is quite humoristic by itself and here I combined it with bright coloured papers to give the feeling of a day at the beach.

12 Days of Christmas - Day 3

On the third day of Christmas ... la la la la la la... Catch the Bug gave to me a challenge with the theme "use an animal". So many cute Bugaboo animal-images to choose from, but I ended up using this bee once again (see my entry for Day 5). This time I went for a clean and simple look. Papers in bright colours, a flower and short word. "Grattis" is Swedish for congratulations.

A close-up of the happy bee.

12 Days of Christmas - Day 9

Time to show my card for Day 9 of Catch the Bug's 12 days of Christmas. The task is to make a feminine card. I've had this piece of purple wellpapp (that's what we call it in swedish, maybe someone can leave a comment whit the correct english name for the "wavy" cardboard.) for a long time, and now I challenged myself to use it. So, feminine and wellpapp was my keywords when making this card. This digi-stamp is so useful for birthday cards, and with different coloring it feesl like a new image every time I use it.

12 Days of Christmas - Day 10

The challenge of the 10th day of Catch the Bug's 12 days of Christmas is to make a maskuline card. Below you can see my version of this theme. I really like using purple and depending on the shade I think it works great for both masculin and feminine cards (see the feminine card in my next entry). Or like in this case, a card for a soon-to-be two year old nephew.

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12 Days of Christmas - Day 2

Time to show my entry to Catch the Bug's 12 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 2. For this challenge the theme is love. I've made this cute pink creation with one of Bugaboo's dinosaurs. I had my 2 -year-old daughter and Valentines Day in mind when I did this card. I'm pretty sure she will love it.

A close up of the dinosaur - the little heart makes this image perfect for a card like this, without over- doing it.

12 days of christmas - Day 1

The first challenge in Catch the bug's 12 days of Christmas is "use a tree on your card" and here is my take on this theme.

Cup-cake or tree? Maybe it is both, but this image from Bugaboo is the sweetest tree-image for a christmas card. The little light-bulbs have some glossy accent on them and I cut a star with my spellbinders and stamped 24 on it to complement the stars in the tree.

A close-up on the tree/cup-cake.

12 days of Christmas - Day 5

This is my second entry to the Catch the Bug challenge - 12 days of Christmas. The theme is "use gold".

The more I though about this challenge, the more diffucult it seemed to me. Searching my stuff I couldn't find anything golden, but among the kid's craft-stuff I found some golden glitterglue which led me to this cute bee image from Bugaboo. I've highlighted most of the yellow parts of the bee with the glitterglue and in my local craftstore I found this gold-ribbon that completed the look of this card.

A close-up of the bee.

12 days of christmas - Day 4

Ok, here we go.
This will be my first of many posts this week, since I've taken on the challenge to enter every single one of Catch the Bug's 12 days of christmas challenge. Read all about the different challenges HERE.

The first card that I've finished is for the challenge of day 4, "use a bird on your creation". I just love this little penguin that was a freebie a few weeks back so my choice of motive was quite easy. This year I've been trying to do christmas cards in more non-traditional colours, like yellow and turquoise which is the case here. The sentence "God Jul" means Merry Christmas in Swedish.

Tre gubbar...

Hos Scrapgalen pågår under december månad en adventsutmaning i flera delar. Denna vecka ska man skapa ett kort eller layout med del utav en julsång på. Jag tänkte direkt på den söta digi-stämpeln från Pink Cat Studios som jag nyligen inhandlat och skapade detta kort. De gröna och orangea knapparna på pepparkaksgubbarna går igen i både Cardstock, mönsterpapper, band och blingstenar. Enkelt men juligt tycker jag.

CC hos Scrapptorget - Bonusutmaning nr 4

När jag postade mitt tredje bidrag till CC´n igår kände jag mig mer än nöjd med att ha skapat hela tre helt olika kort under en arbetsvecka. Tror att det är ett rekord för mig. Men så dök bonusutmaning nr 4 upp på bloggen igår och visst vill jag haka på på den också. Utmaningen går ut på att lifta något från ett tidigare inlägg på scrapptorget.

Är sedan tidigare en stor fan av Jånnas stil så jag surfade runt lite bland hennes inlägg och fastnade för denna layouten:



Hela Jånnas inlägg hittar ni HÄR.

Jag har valt att skapa ett kort med samma upplägg med mönsterpapper och wellpapp kring motivet på kortet som Jånna har kring fotot på sin layout. Och så här blev resultatet:

Den söta glödlampan kommer från Meljen´s Design och kinderna och hjärtat har fått ett lager glossy accent på sig, även om det inte syns särskilt väl på bilderna.

Nu är jag helt säkert på att detta är mitt sista bidrag till CC´n. Vill passa på att tacka alla er på Scrapptorget för en fantastisk rolig och inspirerande vecka!



CC hos Scraptorget - Tävling 9 Grattiskort med band

Tävling nr 9 i Scrapptorgets CC går ut på att skapa ett grattiskort med minst fem olika band/spetsar.
Jag har gått och funderat på denna utmaning under veckan och provat lite olika alternativ. Kände direkt att jag ville göra något för att få lite volym på banden och fastnade till slut för rosetter.

Jag har knutit små rosetter av 5 olika sorters band i bruna och turkosa toner. Textstämpeln, som jag för övrigt är helt kär i, kommer från Vilda stamps och är en vinst från just Scrapptorget.

CC hos Scrapptorget - Bonusutmaning nr 1

Här kommer mitt andra bidrag till Scrapptorgets CC. Under veckan har ett antal bonusutmaningar publicerats och jag fastnade för denna, där man ska skapa något inspirerat av Cyber Cropens logga som ser ut så här:

Jag har skapat ett kort där jag i första hand har inspirerats av ballongerna. Även siffran två har fått hänga med på mitt kort, eftersom jag kommer att ge det till en liten tjej som fyller två inom kort.

CC hos Scrapptorget - Tävling 3

Här kommer mitt första bidrag till Scrapptorgets CC som pågår under denna vecka. Där finns massor med roliga utmaningar så kika gärna in du också. Detta har jag gjort till tävling nummer 3 - Kortutmaning "färgpalett med bling".

Fastnade för färgpaletten direkt när jag skummade igenom all utmaningar, missade delen om bling som i vanliga fall inte riktigt är min grej. När jag väl läste lite noggrannare var det för sent att dra sig ur, så detta blev en riktig utmaning för mig. Visst har jag en del stickles men får liksom aldrig till det, men här har jag prytt alla detaljer på snögubbarna och god jul texten med blåglittrande stickles. Alla kanter är infärgade med glittrande silverfärg. Det syns lite dåligt på bilderna men under snögubbarna och snöflingorna har jag stämplat snöflingor med silverdyna. De utstansade snöflingorna är stansade i glittrande pärlemorpapper och prydda med rhinestones. Ett antal halvpärlor har jag också placerat ut över kortet.

Alter - Halloween

Månadstävlingen hos Scrapptorget går ut på att altra något i färgerna grönt, lila, svart och orange. En utmaning som passade denna lilla burken som jag hade liggande perfekt. Det blev en liten Halloweenburk som jag klätt med papper från BoBunny.

Den söta ugglan på locket har jag själv pärlat med Hama minipearls. Pyttesmå rörpärlor som gör att motiven blir perfekta i storlek till scrapbooking.

Graduation card

My childrens cousin graduated from school and I made him this quick card. The image from Bugaboo fits perfectly and I coloured it with water-color pencils. I love this kind of card where you get to use the little left-over pieces of paper that fill your drawers. I'm entering this card in the drawing over at Catch the bug. The theme of the week is anything goes.

Halloween

This is my first Halloween card of the year! I just love Halloween and even though we originally don't celebrate Halloween in Sweden it is growing in popularity. This year my son and I´ve been trying to grow our own pumpkins, but the project doesn't seem to end very successfully. We have two pumpkins growing but they are not round at all, our lanterns will be very narrow and tall this year...

Well, back to the card, Catch the bug has a sketch challenge this week that fit perfectly to a halloween card. The DP is from BoBunny, the cat a digi from Bugaboo and the sentiment is a sticker from my local craft store.

Birthday card with a pirate

I used a lot of layers on this birthday card that I made for my son´s friend. The colour-combo is not one I use very often, but I think it all kind of works together. I really like the pirate digi-stamp from Bugaboo stamps, very useful for childrens cards.

I'm entering this card into this week´s Anything goes challenge over at Catch the Bug.

Good Luck Card

Tomorrow my husband is participating in a 90 km long mountain-bike race called Cykelvasan. The race goes from the town Sälen to a town called Mora here in Sweden. I made this card for him with my and the kids good luck wishes inside. I bought this digi a few month ago with this specific purpose in mind and luckily I stumbled over a DP with a bike-pattern to accompany it a few weeks back. Other than that I kept the card pretty simple with just a few decorations.

I'm entering this card to this week's challenge over at Catch the Bug - Anything goes.

Water challenge

Summer, sun and lots of swimming in the sea! I was so inspired by this weeks water-theme over at catch the bug, that I had to make a card right away. Usually when I make my cards, I make them with a certain person in mind that I will give the card to, but that wasn't the case this time. Right away I thought of this image and the dp I wanted to use. It doesn't show at all in the picture, but the cyclops and bubbles have some glossy accent on them and I added some extra "bubbles" in the form of pearls. When I decide to whom I will give this card, I might add a sentiment or name or something. And then again I might not - I sort of like it the way it is as well.

Clean and simple

This week it's "Clean and simple" over at Catch the bug. Since my style usually tend to lean towards the clean and simple style, this is a theme of my liking. This week I´m entering the card below, that I have made for my sisters new-born baby girl, Kerstin. I really like this digi-stamp and I wanted it to dominate the card. As decoration I just added a few rhinestones and a text-stamp that says "little miracle" in swedish. Very clean and simple to my eye. If you scroll down you get to see the little miracle only four days old.

Anything goes - again

It might seem as though I only take part in the weekly challenges over at Catch the Bug when the theme is anything goes. However that is not true, the themes always inspire me to make cards but I'm a really bad blogger so I end up not posting my card in time. And then I end up not posting at all.

Well, well...this week I'm entering this birthdaycard in the drawing. I made this clean-and simple card for my sisters birthday. Originally I thought of this bunny as an easter-bunny, but I think it works just as well for almost any occation. The text say "Hip Hip hurray" in swedish. I coloured the bunny with promarkers and the little heart got some pink stickles to shine.

Anything goes

I've fallen in love with the digital stamps from Bugaboo. (Don´t miss - 50% off this month) During the last two weeks I´ve made 6 cards in total. That's more than I've made during the whole year so far, and I thank the wounderful images from Bugaboo for my new found inspiration.

Anyway, this week´s challenge over at Catch the Bug is  "Anything goes". I'm entering this card in the drawing - a birthday card that I made for my son who now is 5 years old. The lion is ofcourse from Bugaboo and is part of the "A little bit of Oz"-collection.

Flower/pastel color - challenge

This week it´s flower/pastel color theme over att catch the bug and this is my contribution, a birthday card for one of my son's friends. I like the clean and simple look of the card with the cute dragon from bugaboo, think his name is Clyde. His wings and some other details got some green stickles for high-lighting, and i put on a flower with a button as a simple side decoration. The number 5 is from a stamp letter/number set from Hero Arts.

Four or more layers

The theme of this weeks challenge at Catch the bug is "Four or more layers". I have used the lovely image that was offered as a freebie a few weeks ago at bugaboo stamps. I just love the cute little ladybugs and I have combined it with DP from prima and lace from my local craftstore. The bugs and flowers have got a touch of glossy accent, to give the image a little extra shine. The words say "Dear Mom" in swedish, so mom...if you see this...try to forget about this card until mothersday...