Sketchy Color Challenge #4

Juhuuu!!! This is so fun!!! Again we had a large number of entries on our 3rd challenge at Sketchy Colors!!!

Thank you so much, to everyone who turned in theire contributions to our Challenge #3!

Are you ready for our 4th challenge???

For our Sketchy Color Challenge #4, we've made a fun sketch for you to play with again ;)

So head over to the Sketchy Color blog, and take a look at the sketch, the rest of the DT's beautiful creations, and the cute little price sponored by Moia's Designs :)

Here's my result, playing with the sketch - a gifttag for a Christmas present :)
Again, I've used these cute owls from Moia's Designs!

Remember to visit Sketchy Color - and have fun with the sketch!

Have a great sunday!

♥ Hugs, Lena Katrine ♥

Winner of my Birthday Giveaway

Thank you so much, to all of you who have entered my giveaway, and to all of you who has left me a congratulation on my birthday!!

Mr.Random has picked no 1 as the winner, and the one who will recive the goodies in the mail, is...

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KNERTEN

Gratulerer så mye Knerten!!!

Send meg adressen din på e-post til lenaoien'at'bbnett.no, og det vil snart komme pakke i posten :)

Take care everyone!

Hugs, Lena Katrine

Birthday Giveaway!!!

Woohooo!!! The 8th of December is my birthday, and what's more fun, than to celebrate it with a little giveaway!?!

I've put together a small candy for you - just to say thank you, for all your visits, your comments, and all the  inspiration you give me ;)

All you have to do, to be within the drawing, is to make a small post in your blog about my Birthday Giveaway (sidebar is okay), and then leave your name and blogadress to Mr.Linky below ;)

The post will stay open until midnight (my time) on the 15th of December, and the winner will be announced on wednesday the 16th!

Thank you and good luck!

Hugs, Lena Katrine

This and that

Our Creative Corner

Challenge: Create a card or project with a Holiday Theme, Christmas or Hannukah.

I've made a bunch of Christmas gifttags, by using spellbinders, some of my

left over papers, stamps, ribbon and some simple decorations.

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Scrapping the Music in Norwegian is having a Christmas Giveaway, where you can win one out of three secret Christmaspresents!

You can join in the fun until the 15th of December :)

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I'm so happy to tell you, that I won the #4 place at Stempelglede's Handmade Card Contest with this card :)

Woohoo!!! And I'll recive a price of $35 in beautiful stamps from Stempelglede :)

A big congratulation to all the above winners: Ida who won the 1th price, Carin who won the 2nd, and Nina who won the 3rd price!!

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And yesterday when I visited the Inky Wings' blog, I discovered that I also won a grab-bag of stamps from Inky Wings :) Lucky me!!!

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I've been so occupied lately, with some new material for the magazine of Ett trykk, so I have'nt got much time for blogging...

But I'll try to visit you all sometime soon :)

Thank you so much, for all your sweet comments!

Wishing you all a great day!

Hugs, Lena Katrine

Sketchy Color Challenge #3

Another sunday has arrived, and we're ready to sett our Challenge #3 at Sketchy Colors ;)

This time we have a new color challenge for you, and we would like you to play along with projects held in green and blue!!

Another cute stamp sponsored by Moia's Designs are up for this weeks price, and you can join the challenge until Saturday night at 9 pm :)

I've made a simple Christmas card this time:

I've used a beautiful patterned paper from Kaiser Crafts Duches Collection, green, blue and light beige Bazzill cardstock, 3 different Spellbinders dies, sentiment-stamp, lace and pearls from Kort & Godt, charm, poinsettas and some golden tread.

Almost everything can be bought at Unik Hobby!

I hope you still have some spare time to do some crafting before Christmas, so please head over to the Sketchy Colors blog - take a look at the challenge, the cute price, and of course the rest of the DT's great work this week ;)

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Thank you so much for all your sweet birthday wishes - they really warm my heart :)

Have a great day, and take care!

Hugs, Lena Katrine

StampARTic "Card of the Year"

StampARTic has a challenge going on, where we're supposed to pick the card we made this year, that we're most satisfied with....

Not easy, but I ended up with this card:

This is the first card I made for the Papirgleder's KortCup, and that sent me to the finale

(that I by the way, ended as no.2 :),

but that's not actually why I'm most pleased with this card...

First of all, I love the image, and I think the coloration of it, is quite good too :)

Second of all, I love Maja Papers, and these blue ones, makes the card have the winter-feeling that I wanted to create.

The third reason, is that I like that the card 'feels' warm, even though the colors are 'cold', and I think the sparkling in it makes it a bit magical :)

You can see more pictures of the card here :)

Thanks for looking!

Hugs, Lena Katrine

PS! Remember to join in my birthday giveaway - the candypost is pinned on top of my blog:)

Sketchy Color Challenge #2

Juhuuu!!! This is so fun!!! We had almost 80 entries on our first challenge at Sketchy Colors!!! Thank you so much, to everyone who turned in theire contributions to our Challenge #1!

Are you ready for our second challenge??? For our Sketchy Color Challenge #2, we've made a fun sketch for you to play with ;) So head over to the Sketchy Color blog, and take a look at the sketch, the rest of the DT's beautiful creations, and the cute little price sponores by Moia Design :)

Here's my result, playing with the sketch - a double matchbox :)

The matchbox is decorated with owl-stamps from Moia's Design, a sentiment-stamp from Norsk Stempelblad, Ladybug & Friends leftover papers, roses and spacers from Unik Hobby, pearls from Kort & Godt, and hitchfasteners from Tim Holtz.

Remember to visit Sketchy Color - and have fun with the sketch!

Have a great sunday!

♥ Hugs, Lena Katrine ♥

Stempelglede's Handmade Card Contest

Stempelglede is having a huge Handmade Card Contest, and when I saw the great colours we're suppose to use, I new I had to give it a shot :)

And the prices to win are amazing - who does'nt want to win some amazing Stempelglede stamps?

So this is what I came up with, using the great colors in the picture above.

I've used stamps from Stempelglede's georgeous collections "Gledelig Jul" and "Grunge Hearts".

I've used Melissa Frances' georgeous patterned paper "Winter Freeze", and white, blue and craft cardstock from Bazzill to make the card.

I've stamped swirls from Stempelglede's "Grunge Hearts" Collection on the patterned paper with embossing ink, and embossed it with Ranger "Sea Foam" embossingpowder.

My sewing machine does'nt work on paper, so I just made the holes in the papers with it, and then sewed by hand around the patterned papers.

The rest of the stamping is made with Archival Ink - Sepia, on Aquarellpaper 200 g.

I've painted the beautiful angel's wings with Glimmermist - Silver, to make it shimmer a bit :)

All the edges on the panels and papers are inked with Distress Ink - Antique Linen and Weathered Wood. The craft cardstock are inked with some Vintage Photo as well.

For the embellishments I've used several different flowers, roses and rosebuds from Unik Hobby, Prima and Papirloftet, a cinnamon stick with some tulle around, charms and ribbon from Unik Hobby, Pearlswirls from Prima, and other pearls from Kort & Godt.

I've used the same layout on every side of the card, just flipped it a bit, to make a littele twist.

The "frames" on the white squares are made with a EKSuksess borderpunch, and for the circles I've used Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic and Scalloped Circles.

Thank you for visiting - hope you've enjoyed my card!

Have a great weekend!

♥ Hugs, Lena Katrine ♥

STM's Christmas Workshop

STM on Norwgian has a Christmas Workshop Challenge going on.

You can make anything you want, just as long as it's something related to Christmas.

I've made an Advent Calendar for my mum and dad, using the very talented Åshilds's calendar-idea, and some of 3ndy's georgeous Christmas-papers :)

The beautiful papers from 3ndy are called "Pepperkakefest" (Gingerbread-party), and I've used both sides on it.

I've also used some left-over papers with the saying "Merry Christmas" on it, and some Bazzill Craft Cardstock - punched with a Fiskars border punch.

The bottom are made of coasters, punched out with a spellbinders nestie, and dressed with 3ndy-paper.

The "hatches" are made of stars and the gingerbreads, punched out with QK CC's. I've embellished them - along with the borders, with pearls from Kort & Godt, and faux stitching made with a white pen.

On the back of each "hatch", there's fatened a roll of stripped paper, with a quotation on it.

The "hatches are fatened on the candles with handmade headpins.

The ribbon can be bought, along with most of the other supplies I've used, at Unik Hobby.

Thank you for visiting and leaving me sweet comments :)

 ♥ Hugs, Lena Katrine ♥

KortCup 2009 Finale #2

I promised you my second contribution to the Papirgleders KortCup today, so here it is ;)

Challenge #2 consisted:

Theme: Anything but a christmas card
Criterias: Pale/light colors, wings in some shape must be included, and no charms allowed.

Avstemmingen foregår inne på Papirgleder's forum, og fristen går ut på lørdag kl 23.59.

For å kunne se/stemme på bidragene til finalen må du være/bli medlem av Papirgleder forumet :)


Card recipe:
Size: 14 x 19 cm
Ink: Archival Ink - Coffee for stamping the image, ColorBox Fluid Chalk - Azurite for stamping the sentiments, Distress ink - Weathered Wood for inking the edges, Distress Ink - Refills for coloring.
Stamps: Sugar Nellie - Angel Wishes (I've masked away the dog), Stempelglede - Sentiments.
Papers: DCWV - "The Luxury Stack" patterned paper, Bazzill - Pale turqouise and white cardstock, Aquarellpaper 200 g.
Other things: Unik Hobby - Roses and heartshaped pearls, Kort & Godt - pearls, MS - Rose Leaf punch and Doily Lace punch, Prima - bling, Glasglitter (on the wings, the widget and the stars of the girl's dress), ribbon and silver tread.
The card is to be opened on the back - magnets are fastened on the back of my signaturestamp.

Thank you for visiting - have a great day!

Hugs, Lena Katrine

KortCup 2009 Finale #1

The finale is now ended at Papirgleder's KortCup (a "big" card contest), and the voting for the best cardmaker is now going on at the Papirgleder forum.

The voting will end at Saturday, 5th of December.

We're 12 girls in the finale, and everyone is so talented, and have made the most beautiful cards - so it's a tough competition :)

For the finale, we had to make two cards each, with different themes and criterias.

Challenge #1 consisted:

Theme: Christmas

Criterias: 3 patterned papers, a colored image, 2 or more embellishment items, and no flowers allowed.

This is the card I made for this category:

For å kunne se/stemme på bidragene til finalen må du være/bli medlem av Papirgleder forumet :)

Card recipe:

Size: 15 x 15 cm

Ink: Archival Ink - Coffee for stamping, Distress Ink - Weathered Wood and Walnut Stain for inking edges, and Distress Ink - Refills for coloring.

Stamps: Motivet - Children riding kick-sledge, Unik Hobby - Text on the front (merry christmas), Kort & Godt - Sentiment inside.

Papers: Maja Design - Gammaldags Jul, Bazzill - kraft, white and red cardstok, Aquarellpaper 200 g.

Others: MS - Snowflake punch, Unknown - Big snowflake punch, EKSuksess - border punch, Stampin'Up - WW punch, Unik Hobby - Spacers, charm and ribbon, Kort & Godt - pearls, string, gluepads for mounting the panels.

I'll be back tomorrow with my other card for the finale :)

Thank you for visiting!

Hugs, Lena Katrine

Sketchy Color Challenge #1 & GDT Unik Hobby November #2

Finally the day has come, and we're proudly presenting our 1st Challenge at Sketchy Color ;)
We're starting out with a color challenge, and since today is the first Sunday in Advent, the main color we want you to use is...LILAC/PURPLE :)

Remember - you can make anything you want, just as long as the color lilac/purple is the main color in your project.

For this month, we're so lucky to have Moia Design with us, sponsoring the prices. Some of us in the DT, will also use Moia's stamps on the challenges in November/December.

I'm using my Moia-stamps later on, so I decided to make this project, as a second contribution to Unik Hobby :)

As before, I'm doing some web-shop linking in the text, to where you can buy the supplies I've used.

I came across a great idea in a blog (that I unfortunately dont remember) one night at work, and decided to make a book of gifttags!

Unluckily for me, I'm not a regular user of this color, so I actually did'nt own a single piece of lilac/purple patterned paper.

So I had to make my own: I stamped some snowflakes from Stempelglede with clear Watermark ink on 300 g Aquarellpaper, embossed it with clear UTEE, and sprayed it with a mixture of red and blue Glimmermist. When it was dry, I sprayed it again with Glimermist - Pearl, to make it shimmer a bit more :)

I supplemented it with green and white Bazzill cardstock.

The cute image from Stampavie; Gillian Robert's "Nativity", is stamped on 200 g Aquarellpaper, with Archival Ink - Coffee. I've colored it with Distress Ink Refills - this time in lilac, shaded around it with Distress Ink - Antique Linen, and put some glitter on the halo and wings.

The rest of the stamps are from Stempelglede, and are stamped with Archival Ink - Plum.

The edges on the panels are inked with ColorBox Fluid Chalk - Wisteria and Olive Pastel.

For decoration I've used a MS Snowflake punch, EK Suksess border punch, roses and rosebuds, Prima Mini Gypsos, pearls from Kort & Godt, georgeous silver charms, purple heartshaped pearls, purple and green ribbon, eyelets and silver tread.

The back with my signature stamp.

Insides; made out of white paperbags, dressed with cardstock and home-made patterned paper. The book is sewed together with silver tread.
The snowflakes are sprayed with Glimmermist - Pearl.
Stamped hearts and sentiments from Stempelglede, on ovale Spellbinders dies.

Tags inside the book; The shape is made by using a QK CC dies as a stensile.

Close-up of the lilac cutie-pie :)

Remember to stop by Unik Hobby's web-shop - lots and lots of goodies to be found there!

Now - head over to the Sketchy Color blog; to read more about the challenge and our sponsor, and to take a look at the rest of the DT's georgeous work this week!

You'll have until Saturday at 9 pm to enter the challenge ;)

Thank you for visiting! I wish you all a creative and fun sunday!

♥ Hugs, Lena Katrine ♥

GDT Unik Hobby November

Get ready for a looong post - and some looong pictures :)

My first GDT-contribution for Unik Hobby is finally finished!

I've made a advent-calendar for my very best friend - the one and only; Maya :)

I'm so exited to find out what she thinks about it!!

At first, I was supposed to make a christmastree-calendar, but that did'nt work out the way I wanted ;(

So I had to twist my head, and find something else to make...and after twisting and turning my already-mad- 24-calender-pieces, it suddenly struck me :)

Please exuse the bad pictures - the calender is 1 m long, and the day light now days really suck!

Click on the pics, and it'll make them bigger, so you can take a better look at the details :)

A diamond shaped, lanterne-like, hanging calendar!

The calendar is made out of 24 triangle shaped cornets, in 4 different sizes - glued together into 4 diamond shaped storeys. The diamonds are mounted together on a long peece of ribbon, with a image on the top (with a christmas carol on the back), and a snowflake at the bottom (with my signature on the back).

The idea to the triangle shaped cornets, did I find in a paperpad from K&Company - Paper Boxes.

All the materials I've used to make the calendar, can be bought at Unik Hobby, and are marked with a link, to where it can be bought in the web-store!

All the patterned papers are from Kaiser Craft - Dear Santa & Belle Collections, and are used together with 2 shades of red Bazzill cardstock, 2 shades of green cardstock and 2 shades of beige cardstock.

The cute image from Stampavie; Gillian Roberts' "Nativity", is masked together with a christmas carol stamp from Stempelglede. All stamps are stamped with Archival Ink - Coffee.
I've coloured the image with Distress Ink Refills on 200 g Aquarellpaper, and mounted it on brown Bazzill cardstock. All the circles are punched out with Spellbinders dies.
I've embellished "every" peece of the calendar with beautiful roses and rosebuds, georgeous charms and pretty pearls (from Kort & Godt). The ivory coloured roses and the "cutie's" halo, have got some golden glitter on too ;)

The numbers are cut out with QK Mademoiselle Alphabet, in brown Bazzill cardstock. They're painted with Ranger Crackle Accents, and mounted on circles of patterned paper and beige Bazzill cardstock.
For the handles on the hatches, I've used some red satin string.

On the bottom circle, I've stamped a beautiful snowflake from Stempelglede, and it's also embellished with a rose and some pearls.

Both the top and the bottom of the ribbon, are embellished with pearls and spacers from my own stash.

Hope you like what you've seen?

Now, head over to the Unik Hobby Web-store, to do some serious shopping :)

♥ Thank you so much for visiting! ♥

Hugs, Lena Katrine

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Sketchy Colors Challenges

2 more days to go before the first challenge :)
1 more day before the candy-drawing ;)

Papertakes Weekly Challenge - Christmas Crackers

Papertakes Weekly Challenge this week is to make something for christmas - Christmas Crackers:)

After seeing lots of beautiful apron cards, I just had to give it a try myself :)

Recipe:

Template found at Claudia Rosa's blog Pretty Pressings.

Stamp and Cut-out-tags from Norsk Stempelblad.

Patterned paper from My Minds Eye.

Roses, ribbon and charms from Unik Hobby.

Other things: Bazzill - Cardstock, Eyelets, MS - Frond Punch.

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Sketchy Color

Only three more days to go - first challenge to be on Sunday 29th :)

Will it be a sketch or a color???

There is still time to join our candies too - just click on the banner, and you'll end up in the challenge blog :)

Thank you so much for all your sweet comments about the Sketchy Color blog - We're so looking forward to seeing you there; Sunday at 9 am!

♥ Have a creative and wonderful day ♥

Sketchy Colors

Remember I told you on friday, that I had some news for you??

Well, It's now official - A new challenge blog is born!

Just click on the picture above, and you'll end up in the Sketchy Color Challenge Blog!

We are 4 grown-up (?) girls, who have decided to start our own challenge blog - based on mainly sketches and color challenges.

We will publish a new challenge every sunday morning at 9 am - starting next sunday

29th of November!

But to celebrate the grand opening - and of course to spread the words about our challenge blog, we're kicking off with some awesome Blog Candy!!

Sneek-peek of No.1

Sneek-peek of No.2

So, please head over to Sketchy Colors - to find out more about the blog, the candy, our challenges, our sponsors and the DT!

We're looking forward to "see" you at Sketchy Colors ;)

DT Sukkersött Challenge #62

Another friday - and the whole weekend off ;) Yey!!!
But first - friday also means that Sukkersott is having theire Challenge #62 ready for you!
This friday, we have a great sketch for you to follow, a GD of the week, and another beautiful price - sponsored by Motivet!!!

Motivet has kindly sponsored everyone in the DT also, with a georgeous stamp each.
Even though my time in the Sukkersott DT ends with this challenge, I've really enjoyed using my adorable Motivet-stamp, to make this christmas box - using this weeks Sukkersott sketch ;)

Recipe:
Size: 15 x 15 x 6 cm
Ink: Archival Ink - Coffee for stamping, Distress Ink - Weathered Wood for shading, Distress Ink - Refills for colouring.
Stamps: Motivet - Children Caroling, Stempelglede - Sentiment on the front, Papirloftet - Notes, Kort & Godt - Sentiment inside.
Papers: Ladybug & Friends - Julefryd "Juleglede", Bazzill - Deep red and Vanilla Cardstock, Aquarellpaper 200 g.
Embellies: Papirloftet - Roses, Wild Orchid Crafts - Rosebuds, Unik Hobby - Ribbon and Charm, Prima - Bling, Poinsettas.
Tools: Spellbinders - Nestabilities Petite Circle and Petite Scalloped Circle, EK Suksess - Leaf- and Corner Punch.

♥ Thank you to everyone, who have followed me during my time in the Sukkersött DT! ♥

I'll be back soon with some exiting news, until then - have a splended weekend ;)