November blogcandy

Hi everyone. Hope you are enjoying autumn. I'm still in the hospital, so I'm enjoying the rain from inside. I finally got internet on my laptop so I thought I'd use the time to find some candy for you :)

Linda is giving away candy to celebrate coming in 9th place of Demonstrator of the Year. Her candy will close when she reaches 2000 hits.

Suzette is giving away a whole set of 12 Christmas sentiments. Ends 15:th.

Jacque is celebrating her 6 month blogoversary and for getting loads of visitors. Here's what you can win if you join before the 15:th midnight MST:


Jacqui has a cute forever friends candy to thank her visitors. Open until 14:th.

Debbie has an amazing holiday candy to celebrate over 200,000 hits! Ends 16:th.

Pattie has made a beautiful box and she has filled it with goodies. One lucky winner will get this on the 16:th.


Danielle has a candy to celebrate her recent birthday. Ends 16:th.

True has a nice glitter set for one lucky winner to celebrate reaching 30,000 hits. The winner will be drawn 17:th, the same day she celebrates her 47:th birthday. Happy birthday True :)


Lydia is celebrating having over 27,000 hits! She has a lot of mixed goodies in her candy. Ends 17:th.

Blankiefinder is having a Christmas candy with a bunch of images (among other things) from great companies. She will add to the candy for every 10 followers. Ends 18:th.

Shirley is celebraing her birthday, blogoversary and over 10,000 hits with a fab candy. Ends 19:th.

Kaytee is giving away a somewhat secret candy of different things. Winner will be chose on the 19:th.

Claire is having a wonderful mix of things to celebrate over 600 followers and over 99,000 hits. Ends 20:th.

Jude is having a weekly candy to support her fight against Alzheimers. Think it ends sunday 22:nd.


Fran has a wonderful candy consisting of papers and a cute stamp from the new Whiff of joy line. Winner will be announced on the 22:nd.


Rach has a great punch and stampcandy. Ends 22:nd 8pm GMT.

The pixie cottage is having their first blogcandy to celebrate their new talented illustrators. There are some real cuties there, but my favourite is the penguins I think. Candy ends 22:nd.


Allissa has a ticket sentiments candy. She has designed them herself and you can see samples of them on her blog. You need to join before midnight 24:th.


Jo has another Basic Grey candy for us kindly donated by Simon says stamp. Winner will be drawn on the 28:th.

Shawne has a wonderful Christmas candy, don't you think? Drawing will be on the 28:th.


Linda is offering a very cute Christmas candy on her blog to thank all her supporters. It will end the 29:th - before she goes to England for 5 weeks.

Conni has the cutest candy ever - love those MME Christmaspapers and the cute PB stamp. She's celebrating the many visits and comments to her blog. Ends 29:th.

Martine is sharing some delicious candy on her blog. Tons of stuff you can't live without :) Ends 30:th midnight GMT.

Debbi has been asked by letraset to put together a pack of 12 promarkers and a little tutorial. And to celebrate she's giving away...promarkers! There will be 4 winners. Candy closes noon 30:th.

Lorie is celebrating 10,000 hits with a huge candy. Ends at the end of the month.

Marley is celebrating having over 100 followers with a huge candy. Join in before december 1:st.

I'm alive

I've been very sick and in the hospital for quite a while. I'm still in the hospital, but got to go home for a couple of hours to be in the "normal" world. Stuffed with painkillers :)
Now I'm off there again. I'll be there at least until thursday. Hope you'll come back when I get back. My fingers are itching from wanting to craft. Don't think they have any medicine for that...

Hugs

New items to play with

I got my first package from queen kat designs today. I got some stamps to play with and some for the upcoming release. I won't be able to show you the new stamps, but I will make something with the other stamps for the bloghop on wednesday.

There is a new release the first wednesday every month so that means next wednesday already. Woohooo!

This wednesday will also be my last bloghop for the royal Kat. Next month I'll be designing wonderful mermaid cards for the whimsical ink sorority.

Hope you'll stop by on wednesday to see what the design team is up to :)

I won a challenge!

I seem to have won a challenge at everybody art with my babycard for Alison.
I'm so excited because this is my second challenge win. I have entered so many challenges throughout my blogging year and I haven't won anything for quite a while. Makes me feel so special having my name up there and all, lol.

I have won a $10 giftcertificate to spend at digital delights by louby loo. Thank you so much for the prize guys.

I also wanted to share with you that my bunnyheart (see post below) made 110sek on the auction. That's about $15. Not bad, huh? Nobody would probably buy it for that much, but since it was an auction and everything goes to rosa bandet people felt more generous. I hope my earrings will bring in even more since I'm superproud of them and think they are gorgeous. They end tomorrow monday and you can see them HERE.

Sweetpea new stamps release party!!!

1 day left before the unveiling of sweetpea's new stamp line! There will be fun things going on. I've seen the new stamps and I promise you - you won't regret playing with us. If you like colouring images, then these stamps are for you.

Many prizes available to win at the stamp release party:

* 10 count grab bag
* Sheet #6
* 10 count grab bag
* $5 rubber cash (to use towards future purchase)
* $5 rubber cash (to use towards future purchase)
* one free sheet of the new release designs

For those who attend will get free shipping on their orders (shipped to USA and Canada, other countries will only be $5)

You will also be able to get the stamps at a pre-order special price. This event will take place at
http://snrcardiverse.ning.com/group/sweetpeastamps
on Friday, October 23rd @ 7:30 PM (eastern) - 8:30 PM
You won't be sorry you stopped by!

So run over and sign up so you are ready for tomorrow.
Make sure to stop by the sweet pea blog for more updates and if you haven't already - vote for the DT members' challenge cards.

See you there :)

Auction for breast cancer research - "the pink ribbon" - rosa bandet

I have given away two of my handmade items to a swedish craftforum (kind of like splitcoast stampers) to help them raise money for breastcancer research. I thought the pink bunnyheart would be perfect for the "theme" and the little angelearrings too.

You only have one day (until 8pm GMT+1) to bid on the items and tonight they are putting up my "bunnyheart" and on the 25:th my angelearrings.

I really hope they will get a lot of bids!

You will be able to find the link HERE under the second section called "trådar". The newest auctions are put on top.
Here's the direct link for the bunny:
bunnyheart




Hope you're having a great day. I felt like I had to join in on some of the challenges and then realized:
A: I don't have the time
B: I have some extra DT stuff to make (watch out, there will be stuff happening on the sweetpea blog)
C: I need to sew some things for my friend that visits next friday - eek
D: I need to study for my exam next friday so I don't have to pull all-dayers next week.
E: I'd actually rather sew, study or do the DT things instead.

So no surprises in form of cards today :)

Sugar bowl pink Christmas

Today I finished a card for the sugar bowl blog. The challenge was a great sketch and to make a Christmas or wintercard.

I had just gotten this stamp in the mail - a candy I won in september. I thought she would fit perfectly for paperpiecing. I wanted the card to be pink and girly - breastcancer month and all - and found these cute Christmaspapers in my stash. I decided to go totally over the top with these cluttered papers. I didn't hold back, lol. Think it turned out quite well after all. Today and yesterday I just played so much with my stash and surprised myself with the outcome both times.

I hope you had a good day today. I need to start on a gift for my friend that will visit me next friday. I want to sew her a bag and make her a necklace. I have everything ready and know how it is supposed to look. Now I just need to get started. And I have another exam coming up - next friday too!

Hopefully I'll be showing you some sewing and jewelryprojects soon. I need to make her a b-day card too so I'm not cutting you off totally :D




Promarkers: ivory, primrose, ruby and apple
Papers: Heidi Grace

Time for the royal blog hop

Hello and welcome again to the queen kat designs bloghop. If you've hopped from Ashley's blog then you're on the right track. If not, go to the qkd blog and start from the beginning.

The theme for this week's hop as you probably know by now was orange, purple, white and black. While craftshopping yesterday I came across this beautiful rock/guitar paper that had just the right colours. And the best part: it was on sale, lol.
The image is another cutie from the huggable lil monsters. I also used three of the cupcakes from the cupcake friends stampset. I got it as a digiimage as part of my DT package so I was able to make them smaller.

I had no clue how this card would turn out but as I started working with it it made itself and I felt so creative! I cut out part of the patterned paper with a guitar with my oval nestie. Then I put glitterglue over it. I coloured and cut out the little monster and glued it over the guitar to make him look like he's playing it. I thought he suited perfectly since it almost looks like he has some kind of goth/rock make-up around his eyes. You can just see how he's pulling the strings so to speak :)
I also coloured and cut out the little cupcakes and put dimensional glaze over the frostings. I punched out black circles and glued the cupcakes on them. The orange panel is bling cardstock which I embossed. I glued on a piece of ribbon (also one of my finds yesterday) and tied a black one around it. Some of the coloured straps were actually lime instead of orange so I used my orange promarker to change them.

The word is cut out with qk alphabet "Melissa" in silver mirror card. Finally I glued it all together and put two black buttons in the corner. Ta daa! There you have it.

I made this card following a sketch from the Simon say stamp challenge blog.
It also fitted the "buttons and bling" theme at the humble pie challenge and the "bling it" theme at stampchallenges.
I think it turned out fabulous. It was a lot of fun to make since I didn't think this was my style! It's fun when I manage to surprise myself :)

So now you've reached the end of the hop. I'm sure you are just drooling to get your hands on some of these stamps. I know I am. I want to get myself a bunch of mermaid stamps but don't know which ones to choose! I have so many favourites. I also like the different manga inspired ones. There are two fabulous vampire stamps - perfect for Halloween!

You can go to the store HERE. Here's what's on offer:

55% off of all clearance
30% off of these stamps:
Thanksgiving Dragon
Christmas Tree Dragon
Off Beat Alphabet
Jester Alphabet
through 10/25/09

If you ever get lost during the hop here's the list:

QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
Penny's blog
Vicki's blog
Maria's blog
Kelly's blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Andrea's blog
Victoria's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Helene's blog
Nina's blog
Alex's blog
Meredith's blog
Linda's blog
Nancy's blog
Anita's blog
Sara's blog
Stephanie's blog
Ashley's blog
Katarina's blog <------- YOU ARE HERE

Exam is over and blogcandy

There wil be no projects to show you today. Didn't you have enough during the weekend? :)
Today I had my exam and I've been quite pooped after I got home. It's not humane having an exam at 8am, lol. I had to get up after 6. I'm a nightowl so I usually go to bed around 1-2am and get up noonish it was a challenge to get up and be alert enough to write stuff.

After the exam I went to a craft outlet store and treated myself with some small goodies: a few papers, ribbons and an organizer for 30x30" papers that I hope will help me sort my mess. I sometimes have matching papers and cardstock and a coloured image, but I don't always feel like putting together a card. So I have those papers on my table, add another potential card and then it grows...Now with the organizer I have 8 compartments I think. When I need to make a card but don't feel like colouring and matching papers I can just take a look there. I think it will be a great idea.

Now for the candy:

Katharina - the owner of Whiff of joy - is giving away a brand new winterkit to one lucky winner. If you don't dare waiting to see if you won the candy you can pre-order the kit until october 23:rd. Just click HERE to order it. Candy ends 22:nd.

Now I'm off to read a little more. I have class tomorrow. No rest for the wicked :)

Sweet (pea) Christmas

I needed a break from studying today so I made a Christmascard for a couple of challenges. I used stamps from my DT kit from sweetpea stamps. If you like these stamps then you should check out the new ones that are available for preorder. This company is really blooming and Lynette is coming up with more and more beautiful stamps every time. I can't wait to tell you about the next release, but you'll have to wait a while longer for that. These are not the ones I used for my card. You can see the ones I used at the bottom of this page. It's sheet number 12.
Have you gone and voted for your favourite yellow/red/blue card by the way on the sweetpea blog?

So the card is made following a sketch at Christmas and birthday cards. I flipped it on the side.
I used a colourcombo of turquoise, brown/black and sand beige from color throwdown. Never thought I'd use this combo especially for a Christmascard, but I took on the challenge and even had papers to match!
Other blogs that had Christmas as theme are:
creative inspirations
stamp with Sarah Kay
and Marga has Christmas as a challenge to be in her candy.

Creative card crew had scallops as their challenge.



I never would've guessed that this card would turn out so good. I just coloured the images a little, cut them out with my nesties and glued it all together. That's really how it all went down. Sometimes it takes me forever with a card and it's not even half as nice. Good thing it didn't take too long because I really don't have time for this, lol.