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.

Roses on paper guest DT call

Roses on paper are having a guest DT call for their new line of Belles and Whistles stamps (drawn by the talented Elisabeth Bell)
There are three positions up for grabs for the term of November through December, open to crafters worldwide!

What you need to do is either make a card for the current challenge or upload an old project you've made for one of the challenges after june 15:th.

I was hesitating between a couple of cards. "Feeling peachy", a little love and this one. I finally decided on this one since I think it's an innovative way to use a square sketch. And it was my first try on stitching too. I'm also proud of the colouring and the style of the card. And even if I have developed since I made the card I still think it's one of my better ones.

This one was challenge 15 - using stitching. But to be honest I missed that it was supposed to be a gatefold card, so I don't know if I can apply with this one. If I can't because it doesn't qualify for the challenge then I'm applying with my "Feeling peachy" card. It was the last challenge - number 22 and we needed to use brown, orange and green in our card.


I used the stitching on the back part of the card. I zig-zaged around the dotty paper and used a straight seam on the left part of the brown CB embossed cardstock. I also zig-zaged together the textpart with the brown embossed part. I used a white thread which I then distressed and coloured red with inkpads. I also used my distresspad (vintage photo from Tim Holtz) on the raised parts of the embossed cardstock. I think it makes the details stand out even more.

I used my nesties for the circles and promarkers for colouring. I used:
ruby, cinnamon, cocoa, saffron, ivory and ice grey1. The text is goldembossed.

I'm very happy with the flower cluster. I did the gold text embossing on the big red brad all by myself :) I forgot to add some leaves around there. I've bought a bunch of qk leaf dies and think it will look great with them. But for now, this is what it looks like :)

You can always click the photos to get a bigger view.

Magnolia down under guest DT call

The Magnolia down under store are having a guest DT call. I am falling more and more inlove with these cuties as you might have noticed. I actually have 3 or 4 brand new stamps that I haven't had the chance to ink up yet.

Kellie (the owner) wants to see your favourite creations. I chose mine to be all Magnolias. Here goes. eeek!
It's 8 cards that I've done in the last couple of months. There are a lot of pics, but it's just 8 cards :) I haven't commented much on them, thought they would (hopefully) speak for themselves :)

What I can mention is that I love working with my promarkers. Most of the cards I have done here are for some sort of challenge. I like doing things a bit differently, it might not always turn out brilliant, but I like the idea. I like all sorts of styles, but I'd love to learn more to work with the vintage distressed look.

Here I had a square sketch to follow that I re-made into a folded card. It was my first try on sewing I think. I like this card because it's quite innovative and I even made one of the decorations myself. I took a big red brad, stamped with a textstamp and embossed it with gold ink. You can see it in the middle of one of the flowers.



Here I worked with a 3D challenge. I just went totally overboard with it and loved every second! I'm especially proud of the flower I cut out and poured 3D glaze over. It's part of the patterned background paper, but I made it stand out by coiling it a little bit. Tilda is mounted on 3D tape.

This is my latest magnolia card and stamp. I'm trying a more distressed look lately. Loved working with this stamp!

I worked a lot with shading on this card. I really wanted it to look like she gets light from the flower/snowflake.

A more simple card for a sketchchallenge. I think it was a rectangle they had and I made it an arrow. Thought it worked perfectly with this image. I also doodled little "x-es" and "o-s" around the image.


Handmade flowers. The middle of the upper left flower is handmade.

A graduation card for my cousin. I'm extremely proud of this one :)



Ok, so now you've seen a little bit of what I do, thanks for looking. And for my loyal readers: keep your fingers crossed :)