This time of year calls for a little review of the past year. 2010 was the year I started blogging and I've made so many cards I couldn't even imagine a year ago. Even though I'm still a beginner I think I've developed a lot over the past year. Here's a little slideshow of some of the cards I'm most pleased with. Best wishes for the new year!
fredag 31. desember 2010
Årskavalkade
This time of year calls for a little review of the past year. 2010 was the year I started blogging and I've made so many cards I couldn't even imagine a year ago. Even though I'm still a beginner I think I've developed a lot over the past year. Here's a little slideshow of some of the cards I'm most pleased with. Best wishes for the new year!
torsdag 30. desember 2010
Årets siste kort
I've been really down lately and made next to nothing. But on the second last day of the year I just had to get myself together and whip something up for a little boy whose birthday is on New Years Eve. I hope this will be the beginning of a turn for the better in the new year.
søndag 12. desember 2010
Årets kort
Dette kortet laget jeg til min søsters bursdag i mars, og bare dét er for meg betydningsfullt nok. Jeg er utrolig heldig som har et veldig nært forhold til mine søsken og kanskje spesielt til denne søsteren min. Jeg husker jeg slet lenge med dette kortet for at det på best mulig måte skulle vise hvor mye jeg verdsetter henne. Det ville jeg nok aldri klart uansett hvor mye jeg hadde prøvd, men det ligger i alle fall mye tanke og omtanke bak dette kortet. Og det er mye jeg er fornøyd med på dette kortet. Jeg elsker de duse grønntonene og de herlige stjerneblomstene som jeg syns jeg fikk satt sammen på en pen måte.
Men ikke nok med at det gikk til en spesiell mottaker og jeg synes det er noe av det beste jeg har laget, dette kortet utgjorde også starten på bloggen min, så det har blitt enda mer betydningsfullt for meg. Altså må det være et godt bidrag til utfordringen hos StampArctic.
Håper bare det ikke går så lenge før jeg igjen kan lage noe så vakkert og betydningsfullt!
This time of the year calls for a recap, and since I'm still in a dry spell, the challenge at StampArctic suited me fine. It's supposed to be one of your own cards from this past year. Either the prettiest, the most meaningful to you, made for a special person, or a particular mood you were in when you made it. Marianne herself had a hard time picking one in particular, and I don't think it was any easier for me. I'm not all that good at this yet, so I've made some cards this year that I wasn't pleased with, but there has been some that I've been more satisfied with. Enough to make it a difficult choice, but I finally landed on this one.
I made this card for my sister's birthday in March and that alone is meaningful enough to me. I'm incredably lucky to have a very close relationship to my siblings, and maybe especially this sister. I remember I struggled for a long time with this card to make it show in the best possible way how much I appreciate her. I propably never would have made it no matter how hard I tried, but at least there is a lot of thought and care in this card. And there's a lot that I'm pleased with on this card too. I love the faded green colors and the starshaped flowers that I thought I assembled pretty nicely. And as if it wasn't enough that it was made for a special person and it's in my opinion amongst the best cards I've ever made, this card also represents the beginning of my blog, so that makes it even more meaningful to me. So it must be a good contribution to the StampArctic challenge. I just hope it won't be too long till I can make something as beautiful and meaningful again!
lørdag 4. desember 2010
Lys i enden av tunnelen
Jeg håper bare at veggen er på vei ned så jeg får begynt på alle julekortene nå!
After two weeks in complete darkness I finally see a little glimpse of light, figuratively speaking. It helped with a bit of time pressure and a sketch. Strangely enough it turned out to be another tealight card! And a tealight card must be quite appropriate for Cupcake Craft Challenge #119 - Light it up. I only hope the wall is coming down now, so I can start all the christmas cards now!
mandag 29. november 2010
I've hit the wall
torsdag 25. november 2010
Jeg er en favoritt!!
Jeg pleier ikke vanligvis å legge inn så mange innlegg på en dag, men dette kan jeg ikke la være å si noe om! Jeg er en av favorittene hos Kreative Krumspring!! Jeg ble så utrolig glad når jeg så det. Og når sant skal sies, ganske ydmyk. Når jeg ser hva andre får til, kan jeg ikke skjønne at noen syns mitt arbeid er noe bra! Men nå har jeg altså beviset for det, og det skal få plass i sidebaren min om et lite øyeblikk! :)
Se hva som ble sagt om kortet mitt, og de andre favorittene her.
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I don't usually post this many times in one day, but I can't help but commenting on this! I'm one of the favourites at Kreative Krumspring challenge blog!! I was so incredably happy when I saw it. And truth to be told, quite humble. When I see what others can do, I can't believe that anyone would think my work is any good! But now I've got proof, and it will get it's proper place in my sidebar in just a sec! :) See what's been said about my card and the other favourites here.
Junior rekreasjoner #2
Because of limitations in the linky tool at Messy's Mini Missions I had to make two different blog posts for the childrens cards. This is my nephew's christmas card, made for the christmas challenge at Messy's Mini Missions.
Junior rekreasjoner
*Because of limitations in the linky tool at Messy's Mini Missions, I had to make two different postings. My nephew's card will be in the next blog post.*
tirsdag 23. november 2010
Ventetid
Dette blir altså mitt bidrag til utfordringen hos Scrappekammeret - #19 Kammerpikenes Tema og siden et englebilde er inspirasjonsoppgaven hos Nordsalten Hobbyklubb #18 melder jeg meg på der også.
Waiting time is the theme at Scrappekammeret now. I've got many assosiations to the phrase, but right now it's all about advent. Advent is waiting time and the children wait for christmas. I've got many fond memories from matchbox advent calendars in my childhood, which I hope my children will have too when they grow older. At least my daughter got one last year. My youngest is still too young to understand all this, so this calendar I sold at the christmas charity market last Saturday.
mandag 22. november 2010
Varme juleklemmer
This is one of the last cards I made for the christmas market last Saturday. Clean and Simple with a lovely sentiment from Norsk Stempelblad. Translated it means something like "Warm christmas hug and many good thoughts." This'll be my entry for Stampin' B's challenge #85 and PaperPlay Challenges '10 - Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
søndag 21. november 2010
En julehilsen
I'm completely exhausted after Saturdays events, but it was so much fun! This is the last tealight card I had time to make. Entering this at Kreative Krumspring in their challenge #5 - En hilsen til jul.
torsdag 18. november 2010
Økt produksjon
New picture added Nov. 19th. (That's what I get for blogging half asleep! :))
Another tealight card ready for sale. This time inspired by the sketch at 2S4Y. And now I'm on a roll here so I'm almost ready for sale on Saturday. Hopefully we'll sell something so we can raise money for a worthy cause!
onsdag 17. november 2010
Julestemningen kommer
It was great coming home to my workdesk again after a weekend of light christmas shopping and noticing that the christmas spirit is sneaking in and the christmas card production is increasing. I've planned to make some simple cards to sell at the charity christmas market this Saturday. But I've got quite a few left to make to reach my goal. Anyways, this card will be my entry for PaperPlay Challenges '10 - Ribbon, lace and flowers, RRR Challenge #12 Christmas theme and A Spoonful of Sugar Challenge 130 - Distressing.
søndag 14. november 2010
Downsizing
Oh, and sorry for the poor quality on the picture! That's what you get when you're foolish enough to forget the transfer cable to the camera at home! :/
tirsdag 9. november 2010
Nok et telyskort
mandag 8. november 2010
Snowflakes
I celebrated my birthday last thursday with a bunch of eager scrappers. I didn't get much done myself as most of my time was spent demonstrating distressing, explaining different kinds of stamps and inkpads, recommending different types of glue for different purposes etc. A bunch of rookies all right! *lol* But I got to do a little. A quick and easy card with my favorite investment this christmas, my qute little snowflake punch. I think I'll just make the deadline for Creative Card Crew's challenge - Let's punch it. And while I'm at it I'll hop on Paper Sundaes # 43 - Let it snow too! :)
søndag 7. november 2010
Mojo's back
Med dette kortet deltar jeg i følgende utfordringer:
Mojo Monday - Challenge 163
Cards for men - Challenge #22 Anything goes (as long as it's male)
Paper Play Challenges '10 - Circles
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Challenge 57 - Spots and stripes
Thank's to Mojo Monday I've got my mojo back when it comes to cards for boys. At least I like to think so! ;-)
torsdag 4. november 2010
Happy birthday to me!
tirsdag 2. november 2010
Mørketid
Dette blir mitt bidrag til Sentimental Sundays utfordring #27 Birthdays!
søndag 31. oktober 2010
Happy Halloween
We don't have a lot of halloween traditions here in Norway and I've never celebrated it in any way. The only thing I relate to halloween is my brother-in-law's birthday, so here's his birthday card. And since Paper Sundaes just released their latest challenge For the boys, I'll join in.
lørdag 30. oktober 2010
Det snør, det snør
A translation of the sentiment for my foreign readers: "If a snowflake was a hug, I would give you a blizzard".
fredag 29. oktober 2010
Winter Wedding
It might be interesting to see something different in the middle of all christmas cards and other projects? Here's a wedding card I made a while ago.
onsdag 27. oktober 2010
Årets julekort
Dette blir iallefall mitt bidrag til Årets koseligste juleutfordring hos Anonyme Scrappere, og siden jeg har et tekststempel fra Kreativ Hobby på forsiden, kan jeg melde meg på utfordringen "Årets julekort" der også. :)
It can't be considered as the best christmas card of the year, but it's still a christmas card. The first one finished this season and hopefully there'll be many more to come. I've realized that christmas is coming far too soon (again), so I'll really have to hurry up if I'm gonna get everything done.
Anyway, this'll be my entry for "Årets koseligste juleutfordring" at Anonyme Scrappere and since I've got a sentiment from Kreativ Hobby, I'll enter the challenge "Årets julekort" there too. :)
tirsdag 26. oktober 2010
Kjapt og enkelt
The days are flying by as usual and I wish I had more time for both card making and blogging. But that's the way it is, so here's one of the fastest cards I've ever made. Put together in less than half an hour before the birthday party my daughter was going to.
søndag 24. oktober 2010
En ny utfordring
lørdag 23. oktober 2010
I'm back!
I've really neglected my blogging lately. It's been hectic at home and thursday I had four lovely ladies over to make tealight cards. It went on way past bedtime and still none of us finished (that's what happens when your mouth works more than your hands! *lol*), but I finished mine yesterday. Pretty simple, but that's how it gets when you're in a hurry!
mandag 18. oktober 2010
Another first
I always say there's a first time for everything in life. This time it's my first trifold shutter card. I was surprised how easy it actually was to make this. But the decorating was harder! ☺ Whether the result passes or not will be determined when the recipient gets it later this week.
lørdag 16. oktober 2010
Winter wonderland
Denne blir mitt bidrag til A spoonful of sugar - Challenge 125 Winter Wonderland og Paper Sundaes - Challenge 39 A change of season.
tirsdag 12. oktober 2010
Snart jul!
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I finally got started on a few christmas projects today. But nothing's done yet, so in the meantime you'll have to do with this "folder card" I made a little while ago. My very first of that kind, but definately not the last! It'll be my contribution to the challenge at Sukkersött this week.
mandag 11. oktober 2010
A change of season
(But I suspect there'll be coming another more seasonal entry soon! ;-))
fredag 8. oktober 2010
Purple Passion
Tallene er chipboard som jeg har farget med ProMarker (Warm Grey 1), dekket med Glossy Accent og strødd med hvitt/blankt glitter. Et eksperiment som heldigvis ikke gikk helt galt! ☺
Bidrag til A Spoonfull of Sugar - Challenge 124 Sparkle and Shine og Creative Card Crew - Bloomin Marvellous.
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Purple is definately my favourite color and this gorgeous paper from Papirdesign practically begged me to be used for this card. The numbers are chipboard colored with ProMarker (Warm Grey 1), coated with Glossy Accent and sprinkled with white/clear glitter. An experiment that fortunately didn't turn out a total disaster! ☺
Entered at A Spoonfull of Sugar - Challenge 124 Sparkle and Shine and Creative Card Crew - Bloomin Marvellous.
tirsdag 5. oktober 2010
Nei, har du sett!
Selv om jeg egentlig trives best med en litt enklere stil, er det gøy å gjøre noe annet innimellom.
Dette blir mitt bidrag til Oktoberutfordringen i Trykkpressa.
søndag 3. oktober 2010
Happy Cardmaking day!
After a litte tour around Blogworld, I've realized that yesterday, October 2nd, was World Cardmaking day. That has to be celebrated, so I threw myself in there (a little late though! ;-)) and I got done with this card.
The sketch is by Kortskissen and the card will be my entry for the following challenges:
Scrappekammerets utfordring #15 - Kammerpikenes oppskrift
Creative Card Crew - Bloomin' Marvellous
C.R.A.F.T Challenge - Challenge #70 Fancy Floral
A Spoonfull of Sugar - Challenge 123 Spots and Stripes
lørdag 25. september 2010
Quick 'n' easy
fredag 24. september 2010
En liten dytt
I finally got to sit down and make a card again after a crazy week. But for some reason I find it hard to choose papers and colors these days, so I asked for a little help and got the assignment to make a card with the theme "Autumn". Really simple. So I made this card from the challenge at "Ett Trykk" this month.
Bazzill cardstock
Designpaper: Websters and Maja design
Sentiment: Hero Arts
Flowers from WOC and Papirloftet
søndag 19. september 2010
So cute 13 and my card #101
Etter gårsdagens lille jubileum og mitt innlegg nr. 100 for et par uker siden, måtte jeg ta en gjennomgang av alt jeg har laget det siste året og fant til min store overraskelse, at gårsdagens kort faktisk var nummer 100 i rekken! (Ikke medregnet andre papirprosjekter som altered esker osv.) Jeg som trodde jeg hadde passert nummer 100 for lenge siden, så viser det seg at det hundrede kortet faktisk skulle til samme mottaker som det første kortet, nøyaktig ett år etter! ☺ Jeg syns det fortjener en markering, men jeg vet ikke helt hvordan jeg skal feire det enda. Kanskje med å lage enda ett kort! ;-) I mellomtiden melder jeg meg i alle fall på That's just so cute sin utfordring #13.
lørdag 18. september 2010
Back to the beginning
Men alvorlig talt, jeg elsker å holde på med dette og ser frem til mange flere år med mange flere kort og mye mer å lære og prøve ut.
I dag *today*This (second picture) will be my entry for the following challenges:Paper Sundaes Challenge #35
Scrappekammeret Utfordring #14
Kort 'O' Mania Bursdags Blogg Hopp
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One year ago, almost to the day, I delivered what I consider my first card as a card maker. I had made a few cards before, but it was (even) more "pre-school-cut'n'glue" kinda thing. In the last year I've learnt a lot and grown with my hobby and my stash of stuff has grown way over my head! *lol* But seriously, I love doing this and look forward to many more years with many more cards and a lot more to learn and try out.
fredag 17. september 2010
Just do it!
Creativity has been slow lately, (which could be connected to my nasty cold) but today I had to grab myself by the neck and do something. So I made this card for Sketchy Colors challenge #38, red and turqouise. It'll also be my birthday card for Kort 'O' Mania.
onsdag 15. september 2010
New Kids on the Blog
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Apparenty I'm not the only one who's been missing challenges for kids, so Kaylou from Kraftywheezle and Debs from Frecklesplace has taken the matter into their own hands and started their own challenge blog for kids under 16, Messy's Mini Missions. The first challenge starts at October 1st and I know someone who's looking forward to that! In the meantime she has accepted the first mission and commanded her mother to spread the word throughout blogland and by that she takes a number in the fab opening candy they have.
Fancy a cuppa?
Jeg fant ideen om et tekoppkort her, men modifiserte malen litt, slik at kortet kunne åpnes.
Legger denne inn hos Scrappekammeret også.
The days are flying by and as usual I'm last minute for a challenge. This time in the forum Kortscrapping, where the challenge was a card neither round nor squared. I found the idea of a teacup card here, but modified the template a little so the card would open. I'm entering this at Scrappekammeret too.
søndag 12. september 2010
Have a nice day
I've had a major cleanup in my paper stack. It's great to have some overwiew again! I whipped up this card with scraps I found and after the sketch at Mojo Monday. Now I'll continue my lovely Sunday with some physical activities. Have a nice evening!
lørdag 11. september 2010
Endelig helg!
I was planning major production this weekend since I was finally all done with the last two orders and free to do whatever I wanted. But with a sick child in the house I didn't get to produce much. But I got to do some. I made this card after Laura's sketch #60 at 2S4Y and the color combo red, white and gold is challenge #53 at Color Create. And since anything goes at Scrappekammeret I'll join there too.
And for my foreign readers, the text on the card is a quote by Goethe wich translated means something like: "Magic is to believe in yourself. If you can do that you can make anything happen".
onsdag 8. september 2010
Gut feeling
I guess I have to learn to follow my instincts when it comes to cardmaking, because every time I start to think toomuch on a card it just messes things up. After a while I get completely blocked and the card takes forever to make! At least it feels that way. For days I've been thinking and planning and sketching and testing on this card and finally I ended up with my very first idea. This will be my entry for Challenge #14 - Anything goes at Scrappekammeret.
mandag 6. september 2010
Forandring fryder?
I'm really stuck with a card I'm making and needed to get my mind off it for a while, so I made a few adjustments on the blog. Feel free to let me know what you think!
søndag 5. september 2010
Ny norsk utfordringsblogg
New Norwegian challenge blog
Personally I don't think there can be too many - at least not in Norwegian, so I welcome Kreative Krumspring with open arms and look forward to the first challenge at September 9th. Until then I'll draw a number in their RAK and hope more will do the same. Good luck!
Clean and Simple
Nok et resultat av min andre kreative lørdag. Dette er enda et bidrag til C&S utfordringen hos Sentimental Sundays. *Another result of my second creative Saturday. This is another entry for the C&S challenge at Sentimental Sundays.*
lørdag 4. september 2010
Something old, something new... and something RED
Looks like Saturdays are gonna be my creative time now that we're back to routines and everyday life, 'cuz today I'm havin another creative Saturday. This time it's an entry for challenge #36 at Sketchy Colors, red/orange/yellow. A real challenge for me, since I usually stay far away from these colors! *lol* But I dived deep into the "archive" and found some of the oldest patterned paper I've got, some equally old craft ribbon and combined it with a brand new Hero Arts stamp I got the other day and the chipboard buttons I got in the candy from sweet Marianne (Sakkalo), they came in the mail today! (Thanks so much, Marianne! I'm really gonna enjoy myself with all the delish stuff! ;-)) Then I combined the whole thing with Kazan's Sketch #60 at 2S4Y, topped it with the C&S challenge at Sentimental Sundays and voila!