DT Charisma - Make your own embellishments

It's Thursday and that means Charisma time again! We've got some great sponsors with us, as always, just check these out:

 

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Wanna have a go at one of these prizes? All you have to do is get creative with embellishments. That is making your own. Here's my take on the task:

I made the flowers myself with some (light weight) watercolor paper, a heart punch, Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass) a brad and some water. I simply inked the hearts, punched a little hole in the bottom of the hearts to attach the brad, then fanned them out and gave them a good spritz of water before I scrunched them up, folded them back out and let them dry. Really easy. :)

I used a kraft card base, tied on some Divine Twine (Aqua) that I got from lovely Elin and added a button from my stash. A simple scalloped circle from watercolor paper, inked with Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass) and a lovely sentiment from Norsk Stempelblad, stamped in Archival Ink (Coffee) that reads: "Life doesn't have to be perfect to be fantastic"! Finally I topped it all with a bunch of pearls from Storyteller and Scrapbook Memories (Panduro), I believe. And that's it for today.

Can't wait to see how you're gonna get creative with the 'bellies this week! :) Need some more inspiration? Just hop on over to the challenge blog and check out the other girls work too.

Challenges:
Scrap 'a' Long #28 - Perler, perler og perler
My time to craft #229 - Brown and turquoise
Totally Papercrafts #176 - Make your own flowers
Less is More w129 - Hand Made flowers
Scrapping.no #06 - sketch

 

Kickin' off 2013

Endelig kom jeg i gang i 2013! Mojo'en satt utrolig langt inne etter en lang og delvis ufrivillig juleferie, men nå begynte tidsfristene å snike seg opp på meg, så jeg var bare nødt til å tvinge frem noe.

De siste dagene har jeg vært med på Natalie Kalbachs Creative Jump Start Summit 2013. Daglig inspirasjon med mange ulike aktører med hver sine tilnærminger til oppgaven. Utrolig gøy og se på og jeg har fått massevis av ideer, så i går (natt) fikk jeg endelig prøvd ut noen av teknikkene og ideene. Skjønt det ferdige produktet her, har ingenting med CJS å gjøre! *lol* Men det var vel litt av poenget. Vi trenger litt starthjelp av og til og jeg fikk varmet opp med noen uferdige og ett ferdig prosjekt (som kommer i morgen), før jeg fikk til det prosjektet som jeg virkelig likte å lage, og det var dette. Enkelt, stilrent, med en liten splæsj av farge - akkurat sånn jeg liker det! :-)

 

Fargesplæsj'en er Glimmermist Sweet Pea som jeg blåste ut på kartongen med sugerør (!!).

Øvrige materialer er: Hvit og svart kartong, (Bazzill og Europris), Spellbinders sirkel dies, svarte roser fra WOC, en trådbit og en chipboard bit fra resteboksen min og et tekststempel fra Kort og Godt.

 

Forresten så har jeg ymtet frempå om en liten overraskelse til en av de som kommenterer på mitt "Topp 10 innlegg". Har du ikke fått det med deg enda, så har du fortsatt tid på deg. Jeg trekker en vinner 20. januar. ;-)

 

*Finally I got started in 2013! My mojo was really deep down after a long and somewhat unvoluntary christmas break, but the deadlines were starting to sneak up on me, so I just had to force something out now.

The past few days I've been tagging along for Natalie Kalbach's Creative Jump Start Summit 2013. Daily inspiration with lots of different contributors each with a different approach on the task. Lots of fun to watch and I've got several ideas, so yesterday (last night) I finally got to try out a few of the techniques and ideas. Although the finished project here doesn't have anything to do with the CJS! *lol* But I guess that was some of the point. We all need jump starting some time and I got to warm up with some unfinished project and a finished project (coming tomorrow) before I got to the project that I really liked making and this was it. Clean and Simple, with a splash of colour - just the way I like it! :-)

The colour splash is Glimmermist Sweet Pea that I blew out on cardstock with a straw (!!). Other materials are: Black and white cardstock (Bazzill and Europris), Spellbinders Circle dies, black roses from WOC, a piece of string and a chipboard piece from my scrap stash and a sentiment from Kort og Godt.

 

By the way, I've been hinting about a little surprise for one of the commenters on my "Top 10 post". If you haven't seen it yet there's still time. I'll be drawing a winner on January 20th. ;-)*

 

Challenges:

CraftyCatz #164 - Anything goes

Allsorts w188 - Clean and Simple

Less is More #101 - Black and white with a splash of colour

 

 

 

 

CAS Christmas

Jeg hadde en aldri så liten langhelg forrige helg, og tilbragte store deler av den med shopping, fargelegging og kortlaging med herlige Yasmine. Hun som vanligvis er dronningen av rååååsa med Copic-kreasjoner ut av denne verdenen, tok helt av med fantastiske CAS-kreasjoner, mens jeg slet med inspirasjonen og endte opp med dette på første forsøk: *I had a little long weekend last weekend and spent the greater part of it shopping, coloring and cardmaking with lovely Yasmine. She who is usually the queen of pink with Copic-creations out of this world, got all carried away with stunning CAS-creations while I was struggling with inspiration and ended up with this on my first go:*

 

Jeg er svak for blå julekort og med snøkrystall, stjerner og bling, begynner det å ligne på noe jeg kan like. *S* Jeg hadde ikke med meg noe eget utstyr til Yasmine, men jeg fant likevel noe kjent og kjært i lageret hennes. MS Cherish punchen og Inkido Stars-stempelet. Snøkrystallen er en Marianne die jeg kjøpte på shoppingturen vår. Tekststempelet har Yasmine helt sikkert fortalt meg hvor det kommer fra, men det må jeg ærlig innrømme at jeg har glemt. *I'm a sucker for blue christmas cards and with snowflake, stars and bling it's beginning to look like something I could like. *S* I didn't bring any of my stash to Yasmine, but I still found something familiar and dear in her stash. The MS Cherish punch and the Inkido Stars stamp. The snowflake is a Marianne Design die that I bought on our shopping trip. I'm sure Yasmine told me where the sentiment is from, but I honestly forgot.*

 

Takk for noen herlige dager, Yasmine! I'll be back! ;-)

 

Challenges:

Card and Scrap #43 - Jul

Crafty Creations #197 - Christmas is coming

CASual Fridays #79 - Winter blues

Less is More w95 - Glamour and Glitz

 

 

 

 

I bakleksa

Hverdagsliv og noen dager ufrivillig sengeliggende har gjort at jeg ikke har fått gjort alt jeg hadde planlagt. Men i dag har jeg trosset legens ordre og lekt meg litt. Prosjektet er laget etter en av Kristina Werners leksjoner i Clean and Simple cardmaking.

Siden jeg ikke har noen bakgrunnstempel, stemplet jeg flere ulike tekster som jeg embosset i hvitt. Tallene er chipboard som jeg farget med svart ProMarker og la på et lag Glossy Accent.

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Everyday life and a few days of involutary bedrest has kept me from doing all I had planned. But in spite of doctors orders I played around a bit today. My project is made after a lesson in Clean and Simple cardmaking by Kristina Werner.

Since I don't own a background stamp I stamped different stamps and embossed them in white. The numbers are chipboard that I colored in with black ProMarker and put on a coating of Glossy Accent.

Challenges:

Less is More #51 Theme - Cut it Out

Card and Scrap #24 - Clean and Simple

Supplies:

Paper: White and black cardstock

Stamps: Hero Arts - Essential Messages

Ink: Versamark Embossing Ink

Other: Inkido Chunky Crystals embossing powder, ProMarker Black, Glossy Accent, Chipboard numbers, Spellbinders classic circle and Scalloped circle, paper twine.

Playin' around

I don't believe in new years resolutions. I think that if you really want to change something in your life you should be able to do it at any time during the year, not wait for a new year to start before you do it. But since "everybody" else does, it makes it easier for me to tag along.

Like, I always wanted to be more creative. I come from a very creative family, where my parents and all my siblings are fairly comfortable with both drawing and painting. But I'm missing that gene. I can't draw for the life of me and I've never been comfortable with abstract or improvization in any form, least of all in painting. I'm a hard core theoretical person and a perfectionist, so creativity (in the form of drawing or painting) does not come easy to me.

Anyways, I heard about the Creative Jump Start Summit 2012 and decided to tag along to pick up some tips on how to be more creative. And just in case it would be too artsy for me, I signed up for an online class too, in Clean and Simple Cardmaking. And I don't regret any of those one bit! I've got so many ideas that I don't even know where to begin. But I've promised myself one thing: From now on I'm gonna have fun! Since I started cardmaking two years ago, I've said that I'm doing this for me - pure recreation for myself. But sometimes I get carried away and push myself to enter every challenge there is and creating becomes more of a forced task than fun. So now I'm going back to having fun and playing around with all the stuff that's accumulated over the years. I'm not quitting on the challenges, not at all, but I'm not gonna let them control my fun! So I've renamed my craft room to "Mom's play room" and this is what happens when mommy plays around:

Inspired by classes at Clean and Simple Cardmaking I wanted to make a One Layer Card for Trykkpressa this month. I then jumped at the challenge at Less Is More - Predominantly Purple, I mean it's purple, it's me, of course I had to do it! *lol*. I'm also throwing this in at Scrapping.no and Cupcake Crafts for their "new"-themed challenges (new stamps) and last but not least, for the Anything goes-challenge at Scrap-a-long.

This is how I did it:

I masked off an area, using PostIts, leaving about 1/2" white edge to give the illusion of a layer. Then I samped some daisies in embossing ink with my brand spankin' new used stamps that I bought on the forum scrapping.no. I got them in the mail yesterday and immediately thought "I'm gonna have some fun with these!" :) I embossed them in Frosted Crystal (I meant to use regular clear embossing, but got the jars mixed up. :-/), then I inked over with Distress Ink, Dusty Concorde, buffed it up a bit with a clean pad on my Ink Blending Tool. Normally I would spritz it all with a minimister and water, but that tend to curl the cardstock, and since this is a one layer card I skipped the water this time. Finished it all with a new little sentiment from Verve Stamps. And that's what happens when mom's having fun! *LOL*

En juvel

Er det ikke herlig når du roter gjennom tingene dine og finner en juvel du hadde glemt at du hadde? Jeg gjorde det her om dagen og fant dette stempelsettet fra Kaisercraft som jeg kjøpte for ikke så lenge siden og hadde glemt at jeg hadde. Jeg vet hva dere tenker, hvordan er det mulig!? Vel, dere har ikke sett arbeidsbordet mitt, og dere vet hva de sier: Ute av syne, ute av sinn.

Så jeg tenkte det ville være perfekt å bruke til et CAS kort med Emboss resist-teknikken jeg nettopp har lært meg. Jeg trenger litt mer øvelse, men til å være første forsøk syns jeg det ble ganske bra.

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Don't you just love it when you rummage through your stuff and find some gem you forgot you had? I did that the other day and found this stamp set from Kaisercraft that I forgot I had. I know what you're thinking, how could I forget!? Well, you haven't seen my workdesk, and you know what they say: Out of sight, out of mind.

So I thought this would be perfect for a CAS card using the emboss resist technique I just learned. I need some practice though, but for a first attempt I think it looks ok.

With this card I'm entering the following challenges:

Less is More w16 - Butterflies

A Spoonful of Sugar #153 - Things with wings

Creative Card Crew - Anything goes