fredag 30. desember 2011

Fairytale friday, last for 2011

Gooood morning friends :)
The year 2011 is soon ended and we are about to enter 2012. 
I found out I wanted to write down some of the things I am happy for

I have  had a fantastic year.
I am so happy that I have my family, my husband and our kids, my parents and my sisters around me. Thats means the world to me.

And I got my crafting life,- my blog, my crafting space, my design teams and my wonderful friends all around the world. I enjoy life the way it is right now.
I have almost blogged a year now and it has been a joy from day one. When I look at the cards I made when I started my blog I can see that I have learned a lot. My colouring skills are much better now because of all the inspiration, all the tips from other crafters, all the tutorials I have watched and of course all the colouring I have done :)

I have been so lucky to be a part of some fantastic design teams in 2011.
I was with Allsorts for 5 months, thank you Brenda for a fantastic time with you girls!
I was in the DT at Sukkersøtt for 6 months, and enjoyed every second of that too. Thank you Nancy for everything!
Right now, I am in Tickled Pink Stamps DT and love to work with theese fantastic images.
 I have recently been lucky to become a member of the CopicMarkerNorge DT too, a really fantastic group with talented Norwegian crafters that I really look forward to work with.
And last, but not least,- I am part of Teddy Bo design team. From day one I have loved the bears and making card with theese images is a pleasure. So thank you Gayle for letting me be a part of a fantastic team, letting me work with the most beautiful graphics and most of all thank you for all friendship from you and the rest of the design team. MWAH!!

That was a little of my thoughts ;)
This is my card with the same image that I used yesterday,
 but in totally different colours:

The back

The inside with the text I have got from Maritha a long time ago.
Gabriella said that this was her card, so the text is just perfect for both her and the lovely Teddy Bea in a Cat costume ;)

Image is TEDDYBEA_103 again...LOVE it!
You find it here
Coloured with Copics as usual
Papers from Panduro
Seambinding and flowers from WOC and Maritha :)
Blingswirls from Prima and a hommade hatpin from my friend
Mini Postage stampset from Whimsy Stamps

I hope you find the time today to read Colettes fabulous fairytale from our life at the Teddy Bo tower, I love fridays even more because of this!
You find it here a little later...

Enter my card here:
iCopic weekly challenge - new year with bling
Totally gorjuss - for someone special
Fussy and fancy friday challenge - happy birthday/use animal print

This will be my last post in 2011, so I will take the time to wish you all
A very happy, healthy and crafty new year

Love and hugs
Jill

torsdag 29. desember 2011

Joy

Hi friends!
I have made a card today with the lovely Teddy Bea as a kitten, and I think she is fantastic!
Gabriella saw this image on one of Chrissy's ( a Teddy Bo fan ;))cards and she started to cry when I said I didn't have that image..But mom, I love it she cryed...
Sooo like the kind mother I am, I asked the lovely Teddy Bo boss herself if she please could help me out! Of course bloglands best boss did that and the monster fell alsleep with the graphics in her hand.. She has made a lot of "cards" with this image and today it was my turn :)
I think this is a perfect image for baby cards to, my talented friend Maritha did one for a baby girl and you find it here, it is fantastic!
Here is my card

Image is TEDDYBEA_103 from Teddy Bo found here
Coloured with Copics
Papers from MME, lost and found (I love these papers!)
Fancyful Flourish from Cheery Lynn Design
The white flowers comes from Kort og Godt and the blue/green one i have made with a die from Marianne design.
Old bookpage from a book I got as a gift from my mother


I got a present from my sweet and so talented blogfriend Laurie for Christmas with two lovely paperpads from MME and this is one of them. You are so kind Laurie and always know what I like! MWAH!!

I would love to enter my card here:
Bearly mine Challenges - Anything goes
Charizma cardz - anything goes
Creative inspirations - Anything goes
Totally gorjuss - For someone special
Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes
Saturday Challenge - Anything goes
Ready Teddy Go - Anything goes
Paper sundaes - Celebrate
Lots of hugs to you :)
Jill

tirsdag 27. desember 2011

Copica and BIG news

Good morning my sweet blogfriends
I hope you  all are having a fantastic Christmas and enjoys the holiday with a lot of  familytime and maybe some crafting in between

I have some fantastic news to tell you today!
I have been asked to join the Design Team over at CopicMarkerNorge and very honoured I said yes,- ofcourse!
WOW, I am so happy for this and I really look forward to work with theese talented ladies. I have made a short presentation of myself over at the CMN blog, so feel free to head over and read it and learn some more about me if you want to! lol

I have made a card for my debut and it's a non-Chrismassy coloured card!
Hope you like it :)
My beautiful papers comes from Kort og Godt and Webster's pages, matted with vanilla cardstock and distressed all edges with DI, frayed burlap.

After seeing this card shape at Lena Katrines blog I want to make it all the time, I think it looks fantastic.

The beautiful flowers comes from WOC and the swirl was found in my stash. Keycharm from Hjerteboden, a fantastic Norwegian webshop.

I have chosen the fantastic image Copica from Saturated Canary, as I thought the image fitted well today, almost looking like me with all the Copics in hand! LOL!
All the Saturated Canary images are a dream to colour and really look amazing :)

The Copics used :
Skintones: E13-11-00, R22
Hair: E53-51-50 and E33
Clothes: R85-83-81, E44-43-42-40, E39-35-33-31,
BG53-01-000, Y15-13-11+YR 24, G99-82-40
Shadows around the image: W5-3-1-0
Blender 0 here and there :)
Glossy on lips, eyes and heart

Hope you like my card today and enjoy the rest of the holidays my friends

Big hugs
Jill

lørdag 24. desember 2011

God jul/Merry Christmas

Hi my sweet friends and family!
I wish you all a very merry Christmas and hope you get everything you wish for.
Just want to show you some pictures of my beautiful kids taken today, ready to celebrate the season
Sebastian, my fantastic 11yr old
Gabriella, my lovely little 3 yr old princess
And here we are.
Hope you will have a wonderful day

And to my lovely family in Thailand:
We miss you and wish you were here with us

Warm Christmashugs from us to all of you
Jill

fredag 23. desember 2011

More of the new girl :)

I have fell in love with the new girl D'arcy's Diaries..
I just had to make another card with this beauty!
She will be released here on the 12th january.

Post the badge on your blog with a link back to the D'Arcy's Diaries blog for a chance to win a £15 voucher to be spent in either Teddy Bo & Co, The FairyD store, Wonderland Stamps or D'Arcy's Diaries

And here you see my card....almost like the badge! Lol
A winter birthday card, or a summer birthdaycard, or a good luck card or maybe whatever you want! ;)
Anyhow I love it, the image is just beautiful!


Image is the lovely  DARCYSDIARIES_002
Papers from MME, Lost and found Christmas
Coloured with Copics added glitter to the wings and heart
Flowers from WOC and Magnolia
Magnolia swirl and pearls
Mini postage stamps from Whimsy Stamps

I would like to take this oppurtunity to wish you all a very
Merry Christmas and a fantastic New year.
I hope to see you all in 2012 too :)
Enjoy the holidays with your love ones and take care

I will be back in a couple of days to share a card and some FANTASTIC news with you.
Until then...enjoy life
I will be celebrating the Christmas with my darling, our beautiful kids and my beloved mother in law and I really look forward to it.

Big Christmas hugs from Jill


 

tirsdag 20. desember 2011

Teddy Bo tuesday, last before Christmas!!

Hi my sweet friends
I am done making Christmas cards for this year, but I still have some Christmas work to share with you.
I have made a tag for my sister to go with her gift for Christmas and I have used a totally brand new image from Teddy Bo, but NOT a bear image this time!
This gorgeous girl is going to be released in january, so this is just a sneak peak of her, and I know you will love to work with her!
I have used my birthstone colour wich is peridot, a light green colour.

Simple back

Image: FAIRYD_TB_GIRL_04
Coloured with Copics
Papers from Poppy design and notesheet from MF
Flowers from Kort og Godt, and WOC
Charm from Whimsy Stamps
A bit of a cinnamon stick.
All my textstamps from NSS

Colours used:
Face: E13-11-00-000, R20
Hair: E53-51-50
Clothes: BG99-96-93 and YR 24-21, E50
Scarf and gloves: YG 95-93-91
Grey socks: W5-3-1-0

The new graphics from the shop today showing Teddy Bo and Bea with braces! That is really somthing for all of us that have kids in that age! I know I have to make a something for my niece as she got her braces fitted last week :)

The tag is a template and if you like it you find it here
hugs :)

Enter here:
Bunny Zoe's crafts - Fancy folds/shaped cards
Charizma cardz - last min Christmas makes
CYDA - Snowmen (hope my charm is enough!)


lørdag 17. desember 2011

My BIL's birthdays card

Good morning friends!
Today I will show you the card I have made for my sisters husband.
He is turning 40 and they will be in Thailand on his birthday. I had to use 2 images today, cause like  I wrote in his card,-even if you go to Thailand, you will still turn 40!! LOL
I had so much fun making this card :)
And I hope he will like it!
The outside with Teddy Bo_099/ BIL in Thailand
The inside with the new image TeddyBo_160 /BIL home in Norway again
Look how happy he is to be home in the snow again!!

Coloured with Copics
Papers from Prima and MME
Swirl and bling
Seambinding and hamp
Stamps with text from Whimsy stamps
Inside

Wish you all a fantastic, great weekend
I am working...So no crafting, baking or cleaning this weekend :)

hugs


fredag 16. desember 2011

DT Sukkersøtt

Today we have  sad news to share at Sukkersøtt.
The challengeblog will take a long break, hopefully we will open for challenges again later next year, but right now we don't know when or even if. 
But we have one last challenge for you, with both team A and B showing their work.

Christmas tag

I have made some stockings for my nieces for christmas.
It is room for a giftcard or money under the flap, so maybe that can be the present this year?


I fond the template here at Waltzing mouse stamps. They have the most fantastic stuff so you should definitive take a look.

I have used scap papers from my stash and the only thing I really remember is the fantastic text stamps and it's from Kreativ Hobby and they are this weeks sponsor

Hope you can join us at Sukkersøtt for our last challenge this year.
Wishing you all a beautiful weekend

Christmas hugs
Jill

torsdag 15. desember 2011

TPS, Pick any past favorite!

Good evening my friends!
Hope you are all fine :)
I have a tag to show you today. After seeing my friends around blogland showing the one more beautiful tag after another I thought I would give it a try myself!
The tag is a template I found at my friend Tammy's blog, you find her link here in her blog.
                                        
At Tickled Pink Stamps Challenge today we are starting a new challenge today and it is
Pick any past TPSC favourite
My choice was a challenge from july, #30
-Anything but a square-
The tag is for the giftbag I am giving my mom and stepdad for Christmas




The image is ofcourse from Tickled Pink Stamps and is called
Victorian Christmas Damon and you find him in the shop here
Papers from Poppy design and the dp on the paperbag is from Pion.
The image is coloured with Copics
Flowers from Kort og Godt and Creative treasures
Magnolia swirl and some white silk ribbon
Round text stamp from NSS

Hope you can join us this time at TPS and remember to use a Tickled Pink Stamps image. We are taking a Christmas break and this challenge will be open until 6th january 2012, so you have plenty of time to participate!

Enter my tag here:
ABC - F for Frosty
Anonyme scrappere - Julescrap, blått-brunt
Stampalot Challenges - December bingo (punch, tags, ribbon)
Enjoy your evening :)
Hugs

tirsdag 13. desember 2011

Two christmas cards today

Today we have a new challenge at Teddy Bo and this time it is to use your
Birthstone colours

After seeing this
I found out that mine is Peridot as my birthday is in august :)
So I made a card with one of the new releases from this week, and I was so happy how it turned out that I made one more...
First one is with the lovely Teddy Bo with his stocking:

Image: TeddyBo_162 found here
Coloured with Copics

Papers: Lost and Found, Christmas 6x6
Sentiment from Tickled Pink Stamps
Flowers from Kort og Godt, WOC and Creative Treasures,-my 3 favorites
Golden bells, pearls and hamp.


Next one is the lovely Teddy Bea with her stocking:



Image TeddyBea_176 found here
Coloured with Copics
Papers Lost and found Christmas pad again
Stamp image from Whimsy Stamps with matching die to cut....love it!
Flowers from WOC and Kort og Godt
Golden bells and pearls.

Copics Colours:
Bo and Bea: E44-43-42-40 and R20
Clothes: BG 99-96-93 and for the white: E81, W0 and Blender0
Fireplace: E 39-35-33-31 and some E53-51-50 behind Bea
Shadows around Teddy Bo is with E53-51-50 and W0
Shadows around Bea is W5-3-1-0

Theese are the weeks new graphics, soooo gorgeous!
Hope you like my cards :)
Enter here:
Divas by Design - anything goes
Card and Scrap - juleinspirasjon
Cute card Thursday - anything goes
Dream Valley Challenge - Christmas
Paper Sundaes - Anything Christmas
Cupcake inspirations - Christmas photo
The Cutie Pie Challenge - use a sentiment (the upper card)
Scrap a long - Jul
iCopic Lover - Holidays


fredag 9. desember 2011

Another Teabox

Ok, my friends, you know me... Once I learn something new I have to do it twice, at least!
So today I would show you another tea box... This time for my mother :)
My mother loves apple and cinnamon tea and the box is filled with that, and it smells so good!
Image Herman from Teddy Bo found here
Coloured with Copics
Papers from Prima, Alla-Prima collection

I used a knob from TH, flowers from WOC and some from Bikuben.
The metal flowers are just wonderful and comes from Creative treasure and
the little teapot is from Korthobby.
And cinnamon :)

Back of the box.


Have you read the fairytale today? You find it here
And remember you still have time to join our current challenge that is White Christmas

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy  :)
I promise to make a tutorial for the teabox this weekend!
Hugs

Enter here:
Charizma cardz - No cards
Totally papercrafts - anything but christmas
Cute card thursday - anything goes

tirsdag 6. desember 2011

My white tea box

Good morning bloggers :)
We are still having the White christmas challenge over at Teddy Bo and I want to show you a teabox I have made for my youngest sister for Christmas.

The image is new today and it's an old bear called Herman..
Coloured with Copics as usual
Papers from Pion design

Both sides has beautiful christmas poems from North Star Stamps

The top is decorated with flowers from WOC, Kort og Godt and Creative treasures. Silk ribbon and bells from stash. And cinnamon from the kitchen ;)

I will try to make a tutorial for this box this week.
It is quite easy and very much fun to make
and in my opinion, a perfect little gift for a tea lover!

Hope you find the time to join Teddy Bo and our White christmas challenge and I hope I have inspired you with my teabox.
Theese are the new graphics you can find in the store this week
Lots of love
Jill

Enter my teabox here:
Bling it on - It's Christmas
CYDA - Buttons or bows (I have bow!)
Kort 'o'mania - Skrimmel skrammel
Ready Teddy Go - anything goes