January inspiration

Happy New Year everybody, thought I'd kick off this years inspiration with a couple of cards from the two challenge blogs where I'm a design team member.
Godt nyttår folkens! Tenkte jeg skulle starte inspirasjonen for 2020 med to kort som er brukt som inspirasjon i de to utfordringsbloggene hvor jeg er med som designteammedlem.

First Scrap the Rainbow:

The challenge is to use a picture already coloured or taken from printed paper.
I've used papers and picture from Maya Design. The text diecut and roses are from Papirdesign.
Først Scrap the Rainbow:
Denne gangen har jeg valgt å bruke et klippeark fra Maya Design sammen med koordinerende papirer fra samme produsent. Jeg har komplettert med diecut fra Papirdesign og blomster fra samme produsent.

The second card is from Hobbygarasjen, and here I've used stamps from Hero Arts, a wreath builder template from Gina K. and Misti stamping tool with inks from Versafine Clair and embossing powder from Nuvo.
Det andre kortet er for Hobbygarasjen og her har jeg kombinert stempler fra Heroarts, kransbyggestensil fra Gina K. og Misti stempelplattform med ulike farger blekk fra VersaFine Clair og embossingpulver fra Nuvo

Materialliste

Kartong: Bazzill Raven og Fabriano hot press akvarellark

Stempel: Hero Arts stempelsett

Blekk: VersaFine Clair (Twilight, Medieval Blue, Blue belle), VersaMark

Embossingpulver: Nuvo

Christmas cards - using dies

The calendar is showing 17. December and I thought I'd share a few cards I made for the Scrap the Rainbow challenge blog. I've used what I'd call nontraditional Christmas colours.

First one in Brown, gold and kraft. I realise unfortunately that the deer diecut in gold does not show up very well, but it is there. I've used Sparkle Medium through a Dina Wakley stencil, sprayed with Coffee Shop and Creme de Cacao Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels. The stamped banner is from the coordinating stamp set with the stensil from DW. The cardstock is from Bazzill and are in the colours Kraft and Java, the Gold glitter paper is from Best Creations. The die cutting out the greeting is from Papirdesign.

The second card is made using a die from Studio Light. The base is Kraft cardstock from Bazzill, the patterened paper from Kaiser Craft and the greeting is made using a diecut from Kort&Godt 8saying Christmas hug)

Growing in Unity Bloghop

One of the really cool things about being chosen as a Growing in Unity Girl (or Guy) is getting the chance to contribute to the Growing in Unity blog hop, and this time I was so fortunate to join.
The card I made for this post is made with one of my favourite new stamps from Unity, Scenic Route, and the motif is so fitting since we recently bought a new (used) car and it is a VW Caravelle. Not one of the old style as on the card, but still... And it is blue rather than red, but I thought "It's Christmas".

Remember this is a GIU blog hop so please continue to see what the rest of the gals have to show you.  Unity will have a prize drawing at the end of this blog hop so comment on all the blogs you visit to be included in for the prize.
Here is the list:
1. Tammy Huber Murphy https://www.youtube.com/user/tjskids...
2. Joyce Verdon https://joycielcreations.blogspot.com/
3. Shanna Slater, https://caffeinatedcraftiness.wordpress.com/
4. Edelmira Rivera http://winecheesescrapbooking.blogspot.com/
5. Sharon Duff https://dannyandpeteysmom.blogspot.com/
6. Trude Julie Berg <- You are here, hop on to the next please
7. Annie Sterner https://justascrapdork.blogspot.com/
8. Renee Moran https://delaneyjanecards.blogspot.com/

November challenges - DT submissions

In November both of the design teams I'm part of are Christmas related. I'mm first show the cards for Scrap the Rainbow:
Non-tradisional Christmas cards.
The first weekend of November I attended the Scrap4Fun crop in Haugesund and was inspired to make some Christmas cards. The first four are in a rustic style based on some wonderful patterned papers and ephemera elements from FabScraps

This next card is based around the products from Papirdesign, particularly the wonderful patterned paper with the great tit. The shape die is from Studio Light and the coloured paper is from Bazzill, the rest is Papirdesign products, patterend paper, dies and stamps.

Then there's the cards I've made for Hobbygarasjen, there's 8 cards made from one sheet of patterend paper with a glourious bullfinch. The paper is Vivi Gade - Fugl og gren, and I liked it so well so O just had to make cards that showed off the paper itselt

In addition to the paterned and coloured paper and the stamped sentiment (from Papirdesign) there's some pine twigs diecut out of scraps of green paper.

I do like using large word diecuts and Papirdesign has one saying "God jul" the Norwegian equivalent of "Merry Chrsitmas". The diecut was covered with Wink of Stella before being covered with a layer of Glossy Accents

Then there's a couple of cards with cigar bands, where I used the stipe showing off the patterend on the back of the paper, why not use all of the paper, including what we ususally discard?

Finally i used some scraps to make some clean cards.

Here they are collected in one picture

Materials

Dies: Granbar, Papirdesign, Papirdesign, God jul, Elisabeth craft, Stitched circles 2

Stamps: PapirDesign

Ink: VersaMark

Patterned Paper: Vivi Gade - Fugl og gren

Coloured paper: Baxzill Pomegranate, Bazzill Raven svart kartong

Various items: Pakke med kort og konvolutter, Nuvo crystal drops, Red berry Nuvo crystal drops, Clear Morning Dew, White embossing powder, 

Scrap the Rainbow - challenge #17 nontradisional Christmas cards

The 17th challenge we're running in Scrap the Rainbow is called "Non-traditional Christmas" so for that I've made a couple of cards that does not scream Christmas when it comes to the colours

First I've used a stamp with lots of cats and gifts from Aall&Create and combined them with a text stamp from Kort&Godt

The second card is inspired by a card I saw Kristina Werner make last year (or maybe earlier). I' used circle masks and inkblended through those and stamped Unity Stamps over. The strings have been drawn on afterwards.

DT-bidrag Hobbygarasjen - alt er lov

Since I'm part of the design team of my LSS (local scrapbooking store), I recently made a card using a flowerstamp. But not in the way that Paper Artsy intended.
The stamp I used is from Paper Artsy:

Jofy-45

And when I looked at the flower in profile I saw the face of a sheep, so why not make a whole heard

I've stamped and masked so it would not be total chaos and I didnt have to fuzzy cut all the sheeps heads. The colouring has been don rather easily with just grey and sky blue. The eyes were made with som black brads.

Materials:

Paper: Fabriano watercolour, Bazzill Raven , white Bazzill

Stamp: Paper Artsy Jofy-45 

Winners of Growing in unity comments and some Fathers Day cards

I've drawn 2 winners from all the wonderful comments I got last week and the luck winners are:

Tigger11. oktober 2019 kl. 17:56

Her å er kommentaren min vekke, fatter ikke hva som har skjedd. Men kjempefine kort. Kaninen og reinsdyret er kjempesøte ❤️

And

Jorunn`s scrapperier7. oktober 2019 kl. 16:00

I love your beautiful cards. Looking forward to see more from you this week
Hugs :)

Please contact me with your address so I can pass it on to Unity and you can receive a bag full of wonderful stamps.

Thought I'd show a couple of Fathers Day cards that I made for Scrap the Rainbow, first one in red tones. The tractor was stamped with Distress Oxide in the colour Candied apple and then spritzed with water, the back ground was stamped with tire track stamps from North Star Stamps.

The second card is 4x12" with a diecut from Little Yellow Bicycle in the background, the tractor was first stamped in Luck Clover Distress Oxide ink before it was stamped again with VersaFine Clair Nocturen ink, shifted sligtly to the right.

Her er bakgrunnen et diecut ark fra Little Yellow Bicycle. Tekststempelet er denne gang fra Norsk stempelblad.

Growing in Unity - Day 5

And so it is here, the last day of my week Growing in Unity, what a week it has been.

Today I have but one card to show. The second Sunday of November is Fathers day in Norway and so I´ve made a card for my dear husband who´s a wonderful father for our daughter and his two teenagers.

I recently was at Papirfest, a weekend of crafting akin to JunkieFest in the US, and there I got to borrow some Distress Oxide sprays. I used them to make the background, before stamping a couple of stamps from the June kit of the month, the motorsykler was masked before the stack of suitcases was stamped.

When mentioning my husband... we got married this summer and I made the wedding stationary myself using Unity Stamps (of course).
The invitations looked like the card on the left (the one one the right was a test)

The place cards looked like this:

And finally the Thank you cards looked like this:

I used the Botanical Background stamp and embossed with japanese laquer embossingpowder on white, glossy cardstock, the envelope was stamped with the flower stamp from You are forever Beautiful with red ink from Marvy (but any red ink would do).

It's been a blast sharing my projects with you, and I hope I've inspired you to create a couple of things yourself.

And for the last time, leave a comment for your chance to with Unity stamps

Growing in Unity - Day 4

So here we are the penultimate day of my week of Growing in Unity, and we continue with the Christmas theme, I simply love Christmas.

This time I´ve used stamps from the September Kit of the Month, All Kinds of Holiday Love, and the pillow box that was included with the kit. The flowers were stamped with Versamark INK and embossed with gold embossing powder from Nuvo and coloured with Brusho pigment powders. I really like using the Brushos like watercolours and painting with them. In fact, I just love the Brushos the colours, the versatility and all the different ways Thea can be used. To embellish I used a little red and white bakers twine.

As always, leave a comment for your chance to with some Unity Stamps.

Growing in Unity - Day 3

Lovely Crafting People, here we are at day 3 for my week of Growing in Unity.

Today we´re getting to the first Christmas cards. I simply adore the Cuddlebug line and the Chrismoose and the Winter Bunny are no exceptions. I recently made a couple of birthday cards blending through a stencil behind a cuddlebug, and I was so happy with the resultat so why now reuse the formula? I´ve used a Tim Holtz star/swirl stencil with 2 Distress Oxides, the moose was stamped on watercolour paper and coloured with Brusho pigment powders.   

The second was done much in the same way, used slightly different colours.


As always, leave a comment for the chance to with some Unity Stamps.