En stilig herre!

Her er en boks jeg har lavet efter denne tutorial hos Stempeleinmaleins.

Samme fremgangsmåde som jeg brugte til denne.

Stemplet er 'Henri' fra Kraftin' Kimmie, jeg tror det er første gang jeg

bruger dette stempel, selv om jeg har haft det meget længe.

Egentlig holder Henri en kaffekop i hånden, men da det var

gave til ældste mand i huset, passede det bedre med ballonger.

Ballong punchen er fra Panduro Hobby.

Her kan man bedre se at det er en  boks.

Det stripede papir er fra Maja Design.

Inden i chokolade og et lidt 'frækt' tekstsetmpel, som jeg 

lige nu ikke kan huske hvor er fra.

Den egentlige gave havde sønnik af forskellige praktiske grunde fået på forhånd. 

Men der skulle jo være noget at pakke op på selve dagen.

 

Bagsiden af boksen ser sådan ud, 

ikke helt gennemtænkt med båndet der går rundt!

Udfordringer:

• Kraftin' Kimmie, Wonderful Wednesday- Anything Goes
• Cuttlebug Mania- Dotty (used my Cuttlebug to cut out the numbers)
• Fairytale Challenge Blog- #87 Ein Alter Stempel
• Allsorts Challenge Blog- Week 251 All about the Boy

E for Enclosed, a DT card for ABC Christmas Challenge.

Welcome to another challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge.

We are up th the letter E and Bettina has choosen the theme

  E for Enclosed !

(Ideas = a box, gift bag ....)

 

I have made a little box for a gift certificate and some chocolates

following this tutorial at SEME.

It was difficult to take a good picture of the box.

The image is from Penny Black and the paper from Maja Design.

The ribbon is from IKEA, I used it for the gifts last Christmas.

I had to buy several types of  chocolates to find some in an appropriate size. 

That means I now have to eat the excess pieces...

Our sponsor for the E challenge is:

One lucky random winner will recieve 2 digi images of winners choise.


Thank you for popping in today, don't forget to take a look at the ABC Christmas Challenge
 to check out the fabulous DT  inspiration and join in with the E challenge.

Challenges:

• QKR Stamped Challenge- #77 Anything But a Square Card
• Crafty Calender Challenge- Animal Antics
• Crafty Cardmakers and more- #111 No cards Winter and/or Slap it on
• Papertake Weekly- Anything Goes
• Christmas Card Challenge- #14 Heat Embossing/Anything Goes
• Penny Black and More- So Sweet (sweet animal)
• All Crafts Challenge- Anything but a card

What's your favorite ? DT card for HM&FMC.

Did you enjoy our last challenge and Blog Hop?

We at the design team for 

House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

 did for sure, you linked so many beautiful cards

and left us so many lovely comments.

Thanks to all of you, without your participation- no hop!

Please visit the
House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

to see if you are one of the lucky winners.

I have a winner for my little surprise candy,

the lucky one is Kanda.  (Andrea)

We have a new challenge for you, Natascha is the host,

and the theme she has chosen is

ANYTHING BUT A CARD!

Put on your thinking hat and show us your creations.

Our sponsors are

 Simon Says Stamp

 

and 

Di’s digi Downloads

Giving a $10 Gift Voucher.

It was difficult to take photos of my project today,
I have decorated a jar.

This is how it was...... (uhmm I love feta)

..and here you can see how it looked some hours later.

Filled with 'Twist'- small pieces of different kinds of chocolate.

 Which one is your favorite?

I have used the 'Whee Flight' one of the new

adorable cling stamps from Stampendous.

Flowers (some from Storyteller), pearl string, a Santa charm and  a cinnamon,

I had a great time decorating my project.

I had to use my personal stamp also.

A close up at the image, for the first time I've used

the Fran-táge Embossing Enamel.

I found a super video showing how to,

but I must admit I had several attempts 

before I was satisfied with the result.

And it gets really hot!!

I couldn't deside wether or not to decorate the lid.

In the end I didn't!

Now I'm curious to see your creation.

Please hop over to the challenge blog to get some

  inspiration from the design team. 

We love to visit and see what you come up with.

Challenges:

•  Top Tip Tuesday- #113 Seasons
• CI -  #238 Bingo (Stamped image, ribbon, frantage)
•  7 Kids College Fund- #85 Anything Goes
• Charisma Carsz Challenges- #43 Anything but cards
• Cute Card Thursday- #293 Sparkles
• Allsorts Challenge Blog- Week 231 Christmas Cheer
• Storyteller- #3 Charm
• Nordsalten Hobbyklubb- Bingo (dies/punch, mønsterark, perler)
• Hjerteboden, November- Jul
• Simon Says- Anything Goes

Hey Pumkin, midway reminder for HM&FMC

We are half way trough Lori's

Hey Pumpkin !

challenge at House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge.

You can use pumpkin images, pumpkin colours, pumpkin embellishments or whatever.

But remember to  use a House-Mouse, Happy Hopper 

or Gruffies image for your card/creation. 

As I told you last week, I do not have any Halloween

themed House Mouse images. So I decided to use

this little fellow holding his candy so tight.

I have made a treat box following this great tutorial.

Try it out yourself, it isn't difficult, believe me.

You have to look close to find my pumpkins;

they are on the paper from Panduro Hobby.

The tag sentiments are from LOTV.

 My box is filled with 2 small chocolate bars.

I was trying to find some chocolates wrapped in matching colours,
but I didn't succeed.

 The backside of the box.

For the 'Pumpkin' challenge we are sponsored by
Simon Says Stamp

and

Di’s digi Downloads
$10 Gift Voucher

 

Please hop over to the challenge blog and have a look at 

the inspiration from the design team. 

We love to visit and see what you came up with.

Challenges:

• Trykpressa oktober- Lag en box
• Sweet Stampin' Challenge- Halloween
• My Craft Spot- #115 3D Halloween
• As You Like It- #12 Favourite Not-A-Card (I love making new small boxes/cards)
• Hanna and Friends- #182 Halloween
• Crafty Catz- #202 Halloween
• The Ribbon Girl Blog- Anything LOTV Goes (the tag sentiments)
• Joanna Sheen Challenge- So Sweet (treat box)
• Stamp and Create Oktober- Halloween
• Nordsalten Hobbyklubb- Tag
• Simon Says- Use a Rubber or Clear stamp
• Bearly-Mine Challenges- #107 Ribbon/String/Twine

Celebrating Easter with HM&FMC

Happy Easter crafters, I hope you have enjoyed some days off.

We have had some fantastic Easter days at our cottage in the mountains.
Sun from a cloudless sky and temperatures just below zero.

All good things come to an end, we're going home later today;

tomorrow it's back to work and laundry and more laundry...

But before that I have to show you a little Easter gift I made for a colleague of mine. 

She was so kind to swap some Easter working days with me.

It was worth chocolates and a bouquet of tulips.

 We are half trough the Easter challenge at 

House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge.

Lori is hosting this challenge and the theme is 

Easter.

  

 Include something that relates to Easter somewhere on the project. Bunny, Chick, Egg,

 Jelly Bean,  Easter colors, or even a sentiment that relates to Easter would work. 

Of course you must use a House Mouse, Happy Hopper or a Gruffie image too :-)

I haven't got a proper Easter House Mouse image so I had to  improvise.

The stamp is called 'Maxwell Stumped', you can find it here.

For the Easter eggs I used the paper from two chocolates-
 what to do with eggs without paper??

Well, they turned out to become tasters for me,

 that way I could also ensure the quality of the eggs.

It's a little plastic box I have decorated, quick and easy.

The letters are saying 'Happy Easter' I think you have guessed.

The lovely spring papers  are from Bo Bunny,

I have used them a lot recently.

Ribbon and charm are from my stash.

A simple back, just my personal stamp.

Get all the challenge details and see fantastic design team samples on the 

 House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Blog here. 

Challenges:

• Creative Inspirations- #207 Easter Wishes
• Divas by design- Use Metal
• Cute Card Thursday- #262 Brass in pocket ( use metal)
• Crafty Ribbons Challenge- #42 Anything Goes with Ribbon
• ALBC- #1 Anything Goes 
• One Stop Craft Challenge- #222 Easter 
• Kreative Verden Utfordrings Blogg- #1 Alt er lov
• Papirdokkene- #46 Alt er lov
• Crafty Calender Challenge- Easter Egg-stravaganza

E for Eyes Down, DT card for ABC Christmas Challenge.

Hi crafters, it's time for a new challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge.

This fortnight the theme is Eyes down for a game of bingo, and Annette created

 the bingo board for you below.  Don't forget you can choose a strip of 3 running

 across, down, or diagonally across the grid, or, if you're feeling adventuous, 

you can even attempt a full house!! 

 The choice is yours, but don't forget to tell us what you've picked!

Here's the grid:

Our generous sponsors for this week are:

Stamp Fairy:

              Giving a $10 gift certificate to the shop

                        and also we have Shape EZ templates who are offering a fab prize:

            Shape EZ templates will enable you to create unique shaped projects for

  and simple or enhanced special one of a kind projects.

 For my card I have used a Shape EZ template, Shape EZ Roller Bag,

so kindly given by ous sponsor.

The image is a Stamp Fairy image, from our other sponsor.

It's called 'Barry Winter', you can find it here.

Thanks a lot to your both.

 

A side view to show you the little gift bag.

The ribbon is from IKEA, it's left overs from our Christmas presents.

The paper is from Echo Park, called 'Winter Time'.

The flower and the pearls are from my stash.

Here a look at the back with my personal stamp.

My teamies have made some wonderful creations to inspire you.

Visit the ABC Christmas Challenge Blog and take a look.

       Now it's your turn! Remember, your project must have a Christmas theme.

Challenges: 

• Papertake Weekly- Anything Goes
• Anonyme Scrappere- Brett en kreasjon
• Crafty Ribbons Challenge- #40 Anything goes with Ribbon
• Winter Wonderland- Bears
• The Ribbon Girl Blog- Add ribbon or twine
• Kort o Mania- #81 Bretteteknikk
• Christmas at Sweet Stampin- Snowflakes

N for Not A Card, DT project for ABC Christmas Challenge.

Hello crafters, ABC Christmas Challenge here trying to save
the summer with a brand new challenge for you.

The weather here at my place is definitely great for crafting-
better than sunbathing and swimming!

But hopefully the summer will come. Those of you having fine
summer weather, please send some of it my way.


Wilma is hosting this challenge and
today's letter is N and the theme is


N for not a card.


I'm so looking forwards to be seeing your
creations for this challenge.

If you are in need of some inspiration, please take
a look here and see what my talented teamies have made.

Stamp Fairy is one of our sponsors and has kindly
given the team some images to use for this challenge.

I decorated a round box, using papers from Maja Design
and Clementine Winter from Stamp Fairy.

Darling Clementine is painted with Distress Reinkers,
and there's a lot of Stickles on the snow.

She is cut out because I wanted to emboss
the white background with a almost
new snowflake folder from Cuttlebug.

For once I have distressed the edges on the papers.

The original box was wooden colour, so first I painted it white.

The red ribbon fit perfect for the edge of the lid.
The text says 'Happy Christmas'.
I guess you could translate it yourself.

Please bear over with me, I'm showing you a lot of
photos today, of the box from different angles,
but I really love how it turned out.

The beautiful swirl snowflake border is made with a
die from Memory Box. It was a bit difficult
to cut it out, but with a bit of patience I did manage.

The ticket sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps, and the round
one in the bottom of the box saying 'Best wishes for a happy
Christmas and a happy new year' is from Unik Stempel Design.

I had to find a place for my usual 'Handmade by' stamp.

We have to sponsors for this challenge.

Simon Says Stamp

giving a $20 gift voucher to a random winner.


and

Gerda from Stamp Fairy



Giving a $10 gift certificate to the shop.

Challenges for my box:

• Digital Tuesday Challenge- #168 Inside out
• Creative Card Crew- #14 Swirls and Pearls
• Joanna Sheen Challenge- Going Round in Circles
• Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge- #26 Ho Ho Ho Christmas
• Crafty Sentiments Designs- Christmas in July
• Forever Friends Challenge Blog- #40 Christmas in July
• Divas by Design- #43 Christmas in July
• Dream Valley Challenges- #36 Anything but square
• Hanna and Friends- Libelingsfarben
  
• Hooked on craft challenges- #22 Christmas in July