DT By the Cute and Girly: In the kitchen: midway

It's the middle of March already!  The BTC&G design team has made some more fabulous creations for your inspiration for our March "In The Kitchen" challenge.

You have to remember that you could make any kind of craft for this one. 

We love to see what yummy foods you have been making as well as all your papercrafts, jewelery, altered items, knitting, cross stitch and even gardening. Any craft goes as long as it fits the "In The Kitchen" theme.

And of course we have 3 fab prizes to give away from our generous sponsors.

Simon Says Stamp

Joanna Sheen

Spesch Stamps

My midway project is a tea bag dispenser. I used the tutorial for after eight dispenser and made it fit for a teabags instead. You can find a tutorial for that here (and use translator cause it is in Swedish) Less messy of course. Here it is:

My recipe:

Pink/purple bazill

DP from Fab scraps

Diecuts from marianne

MS butterfly punch

Roses from WOC

Edges coloured with vintage photo D.I

Now I hope I've inspired you to go have a look into our challenge blog and see all the gorgeous projects my teammates have made ton inspire you midway for this challenge.

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Gingersnap Creations: Border punches

Deep Ocean Challenges: Butterflies

Ladybug and friends: Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly: For the girls or mum

Shopping our stash: Food/beverage

Hooked on crafts: More than one fold

CDAC 13 & a sketch

Hei! Dette blir en fryktelig kort post for å rekke tidsfristen på denne runden. Jeg har laget et ganske enkelt kort som jeg tenkte jeg skulle la min store jente ta med seg i barnebursdagen hun skal i imorgen. Håper dere liker det

Hi! This will be a short post tonight as I am trying to make the deadline for this CDAC round. I have made a pretty easy card, that I thought my eldest girl should bring when attending a birthday card tomorrow. Hope you'll like it.

Sorry for the crap picture. It is dark outside. I'll do a better one tomorrow

Oppskrift kommer siden/Recipe will be in later

My digital image is from Liastamps;) 

Leverer til/ I'll deliver for:

CDAC13

Sweet Sketch: Sketch

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

I love promarkers: Anything Goes

Sassy Cheryl's: Wearin off the green

Sweet Stamps: Think spring

Simon Says Stamp and show: Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp: A bit of green

DT Top Tip Tuesday: Something for mothers day or a craft buddy

Hi there it is tuesday again and it has already been two weeks since our last challenge. Now it is finally time for a new challenge over at Top Tip Tuesday and do we have a great one for you. It is a something for mothers day or a craft buddy challenge this time and that has to be something that most of you can relate to and do something for;)

Deneen is hosting the challenge this week and she has an awsome tutorial. You have to go check out our challenge blog to see what it is. I promise you, you're gonna be smitten by it. A lot of the DT did and I feared you all were going to think... is THAT the challenge or is it mothersday/craftbuddy?? tehehe

We have some awome sponsors for you this week as well as it is:

Simon Says Stamp

Crimson Cloud

and

Karen's Doodles

My project for these weeks challenge:

My recipe:

red, green and white bazill

DP from 3andy: Gudrun Loennechen

magic mesh

pearls from storyteller

Diecuts: magnolia doohickey flowers, oval, magnolia doohickey swirl, labels 2, Go kreate frilly #4

All edges coloured with vintage photo D,I

My image is from our fabolous sponsor Karen's doodles and is called Dancin  Fever set. I've coloured them with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky rose, black, chestnut, walnut, cocoa, cinnamon, almond, marsh green, moss, pear green, burgundy, crimson, poppy, ice grey 1, sunflower, primrose, sandstone.

Now I hope I've inspired you to go have a look into our challenge blog to ee Deneen's fab tutorial and to have a look at my teammates gorgeous projects as well.

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Karen's Doodles: Something special

Ooh La La: On the move

Simon Says Stamp and show: Anything Goes

One Stitch at a time: Use a digi

Pan Pastel: Girly/Mothers day

Craft your days away: Mother's Day

Diva's By design: Favourite things

Simon Says Stamp: Mother's day/special girl

Papirdokkene: Til damene

GDT Squiggle Stamps

This is my second project for the Squiggle stamps release to show you, and my second blogpost today. For my DT card for Stamptacular Sunday Challenge click here. They recently had a new release and advertised for guest designers to promote for their stamps. Naturally I applied and was lucky to get a yes from them. I love the quirkyness of those stamps, makes them quite fun to work with and I kinda like the way my projects turned out in the end. This time around I chose to make a tag from scratch. Well enough blabbering around, here's my second project:

My recipe:

kraft cardstock

red and black bazill

DP from Maja design badlakan

Ribbon from Scrappejungelen

doily and flowers from my stash

Second ribbon unknown

Swirl from Magnolia doohickey

Pearl from storyteller

All edges distressed and the image has vintage photo D.I around the edges

My image is from Squiggle stamps as you already know and is called Jessabelle shop till drop. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky rose, burgundy, crimson, poppy, black, umber, ice grey 1-5 and tea green.

You can buy these lovely stamps in the Squiggle stamp store here. There are 5 new ones in the latest release and they have several other lovely images in their store for you to buy as well. They also have a new challenge called birthday bash that you could join in if you like. 

This was my final project for this release and I certainly hope you've enjoyed the show!!

I'll deliver for these challenges:
Catered crop: Ribbons
Frosted designs: Fabolous friday: Use kraft paper
Fairy Fun Friday: Distress it
Pattie's Creations: Tags (include an image)
Charisma Cardz: Ribbon, ribbon, ribbon

DT Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: Sketch

It is sunday again and time for another challenge over at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge. We have a lovely challenge for you this week as well, for those of you that are addicted to sketches this is especially for you... and to the rest of you... sketches are a good way to start a card if you are stuck in your mojo some kinda way;)

Here's this week's sketch:

For this weeks challenge you will create a card using the above sketch. Feel free to flip it, flop it, twist it or turn it any way you wish and add whatever embellishments fit your fancy but PLEASE make sure we can see the original sketch in your final creation! Oh…and don’t forget to stamp! After all, we don’t call this STAMPtacular for nothing!

You will have from now until midnight (EST) March 17^th, 2012 to complete this challenge !!

Our fabolous sponsors this week are:

WHIMSY STAMPS

PRIZE: $15 Gift Certificate

AND

MELJENS DESIGNS

PRIZE: Winners Choice of FOUR Digis!

And without further ado, here's my card for this week's challenge:

My recipe:

blue and pink bazill

DP from October afternoon

Buttons from Familieskatter

Flowers from WOC

Ribbon from Panduro

pearl thingie from stash

All edges are coloured with vintage photo D.I

My image is from our lovely sponsor Meljens and is called Teddy Cookie. He's coloured with these promarkers: (didn't write this down so it might be slightly incorrect) chestnut, cocoa, cinnamon, sandstone, soft peach, dusky rose, blush and ice grey 1.

Now I hope I've inspired you to have a look into our challenge blog to see what my talented teammates have been up to this time.

I'll deliver for these cjallenges:
2 sisters: Spring Colours
A Gem of challenge: Perfect pastels
Di's Digi design: Pastels
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards: Feathers and fur
Ditzy Crafty Mess: Buttons or anything goes
Hotshot Craft: Ribbon
CCEE Stampers: Flowers, flowers, flowers
Crop Stop: Use at least 4 different colours
Moving along with the times: Cute as a button
Sassy Studio design: Use 2 or more polka dot items
SJ Crafts: Flowers plus include red/pink
Incy Wincy design: Use something old/new (old : dp, new: buttons, ribbon, digi)

DT Totally Gorjuss: Anything goes with a button

It is saturday once again and finally time for another challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. We have an easy peasy one for you this time, although I find sketches kinda easy too. Guess it is a matter of the eyes who sees the challenge. This time we want you all to use buttons on your project. It can be just one, or it can be many and you could make a box for a change if you find out you want to;)

We have a lovely sponsor for you for our next challenge as well as it is Crafters Companion that is sponsoring a £10 voucher for the lucky winner this coming week.

My project this week is another easy peasy card. I am certainly in a card modus, and am making some for most occations, trying to use up some of my leftover papers and stash. That has to be my main goal this year, although I must confess I just recently bought some new designpaper... in fact I bought that earlier today...lol

Enough blabbering, here's finally my card:

My recipe:

Purple and green bazill

DP from My Minds Eye: Oh lala & Bo Bunny a gift of love

Pearls and buttons from Kort & Godt

Sentiment from whimsy stamps

Diecuts: circles and scalloped circles, ticket die from whimsy

All edges are coloured with dusty concord D.I

My image is from Mo Manning and is called  Carly with carrot. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky rose, marsh green, moss, pear green, black, chestnut, walnut, cocoa, cinnamon, almond, amber, pumpkin, ginger, plum, purple, amethyst, blossom and ice grey 1.

Now I hope I've inspired you to have  a look into our challenge blog and see what my talented teammates have made for this challenge!!

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Sunday Sketch and Stamp: Mira's Sketch

Chocolate, coffee & Cards: Feathers and fur

Little Darling Challenges: Pearls

Critters Challenge: Buttons 
Ditzy Crafty mess: Buttons or anything goes
365 cards: Minimum of 10 circles
Crop Stop: Rainbow of colours
Do you stack up: Go green
Moving along with the times: Cute as a button
Sassy Studio: Use 2 or more polka dot items

DT Dutch Dare Card: A recipe

It is thursday again and time for another challenge over at the Dutch Dare Card Challenge. This time we have a recipe for you to try out and it is quite a good one as you get to decorate your card somewhat depending on what you are using of course. We have a fabolous sponsor for this week's challenge as well. Give it up for the Stamping Boutique, who are offering 3 digis of your own choice!!!!

Here's the recipe:

1 stamped or digi image

1 sentiment
2 ribbon
3 pattern papers
4 embellishments (can be 4 of the same or 4 different ones)

Here's my card for this week's challenge. Unfortunately my digi arrived too late this time, so I am using one of my own images.

My recipe:

blue and pink bazill

DP from October afternoon

Cherry ribbon from Crafty Ribbon

other ribbon from Panduro

Half pearls from Kort & Godt

pearl pins from my stash

Flowers from Prima

Swirls from Prima

Star diecut from Marianne

All edges coloured with vintage photo D.I

My image is from LOTV and is called Dainty Dancing. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky rose, baby pink, pale pink, cornflower, china blue, blue pearl, sunflower, tulip yellow, sandstone, buttercup and ice grey 1.

Now I hope I've inspired you to have a look into our challenge blog and see the gorgeous projects my teammates have made for this challenge!!

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Sweet Stop Sketches: Sketh

Crafty Creations: Stripes

Diva's by design: My favourite things (fav image, star border)

The House that stamps built: Pastels

The Paper Shelter: Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge: Spring

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

The Stamping Boutique: Pearls and swirls

Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes

Creative Mondays: Anything Goes

Incy Wincy: Something old/new (old papers, new image)

Kaboodle Doodles: Flowers

Pollycraft Challenge: Spring has sprung

Bunny Zoe Crafts: Celebrations

Birthday Sundaes: Birthday card with a sentiment

Joanna Sheen: Spring is in the air

Guest DT @ Squiggle Stamps

I've got some wonderful news for you today.  I did email the Squiggle stamps when I saw that they were going to have a new release, and was looking for guest dt's to promote the new range. Guess what?? I am promoting one of their new images today. There are 5 new ones in the store, and I got 2 of them for my promotion of these new and lovely stamps. Without further ado I am introducing you to the first one of 2 lovely ladies I get to colour up, Jessabelle Frills. I am sorry for the darkness in the pictures due to bad weather outside:(

My recipe:

Bazill: 2 shades of purple

DP from FabScraps: High Tea Purple Floral

Pearls from Kort & Godt

Flowers from WOC and I am roses

Ribbon from Panduro

Txt from whimsy stamps

Diecuts: circles, scalloped circles, ticket die from whimsy

All edges are coloured with dusty concord D.I

My image is as you all know now from Squiggle Stamps and is called Jessabelle Frills. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky rose, umber, warm grey 5,3, grey green, baby pink, pale pink, black, cocoa, chestnut, walnut, cinnamon, almond, purple, amethyst, plum and ice grey 1.

Now I hope you will run first thing to the shop and have a look at these new gorgeous images. There are also a lot of other goodies for you in their store. You also still have time to enter their newest challenge here.

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Sunday Sketch and stamp: Mira's Sketch
I love promarkers: Ribbons and bows
Smudgy Antics: Anything Goes
Stamps & fun: One bow
Catered Crop: Ribbon

DT Cutie Pie Challenge: Pearls & Swirls

Hi there it is monday and finally time for another challenge over at Cutie Pie's. It's been 2 whole weeks since out last challenge and we had a lot of great entries for our Flower Power challenge for the 2 last weeks. You can go back and check if you are a winner here.

Now we have a lovely challenge for you all. Pearls & Swirls. Quite an easy and lovable challenge for most of us. Especially for those of you who love to pamper up your cards with pearls and swirls. I know I do, although I am much more capable to remember to use pearls, I seem to forget the swirls;) Now I have NO excuse whatsoever. I need to remember both!!

We have some lovely sponsors for you for these 2 weeks as well. First up is

My Mum's craft shop

and then we have the lovely

Wee stamps

who have been so kind to give us some lovely digis to work with for this challenge.

My project for this week's challenge:

My recipe:

white and pink bazill

DP from 

swirls from Kaiserkraft. Background stamp swirls from Panduro

MS border edge punch

Sentiment: LOTV

Diecuts: circle, scalloped circle and lacey circle

All edges distressed and coloured with vintage photo distress ink

My image is from Wee stamps and is called Wee Suzi. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivry, blush, tan, dusky rose, marsh green, moss, pear green, baby pink, pale pink, denim blue, grey green, tea green, black, chestnut, walnut, cocoa, cinnamon, almond and cool grey 1.

Now I hope I've inspired you to have a look into our challenge blog and see the gorgeous work from my teammates as well!!

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Scrappers Delight: Bling it up

The Paper Players: Spring has sprung

Crazy 4 Challenges: fun folds

The Poodles Parlor: Birthday

Crimbo Crackers: Female

Paper Crafting Journey: Anything Goes

Little darling challenges: Pearls

The Paper Shelter: Fancy Folds

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts: Celebrations

Joanna Sheen Challenge: Spring is in the air

Craft your passion: Anything Goes

Hooked on Crafts: More than one fold

DT Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: Text me!!

It's sunday again and time for another fabolous challenge over at the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge blog.  We have a lovely challenge for you for this next week as well as it is a txt challenge!!

This week’s challenge is going to be so much fun! We can’t wait to see what you create!

This week's challenge is a…

“TEXT Me!”

For this weeks challenge you will create a card that has some sort of text on the front! Include more than four words and we’ll enter you into our drawing TWICE! Oh…and don’t forget to stamp! After all, we don’t call this STAMPtacular for nothing!

You will have from now until midnight (EST) March 10^th, 2012 to complete this challenge. Our fabolous sponsor is:

MARIANNE DESIGN

PRIZE:

AND

DELICIOUS DOODLES

PRIZE: Winners Choice of FOUR Digis!

My project for this week's challenge:

My recipe:

purple and green bazill

DP from Maja design Fika series

Pearls from Prima

Flowers from WOC and Kutt ut

Ribbon from Panduro

Pearl pins from a private buy

MS heart edge punch

Tag diecut from Marianne

Sentiment was a freebie from whimsy stamps

All edges are distressed and coloured with dusty concord D.I

My image is from Delicious Doodles and is called Poppy. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky pink, burgundy, crimson, poppy, black, chestnut, walnut, cocoa, cinnamon, almond, grey green, plum, purple, amethyst, fuschia pink, sunflower and ice grey 1.

Now I hope I've inspired you to take a look around in our challenge blog and see what my talented teammates have made for this challenge!!

I'll deliver for these challenges:
2sisters: Recipe ( 1 image 2 dp and 3 flowers)
Catch the bug: Anything goes
Just some lines: Girly girl
Crafts 4 eternity: Digital element or all digital
Sketch n' stash: Jill's sketch
Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles: Shades of purple
Card and Scrap: Bruk sløyfer