DT Southern Girls: You got something you wanna say?

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Oh I am sorry I am so late. It is about time I got out my card for the new Southern Girls challenge. This time it is kinda bittersweet as it is my very last challenge for this lovely team, and I want to say thanks for believing in me and having in me on for your lovely theme the last 6 months. It has been a blast. Where was i?? Oh yes. It is time for a fab new challenge over at Southern Girls and we have a lovely theme and a neat bunch of sponsors for these 2 weeks to come as well.

We have a fun challenge for you this week, we would love to see cards with sentiments, OTP's with words or phrases and Scrapbook Layouts with quotes or journaling , phew, yep told it was a fun one. So get your letters out, start googling quotes and having a play, we can't wait to see what you wonderful creative souls have in store for us.

First up I wanna introduce our lovely sponsors:

NZ_ Australian Sponsors:

and then we have our lovely international sponsors:

My card:

My recipe: 

yellow and green bazill

DP from Prima marketing: Sun kiss collection

Flowers from a friend

Charm from Kutt ut

Magic mesh

Sentiment from Fred She said

My image is from Fred She Said and is called Emma the skipper. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivory, tan, blush, dusky rose, black, cocoa, chestnut, walnut, almond, marsh green, moss, pear green, ginger, sunflower, tulip yellow, cinnamon, sandstone and ice grey 1.

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

I'll deliver for these challenges

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Sketch and stash: Sketch

Crafty Catz: Use a digi

Crafts4eternity: 3 of a kind(flowers, rows)

Prarie Fairy Friday: Spring fling

Stampin with the dragon: Spring is here

Divas by design: Stamp something

Simon Says stamp: Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin: Spring or easter

DT Totally Gorjuss: Swirly Whirly

It is saturday again and time for another fabolous challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. This time around we want to see your swirls...fabric doesn't matter as long as it is swirls.

 Our sponsor for this challenge is the fab Meyer Imports who gives a $10 voucher to their lovely store. So go check it out.

Here's my project for this weeks challenge:

I am so sorry for the dull light this time, as the weather outside is not shining for the time being.

My recipe:

green and purple bazill

DP from Maja design and Bo Bunny.

Flowers from WOC

Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons

Lace from Woo

Pearls from Kort & Godt

pearl swirl from storyteller

MS Butterflies and border punh

Sentiment from Whimsy stamps

All edges are distressed

My image is from Sugar Nellie and is called Sundae Service. She is coloured with these promarkers. ivory, vlush, tan, dusky rose, baby pink, pale pink, marsh green, moss, pear green, cool grey 3,2, black, chestnut, walnut, cocoa, almond, burgundy, ice grey 1, grey green, plum, purple and amethyst.

Now I hope I've inspired you to have a look into our challenge blog and see what my talented teammates have created for ths challenge.

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Sugar Bowl Challenge: Dots and spots and/or sketch

Cardmadfairy Digi Days: Die cuts and/or punches

Stampin for the weekend: Anything Goes

The Poodles Parlor: Going Dotty

Crafty Purple Frog: Anything Goes

Digi Doodle Shop Challenge: Friendship

It is thursday again and time for another challenge over at Digi Doodle Shop Challenge. It's team Ruth's week and that means I get to play too.  We have a great theme for you this week as it is a Friendship theme week. As usual we have a $10 voucher from the Digi Doodle shop store for theis week's winner. 

Here's my project for this week:

My recipe:

brown and white bazill

DP from Pion design

cheesecloth

currogated cardboard 

Flowers from WOC

Pearls and butterfly from Kort & Godt

Diecuts: Swirl , shaped oval and fleur de lis squares

All edges distressed and coloured with vintage photo distress ink

Picket fence and walnut stain distress stain

My image is from the Digi Doodle Shop is called Broken Dolly. You can find her here, under shop by type & style->people->children/babies. I've coloured it with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky rose, blue pearl, cornflower, china blue, chestnut, cocoa, cinnamon, umber, warm grey 5,3, ice grey2,1, tea green, grey green, denim blue, sandstone, primrose and pastel yellow.

Now I hope I've inspired you to take 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

Creative Mondays: Anything Goes

Lollipop Crafts: Anything Goes

The Crazy Challenge: Add a sentiment

Secret Crafter Saturday: Shabby chic/Vintage

Sweet Stampin: Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

One Stitch at a time: Anything Goes 

DT Top Tip Tuesday: Easter or animals

It is tuesday again and finally two weeks since our last challenge at Top Tip Tuesday. We have a lovely challenge for you these 2 weeks as it is a Easter or animals challenge. Isn't that a fab idea? You can even combine those two and make it an animal easter card if you want to. Not long before easter now is it??

Don't forget to check out our tips and Heike's fab tutorial in the challenge blog as well;)

Our sponsors for these next week's are

Bugaboo Stamps

Sew Sweet

The lovely Emma gives a lucky entrant £10 voucher to her fabolous store!!

Fred She Said

$20 voucher

My project for this challenge:

My recipe:

blue and green bazill

DP from Vibeke Spigseth for Poppy design

Flowers from WOC and stash

buttons from Familieskatter

Heart and heartpin from stash

MS border punch

Txt from whimsy stamps

Lacey ovals 

My image is from Bugaboo Stamps and is called Critters Ballons Cat. He's coloured with these promarkers: burgundy, poppy, crimson, cornflower, ice grey 1, warm grey 5,4,2

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

Daisy Doodle Creative Challenge: Spring

Lollipop Crafts: Anything Goes

2sisters Challenge: Spring is in the air

Sweet Stampin: Anything Goes

Chocolate, Coffee and cards: Fancy folds

DT Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: 3 B's

It is sunday yet again and you all know what that means. Time for another challenge over at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge!! We have a lovely challenge for you this week as well as it is a:

“3 B’s !”

For this weeks challenge you will create a card or project with BLUES, BLING and BUTTERFLIES! 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 31^st, 2012 to complete this challenge.

Our prize this week is  from our fabolous sponsor:

SATURATED CANARY

PRIZE: Winner’s Choice of TWO Digis!

So here's my project for this week's challenge:

My recipe:

blue and green bazill

DP from Maja design

Flowers: WOC

Pearls storyteller

Charm: kutt ut

Lace: Woo

Diecuts: French Pastry: Cheery lynn, marianne design: leaves. Spellbinders scalloped oval and butterflies

Sentiment from Whimsy stamps

All edges distressed and coloured with stormy sky D.I

My image is from our sponsor Saturated Canary and is called: Circus Trixie. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky rose, blue pearl, cornflower, china blue, black, chestnut, walnut, cocoa, cinnamon, almond 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 made for this challenge!!

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Card Crafters Circle: Tic Tac Toe (bling, lace, diecuts)

CLP: Sketch

Stamping for the weekend: Anything Goes

Create me pink: Tear it up

Crafty Purple Frog: Anything Goes

DRS Designs: Butterflies

Hanna & Friends: Flowers

Pixie Dust Studio: Favourite things (lace, doily, papers, butterflies)

Diva's by design: Distressing

My mum's craft shop: Use a digi

Ruby's rainbow: Lace

DT Totally Gorjuss: Spots & stripes

It is saturday again and you know what that means?? It is time for another fabolous challenge over at the Totally Gorjuss Challenge blog. We have a great challenge for you this week as it is a Spots and stripes challenge. One easy peasy challenge for you to enjoy. Just dig out all your spots and stripes and go bananas with this one. We have an awsome sponsor this week as well as it is Lili Of The Valley that is sponsoring us. How amazing is that??

So over to my project for this week's challenge. I have a card for you. I am just post one of the pictures today, as I got some trouble with my computer and can't seem to access my signature. Samantha was a such a star and made me a signature on the card on the challenge blog, so that's the one I am posting today.

My recipe:

pink and purple bazill

DP from Bo Bunny and Glitz design

Flowers from WOC

Ribbon from Crafty ribbons(prize)

Lace from Woo

Pearls from Kort & Godt

Sentiment and diecut from whimsy stamps

Pearl pins from a private buy

All edges distressed

My image is from Some Odd Girl and is called 50s Kaylee. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tam dusky rose, black, chestnut, walnut, cocoa, cinnamon, almond, baby pink, pale pink, purple, lilac, (gotta add the rest later as the promarkers are on "tour" at the craft sessions I am attending this weekend)

Now I hope I've inspired you to go have a look into our challenge blog and see the lovely projects my teammates have come up with!!

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Some Odd Girl: Sketch

Cardmadfairy Digi: Use a sentiment

Crafty Purple Frog: Anything Goes

Create me pink: Tear it up

Divas by design: Distressing

Freshly Brewed challenges: Dots

Simon Says Stamp: Bingo: (flowers, lace, ribbon)
Make it Monday: Anything Goes

DT Dutch Dare Card Challenge: Cute & cuddly

It is thursday yet again and time for another challenge over at Dutch Dare Card Challenge. We have a lovely challenge for you this week as we want you to do your cards and crafts in "cute and cuddly style". So bring out the gear and those cute stamps you've got and go ahead and make us a lovely project this week. What are you waiting for???

Our sponsor for this week's challenge is the lovely Crafty Sentiments. 

My project:

My recipe:

yellow and green bazill

DP from Basic Grey: origins and  Poppy design: Fønvind 

Pearls from Kort & Godt

Green splitbinders from Memories

MS edgepunch

Sentiment from whimsy stamps

All edges are distressed

My image is from Sugar Nellie and is called Aviator. He's coloured with these promarkers: chestnut, cocoa, cinnamon, sandstone, tan, dusky rose, blossom, pastel pink, soft peach, marsh green. moss, pear green, burgundy, crimson, ice grey 4,3,1, cool grey 5,4, pastel blue, peach, sunflower.

As you probably can tell I used my cloud template again and coloured around the image with stormy sky D.I.

Now it is your turn. I hope I've inspired you to go have a look into our challenge blog and see those lovely projects my teammates have made for you!!

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Sketch Saturday: Sketch

Divas by design: Distressing

Whimsical wednesday: Spring

Passion for promarkers: animals

Creative stamp friends: Spring

Incy Wincy designs: Things with wings

Pile it on: Up in the air

Paper creations ink: Things with wings

The Crazy Challenge: Go green

Use your stuff:: Anything Goes

Birthday Sundaes: Animal birthday card

Papirdokkene: Alt er lov

Dokkecupen kort runde 2

Jeg har ikke vært flink å legge ut de forskjellige kortene jeg har laget til de ulike utfordringene på dokkecupen. Men her kommer kort nummer 2 til denne:

I haven't been posting my previous cards for the cardcup at Papirdokkene, but here's card number 2

Oppgave: Bildeinspirasjon

Str/format skal være alt annet enn 15x15 og så vil jeg se embossing.  

Assignment was picture inspiration.

Size/format should be anything but 15x15 and I want to see embossing too

For de av dere som var på shabby kurset på Papirfesten vil nok kjenne igjen mye av designet. Dette kortet er sterkt inspirert av det vi lagde på kurset, men jeg har laget min egen vri på denne. Materialliste kommer senere.

This card is inspired by the shabby class I took at Papirfesten, but I have made my own twist. List of materials will be in later!!

Med det samme vil jeg minne om at det er nye utfordringer på gang både hos Cutie Pie Challenge som har tema Think pink with rabbits , og det er  ca 1 uke igjen av Mother's Day/Craft Buddy utfordringen hos Top Tip Tuesday! Håper jeg ser dere der også!!

At the same time I will remind you that there is a new challenge over at Cutie Pie: Think pink with rabbits, and just past midway at the Mother's day/Craft buddy challenge over at Top Tip Tuesday! Hope I'll see you there too!!

Jeg leverer til følgende utfordringer/I'll deliver for these challenges:

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly: Bingo: (flowers, punched shapes, lace)

Creative Mondays: Anything Goes

Love to create: Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe's crafts: Shabby chic or vintage

DT Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: Cute as a button

It is sunday again and time for another challenge over at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge. Oh boy I loved visiting your blogs seein your takes on last week's sketch. For this week we might have a slightly easier theme for some of you as it is "

“Cute as a Button !”

For this weeks challenge you will create a card or project with buttons! We’ll enter your name into our drawing once for every button you include on your creation! Be sure to let us know exactly how many buttons you’ve used in your post so we are sure not to miss any! 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 24^th, 2012 to complete this challenge!!'

Our fab sponsors for this week's challenge is:

MARIANNE DESIGNS

PRIZE:You will receive either the prize above OR the prize below! It will be a surprise!

AND

BUGABOO

PRIZE: Winners Choice of SEVEN Digis!

Here's my project for this week's challenge:

My recipe:

2 shades of purple bazill

DP from Maja design Fika

Buttons from WOC

Ribbon from Panduro

Magic mesh

Diecuts: oval and scalloped oval from Spellbinders

Sentiment from Whimsy stamps

Edges coloured with dusty concord D.I

My image is from our lovely sponsor Bugaboo and is called Hween Brat Kitty. She's coloured with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky rose, black, chestnut, walnut, cocoa, cinnamon, almond, pumpkin, ginger, amber, purple, amethyst, umber, cool grey 1-5 and ice grey 1.

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

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Sketch 'n' stash: Michelle's sketch

Allsorts: Three in a row: buttons

Crafty Ribbons: Birthday

Cardmadfairy: Use a sentiment

Hotshot Crafts: Ribbon

I love promarkers: Anything Goes

Milly flower power

Hi there! This is my second blogpost for today. If you are looking for my DT card for Totally Gorjuss you just have to scroll one down for it or you can click here;) I've made a card with one of my newest LOTV stamps today. She is called  Milly flower power. I paired her up with some leftover maja design papers, lace, ribbon and some flowers from WOC. I've used the fabolous sketch from Sunday Sketch and  Stamp and did you notice that they are having a DT call?? I can't let this opportunity go, as I loooove sketches. How fab would it be making cards to sketches week after week?? For the time being I am using a lot of sketches when designing my cards and I use to look into the Feline playful blog to find the perfect sketch for my card.Without further ado, here's my card:

My recipe:

blue and pink bazill

DP leftovers from Maja design

Ribbon from Panduro

Lace from my crafting buddy and dt lead at Cutie Pie : Woo

Flowers from WOC

Pearls from Kort & Godt

Sentiment from LOTV

Edges coloured with stormy sky D.I

My image is from LOTV and is called Milly Flower Power. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky rose, baby pink, pale pink, china blue, cornflower, blue pearl, marsh green, moss, pear green, black, chestnut, walnut, cocoa, cinnamon, almond, ginger, sunflower, tulip yellow and pastel yellow.

I dunno if you noticed, but I also made some clouds for a background and I made my own template for it. I used stormy sky D.I.

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Sunday Sketch and Stamp: Marie's sketch and a DT call

Make it Monday: Anything Goes
Sugar Creek Hollow: Layers
Crafty Ribbons: Birthday
Crafty Ann: Spring/Easter
Hot Shot Crafts: Ribbon
Poodles Parlor: Anything Goes
Our Craft Lounge: Flower stamps
Going grey with scrap creations: Ribbons and pearls
Ladybug Crafts Ink: Anything Goes
Joanna Sheen: Spring is in the air

DT Totally Gorjuss: Spring

It is saturday again and time for antother fab challenge over at the Totally Gorjuss blog. We have a lovely one fotr you this week cause we wanna see Spring in all shapes or forms that you can imagine. 

Sponsor for this week is Heather's Hobbie Haven.

My card for this week:

My recipe:
green and yellow bazill
DP from Poppy design: Vibeke Spigseth: Barbeint: Fønvind, Basic grey: Origins and 3andy papers: Søtt (design Gudrun Loennechen)
Pearls from Kort & Godt
Flowers from Prima
Splitbinders from Memories
Paper lace from a friend: coloured with crushed olive, forest moss and picket fence distress stain
Cheery lynn french pastry, spellbinders: heart
MS butterfly punch
Sentiment from whimsy stamps
Edges coloured with vintage photo D.I

My image is from  Sugar Nellie and is called Apple Pip. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky rose, black, chestnut, walnut, cocoa, cinnamon, almond, marsh green, moss, pear green, pastel yellow, tan, pumpkin, amber, ginger, sunflower, tulip yellow and ice grey 1.

Now I hope I've inspired you to take a look into our challenge blog and see what gorgeous creations my teamies have made for you. 

I'll deliver for these challenges:
Make it Monday: Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday: Birthday
Poodles parlor: Anything Goes
Simply create too: Spring
Digital Tuesday: Think Spring
My time to craft: Flowers and doilies
House of Gilli: Colours of spring
Joanna Sheen Challenge: Spring is in the air
The Pixie Cottage: Perfect pastels/sketch
Papirdokkene: Fargealong mars

I've been awarded twice

Recently I recieved an award from both Sue (my teamie from Cutie Pie) and Samantha (my teamie and good friend from Top Tip Tuesday and Totally Gorjuss) for the Versatile blogger award. I was supposed to put my award from Sue up sooner, but life got in the way and then I was pleasently surprised that Samantha wanted to give me this lovely award as well. I want to say a huge thank you to both of them for being so supportive and giving me lovely comments on what I produce in my blog. 

In addition to this award I am asked to follow this simple rules below:

1. Thank the person who gave you this award

2. Include a link to their blog (I have linked in the names)

3. Give the award to 15 blogs you follow regularly or have just discovered

4. Leave a message in their comment box

5. Tell 7 facts about yourself

My seven facts: 

I love playing the piano

Love to craft all the time

I am sooo loving chocolate LOL

I've had animals all my life

I have 2 kids, the youngest has just turned 2

I love gardening

I am a coffee addict

Here is my list of some super blogs and good friends:

I have to renominate both Sue and Samantha as they have such lovable blogs and I want more people to discover the both of you. Go check out for yourself.  

Celine: Such a sweet girl and an amazingly talented crafter!! I am so lucky to be on 2 DT's with her too:)) Check out her amazing blog (just click on her name)

Shanna: I am browsing her blog all the time. Just love her versatility and awsome colouring. 

Lyndsey Marie: Have you not discovered her yet? Then it is about time. Amazingly talented Gorjuss girl;)

Vicky:  She is an amazing inspiration. I have to go look in her blog on a daily basis. Always something new to discover and she is a great card designer and such a lovable person.

Eva Marie: Trenger jeg si mere? En mere talentfull kortlager og eskemaker skal man lete lenge etter. Fargelegger utrolig nydelig med distress også. /Need I say more? Such a talented cardmaker and boxmaker, have to look long to find someone like her. She colours incredibly with distress too. 

Anne: For en inspirasjon denne dama her er!! Antakelig har dere henne på lista allerede. Hun er en ihuga magnolia fan og en sann mester til å fargelegge Tilda med distress. For ikke å snakke om alle de flotte elementene hun klarer å få på et og samme kort!!/ What an awsome inspiration this lady is. Probably you already got her on your list. She is the biggest magnolia fan I know of and she is a true champion when it comes to colour up Tilda with distress. Not to speak of all the gorgeous elements she manages to put on a card!!

Kathleen:  Have you checked her blog?? Not only does she make one LO after another. She makes little cooking albums and makes cakes as well. Go check this blog!!

Linda: Have you seen what this lady does with tags in particular or LO's and cards? I recently discovered that she has become a spellblogger on the Spellbinders team. How awsome is that? If you haven't checked her blog yet, please do so;)

Lissy: Trenger jeg si mer?? Hun er en sann mester i embossing og lager de mest elegante kort./Need I say more? She is a true champion regarding embossing and makes the most elegant cards. 

Lisa: Fella teamie at Top Tip Tuesday and an amazing crafter that uses humour in her crafts and she is so versatile. 

Julie: She is an amazingly productive and versatile crafter. I love the elements she uses when making cards and she has an awsome eye for details and how to put colours together.

Hazel: Have you ever seen such gorgeous colouring? She is amazing. I particularly love how she colours hair and dresses. 

Hazel aka "H": Amazing crafter that I am so lucky to be a teamie with at Cutie Pie. She does some amazing crafts. Check it out!!

That's it for me!!

Have a lovely evening everybody

Hugs Bettina 

DT Digi Doodle Shop: People

Hi there!! Finally thursday again and time for my second blogpost of the day. For my midway post at By the Cute and Girly click here or scroll down. At the Digi Doodle Shop Challenge today we got a lovely challenge for you. You can do anyhing you like, only remember the theme is people... so a kid, man or a woman would do nicely for this one.

The prize for this challenge is as usual $10 at the Digi Doodle Shop Store, and today we've got some new images in the store as well. Just look:

Have you ever seen such lovely flower stamps?? You can purchase them in the store here.

Now over to my project for this week's challenge:

My recipe:

cream and dark pink bazill

DP from a friend

Flower & swirl from Prima

Doily from Kutt ut

Ribbon: prize from Crafty Ribbons

Pearls from Kort & Godt and Storyteller

Diecuts: Nellie snellen heart, Marianne leaves, spellbinder oval and butterfly

MS border punch

Currogated cardboard

Sentiment from whimsy stamps

All edges are coloured with vintage photo D.I

My image is from the Digi Doodle Shop as usual and is called All Better. You can find her here under shop by type/style-> people->children/babies. She is coloured with these promarkers: ivory, blush, tan, dusky rose, marsh green, moss, pear green, burgundy, crimson, baby pink, sunflower, sandstone, primrose, cool grey 4,3,2 and ice grey 1.

Now I hope I've inspired you to have a look into our challenge blog and see the work of my very talented teammates.

I'll deliver for these challenges:

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Flutterby Wednesday: Card for a child

Gingersnap Creations: Border punches

Crafty Sentiments: Things with wings

My time to craft: Doilies and flowers

Digi Makeover challenge: Critters

Simon Says Stamp and show: Anything Goes

I Love Promarkers: Anything Goes