Sukkersøtt - skisse

It's Easter and I finally got some inspiration to decorate an Easter egg. And if you're sitting there wondering how this egg could fit for this week's sketch challenge at Sukkersött, it's completely understandable! *lol* But, I'll explain to you:

Here is the sketch - made by Kristine:

And if you look close, you'll see that the beautiful self portrait picture is a tiny card - based on the sketch! I know, I'm way too smart... :)

The picture is mounted on pink cardstock. The texts are stamped (from our newest designs) and glued on to the picture. On top of the picture I've tacked a piece of an overlay. Voila - I've used the sketch!

I'll show you another egg tomorrow, 'cause I have two sweet'n young friends of mine that deserve a tiny surprise for the holiday :) One pinky pink girlish today and one more boyish tomorrow...

Sukkersøtt - Clean & simple

This week's Sugar Challenge is a r*e*a*l challenge! In times when most of us is hooked on the vintage feeling whit all it's embellisment and layers, this week we challenge you to go Clean & Simple! Yeah, I told you it's a challenge, didn't I? *lol* Making a card without inking all the edges or using beautiful laces and Prima flowers.... I'll sum up in one word: TOUGH! But it's actually fun, too! Stright lines, bright colors and simplisity. I ended up making 3 cards :) And they give me the Spring feeling! So, have fun and enjoy the challenge!

All the stamps are from our newes designs, and the rest of it are from a Bad Girls kit.

Sukkersøtt - fargeutfordring

I utgangspunktet en ganske vanskelig utfordring, dette... med så mange farger på ett kort! Brunt, lysblå, rosa og lime...! Men, med de rette papirene går alt så meeeget bedre :)

Ikke akkurat et typisk Åshild-kort dette, men så er det litt moro å prøve seg på litt andre stiler enn jeg vanligvis bruker :) Et skikkelig scrappe-kort, egentlig. Ikke noe motiv, bare en stemplet tekst (fra en av Norsk Stempelblad nye stempelplater), stilig papir og litt stæsj...

Ha en fin-fin helg :)

Sukkersøtt - lag rammer med blomster og blonder

Denne uka utfordrer Sukkersött deg til å lage et kort hvor du lager en eller annen ramme rundt motivet med blant annet blomster og blonder. Vi i DT var så heldige å få en flott materialpakke fra Papirloftet denne gangen, så alle papirene er derfra. Det sammen med tekststempelet og de blå blomstene og bradsene. Den grønne blonda lå også i pakka. Tusen takk, Siri :) This week's Sugar Challenge is to make a card where you use laces and flowers to frame the motif. We (the DT) got a great kit from Papirloftet, with papers, stamps, lace and flowers. Thanks, Siri!

Ha en fin-fin helg! Wish you all a great weekend!

Sukkersøtt - Mo9cas utfordring

Det er fredag og tid for Sukker-utfordring, og denne uka utfordrer gjesteartisten vår - Monica - oss sånn:
Imorgen er det Valentindagen - en dag i kjærlighetens tegn. Noen blir kanskje fridd til på Valentindagen, og det er det oppgaven handler om; Bryllup. Jeg ønsker å se kreative løsninger på det å pakke inn et gavekort. Temaet er som sagt bryllup - og ellers er alt fritt. Du kan lage hva du vil; kort, dekorere noe eller hva som helst - bare det er en kreativ løsning på det å pakke inn ett gavekort til bryllupsgave. Lykke til!

Mitt bidrag er ikke spesielt nytenkende... Jeg har malt en "båndspole" fra Tilda, stanset ut en rektangel med Spellbinders, brettet det rundt gavekortet og festet alt sammen med pyntebånd. Siden 'spolen' har hull på toppen, er det enkelt å knytte kortet til en liten gave eller en blomsterbukett.

It's Friday and time for a Sugar-challenge, and this week our guest artist Monica wants us to create a gift sertificate wrapping for a wedding. Mine is not at all very inovating... I used a piece of cardstock originally used for ribbons, paited it blue, cut out a "wrapping" with mye Spellbinder dies, wrapped it 'round the gift sertificate and mounted it all together with a ribbon. The cardstock has a hole at the top, so it can be tied to a gift or a bouquet of flowers...

Sukkersøtt - Bursdagskort

Fredag og ny utfordring i Sukkersøtt-bloggen. Denne uka utfordrer vi deg til å lage et bursdagskort hvor datoen er et sentralt pynteelement på kortet. Ekstrautfordring: Inkluder et gavekort. Its Friday and time for a new challenge at Sukkersött. This week we challenge you to make a birthday card where the date is a made as an inportant part of the decoration/embellishment. And, if you want to - include a gift certificate.

Jeg har laget et dorullkort. Og som du ser, så jobber jeg fortsatt med å få rosa/rød-restene til å minke... Men, jeg er jommen redd for at de er evigvarende... Datolappen er fra utklippskortene våre. I made a card based on the cardstock cylinder that's in the middle of a roll of toiletpaper. And, as you can see - still using the red/pink scrap... I'm actually worried those pieces will last for ever... The piece with the date is from our own Cut out cards. Jeg laget tag'en dobbel slik at jeg kan putte inni et gavekort - eller bruke innsiden til å skrive en hilsen. I've made the tag double, to make it possible to place a gift sertificate in between. Or you can use the space to write some nice words...

Sukkersøtt - selvlaget mønsterpapir

The text on the ribbon is rubons.

I've hand stiched with silver thread.

Anita Thorsen is our Guest designer at Sukkersött this week, and she's challenging us to make our own patterned paper. Actually she doesn't allow us to use any not selfdesigned paper at all :)

This is how I made it:
I used white paper, masking tape, ink in soft pastell colors, a background stamp, a swirl (from Stempelglede.no) and a text from ClubStamp.

First of all I have to give Anita some credit, because she's the one that inspired me big time this time. Thanks :)

I placed the masking tape and used the background stamp.

Then I stamped the swirls with a slightly darker colored ink pad.

To make the stripes more visible, I used a sponge along the masking tape edges.

After removing the tape, I stamped the text. (It was supposed to be in light blue, but since I'm the worst stamp cleaner ever, it turned out a bit darker than planned... *lol* I hate cleaning stamps...!)

Voila - my homemade patterned paper is finished!

and all trimmed for my card.

Sukkersøtt - Vintage

Denne uken utfordrer Sukkersött oss til å lage et eller annet i Vintage-stil. Jeg har laget en hjemmesnekra boks, basert på coveret til en gammel bok jeg har revet ut ark fra enn stund. This week Sukkersött challenges us to make Vintage stuff. Cards, altered art, boxes... you name it. Just make it Vintage :) My entry is a selfmade box, made of an old book cover.