Mistletoe Fairy

 Hi everyone, 

Today it’s my last day to share some inspiration over at this year’s Copic Marker Norge Christmas calendar and I’m excited to share today’s card with you. 

I have colored up Whimsy stamps Mistletoe fairy with my Copic markers and cut her out on an oval shape before trimming it as to frame the colored image. I added some dimension tape to the back to pip her up a bit. I went for a shaped card base this time.

Copic Markers I used:

Skin: E04-11-21-00-000 and R20

Hair: E35-51

Wings:

Outfit: B99-97-95-91 and E77-75-71

Leaves: G99- YG 67-

I used liquid pearl on the berries. 

I’m entering this to:

Thank you so much for stopping by today and throughout this last year. I really appreciate it❣️I hope you liked it and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones. 

Hugs,

-Christine 🎄♥️

Birthday in December

Hi everyone, 

Today it’s my turn to inspire you over at the Copic Marker Norge Christmas calendar again. Be sure to pop over and take a look while enjoying some pretty Christmas music while you look at all the amazing cards the other DT members have made so far.

My son is turning 8 years today and Stich is a big favorite these days. So I tried to draw him as best I could using a reference picture to look at. 

I colored him with my Copic and these are the colors I used: 

Dark blue: B39, 97, 24, 23,21

Light blue: B05, 14, 12, 02, 01, 000

Ears: R22, 20, 00, YR000 and BV 02 for shadows 

Tracksuit: T7, T5, T3, W1, W0 and R24, 22, 20

Headset: C9, C7, C5, C3

Ground:W3,W1, W0

I hope both him and you liked my card even I my drawing skills aren’t the best. But I had lots of fun challenging myself and I’m pretty happy with how he turned out. 

I`m playing along at:

The Male Room: Challenge 193 - Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by, 

Hugs, 

Christine 🎄

Bella bear Christmas card

Hi,

So today is my last inspiration for Polkadoodlesthis year and I made a Christmas card using Door wreath Bella Christmas bear from the Bella bear collection. 

This image makes such a great focal point. As I want this card to be able to go flat in the mail I kept the design and embellishment simple. I played with my Copic markers as usual, and I`m so happy with how this turned out. 

Merry Christmas to you all, and I look forward to share new projects with you next year.

Colours I used:

Fur: E11-E13-E15-E18-R20-R22, E49 E18 for the nose

Outfit: R22-R29-R46-R59-C5

Door: E21-E25-E29-E49

Door knocker: Y35-Y38-E15

Stone:C1-T3-C5-T7

Holly leaves: G21-G94-G99

Background E41-E51

Snow: BG0000-B000-0 Blender

Merry Christmas to you all, and I look forward to share new projects with you in the coming year.

Im playing along at:

The Male Room: Challenge 193 - Anything Goes

Hugs,

Christine

Copic Marker Calender

 Hi, 

It`s time for CMN Christmas calender, and today it`s my turn.

I have made two rosettes that can be used as gift tags, or you can use them as Christmas decoration. 

These are approx. 12 and 14 cm in diameter

The cute little bird is from Conie Fong Art while the unicorn is from Papirdesign.

What I like about rosettes is that you can use up your leftovers from your pattern paper that may not be large enough to use  for other projects. For the largest rosette, you`ll need a 2 1/4 inch wide strip that is 16" long. I have used two 8" strips and on the blue I used a 12" and a 6". Use an edge punch one one side and fold mountain and valley folds. I have scored at every 1/4 inch. Gather the end and shape into a circle. Glue down the inner ends of the rosette to a circle. Glue down your ribbon under the circle on the back. I also punched out a smaller circle in white for the backside with space to write names or a short personal message on.

 Copic colors I used:

Christmas bird:

Grey: W0,T1,T3,T5,T7,T9 and 100 Black

Red: R00, R01, R20, R22, R24, R46, R59 and C 5 to deepen the shades

Fur on hat: W0, W1, W3 og 0 Blender

Leaves: G21, YG 25, YG67, G28

Snow: BG0000, B000, B02

Feet: YR24, YR27 og E09

Stickles and white paint in dots

Unicorn:

Hat: B21, B24, B28, B29

Mane: B01, B21, B24 Noen steder har jeg brukt V01 

Fur: W0, E41, W1

Pink: RV21, RV23, RV 25

Green: YG67

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you liked these projects and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Hugs,

-Christine🎀

Birthday - Helga hippo ballerina

Hi, 

Today I have made a sweet little birthday card using Polkadoodles  cute Helga hippo Fairy ballerina tutu image. 

I made the background using Distress inks, blending brushes and a stencil from Memory box. Starry night i believe it`s called. I also created a border using masking strips from Gina K. 

Copic coloures used:

Skin: W1-T3-W5-W7, E93, R20-R22

Outfit: RV10-RV11-RV21-RV23-RV25

Wings: B0000-B000-B02- O Blender

White gelpen and Stickles for the star

I hope you like it, It was such a fun image to colour and a quick and easy card to put together. Hope you`ll give it a try.

I`m playing along at:

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/

My IG: CKNDesign_craft

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you liked it and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Hugs,

-Christine💮

Christmas card

Hi,

We have a new challenge over at Copic Marker Norway, and I have made acard coloring up this sweet image from Bildmålarne, a Swedish company that unfortunately doesn`t exist anymore.

I have colored with my Copic markers, and these are the colors I used:

Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20

Hair: E29, E25, E21

Dress: W5, W3, W1, W0 og R27, R24, R22, R20

Letters: E31, E30 and W1 and 0 (blender)

Birds: T5, T3, T1 and R 22, R20 and Y38 og YR27

Branch and bag: E79,E77, E74, E71

I also used Stickles in Star Dust to add some sparkle 

and I used Snow tex to create some winter snow on the branch.

I`m entering:

Simon Says: Anything Goes, featuring Gina K Designs |

Thank you so much for stopping by,

Hugs,

-Christine💮

Christmas cards and double slider gift card holders

Hello everyone.

I made these Christmas cards and double slider gift card holders a while back, I just haven`t had the time to post them here. I love how they turned out and the colors are so elegant and beautiful together.

I went stash diving when making these cards. I love the beautiful grey, red and off-white paper from Riddersholm, I kind of hoped I could get a few sheets more, but no such luck. The Christmas sprig and the red flowers from WOC just made these projects come really nicely together.

I used the biggest circle from Spellbinder Royal circle die set and popped up for some dimension and the sentiment stamp is a Norwegian Christmas stamp.

The gift card got a "to and from" stamp at the back and a small Christmas sentiment on one of the sliding card panels. I followed the same tutorial that I did with my Foxy latte coffe gift card.

I`m entering this to:

Simon Says: Christmas, featuring Pink & Main |

Crafty Catz: Crafty Catz challenge #681

Challenge #615 - Squares/Circles ~ The Paper Shelter

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Sorry about the poor photo quality. These came out dull and kind of dark. I do hope you still got some inspiration, and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Hugs,

-Christine 💮

Witch Way - Halloween card

Hi,

It`s all about autumn over at the Copic Marker Norway blog, and I have had my eyes on this amazing image from Molly Harrison Art  "Witch Way" for quite some time now.

I still have some of my all time favourite Halloween papers An Eerie tale from G45 left so was happy to get to use some of them again.

Copic colors I used to color this image:

Skin : E04, E11, E21, E00, E000

Hair: W9, W7, W5

Dress and hat: G99, G94, G21

Yellow details: E09, YR27, Y35, Y11

Cape: T9, BV29, BV23, BV20, BV02

White Sakura gel pen

I`m entering this to:

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=36786

https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-680-anything-goes-optional.html?m=1

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you liked my card and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too. Don`t forget to share your Copic coloring with us ower at the Copic Norge FB group.

Hugs,

-Chrisitne

Cupcake Birthday Card

Hi everyone,

I have made a birthday card using this lovely Cherry Cream Cupcake that I colored with my copic markers. 

This is the perfect stamp for birthdays all year around. The pattern paper is from the Pretty Winnie Daisy digital paper collection. These papers are so soft, pretty and versatile as backgrounds for cards. 

Copic Colors I used are:

Ising: R85-83-81, RV000

Cherry: R59.38,29,24,20 and white gel pen

Cupcake: E37-35-33-31

Wrapper: G99, YG67-63-03

Thank you for stopping by, 

Hugs,

Christine

Sympathy card

Hi everyone,

Our summer weeks inspiration is over at the Copic Marker Norway challenge blog, and we are back to our regular schedule. Our first challenge theme is " Milestones in life". We may often think of weddings, baptismn or other big and happy events like birthdays a.s.o, but since my family unfortunately had the loss of an uncle of mine recently I decided to make a condolence card. 

I went with a mini slimline card, and this is a card size I love to do. These beautiful flowers are a digital stamp from Alex Syberia called Fabulous floral slimline card panel. I decided to print out the stamp in its original slimline size, but only use part of the image fussy cutting out two of the flowers.

I colored up this image with my Copics using BG 78-75-72-70 and going blending tip to tip between the gap of BG72 to BG 70 as the last color is so much lighter.

I used a light grey wooden pattern paper under the flowers that I popped up on dimension tape to add some interest to my card. I stamped the word condolences on vellum paper and added some clear crystal bling to my card. For the flower centers I decided to go with Black diamond Stickles from Ranger to add some elegance and also to pick up the black from my card stock panel.

On the inside I stamped a very sweet norwegian message translating ruffely into " Life will never be the same after a drear smil fades away"

I`m really happy with how this card came together and I wish the pictures would make this card justice.

I`m entering this card to:

 Simon Says: Anything Goes, featuring Hero Arts! | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Thank you so much for stopping by, 

Hugs,

-Christine💮

Foxy Latte Coffee - Double slider gift card

Hi everyone,

Today I have a fun double slider gift card to share with you for the Polkadoodles challenge blog. You pull on the ribbon /string, and both the slider panels slide out at the same time. Fun and super cute. I have made the same slider card for my son to bring to birthdays for his friends at school, making a band to slide money into instead of a gift card, letting him color the digi image for a more personal gift.

I have colored up the adorable Foxy latte coffee that I fussy cut and popped on to my slider card front. The papers I used are from the Autumn fall pattern papers 2. I love all the fall colors and the season we are getting into.

For the sentiment on the bottom panel, I used a sentiment from the Serenity Fairy Wishes Sentiments

Copics colors I used to color up this cute little fox: 

Fur: E08, YR12-14-18 and E000, R11-20 ears and cheeks
Hat: YG91-93-95-97-99
Straw: B93-95-97 and W0-1

To make my Double slider gift card I followed a tutorial on YT from The Paper Pixie. 

I`m entering my card to:

Simon Says: Anything Goes, featuring Hero Arts! | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Thank you for stopping by,

I hope you liked this fun gift card and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Hugs,

-Christine💮

Besties - Fun fold featuring the Ruby collection

 Hi everyone,

It`s time for a new challenge over at the Polkadoodles challenge blog and I`m excited to share my card with you today. The DT inspirational theme for this weeks challenge was friendship using images from the Ruby collection. The timing for this theme came perfect for me since one of my closest friend is born in August. 

For my card I used two images from the Ruby collection, flipping one of them so the direction of the girls standing together came out right. I placed one of the images slightly overlapping the dress of the other to make it more natural looking and more pleasing to the eye. The digistamps I used are Ruby Oo-la-la and Ruby Frou Frou and as usual I colored them up with my Copic markers.

Copic colores I used, listed from light to dark:

Ruby Oo-la-la:

Skin: E000-00-21-11-04, R20

Hair E21-25-49

Outfit: BG10-11-13-49   (I went lightly over with BG 70-72 to mute down the color)

           RV32-34

Ruby Frou Frou:

Skin: E000-00-21-11-13-04, R20, RV42

Hair: 53-43-57-59-49

Outfit: B32-34-99-39 

           RV32-34

 

I made my card into a pop up Z- flod card and at the pop up I used the sentiment Besties that`s from the Winny daisy sentimet bundle. Perfect for my card!

I hope you liked my card and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too. 

Why don`t you head on over and join in on the fun over at the Polkadoodles challenge blog this week. Thank you for stopping by.

I’m entering this card:

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge

Hugs,

-Christine💮

LIVE- Mixed media canvas with Copic

 Hi everyone.

Today is my last day of my summer inspiration week over at the Copic Marker Norway. This time I created a mixed media canvas using a big Copic colored image as my focal point. I love to play around like this mixing the best of two worlds, Copic coloring and playing around with mixed media. Dont forget to pop over to our Facebook group Copic Norge to share your Copic coloring. 

My canvas is 25*20 cm and my image from Mariola Budek Art Perl in Roses is printed at around 20/21 cm in height. For my background I used Tim Holtz Distress oxide sprays in Speckled egg, Stormy sky and Vintage photo. Next, I stamped randomly around the edges of my canvas with a crackled background stamp from Stamperia and the script stamp with the little post circle stamp saying Oslo from Inkado is a favourite.

Then I added Finnabair modeling paste on a script stencil and I also used Finnabair 3D matt clear on a Prima square stencil to add some subtle different textures and interest to my background. 

I glued on some cheesecloth before gluing down my image backed with thick cardboard to give it some dimension. Then I glued on some Prima flowers and some Finnabair metal leaves. The lightbulb from Tim Holtz with the sentiment "Live" became my title for this canvas, and I just love how it came together at the end. To finish my canvas I glued on some flat back pearls in different sized and splattered with some white gesso.

Copic Colors used:

Skin: E04-11-21-00-000 R20

Mouth: E04-20
Hair: E29-57-25-21-50 

then, not beeing too happy with how it looked, I went over with E49-59-53-51

Animalskull: T7, E44-43-42-41, W5-1-0

Pearl: C5-3-1

Flowers: R89-85-83-81

Leaves :G99-94-21, YG23

I colored the eyebrows and eyes with pencils

I added some highlight with a white gel pen, and I also added some clear Wink of Stelle to the pearl necklace and to some of the canine teeth.

I`m entering this to:

The Male Room: Challenge 189 - Mixed Media (themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com)

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge Blog: Welcome to Creative Artiste Challenge #107

Wohoo!! I made TOP 3!

Classic Design Challenge Blog : Classic Design Challenge #07-2024 Jul/Aug - Anything Goes with Optional Twist: Summer Holiday / Vacation

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you got some inspiration to create yourself a happy dat crafting too.

Hugs,

-Christine💮