Christmas gift tags

 Hi everyone.

So Christmas is less than a week away, and I decided to make some gift tags. I love that you can make these how advanced or easy as you like. It´s a nice personal touch to your Christmas gifts, and they’re pretty easy and fast to make. 

For my first tag I used this fun gnome from Twistoon and I coloured him up using these Copic markers:

Skin: E000-00-21-11-13-04

Red: R11-24-27-59

Outfit brown: E70-71-74

Pants: B97-99

Beard: W3-5

Gitar: E41-43-44

Here I used an image from Tiddly inks, and here are the Copic markers I used:

Skin: E000-00-21-11-13 and R20

Hair:: W1-5-7

Wings: B00 and BG000-0000

Dress: W0-1-3

I’m playing along at: 

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=40464

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-wrap-it-up-2/

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/2025/12/challenge-13-wk-3-anything-goes-card.html

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

Hugs, 

-Christine💮

Snowman - Copic Norway inspiration

 Hi, 

As usual- this advent you can find lots of inspiration for your Christmas cards and other tings over at the Copic Marker Norway blog and Facebook page. 

Today is my turn to inspire you, and I have colored up this adorable snowman from Whimsy stamps. 

When coloring snow it’s still important to add some color to get those light and dark (shades) contrast and also to add some structure. Here I have dotted the markers in the darker areas to get some structure and life to my snowman. 

You can find the colors listed here at the original blogpost to Copic Norge. 

Thanks for stopping by, and create yourself a happy day crafting❤️

Hugs, Christine 

Coffee helps!

 Hi, 

Life happens- coffee helps! Love how this card turned out.  Another late upload..

Hugs, Christine

Copic colored card

 Hi

So here is another late upload of a card I made for Copic Norges inspiration on Facebook a while ago.

Hugs, Christine

Fourth wing - art journal page

 Hi,

So I haven't posted anything in here for a while. Life just been crazy hectic. 

I while ago I coloured up these image as my inspiration on Comic marker Norges Facebook page.

I just finished reading the Fourt Wing series, and Violet was my inspiration colouring up this image from Mariola Burdek. I coloured her up with my Copic markers and the background is made using Distress oxide sprays.

I din`t get to finish my art journal page, perhaps I will some day.

Hugs, Christine 

Let’s focus on cards for men

 Hi everyone, 

Today we are starting a new theme over at The Copic Marker Challenge blog, and this month it’s all about the boys. So for this card I found this cool guy over at The Paper Shelter and the image is called Workout time! 

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

Skin: E000-00-21-11-04

Hair: E21-23-25-49

Outfit: B91-95-97 and E71-74 og 110

Bench: E13-09 and W1 and T3

Background: W0-1-3 and T3

There is so much going on in my personal life so I haven’t had the opportunity to sit down and enjoy myself with some crafting lately. So this card was a so enjoyable to make and I always enjoy myself when I’m coloring. 

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

I`m playing along over at:

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge

Hugs, 

-Christine💮

Celebrate life

 Hi everyone, 

New year, new opportunities and lots of new crafty projects to come. Today we are starting the first challenge of the year over at Copic Marker Norge. This month’s theme is a beautiful moodboard but as usual you can join in as everything goes as well. 

To celebrate the beginning of a new year I made a mixed media tag. I sprayed the background with distress oxide spray and lightly went over with some blues distress ink. I splattered with some water to add some interest to the ba before stamping a background script randomly in distressed oxide ink in faded jeans. I stamped the beautiful intricate snowflake and heat embossed it in white. Went around the edges with the same faded jeans distressed oxide ink as to frame the tag before adding some white splatters.  My focal point image is Aurora Reindeer fra Theeastwind that I colored up with my Copic Markers. 

Colors I used:

Skin: E000-00-21-11-04, BG 11-10

Hair: W3-5-7-9, V01

Outfit: BG70-72-75-78 and R83-85-89

Reindeer: E21-23-25-29 and : E41-42-44

Background: BG0000-000, B000-01-41

I’m playing along:

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=37031

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 🌸

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 🎄

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🎀

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💮

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

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💮

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💮 

The Mermaid`s greeting

 Hi,

Today I`m sharing my second inspiration card over at the Copic Marker Norway blog.

Summer is slowly going to an end where here where I live, so I wanted to make a really summery card holding on to that summer feeling as long as possible. And what better image to use than a mermaid creating that under the sea vibe to achieve that.

The image is from Aurora Wings, Starfish mermaid, and I used the Mermaids lagoon background set from Sweet November Stamp but you can only see it at the top corner after I changed my mind on the card design having to cut most of it off.

Copic colors used:

Skin: E000-00-21-11-04

Hair: B12-14-24-18-39

Starfish and pearls: Y02-35, YR14-27 and I think E15

Coral: V01-04-09 

(I got a little ink blob at her skin, but I camouflaged it with a little pearl. Shhh.. It`s our little secret.. 😉)

Seashell: E01-E41, E15

Plants: BG70-72-78 og  BG39

Background: B41, BG0000, 0 (blender)

I`m entering this to:

Challenge #605 - Holiday Time ~ The Paper Shelter

Simon Says: Happy Birthday, featuring Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Products! | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

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

Thank you for stopping by.

Hugs,

-Christine💮

Love you mostest - Wedding card

 Hi everyone,

This week it`s my turn to give you some inspiration over at the Copic Marker Norway blog, and you can find my blog post here.. You can find the Copic markers I used on this image listed there.

My first card is a wedding card using Tiddlyinks "Love you mostest" digistamp. You get two different versions of this image, one with and one without the flowers. As you can see, I went with the one with flowers as I wanted to pull in some of the colors and elements of the beautiful flowers on this beautiful pattern paper from Maja design.  Since the backside had this very subtle word happiness written on it, I made sure to cut my panel so I could use this as a subtle title to my card. 

I looked through my stuff and I actually don`t own a single stamp or die that is wedding themed so better get that creative juices flowing and use what you can. I like how it pushes you creatively and I love the soft look and feel of this card, but let`s be honest, its another thing on my wish list😂 

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you liked my card. If you are into Copic coloring, make sure to share it with us over at the Copic Norges Facebook group.

Hugs,

-Christine💮

Shaylee - Copic and card

Hi everyone,

Today I have the most exciting news to share - I`m joining the amazingly talentet ladies over at the Copic Marker Norway DT! You know I love my Copic`s and I`m so honored and thrilled to join in on the team.

This months optional theme is  #153 Yellow/Orange, but as always on Copic Norways challenge, anything goes, but if you follow the challenge theme you get an extra entry. I have colored up the sweet fairy Shaylee from Art by Miran from her Etzy store. Organge is one of my favourite colors, so I really enjoyed this month`s theme.

To make my colored image really pop, I decided to go with a clean card design and mat the image on black cardstock to really make it stand out. I run my white cardstock in an old embossing folder from Cuttlebug to add some interest but still keep it clean. I kept my card base in black, and the size of this card is slightly bigger than an A2 card. The beautiful colors and the butterfly is from Prima.

Copic colors used:

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

Hair: W3-5-7-9

Eyes: B21-24-29

Dress: E13, Y11-15-17 og YR00-02, RV42, R35-37

Wings: E13, Y11-15-17 og YR000-00-02 and white gel pen

Sky: B0000-000-21, Y000-00-11, YR0000-000-02

Bushes: YG03-11-67, G94-99

I also added clear Wink of Stella to the wings to make them sparkle even more.

I`m entering this card to:

Simon Says: Bright & Cheerful | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Simon Says: Let The Music Play | (simonsaysstampblog.com) -The music of the fairys -  A Midsummer Night Dream

Crafty Catz: Challenge # 674 Make it Masculine (craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com) ATG

Classic Design Challenge Blog : Classic Design Challenge #06-2024 Jun/Jul - Anything Goes with Optional Twist: Fancy Folds

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Hope you liked this card as much as I did.

Hugs,

-Christine💮