Congratulations!

 

 

 

Today's card is for the Anything Goes challenge at Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge. I used stamps from the wonderful set Leafy Greens and the woodblock stamp Congratulations.

I used inspiration from the Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World and will be entering this card for the birthday card challenge at CAS-ual Fridays.

Have a great Monday!, Hugs, Karin

New Challenge at TSG

New Challenge at TSG called April Showers and May Flowers !!!

 

 

There's a new challenge at TSG stamps starting today; April Showers and May Flowers;  and I've made a sample for it! But what does swiming hippos have to do with that you ask! Well, on out DT schedule it said flowers and/or water so I took the water part literally, but when I was done with my card I read the instructions for the challenge more carefully (I do this so often - why don't I ever learn??? ) and realized that it meant more like Flowers and April Showers - well, well - hope you got some inspiration to use water - of some kind ! on your cards this week (-: anyway!

The stamp I used is from a super cool set called Zoo-pendous.

Make sure you visit TSG stamps for wonderful inspiration and the info you need to take part and for your chance to win a gift certificate!

 

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Chalkboard Memories Blog Hop Challenge

 

Hi!

Jessica and Tobi have been hard at work creating an AMAZING new set for us, Chalkboard Memories. If you are familiar with the VERY popular Chalkboard Technique, this set was created for that particular style!! It is full of SUPER cute images, and FABULOUS sayings…and the chalkboard itself? Fantastic!

Chalkboard Memories is a 4x8 set that includes a total of 18 stamps and will sell for $18.00 . The new stamps will be available on Saturday, April 27^th at 11pm.

Would you like to win the new stamp set? Here is what you need to do- visit the Trendsetter’s blogs that are participating in each of the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations as you go. One of the Trendsetter’s blogs (from each hop day) will be randomly chosen as the ‘it’ blog and a winner will be picked using a random number generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter’s Blog Hop Challenge post.

You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday, April 27^th with the winner being announced during the release party chat.

Play along with the Chalkboard Memories Blog Hop Challenge for your chance to win this stamp set! Head to the TSG Blog for more details!!

1.	Jessica Knutsen	7.	Angela Thomas	13.	Tracy MacDonald
2.	Tobi Crawford	8.	Heather Pulvirenti	14.	Tracy Valure
3.	Jessie Rone	9.	Danielle Lounds	15.	Theresa Winslow
4.	Mary Johnson	10.	Kim O'Connell	16.	Tangii Crain
5.	Jenny Peterson	11.	Karin Åkesdotter
6.	Vera Yates	12.	Wendy Price

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I'm entering this for the birthday challenge at Cas-ual Fridays and the Anything goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Wishing you all a wonderful week-end, hugs, Karin

Larry Blog Hop Challenge!

I'm in LOVE  - with Larry!!!
  

Our newest sock goblin from Wendy Leach…be still my heart. Larry is ready for a day at the office, can’t you tell?

Larry is a 3x4 set that includes a total of 5 stamps and will sell for $9.00.

Would you like to win the new? Here is what you need to do- visit the Trendsetter’s blogs that are participating in each of the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations as you go. One of the Trendsetter’s blogs (from each hop day) will be randomly chosen as the ‘it’ blog and a winner will be picked using a random number generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter’s Blog Hop Challenge post.

You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday, April 27^th with the winner being announced during the release party chat.

 

 

 I'm entering this for the Anything goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Play along with the Larry Blog Hop Challenge for your chance to win this stamp set! Head to the TSG Blog for more details!!

1.	Tobi Crawford	7.	Kim O'Connell	13.	Jessica Knutsen
2.	Danielle Lounds	8.	Angela Thomas	14.	Tangii Crain
3.	Jenny Peterson	9.	Sandra MacLean	15.	Tracy Valure
4.	Wendy Price	10.	Torico	16.	Tracy MacDonald
5.	Mary Johnson	11.	Theresa Winslow	17.	Vera Yates
6.	Karin Åkesdotter	12.	Heather Pulvirenti	18.	Jessie Rone

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Have a great day and a great hop, hugs, Karin

Dream in Color and Ginger Blog Hop Challenge

Hi!

I'm back with the second day of previews for There She Goes stamps and today we are showing cards made with two adorable new sets from Megan Suarez. Don't you just love this cool flower????

Our first set from Megan Suarez this month is the gorgeous new Dream in Color. We love the gorgeous style of this flower, and we think you will, too.

Dream in Color is a 3x4 set that includes a total of 2 stamps and will sell for $9.00. The new stamps will be available on Saturday, April 27^th at 11pm.

The newest addition to Megan’s Spice Girls line is the GORGEOUS new Ginger set. Isn’t she lovely?

Ginger is a 3x4 set that includes a total of 5 stamps and will sell for $9.00. The new stamps will be available on Saturday, April 27^th at 11pm.

 

Would you like to win the new stamp set? Here is what you need to do- visit the Trendsetter’s blogs that are participating in each of the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations as you go. One of the Trendsetter’s blogs (from each hop day) will be randomly chosen as the ‘it’ blog and a winner will be picked using a random number generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter’s Blog Hop Challenge post.

You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday, April 27^th with the winner being announced during the release party chat.

I'm entering this for the Anything goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

 

Play along with the Dream in Color/Ginger Blog Hop Challenge for your chance to win this stamp set! Head to the TSG Blog for more details!!

1.	Theresa Winslow	7.	Jenny Peterson	13.	Karin Åkesdotter
2.	Tobi Crawford	8.	Tracy MacDonald	14.	Jessica Knutsen
3.	Wendy Price	9.	Tracy Valure	15.	Tangii Crain
4.	Vera Yates	10.	Heather Pulvirenti	16.	Mary Johnson
5.	Danielle Lounds	11.	Angela Thomas	17.	Torico
6.	Sandra MacLean	12.	Kim O'Connell

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Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Just sitting here thinking of you!

Today I have a crad for Hero Art's Printables challenge. I've used my favorite digital printable ever - the Hero Arts woodcut owls - they are just soooo ADORABLE. I also used Old letter Writing. What's so great with printables is that you can get them the size you want them - quite useful sometimes!

Hope you are having a wonderful day, hugs, Karin

Shiver me Timbers and Ship Happens Blog Hop Challenge

Hi Everyone!!!
I'm super excited about this week, because I'll be introducing 6 new wonderful sets from There She Goes Stamps and I've LOVED working with them so I hope you'll like them as much as I do!!!
Don't forget to come back tomorrow (-:

 

 

It took a little begging, but we finally got Torico to illustrate a pirate set for us!! If you “need a little ‘aye’ candy”, well then “X marks the spot”.

Shiver Me Timbers is a 6x8 set that includes a total of 24 stamps and will sell for $24.00. The new stamps will be available on Saturday, April 27^th at 11pm.

                                                   

I’m sure it comes as NO surprise to all you loyal There She Goes fans, but we couldn’t go without creating a companion set to go along with this SUPER fun set!! Leave it to the Trendsetters to come up with so many FUNNY and AWESOME sentiments that one set just couldn’t hold them all.

Ship Happens is a  3x4 set that includes a total of 9 stamps and will sell for $9.00. The new stamps will be available on Saturday, April 27^th at 11pm.

 

 

Would you like to win the new stamp set? Here is what you need to do- visit the Trendsetter’s blogs that are participating in each of the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations as you go. One of the Trendsetter’s blogs (from each hop day) will be randomly chosen as the ‘it’ blog and a winner will be picked using a random number generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter’s Blog Hop Challenge post.

You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday, April 27th with the winner being announced during the release party chat.

Play along with the Shiver Me Timbers/Ship Happens Blog Hop Challenge for your chance to win this stamp set! Head to the TSG Blog for more details!!

1.	Jenny Peterson	8.	Tracy Valure	15.	Tangii Crain
2.	Torico	9.	Carole Burrage	16.	Vera Yates
3.	Kim O'Connell	10.	Mary Johnson	17.	Wendy Price
4.	Angela Thomas	11.	Danielle Lounds	18.	Jessie Rone
5.	Sandra MacLean	12.	Karin Åkesdotter	19.	Jessica Knutsen
6.	Theresa Winslow	13.	Tracy MacDonald
7.	Tobi Crawford	14.	Heather Pulvirenti

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Enjoy the hop, hugs, Karin

The wonder of Water Color!

 

Today I'm sharing some of my water color paintings. But first a card for the The wonder of Water Colors challenge at Moxie Fab. I used to paint a lot when I was younger both water colors and oil paintings, but lately I've become quite lazy (to my mum's dismay) and love to create things that are finished much faster. I still love the water color look so the water coloring stamp technique is perfect for me - You ink your stamp in different colors and then spray the stamp with water before stamping it onto your card. I'm quite pleased with the result - hope you like it too.

The stamps I've used are from Gel-a-tins - Big and Wild and PTI - Birthday Basics.
Ink; Distress ink by Rangers
Cardstock; Bazzill

I made sure I made a birthday card so I could enter it for my dear bloggie friend Annette's  BirthdayAnniversary Challenge and kept it Clean and simple for CAS-ual Friday's Birthday Challenge.

Cloudberry

Lake in Dalcarnia

Inspired by artist ....

From Picture in National Geographic

Statue at Trädgårdsföreningen Gothenburg



 

Gothenburg Archipelago
 

 

Käringön

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

There She Goes Again!

This week is There She Goes Again week at the TSG blog. All week the TSG blog has  been showing wonderful cards made from older TSG sets and today it is our, the present TSG Trendsetters' day to show some new cards made with these sets. I chose an image + sentiment from an ADORABLE set called Blossom by Blossom

Make sure you visit the TSG blog for amazing inspiration!

 

I'm entering this card for these challenges;

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Blog Waltz - Release Day Party

 

 

 

 

Hi everyone! Yay!  It is Release Party time at Waltzing mouse stamps and all the new stamp sets we've been showing you previews of over the last few days are finally available in the shop; My Kind of Guy, Man of the Hour and Nordic Baby. To celebrate, we have a blog hop where the WMS dt's will show even more samples of what you can make with these wonderful stamps and if you comment along the way you can win a stamp set of choice + I know you'll be super inspired. So let's get started... You should have arrived on my blog from Jean Martin's  blog. (If not, you can  Always start the blog waltz hop over at Claire's blog.

 

 Now continue to;  Kim Duran's blog.

 

 

Have a great day and a great hop, hugs, Karin

Day 3 WMS Preview Man of the hour

 

Hi!

I'm back today with another card for Waltzing Mouse Stamps previews. This time we have samples for a large new set full of the best sentiments for fathers and father's day cards. I just love this set and Think it is super for a lot of different occasions. For example this will be Ted's card for Mikael's birthday tomorrow.

Now check out what the other WMS ladies have created with this set:

Anya Schrier Becca Feeken Belinda Chang Langner Clare Buswell Edna Morrisedie Iwona Palamountain Jean Martin Jeanne Jachna Jen Cuthbertson Jennifer Holmes Julia Aston Karin Åkesdotter Kelly Schirmer Kim Duran Laurie Schmidlin Lynn Mercurio Renee Lynch Sandie Dunne Sarah Martina Parker Teresa Kline Tosha Leyendekker Claire Brennan

and then make sure you come back tomorrow for the release blog hop contest with a chance to win all these wonderful new sets - just by commenting (-:.

Hugs, Karin

CAS glitter - Thank you for being You Mum!

 

 

 

I just made a card for CAS-ual Friday's Glitter challenge. The bg paper is much more glittery than the picture shows - glitter is so difficult to capture! I'll be short today, lots of correction work to do tonight )-:  I'm also entering this here; Cuttin & Stampin Challenges  Thank You Card + Natalie and Amy's Challenge - Monochromatic  My sentiment is from Hero Arts and it will be entered for their - "For a special her" challenge too.

 

Hugs, Karin

Day 2 WMS Preview Nordic Baby

 

It's the second day of Waltzing Mouse Stamps April release previews and this time I've made a card with an adorable Little set called Nordic Baby. These knitted baby shoes are so super sweet and the sentiments to go with them are absolutely perfect!

 

Now make sure you pop over to see what the other WMS ladies have created with this set:

Anya Schrier Becca Feeken Belinda Chang Langner Clare Buswell Edna Morrisedie Iwona Palamountain Jean Martin Jeanne Jachna Jen Cuthbertson Jennifer Holmes Julia Aston Karin Åkesdotter Kelly Schirmer Kim Duran Laurie Schmidlin Lynn Mercurio Renee Lynch Sandie Dunne Sarah Martina Parker Teresa Kline Tosha Leyendekker Claire Brennan

Tomorrow I'll be back to introduce another fabulous masculine set for cards for daddys and father's day cards - it's a must have (-;

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Lawnscaping # 56 ; Inspired By

Hi Everyone!
I'm here to introduce a new challenge at Lawnscaping. This time we challenge you to make a card ispired by a fellow crafter.
We have a wonderful guest designer with us this time too: Jennifer McGuire

For my card I found inspiration from this card by one of my favorite designers; Kara. If you don't know her already - go straight to her blog Kandrdesigns- she makes wonderful card designs and I can promise you'll be inspired by what you see.

For my card I used stamps from these wonderful Lawn Fawn sets;. Quinn's ABC's and critters in the burbs
Our fabulous sponsor this week is; Lawn Fawn!!! You can win a set of your choice YEAH!!!

Pop over to Lawnscaping for all the info you need and to join!

Hugs, Karin

FUN Birthday Wishes!

Just got back from Ted's best friend Maja's birthday party and thought I could share the card I made for Ted's birthday a while back and that was published in last month's issue of carDs.
I used October Afternoon's Cake Walk Collection and chipboard from the Sidewalks collection.

Wishing you all a great week, hugs, Karin

Day 1 WMS Preview; My Kind of Guy

Hi!

I'm here for the first preview day of Waltzing Mouse Stamps April release. I can promise that this is a release that you will absolutely LOVE - especially if you are in need of some wonderful and unique stamps for masculine cards. The bullboxer images in this set "My kind of Guy" are absolutely AMAZING!

 

Now check out what the rest of the team has come up with;

Anya Schrier Becca Feeken Belinda Chang Langner Clare Buswell Edna Morrisedie Iwona Palamountain Jean Martin Jeanne Jachna Jen Cuthbertson Jennifer Holmes Julia Aston Karin Åkesdotter Kelly Schirmer Kim Duran Laurie Schmidlin Lynn Mercurio Renee Lynch Sandie Dunne Sarah Martina Parker Teresa Kline Tosha Leyendekker Claire Brennan

But before you leave I want to tell you about Waltzingmouse Stamps Flower Show which will be  featuring some amazingly talented guest designers - and there's a wonderful prize for those who join the hop so make sure you stop by Claire's blog HERE!
Spring flowers is also the theme for Wednesday's Waltzingmouse Blog Party All the details can be found HERE!

There's also another wonderful chance to win 100 $ gift certificate  to WMS so go and check out the details HERE!

I'll let you go now, but make sure you'll come back tomorrow when I'll be showing cards from another of the new fabulous sets!

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Hope your day is just ducky!!!

This is my week's trendsetter card for There She Goes Stamps. I used their newest release, Just ducky. I'm in love with it!
I'm entering this card for these two challenges;
Simon says stamp - spring
Joanna Sheen Challenge -  Spring into Spring

Have a wonderful week-end, hugs, Karin

Spring Flower

Hi!

There's a new challenge at Hero Arts (it's not that new - it just feels new to me since I was away last week and didn't spend my evenings surfing inspiring crafty blogs like I usually do) and the theme is to use Hero Arts Printables. I have quite a few and I love them but I Think I often forget that I have them because they are on the computer and not with my other Craft supplies. So this was a great challenge for me! Here I've used; Poetic Petals and Old Letter Writing. The wreath is a HA cling stamp that I heat embossed and then inked the bg with distress ink.

I'm entering this card for the challenges at;
Simon says stamp
Pretty Little Ribbon -Spring
Joanna Sheen Challenge -  Spring into Spring
The Ribbon Girls -  Flowers

Skiing in Klövsjö!

It's been quiet here on my blog the past week because I've been skiing in Klövsjö. We rented an apartment right next to the slopes together with my sister and her family and we had the most wonderful time with sun and perfect skiing conditions every day!
It was the first time for Ted but I was amazed at how fast he learned and picked up the technique! Only scared me once when he took a wrong turn and went down part of a black slope and totally forgot to turn or slow down...

Will be back soon with some new cards!
Hope you've had a wonderful week too, hugs, Karin

Lawnscaping # 55 Embossing

Hi Everyone!
I'm here to introduce a new challenge at Lawnscaping. This time it an Embossing (either heat or dry)  challenge!!!
We have a wonderful guest designer with us this time too : Jennifer Mc Guire!!!

For my card I used stamps from these wonderful Lawn Fawn stamp sets;

And our fabulous sponsor; Simon Says stamp You can win a25 $ giftcertificate to the store YEAH!!!
Pop over to Lawnscaping for all the info you need and to join!

 

I'm entering this card for the Anything goes challenges at Simon Says stamp and The Kraft Jornal + K is for kraft at ABC Challenges

 
Hugs, Karin

Masculine Challenge at TSG

There's a new challenge at TSG stamps starting today; Masculine;  and I've made a sample for it!
It is not what I would usually make for Masculine challenges, but I got the super sweet set Get Well Wishes in the mail last week and just had to take out some of the stamps and play.

Make sure you visit TSG stamps for wonderful inspiration and the info you need to take part and for your chance to win a gift certificate!

I'm entering this card for the "Anything goes challenge" at Simon Says Stamp. and Creative Card Crew ;  Masculine

Have a great day, hugs, Karin