Lawnscaping Challenge #102; Distress

Hi Everyone!
I'm here to introduce a new challenge at Lawnscaping. This time it a Distress Challenge!!!

For my card I used stamps from these wonderful Lawn Fawn sets: Flutter By a
And our fabulous sponsor; Lawn Fawn!!! You can win a set of your choice YEAH!!!

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

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Sunday Watercolors; Learning from Bill Vrscak

Hi!
It is Sunday and I am here  to share a new watercolor! Being a mom to a 6-year-old and working full-time as a teacher I can't always afford to wait for inspiration to paint to come - I have to make use of the time when I'm given some (-: - like when Mikael takes Ted skating on a Sunday afternoon for example. But what if I don't have any inspiration at all -this is what I do - I find a painting - usually one I've saved on Pinterest because I liked it- and try to copy it. I try to figure out what the artist has done to create the look and feeling in the painting that I like. This time I worked from a painting by Bill Vrscak.

If you want to see more of my watercolors you can either click the "My Watercolors" button in the top list or in my Watercolors file on Pinterest; http://www.pinterest.com/peppermint42/watercolors - the paintings there are not only by me, though I wish because I've collected some favorites!

Have a great Sunday, hugs, Karin

Lawn Fawn - Happy 5th Birthday Blog Hop

Hi Everyone!

Today I and some bloggie friends are doing something really fun - we are celebraiting Lawn Fawn's 5th birthday with a blog hop! BIG CONGRATS Kelly Marie and Mike - I LOVE your products!
We decided to use their Year stamps and this one is called; Year 4 - It's super adorable, don't you think? Dies and papers are also from Lawn Fawn

If you are doing the hop you should have come here from Ivy's blog ishouldbesleepingbut and to continue it you should hop on to my dear Lawnscaping friend Tamara 

If you want more details and see all the participants (lots of supertalented designers that will definately inspire you to spend the rest of the day crafting (-: ) you can pop over to Jenn Shurkus;  http://shurk.us/lawnfawn-5thbday

And since this card is for a very special Lady ; Kelly Marie Alvarez - I'm entering it for Simon Says stamp Wednesday challenge!

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

Blueprints

Inspiration Emporium #2

Hi Everyone!
I'm here to share a card I've made for the Inspiration Journal where I and my super talened Inspiration Emporium teamies share  inspiration. If you haven't been already make sure to visit right away  - lots of amazing and inspiring projects !

This time I played with some Lawn Fawn and Mama Elephant stamps and dies.

Supplies;

Most of the supplies I used for this card can be found at;  Inspiration Emporium.

Follow the links below and use my code peppermint to save 10% .

Paper:   Echo Park  
Dies:   Lawn Fawn    Mama Elephant
Stamps: Lawn  Fawn    Mama Elephant
Ink; Archival Jet Black
Paints or markers; Copics
Adhesive; Plus Glue tape  Glue Dots   Foam adhesive; EK tools
Cardstock; Cardshoppe Black Liqorice

I also want to point out that US shipping is always just $5 and international shipping is ONLY $10! I just LOVE that!!!!

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

I'm entering this card for the "Things that Fly" at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

Sunday Watercolors; Gothenburg and Lofoten

Hi!
It is Sunday and I am here  to share two new watercolors! The first one is of something I see every day - a Gothenburg tram while the second one is a scene from Lofoten. I've never been there but used a reference photo that I had collected in my "for paintings " folder on Pinterest. 

If you want to see more of my watercolors you can either click the "My Watercolors" button in the top list or in my Watercolors file on Pinterest; http://www.pinterest.com/peppermint42/watercolors - the paintings there are not only by me, though I wish because I've collected some favorites!
If I've used a reference photo it can most often be found in my "For paintings" folder on Pinterest.
Have a great Sunday, hugs, Karin

My Favorite Things Release Rewind Day

Welcome to day 1 of MFT's Release Rewind! Today is all about giving  you more inspiring projects featuring the newly released MFT products. This time I've played with;  the super cool television die-namics and Stay Tuned stampset;

 

The Paw print bg (again!) and one of the adorable I knead You cats:

 

And last but not least, the super fun and Beautiful scribble flower dies:

 

Supplies:

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die-namics-i-knead-you

die-namics-inside-and-out-stitched-rounded-square-stax

die-namics-circle-scribble-flowers

die-namics-television

die-namics-scribbles

bb-i-knead-you

lld-stay-tuned

ljd-circle-scribble-flowers

paw-print-background

If you haven't stopped by the MFT's Blog make sure that it is your next stop! There are links to more DT blogs  sharing more inspiration for you to take in using the new release. Enjoy, and have a really good day!

Hugs, Karin

My Favorite Things New Product Launch

Hello Everyone!
It's time for the New Release Launch at MFT !   Today the MFT Design Team is showing you all the new products available - Yippie!  You can ciew them all HERE. I am so excited with all the amazing new Products and that I was asked to showcase the super adorable; feline-better stamps and dies. I had so fun playing with them - I couldn't stop - here are "only" four of the cards I made (-:

 

The balloons are from last month's Somebunny set.

 

For this last card I created the bg texture with the new Blueprint Dies.

Be sure to comment on all the designers' blog posts tonight for YOUR chance to win one of 2, $100 Gift Vouchers as part of tonight’s New Product Launch celebration!

 

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die-namics-feline-better

pi-feline-better

Stitched rectangle frames

 

 Hope you've enjoyed this release week - I sure have!

Hope to see you back for our release rewind Days, starting tomorrow.

Hugs, Karin

My Favorite Things Release Countdown Day 1

Welcome to the final day of Release Countdown with My Favorite Things. I'm so excited because all the new products will be available for purchase tonight at 10pm EST. 
 

 

I'm in love with the new Paw print background stamp and to get to pair it up with super cute pet dies is a Dream!

 

For my next card I used the new Paw stencil and masked a heart Before I inked it with some distress inks. I Think it created a nice backing to the super adorable dog which is actually doing something else (!) but also looks like he's really happy, jumping with joy!!! The happy dies is from a set of 3 happy dies of different sizes - so useful!

 

 

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die-namics-inside-and-out-stitched-rounded-square-stax

die-namics-pet-accents

die-namics-happy-trio

bb-you-make-my-tail-wag

paw-print-background

stencil-staggered-paw-prints

Complete product details, videos and links to all designers playing along with today's featured products can be found at the MFT Blog.

I'll be back tonight at 10pm EST for the New Product Launch with My Favorite Things!

Hope to see you then!
Hugs, Karin

Lawnscaping Challenge #101 Dots and Stripes

Hi Everyone!
I'm here to introduce a new challenge at Lawnscaping. This time it a "Dots and Stripes"    Challenge!!!

For my card I used stamps from these wonderful Lawn Fawn sets: HERE and dies called : HERE

And our fabulous sponsor; Ellen Hutson!!! You can win a 25 $ giftcertificate to the store YEAH!!!
Pop over to Lawnscaping for all the info you need and to join the challenge!

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

My Favorite Things - Release Countdown Day 2

Hi!
Welcome to day 2 of Release Countdown with My Favorite Things. I'm here to show you some new fun MFT dies and stamps from the upcoming release that will be available for purchase tomorrow night at 10pm EST. 

Complete product details, videos and links to all designers playing along with today's featured products can be found at the MFT Blog. 

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die-namics-happy

totally-happy

bb-i-knead-you

lld-stay-tuned

und

paw-print-background

stripes- stencil

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Garlics

Oh, how much easier it is to loosen up when you use scrap paper - or think you do (-: I played around with these garlics on a piece of thin paper that I found among some other scrap papers I'd bought at a local paper store here in Gothenburg. It felt like it would be good to paint on so I did and I really liked the way it absorbed the paint.

So with hopes of buying a whole packet of this paper to practice on, I went back to the store. It turned out that that paper was even more expensive than my best Arches paper )-:

If you want to see more of my watercolors you can either click the "My Watercolors" button in the top list or in my Watercolors file on Pinterest; http://www.pinterest.com/peppermint42/watercolors


 (OBS - the paintings there are not only by me, though I wish because I've collected some favorites)

Have a great Sunday, hugs, Karin

My Favorite Things Countdown Day 3

               Hello and welcome to Day 3 of Release Countdown Week with MFT.

Today I've created a card with one of PI's two new cute sets; Woof You ;

For my second card I've played with the new dies; die-namics-inside-and-out-stitched-rounded-square-stax and created a little paper patchwork quilt I just love these stitched squares!
In the center, one of Torico's new cats - can't wait to share more of the cards I've made with her super cute new sets!

Complete product details, videos and links to all designers playing along with today's featured products can be found at the MFT Blog.  I'll be back tomorrow for Day 2 of Release Countdown with My Favorite Things!

die-namics-i-knead-you

die-namics-inside-and-out-stitched-rounded-square-stax

die-namics-stitched-square-frames

die-namics-woof-you

bb-i-knead-you

pi-woof-you

paw-print-background

Have a great day, hugs, Karin