My sweet followers:

söndag 29 december 2013

Altered box


Yes box - this one is from IKEA and altered
with papers from Echo Park, flowers and 
ribbons from Crafty Ribbons.


Ribbon on top is a sheer organza swiss dots.


Striped ribbon all around the box is
Deckchair Stripe Ribbon found HERE.
White flower with orange inside is from 
Greece.


I even put some cut paper inside of the
box and inside lid for Amanda to write
a message or what's in her box. 


That's all for today! 

Thanks for visiting!

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La Vikinga

fredag 27 december 2013

HAPPY WEDDING ANIVERSARY!!


FELIZ ANIVERSARIO DE BODAS

PARA

ALEXIS Y EVE-LINA!


La Vikinga

tisdag 24 december 2013

Oriental dancer


Today is the last day of the event Crafty
Ribbons has had with all of us in the Team
together with several of the generous stores
and other craft and stamp companies. 

Todays sponsor is called Rick St. Dennis
and you can read more about them at our
Pure Inspiration Blog and also participate
in a giveaway putting your name on the list.

Here's the card I made with a digital stamp
of an original dancer and patterned paper
from DCWV, gold paper from the local craft
store and a soft ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.  



La Vikinga

söndag 22 december 2013

Fancy Dress


Today's sponsor is Crafty Sentiments.


Paper: American Crafts, Ribbon 
from Crafty Ribbons.

lördag 21 december 2013

Red snowflake?


Today's sponsor is:

Crafty Individuals

Crafty Individuals is an exciting web based venture into the creative world of craft and altered art products for long term friends and business partners, Jean Hardy and Malcolm Noble. Jean is a practising artist, avid crafter, and teacher, and Malcolm is a professional photographer, and we live and work in the North East of England. Both of us are fully involved in the design and manufacture of the Crafty Individuals unique brand of popular and top quality art rubber stamps, cutting dies, masks/stencils, and paper craft products.

In the beginning we concentrated on creating a beautiful, top quality, range of unique art rubber stamps, inspired by all things vintage but still with a contemporary feel, and with something to appeal to everyone. Our classic Individual range of stamps features fine and detailed collage style focal designs, and the newer Elements sets of rubber stamps feature themed sets of images to enable you to build your own background designs and collaged art and craft projects. Since then we have added lovely, professionally printed, books of craft papers, image sheets, and printed tags to the range, more recently followed by adorable masks/stencils, and top quality thin metal cutting dies. We also have a carefully chosen range of other essential ‘Must Have’ products on our website to complement your crafting experience.


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Here I present to you one of the most strange
cards I have ever made: an easel card with a
red coaster looking like a snowflake and a red
flower / star on top of it. This is what the main
font part looks like. And yes, it is a little heavy.


How do you make a heavy front like that stand
up without falling down? Well I took my other
red coaster (with hearts), cut it and placed it
as a "stopper" and it seems to work!



The white ribbon with flowers is from Crafty
Ribbons and can be found right HERE.


What do you think? I like it! Hope you
like it too and can get inspiration to make
something with coasters you don't use!

Challenges:

* A Creative Romance:

* Brown Sugar Challenge Blog:

* Craftitude: Anything Goes / 

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La Vikinga





fredag 20 december 2013

Green and white


Today the sponsor of the Crafty Ribbons
December event is:


For this day I have made a card in green
tones matching the Crafty Ribbons December
series that you can find in the store HERE.


I have used a piece of snowflake paper that I
had from last year and a die from Memory Box.

Challenges:

* Crafty Girls Challenges:

* Shelly's Images: Winter Theme:

* Charizma Cardz Challenges:

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La Vikinga



torsdag 19 december 2013

Crafty Ribbons owls


Today is Crafty Ribbons Day!

I have used four different products on my 
easel card; first of all you see a digi stamp; 
the pretty owl, and beside it a ribbon called


Below you see how the card looks like
when it's standing. The wide ribbon with 
owls is called Flower Owls and then I
have also printed out the Crafty Ribbons
digi background paper with snowflakes!


Cute owl, isn't it?

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La Vikinga


onsdag 18 december 2013

Decorate a vase


Hi; today Joanna Sheen is featured at
Crafty Ribbons December event:


joannasheen


Joanna has been involved in the craft world since 1979. She has written over 30 books on cookery, herbs, stencilling, crafts and flowers during the past 20 years and is now best known for her work on TV with her craft CDs, card making and pressed flower craft programmes. She lives in Devon with her husband Richard and youngest daughter Emily - never forgetting their bossy little cocker spaniel called Wellington - Welly for short!
Joanna started building her pressed flower company back in 1979 and soon had a thriving international concern, making sales around the world. She has sold pictures to many of the major stores in London, New York and Tokyo, Australia and other countries in Europe. This thrived until 2006 when Card making finally won and took over all the production and warehouse space at the company, but Joanna's first love will always be flowers in some form or another!
Teaching comes naturally to Joanna, she began her craft school here in the UK some 17 years ago and there is also the Joanna Sheen Flower School based in Osaka and with teachers spread around Japan. Joanna's craft courses are now very limited with other commitments taking so much of her time but, old and welcomed visitors return every year for Joanna's new and innovative teaching.
PRIZE:
A selection of craft goodies to include a 
Joanna Sheen Cd and project book.

To be eligible; hop over to Pure
Inspiration Blog and put your name
on a very long list!

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Today I wanted to show you what I did with an
an empty vase / bowl I bought in a second
hand store just for this December event 
at Crafty Ribbons. I took it to a florist and
asked her opinion, and she suggested a
nice hyacinth with moss around the bulb.
Like this:


So I brought the ribbons along to be able  
to take a picture in the store but was not 
satisfied with the bow - I decided it could 
look better so I went home to make 
another try another day. 


Then I had to let my hyacinth stand
there waiting a couple of days and
look what happened; buttons are in
bloom and more are coming out:


I tried to make another bow with only
one ribbon, and I tried with a wider 
ribbon but I was never 100% happy
with my bow. So you have to imagine  
what it would look like if it would be perfect!
I'm sure you can do it nicer than me at
   home once you practice and get the swing!

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La Vikinga


tisdag 17 december 2013

A simple snowman


Did you know this company before? See the
introduction of todays' sponsor at Crafty 
Ribbons December event below:


I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started cardmaking about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a cardmaking kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with likeminded people.

I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself. This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!

If you hop over to The Pure Inspiration Blog this is what you can win:



Prize - $12 Voucher

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And this is the card I have made for today:


It's simple: a white embossed piece of 
cardstock, a mat and a card base, a
Crafty Ribbons ribbon and a few
 pearls. That's it! Do you like it?

Challenges:

* Artistic Inspirations: Anything goes

* Card Mania challenge # 36: 

* Crafting from the Heart: 

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La Vikinga






måndag 16 december 2013

Letraset and a snowman





Letraset


Originally founded in London in 1959, Letraset has been manufacturing and supplying innovative media to the design industry for over 50 years.

When our Dry Transfer Lettering system was first launched in 1961, designers called the process ‘a revolution in the studio’ and Letraset went on to become a household name in the field of commercial design.

Today Letraset supplies a broad range of creative media for commercial designers, students, Manga artists, illustrators and crafters.

Our motto is Creative Opportunities and that simply means, whatever your design interest or skill level, we aim to provide all the tools you need to maximize productivity and enhance your creative expression.

PRIZE :
ProMarker / Metallic 6 Set - Contemporary Xmas

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This is my card for today:


Snowman and patterned papers was a gift
from a magazine last winter, and the ribbon

Challenges:

* Challenges 4 Everybody: 

* Scribble and Scrap Blog and 
Challenge: Anything Goes 

* The Corrosive Challenge Blog:

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La Vikinga




söndag 15 december 2013

Bee bear


Todays lovely sponsor for the 
December event at Crafty Ribbons is:

The Paper Shelter


And if you go to our Pure Inspiration Blog and
write your name on a special list; you will be 
eligible for this: 


I made this card with a little digital called
Bee Bear from their range of animal stamps:


I have used shiny paper in copper tone from Panduro,
a patterned paper from the On the Sunny Side 
collection from My Minds Eye and a few 
embellishments from my stash. The ribbon is,
of course, from Crafty Ribbons


Challenges:

The Kraftyhands December Challenge: 

Hiding in My Craftroom:

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La Vikinga

lördag 14 december 2013

Decorate with ribbons


Lili of the Valley is the next sponsor in the
crafty event Crafty Ribbons has organized 
for this December 2013:



Lili of the Valley is a UK Company which has a simply gorgeous range of unique un-mounted rubber stamps.
There are hundreds of adorable images to choose from including the sweetest girls and boys, fabulous wedding and baby designs! Added to this are Lili of the Valley's amazing sentiment stamps and sentiment stamp sheets! http://www.liliofthevalley.co.uk/is also packed with hints, tips, tutorials and we also run the popular Inspirations Blog with new cards and ideas posted daily by our Design Team, so you’ll never be stuck for ideas on what to make with these really cute images
 lovely design
LOTV have very kindly given the following prize for one of you lucky people to win....


Please see how to win at 


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 I, however, choose to show how a simple
ribbon and a couple of bows can save you
if you have no present paper ready at 
home when it's time to go:




That's all for today but welcome back!

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La Vikinga

fredag 13 december 2013

Memory Box


The crafty advent in December continues at Crafty
Ribbons and today we have a new sponsor:



"My Crafty Heart specialize in designer papers, quality stamps, dies and embellishments from all major crafting companies in the world.  Teresa, the owner of the store, who is a keen card maker herself, updates her shop regularly with new and exciting items, so why not pop into www.mycraftyheart.co.uk and see what's in store!"

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If you'd like to be eligible for a voucher at My
Crafty Heart; hop over to our Inspiration Blog
and write your name on a list!!


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At My Crafty Heart, they like the dies from 
Memory Box, so I went ahead and made a
small sized easel card with a beautiful die
called Arboscello Tree:


I put some small purple gems to match the 
ribbons from the christmas collections at
Crafty Ribbons in England.


Challenges I'd like to participate:

* Crafty Girls Challenges #8:

* Shelly's Images: Welcome Winter



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Thanks for visiting my blog 
today and welcome back!

La Vikinga





torsdag 12 december 2013

New Challenge at Crafty Ribbons



New challenge today! The host today is
Crafty Ribbons and under this banner is 
a short presentation of the company.



“Welcome to all ribbon lovers...."
Crafty Ribbons is a ribbon emporium, we are passionate about ribbons and want to share our fantastic ribbons with others. Our range of Christmas ribbons is second to none.
Remember when we only used ribbons to add a bow to our hair, or tie up a birthday parcel? Ribbons are now a "must-have" for all types of craft. Whether your project requires satin, sheer, silk, grosgrain, gingham or polka dot ribbon we have them all! Lots and lots of different colours in a range of widths.
Need a little bit of ribbon inspiration - then have a look at our projects, Go on, have a try... It's worth it !
Tony & Ali

PRIZE:


This is the card I made with two different
ribbons from the Christmas Owl ribbons.


Please hop over to our Pure Inspiration
Blog and see more cards as well as the
list where we'd like your name to be to
be able to win goodies!

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Challenges:

* Craft-Dee BowZ: Handmade bow

* Crafting from the heart:

* Created with love challenges:


La Vikinga 

onsdag 11 december 2013

Delicious Doodles


Hello; today it's day 11 of the December Advent at 
Crafty Ribbons together with other companies;
today we'll present to you:

DELICIOUS DOODLES!


Hi, My name is Teresa, AKA Teri. I have been raising a family for the last ten years. I began card making after the birth of my youngest about five years ago. Recently I started drawing my own digital images, which I now sell here on my blog, Delicious Doodles.

PRIZE - 4 Digi Images of the winner's choice

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And here's my card with a snowy postbox
with glitter glue to make it look like snow!


And the ribbon from Crafty Ribbons
is one with owls: Tree Branch


A lot of snowflakes; brads, Marthe Stewart
border punch and MS snowflake punch.



Come back; there will be more!

And go have a look at more projects on 
the Pure Inspiration Blog, get inspired by
a lot of other projects and participate
to win! 

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Challenges:

* A Gem of a Chellenge # 109:
Anything Goes 

* Crafty Calendar Challenge:
Cold and Frosty

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That's all for today!!

La Vikinga