walking in a winter wonderland…..

This is my favorite time of the winter, it´s almost Christmas, the snow have been falling for several days and we are now living in a winter wonderland.

yesterday me and my family enjoyed the beautiful weather, and I actually took a picture of the beautiful landscape we are living in…  Whats it like in your part of the world? sunny, warm, cold, lots of snow?

well let´s talk something besides weather for a while…

its almost Christmas… in less than two weeks the school is having a break for Christmas, and I´m the one always doing everything last minute… there is some ornaments and lights up.. but the rest of the decorations . they are still in their boxes. the only thing I actually have been doing is Christmas cards and tags… and earlier this week I had this tag up over at the Hobbyworld blog.

 

I´ve used a cute emboss folder from Spellbinders, and my favorite gelatos and glitter emboss powder to get the cute effects. I’ve also tied some of the cute new Platinum Shimmer Twine from the Twinery around the tag.

I hope that you will have a wonderful weekend with time to create

//Katarina

 

 

Handmade Holiday Bloghop Final day!

We are really happy to be joining a

variety of companies for the

2012 Handmade Holidays Blog Hop.

Designers from some of your favorite

companies show you ways to create something

from the heart this holiday season.

Over the next three days, over 60 stops will be

sure to inspire you.

While you hop, we encourage you to leave a

comment at each stop as each company is offering

prizes to random participants, so we hope you enjoy!

This is what you can win from THe Twinery!

3 spools of baker’s twine in your choice of colors

{$48 retail value}

Enjoy your day!

To be eligible to win:

Please visit each blog on the hop over the three days

Leave a comment on each project post by

11:59pm  EST, Tuesday Nov 27th

Winners will be chosen at random and the prize winner

for The Twinery will be posted on our blog no later than

Friday, November 30th

Today’s Blog Hop Order:

Clearsnap

Hampton Art
Graphic45

Fiskateers

Donna Salazar Designs

Tombow USA

Authentique Paper

The Twinery

Eileen Hull for Sizzix

Globecraft Memories

Dana Warren

Steph Ackerman

Arlene Cuevas

Susan Lui

Ashley Bores

Mistra Hoolahan

Nina Yang

Angie Blom

Denise Hahn

Stephenie Hamen

Guiseppa Gubler

Jessica Fick

 

 

 

 

//Katarina

An untraditional Christmas card

This weekend there was a challenge over at a facebook group I am a member of, to make a christmascard using non traditional colours..

and I made this card:

 

using my favourite color combo at the moment, turqouise and yellow, and I love these patterned papers from MME and October Afternoon

 

//Katarina

..Christmas Time..

well.. there have been a couple of days with loads of snow,, and I actually got in to a sort of Christmas mode… *shhhh don´t tell.. I actually longed for some Glühwein and gingerbread cookies*

Today I´m sharing a Card I had featured over at Hobbyworld blog the other day..

Materials used:

MME- All is bright collection

Spellbinders- Spiral Blossom One

Prima- Resin Window III

Martha Stewart- Doily Lace punch

EK- Rock Fern punch

Martha Stewart- Branch  punch

Thanks for your visit and all your lovely comments.

//Katarina

An interesting day…

Today has been the mental meltdown day in my house… and I made the black belt in Meltdowns….

Well let me put it like this…. I expect flowers chocolate a good wine and a beautiful neclace and a candle light dinner tomorrow….  No I dont expect this after every nuclear meltdown in this household… just tomorrow…

Why? Bec me and my husband Celebrate 11 yrs as married tomorrow.. and 15 as a couple….

well… to get back on track.. after the meltdown I thought of a saying I read somewhere on the web a couple of days ago… “If you are feeling blue.. try paint yourself in another color”

Love paint… a colleague of mine suggested bodypaint… naaah not my style… (getting on the wrong track again)…

Well.. I started painting.. and let me tell you that kind of painting was some time since the last time… I actually painted stamped Images.

There was a Time when I did it all the time… Thats how I ended up with scrapbooking. it feels like about a million years ago.. but I actually started my DT career as an International Designer for the Magnolia Rubberstamps.

bla bla bla.. Will she ever get to the point??……

Well I took out some colourpencils and started painting.. and I actually taped the entire process… and YES!!! I did a Video Tutorial about it..

The thought was to make something for my digital training programme we are having at work.. but as with alot today.. I sort of sidestepped myself and ended up with something else than I had in mind when I started…

so…

you want to check it out?
sorry about the audio.. Im not that great at talking in my videos yet….

Ive used the Carta Bella from The Aug kit from My scrapbook Nook for the card shown at the end of the video…

Twinery+Skippingstone stamps

Hi everyone!
The Twinery has teamed up with the Skippingstone designs for a great blog hop…

Today Im going to share with you a project I did using the Skippingstones design-Dandelion dreams. A lovely set of stamps, so versatile and beautiful for any occation card, together with the gorgeous and  My OH so favourite twine in the colour Mandarin. Other materials used are dies from Spellbinders, patterned Papers from Echo Park Paper and Momenta. Tag punch from EK Success.

The Twinery
Skipping Stones Design

You came here from —>  Stephanie Mino
Katarina Damm-Blomberg —-> That´s me
Hop on to—>> Jennifer Rzasa

The Twinery is giving away a beautiful set of twine during this blog hop, make shure to visit all the blogs in the hop and leave a comment for a chance to win.

Thank you so much for your visit and comments!

They really make my day
//Katarina

Love never fails! WOW embossing

Today Im up at the WOW embossing blog, sharing a small video about a quick and easy card you can make for any type of occasion.

Perhaps you are going to a house warming party, a baby christening, or a birthday party? This card is assembled in just a couple of minutes, that gives you time for other preps.

materials used for this card: White Cardstock, Spellbinders  edgeabilities, Basic Grey Plumeria, Wow embossing powder Presidio Purple,  WOW stamp Flowers, Twine colour stone- The Twinery, sentiment card, doily and adhesives.

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day!
//Katarina

.:G45 Designteam 2012 audition:.

Its no secret that I love scrapbooking and scrapbooking challenges.. and I love the G 45 collections. I buy them, I pet them.. and I rarely dare to put my scissors in to them bec I love them to much.

Now G45 is having a DT call, and I thought why not give it a try…  It would be an awesome team to be on, and I would love every second of it, thats why I put myself out like this

These are my entries for the DT call:

En stilla plats

Materials used:

 G 45 Buttons, G 45 tags-Renaissance Faire Collectoin and Lé Romantique Collection, Tim Holtz Distres stain-Broken China,

 Letters- Websters Pages, Twine-The Twinery, other-Paperdoily, overlay and chipbooard.

Treasure box

Materials used: G 45 Renaissance fair, G45 A proper gentleman collection, WOW embossing-Sierra sunrise, The Twinery- Denim,  Spellbinders- Spiral blossom one,

Epiphany Crafts- Round 14 tool, Epiphany Crafts Vintage settings,  Melissa Frances embellishments

Angel

Materials used: Mannequin doll, Vintage dicitonary, Cheese cloth, Vintage lace, paperflowers. Spellbinders, glitter glue

Christmas Card

(this card is made from scratch by me, no templates available)

Materials used: Echo Park, Spellbinders, Best Creations, Kaiserkraft

Christmas 24- 12

Materials used: Lily Bee, American Crafts, Spellbinders, Wow Embossing,

 

Talented and sweet

Materials used: Tattered Angels mists, Best Creations, Epiphany Crafts, Jillibean, Maya Road, The Twinery, Pink Paislee

Thank you so much for looking at my artwork!
//Katarina

Lets Rock some Socks!!

OK I have to admit.. I have working my huge butt of to get the Spellbinder Designteam submissions just as awesome as I am   but it didn´t  take me all the way this year eighter… dont rub it in please…. well better luck next time right?? 3 is a charm I´ve heard..

Well…I wanted to show you what I did for the call :)

 

round 1:

 round2

 I made my interpretation of the godess Nike… or well more like a fallen angel  according to the outcome

well thats all folks…

Now Im off to make some new awesome projects and wow new teams…

//Katarina

.:Tags:.

Today is my Brother in laws birthday… and I needed to make a quick gifttag.  this one was really easy to make..

I used a tattered Angel screen and dabbed it with an embossing pad, brayered the sticky side to a white tag.. and added some polysparkle embossingpowder on it. melted the powder with my heatgun and sprayed a lot of different blue Mists over the tag, using the embossed pattern as a resist…

added some flowers and tada….