End of term bloghop at the House of Cards

Hello everyone!

Can you believe we've are at the end of our fifth term here at House of Cards?! And we're celebrating with a blog hop!

Here is my MixMedia card inspiration for you.

I choos to use stamp from Reverse Confetti one of ours sponsors.

I have played with my Distress ink, water, watercolor paper and gesso.
Love this stamp from the set I recived,
"Friends forever, mainly because you know to much
and you've seen me ugly cry"
Had to make it as a focail point.
Different flowers from WOC.
Wood and heart pins embellishment
Gave the diecut and flowers some strokes of gesso to finished it of.
Happy with the result.

This hop will run FROM June 1ST AT 6:00 AM CST THROUGH June 15TH AT NOON CST,  ANY CARD STYLE is welcome and we've got a gorgeous photo inspiration for your crafting enjoyment!

***PRIZE WINNERS FROM THE BLOG HOP WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE 20TH OF JUNE.***

***CARD WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED NEXT MONTH ON THE 15TH, AS PER THE USUAL HERE AT HOC.  THANK YOU!***

Here is the photo inspiration~

So, are you ready to get hopping?!  Yep, it's time, but first we've got some fabulous sponsors to share with you!  Make sure you leave a comment at each person's blog along the way because the prizes are hidden and we'll be doing random drawings from the blogs where they are hiding! :)  After you're done, make a creation to share with us here, too, for another chance to win!

Here are all of our fabulous sponsors.

Our team will be using a variety of products

from these amazing companies!

Reverse Confetti

Prize: $25 Gift Certificate

REVERSE CONFETTI offers on trend, high quality photopolymer stamps, high quality CONFETTI CUTS steel dies and exclusive paper products to coordinate with our releases…all made in the USA.

A Day For Daisies

Prize: 3 Digital Images

A Day For Daisies provides themed categories of over 1000 digital illustrations, including fairy tales and magical mermaids, cutie kids, vintage illustrations, sentiments and lovely designs for all occasions!

Great Impressions

Prize: Prize Package

Great Impressions was founded in 1984 by Ken and Deone Mackenzie.  With a love for stamping, the company grew.  The result is a quality rubber stamp in either wood mount or stickable mount backing for all your stamping needs.  Great Impressions' goal is to provide the highest quality stamps and to inspire creativity!

MHKDesigns

Prize: Any three products of your choice!

MHKDesigns is a vintage digital stamp Etsy shop owned and operated by Mynn Kitchen from On A Stampage.  She creates vintage stamp sets and digital paper packs for all your crafting needs.  Contact her with any requests you have at mhkdesigns.etsy@gmail.com!

And now, here's your hop order~

HOC Blog 

Mynn 

Sue T. 

Cohenna 

Donna 

Dotty Jo 

Em 

Emily 

Heather 

Jane 

Judy 

Karen

 Katarzyna Ewa  

Katy

 Leslie 

Linda

You are here - Merethe ---------------

Merlina 
Michele
Paula 
Rocky 
Rosi
 Ruza

Shawna 
Shirley
 Steph 
Sue N.
Susan
 Tina 
Toni

Now get to hoppin'!  Your next stop is Merlinas's Blog!  

Don't forget to link up a project with us after completing the hop for an extra chance to win a mystery prize from one of our fabulous sponsors, too!  

HUGS and happy stamping to you all! :)

(✿◠‿◠) Ma (Merethe)

Enter these challenges:

2/6-16 Allsorts challenge - Week 365 - In the Pink

10/6-16 Scrappegrasjen - #24 stempel

15/6-16 Kort'O Mania - #154 Alt er lov

26/6-16 Scraclub Donetsk - Wood

30/6-16 Hjerteboden - Sommer

25/7-16 Hobbygarasjen - #38 Alt er lov

26/7-16 Kreativ Scrapping - #6/7 sommer og sol

Acetat and vellum card

Hi again.

New month and and a new challenge at the House of cards. This month it is about clear papers. (Like vellum and acetate). 

I had a struggel with this, not short of ideas but they did not came out the way I wanted. So at last I made this. And I am pleased with this card. It is more purple than the photos shows

I am inspired by Jennifer McGuire and lots of her tutorials for vellum and acetate card. Also little inspired from Kittie Caracciolo.

I had this tree die from Impression Obsession, and diecut it out of vellum. 

I have got some alcohol inks and playedwith them on a clear binder cover. When dry I diecut som mini flowers. Did shape them e little, and random placed them on the branches of the tree. Little crystals in the center of each flower. 

The sentimen is also from Impression Obsession, and machted the card well.

The base is a binder cover sheet folded, and a smaller note card inside. 

The sentiment is placed on the note card inside. 

Hope you have a little isnpiration from my card here. And hop over to the challenge and see all the other girls creations.

Happy crafting.

(✿◠‿◠) Ma (Merethe)

Konfirmasjons tid - jenter

Hallo igjen.

Fikk bestilling på konfirmasjons kort og da ble det noen bler i samme stilen. Utgangaspunktet var et kort jeg har laget tidligere, da til gutt.

Her er kortene.

Brukt vintage motiv fra klippeark, blomsten er av samme mønster papir som bakgrunnen. Revet strimler av papireet og en kontrast farge. Bånd ble laget av fibervev i match ende farge. Metall og perlepynt i blomsten. 

Inni er det en konfirmasjons tektst og en skjult pengelomm bak skrive feltet. Baksiden er lignene som inni.

Her er orginalen.

Og her er flere til jentene:

Lagde flere i rosa og lilla toner, men disse er de jeg likte best.

Deltar i disse utfordringene:
Papirdukkene - konfirmasjon

 (✿◠‿◠) Ma (Merethe)

Springtime and confirmation - Girls

Hello peeps.

Spring are here and my garden are out of snow already a bit earlier this year than normal. And with springtime it is time for confirmations around here. 

And this months challenges at the House of Cards has colors that are nice for girly cards. 

So here we go, here are my card for this month.

Did the same lay out for the inside just shifted on the layers here.

This months challenges is all about "script" and or colors. I did go for both. I did all colors, script and the tulips. Love tulips, by the way. ;)

I have used old papers from Kort&Godt, Bazzill, DCWV and the image is from a Pion die cut sheet. 

Script corner stamps are from "Lilly of the Valey" and the Norwgian sentiment say "It is your day today" and I don't know the maker of this. 

Die cut a doily from an old book page, and lace and ribbon from my stash. 

The tulips are from WOC. Dies I used are from Tonic Studios and Marianne Design.


Enter these challenges:

2/4-16 The Ribbon Girl blog - Any Image Challenge
4/4-16 Deep Ocean Challenge - #125 Fave Color Combo
4/4-16 Papirlosjen - #3 Vår i lufta 
15/4-16 Kort'O Mania - #150 En hyllest til våren
26/4-16 Kreativ Scrapping - #4 Minst tre farger
29/4-16 Cardmania - #79 Spring
29/4-16 Contry View Challenges - April Spring
30/4-16 Rubber Dance Art Stamps - stamp into spring
30/4-16 PapirPlaneten - #5 Konfirmasjon og/eller våren
30/4-16 Kreativ Hobby - April - Konfirmasjon
30/4-16 Papirdukkene FB - Konfirmasjon 
30/4-16 Hjerteboden - Vår 

Thats all for now, and happy crafting

(✿◠‿◠) Ma (Merethe)

Blått stjerne kort med julestjerne

Hei igjen.

I høst laget jeg dette Stjerne kortet etter å ha sett leser oppgaver i ett trykk. Og bestemte meg for å sende inn. Sia dette var første gang jeg sendte noe inn, regnet jeg ikke med å bli valgt ut men det ble jeg. Stolt, glad og ydmyk, ble og er jeg. Fikk til og med en hel side med seks bilder og et lite sneak peak på forsiden. Så dette var over alle forventninger. 

Ett Trykk

Ligger mange maler på nette til Stjernekort og jeg fulgte denne fra God Tid bloggen

Brukt Bazzill kartong og mønsterpapir fra Papirdesign. Stemplene er fra Norskt Stempel blad.

Julestjernen er fra Tim Holtz/Sizzix og er montert på en dekorativ sirkel, denne er fra Tonic studio.

Julestjernen ble kuttet og embosset. Så brukte jeg to toner i blått og grønt fra Disstress ink og sverta embossingen på julestjernen med disse. Forment og montert med en raindrops i midten. 

Bånd festet på baksiden av sirkelen og knytes rundt når stjernekortet er foldet sammen.

God plass til å skrive en hyggelig julehilsen inni kortet. 

Det var alt for denne gang. La kreativiteten blomstre til neste gang.

(✿*‿*) Ma (Merethe) 

Wedding card - easel silhouette card

Hello again.

Ready for a new challenge over at the House of Cards? This month we want to see you create something with silhouettes. Here you can do a lot. 

I choose to use a wedding couple die and made a easel wedding card aka Gunn-Eirill does. She has a lot of great stuff on her blog. Pop over and have a look.

Here is my card for this months challenge.

Papers are from Prima and the bling are too. Flowers are from WOC mostly. The dies I have used are from Marianne Design (Marianne Design Craftables Die - Hearts CR1225), ROX stamp (Dies - Gratulerer med dagen) and Tattered Lace Dies (Couple (D169) – Tattered Lace).

The wedding couple are "floating" in the heart .... I have cut to pieses and glue them together with a tread inbetween...

Hope you this made you inspired to make a card of what silhouette are for YOU! 

Pop over to the The house of card and see the other girls great creations for more inspiration.

Take care and happy crafting.

Ma (✿*‿*) HOC DT

Enter these challenges:
4/3-16 Papirlosjen - #2 Hjerter
13/3-16 Card and Scrap - #113 Shabby chic/Vintage 
14/3-16 Nordsalten hobbyklubb - #134 Utstanset
15/3-16 Kort'O Mania - #148 Bingobrett  (2.loddrett - dies, lag på lag, Shabby Chic, bretting)
31/3-16 Kreativ Hobby - Mars-Vintage
2/3-16 Simon says Stamp - Anyting Goes
14/3-16 Cuttlebug Mania - Welcome spring

Strikkepinne bokser

Hei.

I dag er det dekorerte pringles bokser. Eller som mange kaller det - STRIKKEPINNE BOKSER.

Dekket med mønsterpapir og diverse diecuts fra Portraiten min og med diser i Big Shoten. 

Motivene er fra diverse klippe ark jeg hadde liggende. 

Bånd blomster og anna pynt er prikken over I'en på disse. 

Ha en fin dag.

(✿◠‿◠) Ma

Hvitt vinter hus med elektrisk telys inni

Hei igjen.

Her kommer et lite vinterhus og tre fra mæ. Huset er montert slik at det kan løftes opp og sette et elektrisk te lys inni.

Filen på huset og treet er funnet i Silhouette store og kuttet ut i hvit kartong med Portrait maskina mi. Pipa kjørte gjennom i en embossingfolder med mur struktur før den ble brettet og montert. Brukte så snemaling og glitter for en sne effekt.

Treet er kuttet ut flere ganger og brettet på midten og limt rygg mot rygg for å få en 3D effekt.

Plattformen er flere lag med eskepapp opppå hverandre og limt hvit kartong rundt før hus og tre ble montert på denne.

Liten gave te god venninne som liker det rent og enkelt.

Liker å bygge ting, og dette var koselig bygging. Terapi vil æ kalle det.
Ha en fin kreativ dag.

(✿◠‿◠)  Ma

Deltar i disse utfordringene:
29/2-16 Kort'O Mania - #147 Alt er lov BLE TOPP 3
29/2-16 Hjerteboden - Bretting
2/3-16 Simon says stamp - anything goes

Påske Egg - lang rugetid

Heisann.

Endelig begynner scrappelysten å komme tilbake. 

Det er sjelden æ plukke opp et prosjekt når æ ha lagt det ifra mæ for lenge sia... Men det har æ da gjort med dettan påskeegget. Snart et år siden jeg begynte på dette og har nå gjort det ferdig. 

MixMediastil inspirert a bla Kirsten Hyde og hennes kurs. Mister, sprayer, maling og paste er brukt på delene og egget. Og masse Gesso. 

Deler fra PC, leke helikopter, lyspærer, øretelefoner, låsehengsler mm. Ja bla endel som jeg fant på jr rom, han har altid likt å plukke istykker ting for å sjekke korsen det såg ut inni. Noe som har resultert i at han idag e i elektriker faget. Jr hadde også en periode med hodeskaller, deriblandt lomme/bukselenke med disse på. Disse er nå forevig "vokter" av egget :)

Selve egget va et som jr har slitt med i alle år. Den gangen det ble kjøpt, va vi sent ute og valget va da mellom et pitte lite grønt eller et stort lilla.... Det ble lilla, og no e det for første gang et skikkelig manne egg. Endel rødt siden jr e gla i rødt. 

Dekorert med blomster, sorte diamanter og miro-perler. Så her er bildene, de sier mer enn ord.

God påske jr... om ei lita stund :)

Hi and welcome.
After long time I have finished my sons (18) easter egg. The egg itself he have had since he was a little boy, but needed some TLC. And I want to surprice him with it for this Easter, as he no longer live at home. Mooved out for education and work to the south.

He was a boy that did love to pic things a pices just to see how it looked inside. So many of the parts on this are toys and pc and other electric stuff that I have found in his room. He had also a love for those sculls chaines they hang on their pants and juvelry, so it is all stuff he will know and remeber. And hope to bring a smile to his face.

Have used heavy duty glue for those parts and a lot of gesso. Paints, sprays, mists and paste are covering the whole easter egg. Red is his favorite color and used red flowers and microbeads to finished it of. 

I am proud and happy with this. Just have to fill it with some sweets and send it of now.

Håper det inspirerer og ikke skremmer skrappelysten din. 

(✿*‿*) Ma (Merethe) 

Deltar i disse utfordringene:

29/2 Papirdukkene FB - EGG
26/2-16 Kreativ Scrapping - #2 Glede
29/2-16 Kort'O Mania - #147 Alt er lov
29/2-16 Altered Eclectics - Anything goes
29/2-16 An Altered Art Challenge Blog - February Challenge
4/3-16 Anything But Cute - Grungy Love Ble DT favoritt

Pleated Heart rosett card

Hello everyone.

Are you ready for another challenge at the House of Cards.

This month is it all about shaped cards. 

Here is my card.

I am still working with the pleated rosett cards. Now I found a heart shape at the Silhouette store, and wanted to try it. It is soon valentine too. Embossed the egdes in silver.

Used die from Marianne Design and Cherry Lynne. And the letters I cut with my Silhouette Portrait. Wink of Stella clear on the red diecut and the flowers. The letter are covered with Wink of Luna silver.

Inside place to write a greeting.

Hope to see your card at the challenge. 

Take care and enjoy your crafting.

Ma (✿*‿*) 

Star folded card and Coloring with embossing powder

Hi Peeps, and a Happy New Year to you all.

A new year and an new term as a DT for the House of Cards for me, and I am very happy to be part of this amazing team. This month our Challenge are embossing and or color inspiration.

Here is mye Star foldet Card.

As you know I love and use a lot of embossing on my cards, and to day I want to show you a non-traditional way of embossing, Coloring with embossing powder.

This technique I spotted over at Jennifer McGuire on Youtube and had to try it.
I have this layered stamp sett from Altenew, where I used the leafs to try this technique.

The way of how you do it is that instead of layers of ink stamping you use Versamark and colored embossing powders.

I did not have many colors to pick from so the first layer, the base I used a light green pingment ink from Colorbox and clear embossingpowder over. Next layer is a powder from Tim Holtz and Ranger, and it have this sandy feeling when you touch it. Since I already had a layer of clear embossing powder this powder become less sandy to touch. The top layer is black embossing from Whistler, my favorite embossingpowder, sadly they are retired.

To get a good result it is smart to use your antistatic tool, cloth or buddy between each layer and let them cool down between each embossing and dont overheat.

I have the die set to this stamp set so I die cut all the leavs I made.

I also die cut this ornamental cirkel from Marianne desing, embossed it and when still in the die I inked up the raised parts of it.

The Star foldet card I have seen lots of on Pintrest and have made one before, and this is a simpler take on it as I wanted to let the leavs and front lable be the main focus.

I lightly inked up the egdes of the roses, and a lace ribbond glued at the back of the front panel with a cirkle to cover it.

The text I diecut from the same paper as the card base of the card. I was planed to emboss it but forgot. Sorry. Emboss your diecuts in embossing powder and they get a 3D effect. You can see it on my Frosty Card. This is also a card with a lot of heat embossing on it, have look for more inspirations.

There are so many ways that you can eboss and use embossing powder. Hope you got inspired and want to try out this fun technique of layered embossing.

And check out the other DT members for more inspiration~

Cohenna | Donna | Dotty Jo | Em | Emily | Heather

Jane | Judy | Karen | Katarzyna Ewa * | Katy | Leslie* | Linda

Merethe | Merlina* | Michele | Paula* | Rocky | Rosi | Ruza

Shawna | Shirley* | Steph | Sue N. | Sue T. | Susan* | Tina* | Toni
 

The DT cards will be showcased here throughout the month,  so check back at House of Cards each week!  I hope you join our challenge, you can check the rules  HERE before linking up!

Happy Crafting New Year!

Ma (✿*‿*) HOC DT

Enter these challenges
13/1-16 Card and Scrap - #109 Bruk stempler
14/1-16 Nordsalten hobbyklubb - #130 Alt er lov
26/1-16 Kreativ Scrapping - #1 Alt er lov