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

HAPPY WEDDING ANIVERSARY!!

FELIZ ANIVERSARIO DE BODAS

PARA

ALEXIS Y EVE-LINA!

La Vikinga

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

Fancy Dress

Today's sponsor is Crafty Sentiments.

Paper: American Crafts, Ribbon 

from Crafty Ribbons.

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:

 Sparkle at Christmas

* Brown Sugar Challenge Blog:

# 73 Anything goes

* Craftitude: Anything Goes / 

Christmas sparkle

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La Vikinga

Green and white

Today the sponsor of the Crafty Ribbons

December event is:

Pink Tulip Creations

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:

Anything Goes

* Shelly's Images: Winter Theme:

Snowflakes

* Charizma Cardz Challenges:

#49 Anything Goes

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La Vikinga

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

Hoot tawny owl ribbon.

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

Decorate a vase

Hi; today Joanna Sheen is featured at

Crafty Ribbons December event:

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

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: 

Winter in Wonderland

* Crafting from the Heart: 

Anything Goes

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La Vikinga

Letraset and a snowman

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 :

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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

is from Crafty Ribbons christmas shop.

Challenges:

* Challenges 4 Everybody: 

Anything Goes

* Scribble and Scrap Blog and 

Challenge: Anything Goes 

* The Corrosive Challenge Blog:

Anything Goes

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La Vikinga

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: 

Anything Goes

Hiding in My Craftroom:

Anything Goes

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La Vikinga

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 

the Pure Inspiration Blog HERE!!!

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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:

Ribbon used: Tawny Flowers Christmas Owl Ribbon

That's all for today but welcome back!

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La Vikinga

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:

Anything Goes 

* Shelly's Images: Welcome Winter

including snowflakes

* PPA183: Color challenge 

(white, green and pink)

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Thanks for visiting my blog 

today and welcome back!

La Vikinga

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:

 Anything Goes

* Created with love challenges:

# 70 Anything Goes

La Vikinga