Wednesday, April 13, 2011

~Readers gallery~


Welcome to a new month with wonderful creations
made by you readers
We are very proud to show
you wonderful cards and projects
made by our readers.


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Valerie has been inspiratet by Marianne and her folder tecniques
and made a beautiful folded card by herself






Rosane has followed the tutorial of Marianne were she is showing us
how to make a easel post- it card.
Rosane has made a gourgous easel post it card, just
take a look:




The last one for this month is


Gry-Heidi has been inspirated by the
Gry-Heidi has made just fabulous tag in the boxes
and I presenting them
right here












Remember to e-mail us or leave a comment,
if you have been inspired
by any of our articles.
We are looking forward to show of
your project in our magazine!



Sunday, April 10, 2011

Winners of the April challenge!

It´s time for me to present the winners of  the April challenge..."An Easter card in two colours of which one has to be yellow".

First I´d like to thank all of you for joining our challenge. We´ve had a hard time picking the winners among all your lovely creations and it was very even in the topc- only one point differed between the winner and the second place.

Luckily this month we have two equally fabulous prizes, sponsored by STEMPELGLEDE!


And the second prize, these lovely stamps...


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...with this gorgeous card:




And then on to our lucky winner who gets these beauties, also from Stempelglede:




And the winner is

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 What an amazing card!!! 

BIG CONGRATULATIONS  to both of you, ladies!!!

Please  e-mail  your addresses to stampartic@gmail.com so we can send you your prizes.

Have a great Sunday!





Thursday, April 7, 2011

Magic card / Tryllekort - Tutorial



Først må jeg fortelle en liten historie om navnet til dette kortet jeg skal vise dere I dag.” Tryllekortet” har ikke egentlig noe magisk ved seg. Sønnen min kom til meg for å vise et trylletriks, og jeg la nok bedre merke til hvordan han hadde brettet sammen trikset sitt, enn til selve trikset. Brettingen hans ga meg inspirasjonen til dette brettekortet, og navnet ”Tryllekort” har liksom bare blitt hengende ved.

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First I want to tell you a short story about the name of the card I`m about to show you.  The“ Magic Card” it is not really magical. My son came to me to show me a magical trick, and I`m sorry to say I didn`t pay as much attention to the trick, as I did to how he had folded the papers he used for his trick. This inspired me to a new folding technique, and the name just came along with it.


Dette kortet består av tre deler som alle blir limt sammen til slutt.

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This card has three parts, and we will glue it all together in the end.


Kartong / Cardstock: 6” / 7” - Preg 1 ½” inn fra hver side./ Score 1 ½” in from both sides.
Kartong / Cardstock: 6” / 6” – Preg 1” inn fra hver side./ Score 1” in from both sides.

Nå har begge kartongene et midtfelt på 4”.
Bruk en bordpunch på de fire sidene, og sot kantene om du liker det.

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Now both pices have a 4” area in the middle .
Use a border punch on the edges, and distress all the edges if you like.




Her har jeg gjort klar kartong som dekker skrivefeltet, og som blir fronten på kortet

Den lille kanten er der for at fronten skal henge pent rett ned når kortet er ferdig.
4” / 7 ½”, preg ved 6”, og 6 1/8”.

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Here is the cardstock that will be the front of the card.
4” / 7 ½”, score at 6”, and 6 1/8”.

 

Det er på tide å pynte med mønsterpapir. Jeg har gjort klar fire tynne strimler, og fire brede strimler, til å dekorere alle sider av vingene på kortet. Hvor brede disse strimlene er kommer an på hvilken bordpunch du har brukt, så det må du nesten måle deg frem til selv:)

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It is time to decorate with patterned paper. I have made four thin and four thick stripes, to decorate all sides of the “wings” on the card. The size of the stripes depends on which border punch you have used.

 

Her har jeg dekorert vingene og de midtfeltene som vil bli synlig på kortet.

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Here I have decorated the wings, and the big areas that will show.

 

Her er andre siden. Vingene er dekorert, og de hvite midtfeltene vil limes mot hverandre til slutt.

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This is the other side. We will glue the white areas together in the end.




Her har frontkartongen fått mønsterpapir, både på utsiden….

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Here I have decorated the front on the outside…

 

…og på innsiden.

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…and on the innside.

 

Innsiden er her ferdig med tekst. Pass på at teksten kommer rett vei:)

Jeg har festet dobbeltsidig teip til den lille klaffen.

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I have now made a text on the inside, and added some tape to the small flip.

 

Her er klaffen limt fast på baksiden av den minste kartongen.

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I fasten the flip to the white area on the smallest cardstock.

 

Mer dobbeltsidig teip…

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More tape…

 

Her har jeg limt alle delene sammen, de to hvite feltene mot hverandre, og frontkortet henger fint ned på midten.
Jeg har laget et skrivefelt, som blir skjult av fronten.

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Here I have fastened all the parts together. The two white areas against each other, and the front in the middle.
I have made a writing space that will be hidden under the front.

 


Her er kortet åpent.

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Here you can see the card open.

 


Og her ser du kortet mitt helt ferdig. Om du bretter de bakerste vingene bakover, og de fremste vingene forover, så kan kortet stå.

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And here my card is all finished. The card can stand if you fold the wings like you see in the picture.




Her er et annet kort jeg har laget med denne bretteteknikken.

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Here is another card I have made with this folding technique.




Jeg håper du ble inspirert til å lage ditt eget tryllekort. Lykke til.

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 I hope you got inspired to make your own magic card. Good luck.


Monday, April 4, 2011

Cute and Artsy

Denne gangen har Artsy teamet jobbet med søte motiv på Artsy kort. Artsy stilen blir ikke regnet for å være spesielt søt - så dette var litt av en utfordring for Artsy teamet. Det å kombinere to forskjellige uttrykk kan være en riktig bra kombinasjon. Så vi håper å inspirere dere til bruk av denne kombinasjonen. Enten det er søtt motiv på et Artsy kort eller Artsy kort til ditt søte motiv ; )

This week our Artsy team have been working with the challenge of combining a cute stamped image with an Artsy card. Cute isn't probably the first word you think of when you hear Artsy style - but combining two different worlds could be a good thing. So we hope to inspire you to combine the two. Here's what our Artsy team have created:



Connie's cards




Yvonne's cards




Inger's cards








Vigdis's cards




Silje's cards



Vi synes det er veldig hyggelig om du legger igjen en liten kommentar eller har spørsmål ; ) Vis oss gjerne det du har laget i kombinasjonen søtt og artsy!

Please feel free to leave a comment and/or questions. We would love to see what you have made out of this cute and artsy combination!