The BnW Christmas Collection blog hop is here!!!

Welcome to our BnW Christmas Collection blog hop!

I am sure you are going to fall in love with these new stamps that Summer has in store for you. Elisabeth has once again (don't know how you do it sweetie) created stunning images that really warms your heart.

The theme for this blog-hop is Christmas and Cookies for Santa! Well - I guess you all know by now that the BnW DT team is a cookie loving group of ladies...hihi......

Summer has prepared a wonderful prize! There will be a complete set of the new stamps for not only one - but TWO lucky winners. The winners will be announced on the BnW blog

Nov 4th (by me -since it's my b'day:-) and Nov 5th by Susan (since it's her b'day;-).

So what do we want you to do? We want you to complete the full blog-hop and also leave comments on each blog and the BnW blog where you also need to answer a question.

Also - a very IMPORTANT note - the stamps will begin selling on Saturday Oct 31st!!! YEAH!

So you should have arrived from Iris blog - if not - then you can start all over from the beginning. Here's the blog-hop order - just in case you get lost:

BnW blog-Rosette-Lynda-Kathrin-Jacque-Iris-Anki-Jodi-Lilian

So - what can I show you today? Well - I got to display these two cuties eating Gingerbread and of course the stamp is called Gingerbread Love. Aren't they just adorable? I immediately thought of Isac and his cousin Julia. This is how I picture them together when they are a little bit older - sharing and having fun together.
I coloured them with my copics and highlighted the gingerbread with my cinnamon stickle.
Used the Eskimo Kisses DP - of course *lol*. Chalked around the edges with Pinecone. Got to add the new and wonderful Country Elegance flowers. Then I added the perfect sentiment from SU - Sweet treats ;-))

I hope you like it and of course there's a recipe for making Swedish Gingerbread. We normally bake ours just before the first of Advent together with our Lucia buns. We also have a saying in Swedish: If you eat many gingerbread cakes - then you become a very kind and sweet person.

Here's the recipe of Swedish Gingerbread.

Ingredients:

3 dl sugar

1/2 dl syrup

1 dl water

200 g butter

1 tablespoon seville orange skin (shredded)

1-2 tablespoons of cinnamon

1/2 tablespoon ginger

1/2 tablespoon clove

2 teaspoons of cardamom

2 teaspoons of bicarbonate

approx 10 dl of flour

Baking Instructions:

Heat up the sugar, syrup and the water in a pan.

Put the butter and the spices in a bowl.

Poor the hot sugermix over the spices and stir until the butter has melted.

Let the mix cool.

Mix the bicarbonate with almost all of the flour.

Mix everything together and put the dough in the fridge until the next day. Cover it first with plastic wrap.

Take a small piece of the dough and roll it very thin. Use the cookie cutters that you like (we normally use heart, gingerbread man/woman, pig, goat, horse - but these days there are also Pippi Longstocking and other sorts of cookie cutters ;-)

Put them on the baking plate (make sure that it's not warm) covered with baking paper.

Bake the cakes in the middle of the oven in 200-225 C approx 5-8 minutes.

Let the cakes cool and then they are ready to eat! In Sweden we have them together with our tea/coffee, but also together with our hot wine punch. Also - you can serve them as an aperitif with blue cheese on them - that's a really yummy combination!

Keep them in a tin - then they normally hold up to 2-3 months.

Good luck!

Click on the above pic and it will take you directly to Jodi's blog.

Love to hear from you!

Kram Anki

Metal Musing

and that's the name for this weeks Try it out Tuesday set by our sweet Suzanne.

She wants us to use metal on our projects. It could be brads, embellies, eylets, smooch.....well - the sky is the limit ;-)

I decided to make a fun and easy gift bag. I love doing these - but it was such a long time since I actually did one. It's so nice to be able to make a gift bag out of one sheet of paper - don't you agree. I got the tutorial a long time ago from Angie Juda - you find it here. Still loving it.

So for my DP I chose Eskimo Kisses - yes - I can't get enough of that paper :-)

Then I added heart eylets in silver and closed the gift bag with some blue ribbon that I found in my stash.

I coloured Winter from the VC Winter Wonderland release with my copics. Added some Polar White flower soft on her coat. I must say - I really love the effect that the Polar White gives your project. It really looks like the real thing.

Then I used 3d gloss and sprinkled Sparkly fluff (Baby boy blue) on the ground to highlight the snow. I used smooch to highlight the hearts on her shoes and the hearts on the puppy scarf.

Added Country Elegance Blue flowers with metal embellies in the center. Could not resist to also add 2 of my Prima Jewelry as well :-) I know that they are not metals -but I picked the one's with the metal colours ;-)

Well - I hope this inspired you to try to make this gift bag and also - how to use some of your metal products at home.

Have a great week and make sure that you check the rest of the DT creations. I am sure I will!

Kram - Anki

Stay tuned

Happy Monday everyone!

Sorry for not being around, but our little son Isac has tonsillitis - so not much time for
Mom to be blogging these days. He is much better now, but have to take his medicine 3 times a day for the rest of the week.

Anyway - I just wanted to give you heads up for some more fun heading your way this week over at BnW. If you check the DTs blogs this week - then you will be able to read and maybe see some bits and parts of the new BnW release coming your way. So just a small hint - check out Lynda's blog today.

The blog hop for these new cuties is scheduled for this Friday - Oct 30th - so make sure that you stay tuned ;-)

Kram - Anki

Lockhart blog hop with hidden hearts

Welcome to the Lockhart blog hop featuring the perfect holiday stamps for your projects. Yes - it's getting closer to the holidays - can you hear the Angels singing already? Well - I can...after using this cute little stamp. And I hope that you all know that Susana carries the Lockhart images in her store.

The team want to show you holiday projects/cards featuring the Lockhart stamps. If you join us for the hop - then you can win the wonderful prize of 2 handsigned and coloured (by Karen) Lockhart stamps together with a white sparkle fluff, gold inspiration paint and a vintage X-mas flower soft! How does that sound? For all details - please check out our store blog.

What do we want you to do then? Well - finish the hop, count the hearts that are hidden in each and one of our projects, leave a comment on the store blog with the accurate total of hearts that you've found.

If you get lost - here's the blog hop order:

Suzanne-Dianne-Jennifer-Lorelie-Anki-Carolyn-Aud-Susan-Danni

The contest runs until Saturday night at 11 pm EST. The winner will be announced on Sunday on the store blog. So put your glasses on and check out our projects and remember to count the hearts. Here's my card for you today:

I coloured the image with my copics, used my Eskimo Kisses DPs - don't know how I could live without them before...hihi....Added my new Country Elegance flowers with a pearl in the center.

Hope you like it. Would love to hear from you before you hop along over to Carolyn.

Kramis and good luck with counting the hearts.

Anki

Don't miss the chance to win this wonderful kit

over at our BnW Blog.

The winner will be selected on Sunday - October 25th. Pop over and read all about it.

Kram - Anki

Table time with Alicia

Happy Tuesday everyone!

It's time for another Try it out Tuesday. This time Suzanne wants us to show something for our tables - it could be place setting cards, menus, favors, centerpieces......Well - it's all up to your imagination.

I decided to ink up one of my very first illustrations - Alicia. When I first drew her I only pictured her wearing red. Well - after having the Eskimo Kisses DPs - I've changed my mind. I think she look good in all colours :-) I hope you agree with me.

So for my project I decided to create a little something for a girly-party. So I stamped Alicia 3 times and coloured her in the Eskimo Kisses colours with my copics.

First of course I needed to make a little card for the party invitation. So here you have her.

I added 3d gloss on some parts of the images, Polar White flowersoft on her coat, smooch on her little lantern. Added ribbon from stash and the Eskimo Kisses buttons.

Then I made a tag/or a water bottle holder - the tutorial is from Angie Juda a long time ago. I did not have any chocolate at home to attach behind Alicia - but that's what you could do as an extra treat. I also punched out some snowflakes and added a Bella Bauble in the center.

This could then go as the place setting card - also a way to find out if the people you invite remember what their invitation card looked like...hihi...... (Also - so sorry for not having a nice bottle to place her on - I got to use one of hubby's beer bottles.....hm....not for little girls though.....)

As a small favor I created this little notepad. Used my coasters (that I've ordered from Angie Juda) and covered them with the DP, sanded the edges and then attached the ribbon, the post-it-notes, snowflake and Alicia. This is just a little something for the guest to bring with her home as a small memory of the party.

Well - I hope you like this and make sure that you check out the rest of the DTs creations.

Kram

Anki

Halloween challenge over at RoP/BnW

Happy Monday to you all! Hope you had a great weekend. We def. did.

We got to spend a lot of time outdoors in the crisp, fresh and cold Autumn air.

And yes - we even got the winter tires on - so we are ready for the snow ;-)

This time it's our supertalented Iris who has set the challenge over at our RoP/BnW site. We should create something for Halloween - card, invitation or treat bag . Well - I have always wanted to make one of these coaster boxes - and this time I decided to do one.

So I got my bind-it-all-machine out (it's collecting a lot of dust - don't know why, but....), my light-weight coasters that I got from Angie Juda. I covered the coasters with 4 x 4 of the Eerie DPs. Sanded the edges so that the DPs and the coasters became one ;-)

Punched the wholes with my bind-it-all, tied the 4 pieces together with ribbon from my stash. Glued the 5th coaster to the 4 sides and there I had the bottom of the box.

Coloured the image of Sitting Mimosa with my copics and cut her out. Wanted to show you that you can use a stamp that is not typical Halloween and still create the feeling of it - by using the DPs as the background scene. Added a couple of scary brads ;-) from Basic Grey.

I just put a little candle in the center - and then you can use it as the decoration for your Halloween party - or you can fill it with tons of candy. The choice is yours.

Well - hope you like it and want to play with us.

Kram and make sure that you check the rest of the DTs creations.

Anki