ABNH - Metalic

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I am starting with my first Christmas card of the year. Today's card, is about metalic at the A Blog Named Hero.

The side panel is stamped with HA Tiny Stars in black and heat embossed.  The splatters are heat embossed in gold by using SU Grundges.  Added a narrow gold strip.  The sentiment is from Wplus9 and the cute little penguin is from Mama Elephant.

In-laid the die cut sentiment

Here is part two of my Scandinavia trip, if you have want to see part one, you could have a peep here.  There are lots of pictures on this posting and I hope I won't bored you.

Nobel Price Center in Olso, Norway

There are lots of waterfalls in the region

We had a train and ferry tour.  Up high in the mountain, the glaciers are still visible.

I 've been wanting to see The fjords for several years already and finally the day has arrived....

Several narrow waterfalls within a small a mountain

To our surprise, there are so many tunnels in Norway and I think we had driven about 70 tunnels within 2 weeks ranging from 500m to 24.5km.  

Yes, 24.5km tunnel - it's the longest tunnel in the world.  Because it's so long, every 6km there are special lightings designed in the tunnel and there is even a round-about!  This is my first very special light-up and a round-about in a tunnel!

Another waterfall along the way

Bergen - World Heritage City

more fjords....

Ok. I won't lie!  This is the coldest summer holiday we ever had and everyone was not happy with it - it was about 12-18 degrees celcius.  But with the breathtaking landscapes and views - I am ok with it!

One of our chalets in a beautiful nature area

view from our chalet

view from our chalet at 11pm - sun still shinning.  It never gets dark when we were there!

Did a hike to a mountain. About 400m above sea level

Towards the end of the holiday at Southern part of Norway, Stavanger.  One of the cutest and colourful wooden houses I have even seen!

I hope you have enjoyed some of Norway.  I know the fjord pictures were not as great but you have to be there to exprience the real thing.  DH has driven more than 4000km in total out of which I drove only 20km in Germany.  I know I am not a driver but I had to drive in Germany as some part of the country has no speed limit so I drove my top speed at 150km!  Woohoo!

The kids are going on camp this weekend and the two oldies are taking the opportunity to fly out to Newcastle, UK.  

Thanks for dropping by and have a great weekend!

TKJ #236

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I fell in love with this TE Perfect Pairs Burger & Fries stamp the moment I saw it - they are just adorable.

I am going for Red, Die Cut and Tag for this challenge at The Kraft Journal.  Stamped the image on a white cardstock and colored in copics.  The background is stamped in red with SU Gorgeous Grundge.  The awning is a die cut from TE and the label tag is from SU.  The sentiment is from PTI Year Round Pun.

This card also enters into The Craft Stamper  and Double Click Connections challenges.

Here are some photos which were taken during our trip to Scandinavia.  Our first stop which took us about 900km ride from home was Copenhagen, Denmark.

city of Copenhagen

Christiansborg Castle.  Part of the castle is still used by the Royal families.  Built in 1733.

Christiansborg Church

Copenhagen Opera House

Opera house from a different angle

 A peep inside the Opera house

Outside the Opera House with a special glass design on the background

A close-up of the glass piece

Leaving Copenhagen and driving towards Olso, Norway.  Breathtaking landscapes

I shall leave you today with Copenhagen and will be back with more breathtaking landscapes in Norway.  Thanks for taking your time to visit me.

ABNH - One Layer Challenge

A quick one-layer card today for A Blog Named Hero, Colour Throwdown  and Simon Wednesday challenges.

The background is stamped with distress inks, spritz with water on acrylic block and stamped onto a watercolour paper.  The leftover of the inks are diluted with more water to create the splatters on the background.

Then, I used the old stamp from HA Wild Garden stamped and heat embossed and did a second generation stamping too.

 second generation stamping

It's King's Day today and it's also my DH's birthday.  As you may know, the colour orange is the national colour in The Netherlands.  Majority tend to wear orange today and this is the only legal day that children can set-up flea markets everywhere.

I tried to talk my children to take a family picture in "orange" but they are not into it so we ended up with just the both of us!

Thanks for dropping by and have a good day!

Color Throwdown #324

Hello everyone,

I am back from the warm country about two weeks ago but as usual, it took awhile before my mojo is back again.  If I am still not too late, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

I am starting off this year with a Valentine card for a card drive which is organised by Winter Wonderland and using the colour inspiration from Color Throwdown.

The banner set is from SU.  As this card is heading to the hospital, there is nothing of buttons, glitters, sequins or anything that can be pulled out as it might pose as a choking hazard!

Besides visiting Malaysia this year, we flew to Krabi, Thailand for a couple of days for snorkeling and rafting.  Although, the flying was only an hour, the weather was surprisingly different from Malaysia as the humidity in Krabi was lower which made it very pleasant to walk around.  Here are a couple of photos from Krabi...

Krabi is a small town and as I understood that there were only three traffic lights and I spotted this zebra crossing!

Getting ready for snorkeling trip in our purple boat

Stopover for lunch on the white beach

"Take Away" boats along the coast

At a waterfall and our feet were "cleansed" by the fishes!

One of the temples 

Spotted these elephants after our ride

Thank for dropping by and have a great day!