Shitake and Oregano

Hey Peeps!

Today is a new challenge over at Crafts and Me. And it is our darling Vix that is hosting for the Dynamite Digi Team. The theme for this challenge is summer.


We have some brand new digis in stock at The Crafts and Me Store. And i have chosen this gorgeous Shitake and Oregano digi for my card. You can find it right here. I have just fallen in love with the shabby chic style. And it might show on my recent cards. I just love the light and pure colours used. The papers i used is from Pink Paislee, and i used gesso and painted the back paper very lightly, to make it lighter.

These are the ProMarkers i used for the image:
Hair:
Walnut
Terracotta
Spice
Oatmeal

Skin:
Vanilla
Saffron
Oatmeal
Tan

Mushroom:
Almond
Satin
Putty
Tan
Cinnamon
Umber

Dress:
Sunflower
Lemon
Canary
Soft Lime

Leaf:
Pine
Lush green
Forest green
Bright green

The Prize is 6 digis of the winners choice in the Crafts and Me Store. Wouldn`t you like to own some of these amazing images? Come on and play then! Look at the awesome creations my team mates have prepared for you. We also have 2 new ladies on our team. Rose and Jane. Please give them some extra looove.


So now it is time to show us what you can create for us. The theme shoul be easy enough, lol. Hop on over to the Crafts and Me challenge blog and join in on the fun! See you there!

Some challenges i`m entering:

Bearly Mine Designs - Challenge #14 Anything goes
Creative craft challenges - Pretty blossoms Challenge
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Challenge #3 Cards
Scrap creations - Recipe challenge, At least 2 DP and at least 2 embellies
Bunny Zoe`s - Challenge #14 Fun in the sun
The Crazy Challenge - Challenge #75 Summertime
Digi Design House - Challenge #10 Summer
Make it monday - Challenge #45 Anything goes
Simon says stamp - simon says....anything goes

Thanks for looking!

Hugs...Mona

Happy Birthday at Crafts and Me

Hey Peeps!

It`s my turn to host the challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenges today. The theme i have chosen for todays challenge is Birthdays! We all love birthdays, don`t we? Birthdays are a wide theme. You can create just about anything. You`ll just have to smack on some birthday sentiments and there you have it.

Do you want to have a try as a GDT on our fabulous team? Hop over to the Crafts an Me shop blog and find out how.

For my inspirational sample i have used the wonderful digi Aliah. She is designed by the talented Hannah Lynn. You can find her right here.


The paper is from Melissa Frances and the die cuts i got from my lovely and generous friend Johanna aka Pojjo, in Sweden. The sentiment is a freebie from Bizzy Becs and the bling is a butchered swirl from Prima. Seambinding is from Wild Orchid and the flower is from Mulberry Crafts in the UK. The doily i got from my sweet friend and co-designer at WhoopsiDaisy, Nataliya in Canada. The lace is from own stash.


Don`t you just love how her hair is flowing down? I think she looks so beautiful. I actually was quite satisfied with the colouring this time. These are the ProMarkers i used:

Hair:
Walnut
Terracotta
Spice
Honeycomb

Skin:
Vanilla
Saffron
Oatmeal
Tan

Arctic blue and cool aqua for the eyes
Blossom for the lips
Bright green and marsh green for the leaf
Pale pink and antique pink for the flowers.

Please hop on over to the other girls in the DT and give them some love. And don`t forget to enter our birthday challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenges.

Challenges:

Divas by Design - Challenge #5 Die cuts or punches
I love ProMarkers - Challenge #72 must include flowers
Totally Gorjuss - Challenge #86 Ribbons and Lace

Bling it on at Crafts and Me

Hey Peeps!

Today is the Dynamite digi team`s turn to host the challenge over at Crafts and Me. And we want to see anything glittery on your creations. For the first time we are also visited by a guest designer which will be joining us for two challenges and first out is the talented Lau which has been a frequent challenge participant over at Crafts and Me. Check out her lovely creation over at Crafts and Me.

Do you want to guest design for our team? Just hop on over to the Crafts and Me shop blog and there you`ll find out how.

For my card today i have used the brand new digi from Sara Burrier called Truth. You can find it here. Isn`t she lovely? I decied to try a new twist for my colouring. I have used two colours to colour up her dress and i think it turned out ok. The colour combo was great but i didn`t get the shading quite as i wanted it.


As some of you know i have struggeled with my mojo lately but yesterday i received some new goodies that i ordered from Wild Orchid Crafts, and i think it got a bit easier though i`m not quite where i want yet. Look at the beautiful lace i got. Looove it. Just might have to order up some more, lol.


I also got the seambinding and the pearlstrings from Wild Orchid Crafts. I just had to try the seambinding. I think it looks so beautiful on others creations and it has become really popular and finally i got to try it. I just loooove it. So now i`m gonna order in more of it, lol.


Challenges i`m entering:

Bearly Mine designs - Challenge #12 Anything goes
Scrap Creations - Challenge #14 Anything goes
Bunny Zoe`s Crafts - Challenge #13 Fairies
Craft your Passion - Challenge #62 Magical
Crazy Challenge - Challenge #71 Monochromatic
Lexi`s Creations - Challenge #42 No sentiment
Pollycraft - Challenge #97 Rbbon and flowers

Thanks for looking. And i really appreciate all the sweet comments you leave for me.

Hugs...Mona

ProMarkers i used:

Dress:
Aegan
Cyan
Turqoise
Petrol
Gold Metallic

Skin:
Vanilla
Saffron
Oatmeal

Hair:
Cool grey #1,2,3,and 4

Punch it Out at Crafts and Me

Hey everyone!

Time for another challenge at Crafts and Me. It is the lovely Sheila that has set the challenge which is Punch it out. We are a bit sad today. Our wonderfully talented Carisa an Sheila has desided to step down from the team. Sheila is having a break but Carisa is permanently off. We are so sorry to see them go. It has been a true pleasure and great honour to get to work with them. They are such talented artists. But i`m sure our paths will cross in the future.

We are sponsored this week by our lovely Rubber DT Amy who has an online store with Digi Decoupage Sheets of Sweetpeas Ching-Chou Kuik. The prize is 3 Downloads of the winners choice.

The Crafty Purple Frog.

Now onto my card. I have chose to use the Dear Diary digi designed by Sara Burrier, which you can find right here. I unintentionally scraplifted our sweet Amy at the rubbah team when i cut out the image. I didn`t mean to do that, lol. Sorry Amy for stealing your cutting idea. But i didn`t notice it till afterwards and then it was so late that i didn`t have the time to colour up a new image. This is the second image i coloured up for my card. The first one was a total failure. So i hope you understand that i didn`t want to start on my image #3 at 2200 hours last night when i knew Vix was waiting to do the post for the challenge.


The colours i have used for this image (the ones i remember though, lol)

Mushroom hat: poppy, ruby, crimson and shale
stem: caramel, tan, putty, satin and almond
skin: vanilla, saffron, oatmeal and tan. Pale pink for the cheeks. and blossom for the lips.
Hair: Walnut, terracotta, spice and honeycomb
Dress: Peach, soft peach and antique pink
Legs: Sandstone, caramel and cocoa
I also used bright green, pine and leaf green for the grass.
For the sky i used distress ink, Broken China.


This is actually one of the cards i have been more satisfied with. Love how the image turned out. And i found the most beautiful two coloured rose at my local stuff and stash store, "Nille", yesterday. So i just had to put it on my card. (The big one)


Hope you like my card this week. Make sure to hop on over the Crafts and Me challenges and join in on the fun!

These are the challenges i am entering:

A Spoonfull of Sugar - Challenge #154 Flower Power
Partytime Tuesdays - Challenge #18 Anything goes
Divas by Design - Florals
I love Promarkers - Challenge #68 Sparkly bling
2 Sisters - Challenge #41 Anything goes
Paper Sundaes - Challenge #71 Vintage/shabby chic
Truly Scrumptious - Challenge #58 Summer sparkle
By the cute and girly - June challenge. In the garden
Creatalicious - Challenge #22 Flourishes

Thanks for looking!

Hugs...Mona

Ribbons and Lace at WhoopsiDaisy

Hey my lovely readers!

As i told the gals at WD yesterday i had to use another image for my card than intended. I was sitting here going to print out the image i was going to use for my card. I waited and i waited and then i waited some more...and nothing happened. I took a peek on my printer course i didn`t understand why it didn`t print and there it stood: Cartridge damaged or removed. Whaaaat? i thougt... Hmmmm i opened the printer and there i was... or in this case.... not! I had to ask my hubby if he had removed the cartridges but no he hadn`t and then it just leaves one little devils child, lol....of course she was at her grandmother`s so i couldn`t ask her where they were either. Imagine that...my eyes went huge when i noticed the cartridges were gone, lol. I can`t for the love of God understand how she managed to remove them. She is after all just 3 years old. But then again she is a really smart and devilish 3 year old so i should really stop believing that she does nothing wrong, lol. Well obviously i couldn`t use the image i was going to so i had to use one i had printed and coloured a while back. It`s not my best work but it just had to do.


I`m sorry but i don`t remember what colours i used on the image since it has been a while since i coloured it.


More closeups.




Here are the challenges i`m entering:

Pear Tree Designs - Challenge #51 Sparkle
Paper Crafting Journey - Challenge #11 Anything goes

Have a nice day everyone!

Hugs...Mona

Summer Living at Phindy`s Place

Hey sweet crafters!

Today`s challenge at Phindy`s Place is all about summer. So you can make anything as long as it has some kind of assosiation to summer.

I have fallen in love with the digi-papers from Bearly Mine Designs. I have used two of their freebies which you can find here and here. Think i`ll have to order some collections course i loooove the colours on the papers.


The image from Phindy`s is called Summer Blossom and you can find her here. Isn`t she totally adorable. I think she is one of my favourite Phindy image. She is coloured with my beloved ProMarkers and the colours i have used are these:

Skin: vanilla, blush, oatmeal and saffron
Cap: Berry red, ruby, ice grey #1 and lush green
Trousers: blue pearl and bluebell
And the grass is bright green.




Challenges i am entering:

Ai factory - Pretty in pink
Digi Doodle - Challenge #60 Anything goes
Pals paper arts - Challenge #95 Brads
Paper Play - Week 21 Blossoms and blooms
Moving along with the times - Challenge #100 Holidays
Southern Girls - Challenge #19 Lace and pearls
Crafting for all seasons - Challenge #1 Anything goes
Creative Craft World - Use 3 or more flowers
I love ProMarkers - Challenge #67 Pearls
Penny`s paper crafty challenge blog - Challenge #54 Summer
Truly scrumptious - Challenge #57 Anything goes
Creative card crew - Anything goes
Papertake Weekly - Pale pretty pastels
Bunny Zoe - Challenge #12 Lace
Make it monday - Challenge #38 Anything goes
Anonyme Scrappere - Utfordring #23 Barn/baby
Betty Bee`s Buzz - Summertime an the livin` is easy

Hope you like today`s creation.

Have a nice and creative week.

Hugs...Mona

Happy Birthday...Challenge at WhoopsiDaisy

Hi everyone!

Ready for a new challenge? At WhoopsiDaisy we want to celebrate birthdays. This is a wide theme. You can make just about anything. Just slap on a birthday sentiment and there you go. Easy peasy or what? So hop on over and join us. We just can`t wait to see what you can come up with.


This time i have made a card using one of my fav colours though i don`t use it too much. I just looove most shades of blues. This one is more turqoise/minty coloured. I just love the paper and the colour combo on it. I was out of turqoise cardstock but if you don`t have the right colour you can allways make it yourself. For the matting behind the image i used the same kind of printing paper that i use for my stamps and i just used my ProMarker to colour around the edges that were going to show around the edge of the image. And voila... you have a "cardstock" in the exact colour you want. The paper i`m using for printing digi-images is called Colour Copy and the weight is 200 g/m2. I buy it at Staples It is perfect to use for matting too so i save a lot of money not using basill as matting. It is thicker than ordinary printer paper and thinner than basill. I imagine for those of you that have die-cutting systems this must be the perfect paper to cut out embellishments. there are 250 sheets pr unit and i don`t remember exactly but i believe i payed about 150 norwegian kroners for it. (about $25 or £18 or probabely less in the US and UK since the Norwegian taxes is ridiculous) So you can do the math... lot of money to save.


I used some glossy accent on the bubles to make it look like water.




Challenges i am entering:

I did it creations - Challenge #56 Anything goes
2 Sisters - Challenge #40 Use a digi
Allsorts - Week 104 Birthday
Shannon`s Sentiments - Challenge #27 Birthdays
Totally Gorjuss - Challenge #81 Water, water
Crafty Catz - Challenge #83 Anything goes
Fun at fairy knoll - Flowers
Inspire me fridays - Challenge #7 Anything goes

Thanks for looking!

Hugs...Mona

Christmas in may at Phindy`s Place

Hi peeps!

Here we go with a new challenge over at Phindy`s Place. We are doing Christmas-cards in may. It might be a good idea to start creating you`re christmas-cards early course when the time comes there allways is a shortage of christma-cards. I know most of you have stashed away your christmas stuff but now you have an excuse to get it out again, lol. The winner is picked randomly and wins a gift certificate of $5 to use in Phindy`s store. We also have a pick of the week which is chosen by the DT. The pick of the week also wins a gift certificate of $5 to use in Phindy`s store. The pick of the week is also eligible to get to be pick of the month which wins a guest DT spot and a free Phindy`s image to use in the challenge.

For my card this time i have used some papers from BoBunny`s christmas collection from last year. And i made it a gate-fold card. Since i don`t own a die-cutting system i had to cut the oval by hand. It is NOT easy to get an even circle but i think it looks fairly ok. I inked the edges with brushed corduroy distress ink. and stamped the edges with a swirlstamp from Tim Holtz. The image is coloured with ProMarkers.


The colours i have used is:

Hair: Primrose, buttercup and pastel yellow
Skin: Vanilla, blush and oatmeal
Dress: Poppy, berry red and crimson

The Wings, halo and edges of the dress is covered with stickles stardust. Which looks a bit furry when applied.


More closeups:




The challenges i am entering are these:

CCEE stampers - Flowers
Shelly`s Images - Anything goes
Stampinsanity - Fancy folds
ABC Challenge - U for unusual fold
Crafty Creations - Challenge #119 Flowers, patterned paper and a ribbon
Paper pretties - Challenge #154 Flowers
Truly Scrumptious - Challenge #57 Anything goes

Thanks for looking

Hugs...Mona

Joyous Grace

Hey sweet crafters!

The Dynamite Digi Team at Crafts and Me are yet again hosting the challenge. And this time it is the sweet Carisa that has set the challenge. You can do anything you`d like with the optional use of the colour craft. Isn`t that just an easy one? We can`t wait to see what you come up with, so come and join us at Crafts and Me challenge blog.

I am so in love with the may collection of digi-stamps made by the talented Sara Burrier. So i just had to use Joyous Grace for my card this time. I think it is perfect to use the craft colours for this one.


I think those dresses on the may collection are a dream to colour. I love all those folds. The ProMarkers i have used are:

Hair: Primrose, pastel yellow and lemon.
Skin: vanilla, blush and oatmeal.
dresses: tan, almond, putty and satin. (for the dark one i dropped the almond colour and for the light one i dropped the tan colour.
For the instruments i used terracotta and walnut.



Over to the prize. Don`t you just loooove ribbons? Look at this lot! Our sponsor this time is Crafty Ribbons and they are giving the winner of the challenge this awesome prize. Would you like to own it? Well all you have to do is enter a creation in our challenge at Crafts and Me and you will be eligible to win this.





Challenges i`m entering:

A Spoonfull of sugar - Challenge #152 Anything goes
Creative Craft Challenges - Distressed/Vintage
Magical Monday - White with one other colour
Make it Monday - #37 Anything goes
The Shabby Tea room - Week #62 Monochromatic
Stamps R Us - Going digital
Incy Wincy - Challenge #94 Clean and simple

Thanks for looking

Hugs...Mona

Two cards...one image at Phindy`s

Hi everyone!

This post is so late that i can`t enter any challenges with these cards. Though i had made the first one with the thought of entering it at CLP. But i`ll just have to make another card for this challenge. Well...at Phindy`s Place this week we have a bit more time-consuming challenge for you. You have to make two cards or more using just one image. And the layout must be different too. How exciting is this? So let your creating juices flow and hop on over tho the challengeblog and join us. The ladies has once again made some fabulous creations.

For my cards i have used the oh so adorable digi "Fresh buns". Isn`t it totally adorable. I looove this image. You can find it here in Phindy`s store if you want it.



I hoped to catch the waterdrops better. I have used glossy accents to make the waterdrops look more real.





Thanks for looking!

Hugs...Mona

Things with wings at WhoopsiDaisy

Hey everyone!

Last challenge at WhoopsiDaisy obviously was a difficult one. There were not many who entered the challenge but the few that did, had some great creations. We are doing one nice and easy this time, so we want to see things with wings. It can be anything you want as long as it has wings on it.

For my card i have used a colour-combo that is a bit outside of my comfort-zone. I was peeking through my earlier blogposts the other day and i noticed that i use a looooooot of pink in my creations, so i challenged myself to do a card in some other colours. The image i chose looks a bit 70`s and orange was a popular colour those days, so i just had to try it. I am actually not surtain of what i think about it so i`ll just leave it up to you to make an opinion of it. The image i have used can you find here on sheet #67.


Please jump on over to WhoopsiDaisy and join our challenge this week. There are a couple of sheets of Linnie`s fabby digis up for grabs for the lucky winner.

Below you can see some more closeups.





Challenges i am entering:

The cheerful stamp pad - Challenge #17 Girls with curls
Come and get it - Happy birthday
The crafty pad - Challenge #120 Spots and dots

Embossing challenge at Phindy`s Place

Good morning Crafters!

Are you ready for another challenge at Phindy`s Place? Yes? Well, then hop on over and let your creative juices flow. My talentes co-designers has some fabulous creations waiting for you to get inspired from. All the images we use, you can find in Phindy`s shop and there are some incredibly cute images there. I have fallen in love with the Wee Babbies collection. Just take look, i know you will love them.


Since i don`t own a die-cutting system i don`t have the opportunity to make my own embossed papers. Luckely i had a couple of sheets with pre-embossed papers laying around. They didn`t have the colour i really was going for but the end result didn`t turn out too bad. The image is called Flower top fairy mushroom minx and you can find it here.


The colours i used for the image are these:

Hair: Walnut, terracotta, spice and honeycomb
Dress: China blue and blue pearl
Skin: Vanilla, blush and oatmeal and pale pink for the cheeks.
Mushroom: Cinnamon, tan, putty and satin
Shoes: Marsh green and leaf green
The ladybug: Ruby and Crimson, black and cool grey 2
The ground is sandstone and the swirl is a mini-swirl from prima.


These are the challenges i am entering:

Art Impressions Stamps - Challenge #15 Bling, glitter and sparkle

Paper crafting journey - Challenge #9 Bling
Stamp insanity - Lets bling it on
My mums craftshop - Challenge #4 Cute and girly
The paper shelter - Challenge #12 Bling it up
Papirdokkene - Alt er lov (anything goes)
Southern girls challenge - Let`s hear it for the girls

No matting and No layering at WhoopsiDaisy

Hey yah!

Is this a chellenge or what? It is Beth who has put us on the spot here. I really struggeled with this one. Thank God for lovely papers!!!!

For my card this time i have used an image from sheet #246 which is one of the newest sheets in the WhoopsiDaisy shop. I coloured her up with my ProMarkers. To make the dress a bit shimmery i painted it with some smooch in the same colour as the dress. You can see some stripes that looks allmost white in the pic. This is the smooch shimmering. My card is made from the Fairy flora Collection by Prima. This paper is just perfect for this kind of challenge and i just made it speak for itself. I just added some small embellies and the image and voila...finished


The colours i have used are these:

Hair: satin, putty, cinnamon and tan
Skin: vanilla, blush and oatmeal
Dress: Green and mint green



The butterflies is some images i found on the web. I just touched them up with some glitterglue. I think they are rather nice looking. The top-flower is from Kort and Godt.


Hope you like my creation. Head on over to the WhoopsiDaisy challenge blog and join our challenge!

The challenges i am entering are these:

The Crafty Pad - Challenge #119 Pearls and swirls
Dream Valley - Challenge #6 Flowers
Scrappekammeret - Utfordring #29 Alt er tillatt
Kort og godt - Maiutfordring, Sommerfugler
By the cute and girly - May challenge, Anything goes