Fall/Autumn at Phindy`s Place

Hey sweet crafters!

I haven`t been quite well this last few days. A bit of a running nose and all that comes with it, lol, so my mojo wasn`t the best yesterday. But i managed to get a card finished for today`s challenge over at Phindy`s Place. We want to see creations with fall colours.

This time i have used an image called "I`ve got you covered" and you can find it right here in Phindy`s Place shop. I think it looks so adorable with the mama-bird giving shelter to her young ones.

The colours i have used for this one are:

Ice grey #1,3,4, Terracotta, Chestnut, Cocoa, Burnt Sienna, Orange, Honeycomb, Marsh Green, Powder Blue.

Challenges i`m entering:

4 Crafty Chicks - Challenge #57 Anything goes
Cute card thursday - Challenge #184 Animal Crackers
Paper Crafting journey - Challenge #20 Die cuts and/or punches
Rainbow Lady`s Challenge blog - Challenge #172 Autumn/fall flowers
Crafting for all seasons - Challenge #10 Fall colours
Digistamps 4 joy - Challenge #28 Anything goes with a bonus
Inky Impressions - Challenge #26 Punches or dies
Little Darlings - Challenge #8 Fall or Halloween
Penny`s Paper crafty challenge blog - challenge #63 Anything goes
Scrapbook sisters - Challenge #54 Leaves
Simon says - Anything goes
Bows and berries - Challenge #10 Glitter
Crafty Boots - Challenge #2 Things with wings
Critter sketch challenges - Challenge #84 Anything goes
Daisy Doodles - Challenge #43 Fall colours and/or thanksgiving
House of Gilli - Challenge #17 Fall/Autumn
Woodware USA - Challenge #45 Happy Fall Y`all
Cafts for Eternity - Challenge #39 Recipe Anything goes
Crafty Catz - Challenge #102 Things with wings
Totally Papercrafts - Challenge #86 Autumn

So now please hop on over to the challengeblog and join in on the fun. Oh..and don`t forget to leave my team-mates some love.

Multiple layers - new Crafty Purple Frog challenge

Hey my sweet friends!

It was so awesome to see so many gorgeous entries in our last challenge over at Crafty Purple Frog! There is soooo much talent out there in blogland. It is so inspiring to come and visit you and get some new input, lol. I really do need it sometimes, lol.

Well...this time we want to see layers on your creations. For my card i have used papers from Bearly Mine Design and the image is called Red is my passion and it is one of the gorgeous decoupage sheets in the Crafty Purple Frog shop. The image is designed by Ching-Chou Kuik. I have NOT coloured it myself. It comes pre-coloured.


Below you can see some more closeups. I hope you can come and join us at Crafty Purple Frog. Happy craftin` .





Challenges i`m entering:

Digistamps 4 joy - Challenge #28 Anything goes with a bonus
Papercraft Star - Challenge #64 Lace
The Paper Shelter - Challenge #33 For the girls
Penny`s Paper Crafty Challenge Blog - Challenge #63 Anything goes
Simon says - Anything goes
Anything goes - Challenge #50 Anything goes
Deep Ocean - Challenge #9 Happy Birthday
Going grey with scrap creations - It`s a girly thing
Jen`s digistamps - Let`s hear it for the girls
Critter sketch challenge - Challenge #84 Anything goes
Scrapperiket - Bonusutfordring, Charms
4 Crafty Chicks - Challenge #57 Anything goes
OSAAT - Challenge # 81 Favourites - Sparkle, lace and flowers
Sew Many Cards - Challenge #69 Ovals
Lollipop Crafts - Challenge #50 Anything goes
The squirrel and the fox - Challenge #1 Anything goes

Have a great day

Butterfly Tutorial

Hey my sweet friends!

Finally i`m here with my very first tutorial ever, lol, so i hope you bear with me. This is a butterfly i saw at Wild Orchid Crafts. I couldn`t find it in there anymore so i thought i`d make my own tutorial of it.

This is what you need:

A five petal flower like the one on the pic below and a pearl stamen. Both are available at Wild Orchid Crafts. In addition you will need hot glue, pearls or rhinestones to embellish your butterfly with and some stickles or glue and glitter.

First you`ll have to fold one of the petals to the back of the flower.

The back will look like this.

Now you fold the petal and make a little snip on the middle of it.

Then you fold the pearlstamen in two, and put the little loop down in the little hole from the front side of the petal.

This is how it looks like from the backside.

Now you put on some hot glue for a quick fixative and fold the petal over the stamen.

Now you have the butterfly with the antennas. But it looks a bit boring just like this. You can embellish it any way you like. I have used stickles on the edges of the wings and put a couple of pearls in the middle of it. If you prefer to use glue and glitter to embellish the edges that`s entirely up to you. You can also use rhinestones instead of the pearls or maybe you want to drop the glitter and put some rhinestones on the wings as well. It is just your imagination that sets the limit.

Here is my finished butterfly. If you want to see how it looks on a card you can take a peek in this link.

Hope you liked my tutorial and that it was close to self explanatory, lol. Good luck in trying to make your own.

New challenge at WhoopsiDaisy

Hey Peeps!

Today we are having a new challenge at WhoopsiDaisy and we are challenging you to make your own embellishment. You can make whatever you want.

For my card today i have chosen to make another one of the sweet butterflies i sometimes put on my creations. My hubby has to take the laptop to work today, but when he comes home i will post a tutoral for the butterfly, so stay tuned. The image i have used is from sheet #303 and is one of the newest sheets in the WhoopsiDaisy shop. You can also find a sweet freebie there.


Now it`s your turn to make your own embellishment. Try it out! It`s soooo much fun. If you want to make a butterfly like mine, just come back after 20:00 today and you will find the tutorial for it.

Opposites on the colour-wheel at Phindy`s Place

Hey Peeps!

The weeks just flies by. And i just turned 39 years. Next year is the big dreadful 40...brrrr. Well...over to something more fun, lol. Today we are having a new challenge over at Phindy`s Place. We are doing colours opposites eachother in the colour-wheel. I have chosen Violet and yellow.


I have a good friend that has lost about 15 kg and i am so proud of her. As a little cheerup i have made this card for her. The image is called "Looking Good". And looking good, is what she is going to look like when she is finished.

The colours i have used are these:

Skin:
Vanilla. Saffron, Oatmeal, Tan

Hair:
Walnut, Terracotta, Honeycomb

Dress:
Amethyst, Orchid, Slate

Challenges i`m entering:

Art impressions stamps - Challenge #33 For the girls
Crafty Ribbons - Challenge #3 Anything goes
Hanna and Friends - Challenge #112 Anything goes
Southern Girls - Challenge #28 Anything goes
Digistamps4Joy - Challenge #28 Anything goes
The Paper Shelter - Challenge #32 Anything goes
Digital tuesday - Challenge #129 People images


We are really looking forward to see what you all come up with. Hop on over to Phindy`s Place and join the challenge.

Crafts and Me challenge - Stripes

Hey everyone!

The Dynamite Digi Team is finally here with a new challenge over at Crafts and Me. The challenge we have set is: STRIPES.

I allmost forgot that the challenge was stripes, lol, but i managed to slip a little border with stripes on, under the image, phew...

The image i have used is one of the brand new images designed by Sara Burrier. It is called Birth of Twilight. It is available right here. Isn`t she beautiful?


This week our fabulous sponsor is Teresa. She is offering 6 digis (no it`s not a typing error, lol) of your choice in the Crafts and Me store. You are really in for a treat course they are absolutely stunning!

The colours i have used are these:

Skin:
Vanilla, Saffron, Oatmeal, Tan

Hair:
Cocoa, Pastel Yellow, Buttercup

Dress:
Holly, Soft green, Tea green, Grey green

Challenges i`m entering:

Anything goes challenge - Challenge #50 Anything goes
Digital Tuesday - Challenge #129 People images
Going grey with scrap creations - Anything goes challenge
Partytime Tuesday - Challenge #34 Sketch and/or monochromatic
Bows and Berries - Challenge #10 Glitter
Crafty Creations - Challenge #136 Fabulous Fairies
Flutterby Wednesday - Challenge #172 Open

Thanks for looking and i really appreciate your sweet comments. So now all you have to do is to hop over to the challengeblog and join in on the fun.

We are doing shabby chic at WhoopsiDaisy

Hey my sweet friends!

Today we are having one of my fav styles as a challenge at WhoopsiDaisy. And that is....Shabby chic, yeeeeay!!! I just love to make a little mess with my creating. If you look closely on my card you`ll see that i have painted all my panels. For this i have used gesso blended with a tiny dash of water to make it a bit thinner and easily applicable. I have also used 9 layers in total inclusive the doily and the cheesecloth, so the card is quite heavy, lol.

The image is one of Linnie`s newest ones and you can find it on sheet #301. In the WhoopsiDaisy shop.

The colours i have used on this image are these:

Skin:
Vanilla, Saffron, Oatmeal, Tan

Hair:
Walnut, Terracotta, Spice, Honeycomb

Dress:
Baby pink, Coctail pink, Salmon pink

Pants:
Tan, Putty, Satin

I also have gottn a hold of these gorgeous lilys. They are quite flat, so the card doesn`t get so incredibly chunky. I just looove the looks of these.


Challenges i`m entering:

Oh la la Creations - Challenge #89 Punches / Dies
Incy Wincy - Challenge #112 Distressing
Nettie`s Digital Gems - Anything goes challenge
Stamp with fun - Challenge #129 Anything goes
Card Cupids - Challenge #37 Anything goes
The Corrosive Challenge Blog - Challenge #133 Punches and/or dies
Gingerloft - Challenge #25 Vintage or distressed
One Stitch at a time - Challenge #80 Punch it
The squirrel and the fox - Challenge #1 Anything goes
One stop craft - Challenge #149 Girlie


If you love shabby chic like i do, then you just HAVE TO come join us at Whoopsidaisy. I KNOW you can`t resist to play with those soft colours and your cute images, lol.

Christmas is creepin` upon us at Phindy`s Place

Hey Peeps!

I`m a wee bit late with this post, lol. I have been without online connection all morning and when it finally came back it was time for me to go to work. But isn`t there a saying that goes better late than never, lol?

Well, anyway here is my card for the challenge at Pindy`s Place. And the theme is, Christmas is creepin` upon us. So you`d better start on those Christmas cards before it`s too late. The time runs quickly so before you know it, the Christmas is here.


The image i have used is called Stocking search, and you can find it right here.

The colours i have used are these:

Skin:
Vanilla, Saffron, Oatmeal, Tan

Hair:
Cocoa, Pastel yellow, Honeycomb

Stocking:
Forrest green, Moss, Pear green, Sunflower. Also used Flower soft for the fur.

Nighty:
Shale, Burgundy, Cardinal red, Berry red, Walnut, Terracotta

Other colours:
Umber blended with Sandstone

This jojo flower i made myself. Love how it turned out.



Well...that`s all from me today. So now it`s your tur to show us your creations. Hop on over to the challengeblog and join us.

Ashee and a new challenge at EFG

Hey everyone!

I can`t believe that this is my third post today. They kinda stumbled upon each other, lol. This has been 2 hectic days with my crafting and also having a nosy and demanding 3 year old with me at home. I am also a bit late with this post course i haven`t quite figured out the time difference from here to Australia. I also have fixed a clock in my blog and still didn`t remember to check it out, lol. I really hope i grow into this, lol.

Well anyway...here is my card finally. The new challenge over at the Emerald Faerie Garden is PEARLS. For my card i have used the brand new digi called Ashee. I think he is sooo adorable. The papers i have used is from Bearly Mine Designs and Pion Design. The pearl swirl is a Prima, say it in pearls, which i have butchered, lol. I have also used the leaves from the Flower and Leaves creatable die by Marianne Design.

These are the colours i have used:

Skin:
Blush, Coral, Sunkissed pink, Tan

Mushroom:
Berry red, Cardinal red, Burgundy, Shale, Putty, Satin, Tan

Pants and hat:
Cinnamon, Tan, Putty, Satin

Other colours:
Forrest green, Bright green, Blossom, Bluebell

These are the challenges i`m entering:

Cute card thursday - Challenge #182 Anything goes
Papercraft Star - Challenge #62 Anything goes
The Paper Shelter - Challenge #31 Fairies and elves
Creative Card Crew - Babies challenge
Deep ocean - Challenge #8 Lace
Everybody art - Challenge #159 Flowers
Papertake weekly - Things with wings challenge
Tuesday Throwdown - Challenge #66 Pearls
Magical Monday - Anything goes challenge
Pollycraft - Challenge #110 Baby love
Crafty Ribbons - Challenge #2 Anything goes


Now...we are waiting for your talented and gorgeous entries, so make sure you hop on over to the Emerald Faerie Garden Challengeblog and join in on the fun. Thanks for visiting my blog and it will make me veeeery happy if you leave me some love.

Marianne`s Design Divas Challenge #2

Hey Peeps!

My second post for the day, lol. I`m really on a roll here. We are so pleased over at Marianne`s Design Divas, with all the entries we got for the last challenge. All though there was some confusion about the rules, we were still very happy to see all of those gorgeous creations, so thank you to all of you that entered.

For our challenge this time we want to se some flowers. For my card this time i have used a rubber stamp called Turn to hesed by Sara Burrier. I think this one is absolutely stunning.

This time our fabby sponsor is:

Cuddly Buddly

And this is the yummy lot you all will be fighting for, lol. Isn`t that fabulous?

These are the colours i have used:

Skin:
Vanilla, Saffron, Oatmeal, Tan

Hair:
Cocoa, Buttercup, Pastel yellow

Dress:
Powder blue, I also heat embossed the gold details on the dress and mask and her earrings. Below you can see the closeup on the gold details.

The Marianne dies i have used for this card are the Butterfly creatables, the Flower and leaves creatables and also the Broderie Anglais Border creatables. All these are available at Cuddly Buddly. Just click on the links and it`ll take you directly to the product.




The border i painted with distress crackle paint, Picket Fence. When it dried i spunged it very lightly with distress ink, Vintage Photo, to get a little worn look.


Challenges:

House of Gilli - Embossing challenge
Papercraft Star - Challenge #62 Anything goes
Creatalicious - Challenge #26 Anything goes
Flutterby Wednesday - Challenge #171 Open
Ruby`s Rainbow - Challenge #12 For the girls
Anything goes challenge - Challenge #49 Vintage/shabby chic
Deep Ocean - Challenge #8 Lace
Everybody Art - Challenge #159 Flowers
Ladybug Crafts Ink. - Challenge #37 Flowers
Papertake weekly - Things with wings Challenge
Shopping our stash - Challenge #17 Vintage, distressed or shabby chic
Thuesday Throwdown - Challenge #66 Pearls
Papirdokkene - Utfordring #11 Splæsj og dæsj

I hope you enjoyed my card this time. Just make sure to hop on over to the challenge blog and see the absolutely jawdropping gorgeous creations the girls have in store for you. I promise you...they are drop dead gorgeous!!!! Also leave them some love.