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

Swirls Challenge at Crafts and Me

Hey, hey, hey!

This week it is the Dynamite digi team`s turn to set the challenge. And it is the lovely Karina that has chosen the theme. I looooove swirls! Don`t you? I think they make a wonderful embellishment on a creation. The only thing i miss, is having a die-cutting system with the possibility to make swirls. Now i have to handdraw and cut them myself and it takes forever, therefor i don`t use them too often.

Well, anyway...the girls have really made some stunning creations this time. It really is amazing to see their colouring skills. They are soooo talented and i am sure if you pop by their personal blogs and leave them some sugar, they don`t get sad about it, lol.

Today i want to showcase one of the brand new digis created by the amazingly talented Sara Burrier. I truly loooove these new digis. If you visit the Crafts and Me store you can se all the new digis. If you don`t visit you really are missing out on some true masterpieces. Need i say more?

The name of this royal beauty is Natalie (i think she looks royal, lol) and you can find her here.


These are the colours i used to colour her up:
Skin: vanilla, saffron, blush and oatmeal
Hair: Walnut, terracotta, spice, honeycomb and oatmeal
Dress and mask: Royal blue and midnight blue


The flower was white to begin with but i used my ProMarker (Royal blue) to colour it so that it matched the rest. I also gave it some stickles to make it sparkle a bit.


This butterfly is actually some left over candle decoration from my wedding last year. I thought it fit perfectly with the colour theme i had chosen for my card.


I hope my creation gets your creating juices flowing, so hop on over to the Crafts and Me challenge blog and join in on the fun.

Challenges i am entering:

Papertake weekly - Anything goes
Craft your passion - Challenge #56 Anything goes
Design Dollies - May colours (i have used brown, white and blue)
Make it monday - #35 anything goes
Ooh la la creations - Challenge #79 Tres chic (not sure it qualifies but i`m still entering)
Pollycraft - Challenge #91 anything goes
Stamp with fun - Challenge #109 Lace or ribbon
Stamping, scrapping challenge central - Anything goes (I have used stickles chrystal to make all the glittery stuff.)
Pear tree designs - Challenge #47 Free for all
Claudia & company - Challenge #81 Butterflies
Flutterby Wednesday - Challenge #153 Open
Divas by Design - Challenge #1 Anything goes
Sukkersøtt - Utfordring #122 sommerfugler
Totally gorjuss - Challenge #78 1,2,3 (mine is 1 butterfly, 2 small blue roses and 3 pearls)
Paper sundaes - Challenge #67 Favourite hair colour combinations (my colour-combo is listed under one of the pics above.)

A little award!

Hi peeps!

I am one lucky girl that has such cute and sweet friend like Johanna! She has awarded me with a little something, and it is so sweet of her. With this award comes a little demand. I have to tell you 8 things about myself, so here we go:

#1 I am a big B-person. I like to stay up at night and sleep long in the morning, lol.

#2 Liverpool is my fav soccer-team. And the first thing i asked my hubby when we started going out was what team he followed. Had he said Man U, we NEVER would have continued dating, haha. (He`s a liverpool fan too, lol)

#3 I live outside of Trondheim in the middle of Norway but originally i come from the beautiful Lofoten which is one of the greatest tourist pearls in the north of Norway. Google Lofoten and you`ll see. It is really worth a visit.


#4 Every other week my eldest daughter lives with us and she has decided that taco is our meal on fridays, lol. (The other fridays she is with her father)

#5 Cardmaking and scrapbooking is my #3 passion. The first 2 is obviously my kids and hubby. Oh...and i forgot Liverpool, hahaha...

#6 I love to travel though it doesn`t get too much of that. I wish i had unlimited access to cash, haha. Well most of us suffers from the same disease....chronical lack of money, lol.

#7 I hate the winter! Thank GOD for the summer!

#8 And last but not least. I love to cook.

This award i would like to give to some extremely talented ladies and friends in the blog world. Obviously i would have given it back to Johanna. You are the best.

Here they are in alphabetichal order:

Bonnie
Chanelle
Chris
Debbi
Lille
Mina
Shelby
Vicky

I know some of you rather wants a sweet comment but you`ll get that too, lol. You are so talented everyone of you and it gives me such pleasure to visit your blogs and look at all the wonderful things you create.

Hugs...Mona

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

Senile?....Me?....Noooooo.....

Hey everyone!

Oooops....i forgot to post my DT sample for the Glitter, Glamour and Glitz challenge over at Phindy`s Place, here in my own blog. I am so sorry! I have chosen to use Lula Shopping which you can find here. The image is designed by the talented Philomena O`neal.

I think she looks so posh...strutting on her way to shop even more.


I am not so happy by the colouring! I was going to give her a lush and red mouth but my colour bleeded out. I have NO IDEA of what happened here. Usually my paper doesn`t bleed so much. And i have learned to control where to end my colouring due to the bleeding. Well...but anyway, i didn`t have the time to make another one so i just had to use it. I promise my next card will be a better one.


The paper is from S.E.I and is called Juliette. Don`t remember what the flower company is called but the flowers came in a metal box with a magnetic back, so if anyone knows...please let me know. Please jump on over to the Phindy`s friday challenge blog and join our challenge.

Now i am off to enjoy the great weather. And hope i`ll get some tan, lol. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Hugs...Mona

Double digi.

Hey peeps!

Finally the summer is coming to us here i the middle of Norway. Yesterday was incredibly hot for this time of season. It was soooo nice. Maybe i`ll actually manage to get fairly rosted before the summer is over, lol.

Well...anyway...every other saturday it is my time to show you my creations over at the Crafts and Me store blog. And for my card this time i have used two of the digistamps you can find in the Crafts and Me store. The first one is the lovely "Noon" by Sara Burrier. You can find it right here. The other stamp is the new mushroom fantasy and you can find it here. For the first time i actually went with a digi-paper and i think it fit perfectly to the image. The paper is from Bearly Mine Designs and you can find it here.


I really had so much fun colouring up the mushroom image and i am a bit satisfied with it too. The "Noon" stamp i adhered on 3D coushins to make it pop out a bit.


I was totally in awe when i created my card yesterday. Some new digis by Sara Burrier is soon to arrive in the Crafts and Me store. And they are soooo gorgeous. I just sooooo wanted to use one of them on a card #2 but i had to work this weekend so i didn`t manage to finish my second card in time. So i only have this one to show you for this time


The flower i mady myself and i also added a little sparkle.


Well...I don`t seem to have enything more to ramble about, thanks for putting up with me, lol. Just a little reminder...you still have the chance to enter the rockin` rubbah team`s Vintage/distressed challenge at the Crafts and Me challengeblog, so make sure to pop on over and join in on the fun.

These are the challenges i am entering:

Catch the bug - Pastel and flowers
Shannon`s Sentiments - Challenge #24 Handmade embellishments
Crafts 4 eternity - Challenge #17 Anything goes
If the shoe fits - Challenge #77 Things with wings
Inspire me Fridays - Challenge #4 Anything goes
Just add ink - Challenge #66 Just add a flower
Paper Cutz - Challenge #89 Anything goes
Totally Papercrafts - Challenge #64 Glitter
Moving along with the times - Challenge #96 Anything goes

Have a nice weekend you all!

We are having some Fairy Magic over at WhoopsiDaisy

Hey everyone!

Hope you are all having a wonderful easter holiday. So sad that it is allmost over. It has been so wonderful to spend some time with my family and good friends without having to think about work. Well, there is still this one more day off from work so make the best of it everyone!

Over at WhoopsiDaisy we are going to bring some magic to you, lol. So we want to see some fairies on your creations this time. I actually made two cards this time. I wasn`t satisfied with my first one at all, so i decided at the last minute to make another one. I will still show you both of them though.


This second card that i made, i was more satisfied with. It looks more like a fairy sceene i was going for. The paper is from Websters Pages, and the embellies from my own stash. I have coloured her up with ProMarkers.



I am entering these challenges with the card on top:

Flutterby Wednesday - Challenge #151 Open
Your next stamp - Challenge #40 Texture it (I`ve added feathers behind the image as extra wings)
I love Promarkers - Challenge #62 Anything goes
C.R.A.F.T - Challenge #99 Flowers
Cute card thursday - Challenge #161 No text
Do it with digis - Challenge #8 Fairies, pixies and elves.
Alphabet Challenge - Y for Yellow
Fairy fun Fridays - Challenge #51 April showers bring may flowers
Fun at fairy knoll - Easter and spring
Fussy and fancy - Springtime challenge
Totally Gorjuss - Challenge #77 Bling it on
Crafty Emma`s - Challenge #33 Spring colours/image
Creative inspirations - Challenge #58 Digi day
Paper sundaes - Challenge #66 Sundae toppings bar (choose at least 2 toppings. I have used sparkle and yellow)
Bling it on - Challenge #2 Digi-stamp and some bling
Sparkles forum - Challenge #10 Anything goes


I can`t put my finger on it, but i didn`t get the right feeling about the first one i made. It wasn`t exactly what i was going for....well you can judge them yourselves.


I was trying out some new colour combos on my colouring but i couldn`t make them work, so the shades doesen`t come out as well on the photo.



Well...I hope you like my cards. Some feedback is appreciated.


And i am entering these challenges with my bottom card:

Tuesday Throwdown - Challenge #45 Polkadots
Do it with digis - Challenge #8 Fairies, Pixies and elves
Polka doodles - Week 16 Three patterned papers
Creative inspirations - Challenge #58 Digi day

Thats all from me for this time, thanks for looking.

Hugs...Mona

1 year birthday blog-hop at Phindy`s Place

Hey Sweet Crafters!

I have a little announcement for you. Have you guessed allready? No? Well... as you may have understood by the headline, i have been asked by Phindy and Anne at Phindy`s Place to join their little family as a DT member. And of course i just had to say yes!!! It is such an honour to be asked. This week we are having a bloghop to celebrate our first birthday so here are some words from Phindy:




Welcome to the Phindy's Place Challenge Birthday Bloghop! It is one whole year since we began posting challenges on the blog, I can't believe a year has gone so fast!
Our challenge this week is paper piecing and the usual prizes are up for grabs,
however we aren't posting the DT's cards on the challenge blog, we would love you to play along for a blog hop and collect a word from each posting. When you've got the full sentence, please post it in the comments on the challenge blog (which will be hidden until the hop is over!) and you could win a $10 Voucher to use at Phindy's Place.
You aren't required to leave comments at each blog, but we'd love it if you do
leave some love for the DT! Blog Hop is open until midnight (GMT) 28 April.
So this week, you have THREE chances to win: the blog hop, the random winner of the challenge and the pick of the week. So what are you waiting for?

This is the first time ever i have made a card with paper-piecing, and i understand that i did go about it the totally wrong way, lol. But i finished my card after 4 hours and a lot of cursing, lol. So here it is:


I used papers from Tim Holtz` Vintage Shabby Collection and embellies from my own stash.




If you've arrived from our lovely and talented Lynda, you're on the right track! If not, you need to start at the Phindy`s Place, Challenge blog. Click HERE to go to the start! Well i am the last one in line for this hop, so now you have to hop back to the challenge blog to post your sentence in the commenting section. Hope you have had a wonderful time with us and left the girlz some lovely comments too. I know they would looove to get some sugar. At least i would, lol. Good luck!

My word for the hop is: MORE

Here is the order for the Blog Hop, in case you get lost, you start and finish at the Challenge Blog:

Phindy's Place Challenge Blog
Anne Ray
Ann English
Anne-Marije Poppen
Cec Wintonyk
Christine Adamson
Dorcas Perkins
Kathy Curry
Linda Payne
Lynda Nielsen
Mona Eidhammer (ME)
Phindy's Place Challenge Blog

I think i will enter this card in some challenges too. And these are:

Mejlens Designs - Challenge #55 Maskuline
Moving along with the times - Challenge #95 Recycle (i used two old buttons from an old jeans and an old jacket.)
Scrapbook sisters - Challenge #32 Buttons
Claudia & Company - Challenge #80 Clean and Simple
Scrap Creations - Digital Challenge

Pink and Sweet at Crafts and Me

Hey everyone!

It has been a couple of stressful weeks lately. I have been working a lot. First i helped out a girlfriend to shut down her dream in life...to own her own shop. But sometimes you just have to face the facts and quit while you`re still ahead. A bit sad course she had worked really hard to make her dream come true. I also got some extra hours at my regular workplace so i have had my hands full. I am a bit sorry to say that i have been a bit stressed out not getting to make my cards in due time. Everything has been just in the nick of time. Well anyway... Today is the first time ever i am hosting a challenge and i am a bit terrified, so i hope you bear with me.

First i want to say thanks to all of you who entered the Digi DT`s glitter challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenges, last week! There were incredibly many eyecandies to feast upon. You are soooo talented, ladies!

Now...for the challenge this week i have chosen Pink and Sweet. This must be an easy nut for you all to crack? So get your gameface on and start creating those gorgeous pink and sweet creations i know you are dying to show us.


Our sponsor this week is the fabulous Letraset. Letraset has through decades produced innovative media for commercial artists and designers.




My fellow Dynamite Digi team has once again blown the socks of me with their fabulous creations, so please go and visit their personal blogs and leave them some love. I know they will appreciate it.

For my card this time i have used the beautiful image created by Hannah Lynn called Mystical Pond. You can find it right here. And the litle swirl you can pick up here.


I am not totally satisfied with the colouring. I really have to buy myself a new printer. The one i got is totally crappy. It doesn`t keep the printing where it belongs, so when i colour the image it gets dirty by the lines. It is soooo irritating, course the colours get all wrong. I also used smooch in the same colour as the mermaid`s fin, so the body shimmerz a lot, but the camera sadly didn`t pick it up.


The butterfly you can get here, in the Korthobby online store. I dressed it with a little bling.


I recently baught some mini-pearl swirls from Prima`s say it in pearls collection. They fits perfectly on a card and i just had to use one for this challenge. The little butterfly charm you can find right here.


Well...i hope you enjoyed my little creation, so please come and join us in the Crafts an Me challenge blog. It is so much fun to play, not to mention the fabulous prize.

These are the challenges i am entering:
ABC Challenge - S is for sparkle
Amber`s Craft and stuff - Challenge #6 Ribbons and bows
I love ProMarkers - Challenge #62 Anything goes
Everybody art - Challenge #138 Pearls
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Challenge #24 Anything goes

That`s all from me folks!

Hugs...Mona

Welcome to Free and Easy at WhoopsiDaisy

Hey, hey, hey!

It`s monday and it is a new challenge at WhoopsiDaisy. Many of you probabely has gottn easter-vacation...I`m not, lol. But i am happy there is some days off from work at least.

For my card this week i have made another vintage creation. Linnie has some new images that i had to try out. You can find them here. I love this new one in 20`s style. I coloured her up with my ProMarkers. As allways i used vanilla, blush and oatmeal for the skin and a little touch of pale pink for the cheeks. Ruby, crimson and burgundy for the dress and headpiece. I also used walnut for her hair. Do you notice that i am starting to get together the colours i use, lol. Not bad, hah?


I have tried to keep it in a monochromatic theme. I hope it works. I have used some stickles on the headpiece and the earring and around the edges. The metal corner i baught at a norwegian online store called Korthobby.


The flower i made myself and i dressed it with some stickles to make it pop a bit more. I actually love how it came out.


In the WhoopsiDaisy shop you can also pick up a new little cutie for free. So run along and get it.

And last but not least... Linnie is having a GDT call that lasts for 6 months and if anybody out there love cute and want to come join our happy gang of ladies, please feel free to visit the Whoopsi Daisy challenge blog for more info.



Now...that`s all from me for this time. Hope you like my card. I`ll be back later today with the challenges i am entering.

Hugs...Mona

Hi...I`m back!
It has been a busy day at work and it is good to be home.
Now for the challenges i am entering, and these are:

Make it Monday - Challenge #33 Anything goes
One Stich at the time - Challenge #58 Make it sassy
Sugar creek Hollow - Monochromatic challenge
Passion for ProMarkers - Week 95 Make your own embellishment
Tuesday Throwdown - Week 44 Sparkle and bling
Paper romance - Challenge #46 Paperflowers
Kort o Mania - Utfordring #38 Vintage

Well, that`s it for today!

Hugs...Mona

Divas by Design

Hi everyone!

Just a quick post to tell you a wee bit about a new challengeblog opening real soon.

Divas by Design are having a DT-call and a follower candy (look at my right sidebar under the candybar image) With this post i am answering to the DT-call. Below you will see three of the creations i have made which is my favs amongst my work.


This one is a wedding card using a vintage photo from Sagen vintage. The flower i made myself.


The ProMarker storage unit i made out of empty toilet rolls. Using the Prima fairy flora collection and some of Linnie`s fabby digis from WhoopsiDaisy.


And last but not least...my first DT creation for Crafts and Me. I love those images and they are so incredible to colour.

It wasn`t easy to pick just three creations but i hope they will help me to get one of these DT-spots. Don`t forget to join in on the first challenge at Divas by Design at may 4th. I definately will, either as a participant or hopefully a DT member.

Take care everyone!

Hugs...Mona

Morning Glories

Hey sweet crafters!

I am a bit late with my post today. I have been at work all day and haven`t gottn around to post until now. But here i am at last.

I am so excited to present to you my creation with one of the brand new digi stamps created by the extremely talented Sara Burrier. These images are exclusive for Crafts and Me and you can find it here in the store. And at the same time you visit the store for a looksie, please take a peek on all the other new digis too. They are gorgeous and you can find them here. They are waaaay to easy to grab home with you, lol.


For my card this time i have used the new digi stamp "Morning Glories". I loooove this one. It is so beautiful. I have coloured her up with ProMarkers which is also available in the Crafts and Me store. For the matting i used a sheet from Prima`s Fairy flora collection. I think the paper works so well with the image.


I mounted the image on 3D coushins to make it pop a bit. Below you an see some closeups of the embellies.




Also make sure to come and join us for this weeks challenge at Crafts and Me challenges. It is an easy theme this time...RIBBONS! Come on and Play!!!
I hope you have enjoyed my little creation.

Challenges i am entering:

2 Sisters - Challenge #35 Bingo (i have used lace, glitter, gems and pearls.
Crafty Callendar - April Showers Bring Forth May Flowers
Card Makin Mamas - Challenge #19 Spring colours
Daring Cardmakers - Spring fling
Digis with attitude - Challenge #22 Spring has sprung
Totally Papercrafts - Challenge #62 Springtime
Wild Orchid Crafts - Challenge #21 Wings
Scrappekammeret - Utfordring #28 Sommerdrøm

Thanks for looking. Have a nice weekend!

Hugs...Mona

We are going vintage at WhoopsiDaisy

Hey sweet crafters!

Thanks to all of you who entered last weeks springtime challenge. We had a lot of fabulous entries. It is so fun to hop around to your blogs and get so much inspiration. We in the DT are supposed to inspire you for your creations, but i really must say that you all inspire us just as much.


For this weeks creation i have used sheet #24, which you can find here. I looooove this image. She looks so divine with that amazing and flowing dress.


I have coloured her with my ProMarkers. For the dress i have used: Satin, Putty and Tan, and for the bows, Crimson in the dots and Dusky rose and Sunkissed pink for the rest. Her skin is coloured with: Vanilla, Blush and Oatmeal, with Pale Pink for the cheeks. For the flowers i used: Sunflower, Crimson, Leaf Green and Pine. And for the hair i used: Satin, Spice, Walnut and Terracotta.


Make sure you join us for the vintage challenge at WhoopsiDaisy. It is really not as difficult as it looks. Some good pointers for those of you that are a bit unfamiliar with vintage: Use earth colours and if you want some more colour with it you can use pastel colours. For an old look just distress your edges and ink them up with brown ink. For those of you that don`t own a distressing tool it works really nice with scissors. For embellishment, lace gives the perfeck look. otherwise you can embellish it as you like. To get some more pointers you can visit my good friend Johanna right here. She is a master at making vintage creations. Her blog is in swedish but she has a translation button on her left side.

These are the challenges i am entering:

Creative inspirations Paint - Inspired by Chocolate
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Utfordring #27 Blonder
Scrapperiket - Utfordring #24 Metall
Anything goes Challenge - Challenge #38 Pearls

Thanks for looking

Hugs...Mona