A lot of candy posts a little crafting time

Haven't had that much time to craft lately, with all the time I spend comuting (3 hours a day), taking care of my home (well bf is doing most of it), taking care of our summer house(still bf does most...), getting the boat ready for the sea(bf too me just a little) and taking care of our pets(kitty and doggy). That really doesn't leave that much time for crafting. Will try to get some done this weekend, in bad need of some birthday cards. Hopefully these pages will be full with creations soon :)
Well during this time I gotten som reading done(no crafting on busses so what else is there), have been reading the Twilight serie and I just fell in love with it. When I was younger I did some live roleplaying, actually as a vampire so they gets me to remember the good old days. Well I'm of to work some more (having a lunch break)

XOXO Mika

Just Magnolia Challange Week 2

This week over at Just Magnolia the challange is a colour combo, Pink and Green. To my suprise this color combo was pretty hard, after searching through my cardstock and papers I found that I only have three pink DP and no pink cardstock. Fortunately one of those DP was suitable to the rest of the tones I choosen. Here is my entry:

Materials:
Cardstock: Bazzil Basics
DP: Unknown
Stamp: Magnolia
Coloring medium: Derwent watercolor pencils
Flowers: Panduro and freebie
Brads: Panduro
Ribbons: Panduro
Punch: Fiskars

XOXO Mika

Blog award!

This is my first blog award and I must say many thanks to Vikki Vikki's albums. I'm so happy :)

Now I'm gonna pass it on to 5 more :)
To Ullis Ullis dagar
To Yvonne Yvonne's Creative Cards
To Bev All the things I love
To Ida Little's stæsj og dæsj
To Sharon Cards n Greetings

They all have wonderful blogs, hop on by you too :)

XOXO Mika

Challanges x 2

My sisters son is celebrating his 4th birthday today and I really needed a card, my insperation was in a rot. So I jumped between all the challanges that I follow and found two that would work great for this card. The sketch and theme "Card for a child" is from Truly Scrumptious Challange #5. The color combination Orange, Green and Brown is from Colour Create Challange Week 13. So this is my first challange combination.

Materials:
Cardstock: Bazzil Basics
DT: Crafters Companion everyday cd
Stamps: Crafters Companion, Inkido
Color medium: Derwent water colour pencils, Jim Holtz Distress Ink

XOXO Mika

Just Magnolia Challange Week 1

Just Magnolia has their first challange this week. It is a wonderful sketch by the very talented Donalda.
I bought some magnolia stamps just the other week (my first ones) and have been spending my easter painting them with my derwent watercolour pencils. When I saw this challange I knew which Tilda I wanted on it. Here is my take on the sketch.

Materials:
Cardstock: Bazzil Basic Black, White and red embossed with dots
DP: Heidi Grace Love Blossoms Small Floral Hearts
Stamps: Magnolia Tilda, Inkido Gratulerar
White panduro fabric flowers painted with markers
Brads: from stash

XOXO Mika

Charisma Cardz Challange 14 - Color Combo - Purple & Green

Haven't been crafting that much this easter, been away at my parents house and went visiting my MIL and FIL. But I did stamp up some stamps on water colour paper and took my Derwent water colour pencils with me. So I have at least been coloring a bit.

When I came home I went looking around on all the blogs I follow and found the perfect challange to go with my newly painted tilda. Over at Charisma Cardz they have a color combo challange, the colors are purple and green.
Here are my entry:


Materials:
Dark green 300 gms cardstock, local paper store
DP Iron Orchid Desgns,Angelic Collection "Harp"
Purple cardstock with dots, Bazzil
Ribbons, brads and glitter stick, panduro
Stamp, Tilda stamped with versafine onyx black, painted with derwent water colour pencils.

XOXO Mika

Truly Scrumptious Challange 4 - Flower Power

Over at Truly Scrumptious they have a great sketch with a theme. The theme is flower power.

You must be a little bored of the stampavie dragon with flower stamp by now, but he SOO fits this challange (and I do not have that many stamps). But I really love this card, you can't see it on the pic that much but all the papers got some texture.
For the flower bit I overloaded on them :), on both the background and the small green scallop circles I have heat embossed flowers in clear, the cute dragon has a flower and then the flowers in the corner :)
Materials:
Bazzil cardstock
Stampavie Flower Dragon stamp painted with derwent water colours and stamped in versafine onyx black
Flowers and brads from panduro

XOXO Mika