New ROP / BNW Challenge Starting Today - Colors!

Edited to add on Monday Feb.8th at 9:00 AM EST: 

*** Due to a little mix up with the challenge dates the winner of the last challenge will be announced on Wednesday! Sorry and thanks for understanding! The new challenge will be posted during the course of the day! ***

Hello and a wonderful Monday to everyone! Hope you all had a nice weekend! For my card today I used one of the older Belles 'n Whistles images but oh so cute Lil' Miss Poppy. Isn't she just adorable? And for a change I pulled out my distress inks and colored her instead of using my Copics. Today is also the start of a new challenge over at our combined challenge blog Roses on Paper and Belles 'n Whistles. Sweet Susan is our host this time and she's challenging us with a fabulous color challenge: Pink - Brown - Vanilla. And these are the colors I used for my Lil Miss Poppy card. Otherwise I kept the card pretty simple. Used 2 Martha Stewart punches, ribbon and rhinestones & half-pearls.

 

  

  

  

 

I hope to see you over at our challenge blog and joining in our fabulous color challenge!

And as always Summer has chosen a fantastic price for you to win. 

You have time to enter until Sunday February 21st.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Wrap Around A Cup - A Gift Wrap Idea

Happy Friday Everyone! I'm back today with another gift idea, part 2 of my gift set. :-) I showed you the little paper basket on Wednesday and that was part 1 (actually the whole set consists of 4 parts). This time I made a wrapper for a mug. I used the same colors as I did for my basket so everything will fit nicely together. The DP I used is from the new Basic Grey collection Origins. The image is colored with the same colors but instead of the Cupcake image I used another cutie from the new Sweet Things collection: Beary Big Hugs.

 

I thought making a wrapper is a nice idea and something different than putting the mug in a box and decorate the box or alter the box the mug was sold in. And let me tell you, it is pretty quick as well ;-).

 I decorated the top with Prima flowers, rhinestones, half-pearls

and added a large bow and some smaller strands of ribbon.

The image was put on the front and I trimmed it as well with a matching little Prima flower, matching ribbon and rhinestones. And to have a connection to the decoration on the top I let the rhinestone swirls coming from the top, continue on the front. The image was colored using Copics. I'll list the used Copics colors next week when I post the last two parts of the gift set. Punches I used are from Martha Stewart.

I hope you like my mug wrapper as well. I'll show you the rest of the set next week.For now have a wonderful weekend all and thanks for stopping by here today and any comment you may leave!!

Hugs,

Mini Paper Basket & Tutorial

 

Hello everyone!  Today I like to show you a little paper gift basket I made. This is a real quick project and ideal for giving some sweets maybe at Valentines or together with another gift for a birthday or the like. Those baskets are not only for Easter where they are typically used I guess. I find them quite versatile. I filled mine with some small, single wrapped chocolate bars and it's going to be part of a birthday gift set. I chose the image Cupcake from our latest Belles 'n Whistles collection Sweet Things. I just loooove this image and think she is just perfect for my little sweet basket, don't you think so? For the colors I chose green, brown and yellow because I like to use some of the DP's from Basic Greys Origins collection for my card and gift wrapping later on. So my little basket will fit perfectly then.

  

 Here's a close up of the image. I colored her with my Copics.

  

 And here you can see I decorated the handle with some rhinestones.

 

I decorated the back side with a punched out heart.

I made a little tutorial for you on how to make these cute baskets. I thought maybe you'd like to know and you'll see they are really quick & easy to make.

Mini Paper Basket Tutorial

First cut 3 pieces of cardstock (different colors if you like) in following sizes:

1 square: 5.5 inch x 5.5 inch, 1strip: 1 inch x 8 inch, 1strip 1/2 inch x 8 inch
(picture below)

  

Next score the square on all four sides at 1 3/4 inches

 You can now round the corners using a corner rounder punch, if desired. Fold at the score lines.

Using scissors cut along the score lines of one side (but not all the way through
- see next two pictures) and repeat on opposite side.

  

  

Apply double sided tape or adhesive according to the picture.

  

 Push the middle flap back and overlap the outside flaps in a V-shape, adhere.

Do the same on the other side.

 

 

 You are almost done assembling your basket...I told you it's fast and easy ;-)

Your basket should now look like this:

Now on to the handle. Adhere the two strips on top of each other.

 

 Apply double sided tape or adhesive on both ends of the strip and attach to the inside of the basket.

  

 And 'Voila' your mini-basket is done! Now it's ready to be decorated, get creative!

 

I hope you liked my little tutorial and maybe you like to give it a try as well.

Thanks for visiting me today!

Hugs,

A Tasty Read - Digi Image from Elisabeth Bell & Fabulous Candy

 

Hello everyone! I have something special for you today, great news from our much loved and super talented artist Elisabeth Bell!!! Did you know that Elisabeth has begun releasing a digital collection of stamps  called 'Elisabeth Bell Digital Collection' earlier this month? Well I should say in January as it is already the first of February today... wow how time flies. The first image is called February Flutter and today is the release of the second image...Woooohooooo! And OMG they are drop dead gorgeous! And tataaaaaaaaa...the second image available now is called 'A Tasty Read'. And together with Rosette, Kathrin, Lynda and Jodi from the Belles 'n Whistles DT I can present you a card I have already designed using this image. What an honor to be among the first to use this super cute digi! Thanks so much Elisabeth!

Isn't she cute sitting there engrossed in her book and eating an apple? I LOVE this image. Because this is so like me :-) And I had so much fun creating with her! Make sure you visit Elisabeth's blog to add this little reader to your stamp collection! But wait there is MORE!!!! Elisabeth is also having a FANTASTIC blog candy. She is giving away a full Set of the Belles 'n Whistles Sweet Things Collection (so if you weren't able to purchase yours yet, this might be your chance!!!), a hand-signed print (how cool is that) and a free  'A Tasty Read' digi. So there will be drawn three winners!!!!! You have time to enter this fantabulous candy til Feb. 3rd! See all the details HERE

And this is what I have created with this little cutie, I hope you like it:

Read 'About my card' and challenge entry at the end of the posting! 

-click on the image for a larger view-

 

  

  

  

 

 

 

About my card:

I colored the image using Copics and the Copic Airbrush System to color the background. DP is from Fancy Pants (striped) and Collage Press. CS is from The Paper Company. Flowers are from Prima and Rhinestones from Basic Grey's Bling It line. The die I've used for decorating the corners is a Cuttlebug die. On the inside I've used a Fancy Tag die from Spellbinders and a Martha Stewart Border Punch. Some highliting with Stickles was done on the flowers and the circles are cut out using Spellies as well. Sentiment stamp is from a small clear stamp set I found in the $1 section at Michaels.

And I used the great sketch over at Midnight Madness to create my card!

Okay and if that wasn't enough already...LOL I have some more candy announcements to make:

Over at our Belles 'n Whistles Blog Summer has a question for you about 'digi or rubber' and 'rubber or clear'
Answer her questions and you will have the chance of winning one stamp of the new Sweet Things collection.

And also on Rosettes Blog is Sweet Stuff candy time. She is celebrating her new DT membership at Mo Manning's Digital Stamp's Dream Team. Wow Rosette this is awesome! Congratulations to you Sweetie!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by today and I would love to hear from you how do you like this digi.

Hugs,

ISB Challenge 18 - Love and Hearts

Hello everyone and welcome to our 18th ISB Challenge. This time it's a theme challenge again: "Love & Hearts". We want you to create something with hearts, maybe for Valentine? This is not limited to cards, so get creative and let your creative juices flow. There are fantastic inspiring creations by my fellow DT sisters, make sure you visit their blogs (see sidebar). You have time to enter the challenge until  Saturday February 13th 6pm CET. Make sure you check our challenge blog a little later today (the new challenge and the winner of  the last challenge will be posted a little later today) to see what awesome prize Ilona has to offer this time.

I decided to make a Heart-Window card. I cut this card out using my Cricut and the Tags, Bags, Boxes and more cartridge. This is also the Valentines card I like to give to my husband. I did not go with the usual red and pink colors. I got inspired by some papers from the new Basic Grey 'Sugar Rush' collection. Image is one of the new Belles 'n Whistles images from the Sweet Things collection and is called 'Kitty Love', colored with my Copics.

I am entering the following challenges with my card:

Stampavie & More with the Challenge 79  'Love Card / Valentine'

Cute Card Thursday with the Challenge 97  'Blooming Gorgeous'

My Time to Craft with Challenge 76  'Elegant Rose'

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Hallo zusammen und willkommen zur 18. ISB-Challenge. Dieses mal lautet das Thema "Love & Hugs".  Wir moechten das ihr etwas mit herzen kreiert, last Eurer inspiration freien Lauf. Dies kann, aber muss keine Karte sein, es kann irgendein anderes Paper-Project sein. Vergesst auch nicht die Blogs der anderen DT Members zu besuchen, da gibt es wunderschoene Sachen zu bestaunen (siehe sidebar). Ihr koennt an der Challenge teilnehmen bis Samstag, 13. Februar 18 Uhr MEZ. Vergesst auch nicht unseren Challenge Blog  fuer alle weiteren Details zu besuchen. Allerdings wird die Challenge dort erst etwas spaeter heute gepostet. 

Ich habe mich diesmal fuer eine Heart-Window Karte entschieden. Ausgeschnitten habe ich sie mit meiner Cricut und der Tags, Bags, Boxes and more Cartridge. Ich habe nicht die ueblichen Valentinsfarben rot und pink gewaehlt sondern mich von einem der neuen Basic Grey Papiere aus der Sugar Rush Collection inspirieren lassen. Das Motiv ist eines der neuen Belles 'n Whistles Motive aus der Sweet Things Collection und heisst "Kitty Love". Coloriert habe ich wieder mit meinen Copics.

Mit meiner Karte nehme ich noch an folgenden Challenges teil:

Stampavie & More mit Challenge 79  'Love Card / Valentine'


Cute Card Thursday mit Challenge 97  'Blooming Gorgeous'


My Time to Craft mit Challenge 76  'Elegant Rose'

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

Hope to see you soon at our ISB-Challenge blog!

Thanks for stopping by today and visiting my blog! I'd love to hear from you!

Hugs,

Spellbinders Meets Inkadinkado - Easter Cross

Hello and welcome on my blog today! A little different card today and yes already an Easter card. When I was visiting my local craft store 'Sonshine Crafts' last week Julie showed me this awesome stamp set from Inkadinkado 'Spiritual Sketches' which included this gorgeous cross I used here. Isn't that beautiful? I couldn't resist and had to have it. I kept my card pretty simple just used white Ribbon and some of Spellbinders Nestabilities (Oval) and Fleur de Lis Pendat and the corner dies are from Cuttlebug. The image is colored as usual with my Copics. The sentiment is also from the 'Spiritual Sketches' stamp set. Hope you like my little different card.

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Hallo und willkommen auf meinem Blog heute. Eine etwas andere Karte und schon die erste Osterkarte. Als ich letzte Woche hier in meinem oertlichen Bastelshop 'Sonshine Crafts' war hat mir Julie dieses wunderschoene Stempelset 'Spiritual Sketches' von Inkadinkado gezeigt. Ich konnte nicht widerstehen und habe es mitgenommen. Dieses wunderschoene Kreuz ist noch neben anderen schoenen Motiven enthalten. Meine Karte habe ich ziemlich einfach gehalten. Ich habe weisses Band, Spellbinders Nestabilities (Oval) und Pendant Fleur de Lis verwendet. Die Ecken sind eine Cuttlebug Stanze. Wie ueblich habe ich mit meinen Copics coloriert. Der Text Stempel ist auch aus dem Set 'Spiritual Sketches' ! Ich hoffe Euch gefaellt meine etwas andere Karte.

Click on the image for a larger view - Klick auf das Bild fuer eine groessere Ansicht

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many thanks for taking the time and visiting my blog today! If you like to leave a comment I would be delighted and highly appreciate it!

Hugs,

ROP DT - Butterfly Birthday

 

Hello everyone and Happy Wednesday! The card I like to show you today is a birthday card I made by order. I used 'Tilda as Butterfly' from Magnolias Chasing Butterfly Collection. This is one fun image to color and as usual I colored her with my Copics and used some Shimmerz paint on the wings. I also had a chance to use my new butterfly border punch from Martha Stewart which I found recently on sale in my local craft store. I have to say I already love this punch. Some of the butterflies are not punched out completely so you can push them up for a 3D effect. For the tag on the inside I used part of the oval fancy tag from Spellbinders and cut it out twice in dark blue and pink. Then layered the swirls for a shadow effect. Sentiments are computer generated. I dcorated with buttons, Stickles, tiny half-pearls and leftover butterflies from punching the border.

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Hallo und einen schoenen Mittwoch Euch allen! Die Karte die ich Euch heute zeige ist eine Geburtstagskarte die ich auf Bestellung gemacht habe. Ich habe 'Tilda as Butterfly' von Magnolias Chasing Butterfly Collection verwendet. Ein supersuesses Motiv und es mach viel Spass es zu colorieren. Wie meist habe ich wieder mit meinen Copics coloriert und bei den Fluegeln habe ich auch Shimmerz benutzt. Ich habe neulich in meinem Bastelladen hier am Ort einen Butterfly Border Punch von M.S. reduziert erworben und konnte ihn erstmals testen. Ich weiss jetzt schon das wird einer meiner Lieblingspunches werden. Jeder 2. Schmeterling wird nicht ganz ausgestanzt sonder nur teilweise, so dass man ihn fuer einen 3D Effect etwas hochbiegen kann. Fuer das Tag auf der Innenseite habe ich Teile des ovalen Fancy Tag von Spellbinders benutzt. Ich habe es zweimal ausgestanzt und dann etwas versetzt uebereinander geklebt fuer einen Schatteneffekt. Die Sprueche sind am Computer erstellt. Dekoriert habe ich mit Knoepfen, Stickles, winzigen Halbperlen und den uebrigen kleinen Schmetterlingen vom Border stanzen.

Click on the image for a larger view!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copics used

Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, R20

Hair & Shoes: E31, E25, E29

Pink: R81, R83, R85, R89

Blue-Green: BG11, BG13, BG72, BG75

Airbrushed: R81, BG72

Thanks for stopping by my blog today and I would love to hear from you!

Hugs,

New ROP / BNW Challenge Starting Today - Be My Valentine!

Hello and Happy Monday! It's time for another Roses on Paper / Belles 'n Whistles Challenge. This time it's me challenging you ... with a Valentine's theme. Sure what else ...with Valentine around the corner  :-D

I want you to create a Valentines card and optional I have made a sketch that you can use if you like. But it's not required for qualifying for the prize drawing. For all the details on the challenge and what great prize Summer picked again this time check out our Challenge Blog. I hope you come and play with us! Looking forward to all of your wonderful creations!

This card matches also the ongoing challenge over at Magnolia Down Under Challenge Blog and is my entry there.

Card details:

I used Magnolias Cozy Tilda and sat her in this beautiful flourish heart oval from Alota Stamps. I colored her with my Copics. The heart stamp used on the inside is from Magnolia's last years Valentine collection as is the sentiment. I airbrushed around the image and on the inside of the card. Papers are from Fancy Pants (Vintage Valentine) and Bazill (CS). I distressed the papers using my Tim Holtz distressing tool and distress ink (Tea Dye). Flowers are from Prima and Punches used are from M.S. Decorated with half-pearls, pearl swirls and set some highlights with Diamond Stickles.

 

 

 

 

 

 Copics used
Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, R20
Hair & Shoes: E31, E25, E29
Jumpsuit: E30, E31, E33, E34, E35 - YG93, YG95, YG99
Hearts: R32, R37, R59
Wings: B0000
Shadow: W00, W0, W2, W4
Airbrushed: E30, YG93


Thanks for visiting me today and I would love to hear from you :-)

Hugs,

ROP DT & ISB DT - Lilacs on Mothers Day

Good Morning and Happy Thursday! My card today is custom-made, a Mothers Day card. I chose to use Magnolia's 'Tilda picing lilacs' as my image and colored her with my Copics as usual.
This image is from last years Spring Collection but right now Summer has the new Magnolia Right Through My Heart and Raising the Roof Collections on pre-order in the store!
These collections are super sweet and hard to resist :-). Make sure you are pre-ordering soon. Summer's taking pre-orders now through Sunday!

The sketch I used is this weeks sketch from Sketch Saturday and my entry for their challenge.

Card Details:
The DP I've used is from Bo Bunny (the dotted one) and the other one from my stash,  CS is from Bazzill. The small butterflies are made using punches (Martha Stewart & EK Success) and the large one is cut out using my Cricut (Home Accents Cartridge). Spellbinders Dies used: Labels 8, Circle Nestabilities and Borderabilities Eyelets. Some Stickles, half-pearls, buttons and ribbon for decorations and highlights.

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Hallo und einen schoenen  Donnerstag. Meine heutige Karte ist nach Kundenwunsch gefertigt, eine Muttertagskarte. Ich habe dafuer Tilda picking lilacs von Magnolia verwendet und wie ueblich mit meinen Copics coloriert. Die neueste Magnolia Kollektion ist absofort vorbestellbar bei Ilona im Shop!!! 

Der Sketch den ich verwendet habe ich von Sketch Saturday und die Karte mein Beitrag zur aktuellen Challenge.

Details zur Karte:

Das DP ist von Bo Bunny (das gepunktete) das andere aus meinem Vorrat (keine Ahnung mehr von wem), CS ist von Bazzill. Die kleinen Schmetterlinge habe ich mit Martha Steart und EK Success Punches gestanzt und der grosse ist ausgeschnittten mit meiner Cricut (Home Accents Cartrige). Verwendete Spellbinders Dies: Labels 8, Kreis Nestabilities und Borderabilities Eyelets. Dekoriert habe ich mit Stickles, Halbperlen, Knoepfen und Band.

Copics used:

Skin: E0000, E000, E01, E11, R20, R000
Dress: BV00, BV02, BV04, BV08
Yellow: Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17
Shoes: E43, E44, E47, E49
Hair: E31, E25, E29
Airbrushed: Y13, BV02

Thanks for visiting my blog today and any comment you may leave! :-)

Hugs,

Belles 'n Whistles DT - Birthday Calendar

Hello and Happy Hump Day all! Are you like me? Forgetting birthdays all the time? Ooohh let me tell you I'm so bad with remembering birthdays *sigh* I had a wonderful Birthday Calendar once but since my last move it is lost....and so am I without it *lol* But I hope not any longer because the Belles 'n Whistles DT came up with the great idea to make a Birthday Calendar. Each month on the 20th (or the next week day if the 20th is on a weekend) we are showing birthday calendar page samples on the Belles 'n Whistles blog. We've also created a template for you to use if you like to join us. In the sidebar on the Belles 'n Whistles blog you'll find a link to download the template (PDF).

Ok here comes my page for the month of January. I printed the template on 110 lb card stock and chose Belles Carols for my image. She is now singing Happy Birthday instead of Christmas Carols ;-) I colored her using my Copics and airbrushed the background of the image as well as around the template. The swirls I stamped around the page are from Inkadinkado and the sentiment stamp is from The Greeting Farm. The flowers I've used are from Prima and the border punch is a Martha Stewart punch. The DP is from Best Creation Inc. and CS is Bazzill.
And to match my glittery DP I've also added some Stickles to my image and the flowers.

I also followed the sketch from Friday Sketchers, which was designed by my fellow DT friend Jacque, and entering my calendar page in this weeks challenge.

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Hallo und einen schoenen Mittwoch! Geht's Euch mit Geburtstagen wie mir? Ich vergesse sie laufend. Ich hatte mal einen wunderschoenen Geburtstagskalender, doch seit meinem letzten Umzug ist er verloren....wie ich ohne ihn ;-) Aber ich hoffe das hat jetzt ein Ende denn wir, das Belles 'n Whistles DT, hatten die Idee einen Geburtstagskalender zu machen. Wir werden an jedem 20. eines Monats (der dem darauffolgenden Wochentag, wenn der 20. auf eine Wochenende faellt) Beispiele fuer Geburtstagskkalenderseiten posten. Wir haben auch eine Vorlage entworfen (PDF) die ihr in der Sidebar des Belles 'n Whistles Blogs findet zum Herunterladen. So hier kommt mein Beispiel fuer Januar. Ich habe ein kuehleres blau als Grundfarbe gewaehlt , zusammen mit kraeftigen Farben. Mein Motiv is Belles Carols, doch singt sie jetzt nicht Weihnachtslieder sondern Happy Birthday! :-) Coloriert habe ich mit Copics und der HG des Motivs sowie um die Vorlage habe ich geairbrushed. Die Swirls sind von Inkadinkado und der Textstempel von The Greeting Farm. Die Blumen sind von Prima und mit Stickles habe ich gehilighted. DP ist von Best Creations Inc. und CS von Bazzill.

Dies ist auch mein Beiitrag zu der Challenge von Friday Sketchers diese Woche, wo meine DT Freundin Jacque den Sketch entworfen hat.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, E00, E51, E11, E95
Hair: Y11,Y21, E97, E99
Blue: B0000, B000, B21, B23, B26, B29
Brown: E42, E43, E44, E47, E49, E50, E53, E55
Pink: R30, R32, RV42
Green: G21, G82, G85
Yellow: YR21, YR24
Background airbrushed: B41

Thanks for stopping by today and any comment you may leave is highly appreciated!

Hugs,