Burst of Colors

Hello Friends and Happy TGIF! I hope you are all looking forward to a wonderful weekend! Today I like to show you my BnW DT project for this week, a little moleskin cahier notebook I made or I should better say altered/decorated. I stamped right onto the kraft cover and colored using Prisma pencils, a Prisma  pencil blender  and  a dry paper stump. This is for me the best method to color on kraft card stock and blend the colors nicely. The stamp I used is from the new Belles 'n Whistles SweetArt Girls collection and is called 'Here Kitty Kitty' . Sentiment is a clear stamp from my stash and I used only a matching ribbon for decoration. This little notebook has just the right size to fit in a purse. That's why I did not use any bulky embellishments and kept it clean and simple! Just a little Stickles Stardust (my absolute favorite!) for some sparkle. Also please don't forget joining in our on going sketch challenge over at the BnW Challenge Blog ! Looking...

Hello Everyone and Happy Thursday! Thank you to all who entered my Whimsy Giveaway yesterday! I used random.org to draw the winner. But before I announce who the lucky person is I'll show you the Meljen's stamp: It's Rainy Day Duckling . Ok and the winner is: No. 16 - alethea Congratulations hun! Please contact me with your mailing info! Now onto my DT project for today. I used one of the new Whimsy April rubber stamps called 'Come Fly With Me' by Crissy Armstrong. I colored this time using Distress Inks (stamped on hot pressed watercolor paper 140lbs/300g with Archival Ink) DP is from my stash unfortunately I don't know the brand. Flowers are Whimsy Buds , Magnolia and Prima. The sentiment next to the image is the one which comes with the stamp. The postage stamp is from the Everyday Mini Postage Stamps and cut out using the matching Mini Postage Die . Border punch is from EK Success. Decorative pin is selfmade and all other embellies are from my ...

Hello Friends & Happy Hump-Day!! It's the last Wednesday of a month and time for my Whimsy Meljens Giveaway. I'm having the honor of giving away 1 surprise stamp from ' Whimsy's Meljens Designs Collection '. Kindly sponsored by Denise from Whimsy Stamps . All you have to do to participate is put your name below into the linky gadget. That's it! Easy peasy isn't it? And who can resist these adorable stamps?! I know I can't...LOL. But remember, the candy is only open for 24 hours! So better be quick and enter right away and let all your blogging friends know. I'll draw a winner tomorrow afternoon and announce it here on my blog together with my weekly Whimsy DT project! Good luck to all! Oh yes and I'll also reveal the stamp tomorrow as well ;-) Hugs,

Hello my dear blogging friends! Hope you all had a fantastic Easter weekend (for all of you who celebrated) and Happy Easter Monday to all who are lucky enough to have another holiday today. We had a wonderful weekend with lots of sunshine and Easter fun. Today it's time for a new fortnightly Belles 'n Whistles Challenge hosted by my fabulous DT sister Anki ! Anki came up with a fantastic sketch: And this is my take on the sketch I used this image from the new Fairy Friends Collection called 'Fairy Dance' . I colored her with my Prismas and Copics (for skin). To make the Pencils look even more brighter I used a colorless blender pencil. (Colors I used arelisted at the end of this posting). DP is from Basic Grey ('Hello Luscious'). Circle sentiment is from Whimsy 's Spring Letter Seals . Circle die is from Spellbinders and the flourish die is from Magnolia. Ribbon, flowers, gems & button are from my stash. I used Star Dust, Waterfall and Platinum...

Hello everyone and a very Happy Birthday to my hubby! :-D This is a scheduled posting and when you are reading this we are all in the middle of celebrating big! And this image, also called 'Celebrate Big' , from Crissy's collection at Whimsy Stamps was perfect for one of the cards I made for him ;-)  This time I colored on kraft cardstock using Prisma pencils. To blend the colors I used dry paper stumps. DP is from Basic Grey's Marakech collection. Both the Calendar stamp and the Birthday Seal sentiment are from Whimsy Stamps as well. As it is a 'men's card' I just used a few buttons, twine and a large flower for decorations. Here's a close-up on the image Thanks for taking the time and visiting me here today! Have a wonderful day! Hugs,

Hello friends! Welcome to the Whimsy Stamps April new rubber release BLOG HOP! We have 13 fabulous new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new wonderful dies to show you today! These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - Beate Johns , Deb Routledge , Jacque Beddingfield , Mindy Baxter and Minna Paajanen . The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 5 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more inspiration! Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies being released today: 3 stamps from Crissy Armstrong Big Comfy Cake ~ Come Fly With Me ~ Cupcake Bliss 3 stamps from Meljen's Designs Curious Little Fairy ~ Fairy Toadstools ~ Little Fairy Friend 4 stamps from Kenny K Biker Babe ~ Cheers Dude ~ Madison Attitude ~ Soho 3 stam...

Hello and welcome to Whimsy's Sneak Peek Day 5. Today is the DT's choice of artist and I decided to go with this super adorable giraffe image from Crissy.  She is just too cute. And look at those eyes!!!! I love giraffe's anyway! We have a zoo here where you can feed an pet the giraffe's. This is always such a wonderful experience to touch these gentle giants. 'Big Comfy Cake' was colored with Copic's. DP is from Basic Grey's Indian Summer collection. The flowers are Whimsy Buds . The sentiment next to the image comes with the stamp. The small postage sentiments are from the new 'Everyday Sayings Mini Postage Stamps' available tomorrow at Whimsy Stamps . I used this weeks Sketch from Sketch Saturday for my card. To see more inspiration from my talented Whimsy's DT sisters please visit the Whimsy Inspirational blog for a list of today's participating DT blogs. And make sure you mark your calendars for tomorrow's Whimsy's A...

Hello All and Happy TGIF!!! It's Friday night and time to reveal my winner of the BnW Blog Hop! :-) But before I do that I would like to thank you all for your support and hopping with us! We had so much fun and it it is an awesome release! From all your comments we can tell you all like the new release as well as we do and are as excited as we are :-) Ok but no more hold-ups now! Here is the randomly chosen winner.....drum roll please......... it's....... Velta Congratulations Velta! Please contact me at cocoacrafts(at)gmail(dot)com with your choice of  'Lilypad Dreams' from the Fairy Friends Collection or 'A Pen Friend' from the SweetArt Girls Collection . You have time to claim your prize until Sunday night. If the prize is unclaimed until then I'll redraw the winner. I wish all of you a wonderful weekend!!! And make sure to check my DT-sisters blogs for more winner announcements and also the BnW Inspirational Blog for the Grand Prize Winner! (if ...

Hello friends! Today I like to announce my Sneak Peek Winner! Sorry for the delay! So now I don't want to keep you in suspense any longer. The randomly chosen winner is: Martina's Welt Congrat's sweetie! Herzlichen Glueckwunsch!! Please contact me with your mailing address so I can send you your little surprise! My email: cocoacrafts(at)gmail(dot)com Tomorrow evening I will pick my winner from our Belles 'n Whistles blog hop! So if you haven't entered our Belles 'n Whistles blog hop you still have the chance to do so and have the chance of  winning some yummy stamps! Hugs,

****** My Sneak Peek Candy Winner will be announced tomorrow April 7th!!!****** Welcome to the Belles 'n Whistles Spring Release Blog Hop!!! Today is the day! 16 new stamps are being released and are available and shipping as of today!!! There are 2 new collections, the Fairy Friends Collection and the Sweet Art Girls Collection. I'm sure the Sweet Art Girls are familiar to some of you already ;-) If you arrived here today from Lynda's blog you are on the right track. If not please go back to the Belles 'n Whistles Inspirational blog to start the hop off right! If you like to win some prizes please leave comments on all participating blogs! There will one grand prize , a $65 Gift Certificate for one randomly drawn winner on the Belles 'n Whistles Inspirational blog! To be eligible for this prize you must leave comments on all blogs!!! In addition each DT member is giving away 1 stamp of the highlighted stamps on their blogs! Blog Hop runs until April 8th wh...

Hello Everyone and Happy Monday! WooHoo! Only 2 more days until Super Release Day at B elles 'n Whistles !!! And trust me this is going to be huge! 16 new stamps and you will love them all, he, he ;-)  And because I can't stop teasing you I have another little sneak peek for you today. But before I go on and show that to you I like to announce that we have a very special blog hop at Whimsy today. The illustrators of Whimsy Stamps have come together to draw special images for the purpose of raising money for the relief effort in Japan. All proceeds (minus any PayPal fees) from the sale of these images (images are available through the month of April) will be donated to that cause. Please click HERE for the special blog hop and HERE to see the images. Ok and here is my B elles 'n Whistles Sneak Peek for today: This is part from another image I am going to show on release day. So make your guesses and don't forget leaving a comment puts you in the draw...