Burst of Colors

****** For My Candy Please Scroll Down! ****** Hello All and Happy TGIF! Today my post is a bit longer so please bear with me. I have different things I want to share with you all and one of them is a CANDY I have up for grabs! At the end of this posting you'll find the candy and how to participate. :-) I wanted to do this for quite some time and now finally I came a round and did it! I also have a video to show. I was asked several times already from fellow stampers and followers of my blog if I could do coloring video's. Honestly I'm not so much of a video type and there are already hundred of Copic coloring video's out there. No need need to throw another one in there....I thought! But you kept asking and well what shall I say I gave in. It is really nothing special and there are way better learning video's out there but here it is my first coloring video! So please be easy on me I never did a coloring video before. This first video shows ...

Happy TGIF Everyone! Finally I was able to color one of my new Tildas I recently ordered :-) But before I show it to you I would like to let you know that the new Whimsy Inspirations Magazine is available to view online, as always it's for free! :-) If you like to get a printed version of the magazine you can pre-order ii next week in the Whimsy Store . Now onto my card for today. This stamp is called 'Tilda With Spitz Pocket' (I think) and is from the 'Special Moments' collection. I colored Tilda with my Copics (scroll further down for a list of colors) and also tried a new coloring cardstock. Well new to me that is. But I must say I don't like too much. If you are like me and building up color in lots of layers this cardstock is no good. After just a few layers it wont take any color anymore and the surface gets sticky with lots of built up. Also the color seems to sit on top of the paper and is not drying for a very...

Hello and Happy Thursday Everyone! Today I'd like to show you a card I made using Marianne Creatables LR 0241 und LR0242. Darlene from Dutch Paper Crafts has just released these Marianne Design Creatables called Petra's Ovals and Anja's Squares & Labels . As always Darlene has put up a fantastic video to show you samples (this time made by me ;-) ) with these dies! To see all the different dies available please visit the Dutch Paper Crafts blog! Note: Unfortunately I have to put my watermark from now on right on the card and also on part of the colored image (or at least close to it) instead of in one of the corners. Again one of my images was copied from my blog, printed out and re-used as 'own creation' from the thief. Well that happened before as well as the whole cards got copied and put on other blogs and I even saw one of my creations on Etsy one time as sample for a 'made-to-order' item. Awww this really makes me sick! And ...

Hello everyone! Hope you all are having a great week so far! Today I have some early Christmas greetings for you from 'Walter the Moose'. It's a Magnolia stamp from this years fall collection if I'm not mistaken. He is just too adorable and I couldn't resist on getting this cutie. I stamped him with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto X-press it card. Of course he was colored with Copic's (E30's, E70's and W-grays) like always. The outline was done with pencils and OMS. The designer papers are from an older Basic Grey collection called 'Jovial' I love these papers. The snow under his feet is 'Shaved Ice' from Stampendous. The snow on the fence and trees is made with  Snow-Tex (DecoArt) and Aleene's True Snow. Pearl swirls are from Want to Scrap. The dies I've used on the outside of the card are Marianne Design Creatables LR0136 Christmas Tree and LR0205 Fence and Magnolia Heart Swirl and Star Tag. You can get the...

Hello ladies (and gents;-) ) My card today is using one of the Memory Box Debutante Frames which are now available to buy from Dutch Paper Crafts. Darlene put up a great video in which she shows you the dies in close up view and also more projects created with these dies. The cards I've created for the video will also be shown on my blog over the next couple of days. The frame around Tilda is made using the Debutante Frame (base) and the Twirly Vine frame (layered on top of the base frame). 'Flower Tilda' of course was colored with Copics and the DP is from Bo Bunny's Ambrosia collection. The sentiment is from Whimsy's Birthday Letter Seals. Embellies are all from my stash. A close up on the cute Tilda The inside was decorated to match the outside. Here I used the Vaudeville Frame and again the Debutante Frame as base Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

To enter the 'Whimsy Birthday Party Hop' please -click here- ************************************* Hello Everyone! Tomorrow my parents are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary! :) Wow what a long time together and the best thing, they are still happy and love each other like on the first day!! :-D The card I'm showing today is on it's way to them and touching ground there on Friday...just right in time ;-) (Thanks Micha xx :) ) I tried the vintage shabby chic look with all the 'white stuff' on there. I was inspired by my former DT sister and friend Kathy , she has a great tutorial for that on her blog HERE . As well as by Tracy and her recent article on the MIC blog HERE . AND I finally bought the 'Distrezz it All' from Zutter. Yeah! I was contemplating about it for quite a while now and on Monday it arrived at my door steps :). I have to say I LOVE it! So much easier and soooo quick because you can distress all the papers at once...