Burst of Colors

Wishing you a wonderful Sunday fellow crafters! Our 10th 'lovely hAnglar only challenge' is starting today with a theme picked by our incredible talented Ilona :  'Easel-card - everything but square' We want you to make an easel-card using a different shape than usual! Be creative and then come and play with us at our LHO-Challenge Blog and show us your shaped easel-card! While there, also make sure to check out the fantastic work of my fellow DT-sisters!!! I decided to make an octagon shaped card this time. I thought this would fit my sitting hAnglar girl best.  I stamped my image into 'x-press it'  blending cards using Memento Tuxedo black ink. She was colored with Copics. The dies I've used are all from Spellbinders and the sentiment was a freebie I got with my last order from Catslife Press. DP is from Cosmo Cricket 'Mitten Weather'. To add some bling to the girl and the embellies I used Stickles Star Dust. The paper edges were distressed...

Here I am back with my second post for today and my first DT card for Whimsy Stamps ! For my card I used this super cute Santa stamp called 'Jolly Puppy Kisses' designed by Crissy Armstrong for Whimsy Stamps. I already got it last year but haven't had a chance on inking it up until now *shame on me* Isn't this just super cute? I looooove dogs and just had to have it ;-)   I stamped on X-press it blending cards with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and did the coloring with my Copics. The sentiment stamp is also from Whimsy and available in the New Holiday Ticket Sentiment Collection by Raindrop Echo Designs. Punches/dies I used are from the Punch Bunch, Knorr-Prandell and Tim Holtz. Flowers, ribbons and charms are from my stash. I added some highlights with Stickels and sewing with the machine. DP is from Bo Bunny. Whimsy Stamps is also having a fun Blog Hop today for the Fall / Halloween October Digi Release ! These are super cute images designed by the Whimsy artists! ...

Hello friends and a Happy Friday to you all!  This is my first post for today with just some news to share and a second one is following later today with my card for today. Woohoo! I am sooo excited. :-) The sweet and wonderful Denise Lynne , owner of Whimsy Stamps , asked me if I like to join her DT!  Of course I will :-) Thanks again for the wonderful oportunity Denise! I can't wait to create with the fabulous stamps Whimsy has to offer! Later today I will post my first DT card for Whimsy. And here I have already a little sneak peek for you ;-)  Come by later again to see my whole project! Hugs,

  Happy Hump Day to you all! Today I like to show you another card I made with one of the very versatile stamps from Belles 'n Whistles new ChangeaBelles collection ! This time I made a Christmas card using 'Kneeling Belle' and the little doggie .  I stamped Belle onto Cryogen white paper using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her with my Copics (photo at the end). DP is from Memory Box - Spice Berry . I also did some sewing with the machine. The sentiment is from SU as well as the border punch. Here is a close-up on the image. The swirl stamps in the corners are clear stamps (dunno the brand anymore) which I bought 2 years ago and these are very nice wintery and christmassy swirls! The large poinsettia was made using a Bosskut die. I finished the inside as well. The stamps are clear stamps from a little set I got at Michaels for $1 last year. The card comes with a matching envelope box. These are the Copics I used on this card. This card is for sal...

Hello Friends and Happy Monday! Today the Belles 'n Whistles challenges are starting on our fabulous new challenge only blog called 'BnW Challenge Blog' . There will be a new challenge starting every other Monday! And to introduce our new blog to you and to celebrate our first challenge there, Summer has a special price up for grabs. Woohoo! So come on over and visit our 'BnW Challenge Blog' and see what you have to do in order to be eligble for the price. I hope you like to play along with us! Our challenge today is hosted by our wonderful and super talented DT sister Jodi! She wants to see Fall Colors on your cards/projects! I used another stamp from the new BnW Changeabelles collection . It's the cornucopia from the Holidays set. I colored the image using Copic markers. It was stamped onto X-Press It blending card stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Now that I tried the X-Press It I can say it is very nice and smooth to color. I like it but I can...

Welcome dear crafting friends to a new ISB-Challenge with the fun theme 'Animal Fun Time'! We want to see animal images or an image containing an animal on your projects! This can also be a Halloween card! I hope you all like to play along and see you over at our ISB-Challenge blog! For my card I used one of the new Belles 'n Whistles images from the recently released ChangeaBelles collection. This is really a fun collection and sooooo versatile. You can use these images in a scene together with other BnW cuties or alone as I did on my card here. I used the sweet puppy from the ' Puppy, Doll & Teddy' set. I made a little thank you note card which was cut out using my Spellbinder dies. DP is from my stash. The flowers are cut out using Marianne design dies.  Here is a close up of the cut puppy and I colored him using Copics. I hope you like my little note card. come and join us over at the ISB-Challenge blog for this fun challenge! *********** I...

Hello and thanks for stopping by today! Before I go on with my card for today I like to introduce you to our brand new Belles 'n Whistles Challenge blog !!!!! We've decided it's time to have a challenge only blog and our super talented DT sister Lynda did all the fantastic work with the blog layout! It is awesome!!!! We all love it and are super excited and proud of Lynda and the super cute blog she created! But have a look for yourself right HERE and meet Summer the owner, Elisabeth the artist and of course the BnW DT!!! There is also a page where we are going to post our winners!  We will have fortnightly challenges there starting with our next challenge on Monday October 11th! So bookmark the page, bring out all your BnW cuties and get ready to participate! We are all so excited and are looking forward to meeting you there!!!!!!   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have another Halloween card to show for which I chose the cute 'Tilda with Pumpkin' fro...

Happy Sunday Friends! Today a new Lovely-Hanglar-Only Challenge starts and it is my turn to pick the theme. As the holiday season is almost on our door steps and everyone starts creating holiday themed  projects I decided to go with the theme 'Seasonal'. So you can enter a card or project with a holiday theme as well as a Spring, Summer, Fall, or Winter card. I think that leaves a lot of options! Hope you like it and come and join us at the Lovely-Hanglar-Only challenge blog ! For my inspirational DT card I chose to go with a Winter theme. I picked this cute guy, he is from the 'Tomtekit 2008'. I kept my card in blue and beige tones. The image was stamped onto Cryogen paper from Arjo Wiggins with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored using Copic markers. (Cloth: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44 & B0000, B91, B93, B97) I used Stickles Star Dust and Arctic Ice to highlight and some glitz. The large snowflake was cut out using my Cricut and the Christmas/Noel cartr...