Burst of Colors

Happy Saturday my dear friends! Hope you are all enjoying your weekend! The card I like to show to you today is made with one of the Kenny K rubber stamps now available at Whimsy Stamps . I'm so happy that these are now available in rubber too. As much as I like digi's I still prefer rubber a bit more!  I colored 'All That' using my Copics and for the first time I used digital papers. Was a brand new experience for me printing out my DP but I have to say I like it a lot!!!! The digital DP I used is from Nitwit . They have fantastic DP there. The ticket sentiments are also from Whimsy as well as the ticket die I used to cut them out. I just love the ticket sentiments and now that Denise has the ticket die in the store availabe it is so easy to cut them out. A perfect ticket shape every time! The swirls and flowers are cut out using Marianne Design dies. This is also my entry into the following challenges: Stamp Something: Stamp Soemthing! Simon Says Stamp :

Hello friends and welcome to another 'Upon a Wednesday Challenge' from the Pixie Cottage ! It is my second Wednesday today as a guests designer for The Pixie Cottage . This week we want you to use your favorite coloring technique and also have a sketch for you if you like using sketches! You can use both, the technique and the sketch or either one. For my GDT card I used Pepe Le Penguin as Le Chef by Alisa Ramirez. And as I have actually 3 favorite coloring methods (Copics, Distress Inks and Pencils) I used two of them on my  image. I colored  Pepe using pencils and OMS and also did some Copic airbrushing. The sentiment is from Whimsy's Birthday Letter Seals . DP is from Basic Grey's Marakesh collection. Flowers ribbon and lace is from my stash. I used Spellbinder dies, EK Sucess punch and a Marianne Design swirly leaf die. I cut the swirly leaves out using orqange CS and then colored the tips using the Copic airbrush system and a little darker orange. For a final

Hello all and Happy Monday to you! Hope you all had a good start into the work week after a nice weekend. My weekend was great, we had my best friend here visiting us from Germany :-)  Both, she and her hubby, ran the Disney Marathon yesterday...and they did it ...of course! ;-) They finished with a great time and  brought home the fab Mickey medal! Yay! Congrats again to you guys!!! The card I want to show you today is a commissioned card I made. The chosen colors are the colors of the birthday-'boys' (lol not at all a boy anymore ;-) ) favorite soccer club.  I colored this fab Kenny K digi image using my distress inks. I printed the image onto water color paper using my laser printer. This works pretty well if I choose the manual paper feeder and the setting for thick paper. The DP is from Glitz Design. The Ticket Sentiments are from Whimsy as well as the Ticket Die I used to cut them out. I also decorated the inside. The circle sentiment is from Whimsy's Bi

Hello everyone, Happy Friday! I hope you all had a wonderful first week of the new year so far! Even if Christmas is over and we are in the new year already I like to show you some CAS Christmas cards I made. They don't have any stamped images on, just dry embossing, ribbon, some glitter and a sentiment. I made three styles and created several of each. All embossing was done using Cuttlebug embossing folders and the sentiments are digital sentiments by Raindrop Echo Designs for Whmisy from the Season's Greetings Collection. I wish you all a wonderful weekend and thanks for dropping in today! Hugs,

Welcome to my blog today and thanks for stopping by! Today is the first of  4 Wednesdays this month for me being a Guest Designer over at the Pixie Cottage Challenge blog for the 'Once upon a Wednesday' Challenge! I already mentioned earlier that I was asked by Michelle, the owner of 'The Pixie Cottage' if I like to be a GD for a month and of course my answer was yes :-) Thanks Michelle for this opportunity! Michelle has an absolutely adorable and very versatile line of stamps and so many more other goodies in her store. If you haven't paid her store a visit yet, you should check it out now, click right HERE . Onto this weeks challenge now. The theme is 'Punches'. That's easy isn't it? So why not joining in our challenge then?! For all details on the challenge and how to enter please click here . This cutie is called Pretty in Pink by Alisa Ramirez and you'll find her in the Pixie Cottage Store HERE . I colored her using pencils and OMS and

Hello and welcome to the first Belles 'n Whistles Challenge for 2011! This time it's my lovely DT sister Kathy who's hosting the challenge. And she decided she wants to see Snowflakes on your cards! And this is my DT card for the challenge:   Snowball Snowbaby was colored again using my re-discovered Pencils and OMS. DP is from Bo Bunny and the large Flower from Petaloo. Sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps . The large snowflake I found at a dollar store. I got them in October already but never used them before. Swirl die is from Marianne Design. I 'm  in love with these dies! If you are in the states you can get them HERE I also added Stickles Star Dust for some bling. The light blue outlining/shadowing was done with Distress Inks 'Tumbled Glass' I am also entering my card into the following challenges: 7 Kids College Fund Challenge - Anything Goes and Angel Creative Updates Challenge - Anything Snows   For all BnW challenge details and how to enter

Welcome and a Happy New Year! I hope you all had a good start into the new year! Welcome to our first lovely-hAnglar-only challenge for 2011! Which is actually our 15th challenge! This time my super talented DT sister Marina created a recipe for us: 3 flowers 2 brads 1 ribbon And this is what I came up with using Marina's recipe: For a change I colored this hAnglar cutie with pencils and OMS. I haven't done this technique for quite some time and it was so much fun to do something other than Copics or Distress Inks. ;-) Sooooo... my next creations will be colored using pencils and OMS. :-) I have a huge stash of colored pencils (brands I use are: Prisma Color, Derwent Coloursoft and Faber Castell Polychromos. I also have a few Koh-I-Noor) and it was wonderful to dig into all the colors! DP is from Basic Greys 'Curio' collection. Sentiment is a clear stamp from my stash don't know the manufacturer. Dies used are from Spellbinders and Tim Holtz.     I shaded t

Merry Christmas! Sorry for posting this a little late but actually this post was scheduled for yesterday but never went up . I wish all of you a Peaceful and Merry Christmas and a Happy and Crafty New Year!!! I hope you'll have a wonderful holiday season to enjoy together with family and friends. Here is my Christmas card for you: Tilda is colored with Copics and the DP is from BG's Wassail collecetion. Ribbon and lace are from my stash and the flower is made by Petaloo. Dies used are from Magnolia (Doo Hickey). I also used Stickles to add some sparkle.  The sendiment is SU! I destressed all papers with Walnut Stain. I used Stickles Frosted Lace around the image. It was still wet when I took the photo...sorry   ************************************ Whimsy Digi DT Call Do you like digi images? Then this is your chance! Whimsy Stamps is looking for new members for the Digi Design Team!!! To read all about the DT call please click HERE . The call is open until Fr

As it is official now I can share the news with you! :-)  I've been selected as one of Peachy Keen Stamp s Guest Designers for 2011! Woohooo!  I am very excited about the news and look forward to my week as GDT End of May/Early June! This is fabulous! Peachy Keen Stamps has a very cute, adorable and whimsical line of stamps. Super versatile and for every occasion. For Peachy Keen inspirations and challenge fun check out the Peach Keen Stamps Challenge Blog  HERE ! Congrats to all my fellow GDTeamies for 2011 and thanks to Peachy Keen for this great opportunity! A special thanks to Angelica fore her hard work in coordinating all this!!!!  Hugs,

Hello and Happy Monday all!   It's my turn to host this fortnightly Belles 'n Whistles Challenge ! Are you feeling the same as I do? Can't see those Christmas cards anymore? Well then lets move on to the next holiday after Christmas! :-) Of course...New Years! I am challenging you this time to create a New Year's Project . That can be everything: a card, a gift box, a bottle hanger for a champagne bottle, place cards for your New Years dinner etc. Just get creative! I decided to make a New Years Card and choose Skiing Snowbaby as my image. I colored her with Copics and then used the 'Cracked Glass Technique' to give it an antique look! I posted a tutorial today on our Belles 'n Whistles Inspirational Blog on how to do the cracked glass technique. You'll find all the details here:  'Tutorial Cracked Glass Technique' ! The DP is from Bo Bunny, the flowers are Prima and Petaloo. The sentiment is from a mini clear stamp set from Hamton A

Hello all and welcome to our last ISB-Challenge! We, the DT, are all very sad that this will be our last challenge but we understand the tough decision Ilona had to make! Thanks Ilona for a wonderful time as a DT member for ISB-Challenge!!!!!! Sending big hugs your way my friend! Ok and our final challenge theme is: Everything but Christmas! For my card I chose one of the new Whimsys stamps from the Kenny K Collection . She is called 'Movie Star'. I am still so excited to see these cuties being 'rubberized'! :-) I colored her with Copics (sorry I forgot to take a pic of the markers I used). The sentiment is from Whimsy as well and available as digi HERE together with 7 other sentiments fitting the new Kenny K Collection. The DP is from SEI - "Poppy". Sketch is from Friday Sketchers .   We would love to see you joining our last challenge. Let's say good-bye to ISB  together! We are looking forward to your creations! Hugs,