Burst of Colors

Hello all and Happy Saturday! Today's the first day of the Whimsy Sneak Peek Days for the Whimsy March Rubber Release on Wednesday the 16th. On the first day today the the Whimsy DT shows off designs from the wonderful artist Chrissy Armstrong. For a list of all participating blogs please visit the Whimsy Inspirational Blog !   For my sneak peek creation I used this adorable image called "Tippy By The Tail" by Chrissy. Available next Wednesday at the Whimsy store ! I colored with Copics and the DP I've used is from the new MME collection Hazel. The balloon dies are also from Whimsy's Shapeology collection and were a perfect fit for that image! The sentiment comes together with the stamp! Make sure to check my DT sisters blogs for their awesome creations and even more sneak peeks! And tomorrow I'll have another sneak peek creation to show :-) Have a wonderful Saturday all! Hugs,

Hello everyone , Happy Hump-Day to you all! Do you like to read? I love to read (not only on my e-reader, I still enjoy reading 'real' books!) and I also like to use bookmarks. I prefer bookmarks which are not sticking out of the books too much. One kind I really like is the corner-bookmark. I made a little tutorial showing how I make my version of these corner-bookmarks. You'll find my complete Bookmark Tutorial here on the Whimsy Inspirational Blog   I colored the cute Whimsy Frog   using Copics. DP I've used for that bookmark is from Nitwitt. The gems are from my stash.  This is how the bookmark looks when in use. I hope that you got a little inspiration from my tutorial and like to try one yourself soon! Hugs,

Hello all and a Happy Sunday! Hope you all are enjoying your weekend! My card for today shows one of the new Whimsy Birthday Postage Stamps . I really like this sentiment set. It is so versatile and can be used alone as the main image or as sentiment to go with another image. On my card I used one of the Birthday Postage Stamps as main image and cut it out with the Postage Stamp Die . DP is My Minds Eye and the border punch I used is from MS. Ribbon, charm and buttons are from my stash. The little fairy was colored with Copics and I also airbrushed around the image. Enjoy your Sunday and thanks for stopping by! Until next time... hugs,

Hello all and welcome to another stop of the SCACD New Release Blog Hop - When Sweet Meets Sassy!   If you arrived here from wonderful Danni's blog you are on the right track! If not please go back to the SCACD store blog to start from the beginning. There you'll also find the complete blog hop list and all the details regarding the hop! I'm thrilled and honored that Susana asked me again to participate in one of her awesome new release hops and that I can show you today two of these fantastic new images today. This time the artist is Victoria Case. 2 sets are being released today The Retro Collection and The Bonita Collection  Both collections are available as a complete set (with bonus stamp only available in each of the sets) and as single stamps. As my GDT projects for today's hop I made a card using Mrs. Cleaver from the Retro Collection & Beach Bonita from the Bonita Collection. They are both GORGEOUS and such fun to color and create with :-) Here's

  Hello everyone & Happy Thursday! Almost a week now again since my last post *yikes*  Still dealing with a stomach flu and I just can't get around to do all what I want. :-(  But for today I have something to show. My DT card for our ongoing lovely hAnglar only challenge , YAY! :-)  Better late then never ;-) This time Ilona choose the theme and she wants to see stitches on your cards/projects! I colored this sweet hAnglar girl using Copics. Stitches were added to two of the DP layers (one faux and one real) and some stitches with my machine around the image without thread. DP is Basic Grey's Urban Prairie. The branch die is from Marianne Design and the border punch is EK Success. I enter this card into this weeks Friday Sketchers Challenge . I hope you like to join in on this fun challenge and to see you over at the  lovely hAnglar only challenge blog! I also have a posting going up tomorrow with a surprise :-) So make sure you stop by and have a peek! :-D B

Hello everyone and Happy TGIF!!! I have to apologize! I'm soooo sorry for not posting my Candy winner yesterday. I was down with an upset stomach the whole day. I draw my winner shortly after the candy ended but after that I was not able at all to finish anything! Felling better today it's now the first thing I'm doing ;-) So I don't want to keep you ins suspense any longer, here is the lucky number Here are your random numbers: 18 Timestamp: 2011-02-24 17:09:31 UTC Number 18, which is Nicolchen! Congratulations sweetie on winning!!!! Your prize is the super cute   'Spring Sitter Bunny' from Meljens Designs! Please contact me at cocoacrafts(at)gmail(dot)com with your shipping information! Thanks everyone for playing along and please make sure to come back next month on the last Wednesday for another Whimsy Meljens Giveaway! Meanbwhile check out my fellow DT sisters blogs every Wednesday for other Whimsy Giveaways! I also created a card to go along wi

Hello all and Happy Hump-Day!!! Woohoo it's Candy Time Today!! As it is the 4th Wednesday of a month it's time for my Whimsy Wednesday Giveaway !  But before I come to the details of the candy I like to show you a card I made with one of the newly released Whimsy stamps from the Chrissy Armstrong Collection . This is 'Valerie's Spring Rain' , isn't she a sweetie? Once again I colored with my pencils and OMS. The DP is from My Minds Eye's 'Wild Asparagus' Collection. I was so lucky and found a 180 sheet, 12x12 paper pad for $10 in a local department store. I got me the same size pad from the "Magnolia" collection as well :-) I just love the MME papers.  I added lots of Stickles to Valerie's umbrella for some glitz. The dies I used are from Spellbinders, Label dies. Sorry don't know what # they are. Ok, so I don't keep you waiting any longer! Here are the details about the candy and what you have to do to win! Each week

Happy Thursday all! Hope you are all well and looking forward to a great weekend! Just one more day to go, hehe =). I hope to spent some time this weekend at the beach. Forecast says it's going to be nice. Looking forward to a nice long walk....I so enjoy walking on the beach. It clears my mind and is totally relaxing.   For my card today I used one of the new and aswesome Whimsy rubber stamp sets called D arling Daisies from Chrissies collection . This is a fantastic set and was just the perfect stamp for my One Layer Card . This is very unusual and virgin soil for me but I so wanted to try this. And what is also new for me is to color on kraft CS. I used Pencils (I use Prismas, Colorsoft and Polychromos) & OMS. I saw this technique on a few blogs lately including my DT sister Ann's blog. And I loved the way it looked. I had to give it a try. And this is what my card looks like: The sentiment is also from the Darling Daisies set and the ribbon from my stash. But I had

Hello everyone! Behind schedule but I like to show you today my card for the ongoing BnW Challeng e!The challenge is hosted this time by our fabulous Vicky and she wants you to use your ' Favorite Things & include a heart' .  Vicky says: "Have a favorite color combo, layout, flowers, papers, ribbons or a favorite Elisabeth Bell image that you like to use....well NOW is your chance! I only ask that you put a HEART somewhere on your creation in honor of Valentine's Day! (This can be located anywhere no matter how big or small.)" Don't forget: ANY Elisabeth Bell Stamp is welco me , but if you use a BnW stamp you may have a 2nd entry for the prize draw. To enter your 2nd entry, simply upload your BnW card/project in the BnW Photo gallery . I used 'Kitty Love' on my card. And for my favorite things I colored her with Copics, added flowers, sSickles and gems. I also used one of my favorite DP: Basic Grey's Kioshi. My added hearts you will