Burst of Colors

Hello everyone! Hope you all are enjoying the weekend! After several days of storms and rain we are having fabulous weather again! After some necessary grocery shopping I'm looking forward to a relaxing afternoon by the pool, enjoying the sun. I have some great news to share today. We are having a huge Spring Release coming very soon at Belles 'n Whistles  You can look forward to several surprises and lots and lots of cuteness, I promise!!! Summer will be releasing 16 new stamps which make up two new collections! And to keep you in suspense I have a little teaser for you :-)   This is a little sneak from one of my cards I will show on release day. Can you guess what it is? I dont tell ya ;-) But I'll show some more sneaks here on my blog until release day! So come back and check frequently!  And to give it a little kick...I'll pick one random winner from all comments left on all of my posts starting from today until April 5th. You can enter severtal times but n...

Hello My Dear Friends! I'm back today as promised with my Whimsy DT project and of course the candy winner :-). I'm going to make this rather quick today. We are having severe weather here all day long with T-storms and Tornado warnings...yak..I hate T-storms and lightning!! And before I loose my internet connection again I like to announce the winner real quick. First thanks to you all for entering  the Whimsy  Wednesday 24h Giveaway Candy :-) Big thanks Denise from Whimsy Stamps for sponsoring this!!!  I let random.org do the work and the randomly chosen winner is: Here are your random numbers: 30 Timestamp: 2011-03-31 17:18:13 UTC Sally   Congratulations Sweetie! Please contact me at cocoacrafts(at)gmail(dot)com with your mailing address . You have until Saturday to claim your prize. If the prize is not claimed until then I'll re-draw the winner on Sunday! My Whimsy DT project is showing 'Trouble Maker' from the Whimsy Kenny K rubber stamp collection. Th...

Hello friends and welcome to my ' Whimsy Wednesday Giveaway'! As every last Wednesday a month I'm having the honor to give away 1 surprise stamp from ' Whimsy's Meljens Designs Collection '. All you have to do to participate is put your name below. That's it! The candy is open for 24 hours only! I'll draw a winner tomorrow afternoon and announce it here on my blog! I'll be back tomorrow afternoon with the announcement of the candy winner and my Whimsy DT Creation. Good luck!!! Hugs,

Today I have a Paper Flower Tutorial to share for making paper flowers like the one you see on the photo above. I hope you'll like it! For the tutorial please click HERE ! Let me know if you like my tutorial and if you maybe give it a try. And if you do so, let me know too. I can would love to visit your blog and see your handmade paper flowers! Have a wonderful Tuesday all and thanks a lot for your visit! ooooh and before I forget.....a little reminder....tomorrow is the last Wendesday of the month and that means it is time for some sweet candy ....come and see me tomorrow for a chance to win a yummy stamp! Hugs,

Hi all! A brand new Belles 'n Whistles Challenge starts today on our challenge blog HERE . Our sweet Gini is the host and she wants to see GLITTER on your cards/projects! Yay what a fun challenge - I LOVE glitter! I colored again using pencils and the DP is from Basic Grey's Kioshi set. The large light blue paper flower in the upper right corner is handmade. If you are interested in how to make these kind of flowers please come back tomorrow ... I prepared a tutorial on how to make these. I used this weeks Friday Sketchers sketch for my card. Sorry folks for the rather short posting but it's a busy week for me! Hope you like to join us at the Belles 'n Whistles Challenge blog . Looking forward seeing your glittery creations! Hugs,

Happy Sunday to you all and thanks for taking the time and visiting me today! It's time for a new lovely-hAnglar-only challenge. Our super talented DT sister Nicolchen is the host and she picked the theme 'Portrait' (we don't want to see whole hAnglars on your projects!) plus a wonderful sketch! For all the challenge details please visit our challenge blog HERE I decided to use this cute hAnglar boy with flower and cut him out with my circle spellies to have a portrait like image. Nicolchens sketch was much fun to play with. The DP is from Basic Grey and the flowers are from Prima and punched out. The border die is the newly released double scallop border die from Whimsy. It's so gorgeous! You can find it HERE . The sentiment is from Whimsy as well. I colored using Prismacolor pencils.  Here's a closer look on the image:  I hope you got some inspiration and like to use join us over at our newest LHO challenge ! Hugs,

Happy TGIF! Uuuhh...I am way later with my posting today as I had planned. My washer broke down this morning and left me with  huge pile of dripping wet and still dirty laundry...yikes! So I spent my morning doing some research on washers and getting rid of my old one. Then I went and bought me a high efficiency washer. So far ...very good and I am happy with it! Already did two loads :-) Ok and here's my card for today: 'Rainy Day Duckling' is this adorable image called from Whimsy's latest release and it's available HERE . This time I colored with Prisma pencils and OMS. Unfortunately I used the wrong paper and coloring was not as nice and easy. I could not built up the color as I wanted to.  That's also wgy the colors are not that intense. This paper was way to smooth, almost wax like. And instead of building up color it smeared. For this technique I like it if the paper has a little bit of grip. The sentiment is from the 'Spring Letter Seals' a...

Hello all! At last I managed to color this cutie pie Tilda from Magnolias latest collection. I love Tulips, one of my favorite flowers besides roses and lily'.    I used Distress Inks to color her and the image was stamped onto 300g hot press watercolor paper with Archival Ink.  Papers are from Making Memories. I also used my MS tulip border punch for the first time. The die cut leaves are made with a Magnolia DooHickey die. The Cherry Blossoms are from Whimsy and the other flowers from my stash. Butterflies are punched with a EK Success punch. The decorative pin is from embellishments.de   I also decorated the inside to match the outside of the card. Here you can see the punched tulip border much better. I'll enter this card into this weeks Just Magnolia & hAnglar & stAnglar Challenge  - Favorite Color Combo as well as the Stamp Something Challenge - Something Sweet (I think Tilda is just too sweet ;-) ) Thanks for stopping by today. Have a f...

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps March 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 and Elaine Hughes ! The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 4 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: 4 stamps from Crissy Armstrong Benny & Joon Have Cake ~ Celebrate Big! ~ Tippy By The Tail ~ Valerie & Kitty sitting pretty 2 stamps from Meljen's Designs Rainy Day Duckling ~ Little Puddle Duck 4 stamps from Kenny K Brooklyn Babe ~ Club Kid ~ Strong Island ~ Let’...

Hello Folks Welcome to Whimsy Sneak Peek Day 4! Today's sneak peek is the DT's choice of artist. When I first saw this 'Time Flies' Set from Raindrop Echo Designs I knew this is a must have for me :-) Ann did such a fabulous job as always! As all the new stamps this set will also be available tomorrow with the new release! And then I found the matching DP from Bo Bunny here . This paper pad is the perfect match for the Time Flies set! I colored using Copics and pencils with OMS. I kept the card very simple to draw all the attention to the image. The sentiment is one of the sentiments from the Time Flies set. Here's a closer look on the time piece. Tomorrow 's the big release day so set your clocks to 12 noon . That's when all the fun starts! Visit the Whimsy Inspirational Blog tomorrow for more info on the hop and where to go to start hopping! As always the Whimsy DT and the Special Guest DT has prepared fabulous creations to inspire you and ther...

Hello friends and welcome to a new Belles 'n Whistles Challenge . Lovely Jodi is our host this time and she wants to celebrate spring! So show us 'Spring' on your cards. Use Spring colors, embellishments, images etc. Anything to show off Spring! I chose one of my favorite images, 'Beary Big Hugs' and colored it with Copics. DP is digital from Nitwitt Collections which I think is nicely 'Spring' themed. Also the cherry blossoms have a 'Spring' feeling for me as well as the colors pink, green white and red. Sentiment is from Whimsy . For all the challenge details and how to enter please visit our Belles 'n Whistles Challenge Blog . And remember that if you enter into our challenges you have also the chance for being picked as a GDT for the next 2 challenges!!! Hope to see you over at the BnW challenge blog! Thanks for stopping by!

Hello everyone & Happy Sunday! Today I have two projects to show. First my creation for Whimsy's Sneak Peek Day 2 - Kenny K Collection and then my card for our lovely-hAnglar-only Challenge 20. For my Whimsy creation I used the soon to be available new Kenny K rubber stamp 'Club Kid' . I colored her with Copics and used my new Prima DP 'Madeline' . I love this paper pad it has gorgeous colors. The sentiment is from the new also soon to be available 'Treasured Moments Ticket Sentiments' and cut out using the 'Whimsy 'Ticket Die' . The leave punches I've used are from 'The Paper Bunch' and 'EK Success'. Flowers are from Prima and the metal flower and brad which I used on top of the daisy flower is from Paper Studio. The large spacer I used as a flower center on the Hydrangeas I found at embellishments.de Please check out the Whimsy Inspirational Blog for a list of all participating blogs on today's sneak peeks. ...