Burst of Colors

Hello All! As I promised on Monday I'll be back today with posting my candy :-) 500+ followers, 500+ blog posts and my birthday today...that's for sure enough to celebrate with a candy, isn't it?! Ok onto to the details....well it is going to be a surprise candy. I'm not telling exactly what's included, just a few hints.... there will be stamps, paper, embellies, flowers, a punch.... I can tell ya it's a yummy candy! ;-) I'll reveal the candy here on the blog the day the winner is chosen. The candy is open to everyone and will run the whole month of September. I'll choose a winner randomly in the first week of October. Now to the rules, well it's pretty simple....spread the word about my candy on your blog! No need to follow my blog. (Well if you must, sure go ahead ;-) ). Just enter your name in the inlinkz tool at the end of this posting. Important: One entry per person please! Multiple entries will disqualify you! I will also dele

Hello Everyone and Happy Labor Day for all in the US. If you have the day off today I hope you are enjoying your long weekend! Well I'm actually enjoying one full week of vacation. Hubby and I decided last week that it is time for a break and some much needed R&R. So all my posts going up this week are scheduled and I will be back next week! Time for my first Halloween card of the season. One of just a few as I'm not making too many of them. This is a sweet little Gojuss girl availbale at Susana's store HERE . It's not a particular Halloween stamp and I actually colored her already quite some time ago with a complete different theme in mind. When I decided to make a Halloween card I added the little spider and the web. This is a stamp I found last year at Michaels in the $1 section. I colored her using Copics. DP is from Bo Bunny's Garden Girl Collection also available at Susana's store HERE . The banner die is from Whimsy , sentiment is a

Hello Whimsy Fans and Happy Thursday! Thanks for entering my Whimsy Wednesday Giveaway! And because I know you are already waiting for me to announce the winner I don't want you to wait any longer. Here it is! The winner of the surprise Meljens Rubber Stamp, chosen by random.org: Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 14 Timestamp: 2011-09-01 19:00:58 UTC Hanni Congratulations sweetie! Please contact me with your shipping info at cocoacrafts(at)gmail(dot)com. You have until Sunday evening to claim your prize! Hugs,

Hello Everyone! It's time for my monthly Whimsy Wednesday Meljens Giveaway ! If you are a frequent visitor of my blog you know what that means. If you are new I'll explain it real quick. Every last Wednesday a month I will be giving away a surprise Meljens Designs Rubber Stamp from Whimsy Stamps. This giveaway is only open for 24h! All you have to do is put your name down in the linky thing at the end of the posting and I'll draw and announce a winner tomorrow. I made this bookmark for the recent release of our Whimsy Inspirational Magazine Issue 2 . I used the cute Balloon Mouse from Meljens Designs and colored it using my Copics. The sentiment is from Raindrop Echo Designs Time Flies set. I paper pieced the balloon using DP from Basic Grey's Oxford collection. The image was masked and then I stamped the background with Antique Linen Distress Ink using the Music Notes Background stamp also from Raindrop Echo Design. Here's a closer look on t

Hello fellow crafters! Another Monday and time for a new BnW challenge ! Lovely Anki is our host today and she has a great sketch for you! Anki says:   "Today I have made a sketch for you - that I hope inspires you to create some lovely cards or projects. The twist is that I would like to see your favorite shape - i.e you can replace the heart on the sketch below with any shape that you like. As always - you may turn the objects around - but make sure that we still can see that you've followed the sketch. I hope you like the sketch and get inspired by it as we all did from the DT. For more details and some great inspiration from the DT please visit the challenge blog Here is my creation. I made another Christmas card :-) The image is 'Catch A Flake" from the Snowbabies collection. I colored using Copics. DP is Bo Bunny. Dies and punches used are from Spellbinders, Marianne Design and Martha Stewart. Thanks for stopping by

Happy Sunday & Welcome to our 32nd lovely-hAnglar-only challenge ! Today we have a color challenge for you: purple/violet & cream . And this is what I came up with: I started on making my Christmas cards and I thought this cute girl would look great in purple & cream. I colored her using my Copics. She was stamped onto Make it Color card stock from Make it Crafty. This was my first time using the MiC card stock and I have to admit it's GREAT!!! I heard everyone talking about this great card stock and wanted to try it out as well. A dear friend of mine sent me some samples so I could try before buying it! (Thanks again so much :-))) ) I'll definitely will buy some of it. What's the best is the 'no bleending' no matter how many layers you put on! Blending is very smooth as well! I can say it is in my Top 3 for Copic coloring card stock! Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to join in this fun challenge over at the lovely-hAn

Hello All! This is one of my cards I made for the Whimsy Inspirational Magazine issue 2 / August. The cute fairy image is a Meljens Designs image and called Little Fairy Friend. I colored it using Copics and colored pencils (Prismas and Faber Castell) to deepen he shadows. I also made a tutorial on how to use Copics and pencils. You'll find it her in the new magazine: Copics & Pencils starting on page 42. DP is from Basic Grey's ‘Whisteria’ collection, cardstock violet and purple from Colorbok. Dies I've used are from Whimsy Shapeology : ‘Elegant Flourishes’ and  Marianne Design: doily die. Embellishments: Whimsy Embellishments ‘Oval Ribbon Slider’ , different Stickles, rhinestones, half pearls, ribbon, paper flowers.   Thanks for stopping by here today and I hope to see back here Sunday when the new lovely-hAnglar-only challenge starts. Hugs,

Hello Everyone and Happy Monday! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and good start into the new week! Well we'll see what this week brings as a pretty big hurricane is aiming for the sunshine state here. It's already been predicted to be a cat three by the time it is supposed to hit Florida *eek* That's the bad news and the good thing so far is that it's path is moving more eastward with every new forecast. Which is good as it stays in the Atlantic then. Hopefully this will continue and it will completely stay away from any land at all and run riot in the open waters. *fingers crossed* I went into some mass production of Thank You Cards on the weekend. A friend of mine asked me if I could make 30 Thank you cards for her as she and her husband celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary lately. So the pre-colored digital images from Whimsy came in very handy :-) As much as I like coloring but I was somehow not in the mood for coloring 30 times the same image *

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps August new rubber and die release BLOG HOP! On August 10th, Whimsy Stamps released our August rubber designs and new dies. Today we are hosting a blog hop to celebrate this release and to share creations made using these 15 fabulous new Rubber Stamps and 3 wonderful new Shapeology Dies . 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 - Elaine Hughes , Zoe McGrath , Alberto Gava and Iwona "Chupa" Palamountain . The Whimsy Stamps DT have been showcasing these fabulous stamps for the past 6 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 August release rubber stamps and dies:  3 stamps from Crissy Armstrong Bart Goes Golfing ~ Butterfly Sympathy ~ Hang In There   4 stamps from Me