Burst of Colors

Hello Whimsy Friends!  It's the 10th of the month which means it's time for this month's Paper Door kit. What a sweet kit it is this month... Elf Sized  - perfect for the upcoming Holiday and Christmas time!  If you want to know exactly what is in the kit, scroll down for a list -  To purchase the kit  Click here Whimsy's monthly crafty box of goodness! PAPER DOOR kits include hand selected and exclusively designed products, all coordinated perfectly to inspire your creative projects. PAPER DOOR is $39.95 plus shipping and the product listings already include the postage in the price. Just select the product for your shipping destination, add to the cart and check out. Your kit will be shipped out on or before the 26th of the month.  Click here  to purchase the kit. This month’s “ Elf Sized ” box includes: • EXCLUSIVE hand chosen 6x6 specialty cardstock/paper collections that aren’t available anywhere else. Th...

Happy Monday and congratulations to my giveaway winners! Thank you for playing along and entering my two giveaways as well as hopping along in the Whimsy WCMD blog hop! The winner of the Whimsy Stamps Evergreen Tree die set is: Cindy Holmes The winner of the Whimsy Stamps Bold Statements clear stamp set is: Jade Passmore Congratulations to both winners! Please contact me at cocoacrafts(at)gmail(dot)com with your mailing address. You have until Friday to contact me. If I don't here from you by Friday 6pm (EST) I will pick a new winner.  Hugs,

Hello Crafty Friends and Welcome to World Card Making Day with Whimsy Stamps!     We are so excited for you to join the fun today with an amazing blog hop from the talented Whimsy artists.    Each blog will have some inspiration with a card perfect for World Card Making Day. My inspiration card today uses the wonderful, just released, Winter Roses Background stamp. Here is how I created my card: I stamped the large rose image and the single rose image from the  Winter Roses  Background stamp with antique linen Distress ink onto Canson 140lbs watercolor paper. I always use the smooth side of the paper when stamping my images onto watercolor paper. Using antique linen creates an outline that will fade while coloring with watercolors and the image will have a no-lines look. I used Daniel Smith extra fine watercolors - one of my favorite brands if it comes to fine art watercolors. I love their vibrant pigment. After coloring...

Welcome to Day 4 of the  Whimsy Stamps October Release !   Can you believe it's October already??? Where did the year go.....and it's time for Christmas cards again. But that's a fun and easy chore with the super cute holiday images from  Whimsy Stamps !   Click here  to go shopping if you haven't yet already. On my card today I am showcasing one of the newly released Marina Fedotova Christmas fairies -  NEW Christmas Sprite .  Isn't she adorable? She is definitely one of my favorites from this release! I colored Christmas Sprite primarily with Copics but added some details with pencils afterwards (a list of all Copics and pencils used is below). I kept the card simple. I didn't want to draw the attention away from this sweet image. Besides some snowflakes made with  Nuvo Crystal Drops Simply White  I only added 3 die cut evergreen trees. I thought they complement the image perfectly. They were die cut using the NEW Eve...

Hey Crafty Friends! Hope you are all enjoying your Sunday. I am here today with my last Whimsy creation for September. It's another request I had. Again for a birthday card, this time it's for someone who likes to travel to Egypt. Ok was quite a challenge because I do not have any Egypt related stamps in my stash. But I got creative and came up with this - all Whimsy products of course ;-) I used the  Shaker Maker Pennant Flag dies , the   Brick Pattern Stencil  and Distress Ink Brushed Corduroy to create the pyramids. The boat and the waves are are from the Splash clear stamp set . I created a back ground with Brusho (Ultramarine and Turquoise) and stamped the waves with Versamark ink on top and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The frame was made using the notched rectanlgle dies. I added some bling with Sparkletz Crystal Stars and Sparkletz Sailors Sky.  On the insides is the rest of the sentiment: Whimsy products used: ...