Burst of Colors

Hello friends and welcome to my blog today! Are you all already prepared for the long holiday weekend (if you are here in the US)? Well not much planning and organizing for me to do...thank goodness, we are just relaxing, enjoying days on the beach with long walks and swimming in the pool...looking so forward to that :-) And then in about two weeks my best frioend is coming for a short visit...YAY! Haven't seen here for over a year now. Oh these are going to be some chatty days :-) On my card today I used Ballerina Tilda from Magnolias Fairy Tale collection which I got from Summer's store Roses on Paper . The image is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on iridescent cryogen white paper from Arjo Wiggins and colored with Copics. I decided to make a different card shape and tried a Joy Fold Card; they are fun to make!   My Design Papers are from Basic Grey 's Whisteria collection and CS is Bazzill and DCWV. And again I managed to use only my scraps...hooray for

Happy Monday everyone and time for another Belles 'n Whistles Challenge !  This week our host is incredibly talented Lils and she decided she wants to see some red on your cards! Aaaahhh we can do that...easy peasy isn't it? So get out your Belles 'n Whistles stamps and color red and start creating! :-) For all the challenge details please see our Belles 'n Whistles blog . And of course there is a fab prize to win as always, sponsored by fabulous Summer ;-) I used another beauty from the newly released 'Forever Young' collection called 'Princess Tales' . She is colored with Copics (list of Copics used at the end) and I added lots of glitter (Stickles Star Dust and Silver Ice) to her dress and tiara to create enough glamour fitting for a princess. The sentiment stamp is from Catslife Press and the wonderful sketch from the ongoing MMSC #59 challenge . I'm also entering Cute Card Thursdays challenge which is Challenge 118 - Reuse, Renew, Recy

Happy Sunday Friends! Welcome to our 3rd fortnightly hAnglar challenge over at our 'lovely hAnglar only' challenge blog!  Wonderful Marina from Marina's Karten-Kiste is our host this time. She drew a wonderful sketch for us to use and it was so much fun working with it. I hope you'll have as much fun playing with it as I did! So come on and join us for this awesome sketch challenge! All challenge details are available on our challenge blog HERE For my card I used the cute baby girl from hAnglars stamp kit #5. I colored her with Copics and used DP from Basic Grey and My Minds Eye. CS is Best Occasion. The paper roses are from Whimsy Stamps, Michaels and Prima. I also added lots of Stickles to the flowers and card to add some bling. WHich I really love lately...LOL. The Punch I used is the 'Garden Trellis' deep edge punch from M.S. Copics used: E000, E01, E11, E13, E31, E25, E50 RV0000, RV000, RV00, RV11 R000, R21 B0000 C00, C0, C1

Hello friends and Happy Wednesday! Now the wait is over and it's time to reveal the winner of my candy! YAY!!! But before I do that I like to thank you all for entering my candy and some of you also entering our first 'lovely hAnglar only challenge'.     Ok I went through all the comments and inlinkz entries here and list of followers on our LHO blog. I did not count double entries and 'candy only' blogs. Then I used random.org to chose my winner and here she is, the winner of my blog candy:    Nr. 43 Gini Cagle beadz said... Hi Iris! I have added your candy to my candy roll and added the Hanglar challenge onto my challenge page. I would love to play in this challenge, but don't have any Hanglar stamps (yet!) They do look very cute. hugs, Gini June 12, 2010 10:23:00 PM EDT YAY! Congratulations Gini Please contact me at cocoacrafts(@)gmail.com Sorry I don't have a card to show today, I did not have time to be in my craft room the last few days bu

Happy Sunday and welcome to a new ISB-Challenge ! Thanks for dropping in today. This time our theme is Swirls ! Nice and easy isn't it? Use punched out swirls, stamp 'em, make them from half-pearls and rhinestones or do some doodling. No matter how just show us swirls :-) On my card I used pearl & rhimestone swirls as well as a swirl cut out with my Cricut and the Home Accents cartridge. My image is from the brand new release 'Forever Young' from Belles 'n Whistles and is called 'Sweet Dreams' . I'm so in awe with this image isn't it just way too cute for words?! I colored my image with a mix of Copics and colored pencils and I also added  soft shimmer to the hair and socks using twinkling H2O's (Heavenly White and Iridescent Gold) To ad some bling I used Stickles glitter glue (Stardust, Strawberry Ice, Platinum & Aqua). The roses and chandelier crystals are from Michaels (wedding section). DP is from Bo Bunny. -click on the picture

Happy Saturday everyone and thanks for visiting me today. Before I'm going to show you my card today I like to thank all of you for participating in our Belles 'n Whistles Blog Hop, yay what great fun that was! And now I like to announce  the lucky winner of  the brand new 'A-Merry-Go stamp! Summer is so kind and donated a stamp to each DT, so we can randomly choose a winner from all  blog hop entries. YAY isn't that fantastic? I used random.org to draw my winner (fyi, i did not count the comments left by my fellow  BnW DT sisters) and the lucky girl is: Ilona  Congratulations sweetie :-) Your prize will be on it's way to you very soon! :-)  Now onto my card for today. This is one of 14 invitations I made to order. I used this flower stamp from Magnolia and stamped onto iridescent cryogen white paper using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored it using Copics and added Stickles Stardust for some glitz. Sentiment stamp is from a clear stamps set from Fiskars. DP i

for yesterdays candy winner scroll down to yesterday's post!   Welcome everyone to the Belles 'n Whistles new release blog hop for the far-out cute ' Forever Young' collection! The blog hop continuous until Friday the 18th of June! I am your first stop in the hop and you should have arrived here from our Belles 'n Whistles blog  where all the fun begins! If you did not, make sure to go back and start there ! As always Summer is very generous and is giving away a whole set of the new released stamps . WOW! One randomly chosen winner will get the whole 'Forever Young' collection! In order to be eligible to win the set you must complete the hop and leave a comment on every participating blog of my fellow BnW-DT sisters and at the end at the Belles 'n Whistles blog . But this is not all....also each DT and GDT member will give a way the stamp they are showcasing...so even more chances for you to win :-)  I can tell you already this will be soooo much