Burst of Colors

Hi All and Happy Middle of the Week! It's been a very busy day so far that's why I'll cut it very short. I still got a lot of errands to run and I'm far from done...argh! I like to show you a bookmark I made recently by customer order. I stamped cute Tilda with Spring Bundle (currently available at Roses on Paper) with Archival Ink on 300g / 140 lbs hot press watercolor paper. Tilda was colored using my Distress Ink Pads and Refills .   I used a little flowersoft to make the flower bundle in her arm pop. DP is from my stash and the heart punch is from MS. The little dew drops are epoxy stickers from Recollections. The Ladybug is a Magnolia stamp as well from one of  last years Spring/Summer collections. On the back is a custom saying (garbled for privacy reasons). Enjoy the rest of your day and thanks for taking the time and visiting me here today! Hugs,

Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog today. I was asked by a few people if I could show a  tutorial on how I make my little card boxes. It's my pleasure to do so but bare with me as I'm not very good explaining stuff and making tutorials...LOL! :-) I make these little boxes especially for cards that have lots of layers or when I embellish with dimensional flowers. They wont fit in regular envelopes. These little boxes are very simple and easy to make and it doesn't take long nor needs it a lot of effort. Ok gather your supplies, you'll need: scissors scoring board bone folder paper cutter ruler card stock preferred adhesive/glue DP and embellies to decorate box This is the card I'll be making my card box for.  I made the card quite a while ago and due to the large flowers it doesn't fit in a regular envelope. My card measures 6.5" x 5.5". I need a box that is a little larger to fit my card easily as the bow and leaves are overlapp

Hello Friends and Happy Monday!   Wow! I just found out I made the Top 3 at Wild Orchid Crafts Challenge with my little altered Journal. The one I made for my daughter. Woohoo thanks so much I am thrilled and this really sweetens my day! :-) Ok now onto our new Belles 'n Whistles Challenge! This time it is fabulous Jodi who is our host this week and she says: Make it monochromatic! Fabulous idea! I love monochrome. For my all pink card I chose ' Clowning Around' (which is available at Belles 'n Whistels right now!) and colored sweet Belle with my Distress Inks. I stamped with Archival Ink onto hot pressed watercolor paper. I also enter this card in this weeks challenge at Friday Sketchers . Belle's clown suit is paper pieced and I added shadows with Victorian Velvet to give it some depth. I used one of Tim Holtz new embossing folders together with Core'dinations 'White Wash' paper (which I sanded after embossing) to get a little structured

Hi Everyone &  Happy Sunday! Hope you are all enjoying your weekend and nice Summer weather at your place. Well two weeks went by and it is time for another 'lovely-hAnglar-only' challenge . To see who are out TOP 3  from the 'Glitter' challenge and all challenge rules please visit our blog HERE.  For our 5th challenge the lovely and super talented Nicolchen is our host and she wants to see 'Lace' on your projects! Hmmmm what a great challenge theme I LOVE lace! The sketch I used is from this weeks challenge over at MMSC . I colored this hAnglar cutie using my Distress Ink Pads. The image is stamped on 140 lbs/300g hot pressed watercolor paper with Archival Ink. For the lace I used a fabric lace border and a paper doilie heart. Dp is from my stash and all papers are distressed with Walnut Stain and Antique Linen. To accent I used Stickles Star Dust and Arctic Ice as well as a Viva Decor Pearl Pen.  The roses and cherry blossoms are from W

Welcome to our 30th ISB Challenge ! This time we want to see your projects 'clean & simple' . I had an order for a gents card and I thought this theme would be perfect for it. So I chose the cute 'My Guy Ian' image from TGF and colored him using my Copis. The paper is from Basic Grey's collection Max & Whiskers and so perfect for a male card, don't you think so? The sentiment is from Catslife Press and the corner punch is from SU! On the sentiment I added the 50. I also decorated the inside and finally I had the chance on using my new Tim Holtz 'Ticket Strip Die'. The Whimsy 'Ticket Sentiments' are just perfect for the Tim Holtz ticket die.  I love 'em both! :-) I hope you like my version of  'clean & simple' and I'm looking forward seeing you over at our ISB Challenge blog!   And don't forget to check out my fellow DT sisters blogs and their fantastic creations for this challenge! Thanks for visi

Hello everyone and Happy Monday! This is my first post for today (a second one with my ISB Challenge card will be up later today/evening) and I like to announce my candy winner! The randomly drawn winner of the 2 Belles 'n Whisltes stamps is: Farina Congratulations!!! Farina please contact me with your mailing info at (cocoacrafts(at)gmail.com) If the candy is not claimed by Thursday July 22nd 6 pm EST, I will redraw the winner!!! Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back later! Hugs,

Happy Saturday everyone! This will be a very short posting. We still got company here at our house but I wanted to get this card posted. I finished it already Monday and had no chance yet posting it. And as I made it to enter the 1st Kenny K challenge it's about time now to get it up here!  :-) I used this super cute image 'Troublemaker' from Kenny K Designs for my card. I colored her using my Copics and as the challenge is 'Pastells' I used all softer colors for my card. The DP is 'Gosamer' from Memory Box. The large Flower is handmade using EK Success punches and the sentiment stamp is from TGF. The other embellies I used include ribbon, paper roses and chandelier crystals from Michaels, Stickles, rhinestone brad and a MS border punch. Here are some more close ups: And I also made a matching box again: Thanks for visiting me today and have a fabulous summery weekend! Hugs & luv,