Burst of Colors

Hello everyone and Happy TGIF!!! I have to apologize! I'm soooo sorry for not posting my Candy winner yesterday. I was down with an upset stomach the whole day. I draw my winner shortly after the candy ended but after that I was not able at all to finish anything! Felling better today it's now the first thing I'm doing ;-) So I don't want to keep you ins suspense any longer, here is the lucky number Here are your random numbers: 18 Timestamp: 2011-02-24 17:09:31 UTC Number 18, which is Nicolchen! Congratulations sweetie on winning!!!! Your prize is the super cute   'Spring Sitter Bunny' from Meljens Designs! Please contact me at cocoacrafts(at)gmail(dot)com with your shipping information! Thanks everyone for playing along and please make sure to come back next month on the last Wednesday for another Whimsy Meljens Giveaway! Meanbwhile check out my fellow DT sisters blogs every Wednesday for other Whimsy Giveaways! I also created a card to go along wi

Hello all and Happy Hump-Day!!! Woohoo it's Candy Time Today!! As it is the 4th Wednesday of a month it's time for my Whimsy Wednesday Giveaway !  But before I come to the details of the candy I like to show you a card I made with one of the newly released Whimsy stamps from the Chrissy Armstrong Collection . This is 'Valerie's Spring Rain' , isn't she a sweetie? Once again I colored with my pencils and OMS. The DP is from My Minds Eye's 'Wild Asparagus' Collection. I was so lucky and found a 180 sheet, 12x12 paper pad for $10 in a local department store. I got me the same size pad from the "Magnolia" collection as well :-) I just love the MME papers.  I added lots of Stickles to Valerie's umbrella for some glitz. The dies I used are from Spellbinders, Label dies. Sorry don't know what # they are. Ok, so I don't keep you waiting any longer! Here are the details about the candy and what you have to do to win! Each week

Happy Thursday all! Hope you are all well and looking forward to a great weekend! Just one more day to go, hehe =). I hope to spent some time this weekend at the beach. Forecast says it's going to be nice. Looking forward to a nice long walk....I so enjoy walking on the beach. It clears my mind and is totally relaxing.   For my card today I used one of the new and aswesome Whimsy rubber stamp sets called D arling Daisies from Chrissies collection . This is a fantastic set and was just the perfect stamp for my One Layer Card . This is very unusual and virgin soil for me but I so wanted to try this. And what is also new for me is to color on kraft CS. I used Pencils (I use Prismas, Colorsoft and Polychromos) & OMS. I saw this technique on a few blogs lately including my DT sister Ann's blog. And I loved the way it looked. I had to give it a try. And this is what my card looks like: The sentiment is also from the Darling Daisies set and the ribbon from my stash. But I had

Hello everyone! Behind schedule but I like to show you today my card for the ongoing BnW Challeng e!The challenge is hosted this time by our fabulous Vicky and she wants you to use your ' Favorite Things & include a heart' .  Vicky says: "Have a favorite color combo, layout, flowers, papers, ribbons or a favorite Elisabeth Bell image that you like to use....well NOW is your chance! I only ask that you put a HEART somewhere on your creation in honor of Valentine's Day! (This can be located anywhere no matter how big or small.)" Don't forget: ANY Elisabeth Bell Stamp is welco me , but if you use a BnW stamp you may have a 2nd entry for the prize draw. To enter your 2nd entry, simply upload your BnW card/project in the BnW Photo gallery . I used 'Kitty Love' on my card. And for my favorite things I colored her with Copics, added flowers, sSickles and gems. I also used one of my favorite DP: Basic Grey's Kioshi. My added hearts you will

Hello everyone and Happy Valentines Day! I'm a bit late with my postings for our lovely-hAnglar-only challenge which started yesterday already, as well as my posting for out BnW Challenge starting today . Today I will show my creation for the lovely-hAnglar-only challenge and tomorrow or Wednesday then my card for our new BnW Challenge . It's a real busy time for me right now so please excuse if my postings are a day or two late! I colored this hAnglar cutie with pencils and OMS. And our challenge this week is 'Take Two' so I added a mini hAnglar image as charm. I covered the colored mini image with 4 coats of UTEE and adhered it to the the bow. The DP is from 7 Gypsies. The circle birthday sentiment is from Whimsy . On the wings and around the image I added Stickles for some bling. Sorry for the bad quality of the photos but I was without my usual lighting and just had to use daylight. I like to enter this card into the following challenges: Cute Card Thurs

Happy Saturday Everyone and thanks for stopping by today! Hope you are all doing well. I'm looking forward to a relaxing weekend with plenty of sunshine hopefully. Little bit on the cooler side though but I don't mind as long as I can see the sun Just perfect for a trip to the flea market. The card I like to show you today is made using a LOTV stamp. I'm in love with this cute ballerina.  Isn't she the cutest. It's my first time with these cute stamps but I'm already fallen for them I think. She was colored with Copics and I added Stickles on her little anntena and on the floor. For even more glitz I dusted the image all around with super fine glitter from MS. The Border die I've used is from Magnolia and the circle die is a Nellie Snellen MultiFrame . The branch die is a Marianne Creatables. Flowers gems and pins are from my stash. The charm is from SCACD . The grossgrain ribbon is from my stash and the light pink grid mesh ribbon I found at Susanne

Hello all and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps February new rubber release BLOG HOP! We have 16 gorgeous new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new fantastic 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 , Chris Dark , Jacque Beddingfield , Tracy Payne , and Elaine Hughes ! The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 5 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more fabulousness! Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies being released today: 5 stamps / stamp sets from Crissy Armstrong Fragrant Rose ~ Darling Daisies ~ Smell the Flowers ~ Valerie's Spring Rain ~ Fancy Bench 3 stamps from Meljen's Designs Balloon Mouse ~ Baby Bunny's Bottle ~ Spring Sitter Bunny 4 stamps f

Hello friends! Welcome to Whimsy Sneak Peeks Day 5! Just one more day to go until our big release party for 16 (!) new Whimsy stamps , woohoo!!! Can't wait until tomorrow to celebrate with you all these fab images! So I thought I go ahead and participate in the last sneak peek day as well For my sneak peek today I chose another of the super cute soon-to-be-released Meljens Designs images , the 'Balloon Mouse'. This is such a fun image and a perfect go together with the brand new soon-to-be-available balloon dies ! And this is what I came up with: A more clean and simple card with bright designer papers (Basic Grey). The 'Balloon Mouse' was colored using my Copics. To embellish I only added some Platinum and Star Dust Stickles, a ribbon and some gems. The balloons were cut out using the new ' Balloon Dies' . First I stamped balloon shapes and the sentiment, also from a soon-to-be-released 'Balloon Styles' set, onto some DP. Then I cut them ou