Your Color Choice - BNW Challenge

Hello all! I hope you all had a fab weekend and are ready for our new Belles 'n Whistles challenge starting today! It's my turn to host the challenge and I thought I let you decide what colors you want to use... Pick your Favorite Color / Color Combination is our theme this time! Use one color or several, whatever your favorite is! Looking forward to see all the beautiful color combinations!

And here is my challenge creation. I decided to go with a brown-black combo for my 'spooktacular' card.  The sweet image is called Little Witch with Broom and available in the Belles 'n Whistles store.

The cute little witch is colored using Copics. DP is from an older MME collection I found in my stash. The spiderweb is created using a Memory Box die. Sentiment is a stamp I found at Michales in the $1 bin. All other embellies are from my stash.

 

Thanks for visiting me today and hope to see you over at our  Belles 'n Whistles challenge blog!

Hugs,

  

Belles 'n Whistles Sketch Challenge

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

Hugs,

BnW Challenge & Whimsy Sneak Peek

Hello Everyone & Happy Tuesday! I hope you are all well and had a good start into the week. Well I'm a bit late with my creation for our BnW Challenge as the challenge already started yesterday... *doooh*. But better late than never, right? And this fortnights theme is 'Anything Goes'!
So here comes my card I made using 'Pretty in Patches' from the just 'reborn' SweetArt Girls II collection. There are now 17 SweetArt Girl stamps available through Belles 'n Whistles.

I colored this beautiful little girl using my Copics. DP is from my new Bo Bunny "Garden Girl' paper pad and I thought it is just perfect for this stamp. Sentiment is from Whimsy's Summer Letter Seals. Flowers are from my stash and punched out using my retro flower punches.

So lets see what you've got and come and join in on our challenge! You can use any stamp designed by Elisabeth Bell to enter our challenges. It doesn't have to be a Belles 'n Whistles stamp. But if you have one we would love to see what you are creating with it! ;-)

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It's Sneak Peek Day 6 today at Whimsy and tomorrow is the big day - Blog Hop Day! So make sure and come back tomorrow to participate and have the chance of winning some yummy prizes along the way!

My Whimsy creation today is a complete different style from what I just showed you above. I made two cards and they are CAS, One Layer and Quick & Easy! By using the new School Yard Fun Sentiment Set I want to show you how easy and simple it can be to make a quick card when you are short of time but need a card.

I used kraft cardstock and stamped the image and sentiment right onto it. For coloring I used my Copics. On the left card I just added some bakers twine and used my Sakura Stardust Pen to give some glitz to the numbers. On the right card I drew a frame around the image after I was done coloring. Here are two more photos of the cards:

Thanks for visiting today and please stop by tomorrow for an exciting Whimsy Blog Hop!

Hugs,

Belles 'n Whistles All Customer Blog Hop!

Hello Everyone and Welcome to our Belles 'n Whistles All Customer Blog Hop!

 

Time to celebrate! Today here at Belles 'n Whistles we are celebrating the re-release of the second part of the all time favorite and super cute SweetArt Girls designed by Artist Elisabeth Bell.  Belles `n Whistles now has a total of 17 SweetArt girls in their store.  They were just too beautiful to be left sitting in the archives and Summer decided to put them on the market again in her Belles 'n Whistles store! Yay! - lucky us! *he, he*

If you have just come by my blog without starting at the beginning of the hop, it would be great if you could go back to the beginning at the Belles 'n Whistles Inspirational Blog and hop along with us. There you will also find the complete hopping list. To have the chance of winning a prize, please follow that list and leave a comment on each participating blog. All the details can be found at the beginning of this hop. 

So sit back, grab your favorite drink and enjoy all the fun and exciting things that the Belles `n Whistles Customers, and our fabulous DT have to share with you today.

For my DT creation  I used 'Sass n Class' and colored her using my Copics. DP is from Bo Bunny and the sentiment is one of the new digital Word Art Sentiments wonderful Lynda created for us. They all will be availabe in the BnW store (digital section) and they fit the BnW images just perfectly! 

Dies I used are from Spellbinders and Cheery Lynn Designs. Flowers are from Prima and Whimsy. Other embellies used from my stash include: ribbon, lace, button, rhinestones, charm and Stickles.

Here is a closer look on the beautiful SweetArt Girl 'Sass n Class' :

I also like to enter the following challenges with my creation:

Bawion - Buttons & Ribbon

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Your next stop in the hop is my super talented BnW sister Kathrin. I know she has something fabulous to show!

Thanks for hopping along with us today and have a great week!

Hugs,

Ok and to make it easy for you and in case you get lost here is the complete blog hop list:

TanyaJ

Carol(Granny)

Anki

Vanja

Janneke

JennyL

Audhild

Penni

Lorraine

Marion H

Lynda

Tammi

RhondaMiller

Lilian

Kim T

Elise

Becky Dunham

Martina B.

Alethea

Iris -- you are here

Kathrin

Mary Lou

Louise Hodge

Chelsea Le

Kathy   

Gry

Sebrina

Kat

Vicki

Laetitia

Linda

June
Crafty Kitten

I'm Back!

Hello friends and Happy Weekend! I'm back from vacationing and hope you are all doing great! The card I want to show today is made using a Teddy Bo digital stamp. Isn't this guy just adorable? I had this image colored ages ago and never came around posting  this card.

I colored using Copics and Prismas. The paper I used is from my scrap box so I don't know the brand anymore. Flowers are from my stash as well as the other embellies. Not much more to say about my card though....

And don't forget Monday is Belles 'n Whistles RELEASE DAY with our ALL CUSTOMER BLOG HOP! 

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!

Some News To Share!

Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! Today I have now card or project to share but some exciting news for Belles 'n Whistles as well as for Whimsy Stamps!

Belles 'n Whistles News!

There is a new release coming very soon and how about we shake things up a bit?! 

We thought that we would invite you all to hop in and get involved. 

What could be more fun?  Trust me, you won't want to miss this.

Prizes, fun, and a new release are all a part of the fun.

You're Invited to join us on August 8th, 2011, for our very first

"All Customer Blog Hop"

If you would like to be a participant, please visit our Inspirational Blog HERE for all the details and how to enter your name! You will have until Friday, August 5th, 2011, to sign up.

Needless to say that there willl be prizes too!!!!! We will have a TOP 3 with the number 1 spot being the "Grand Prize Winner"!  The Grand Prize Winner will receive the Entire Release! 2nd Place Winner will receive THREE Stamps of their choice. 3rd Place Winner will receive TWO Stamps of their choice. 

These three awards will be based on participants of the blog hop, and will be voted on by Summer, and the BnW DT.

But wait that's not it!!! There are even more ways to win!!! If you are NOT a participant, but just hopping along with us, we will have FIVE winners chosen by Random.org just for leaving comments along the way. Each will win a stamp of their choice from Belles 'n Whistles! 

So what are you waiting for? Sign ups start now! CLICK HERE to go to our BnW Inspirational Blog for all the details!

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Whimsy News

Whimsy Stamps wants to welcome you all to our new challenge blog where the Digi Design Team will be taking it in turns every week to host a challenge. Our first challenge will begin Wednesday the10th of August
Who can enter our challenges....? Everyone!

We need your help.... We would love you to help us spread the word and tell your friends we are here.  Please grab the badge above orin the sidebar of the challenge blog to add to your sidebars. Of course there is an incentive ;-)

What do I do to win? Grab the Badge, Tell your Friends that there will be a new challenge starting at the new challenge blog on Wednesday 10th August and leave a link to your blogin the inlinkz thingy on the challenge blog ... it's that simple! Everyone who follows these 3 simple steps will be entered into our draw to win a mystery prize. The winner will be announced on the 10th August on the first Challenge day!

As well as a random winner being chosen each challenge one lucky player who has used a Whimsy Stamps image (rubber or digital) will have the opportunity to be a guest designer for a future challenge. The guest designer will be able to choose a digi stamp of their choice from the store to create their guest card too! Does that sound good?

So what are you waiting for :-) Click here and enter!

Thanks for topping by today and have a great start into the new week!

BnW Challenge - Complimentary Colors

Happy Monday and welcome to a new fortnightly BnW Challenge! This time our super talented Lils is the host and she wants us to use "Complimentary Colors". Simply explained that means use a pair of colors that are opposite on the color wheel, e.g. red and green.

 

For my DT creation I chose the colors blue and orange together with the cute 'Sweet Dreams' image from the 'Forever Young' collection.

I stamped the image onto iridescent cryogen white paper using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored the cutie using my Copics. The sentiment is from Whimsy ( this is one of the free sentiments Denise adds to orders). The leave flourish is from Cheery Lynne Designs and the border punch is a MS punch. All other embellies are from my stash.

Copic colors used are:  B 000-00-01-04-06; YR 0000-000-00-12-15-18; E 50-31-25 (Hair); E 000-00-01-11 (Skin). For shadows and to tone the colors down a bit I used: T 0-1-3 and W 00-0-1-2-3-5

Thanks for visiting me today and I hope you like to join in on this fun challenge over at the BnW Challenge Blog!

Luv 'n hugs,

BnW Challene - Flowers & Pearls

Happy 4th of July for all of you in the US! A new BnW challenge is starting today. Audhild is our host this fortnight and she wants to see  Flowers and Pearls on your creations.

Looks like this is going to be my week of bookmarks ;-) I made another one for this challenge. I used the colors red, white and blue in honor of the 4th of July today! The image is "A blossom for you" from the SweetArt Girls and I colored using my Copics.

Thanks for visiting me today and have a good week!

Hugs,

Belles 'n Whistles meets hAnglar

Happy Monday All! Hope everyone had a great weekend! Today I have two cards to share. The first card is for our lovely-hAnglar-only challenge which started yesterday with the theme 'Card For A Girl". My second card is for our Belles 'n Whistles Challenge: "Wing it"  starting today.

LHO Challenge - Card For A Girl

I decided to make a flap fold card and to hold the 'flap' down I used a small velcro sticker. The hAnglar flicka was colored with Copics. The DP I've used is from Nitwit Designs and was just perfect for a girl themed card! The branch & leave die is from Joy Craft (I got mine from Dutch Paper Crafts) and the border punch is a MS punch. Sentiment is from Whimsy's Magical Mini Letter Seals! All other embellies are from my stash. Here are some more detailed photos:

I enter this card in the ongoing challenge at The Ribbon Girl: Color Challenge Pink & Cream

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BnW Challenge - Wing It

The cute Fairy Wishes stamp is colored using Distress Inks. This cutie is out of stock at them moment but I'm sure Summer will have it back on the shelf shortly! DP is from Prima's paper pad Sweet Fairy. Other embellies I used are: flowers, pearl swirl, glitter, dragon fly charm, metal butterfly, gauze, ribbon and lace. The metal fairy charm is from Whimsy's embellishment collection. The Swirl die is from Marianne Design (I got mine from Dutch Paper Crafts) and the pearls on the swirl are made using a Viva Decor Pearl Pen. Here are some more detailed photos:

This card is my entry in the very first challenge at Pecreativ Challenge Blog - Anything Goes!

Thanks for visiting my blog today and I hope you like to join in on the challenges!

Hugs,