Burst of Colors

Hello Stamping Friends! The card I want to share with you today is more on the simpler side, well, let's say it's clearly CAS. :-D I colored this sweet Whimsy - Time for Tea Designs image, called 'Short Stroll' , in the 'no-lines' technique using my Copics. This is a first for me with 'no-lines' so please bear with me on the coloring...I still need lots of practice with this technique! To decorate the card I only added some ribbon and buttons. The DP is from Fancy Pants's 'The Good Life' collection.   I've added the sentiment right next to the image. It's from Whimsy's SC Designs collection 'Girl Talk' .  I like to enter the following challenges: Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes  - until 5/28 DL.Art Challenge - Anything Feminine - until 5/20 Penny Black and more - Anything Goes - until 5/28 Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful rest of the week!

Hi Everyone! Today I want to share a Criss-Cross card with you I made using 'Miss Apple Blossom Vignette' from Whimsy's Little Cottage Cuties Collection by Elisabeth Bell. I colored using Copics and the Background is done using Sennelier L'Aquarelle water colors. Papers are from Bo Bunny and Flowers are from my stash (most of them are from WOC) The large flower die is from Memory Box. On the inside is a sentiment from the Spring Notables 8 set cut out with the matching Notables 8 die . I like to enter the following challenges: 7 Kids College Fund - Anything Goes w/ optional twist of flowers DT Favorite Thank you Simon Says Stamp - Spring Flowers Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes   DT Favorite :-) Thank you! Love to Create - Say it with Flowers Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful rest of the week!

Hello Everyone! Sorry for being MIA for the last few weeks but there was a lot going on in my life which needed 100% of my attention. Also my creative mojo and my batteries enjoyed the break and a chance to recharge ;-) I'm back today with a creation with one of Whimsy's Crissy Armstrongs images from the March release called 'Playful Tiger' . I colored the image using my Copic's and for the background I used Caran'd Ache Gouache colors. The sentiment is from the Whimsy Stamps 'Girl Talk' set by SC Designs. The cute banner is made with the 'Built a Banner Die Set'  also designed by SC Designs . Flowers are from WOC and the butterfly and honeycomb deco art are from Dutch Doobadoo .Filmstrip is from Tim Holtz. All other embelleis are from my stash. Here's a close-up on the image: From a different angle: Thanks for stopping by! Hugs,

Happy Sunday To You All! Today I would like to share a vintage style tag I made a while ago for the CreateExchange FB-group February tag swap. It reached it's destination in Australia last week so I'm able to share it with you here now. But first I would like to announce my winner from the Graph'It Marker & Whimsy Stamps combined challenge. The prize is a 3 pack of Graph' It markers! Without further ado here is the randomly drawn winner: Fiona from Fi's Cards and Crafts Congratulations Sweety! Please contact me with you snail mail address at cocoacrafts(at)gmail.com  Ok now onto my project for today. The February theme was to create a vintage style tag using burlap . This is what I came up with: No colored image on this tag though. Instead I used a Whimsy Stamps sentiment as my focal point. It's from the Vintage Seed Packets 2 sentiment set. Stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa onto kraft cardstock. Design papers I used are from Pio

Hello Everyone! Today I have a card to share made with the brand new 'Clearly Whimsy Stamps'! These are highest quality photopolymer clear stamps!  Usually I'm not a big clear stamps fan but these are AWESOME! They stamp crisp and clean like red rubber! No ink pools building up on the stamp surface and they really do stick to your acrylic block and not falling off! They are nice and sturdy and don't feel like 'Jello' and are stretching out like a bubble gum.  The designer and artist behind all this gorgeousness is no one less than my Whimsy DT-Sister Simonne Clay - SC Designs. Brilliant design job Sem!! This new line features more simple designs perfect for all the CAS creations. As much as I love doing embellished cards I also enjoy creating CAS! For this card I used Sweet As Candy - Sweet Lables and  Sweet As Candy Sweet Images . I've stamped the candy images using Memento 'tart pear', 'dandelion', and c

Hello Everyone and welcome to the first We Do Doobadoo Challenge ! This fortnight it is all about hearts and stencils! Please see the challenge blog for all the challenge details! If you've never heard of Doobadoo it is a Dutch brand which offers the crafting world the most intricate and amazingly versatile craft products including Detailed Masks, Stencils and Templates, Intricate Laser cut Paper Art shapes and much much more!  We will be coming here every fortnight with some fabulous inspiration on how to use these great products - and it will be a joy because the whole design team have fallen in love with this stash, we just can't get enough! You can see the UK stockists on the challenge blog HERE Join our Facebook group here  for extra inspiration with these wonderful products.  Here is what I came up with: I've made a bottle hanger using the bottle hanger template. I used card board hearts which I embossed with shabby white

Today starts another Graph'It Color Challenge . This fortnights theme is 'Male Colors' Here is my inspirations card for the challenge: Image is from LOTV as is the sentiment. Train die cut is from Whimsy stamps . Papers and buttons are from Basic Grey. Graph'It Colors I've used: Skin: 4115, 4155, 4180, 4135 Hair: 3190, 3140, 3120 Shirt: 7290, 7270, 7250, 7220 Pants: 3210, 3245, 9400 Package: 9400, 9401 Tag: 4110, 4120 Silver Graph'It Shake to outline the train die cut.  I'm entering the following challenges with my card: Cute Card Thursday - What a Gem (Thursday) Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes (Thursday) Loves Rubber Stamps -  Anything Goes (Tuesday) Paper Crafting Journey - Make it manly/boyish (Thursday) Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see your creation soon over at the challenge blog! Hugs,

Happy TGIF Everyone!! Today I want to share some denim coloring inspiration for our ongoing Graph'It Marker Coloring Challenge .  I also have some exciting news to share :-) I made the 'We Do Doobadoo UK' DT and we are starting off a brand new blog with challenges on March 8th ! Dutch Doobadoo is a Dutch based company which has fantastic versatile products from paper & cardboard laser art cuts to fabric, stencils, templates and also soft board die cuts. These products are so much fun to work with, can be altered in any way and are perfect for any style! I used some of the fab products on my card today, please find more details below! It's also a first time for me coloring one of these sweet Tiddly Ink images. They are just too cute and super fun to color! I colored her using my Graph' It markers and you'll find a list of all markers I've used below the next photo. DP is from Bo Bunny and the sentiment is from LOTV. Flowers ar