Pretty in pink

Happy Wednesday! :) I hope you've been enjoying your week so far. Mine's been pretty good. Yesterday it was Fat Tuesday and I really enjoyed seeing people dressed up in all those costumes; some costumes were really good!

I didn't dress up, but I was being creative in my own way - with papers. ;) I made this card ...

I received these beautiful papers from a friend of mine (thank you sweetie!). The image I used is a sweet Marci from LLLC. I coloured her hair and skin with distress inks. The balloon, dress, shoes and hair accessories were paper pieced. All of the dies I used on this card (decorative square behing Marci, swirls and flowers) are from Marianne design. Small flowers in the corners were made with craft punch and I put a crystal in the center of each of them. For the center of the bigger flowers I used golden brads from my stash. The white piece of cardstock was embossed with Anna Griffin's embossing folder (Acanthus). I also used a 25 mm grosgrain ribbon from Crafty ribbons.

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Sweet stampin': Cute

Crafty girls challenges: Anything goes

Crafting from the heart: Anything goes/Use dies or punches

Loves rubbestamps: Anything goes

Papertake weekly: Anything goes + optional extra: make your own flowers

Let's craft and create: Embossing (wet or dry)

The ABC challenge: G is for girls

Marianne's design divas: Kraft (Marianne design products used are: flower die - LR0128, square die - CR1203, swirls behind the flowers - cut from the LR0248 die)

7 kids college fund: Anything goes

Birthday card for a friend

Woohoo, it's weekend time!!! :D And it's a special one in my country, because it's time for Mardi Gras. This weekend we have carnivals all over the country and there are lots of events for kids as well. People (mostly kids) dress up in costumes and go out. There are even prizes for the best costume(s). It's really fun and interesting to see how creative some people are. We even have special deserts we eat during this time. We make "krofi" (our version of doughnuts) amd "flancati". Yum! My mum usually makes those and they are de-li-cious!!! She'll be making some for Fat Tuesday and I've already told her I wouldn't mind if she made some extra and dropped them here. He he. ;P

Not too long ago my friend celebrated her birthday and I want to show you a card I made for her (she's already received it, so it's safe to do so). Sorry in advance because the pictures aren't the best.

I know she likes Tilda, so I chose this cutie for the main image of my card. I coloured Tilda with distress inks. Papers, ribbon, doily and pearls all came from my stash. "Happy birthday" is a G Studio stamp. I used my craft punch for the butterflies.

Have a wonderful day! Hugs! xx

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Stamp and create with Magnolia: Birthday

Tilda's town: Use your stash

Simply Magnolia: Kraft and 2 others (mine are pink and green)

Magnolia Down Under: Butterflies

7 kids college fund: Anything goes
Simon says: Anything goes with pearls
Love to create: Anything goes
Deep ocean: Just for a girl

A touch of vintage

Hey hey! How are you? My week off is officially over. I wouldn't mind a couple of more free days though. lol I had a lot of fun! I went on some one-day trips around the country, did some crafting ... Just fun and relaxing things! I didn't do as much crafting as I planned though. I think my mojo took a break too. *sigh*

Anyways, I still managed to make this card.

I received these gorgeous Prima papers and the fab lace from sweet Chelsea (thank you so much!!! xx) and I really wanted to make something from them. And this is the result. A vintage Tilda card. The plan was to stay away from the cute images for a change, but couldn't do it. *oops* This was the very first Tilda stamp I've ever bought and I think she's a real cutie. Wouldn't you agree? I think she can be used for many different occassions. I coloured her with distress inks. I raised Tilda on foam pads to give the card some dimension.

See those big(ger) printed-over flowers? I received those from my amazing friend Rosie (thank you bunches!! xx). She sent them to me quite some time ago, but I didn't want to use them, because I thought they were so beautiful and I knew that once they are gone, they are gone. But I thought they would be perfect for this card, so I went ahead and used some. The roses and white flowers came from my stash. The butterfies are a stamp from Rubber stampede. I coloured those with distress inks as well. Ribbons, doily, crystals and pearl strings came from my stash. I used Viva decor pearl pen for the dots on scalloped circles. 

So much from me today. Have a wonderful day! 

Hugs! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

ABC Challenge: F is for Flowers

Stampin' for the weekend: Flower power

The ribbon girl: Add lace

Crafting from the heart: Anything goes/Use flowers

Tilda's town: Anything goes

Allsorts: Ladies day

The sketchy challenges: Make your own sketch/Anything goes

Marvelous Magnolia: Anything goes
Time for Magnolia: Tilda only
Kit and clowder: Coloured image

Some tulips just for you

Heya! How are you? I'm enjoying my week off. I've already taken a couple of one-day-trips to several cities around the country and if the weather permits I will do another one. I've also been doing some crafting. One of the cards I made was for this week's challenge at Crafty ribbons. The theme is "anything goes with ribbon", so I hope many of you will come play with us. Especially with such a yummy prize on offer ... ;)

Anyways, here's the card I made ...

I haven't used this Tilda for a while so I thought I'd ink it up. I coloured her wih Promakers and I did the shading with Faber Castell pencils. Around Tilda I stamped with Recollections stamps. Papers came from my stash and so did the big pearls.I really like this butterfly border die from Joy Crafts. Isn't it beautiful? I used the tiny pearls from my stash to add to the center of each butterfly. The other dies I used are from Spellbinders. The picot edge circle was embossed with mystic clouds embossing folder from Mpress. And the white cardstock under the ribbons was embossed with Anna Griffin's acanthus embossing folder. The small butterflies were made with craft punch. I used several different ribbons on my card - they are all from the Crafty ribbons store. I used red satin ribbon (for the bow), Christmas owl ribbon - flowers/snowy, you are my sunshine ribbon (back) and Christmas tree red satin ribbon with wired edges (back). The last two ribbons are discontinued, but you can still get them in the jam pots or the ribbon packs. Also, there are maaaaaany more amazing grosgrain ribbons you can check out. :)

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
7 kids college found: Anything goes
Papertake weekly: Lovely layers
The ribbon girl: Red
Time for Magnolia: Tilda only
Stamp and create with Magnolia: Thinking of spring
Hanna and friends: Bingo (ribbon, dies, embossing)
Divas by design: Rubber stamps only
Marvelous Magnolia: Anything goes

And the winner is ...

Hi! Jus a quick post to let you know who won my candy ...

Winner, chosen by random, is no. 36. Rebecca, that's you. Congrats! :)

Please contact me in the next 7 days to claim your prize. To the rest of you ... Thank you very much for entering and spreading the word. I'm sorry I can't send you all something, but I will have more candy and I hope you will try your luck then.

Hugs! xx

My 4th blogaversary and candy for you

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Hey, hey! Wow, I can't believe I've been blogging for 4 years already. Goodness, time just flew by. These 4 years have been ah-ma-zing; I got to know many wonderful people who I am now proud to call friends, I got to work with the most amazing ladies ... To keep it short - I had a blast! :D I want to thank each and every single one of you for all the support and nice comments. You are amazing!

So, as a thank you and to celebrate, I put together a small candy for all of you. Since Valentine's day is not far away, I decided to do a Valentine's related candy. There is a pack of stamps that I thought were perfect for the "love day" as well as several pink thingies with which you can decorate your projects.

Candy will close on Fabruary 14 and I will announce the winner a day after.

To be in the chance to win this candy all I ask is that you put the candy picture on your blog with the link here and leave your name with Mr. Linky. You don't have to be a follower of my blog to win this candy, but if you like my work I'd be one happy little bunny if you clicked on that "follow" button. ;)

Have a wonderful day! Hugs! xx

Happy birthday Renate'

What a fun day is today. Why, you ask? Because it's Renate's birthday!!! Don't know who Renate' is? Well, she's one amazing person and I am very happy I got to meet her. And she is also a part of the Yumi and Fumi duo (in case you are wondering - she's Yumi). You know, that stamp company with those veeeery cute stamps. 

Happy birthday Renate'! I hope you've been enjoying your special day and that you were spoiled like a princess. I wish you all the best! Hugs!

Ladies from the Yumi and Fumi DT decided to make a special surprise for Renate'. Each of us created a banner in Renate's favourite colours and with one of the adorable Y&FH images in it. Then we mailed the banners to her. There's a letter on each banner and Renate' will have to put the banners together to spell "happy birthday". I hope she will like the idea.

I really enjoyed putting this banner together. And I just realized that this was the first banner I've made so far. Will definitely make more.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RENATE'!