Rainbow

Hey, hey! How are you doing? Good, I hope. We have a new challenge at Crafty ribbons for you today and the theme is "rainbow" + ribbon. I think it's because of this challenge that the song "I can see clearly now" is stuck in my head. Don't worry, I won't start singing it. lol

I decoded to make another CAS card. Don't get used to seeing those though, I don't think there are gonna be many more of them anytime soon. ;) Anyways, here's the card ...

Now you're probably wondering about the ribbon part, aren't you? Well, the butterflies were cut from the animal cuties - fibre orange. I love that ribbon, because it's so versatile. You can use it to make your own background, you can just cut out the butterflies ... Let your imagination go wild. ;) And as for the rainbow theme goes - I decided to use colours of the rainbow for my flowers. Flowers were made with my carft punch and in the center of each flower I glued a pearl. I did the embossing with Cuttlebug's Swiss dots embossing folder and the die cut was made with Cheery Lynn die. Corners were punched with Fiskars corner punch and I also used some gems to decorate them. The sentiment is in slovenian and is litteraly means "sincere congratulations"; it can be used for graduation, birthdays etc.

I hope you will come and share with us your rainbow creations. Have a great day! xx

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

Crop Stop: Linky party 5 - Anything goes

Cheery Lynn designs: Creative corners

Simon says stamp (Monday challenge): For the love of plants

Through the craft room door: Anything goes

Word art Wednesday: Anything goes

Addicted to CAS: Butterfly

The crafter's cafe: Anything goes

Crafty creations: Embossing

Inky chicks: Butterflies

Whimsy June hop - day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of our ...

June Rubber Stamp and Die Release

Over the next 3 days we will reveal 19*BRAND NEW* red rubber stamps/stamp sets and 1 BRAND NEW Word Die . They will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and from selected Whimsy Stamps retailers on Wednesday.

Today we are excited to show you the brand new Art by Mi Ran and Krista Heij-Barber, Wee Stamps, Elisabeth Bell stamps.

I got to play with the High fashion image from Art by Miran design. I think this image is perfect for all those divas we know. What do you think? I did the colouring with Promarkers and Faber Castell pencils. I didn't use any design papers, just coloured cardstock from my stash. Embellishments came from my stash as well.

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left here and on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment at every stop to be entered into the draw.

Debbie Eastman 

Cindy Hoesel 

Lizzy Smith

Maya Go 

Bridget Curnow

Ellie Stover 

Louise Roache

Shelby Thomas

Bev Rochester

See you again tomorrow for our release day hop.

Happy hopping!

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

Sister act: Anything goes

Crafting from the heart: Anything goes

Craft your passion: Anything goes

Scrapbook stamp society: Anything goes

Artistic inspirations: Anything goes/Layers

The corrosive: Pile it on

Scribble and scrap: Anything goes

The sisters of craft: Anything goes

Paper creators craft: Anything goes

Whimsy June release hop - day1

Welcome to Day 1 of our ...

May Rubber Stamp and Die Release

Over the next 3 days we will reveal 19*BRAND NEW* red rubber stamps/stamp sets  and 1 Word Die. They will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and from selected Whimsy Stamps retailers on Wednesday.

Today we are excited to show you the brand new Crissy Armstrong, Time for Tea Designs, Lizzy Love stamps and dies being released this month.

I decided to do something a wee bit different for today's showcase. I made a ... Are you sitting? I made a CAS card. Yes, me. *I* - went - CAS with this card. 

I inked up this adorable Make a splash duck image from Chrissy Armstrong. I don't know why, but I thought it would fit perfectly on a baby card, so I also stamped the sentiment that came with May's Vintage baby sentiment set.

I coloured the image with Faber Castell pencils and Promarkers. 

Now, doesn't this little fella just make you smile? :)

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left here and on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment at every stop to be entered into the draw.

See you again tomorrow for our second day of sneak peeks.

Lizzy Smith

Iris Wiechmann

Cindy Hoesel 

Shelby Thomas

Maya Go - you are here

Bridget Curnow

Louise Roache

Shannah Bartle 

Chitra Nair

Danni Bindel

Thank you for visiting us today. Happy hopping!

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

Brown sugar: Anything goes

ABC challenges: K is for kritters

Bastel Traum: Water

Bizzy Becs: Anything goes

Penny Black: Wings

Bunny Zoe's GDT post

Hey, hey! I'm so excited to be writing this post! :D I was asked to be a guest designer at Bunny Zoe's challenge this month and of course I said YES (with a big smile on my face if I may add :P). Thank you so much for this opportunity Nikki! *hug*

The theme of the challenge is "Furry friends" and I was told that the sweet little birdies can count as "furry" too, so I created a Christmas card with the sweet Miss Frosty stamp that Nikki sells in her store.

I just love this image. It's so darn cute! I did the colouring with distress inks and I also used some Stickles for the snow and Liquid applique on the white parts of the hat and scarf.

I used Stickles on the poinsettia as well. Poinsettia was cut with LLLC pretty poinsettia die and I used a vintage button for the center. All of the papers and embellishments came from my stash. that candy cane was actually a Christmas tree decoration (a long, long time ago - when I was still a little girl). I just knew it would come handy one day again. ;)

I hope you will come join the challenge and show us your makes with your furry friends. Have a wonderful week! xx

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Winter Wonderland: A touch of gold or silver (gold pattern on the papers, silver charm)
Sweet stampin' Christmas: Cute Christmas
Deep ocean: Add a charm
Card mania: Use a metal embellishment
Natalie and Amy's challenge: Christmas
Ladybug crafts: Use your dies
Wags 'n Whiskers: Seeing spots
One crazy stamper: Anything goes

Bountiful Ceci

Hey there my crafty friends! How are you? Did you enjoy the weekend? I did. :) On Friday afternoon my sweetie and I went to the capital to do some shopping (he bought ukulele and I bought some more craft supplies) and on Saturday and Sunday we had a lovely quiet time at home. It was too hot outside to go anywhere. So I went to my craft corner and work on some projects. One of them is the card I am about to show you ...

I decided to ink this adorable image from Whimsy stamps. It's called Bountiful Ceci and it is part of the Art by Miran collection.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Faber Castell pencils. I also used glitter glue on the flowers and the bows.

Papers are some leftover scraps that I had in my stash. Flowers are from Michaels, Papermania and the small ones were made with my craft punch. The decorative corner was made with Whimsy corner die.

So much from me today. See you tomorrow. :)
Have a great day! xx

I'dd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Not just cards: Anything goes
Clear it out: Theme-AG, Stash-You choose
Loves rubberstamps: Anything goes
Fab'n'funky: Check it out
Creative fingers: Anything goes
Art by Miran: Anything goes
Crafty Catz: Stitching
Sweet stampin': Something old, something new (old papers and embellishments, new stamp)
Little Miss Muffet: Let's get stitched

Spring is a wedding season

Hello everybody! How are you doing? I hope you've been getting some lovely warm and sunny spring days where you live. Here we've been enjoying the glorious sunny weather. It's getting really hot too - almost as if it was summer already.

Over the last month I was busy working on a special project ... I was making a wedding album for my friends. I wanted the album to be really nice so I spent quite a lot of time on it. But I think it was worth it as I liked how it turned out and what's even more imporant - my friends loved it. :D Their wedding was at the end of May so it's safe to post the pictures of the mini album here.

Their wedding was in pink tones so I decided to make the album in this colour.

I had the gorgeous DCWV's Midnight berry paper pack in my drawer and I thought it would be perfect for the mini I was going to make. I just love the colours and design of those papers - they are so pretty and elegant. I also like that you get quite a lot of tags with the paper pack - those are great to put in the pockets in the album as they can be used for photos and/or for journaling.

I won't go into all details about the album in this post, because I mentioned most of the stuff I used in the video that I made (click here to watch it on YouTube or scroll down to watch it on my blog). But if you have any question about the album, feel free to ask. I'm more than happy to help if I can. :) I would like to add that I got the basic idea about how to put this album together from My sisters scrapper, but I changed the measurements and pages a bit.

Here are some pictures from the album.

And here's the video.

I hope you understood my english and that you like the album. And as I said ... If you have any questions, just ask! :)

Thank you for stopping by today. Have a great day! Bye bye! xx

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

Creative inspirations: For a friend

Papertake weekly: Anything goes
Hiding in my craftroom: Freestyle
Craftyhazelnuts patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper
Scrapy Land: AG using any dies that SL sells (I used Spellbinders and Whimsy dies)
Crafting from the heart: Anything goes
Through the craft room door: Anything goes
Penny's paper crafty challenge blog: Anything goes

No stamping

Hey hey! How are you doing? I hope the week has been good for you so far. It's already Wednesday, so weekend is not too far away anymore. And we all like weekends, don't we? ;) Mine is going to be pretty busy, but fun. On Friday I'm going to help with some wedding decorating and on Saturday is the wedding day. I have an appointment at the hairdresser at the early morning and right after I'm done there I'm going to see the bride-to-be and help with some last minute preparations. I just hope the weather will be sunny and warm. *fingers crossed*

Today I have a bit different card to show you. The main difference is ... Are you sitting? ... I didn't include any stamping on it. Shocking, I know. lol I decided to use a die cut for the center instead.  My inspiration for this card came from here.

And here's the result ...

The baby pram is a newly released die from Whimsy stamps. Isn't is great?! I love the vintage look of this die cut. To make this card I used some pretty pastel pink papers from my stash, big doily, flowers, pearls, ribbon, hart charm and some lace. I also did some stitching on this card. I distressed the edges with scissors. I went for a romantic and shabby chic look and I hope I managed to achieve it. 

Thank you for stopping by today. Have a great day! xx

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

In the pink: Stitching (real or faux)

Creative inspirations: Pastel shades

Live and love crafts: Ice cream (I was inspired by the photo collage - by all those pink ice creams; especially because I just loooove strawberry ice cream - one of my favourites)

Scrap and craft: Colours of spring

Ladybug crafts: Favourite colour

Frilly and funkie: Happy, happy, happy (I think a birth of a baby is a very happy moment :))