Blog Hop ~ SCACD Stamp Release ~ Aurora is back!

Welcome to a fun blog hop! Today you will get to see the wonderful, sweet new Aurora 2 Collection, stamps designed by fabulous Victoria Case for SCACD!

If you came here from the talented Kim's blog, then you're right on track, if you just happened to stop by, you might want to go to the beginning of this blog hop, and that is fabulous Elaine's blog.

On my card I used the lovely image called Walk in the Park, colored with my Prismas, MCP technique, cut her out with Nestabilites dies. Added mini Prima roses, Karen Marie Klip lazer cut butterflies, some Kaisercraft pearls and punched leaves. The flower paper is from a BasicGrey pad. (Green at Heart)

It's the first time I try this fun folding technique, it wasn't hard at all! I found the template at (Marianne's) Sakkalo's blog.

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The inside of the card:

The backside of the card:

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Thanks for looking at my card, your next stop on this hop is talented Kim's blog!

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Here's the complete blog hop list if you get lost along the way:

♥Elaine Hughes
♥Danni Bindel
♥Anki Bärgman
♥Simonne Clay
♥Carolyn Bounds
♥Dianne Prewitt
♥Kim Dellow
♥Lori Aragon
♥Kim Gruetzmacher
*Me*
♥Kim Costello
♥Jacquie Heffner
♥Alex Lundgren
♥Rowena Barnard
♥Marti Wills
♥Suzanne J Dean

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If you scroll down a bit, you'll see my DT card for Friday Sketchers this week posted earlier today. It also shows one of the new stamps from this release!

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Friday Sketchers # 113 ~ Cute Lil' Sprite!

Hello dear friends! A new Friday with a new fun sketch at the Friday Sketchers blog, this time made by the talented Tanja!

On my card today I've used a brand new, and sooo cute little image, it's called Sprite from the Aurora 2 Collection by Victoria Case for SCACD, this collection is being released today! This spesific image, Sprite, will not be sold as a single stamp, you'll get her as a bonus stamp with the whole stamp sheet. The sentiment is by Whipper Snapper Designs.

Take a look at the wonderful cards made by my DT sisters over at the Friday Sketchers blog, hope you'll find inspiration to make a card and take part in the challenge, there's a great prize to win sponsored by KLM Digi Stamps.

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Also check out the blogs of the rest of the DT ladies:

• Beatrix for Germany
• Carole for England
• Claudia for the USA
• Jacqueline for the Netherlands
• Jeanette for Canada
• Tanja for Germany

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Vacation! Denmark - here we come!

Today we start our vaction, we'll drive to Oslo and spend two days there before heading to Denmark. We'll get season passes for Djurs Sommerland, a big amusement park, and then we pretty much have our days cut out for us! *LOL*
We've been there several times before, and the kids love it there, we do too!

Normally we go island hopping in Greece every summer, but this year I have my vacation so late. There's too hot for us in Greece now, too crowded with tourists. And with the recent problems with strikes in Greece, airplanes never coming or leaving, we decided not do that trip this summer. We'll miss it like crazy, and it will be hard not visiting our Greek friends, but we will have an extra long stay there next year.

By all means - we LOVE Denmark too, we are really looking forward to this vacation!
I will not have acess to the internet while I'm away, but I have a couple of cards scheduled for my blog this Friday, and some sweet stuff coming on Sunday, so make sure you stop by to see what it is!

See you later!

Candy ~ Candy ~ Candy!

On Friday 30th there's a new stamp release at SCACD, designed by the fabulous Victoria Case! These stamps are so sweet and fun, you'll love them!

A usual when a new release is coming, there will be yummy candy! This time you can enter on three places for a chance to win some of the sweet stuff, SCACD Follow Your Heart blog, Quixotic Paperie's blog and Victoria Case's blog.

So hop on over to the blogs to take part, you have until Thursday 29th.
Don't forget about the Viva Hop candy that still runs until July 31st at the SCACD Follow Your Heart blog, and the Quixotic Paperie's blog.

Finally - come back on Friday 30th to see the fab new stamps
in a fun-fun blog hop with the SCACD and the Quixotic DT girls!

See you all then!

Viva Blog Hop with Candy!

From Susana and Elaine:

Quixotic Paperie owned by the Fabulous Elaine and our Susana of SCACD have been partnering on efforts behind the scenes such that they consider each other International Sister Stores. They are combining efforts on certain mutual adventures starting with this awesome Viva Blog Hop which of course involves Yummy Candy!! So make sure you stop at BOTH store Blogs SCACD, Follow Youre Heart and Quixotic Paperie Inspirations. You will have a chance to win a set of 3 of the most popular Pens - (Ice White Pearl pen, Holographic Glitter pen and the Clear Gloss gel pen). So each Store Blog will offer up one chance to win the set. How Yummy is that?!! The candy will run thru the 31st.

All you have to do is answer a question at each store blog - 1 entry at each STORE blog per person please!

OK, over to the blog hop and my card! If you came here from fabulous Kim Dellow's blog, then you're right on track, if you just happened to stop by, you might want to go to the beginning of this blog hop, and that is the Quixotic Paperie store blog.

On my card I used the sweet mermaid Marina by Kraftin' Kimmie stamps from SCACD, colored with my Prismas. I've added Stickles to the fins on both Marina and her fish friend, but the photos doesn't show it much...On the "seafloor" of my card I used chunky glitter by Martha Stewart, just perfect, I think! (You can get this fun product at SCACD now with a large discount!)

The tiny star fishes are Cuttlebug die cuts that I put Viva Glitter Liner on.
(For us here in Europe Viva products can be found here at Elaine's Quixotic Paperie.)
My bubbles are lovely Kaisercraft Rhinestones, they can be used for so many things these little gems, love 'em!The Marina stamp can be found along with other great Kraftin' Kimmie stamps right here at Quixotic Paperie.

Here I'll show you how I made my shell:
I cut it with the fab Spellbinder Shapeability Shells.

Then I used my Viva Cream Pearl Pen to give the shell extra dimension.
(For us here in Europe Viva products can be found here at Elaine's Quixotic Paperie.)

When it was dry, I put on some Stardust Stickles,
and then - I got carried away and sprinkled some extra glitter on,
just to make sure it was sparkly enough! *LOL*

Of course I had to add a pearl to my shell, a Kaisercraft Pearl it is.

For more tips on how to use the Viva Decor products,
here are some links to tutorials/videos:

• Viva Decor! Pearl Pens!
• Perfect Water
• Viva Decor! Paper Pens!
• Viva Decor! Glass Effects Gel & Glitter Liner
• 3-D Glitter Gel DEMO

Thanks for looking at my card, your next stop on this blog hop
is my very talented friend Judy!

Here's the complete blog hop list if you get lost along the way:

♥QUIXOTIC PAPERIE STORE BLOG
♥Kim Dellow
*Me*
♥Judy Laing
♥Danni Bindel
♥Jacquie Heffner
♥Kim Costello
♥Dianne Prewitt
♥Marti Wills
♥SCACD STORE BLOG
♥Rowena Barnard
♥Lori Aragon
♥Kim Gruetzmacher
♥Carolyn Bounds
♥Simonne Clay
♥Anki Bärgman
♥Emma Lockley
♥Suzanne J Dean
♥Elaine Hughes

Wow, are you still reading?!
Make sure you stop by for even more candy at the SCACD store blog Follow Your Heart AND on Quixotic Paperie Inspirations blog on Sunday 25th, and this will be such sweet, sweet candy. It's for yet a new stamp release at SCACD, yes, now you can start looking forward to this event on Friday July 30th, a new blog hop to show off the cutest stamps ever!

Sorry, one more tiny little thing
- if you care to look at my first card post for today,
then scroll down a bit
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to see my DT card for the Friday Sketchers blog this week. Thanks!
Have a wonderful weekend!

Friday Sketchers # 112 ~ Butterfly Kisses

Hello dear friends! A new Friday with a new fun sketch at the Friday Sketchers blog, this time made by the talented Jeanette!
I got to try out some new stuff on this card, such as the lovely stamp called Bear and Butterflies by Lili of the Valley. I colored him with my Prismas, added stickles to the butterflies. The nice punched flower edge on the patterned paper is made with my new set of Martha Stewart corner and edge punches, Pansy is the name. New stuff is also the butterfly punch from EK Success, and the cute heart pins by Maya Road. The sentiment is by Whipper Snapper Designs.



Take a look at the wonderful cards made by my DT sisters over at the Friday Sketchers blog, hope you'll find inspiration to make a card and take part in the challenge, there's a great prize to win sponsored by Simon Says Stamp.

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Also check out the blogs of the rest of the DT ladies:

• Beatrix for Germany
• Carole for England
• Claudia for the USA
• Inge for the Netherlands
• Jacqueline for the Netherlands
• Jacque for the USA
• Jeanette for Canada
• Tanja for Germany

TIOT # 77 ~ In the Garden

Hi friends! Finally I was able find a tiny spot of time to make a new card! It's not easy these days with closed school and kindergarten, three boys wanting me to have a full day planned for them every day - exhausting!

Well, over to my card, it's a sketch challenge this week over at the SCACD store blog. Suzanne made this wonderful sketch for us.

I've used this sweet image New Home from the Hearts and Hugs - Summer Collection by Victoria Case for SCACD. Colored with my Prismas and cut out with Nestabilities dies. Papers are from the Hi Birdie pad by Kaisercraft, other products I've used is Prima Cameo roses, Kaisecraft rhinestones, laser cut butterfly by Karen Marie Klip and circle sentiment stamp by Catslife Press.



On the company blog Follow Your Heart you can see all the wonderful projects by the rest of the DT ladies!

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Check out the Krafting Kimmie's New Fairytale stamps in the SCACD store, they're just amazing!
Also take a look at the new SEI Velvet Papers, and the Jewelry Findings - Think pendants!

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Winner of my blog candy is...

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I'm overwhelmed and glad that so many of you took part in my candy give away! Thanks to you all! I wish there could be more than just one winner, but that's not how this "game" is done...

Random.Org helped me pick a winner as you can see here:
Congratulation to # 39 Wenche Pettersen!

Please contact me so I can get your address, Wenche!
My e-mail addy is in the sidebar →

Make a Wish, Francesca! ~ Two Challenges

I love these fun and wonderful stamps by Kraftin' Kimmie, and this gal, Francesca, have been featured by me on a card I made three weeks ago. Actually this stamped image was meant to use on that card, but it was badly stamped, she missed some fingers... I sometimes play with my mishaps, use my drawing pen to add some extra, just for the fun of it. This time I decided to use the image on a card! I hope Kimmie won't mind my "make-over" of Francesca! (Please forgive me, but I had fun doing it!)*LOL* I have no shame, I'm entering it to the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge blog! This week they ask us to use the color pink on our cards.
I also entered it to the CAS-tastic Challenge blog, they ask for CAS cards using kraft paper this week.

I've colored with my Prismas, added a Prima Cameo Rose, some Kaisercraft Pearls and the butterfly is my new punch, if you like it you can join my candy to win such a punch! Just click on the picture below my blog banner to get to the post. The sentiment is by Whipper Snapper Designs.
I get my Kraftin' Kimmie stamps at Susana's SCACD, you should check out the fabulous new mermaid stamps over there!

Here you can see how the "make-over" was done:
I gave her eyelids, eyelashes, new pupils, lips, a purse and new shoes. Fun!

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Here's the first card I made with Francesca, click on it to get to the post.

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On Monday you all should check out
the SCACD store blog Follow Your Heart!
Lots of new fun to see!

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