Woodland Animals

Here it is again: my f a v o u r i t e stamp... don´t know why I love this owl so much!

Today´s card is for the challenges at Wee Memories : "Woodland Animals" and the CR84FN Color Challenge

It was inspired by the novel "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett - first published in 1910/1911, now a classic of English children´s literature.

I love the aura of this owl - it seems to hide a secret.... to confirm this impression I added a piece of a door lock, that I purchased a while ago at an antique flea market....

The second picture caught the sparkle on the owl´s feathering and around her eyes a bit better...

Have a nice weekend and thanks for stopping by today!

The giveaway goes to...

"Thank you for joining my Software Giveaway" to those 7 people, who commented!

I asked a random generator who the new owner of the My Memories Suite 2 Software will be... and it answered:

It´s you, dj1952! Congratulation!!!

An atmosphere of gloom

2 funerals in 1 day... this picture from our garden represents my mood today: grey in grey... with a bright hope in between... (Revelation 21:4) . . .. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

It was just a matter of minutes to create this album with "My Memories Suite 2" scrapbooking software:

One of you can get this fun software for free - join my giveaway HERE !
Hurry, it will end today... no, I suddenly changed my mind: I´ll extend it through the whole weekend!

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Now just a quick little something for the papercrafters amongst you:

The DYSU challenge this week is a "splash of blue"

Here´s my take on this challenge:

In addition I´d like to participate in these challenges, too:
"Embossing" at the Pink Elephant  (embossed lines on card)
"Lace and pearls" at Charismacardz  (crocheted lace and 1 pearl)
"Embellishment Bingo" at Southern Girls Challenge  (lace,gems,embossing)
"Cotton/Baumwolle" at Allways Something Creative ( Baumwollhäkelfaden)

Have a great weekend everybody!

Bling It Up!

MY FAVOURITE TECHNIQUE!!! So I HAVE to participate in HEROARTS November challenge!

Bling It Up! - Bring out the trimmings and make your projects shine! “Blinged” projects can be of ANY theme. 


I LOVE all things "blingy", shiny, glittery, sparkly... I can´t get enough of the stars at night or the sunshine on a water-surface or snowy landscape... or rhinestones or glitter.... or diamonds or zircons... or whatever sparkles in the light ! LOVE IT!

But there are also more decent ways to bling something up : PEARLS!! Love them, too!!

When I started working as a chemist 20 yrs. ago I gifted myself with a beautiful pearl necklace with a soft rose-colored shine... I adore it to this day!

So everytime I get the chance to bling something up - I will do it!

This HEROARTS stamp ("Peacock") my Mum gifted me with, is perfect for this purpose!

I stamped and embossed the image and colored it in with my Promarkers.

I´d also like to enter this in The Cuttlebug Spot Challenge "Anything goes"

Thanks so much for stopping in today!

PS: Please check out my software giveaway!

An owl for "Cutie"

"Celebration" is over - and I´m relieved - my friend (the medical assistant) liked her card I posted HERE :-)

But her sweet little daughter - I call her Cutie - should not come away empty-handed either - so I made her a cute little owl I saw on THIS BLOG POST  The (Austrian) author posted the instructions HERE

I filled it with chocolate-candies...

... and set it on her plate....

I guess, she liked it... at least the chocolate in it!

(This was, before we gave her some pillows on her chair!)

Just in case you wonder what we had for dinner on this festive evening: my hubby wished for a salmon-cream-tarte with caviar and crayfish...

... and I made an Indian dish as main course - yummy!

I hope you enjoyed my little report and don´t forget to checkout the software giveaway HERE!

Butterflies in Autumn?

Don´t bother about it! Butterflies are always in vogue - don´t you agree?!

The challenge at CAS-ual Fridays this week is Create a Clean And Simple card with a panel or design element that goes Over the Edge of the card front. 

Ok, here it is my take on this challenge:

Have a fabulous weekend!

PS: I´ve a software giveaway for you to check out  HERE  !  

My Memories Suite 2 Software Giveaway

A few weeks ago I was approached by MY MEMORIES and asked if I would like to review their fun and easy-to-use digital scrapbooking software and host a giveaway....

Of course I agreed!

So, the good news for YOU are:

One of my followers is going to get this whole software kit for free!

So, what do you need to do?

1)      become a much appreciated follower of my blog :-)

2)      Check out My Memories website and tell me in a comment what product/s e.g. from the “Weekly Deals”attract you the most.

That's all you've got to do to be entered into the software giveaway!

The software giveaway will end on Nov. 19^th 2011

I´ll announce the randomly chosen receiver of My Memories Suite2 on Nov 20^th.

And the rest of you – don´t be too sad!

I am giving you a discount code for $10 off the software plus another $10 off in free products like digital papers/elements etc.  

You can also use the code right now if you want to.

Here it is: STMMMS6178

Just go to My Memories Store.

Add the My Memories Suite software to the cart.

Add any additional products you want and fill in  the promo code.

Simply go to http://www.mymemories.com/digital_scrapbooking_software and use STMMMS6178 in the promo code box on the shopping cart page!  You will get $10 off the software (reduced price of only $29.95), plus you get a coupon for $10 for the MyMemories online store.

What I like a lot about this software is, that I don´t have to spend a lot of time on creating scrapbbok lauyouts...

Now here's a layout, which took me only 2 minutes...

And it took me 5min. to create these ones...

So, I hope, you join in!

Have a nice day everyone!