Ballet Dancer

Today´s card is meant for these 2 challenges: 

City Crafter Challenge: "Coppelia" - use a Ballerina     and    I (heart) Promarkers: for a little girl
                                                  

I was instantly inspired  by these challenges and by ballet performances on some gorgeous locations here in Vienna/Austria ....(take a look at these pictures - "click" for bigger pictures - and this one) ....and therefore visualized a quite opulent and pompous card ... so I chose 2 pretty dominant background papers, a deckle edge paper card base and lots of glitter-glue and a huge rhinestone!

The stunningly beautiful image is from A Day For Daisies -  and this is how it turned out in the end:

Thanks a lot for stopping by today!

 

Just Black and White

Heute möchte ich gerne bei einer österreichischen Challenge mitmachen: Schwarz/Weiß bei Vienna Impressions.
Zuerst dachte ich "Das wird fad, so ganz ohne Farbe", aber nun bin ich mit meinem Ergebnis recht zufrieden - natürlich konnte ich nicht umhin, die Karte ordentlich mit Strass aufzupeppen! :-)
Da Cath von The Moxie Fab World die Einreichfrist für die Postage Challenge verlängert hat, möchte ich mit dieser Karte gern auch dort mitmachen.

Today I´d like to participate in an Austrian challenge: Black&White at Vienna Impressions.
My first thought was, that this might become a boring card - without any colour, but now I´m quite satisfied how it turned out - of course I jazzed it up with lots of bling! :-)
Since Cath from the Moxie Fab World extended the deadline for her Postage Challenge, I´d like to join there. too.

Bei der Arbeit daran ist mir ein ärgerlicher Fehler passiert: ich hab die Karte irrtümlich auf ein offenes Stempelkissen gelegt - so ein Mist! - da es aber die Rückseite war, dachte ich, ich mach einfach eine Signatur daraus...

When working on this card, I made an annoying mistake: I laid the card onto an open ink pad -  what a bummer! - but since it was only the back of the card, I decided to turn it into a signature...

Allen ein schönes Wochenende und vielen Dank für´s Vorbeischauen!

Have a nice weekend everyone and thanks for stopping by today!

For a little girl

Yesterday evening I checked my favourite challenges and was instantly inspired by:

I (heart) Promarkers: For a little girl 

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Add crowns and/or gems

CAS-ual Fridays: Put a bling on it!

And since Cath from The Moxie Fab World extended her Doilies&Lace Challenge, I´d also like to submit it there.

Here´s a peek on the inside...

Today is a holiday here in Austria, so I will continue relaxing now...  how delightful!

Have nice day, too!!!

The Gingham Challenge

This is my entry for The Gingham Challenge at the Moxie Fab World... why is it, that I always enter challenges so late? Better late than never :-)  don´t you agree?!

And I think this card also fits in the CAS-UAL FRIDAYS challenge: Put bling on it!

Thanks for visiting me today! Have a nice new week!

Featured!

Apricot Bubbles has been featured in "Best of the Web" at PocketChange....

PocketChange Lifestyle Blog

.... you can check it out HERE

Fresh Breeze

These blue and green pastel shades remind me of a fresh breeze on a slightly chilly morning in spring, don´t you agree?!

YES, I´ve been crafty again and made a new sticky notes booklet - here´s my new baby :-)

I found these huge diamonds in the deco section of a local florist supply shop - OF COURSE I HAD to buy them :-) Aren´t they gorgeous!

This is my entry for the current CR84FN Color Challenge...

Ros pointed me to this week´s challenge at the City Crafter Challenge Blog by her stunningly beautiful creation... the theme is A Rose is a Rose!

 

I don´t know if I can call my fabric flower a "rose", but I have an ace up my sleeve: there are roses on the designer paper!

... this is a scan of the blank cover...

Want to peek inside?

And there´s a 3rd challenge  I´d like to participate in: the Craft-Room Challenge which requires to use some fabric.

Oh, now I even found a 4th challenge for my project: Divas by design "Fabulous Flourishes"... I guess the inside of my booklet qualifies...

Beyond that: Deep Ocean Challenge Blog, Flourishes Timeless Tuesday, Crafty Creations Challenges.

*phew!*

Thanks a lot for visiting me today!

 

News

I finally filled the "Digital Scapbooking" page (page tabs) and I started to fill up my new photography blog ... Living PICTUREsquely! ... there are only 2 pictures at this stage - but I´ll continue loading up pictures every day now...
Enjoy!

Excuses/ Part Three

Ok, here´s the last one of all my excuses for not being creative in the last few weeks: 

I´v been to....

 LONDON for the first time of my life!! And it was truly an experience! 

Just the fact that nearly 8.000.000 people are living there - almost the same amount of habitants as in my little country Austria!
We found a very nice room (private)  http://www.9flats.com/de/places/9755-wohnung-london-camdentown?origin=search  and had a really good time there - although it was quite exhausting to whip through this huge city in 2,5 days! The weather was cold and wet, but our very friendly host assured us, that this is the "real London experience" :-)
We managed to see Big Ben, Picadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Notting Hill, Portobello Road, Camden Market, The Tower and Tower Bridge and the new/old Shakespeare Theater...

I enjoyed strolling through Camden Market and Portobello Road Market very much... we bought quite a few "keepsakes"  :-)  ... and sometimes only just having a look was very delightful, too...

As I already said, it was very cold and wet and sometimes we just had to indulge ourselves with some yummy treats...

 ...aren´t they absolutely gorgeous?

Stunning cake-decorations, don´t you agree!

Ok, I guess you´re pretty tired now of all my excuses - in my next post I´ll show you something handcrafted again!

Until then - have a nice new week! Thanks for stopping by!

Excuses / Part Two

Staying in Venice is quite expensive - so we prefer staying in Padua (ital.: Padova)... a city with a really nice old city center. It´s quite medieval - when strolling through the streets of the ancient city center I sometimes expect Romeo and Juliet coming around the corner... ok, Padua is not Verona, but the feeling is the same :-)

Unfortunately we always "forget" to make some pictures there... don´t know, why.

Here´s one of the beautiful old houses - my aunt in the front...

It´s taken with a small "point&shoot digi cam", so please neglect the poor quality.

A main reason for coming to Italy is to enjoy life - La dolce vita, as the Italians say... and we try our best:

... an indoor pic from our favourite enoteca in the city... to avoid misunderstandings: these were not all for me :-) only the glass rightmost!!

And they have very delicious food there:

Thanks for visiting!

PS: I tried to make some cameos with my Mold Muse molds lately - I even tried to do them bicolored - and I think they came out quite well with Fimo/Sculpey ... I love these molds - they´re first class quality!

Excuses / Part One

Sorry for being so quiet lately... but I´ve some really good excuses!

 

Here´s the 1st one: our annual shopping trip to Padua (ital.:Padova) and Venice.... we had 4 fabulous days in Italy!

 

Want to travel a little?
Come with me on a short sightseeing tour through Venice ... we preferred to avoid the crowds of tourists this time and went through a more quiet area to the famous Rialto Bridge:

There are very popular stores called "Coin" in Italy - this one in Venice is in an old Palazzo - and look how gorgeous the decoration is! When you come in and look up to the ceiling - this is what you see:

Until next time!

Thanks for stopping by!