Piran

Anybody ever heard of Piran?
Maybe not - it´s a small town/seaport in Slovenia, first mentioned in the 7th century.

Here´s a view from the ancient city walls:

One of the most famous houses of the town is the Venetian House - built in the middle of the 15th century - it was a present from a Venetian merchant to his beautiful mistress in Piran:

As you can imagine, this was a big scandal then and common talk of everybody! So the merchant installed an inscription on the wall, that says:" Let them talk."

In my imagination I can see this beautiful woman standing on her balcony ...

It was really nice strolling through this "steeped in history"-town.... but it wasn´t too warm, so hubby and I decided to warm up in a nice little tavern... we LOVE fish, so - being at the sea - we got fresh, unbelievably delicious fish dishes to eat ... just look at this fish soup:

... and can you imagine, that this was grilled seafood for ONE person?!

"Beam me up to Piran again, Scotty!!!" :-)

On the ground floor of the Venetian House we found a shop, that was selling sea salt for all purposes and table salt in several qualities. I bought some salt as souvenir and small present...

As we crafters never give away a gift unembellished and without a card, I used some leftover scraps to make a small card... the black patterned paper behind the Maya Road cardboard cameo is a leftover and also the grey strip at the bottom - there was a piece missing on one corner, but I hid this by adhering a rose...

Just in case you´re wondering why on earth I´m telling you this: there´s a challenge at the Cuttlebug spot :  Left Overs - use them!

... the stamps are from Waltzingmouse Stamps.

Thanks a lot for traveling with me today :-)

"Snow" cute!

I needed  a cute wintry and "snowy" image lately and remembered that my dear friend Dorcas used a super cute image last winter... so I searched for it, found it and bought it instantly... Mo Manning´s images are so adorable!

By accident this week´s challenge at Mo´s Digital Challenge is "The Great Outdoors", so I think, my card fits in this challenge....

As I´m no natural talent in coloring and drawing, I colored the image partly with Photoshop and added glitter glue...

... a little stamping inside the card...

Just in case you´re wondering what´s inside...

And I think you agree, that a gift is twice as nice in a pretty gift bag!

 I bought new cutting dies from www.mariannedesign.nl and love them!

 

I´d also like to participate in the following challenges:

Delightful Inspiration : Snow

Di's DigiDesigns Challenge : all white except image

One Stop Craft Challenge : Let it snow

Sweet Stampin´Challenge : "snowmen, snowflakes, snow people or just snow"

THANKS for stopping by today!

PS: I enter this card also here: http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-115-favorite-2011-mo-project.html

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!