Ms. Jagoda

Twinkling H2O's

2012-01-29T17:49:00.001+01:00

My lovely friend Manu and I bought 48 lil pots of twinkling h2o's .. :) we could not decide who takes which so we thought about just cutting them in half so both of us can have all the colors :D

I'm glad Manu has a lovely boyfriend and great daddy and mommy - they both helped us :)

Look at the result :)

CUYL 'thank you'

2012-01-21T09:00:00.000+01:00

It's time for a new challenge over at Challenge Up Your Life :D +yippiiieee+ .. I'm so glad I'm home :) For the next two weeks we'd like to see some 'thank you projects' - create a card, a little gift or whatever you want following this theme and please link your new project until Friday, February 3rd 2012! The first entry is eligible for the price!

The lucky winner will receive a Magnolia stamp of their choice sponsored by the Scraphouse!

I created this card using my cameo :D I'm so happy I have it :) can't wait to try more stuff :)

2012-01-15T18:22:00.000+01:00

BACK

BABY!!!!

what I hate most about traveling?

2012-01-13T20:46:00.006+01:00

.. exactly - PACKING! I've been packing my stuff all week now - can you imagine? I even thought: Ah whatever .. I'll just pay the additional $150 if my suitcase is too heavy -.- .. but I hope it won't be .. +fingers xed+

I'll be so relieved on Sunday at 12.40pm when I'll finally step out of the airport at my final destination without lost luggage and my Mom waiting for me .. hallelujah !

Happy Weekend Everyone!

long time - no post

2012-01-10T15:13:00.007+01:00

.. happy (belatet) new year :) I hope your 2o12 is full of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious adventures :) I hope mine will be :)

the reason why I did not update my blog for the last two weeks? - well .. I went down to Myrtle Beach and then my boyfriend asked me if I want to drive back to Tennessee with him so we can spend another week together, he was kind enough to pay for my ticket back to Philadelphia, and that's where I am right now until Saturday.

It was great to spend the week with Steven even though he had to work but it did make it even harder for me to say bye bye .. until August .. :/ I hope everything works out between us :)

buuuuuttttt what I am really happy about? I'll be home home on Sunday :) can't wait to see my family and celebrate my brother's birthday with yummi cake :) - and most importantly, I can't wait to be creative again .. it has been too long - I can't can't can't wait :)

and because a post without photos is not that great, here are some from Myrtle Beach :)

ah yeah and btw I have curls now :D and I LOVE them :)

South Carolina

2011-12-26T17:49:00.002+01:00

Merry Christmas again ! I'm in South Carolina for the week, I hope it will get a lil warmer so I can enjoy walking at the beach a lil!

Hope you all had a fabulous holiday!

Take care!

Happy Holidays!

2011-12-24T15:51:00.002+01:00

I'm not in the mood for a christmas post - sorry :P I'm not in christmas mood at all so all I have left to say it :) enjoy the food :) and spend time with your family and loved ones :)

CUYL recipe

2011-12-18T20:30:00.003+01:00

There's a new challenge online over at CUYL +yay+ - and I'm a lil late with posting this - but yall know .. school is over and I had tons to do - plus I had a horrible trip up here to Philly but everything is fine now so I can tell you about the new challenge :)

For the next three weeks we would like to see something that follows a recipe. Everything is allowed :)

5 pearls

1 flower

1 button

stitching

Please link your new project until Friday, January 6th! The first entry is eligible for the price!

Our Sponsor Whiff of Joy is giving away a rubberstamp of the winner's choice!

Thanks a bunch!

and here is my creation, a tiny recipe book :)

time flies!!!

2011-12-05T22:26:00.005+01:00

.. wow .. I just got on an airplane to come over here .. and now I am almost back at home again ..

I will be leaving Clarksvegas, Tennessee, on Friday, Dec. 16th .. I am going to stay in Philly and Myrtle Beach for a while until I get on my final plane - back home to Ktown ..

wow .. I still can't believe it .. and somehow ..

I don't even want to believe it ..

Even though I am glad that I'll be home soon - I miss my Mom, my cat, .. but I know that as soon as I'm home, I'll be missing everything I had over here too ..

oh well .. we'll see how everything turns out .. I do have a boyfriend here which makes leaving this country not quite easier .. but I guess ..

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON ;)

source

gift wrap/box

2011-12-03T09:00:00.005+01:00

Hej guys :)

I'm back with a new challenge for CUYL!

Christmas is close therefore a lot of gifts want to be wrapped -

For this CUYL challenge we want you to

create a box, bag or something similar to that, where you can hide your gifts in!

Embellishments.de is sponsoring a 10Euro voucher this week!

Make sure to link your creation until Dec. 16th to get an opportunity to win this awesome prize!

SeaWorld

2011-11-29T19:09:00.001+01:00

Shamu .. oh Shamu ..

visiting SeaWorld made me think about my childhood dream again .. I always wanted to study marine biology .. and now I'm doing something completely different .. I don't know .. but I got a little bit depressed over that ..

nevertheless we spent a great day watching the shows, going on roller coaster rides, eating hot dogs and enjoying the weather :)

Disney

2011-11-29T09:00:00.000+01:00

Magic Kingdom

Mickey

Minnie

Alice

Cinderella

Arielle

we saw them all ..

as well as the awesome Christmas decoration .. I never imagined that 80 degrees Fahrenheit and palm trees would put me in a xmas mood .. but .. I was wrong :)

here are some Disney pictures :)

Cocoa Beach

2011-11-28T18:29:00.001+01:00

we spent our first day in Florida in Cocoa Beach :) it was so nice and warm - I even got burned - I really did not think about that at all - sunburned in late November?? never EVER happened to me before :) IT WAS AWESOME .. - I usually never say that because I always use sun lotion .. at least 45 .. in SC I even used 80 .. but somehow no one reminded me about that in Florida :/

Florida

2011-11-28T02:19:00.006+01:00

I spent the Thanksgiving weekend in Orlando, Florida.

It was great - we spent our days at the Magic Kingdom, Disney and Cocoa Beach

I'll post more pictures later on this week :) there are just too many for only one post :)

music fallallalalalaa

2011-11-19T09:00:00.008+01:00

I'm finally back with a new Challenge Up Your Life challenge :) +yay+ this week is all about ♫ music ♪ :) create a card, scrapbooking layout, box, calendar, .. what ever you wish but please make sure it has something to do with ♪ music ♫ :)

As always, there's going to be a fabulous prize as! Scrapbookheaven is sponsoring a 15Euro voucher for the lucky winner :) - thanks a lot for sponsoring us again!

If you want to show us your creations and get the chance to win this great prize, please link your work until Dec. 2nd midnight :)

happy crafting everyone :)

expect the unexpected .. or .. everything happens for a reason

2011-11-18T15:15:00.006+01:00

.. whatever you want to call it .. sometimes life is unfair and everything goes wrong .. or at least it seems like that for a moment .. but as we know .. we should never make a temporary decision based on temporary feelings ..

I had quite a bad day yesterday .. I thought my life would change dramatically .. until I realized .. everything happens for a reason and if I can't see the reason right now just have to walk around a little and change my point of view ..

but .. everything is okay now .. :)

PS: I'll be home home in 2months :)

xmas mood :)

2011-11-15T04:06:00.001+01:00

I'm in Christmas mood .. even though it's like 25 degrees C outside .. I think I have never been wearing flip flops in November .. but I guess there always has to be a first time ;)

listen to this and enjoy

Vienna Boys Choir/Wiener Saengerknaben - Es wird schon glei dumpa

11.11.11 at 11.11

2011-11-12T03:39:00.005+01:00

maybe you are wondering what I did today on Friday 11.11.'11 at exactly 11.11am? well .. because I have a wonderful, awesome boyfriend we went over to Archiver's! They opened a new store down in Nashville - and guys --> it's wonderful! I was in heaven! and - I also made a great wish at this exact time - maybe it comes true!

well .. we parked the car at 11.09am (we were caught in a traffic jam) .. so I walked into Archiver's at exactly 11.11am :D I looooved that feeling - I know it sounds weird .. but it was one of the best days in a reeeeeaaalllyy long time :) but take a look at this great store - I had a great time!

washi love

2011-11-10T22:40:00.003+01:00

.. when I first heard about washi tape I knew I'm gonna love it .. I heard about it a loooooong time ago .. always wanted to buy some .. put it in my cart .. but never checked out .. but that was back then .. I was young .. didn't know what's good for me ..

now I'm old .. 24 for almost a whole week ..

dang .. and also wiser ..

broke .. but wiser ..

and proud owner of 5 preeeetttyyyy roles of

washi tape :)

I ordered it here

2lbs - 900g Candy Cane :)

2011-11-07T15:23:00.003+01:00

on Saturday we went to Cracker Barrel - one of my favorite "restaurants" .. I love their little shop and I'd love to buy everything they sell :)

anyhow .. guess what we bought on saturday? - a 2lbs/900g Candy Cane :D haha it's huuuuuge but soooooo yummi :D I think it has like 3000 calories but it is totally worth it :D it might take me FOREVER to eat it but it's awesome :D

cameo love

2011-11-05T13:46:00.003+01:00

As I told you yesterday, Steven got me the Silhouette Cameo for my birthday yesterday :) of course he couldn't wait so he gave it to me a week before my actual birthday :) I didn't mind at all, it was actually good so I had enough time to create a little Halloween sign! I saw this on the Silhouette Blog and had to try it! I happened to have the exact same background paper +yay+ this usually never happens to me, I never ever have the stuff I really need lol

so here it is, my very first cameo creation :)

another year older ..

2011-11-04T20:28:00.004+01:00

.. yes .. it's my birthday today and as always .. I'm having a really bad depression - again .. LOL .. I hate my birthdays

but yeah, today is my 24th birthday .. I'm officially old now :P

but .. I guess I did not tell you guys what kind of birthday present I got from my boyfriend ..

here it is:

my wonderful boyfriend gave me the brand new Silhouette Cameo!! I love it! It's so awesome and so special!

PA randoms :)

2011-11-02T19:21:00.004+01:00

happy november everyone :)

here are some pics I took during my Fall Break :)

boots :)

2011-10-31T01:31:00.005+01:00

on Saturday we went down to Nashville to look at some boots :) not sure if I can afford a pair ($300-$900 and up) but who knows - maybe I'll come back to Austria as a Cowgirl ;P

NYC - Oct '11

2011-10-23T16:57:00.004+02:00

I spent one day in NYC last week (fall break) - it was perfect!

pumpkin chai - yummiii

early birthday present :)

2011-10-22T14:39:00.003+02:00

my awesome boyfriend got me a truck ..

a yellow Dodge..

I know ..

awesome, right? I could not believe it myself but here it is :)

color challenge @ CUYL

2011-10-22T09:00:00.002+02:00

for this weeks challenge our dear Manu chose a quite challenging color combo - at least that't what I think .. so here's the inspirational photo :) which can be found on Design Seeds

if you link your color-challenge-creation until Friday, November 4th midnight you get a chance to win two cute rubber stamps sponsored by Lelo Design

FALL BREAK

2011-10-13T04:40:00.005+02:00

Happy Fall Break Everyone!!

I'll be leaving for Philly tomorrow afternoon -

I'll have a great time and hope you guys enjoy your weekend :)

source: goldladymillion

Ruby Falls

2011-10-10T00:10:00.003+02:00

On Saturday we drove 3h down to Chattanooga and visited Ruby Falls, America's highest underground waterfall - it was really nice and we had a great day!

.. just for the record ..

2011-10-09T07:47:00.004+02:00

.. I hate it when awesome supercalifragilisticexpialidocious days end not the way I wish they would .. dang ..

just ..

2011-10-02T22:34:00.004+02:00

.. stopping by to say "hi" :)

happy sunday everyone :) ..

St. Louis, MO

2011-09-27T23:43:00.005+02:00

Last Saturday, after having a strawberry and banana french toast breakfast at Ihop, Steven decided to pack our stuff and drive up to St. Louis, Missouri. I was quite surprised that he's so spontaneous but also happy because that's exactly what I love :)

It was a 4h drive .. plus 2 more later on to visit his relatives who live 'close by' .. but it was totally worth it! I really like this city and we were lucky - the weather and temperature were perfect :)

sketche di sketch sketch

2011-09-24T09:00:00.000+02:00

.. our dear Anusch designed this fabulous sketch for this weeks challenge over at Challenge Up Your Life - make sure you play along to get the chance to win 3 fabulous digi stamps sponsored by Karen's Doodles

happy weekend :D

2011-09-23T15:35:00.003+02:00

happy weekend everyone :)

nothing special is going on besides writing one paper after another and preparing one presentation after another and not knowing if I should audition for our debate or not .. ?

well, have a fancy-shmancy weekend everyone :)

Superman City

2011-09-20T16:33:00.006+02:00

On sunday we drove up to Metropolis, Illinois to visit the city of Superman ..

geez .. I'm so disappointed ..

this tiny town looks so sad .. no people, no shops, no special food,

nothing .. just this statue and a tiny gift shop ..

but anyways .. here are some pictures :)

from 88 to 56

2011-09-15T17:58:00.002+02:00

I love todays weather - yesterday it was so extremely hot and today it's freeezing and windy and awesome :D

love it

with temperatures like this, pumpkin spice lattes taste even better +love+

paper piecing @ CUYL

2011-09-10T09:00:00.007+02:00

This week we have a wonderful challenge for you guys -

we want you to paper piece whatever you want :) I once saw a card like that and I tried to create lift it by using a free digi stamp and challenged myself with paper piecing :) - it took me a while because it is a digi stamp and I had to print it several times until everything was okay :)

so if you want to get into paper piecing make sure you enter your creation over at CUYL because the winner will receive a wonderful prize - 25Euro voucher sponsored by scrapbookheaven - awesome, huh ;)

:)(:

2011-09-05T00:27:00.003+02:00

Howdy y'all ..

I'm doing fine down here in the bible belt .. :P spent 3h at church this morning - I know, never thought that I'd turn out to be that kind of gurl ;)

My first week of classes are over and here is my first long weekend - no classes on monday because of labor day :) I have spent all weekend with my new favorite boy and enjoy(ed) every single second - yes I'm oh so happy .. :) - can't believe it myself but yes I am :)

Other than that, nothing much has happened .. class every day .. yummi food every day (which I have to stop eating otherwise I'd gain another 30lbs .. haven't started working out yet .. too hot, too lazy, no workout partner :S

but yeah .. I'll def. go to the gym soon :)

alright my dear followers - hope you are all having a great weekend and start into a new wonderful week :)

(((hug)))

sometimes .. life is perfect!

2011-08-30T17:58:00.003+02:00

I am happy

Clarksville is great, my classes are awesome - even though I have a lot of homework .. and

I am in L.O.V.E. .. no, not with a new scrapbooking line or a drink ..

no, with a human being,

his name is Steven and he is great :)

it's all about the guys ..

2011-08-27T09:00:00.006+02:00

over at Challenge Up Your Life and because my Dad's birthday and father's day were pretty close together (back in May/June) and because he was not at home anyways I combined those 2 big days and created one present :)

I pimped some bottles I found in a household supply store, filled them with M&M's, pistachios, gummi bears .. and put them in a tray (I got one at a store, usually beer bottles go in there)

he really loved my present and I was glad I did not spend money on unnecessary stuff :)

so ladies, now it's your turn, if you want to get the chance to win a 25 Euro voucher sponsored by Dani Peuss make sure to create something masculine and link it until Sept. 10th midnight :)

happy crafting :)

Clarksville :)

2011-08-26T06:18:00.005+02:00

Clarksville, Tennessee .. is not as bad as I thought it would be :D

I'm on my way to Nashville now ..

2011-08-21T18:48:00.007+02:00

.. but I still have a few Myrtle Beach pictures to share with you :)

Myrtle Beach impressions

2011-08-20T13:10:00.004+02:00

I LOVE Myrtle Beach .. even the hot weather .. it's awesome :D

COUNTDOWN

2011-08-16T21:13:00.003+02:00

just want you all to know

that my planes leaves in exactly

8 hours and 46 minutes

:D and I'm really looking forward to a nice vacation followed by an

interesting, awesome semester :D

Noah's box :)

2011-08-15T11:16:00.002+02:00

this cute box is a baptism gift - a dear friend of mine gave birth to her second baby boy a couple of months ago - I love this cute button and that's why I wanted to make something special :)

I used this cute Digistamp and I think it fits perfectly - the baby's name is Noah .. and Noah's Ark .. even though it's a boy I used a lot of glitter for example for the animals as well as the waves :)

--> just check it out yourself :)

no patterned paper ..

2011-08-13T09:00:00.005+02:00

.. is allowed over at Challenge Up Your Life .. so for the next two weeks we would like you to create something nice without using patterned paper - not that hard, right ;) here is my creation - as you can see I used just regular cardstock and swiss dotted cardstock as well as Charlotte one of my favorite Kraftin' Kimmie stamps :) if you can't do without a patterned background - just create own by using stamps, spray paint or stuff like that :)

if you would like to get the chance to win a superduper prize - make sure to post your projects until friday, August 26th midnight :) the winner will get a fabulous stamp sponsored by Whiff of Joy :)

happy carftin' everyone :)

btw: 4 MORE DAYS UNTIL MY ADVENTURE :D

long time - no post

2011-08-02T20:46:00.002+02:00

reason: working working working at a place with almost no internet connection :S .. but I'm back at home now and I'm kind of busy - 2 weeks before I leave for the US :D

I'm really happy and I'm so looking forward to this new adventure :)

don't worry, I'll keep you all posted - but there might be no craft projects in the near future - due to no time and no space :(

CUYL anniversary :)

2011-07-30T09:00:00.007+02:00

Challenge Up Your Life is celebrating its 2 year anniversary :D wow - how time flies - right?? of course there are also a prize as well - as always - and because it's our 2 YEAR anniversary we have two prizes to give away :) that means that

you can win this cute Lelo-stamps sponsored by Nancy.

as well as a 10-Euro-Vouche sponsored by Susanne from embellishments.de

all you have to do to get the chance to win is you have to create something for an anniversary :) and btw - the designteam is also giving away their cards and maybe a goodie as well ;) that means that there will be a couple of prizes :)

tent card

2011-07-16T09:00:00.003+02:00

summer time - camping time .. well, not for me but for many other people - that might be one reason why we want to see tent cards over at Challenge Up Your Life this week :) it is quite a simple card but if you don't have a clue how to create it - check out StempelEinMalEins - they offer a fantastic step by step tutorial :)

of course, as for usual there's a nice prize waiting for the winner - this week it's a 15Euro voucher sponsored by Vienna Impressions! Thank you so much for this fabulous prize, dear Sulie :)

so everyone who wants to get a chance to be under the CUYL top 3 and of course wants to get the opportunity to win this fabulous prize needs to link their projects until friday 29th of July, midnight

Shades of Summer 2011

2011-07-12T17:08:00.006+02:00

SHADES OF SUMMER 2011

oh how I love sunglasses <3

once upon a time .. I was a skirt ..

2011-07-02T09:00:00.005+02:00

.. now I am a guestbook :)

as you know, my aunt got married last month and as a gift, I created this guestbook out of her old, favorite skirt she once gave me (no clue why someone wants to get rid of their favorite stuff) but anyhow .. I kinda panicked when I started cutting because I had no idea how she'd react but I guess she is glad she got her skirt back - even though it's not as she used to know it ;)

this is actually made for the current Challenge Up Your Life Challenge where we want you to use this recipe: 1 brad, 1 lace, 1 die .. :)

If you want to get a chance to win a 15 Euro Voucher sponsored by Scrapbookheaven you need to make sure you link your project until July 15th midnight :)

may I introduce you to ..

2011-06-26T11:40:00.001+02:00

TOMATO # 1

+happy+

circles circles circles

2011-06-18T09:00:00.007+02:00

this weeks CUYL Challenge focuses on circles - we'd love to see as many circles as possible on your creations :) don't be shy - join the fun :)

I created a lil set with a card, box and voucher for my Mom - I love those summery colors - yellow and of course a lot of Cosmo Cricket - DeLovely :)

Make sure to link your project until July 1st midnight - so you get a chance to win a fabulous surprise sponsored by our lovely Barbara from Timbroscrapmania!

2011-06-16T16:42:00.008+02:00

a can of string beans - string beans + pretty paper + embellishments + Martina = pink .. tiger .. rock .. funky ..

my aunts wedding was a blast - I'll show you some pictures soon :)

sketchy wedding owls

2011-06-04T09:00:00.002+02:00

I designed a sketch for our current Challenge Up Your Life Challenge and used it to create a wedding card for my aunt - the one who is getting married next weekend - in fact, I cut her favorite skirt she once gave me ;) I hope she doesn't mind ;)

So you guys need to make sure to follow the sketch and link your projects until June 17th midnight because if you don't you won't get a chance to win this fabulous prize --> a 25Euros voucher sponsored by Dani Peuss :D

bad bad bad bad bad blogger award

2011-06-01T16:40:00.002+02:00

I know - I've been quite a bad blogger recently :/ too much happened but I promise I'll be back soon :)

HAPPY SCRAPPIN' :D

2011-05-21T09:00:00.003+02:00

over at Challenge Up Your Life it's all about recycling this week :)

we want you guys to go through your trash and find useful stuff you can use on or for your creations :) you have again time until friday, May 20, midnight to link your work :)

I took an old cheese box, painted it purple on the outside and lilac on the inside, used some ribbon and buttons et voilà - a lil box for jewelry :)

the winner of this weeks challenge will receive 2 cute stamps sponsored by Bettys Creations

before

after

Traveling/Journey CUYL

2011-05-07T09:00:00.006+02:00

Hello everyone :)

this week we have a fabulous new challenge over at CUYL! It's all about traveling, journeys and so on :) I love this challenge because as you all know - quite soon - okay not so soon but August 17th I'll be leaving for the US (again) - staying in Tennessee for the Fall semester :) - therefore I created a album cover for the book where I will keep all my memories, journals, photos and so on - and here's what it looks like :) for the first time I tried to do a ruffle ribbon on my own - I like it :) as well as the paper :) I hope I won't destroy it during the trip lol

so if you want to get the opportunity to win a 15euro voucher sponsored by scrapbookheaven link your creations over at the CUYL Blog until friday, May 20th midnight :)

hello spring :)

2011-05-06T16:19:00.007+02:00

HAPPY

2011-05-04T09:48:00.003+02:00

I'm HAPPY

yesterday was THE day I kicked Latins' butt - finally - I passed this hard exam and I'm so happy and relieved that it is finally over - it was really exhausting - but I never ever have to deal with it again +YEAH+

now - the fun part starts - going back to study stuff I actually love :) it really feels great to be 'allowed' to study interesting stuff again :)

and after all .. I booked my flights to Myrtle Beach, Nashville and Philadelphia - it feels great that everything I worried about is over now :) I am going to leave Austria on August 17 and will be back in the middle of January - I'm really looking forward to this adventure :)

I'm HAPPY

wedding invitations

2011-04-30T15:00:00.004+02:00

my aunt - she's 51years old is getting married in June .. she has been in a relationship with this man since 17 years, and now they are getting married :D

she asked me to make the wedding invitations as well as the place cards and guestbook - which I don't have yet, actually I have not even started to think about them but I will .. soon .. I hope LoL

my aunts ideas of how the perfect wedding invitations should look like are quite "different" .. she wanted pink/green and white - the colors are perfect because those are my favorites as well :D but she doesn't want a sentiment or anything like that .. no embellishments, nothing .. I'm glad I was able to convince her to use some white pearls ;)

so the invitations are not very fancy - but I hope she'll like them :)

I already bought a pair of nice shoes for the wedding - purple mini-heels :D unfortunately I have not yet found clothes that match the shoes - I'm still looking ;)

but here are the invitations - have a great weekend everyone :)

bookmarks

2011-04-23T09:00:00.004+02:00

.. over at CUYLwe'd love to see handmade bookmarks :) almost everyone loves to read and I guess a cute bookmark is always a nice gift (easter, mothers day .. ;)

if you want a chance to win those three cute stamps sponsored by Lelo Desgin make sure to upload your bookmark until friday may 6th midnight :)

hope you guys are having a great easter weekend :)

bunny & owly :)

2011-04-22T18:55:00.003+02:00

for my two crafty friends Ramona and Tanja I "sew" those lil guys .. I know they don't look quite intellectual but I like them anyways :D the bunny is a keychain and the owl has a little magnet inside :) I just used some felt leftovers - as it turn out - quite useful ;)

CUYL masking-technique :)

2011-04-09T09:00:00.002+02:00

Hej guys :)

we have a new challenge for you over at Challenge Up Your Life - this week, we would love you to use the masking-technique on your creations ;) - no clue how that works? just check out this video it's quite easy to do :)
please make sure to upload your work until Friday, April 22nd, midnight!

The lucky winner will receive the brand new issue of the Austrian scrapbooking-magazine "Die Scrapperin" - it's not even on the market yet so make sure you'll pre-order it :) This prize is sponsored by our lovely Sanna, thanks a bunch!

here's my creation for this weeks challenge, I used a free stamp I once got with my Craft Stamper magazine - you are glimpsing Crate Paper? - exactly, I ordered this cute Cottage Collection and love to work with those wonderful papers :) I used a whole lot of glitter as well :) love glitter :)

YES .. I live in a mess ..

2011-04-02T12:55:00.002+02:00

.. I don't deny it .. I guess I have inherited those messy genes from my grandmothers .. or should I say I live in a mess because I don't have enough space for all my craft supplies? or is it just a general crafters problem?

well .. here's a pic I took 3min ago - .. I might start cleaning up everything now and look for new storage ideas .. or not? well .. I hope I'll be soon able to show you a AFTER pic ;)

Pipilonia Blog Challenge

2011-04-02T08:34:00.005+02:00

Bei Pipilonia gibt es wieder eine neue Challenge - diesmal hat mich das Thema so inspiriert, dass ich mich sofort an die Arbeit gemacht habe - die Aufgabe lautet, dass wir uns von "somewhere over the rainbow" inspirieren lassen sollten und es sollte ein Dekostueck sein - es gibt auch diesmal wieder einen 25Euro Gutschein zu gewinnen :) ich hoffe, dass ich die Jury mit meinem gepimpten Desk-Organizer von Ikea ueberzeugen kann :)

ich habe den Satz woertlich genommen, Farbe gemischt, das Teil zuerst grob abgeschliffen und dann hellblau bemalt, diesmal hab ich nur gepunktete Ribbon als Regenbogen verwerden - auch Strasssteine und Halbperlen in den selben Farben sind drauf zu finden .. dann hab ich geschnippelt was das Zeug haelt - die Wolken jeweils 2mal doppelt und einmal in der Mitte geschnitten und dann auch so geklebt - das selbe mit dem Heissluftballoon :)

PS: das Foto ist leider nicht perfekt :/

my uncle ..

2011-03-29T19:33:00.004+02:00

.. is celebrating is 50th birthday tomorrow - because he is my favorite uncle - I decided to create a Tend-Card - I think it is a cool idea and great because it's easily done but has a great effect - I used - of course - my favorite papers --> Brook +heart+ it is just perfect for male cards :) I think this stamp is quite cool and fits perfectly ;)

hope you guys are having a great week - enjoy the lovely weather :)

quick trip ..

2011-03-27T11:55:00.004+02:00

.. to Italy - enjoying a walk on the beach, sun, sea, Caprese and Pizza, shopping and of course coooffffeee :)

yesterday Mom and I went to Italy - 5749563 tunnels and 2,5h later we arrived in a lil tourism town called Caorle .. we've never been there before so we checked it out - nice boardwalk, good food, delicious coffee, cute lil shops and awesome weather - even though it is in the south, it was a lil colder than at home - but still - sunny :D

we had a great day - enjoyed a fabulous mother-daugther day and of course went shopping ;)

.. and here are a few photos :)

CUYL Sketch

2011-03-26T09:00:00.005+01:00

long time - no post .. I know :/

but finally it's time for a new challenge over at Challenge Up Your Life - we are providing you with a fabulous sketch, easy, huh ;)

our sponsor is again Robyns Fetish Digital Stamps - the lucky winner will receive cute material to work with :) - fabulous, right?

hope you guys are having fun with the sketch - here is what I made out of it :) I photographed a couple of books I know I have to read for this semester - I never liked reading but now I quite enjoy it - funny how things change :) - can you see this cute lil bookworm peeking at the top?

a Flip-Flop card

2011-03-12T09:00:00.003+01:00

.. is what we would love to see until March 25th 00:00 over at Challenge Up Your Life. Those cards are so easy to make but still has a nice effect :) if you don't have a tutorial for Flip-Flop Cards just hop over to Splitcoaststampers and check out their tutorial - as I already said, it's really easy.

As always there's going to be a fantastic prize for the winner of this weeks challenge. We are so happy that our regular sponsor Isabella from ScrapbookHeaven is sponsoring a 15-Euro-Voucher for her onlineshop again! Thank you sooo much!

happy spring

2011-03-10T18:09:00.005+01:00

click here for source

spring has arrived (.. well .. almost ..) and that's why I posted this picture into our forum - the ladies should get inspired by those gorgeous colors - here's what I created - I mostly used DeLovely by Cosmo Cricket I love this collection - it's full of bright and happy colors :)

I hope you guys are having a great day - I'm already "in" my weekend and really looking forward to the Kreativmesse-Ost which takes place on saturday and sunday +yipppiiiee+

happy saturday :)

2011-03-05T08:35:00.005+01:00

I hope you guys are fine and enjoying the weekend :) I most certainly do :) scrapbooking, eating, watching TV, scrapbooking, surfing the internet, cuddling with my sweet Emma .. and did I mention scrapbooking yet .. ? :D

I know, University officially started on tuesday but *unfortunately* I just had on class on wednesday .. so there is still "nothing" to study +yay+ (except this pretty long reading list but somehow those books have not yet arrived in my mailbox .. what a pitty)

I'm not sure if I have something to show you today .. oh wait, I guess you have not seen this baby-pink card yet, right? A friend of mine - we were classmates about 10 years ago - gave birth to her second child 2 weeks ago. I'm pretty glad it is a girl +finally+ .. 'cos from time to time I love to use the color pink on my projects - not just baby-blue :P so here's the card I created for them (I'm sorry the picture is so bad exposed - I was in a hurry)

10 random days in March 2011

2011-02-28T16:00:00.003+01:00

.. is a new challenge in our Scrapbooking Forum - we have to create a cute little album where we record 10 random days through out this months. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun to scrapbook about random things - and I'm pretty excited about everyones results :)

Because I want to create every day differently I have not prepared any pages yet, but I tried to create a nice album cover - as you can see I used the sewing machine again and an old curtain LOL ;) I used gift wrap which I found quite some time ago and bought it because it looks soooo pretty - pink blowballs on a azure blue background :) - felt, ribbon, pearls, stickles and a cute little owl are on this cover as well :)

fairytale CUYL

2011-02-26T09:00:00.005+01:00

happy saturday everyone :)

it's time for a new challenge over at Challenge Up Your Life +yay+

this weeks challenge is full of magic - exactly, we want to see magical and fairytale-like creations :)

our sponsor for this challenge is Ursula from the Kreativwerstatt thank you very much for your surprize!

and here is my dt-layout for this challenge, as you can see I used mostly ribbon and on the close-ups you can see little frog princes and castles and a tiny pink crown (I got them as a Xmas gift from our dear CUYL queen Manu +thanks again+

the journaling is written on a tag hidden under the photo ;)

Pipilonia Blog Challenge

2011-02-20T21:42:00.005+01:00

today it's going to be a blog post in German - because it is a requirement to enter the challenge

Auf dem Blog von Pipilonia/Sindra gibt es jedes Monat eine neue tolle Challenge mit einem sagenhaften Gewinn - ein 25Euro Gutschein fuer den Shop Pipilonias kreative Welt

dieses Monat wurden wir aufgefordert symetrische Werke mit selbstgemachten Embellishments zu werkeln - und hier ist auch mein LO dazu mit 3 gruenen, selbstgewerkelten Filzbluemchen (aus Resten) :)

owl love

2011-02-18T14:12:00.005+01:00

almost everyone is addicted to owls, including me and a lot of other scrapbookers/stampers or crafters in general :)

My dear friend, Tanja is one of those addicts as well and because she is my favorite Scrapsis' on the whole wide world, I made her this cute owl card (I found the template online)

it's also for the current challenge over at CRAFT-alnica

Happy Valentine's Day

2011-02-14T11:20:00.002+01:00

I'm wishing everyone a very happy Valentines's Day
may your day be filled with love and joy :)

click on photo for source

CUYL monochrome :)

2011-02-12T09:00:00.001+01:00

Heja ladies - I'm back at home - survived Vienna and Mr. TOEFL and want to show you now my creation for this weeks Challenge Up Your Life challenge.

This week we would love to see monochrome creations - you have time until the 26th of Febr to link your creations and maybe you will be the lucky winner of this weeks fabulous prize sponsored by Lelo Design!

here's my greengreengreengreen birthday can :)

wishing you guys a great crafty weekend and a wonderful valentines day :)

valentines day :)

2011-02-11T15:56:00.003+01:00

.. is coming up soon, actually right after this weekend so if you haven't done anything crafty for your loved ones yet - you better hurry :)

right now I'm on the train back home and have time to show you 4 valentines day cards I did on tuesday and totally forgot to show you :)

as you can see, my favorite tool right now is my Mom's sewing machine - I use it on almost every card/layout :) (that's one of the advantages of living at home - you have everything within reach)

I know - most of my stitches are not straight at all lol - but if you look closely, I did a pretty good job with the brown zigzag stitches +proud+

and here they are :) have a great weekend :)

what's the perfect start into a wonderful morning?

2011-02-10T09:12:00.007+01:00

exactly, a venti Chai Latte at Starbucks :)

good morning everyone, hope you are all having a fabulous day :)

Vienna = Starbucks, Cupcakes, Scrapbooking and Mr TOEFL :(

2011-02-09T08:50:00.004+01:00

good morning everyone :)

I'm up since 5am +yawn+ and now on the train to Vienna - as you already know, I will take the TOEFL on friday but until then I'll enjoy the capital of Austria - I'll treat myself with delicious cupcakes, yummi coffee, maybe get some scrapbooking supplies at Pipilonia

Friday is the big day - I have to be there at 8am and the test will take approximately 4-5 hours - I hope everything goes well :)

right now I'm pretty tired, guess I'll take a powernap - those first class train seats are just soooo comfy :)

happy and sunny .. but busy ;)

2011-02-05T10:16:00.005+01:00

I survived a couple of exams last week - looking forward to Vienna next week, even though I have to take the TOEFL on friday +worried+

on wednesday I spent a loooot of money - no, no scrapbooking supplies :( - but this baby :D

photosource: apple.com

YES I purchased a Macbook Pro and I LOVE it - it's the love of my life :D

BUT I also created a few cards - hope you like them :)

CUYL Scripture in the background

2011-01-29T09:00:00.000+01:00

Over at Challenge Up Your Life we would like to see scripture in the background on your workpieces for the next two weeks. You guys have time to show us your creations until Friday, February 11th, midnight :)

Of course there are some prizes to grab :) Our lovely Betty from Betty's Creations is sponsoring 4 rubberstamps! Thanks so much! So this time we will draw 2 winners :)

Here's my creation for this challenge - it's all about MY little word of 2011 - PERSEVERE

CratePaper Love :)

2011-01-22T13:28:00.005+01:00

I love CratePaper and I guess a lot of other paper addicts do too :)

I just adore their Brook Collection, the colors are so pretty and I think they are perfect for male cards (which they want to see over at CRAFT-alnica :) and here's one :)

and this card is for my advisor at University who handles all the exchange program stuff :) I just wanted to say :

"thank you" for helping :)

for this card I used the Paper Doll Collection

Kristina Werner inspires me with her cards all the time - I guess you can see that :)

weather craziness

2011-01-19T16:43:00.004+01:00

.. yesterday we had +10*C, the sky was sooooo blue and the sun was smiling all over the place .. and today .. --> WHITE .. everything is white, it's cold and totally inclement :( I don't like this kind of extremely wet snow :/ I'd prefer nice powedry snow or no snow at all :D

but I have to study anyway so - have a nice day y'all :D --> as you can see I'm working on my Southern accent - preparing for Tennessee - hope everything will turn out fine :)

girly :)

2011-01-18T16:53:00.003+01:00

A dear scrapbooking friend, Heidemarie gave birth to a cute babygirl last week :) little Franziska is so precious :)

I was so glad that someone finally got a girl, this is my very first babyGIRL card :) I found this cute template and created this card - as you can see, PINK and glitter :)

as we all know ..

2011-01-16T20:41:00.003+01:00

.. life can be quite unfair and sometimes it just sucks - big time .. but we also know that we have to be brave and try to face our problems and fight against them - that's actually what I'm trying to do right now .. facing my problmens and trying to destroy them .. our sister university is causing some "inconvenience" in accepting me as an exchange student - so I have to stay calm - or at least try to stay calm ;)

well, I also did a card yesterday - springlike - just like the weather right now - love it, it's always sunny and quite warm for this time of the year :)

clean & simple

2011-01-15T09:00:00.002+01:00

let's start this years first challenge with and easy task - clean and simple. Over at Challenge Up Your Life we'd love to see your creations following this topic :)

In 2011 we still have great sponsors and this weeks price is provided by scrapbookheaven. The lucky winner will receive a 15Euro voucher - how fabulous is that?!

Here's my layout and two cards for this weeks challenge - as you can see I love the color combo green, purple and turqoise ;) I colored the images (Whipper Snapper and Greeting Farm) with Prismacolor pencils and Twinklings H2O - I love the glimmer :D

distressed winter card with lace and pearls

2011-01-01T20:07:00.003+01:00

today was I had a pretty creative day = a good start into 2011, right :) ?! I colored my hair, created a layout and this distressed winter card with my favorite doily lace punch and a couple of cute pearls because those are the requirements over at Cards und More and Charizma Cardz :)

Happy 2011 again :)

Happy 2011

2011-01-01T09:40:00.000+01:00

Hope you all had a fabulous New Year's Eve :)

I didn't go out to celebrate but still had a nice night watching movies :)

as already said, I totally think that 2011 is going to be a fabulous year :) I finally got the opportunity to study abroad :) in August I will leave for Tennessee and I'm so looking forward to it! Unfortunately, 8 more months but there's still so much to do until then - in January and February I have a lot of exams and a few papers to hand in (maybe I should start writing them .. Oo), I need to earn some money so I can spend it in the States, need to figure out a date for my TOEFL, have to call the embassy for an appointment to get my visa .. stuff like that - I hope everything works out fine :)

I also have a layout to share - the journaling is hidden behind the photo - I worked with my favorite papers, DeLovely from Cosmo Cricket, those colors reflect me and my personalty in all respects :)

dear twenty ten ..

2010-12-31T20:52:00.005+01:00

THANK GOD you'll be over in a couple of hours. +happy+

I must say, this last year was really not the best .. I had too many lows and actually, NO highs at all .. and somehow, nothing really worked out the way I wanted it to be. I'm not sure if it's completely my fault because I always put all my effort into my projects and I always try to focus on my goals .. BUT as we all know, thankfully, this weird year will be over in a couple of hours and I'm so glad because 2011 is supposed to be the most wonderful year ever :)

photo inspiration

2010-12-18T09:00:00.003+01:00

time :) that's right - for our next challenge over at Challenge Up Your Life you need to get inspired by the picture we posted plus there should be at least 3 buttons on your creations as well :)

I made this layout with pictures we took 2 years ago in Atlantic City, New Jersey, when my parents visited me in Philly. That was a great day and it's actually a pretty nice picture due to the fact that everyone looks quite "normal" :D

Now you might think "awwwww what a cute octupus", right? Well that's a digistamp by Meljen's Designs because for this current challenge - you apperently have 4 weeks for this one, until Jan 14th - we got sponsored by Meljen's Designs and the winner will reiceive 4 digistamps of their own choice :D

Avent-time/Christmas @ CUYL

2010-12-04T09:00:00.004+01:00

Exactly - as we all know, Christmas is coming up soon - actually in exactly 20days :)

--> so this weeks challenge over at Challenge Up Your Life is all about advent and christmas :)
I created this christmas calender out of matchboxes and used this cute angel digi stamp and this layout - I mainly used Basic Grey - Eskimo Kisses and the christmas tree is from Robyn Fisher our this weeks sponsor as well. The lucky winner will receive 5 digistamps or 4 digistamps + 1 digipaperpack.- Awesome, right!? :)

Saint Nicholas @ CUYL

2010-11-20T09:00:00.002+01:00

for the following two weeks it's all about Saint Nicholas Day over at Challenge Up Your Life.

Saint Nicholas is actually a pretty cool tradition which takes place on the 6th of December. He is a special children's saint and is honored throughout Austria. It is said that God rewarded Nicholas' generosity by allowing him to return to earth each year to bring gifts to all the good children :)

so here's my creation, I found the template at creadoo and think its pretty cool and very easy :) I also used this great digistamp designed by Sassy Studio Designs who is sponsoring this weeks challenge!

YES

2010-11-06T09:00:00.006+01:00

it happened :D I'm finally a DT member +yapadapaduuuu+ :) - from now on, you will see my work over at Challenge Up Your Life every other week :) I'm so happy - unbelievable :D

and here is my first offical entry for the current challenge starting today - we want to see all kinds of creations colored blue and green :D not that hard, is it?
and of course there's a fabulous price as well, our this weeks sponsor is Whiff of Joy and the winner will get a stamp of her/his choice - how fabulous is that?! so just hop over to our challenge blog and play along :D

xoxo Martina :)

while baking ..

2010-11-05T17:01:00.005+01:00

.. my delicious pumpkin pie +mhmm it smells soooooo good+ I realized that I have a pumpkin card to share :D

I found this tutorial over at Kristina's blog and love it because it's so easy to make but it looks really cool - at least thats what I think :D

chocolate love

2010-10-20T19:55:00.004+02:00

.. did I ever mention that I'm addicted to chocolate? well .. I guess that's totally my aunts fault because obviously she started all that bull s+++ - she gave me chocolate before I had teeth and before I started to take my first steps - but check it out yourself :)

craft-alnica guestdesigner

2010-10-20T12:50:00.005+02:00

I feel so honored to be a guest designer for the current challenge over at craft-alnica :) so here's my card - an easel card to be exactly :)

well ..

2010-10-17T18:23:00.004+02:00

.. remember this layout?

that was in January 2010 - and no snow, it was weird because actually we have snow from late November til April .. and guess what happened today? on the 17th of Oct.?

exactly --> SNOW :(

autumn glory

2010-10-13T20:24:00.003+02:00

.. I love love love love love this season - guess you all know that by now :)

I did this layout because I wanted to have a layout with all those great pictures and reasons why I love this time of the year so friggin much :)

this layout also fits perfectly into the current CUYL Challenge