All things that make me happy

All Clean & Simple

2012-01-26T22:11:00.002+01:00

Hello blogland friends! I made a few cards with a C&S look and I wanted to share them with you (and play at some challenges too!). Here are two of them:

this first one is very simple indeed! I bought a set of clear stamps a while ago and it´s my first card using them (actually one of them). I stamped the image several times with purple ink and a sentiment with black ink, then I stitched clear glass seed beads to frame the stamped area. I made this one because a friend (Paloma) asked me to make a card for a girlfriend of hers, and I thought it could be a nice present not only the card but a card with a pin she could wear. The pin is made out of scraps of fabric, dollar store flowers, pop tabs and glass piece from a chadelier that I brought at the flea market. It looked so pretty!

With this one I´m playing at:
The Outlawz CAS challenge: use something new
My time to craft challenge #171
Creative Belli blog challenge #136: Frames
Cute card Thursday challenge #201: you are a gem!

The second one is a digital card I made for my dear boyfriend Luis, I sent it to him by e-mail and he placed it as wallpaper on his computer ☺ it looks like he liked it! the images are from The Graphics Fairy, I "stamped" a tiny heart and the sentiment, it reads in Spanish PS: I love you.
I´m playing at:
The Outlawz Paper A La Mode challenge: clean and simple Valentine
Cupcake Craft challenge #176: all you need is love
Aud Sentiments challenge #46

Thank you for stopping, have a nice day!

Showcasing Glitterbabe: second part

2012-01-23T21:58:00.001+01:00

I have a couple more cards to show you where I used Stef´s (Glitterbabe) images ☺

A shower of LOVE

I kept this one very simple too! I started by printing the image directly on the card base along with the sentiment (made with PS). Punched the bottom border and added a scrap pink strip of paper behind. I colored the image with colored pencils, added a bit of glossy dimensional to the umbrella´s handle, glittered its top with white fairy dust glitter, glued some sequins and applied dots of pink pearled paint. It looks a lot better in real life!

And this one is another simple card (very easy and fast to make). Looks like I´m liking the CAS look a lot lately... I printed the drum four times directly on the card base and colored (with colored pencils) one of them to spotlight it. Added a few details like tiny red rhinestones, glitter, border punch and a piece of red sheer ribbon.

Thank you for stopping by and have a nice day!

Showcasing Glitterbabe

2012-01-14T13:32:00.002+01:00

Hello my blogger friends, I´m not dead!! I´m just to busy at the time. I want to thank you for all your beautiful comments and a special thank you to those who still follow me even though I hadn´t updated my blog since October... OMG!!! where did the time go???!!!!

To slowly update my beloved blog I want to show you a few cards I made using Stef´s images. Sadly Stef has closed her store but maybe in the future we´ll see available again her beautiful images.

you color my life

When Stef (glitterbabe) sent me this image (Bottle) the idea to make a rainbow just popped up into my head. I made a bookmark by "stamping" the image several times with PS, then I added a text and printed it directly on a scrap of paper. I colored the images with colored pencils and added glossy accent to give them a glass kind of look. I finished it with some black foam stickers and a couple of buttons from my stash. Pretty simple and clean but I like the result a lot.

This is a simple tag I made using scraps of everything, I printed the image in a piece of pearled white paper and colored the gift boxes with colored pencils adding some touches of glitter gel pen on the leaves and red fruits. I punched the bottom border of the tag and stitched green glass seed beads around the patterned paper. I finished it by placing the image with foam tape and a scrap of ribbon.

Beautiful you!

I love this image!!! I started by paper piecing the image (printed on a scrap of patterned paper) and colored it (and shaded it) with colored pencils. I printed the sentiment on a scrap of paper and cut around each word to place them separately (YOU has foam tape). Then I took a piece of tissue paper and pleatted it before gluing it to the left side of the card, I added faux stitches with white gel pen and a strip of embossed white paper. To finish the card I embellished it with a flower made out of layering a dollar store flower, a crochetted flower (made by me ☺) and a few sequins.

Thank you for stopping by and not forgetting me, have a nice day!

{BOO} to you!

2011-10-22T00:09:00.002+02:00

Hello my dear blogger friends, it´s been a while since my last post but I catched a huge bug this week and I´m way behind my posts. You´ll see them during the comming days ☺

I´m starting with this hanger I made to inspire you at the Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge, this week we have a wonderful sketch for you and we are asking also to have a Halloween theme in your creation. Hope you can join us in the fun!

This a recycled and decorated old CD, the first picture is the front of the hanger and the second one is the back of it. As you can see I used the cut out of the frame in the front to decorate the back (patterned paper from my stash), I couldn´t throw it away! so I had to use it.

I started by coloring the image, the cute witch is from Michelle Perkett, another beautiful image! I colored it with colored pencils and blended them with gamsol. Then I cut a pice of a children construction paper to cover the front and back of the CD, I love this one because is splattered with glitter! I cut the frame with my cricut machine and glued it to the center as best as I could, I stitched large glass seed beads on the inside of the frame and drawn faux stitches with white gel pen on its outside. I placed the image by adding dots of strong instant glue on some beads to hold it in place. The cute bat and the corn candy are halloween stickers that I placed first on scraps of paper and cut carefully around, the bat is placed with foam tape as is one of the corn candy. You can see its 3D effect here

then I spelled BOO with foam stickers that I also faux stitched with white gel pen. Bellow it I hand wrote the sentiment. On the back I keep it simple: I faux stitched the cut out as I did on the front and added a sentiment, used another sticker (the cute ghost) and placed it with foam tape. To finish the hanger I glued directly on the CD a stripe of tissue pink paper ruffling it a bit while I was placing it before gluing the decorated cardstock. A piece of fishing line finishes it and there you have it ready to be hung!
Thank you for stopping by!

My project fits the following challenges:
Pollycraft Monday challenge #115: girls, girls, girls!
My time to craft challenge #162: punches & dies
Party time Tusdays challenge #38: totally spooky projects
Color throwdown #164
For fun challenges: boo!
Paper play challenge #42: use black

Thank you {FRIEND}

2011-10-05T13:04:00.001+02:00

Hello my dear blogger fiends! we are having a HUGE party at The Outlawz this week!!! lots of prizes and plenty of fun and inspiration for everyone. You don´t want to miss it!!

Here I´m showing my inspirational creation for our group Twisted Thursday at The Outlawz, we want you to use: red, yellow and green on your creation. And these are what I made! two tiny cards that turned out better than I thought ☺

Can you find the differences??? there are not so many....and this is how I made them: I took scarps of my so loved hanging paper folder and cut them with my cricut, I layered them on a very (very) old paper from my stash that happened to have those gorgeous warm fall colors. Then I took a scrap of an embossed vellum paper and punch it with that pretty lace border punch (from MS) and I stamped "FRIENDS" with brown ink on another scrap of paper, glued them together on the front of the cards and added a few details to it: a couple of buttons (from my stash too), faux stitching with white gel pen and a tiny tag (also cut with my cricut). I saw the card too plain at this stage, so I took one of those (also beloved) expresso crushed cups and glittered them with chunk glitter, I ruffled a piece of fabric and placed it behing the cup. I wanted also to add an image, so I colored that cute pumpkin (from Tiddly Inks) with colored pencils and placed it with foam tape on the cup for dimension. My green was missing!!! well, not quite, but a tiny leaf was not enough green, so I glittered two pins ($ store ones) to finish the embellishments of the cards. Lots of tiny details that kept me entretained one afternoon. Hope you like them and play with us.
Thank you for stopping today!

I´m playing at:
Simply create #53: older tham 6 mo.
Little red wagon #101: thanks
Totally paper crafts #86: autumn
Paper Sundaes #89: lots of layers
Cupcake inspirations #130

Angel in a jar

2011-10-02T19:03:00.002+02:00

I love to make little things for my daughter, and I love to recycle things, so I put the two of them together and I made this cute angel in a jar.

The idea is very simple: you start with an empty marmalade jar, then pick an image you like to put inside and embellish your jar as much as you want!

I used a Michelle Perkett image that I colored with colored pencils and added some details to it: pearl paint on the stars and moons on her dress, glitter on her wings and cuffs, and a few white feathers on her wings too. I glued the angel inside the jar and fill it with some iridescent plastic shredded paper as clouds.

Then I painted the lid with gesso, and after it was dry I glued with mod podge a sentiment made with single words cut out from a magazine. I finished the lid glittering all its border.

And to finish this craft I painted tiny dots of glow in the dark paint on the otside of the jar, my idea was for them to look like tiny stars during the night, they can not be seen very well on the picture...
This is my inpirational creation for you this week at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday group, we have a very easy challenge for you: anything goes! hope you can join usin the fun
Thank you for stopping today!

I´m playing at:
Flutter By Wednesday #173: open challenge
Crafty Creations #137: CAS
Truly Scumptious #66: CAS
4 Craft Chicks #57: anything goes
Simply Create #53: older than 6 mo.
Frosted designs: fuzzy cutting

Fabulous {you}

2011-09-25T23:42:00.001+02:00

My third post in a row! it feels good to make a little something every day... woo hoo!
I made a digital scrapbook page this time using (again) a picture of my daughter. This summer we spent the most wonderful time together and maybe it´s time to start scrapping some of the pictures I took of her. Here she is smelling roses at a gorgeous rose garden in the Parque del Retiro (in Madrid).
The layout is a sketch from The Outlawz Paper a la Mode challenge this week. I used two PS brushes to "stamp" the images on the background paper (from Rebecca_PSP Designs), the scrabble tile sentiment was a freebie from Katie Pertiet, the retro slide overlay framing the picture is from The Scrapping cop. And that´s it: very simple but fun to make.
Thank you for stopping!

I´m playing at:
The Outlawz Paper a la Mode challenge: layout
Lasting Memories challenge #57: frames and flowers
Paper Sundaes challenge #88: anything goes

Just for you

2011-09-24T22:41:00.001+02:00

solo para ti

I finished this envelope today and I wanted to share it with you. Loving the result! I printed directly on the paper envelope, a very fun technique...
I started by opening a PS file of the size of the envelope, I stamped a scroll (a PS brush) in gray and added some touches of a distressing brush and the sentiment on the bottom, when I was happy with the design I printed it out. Then I colored the roses and leaves with colored pencils and added stickles to some of the flurishes.

I took this beautiful bird image (from The Graphics Fairy) and printed it two of them, one the mirror image of the other, cut ehtm out and placed them with foam tape.
I cut with edge scissors the clousure of the envelope and made a flower with scraps of ribbon, glued it in place and voilà! you have a nice, easy, and fast decorated envelope.

Thank you for stopping by today!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
All sorts challenge #122: keep it simple
Raise the bar challenge #76: things with wings
Alphabet challenge: Q is for quick and simple
Little red wagon: repeat after me
Sweet stampin`: anything goes
Lollipop crafts challenge #49: anything but a card

Love - Live - Hope

2011-09-22T23:55:00.001+02:00

What could become of us without them?
Hello dear blogger friends, here I´m showing you an inspiration creation I made for myself and the Twisted Thursday challenge at The Outlawz this week. We want you to add stitches on your creation. Beware! it´s a long post ☺
After a sudden and unexpected turn of my life I was left compeltely desoriented with a deep sadness and pain. I know compared with other people life mine is not bad at all and I shouldn´t complain, but you all know that while measuring our personal problems we loose objectivity, and I saw my life destroyed at my feet.
A few days later I knew I had to get my life back again and heal my wounds, friends for all over the world and family poured me with the most wonderful encouraging words and love, all and each of them helped me to keep going, to lift my face to the sun and walk, and creating is being part of finding my usual self again. It was hard at the beginning because I could not create a single thing, anything at all! and that stressed me too, so I started reading again, going thru old magazines and (even older) card making books and I found an article where the artist made small scrapbooking pages to remind her some of her inner thoughts (she made them to cope with some hard time in her life too), and that inspired me to create these three pages. Actually they are not pages, they are wall hangers. I´m going to hang them in a place where I can see them everyday, to remind me what my inner me is convinced (sometimes I seem to forget!).
I used inspirational quotes I found on the internet ☺ So this is how I made them:

I started by recycling a hanging paper folder (remember those I saved from the recycling bin at work?) and some shopping maps that are freely distributed here in Madrid from time to time. I found them in a wonderful store I like to buy patterned paper and they were the only three left! lucky me... On the front of these maps there is always an image and this time it has these gorgeous kid faces, stern, serious and determined young faces, that´s what I feel everytime I look at them and decided to used them right away.
I cut them careflully and placed them on the base cardstock. I took a page of music sheet, cut it to match the image and colored the borders with ink pads.
Then I stitched the top and bottom borders with embroidery floss and some glass sead beads, here you can see my stitching process

Then I added some extra stitches and beads on the boy´s shoulder, it gives it a great look and texture!

The sentiment is by Zelda Fitgerald, printed it on patterned paper, singled out every word and placed them with foam tape. These words for me are strong and are meant to say the answer every time I read it.

I finished them by spelling the main word on every page with black foam stickers.
On the second one I glued some sequins (the green leaf is also a sequin!) on the girl´s neckline of her dress and some yellow rhinestones

and again I printed the sentiment and singled out each word before placing them with foam tape. The sentiment is a Cherokee Indian proverb. A wonderful one! and I need it to remind me not to waste my time going around in cicles, I have to learn from the past and keep living the life I have, the life I want for me.

And finaly on the third one I embellished it with a purple dollar store flower and some sequins and large glass sead beads

Once again, I printed the sentiment and placed it with foam tape. This one has not know author... but it reflects myself so well that´s why I chose it, I never give up, I never did and I hope never will.

And here all three together again, each of them are 6 x 6 in (click on them to enlarge)

Hope you like them as much as I do! and I hope they can inspire you to take care of yourselves too.

I´m missing playing on some challenges, so I´m entering these at:
Anything goes: challenge #50
Lollipop crafts challenge #49: anything but a card
Digital Tuesday challenge #129: people images
City crafter challenge #75: let´s face the music
My time to craft challenge #158: "L" is for...
Sassy Studio: Dare to be Sassy challenge#91 hip to be square
Sweet stampin´challenge: flowers!
All sorts challenge #121: alter/recycle

Dream...

2011-09-15T22:50:00.001+02:00

Another Thursday! the perfect day to show you my inspirational creation for this week challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday. This time we are challenging you to create something using your favorite technique.

At this time my favorite technique is embossing, I got my cuttlebug this summer from my dear friend Gaby and I can not stop playing with it... I´ve been reading tutorials and watching videos so I can make the best of the machine and I´m loving it!! (but it´s a lot healthier than eating you-know-what ☺). I simply embossed the front of the card and then sanded it a bit, it helped to pop the gorgeous design of the embossing plate. Then I decided it needed to sparkle so I glued some iridescent sequins and seed beads. I finished the card by stamping the sentiment on a scrap of vellum paper and placing a dragonfly (a very old rub-on) with foam tape for dimension. And that´s it! very simple indeed... but it looks very nice in real life.

As I told you a few days ago, I also want to show you a few more pins I made by recycling those cute expresso cups I´m loving so much and embellished them with scraps of fabric a sweet and very talented lady gave me, thank you Vicenta!! they are gorgeous!

Thank you for looking!

A little note...

2011-09-09T00:34:00.000+02:00

Today we started a new challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday. This week we are challenging you to create something using puches or dies and this set of little cards are my inspirational creation for you.
I cut the mushrooms with my cricut machine and I used both the positive and negative image to make two cards out of one cut.

The cards are very simple (yes... I´m still on the CAS mood...) and I tried for them to be easy to make because I really wanted to make a set. This is my first one and it only has four cards but the number of them can be easily expanded, it took me no time at all to finish it!

Behind the images I placed clear tape and glittered over with a very thin glitter, it sparkles a little and it´s still transparent enough to see the patterned paper on the back. I placed the shrooms on the front of the cards with foam tape and finished them by stamping a sentiment in a corner and tying a piece of sheer ribbon. Hope you like them ☺
Thank you for stopping!

I´m playing at:
Catch the bug challenge: anything goes
Ladybug craft ink TLT challenge: anything goes
Delicious doodles challenge #1: fresh start
Little red wagon challenge #97: use die cuts

Hi chick!

2011-09-05T00:00:00.000+02:00

Second post today, whoo hoo! this card is also made to inspire you at The Outlawz Twisted Thursdays challenge this week. And here I am again with another clean and simple one. This time I´m using a set of clear stamps from Artemio that I colored with colored pencils. I embellished my card with a button a piece of silk thread and a tag (where I stamped HI! and added a red rhinestone).

Here you have a closer look. I just love these set! all the images are so cute...
Thank you again for stopping, have a nice day!

A cupcake

2011-09-04T23:49:00.000+02:00

Hello everyone, here I have a cupcake to celebrate! I don´t have a birthday to celebrate yet but I like to make birthday cards. This one is a very simple card, fun to make and I´m pleased on the result, so I have something to celebrate indeed... I like this card a lot!

This gorgeous image is from Michelle Perkett that I colored with colored pencils, embellished with 3 rhinestones (can you find them?), cut out and placed on the card with foam tape. I stamped the sentiment on the card and then I embossed it, to give a different look I just rounded the corners.
This week at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge we are challenging you to use a recipe: 2 of the following colors red, yellow, brown orange; and three of the following embellishments brad, ribbon, eyelet, button, flower, pearls or rhinestone. On this card I used red and yellow to color and three rhinestones as embellishments. Hope you can join us in the fun this week too ☺
Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Day!

2011-08-30T20:06:00.000+02:00

I´ve been playing in my craft room this morning, yaayy!! it felt sooo good.... In a few days will be one of my friend´s birthdays and this is the card I made for him, hope he likes it!

I kept it simple (my brain needs simplicity lately...) but I like how it turned out. I used a scrap of patterned paper (from a very old stash) that I pierced on the outside, a expresso crushed cup and two stamps I had for a long time now.
I wanted to play at The Outlawz Sunday´s clean and simple challenge this week and this is what I came up with, we are to use our tiniest stamp to make it the focal point of our card, the candles are almost an inch tall and is one of my tiniest stamps, it was a nice challenge, it made me think what could I do!

A couple of weeks ago was one of my sister´s birthday, Daniela, and I made a pin for her with a recycled expresso cup too, she loved it! and I´m so happy she liked it

I made another one for my sister´s friend Karina

I didn´t wanted to show them before she got her present, so here you have them. I like how they turned out so I made several more that I´ll be showing them to you later ☺
Thank you for stopping! have a nice day

I´m playing at:
The Outlawz Sunday´s clean and simple challenge
Cards for men challenge #18: open challenge
Lollipop crafts challenge #46: recycle it

Thank you!

2011-08-28T16:59:00.000+02:00

Second post today... I made this Thank You card as inspiration for The Outlawz Thursday´s Twist challenge. We are challenging you this time to use at least one of the images provided for this challenge thanks to Anne´s creative hands.

I used Maple swirls and Fall leaves from Anne´s Digital art. I printed the maple swirls on a scrap of shimmering white paper, colored the image with colored pencils and embellished it with glitter. Then I glued the paper on the card and pierce a circle to frame the image. I printed the fall leaves on scraps of newsprint paper, colored with pencils, piece them and placed them with foam tape following this sketch. Finally I punched the right corner of the card and stamped the sentiment on the bottom.
You still have time to play with us this week and the images are gorgeous! thank you for stopping!

Tea?

2011-08-28T16:36:00.001+02:00

Loving this image! it´s one of the images you get if you participate at the Progressive Challenge at CDAC. I like this tea pot a lot (it´s from Sandi Samples) and it was a wonderful opportunity to try something new: color on craft paper with my coloring pencils.

It was fun and I´m sure will be coloring on this paper again, but I´m not completely happy with the result so there is a lot to learn! I embellished my card with a piece of sheer ribbon I didn´t want to throw away, a doily and two pearls. I stamped the sentiment on top and placed the image with foam tape for dimension. Very simple!
Thank you for looking and have a nice day!

I´m playing at:
CDAC Progressive challenge
Digital Tuesday challenge #125: cute and girly

Bundle of {JOY}

2011-08-05T10:57:00.000+02:00

Hello my blog-land friends! Today I want to show a card I made to inspire you for our new challenge this week at The Outlawz POM challenge group. This time we are challenging you to make your own patterned paper, how great is that?!

In my case I used a set of baby clear stamps I bought a while ago and I´ve never used... (how come????!!!) they are so cute! I used the safety pin stamp to stamp in different directions a scrap of yellow paper and gave a bit of color to the images with colored pencils. I placed my patterned paper on the center of the card (beautiful white shimmering cardstock) and stamped the sentiment on the bottom. Then I stitched all around with embroidery floss and some clear glass sead beads. The main image is a stamped onesie, colored with colored pencils also, and placed it with foam tape.
I love how it looks, very simple and easy to make, hope you can join us in the fun ☺ Thank you for stopping!

Breathe in green

2011-08-01T19:29:00.000+02:00

I love this image... it´s Just breathe mermaid from Michelle Perkett , I´m very happy with the result! the card is very clean and very simple to make too, as usual the most time consumming was to color the image, but it was the most fun part too!

I colored the mermaid with colored pencils and keep her in monochromatic gray tones, I just added a bit of color by coloring the flowers in coral. I started by gluing a piece of that gorgeous fabric in green you see at the bottom and trimming it around after instead of using a patterned paper. Punched a scrap of shimmering white paper and placed it on top of the fabric. Colored the image, cut around and placed it on the card with foam tape and finished it by placing the sentiment that comes with the image on the side.
And that´s all... I wish you could actually see the fabric, it´s so beautiful! I wanted to used it so badly... and this was like the right moment! thanks for stopping by ☺

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Case study #50
All sorts challenge #114: free and easy
Michelle Perkett challenge: let´s go to the beach
For fun challenge: sand/beach

Joy!

2011-07-21T18:39:00.000+02:00

Hi there! here I am with another creation to inspire you for the POM Thursday challenge at The Outlawz. This time we are challenging you to create a winter glitter! how fun is that?! with all this hot weather around it was a bit cooling to think about something for winter...
This is a toilet paper roll (empty, of course...) that I dressed up to turn it into a cute little gift box.

The image is a Snowflake medallion from Fred She Said that I colored with chalks, I used two shades of purple but the picture doesn´t show it well. I printed it twice so I could cut its center to place it on top with foam tape. Then, I glittered some parts of the medallion and glued some chunk glitter hope you can see it in the picture above) and topped it with a star button. I finished the box tying a piece of ribbon and spelled JOY with stickers and a snowflake button (all from my stash).
Hope you now feel completely inspired and join us in the fun!

I´m also playing at:
Paper Sundaes challenge #78: Christmas in July
Cupcake craft challenge #151: wish upon a star

Gift card holder

2011-07-14T11:24:00.000+02:00

Hello my blogger friends, here I´m showing you what I made to inspire you for the POM Thursday challenge at The Outlawz this week (yes, this one is posted on time!). The challege is to make a gift card holder.

I started with a piece of red cardstock and I made a pocket with a triangle in one corner to slip the card. Took a piece of that pretty embossed white vellum paper and layered it with an embossed a tranpsarency sheet (loving my new cuttlebug!). I faux stitched around with a white gel pen and glued black sequins on the corners.
To make the embellishment I took a gold empty expresso coffe cup and crushed it, then I glued a red leather flower and finished it with another black sequin. I also wanted to add a bit of glitter to the gift card, but it didn´t work so well, you can see the right dress in it where I glittered some parts of it, but the glitter stuck to the whole card... so it was kind of messy... but it gave a nice touch anyway...
Hope you like this one and you can join us in the fun this week. And you have to see what the other girls did! you can not miss those great ideas!
Have a lovely day, thanks for looking.

I´m playing at the following challenges too:
Cupcake craft challenge #150: your favorite cupcake challenge (#55 gift card holder)
For fun challenges: one fold
All sorts #111: free and easy July

Sweetie pie!

2011-07-14T00:05:00.000+02:00

I made this summer colored card for POM Thursday challenge at The Outlawz, this time it was an open challenge: anything goes. I started by embossing part of the front of the card, then I took two pieces of pattered paper, border punched them and placed them on the card, I made faux stitches with a black pen. I tied a piece of turquoise raffia and finished it with a small tag, where I printed the sentiment on it.

How cute is this robo pie... the image is Bot pie from Melissa Liban, once more I colored the image with colored pencils and glittered the bow after. Cut around the image and placed it with foam tape.
It´s a very sweet card and it looks better in real life...

Thanks for stopping by, tomorrow I have something for you ☺

A Giraffairy

2011-07-13T23:31:00.000+02:00

Have you seen a giraffary in a cup before? I do! and loved this one in particular. This is Giraffairy from Melissa Liban. I´m so fond of this creation, I made it for the beautiful, darling and oh so cute daughter of my dear friend Gaby, Ana Sofia. I remember Anita wanting to be a butterfly when she was a toddler, how cute of her!! and when I saw this image I just knew what I wanted to make with it. It traveled 8000 miles!

I started coloring the image with colored pencils and glittered the skirt and wings, and I added a bit of blue glitter glue on her magic wand, cut around and glued a toothpick on the back.

Then I took a small plastic ice cream bowl and painted it with acrylic paint, I paint it resembling a little pond, the border reminded me to stones so I painted them in brown and glittered after.
I found those lotus plastic flowers at the dollar store and I had to have them.... I glued the flower with a little water bottle cap underneath and stuck the giraffairy in the center of the flower.
Here you have a picture of my hand with it so you can compare the size, it´s very small...

This is my inspiration creation for The Outlawz POM challenge group where the challenge was to use things with wings.
Thank you once more for stopping, hope you like my project, I enjoyed every second spent in it!

Father´s day card

2011-07-13T23:01:00.000+02:00

how do you like this one? I don´t make male cards as often, so they are a real challenge to me.
I made it for The Outlawz Father´s day challenge at their POM Thursday challenge group. The challenge was to make at least one of your own embellishments. I made the 3-D stars

I cut a bunch of them from scraps of paper with my cricut machine and I followed Heidi´s directions, they are very easy and the results is great! I love them! and now I have a few to use on other projects too.

The image is Bunny dad, boy and girl from Melissa Liban, I colored them with colored pencils and cut in a star shape. A piece of patterned paper cut the plain of the card base with a few faux stitches with white gel pen, placed the image with foam tape and hot glued the little stars as in a circle, To finish the card I hand wrote the sentiment with a black marker.

I think it turned out cute, hope you like it too!
Thanks for stopping ☺

Hi there!

2011-07-13T22:41:00.000+02:00

I´m back! it´s been a month since my last post but I needed to take care of a few things in my life first, and as you all my blogger friends know life comes first, so my blogging time had to be put aside a few days.

There are a few creations of mine I made in between that I wanted to share with you so, please, bear with me because there will be a few post one after the other.
On this first one I´m showing you a very clean, simple and colorful card

I made this one for a challenge hosted by Melissa Liban on CDAC a few weeks ago. Missy gave this cute racoon for free to work with and the challenge was to use embellishments. I used a few buttons, a brad and a sticker cake (all from my stash) to embellish this card.

I colored the image with crayons cut around and placed it with foam tape. The sentiment is computer generated. Very simple but I like how the colors combine together.
Hope you like it too, thanks for stopping!

Live your dreams

2011-06-11T12:08:00.000+02:00

I made this bookmark for a friend of a friend who had been nice to me as a thank you gift. It´s my first time making on of these corner bookmarks, and eventhough it´s not perfect (not very easy to slip on the corner of the page...) I like how it turned out. I hope I can make it better next time!

I enjoyed making this one so much! I started with a corner of an envelope that I used as a base of the bookmark. The image is Brat Bug-Snail from Bugaboo, so cute! I replaced the snail shell with a coffee cups (from the expresso coffee machines) that I crushed to flatten it, then I embellished with a button and a piece of rafia. As usual I colored the image with colored pencils.
The base is a scrap of white pearled paper and I started decorating by making a border with a piece of fabric that I glued to a piece of paper first and then cut in wide scallops, I finished it with a piece of thin ribbon (from my stash).

On the back I keep it simple, too much maybe... so I punch out circles from a scrap of cardstock, glued them in place and I hand wrote the sentiment with black gel pen, it reads: Live the life you´d always dreamed.

Thank you once more for stopping!

I´m playing at:
Bugaboo Wacky Wednesday #5 at CDAC and PCP groups
Colour create #72
Cupcake inspirations #114

Summer Fun!

2011-06-10T22:45:00.000+02:00

It´s summer fun at The Outlawz! and here is my inspirational creation for the Thursday´s Prismas and other medium (POM) challenge.

this was really fun to make. I took a very inexpensive wooden frame and painted it with acrylic paint, gave it first a smooth coat and then I used the dried brush technique to add the clouds and shade the green grass.

The image is from Melissa Liban (you can find them in her Etsy shop here) and I colored them with colored pencils. How cute are these little guys enjoying their summer afternoon... I placed them on the frame with foam tape and finished it with a sun and bees.
Would you like to join us? there are wonderful prizes if you play with us ☺
Thank you for stopping and I hope you like this project as much as I do!

I´m playing at:
Sweet Stampin´: platying in the summer fun
Digital Tuesday challenge #114: in the garden/outdoors
Deep Ocean challenge #1: anything goes

Life´s a beach!

2011-06-08T21:44:00.000+02:00

Don´t you agree this image is cute, cute, cute??!!! love the tiny toes... It´s Penny from Michelle Perkett. I wanted this card to be as clean and simple as I could make it, I´m still wondering if it´s too clean and simple... anyway I like it a lot!

I colored the image with colored pencils and tried to give Penny a little tan since she is enjoying summer already. I glittered her swimming suit (because she is cute and therefore she has to sparkle).

And I applied that dimensional clear glue to the rubber ring, looks like the real one. After it dried I cut the image and placed it with foam tape to the card. Finally I glued the sentiment that is from another cute image from Michelle Perkett: Olive.
Thank you for stopping!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Deep Ocean challenge #1: anything goes
Pile it on: summer heaven
Penny´s challenge #54: here comes summer
Truly Scumptiouns #58: summer sparkle
Digital Tuesdays #114: in the garden/outdoors
Paper Cutz #94: beach or travel
Sweet stampin´: playing in the summer sun

Summer days...

2011-06-08T16:57:00.000+02:00

Love those lazy days of summer... Here is card I made using this cute duck from Bugaboo.

Here you have a closer look, I colored the image with colored pencils and added glitter and clear dimensional so it could shine a bit. I hand drawn a frame directly onto the card with a black marker and printed the sentiment. The waves are cut with my cricut and layered on the image.
I made this one to play at the Sunday´s Clean and Simple and Monday´s Greeting cards challenges at The Outlawz, we are having a summer party! there is lots of fun and prices, why don´t you come and play with us? ☺

I´m playing with this card also at:
Catch the bug: anything goes
Paper Cutz challenge #94: beach or travel
Sweet stampin´ challenge: playing in the summer fun
Stamp, scrap and doodle: what is on your desk right now?
CES challenge#39: clean and simple

A floral {hello}

2011-06-07T14:34:00.000+02:00

I made a very simple hello card, again using my scraps of paper. First I glued the strip of patterned paper on the card and then stitched its top and bottom with embroidery floss.

I colored the image (Spring fence from Designed to Delight) with my beloved colored pencils and layered it with a scrap of the same craft paper I used for the base of my card, gave it two turns around with a piece of thin twine and added a button as embellishemnt. Then I took my old alpha rubber stamps and spelled hello with dark brown ink. And that´s it! hope you like it as much as I do.
Thank you for stopping!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Delightful Inspiration: use the image above
Digital Tuesday challenge #114: in the garden/outdoors
Catch the bug: anything goes

Thanks!

2011-06-05T22:07:00.000+02:00

Look how cute are these mini tags! they are very small: 1.5x3 in but cute nevertheless, right? ☺ I was felling like using my scraps of paper today so I started with cutting the tags in red cardstock with my cricut machine, took a scrap of light blue paper and embossed it, and placed them on the tags. Hand wrote Thanks! and glued some black sequins following this great sketch from Iwona.

The images are from Melissa Liban, they are part of a digital paper (you can find her cute images at Missy´s Etsy store) that I punched with a circular punch and layered them with a scalloped circle (cut with the cricut too). Then I placed them on the tags with foam tape. I finished the tags stappling a piece of ribbon.
Loving all these cute little robots! Quick, easy and fun! I think they could be great for thank you note cards (tags) for a boy birthday party.

With these I´m playing at:
Sktechbook Saturday challenge #14
The Outlawz Saturday´s Scrapbooking challenge: Mini´s with maximum pop
Catch the bug: anything goes
Fussy and fancy challenge: card for a man or boy

Summer PARTY!!

2011-06-05T12:18:00.000+02:00

Hi all! this is just to let you know we are starting a Summer Party at The Otulawz starting today 5th of June and ending the 11th.
You don´t want to miss it since there are amazing prizes you can win! here is a list of them:

SCSCD ----$25.00 Gift Cert.
Through the Craft Door Magazine ---1 yr. subscription
Custom Banner, Watermark and Signature --- by Marti Wills
A $25.00 Gift Basket of Scrapping Supplies -- Roxann Suits
Sweet Summer - Clear mount set of 9 ---Maureen Merritt--Mama Mo Stamps
$20.00 G.C. Rona Mallard
$15.00 G.C. -- Fred She Said
$10.00 G.C. --Gaylou's Inimitability
5 free digi stamps of winners choice ---Whimsy Stamps
$10.00 G.C. --- Michelle Perkett Studio
Prisma Pencil Coloring Class 1 at CMC --- Marti Wills
$20.00 G.C. ---Art Impressions
3 Digi stamps ---Digi Stamps 4 Joy
4 Digi stamps -- Sandi's Samples
One Gilli Goodie Bag -- Gilli Rubber Stamps by Anary
4 Digi Stamps ---Anne's Digital Art

Stop by The Outlawz and party with us!!

Baby girl!

2011-06-03T22:08:00.000+02:00

How cute is this image from Bugaboo?! I made this card for a friend´s friend who had a baby girl recently to go along with those socks cupcakes you see beside it.

I colored the image with colored pencils and blended them with gamsol, cut around and placed it with foam tape on the card.
My first time using an embossing plate! loving how it looks in real life, never gueesed it could be even better! I finished the card with lace, a piece of ribbon, some buttons and a very old tag.

I wanted to make a gift that wasn´t expensive but at the same time a nice present, so I googled for baby presents and I found this idea to make baby socks cupcakes. I tried to follow some youtube videos but looks like I bought some vey tiny socks and the folding ended very ugly... so I did my own folding trying this and that until I liked how they looked. I took some dollar store flowers and made an embellishment for each of them and finally placed them on silicon cupcakes (also very cheap from the dollar store). Now I have to wrap them nicely and hope the new mother likes them!

On a side and very happy note I´ve been asked to be part of the DT for the Prismas and other medium (POM) challenge at The Outlawz and this is my first creation! this time we are challenging you to use buttons and bows on your creation, it doesn´t have to have an image or be a card, you can play with whatever your inspiration takes you as long as you use some medium different than markers (like copic/promarkers ones, there is an especific challenge for them!).
I´m so excited ot be part of the team and I would like to invite you to join us if you didn´t already, there´s lot of fun going on! you are going to love it there!

Happy Birthday!

2011-05-18T08:40:00.000+02:00

How cute is this image?! it´s Roboto from Tiddly Inks. I made this card for my sweetheart´s Birthday and again I´m using my scraps of paper (I have so many... either use them or throw them away...). Another simple card, I computer generated the sentiment, placed it on the card along with a piece of the patterned paper, drawn stitches with a white gel pen and I raided my sweetheart´s box of nuts and bolts to get a few of them as embellishements.

I colored the image with colored pencils and glittered the balloons, then I cut the image and placed it with foam tape.

On the inside I placed the sentiment, also computer generated with the same font, another piece of the same patterned paper and faux stitched around.
Thank you for stopping by today!
I´m playing at:
Paper Sundaes challenge #69: birthday creation
The corrosive Challenge #116: birthdays!
Pixie Dust Studio challenge #74: make it shiny
Cards for men challenge #10: someone special

Celebrate!

2011-05-17T08:52:00.001+02:00

I had this image for ages, and I don´t know why I didn´t use it before... well.... here I´m using Bella and Bronte cellebrating from Mo´s Digital Pencil to make a Birthday card for a friend,

This is my first time making a monochromatic card, and I very pleased with the result. I colored the image with colored pencils and added a bit of chunk glitter to the confetti to make it sparkle a bit. I took a scrap of yellow cardstock and punched one border and tied a bow with a piece of sheer ribbon, I finished the front of the card by stamping the sentiment.

On the inside I used a sentiment from TLcCreations and I embellished it with a flower (cut with my cricut) and a black brad.
Thanks for stopping!
I´m playing with this card at:
The shabby tea room week #62: monochromatic
Kaboodle doodles challenge #67: let´s play tic tac toe (digi, die-cut/punch, glitter)
Craft your days away challenge #20: white + one
Paper sundaes challenge #69: birthday creation
The corrosive challenge #116: birthdays!

All boy

2011-05-16T21:21:00.000+02:00

I enjoyed every second I´d spent making this tag, when I saw this image (Skater boy from Designed to Delight) I knew exactly what I wanted to make... oohhh... what a great feeling!

The tag is made manly by using scraps of paper, I printed the cloud and kite from Bird´s Card blog and paper pieced them, I hand draw the tiny hill and glued it to the tag and pierce holes around it, then I draw faux stitches with a white pen around the tag and placed the cloud and kite to finish it with a piece of twine. Finally I colored the image with colored pencils, cut it around and placed it on the tag with foam tape.
I finished my project with a piece of fabric that I cut in a stripe as a ribbon and stapled it in place, I spelled BOY with white pen and replaced the letter O with a sticker. Love how it turned out! hope you like it too ☺ thanks for stopping!
I´m playing at:
Delightful Inspiration: use the image above
All that scraps wednesday challenge: paper piecing
Cards for men challenge #10: someone special
Paper play week #19: anything goes
Frosted designs: ribbon and/or twine

A cute turtle

2011-05-16T08:51:00.000+02:00

Love this cute face! it looks so happy... I made this tiny card (2 in x 3 in) to slip in a gift for a cute baby boy who is turning 1 this week, and I thought he would like this little turtle.

And this is what I did to the inside, I printed the image directly on the card along with the bubble talk and a part of a Happy Birthday song in Spanish that reads something like and for many more birthdays (not a literal translation here...).
I colored the images (Turtle Sundae from 2 Cute) with colored pencils and I placed the front turtle with foam tape for dimension.
Thanks for stopping!
I´m playing with this one at:
Crafty Creations challenge #118: anything goes
Creative Inspirations challenge #111: decorate the inside of your card
Paper Play challenge week #19: anything goes

A great announcement!

2011-05-14T18:40:00.000+02:00

I´m very honored (and very happy!) to announce that I´m part of the Design Team for this new designer Melissa Liban.
Melissa (Missy) is a children illustrator with a style I love and I hope her books and illustrations start being published soon, she is so very talented! A few days ago she opened an Etsy store where you can find her cute digital stamps and clipart.
And while you are curious about Missy take a look at her personal blog, to learn more about her and her drawing, you won´t be disappointed!
Thank you Melissa! I´m very pleased to be part of your DT and looking forward to start working with your cute images. All the best to you!

I don´t remember how I came across Melissa´s blog but I loved her images from the start and asked for her permission to use one of her images to make a card, and she so generously agreed. My first creation was using this cute giraffe

I´m reposting the card here, if you want to see the original post click here.

When she told us she opened an Etsy store I went to see it right away and I found the exact image I was looking for these days, like you read my mind Missy! and this is what I made with it. It´s a very easy card, the ones I like to make most, clean, simple and the image being the focus.

I´m using Bunny and Sunny. On this image I used scraps of paper to paper pierce the umbrella and the bunny raincoat and boots. Shaded them a bit with colored pencils before placing them on the image. The image was colored with colored pencils too and added bit of glossy accent on the rain drops and glitter glue on the puddle. Then I hand drawn a frame around the image with kids markers and added dots of red pearl paint.
I also printed directly onto the card the sentiment, from TLcCreations that embellished with pearled paint and glitter glue. On the inside I used another sentiment from TLc that reads Brighter days are in your forecast. I made this card for me, to remind me to be patient and no to give up even when hard times are around. ☼

Please, join us at Cute Crafty Land, this is just starting but I´m sure we´ll find lots of fun and cute images, hope to see you there! have a great day

Edited to fix a few things blogger changed on my original post. I lost previous comments by I read them all, thank you so much for leaving them!

Two cards today

2011-05-10T21:22:00.000+02:00

Look how beautiful this image is! it´s from Designed to Delight and I made this card to play at their challenge this week. The patterned paper on the background is a napkin, they come in gorgeous colors and design lately. I added a piece of ribbon I had for ages, some twine and a button

I colored the Pail of flowers with colored pencils and didn´t blend them because I love the texture of this paper.
I´m playing with this one at:
Delightful Inspiration: use the free image
Cards and things challenges #78: sketch
All that scraps: anything goes

My second card is a CAS one

Very simple indeed! but I like it a lot. I used Home from Shirleys 2 girls and I colored it with crayons and blended them a little bit with mineral oil. Glittered the clouds, embellished with a piece of sheer ribbon and two heart pins (I glittered one of them too).

Here is another picture where you can see the iridescent cardstock.
I´m playing with this one at:
Paper play challenges: show us your style
Simply create challenge #43: what did you say
Paper cutz challenge #90: mother´s day
Embellish: square cards and color challenge

Thanks for stopping!

A bookmark

2011-05-05T21:52:00.000+02:00

Today I made this quick bookmark using the color inspiration from colourQ challenge #83, challenging colors by the way.

I started making the background by recoloring Spring cupcake from Designed to Delight digitally matching the inspirational picture colors. Printed them on each side and finished it by printing a sentiment on the back.

Then I singled out the orange cupcake to use it as the main image; printed it, cut it around and embellished it with glitter glue and a rhinestone.

I finished the bookmark by ruffling a piece of ribbon, placing the image with foam tape, a dollar store flower and a button. And here you have it! thank you for stopping!

I´m playing at:
Cupcake crafts challenge: something beginning with C
Pollycrafts Monday challenge #91: anything goes

It´s your day!

2011-05-04T20:48:00.000+02:00

I love this image and it was waiting to be colored some time now... This card took me no time at all to put it together!

I took scraps of paper and punched their borders, layer them and completed them with (also) a scrap of ribbon. Then I colored the image (Cupcake Roses from Designed to Delight) with colored pencil and added glitter glue on the flame and dimensional paint on the roses, cut it around and placed it with foam tape.

On the inside I used one of those great sentiments from TLcCreations and finished it with another tiny cupcake colored with colored pencils too. My first time coloring an entire image using just one pencil! but I like the result so far ☺ I might try to do the same again to the main image...

With this one I´m playing at:
Cupcake Craft challenge blog: something biginning with C (cupcake)
Pollycraft Monday challenge #91: anything goes
Paper cutz challenge #89: anything goes
Totally Paper crafts challenge #64: glitter
Catch the bug: bring those may flowers and pastel colors
Sweet stampin: try something new
Cupcake inspirations challenge #109: photo inspiration

Feliz Día!

2011-05-01T14:52:00.000+02:00

Today is Mother´s Day here in Spain, and I made this simple card for my MIL. The base of the card is shimmering cardstock, so beautiful! sadly I can not show you this with a picture...

The flowers are left over flowers from my niece´s birthday place cards (see this post) that I put them in place with hot glue.
As I said, this one is a simple and quick card, as details I added a couple of dollar store leaves, ruffled a piece of sheer ribbon, a hand written sentiment, and ended the card by punching the bottom border.
I´m playing at:
The Outlawz Greetings challenge: anything goes
Little red wagon challenge #74: for Mom
Stamp, scrap and doodle saturdays: Mother´s day

Thanks for stopping, have a great day!

Love...

2011-04-28T09:32:00.000+02:00

Love... Dream... Grow... Live...

I started this wall hanging with recycling a paper folder

Then I took a piece patterned paper I had for ages, love the bright colors it has! layered it with another piece of the same paper folder, stitched it around with embroidery floss and distressed the edges with scisors, then I placed it with foam tape. To give a little of sparkle I added some glitter glue on the patterned paper. Stamped the words with rubber stamps, cut them out individually, distressed the edges and placed them with foam tape too.

The image I´m using is Mary, Mary from Michelle Perkett, I colored it with colored pencils and added a few details: gloves and shoes have dimensional paint, a rhinestone on her head to replace one of the roses, turquoise glitter glue on the watering can and clear glitter glue on the water flowing from it.

The image is placed with foam tape too to add dimension.
I finish it with some old stikers to spell the word LOVE and a button; and to hang it I used a double piece of raffia. Very simple craft but very pleasing.

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Michelle Perkett Studio challenge: color challenge
PWCO sunday challenge sketch #79
PWCO: recipe (something old, something new, recycled blues!)

Thank you for stopping by!

Recycling...

2011-04-24T18:20:00.000+02:00

I´ve been collecting some toilet paper tubes for an eventual recycling... And I´ve been hoarding this cute image from Bugaboo since I don´t remember when, so I took it out of my folder of printed-images-ready-to-color and colored it to made this simple gift box

I started giving shape of a pillow box to the tube and distressed the borders with white acrylic paint.

Then I needed a piece of yellow colored raffia and a scrap of patterned paper I had for ages. It all comes together in no time!

I colored the image with colored pencils, added some glitter to the balloon and finished it with a dimensional paint (thanks mom!). Cut it around and placed it with foam tape.

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Little Red Wagon challenge #77: clouds
Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge Blog challenge #108: pets/animals
Creative Inspirations challenge #58: digi day
Paper Sundaes challenge #66: sundae bar (sparkle and yellow for me, please ☺)

Happy Easter to everyone! look what we had for dessert! my stepmom made for us this wonderful and delicious easter egg, that it traveled with me 14000 Km (8700 mi)

Updating!

2011-04-23T21:27:00.000+02:00

OMG... my last post was Feb 14th!!!
This will be an update so beware of a long post!
Lots of things happened that kept me out of blog land a couple of months... work most of them, a visit to my country after seven years, time well spent with family, personal issues hard to solve (life is never easy...) and added to all of this a completely lack of inspiration. I hope that breaking this inertia will help me to start creating again since it has a therapeutic effect on me and right now I really need it.
Do you want me to share a few pictures with you? sorry if not! I was going to post them anyway but it´s polite to ask first ☺
Work first because it´s what took most of my time, first picture of my poster presentation in Baltimore, MD (my first time in that beautiful city) and the second one me giving a scary talk at a scientific meeting in Budapest, Hungary (another beautiful city!)

Next serie of pictures are from my trip to my country: Argentina. How I missed the beauty of the plains! gorgeous place...

La Pampa plains

My beautiful niece Sofia turned 15 this year, and she is turning into a nice and beautiful lady, isn´t she gorgeous?!!

and we celebrated it with a huge party! Here are a few of them just about to leave to the party and some at the party itself. My sister Daniela made Sofia´s party dress all by herself and hers too!! she is so good at sewing, both dresses looked amazing! click on them to enlarge ☺

Sofia, the party girl!

Sofia´s mom (my sister Daniela) and brother (Facundo)


Brother and sister: Facundo and Sofia

Rosa (my mom), me and my little sister Popi

Me and sweetheart having fun

Me, my brother Jorge and his girlfriend Erica, and my sweetheheart

And I got to help with a few things for the party: party invites (you can see them in this post) and place cards with the name of each person invited to the party. I didn´t have any of my craft supplies but I managed to do something: I made two different kind of flowers using scraps of the fabric my sister used to make my niece´s dress

everybody helped here: my sister Popy glued the manes in place, my mom made the leaves you see behind the flowers and I put it all together. A picture of the before and after (me celebrating I finished them just in time, whoo hoo!)

Here is how they looked on the tables

And to finish a week of complete madness before the party, my sweet sister Daniela ask me 10 minutes before she was leaving for a wedding party to make a card for the newlywed couple. My first reaction was: WHAT???!!!
this is what I created for her

a very simple card, sorry about the picture... it looked better in real life, the image is from Beccy and I colored it with colored pencils (my sister has a gorgeous collection of them and that helped a lot), no glitter, no ribbon... we wrote a nice sentiment on the inside and off to the party she went!
Thank you for stopping by, I hope I can start creating again and sharing them with you because looks like I´m missing all the fun! have a great day and a Happy Easter!☺

more than chocolate...

2011-02-14T23:23:00.000+01:00

I love you

more than chocolate

This is a gate fold card-wall hanger (something like 2 in 1) I made for my sweetheart for Valentine´s day. I gave it to him just a few minutes ago after we had a wonderful dinner I made for him: cheese fondue with boiled vegetables, and for dessert: chocolate brownie-like cake with strawberry ice cream.

Back to my card! I´m using here two images from Glitterbabe: Lacy Heart and HugsNKisses. I printed the heart on yellow cardstock (the reverse side of another patterned paper) and shaded it with colored pencils, then I glittered it all over.

The kisses were printed on scraps of chocolate cardstock and I added a tiny red heart sticker. The outside kiss was placed with foam tape on the heart to give the card a bit of dimension.

The front of the card is made with acetate to show the pretty patterned paper I used on the inside, I drawn stitches with white gel pen around the gate fold card and on the outer side of the piece of cardstock (another left over of the file folders) that forms the wall hanger. I added a piece of ribbon from my stash where it can be hung.
I almost forgot! The sentiment on the heart is a freebie I had for ages from Heavens Dreams.
This was very easy and a lot of fun to make! hope you like it and thanks for stopping!

I´m playing with this one at:
The Outlawz at their Saturday´s scrapbooking challenge: add a heart or the word love
Catch the bug: different fold

Digital scrapbooking! again...

2011-02-10T22:06:00.000+01:00

I´ve started organizing my craft room... do you know what that means???????? now it looks like a bomb had exploded in my tiny room! but this is something I need to do, for my sanity first of all, second because I need to put back everything again, third because I don´t have the slightest idea of what I have... I did my first step and I´m very pleased with the result: I sorted all my digital stuff (papers, embellishments, templates, etc...) and I´m almost done with all my scraps of paper! the only problem I have now is I can not play as freely as I want, so maybe for a few weeks I won´t do much of crafting (but I hope will do LOT of organizing my place!).

Meanwhile, and just to keep my creativity flowing I made a digital scrapbook page to play at The Outlawz on their Satuday´s scrapbooking challenge group. This time we have to follow a recipe: 1 solid cardstock, 2 photos, 3 patterned papers and 4 (or more) embellishments.

I´m scrapping my favorite recipe: Magdalenas (a Spanish cupcake). Well, actually it´s not the recipe, just the picture of the yummy cupcake, I´m planning to scrap the recipe on a second page (stay tunned!! but if you don´t want to wait I already posted it last year, here). On this layout I used a lot of digital goodies from wonderful creative people that give their time and amazing work for free: Summer Driggs, Deb from The Stampin Cop and Designs by Angelica.
Thanks for stopping!

What I´ve been up to...

2011-02-07T19:06:00.000+01:00

Hi there! for those who are wondering I´m still here!!
These past weeks I´ve been very busy finishing my niece´s Sweet 15 invite cards. I started making them a few months ago but when you have a deadline and you need to give the finishing touches everything get hectic. So here are the 100 invites I´m sending today to my niece, she chose three different designs:
Card 1

I tried to use a simple design inside and outside: an image, a ruffled ribbon and an embellishement. The image is a colored lineart I found at deviantArt and I cut dragonflies with my cricut machine and glittered them after.

Card 2

On this one I used some PS brushes to make every part, then I cut by hand the main sakura flower and the inside sentiment and curled their borders before placing them on the card. I chose a very pretty ribbon that I hot gued to the front as the embellishment.

And finally card 3

For this one I used an already colored medallion from Fred she said as the main image. I cut the center part of it and used foam tape for dimension. Because this one is a very simple card I gave it a few touches: I used pearled white paper as the base and I embellished the main flower with a nice, beautifully sparkling rhinestone. The black border on the front is made with my cricut and the patterned paper is also from Fred she said, the colors match perfectly!

And while I was finishing these cards, just not to loose my mojo I made a couple of digital scrapbook pages to play at The Outlawz Challenges on their Saturday´s scrapbooking challenge group.
For this one we had to use swirls and butterflies:

I´m using here a kit Cosmos from Akizo Designs to scrap a picture of my daughter on our last summer vacations.
And on the second one we had to add stitches and fabric:

this challenge got me thinking a couple of days how to use fabric on my layout but (lucky me!) I found a pretty digital kit with a cute lace envelope (Cold as Ice from Fantasy Moments). I´m not completely confortable how I used the colors, I played with this layout at the color challenge group at The Outlawz too, and the challenge was celadron, lavander and white; if you have any suggestions how to make it look more balanced I will really appreciate it. The sketch is from Lasting Memories Layout challenges but I didn´t finish my layout on time to play at their challenge. The title is a sentiment from TlcCreations.

To finish this long post I just wanted to ask you forgive my spelling today since the "check spelling" feature of blogger is not working today for me... Thanks for stopping! have a great day ☺

I {♥} U

2011-01-24T23:05:00.000+01:00

It was ages since I didn´t use a digital image on my cards... I like how this one turned out, very easy to make too!

This weekend I was lacking of inspiration so I decided to make some flowers and embellishments while my mojo was getting back to me. I made this heart to try this yo-yo heart embellishment I saw a while ago here. I printed the letters on cardstock, cut them and glittered them with white chunk glitter.

I cut a strip of embossed vellum paper from my stash and glued it to the bottom part of the card (not sure if you can see it from the picture...), glued a scrap of red net and on top I ruffled a piece of white sheer ribbon from my stash too. Finally I hot glued the letter and heart.
Thanks for stopping!

I´m playing at:
The Outlawz at their Sunday´s Clean and Simple challenge: sketch
Cupcake Inspiration challenge #95
Pile it on challenge #4: love is in the air!
Waltzingmouse challenge #31

Celebrate with a pretty dress...

2011-01-21T17:11:00.000+01:00

I´m loving this image! it´s Put on your party dress from Michelle Perkett. I colored the cute dress with colored pencils (no blending this time), glued some iridescent pink sequins and added tiny dots of pearl paint on the center of the flowers.

It might look a time consuming card but surprisingly it´s not; it took me less than one hour to finish it all, stitches included! So here is how I made it: I took a scrap piece of patterned paper and layered it with pink cardstock, then I added dots of pearl paint around the DP and added a few on it. Because I´m following Michelle Perkett Studio challenge sketch, I faux stitched strips with white gel pen and I real stitched light pink glass sees beads on their centers.

Then I placed the DP with foam tape on the center of the card, and on top of it I placed the image (with foam tape too), and added a sentiment that is an old clear sticker.

It looks better in real life, but I don´t have good light at home to take pictures at night... Thanks for looking!!

I´m playing at:
The Outlawz at their Thursday´s Prismas and other medium group: anything goes
The Outlawz at their Tuesday´s Color challenge group: pink and brown
The Outlawz at their Monday´s Birthday cards: pink brown and green
Michelle Perkett Studio challenge: sketch
Pollycraft challenge #76: pastel colors
Inkspirations color challenge #54

{LAVA} U!

2011-01-19T20:42:00.000+01:00

How cute is this image??!! it´s Lava lamp from Glitterbabe (check out Stef´s art shop here!) This card is very simple and here is how I made it: I colored the image with colored pencils and blended them with mineral oil. I wet my fingertip with glue and touched slightly the image, then sprinkled glitter on the lava to add sparkle! Cut the image around and placed it on the card with foam tape.

Then I took a scrap of paper to stamp the sentiment with alphabet rubber stamps (from Image Tree), cut one end and curled it a bit before attaching it to the card.

The flower is made with a piece of an old ribbon I had on my stash that I ruffled by pulling at the white thread on one side, tied it with a knot on the back and glued it to the card, then I attached an iridescent flat bottom pearl on its center. And that´s it!

I´m playing at:
The Outlawz at their Sunday´s Clean and Simple group: Recipe -> color Red and one embellishment
The shabby tea room challenge #45: white and bright
All that scraps: early valentine ideas
Little red wagon challenge #64: one layer wonder
For Fun: everything glitter

Funny frames

2011-01-17T21:04:00.000+01:00

I supposedly had to finish these funny frames a week and a half ago... but well... better late than never, right?! And here they are! I made 7! (click to enlarge)

I wanted to make a little something for my sweetheart co-workers for The three wise man´s day (it was the 6th of January), that´s the day where all presents are exchanged instead of Christmas Day, so I thought it could be nice to give them something to make them smile since they are very nice people and the hard work they do is not always acknowledged by most of us (myself included), until you have to do it (or like me, you have someone very near you doing it)... they are operators for an insurance company and I know sometimes it can be a very tough job.

All images are from Bugaboo Stamps, Jodie has an amazing creativity and sense of humor, she does wonderful images for us to enjoy and laugh and has developed several funny characters like Stella I like so much. I colored them with colored pencils and blended some parts with mineral oil. The sentiments are all hand written in Spanish but they are translations of the sentiments that come along with Jodie´s images, not only from the images I´m using here but from others that fit well with the message I wanted them to have.
What I did is a frame to stand at a desk (for example...), I found the pattern at Peet´s blog (another amazing crafter!) and used some file folders I saved from the bin at work some weeks ago... the patterned papers are from a very old stash I have, I finished them with some glittery touches (rhinestones, glitter glue, clear decoupage glue for glass effect) and faux stitches made with white gel pen. Here is the back view

And here a front view of each one, click on them to larger if you want to see them better ☺

And I made a simple envelope to wrap them with thin craft paper, a piece of thin raffia tied with a knot and the recipient´s name written with marker on the front.

My sweetheart gave them to his friends today and my funny frames were a success!!! I´m so glad they liked them because these crafts are unique and personalized (I did some research about the personalities and likings of my hubby co-workers before starting), and I made them just for each of them!
Thanks for looking!!!

I´m playing at:
The Outlawz Challenges at their Thursday´s Prisma & other medium group: Prisma and petals
Pollycraft Monday Challenge #76: pastel colors
Meljen challenge #41: square or round shaped card (they are not actually cards so you are free to remove my entry if it doesn´t fit ☺)

A warm hello!

2011-01-15T21:51:00.000+01:00

It´s been weeks since my last post, I hope I still remember how to do it right!
Today I´m sharing with you a card I made to inspire you all at Glitterbabe´s Challenge blog where the theme this week is Winter!

In principle is a simple card but I added some details because I was having so much fun with it! first I chose Clean and Simple sketch #122, the papers are scraps from papers I used previously (the base cardstock here and patterned paper here), added a few ribbons with coordinating colors from my stash, and made a flower stitching a thin ribbon to which I glued a snowflake sequin and embellished with a button. The sentiment is hand written as you can see in my very bad letters... I need to work on that...

The image is Sign Snowman from Glitterbabe (pay a visit to her Art shop here!) and it comes with sentiments! but this time I added the sentiment myself with PS. I colored the snowmen with colored pencils and added black glitter to its hat, clear glitter glue to the banner and buckle, glued some blue glass seed beads on its scarf and finished it with two small buttons. Cut the image around and placed it with foam tape.
I think it turned out very sweet, when I see that smiley face it makes me smile too!
I´m playing at:
Dancing in Pajamas: ribbon
Creative Belli challenge #108: snow
All that scraps: snowmen

a last minute tag

2010-12-27T20:55:00.000+01:00

Second post today, woo hoo!! I enjoyed my crafty weekend a lot! you´ll see...

I bought my sweetheart a little Christmas present, here they don´t give presents on Christmas day but the 6th of January: The three Wise men Day, but because we do it on my country I always give him a little something. So I put his present on a lunch paper bag but it was too plain so I made this last minute tag with scraps of everything I found in the folder I have just for scraps...

the image is Whimsical cardinals from Designed to Delight colored with colored pencils following the same color scheme I used for the card I was going to give along with the present (you can see it here). The round calendar is from Sueli that I printed it out on another scrap of the same cardstok I used for the tag base. I placed the image and the calendar with foam tape and tied the tag with a piece of raffia to the bag.

I´m playing at the following places:
Delightful Inspiration challenge: December week 4
Sarah Hurley challenge #23: last minute Christmas cheer
Simple doodles challenge #33: tag it out

Snow one like you...

2010-12-27T19:41:00.000+01:00

This is a card I made this weekend, I´m using some digital paper I was not able to remember where I found it, if you know, please let me know and I´ll give credit of it, it´s so beautiful! soft and pretty colors...

The image is Snow Goddess from Michelle Perkett colored with colored pencils and placed it with foam tape. It´s a very simple card: I ruffled a piece of ribbon, added a felt snowflake that I glued a flower on its center and decorated with glass seed beads, the most demanding part was coloring the image but it´s so gorgeous you don´t mind spending some time in it at all!

I´m playing at:
Michelle Perkett Studio Challenge blog: let it snow
Our creative corner: fa-la-la-felt
Fussy and fancy: snow

A tag

2010-12-23T10:37:00.000+01:00

Love this pixie, beautiful image! it´s from A day for Daisies and I made this tag to play at their challenge blog. All papers are from my stash as are the embellishments. I started by giving shape to a scrap piece of red cardstock, I used a template I found at Lilly of the Valley place that I modified a bit.

Then I cut a piece of this gorgeous embossed vellum paper and placed it on the tag, and on top of this layer I glued a piece of this gift wrap paper I used as patterned paper. I glued clear sequins around the patterned paper, once it was dry I pierced the holes to stitch light pink seed beads with white embroidery floss.

I colored the image with colored pencils and used mineral oil to blend the wax. Glittered the pixie wings and cut carefully around before placing the image with foam tape on the tag. I finished it with a piece of tinsel that I stapled it to the tag.

I´m playing at:
A day for daisies challenge #8: tinsel and tags
CES challenge #17: anything goes
Allsorts challenge #83: anything goes
Pile it on challenge #48: gift wrapping or tags
Paper sundaes challenge #49: cut it out
Aly´s Sunday challenge #32: anything goes
ColourQ #64
For fun: anything goes

Snowman of ♥Love♥

2010-12-22T20:50:00.000+01:00

This card was made in just a few minutes, I´ll try to remember this day next year when I start to make Christmas cards, maybe once in my life I won´t be late!

I opened the image (Snowman Love from Designed to Delight) and sentiment (from Elisa) in PS, open a new file with the dimension of the card and dragged the images in, resizing them to have them in the right position. Took a blank card and printed the file right on the cardstock and voilá! ready to color and embellish!

To color the image I used just colored pencils. Added a bit of decoupage glue on the hearts to give them a nice shiny look, and glittered the snow and the center of the snowflake to add sparkle. This one is for my sweetheart, hope he is not reading this!

I´m playing with this card at:
Delightful Inspiration challenge: December week 3
CES challenge #17: anything goes
Allsorts challenge #83: anything goes
Sweet stampin: celebrations
Fussy and fancy: snow
The corrosive challenge blog #95: non traditional Christmas colors

Wishing peace

2010-12-19T21:02:00.000+01:00

Another Christmas card, and I think it´s one of the last I´ll make this year, not because I don´t like them, on the contrary! it´s too late to send them now!!

On to my card again: I used Earth from Michelle Perkett (you can find her beautiful images here) that I colored with colored pencils, some parts are blended with mineral oil. I added dots of white pearl paint on the centers of the flowers and a few green rhinestones.

I pleated a piece of red ribbon to embellish the front of the card and attached the image with foam tape. The base of the card is an opaque acetate sheet (those you find at office supplies to bind sheets) I saved from the bin (again!) at work. I added clear stickers to write the sentiment.

On the inside I glued the patterned paper, it´s a very festive gift wrapping paper, loved the colors! I cut the borders with edge scissors and added the sentiment (from Elisa) with foam tape too and a bit of the same red ribbon. And that´s it! simple but I like it a lot too ☺

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Michelle Perkett Studio challenge blog: have a merry little Christmas
Creative Belli challenge #106: Christmas embellishments/papers
Stamping for the weekend challenge #53: Christmas
CES challenge #17: anything goes
Allsorts challenge #83: anything goes

More hangers!

2010-12-14T21:24:00.000+01:00

I just love to make them! so every time I´m not into a card mood I just make one of these hanger and I feel completely happy afterwards ☺

This time I made two of them: they are made altering an old CD. I like to alter them because I don´t have to think of the shape, they are already a perfect circle! and they have plenty of room for you to play.
The image is Winter Bear I got from Designed to delight for free because I participated last week on their challenge blog, it´s a progressive challenge where you get in your inbox a free image to play with for the next challenge if you played on the previous one, it´s an all win challenge! isn´t it great?!?! I love the idea!

I colored the bears with colored pencils and blended them with mineral oil: I used two color schemes green-purple and green-orange (click on them to enlarge). I added dots of white puff paint on the falling snow (puffed after it dried) and glitter on the sliding snow, cut in a circle and they were ready to place with foam tape on the center of the front part. The front papers are cut from an old music book and painted with white acrylic paint because they were (too) yellow... then I glued some sequins with coordinating colors in a circle around the image.

On the back I used a napkin as patterned paper glued to a piece of cardstock. The sentiments are from TlcCreations cut in a circular shape too and placed on the centers with foam tape also.

I painted dots of white puff paint around the sentiments and glittered them before it dried (tap the excess and let it dry before puffing it), so you end up with a glittery puffy border...

And finally to hang then I used a piece of fishing line I decorated starting with a sequin snowflake and a few glass seed beads with coordinating colors, I finished it with a loop and another snowflake. When I finished them I found them kind of plain on the borders so I glued a piece of white fiber around, it was a good idea because I could hide the CD edge at the same time.
Hope you like this one and feel inspired to recycle your old CDs too!

I´m playing at the following places:
Delightful Inspiration challenge: December week 2
Pollycraft challenge #74: winter Christmas or snowing/winter scenes
Cupcake inspirations challenge #9
Paper sundaes challenge #48: anything but a square or rectangle
Sentimental Sundays challenge #33: let it snow
Alphabet challenge: G is for glitter
Fussy and Fancy challenge #25: anything but a card
Crafty creations challenge #97: a beary project

Pixie of Joy

2010-12-12T19:57:00.000+01:00

How cute is this image?! It´s from A day for daisies, a free pixie you´ll find at The flower basket challenge blog to play with in the current challenge.

the image is colored with colored pencils blended with mineral oil and I glittered some parts. The patterned paper is a double sided gift wrap paper I found at a gift store (the same one as the previous post... I also should had bought the whole bunch...), the background is gold with some green flourished butterflies, so pretty! I Added a ruffled red ribbon and stickers to spell joy on the front. And I placed the image with foam tape.

this is front picture because I like how it turned out ☺

I´m playing at the following challenges:
The flower basket challenge #7: it´s all in the wrapping
Meljen challenge #37: red, green and gold
Alphabet challenge: G is for glitter
Frosted designs: ribbon
The corrosive challenge #94: sketch
Stamptacular sunday challenge #89: winter wishes

Seasons greetings

2010-12-11T21:15:00.000+01:00

Yes! I made another Christmas card! I like this one too, I love this patterned paper! actually is a double sided gift wrap paper, so sad I dind´t buy the whole bunch of them at the store where I find it... but then, they will have a different one next time and I´ll be happy again to buy it!

The image is from Pollycraft but I couldn´t find it in their store, maybe is not listed there anymore. I colored the image with colored pencils and glittered the pom-poms on the cutie hat. I used a fiber, a snowflake and a tiny pom-pom as embellishments.

Very simple but beautiful, what do you think?!

I´m playing at:
Pollycraft challenge #73: Color scheme - pink, blue and brown
Lollipop craft challenge #19: welcome winter
The shabby tea room challenge #39: ´this the season
Digital Tuesday challenge #88: it´s cold outside
City crafter challenge #34: let it snow!
Dare to be Sassy challenge #50: non traditional holiday colors
Alphabet challenge: G is for glitter

Merry Wishes!

2010-12-10T22:15:00.000+01:00

I´m still making Christmas cards... and I´m not sure if I´ll have them done before the holidays end, but it was fun to make some of them! Here I have a different one for you: this week we are challenging you at Glitterbabe´s Challenge to create something for Christmas without red or green and this is my take to inspire you all.

The image I´m using this time is Cardinal from Glitterbabe (you can find it at Stef´s store here) colored with colored pencils.
Let me tell you a story behind my card: I was born in one of the countries in the very south of South America: Argentina, and in particular a small city in the middle of it, it´s were the gauchos came from: La Pampa. It´s a beautiful place and I miss to look around 360° and find the horizon only.... well there lives a beautiful bird, a yellow cardinal (we have a red version too, but I´ll leave that for another time), and when Stef set the challenge I thought immediately of this little beauty.
Here I show you where my country is and the area where this cardinal lives, my homeland is the red dot ☺

I found (googled them) a picture of the real bird and the drawing I used to color Stef´s Cardinal.

It´s a gorgeous bird, that sings beautifully, and it was almost extinct when I was a child, I´m not sure if it´s still on danger, hope not!

With my card again, I used digital patterned papers from Jaime that I glittered around with silver glitter glue, a silver ribbon from my stash and a hand written sentiment finish the card. Hope you like this one and play with us this week too!

My card fits the following challenges:
Sundays with Crissy challenge #12: Christmas is coming or winter is here
Whoopsi Daisy: ribbons and bows
Dare to be Sassy challenge #50: non traditional holiday colors
Alphabet challenge blog: G is for glitter
Frosted designs: ribbon

Showcasing Glitterbabe´s image

2010-12-07T21:38:00.000+01:00

Today I have something special to share with you: I was given one of Glitterbabe´s soon-to-be-released images to work with, I made a gift bag (a couple of them actually) to go along with a card for Valentine´s day. It´s my first time showcasing an image and I hope I made it right.
So because this is a multiple craft post using the same image I´ll start with it:

How cute is that face??!!! I printed it three times and colored with colored pencils, glittered the heart with pink fine glitter and cut carefully around.

Then I took some old paper from my stash (but still pretty...) and cut it with a rectangular shape, and used (the one and only) rubber stamp with a Valentine´s sentiment I own to stamp the sentiment on them. I colored the tiny heart with glitter gel pen and faux stitched around with a fine black marker. I attached the image on one corner and save them for later.
Now the card:

If you read my blog from time to time, you know I like to recycle, looks like I can not put myself into throwing away paper or cardstock or cardboard... So, to make the card base and bag toppers I used a hanging file folder (a very proud me rescued them from the paper bin at work) like this one

On to my card again:

I decorated the front with some patterned paper and a ruffled ribbon made with red crepé paper. I attached the image-sentiment with foam tape and added more faux stitches with black marker.

on the inside there were the lines made to write notes on the hanging file folder, so I found them very convenient and worked my card around them: added two scraps of the pattered paper (cut one of the edges with edge scissors) and faux stitched them. Then, with two clear stamps I stamped several times the blank part on your left, and with other two the words love and forever on the right side; I finished it all with a U letter from a paper with Scrabble letters that I placed with foam tape for dimension.

The bags toppers were made following the same design as the card. I made two because one will be for my daughter and the other for my sweetheart, filled them with my favorite caramel candy. And if you are wondering my daughter will get the card too ( because my sweetheart will get a different one ♥).
What do you think of this project? it took me no time at all to put it all together, even though it has many parts... the most time consuming was the ruffled strip of crepé paper, but you can substitute it with already ruffled ribbon or lace, or just use a punch border or edge scissor...

I found a few challenges where I can fit my project:
Paper Sundaes challenge #47: gift it!
Fussy and fancy challenge #25: anything but a card
Frosted designs: glitter
Catch the bug: anything goes

Ornaments!

2010-12-06T14:03:00.000+01:00

At Delightful Inspiration we are challenged to use this beautiful poinsettia image to make a project, it took me two days decide what to do... and finally I made ornaments! they were so much fun to make!

I started by choosing the papers (from Jaime), I changed the color of the image on PS to match the papers and printed the flower several times on three coordinating patterned papers. Then I pieced all parts of the flower, shaded them a bit with colored pencils before attaching all parts with foam tape. To add sparkle and texture to my ornaments I glued some glass seed beads on the centers of the flowers. The snowflakes are plastic ones from the dollar store already glittered, a piece of fishing line makes them ready to hung!

Hope you like them!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Delightful Inspiration: use poinsettia image
Creative inspirations challenge #89: Christmas decorations
Fussy and fancy challenge #25: anything but a card
Frosted designs: glitter
Fun at Fairy Knoll: all that glitters
Catch the bug: anything goes
Craft your days away challenge #9: add texture
Top tip Tuesdays #12: anything goes
Sundays with Crissy challenge #12: Christmas is coming or winter is here

Happy frosting day!

2010-12-02T20:22:00.000+01:00

Hello my friends! I´m still here! with a lot of work and a little time to craft, but here I am with something to share with you all.

How cute is this image??!!! it´s Big deal birthday from Digi´s with attitude that I colored with colored pencils and glittered everywhere!

Today is Thursday, that means we are having another great challenge at Glitterbabe´s challenge blog, we are challenging you to use buttons and this is my inspirational creation I made for you. I´ts a coaster that I altered to turned it into a mobile, that´s why I decorated both sides

I used craft cardstock from my stash to cover both sides of the coaster, then I took a piece of this beautiful patterned paper (a gift wrap from my stash also) and added a circle on the front and scalloped edges on the back. I added stitches and buttons both sides: around the circle on the front and around the sentiment on the back part (placed with foam tape). The sentiments are from TlcCreations, wonderful too! To hung it I put a string of fishing line and decorated it with some large glass seed beads before gluing the cardstock.
Do you like it? hope so!!
Let´s see if I can fit my project in some challenges ☺
Whoopsi Daisy: let´s get all girly
One stitch at a time challenge #41: bling it up
A crafty little place challenge #66: anything goes
Flutter by Weednesday challenge #133: anything goes
4 crafty chicks challenge #14: birthday

A tweet home

2010-11-20T16:58:00.000+01:00

There is a great challenge waiting for you at Glitterbabe´s challenge this week, you don´t want to miss it! and here is my inspirational creation for you. The sketch I chose is one from Inkspiration Challenge blog (a past one, but I like it very much!), I embellished the front of my card with a leather flower that I tied with raffia, two brads and glitter glue. The papers are from Summer Driggs.

The image is Tweet Street from Nana Vic (please, do stop by her place, you´ll love everything she has!), I colored it with colored pencils, this image has a lot of beautiful details and I was a bit scared of not being able to show all its beauty, but I´m very pleased with the result!

On the inside is the sentiment that I computer generated with PS, I found it on a very (very) old craft book I bought years ago and I think it fits very well with the image. I matted it with patterned paper and a scrap of the same red cardstock and placed it with foam tape for dimension. The additional image is from Karen Kindrich that I colored with colored pencils too, glittered its border and glued it to the card. I added as embellishments a couple of resin pumpkins to be used as bulge for the open card and a string of raffia .

Here is a picture of the card in its easel form, it looks very pretty! hope you like it too!!

So kind

2010-11-15T21:04:00.000+01:00

I decorated this paper lunch bag for a dear friend, I bought her a nice present and it deserved a nice decorated bag so here is what I made.

The cute cat is Thank you Kitty from 2 Cute Rubber Stamps that I colored with colored pencils and blended them with gamsol. I just love the happy cute face it has! I gave the flowers a bit of sparkle with glitter nail polish and added a rhinestone on their centers. The papers are from my stash and I cut the black cardstock with edge scissors. I added a silver ribbon and a safety pin decorated with pink glass seed beads. I finished the bag closure with a glittered flower in hot pink and a brad.

I´m playing at:
Embellish Magazine: bags color challenge
Dare to be Sassy: anything goes
Frosted Designs: word challenge, thanks or thankful
Alphabet challenge blog: C is for Cats

Merry and bright

2010-11-14T21:34:00.000+01:00

I´m trying my best not to be too behind my Christmas cards, not an easy task! but here I have another one to share with you.

These two stamps Hanging ornaments and Holly leaf are from Glitterbabe (you can find them at Stef´s store here!), I colored them with oil pastel and blended them with mineral oil. After I finished coloring the ornaments I painted completely with my so loved glittered nail polish and added details with gold glitter glue. On the holly leaf I glittered the border and painted the fruits with glitter nail polish. I really like the effect of the nail polish, it doesn´t saturate the image with glitter. I placed the images with foam tape, I drawn the ornaments strings and the sentiment with gold gel pen. The black cardstock is perfect when you want to highlight the images. The simple sketch is from Clean & Simple sketch #115, love it!

With this card, I´m playing at the following challenges:
Little red wagon: do it in 3´s
Cute card Thursday challenge #138: anything goes
Sunday´s with Crissy #11: red, gold, green
Woopsi Daisy Challenge: it´s Christmas
Cupcake Inspirations challenge #85

Digital scrapbooking

2010-11-13T11:49:00.000+01:00

I could finish another scrapbook page! Keep your fingers crossed that I can keep making one a week. Here is my second one, it was lots of fun to make it and put together in no time. I´m using here another already made layout by Katie Pertiet, the gorgeously textured papers are from Shelly Marie (Picnic park kit). And the pictures are from my sweetheart and me at different places this year ☺
I wanted to play at Lasting memories layout Challenge blog this week and we are to use punches, but I sorted the problem it represents making my page digital by using a shape with PS to "punch" hearts from a coordinating paper and placing them on the layout.
And I want to thank Lasting Memories team for choosing me as top 3 last week, what a great and pleasant surprise!

Fall magnets

2010-11-12T22:21:00.000+01:00

How fun was to color these little guys, I just love that image!! it´s Sitting scarecrow from Glitterbabe, I colored them with colored pencils and glittered after.
The challenge at Glitterbabe´s Challenge this week is to use red, orange and green, and these clothespins magnets is what I made to inspire you. I glued a piece of brown cardstock (from Summer Driggs) to the front of each (jumbo) clothespin. The other day I found, to my great surprise, at the supermarket some leaves with autumn colors that I couldn´t resist buying, and they were very handy, because I hot glued them along with a felt leaf on the top of my project. Then I placed the cute image with foam tape and finished it with a bit of moss. What do you think of them? they look beautiful on the fridge! hope you like them too and make your own.
Here is a picture of each of them, click to see them larger, can you find the differences? ☺

{JOY}

2010-11-10T22:08:00.000+01:00

I love that word, since my mother language is not English sometimes it´s hard to translate it to give it the right meaning, the nearest description I can give is it makes me warm inside...
This one is a simple Christmas card, in fact my first one this year (I know... I´m really behind!) and I enjoyed every second I spent creating it.

The image is Holly leaf from Glitterbabe (you can fin it at Stef´s store here!) and I colored them with colored pencils, I added a bit of glossy dimension to the fruits with decoupage glue, the effect is great! but I´m not able to take a good picture of it... The circles and hollies are placed on the card with foam tape, and the letters of the sentiment are from a sticker sheet I had for sooo long.

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Paper play challenge #44: circles
Caardvarks: Holiday die cut
Waltzingmouse challenge #22: sketch
Bee crafty challenge #42: Christmas

Paper clips!

2010-11-05T17:23:00.000+01:00

I wanted to make something that could be used as a small gift and I thought decorating a few jumbo paper clips could achieve my purposes. They are very easy to make, you can do a lot of them in a few hours so they are perfect as party favors. I know my daughter and her friend will love them! The images I used are from 2 Cute Rubber Stamps colored with colored pencils and glittered after.
I took some dollar store fabric flower that I glued it to the jumbo paper clip with the hot gun, added a circle from scraps of patterned paper (cut with a round punch) and distressed a bit the borders before gluing it to the flower.

On the first ones I used Bumble Bee Cuttie.

And on the second ones I used Bunny. (Click on the image to enlage them if you want to see them in more detail)
After I cut the images around I placed them with foam tape. And to finish them all I used a piece of fiber for the bumble bee ones and ribbon for the bunny ones (both from my stash). And that´s all! very simple and cute!
I´m playing at:
Flutter by Weednesday challenge #129: open challenge
Paper play challenge #44: circles
Creative Inspirations challenge #46: glitter, glamour, girlie

Be thankful...

2010-11-04T22:45:00.000+01:00

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of the year, where you can sit with a cup of nice tea or fragrant coffee, have a quiet time and think about the things you are thankful...
At Glitterbabe´s Challenge we are challenging you this week to make a Thanksgiving creation and this one is my inspirational card for you.

I´m using Indian princess Pattieboop from Patti´s creations. I colored the image with colored pencils, cut around carefully and glittered some parts of her clothes, it looks so very cute in real life!
I´m a strong believer your inner feelings and thoughts reflect in your creations, and while making this card I thought of the things I´m thankful that show in my creation. I´m very thankful for my sweet little lady, she is an amazing person caring, intelligent, funny, sweet... and so girly! and... a little tomboy at the same time... don´t you see a bit of both on Pattieboop? I´m thankful to my mom who taught me to craft and stitching was my favorite technique while I was a child and still lived with her. I´m thankful to my sweetheart who is always supporting me and takes my hand on my ups and downs so I don´t get lost... and who was thinking of me when he saved the cardstock from the trash and come back home one day with the trunk of our car full of paper! I´m thankful for the generosity of people who gives they work for free so I could complete my card with Elisa´s image. And (last but not least) I´m thankful because I have a job who pays for the rest of the supplies I used! ☺ (even though I have to work 10 hs a day...)

My creation fits the following challenges:
Cupcake inspirations challenge #83
Cupcake crafts challenge #115: Thank you with autumn colors
My grafico Challenge #73: autumn colors

Digital scrapbooking

2010-11-03T21:50:00.000+01:00

It was ages since I made my last digital scrapbook page... and after I finish this one I told myself it would be nice if I could finish a page a week, nothing fancy just a simple keepsake... let´s see if I can do it.
My first papercraft was a too simple scrapbook page, I remember being so happy with the result! but to tell you the truth it was just the picture placed on a patterned paper and a word spelled with stickers... if I get the enough amount of courage I´ll show it someday. A few weeks ago I found (again) my scrapbook and it reminded me why I like digital scrapbooking better, you can fix your mistakes very easily! I spent a relaxed time making them and they look great just the same.
Here I´m using a layered template (that makes things very very easy for completely beginners like me) from Katie Pertiet that I changed slightly. Papers are part of Sweet pea kit from Pure Creativity Designs (I found it at Digital Scrap Cafe). A picture of me and my little lady and a nice day to remember complete the page. Hope you like it!
I´m playing with this page at Lasting Memories Layout Challenge #13: sewing.

{Attitude!} blog award

2010-11-02T17:54:00.001+01:00

I got this great award from my blog land friend and amazing crafter Marilyn, thank you so much for thinking of me!!! please, pay a visit to her blog, you won´t be disappointed!
In order to claim my prize I have to say three things about my creative self:
1) I usually hand make everything, where I live is hard to find craft supplies so I have to create with whatever I have at hand. I love that! that´s why I don´t complain, it keeps my creativity in shape ☺ (and my bank account alive!)
2) I color manly with colored pencils, nowadays markers are the most popular coloring media, we are not so many who still color in the old ways, but I also like to color with simple things like crayons (a technique I was introduced by Dorcas).
3) I like to recycle. I recycle whatever I find and use them on my crafts and cards, to me they have a hidden potential that I just need to reveal (my fiance doesn´t agree completely with me in that aspect, but he lets me create without complains and always encourages me to do it!).

Also, I have to nominate 5 blogs (hard decision...):
Dorcas
Catherine
Kathie
Lee
Cheryl
you ladies are my source of inspiration, I´m so very glad you let me follow your creative journey I learn so much from you, thank you! Please go to Digi´s with attitude to find out more about this award!

Autum Mermaid...

2010-11-01T21:38:00.000+01:00

I´m changing things around my house and I have this mirror that was screaming to be decorated before going to the wall. I used Just Breathe from Michelle Perkett, this is mermaid my second favorite image from Michelle, it´s so beautiful, I love coloring this image, whatever you do to it you´ll never go wrong.

The mermaid is colored with colored pencils in autumn colors: yellow, orange, red and green. Took four felt leaves and glued them on the mermaid instead of the flowers it original has, added two seashells and sparkled them with some orange chunk glitter. I cut the image carefully around, not an easy task I must add... there are some curls missing... can you find them?! After it was all cut I placed it on the mirror with double sided tape. And that´s it! pretty simple but stunning effect, there was no way for me to take a decent picture on mirrors...sorry about that, but believe me it´s looking great!

There is several challenge that my project fits:
Michelle Perkett Studio Challenge #51: autumn leaves
Crafty Creations challenge #91: halloween or perhaps autumn
My grafico challenge #72: add some sparkle
Dare to be Sassy challenge #44: autumn
Totally Papercrafts challenge #40: bling it on
Catch the bug: fall/autumn color project
Cupcake Inspirations challenge #83

A frame for my little lady...

2010-10-31T20:35:00.000+01:00

This is an iPod box I´ve been saving for 5 years now... the first day I saw it I knew I was going to turn it into a frame to put a picture of my little lady.

Here you can see the almost beginning of it all, I realized I didn´t took a picture of it to show you the before stage, so I took a picture of it´s back before gluing both part together.

I used Sleep ladybug and Butterfly from 2 Cute Rubber Stamps that I printed out on paper with some tooth on it so I could have some texture on the coloring with my colored pencils. Aren´t they cute??!! I added black glitter on the mama and baby ladybug´s spots and some glitter nail polish on the butterfly wings to give them sparkle.

With edge scissors I cut a piece a bit larger than the opening where the picture will be placed to stand it out and distressed the edges with chalks. I took a piece of green fabric and ruffled it to use it as grass (hope it looks like grass!) and finished the front part of the box with yellow paper string tied in a bow.

I decorated also the back of the box following the decoration of the front using the same edge scissors and distressing the borders. I printed the sentiment (from Kathie Winters) on a scrap of patterned paper (from Ginger) and added a dollar store flower decorated with a button a piece of the same yellow paper string. To attach both front and back together I used another flower, button and paper string and glued it to the top (as you can see on the picture below).

I love to recycle, it gives me a great feeling after I finish something... and besides you have half of the work done! Now I need to decide which picture of my little lady I´m going to frame!

My project fits the following challenges:
Digital Tuesdays challenge #82: include a non-craft item
My grafico challenge #72: add some sparkle
Meljen challenge #31: use 2 digis
Totally papercrafts challenge #40: bling it on
Creative inspiration challenge #46: glitter, glamour, girlie
Stamp, scrap and doodle: buttons

Got candy??

2010-10-28T19:08:00.000+02:00

Thursday my friends! that means it´s time to inspire you at Glitterbabe´s Challenge! This week I made a very simple card.
I took a piece of yellow-mustard-like cardstock that I folded into a card. Since I don´t have any embossing machine and I wanted so very badly emboss the front I did it myself, I just draw some lines perpendicular to each other on the third bottom part of the card. I distressed the edges of the card with chalks.

The images are Sitting scarecrow from Glitterbabe, and the candy corn tree and sentiment are from Elisa. I colored the images with colored pencils and added glitter to the moon (turned into a sun by me) and on the cutie scarecrow. The scarecrow is placed with foam tape on the card.
To finish it all I used a small black clothespin that I decorated it with a candy corn sticker to hold the image and placed them with foam tape too.

This is a front view for you to see how neat I made the embossed lines! I´m so proud of myself!!!

My card fits the following challenges:
Paper play Challenge #43: a haunting will go
Meljen´s Challenge #31: use 2 images
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #26: distressing
Little red wagon Challenge #52: halloween
The creative cottage Challenge #26: embossing
Crafty creations Challenge #91: halloween or perhaps autum
My grafico Challenge #72: add some sparkle

In my mail box

2010-10-26T22:16:00.000+02:00

Look what I found in my mail box when I got back from home today!!!!

aren´t them beautiful???!!!
Brandi, so sweet of her, sent me this present and card as a celebration of her first 25 followers, whoo hoo Brandi!!! pay her a visit if you have time, she puts her heart in her creations, it really shows!
The card is very creative and I want to highlight a detail. From what I can see she used a real leaf and glued tissue paper on top of it and colored it afterwards, it gives a gorgeous texture, looks like embossed and you can see a hint of the real color of the leaf underneath.
The little note pad is cute, cute, cute! She stamped the cardstock with a background stamp in yellow, such a subtle effect I love! she used a coordinating ribbon on the borders and a larger piece in the center where you can tie it with a knot to close it, very clever idea. I love the flower she made to embellish it, she kept the same color combination and added a bit of shine on its center, perfect touch!
Beautiful gift, Brandi! thanks you so much for you kindness and the time you spent making something for me, from the bottom of my heart. I love it! you´ll never know how happy you made me today. Keep creating and having fun! HUGS!!!

{DAD}

2010-10-24T21:57:00.000+02:00

What a crazy week I had... actually I should had posted this one on Friday but suddenly we are on Sunday!
This is my inspirational creation for 2 Cute Rubber Stamps, it´s an envelope I decorated using this cute owl named Best of friends owl (and you can find it here!).

I colored the cutie with colored pencils and blended them with gamsol, cut carefully around it and placed it on the envelope with foam tape.
The layout is very simple: I cut a piece of patterned paper and rounded its corner, faux stitched it with a fine marker, added a scrap of paper I distressed with chalks and put two buttons tied with raffia.

To finish the envelope I cut a cloud (you can find it here) that I glittered and glued three pieces of red embroidery floss with different lengths on the back from one end. On the other end of the floss I glued three punched hearts where I spelled DAD with white gel pen, and to make it all shiny I painted the tiny hearts with decoupage glue.
I have a bunch of these envelopes and I love to decorate them, they can be used for so many things (letter, money, cards, small gifts, gift card... etc...) and they are available in several colors and sizes too!
Also I wanted to remind you we have a challenge running at 2 Cute until October the 31st, there is a cute free image to play with! hope you can join us, there is a great prize too!

My creation fits the following challenges:
Little red wagon Challenge #51: hearts
Meljen Challenge #30: anything goes
Other lovelies Challenge #0031: H day
Sundays with Crissy Challenge#10: buttons and bows
One stitch at a time Challenge #36: all celebrations

Trick or treat!

2010-10-21T22:20:00.000+02:00

I love all the excitement kids get around this time of the year, knocking neighbour doors to get their treats... or tricks! my daughter has already her costume, this year she´ll be the winter queen!
Today at Glitterbabe´s Challenge we are challenging you to frame your creation, we are also being sponsored by JLJ Designs, such cute images! we were able to work with some of them, I chose this too cute Trick or treat image that I used to make a door hanger,

I cut a square of cardboard that I covered first with a piece of yellow cardstock and then glued tissue patterned paper with those great swirls, so it gets a bit translucent to the yellow. I colored the image with crayons and blended them with mineral oil, cut them all apart and placed them on the hanger with foam tape and embellished some parts with glitter. Sorry about the picture, it was too sunny and you can not see well the colors, they are lot more vibrant...
With pop tabs, painted with purple acrylic paint and glittered afterwards, I threaded a shear ribbon and tied a knot on a corner after gluing them with the hot gun.
The cute cat is a Halloween sticker that I also added with foam tape, and finished the hanger with fibers to decorate the border (and hide the cardboard) and to make the handle where to hang it.

Hope you can join us in the fun this week too!

A thank you fairy

2010-10-16T21:38:00.000+02:00

I have to send a thank you card, I thought this fairy would make a pretty one. And I´m so pleased with the result, hope the person I´m sending it likes it too!

The image is from Karen Kindrich, a beautiful fairy I colored with colored pencils, matted it with a piece of cardstock from my stash and placed it on the card with foam tape.

The ribbon is from a strip of fabric that I pulled two threads from the center and it ruffled very nicely, I attached it with double sided tape.

I made a patterned paper out of one flower that I colored it digitally in orange to match the flowers on the main image (the bottom patterned paper is a scrap of tissue patterned paper). I stitched glass seed beads all around the paper with white embroidery floss (since I don´t have that shade of orange... something I have to fix immediately!). I took a scrap of embossed vellum paper, wrote the sentiment and added a few stitches with green floss (from the fabric I used on the ribbon).

And because it´s too pretty it deserves a front view too!

I´m playing with this card at:
ColourQ Challenge #54
Clean & Simple sketch #112
Digital Tuesdays Challenge #80: sew special
Pollycrafts Challenge #65: a fairytale

Celebrate cupcake

2010-10-15T08:00:00.006+02:00

Friday again!!! whoo hoo!!! tomorrow I plan to spend my whole day crafting, I´m so looking forward to it! But for today is my turn to inspire you, this time with another card I made for the daily inspiration that awaits you every day at 2 Cute Rubber Stamps.
There is a freebie and a challenge awaiting for you there! please join us! you have until 31st of October to submit your creation and the possibility to win a rubber stamp!
Back to my card,

I colored the image (a freebie you can find here) with crayons and blended the colors with mineral oil. Look at the sparkling frosting, does it look great?!! I made it with white puff paint and glittered it before it dried, once it was completely set I puffed it and that´s the wonderful result, it look much much better in real life! the image is placed on the card with foam tape for dimension.
I keep this one simple too because wanted the 2 Cute cupcake to be the focus. This is the first time I´m using a doily on my cards, I colored it a bit with chalks and embellished it with green rhinestones. I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of paper and folded it on a flag like shape before attaching it to the card. I like this card, it´s simple, easy and looks beautiful, hope you like this one too!

I´m playing at:
Little red wagon Challenge #50: something old, something new (the oldie here is the cardstock, I had it for ages!!)
My grafico challenge #70: anything goes

it´s all in the accessories!

2010-10-14T19:16:00.000+02:00

how true... right?! I made this card to inspire you at Glitterbabe´s Challenge #16: Halloween! Stop by please and see what the other glitterbugs made, you´ll love all the inspirational creations this week!!!
In my country we don´t celebrate Halloween... but I liked the experience while living in the US, so much candy though... my daughter used to collect a huge amount that lasted whole year long!

I´m using here Witchy woman from Glitterbabe, that I colored with oil pastels blended with mineral oil. I cut all the images separately and applied shimmer body dust to make them all sparkly, added touches of glitter and silver metallic paint. Hand stitched the patterned paper with fine black marker, placed the images with foam tape on the card and added a sticker bat on one corner.

I also made, to complete the set, a basket, the template is very simple: a box with a long strip to make the handle. I decorated it with the same patterned paper, some scraps of black cardstock cut with edge scissors, a sentiment (from DeeDee´s digis) and another hat of the same Witchy woman set (also colored with oil pastels and glittered with shimmer body dust).
How do you like this one? I had so much fun making them!

I´m joining the following challenges too:
Aly´s Sundays challenge #27: Halloween
Stamp, scrap and doodle: Halloween
Bee crafty challenge #40: Halloween
Digital Tuesdays challenge #80: sew special
The creative cottage challenge #25: Halloween
My grafico challenge #70: anything goes

Tags!

2010-10-12T22:29:00.000+02:00

Here are my first hybrid tags, and I´m very pleased with the result. A hug to myself! it´s hard for me not to color using my pencils, digital coloring is challenging for me and I´ll keep trying to make it better!
These images are part of the new releases you can find at Glitterbabe´s Art store, Stef made these cute images and I´m showing you what I made with them.

These are tags for Christmas presents since we are approaching at unusual speed the holidays. My idea was to make something that could be made in no time almost and could be mass produced if needed. I started by coloring the images digitally on PS and creating the tag with digital elements. Once they were ready I printed them out on cardstock, cut, place them on the tags and gave them the finishing touches with glitter and ribbon.

On the first one I´m using Country Tree (you can find it here), and the digital papers are from Summer Driggs. I layered the image with a scrap of the same red paper as the tag.

And on the second one, I used Santa Moon (you can find it here), the digital elements are from RebeccaB and I also layered the image with a scrap of pink paper. In this one I used white puff paint on Santa´s hat, hair and beard (that I puffed once it dried and glittered afterwards).

Here is the back of both tags, digitally created too. Hope you like them as much as I did making them!

Free digi and Challenge at 2 Cute Rubber Stamps!

2010-10-11T18:30:00.001+02:00

2 Cute Rubber Stamps is hosting a challenge!!!!

Heidi made this gorgeous image to use it on your project for free. You can grab the image here and participate on the 2 Cute Rubber Stamp DT blog to win a free rubber stamp! how cool is that?!
This is the inspirational creation I made for you.

I printed the image directly on the card, that was something I wanted to give it a try and this one was the perfect excuse! And also printed it on a scrap of patterned paper that I paper pieced the bottom and glued it to the card. I hand wrote the sentiment on a strip of white paper, cut it in a flag like shape, curled it a bit and attached it to the card with a button from my stash (knotted with a piece of red embroidery floss).

I colored the three cute pumpkins with colored pencils and added green rhinestones to gave them a bit of sparkling.

On the opposite corner of the sentiment I embellished the card with three felt leaves, a clear button that I glued a scrap of green paper on the bottom and tied it with embroidery floss also.
You´ll have until October 31st to upload your creation and a winner will be randomly chosen! lets get creative and good luck to all!

I´m playing with this card at the following challenges:
Digital Tuesdays Challenge #79: ribbon, button or bling
Stamp, scrap and doodle: Halloween or fall
One stitch at a time challenge #34: use your digi stamps
Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #80

Tea time

2010-10-10T16:05:00.000+02:00

Fairies in a jar having tea. They are so cute! love their faces...
I had lot of fun making this one and I wanted to show them to you. The jar I´m using here is a orange marmalade jar I saved for this purpose: to make another fairies in a jar.

I used an image I found on a free vintage images web site (don´t remember where...) that I printed it out on cardstock and embellished with rhinestones, glitter, metallic fabric paint and colored some parts with colored pencils. I added butterfly wings to turn the little girls into fairies.

On the inside you see how I standed the fairies and the bottle cup I turned into a clock. It´s also a free image found somewhere... I colored it with colored pencils, glued it to the inside of the cup, glittered its border and poured nail polish (the one with glitter in it) to give protection and glossy-glittery finish.

The lid is painted first with white acrylic paint, once it dried I painted again with pink acrylic paint not covering completely the white base. I cut some words from a magazine, glued them to the lid, added another clock image and glittered the border too.

I decorated with metallic paint the back of the jar, to hide the back of the paper (it´s a piece of patterned paper I painted with white paint very diluted). To finish the whole craft I added some fibers on the inside around the fairies.

I´s been a while since I shared a recipe, so here I´m sharing a wonderful dessert: Ricotta cheese cake

Ingredients: 3 eggs, 4 tbsp white sugar, 500 gr ricotta cheese (1 pound), 100 cc milk (1/2cup), 100 cc heavy cream (1/2cup), 1 tbsp baking powder, 2 tbsp corn starch, peel of 1 lemon.
Preparation: preheat the oven at 180°C (350F), butter and flour a cake pan of about 9in diameter. Beat the eggs with the sugar until is completely foamy and reserve. In another bowl mix all the ingredients and incorporate with slow motions the eggs mixture. Pour the batter into the pan and cook it 30-40 min until is golden brown on the top. Take out of the oven and let it cool before serving. I sprinkled it with powdered sugar and served it with chocolate syrup just because I didn´t have any berry syrup. You can have it with whipped cream too. Hope you try this one, you´ll love it!

With my fairies I´m playing at:
Cupcake Crafts Challenge #111: happy hour
Digital Tuesdays Challenge #79: ribbon, button or bling
Flutter By Wednesday Challenge #125: anything goes

Get well

2010-10-08T16:43:00.000+02:00

I made my first get well card. Don´t have a clue why I din´t make one before, but it´s never late to start!

The cute giraffe is from Melissa Liban, she is an child book illustrator and does cute drawings, love her unique style! and she is giving some of her images for free too! thanks so much Melissa!! I colored the giraffe with colored pencils, applied some crystal glitter glue on its spots to let it sparkle a bit, cut and placed it with foam tape for dimension.
The sketch I´m using here is from Clean & Simple sketch #110, the patterned paper is a digital one from Jaime that I cut with edge scissors and embellished with glitter glue also. I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of paper, cut it, place it on the card and doodled a line with a fine black marker. To finish it I added a tiny heart sticker.
So simple, quick and fun card! hope you like it!!

I´m joining the following fun places:
Creative Inspirations Challenge #44: get well soon
Stamp, scrap and doodle: open challenge
Catch the bug: anything goes

Baby cards!

2010-10-08T08:00:00.043+02:00

Friday again! my turn to inspire you at 2 Cute Rubber Stamps. I saw this image and fell in love with it... look at that cute face!!!

I made a boy and a girl version of the same card. As you can see I used the same patterned paper on both of them, stitched glass seed beads with embroidery floss, added buttons with coordinating colors, and a piece of light blue and white fiber paper from my stash.
Do you by chance stopped by Canon Creative Park once? if you didn´t you should, there is plenty of free digital stuff to use on your cards as well as on your scrap pages, I found the patterned paper there.

I colored the Baby Pumpkin Apple images with colored pencils, cut and placed them on the cards with foam tape. To finish it I stamped the sentiment (clear stamp).
The sketch is very simple, I wanted to use a simple one in case you have to make several of the same card, you can substitute the stitching with a layer of paper or glitter glue to save time.

These two cards fit the following challenges:
Catch the bug: anything goes
Stamp, scrap and doodle: open challenge
Sundays with Crissy Challenge #10: buttons and bows
Digital Tuesdays Challenge #79: ribbon, button or bling
My Grafico Challenge #69: pop it up, add dimension

Treats for you!

2010-10-07T19:07:00.000+02:00

Thursday. That means it´s time to create for Glitterbabe´s Challenge blog! did you notice my new banner???? NO?!?! just take a look! yep!! I´m a Glitterbug now, I have a new DT assignment with Stef, a very sweet, funny and talented lady who is giving me a great opportunity and I hope we all can have a great time. You are invited too!!
This is a Halloween set composed of a treat bag and a card. Because this week we are being sponsored by Deedee´s digis I´m showing you my creation with one of her images: Sweetest treats, it comes with a wonderful set of sentiments too!

I printed two images, colored them with crayons and blended them with mineral oil, and finish them with glitter... LOTS of glitter on the butterfly-bear wings. I took a scrap of patterned paper and layered it with a piece of black paper that I cut with edge scissors. I pleated a strip of crêpe black paper and attached it to the patterned paper with a piece of purple ribbon. I faux stitched around the patterned paper with a fine black marker and placed the image with foam tape.

The treat bag is a paper lunch bag and I closed it with a paper clip that can be used as a bookmark too.

Here is a closer view of the clip, I used a sentiment that came along with the image. The border around it is computer generated, cut it, colored it with chalks and glued it to the clip. To finish it I tied a piece of the same ribbon with a knot.

On the card I did basically the same but on the sentiment I used flower shape instead of a circular one, I also colored it with chalks before placing it on the card with foam tape.
Hope you like my project as much as I do! do you think my daughter will like it? this is exactly the same costume as the first one I made for my little one on her first Halloween, here the two of us adding details and Maria wearing the final product

I´m playing at:
Flutter By Wednesday Challenge #125: open challenge
My Grafico Challenge #69: pop it up, add dimension
One stitch at a time Challenge #33: spooky Halloween
Digital Tuesdays Challenge #79: ribbon, button or bling
Stamp, scrap and doodle: open challenge

A calendar for {MOM}

2010-10-03T21:33:00.000+02:00

The third Sunday of October (the 17th this year) is Mother´s day in my country. I made a calendar to give as a present on that day.

I´m using Thanks Mum from Michelle Perkett, I colored the image with colored pencils (and blended with gamsol the skin parts) and placed it on the calendar with foam tape. I added glitter glue on the child dress and glued some blue glass seed beads on the mother´s dress.

The calendar was computer generated, I used Stamp III from Sueli Colbert and I made a flower with some tulle, felt, paper flower and glass seed beads, and I finished it with a heart pin. I pierced around the calendar with a thin needle and draw a heart with pencils on the 17th to highlight the date.

here is a front view to show the last details: rhinestones on the calendar flower swirl and glitter glue to framing it.

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Michelle Perkett Studio Challenge #47: girly with bling
Little red wagon Challenge #48: make your own embellishments
The creative Cottage #24: bling it on
Catch the bug Challenge: anything goes
Stamp, scrap and doodle: open challenge

Surprise goodie bags!

2010-10-01T06:00:00.006+02:00

It´s Friday again and my turn to inspire you at 2 Cute Rubber Stamps.
This time I wanted to make something where I could use the same image for different occasions, so I made these bags and I dressed them up turning them into Halloween, Birthday and Christmas bags. The image I chose this time is Kitty Surprise and you can find it at Heidi´s store, here. Isn´t it cute???!!!
I colored the images with colored pencils and used scraps of cardstock and patterned paper to decorate the fronts of the bags.

To make the Halloween one I used a traditional color combo: yellow, orange, gray and black. I used gold glitter glue to frame the patterned paper (from Jaime) and cut it with edge scissors, I took a piece of black ribbon from my stash and attached it with a staple.

I applied black glitter on the bow and I glued a witch hat sticker on the kitty´s head. I cut the image and placed it with foam tape.

To turn it into a Birthday bag I cut with edge scissors a piece of paper from my stash and traced the border with crystal glitter glue after gluing it on the front. I made a hole on the top and tied a piece or blue ribbon with a double knot.

On the image I glued blue glitter on the bow, crystal glitter glue on the dots of the box and a finished it with a rhinestone. Cut the image and placed it with foam tape also.

And the last one is a Christmas goodie bag. I cut the patterned paper (from Summer Driggs) with some card wiskers (from Mel), glued it to the bag and edge it with white puff paint (that I puffed after it dried), and I used a tiny clothespin I had for ages to close the bag.

And on this one I used red, green and silver as color combo, so I glued silver and red glitter on the box and I placed the kitty with foam tape for dimension too.
I filled the bags with candy, but you can put whatever you like: candy, trail mix, yummy cereal, chocolates, small goodies, or buttons if you have a crafty friend! the possibilities are endless... They are very easy and you can make them in no time really!

I´m joining the following challenges:
Bugaboo Challenge: 3D Halloween
Bee Crafty Challenge #39: Furry/fluffy friends
Allsorts Challenge #71: plain and simple
Sundays with Crissy Challenge #10: buttons and bows
One stitch at a time Challenge #32: anything goes
Lollipop crafts Challenge #9: glitter, sparkle and gems
Cards for men Challenge #20: autum
The creative cottage Challenge #24: bling it on