Joy!

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

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

A thank you card

Yesterday late afternoon (on my time zone) Paulette from TlcCreations set a 24 hours challenge, and she offered a beautiful image we needed only to color to participate.
I printed it out right away and I thought leaving it to color the following morning, but it was so beautiful that I couldn´t help myself and I finished it yesterday night. Today I made a card with it

this is my first time making a vintage looking card, or as vintage as I could get up to know! and I love the result! really...
These are the image before and after

I colored it with colored pencils, cut in a round shape and layered it with a piece of the base cardstock, distressed the edges and added dots of glitter glue.
I used a digi paper leftover (I used it before here, and I still can´t remember who made it...) that I distressed with ink, a ruffled lace I had for at least 4 years (!!??!!) and a ribbon I bought this morning specially for this card because I didn´t have any to match.

The sentiment on the front is from Sueli Colbert Designs and I printed it out directly on the card

and I added two dots of glitter glue paint.
I made the inside too!

because Paulette has also a wonderful sentiment that goes perfect with this image.
I´m participating with this card at Digital Tuesdays Challenge blog where we have a technique challenge: distressing, at Cupcake Craft Challenges blog where we have to use two digis from two different designers, and at Sentimental Sundays Challenge blog where the challenge is to switch it up: new technique or new style.

4U

I´m calling this card 4U but I didn´t actually write the sentiment, it could be uses to send it to a friend, b-day, thinking of you, miss you... The images I´m using are Garland from Stef (Glitterbabe) and Hedgie from Christy (Tiddly Inks), I put them together with PS and printed it on cardstock and I colored them with colored pencils.

I wanted to use both images to make a card(s) but I was not thinking in combining them, today it seems I was inspired and suddenly it all come together... I added some rhinestones to the center of the flowers and around the flower where the sentiment will be placed.

Love the colors of the digi papers I used! these are from Jaime and I printed them on cardstock
I´m submitting this card to participate in the following challenges:
Tiddly Inks Challenge blog: anything goes!
Friday Sketchers: sketch #99
Aly´s Sunday Challenge: all about animals
One Stitch at a Time: flowers
Cupcake Craft Challenges: don´t be square (mine is 4.5x6 in)