A cute little card

One of my resolutions for this new 2012 was to color all those forgoten images I had, printed or not, and make cards or crafts out of them. This is a very simple and clean card.

I simply stamped the sentiment and placed the image with foam tape.

How beautiful is this image?! it's from A day for Daisies that I printed it on a scrap watercolor paper, then I colored it with watercolor pencils and a water tank brush, and finally I added the shadows with my regular colored pencils. Very simple and it makes me smile when I look at it ☺
Thank you for stopping by, have a nice day!


I´m playing at the following challenges:
Flutterby Wednesday challenge #195: anything goes
Cute card Thursday challenge #209: anything goes
Paper Play challenge #12: spring colors
Color create challenge #92

Angel in a jar

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

Happy frosting day!

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

Paper clips!

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

Tea time

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

Treats for you!

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

glittery day

At first glance this card doesn´t look like it has much glitter, true, the one I used this time is so thin that sticks everywhere like if I´d used tons of it... but I love it, it sparkles and shines a lot!

The image is Flower girl from Glitterbabe, I colored it with colored pencils in shades of soft pink and a bit of green. I added white crystal glitter that I found in a craft store a few days ago and I really had to have it.
I used some digital papers from Summer Driggs, the sentiment is from Jaime (I love it! and I used it before here) that I mat it with a scrap of black paper. I pierced around the central circle, stitched black glass seed beads with embroidery floss and glued some pink seed beads on the centers of some flowers on the paper. I embellished the card with a heart, a flower and three punch butterflies, all of them I decorated with white crystal glitter and that thin pink glitter I told you about. I placed the embellishments and the image with foam tape on the card and I glued the butterflies here and there...

I´m very pleased how this card turned out, hope you like it too!

I´m playing with this one at the following places:
Glitterbabe´s Challenge #13: sketch
Creative inspirations Challenge #43: pink and black
Digital Tuesdays Challenge #77: it´s all about the girls
Flutter by Wednesdays #123: all winged things!
Stamp, scrap and doodle: stitching
One Stitch at a Time #32: anything goes... as you like it!
Lollipop Crafts Challenge #9: glitter, sparkle, gems

Summer Fun!

I was in need of some bright colors to lift my spirits, and this card is definitely bright for my standards. It did me well because now taking a look at it reminds me how much fun we had this summer at the beach... and it makes me smile :-)

the gorgeous little cute girls is Olivia a freebie Michelle Perkett so generously gave at her groups on PCP and CDAC (if you are not a member yet, join us!! you don´t want to miss the fun!). I colored Olivia with colored pencils (she got a tan!), cut around and added a few dots of glitter paint on the sand before placing her with foam tape on the card.

The patterned paper is a very (very) old paper from my stash. To embellish the card I made a flower layering two of them with a smiley button as its center, I painted with glitter paint three sea shells my DD and I took from the beach and to finish I added 3 punched butterflies and dots of glitter around the patterned paper.
I´m joining the following challenges:

Michelle Perkett Studio Challenge #43: hang on to summer fun!
Flutter by Wednesday Challenge #120: sketch
Glitterbabe´s Challenge #10: free up a freebie
One Stitch at a time challenge #29: Blooms, butterflies, bling

Write a story...

and share it with your friends!

I altered this notebook for my daughter, she likes to write and I thought this would be a nice gift for her now that a new school year is approaching.

the image is Stella the summer story teller by Michelle Perkett (you can find it here). Coloring this too-cute image made me spend a wonderful time, I used almost all my coloring mediums: colored pencils, crayons, oil pastels, chalks and eye shadow; some parts are blended with gamsol, some with mineral oil and others without blending. I matted the image with patterned papers and doodled a line around them like a frame, I was not careful at all while drawing them and I think they go good with the image.

the sentiment is hand written on the patterned paper with gel pen. The papers are from Summer Driggs, you can see her wonderful work here. I hand cut a scalloped border on the orange paper and I traced it with gel pen also. The faux stitching is a rub on I had for ages. And I finished the notebook with a flower made out of the DP (a left over flower from this project!). It´s a simple decoration but I didn´t want to add anything too bulky or something that could be easily broken, I want my daughter to use it and share her stories.
Hope you like it!
I´m playing at:
Pollycraft Monday Challenge #59: add a little nature
Cupcake Craft Challenge #106: let´s get digital
Digital Tuesday Challenge #74: make a gift set
Flutter by Wednesday Challenge #119: anything goes with a butterfly, fairy or angel

Wherever you go

go with all your heart...

A very simple card, the ones I love most! I started with acetate that I cut and folded into a card. I took a piece of handmade patterned paper (made out of paper napkins following this technique) and matted it to a scrap of brown cardstock before attaching it to the inside of the card.

I colored this gorgeous butterfly from Softpencil with colored pencils, cut around it, curled its wings a bit to add dimension and placed it on the front of the card. I cut a few flowers from the patterned paper and adhered them also to the front. To make the sentiment I cut two strips of paper from an old book (I liked the yellowish color of the pages) one with half of the sentiment for the outside and the other one with the rest of it for the inside.
Hope you like this one because I love it!
I´m participating at:
One Stitch at a Time Challenge blog: mystical
Digital Tuesdays Challenge blog: butterflies or lace
ColourQ: #45
Flutter By Wednesday´s challenge blog: open challenge
Crafty Creations challenge blog: winged things
Creative Cottage challenge blog: acetate

Just for {U}

I made this envelope trying to follow ColourQ #44, I loved the combination of colors and I think I used them very well (I made use of my scraps of paper!). The sad part is that I couldn´t make it on time to participate on the challenge... maybe next time...
Over a strip of black cardstok I glued three scraps of paper, paper pierced them and stitched some clear glass seed beads with black embroidery floss. After that I trimmed the long edges with decorative scissors and placed it on the front of the envelope. The sentiment is hand written on the light blue paper.

The image if from Daisy May (Woopsi Daisy), a fairy I bought a few months ago, these images are so cute! and so beautiful to color. I used colored pencils and blended them a little bit with mineral oil and to finish it I painted her wings with pearled acrylic medium (and I also slightly brushed some of it over her dress). I cut the image and placed it on the envelope with foam tape.
I´m joining Flutter by Wednesday´s challenge blog: #117 and Crafty Creations challenge blog: #80