One sketch, four cards and a freebie! ♥

Hello dear friends! today I want to show you hot to make four cards I using one single sketch. You can make the best of it by turn it and flip it. Here are the beautiful four:

¡Hola!! hoy quiero mostrarles como hacer cuatro tarjetas usando un único esquema. Le podemos sacar el mayor partido simplemente girandolos en distintas direcciones. ¡Estas son las cuatro tarjetitas!

The first thing to do is to select a sketch. I wanted a simple one, so I chose sketch #102 at Retrosketches:

Lo primero es seleccionar un esquema. Yo queria algo simple entonces elegí el Nro 102 de Retrosketches:

Then I took the images I wanted to use, I made a file you can click on it and download it. The images are from The Graphics Fairy and the sentiment is word generated (by me ☺), enjoy!

Luego elegí las imágenes que queria usar. Estas son de The Graphics Fairy e hice un archivo que pueden descargarse, solo tienen que hacer click en la imagen y guardarla en el ordenador. Los deseos estan en ingles, pero si a alguien le interesa puedo traducirlo al español, me envian un mail o dejan un mensaje ☺

Print the images on patterned paper, trim them and start making your cards!

Luego imprimimos las imágenes en papel de diseño, las recortamos y ya estamos preparados para empezar a hacer las tarjetas.

1) I started by rotating the sketch 90° to your right:

Empecé con el esquema original y lo roté 90° hacia la derecha:

and here is the card:

y esta es la tarjeta

2) Then I flip sketch horizontally

Luego volteamos este esquema horizontalmente

 and the corresponding card

y su tarjeta correspondiente es la siguiente

3) Take the original sketch and flip it vertically

Tomé otra vez el esquema original y lo volteé verticalmente

and you have another card

y asi hacemos la tarcer tarjeta

4) lastly, flip this last sketch horizontally

y volteamos este último esquema horizontalmente

and you have another card!

¡y asi tenemos la última tarjeta!

Now is time to add some little embellishments as rhinestones, sequins and dew drops. I kept them simple thinking they could be good card for males too. The patterned papers are from Prima Marketing: Botanical collection, beautiful!

Ahora agregamos unos pequeños adornos (strass negros, lentejuelas, gotas de rocio...) teniendo en cuenta que las imágenes son adecuadas para regalarselas a hombres y debemos mantenerlas simples pero elegantes. Los papeles de diseño que usé son de la coleccion Botanical de Prima Marketing, muy bonitos!

Here again you have all four

Y aquí otra vez les muestro como se ven las 4 tarjetas juntas

Hope this mini tutorial helps you to start making the best of the sketches you love and end up with similar but different cards. Have a great day and thank you for stopping by!

Espero este mini tutorial les ayude a interpretar un esquema, a sacar su máximo potencial y terminar haciendo varias tarjetas parecidas pero distintas. Mucgas gracias por la visita y que tengan un buen dia ☺

I´m showing my cards at:
Love to create #107: CAS
TTCRD challenge: anything goes
Fab 'n' funky challenge #208
The male room challenge: vintage

Graduation card and paper flowers!

Hello crafty friends! I made my first graduation card to a friend who got his PhD last week. I struggled a little bit with it since I didn´t know what to do (and how): first it had to be a male card (hard...), second it has to be an adult greeting card to someone getting the highest level of formal education (hard too...), and third I wanted it to be not formal but on the funny side...
The easiest part was to printing it! it reads in Spanish: Congratulations! the world is yours
I used one of the fabulous images from The Graphics Fairy, then I give a bit of color with 4 of the 8 Copic markers I own: BG15, G000, E00 and C-3, not an easy task either since I don´t know how to use them yet... but they gave the card a graphic look that I was hoping I could achieve ☺

And I also wanted to show you some paper flowers I made with cupcake liners, those you buy at the dollar store? yep, those... you fold them at its middle twice to have a quarter of a circle and then glue them in two layers on a cardstock punched circle (i.e. you´ll need 8 folded liners to make a flower), glued a crystal stone (also from the dollar store) on the center and ruffled the petals a bit to give them dimension, very easy! and fun to make, now I need to use them!

I´m showing my card at:
The Graphics Fairy: brag Monday
Bearly mine challenge #75: anything goes

Thank you for stopping by! have a great day!

some pretty tags

Hello everyone! the other day I was looking at my embossing folders and I thought they were all so pretty I needed to use them more often, so I decided right away to make these tags with scraps of craft paper, then I rubbed a white ink pad over them to enhance the details.

 

The images are from The Graphics Fairy (aren´t those chairs gorgeous??!!) I printed them, fuzzy cut them and placed them with foam tape.

 

 

The sentiments are stamped on some scraps of vellum paper too, they are from a Waltzingmouse set, I´m in loooooove with them! they are so versatile.

 

 

To finish I added some Star Dust Stickles to the chairs, a ribbon flower (that I embellished with pearls from a very old necklace) and tied a piece of twine. What do you think? do you like them? I think they can be used as pretty tags to go along with pretty gifts ☺

I´m showing them at:
The Graphics Fairy brag Monday
Make it Monday challenge #128: anything goes
Paper playtime challenge #4: sentiment stamp
Challenges for everybody #14: anything goes

have a wonderful day! thank you for stopping by

just a note...

just a note to say Hello

Hello my blogger friends! here I am to show you a simple and pretty card I made

I printed a colored image from The Graphics Fairy, cut carefully around and glued a piece of scrap paper where I hand wrote the sentiment before attaching the image to the front of the card with foam tape. The ruffled paper is a strip of a paper napkin (with a pretty design) that I glued it with a hot glue gun.
It looks better in real life though...

I´m showing my card at the following places:
The graphics fairy: brag Monday
Challenges 4 everybody challenge #13: anything goes
Catch the bug challenge blog: February anything goes
Clear it out challenge: theme: circles (those on the napkin paper), anything goes

thank you for stopping by! have a great day ☺

Gift tags!

Hello dear friends! Tuesday and my second post of the week, whoo hoo! I wanted to share a nice project I made: some very cute gift tags. I loved how they turned out, I made them to embellish some paper bags full of yummy goodies for my lab mates☺

I printed the images (from The Graphics Fairy) on cardstock, cut them around and tied a piece of yute, I closed the paper bags with a piece of washi tape, I hung the tags with a tiny decorated clothespin (I glued a sequin snowflake and a brad). Very easy but beautiful! I´ll make more because they look great and can be used for everything!

I´m showing my creation at:
The Graphics Fairy brag Monday #172
CDAC Anything goes challenge
Digital Tuesday Challenge #195: winter wonderland
The Outlawz Paper ala mode challenge: anything goes

Thank you for stopping by, have a lovely day!

It looks like Christmas!

Hello my dear blogger friends! Hello my dear and forgotten blog! actually is not I forgot my blog (or you my friends), just I could not find the time to post everything I´ve been crafting and leave you some love on your blogs...
Christmas is almost here!! where did the whole year go??? I love Christmas season, so many sweet childhood memories... besides making some cards I´ve been doing some crafts too!
Here I am to show you a Christmas bunting I made a few days ago

let me tell you I LOVE how it turned out, my pictures are not good (sorry about that!), but believe me it looks better IRL.
I took some pages from an old book and printed the images (all from The Graphics Fairy) directly on the pages, cut them in a flag-like shape and added a few sparkling details: sequins, glass seed beads, glitter glue; colored some parts of the images with colored pencils and used a knotted string to hung it.
It was so easy and fun to make I´m thinking to do more of them to decorate my place all year round! here you have a few more pictures:

On my cooking side I´ve been trying a few baking recipes I had spotted here and there. In particular I made these super-wonderful chocolate cookies (you can find the recipe here) and some beer breads (using this recipe). Hope you try them too! love the smell of my house when I find the time to bake, the cookies are wonderful and the bread is simply amazing!

Next week I´ll take a few day off, so I hope I can find the time to blog a bit more and to visit you too! Thank you for stopping by, have a wonderful day!

Giving thanks

We don´t celebrate Thanksgiving here but I want to take the spirit of this month by counting my blessings too. I saw a similar idea somewhere on the web and I thought I could made my own "giving thanks" paper garland. All images I´m using here are from The graphics fairy.

You simply have to open PS or a software of your liking, place the image and sentiment (it reads "I give thanks for..." in Spanish) on the left side of your page so you have enough room to write down your blessing on the right, print the page, cut the paper in strips, make a loop and staple it, then take another piece and repeat ☺
There you have your pretty garland! I think it would be fun playing with different papers to make a colorful one...
Thank you for stopping by, have a nice day!

I {love} you

Hello my friends! here I have another card to share with you. Very simple as you can see but I really love how it turned out.
The typewritter is from The Graphics Fairy that I placed it on the card with foam tape, I added a thin strip of paper behind it where I hand wrote the sentiment. To finish the card I pleated a paper measuring tape (thank you again IKEA!) and a piece of ribbon from my stash.
Thank you for stopping by and have a nice day!

I´m playing with my card at:
Cute card Thursday challenge #215: for the boys
Raise the bar challenge #103: report cards (letters, text)

Felicidades!

Easy and quick, I love how this card turned out... I made it for a (male) friend, it´s very hard for me to do masculine cards that´s why I´m so happy with the result.

How gorgeous is this elephant?! and the cake?! both images are from The Graphics Fairy that I opened them together on PS (the sentiment is also computer generated), print them and cut out, after that I used glitter pens to highlight some parts. Then I placed them both, the image and the sentiment, with foam tape, and voilà! there you have it ☺
I´m also playing at Polka Doodles challenge blog (birthday cards for boys or men).

Thank you for stopping by!

A set of four!

Hi my blogger friends! Since it´s been a month from my last post I wanted to show you four cards I made (just for you to know I´m still creating!).

I had tons and tons of fun making these simple cards, all images are from The Graphics Fairy that I either printed directly on the blank card or on a piece of cardstock. The sentiments are half in English half in Spanish (they mean the same in both languages), I computer generated them in PS, cut them and added them to the cards. I finished them all with a bit of glitter, stitches and glass seed beads.
If  you want to see the details just click on each of them to enlarge.

Thank you for stopping by! have a nice day!