Relax...

Hello everybody! here I am to show you another card I made this week, actually I made it on Sunday afternoon, it was rainy, dark gray skies and cold... and this image from Shirley´s 2 girls was just perfect for a day like that: a cup of tea and take time to relax... (I´m not able to locate their store, do you know if they are still on business?) **** edited to add: I found them here! ****

I had it printed it out since forever... it was time to make something with it, I colored the image with colored pencils, pierced over the steaming hot tea and added some glossy accent to the teapot bubbles and to the tea bag. Then I layered the image with a scrap of cardstock and place it on the card with foam tape.

Papers are part of a winter pad (Aspen Frost) from BasicGrey, gorgeous papers!


I´m showing my card at:
CDAC seasonal fun challenge: season in your area (winter with no snow here...)
TTCRD challenge: anything goes
BasicGrey challenge #88: anything goes with BasicGrey
Make it Monday #130: anything goes

Today I went to the dentist to get a molar out, not fun, and no dinner for me today... but I wanted to eat something extra yummy for breakfast tomorrow morning, I´m baking right now this cake, since I´ve been such a good and brave girl today I get to eat as much as I want ☺ it smells soooo good, can´t wait until tomorrow! I´ll try to remember to take a picture to post about it later.
Thank you for stopping by, have a great day!

kindness

Hello crafty friends! hope you had enjoyed your weekend. I´m here to show you a card you can do in very few minutes with a beautiful outcome.

As you can see is a CAS card, the image is a digi stamp from Floppy latte´s, gorgeous!! I colored it digitally following this inspiration color combo

I stamped the sentiment and added a few rhinestones, as usual it looks better in real life...

I´m showing my card at:
CDAC Inspiration challenge group
Brown sugar challenge #31: greeting
Word art Wednesday challenge #69: anything goes
Allsorts challenge #196: for a lady

thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful week!

tiny mailbox

Hello friends! I made this cute tiny mailbox, it´s 3" wide and 4.5" tall ☺

I followed Sueli´s pattern and instead of using patterned paper I embossed it, then I rubbed white ink and glittered the design with glitter glue.

I assembled  the box and finally added a handmade flower. I´m not sure I like it as it is, I feel like something is missing, I was thinking of adding a little bird or some butterflies somewhere around the flower. Any suggestions?
It was an easy box and very fun to make, it could make a wonderful small gift holder. Sorry about the pictures I had to take them at night, I´m working a lot lately and I can not take pictures during daylight...

I´m showing my little mailbox at:
Sueli´s blog: reto buzon de San Valentín
Flourishes: glitter and shine
The pink elephant challenge #188: anything goes
Party Time Tuesday challenge #109: anything goes

Thank you for stopping by! have a wonderful day!

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 Rose...

Hello my friends! remember the little box I made a few days ago? I was modifying its template and here is the result, they look exactly the same from the outside but the differences are on the inside ☺ (I made the folds different to simplify it)

I decorated it with strips of patterned paper and followed the same design on the front and back of the box. The image is from Bugaboo, that I colored it with colored pencils and fuzzy cut it before gluing it to the box. Finally I embellished it with three beautiful pearls.

I´m showing my little box at the following places:
Catch the bug: Stella Says Sketch challenge #129
CDAC: Easy as 1-2-3 challenge
Brown Sugar challenge #27: go red

Thank you for stopping by, have a great day!

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 ☺

a little box...

Hello on Thursday my friends! I made a cute little box, sooooo pretty! easy and quick to make, great size to decorate too ☺ Everything is from my stash! I love when I use all those beautiful little things I find.
Here is the front part

I used a sketch from Case this sketch #12, a felt butterfly, glitter, rhinestones... all thing shinny!
This is the back

the sketch I used here is from Less is more #104, very simple indeed! I added three rhinestones to add sparkle to this part too.
And this is from above, so you can see the ruffled lace I added to the sides

you can add a handle, but I liked it this way, I´m going to place two little bottles of these sample shower gel (or if you like you can add moisturizing instead).

I´m entering my little project at the following challenges:
Less is more challenge #104: sketch
Crafty Creations challenge #207: anything but a card
Simon says challenge: 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!

{L O V E}

Hello my friends! here I am to show you a card I made (I finally could find the time to make it!)

I like how all that glitter makes it so soft and pretty. I colored the image (from Shelly´s Images) with colored pencils and blended them with gamsol.

I cut the words for the sentiment and glittered the borders before arranging them in the card with foam tape. The papers are from a Christmas paper pad (Aspen Frost from BasicGray) but I think they look great for a Valentine´s card too.

Winter is not my favorite season, but there are some things I really like when it´s cold outside: snuggle on the sofa with a warm and fragrant cup of tea and a good book, baking bread, baking cakes (and eating them afterwards!), oranges, tangerines and lemons; and crafting as much as I can... today I made this wonderful rustic bread on my new clay pot my sweetheart gave me these holidays, how I wish you could smell it and taste it, so crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside...

I´m playing with my card at the following places:
The squirrel and the fox challenge #36: something new
CDAC progressive challenge: use the given digital image
Fat pages with attitude challenge #32: Love

Thank you so much for stopping by, have a wonderful 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!