thinking of {YOU}

A few days ago I saw a challenge with this color combo and at first sight I found it very challenging...

but then I gave it a try (sadly it took me more time and I couldn´t play in the challenge... maybe next time?).

The card looks better IRL but I think you can see the details OK. I took a pretty patterned paper from my stash and cut two strips with an edge scissor that I layered them with a tulle ruffled ribbon. I stamped the sentiment and placed the image with foam tape.

The image is from Michelle Perkett colored with colored pencils and added a few details, glitter glue on the roses, dots of pearled paint on her hair and glossy accent on her lips. I really love the soft look all this colors together and the white background make, so pretty...

Today is my daughter 13th birthday, I think I said this last year too: where did the time go??? I can see in her a sprouting bud eager to bloom... what a blessing!

Hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday too!

I want to enter my card in the following challenges:
The shabby tea room challenge #118: shabby beautiful
Craft your passion challenge #114: anything goes
Paper crafting journey: color it up
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes

Hola!

Hello my blogland friends! here I have a card to show you, another CAS one, very easy and full of color, makes me smile ☺

I took a piece of sheer fabric from my stash and ruffled a bit before gluing it to the card, Then I embellished my handmade ribbon with a few buttons, some pearls and dots of pearled paint and glitter glue.
I finished my card by stamping the sentiment (a very old clear stamp alphabet).
Thank you so much for stopping by, have a wonderful day!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Bambola casa creativa: reto de Junio
Love to create challenge #19: use something recycled
Raise the bar challenge #107: Hello summer
Craft your days away challenge #47: bingo (pearls, ribbon, glitter)

Horray!

It´s your day!

another birthday card, and this one was extra fun!

I printed the sentiment directly on the card (by TlcCreations), I took a few sea figures from a bag of confetti I have had on my stash for a while now... glueded some of them and used foam tape on others. And finished the card tying a piece of yellow raffia.
Have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Party time Tuesdays challenge #70: anything goes
Fab ´n´ funky challenge #123: celebrations
Perfect sentiments challenge #34: anything goes with a sentiment
Penny´s challenge #80: anything goes

Birthday monster!

I had to make a birthday card for a little boy and I thought this Bugaboo stamp could make the trick. The little guy just loved it!

This one is a very easy and simple one: took two pieces of patterned paper and layer them on the front of the card, then I added a rub on stitch at their joint of the two. I colored the image with colored pencils, cut out and placed it on the card with foam tape. And finally I computer generated the sentiment, printed out, cut and placed it also with foam tape (this time I made no mistake while typing the sentiment! whoo hoo!!! ☺).
Thank you for stopping by!

I´m playing at the following challenges
All sorts challenge #156: birthday
Stamp, scrap and doodles: stars and strips
Aud sentiments challenge #55: any sentiment
Party time tuesdays challenge #70: anything goes

my friend ♥

I was playing with my clear stamps and ended up with another clean and simple card. Not much to say on how I made it, just stamped in a row four different stamps from the same set with different inks, then I added a few stitches with embroidery floss. The sentiment is a dollar rubber stamp I had for ages...

I finished my card with an embellishent I like a lot: used a crushed expresso coffee cup, a flower, a tiny button and a few puched butterflies.

Thank you so much for stopping by, wishing all moms a wonderful day! (hopefully not so hot as here, we were around 100F/35C this week.... we are in May, please!!!!)

I´m playing at:
Cards and Things challenge #119: sketch
Raise the bar challenge #104: mother´s day cards
For fun challenge: my favorite girl
Simply create too challenge #13: mother´s day or feminine

just Because...

I wanted to use this image from the day I got it but... so I took it out of my folder of printed-ready-to-use-images and used it on this card, how cute! I also took my folder of paper scraps and made this card in no time, love the result and love the feeling of using paper I don´t want to throw away ☺

The image is from Bugaboo stamps, I colored it with colored pencils, cut it around and placed it on the card with foam tape.
I finished the card by stamping the sentiment and adding three gorgeous sequins. Thank you for stopping by!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Catch the bug challenge blog: anything goes
Cards and things challenge #119
CES challenge #84: no squares allowed

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)

Sparkle and shine!

I made a Christmas card! it was a while since my last one... but I wanted to try my X-Mas set of clear stamps. They are so cute!

another clean and simple one, with a little bit of sparkle, a piece of twine and just two main colors: red and blue. I stamped the images on scraps of paper, cut out, colored with colored pencils, glitter them a bit and placed them on the card with foam tape.

On the inside I placed the sentiment and stamped another Santa in gray.
Thank you for stopping by today!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Cards for men challenge #9: texture
Digital Tuesday challenge #157: winter blues
Creative Belli challenge #142: animals
Creative Inspirations challenge #160: anthing goes

Easter bunnies

True to my resolution here is another card using some images that have been waiting sometime on my folder to be colored. Also, I had this yellow cardstock for ages! because yellow is not one of my favorite colors most of the time I don´t use it (or better I don´t know how to use it...) but here I ended up with an easter card.

I saw this idea of glittering a doble sided tape and here is my try, pretty neat and easy!! love it! Then I took a scrap of glittered patterned paper, cut it and rounded its tips up before placing it on the card.

The images are from Bugaboo that I placed them together in a square fashion with PS, colored them with colored pencils, layered it with black cardstock and added a bit of glossy accent, they look cute, don´t they?
Thank you for stopping by!


I´m playing at the following challenges:
Retro Sketches #4
The Outlawz Twisted Thursday: spring colors
Lollipop crafts challenge #73: anything goes

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

Birds of a feather...

I´m trying to use my stash, and my new rubber stamps! I´m still struggling to make good impressions... here you have a good example of not a good stamping (*sigh* maybe one day...) but the paper is great for coloring!

Patterned paper, cardstock, buttons, flower are all oldies on my stash, but I still love them! I colored the image with my colored pencils and added a bit of glitter on the bird´s hats, rounded the bottom corners and faux stitched with white gel pen.
Thank you for stopping!

I´d like to enter the following challenges:
Retro sketches #2
Just some lines: spring cleaning
Digital Tuesday challenge #151: think spring

Today my daughter (12 y-o) showed me this video, and now it´s my turn to share it with you all. Never doubt, never forget: We can make a difference.

A bookmark

front

back

Second post today! whoo hoo!! ☺ I made this bookmark for my daughter. I had this image from A Day for Daisies printed out for ages waiting to be colored.... love it, it´s simply gorgeous! and goes wonderful with the sentiment I placed on the back of the bookmark (from TlcCreations).

I colored the image with colored pencils, I wanted to use shades of purple only (to match the patterned paper I have it on my stash for ages too...), but I added a few touches of pink and glittered the flowers on the mother´s dress. As embellishments just added a few fabric flowers (gift from my sister Dani!) that I decorated with purple sequins and some glass seed beads. Very simple, but I love how it looks in real life!
On the back I layered the sentiment with a punched strip of the same patterned paper, and to make it less bulky I only added the flowers and sequins. Hope you like it as much as I do ☺
Thank you for looking!

I´m playing a the following challenges:
A day for daisies challenge #38: dress it up with gingham
Just some lines challenge: spring cleaning
All Sorts challenge #145: say it with flowers
Paper Sundaes challenge #111: Feminine flair

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!

Thinking of you

Loving this hoopskirt frame stamp! it´s part of a set of clear stamps my sweetheart got me (isn´t he sweet or what???).

here you have a close picture, I stamped two of them directly onto the card base and stamped a swirl (from another clear stamp set) on the top part to add them a bit of height; the third one I stamped it on a scrap of a book page I painted with pink acrylic paint, cut it around, glued a few feathers behind and placed it with foam tape. Then, I thought something was missing so I glittered them a bit.

To make the bottom border I pleated a paper measuring tape (thank you IKEA!!! ♥), I took a piece of this beautiful embossed vellum paper I had for ages and cut around the image, I didn´t like it while I was making the card but I sticked with my first idea just to trust myself a bit... and now I think it looks delicate and pretty, what do you think? I finished my card with a tiny tag and a sentiment.
Have a nice day!! and thank you for stopping by ☺

I´m playing in the following challenges:
4 Crafty chicks #80: sketch
Paper Play challenge #10: recycle it
Paper sundaes challenge #111: feminine flair

You are special...

Love how this card turned out, not only because I´m loving the CAS look of my cards lately but also because I´m starting to learn how to stamp images (not only print them!). I´m not very good at it yet but I´ll make it better every time... besides it´s a wonderful excuse to start spoiling myself a bit with new and colorful inks pads!

This card was very easy and quick to make, as you can see. Here you have a front view to show you a few details like some glass seed beads on the center of the flowers, glittered the butterfly wings and added a trio of pearled paint dots on the bottom left corner.
Thank you for stoppping by!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
The Outlawz Wednesday´s Sketch challenge
Color Throwdown #182
CES challenges #75: flower frenzy
Sweet Stampin challenge: nature, bugs and bees
Lollipop crafts challenge #70: Clean and simple

Thinking of you

I let myself be inspired by "The cure for the winter blues challenge" at Moxie fab world, in particular by this image:

How gorgeous! love the colors, love the symmetry, love all the elements on it... This is my take on the challenge

a very simple card where I added a few details like the embossed rice paper, rhinestones, ribbon, glitter, a brad and my beautiful stamp as the focal point (thank you Lynne!!!).

I´m also playing at the following challenges:
Stamp, scrap and doodle saturday challenge: use your stash
Stamptacular sunday challenge #14: TEXT me!

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!