just because...

Here I am with another card I finished last night

also with a CAS look: not much to say that inks, clear stamps, rhinestones and (old) patterned paper are the components for this one.

Two posts in a row! you should have noticed it by now, I´m very VERY busy with my studies since a year ago, that´s why I can not create as much as I want, truth is it won´t get unbusy for another year... so I hope I can keep on crafting as often as I did in the past, mainly because it keeps my sanity at bay, so please... cross your fingers I can do both my PhD and papercrafting ☺

Have a nice day and thank you for stopping by!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
ColourQ challenge #153: color combo
Waltzingmouse sketch challenge #113
Fat pages and cards with attitude challenge #21: anything goes

A bookmark

Today I made this quick bookmark using the color inspiration from colourQ challenge #83, challenging colors by the way.

I started making the background by recoloring Spring cupcake from Designed to Delight digitally matching the inspirational picture colors. Printed them on each side and finished it by printing a sentiment on the back.

Then I singled out the orange cupcake to use it as the main image; printed it, cut it around and embellished it with glitter glue and a rhinestone.

I finished the bookmark by ruffling a piece of ribbon, placing the image with foam tape, a dollar store flower and a button. And here you have it! thank you for stopping!

I´m playing at:
Cupcake crafts challenge: something beginning with C
Pollycrafts Monday challenge #91: anything goes

A tag

Love this pixie, beautiful image! it´s from A day for Daisies and I made this tag to play at their challenge blog. All papers are from my stash as are the embellishments. I started by giving shape to a scrap piece of red cardstock, I used a template I found at Lilly of the Valley place that I modified a bit.

Then I cut a piece of this gorgeous embossed vellum paper and placed it on the tag, and on top of this layer I glued a piece of this gift wrap paper I used as patterned paper. I glued clear sequins around the patterned paper, once it was dry I pierced the holes to stitch light pink seed beads with white embroidery floss.

I colored the image with colored pencils and used mineral oil to blend the wax. Glittered the pixie wings and cut carefully around before placing the image with foam tape on the tag. I finished it with a piece of tinsel that I stapled it to the tag.

I´m playing at:
A day for daisies challenge #8: tinsel and tags
CES challenge #17: anything goes
Allsorts challenge #83: anything goes
Pile it on challenge #48: gift wrapping or tags
Paper sundaes challenge #49: cut it out
Aly´s Sunday challenge #32: anything goes
ColourQ #64
For fun: anything goes

A thank you fairy

I have to send a thank you card, I thought this fairy would make a pretty one. And I´m so pleased with the result, hope the person I´m sending it likes it too!

The image is from Karen Kindrich, a beautiful fairy I colored with colored pencils, matted it with a piece of cardstock from my stash and placed it on the card with foam tape.

The ribbon is from a strip of fabric that I pulled two threads from the center and it ruffled very nicely, I attached it with double sided tape.

I made a patterned paper out of one flower that I colored it digitally in orange to match the flowers on the main image (the bottom patterned paper is a scrap of tissue patterned paper). I stitched glass seed beads all around the paper with white embroidery floss (since I don´t have that shade of orange... something I have to fix immediately!). I took a scrap of embossed vellum paper, wrote the sentiment and added a few stitches with green floss (from the fabric I used on the ribbon).

And because it´s too pretty it deserves a front view too!

I´m playing with this card at:
ColourQ Challenge #54
Clean & Simple sketch #112
Digital Tuesdays Challenge #80: sew special
Pollycrafts Challenge #65: a fairytale

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

Having fun

Beware! long post today...
It´s Sunday and I feel wondeful! I could spend some time yesterday on my craftroom and it did me so good...
I made a craft and a card. First I´ll show the craft: this is a pencil holder

I used Goldilocks from Michelle Perkett, it´s a feebie!!! you can find it at her PCP group here and in the kick off Challenge at Crafters Digital Art Center, please join us! we are having fun here.
This was challenging for me, why? because I colored the image with kids markers.

I have a theory: we don´t really need expensive material to create beautiful things, we need to use our imagination and learn how to use all material available, and every material has its own technique. And this is what I try to teach my daughter everytime we do crafts. She is developing and improving her coloring (with a bit of my help) with colored pencils and markers. And this holder´ll be for her

You can see the traces of my coloring, but the general look is better than I expected (I need to learn how to take better pictures!!), and those are the colors I used to color Goldilocks.
Do you remember our trip to Toledo? I showed you a delicious dessert so tipical from this country: cuajada. This "yogourt" comes in some nice clay cups and I used one of them to make this pencil holder.

I decorate it with some ribbons from my stash, butterflies, ladybugs, bees and flowers are from a confetti bag I bought at a party store. The butterflies are on a piece of beading wire strung around a toodpick to turn it into a spring and the flowers are glued on the ribbon.

I have several of these clay cups so I´ll make more, I think they can make great gifts.

And second, my card

I used Birdhouse from Stef (Glitterbabe) that she so generously gave as a freebie here. I colored the image with colored pencils following the challenge set at Colour Q challenge blog.

This one was challenging also because of the color code we have to use, so vibrant for me, but after I finished the card I more than pleased with the result! they look so good! Used some scraps of paper to follow the sketch.

The image is placed on a piece of green cardstock, stitched the top and bottom sides with embroidery floss and some green glass beads. I punched the border and cut it with decorative sissors, and placed it to the card with foam tape. I finished my card decorating a flower with an orange button and a bow made with green embroidery floss.