Summer Fun!

It´s summer fun at The Outlawz! and here is my inspirational creation for the Thursday´s Prismas and other medium (POM) challenge.

this was really fun to make. I took a very inexpensive wooden frame and painted it with acrylic paint, gave it first a smooth coat and then I used the dried brush technique to add the clouds and shade the green grass.

The image is from Melissa Liban (you can find them in her Etsy shop here) and I colored them with colored pencils. How cute are these little guys enjoying their summer afternoon... I placed them on the frame with foam tape and finished it with a sun and bees.
Would you like to join us? there are wonderful prizes if you play with us ☺
Thank you for stopping and I hope you like this project as much as I do!

I´m playing at:
Sweet Stampin´: platying in the summer fun
Digital Tuesday challenge #114: in the garden/outdoors
Deep Ocean challenge #1: anything goes

Life´s a beach!

Don´t you agree this image is cute, cute, cute??!!! love the tiny toes... It´s Penny from Michelle Perkett. I wanted this card to be as clean and simple as I could make it, I´m still wondering if it´s too clean and simple... anyway I like it a lot!

I colored the image with colored pencils and tried to give Penny a little tan since she is enjoying summer already. I glittered her swimming suit (because she is cute and therefore she has to sparkle).

And I applied that dimensional clear glue to the rubber ring, looks like the real one. After it dried I cut the image and placed it with foam tape to the card. Finally I glued the sentiment that is from another cute image from Michelle Perkett: Olive.
Thank you for stopping!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Deep Ocean challenge #1: anything goes
Pile it on: summer heaven
Penny´s challenge #54: here comes summer
Truly Scumptiouns #58: summer sparkle
Digital Tuesdays #114: in the garden/outdoors
Paper Cutz #94: beach or travel
Sweet stampin´: playing in the summer sun

A floral {hello}

I made a very simple hello card, again using my scraps of paper. First I glued the strip of patterned paper on the card and then stitched its top and bottom with embroidery floss.

I colored the image (Spring fence from Designed to Delight) with my beloved colored pencils and layered it with a scrap of the same craft paper I used for the base of my card, gave it two turns around with a piece of thin twine and added a button as embellishemnt. Then I took my old alpha rubber stamps and spelled hello with dark brown ink. And that´s it! hope you like it as much as I do.
Thank you for stopping!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Delightful Inspiration: use the image above
Digital Tuesday challenge #114: in the garden/outdoors
Catch the bug: anything goes

Seasons greetings

 Yes! I made another Christmas card! I like this one too, I love this patterned paper! actually is a double sided gift wrap paper, so sad I dind´t buy the whole bunch of them at the store where I find it... but then, they will have a different one next time and I´ll be happy again to buy it!

The image is from  Pollycraft but I couldn´t find it in their store, maybe is not listed there anymore. I colored the image with colored pencils and glittered the pom-poms on the cutie hat. I used a fiber, a snowflake and a tiny pom-pom as embellishments.

 Very simple but beautiful, what do you think?!

I´m playing at:
Pollycraft challenge #73: Color scheme - pink, blue and brown
Lollipop craft challenge #19: welcome winter
The shabby tea room challenge #39: ´this the season
Digital Tuesday challenge #88: it´s cold outside
City crafter challenge #34: let it snow!
Dare to be Sassy challenge #50: non traditional holiday colors
Alphabet challenge: G is for glitter

A frame for my little lady...

This is an iPod box I´ve been saving for 5 years now... the first day I saw it I knew I was going to turn it into a frame to put a picture of my little lady.

Here you can see the almost beginning of it all, I realized I didn´t took a picture of it to show you the before stage, so I took a picture of it´s back before gluing both part together.

I used Sleep ladybug and Butterfly from 2 Cute Rubber Stamps that I printed out on paper with some tooth on it so I could have some texture on the coloring with my colored pencils. Aren´t they cute??!! I added black glitter on the mama and baby ladybug´s spots and some glitter nail polish on the butterfly wings to give them sparkle.

With edge scissors I cut a piece a bit larger than the opening where the picture will be placed to stand it out and distressed the edges with chalks. I took a piece of green fabric and ruffled it to use it as grass (hope it looks like grass!) and finished the front part of the box with yellow paper string tied in a bow.

I decorated also the back of the box following the decoration of the front using the same edge scissors and distressing the borders. I printed the sentiment (from Kathie Winters) on a scrap of patterned paper (from Ginger) and added a dollar store flower decorated with a button a piece of the same yellow paper string. To attach both front and back together I used another flower, button and paper string and glued it to the top (as you can see on the picture below).

 I love to recycle, it gives me a great feeling after I finish something... and besides you have half of the work done! Now I need to decide which picture of my little lady I´m going to frame!

My project fits the following challenges:
Digital Tuesdays challenge #82: include a non-craft item
My grafico challenge #72: add some sparkle
Meljen challenge #31: use 2 digis
Totally papercrafts challenge #40: bling it on
Creative inspiration challenge #46: glitter, glamour, girlie
Stamp, scrap and doodle: buttons

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

it´s all in the accessories!

how true... right?! I made this card to inspire you at Glitterbabe´s Challenge #16: Halloween! Stop by please and see what the other glitterbugs made, you´ll love all the inspirational creations this week!!!
In my country we don´t celebrate Halloween... but I liked the experience while living in the US, so much candy though... my daughter used to collect a huge amount that lasted whole year long!

I´m using here Witchy woman from Glitterbabe, that I colored with oil pastels blended with mineral oil. I cut all the images separately and applied shimmer body dust to make them all sparkly, added touches of glitter and silver metallic paint. Hand stitched the patterned paper with fine black marker, placed the images with foam tape on the card and added a sticker bat on one corner.

I also made, to complete the set, a basket, the template is very simple: a box with a long strip to make the handle. I decorated it with the same patterned paper, some scraps of black cardstock cut with edge scissors, a sentiment (from DeeDee´s digis) and another hat of the same Witchy woman set (also colored with oil pastels and glittered with shimmer body dust).
How do you like this one? I had so much fun making them!

I´m joining the following challenges too:
Aly´s Sundays challenge #27: Halloween
Stamp, scrap and doodle: Halloween
Bee crafty challenge #40: Halloween
Digital Tuesdays challenge #80: sew special
The creative cottage challenge #25: Halloween
My grafico challenge #70: anything goes

Free digi and Challenge at 2 Cute Rubber Stamps!

2 Cute Rubber Stamps is hosting a challenge!!!!

Heidi made this gorgeous image to use it on your project for free. You can grab the image here and participate on the 2 Cute Rubber Stamp DT blog to win a free rubber stamp! how cool is that?!
This is the inspirational creation I made for you.

I printed the image directly on the card, that was something I wanted to give it a try and this one was the perfect excuse! And also printed it on a scrap of patterned paper that I paper pieced the bottom and glued it to the card. I hand wrote the sentiment on a strip of white paper, cut it in a flag like shape, curled it a bit and attached it to the card with a button from my stash (knotted with a piece of red embroidery floss).

I colored the three cute pumpkins with colored pencils and added green rhinestones to gave them a bit of sparkling.

On the opposite corner of the sentiment I embellished the card with three felt leaves, a clear button that I glued a scrap of green paper on the bottom and tied it with embroidery floss also.
You´ll have until October 31st to upload your creation and a winner will be randomly chosen! lets get creative and good luck to all!

I´m playing with this card at the following challenges:
Digital Tuesdays Challenge #79: ribbon, button or bling
Stamp, scrap and doodle: Halloween or fall
One stitch at a time challenge #34: use your digi stamps
Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #80

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

Baby cards!

Friday again! my turn to inspire you at 2 Cute Rubber Stamps. I saw this image and fell in love with it... look at that cute face!!!

I made a boy and a girl version of the same card. As you can see I used the same patterned paper on both of them, stitched glass seed beads with embroidery floss, added buttons with coordinating colors, and a piece of light blue and white fiber paper from my stash.
Do you by chance stopped by Canon Creative Park once? if you didn´t you should, there is plenty of free digital stuff to use on your cards as well as on your scrap pages, I found the patterned paper there.

I colored the Baby Pumpkin Apple images with colored pencils, cut and placed them on the cards with foam tape. To finish it I stamped the sentiment (clear stamp).
The sketch is very simple, I wanted to use a simple one in case you have to make several of the same card, you can substitute the stitching with a layer of paper or glitter glue to save time.

These two cards fit the following challenges:
Catch the bug: anything goes
Stamp, scrap and doodle: open challenge
Sundays with Crissy Challenge #10: buttons and bows
Digital Tuesdays Challenge #79: ribbon, button or bling
My Grafico Challenge #69: pop it up, add dimension

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