Angel in a jar

I love to make little things for my daughter, and I love to recycle things, so I put the two of them together and I made this cute angel in a jar.

The idea is very simple: you start with an empty marmalade jar, then pick an image you like to put inside and embellish your jar as much as you want!

I used a Michelle Perkett image that I colored with colored pencils and added some details to it: pearl paint on the stars and moons on her dress, glitter on her wings and cuffs, and a few white feathers on her wings too. I glued the angel inside the jar and fill it with some iridescent plastic shredded paper as clouds.

Then I painted the lid with gesso, and after it was dry I glued with mod podge a sentiment made with single words cut out from a magazine. I finished the lid glittering all its border.

And to finish this craft I painted tiny dots of glow in the dark paint on the otside of the jar, my idea was for them to look like tiny stars during the night, they can not be seen very well on the picture...
This is my inpirational creation for you this week at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday group, we have a very easy challenge for you: anything goes! hope you can join usin the fun
Thank you for stopping today!

I´m playing at:
Flutter By Wednesday #173: open challenge
Crafty Creations #137: CAS
Truly Scumptious #66: CAS
4 Craft Chicks #57: anything goes
Simply Create #53: older than 6 mo.
Frosted designs: fuzzy cutting

All boy

I enjoyed every second I´d spent making this tag, when I saw this image (Skater boy from Designed to Delight) I knew exactly what I wanted to make... oohhh... what a great feeling!

The tag is made manly by using scraps of paper, I printed the cloud and kite from Bird´s Card blog and paper pieced them, I hand draw the tiny hill and glued it to the tag and pierce holes around it, then I draw faux stitches with a white pen around the tag and placed the cloud and kite to finish it with a piece of twine. Finally I colored the image with colored pencils, cut it around and placed it on the tag with foam tape.
I finished my project with a piece of fabric that I cut in a stripe as a ribbon and stapled it in place, I spelled BOY with white pen and replaced the letter O with a sticker. Love how it turned out! hope you like it too ☺ thanks for stopping!
I´m playing at:
Delightful Inspiration: use the image above
All that scraps wednesday challenge: paper piecing
Cards for men challenge #10: someone special
Paper play week #19: anything goes
Frosted designs: ribbon and/or twine

Pixie of Joy

How cute is this image?! It´s from A day for daisies, a free pixie you´ll find at The flower basket challenge blog to play with in the current challenge.

the image is colored with colored pencils blended with mineral oil and I glittered some parts. The patterned paper is a double sided gift wrap paper I found at a gift store (the same one as the previous post... I also should had bought the whole bunch...), the background is gold with some green flourished butterflies, so pretty! I Added a ruffled red ribbon and stickers to spell joy on the front. And I placed the image with foam tape.

this is front picture because I like how it turned out ☺

I´m playing at the following challenges:
The flower basket challenge #7: it´s all in the wrapping
Meljen challenge #37: red, green and gold
Alphabet challenge: G is for glitter
Frosted designs: ribbon
The corrosive challenge #94: sketch
Stamptacular sunday challenge #89: winter wishes

Merry Wishes!

I´m still making Christmas cards... and I´m not sure if I´ll have them done before the holidays end, but it was fun to make some of them! Here I have a different one for you: this week we are challenging you at Glitterbabe´s Challenge to create something for Christmas without red or green and this is my take to inspire you all.

The image I´m using this time is Cardinal from Glitterbabe (you can find it at Stef´s store here) colored with colored pencils.
Let me tell you a story behind my card: I was born in one of the countries in the very south of South America: Argentina, and in particular a small city in the middle of it, it´s were the gauchos came from: La Pampa. It´s a beautiful place and I miss to look around 360° and find the horizon only.... well there lives a beautiful bird, a yellow cardinal (we have a red version too, but I´ll leave that for another time), and when Stef set the challenge I thought immediately of this little beauty.
Here I show you where my country is and the area where this cardinal lives, my homeland is the red dot ☺

I found (googled them) a picture of the real bird and the drawing I used to color Stef´s Cardinal.

It´s a gorgeous bird, that sings beautifully, and it was almost extinct when I was a child, I´m not sure if it´s still on danger, hope not!

With my card again, I used digital patterned papers from Jaime that I glittered around with silver glitter glue, a silver ribbon from my stash and a hand written sentiment finish the card.  Hope you like this one and play with us this week too!

My card fits the following challenges:
Sundays with Crissy challenge #12: Christmas is coming or winter is here
Whoopsi Daisy: ribbons and bows
Dare to be Sassy challenge #50: non traditional holiday colors
Alphabet challenge blog: G is for glitter
Frosted designs: ribbon

Ornaments!

At Delightful Inspiration we are challenged to use this beautiful poinsettia image to make a  project, it took me two days decide what to do... and finally I made ornaments! they were so much fun to make!

I started by choosing the papers (from Jaime), I changed the color of the image on PS to match the papers and printed the flower several times on three coordinating patterned papers. Then I pieced all parts of the flower, shaded them a bit with colored pencils before attaching all parts with foam tape. To add sparkle and texture to my ornaments I glued some glass seed beads on the centers of the flowers. The snowflakes are plastic ones from the dollar store already glittered, a piece of fishing line makes them ready to hung!

Hope you like them!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Delightful Inspiration: use poinsettia image
Creative inspirations challenge #89: Christmas decorations
Fussy and fancy challenge #25: anything but a card
Frosted designs: glitter
Fun at Fairy Knoll: all that glitters
Catch the bug: anything goes
Craft your days away challenge #9: add texture
Top tip Tuesdays #12: anything goes
Sundays with Crissy challenge #12: Christmas is coming or winter is here

So kind

I decorated this paper lunch bag for a dear friend, I bought her a nice present and it deserved a nice decorated bag so here is what I made.

The cute cat is Thank you Kitty from 2 Cute Rubber Stamps that I colored with colored pencils and blended them with gamsol. I just love the happy cute face it has! I gave the flowers a bit of sparkle with glitter nail polish and added a rhinestone on their centers. The papers are from my stash and I cut the black cardstock with edge scissors. I added a silver ribbon and a safety pin decorated with pink glass seed beads. I finished the bag closure with a glittered flower in hot pink and a brad.

I´m playing at:
Embellish Magazine: bags color challenge
Dare to be Sassy: anything goes
Frosted Designs: word challenge, thanks or thankful
Alphabet challenge blog: C is for Cats