Cleanning up!

I was cleanning up my craft space and I found these items

and under a layer of stuff there were: 4 paper bags I embossed with a couple of embossing folders, digital images I pirnted out and colored some of them, a paper napking from IKEA, some paper from an advertisement I liked and saved it to make something with it.

an hour, and a few clear stamps and ink later, I ended up with this set of four (sorry about the pictures but it´s night already here...) I changed my mind a bit while making them and took a few items from my stash so they won´t look the same, but I like how they turned out!

here you have a close up of the embellishments for each of them. What do you think?
Have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by! ☺

Showcasing Glitterbabe: second part

I have a couple more cards to show you where I used Stef´s (Glitterbabe) images ☺

A shower of LOVE

I kept this one very simple too! I started by printing the image directly on the card base along with the sentiment (made with PS). Punched the bottom border and added a scrap pink strip of paper behind. I colored the image with colored pencils, added a bit of glossy dimensional to the umbrella´s handle, glittered its top with white fairy dust glitter, glued some sequins and applied dots of pink pearled paint. It looks a lot better in real life!

And this one is another simple card (very easy and fast to make). Looks like I´m liking the CAS look a lot lately... I printed the drum four times directly on the card base and colored (with colored pencils) one of them to spotlight it. Added a few details like tiny red rhinestones, glitter, border punch and a piece of red sheer ribbon.

Thank you for stopping by and have a nice day!

more than chocolate...

I love you

more than chocolate

This is a gate fold card-wall hanger (something like 2 in 1) I made for my sweetheart for Valentine´s day. I gave it to him just a few minutes ago after we had a wonderful dinner I made for him: cheese fondue with boiled vegetables, and for dessert: chocolate brownie-like cake with strawberry ice cream.

Back to my card! I´m using here two images from Glitterbabe: Lacy Heart and HugsNKisses. I printed the heart on yellow cardstock (the reverse side of another patterned paper) and shaded it with colored pencils, then I glittered it all over.

The kisses were printed on scraps of chocolate cardstock and I added a tiny red heart sticker. The outside kiss was placed with foam tape on the heart to give the card a bit of dimension.

The front of the card is made with acetate to show the pretty patterned paper I used on the inside, I drawn stitches with white gel pen around the gate fold card and on the outer side of the piece of cardstock (another left over of the file folders) that forms the wall hanger. I added a piece of ribbon from my stash where it can be hung.
I almost forgot! The sentiment on the heart is a freebie I had for ages from Heavens Dreams.
This was very easy and a lot of fun to make! hope you like it and thanks for stopping!

I´m playing with this one at:
The Outlawz at their Saturday´s scrapbooking challenge: add a heart or the word love
Catch the bug: different fold

{LAVA} U!

How cute is this image??!! it´s Lava lamp from Glitterbabe (check out Stef´s art shop here!) This card is very simple and here is how I made it: I colored the image with colored pencils and blended them with mineral oil. I wet my fingertip with glue and touched slightly the image, then sprinkled glitter on the lava to add sparkle! Cut the image around and placed it on the card with foam tape.

Then I took a scrap of paper to stamp the sentiment with alphabet rubber stamps (from Image Tree), cut one end and curled it a bit before attaching it to the card.

The flower is made with a piece of an old ribbon I had on my stash that I ruffled by pulling at the white thread on one side, tied it with a knot on the back and glued it to the card, then I attached an iridescent flat bottom pearl on its center. And that´s it!

I´m playing at:
The Outlawz at their Sunday´s Clean and Simple group: Recipe -> color Red and one embellishment
The shabby tea room challenge #45: white and bright
All that scraps: early valentine ideas
Little red wagon challenge #64: one layer wonder
For Fun: everything glitter

A warm hello!

It´s been weeks since my last post, I hope I still remember how to do it right!
Today I´m sharing with you a card I made to inspire you all at Glitterbabe´s Challenge blog where the theme this week is Winter!

In principle is a simple card but I added some details because I was having so much fun with it! first I chose Clean and Simple sketch #122, the papers are scraps from papers I used previously (the base cardstock here and patterned paper here), added a few ribbons with coordinating colors from my stash, and made a flower stitching a thin ribbon to which I glued a snowflake sequin and embellished with a button. The sentiment is hand written as you can see in my very bad letters... I need to work on that...

The image is Sign Snowman from Glitterbabe (pay a visit to her Art shop here!) and it comes with sentiments! but this time I added the sentiment myself with PS. I colored the snowmen with colored pencils and added black glitter to its hat, clear glitter glue to the banner and buckle, glued some blue glass seed beads on its scarf and finished it with two small buttons. Cut the image around and placed it with foam tape.
I think it turned out very sweet, when I see that smiley face it makes me smile too!
I´m playing at:
Dancing in Pajamas: ribbon
Creative Belli challenge #108: snow
All that scraps: snowmen

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

Fall magnets

How fun was to color these little guys, I just love that image!! it´s Sitting scarecrow from Glitterbabe, I colored them with colored pencils and glittered after.
The challenge at Glitterbabe´s Challenge this week is to use red, orange and green, and these clothespins magnets is what I made to inspire you. I glued a piece of brown cardstock (from Summer Driggs) to the front of each (jumbo) clothespin. The other day I found, to my great surprise, at the supermarket some leaves with autumn colors that I couldn´t resist buying, and they were very handy, because I hot glued them along with a felt leaf on the top of my project. Then I placed the cute image with foam tape and finished it with a bit of moss. What do you think of them? they look beautiful on the fridge! hope you like them too and make your own.
Here is a picture of each of them, click to see them larger, can you find the differences? ☺

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

Tags!

Here are my first hybrid tags, and I´m very pleased with the result. A hug to myself! it´s hard for me not to color using my pencils, digital coloring is challenging for me and I´ll keep trying to make it better!
These images are part of the new releases you can find at Glitterbabe´s Art store, Stef made these cute images and I´m showing you what I made with them.

These are tags for Christmas presents since we are approaching at unusual speed the holidays. My idea was to make something that could be made in no time almost and could be mass produced if needed. I started by coloring the images digitally on PS and creating the tag with digital elements. Once they were ready I printed them out on cardstock, cut, place them on the tags and gave them the finishing touches with glitter and ribbon.

On the first one I´m using Country Tree (you can find it here), and the digital papers are from Summer Driggs. I layered the image with a scrap of the same red paper as the tag.

And on the second one, I used Santa Moon (you can find it here), the digital elements are from RebeccaB and I also layered the image with a scrap of pink paper. In this one I used white puff paint on Santa´s hat, hair and beard (that I puffed once it dried and glittered afterwards).

Here is the back of both tags, digitally created too. Hope you like them as much as I did making them!

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

Show you care...

Be Aware!

That´s what I wrote on the inside of this card.
It´s my first breast cancer awareness card, but it won´t be the last because I´m making a few more. And while looking for a sentiment to add to my card before starting it I searched for "breast cancer quotes", and I come across some very bad comments about the campaigns of awareness, the pink color, the humorous quotes (they said) are not taking seriously the illness, and it left me thinking about it... Cancer is bad enough to take it slightly, true, but it´s bad enough as not to try to make the best of it. Life is short and most of the times it´s not a bed of roses, but through my personal experience I learnt to make the best of every situation, lift up my face to the sun and keep forward, so to be truthful to those brave woman who face cancer, I made my card pink because I care!

Here is a closer picture of the image, I´m using Support, a freebie Stef (from Glitterbabe) so generously gave. I colored the image with colored pencils and glittered the filigree with silver glitter. I used a scrap of cardstock (from my stash), a scrap of patterned paper (from Jaime), and a gorgeous paper I bought a few days ago, it has a wonderful texture and a bit of transparency.
I tied a ribbon on the front, embellished it with a rose (I made another one before here) and hand wrote the sentiment with a gray marker.
I hope you like it!
I´m playing with this card at:
Glitterbabe´s Challenge #10: free up a freebie
Sundays with Crissy challenge #9: sparkle and shine
Creative Inspirations challenge #42: anything except square or rectangle

Beauty

I had a tiny piece of brown cardstock that was screaming to be turned into a bookmark, and that´s exactly what I did fulfilling its wishes (the size of the finished bookmark is 1.75x4 in).
I used (again) my patterned paper made out of paper napkins and scraps of paper that I distressed a bit with chalks. I gave some shape to the fold of the bookmark with edge scissors, to finish it I tied a piece of brown ribbon with a knot around the front and glued some glass seed beads.

The image is Bird on branch from Glitterbabe colored with colored pencils, embellished with glitter, cut and placed on the front with foam tape. On the tip of the branch I added a sakura flower (cut from the patterned paper).

On the back I hand wrote an inspirational quote from Confucius with gel pen and glued a piece of the same brown ribbon.
I´m playing at the following challenges:
Glitterbabe´s Challenge #9: Asian
One Stitch at a Time Challenge #28: girly
Bee Crafty Challenge #37: anything goes
Cute Card Thursday Challenge #127: dieing for a punch!
Aly´s Sunday Challenge #24: pretty in pink

Pretty colors

I love the color combo that Glitterbabe´s Challenge blog set this week: pink, purple and black. I started by coloring the image

it´s Wheelbarrow from Glitterbabe that I colored with colored pencils and cut out using some card wiskers found here. I matted it with a scrap of purple patterned paper from Summer Driggs and place it with foam tape on a another piece of pink paper (from Jaime) that I previously glued to a black card.
I stitched glass seed beads around the pink paper to add some sparkle and embelished the card with a flower cut with a cricut machine to which I stitched a button and tied a piece of ribbon from my stash. The inside is decorated with another piece of pink paper but instead of stitching glass beads (too bulky for the inside...) I painted dots of purple paint.

I hope you like this simple card, it took me a bit more of time due to the stitching but in general is a very simple card. This card turned out better than I thought!
This card was made following Glitterbabe´s Challenge blog challenge #6.