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

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

{BOO} to you!

Hello my dear blogger friends, it´s been a while since my last post but I catched a huge bug this week and I´m way behind my posts. You´ll see them during the comming days ☺

I´m starting with this hanger I made to inspire you at the Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge, this week we have a wonderful sketch for you and we are asking also to have a Halloween theme in your creation. Hope you can join us in the fun!

 This a recycled and decorated old CD, the first picture is the front of the hanger and the second one is the back of it. As you can see I used the cut out of the frame in the front to decorate the back (patterned paper from my stash), I couldn´t throw it away! so I had to use it.

I started by coloring the image, the cute witch is from Michelle Perkett, another beautiful image! I colored it with colored pencils and blended them with gamsol. Then I cut a pice of a children construction paper to cover the front and back of the CD, I love this one because is splattered with glitter! I cut the frame with my cricut machine and glued it to the center as best as I could, I stitched large glass seed beads on the inside of the frame and drawn faux stitches with white gel pen on its outside. I placed the image by adding dots of strong instant glue on some beads to hold it in place. The cute bat and the corn candy are halloween stickers that I placed first on scraps of paper and cut carefully around, the bat is placed with foam tape as is one of the corn candy. You can see its 3D effect here

then I spelled BOO with foam stickers that I also faux stitched with white gel pen. Bellow it I hand wrote the sentiment. On the back I keep it simple: I faux stitched the cut out as I did on the front and added a sentiment, used another sticker (the cute ghost) and placed it with foam tape. To finish the hanger I glued directly on the CD a stripe of tissue pink paper ruffling it a bit while I was placing it before gluing the decorated cardstock. A piece of fishing line finishes it and there you have it ready to be hung!
Thank you for stopping by!

My project fits the following challenges:
Pollycraft Monday challenge #115: girls, girls, girls!
My time to craft challenge #162: punches & dies
Party time Tusdays challenge #38: totally spooky projects
Color throwdown #164
For fun challenges: boo!
Paper play challenge #42: use black

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

Two cards today

Look how beautiful this image is! it´s from Designed to Delight and I made this card to play at their challenge this week. The patterned paper on the background is a napkin, they come in gorgeous colors and design lately. I added a piece of ribbon I had for ages, some twine and a button

I colored the Pail of flowers with colored pencils and didn´t blend them because I love the texture of this paper.
I´m playing with this one at:
Delightful Inspiration: use the free image
Cards and things challenges #78: sketch
All that scraps: anything goes

My second card is a CAS one

Very simple indeed! but I like it a lot. I used Home from Shirleys 2 girls and I colored it with crayons and blended them a little bit with mineral oil. Glittered the clouds, embellished with a piece of sheer ribbon and two heart pins (I glittered one of them too).

Here is another picture where you can see the iridescent cardstock.
I´m playing with this one at:
Paper play challenges: show us your style
Simply create challenge #43: what did you say
Paper cutz challenge #90: mother´s day
Embellish: square cards and color challenge

Thanks for stopping!

{JOY}

I love that word, since my mother language is not English sometimes it´s hard to translate it to give it the right meaning, the nearest description I can give is it makes me warm inside...
This one is a simple Christmas card, in fact my first one this year (I know... I´m really behind!) and I enjoyed every second I spent creating it.

The image is Holly leaf from Glitterbabe (you can fin it at Stef´s store here!) and I colored them with colored pencils, I added a bit of glossy dimension to the fruits with decoupage glue, the effect is great! but I´m not able to take a good picture of it... The circles and hollies are placed on the card with foam tape, and the letters of the sentiment are from a sticker sheet I had for sooo long.

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Paper play challenge #44: circles
Caardvarks: Holiday die cut
Waltzingmouse challenge #22: sketch
Bee crafty challenge #42: Christmas

Paper clips!

I wanted to make something that could be used as a small gift and I thought decorating a few jumbo paper clips could achieve my purposes. They are very easy to make, you can do a lot of them in a few hours so they are perfect as party favors. I know my daughter and her friend will love them! The images I used are from 2 Cute Rubber Stamps colored with colored pencils and glittered after.
I took some dollar store fabric flower that I glued it to the jumbo paper clip with the hot gun, added a circle from scraps of patterned paper (cut with a round punch) and distressed a bit the borders before gluing it to the flower.

On the first ones I used Bumble Bee Cuttie.

And on the second ones I used Bunny. (Click on the image to enlage them if you want to see them in more detail)
After I cut the images around I placed them with foam tape. And to finish them all I used a piece of fiber for the bumble bee ones and ribbon for the bunny ones (both from my stash). And that´s all! very simple and cute!
I´m playing at:
Flutter by Weednesday challenge #129: open challenge
Paper play challenge #44: circles
Creative Inspirations challenge #46: glitter, glamour, girlie

Cupcakes!!

These gorgeous cupcakes are from 2 Cute Rubber Stamps, a freebie Heidi so generously gave to participate at her challenge blog.

I used as inspiration the colors and positioning of the cutties the Cupcake inspiration challenge #74 (sadly I didn´t make it on time...). I tried also to keep it simple and only used a white gel pen to faux stitch the squares and write the sentiment

I colored the images with colored pencils, added glitter glue on the frosting for some sparkling effect, and I placed them with foam tape on the card.

I printed five cupcakes just in case and I had one left, so I decided to use it to make a small card (those you can put along with your present in a paper bag) with scraps of paper I had around.

I colored the image again with colored pencils but this time I blended them with mineral oil. And instead of glittering the frosting I glittered the paper, I added a couple of brads too. The sentiment is from TLC creations.

I´m playing at:
2 Cute Rubber Stamps: challenge and freebie
Cupcake craft Challenges #106: let´s get digital
Party time Tuesdays #14: brads
The Creative Cottage challenge #22: celebrations
Glitterbabe´s challenge #10: free up a freebie
Paper Play challenge #35: in stitches