tiny mailbox

Hello friends! I made this cute tiny mailbox, it´s 3" wide and 4.5" tall ☺

I followed Sueli´s pattern and instead of using patterned paper I embossed it, then I rubbed white ink and glittered the design with glitter glue.

I assembled  the box and finally added a handmade flower. I´m not sure I like it as it is, I feel like something is missing, I was thinking of adding a little bird or some butterflies somewhere around the flower. Any suggestions?
It was an easy box and very fun to make, it could make a wonderful small gift holder. Sorry about the pictures I had to take them at night, I´m working a lot lately and I can not take pictures during daylight...

I´m showing my little mailbox at:
Sueli´s blog: reto buzon de San Valentín
Flourishes: glitter and shine
The pink elephant challenge #188: anything goes
Party Time Tuesday challenge #109: anything goes

Thank you for stopping by! have a wonderful day!

Horray!

It´s your day!

another birthday card, and this one was extra fun!

I printed the sentiment directly on the card (by TlcCreations), I took a few sea figures from a bag of confetti I have had on my stash for a while now... glueded some of them and used foam tape on others. And finished the card tying a piece of yellow raffia.
Have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Party time Tuesdays challenge #70: anything goes
Fab ´n´ funky challenge #123: celebrations
Perfect sentiments challenge #34: anything goes with a sentiment
Penny´s challenge #80: anything goes

Birthday monster!

I had to make a birthday card for a little boy and I thought this Bugaboo stamp could make the trick. The little guy just loved it!

This one is a very easy and simple one: took two pieces of patterned paper and layer them on the front of the card, then I added a rub on stitch at their joint of the two. I colored the image with colored pencils, cut out and placed it on the card with foam tape. And finally I computer generated the sentiment, printed out, cut and placed it also with foam tape (this time I made no mistake while typing the sentiment! whoo hoo!!! ☺).
Thank you for stopping by!

I´m playing at the following challenges
All sorts challenge #156: birthday
Stamp, scrap and doodles: stars and strips
Aud sentiments challenge #55: any sentiment
Party time tuesdays challenge #70: anything goes

{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

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

Happy day!

Isn´t this image gorgeous?!? It´s Camile from Michelle Perkett (her Etsy shop here)

It deserves a front view too!
I was cleaning up my craft room this morning and I found (again) some old papers that I still like and I wanted to used them today... and hopefully tomorrow! so you´ll be seen them very ofter from now. I still think they are pretty papers, very out of fashion but pretty. Ribbon and lace are from my stash.

I colored the image with colored pencils and blended them with mineral oil, cut it and added dots of pearled paint before placing it to the card with foam tape.

The sentiment is a very old clear dollar stamp I stamped twice (straight and upside down) on a scrap of paper, cut around it and matted it with a scrap of the cardstock used for the card base. I painted two dots of pearl paint before attaching it to the front of the card with foam tape.
I´m entering this card in the following challenges:
Aly´s Sunday Challenge: under or by the sea
Truly Scumptious: old stamp in my case
Sentimental Sunday´s: anything goes
Cupcake Craft: lace
Digital Tuesday: butterflies or lace
Party Time: anything goes

A sweet day

yesteday I woke up with the need of coloring one of those cute Bugaboo images and to make a card using one of the sketches I had on my notebook for such a long time that I don´t recall where I saw it (if you do, please let me know and I´ll give credit of it).
The DP is a free digi from Daisy Company Four Seasons backgrounds. I love how summery it looks. Before printing it out I digitally placed a TlcCreations sentiment. Once I glued it to the front of the card, I cut a circle and stitched some yelow glass seed beads with embroidery floss. I love to stitch my cards, it always gives me a quiet time that brings nice memories and makes me think of my mom (maybe because she taught me to do it?). To finish the front I ruffled a piece of red ribbon from my stash.

 This cute image (Summer Butterfly Bears - Ice cream) was colored with colored pencils and added glitter on the strawberry flavored ice cream.

On the inside I stamped one my old clear stamps, I love those flowers but I don´t know why I don´t use it more often... Instead of coloring the flowers I glittered them and added some tiny dots of pearled paint. I placed the image with foam tape and another piece of the same red ribbon.
This card fits the following challenges:
Catch the bug Challenge blog: sweet sweet summer time
Rosie-D´s Challenge blog: all creatures great and small
One stitch at a time Challenge blog: sketch or little pink on your project
Party time Tuesdays: summer birthday card
Truly Scumptious: golden oldie

Birthday Wimsey challenge!

Michelle Perkett is running a first inspirational challenge at CDAC, she asked the DT to make something to inspire you.  The challenge theme is Birthday Whimsey! She has created a cute cupcake image especially for this challenge! And this is the inspirational image

isn´t this a lovely cake?! you can see all DT creations at Michelle Perkett group.

By letting myself being inspired by the image I made three little projects in less than an hour each, and I wanted to share them with you today:

First, a cute triangle box

I used a template found here, so easy! and the result is great! the DP you see is actually a piece of cardstock where I "glued" a paper napkin.

You can find this great tutorial how to use those gorgeous paper napkins to make patterned papers here, try it, you´ll love the technique!

I colored the image with colored pencils and added a bit of glitter glue to the centers of the flowers before cutting it and attaching it to the front of the box with foam tape. I cut the sentiment in a flag-like shape, curled a bit and glued behind the cupcake. Added a piece of ribbon from my stash and... voilá! you end up with a nice little box.

Second, an acetate bookmark

very easy too. I had a left over piece of acetate that I folded in the middle and I decorated it with a scraps of patterned paper: on the front I used green and on the back I used pink

I colored the image with colored pencils and added dots of pearl paint on the centers of the flowers and on the corners of the patterned paper.

I glued a magnet strip I cut in two on the inside so it can´t slip off the page, put the image on foam tape and cut around the words of the sentiment before attaching them to the bookmark. I decorated the back so there is a place where to write a sentiment.

And third, a very simple and quick card

I started coloring the image with PS and then made a patterned paper out of that image. I printed the patterned paper and the sentiment on cardstock, cut it, layered them with pink and orange cardstock, glued the image to the front of the card and then I pierced it around. Folded a ribbon (from my stash) in that cute way I found how here and attached the sentiment with foam tape. I used Clean and Simple sketch #96 to make this card.

Join us in the fun! we want to see what you create with this gorgeous image!

I´m submitting my three project to participate also at Party Time Tuesdays challenge #5.

Make a wish...

Close your eyes... make a wish... and blow the candles! it´s almost your day Maria!
I made this card for my daughter´s birthday, she is turning 11 in a few days! I can not believe how fast time go...

this is Maria when she was 1 year old, and how is she now... she turned into a wonderful little lady, I look at her sweet face and I my heart swells with love and pride, and my eyes go watery (as usual in me, she is always asking me why I cry every time I see her pictures... no wonder.. she is adorable!).
Now with my card again. I used two cute images from Sliekje and colored them with colored pencils. I place the fairy on the fron of the card, where I made a banner by folding rectangles of patterned paper (from Jaime) and cutting them in a triagular shape, and then I strung white cord through them before attaching them with foam tape. I stitched glass beads to the front to add dimension and a bit of sparkle.

 I also applied glitter glue to the magic wand of the fairy and her crown, and rubbed with my finger some body shimmer dust on her wings. I stamped "make a" with some old alphabet rubber stamps and "Wish" is from a sticker sheet from Provo Craft.
I did the inside too with this cute mouse holding the cake. I added some puff paint to the icing of the top cake and some lace as a doily.

Here is a close up of the cake

Hope she likes it!
I´m submitting this in Party Time Tuesdays challenge blog.