Want to relax? have a cupcake ♥

Hello blogland friends! Here today I´m showing you two creations I made for my first DT assignment for Beary Wishes. A few weeks ago Kathie, a very talented and generous person, owner of Beary Wishes invited me to be on her Designer Team. Of course, I couldn´t say no! I met Kathie 4 year ago (OMG!!!!!! times flies....) when we were on a DT together and she happens to be a beautiful person, I really hope I we can meet in person someday.

¡Hola amig@s de este mundo blogero! Hoy queria compartir con ustedes un par de proyectos que hice para Beary Wishes. Hace unas semanas atrás, Kathie me contactó para formar parte de su equipo de diseño, y no pude decirle que no ☺ Conocí a Kathie hace cuatro años cuando estuvimos juntas en otro grupo de diseñadoras y resultó ser una persona encantadora. Kathie tiene muchisimo talento, sus imágenes son preciosas  y es muy generosa. Ojalá podamos conocernos en persona algún día ☺

The first one is a little wall hanging project made with recycled materials. I printed this beautiful image (Zen) on watercolor paper and colored it with watercolors pencils.

Mi primer proyecto es un cuadrito para colgar en la pared que hice usando materiales reciclados. Imprimí la imagen Zen en papel de acuarela y lo coloreé con lápices acuarelables.

I added a few touches with glossy accent on the stones and stickles on the candle flames. The base is a scrap of a folder I have left from another project and the design paper I painted myself with the shaving cream technique (a very fun one!). I finished it all with chipboard letters, drew drops and a string knotted on the middle to hang on a wall.

Para darle algo de brillo le puse glossy accent en las piedras y stickles en las llamas de las velas. La base del cuadro es un trozo de una carpeta que me sobro de otro proyecto anterior y el papel de diseño lo pinté yo misma con la técnica de la crema de afeitar (¡muy divertido! otro día les muestro como hacerlo). Para terminar el cuadro use letras de cartón para escribir "relax" y unas gotas de rocío. Para colgarlo le puse un  trozo de yute al que hice un nudo en el medio.

My second project is a simple card. This time I used Sweet Rosie cupcake, that I colored with colored pencils.

Mi segundo proyecto es una tarjetita. En este caso use Sweet Rosie cupcake que coloreé con lápices de colores.

I paper pieced the cupcake lining paper and placed it with foam tape on the card for extra dimension. I couldn´t resist to add a bit a sparkle to the roses on the cupcake decoration ☺

Esta vez usé la técnica de paper piecing (piezas de papel) para el papelito de la magdalena, y lo coloqué con cinta de goma para darle volumen extra. Y como no, le dí un poco de brillo a las rosas de la decoración con stickles.

Hope you like them and stop by Kathie blog to say hi and wish her all the best on her first DT team she has formed, and to see what the other DTs have made. Have a wonderful day!

Espero les haya gustado y pasen a visitar a Kathie para saludarla y desearle mucha suerte en con su primer equipo de diseñadoras, y ver lo que las demas diseñadoras han hecho. ¡Que tengan un día hermoso!

I´m showing my projects at:
CAS on Sunday challenge #33: sketch
Challenges 4 everybody #41: anything goes
Come and get it challenge: birthdays
Dream valley challenges #81: anything goes
A sprinkle of imagination: anything goes

Giving thanks

We don´t celebrate Thanksgiving here but I want to take the spirit of this month by counting my blessings too. I saw a similar idea somewhere on the web and I thought I could made my own "giving thanks" paper garland. All images I´m using here are from The graphics fairy.

You simply have to open PS or a software of your liking, place the image and sentiment (it reads "I give thanks for..." in Spanish) on the left side of your page so you have enough room to write down your blessing on the right, print the page, cut the paper in strips, make a loop and staple it, then take another piece and repeat ☺
There you have your pretty garland! I think it would be fun playing with different papers to make a colorful one...
Thank you for stopping by, have a nice day!

Baby girl!

How cute is this image from Bugaboo?! I made this card for a friend´s friend who had a baby girl recently to go along with those socks cupcakes you see beside it.

I colored the image with colored pencils and blended them with gamsol, cut around and placed it with foam tape on the card.
My first time using an embossing plate! loving how it looks in real life, never gueesed it could be even better! I finished the card with lace, a piece of ribbon, some buttons and a very old tag.

I wanted to make a gift that wasn´t expensive but at the same time a nice present, so I googled for baby presents and I found this idea to make baby socks cupcakes. I tried to follow some youtube videos but looks like I bought some vey tiny socks and the folding ended very ugly... so I did my own folding trying this and that until I liked how they looked. I took some dollar store flowers and made an embellishment for each of them and finally placed them on silicon cupcakes (also very cheap from the dollar store). Now I have to wrap them nicely and hope the new mother likes them!

On a side and very happy note I´ve been asked to be part of the DT for the Prismas and other medium (POM) challenge at The Outlawz and this is my first creation! this time we are challenging you to use buttons and bows on your creation, it doesn´t have to have an image or be a card, you can play with whatever your inspiration takes you as long as you use some medium different than markers (like copic/promarkers ones, there is an especific challenge for them!).
I´m so excited ot be part of the team and I would like to invite you to join us if you didn´t already, there´s lot of fun going on! you are going to love it there!

Funny frames

I supposedly had to finish these funny frames a week and a half ago... but well... better late than never, right?! And here they are! I made 7! (click to enlarge)

I wanted to make a little something for my sweetheart co-workers for The three wise man´s day (it was the 6th of January), that´s the day where all presents are exchanged instead of Christmas Day, so I thought it could be nice to give them something to make them smile since they are very nice people and the hard work they do is not always acknowledged by most of us (myself included), until you have to do it (or like me, you have someone very near you doing it)... they are operators for an insurance company and I know sometimes it can be a very tough job.

All images are from Bugaboo Stamps, Jodie has an amazing creativity and sense of humor, she does wonderful images for us to enjoy and laugh and has developed several funny characters like Stella I like so much. I colored them with colored pencils and blended some parts with mineral oil. The sentiments are all hand written in Spanish but they are translations of the sentiments that come along with Jodie´s images, not only from the images I´m using here but from others that fit well with the message I wanted them to have.
What I did is a frame to stand at a desk (for example...), I found the pattern at Peet´s blog (another amazing crafter!) and used some file folders I saved from the bin at work some weeks ago... the patterned papers are from a very old stash I have, I finished them with some glittery touches (rhinestones, glitter glue, clear decoupage glue for glass effect) and faux stitches made with white gel pen. Here is the back view

And here a front view of each one, click on them to larger if you want to see them better ☺

And I made a simple envelope to wrap them with thin craft paper, a piece of thin raffia tied with a knot and the recipient´s name written with marker on the front.

My sweetheart gave them to his friends today and my funny frames were a success!!! I´m so glad they liked them because these crafts are unique and personalized (I did some research about the personalities and likings of my hubby co-workers before starting), and I made them just for each of them!
Thanks for looking!!!

I´m playing at:
The Outlawz Challenges at their Thursday´s Prisma & other medium group: Prisma and petals
Pollycraft Monday Challenge #76: pastel colors
Meljen challenge #41: square or round shaped card (they are not actually cards so you are free to remove my entry if it doesn´t fit ☺)