Life´s a beach!

Don´t you agree this image is cute, cute, cute??!!! love the tiny toes... It´s Penny from Michelle Perkett. I wanted this card to be as clean and simple as I could make it, I´m still wondering if it´s too clean and simple... anyway I like it a lot!

I colored the image with colored pencils and tried to give Penny a little tan since she is enjoying summer already. I glittered her swimming suit (because she is cute and therefore she has to sparkle).

And I applied that dimensional clear glue to the rubber ring, looks like the real one. After it dried I cut the image and placed it with foam tape to the card. Finally I glued the sentiment that is from another cute image from Michelle Perkett: Olive.
Thank you for stopping!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Deep Ocean challenge #1: anything goes
Pile it on: summer heaven
Penny´s challenge #54: here comes summer
Truly Scumptiouns #58: summer sparkle
Digital Tuesdays #114: in the garden/outdoors
Paper Cutz #94: beach or travel
Sweet stampin´: playing in the summer sun

Summer days...

Love those lazy days of summer... Here is card I made using this cute duck from Bugaboo.

Here you have a closer look, I colored the image with colored pencils and added glitter and clear dimensional so it could shine a bit. I hand drawn a frame directly onto the card with a black marker and printed the sentiment. The waves are cut with my cricut and layered on the image.
I made this one to play at the Sunday´s Clean and Simple and Monday´s Greeting cards challenges at The Outlawz, we are having a summer party! there is lots of fun and prices, why don´t you come and play with us? ☺

I´m playing with this card also at:
Catch the bug: anything goes
Paper Cutz challenge #94:  beach or travel
Sweet stampin´ challenge: playing in the summer fun
Stamp, scrap and doodle: what is on your desk right now?
CES challenge#39: clean and simple

A floral {hello}

I made a very simple hello card, again using my scraps of paper. First I glued the strip of patterned paper on the card and then stitched its top and bottom with embroidery floss.

I colored the image (Spring fence from Designed to Delight) with my beloved colored pencils and layered it with a scrap of the same craft paper I used for the base of my card, gave it two turns around with a piece of thin twine and added a button as embellishemnt. Then I took my old alpha rubber stamps and spelled hello with dark brown ink. And that´s it! hope you like it as much as I do.
Thank you for stopping!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Delightful Inspiration: use the image above
Digital Tuesday challenge #114: in the garden/outdoors
Catch the bug: anything goes

Thanks!

Look how cute are these mini tags! they are very small: 1.5x3 in but cute nevertheless, right? ☺ I was felling like using my scraps of paper today so I started with cutting the tags in red cardstock with my cricut machine, took a scrap of light blue paper and embossed it, and placed them on the tags. Hand wrote Thanks! and glued some black sequins following this great sketch from Iwona.

The images are from Melissa Liban, they are part of a digital paper (you can find her cute images at Missy´s Etsy store) that I punched with a circular punch and layered them with a scalloped circle (cut with the cricut too). Then I placed them on the tags with foam tape. I finished the tags stappling a piece of ribbon.
Loving all these cute little robots! Quick, easy and fun! I think they could be great for thank you note cards (tags) for a boy birthday party.

With these I´m playing at:
Sktechbook Saturday challenge #14
The Outlawz Saturday´s Scrapbooking challenge: Mini´s with maximum pop
Catch the bug: anything goes
Fussy and fancy challenge: card for a man or boy

Summer PARTY!!

Hi all! this is just to let you know we are starting a Summer Party at The Otulawz starting today 5th of June and ending the 11th.
You don´t want to miss it since there are amazing prizes you can win! here is a list of them:

SCSCD ----$25.00 Gift Cert.
Through the Craft Door Magazine ---1 yr. subscription
Custom Banner, Watermark and Signature --- by Marti Wills
A $25.00 Gift Basket of Scrapping Supplies -- Roxann Suits
Sweet Summer - Clear mount set of 9 ---Maureen Merritt--Mama Mo Stamps
$20.00  G.C.  Rona Mallard
$15.00 G.C. -- Fred She Said
$10.00 G.C. --Gaylou's Inimitability
5 free digi stamps of winners choice ---Whimsy Stamps
$10.00  G.C. --- Michelle Perkett Studio
Prisma Pencil Coloring Class 1 at CMC --- Marti Wills
$20.00 G.C. ---Art Impressions
3 Digi stamps ---Digi Stamps 4 Joy
4 Digi stamps -- Sandi's Samples
One Gilli Goodie Bag -- Gilli Rubber Stamps by Anary
4 Digi Stamps ---Anne's Digital Art

Stop by The Outlawz and party with us!!

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!

Happy Birthday!

How cute is this image?! it´s Roboto from Tiddly Inks. I made this card for my sweetheart´s Birthday and again I´m using my scraps of paper (I have so many... either use them or throw them away...). Another simple card, I computer generated the sentiment, placed it on the card along with a piece of the patterned paper, drawn stitches with a white gel pen and I raided my sweetheart´s box of nuts and bolts to get a few of them as embellishements.

I colored the image with colored pencils and glittered the balloons, then I cut the image and placed it with foam tape.

On the inside I placed the sentiment, also computer generated with the same font, another piece of the same patterned paper and faux stitched around.
Thank you for stopping by today!
I´m playing at:
Paper Sundaes challenge #69: birthday creation
The corrosive Challenge #116: birthdays!
Pixie Dust Studio challenge #74: make it shiny
Cards for men challenge #10: someone special

Celebrate!

I had this image for ages, and I don´t know why I didn´t use it before... well.... here I´m using Bella and Bronte cellebrating from Mo´s Digital Pencil to make a Birthday card for a friend,

This is my first time making a monochromatic card, and I very pleased with the result. I colored the image with colored pencils and added a bit of chunk glitter to the confetti to make it sparkle a bit. I took a scrap of yellow cardstock and punched one border and tied a bow with a piece of sheer ribbon, I finished the front of the card by stamping the sentiment.

On the inside I used a sentiment from TLcCreations and I embellished it with a flower (cut with my cricut) and a black brad.
Thanks for stopping!
I´m playing with this card at:
The shabby tea room week #62: monochromatic
Kaboodle doodles challenge #67: let´s play tic tac toe (digi, die-cut/punch, glitter)
Craft your days away challenge #20: white + one
Paper sundaes challenge #69: birthday creation
The corrosive challenge #116: birthdays!

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

A cute turtle

Love this cute face! it looks so happy... I made this tiny card (2 in x 3 in) to slip in a gift for a cute baby boy who is turning 1 this week, and I thought he would like this little turtle.

And this is what I did to the inside, I printed the image directly on the card along with the bubble talk and a part of a Happy Birthday song in Spanish that reads something like and for many more birthdays (not a literal translation here...).
I colored the images (Turtle Sundae from 2 Cute) with colored pencils and I placed the front turtle with foam tape for dimension.
Thanks for stopping!
I´m playing with this one at:
Crafty Creations challenge #118: anything goes
Creative Inspirations challenge #111: decorate the inside of your card
Paper Play challenge week #19: anything goes

A great announcement!

I´m very honored (and very happy!) to announce that I´m part of the Design Team for this new designer Melissa Liban.
Melissa (Missy) is a children illustrator with a style I love and I hope her books and illustrations start being published soon, she is so very talented! A few days ago she opened an Etsy store where you can find her cute digital stamps and clipart.
And while you are curious about Missy take a look at her personal blog, to learn more about her and her drawing, you won´t be disappointed!
Thank you Melissa! I´m very pleased to be part of your DT and looking forward to start working with your cute images. All the best to you!

I don´t remember how I came across Melissa´s blog but I loved her images from the start and asked for her permission to use one of her images to make a card, and she so generously agreed. My first creation was using this cute giraffe

I´m reposting the card here, if you want to see the original post click here.

When she told us she opened an Etsy store I went to see it right away and I found the exact image I was looking for these days, like you read my mind Missy! and this is what I made with it. It´s a very easy card, the ones I like to make most, clean, simple and the image being the focus.

I´m using Bunny and Sunny. On this image I used scraps of paper to paper pierce the umbrella and the bunny raincoat and boots. Shaded them a bit with colored pencils before placing them on the image. The image was colored with colored pencils too and added bit of glossy accent on the rain drops and glitter glue on the puddle. Then I hand drawn a frame around the image with kids markers and added dots of red pearl paint.
I also printed directly onto the card the sentiment, from TLcCreations that embellished with pearled paint and glitter glue.  On the inside I used another sentiment from TLc that reads Brighter days are in your forecast. I made this card for me, to remind me to be patient and no to give up even when hard times are around. ☼

Please, join us at Cute Crafty Land, this is just starting but I´m sure we´ll find lots of fun and cute images, hope to see you there! have a great day

Edited to fix a few things blogger changed on my original post. I lost previous comments by I read them all, thank you so much for leaving them!

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!

A bookmark

Today I made this quick bookmark using the color inspiration from colourQ challenge #83, challenging colors by the way.

I started making the background by recoloring Spring cupcake from Designed to Delight digitally matching the inspirational picture colors. Printed them on each side and finished it by printing a sentiment on the back.

Then I singled out the orange cupcake to use it as the main image; printed it, cut it around and embellished it with glitter glue and a rhinestone.

I finished the bookmark by ruffling a piece of ribbon, placing the image with foam tape, a dollar store flower and a button. And here you have it! thank you for stopping!

I´m playing at:
Cupcake crafts challenge: something beginning with C
Pollycrafts Monday challenge #91: anything goes

It´s your day!

I love this image and it was waiting to be colored some time now... This card took me no time at all to put it together!

I took scraps of paper and punched their borders, layer them and completed them with (also) a scrap of ribbon. Then I colored the image (Cupcake Roses from Designed to Delight) with colored pencil and added glitter glue on the flame and dimensional paint on the roses, cut it around and placed it with foam tape.

On the inside I used one of those great sentiments from TLcCreations and finished it with another tiny cupcake colored with colored pencils too. My first time coloring an entire image using just one pencil! but I like the result so far ☺ I might try to do the same again to the main image...

With this one I´m playing at:
Cupcake Craft challenge blog: something biginning with C (cupcake)
Pollycraft Monday challenge #91: anything goes
Paper cutz challenge #89: anything goes
Totally Paper crafts challenge #64: glitter
Catch the bug: bring those may flowers and pastel colors
Sweet stampin: try something new
Cupcake inspirations challenge #109: photo inspiration

Feliz Día!

Today is Mother´s Day here in Spain, and I made this simple card for my MIL. The base of the card is shimmering cardstock, so beautiful! sadly I can not show you this with a picture...

The flowers are left over flowers from my niece´s birthday place cards (see this post) that I put them in place with hot glue.
As I said, this one is a simple and quick card, as details I added a couple of dollar store leaves, ruffled a piece of sheer ribbon, a hand written sentiment, and ended the card by punching the bottom border.
I´m playing at:
The Outlawz Greetings challenge: anything goes
Little red wagon challenge #74: for Mom
Stamp, scrap and doodle saturdays: Mother´s day

Thanks for stopping, have a great day!

Love...

Love... Dream... Grow... Live...

I started this wall hanging with recycling a paper folder

Then I took a piece patterned paper I had for ages, love the bright colors it has! layered it with another piece of the same paper folder, stitched it around with embroidery floss and distressed the edges with scisors, then I placed it with foam tape. To give a little of sparkle I added some glitter glue on the patterned paper. Stamped the words with rubber stamps, cut them out individually, distressed the edges and placed them with foam tape too.

The image I´m using is Mary, Mary from Michelle Perkett, I colored it with colored pencils and added a few details: gloves and shoes have dimensional paint, a rhinestone on her head to replace one of the roses, turquoise glitter glue on the watering can and clear glitter glue on the water flowing from it.

The image is placed with foam tape too to add dimension.
I finish it with some old stikers to spell the word LOVE and a button; and to hang it I used a double piece of raffia. Very simple craft but very pleasing.

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Michelle Perkett Studio challenge: color challenge
PWCO sunday challenge sketch #79
PWCO: recipe (something old, something new, recycled blues!)

Thank you for stopping by!

Recycling...

I´ve been collecting some toilet paper tubes for an eventual recycling... And I´ve been hoarding this cute image from Bugaboo since I don´t remember when, so I took it out of my folder of printed-images-ready-to-color and colored it to made this simple gift box

I started giving shape of a pillow box to the tube and distressed the borders with white acrylic paint.

Then I needed a piece of yellow colored raffia and a scrap of patterned paper I had for ages. It all comes together in no time!

I colored the image with colored pencils, added some glitter to the balloon and finished it with a dimensional paint (thanks mom!). Cut it around and placed it with foam tape.

I´m playing at the following challenges:
Little Red Wagon challenge #77: clouds
Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge Blog challenge #108: pets/animals
Creative Inspirations challenge #58: digi day
Paper Sundaes challenge #66: sundae bar (sparkle and yellow for me, please ☺)


Happy Easter to everyone! look what we had for dessert! my stepmom made for us this wonderful and delicious easter egg, that it traveled with me 14000 Km (8700 mi)