Easter bunnies

True to my resolution here is another card using some images that have been waiting sometime on my folder to be colored. Also, I had this yellow cardstock for ages! because yellow is not one of my favorite colors most of the time I don´t use it (or better I don´t know how to use it...) but here I ended up with an easter card.

I saw this idea of glittering a doble sided tape and here is my try, pretty neat and easy!! love it! Then I took a scrap of glittered patterned paper, cut it and rounded its tips up before placing it on the card.

The images are from Bugaboo that I placed them together in a square fashion with PS, colored them with colored pencils, layered it with black cardstock and added a bit of glossy accent, they look cute, don´t they?
Thank you for stopping by!


I´m playing at the following challenges:
Retro Sketches #4
The Outlawz Twisted Thursday: spring colors
Lollipop crafts challenge #73: anything goes

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

Birds of a feather...

I´m trying to use my stash, and my new rubber stamps! I´m still struggling to make good impressions... here you have a good example of not a good stamping (*sigh* maybe one day...) but the paper is great for coloring!

Patterned paper, cardstock, buttons, flower are all oldies on my stash, but I still love them! I colored the image with my colored pencils and added a bit of glitter on the bird´s hats, rounded the bottom corners and faux stitched with white gel pen.
Thank you for stopping!

I´d like to enter the following challenges:
Retro sketches #2
Just some lines: spring cleaning
Digital Tuesday challenge #151: think spring

Today my daughter (12 y-o) showed me this video, and now it´s my turn to share it with you all. Never doubt, never forget: We can make a difference.

A bookmark

front

back

Second post today! whoo hoo!! ☺ I made this bookmark for my daughter. I had this image from A Day for Daisies printed out for ages waiting to be colored.... love it, it´s simply gorgeous! and goes wonderful with the sentiment I placed on the back of the bookmark (from TlcCreations).

I colored the image with colored pencils, I wanted to use shades of purple only (to match the patterned paper I have it on my stash for ages too...), but I added a few touches of pink and glittered the flowers on the mother´s dress. As embellishments just added a few fabric flowers (gift from my sister Dani!) that I decorated with purple sequins and some glass seed beads. Very simple, but I love how it looks in real life!
On the back I layered the sentiment with a punched strip of the same patterned paper, and to make it less bulky I only added the flowers and sequins. Hope you like it as much as I do ☺
Thank you for looking!

I´m playing a the following challenges:
A day for daisies challenge #38: dress it up with gingham
Just some lines challenge: spring cleaning
All Sorts challenge #145: say it with flowers
Paper Sundaes challenge #111: Feminine flair

Felicidades!

Easy and quick, I love how this card turned out... I made it for a (male) friend, it´s very hard for me to do masculine cards that´s why I´m so happy with the result.

How gorgeous is this elephant?! and the cake?! both images are from The Graphics Fairy that I opened them together on PS (the sentiment is also computer generated), print them and cut out, after that I used glitter pens to highlight some parts. Then I placed them both, the image and the sentiment, with foam tape, and voilà! there you have it ☺
I´m also playing at Polka Doodles challenge blog (birthday cards for boys or men).

Thank you for stopping by!

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

You are special...

Love how this card turned out, not only because I´m loving the CAS look of my cards lately but also because I´m starting to learn how to stamp images (not only print them!). I´m not very good at it yet but I´ll make it better every time... besides it´s a wonderful excuse to start spoiling myself a bit with new and colorful inks pads!

This card was very easy and quick to make, as you can see. Here you have a front view to show you a few details like some glass seed beads on the center of the flowers, glittered the butterfly wings and added a trio of pearled paint dots on the bottom left corner.
Thank you for stoppping by!

I´m playing at the following challenges:
The Outlawz Wednesday´s Sketch challenge
Color Throwdown #182
CES challenges #75: flower frenzy
Sweet Stampin challenge: nature, bugs and bees
Lollipop crafts challenge #70: Clean and simple

Thinking of you

I let myself be inspired by "The cure for the winter blues challenge" at Moxie fab world, in particular by this image:

How gorgeous! love the colors, love the symmetry, love all the elements on it... This is my take on the challenge

a very simple card where I added a few details like the embossed rice paper, rhinestones, ribbon, glitter, a brad and my beautiful stamp as the focal point (thank you Lynne!!!).

I´m also playing at the following challenges:
Stamp, scrap and doodle saturday challenge: use your stash
Stamptacular sunday challenge #14: TEXT me!

Thank you for stopping by!

A set of four!

Hi my blogger friends! Since it´s been a month from my last post I wanted to show you four cards I made (just for you to know I´m still creating!).

I had tons and tons of fun making these simple cards, all images are from The Graphics Fairy that I either printed directly on the blank card or on a piece of cardstock. The sentiments are half in English half in Spanish (they mean the same in both languages), I computer generated them in PS, cut them and added them to the cards. I finished them all with a bit of glitter, stitches and glass seed beads.
If  you want to see the details just click on each of them to enlarge.

Thank you for stopping by! have a nice day!

All Clean & Simple

Hello blogland friends! I made a few cards with a C&S look and I wanted to share them with you (and play at some challenges too!). Here are two of them:

this first one is very simple indeed! I bought a set of clear stamps a while ago and it´s my first card using them (actually one of them). I stamped the image several times with purple ink and a sentiment with black ink, then I stitched clear glass seed beads to frame the stamped area. I made this one because a friend (Paloma) asked me to make a card for a girlfriend of hers, and I thought it could be a nice present not only the card but a card with a pin she could wear. The pin is made out of scraps of fabric, dollar store flowers, pop tabs and glass piece from a chadelier that I brought at the flea market. It looked so pretty!

With this one I´m playing at:
The Outlawz CAS challenge: use something new
My time to craft challenge #171
Creative Belli blog challenge #136: Frames
Cute card Thursday challenge #201: you are a gem!

The second one is a digital card I made for my dear boyfriend Luis, I sent it to him by e-mail and he placed it as wallpaper on his computer ☺ it looks like he liked it! the images are from The Graphics Fairy, I "stamped" a tiny heart and the sentiment, it reads in Spanish PS: I love you.
I´m playing at:
The Outlawz Paper A La Mode challenge: clean and simple Valentine
Cupcake Craft challenge #176: all you need is love
Aud Sentiments challenge #46

Thank you for stopping, have a nice day!

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!

Showcasing Glitterbabe

Hello my blogger friends, I´m not dead!! I´m just to busy at the time. I want to thank you for all your beautiful comments and a special thank you to those who still follow me even though I hadn´t updated my blog since October... OMG!!! where did the time go???!!!!

To slowly update my beloved blog I want to show you a few cards I made using Stef´s images. Sadly Stef has closed her store but maybe in the future we´ll see available again her beautiful images.

you color my life

When Stef (glitterbabe) sent me this image (Bottle) the idea to make a rainbow just popped up into my head. I made a bookmark by "stamping" the image several times with PS, then I added a text and printed it directly on a scrap of paper. I colored the images with colored pencils and added glossy accent to give them a glass kind of look. I finished it with some black foam stickers and a couple of buttons from my stash. Pretty simple and clean but I like the result a lot.

This is a simple tag I made using scraps of everything, I printed the image  in a piece of pearled white paper and colored the gift boxes with colored pencils adding some touches of glitter gel pen on the leaves and red fruits. I punched the bottom border of the tag and stitched green glass seed beads around the patterned paper. I finished it by placing the image with foam tape and a scrap of ribbon.

Beautiful you!

I love this image!!! I started by paper piecing the image (printed on a scrap of patterned paper) and colored it (and shaded it) with colored pencils. I printed the sentiment on a scrap of paper and cut around each word to place them separately (YOU has foam tape). Then I took a piece of tissue paper and pleatted it before gluing it to the left side of the card, I added faux stitches with white gel pen and a strip of embossed white paper. To finish the card I embellished it with a flower made out of layering a dollar store flower, a crochetted flower (made by me ☺) and a few sequins.


Thank you for stopping by and not forgetting me, have a nice day!

{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

Thank you {FRIEND}

Hello my dear blogger fiends! we are having a HUGE party at The Outlawz this week!!! lots of prizes and plenty of fun and inspiration for everyone. You don´t want to miss it!!

Here I´m showing my inspirational creation for our group Twisted Thursday at The Outlawz, we want you to use: red, yellow and green on your creation. And these are what I made! two tiny cards that turned out better than I thought ☺

Can you find the differences??? there are not so many....and this is how I made them: I took scarps of my so loved hanging paper folder and cut them with my cricut, I layered them on a very (very) old paper from my stash that happened to have those gorgeous warm fall colors. Then I took a scrap of an embossed vellum paper and punch it with that pretty lace border punch (from MS) and I stamped "FRIENDS" with brown ink on another scrap of paper, glued them together on the front of the cards and added a few details to it: a couple of buttons (from my stash too), faux stitching with white gel pen and a tiny tag (also cut with my cricut). I saw the card too plain at this stage, so I took one of those (also beloved) expresso crushed cups and glittered them with chunk glitter, I ruffled a piece of fabric and placed it behing the cup. I wanted also to add an image, so I colored that cute pumpkin (from Tiddly Inks) with colored pencils and placed it with foam tape on the cup for dimension. My green was missing!!! well, not quite, but a tiny leaf was not enough green, so I glittered two pins ($ store ones) to finish the embellishments of the cards. Lots of tiny details that kept me entretained one afternoon. Hope you like them and play with us.
Thank you for stopping today!

I´m playing at:
Simply create #53: older tham 6 mo.
Little red wagon #101: thanks
Totally paper crafts #86: autumn
Paper Sundaes #89: lots of layers
Cupcake inspirations #130

Angel in a jar

I love to make little things for my daughter, and I love to recycle things, so I put the two of them together and I made this cute angel in a jar.

The idea is very simple: you start with an empty marmalade jar, then pick an image you like to put inside and embellish your jar as much as you want!

I used a Michelle Perkett image that I colored with colored pencils and added some details to it: pearl paint on the stars and moons on her dress, glitter on her wings and cuffs, and a few white feathers on her wings too. I glued the angel inside the jar and fill it with some iridescent plastic shredded paper as clouds.

Then I painted the lid with gesso, and after it was dry I glued with mod podge a sentiment made with single words cut out from a magazine. I finished the lid glittering all its border.

And to finish this craft I painted tiny dots of glow in the dark paint on the otside of the jar, my idea was for them to look like tiny stars during the night, they can not be seen very well on the picture...
This is my inpirational creation for you this week at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday group, we have a very easy challenge for you: anything goes! hope you can join usin the fun
Thank you for stopping today!

I´m playing at:
Flutter By Wednesday #173: open challenge
Crafty Creations #137: CAS
Truly Scumptious #66: CAS
4 Craft Chicks #57: anything goes
Simply Create #53: older than 6 mo.
Frosted designs: fuzzy cutting