Tuesday, May 31

Get Well Soon

Hello friends! Happy Tuesday to you. Today I have a special card requested by my husband for one of his co-workers. Last week he asked me for a Get well card at 9:30 pm, of course I said I can make one but he wanted one right away, sadly I was too tired and it was too late to craft (at least for me), so next day I made this card for the officer who will be out of duty for awhile. That's why the saying inside {wink, wink} again requested by my husband.

Since I didn't have any stamp with that saying I used my Concord & 9th stamps "Sophisticated Script Uppercase and Lowercase" and I love it! This card is pretty easy to make, I call it "Back to basics"
For the front I used my Wood Grain embossing folder on a piece of cream cardstock and then sponged the piece with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.



Submitting this project to:

Hope you like it!
Have a fantastic day!


Monday, May 30

Memorial Day, Never forget.




Hello! Hope you all are having a great day. Many are having family gatherings and celebrations together, love that, but never forget the fallen who fought for our freedom.

This video was shown at church yesterday and I think everybody needed a tissue, very emotional.



Have a great day!!


Friday, May 27

Freedom

Hello friends! Happy Friday to you! I have great news to you, Crafter's Companion has just released a couple of Patriotic sets and let me tell you, you are going to love them and need them!!

For this card I used the stars from the new Independence Day and 4th of July Sets, the Freedom and little stars from the background are from Patriotic Pride set.
I used Spectrum Noir Markers: TB2, TB3, TB4, DR1, DR3, DR4 to color the stars and Spectrum Noir Sparkle: Blue Topaz and Red Berry to create the red and blue background paper.
I added red and blue twine and added the panels to a Kraft color card base.



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Have a fantastic day!!

Wednesday, May 25

Thinking of you

Hello friends!! Sheena Douglas for Crafter's Companion has a new collection, part of the "A little bit sketchy" one, this collection has beautiful torn paper designs, the flower ones are my favorite!
You can find them HERE (The first 6 sets)


And I want to share with you the card I made with this collection, plus I am super happy it made it to the store banner {wink, wink}

Here are the details:
  • Stamp the image Clematis on a piece of Ultra Premium White Cardstock, color it with Spectrum Noir Markers, Sparkle and Pencils, these are the ones used:
  • Cut out colored image and set aside.
  • Stamp another image to get as a reference. Dry emboss it with Dry Stone Wall folder, apply brown tones of ink, here I used a couple of Distress Inks, then add a darker brown ink around the edges of the stamped image. Adhere cut out image.
  • Stamp sentiment from Sentimentals set. Add to card.
  • Cut a piece of Black Pearl Shimmering and adhere it behind the image, finally add panels to a 6" x 6" card base.
  • Add an extra embellishment, add pearls and micro beads on flowers.


Submitting this project to:
Hope you like it.
Have a fantastic day!!

Monday, May 23

Ken Oliver Crafts May Challenge: Flowers

Hello friends! Happy Monday to you all! Hope you all are starting a fantastic week. The Ken Oliver Creative Team has a new challenge for you, this month our theme is flowers, so this is your time to create anything with flowers and of course Ken Oliver Crafts products if you have them, you can find more details about the challenge HERE and also enjoy the projects made by the team.

This is the project I created for this month's challenge. I used the 6" x 6" Mixed Media Board as the base of my project, stamped the Poppy Mandala stamp direct on the board and added White Embossing powder and heat set it. After that I colored the flowers with Color Burst, I used: Alizarin Crimson, Fuchsia, Lime Green, for the background I used Turquoise. I also added Metallic Sky for the background and Metallic Mandarin on the flowers.
I also added embossing paste and stenciled the corners to give it and extra touch.



Products used:

Hope you like my project.
We hope you can join us and play along.

Have a fantastic day!


Thursday, May 19

Dream : Altered Journal Cover

Hello friends! Happy Thursday! Today I have a mixed media project I created for Crafter's Companion. I will start adding more pretty pages to my journal, practicing more, mixed media is a technique I really enjoy.

So, I invite you to hop over to the Crafter's Companion Blog and enjoy this tutorial.



Hope you like it!
Have a great day!

Tuesday, May 17

Poppy card using Color Burst!

Hello friends! I finally have time to sit down and write a post, I just want to share a card with picture tutorial I am sharing over at the Ken Oliver Crafts Blog, you can check it out HERE.

For this card I used the one of the new Cut n Color Stamps and Dies from Ken Oliver Crafts, this one is the poppy one, I used several Color Burst to color the image and the background.
I love poppies and this one of my favorites.



I am entering this card to:


Hope you like it!
Have a fantastic day/night!!


Monday, May 9

Pray

Hello my friends!! Happy Monday, hope you all are starting a great week and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there, hope yesterday you enjoyed a day full of love and great memories.

Today, I have a couple of cards for you, clean and simple style with a splash background created with Color Burst.

For these card I used the set  "Pray" from Latina Crafter, stamped the sentiments on vellum with Versamark Watermark Ink, then added Gold embossing powder and heat set it.
After that I die-cut the sentiment with circle and square dies.

To create the backgrounds, I used Tangerine and Chartreuse Color Burst for one BG and Yellow Ochre and Fuchsia for the other one.


I added Silver thread behind the vellum sentiments.

FinallyI added Fuchsia rhinestones and Ruby sequins to the cards.


My cards got inspired for this week sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch

Also submitting them to Word Art Wednesday: Anything goes.


Hope you like them!
Have a fantastic day!


Wednesday, May 4

Sara Davies is back at HSN!!

Hello friends!! Sara Davies is back in the US and she will be showcasing more goodies from Crafter's Companion and Spectrum Noir!


A new collection will be shown later today and I want to show you a card I made with this cute Starlet from Verity Rose Collection!! The image was colored with Spectrum Noir Markers:
Skin: FS2, FS3, FS6, TN2
Eyes: IG1, IG2
Outfit: TB1, TB2, IG1, EB1, GB5
Lips: CR8.
Accessories: 
Rose: CR8, DR5, DR7, CG2, DG2


The card base was made from Ultra Premium White cardstock, die-cut and embossed a couple of Scallop Border from Coastal Pearl Shimmering Cardstock, behind the image I colored the edges of a piece of white cardstock with Gold Spectrum Noir Sparkle.

Ultra White Premium Cardstock.
Coastal Pearl Shimmering Cardstock.
Sara Signature Collection Floral Delight 5"x7" Embossing Folder - Rambling Rose.
Sara Signature Collection Floral Delight Die - Scalloped Border.





Hope you like it!
Have  fantastic day!

Monday, May 2

Best mom in the world

Hello friends! I am back! I am so sorry I have been gone for more then a week, goodness I got really really sick, first I got a virus then an infection that hit me so hard that I couldn't do a thing, from the 2+ weeks I got sick I actually cooked 4 days only, Subway was our friend and the husband cooked few meals, leftovers are always a plus!

Anyway, I am feeling 90% better, so it is time to start creating again! Latina Crafter has a new sketch and/or twist challenge up, so hope you can participate too. You don't have to use Latina Crafter stamps/dies to participate ;)



And this is the card I created. This time I used both the sketch and the twist together (most of the time I use one or the other).
Here are the directions:
  • Start creating a card base from White cardstock. 5.5" square.
  • Cut a panel from yellow cardstock, 5.25" square and patterned paper, this paper coordinated perfectly with the colors from the challenge, stamp flowers and swirls from  La vida está llena de bendiciones set on paper in Versamark ink and white embossing powder. This is a Ken Oliver paper. Stitch together.
  • Stamp Celebrando a mamá on a piece of white cardstock in Versamark ink , add white embossing powder and heat set. Add distress inks to show more the heat embossed sentiment.
  • Add a scallop border to sentiment and add t panel and add stitches.
  • Adhere panel to card base, add a little strip of Coastal Pearl cardstock and embellish with pearls and sequins.


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Hope you like it!
Have a fantastic day!