DYSU #65 "SEW IT"

This week we have three sponsors:

$10 Gift Voucher

$15 Gift Certificate

Winner's Choice of 4 Images

I made two cards for this week.  

The first one is with an image from Michelle's Scrapbooking.  

Here is a full image of my first card:

I love all the little details in this image. 

 I guess cards is the only place where I can have beautiful flowers LOL!

My second card is using images from Dearie Dolls.

I loooove those hearts!!  They are perfect for paper piecing.  

I just love the one with the band aid.  Super cute!!

See you at the DYSU blog!!  I would love to see your card!!

Hugs!!

PAPER TREY INK MARCH BLOG HOP

Hi everyone!!

I'm very glad to be able to play this month on the Paper Trey Blog Hop.  Usually it takes place during weekdays when I am working.  Today challenge is all about yellow and shades of aqua.  I looove the inspirational pic, it made me want to eat lemon candies.... or at least have a cup of lemon tea ;)

Here is the inspirational pic:

For the card I tried also this week Make it Monday Technique - Graduated Backgrounds.  I love this technique and found it excellent to combine today's color pallet. 

To achieve the color on the leaves, I used last week Make It Monday Technique and stamped the leaves in green and then using the Bitty Background Blocks I color kissed the leaves in blue.   The kissed image is very subtle but is there, and I love how it turned out.  I also used the same technique to make the flower.   

Here is a full picture of the card:

Thanks for your visit and for leaving some love!!

Hugs,

DYSU #64 - Plaid

Hello!!

Today we have another great challenge for you.  We want to see plaid in your creations.  Weather you use patterned paper or make your own, we want lots of stripes and squares this week.  

For thus challenge we have three great sponsors:

Winner's Choice of 3 Digital Images

Winner's Choice of 4 Digital Images

A "Toodle Club Membership" and a Toodle Birthday Calendar

For my card I used the image Pat Sitting by Water from Crafty Sentiment.  I used patterned paper this time combined with distress inks for the background.

I hope you have a great day and see you on the DYSU blog!!

Hugs,

LIMPIADOR DE SELLOS CASERO

Hola!!

Parece mentira que ya prácticamente se ha ido el primer trimestre del año 2012!!  El mes de febrero tuvo sus retos los cuales gracias a Dios podemos decir que han sido superados.  

Al fin estoy volviendo a mi “normalidad creativa” y una de las cosas que decidí iba a tratar primero es preparar  la  versión casera del limpiador para los sellos.  Esta receta no es mía, la encontré en el blog de Lilypad pero decidí compartirla en español ya que definitivamente me encanta encontrar cosas que nos permitan ahorrar dinero que bien podemos utilizar en comprar más materiales para crear.

Aquí la receta:

2 cucharadas de Glicerina

1 Cucharada de shampoo para bebé

Agua destilada (en realidad usé agua filtrada pero la receta original es con destilada)

1 botella con rociador de 8oz

Mezclar los primeros dos ingredientes en la botella y añadir 8oz de agua.

Yo compré un pote de 16 oz por $2.95.  Para que tengan una idea, eso es el equivalente a 16.5 botellas de limpiador preparado.  El pote de shampoo lo pueden conseguir de cualquier marca.  Yo compré un pote grande de marca porque es lo que había donde fui, pero en realidad cualquier marca funciona.  El pote me costó $4.59 y da para las 16.5 botellas y sobra en cantidad.  O sea, que tomando el costo de ambos artículos y diviéndolo por el total de botellas tenemos que el limpiador sale en un total de .46 centavos por 8 oz de limpiador.  Para mi ESO ES AHORRO!!!  Tomando en consideración que 4 oz de limpiador pueden costar desde 2.99 ya con el primer pote de limpiador básicamente recuperas el costo.

Hoy he limpiado los stamps que tenia en uso y en verdad el liquido nbo tiene que envidiar nada a los que he usado en el pasado. 

Buenas tardes!!!!

Hello!!

It's been a while since my last post.  February was a very difficult month for my family and me, but thanks God everything turned out right and we are getting back to our normal routines.  That means crafty time for me yeahhh!!!!!

Have you noticed how fast time is running?  Is spring already arriving? That's great because it is the season where color is coming back into our world. The flowers are blooming, the spring fashion line up has many bold colors going, and it's high time to celebrate 

Your Favorite Color. Anything counts here, so we expect lots of entries :)

For this week we have three sponsors:

Winner's Choice of 3 Digis

$10 gift certificate

Petal Point Options Pad

And now Let's see what I made for this week challenge:

Since it was an entire month of no crafty time I made two cards for this week challenge.  For the first one I used an image from Karen's Doodles  - Bigsby Loves to Paint.  This image goes great with my favorite colors!!  I don't know if you have noticed, but I looove bright and cheerful colors.

For my second card I used a background stamp from PTI and the sentiment is from Paper Smooches.  I like the challenge of making my own patterned paper and think this one turned out great!!

Here are my two cards in all their splendor:

I hope you have a great day and see you at the DYSU challenge blog!!!

Hugs,

A TAWS MORNING

Good morning bloggin friends!!

This is just a quick post to show you three cards I made using TAW's stamps.  Between my "real life" job, DT duties, housework duties and all the duties we all have I have been squeezing moments to keep playing with my stamps.  Ohh, and don't forget to visit Alison's store to see the new additions for February.  They are great!!  I am waiting for my next pay check o buy more of these cuties ;) 

My first two cards are made with Priceless Joy.  

This is a baby set, but as you see you can use it for any type of card.

My third card for today was made using Kitchen Gadgets.  I love that Blender!!!!

I added some clear distress crackle paint to the glass.  I should have used a permanent marker like a Copic to paint the hearts to avoid the ink to bleed, but I still love the results!!

I hope you have a great Monday.  Mine will be a hard day at work but still it will be great.  Hope my cards have inspired you to create something nice and don't forget to pay a visit to Alison.  

Can't wait to see what she has for us on March!!!!

Hugs,

Naomy's Blog Candy

Hi!!

Sorry for the double post today.  But I'm sure as soon you know the reason for this second one you are going to forgive me ;)

My Friend Naomy is celebrating the first anniversary of her blog.  And for that reason she is having a great giveaway, this girl really knows how to create a fun package!!

So I invite you to go to her blog Paper Bag Princess and participate.  You could even end up being inspired by her great cards ;)

Hugs!!

A CELEBRATION CAS SET

Hi blogger friends,

Today I have been extremely busy watching TV and making cards LOL!  OK, I admit that may not be the most hardest work on the face of the earth but taking into consideration that tomorrow starts a new week full of deadlines and a full workload, having a leisure day was almost a moral obligation.  I still need to wash the dishes and clean the kitchen before going to bed, but first things first...right?

I want to share with you a set of 4 cards I made for today's challenge at Capture the Moment.  PTI is celebrating their 5th year anniversary and for the next 10 days or so they are going to have challenges and lots of fun stuff going on at their blog.

This time I decided to use as a source of inspiration this project from Maile Belles.  Who would guess I'll pick a  project full of bright colors as an inspiration to make mine ;)  I was attracted by the simplicity of the sketch.  I used four background sets from PTI and the Think Big Favorites #7.

This is my set:

Hope you have a good night sleep!!

Hugs,

DYSU #57 ANYTHING GOES

Hey everyone!

Welcome to a new challenge at Do You Stack Up?! This week ANYTHING GOES…. ANYTHING!!    Go and ransack your stash cause this is the perfect week to use those things you have forgotten about. 

For this week we have three great sponsors:

Crafty  Individuals 


This Fabulous Prize Package:

 Stamp Fairy
Winner's choice of 2 digital images

Stamp &Create
 $25 gift Certificate

Stamp and Create is an online store based in the USA with worldwide shipping. We carry many stamp designs including Magnolia, Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, The Greeting Farm, Wags 'n Whiskers Rubber Stamps, Whiff of Joy, CC Designs, Whimsy Stamps, and more. We have a Product Spotlight sale each week with one select stamp company or category are on sale up to 25% off. We also have a Monthly Challenge and Weekly Candy on our blog.

This week I am showing a card made with a stamp set from Crafty Individuals.  

I love this stamps,you get a great impression. 

The background paper is a BG grid-line paper that I stamped with some of the images from the set to achieve a collage effect.  The front panel is the biggest stamp of the set and the photo don't make justice to how nice the image looks once stamped.  I really love those thread spools.  They look son vintage!!  And the cute little button.... they will be perfect for a baby's card too!!

Here is my card:

Hope you have a wonderful day.

Thanks for playing with DYSU this week!!!

YOU COLOR MY WORLD

Hola!

Desde hacen varias semanas me encontré en Pinterest esta imagen la cual encontré simplemente hermosa.  Inmediatamente me di a la tarea de encontrar un sketch que me sirviera de base para crear una tarjeta con una ventana similar a la de la foto.  Encontré el mismo en el blog Freshly Made Sketches.  Decidí utilizar un file de SVG Cuts – Townhouse Window SVG Mini Pack el cual considero súper apropiado para este proyecto y pos supuesto era el momento perfecto para usar mi nuevo set de Paper Smooches Vogue Abode.  La realidad es que esas ventanitas son uno de los primeros files que compré en esa tienda y apenas lo he utilizado.  Pero que bueno cuando tenemos las herramientas apropiadas para un proyecto que nos viene a la mente!!

Esta vez decidí crear un video que detalla en forma resumida el proceso creativo de la tarjeta.  Es mi primer video así que no es perfecto, pero si esta hecho con mucho cariño.  WOW!  Ha sido un proceso largo pero bien entretenido. 

Para este año 2012 me he retado en preparar videítos con tarjetas y proyectos.  Aun no tengo manera de grabar en vivo mi proceso creativo, pero tan pronto logre conseguir la forma estaremos en camino de tener tutoriales en español con subtítulos en ingles.  Por el momento, los tenemos en inglés porque hay que practicar el difícil como dice mi papá.

 ¡¡Espero que les guste tanto como a mí!!

Hi!!

A few week ago I came across this picture in Pinterest.  I knew immediately that I needed to make a card using it as a source of inspiration.  I went to my reader to look for a sketch to use as a starting point for my card.  I found it at Freshly Made Sketches.  I decided to use a file from SVG Cuts – Townhouse Window SVG Mini Pack and of course it was time to ink my new Paper Smooches Vogue Abode Set.  The file from SVG Cuts was one of the first I bought from that company and I hardly use it… but, Isn’t it great to have the necessary tools when you want to make a project? 

This time I challenged myself to create a short video describing my creative process.  It’s my first video ever, so please be kind LOL!

For this year I have challenged myself to make a few videos, tutorials and share cut files created by me.  It’s time I give back a little of the wonderful things I have received from Blogland.

I hope you like my card and that you like the video as much as I do ;)

Aquí está la tarjeta completa!! / Here is the complete card!!

Y aquí el video ;)  /  And here the video ;)