Please, vote for me!

Hello my friends! Savitri just posted the poll about the messiest room and my desk was included! Could you vote for me? I am the option #3. You can find the post HERE
The contest ends Saturday at Midnight.

For you

Hello my friends, I have a second card for you today and this is for Embellish Owl Color Challenge: Green, Coral and Brown. I've been trying to make a card for this challenge since I saw it posted last month, but I got sick, but tonight is the last day, so I decided to give it a last minute try.

The image I used is from Owl always love you by Gina K. The image was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and blended with Colorless Pencil. The sentiment is from A year of flowers by Gina K. too.

I sponged the borders of the patterned paper as well as the image with Memento Tangelo and Walnut Stain Distress Ink. The straight border was sponged with Memento Tangelo and I added some stitches. The final touch was the Satin Ribbon.

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: Certainly Celery, Coral, Chocolate Chip, White.

Paper: Out & About (My Mind's Eye)

Stamps: Owl always love you & A year of flowers (Gina K.)

Ink: Stazon Black, Memento Rich Cocoa, Memento Tangelo, Walnut Stain Distress Ink (Ranger).

Embellishments: Green Satin Ribbon (Offray)

Accessories: Sewing machine, white thread, daubers, Paper piercing set, Prismacolor Pencils, corner punch.

Hope you like it.

Have a great day/night.

Happy Holidays!

Hello my friends! I have another Christmas card for you today! I followed the sketch from Kristina Werner and her Holiday Card Series Classes. The images I used are from smARTworks Reindeer Set.

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Cream.
Paper: Vintage Holly Digital paper (GinaK), Starburst by My Mind's Eye.
Ink: Riding Hood Red, White craft Ink,
Embellishments: Sheer Stripe White Ribbon, Gold Rhinestones (Kaiser Crafts),
Accessories: Corner Punch, Dimensionals, Mini glue dots.

Hope you like it.
Have a great day!!

Let it snow!!

Hello my friends and Happy Veterans Day!!Today I am feeling better, my voice still on and off, pretty much off, but feeling better every hour. Today, we are going out for dinner to celebrate Veteran's Day. DH is a Veteran, so today is an important Holiday for Him.
I have stamped a bit yesterday, that makes me feel much better. I am in the Christmas mood lately, just don't want the snow yet. Some days ago I received my new stamps from smARTworks, and I decided to ink the cute snowman image from Happy Winter set and give it a try. The snowman was stamped in White CS using Stazon Black Ink. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils. I sponged the border with VersaMagic Aspen Mist Chalk Ink and Broken China Distress Ink (Tim Holtz), then I stamped the snowflakes from Reindeer set using White Craft Ink and Clear embossing powder, then I sponged more of the background area. Finally, for my ground snow I added some Dazzle Dust, this is perfect for snow or ice!! I also added some Sheer Stripe White ribbon . (just in case you didn't know, this pretty ribbon is only 0.39 cents the yard!!!, buy it before is sold out)

Here is my card:

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Bashful Blue, Real Red, White.
Stamps: Happy winter & Reindeer (smARTworks)
Ink: Stazon Black, Aspen Mist (VersaMagic), Broken China Distress Ink (Tim Holtz), White craft Ink.
Embellishments: Sheer Stripe White Ribbon, Dazzle Dust.
Accessories: Sewing machine, White thread, Clear embossing powder, Embossing heat gun, Daubers, Prismacolor Pencils, Diamond Glaze.

Hope you like it.
Thanks so much for your get well wishes, you definitely are the best friends ever!

Have a great day!!

I am still alive, just sick!

Helo my friends! Hope you all are having a great day. After feeling so sick and miserable, it was time for me to go to the doctor. So the results are I got a bronchitis and the flu. Great combinations, ha! I am taking antibiotics and other medications, so far I am started to feel a little bit better, especially with the horrible cough I am having, my ribs, back, chest, everything hurts when I cough. So today I am hoping I can create something.

Thanks so much for stopping by.
God bless you.

My messy room.

Hello my friends! I have something to show, nothing to be proud of, but I thought it could be funny. This week, I have reasons to celebrate, my birthday first, (yeap I am another year older, LOL, my wonderful husband, who made the most wonderful meal for my birthday, my crazy daughter, who I love so much!! and of course, getting sick with a cold and the most horrible cough.So, I was not in the mood for stamping much this week, bu I managed to make a card on my messy desk. My desk was (ans still is) a big mess, I don't know how I did it. I wasn't feeling in the mood of cleaning, so I worked on top of my mess. Savitri has a contest going on to find the Messiest Room. So, I am so "proud" to enter mine, LOL. I am laughing and coughing now :)

Here is my reality:

My husband bought the Embellish Center for my birthday and it is still on the floor. I hope he can hang it tomorrow .

If I get selected, could you vote for me?? :) I need to stop laughing, so I will stop coughing

Recipe Something.

Hello my friends and welcome to another Stamp Something Challenge. This week we have a "Recipe" for you, it is easy, so don't you worry. Our recipe something for this week is "1 ribbon, 2 papers, 3 flowers or 3 embellishments." and our sponsor for this week is Mo's Digital Pencil. The DT was lucky enough to get an image of our choice, so I couldn't resist the cuteness of Kai in the snow
Here details about my card: I colored the image with Prismacolor Pencils and blended it with Colorless Blender Pencil. Then I added some Waterfall and Diamond Stickles for the snow. I also added 3 blue dew drops on the right corner. The papers I used are: the big BG paper is from Vintage Holly Digital Paper by Emily Giovanni and the stripe in the middle is from Merry Wishes-Holly Jolly by Daisy Buckets. The bow was made with White Satin Ribbon by Offray. I also added straight stitches.

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Pure Luxury All Spruced Up by Gina K., White.
Paper: Vintage Holly Digital Paper by Emily Giovanni, Merry Wishes-Holly Jolly by Daisy Buckets
Stamps:Kai in the snow by Mo's Digital Pencil.
Ink: Black Laser Ink, Prismacolor Pencils.
Embellishments: White Satin Ribbon (Offray), Dew Drops (Stamping Bella), Waterfall and Diamond Stickles.
Accessories: Sewing machine, White thread, 3D-foam (EK-Success), Mini glue dots.

Hope you like my card.

Now head over at Stamp Something Blog Challenge and enjoy the DT creations!! and also the chance to win some prizes!!
Also, don't forget about Spreading Love and Hope for Jaimie, please click on the link and if you can, send her a card.

Have a great day!!

PS: Thanks so much for all your sweet Birthday wishes and also for your get well wishes. I am still fighting the cold, not fun, but so far not too bad.

First Center Stage Spotlight Design Team Blog Hop!!

Welcome to our first Center Stage Spotlight Design Team Blog Hop!

Jessica Fick, the Design Team Coordinator for GinaK Designs has issued a challenge to all of the past and present team CSS team members to make a Christmas card with one of these sketches:




We know you're going to LOVE what everyone has designed for us tonight!

Here is my creation. I started my card with a piece of White Pure Luxury CS, Then I added a piece of RocketRed Pure Luxury and some of the pretty digital paper from Vintage Holly (by Emily Giovanni) Using my Colluzle I cut a piece of Red and White Pure Luxury CS. I stamped the image using Real Red Ink ans colored it with Prismacolor Pencils. The ribbon and buttons are from Holiday Collection. I used some Pure Luxury Gold Cording in the buttons. The sentiment was stamped in real Red on White Pure Luxury CS. The back piece of CS is All Spruced Up



Now, here are the links for GinaK's Current CSS Team Members:

Deb Felts
Diana S. Queen
Karen Knegten
Melissa Cash
Sharri Seffens
Sue VanDeVusse

and the links for all of the past CSS Design Team members participating:

Brenda Turner,
Carla Suto,
Carolina Buchting,
Charlene Merrick,
Dawn Lusk,
DeeMarie Kelemen,
Geri Utterback ,
Giovana Smith, You are Here
Janice Melton,
JenMarie Taylor,
Jennie Harper,
Joy Hadden,
Kay Simmons,
Linda Payne,
Lori McAree,
Melisa Waldorf,
Pam Imholz,
Selma Stevenson,
Shannon Bracken,
Shelly Wilson,
Sue Walsh,
Tina Gilliland

Some of GinaK's Senior Design Team Members and Illustrators wanted to get in on the fun tonight too:
Gina K
Asela Hopkins
Carolyn King
Cindy Lawrence
Jessica Fick
Lee Murphy
Lynn Mercurio
Nina Brackett
Melanie Muenchinger

along with Nina Brackett's Guest Designer: Lisa Hjulberg

All of these gorgeous cards from the entire team will be added to the StampTV gallery throughout the next few days with the tag cssjf1 (which stands for center stage spotlight jessica fick 1)

These sketches are also our sketch challenge for this week, so be sure to check out all the information in the discussion in our Challenge group over on StampTV Thursday morning. We'd love to see your cards with the sketch too!

Have fun hopping!!
Hope you like my card.

Grateful!

Hello my friends! Today is a very special day for me, it is my Birthday!!!! Yess, I am getting old-er, LOL. I am so grateful to have a great family, great cyber friends and a great Lord who is always blessing me and being with me.
So, in celebration of my special day, I have a very purple-plum card for you. I remember when I was 15, every outfit I bought was purple, even my earrings, (big ones!) LOL, oh those times!!! My card was inspired by this wonderful flower I saw at the Moxie Fab World Blog. When I Lord Have Mercy (last week sketch).
saw it I said, I have to try to make something like this. The sketch comes from To make the flower, just draw circles onto your PP, it doesn't need to be perfect. Tear the circles, then stamp any image you want in coordinated ink, sponged borders and voila!!! I used the small images from Frames set by smARTworks. The sentiment is from SU Small Script (retired)

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, White.
Paper: Hearthrob
Stamps: Frames (smARtworks), Small Scripts (SU)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Memento Sweet Plum, Plum (Color Box).
Embellishments: Gold Brad, Purely Pomegranate Satin Ribbon (SU), Lavender Rhinestones (Kaiser Crafts), Corner punch (for scallop border).
Accessories: Sewing machine, White thread, Daubers, SU Dimensionals

Hope you like it.
Have a great and blessed day.

Spread the Love Hop

Hello Stamping Friends,

Today I have a very special post! Erin and Denise have organized a Spread the Love blog hop to help bring love and hope to a young New Hampshire girl named Jaimie Cates, who sadly was the victim of random violence in her own home and as a result of this random act, also lost her mother. It was a terrible tragedy that has touched us deeply and so we wanted to do something to help Jaimie

Here is the story:
"On October 4th, 4 teenagers armed with knives broke into a home in a small town in New Hampshire. Alone and sleeping inside were a mother and her 11 year old daughter. These 4 boys broke into this home with the intent to rob and kill anyone inside. They stabbed the mom, Kimberly Cates, to death and left her daughter, Jaimie, for dead in their driveway. It was a completely random act, their home was chosen only due to its secluded surroundings."

Our hope is that everyone hopping around today will stop for a moment and think about Jaimie and her father and what life must be like for them now. One moment in time has changed their lives forever. We are asking that everyone reading this message please take a moment to make a card and send it off to Jaimie. You can make something very simple or much more involved, but please share some words of hope and love and let her know that people do care and want the best for her. Please send your card to the address below:

Jaimie Cates
c/o Mont Vernon Fire Station
Main Street
Mont Vernon, NH 03057

This is the card I am sending to Jaimie:

Today the blog hop starts at Katharina's blog and if you are just joining me, you'll want to hop back to Katharina's and start this special hop there. If you are joining me from Tracey from Starving Artistamps you are in the right place!

Your next stop is Jacilynn Cox . Our hop will end on our new blog, Stamp Something...for Jaimie where we have a special card drive challenge posted with opportunities for participants to win some really terrific prizes donated by our generous sponsors. So be sure you continue to hop to see all the love and hope being spread for Jaimie and then we hope you will make a card and enter it into our challenge!

I hope you can help us to spread the love !!

God bless

Love and welcome November!

Hello my friends! Can you believe is November already?!?! Well, in a couple of days I am going to be a year older {and wiser, wink, wink}. DD and DH are preparing something especial for me. I love surprises, don't you?
Anyway, generally speaking I don't stamp on Sunday, but today DH is working and DD is napping, so I decided to have some nice and quiet stamping time. I found a great blog on the web Limelight Papercrafts with a great sketch challenge, and the main focus is Butterflies!!

So here is my take on the sketch: As a background I randomly stamped the big swirl image from Stella Set using Memento Desert Sand, then I sponged the borders with Memento Desert Sand and Buckaroo Blue. The pretty butterfly is from BF-03 Lg-Trio Set, both by smARTworks. The butterfly was heat embossed in gold and then colored it with Memento Desert Sand, Memento Rich cocoa and Adirondack Ginger. To color it, I used mini daubers. I added some mini sticky squares to give the cut out butterfly more dimension. My final touch was the pretty sheer stripe white ribbon.

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: White, Pacific Blue, Bashful Blue.
Stamps: Stella & BF-03 Lg-Trio (smARTworks)
Ink: Buckaroo Blue, Memento Desert Sand, Memento Rich Cocoa, Adirondack Ginger.
Embellishments: Sheer Stripe White Ribbon, Gold Rhinestones (KaiserCrafts).

Accessories: Sewing machine, white thread, daubers, mini sticky squares, mini glue dots, gold embossing powder, embossing heat gun.

I hope you like it.

Have a great Sunday!

Cards for Bekah!!

Hello my friends!! I hope you are having a great day. Did you know that October is Spina Bifida Awareness Month?? Well, maybe you didn't, but now you do. Why am I asking you this? Well, my neighbor, who is a sweet and wonderful little girl, was born with this condition. Her name is Rebekah, she is 7 years old and a great kid. When Nicole (her mom) told me about Spina Bifida Awareness Month I asked her if she was planning to do something. Immediately, an idea came to my mind, why not send Bekah a lot of cards?? I hope you can help me to make her feel really special. I remember few weeks ago I was talking to Nicole and she was telling about Bekah's comments , she told her mom she would love to meet people like her.

Rebekah

Here is what Nicole says about Spina Bifida:

October is Spina Bifida Awareness month.
Rebekah is a bouncy, talkative, happy little girl who has never let anything stop her. What's so different about Bekah? She has Spina Bifida.

Spina Bifida is a neural tube defect that happens in the first month of pregnancy when the spinal column doesn't close completely.

The effects of Spina Bifida are different for every person. Up to 90 percent of children with the worst form of Spina Bifida have hydrocephalus (fluid on the brain) and must have surgery to insert a “shunt” that helps drain the fluid. The shunt stays in place for the lifetime of the person. Other conditions include full or partial paralysis, bladder and bowel control difficulties, learning disabilities, depression, latex allergy, and social issues.

Thanks to new medical treatments and technology, most people born with Spina Bifida can expect to live a normal life. People with Spina Bifida have many special challenges because of their birth defect, but their condition does not define who they are. People with Spina Bifida have careers, get married, and have children just like people who do not have Spina Bifida.

As a parent of a child with Spina Bifida I cannot put into words how blessed I feel that the Lord brought her into our lives. That He would feel me worthy to be the mother of one of his special children is humbling and I thank Him daily for the blessing he has bestowed me.


Thanks so much for your help!!
Please send the cards at:

Giovana Smith
"Cards for Bekah"
181 Perry Way
Yakima, WA 98901

I will be giving away a little something. Please, if you make a card for her, make a comment here.
God bless you all.

PS : Scroll down for my newest posts.

NOTE: If you would like to donate a prize for the give away, please contact me @ giovanachavez@msn.com Thanks!!

Hugs & Kisses

Hello my friends and Happy Saturday! Any plans for today? DD is so excited to go to Church tonight and enjoy the Harvest Party. Kids are welcome to dress up, but nothing mean and scary, so she will be a PRINCESS!! LOL. She's been thinking about this since she was told about the party about 3 weeks ago, and you know kids, when they want something so bad they can't stop talking about it, well DD is the perfect example :)

I just want to show you something sweet and nothing scary today. Isn't this image adorable?

Wishing you have a fabulous day!!

Cute & Fuzzy Something

Hello my friends! Time for another great challenge at Stamp Something Challenge Blog. This week our challenge is "Cute & Fuzzy" and our great sponsor is Ildi.co. They have really cute digital images, you should check out their store. I had the chance to pick any image I wanted for my card and I couldn't resist one of the Bear from the Cuddles Kuma Collection Cuddles Kuma with butterfly

Here is my card: Lots of stitches and sponging. The image was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and blended with OMS.

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: White, Tangerine Tango.
Paper: Just Dreamy Collection (My Mind's Eye)
Stamps: Cuddles Kuma with Butterfly (Ildi.co)
Ink: Black Laser Ink, Tangelo (Memento), Prismacolor Pencils.
Embellishments: White satin Ribbon (Offray), Gold rhinestones (KaiserCraft).
Accessories: Sewing machine, white thread, Mini glue dots, SU Dimensionals, OMS, Dauber.

Now head over at Stamp Something Challenge Blog and enjoy the other DT creations. I ope you could play along the challenge with us.

Have a great day!!

Thinking of You

Hello my friends!! Hope you all are doing great. I have a card to show you today!! I am submitting this card in Pals Paper Arts Challenge, this week challenge was to use PINK, in honor of Breast cancer Awareness Month.
For my card I used Gold and Pink. I embossed the big butterfly from smARTworks Bliss Set using Gold e.p onto a piece of Webster's Pages (from Postcards from Paris & Sweet as cherry pie, Awesome paper!!), then I cut it out. The other 2 different pieces of PP are from the same collection. I cut the semi circle, sponged the borders with Dark pink and added some zig zag stitches. The sentiment was stamped in Pink Pirouette CS in Ginger Adirondack Ink.
My base card is Good as Gold Pure Luxury CS from Gina K and Pink Pirouette. Finally I added some White Satin Ribbon and some Gold Rhinestones.

Here is my card:

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Good as Gold Pure Luxury (Gina K), Pink Pirouette.
Paper: Postcards from Paris & sweet cherry pie Collection (Webster's Pages)
Stamps: Bliss Set (smARTworks) and Three Thoughts (SU)
Ink: Clear embossing Pad, Ginger Adirondack (Ranger), Dark Pink (Studio G)
Embellishments: White Satin Ribbon (Offray), Rhinestones (Making Memories)
Accessories: Sewing machine, White thread, Sponges, Gold ep, Embossing heat gun, SU Dimensionals.

Hope you like it.
Have a great day!