Spread your wings and fly

Hello friends! Happy Sunday, I had this post half written for days, agghhh I wish I could write post fast, but I get distracted too easily.
Anyway, I have a super cute card using the new Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens, this pens are super fun to use, plus all the shimmer you get makes your card really pop!

Here are the directions:

• Stamp butterflies from Flights of Fancy set in Jet Black StazOn Midi Ink on a piece of watercolor paper.
• Color butterflies in Moonlight, Starry Sky, Smoked Quartz, Pink Champagne, blend the colors with Crystal Clear pen. Trim paper to 4.5" square.
• Stamp sentiment on a piece of Vellum in a Jet Black StazOn ink. Wrap it around watercolor piece.
• Mat watercolor piece with a 5" square piece of Yellow Pearl Shimmering cardstock and add stitches.
• Add stitched panel to to 6"x 6" Bright White Scored Card.

Entering this card to:

• Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything goes
• Word Art Wednesday: Anything goes.

Hope you like it.

Have a fantastic day!

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Spread your wings and fly

It's your birthday!

Hello friends! It's Wednesday and hope you are having a great day! Today I have a super cute and fun card for you. For this project I used the Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens, they are so much fun and the results on your project are really beautiful, a bit more difficult to catch all the shimmering, but I hope you can see them here.

Here are the details:

• Select a card base, here I have a 6"x6" Bright Scored card.
• Cut a panel from Watercolor paper and stamp the balloons from Party Time Set in Jet Black StazOn Ink.
• Color the balloons with Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens: Moonstone, Moonlight, Aquamarine, Rose Quartz, Solar Red, Harvest Moon. Add a couple of Yellow Pearl Shimmering cardstock to the top and bottom edges.
• Die-cut a Pennant Bunting Banner from Coastal Pearl Shimmering cardstock, add it to balloon panel with foam adhesive and twine.
• Stamp sentiment in Jet Black StazOn Ink.
• Add panel to card base with foam adhesive.

Submitting this project to:

• Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything goes
• Word Art Wednesday: Anything goes

Hope you like this fun card.

Have a fantastic day!!

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It's your birthday!

Dream

Hello friends! Hope you all are having a great day. I want to share with you an easy tutorial using Ken Oliver Craft products. Yes, Ken Oliver has also a line of stamps and beautiful patterned papers in addition of the famous Color Burst!!

Let's get started:

• Cut watercolor panels size 3.5" x 4.75",mist them with water and tap a little bit of Color Burst:Sepia, Indigo, Merlot and Yellow Ochre. Mist more water is desired.

• Create a mask using the pretty butterfly from  Studio Collection Set 1, I wanted to overlap the butterflies without touching each other, that's why I wanted a mask, but you can stamp the butterflies on top of each.

•  Start stamping the butterflies on the watercolor panels in Lamp Black, Turquoise and Burnt Orange Click it Ink Pads. 
• Create the word "Dream" using the PegZ Uppercase Set, stamp it on Versamark Watermark Ink, add White embossing powder on a piece of vellum, then wrap them around the watercolor panel. Cut panels from Watercolor Memories Paper to add behind the stamped panels and add stitches.

Finally add sequins and rhinestones. Here are the cards.

Entering these cards to:

• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Critters
• Word Art Wednesday: Anything goes 

Hope you like them.

Have a great day!

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Dream

Thinking of you

Hello friends!! Happy Monday to you all! Hope you are starting a fantastic week. Today I want to share a card I made with some of the amazing products from the new Downton Abbey from Crafter's Companion! 
This collection will be available on HSN tomorrow January 26th, 2016.

Here is the schedule, don't miss it!

Have a fantastic day!!

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Thinking of you

The smallest things warm the heart

Hello friends! How are you doing today? How is the weather in you side of the hood? Around here we got more snow, foggy, rainy and cold, not the best combo! In honor of snow and next month Valentine season, I have this super cute card.
My friend and "seester" (I know, I know it is not a real word, but that's our signature) Lee Ann, who by the way has an amazing blog, sent me this cut set "Owl Bundle Up" by Unity Stamps last month and until now I had the chance to inky up.

This card is super simple, here are the details:

• Make a card base from White Cardstock, mist front side with Firework Angel Pink and Rhubarb Stalk Sprays, set aside to dry.
• Stamp the owl on a piece of Watercolor Paper in Versaamrk Waternark Ink, add White embossing powder and heat set.
• Color image with Color Burst, Here I used: Alizarin Crimson, Sepia and Yellow Ochre. The colors were mixed with water in a container (TIP: I use a plastic ice cube container, I paid 0.25 cents in a yard sale, deal!!!) then take as much or little as you need.
• Die-cut image with Circle Dies.
• Die-cut a heart in red cardstock, stamp sentiment in Versamark Watermark, add white embossing powder and heat set.
• Add pieces to card base. Embellish card with sequins and twine.

Entering this card to:

• Unity Stamps Challenge: Theme "Pink and Red"

• Stamping Smiles Designs: Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge "Snow - 100% stamping - Critter

Hope you like it!

Have a fantastic day!!

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The smallest things warm the heart

Thinking of you

Hello friends!! How are you doing today? Hope you are having a great day! I am busy with my babies, back to work, but I have a set of cards for you. I made them for the Lasting Hearts card Drive, you can find all the info about this great drive on Jennifer McGuire's blog.

These cards are very simple, here are the details:

• Create card bases (x6) from Kraft Carsdtock. A2 size.
• Cut white panels (x6) from White cardstock. 3.5" x 4.75"
• Cut panels from Watercolor paper (x6) 3.25" x 4.5". Stamp saying from "Grateful" set from Concord & 9th in Black Stazon Ink.
• Mix Color Burst Powders with water and add them to the watercolor panels, as much or as little as you want. I dried my pieces using my heat gun, then added more color. The color I used for these cards are: Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Terre Verte, Burnt Orange, Sepia, Yellow Ochre.
• Mat white cardstock and watercolor panel and add straight stitches.
• Adhere panel to Kraft card base.
• Add Stickles to hearts and little dots of Liquid Pearl.

Hope you like them!
Have a fantastic day!!

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Thinking of you

Love

Hello friends! Happy Monday to you all! I spent the weekend having fun creating new projects, I made a lot of them, so I hope I can start blogging more often, let me show you first this card I made with Crafter's Companion products, I made this card inspired by several challenges: The sketch from Fusion Card Challenge, the colors and love from Share Joy Challenge and the Ombre challenge from Simon Says Wednesday Challenge.

I will be sending this card to my sister, I hope she loves it.

Here are the details:

• Make card base from Ultra White Premium Cardstock. A2 size.
• Cut a panel from Rose Pearl Shimmering Cardstock (3.5" x 4.75")
• Cut a panel from White cardstock (3.25" x 4.5"), stamp Wallpaper background image in Versamark Watermark ink, then add White embossing powder and heat set.
• Create an ombre effect using Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Worn Lipstick Distress Inks.
• Die-cut and emboss "Love" from  Die'sire Prestige Christmas Only Words (yes, this is a Christmas die, a great way to stretch your dies for other occasions) from Watercolor Paper. Stencil it with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink  (to match color from background).
• Die-cut and emboss the Rosebud from Bebunni Floral Metal Dies, color it with Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens:  Emerald Green, Rose Quartz, Solar Red, Crystal Clear
• Add panels to card base, add Love die, silver thread and rosebud, finally add red sequins and clear rhinestones.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Have a fantastic day!!

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Love

A.S.A.P: Always say a prayer

Hello friends!! How is your day today? Hope it is amazing! This is the season for snow,snow and more snow, we have gotten a lot, thank God for it, it is an answer to many prayers, last Summer was bad, water restriction in many places, looks like we will not have a problem next Summer!

So, today I want to share this super cute card, with a great message. ASAP "Always say a prayer" in good and bad times, in happiness and sadness, always!

This image is from Latina Crafter set "Pray" from the "Be a Blessing Collection" and here are the details:

• Start with a card base from Kraft cardstock. A2 size.
• Cut a piece of Watercolor paper (3.5" x 4.25"), stamp images in Watermark Versamark Ink, then apply White Embossing Powder and heat set.
• After that, dissolve Alizarin Crimson, Terra Verte and Indigo Color Burst in water and apply the colors to the image, the heat embossed area will resist the colors and show up.
• Die-cut a couple of scallop borders in Metallic Pink Cardstock and adhere them behind the watercolor piece.
• Tie around panel pink/white twine and a pink button. Add clear rhinestones.
• Adhere card panel to card base with Foam adhesive.

Entering this card to:

• Word Art Wednesday Challenge: Anything goes.

Hope you like it!!
Have a fantastic and blessed day!

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A.S.A.P: Always say a prayer

Imagine

Hello friends!! Happy Monday to you all! Last night I spent a couple of hours in the craft room, I made 3 cards and this is one of them, all of them quite simple, but with few details.

For this card I used the Time to Dream set from Crafter's Companion, I bought this set a couple of months ago, but this is my first time using it.

Here are the details:

• Cut a piece of Watercolor Paper, size 3.75" x 5"
• Color butterflies image with Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens: Moonstone. Soft Jade, Aquamarine, Blue Topaz, then stamp it onto the watercolor paper, apply more color if desired. Then, ink the butterflies edges with Memento Rich Cocoa. (I used my MISTI).
• Spray background with Memento Fireworks Tangelo Spray.
• Stamp sentiment on a piece of Vellum in StazOn Midi Orange Zest. Wrap sentiment around panel then add silver thread. 
• Add panel to a Kraft color card base.

Submitting this card to:

• CASology: Simple
• Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Something New
• Word Art Wednesday: Anything goes

Hope you like it.

Have a fantastic day!!

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Imagine

Season's Giving Winner!!

Hello friends! Happy Saturday to you all! The Season's Giving Winner has been chosen via random and it is....

 Brenda in IN

Brenda, please contact me (right side bar, just click the envelope icon) and send me your information!!

Thanks so much to all of you who participated!!

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Season's Giving Winner!!

Hello friend + Art

Hello friends! here today, presenting you a couple of projects I created with my new (yes, I finally was able to use them) Color Burst! I have to say that I love, love, love the Sepia one, oh boy, it is delicious! LOL.

I applied 4 colors of Color Burst: Sepia, Merlot, Yellow Ochre and Ultramarine Blue on a piece of watercolor paper, mist water and let the Color Burst do the magic!!

After the piece dried, I cut it in 4 pieces (2 more pieces to show later) 

For this first card I stamped the flower from Watercolored Memories Collection Set 1 in Versamark Ink and applied Gold Embossing powder and heat set. Cut the panel to 3.75" x 5" and adhere it to a white card base (A2 size). Die-cut the hello friend in white cardstock (x2), used the Stick it to stick the dies together, then applied to card base. A little strip of teal cardstock and few sequins and the card was done.

For this second card I used the star, art, butterfly and numbers (BG stamping) from  Studio Collection Set 1, the star and art were stamped in Turquoise Ink and the little swirls are from Watercolored Memories Collection Set 2 and stamped in Lamp Black Ink . I added a red pearl in the middle of the star and adhere the panel on a A2 white card base.

Submitting these projects to :

• Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Something New (stamp sets and new Color Burst)

And if you are attending CHA don't forgot to stop by and say hello to Ken!! He is going to be at booth #2652.
Come say hello and see the newest releases in the range, see live demonstrations and learn some new techniques from the experts.  For those who cannot attend don't worry as we will be sharing details and pictures on the Ken Oliver Crafts Facebook page, Instagram and the blog

Hope you like it!
Have a fantastic day!!

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Hello friend + Art

You are not Alone

Hello friends!! This is my 1st official post for 2016! I have a lot of plans and one of them is to be more organized, I don't think I can blog everyday (I will try), but at least 3 times per week sounds more reasonable, plus I want to make videos, we'll see how that goes.

Anyway, I want to show you a card I created for Latina Crafter and the monthly challenge we have at the Latina Crafter blog, you are welcome to participate too, you don't need to use their products, just follow the sketch and/or twist and you are good!

This month I followed the twist, I just love the colors, so pretty!!

This is the card I created, here are the steps:

• Make a card base from White cardstock. A2 size.
• Stamp the You are not alone sentiment, stars and hearts from "You" set on a piece watercolor paper in Versamark Watermark ink, then apply gold embossing powder and heat set.
• After that, mix Alizarin Crimson and Ultramarine Blue Color Burst with water, and apply the colors on the watercolor piece.
• Mat this piece with pink shimmer cardstock, then add stitches.
• Add panel to card base, finally add ruby and turquoise rhinestones.

Hope you like it.
Have a fantastic day!!

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You are not Alone