It's a girl!! Bear Card

Good morning my friends! I woke up today feeling tired, how can that happen? I think I am getting something, I am not sure if it's allergies or a cold, but I have some sinus pressure and headaches, yikes! Anyway, last night I made a baby card. I love making baby cards, don you?

I got inspired by a little outfit Miss E. was wearing yesterday, then I thought of Gina K. Inspiration Challenge, also Cuttlebug Challenge and Caarvarks Challenge, all of them have a Baby Challenge!! Super duper! and the stitching challenge over at Stamp Something

I used the sketch from Card Patterns.

Just a note about the bear. I stamped it twice, cuttlebuged the one on top, cut out the tummy and added a pink button in its place. You can see it better in the second and third picture.

All materials listed are Gina K. Designs otherwise noted.

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: White, Chocolate Brown, Innocent Pink, Kraft (Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: Oh baby! (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Ginger (Adirondack), Real Red (SU), Pretty In Pink (SU)
Embellishments: White satin Ribbon (Offray), Pink Rhinestones (Kaiser crafts), Pink Button (Gina K. Designs)
Accessories: Circle Nestabilities, Square nestabilities, Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots folder, Spots & Dots folder. Dauber, Sewing machine, White thread.

Hope you like it.
Have a great day!

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It's a girl!! Bear Card

With Gratitude.

 Hello my friends. I hope you are enjoying your Friday! Here is SNOWING!!! I wonder if it's Spring for real, the weather here has been kind of cold for this time of the year, the sad part is I planted some flowers and yesterday I found a nest here in my property, poor little egg, I hope he can make it. Right now "mama bird" is standing over her egg, but she is getting all cover with snow, that's mama's love!!

Anyway, I am trying to stay warm inside and yesterday I made a couple of cards, here is one of them.

With Gratitude: I started this card with a nice sketch from CPS, the colors come from Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World also the String Challenge over @ EBTKS , Pink Challenge over at Stamp Something Blog and finally the Lace Challenge over at Caardvarks Blog .

I crocheted my own lace border and then added some fine Satin Ribbon. I think it looks very pretty, what do you think? I also made the paper flower, I sponged the borders and crumbled up all the pieces of Patterned Paper and added a silver brad in the center.

I embossed the Innocent Pink CS piece using Textile folder and matted with a piece of Lemon Drop CS and added some straight stitches. Some pearls were added in the right corner.

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: White, Lemon Drop, Innocent Pink (Gina K. Designs)

Stamp: Spring Florals (Gina K. Designs)

Ink: Espresso (Adirondack), Tea Dye (Ranger).

Embellishments: Cream Classic Crochet Thread, Yellow Satin Ribbon (Offray), Pearls, Silver Brads (Jo-Ann's)

Accessories: Sewing machine, white thread, Textile folder, Cuttlebug, Scallop Circle Punch (Fiskars), Daubers, Foam Tape.

Hope you like it.

Have a great day!!

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With Gratitude.

B is for Blessing.

Hello my friends, (is anybody there?) I just noticed I am not having too many visitors lately, is it because of Spring break? :), I hope someone there is enjoying my creations, if I can make just 1 happy, that makes me happy  :). Anyway, tonight I have a baby card for you. Actually I am combining 3 challenges is 1. I got the sketch from one of my favorite blogs 2S4U, the colors combo + stitching comes from Embellish Magazine and "Mount Up" Challenge over at Stampin' Sisters in Christ.

I started my card base with Kraft CS, I overlapped Innocent Pink and Ocean Mist CS. I added a piece of embossed Ocean Mist CS (Swiss Dots) and a piece of border punch (SunBurst). I added straight stitches around. I stamp the bear 3 times and I mounted up, it was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS. I also added some MS ribbon around and some Pearls.

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: Kraft, Ocean Mist, Innocent Pink, White PL (All Gina K. Designs)

Stamps: Oh Baby (Gina K. Designs)

Ink: Rich Cocoa (Memento), Bahama Blue (Memento), Prismacolor Pencils.

Embellishments: Mountain Lake Ribbon (Martha Stewart), Pearls.

Accessories: Sewing machine, white thread, Sunburst Border Punch (Fiskars), OMS, Swiss Dots folder, Cuttlebug, Foam tape.

Hope you like it.

Have a great night.

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B is for Blessing.

Thinking Pink.

Hello my friends, today I have a couple of "pink cards". Do you love pink? I do!! This week I found a lot of inspiration in blogland, one of them was Heather Scott at Oz-somestamps. I love her sketches and her video tutorials, so this week I decided to play her sketch and her Modified Retiform Technique.
Shall we start?

Heather's Sketch: I made a baby card, to be honest I struggled with the sketch, I don't know if I really like this card, maybe because I like to add a lot of layers and use my sewing machine, but at the end I convinced myself the card is pretty :)
The images I used are from "Oh Baby" by Gina K. Designs. The white shape was made using my Cricut machine and "A Child's year" cartridge.

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Pure Luxury White, Lemon Drop, Innocent Pink (All Gina K.)
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Real Red.
Embellishments: Pink Button (Spring Collection GinaK), White Organdy Ribbon (Gina K)
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Swiss dots folder, Cricut, A Child's year cartridge, SU Corner punch, Fiskar's border punch, daubers, Circle Nestabilities, Sticky foam, Mini glue dots.

Modified Retiform Technique: I really like this card, :) For the technique I used Pretty in Pink (SU) and Desert Sand (Memento Ink). I followed the video step by step, it is very easy!! For the BG I used smARTworks stamps: "Stella" and "Weave" . The sentiment is from "Inside & Out" by Gina K. Designs. The scallop shape was cut using my Cricut Machine and "A child's year" cartridge. I added some Satin ribbon and tiny pearls.
I played the sketch challenge from Paper Crafts Connection Blog

Card Recipe:

Card stock: White Pure Luxury, Innocent Pink (both Gina K.. Designs)

Stamps: Stella, Weave (smARTworks), Inside & Out (Gina K. Designs)

Ink: Pretty in Pink (SU), Desert Sand (Memento)

Embellishments: White Satin Ribbon (Offray), Pearls.

Accessories: Cricut machine, A child's year cartridge, daubers.

Hope you like them!

Your comments are always appreciated.

Have a great day!

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Thinking Pink.

May your birthday...

Hello my friends and Happy Thursday! Hope you are having a wonderful day. Today I have a card for CPS Blog challenge. I really like this week sketch and also for "Distressed Something" over at Stamp Something Challenge
I created circle flowers, I cut circles with the Cricut machine, (1", 1.25", 1.5"), distressed and sponged the borders, then I added a silver brad. The BG was created the Swiss Dots Embossing folder. I stamped the leaves (from A Year of flowers set) in Creme de menthe CS and cut them out.

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: White Pure Luxury, Ocean Mist, Lemon Drop, Creme de menthe (all Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: Inside & Out, A year of flowers (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tea Dye Distress Ink (Ranger) for sponging.
Embellishments: Silver brads.
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots folder, Sewing machine, white thread, Cricut, George cartridge.

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

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May your birthday...

Clean & Simple + 3 in 1!

Hello my friends, I hope you are having a great day/night. I have had a very busy day and I was just waiting for a quiet time so I could sit here and write my post.
The other day I was checking some Blog Challenges and I found Stampin' Sisters in Christ and their challenge is to create CAS cards! I thought this is fantastic, having now very short stamping time I played the challenge and I didn't make 1, nor 2 but 3 cards!! The last one is my 3 in 1 using: Cricut, Cutlebug and stamps.

The stamps I used are "Prayer" from smARTworks.

Joy:

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: Kraft (SU), Lemon Drop & Creme de Menthe (Gina K), White (GP)

Ink:Memento Rich Cocoa.

Embellishments: Clear Rhinestones (Kaiser crafts).

Accessories: Sticky foam, dauber, Corner punch (SU)

I thank God..

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: White (GP)

Ink: Real Red (SU), Espresso (Adirondack)

Embellishments: Red Rhinestones (Kaiser Crafts)

Prayer: 3 in 1 card: Using Cricut, Cutlebug, Stamps. The embossed shape was cut with the Cricut machine (then embossed) and the borders were sponged.

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: Kraft, Chocolate Brown & Ocean Mist (Gina K. Design)

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Ginger (Adirondack)

Embellishments: Turquoise Rhinestones (Kaiser Crafts)

Accessories: Cricut machine, A child's year cartridge, Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots Folder, daubers, Paper piercing set.

Hope you like my cards.

Have a great and blessed day/night.

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Clean & Simple + 3 in 1!

3 in 1!!

Hello my friends, I want to show a couple of cards I made using a Stamp Set, Cuttlebug and a Cricut machine. I love stamps, my Cuttlebug is always used for BG or especial details and my Cricut sometimes cries to be used, LOL, so once a week I will try to do 3 in 1!

Materials I used:

Stamp Set: Inisde & Out (Gina K Designs)

Cutlebug folders: Swiss Dots.

Cricut cartriges: Stretch your Imagination

Others:

Card Stock: White (GP), Kraft , Lemon drop, Innocent Pink, Ocean Mist and Creme de menthe (all Gina K. Designs)

Ink: Memento Rich cocoa, Antique Linen.

Embellishments: Spring Collection Button (Gina K), embroidery floss.

Accessories: Sticky foam, daubers.

Hope you like it. I am fighting a cold right now, feeling really congested, it is a bad time to get sick, believe me, I have too many things to do.

Have a great day!

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3 in 1!!

More Christmas cards!

Hello my friends! I think these are the last sets of Christmas cards you are going to see for a while. This year I went Clean and Simple, easy to mass produce and no extra postage :)

For my card I again, used Nestabilities, heat embossing and sponging.

For this set I used stamps I got from my friend. I don't know the brand, sorry.

For this set I used Theresa's "A Very Merry Christmas" set from Gina K. Designs.

Hope you like them!!

Have a great day!

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More Christmas cards!

Beautiful Poinsettia.

Hello my friends! I hope you are having a great day. Today I am having a great day. I started my day with some house's chores, then I spent a great time with my daughter, we played in the snow, we had some snow ball fight, we used the sled and we went all the way down the hill!!! It was so much fun, then we came back home, had some hot cocoa, potatoe chips and a corn dog, very healthy, right? and of course we watched Bolt! (again)
Now, she is napping, and I am trying to finish some projects.

Anyways, I have another Christmas card for you. This is a CAS, very easy to mass produce and really cute. I used 2 sets from Gina K. Designs : the Poinsettia is from "A Year of flowers" and the sentiment is from "A Very Merry Christmas" I used the sketch from this week sketch challenge over at "Stamp TV"

Hope you like it.
Have a great day!!

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Beautiful Poinsettia.

Gold Poinsettia

Hello my friends and Happy Saturday! Hope you all are having a great day. Today, it is cleaning house day, yeah, not too much fun, but needed. I hope I have some extra time to stamp today.
Anyways, I want to show a card I made for some challenges: The color combo comes from Stamp TV Color Challenge: Green, Red & Gold and also from Cuttlebug Challenges : Using glitter!! , FTTCC44: CAS cards and finally Just Bugging Challenge Layers.

Card Details: To get this card shape I used "A Child's Year" Cartridge and my Cricut machine. The card size is 5" x 3.75" , then I cut another card, this time smaller 3.5" x 2. 75", cut it in half, traced the scallop lines in the plain side and cut it with scissors. Then I used my Cuttlebug machine and Swiss Dots embossing folder, sponged the borders with Real Red Ink.
The image is from A year of flowers by Gina K. Designs. I stamped the image in Gold Ink and added Gold ep and then it was heat embossed. Then I added a lot of Diamond Stickles for the nice and shiny look.
Finally I added some Christmas Plaid ribbon and a red button from Buttons Holiday Collection by Gina K.
For the inside I stamped a sentiment from A Very Merry Christmas by Gina K. Designs.

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: White.

Stamps: A year of flowers & A Very Merry Christmas (Gina K. Designs)

Ink: Gold, Real Red, True Thyme.

Embellishments: Red Button (Holiday Collection), Christmas Plaid Ribbon, Diamond Stickles.

Accessories: Cricut Machine, A Child's Year cartridge, Cuttlebug machine, Swiss Dots Embossing folder, daubers, Dimensionals, Mini glue dots.

I hope you like it.

Your comments are appreciated.

Have a great day!

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Gold Poinsettia

Happy Birthday!!

Today is my sweet niece Mia's Birthday!! She is turning Big 5!! She is the most adorable and sweet girl, I haven't seen her in almost 2 years, I can't believe how fast time flies! Becca and Mia had a little chat this afternoon, everyone was inviting each other enjoy her pool and have fun, LOL, it was very sweet to see them talking.
Happy Birthday Sweet Mia and Many many blessings to you!!



Today also, I want to show you a quick card I made yesterday, this is for Cuttlebug Challenges.This week the challenge was to create a card using Digital Images.(Dig. Images provided by them) Lately, I've been using a lot of Digital Images, they are fun to work with!! Of course I used my Cuttlebug machine, using my 2 favorite folders: Textile and Swiss Dots. I sponged and distressed the borders, added some ribbon and some Glitter on the image.



Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Blush Blossom, White.
Stamps:Digital Images by MlamarreDesigns
Ink: Plum and Dark Pink (sponging)
Embellishments: Satin Ribbon (Offray), Diamond Stickles (Rangers)
Accessories: Cuttlebug machine, Textile & Swiss Dots (embossing folders), Sewing machine, pink thread, sponges, Mini glue dots.


I hope you like it.
Have a great Sunday!!

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Happy Birthday!!

Thank You!!

Happy Friday everyone!! I have a cute a quick card to show you today. I used the sketch from Card Positiong Systems . The flowers are from Prima" Urban Painterly Petals". The sentiment is SU Vases in Vogue (hostess retired). Some red stitches around.

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: White, Black.

Stamps: SU Vases in Vogue

Ink: Stazon Black.

Embellishments: Prima flowers, Pink Button, Gold thread, Red Organdy Ribbon.

Accessories: Sewing machine, red thread, Cuttlebug, Embossing folder, Mini glue dots, SU Dimensional.

I hope you like it.

Have a great and blessed day.

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Thank You!!