Bloomin' Thanks

Happy Tuesday everyone. I hope you are having a great day. Do you still do yard work? Well, our yard is full with huge weeds, DH has been working on that and today I was tired to see them flying that I decided to move them into a big pile. I didn't think I could end feeling so tired. My whole body hurts, especially mu knees. DD brought me a bottle of water and sat down on the stairs when I was taking a break. She always helps me that way, but never pulling weeds or doing the hard work. She says she is a Princess and princesses don't do that :S.

Oh well, today I have time to play Heather Scott's Sketch. Her sketches are so pretty and easy.

My card is very simple, for the image I colored it first, then cut it out and glued it onto my CS. Then added some Waterfall Stickles.

Card Recipe:

Card stock: White (GP), Bashful Blue, Bazzill Blue.

Paper: SU Simply Scrapping "Out & About"

Stamps: Bloomin' Beautiful, Sea Life by H&MStamps (sentiment)

Embellishments: Bashful Blue ribbon, Mini rhinestones.

Accessories: Glue, Diamond Glaze, Waterfall Stickles.

I hope you like it.

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Bloomin' Thanks

Thanks!!

Have you visited Cammie's blog and check the great blog candy she is offering??? More the 1,000 dollars in prizes, awesome !!!!, but why? you may ask, well, her grandmother passed away last June from consequences of Alzheimer disease and yesterday in celebration of the World's Alzheimer Day, Cammie is asking to make a card for all the caregivers who take care of the people affected with this disease.
When I read that, I was in tears, my Father-in-law is suffering from this disease, hard to believe 6 years ago when I met him, he was working, driving, being so active, and now he is in a Nursing home, hardly talks, moves or does anything by himself. This disease is really aggressive, and he is going down very fast. Yesterday I called my Mother-in-law and told her that it was the World's Alzheimer Day. I asked her the name o f the Nursing home and it is "Riverside" located in Centralia, WA. (This is a picture of him and DD and DH last Christmas when we visited him)I told her I will make some cards so she could give them to the people are taking care of him, she agreed and was very thankful.
Please, if you know anybody suffering from this disease, send a card to the caregiver, or maybe you don't know anybody, but you know a Nursing home taking care of the people affected , just go there and leave a card for the staff, I bet they will appreciate it very much.

Card Recipe:

Card stock: White (GP)

Paper: American Craft (not sure about it)

Stamps: Sea Life by H&MStamps

Ink: Buckaroo blue.

Embellishments: Offray Satin ribbon (Antique Blue), Mini rhinestone.

I hope you like it.

God bless.

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Thanks!!

Thanks!!

I made this card two days ago, but I didn't have time to post it here. I have been busy lately. Anyway, I tried Heater's Sketch Challenge, I was very happy with my card until I checked her blog again and noticed I twisted it, {frustrated face inserted}

With this card I tried to use the Orange District ribbon, but it looked too thick, so I decided to fake it a little bit ;) I used my Only Orange CS and white ep, my ruler and VOILA!!! I got almost the same effect than the ribbon and it looks perfect.

Card Recipe:

Card stock: Kiwi Kiss, Only Orange, Burgundy, White.

Paper: DP me & my BIG Ideas CC-03

Stamp: Sea Life by H&MStamps.

Ink: Black Stazon, Red (for sponging), White embossing powder

Embellishments: Mini rhinestones.

Accesories: Dimensionals, Diamond Glaze, Ruler, Embossing gun.

I hope you like it.

Have a great day!!!

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Thanks!!

One Sheet Wonder Challenge

Hi again, this is my second late post. Have you heard about OSW before???? Well, if yes, awesome, if not you are just like me, LOL, when I stopped yesterday on the Verve Forum at SCS and read OSW I was lost, now I know :) This is my first time creating under OSW and I love it. Verve Forum September release is tomorrow and Julee did it again!!! new and awesome challenges. I went Red and White with my cards, maybe because I am Peruvian and my flag is Red and White, I love how my cards turned out and I hope you too.
Just in case you don't know about the challenge, just stop here and you will find all the info.

My DP I used is from SU Cerise, retired now, but simply beautiful. To be honest I loved one side, but not the other, so I decided to use another different sheet from the same designed.

Card #1: Someone remembers

Card recipe:
Card stock: White, Burgundy.
Paper: SU Cerise (retired)
Stamps: Daisy Trio #1 by smARTworks.
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Cranberry Crisp.
Embellishments: Prima flowers, Mini rhinestones.
Accessories: Diamond Glaze.

Card #2: Pink Daisy
Card Recipe:
Card stock: Real Red, White, Burgundy.
Paper: SU Cerise (retired)
Stamps: Daisy Trio #2 by smARTworks.
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Cranberry Crisp.
Embellishments: Mini rhinestones, White ribbon.
Accessories: Sponges.

Card#3: Believe!!

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: White, Burgundy.
Paper: SU Cerise (retired)
Stamps: Believe in Miracles by Anita's TM
Ink: Cranberry Crisp.
Embellishments: Prima flowers, mini rhinestones.
Accessories: Sponges, Diamond glaze.

Card #4: Thinking of You
Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Real Red, White, Burgundy.
Paper: SU Cerise (Retired)
Stamps: Bird by Rhonna Farrer, Sentiment (Sea Life by H&M Stamps)
Ink: Cranberry Crisp, Watercolor pencils, White embossing powder.
Embellishments: Mini rhinestones, White ribbon, gold brads.
Accessories: Dimensionals.

ETA: All card recipes added.

I will add all the info about each card in the morning, I am exhausted now and DH has been waiting for me to watch TV ;)

Have a great night
Giovana

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More horses!!!

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great Friday!!!

Today is a very warm day, DH has the day off so he is doing yard work ( I will help him, well maybe later, LOL)Anyway, I realized I really like horses, LOL, well by now you probably knew that,LOL. I made another horse card, I hope you don't get tired of this cute horse. I used the sentiment from Sea Life Set by H&MStamps. It's a very simple and elegant card.

Sorry for the short post, maybe I will be back later with more stuff (wink)

Card Recipe:

Stamps: SU Bareback, Sea Life (H&MStamps)

Card Stock: Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip, Cream, White.

Paper: DP by Magnolia.

Ink: SU Chocolate chip craft.

Embellishments: SU Chocolate chip satin ribbon, Bella baubles,

Accessories: Mini glue dots, piercing tools, double sided tape.

I hope you like it.

Have a blessed day

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More horses!!!

Thanks Bareback

Hello everyone, I hope you all are having a great day, Here in the NW is sunny and bright, even though we are not going to get high temperatures, it is much better than last week when we had only heavy clouds and rainy days, maybe that's why my mojo was gone, believe me really gone.

Anyway, today is Monday and new challenge day on SCS. Mondays are Try a New Technique Challenge. The challenge for today is created a POP UP card, click here to see the tutorial.
This card is not difficult to make, but you have to be very careful with the measurements and cuts. I followed all the instructions, so here is my card:


BAREBACK THANKS:



Card Recipe:
Stamps: SU Bareback, Sea Life by H&MStamps (for sentiment)
Card stock: Brown, Sage Shadow, Really Rust (regular and textured CS)
Paper: DP SU Outlaw (retired)
Ink: SU Chocolate Chip pigment
Embellishments: Brown and cream ribbons, Bella baubles, gold stickles.
Accessories: Sticky tape, double sided tape, Coluzzle, scallop scissors, mini glue dots.


I hope you like it.
Have a blessed day

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Thanks Bareback

Bird and flowers

Happy Tuesday everyone!!!! I hope you are having a great day. Today I was planning to continue my yard work, but it's been raining since 5:00 am and now outside is very muddy and I don't think I will do anything there. Yesterday I raked weeds, picked up rocks and checked mama bird nest, LOL.

Rebecca told me: Mami I will hep you, but she spent the whole time playing, of course I didn't expect much help from her, but sometimes she does pretty good, not yesterday. She was standing on a pile of rocks and was calling for her Prince, hahahah, my daughter is super crazy, it was so funny to see her doing that, she was wearing a cheer leader dress, she fell down thousand times (well, not that many) and later her legs had scratches everywhere, oh well, she doesn't care much, I do.

Anyway, talking about stamping, yesterday I didn't touch any stamp, ink or paper, OH MY!!! so today I decided to make 2 cards, so I could feel better.
The Color combination challenge on SCS was so pretty, I used it twice, LOL.

To make the little holes I used a piece of plastic canvas, I bought a bag of those long time ago and now I am using it. :)

Here are my cards:
I used Heather's sketch , visit her blog here .

BIRD WISHING YOU A BEAUTIFUL DAY

Card Recipe:

Stamps: SU Touch of Nature, Sentiment from Sea Life Set (H&M Stamps)

Card stock: Blue bayou, Soft Sky, Real Red, White.

Ink: Stazon black.

Embellishments: Bella baubles, gold stickles.

Accessories: Mini glue dots, double sided tape, plastic canvas, colored pencils.

CONGRATULATIONS

Card Recipe:

Stamps: SU Flower Garden (hostess retired), Sentiment by Studio G, BG form $ tree.

Cards stock: Blue bayou, Soft sky, Real Red, White.

Ink: Stazon black, SU Buckaroo blue, blue ink pigment.

Embellishments: Bella baubles.

Accessories: SU dimensionals, mini glue dots, double sided tape.

I hope you like them.

Have a blessed day.

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Bird and flowers

Thinking of you

Hello everyone, today here is cold as a winter day (crazy weather), my allergies and sinus pressure are bothering me again.
Early in the morning I didn't have any mojo to stamp. I spent my morning cleaning my house and homeschooling Rebecca, she is doing so great, few more days and school is over, I have to think of something to keep her busy, well, she keeps me busy all day, LOL.
Few weeks ago my uncle had a heart bypass surgery, he is doing better now, my cousins are taking care of their dad. My aunt had a surgery last week; both are my mom's siblings; I love them very much and you don't know how much I miss them.
This morning I spent time praying for them, my siblings, my dad, I wish I could be there and hug them all day. Last time I went to Peru, Rebecca was only 9 month-old baby, now she is 4!!! Now she is more into speaking Spanish, she is so funny, she repeats everything I say, well sometimes her way and with a very heavy accent, but she wants to learn more Spanish now, so I am taking advantage of that.


This afternoon (when Becca's was taking a nap) I tried a couple of Sketch Challenges: Beate's and Taylor's. I always try to play their challenges, they are so talented.

Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge # 49:


Taylor's Cupcake Challenge#17:

Card Recipe:
Stamps: Daisy Trio by smARTworks, SU Bareback, Sea Life H&MStamps (sentiments)
Card stock: Black, White, Barely Banana, Bashful Blue, Sage Shadow.
Ink: Stazon black, SU Mellow Moss, orange and yellow pigment.
Paper: DP unknown
Embellishments: Yellow ribbon, light blue ribbon, Bella's baubles.
Accessories: SU dimensionals, double sided tape, mini glue dots.


I hope you like them.
God bless

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Thinking of you

Rescuing my forgotten paper

Hi, I am back with a couple of cards that I made using some "forgotten paper" that I had there. I love to buy paper and then I don't use it, I hope I am not the only one with that problem. Who motivated me to do this????, Well, yesterday searching the web I found this blog. She (Tomiannie) has a great blog and also a challenge using paper or anything you have there and never have used.
So I close my eyes and I took a couple of papers, they both are similar, LOL, anyway, with the paper on hand I decided to work on my cards.
I just wanted to create something simple and elegant at the same time.
For both of my cards I used the sentiments from Sea Life Set H&MStamps . My second card is a case from Dawn. She has an awesome blog, go check it out!!! She was the Featured Stamper last Sunday.

Card Recipe:
THANKS
Card stock: SU River Rock, Brown Bazzill.
Paper: MDC.
Stamp: Sea Life (H&M Stamps)
Ink: Stazon black.
Embellishments: Prima flowers, SU Chocolate Chip Sattin Ribbon, gold brads.
Accessories: double sided tape, mini glue dots, plastic canvas (to make the dots)

Card Recipe:
HAVE A BEATIFUL DAY
Card Stock: SU Mellow Moss, White (GP)
Paper: Anna Griffin.
Stamps: Sea Life (H&M Stamps)
Ink: Stazon Black.
Embellishments: Yellow ribbon, gold brads, glitter (yellow and light green)
Accessories: Punch corner, double sided tape.

I hope you like them.
Have a blessed day.

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Rescuing my forgotten paper

Welcome baby Lily!!!!

Happy Sunday everyone. Las Tuesday, my good friend had her baby girl, I met her today at church, she is so cute!!!!!! She slept the whole service and she was just fine with all the noise after it. Just when almost everybody was gone she was a little fuzzy, of course, she was hungry!!! My Rebecca was so excited to see her, she has been waiting all this time to meet her.
I made a card for her. I was not sure if Heidi would be at church today, I am planning to go to her house and bring it tomorrow with something else I made for baby lily too.

For my card I used the cute dolphin from Sea life set (H&M Stamps).

Card Recipe:

Card stock: Lavender, White (GP), Baby pink (Bazzill)

Stamps: Dolphin (H&M Stamps), Welcome Baby (Inky Antics), Alphabet by Studio G.

Ink: SU Cranberry Crisp.

Embellishments: Pink ribbon, gold brads, pink brad, Prima flowers.
Accessories: SU dimensionals, scallop scissors, double sided tape.

I hope you like it.

Have a blessed day.

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Welcome baby Lily!!!!

Taylor's Cupcake Challenge

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great day. Here in the Northwest the weather is really crazy, some days is very bright and warm and others like today cloudy and rainy, not too cold, but not a joyful day.
Saturday's usually I don't stamp, but I have a book with all the blog challenges that I would like to accomplish, I hope I can do at least 1/3 of them, LOL.
Anyway, I tried this time Taylor's Cupcake Challenge, I checked her sketch yesterday, but I didn't read all the post, oppss, so I made a regular card, I thought it doesn't look right, so I checked her blog again and I read the complete post, and ahhhhh I made the card too small, so I made another card, this time the right measurement.

For my first card I used the new release from The Saltbox Studio, this set is called The Mouse mama and more.

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: SU Purely Pomegranate, SU Groovy Guava, White
Paper: $ Spot from Target.
Stamps: Mama Mouse and more by The Saltbox Studio.
Ink: Black, Cranberry Crisp.
Embellishments: White Ribbon, Gold brads, Gold thread, Gold stickles.
Accessories: SU markers, colored pencils, SU dimensionals, sponges, Coluzzle, double sided tape.

For my second card I used Sea Life set from H&MStamps : I sponged a lot!!! My fingers are covered with tons of ink, I created waves using 3 different tones of blue, I embossed the circles and used colored pencils for the sun.
Card Recipe:
Card Stock: SU Groovy Guava, SU Bashful blue, White.
Stamps: Sea Life by H&M Stamps.
Ink: SU Bashful Blue, SU Buckaroo blue, SU Cranberry Crips, Stazon Black, Red, Gold ep.
Embellishments: SU ribbon, gold brads.
Accessories: Embossing gun, colored pencils, sponges, SU dimensionals, double sided tape.

I hope you like them.
God bless

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Taylor's Cupcake Challenge