Today is World Card Making Day!!!

Hello my friends and Happy World Card Making Day!! Are you planning to make something creative today? I hope you do. I have a couple of thing to do early in the morning, but I am planning to stamp all afternoon {big smiles inserted}. I told DH today is a great day for ME! and I was planning to enjoy THIS day creating and having fun.
I have a couple of projects I want to share with you today, (later I will post more creations wink, wink)

I have a CAS card using Theresa's new set for Gina K. Designs. "A Very Merry Christmas". I started my card with some Soft Suede CS, then I stamped the cute snowflakes with basic Brown Ink and then added some Stickles to give it some shiny look. I stamped the main image on White CS and colored it with Prismacolor Pencils. I adhered a piece of Theresa's new digi paper Deck the Halls. The sentiment was stamped in Vanilla CS and Basic Brown Ink.

Even though is a "Card Making Day" I have a cute Gift Box-Mini Album project. I love how this turned out. I found a tutorial on a French Blog on how to create the box. The pictures in the Mini album are from my DD when she was born until she was 5 months old. For this project I used Melanie's New Set for Gina K. Desings. : Hip to be Square.

I created the box using Baby Gretel PP from American Crafts. The paper in the album is from BookShelf "Austin" (American Crafts). I added some Prima flowers and Pink Rhinestones. The ribbon is from Offray. The lace is a vintage I got from my in-laws.

Hope you like them.

Enjoy your day and have a crafty time!!

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Today is World Card Making Day!!!

Gold, gold, gold

Hello my friends!! Today I am hosting a challenge a Potluck Friday Challenge over at Stamp TV. My challenge is to use Gold (color) in your creations!! It can be brads, ribbon, embossing powder, cardstock, etc, etc, etc. If you include anything gold,so you are in, :)

Here are the card I created using two brands new sets just released yesterday.

Hip to be square by Melanie: I stamped the ornaments in the new Vintage Holly Digital Paper by Emily Giovanni using Versamark Ink and then Heat embossed them using Gold Embossing powder, cut them out and adhered onto the White CS using some Dimensionals. I also added some bright Rhinestones. I added some Gold Thick ribbon ( from my stash) as a part of my BG. The sentiment was stamped in Basic Brown Ink.

A Very Merry Christmas by Theresa: I stamped the image and sentiment and heat embossed them using Gold Embossing powder. I adhered some Gold Ribbon (thin and wide). The BG paper is from Deck the Halls Digital Paper by Theresa Momber. I added some zig zag stitches and the borders were cut with scallop scissors.

Hope you like them and join me playing this challenge.

Have a great day!!

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Gold, gold, gold

Apples and School!!

Hello my friends !! It is Friday and time for another super challenge at Stamp Something Blog. This week we have another awesome challenge sponsored by My Creative Classroom, so this week challenge we want to see you classroom, school, apples (anything related with school) creations.
Here is the card I made for this challenge: Apple Back to School.
I drew my own apple, then I traced onto Red CS and I did the same with the other parts. I sponged the borders and added some hand made stitches. I stamped the sentiment on white CS, I sued the sentiment from School, Sport, Spirits set (Gina K. Designs) using Read Red Ink and adhered it onto a piece of Black CS and I cut the borders using Fiskars Mini scallop scissors.

Hope you like it.

Now head over to Stamp Something Challenge Blog and enjoy the other DT creations. Hope you can play along with us this week and have the chance to win a prize too.

Have a great day!!

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Apples and School!!

New Gina K. releases

Hello my friends!! Did you enjoy Gina K. release party at SCS? I did!! If you attended the party, you have already seen these creations. I will post 2 tonight and the rest tomorrow, so without much intro here they are.

Melanie's new set: Hip to be Square. This is a Clean & Simple Card. With this set you have endless possibilities and I used the cute snowman and the sentiment. Added some Christmas Ribbon from my stash. I stamped the snowman hat in an additional piece of CS, cut it out and added with some Dimensionals.

Theresa's new set: Very Merry Christmas. You are going to love this set. Every stamp is just amazing, you can use just a sentiment or combine image-sentiment, color or emboss them. The paper in this card is from Vintage Holly Digital Paper by Emily Giovanni. I sponged the borders of the paper with Basic Brown Ink and then zig zag stitched. Added some Red Satin Ribbon and some Red Rhinestones. The Sentiment was stamped in Basic Brown and the borders were sponged with Gold Ink.

I hope you like them.

Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Have an awesome day!!

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New Gina K. releases

The smART-Word Challenge

It is time to announce a new blog challenge and it comes from smARTworks!!! This is called the smART-word Challenge and on the first of each month we will share a word, so you can create whatever your heart desires with that word.
You can use any stamps you have, BUT if you use smARTworks images, you will have the chance to win smARTbucks!!

Check out the new challenge blog and our first WORD challenge, the word for this month is "Fall"
Hope you can play with us.

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The smART-Word Challenge

Tonight is the night!!

Hello my friends!! Sorry I've been MIA the last few days, I've been busy creating with my new sets from Gina K. Designs and remember tonight is the Release Party at 7:00 pm (Central Time) at the SCS Forum. A lot of prizes, contest, giveaways, chat anf a lot more!!

Later I will post a couple of creations with some of the new releases!!
See ya at the party!!.

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Tonight is the night!!

Hello baby!

Hello and welcome of a second night of Gina K. Previews. I hope you are enjoying the blog hop and the fabulous creations of the DT. Tonight I am showcasing a wonderful set "Hip to be square" designed by Melanie Muenchinger. This set has wonderful stamps and great coordinated sentiments.
Tonight I decided to create a baby card. I stamped the big square from this set in 2 different DP and once in Pink CS, then cut them out and sponged the borders (DP squares), after that I adhered to the Pink CS and zig zag stitched the borders. I stamped the sentiment on the bottom corner and adhered some Pink Rhinestones. Then I stamped the baby face and adhered it onto a scallop circle (it was sponged too).
I sponged all the borders of the card and attached some White Satin Ribbon. Easy peasy and cute baby girl card.


Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, White, Pixie Pink and Cameo Coral.
Paper: Baby Girl (Deja Views), Stardust (Making Memories)
Stamps: Hip to be Square (GinaK. Designs)
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Dark Pink Craft, Real Red.
Embellishments: Pink Rhinestones (Kaiser Crafts), White Satin Ribbon (Offray).
Accessories: Sewing machine, white thread, Sponges, Mini glue dots, SU Dimensionals.


Now head over to GinaK's blog to add your comment to her blog entry for a chance to win the new stamp sets being previewed tonight our blogs!

Then, check in with the Illustrators of our two stamp sets featured tonight:
Nina Brackett: Lord of the Season
Melanie Muenchinger: Hip to be Square

Design Team Members participating in the hop tonight:
Carolyn King
Cathy Tidwell
Cindy Lawrence
Donna Baker
Emily Giovanni
Erika Martin
Jessica Fick
Kurtis Amundson
Lee Murphy
Lynn Mercurio
Theresa Momber

CenterStage Spotlight Designers:
Giovana Smith
Janice Melton

I hope you enjoy my creation!
Have a wonderful night!

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Hello baby!

Gina K. Previews start tonight!!

Hello my friends! I hope you are having a great night. Tonight is the night you all were waiting for, Gina K. Previews start tonight!! You don't want to miss them. All the new stamps are GREAT!!!
The previews start at Gina's blog:" A Day in the Life ".

I will have a wonderful card for you tomorrow, pre-viewing a great set!!
Don't miss it.

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Gina K. Previews start tonight!!

Stamp Something "Favorite Layout"

Hello my friends and Happy Friday!! Don't you love the weekends? I hope you and I get a lot of stamping time (I need it, seriously) LOL. Anyway, it is Friday and time for another awesome Stamp Something Challenge. This week our challenge is "Favorite Sketch/Layout". Maybe your own, from any challenge, or perhaps one you just have found on Blog land and you love it, like in my case. I have to confess I have a notebook with tons of LO, I usually draw there all my favorites, so for me to find "one favorite" was kind of hard, so I decided to search the web and I found one awesome layout from Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. I also added the colors from Color Throwdown Challenge and Simon Says Challenge, this week "Stitches"
So, here is my card: another Tilda image!!, a lot of stitches too. I colored the image with Prismacolor Pencils. I added some Green and Gold Rhinestones. I adhered to the ribbon 3 Prima flowers.


Card recipe:
Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Soft Suede, White.
Paper: Magnolia (My Mind's Eye)
Stamps: Tilda (Magnolia)
Ink: Black, Dark Pink, Prismacolor Pencils.
Embellishments: White Satin ribbon, Prima flowers, Green & Gold Rhinestones (Kaiser Crafts).
Accessories: Sewing machine, White thread, Sponges.

Now head over to Stamp Something Blog Challenge and enjoy the other DT creations! Hope you can play along with us and enjoy some yummy prize too.

Hope you like my card.
Have a great and blessed day!

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Stamp Something "Favorite Layout"

For You with Love

Hello my friends! I can't believe it is already Thursday!! I've been busy again, geesh your are hearing the same thing again, but really, I pretty much don't have stamp time, I need to fix that quickly, LOL. this afternoon, when my DD was taking a nap I made a card. I've been coloring some Tilda Images I got from the RAK group at SCS, and they are perfect for Color Throwdown Challenge. Aren't those Tilda images adorable?

Anyway, here is my card. The color for this challenge are: Olive, Rose Red, Mustard, Regal Rose and Chocolate. The image was colored with Prismacolor Pencils. I created my own flowers, using my Cricut Machine I cut 1" and 1 1/4" flowers, sponged the borders and wrinkle them a bit, then I added a Pearl on the center. The embossed BG was made with my Cuttlebug and Swiss Dot folder. The yummy paper is from Rhubarb Tar Collection from My Memory Box. The ribbon is Chocolate Chip from SU (retired). For sponging I used Dark Pink Ink.

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Pink (Core'dinations), Kiwi Kiss, White.
Paper: Rhubarb Tart Collection (Memory Box)
Stamps: Tilda
Ink: Black, Dark Pink and Basic Brown (sponging), Prismacolor Pencils.
Embellishments: Cut out flowers, Pearls (Kaiser Crafts), Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon.
Accessories: Cricut machine, Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots folder, sponges.

I hope you like it.
Have an awesome day!!

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For You with Love

May you live each day with joy!

Hi again! I have a girly card for you. Searching for blog challenges I found "Eat Sleep Stamp Blog" and it is celebrating 52 sketches!! and for this special occasion, Tracy is offering some blog candy too!! I decided to give it a try and I am glad I did because I love my card, LOL. I started my card with some Blush Blossom, I adhere a smaller piece of Pink Pirouette and punch the borders. I added a piece of PTI Pink Patterns DP and a thin piece of Pink Pirouette, then added some straight stitches, finally I sponged the borders with dark Pink Ink. The image is from smARTworks "Free set". I stamped the ballerina in Real Red Ink and sponged the borders with Dark Pink. I added some Red Rhinestones on the corner and stamped the bottom corner with the swirl image from the set.
The swirl image inside was stamped in Pretty in Pink and the sentiment in Real Red.

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Blush Blossom, Pink Pirouette, White.
Paper: PTI Pink Patterns.
Stamps: Free (smARTworks)
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Dark Pink.
Embellishments: Red Rhinestones (Kaiser Crafts)
Accessories: Sewing machine, white thread, stamp-a-ma-jig, Cricut machine (for the white oval), Punch borders, scallop scissors.

I hope you like it.
Have a great day.

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May you live each day with joy!

Cracked Glass

Hello my friends, I hope you are having a great day. I have a Fall card for you today and I used a technique I've never tried before. This is Cracked Glass, I saw the tutorial on Stamp TV and I decided to give it a try. For my card I used an image from SU Give thanks set, colored it with Prismacolor Pencils, after that I cut it out using a Coluzzle Cutting Set. I don't have any UTEE, so I used regular Clear embossing powder (6 times). Also I used the Sketch for this week challenge from Card Patterns.

Card recipe:

Card Stock: Brown, Dusty Durango, White.

Paper: SEI.

Stamps: Give Thanks (SU)

Ink: Black, Basic Brown, Prismacolor Pencils.

Embellishments: Brads, Orange Satin Ribbon (Offray).

Accessories: Sewing machine, thread, Clear embossing powder, Embossing gun, scallop scissors, SU Dimensionals.

Hope you like it.

Have a wonderful day.

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Cracked Glass

Exciting NEWS!!!

Are you ready for something great, awesome and super duper?!?!?!?! Well, check THIS out.
I am over the moon and I can't stop smiling!!!

I am a member of the Center Stage Spotlight Design Team for the month of September. I will be show casing some of the new Gina K. releases!! When Gina asked me to be part of this DT, I couldn't believe it! My face became a whole smile, LOL, and of course I said YES!!! and you can not imagine how hard is to keep a secret, I really wanted to share the exciting news with all of you.

Stay tuned for some previews here on my blog and on Stamp TV too!!

I don't know how many of you are as happy as I am right now, but I can't stop smiling :)

Thanks so much for reading, commenting and sharing this exciting news with me.

God bless.

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Exciting NEWS!!!

Rejoice in the Lord.

Hello my friends! I hope you are having a great Saturday. We are having a great day. DD had her first ever soccer game. it was so much fun to see all the KG running after the ball. Even though my daughter's team didn't win, they had a lot of fun and the parents too.

(My daughter is the one with the 2 pony tales. 4th from left)

I have a Christmas card for you today. I used the sketch from Stampin' Sisters in Christ. Well, just a little story behind this creation. I saw the sketch and save it to print it "later", so then my husband decided to work on the computer and tried to fix some software problems we have (still not fixed), so I tried and tried to remember the sketch and decided to make a card with what I remembered. I knew the sketch had 3 circles for brads or similar, so I put them in the corners, then when I saw the sketch I noticed there were together in one corner, oppss!! I hope my card still qualifies for the challenge.

Here is my card: I used the poinsettia from A year of Flowers (Gina K), the sentiment is from an old stamp I found. The image was stamped 3 times, colored with Prismacolor Pencils and then cut them out and created a nice 3D look. The pretty paper is from SEI. The Rhinestones are from Making Memories. I cut the white circle with the Cricut machine and I used scallop circles for the red one.

Hope you like it.

Have an awesome day!!

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Rejoice in the Lord.

For You

Happy Friday my friends!! I love the weekend, we have some plans to enjoy the weekend as a family. DH has been having really weird schedules and DD and I didn't have much time to spend with him, so we are looking forward to spending with great time with him.

Today at Stamp Something Challenge we have a great challenge for you: "Favorite Colors/ Patterned Papers". Lately I've been using a lot of pink, so I decided to try it again, but I also added one of my favorite papers from "My Mind's Eye". Don't you love this paper?? It is so yummy.
I used a Tilda Image from Magnolia. They are so cute and great to color. I colored it with Prismacolor Pencils, sponged the borders with Dark Pink Craft and then added some zig zag stitches. I also added some Dry Embossed BG, using Swiss Dots folder. I used the sketch from SFYTT (Jen del Muro). The sentiment is from A year of Flowers (Gina K.)

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, White, Pacific Blue.
Paper: Out & About ( My Mind's Eye)
Stamps: Tilda (Magnolia), Sentiment (A year of flowers by Gina K)
Ink: Black, Dark Pink, Prismacolor Pencils.
Embellishments: Prima flowers, Pink Rhinestone (Kaiser Crafts).
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots folder, Sewing machine, White thread, Sponges, Mini glue dots, Dimensionals.

Now head over to Stamp Something Blog and enjoy the DT creation. I hope you can play the challenge along with us.

Hope you like my card
Have a great day.

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For You