Friday, July 9

Peace, Love & Joy...

Hello my friends! It's new Friday and time for another Christmas Challenge over at Stamp TV. This week my challenge is an "Inspiration Challenge", the other day I was searching the web and I found this beautiful Christmas Dinner Set. This website has wonderful stuff and lots of sales too {wink, wink}.


This is what I came up with. I got inspired by the colors in the picture, they are so pretty!!
I stamped the pine tress in White Pigment Ink and added White embossing powder, heated. Then I created the sky BG with Bashful Blue Ink and Broken China Distress. I added some Peeled Paint and Weathered Wood Distress Ink around the trees. The ground was created with Vintage Linen, Walnut Stain and Weathered Wood Distress Ink.
The sentiment was stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa. Finally I added some Sugar Cube Glitter (MS) and some White Ribbon.

Card recipe:
Card stock: Cranberry Tart, Fresh Asparagus, White (GKD).
Stamps: Blessed is the Season (GKD)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa (Tsukineko), White Pigment (JoAnn's), Bashful Blue (SU), Broken China Distress (Ranger), Vintage Linen Distress (Ranger), Walnut Stain Distress (Ranger), Weathered Wood Distress (Ranger).
Embellishments: White Organdy Ribbon. (GKD), Sugar Cube Glitter (MS)
Accessories: Sewing machine, White thread, Sponge dauber, White embossing powder, Embossing gun.

Hope you like it and have the chance to play along over at Stamp TV.
Have a great day!!

Wednesday, July 7

Some baby cards

Hello my friends! Hope you all are having a great day. Here, even though is vacation time I am busier than ever. DD and I are spending a lot of time outside, thing we are enjoying a lot.
Today I want to share a couple of baby cards I have made and never posted here.




Hope you like them!
Have a great day!!

Tuesday, July 6

Friends are forever.

Hello my friends! Just a quick post to wish you all a great day! I will post another card later.
Have a great day!!

Friday, July 2

Enjoy your day!

CPS SketchHello my friends, here I go again with another post. This time with some exciting news, I am being featured as a Facebook Friday Friend over at CPS Blog challenge!! Yay!!

So, this is the card I created with this week sketch.

Enjoy your day: Very vintage look and lots of heat embossing and distressing.


Directions:
  1. Make card from card stock.
  2. Mat brown and blue card stock, ink and distress edges. Add stitches.
  3. Distress and ink edges of piece of patterned paper. Add to previous piece and add stitches.
  4. Die-cut circles, emboss and sponge insides.
  5. Stamp butterfly and little flowers, add gold embossing powder and heat emboss. Cut them out.
  6. Add images to card. Add twine and sentiment. Add rhinestones.
Enjoy your day
Enjoy your day
Card Recipe:
  1. Card stock: Ivory, Chocolate brown (Gina K. Designs), Blue (DCWV).
  2. Paper: Ancestry.com Collection (K&Co).
  3. Stamps: Hope Grows (Gina K. Designs)
  4. Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa (Tsukineko). Tea Dye Distress (Ranger), Vintage Linen Distress (Ranger).
  5. Embellishments: Jute twine (Gina K. Designs), Gold Rhinestones (Recollections)
  6. Accessories: Sewing machine, White thread, Distresser (CTMH), Sponge dauber, Gold Embossing powder, Embossing gun, Foam tape.

I am submitting this card to:
Sketch: CPS-Card Sketches.
Three Flowers: Speedy the Cat's Friends.

Hope you like it.
Have a great day!!

Blessed is the season.

llo my friends, it is Friday and time for another Christmas Challenge over at StampTV. This week challenge is "Glitter/ Sparkles/ Shine" I created two cards using one brand new set, just released few hours ago "Blessed is the season"

Merry & Bright: This card does not have the usual green pine trees, I decided to stamp the trees using Red Ink and I really like it!

Direction:
  1. Make card from card stock. Ink edges.
  2. Stamp image and sentiment. Ink edges. Mat it with a slightly bigger piece of card stock. Stitch edges.
  3. Add rhinestones in the corners. Add ribbon and button in the lower corner.
  4. Apply some Diamond Glaze and add Dazzle Dust to create snow/ice effect.
  5. Add to card.

Merry & Bright

Merry & Bright
Card Recipe:
  1. Card Stock: Kraft, Ivory, Rocket Red Textured.
  2. Stamps: Blessed is the season (Gina K. Designs).
  3. Ink: Real Red (SU), Memento Rich Cocoa (Tsukineko), Vintage Linen Distress (Ranger)
  4. Embellishments: Button from Holiday Collection (Gina K. Designs), Christmas Stripe Ribbon (GinaK. Designs), Pure Luxury Gold Cording (Gina K. Designs), Gold Rhinestones (Recollections), Dazzle Dust.
  5. Accessories: Sewing machine, White thread, Sponge dauber, Diamond Glaze, Scor-tape.
Blessed is the season: This is a very CAS card. Just a little bit of work to create the glittery dove.
Directions:
  1. Make card from Card stock.
  2. Stamp sentiment and dove image, add clear embossing powder and heat.
  3. Emboss a stripe piece of card stock and adhere to card.
  4. Add cord to button and add to ribbon.
  5. Apply some Diamond Glaze and add the glitter
Blessed is the season
Blessed is the season
Card recipe:
  1. Card stock: Ivory, Cranberry Tart
  2. Stamps: Blessed is the season (Gina K. Designs)
  3. Ink: Cranberry Pigment (Ranger).
  4. Embellishments: Button from Holiday Collection (Gina K. Designs), Cranberry Tart Satin Ribbon (Gina K. Designs), Caramel Apple Glitter (Martha Stewart), Pure Luxury Gold Cording (Gina K. Designs)
  5. Accessories: Cuttlebug, Snowflakes embossing folder, Diamond Glaze.
Hope you like my cards and have the chance to play along this challenge too.
Have a great day!!

Thursday, July 1

Keep up your face to the sun

Hello my friends!! and to all my Canadian friends "Happy Canada Day"!! Can you believe it is July already?? Time flies for sure, pretty sure we are going to be celebrating Thanksgiving and getting ready for Christmas too!!
Well, today as the first day of the month the smART-word Challenge blog is launching another challenge for you. This month's word is "BRIGHT", so get ready for your sunglasses and create something bright and post it "HERE"

This is the card I created for this challenge, nothing brighter than the SUN, so I created a sun shape card. The rays were made with 3 different yellow ribbon, one plain and one with polka dots. The sentiment I chose is from Vintage Variety Set.

Keep your face to the sun

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Orange Textured (Bazzill), White (GP).
Stamps: Vintage Variety Set (smARTworks)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa (Tsukineko), Memento Tangelo (Tsukineko).
Embellishments: Yellow Satin Ribbon (Offray), Yellow Polka Dots (Target).
Accessories: Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Sponge dauber, Scor-tape.

Hope you like it and can play along with us!
Have a great day.

Wednesday, June 30

Happy for you.

June-26-2010-sketchHello my wonderful friends! Last night I inked my fingers, yay! felt so good!! Summer is here and DD and I are spending time outside, working primarily in our garden, I have a lot of lettuce and some little tomatoes are showing up, so excited! I promise to share pictures later. DD loves to run around the sprinkles and get crazy, LOL.

Anyway, this is the card I made last night. I used the new paper from BasicGrey "Cappella". The stamps I used are from "Botanicals" set. I inked all the edges and then distressed them. For the image I used the Embossing Resist Technique and I added some Pretty pearls around.


Happy for you

Happy for you

Card recipe:
Card Stock: Fresh Asparagus, Layering Ivory (Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: Botaniclas (Gina K. Designs)
Paper: Cappella (BasicGrey)
Ink: Peeled Paint Distress (Ranger), Antique Linen Distress (Ranger), Espresso Adirondack (Ranger), Versamark.
Embellishments: Green Satin Ribbon (Offray), Pearls (Michael's).
Accessories: Sewing machine, Thread, Distresser (CTMH), Clear Embossing powder, Heat gun (Marvy Uchida), Foam tape, Sponge dauber, Circle and Square Nestabilities (Spellbinders).

I am submitting this card to:
Sketch: Watzinghouse Mouse Blog
Shades of Green: City Crafter Challenge

Hope you like it.
Have a great day!!

Monday, June 28

Thank you

Hello friends! Are you having a good day? I hope you do! I am having  one of those days that I am not feeling good so I am praying for a better one for the rest of my day.  Today I want to share with you a card I submitted for publication, but it was not chosen. I really like this card and I hope you do too.

Directions:
  1. Make card from Cardstock, ink edges.
  2. Stamp BG image, then stamp flower image in Versamark Clear, add some clear embossing powder. After that sponge the image with a contrast ink color. Distress edges and mat with a piece of CS and add stitches.
  3. Cut a piece of Cardstock, stamp sentiment, ink edges and add stitches. Distress borders as well.
  4. Add some jute twine to a button. adhere to card.
Thank you..

Card recipe:
  1. Cardstock: Ivory, Rocket Red Textured (Gina K. Designs)
  2. Stamps: Botanicals.
  3. Ink: Real Red (SU), Vintage Linen Distress (Ranger), Versamark.
  4. Embellishments: Jute twine, Button from Holiday Collection (Gina K. Designs)
  5. Accessories: Sewing machine, thread, Sponge daubers, Distresser (CTMH), Clear embossing powder, Embossing gun (Marvy Uchida) 
Hope you like it!
Have a great day!!

Saturday, June 26

Miracles blossom

Hello my friends and Happy Saturday! Are you having a good Saturday? So far, I am! I just finished watching the first Soccer Game and getting ready for the next one: USA vs Ghana. I hope the USA win this one so they can be playing in the next round!!
Anyway, for today I have a CAS card for you. I started my card with a piece of Kraft PL CS, I stamped the flower and sentiment in Memento Rich Cocoa in Ivory CS, inked edges, then I matted it with a piece of Chocolate Brown, punched the button borders. Finally I added some straight stitches and little tiny Pearls.

Miracles Blossom


Card recipe:
Card Stock: Kraft, Ivory, Chocolate Brown (All Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: Hope Grows (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa (Tsukineko), Vintage Linen Distress (Ranger).
Embellishments: Pearls (Recollections), Clear and Gold Glitter Glue (Studio G).
Accessories: Sewing machine, Yellow thread, Sponge dauber, Sunburst Border Punch (Fiskars.

I am submitting this card to:
Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge: 3+ flowers.

Hope you like my card.
Have a great "soccer" day!!

Friday, June 25

"Stamp TV" Friday Christmas Challenge

Hello my friends, how are you doing?? I hope you are doing great! I can't believe my last post was last Monday. To be honest, I've been doing a lot of yard/garden work. The weather just started to get better, finally we are having warm days, LOL. My veggies are looking much better now, and I love spending time there. Also, my craft room was a big mess and that didn't bring to much inspiration. Finally, I cleaned it up and I have a lot of projects to show you this week.
So, Friday is a "Christmas Challenge" over at Stamp TV, and this week I have a nice challenge for you. I want you to "Show me your Style". I don't really know if I have one style, I love embellishments, layers, stitches, distressing, just to mention few.

This is the card I created for this week challenge. I started my card with a piece of Ivory PL CS, then matted a piece of Rocket Red Textured PL CS and a piece of Vintage Holly Digital Paper. The Poinsettia is from "A Year of flowers" and the sentiment is from "A Very Merry Christmas". The beautiful Ribbon is from Holiday Collection.

Christmas Peace, Joy & Love.
Christmas Peace, Love & Joy

Card recipe:
Card Stock: Ivory, Rocket Red Textured (Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: A year of flowers, A Very Merry Christmas (Gina K. Designs)
Paper: Vintage Holly Digital Paper (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Memento Rich cocoa (Tsukineko), Memento Tangelo (Tsukineko), Versamark.
Embellishments: Holiday Collection Ribbon (Gina K. Designs), Red Rhinestones (KaiserCraft).
Accessories: Sewing machine, Printer, Gold embossing powder, Embossing gun, Threaded Water Border Punch (Fiskars), Foam tape, Cuttlebug, Snowflakes Embossing Folder.

Submitting this card to:
Sketch: "Go to Sketches Challenge #4.
Embossing: Speedy The Cat Friend's Challenge
Embossing: Caardvarks

I hope you like it and could play along with me too.
Have a great day!

Monday, June 21

Thank You Challenge Team Blog Hop

Tonight we are having a special blog hop to thank our recently retired StampTV Challenge Hostess Team members: 

These 4 designers have provided StampTV with a challenge each week during the months of March, April, and May, which totals up to 13 challenges!  To view each of their challenges in one area, click on their names and it will direct you to their Idea Center Inspiration Page.

Even better, we have a special StampTV Challenge Magazine Volume 2* located on the Freebie Tab, where all 52 of their challenges are shared in a download PDF that you can save to your computer and print out at your leisure!  *We will be doing a similar magazine for our first Challenge Hostess team as well in the near future, so watch for that soon.

To honor the team a bit more, several GinaK Designers are joining together in a special thank you blog hop and would like to invite you to join us!  After visiting the links below, please check out this discussion on StampTV and share a favorite card you've made in the past or a new one you're inspired to make using one of the challenges from any four of the challenge hostesses.

So, these are the cards I created for these fabulous ladies! Thanks again for the great job you did.

Tina's Color Challenge: I picked the Black, Gray and White Challenge. These colors are so elegant together. This is the color challenge that I said WOW!!! so I decided to make this pretty card for my good friend Tina :)

Friends


Submitting this card to:
Sketch: Card Patterns.
Embossing: "Speedy The Cat Challenge"
Sentiment only: Stampin' Sisters in Christ.

Card recipe:
Card Stock: Metallic Silver, Black, White (All PL Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: Friends (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), Weathered Wood Distress (Ranger).
Embellsihments: Paper Flowers (Michael's), Mini pearls (Recollection).
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Textile folder, Label 8 Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Dauber sponges, Foam tape, Mini glue dots.


Karen's Anything But a Card Challenge: I chose the "Stamping in Fabric" Challenge. I have a huge collection of Cross Stitch fabric and thread, so I used a piece of DMC Aida fabric for this project.

With Gratitude


Submitting this card to:
Embossing Challenge: Speedy The Cat

Card recipe:
Card Stock: Wild Dandelion, White (Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: Sping Florals (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), SU Markers.
Embellishments: Gold Rhinestones (Recollections), Yellow Satin Ribbon (Offray).
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots folder, Mini glue dots, Socr-Tape, DMC Aida fabric, DMC thread.


Vicki' Sketch Challenge: Choosing one of Vicki' sketches was a little hard because all of them are great, but I looked and looked and chose #2.

Happy for you

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Sweet Mango, Creme de Menthe, White (Gina K. Designs)
Paper: The Guy Stack (DCVW)
Stamps: Botanicals (Gina K. Designs).
Ink: Memento Tangelo (Tsukineko), Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), Certainly Celery (SU), Peeled paint Distress (Ranger)
Embellishments: Gold Rhinestones (Recollections), Orange Satin Ribbon (Offray).
Accessories: Sewing machine, Medium glue dots, Foam tape.


Sherri's Blast from the Past Challenge: I chose the Cracked Glass Technique, this is one of my favorite ones, it looks so good :)

Let us be..


Submitting this card to:
Sentiment only: Stampin' Sister in Christ.

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Chocolate Brown, Lemon Drop, Ivory (all PL Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: Friends (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Memento Rich cocoa (Tsukineko)
Paper: Out & About Collection (My Mind's Eye)
Embellishments: Paper Flower (Prima), Brad (Bo Bunny), Green Satin Ribbon (Offray).
Accessories: UTEE, Embossing gun, Uni ball White Pen, Foam tape, Label 8 Nestabilities (Spellbinders).

Hope you like my cards and Thanks again to these wonderful ladies!!

Sunday, June 20

Happy Father's Day!

Just stopping by to wish all the dads a very Happy Father's Day!! I will make my husband his especial breakfast and the dinner he requested " Mongolian Grilled Chops". I will post some pictures next week and let you know if this recipe is a keeper, I haven't tried this dish and I hope is good :)

I will call my dad later and wish him a very especial day and of course I will spend the afternoon cheering up Brazil in the World Cup, I love soccer!!

Here is a card I taught few weeks ago, I hope my husband like it!
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Have a great day everyone, enjoy it!!

Friday, June 18

Happiness is...

Hello my friends (again). I have a new card for you today. This time I used the sketch from Card Patterns Blog. I used with my new "Friends are Forever" Set, this one is Free when you purchase 3 sets!.
I stamped the BG flowers in Versamark Ink, then added some Clear embossing  powder. After that, I sponged the whole area with Vintage Linen Distress Ink, and the borders with Tea Dye Distress Ink. The sentiment was stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa. I added some handmade Crocheted lace (I made it) and added some Yellow Thin Satin Ribbon. Finally I added a couple of Yellow Prima Flowers!


Card recipe:
Card Stock: Ivory, Chocolate Brown (Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: Friends are Forever (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Vintage Linen Distress (Ranger), Tea Dye Distress (Ranger), Memento Rich Cocoa (Tsukineko), Versamark Ink.
Embellishments: Paper Flowers (Prima), Gold Rhinestones (Recollections), Yellow Satin Ribbon (Offray).
Accessories: Corner Punch (SU), Label 8 Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Dauber sponges, Foam tape, Clear embossing powder, Heat Gun, Medium Glue Dots.

I hope you like it!!

In other news: I want to say Thank you very much!! to all of you you supported me on the Gallery Idol Contest. Sadly, I didn't make it to the next round, but I am so happy I made it this far, this is the first time I am in a big competition and had a blast!!
I will recommend you to try it next year, it is awesome!!

Thanks again :)
Have a great day!

Christmas Tags!

Hello my friends, It's Friday and that means another fun Challenge over at Stamp TV.
So, for this week I have a fun challenge and I hope you can play along with me. This week is all about Tags!! So, yes, you guessed it right, this week challenge is to create "Christmas Tags"
 I made 6 so far!! and I think when Christmas is here I won't be in a hurry to finish cards or tags ;)
 For my tags I started cutting 6 pieces of Kraft PL CS using Label 8 Nestabilities. I created a BG using 1 Co.13 from Botanicals in Vintage Linen Distress Ink, then I stamped the branches from Hope Grows in Broken China and Peeld Paint Distress Ink. The sentiments are from "A Very Merry Christmas" and the dove and butterfly from Hope Grows as well. I stamped the dove and butterfly in White Craft Ink and added some Red Embossing powder.  Finally I added some Jute Twine and red Rhinestones. All the borders were sponged with Tea Dye Distress Ink.



Hope you like them!
Have a great day!

Thursday, June 17

So happy 4 YOU!

Hello my friends! Today, I am very happy, why? Because I am not having the nasty sinus headache I've been having for the last 4 days!! I am having some little pain around my nose, but that's nothing in comparison with the horrible pain I've been having, so I am very happy!!
For today, I have a cute baby card, who doesn't love baby cards? Aren't they cute? I think this one is cute and simple too!
I started my card with a piece of the new Wild Dandelion PL CS, then I worked with a piece of White Layering Weight PL CS . I embossed the top part of this piece using Spots and Dots Folder. Then I stamped the cute ducks image from Oh Baby Set and colored it with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS, in an additional piece of CS I stamped the wings and colored them as well and then cut them out and positioned them on top of the main image. Finally I stamped the sentiment and added some Lemon Satin Ribbon and some Mini Gold Rhinestones.
For my card I used the sketch from  "CPS Blog"


Card recipe:
Card Stock: Wild Dandelion, White (Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: Oh baby (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Crushed Curry (SU), Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
Embellishments: Lemon Satin Ribbon (Offray), Mini Gold Rhinestones (Recollection).
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Spots & Dots embossing folder, Prismacolor Pencils, OMS, Foam Tape.

Hope you like it!
Have a great day!!