Make a Wish.

Hello my friends. This afternoon I made another card for Embellish Magazine Challenge : Color Challenge "Light Aqua, Kraft, Light Pink" plus Stitching.

I created the paper flower using a scallop punch.

I will be sending this card for a lady who is fighting cancer and I hope this card could bring some happiness.

Card recipe:
Card Stock: White, Innocent Pink, Ocean Mist, Kraft (All Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: Fairy Tales (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Ginger (Adirondack).
Embellishments: Pink Satin Ribbon (offray), Pink Rhinestones (Kaiser Crafts).
Accessories: Sunburst Border Punh (Fiskars), Sewing machine, white thread, Swiss Dots folder, Scallop Circle punch.

Hope you like it.
Have a great night!

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Make a Wish.

So happy for you!

Hello my friends, I have a card for you today, yeah!! I am in the process to create more cards right now, but before I want to show you this card. I created this card for April's smART-word Challenge: Fresh. I love butterflies and for me that is Fresh!! They are so pretty and now you can start seeing them around your flowers.

Remember, you can use any stamps you own, but if you play with smARTworks stamps, you will earn 1 smARTbuck instantly and also get the chance to win a fabulous prize.

Hope you can get this challenge a try!

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: Real Red, Crushed Curry, White.

Stamps: Cone flowers, LOL (smARTworks)

Ink: Real red, Crushed Curry, Certainly Celery.

Embellishments: Pink Rhinestones

Accessories: Sewing machines, white thread, foam tape.

Have a great day!

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So happy for you!

Hello my friends

Just dropping to say HI to all of you! My spring break is over and I started this week being super busy. I don't want to bothered you with details, but I just found out  a couple of blogs chose my cards as winners, that makes me very happy.
Here are the cards that got a prize:

1.  Birthday Card for the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog and
2. Baby card for Stampin' Sisters in Christ Blog.

Thanks so much!! Praying for some stamping time tomorrow.

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Hello my friends

May all your WISHES come true.

Hello my friends. This post had to come live yesterday and I forgot to make it. In my head I thought it was already on my blog, oh silly me. The other day I posted some cards made with some scraps, so I decided to  play Melanie's Take the scrap challenge again (and again I forgot to make the post). Lately I've been making cards using Gina K. products and I have a lot of little pieces, I am not the kind of person who throws stuff away, I am a keeper, LOL, so I wasn't sure what to do with these little pieces, sooo I made this!! {Look down :) }

I used Tami's new set "Fairy Tales" I used only 2 stamps from this set. I stamped the butterfly , keeping it tone to tone. I paper pierced the pieces and the right side of the card base. I sponged the borders of each piece and added a coordinate rhinestone.

This card also qualifies for the Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World Blog.

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: White, Innocent Pink, Lovely Lavender, Ocean Mist, Creme de Menthe (All Gina K. Designs)
Stamps: Fairy Tales (Gina K. Designs.)
Ink: Certainly Celery (SU), Pretty in Pink (SU), Sweet Plum (Memento),  Summer Sky (Memento), Stazon Black, Tea Dye (Ranger) (for sponging)
Embellishments: Rhinestones
Accessories: Daubers, Paper piercing set.

Hope you like it.
Have a great night!

Please, if you visit Melanie's blog, read THIS, God is great!

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May all your WISHES come true.

Easter Blessings

Hello my friends and Happy Saturday. I've found a new great blog in blogland!! Hemidemisemiquaver Designs and it brings also a nice challenge! YAY!! and I love it very much. I have tried to play it before, but I didn't have time, I don't like that, LOL. Anyways, here is my take for week challenge.

I inverted the colors since I didn't have any Yellow Patterned Paper, I hope that's OK. I used Spring Florals Set from Gina K. for this card. I stamp the image over the Pattern Paper and added some Stickles (hard to see in the picture)

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Ocean Mist, Lemon Drop, White (Gina K. designs)
Paper: Postcards from Paris & Sweet as Cherry pie (Webster's Pages).
Ink: Stazon Black, Tea Dye.
Embellishments: Buttons from Spring Collection (Gina K.), Yellow Ribbon (Offray), Stickles.
Accessories: Sewing machine, white thread, daubers, Foam Tape, Mini glue dots.

Hope you like it.
Have a wonderful day!

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Easter Blessings

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.

Thank you!

Hello my friends, I am glad it is a new day and I am here to share with you another card. Life sometimes is crazy, busy and unexpected things happen, but I am glad I am alive and I have a great God who takes care of me.
I feel so blessed that I wanted to share it with all of you and say Thank you. Thank you for being here, for reading my blog, for your sweet comments and for your uplifting w-mails. So, this card is for all of you my good friends.

Here are the details for my Clean, Simple and Elegant card. My card base is Kraft. Then I stamped the rose (from "A year of flowers") with Stazon Black and colored it with Prismacolor pencils, I used Red and Cream, after I finished all my coloring with PC I added some Markers as a fine detail to all the borders. I used the biggest Rectangle Nestabilities and White Pen Gel to create the frame. The sentiment is from Inside & Out and was stamped in Real Red. Finally, I added a couple of Pearls.

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: Kraft.

Stamps: A year of flowers, Inside & Out (Gina K. Designs).
Ink: Real Red, Stazon Black.
Embellishments: Pearls.
Accessories: Rectangle Nestabilities, White Gel Pen, Prismacolor Pencils, OMS.

Hope you like it.
Have a great day!!

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Thank you!

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.

Now & Forever

Hello my friends, Hope you are having a great day. Wedding season just started, in fact I have been invited to attend a wedding on April 10th. I love wedding, they are so romantic and fun at the same time. So, being in the wedding spirit I created these cards. They are CAS, easy to make and mass produce too. I used "Now & Forever Set" from smARTworks. I really love this penguin couple, aren't they adorable?? To make the images pop I used Black Embossing powder  and heat embossing gun, it looks much better than just a black ink, {personal opinion}, I also used Gold Embossing powder.

Card #1:

Card #2:

Card #3: Using Gold Embossing powder.

Hope you like them.

If you have any question about these cards, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Have a great day/night.

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Now & Forever

Playing with scraps

Hello my friends, I have a couple of cards for you today, this time I am using scraps. These cards are very simple and easy to make. I used "Find the Wonder "Set  from smARTworks. Perfect time because Melanie is having a Challenge using scraps :)

First card: I started my card base with a piece of White CS.  The other pieces are scraps, they were almost the same size , so they worked out perfect for my BG. The punch part was also a scrap piece.

Card recipe:

Card Stock: White (GP), Ocean Mist, Lovely Lavender & Lemon Drop (Gina K)
Ink: Sweet Plum (Memento), Summer Sky (Memento)

Embellishments: Flower Rhinestone (Hero Arts), Lilac Gingham.

Accessories: Corner Punch (SU), Threading Water Border Punch (Fiskars), Foam tape, Daubers. 

Second card:  Everything is from my scrap pile (except the card base).

Card Recipe:
Card Stock: Real Red (SU), White (GP), Chocolate Brown & Lemon Drop (Gina K)
Ink: Desert Sand, Rich Cocoa (Memento), Real Red (SU)
Embellishments: Red Rhinestone (Hero Arts), White Ribbon (smARTworks)
Accessories: Corner punch (SU), Sunburst Border Punch (Fiskars), Foam Tape, daubers.

Hope you like them!
Have a great day/ night.

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Playing with scraps

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!

Birthday wishes

ETA: Card recipe added and also, my daughter won 1st place at Awana Derby Race last night!

Hello my friends, I hope you are having a great day. Today, I had a great day and I stamped!! I have made several cards I will show you in the following posts, for now I made this Birthday card for Card Patterns. I used the colors for Stamp TV Color Challenge this week: Purple, Green and White. The images are form Gina K. Designs " Spring Florals"
I am also submitting this card for "Distressed Something" over at Stamp Something Challenge

Sorry, I am making this post short, DD & DH are waiting for me to go to DD's Derby car competition. I will post the materials used later :)

Card recipe:
Card Stock: Textured Brights (DCWV), White (GP, White Pure Luxury (Gina K) Stamps: Spring Florals (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Stazon Black, Tea Dye Distress Ink (Ranger)
Embellishments: White Satin Ribbon (Offray), Pearls.
Accessories: Sewing machine, white thread, Swiss Dots folder, Cuttlebug, Circle Nestabilities, daubers.

Hope you like my card.
Have a great day/ night.

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Birthday wishes

Great news and a update!

Hello my friends! Sorry for my lack of posts lately. I am still recuperating and my energy level still low, but feeling a little better every day.
In addition of all the crazy stuff in my life, tomorrow we are celebrating DD's birthday party, her actual birthday was yesterday, oh my!! my little girl is 6!! I can't believe how fast time flies.
In other news, I am going to be PUBLISHED!!! Yesterday, I got an e-mail from Paper Crafts Magazine and one of my card I submitted was chosen for publication. I am so excited!

I hope I can have some stamping time later today, thanks for your patience.

Enjoy your day!
Giovana

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Great news and a update!