God's timing is perfect

Happy Friday my friends.

I've always said God's timing is perfect, but I am also convinced that sometimes we don't know it in the moment...  we don't understand what is happening or why, and we even doubt it.  But then, with time, we always end up convinced again that God's timing is perfect.  HE knows why, where, what, who, and WHEN.

So I've been experiencing some very human feelings lately... Some loved people have suffered losses or are battling illnesses... but I wanna be convinced that God's timing is perfect.

This card reminds me that no matter the situations, we (and specially, us, women) can move one and be strong...  Hope you feel the same way and that this card reinforces that.

Have a great weekend.

I'm linking this to Friday's Friends with Flair from Unity Stamp Co.  Leave a comment for a chance to win spectacular prizes.

Sweet Treats

Happy Friday dear friends...  It's Friday the 13th... that doesn't sound right... LOL... but tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day!   Woooohoooo! 

I'm not used to going to dinner or get flowers/chocolates this day, but we were invited to go to a special activity with dinner paired with wine, so we'll go... 

I certainly enjoy the love around me everyday... and enjoy making projects related to Love..

Let me show you this party favor box embellished with design paper, sequins, a punched scalloped circle, baker's twine and offff courrrsssseee... stamps.

The box was hand made and covered with paper.  The stamps are from Unity Stamp Co.  I love that I added some glossy accents to the stamped hearts in the lid of the box...  They look awesome.  There's also another stamp in the front/side panel of the base.  It says "LOVE"

Hope you like my sweet treats for tomorrow.  Have a great day and a wonderful weekend.

 Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win because I'll link this up to Friday Friends with Flair at Unity Stamp Co blog as a second entry. Will also link up to Incy Wincy Challenge - Use a Punch or Die Cut, and also will link to Cosmic Colours Challenge #10 since I used the color palette shown below.

It is ALWAYS about love...

Already celebrating love?  Yeah... It's everyday, I know.  This month, specially, love is relevant... but you know what?  It's all about love.  It really is...  If you think harder, you can notice everything we do or say is linked somehow to love...  and at the end, it's all about it.

This card was made with that sentiment in mind and showing the Unity world stamp, which I literally love!  For me this image, is not only a world with the shape of a heart... but it can mean so many things.  Love for the people, love no matter where you are from, love to our planet, love each other, love being human, love creation, you mean the world to me...  it's all about love...

And this is a CAS card using sprays, stamps, a wood veneer and twine.  Hope you like it and maybe you got some inspiration from it... who knows?  Tks for your visit.

Will be linking this to next Friday's Unity Stamp Co Friends with Flair and also to Addicted to Stamps Challenge Blog for Challenge #131 Anything Goes, and to Love Rubber Stamps Blog Challenge #138 (Show Me Some Red).

Christmas Angel Tapestry!

And.... As I told you last week... I still have a Christmas project to share.  This is a very special project which was also published in a local magazine called "Papeles y Más" (Papers and More...).  This is a canvas made a "tapestry" to hang on a door or special place.

I first designated the area, sewed the borders, and stamped the main image in a center... creating separately a mask and then used paint, sprays, fabrics, embossing and a lot of stamping all over to create a magical Christmas scenery.

When done, removed the mask and also added sentiments.

I separately stamped the same image and colored, and then positioned in the center to stand out.

This was hung in my scrapbooking room's door during Christmas... now still around... I don't want to storage it.. LOL!

Hope you liked it.  I will share with Friday Friends with Flair at Unity Stamp Co. so if you leave me a comment you are participating for some goodies from Unity's blog.

Have a good weekend.

Wine Label Card!

Hello my friends...

It's so cool to welcome the second Friday of 2015!!!

I love Fridays.  They are very special because they represent the transition to the weekend and a review of great things during the week...  I've been loving Fridays for a while and sometimes we do a "Viernazo D'vino"... which is like a "Great Friday of Wine" kind of thing.  No big deal... just sharing a little wine with my DH and talk about the week ending, and the weekend plans.

Anyway... a couple of weeks ago, we were at home on a Saturday and were thinking of tasting this wine I love.  Its name is Cadus and the grape is Bonarda.  It's Argentinian and it's a great wine..  robust but fruity... very balanced.

We called our neighbor friends and they came.  It wasn't a planned activity but we had such a good time.  And they loved the wine too!

So at the following day I made a quick card to say thanks for their company.  I used the wine label in the card.  By the way, this is something I've done before... There are some cards I've made for a local magazine and I haven't shown them to you yet... so this is material for a following up future post.  Stay tuned...LOL!

I used some color bloom from Prima and Shimmer Mist from Tattered Angels, plus great stamps from Unity Stamp Co. to make the card.

I hope you like it.

I will share this at Friday Friends with Flair with Unity Stamp Co.. so leave a message for a chance to win with Unity.

And one more thing... remember you can follow me in Facebook under Scrapper Myra...

Finally, if you love wine and you are in Puerto Rico needing to learn more or receive related services, I recommend this page Descorches Du Vin...  It's a new project in the family.  Like the page and stay connected.

Have a great Weekend!

Happy Birthday to You!

Hello friends...

Today's a special co-worker and friend's birthday.  She will celebrate next Saturday, but today IS THE DAY!  So, I gave her a little something (a certificate for a local sushi restaurant she likes), and of course I had to embellish an envelope to give it to her.

I used design paper as base, and sprayed some color before stamping the sentiment.

I made a small envelope for a tag and embellished with washi tapes and sequins.   Separately I stamped the image, colored and cut, to place next to the envelope.

She loved it!  And I loved making it for her last night! :)

I will link this to Unity Stamp Co Friday Friends with Flair next Friday... the first Friday of the new year... so if you leave a comment you are participating to win some goodies from Unity!

Thanks for stopping by!

After Xmas Friends with Flair Party!

Dear friends.  Happy Friday, and I hope your Christmas day yesterday was a good one.

I had a good time... very relaxing with my husband and mom in Holy Night, and then with my Mother in Law and my husband's family yesterday.

Today is a regular day at work but expected to be a very quiet one since there's a lot of people who took the day off... 

I'm sharing this CAS card...  it's very similar to one I already showed you before (CLICK HERE), but I loved the fun way to create a background with watercolor pencils, and stamp an image on it. 

I am linking this to Friday Friends with Flair at Unity Stamp Co so make sure to leave a comment for a chance to win some goodies...  Every Friday we share projects made with Unity stamps.  One entry and one commenter win.

I'm also linking two other cards I made and posted this week, so go there and while you leave comments under those posts of mine too,  please find all entries for all Unity Friends and give them some love.

Have a great weekend and continue celebrating the season!

I'm Dreaming of a WINE Christmas!

 Happy Sunday my friends.

It's been a very quite weekend... washing clothes, cooking, just at home... and some crafting too.  Good for a change, since I've been very active in work related activities and parties lately.  But still, think I need to do something today.  Maybe I will be hanging out later today... but for now wanted to share a card I made yesterday following a nice sketch I found recently in this blog called Deconstructed Jen.  This gal shares her work and sketches just for fun.

This is the sketch DS181:

And this is my take!  

I combined Unity Stamps from two different itty bitties kits... one related to wine and one related to Christmas... and why not?  I'm dreaming on a wine Christmas...LOL!

I used baker's twine, cork, washi tapes, cardstock and design paper, over a kraft base.

For the multicolor stamped image, I just added the inks directly to the areas of the stamp I wanted to cover and wanted to be as imperfect as possible so tried to apply so there were no specific sections for each color.  The circles int he background were made with a stencil from Crafters Workshop.

Hope you like it.

Besides linking this to Deconstructed Sketch No. 181, I will share this also in facebook (Scrapper Myra), Unity Show & Tell, and Unity Friends with Flair.

A card for a Cowgirl!

I have a friend turning 50 on Christmas day.  She's a very active woman, strong character and always happy... with a lot of faith in God.  She also likes all kind of country things, work with nature, and especially the horses.  She could be a Puerto Rican cowgirl!  LOL!

She celebrated her birthday last week because she won't be available the very same day of her birthday so I made her this card.

I like this image from Unity Stamp Co. shows strength and beauty.  I combined with some sentiments from other kit...

Used corrugated paper and cork, not only for the rustic look, but also 'cause this girl also loves wine.

Tks for your comments.  I will link this to Unity Friday Friends with Flair so if you comment, you have a chance to win.

A wedding jar!

Dear friends...

I have a very special coworker who will get married tomorrow.  He is a great man and has a beautiful girlfriend.  I wish them the best in this new path in life.

I wanted to show you the card I made for them.

Their wedding is going to be celebrated in outdoors and as far as I know they will have key vintage country elements in the decoration and theme of the wedding, such as mason jars, photos, etc...   So I thought it would be appropriate to use this beautiful stamp from Unity Stamp Co. showing this big jar.

I used the word "love" in Spanish to fill the jar (this is a wood embellishment from Latina Crafter), and added the wedding colors with embossed cardstock and paper straws.

I will give this to them tomorrow, since I have the honor to be one of the guests... :)  Actually, I made their wedding invitations and I will share them with you tomorrow.  Stay tuned.

Leave a message today since I will be linking this to Unity Friday Friends with Flair.  And come back tomorrow to see the invitations.

Ice Bucket Challenge in a sketch challenge...

Hello...  Just passing by a little later than usual during the day to share with you a layout I made for a challenge... It's for a local store called "The Scrapbook Store".  They post a sketch every two weeks in facebook and this is the current one:

I used it to scrapbook some photos from my ice bucket challenge.  I did it with my coworkers team last August and it was fun.  Plus, more importantly, some people donated to ALS even though we accepted the challenge.

I used some stamps here and there (Unity Stamp Co.) and used even some photos as part of the embellishments at right...  It was my way to include all the photos I had printed from this day. :)

Hope you liked it.  I'm going to link it as a second post to Unity Friends with Flair Friday. So, make sure to leave a comment for a chance to win.

Have a great weekend.

Broken

And today is Friday again...  my favorite day.  But I have to admit the older you get, the more you learn to appreciate everyday... even if it's not a Friday.  Everyday has a special something and today you are probably at your best.  Enjoy it!

This weekend many things will happen... celebrations, gatherings, birthdays!  A friend's birthday is tomorrow.  But she's been sad lately.  Hope she continues getting better and understanding life is made of happiness and sadness... both are important.

This card was specially made for her.

Have you been broken?  Don't you think it's made you stronger?  Have you felt it is the end of the World and then time passes by, and you remember that feeling and understand it wasn't the end at all?  It was probably the beginning of more beautiful things!  I've told her.  Hope she knows it.

And hope you have a great weekend... a tear here and there... it's ok!  :)

More Thanks!

Let's continue giving thanks!  It's a nice feeling to be grateful and feel somebody is thanking you and appreciate what you've done.

This is a tag I recently made for the Papeles y Más magazine.  I loved making it.

Used stencils, embossing folders, sequins, distress inks, flowers, stamps (of course!), fiber, and more...  and used a plastic circle as shadow box (from a packaging).

I think it came out as a nice thank you tag...  Do you like it?  Thank you!

And thank you for stopping by!  :)  Leave a comment for a chance to win with Unity Stamp Co. I'm linking this to Friday Friends with Flair.

Have a great weekend.

Hello Snowman

Happy Monday...

This is a short week at work... Let's do this!!!!  Can't way for some days in a row to get some rest...  but  I know I have to focus because need to make a lot in 2 or 3 days before Thanksgiving.

But today I wanted to ask you... do you like snow?  For me, that I live in a tropical Island and don't really enjoy warm weather... snow seems fascinating.  Just a few times in my life I've seen it and it has been as a "tourist" LOL...  So I hear some people complaining about snow consequences when they live a long cold winter...   It all depends on the eyes of the spectator and everything in excess is not good... too much sun, too much snow...

But I think everybody loves snowmen.  I use some of them for my cards and projects even though my Christmas is warm... Snowmen are a great Christmas icon, no matter where you live.

Here's this little fellow from Unity Stamp Co.  Love it (or him?)!

Anyway... this is a very very simple card but I wanted it to be that way.  Just pictured the way it is... blue background with the snowman and just a few more elements.  He has glitter and heat embossing to accent some of his parts... I really like this guy!  Hope you do too.  Have a great week!

Strong J

Hello again my friends.

In last edition of Papeles y Más magazine, the editor asked part of the Design Team, which I'm honored to be part of, to make a special project using a foam tray.   Yes, a foam tray.

My first thought was to make the tray something else and recycle it, but I immediately changed my mind and wanted to use it as a tool and as an element in the project.

First I cut a piece that I used as a stamp.  Yes... it sounds crazy but this tray has these cool circles and lines so I used it as a stamp with different inks over canvas and over paper.

Not only I made a cool background stamping with it, but I also used the piece of foam and added it as another element in the project. 

The project is titled "Strong J".  I inspired in my neighbor friend who's been a tough girl through a lot... and she has made a great work... even though others can see her weak... she's not... nah nah nah.  So I also stamped this image that reminds me of her, first in the fabric as a guide and then in paper where I colored her, cut and attached to the project.

The canvas was then put over a frame covered with paper and cool butterfly stenciled image.  I added flowers and her initial.  I waited until her birthday to give it to her, and now I can share with you.

Hope you liked it... For me, this is her.  Strong J.

Leave a comment for a chance to win... I'm linking this to Unity Friday giveaway.

Have a great weekend!

Did I say Halloween is not over yet?

Happy Friday friends...

Halloween is not over yet... because I haven't shown you this card.  This was published in the last edition of the magazine Papeles y Más.

I loved making this one because the details in this stamp are great, and this witch is gorgeous.

Note I used watercolor pencils, and glossy accents, glitter and lots of color for the beautiful witch.  I even used some real brush hair for the broom... Yes, I used an old pencil brush and cut some hair.

I'm linking this to Unity Stamp Co Friday Friends with Flair... so as I always say, make sure to leave a comment for a chance to win with Unity.

And if you don't have last issue of the magazine... what are you waiting for?  There's plenty of inspiration and great work from the Design Team and a lot of other friends.  Check it out HERE.

Also... did you know you can follow me in facebook?  Yes... RIGHT HERE.

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge

Happy day!

I made another card for another challenge...  I recently discovered the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenges Blog and I really love all the inspiration I get from their challenges.  So since I need to make Christmas cards, I am trying to participate in challenges when I can.

As in yesterday's post I made a Xmas card with nontraditional colors...  You can see that one clicking HERE.

I first sprayed some gold in the card base emphasizing in two opposite corners, knowing I intended to place the main image in that position at right.  I used some glass beads effect for the background.  Loved it.

The image and sentiment are from Unity Stamp Co.  I colored the image with watercolor pencils.

Here's a detail of the crystals... beautiful!

Hope you liked my card.  

I will of course link this to Curtain Call.  Stop by and see all the beautiful creations if you have a chance.

Since I used Unity Stamps I will also link this to Friday Friends with Flair next Friday.  Leave a comment for a chance to win.

Be Inspired...

HELLO my friends.  Starting a week with lots of things in mind... work, health, house chores, scrapbooking projects, family...  I have so much to do...   But being busy, worried, and even in pain... remind me that I'm alive! 

For the Unity Be Inspired Challenge I made a Christmas card with non traditional Xmas colors... Those are the ones I love!

I used gold paper, and also made some beautiful textures with modeling paste and gold spray mist over pink cardstock.  Colored my lady mainly with watercolor pencils... and I absolutely loved the result and hope you too! 

Finishing touches include sequins (of course!), baker's twine, and these beautiful chipboard snowflakes I've got from a Unity mystery bag recently.  I painted them... Lovely, aren't they?

I will link this to the Challenge, and will also share in the Friday Friends with Flair next Friday, so you can leave comments and have the opportunity to win with Unity Stamp Co.

OH... and don't wanna leave without sharing a Halloween photo from last Friday.  We had a blast at work.  My team dressed up like local (Puerto Rico) children's characters.   We also had other departments and had a contest.  All won something... and all had so much fun.

Happy Halloween

It's Halloween!  And, it's Friday!  Wooohoo!  One of my favorite "holidays" and my favorite day combined...  Great!

I'm determined to have a good day today...  I have a backache that has been trying to ruin that determination during the whole week, but even though I will probably have to continue being careful with my movements, I really want to enjoy this day.

We usually dress up at work and have a get together in the afternoon.  Best costumes are chosen and we really have fun.  So, wish me luck!

Then I was thinking that even though we are really struggling in our country with some economy and politics issue, and the unemployment of lots of people have affected us all, I am lucky to have a good job.  I know nobody is "secure" in any job, as people say, but still I have to thank God because at least I have a job, and work around wonderful people who care for providing a little afternoon to share Halloween.  :)

So, let's give thanks.  Let's not wait until Thanksgiving Day to give thanks.

For this card I stamped the big jar with brown ink, and then applied "red" with sponge for a background.  Then stamped this great sentiment stamp about Thanksgiving.  Tied some baker's twine around neck/cap and positioned with dimensional adhesives on top of distressed patterned paper.

I know... it's Halloween and I am sharing a Thanksgiving card.  This is Scrapper Myra LOL!  I promise to share in future posts more of Halloween projects I have pending to share and photos of today's craziness.

For now, leave a comment for the chance to win with Unity Stamp Co, because I am linking this to Friday Friends with Flair.

Have a great weekend and don't forget to give thanks.