We continue in a lock down... But first... Let's make cards.

Hello beautiful people.

This pandemic year has taught us a lot... and one of the things is that we still have to take care of ourselves and don't feel "too comfortable".  We need to keep the distancing and wearing masks when in public.  We will be out of this being strong and together.

Meanwhile, we continue working and supporting others... and also we need to find the little breaks to free our minds on creativity and relaxation.

These are some cards I've made lately.  This one for a coworker.

This just for fun and to contribute to a challenge of slim cards.

This other one to use this beautiful stamp for the first time.  Love this Unicorn.

Mini cards with dfferent images.  Love them all.

And this one I made thinking on my own birthday...LOL!  The surprise was that my husband didn't know but he secretly looked in my stash to give me a card and he chose precisely this one.  Hmmm Maybe I have curly big hair and love wine....

Hope you are having a great year.  Let's stop talking about a bad year... Some people have been through worse in other years.  There's always something positive to see around.  Look for those things.

 

No Probllama Card

Hey Friends.

What's UP????

Just a quick stop to share a card I made for a coworker...  another card for a coworker... I know...

This girl loves llamas and alpacas... I guess all camelid family.  I've used this stamp in the past for other cards, but this one is special because I know she will love it.

So I stamped the llama three times.  I tried to give it different personalities and colors shades even though it's the same face.  I used paperpiecing, watercoloring, masking, and love.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful week.

Water along your Journey - ATC

I made this ATC recently with the theme of "water".

Around our life journey we will have to protect from different factors that can easily detour our focus if we are not ready.  We should listen to advice, we should learn from others, but we need to be careful not to forget our dream, our goals, our reason to be at a place or doing a job..  our own journey.

 I think of it as the rain and having an umbrella.  It's ok to get wet sometimes, but you have to be careful and watch out for stronger showers... and always carry an umbrella.

I used distress inks for the background,  and stamped the image and sentiment.

Then I applied some modeling paste with a stencil and then reinforced color here and there with some mica powder and watercolors.

I finished up with some Mod Podge to protect the ATC :)

Hope you like it.

I will be sharing with my friends at Unity Stamp Co.  They are currently having a challenge at Unity Show & Tell Facebook page, and the theme is small stamps.

Secret Santa.... In January?

Hi to all...

Hope you had a great week.  And hope you have visited all my 5 posts related to Growing in Unity from Unity Stamp Co...   If you haven't, you still have a chance.  Go to my previous 5 posts, take a look, get inspired, like, dislike... and comment.  By leaving comments in all posts, you will have a chance to participate to win great stamps from Unity.

I want to share this unconventional or nontraditional card I made for my Secret Santa.  Yes, I know!!! Secret Santa and we are almost at the end of January.  Well, we had to change the exchange date several times at work and we finally did yesterday.

So I made this box with cardstock and embellished with papers.  The card itself is in the box.

When you open the box, the message is meant to be in the back of the lid (this photo was taken before I wrote the message), and then you have to lift the card.

Notice the "cover" of the card is about Christmas, but then when you continue pulling, you start to see other messages from other Holidays too.  

Mother's Day, Anniversary...

Birthday, or just a Happy Hello...

At the end it was just a Happy Day greeting.

I made this because I really was confused if I should give her a Christmas card given the fact we were way behind the schedule... so I had fun adding other holiday greetings.  I meant my best wishes no matter what we were celebrating ... LOL!

Hope you like it.

GROWING IN UNITY (GIU) DAY 1

Hello my friends.

I am so happy to be part of Growing in Unity this week!   I am officially a Growing in Unity Gal!  This is very special for me because of many reasons but I'll just give you five...

I love to create,

I love stamping,

I love Unity Stamps,

I love to share creations,

and

being part of GIU "makes" me take the time to create...

It is true.. with the whole bunch of stuff at work, family and life in general, sometimes I have to put my hobby in second... third... or just last place.  But this week I will share 5 creations using Unity Stamp Co.  You just need to stop by every day from Monday thru Friday this week (Sept 23 to 27, 2019) and comment about the posts.   At the end of the week I will be choosing 2 winners that will receive products from Unity Stamp Co.  Isn't that cool?  We share Unity, we give everybody else some love, and we win.

I will start this week with a card I made for Craft Stamper Magazine.  It features a beautiful Unity Stamp with sentiment... which I love because I am a true believer that imperfection is perfect.

I used watercolors to create a background in a plain cardstock.  I then cut a section in the middle using a die, and stamped the sentiment.  With black cardstock I created the eclipse effect positioning the center piece with dimensional adhesives.  I separately stamped, colored and cut the lady and carefully placed also with dimensional adhesives, finishing with some enamel dots.

I hope you like it and you could get some inspiration.  Don't forget to leave your comment and visit everyday, not only because it would make me happy, but because you'll have the opportunity to win goodies.  You can also visit in Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest under @Scrappper Myra.  Leave me comments there too and I'll pick up a third winner and will send some goodies too... just a few surprise items as a token of appreciation for following me this week.

Have a great week!

Xmas Card

Hola Friends...

Here's another card made with another project.  First intended to be a Christmas tree ornament, and then used as a central focal point of a beautiful card.

This time I used some awesome borders in a bright green to contrat the gold-vellum paper.

In the center, the embellishment with a stamped image from Unity Stamp Co.

Some sequins also were added for a final nice touch.

Here's a front view of the card.  Hope you like it as much as I do.  :)

Cardinal Merry Christmas card

Hello my friends.  Here's another Christmas project to share with you.  For this card I used another project previously made as a tree ornament.  You can see it HERE.  I decided to take the ribbon out from original project and use it as an embellishment and central element of this card.

For the original embellishment I stamped an image and colored, and then used multiple layers of cardstock to create a nice dimension over double doilies.

Combined with ribbon, and patterned paper I assembled the final card... and I like it.

Merry Christmas.

Mini Canvas "For You"

I love making mini canvas.... They are soooo  versatile.  Yes..  I can paint with lots of media, I can glue things of all materials, I stamp or used stamped in paper images...  They can be for anybody, any occasion, all colors and themes...  They can have sentiments or nice inspirational messages, or they can only have images, flowers, and just anything!  And the good part is that I am just creating... from scratch... love that it is very very subjective... 

I've made quite a number of canvases now but still wanna do more.  I have to go buy more...

This is the last mini canvas I had at home for creating.  I painted the base after gesso with  orange acrylic paint.  I stamped the Prima Marketing cameo image in paper/card stock and cut to shape and applied in the center.

Then I used a pearls, a frame, flowers, a leaf, metals and more to embellish.   

I stamped the sentiment from Unity Stamp Co in paper, colored with watercolor pencils and cut for the final touch.

  I hope you like the results as much as I do.

You can see more of my mini canvases by looking for  the hashtag  #minicanvasbyscrappermyra in the web.  I've tried to use it with all my posts about canvases so I'm pretty sure you'll see more of me either in facebook or instagram, find me as Scrapper Myra.

Thank YOU!

Happy Birthday Dreamer

Hello there!

Just sharing another birthday card made recently.  For this one, I went very CAS using sprays to add color to the background as the center of the design.

I used just two flags for a simple banner... and a great sentiment to complete this.   Also used double base on the card to add a layer.

Hope you like my card...   Don't forget to have a wonderful weekend my friends.  Be imperfect, dream, get inspired and create create and create.

Current Take It Make It challenge at the Craft Stamper Magazine blog is Anything Goes. As long as you stamp you can enter. Follow this link or copy and paste for info:   http://craftstamper.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/take-it-make-it-challenge-march.html?m=1

Birthdays

Do you have any birthday coming up?   There's always some birthday to celebrate.  It's good to have birthday cards available to be ready when you need them.  But those are the ones I don't usually have... it's true.

I made this card just because... thinking of using it later.

I applied several different inks to the stamp to have a colourful image/message in a tag shaped piece of cardstock.    With different circles I made a frame for the tag and made a colorful birthday card.

Great way to use scraps you have around...  don't you ever trash your scraps.  LOL

Have a great rest of the week... We are just getting closer to the weekend.  :)  Thanks for stopping by.

I will share this with current Take it Make it challenge at Craft Stamper magazine (Anything Goes). You can see it clicking this link:   http://craftstamper.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/take-it-make-it-challenge-march.html?m=1

Ending my Sunday... Happy Week

Hello My Friends...

It's Sunday...  Another work week starting tomorrow!

Have you started thinking about Mother's Day?  I know I know... there's still time.

Anyway, I started making some things for that day, and one of them is this little house decor gift.

I used a wooden frame and applied some stain paint to the borders.  Then embellished with patterned paper, doilly, sequins and stamps.

The stamped butterfly was heat embossed and then cut.  Love it.

Hope you liked this and somehow you get inspired... if not for Mother's Day, maybe for Easter... that is coming sooner than you think!  LOL.

Have a great week!

Mini Canvas by Scrapper Myra

Hola  a todos.  Quise hacer algo especial con el tema del amor, y sobre mensajes positivos.  A muchos les han gustado mis trabajos con medios mixtos y quise hacerlos en miniatura.  Ninguno mide más de 3 a 4 pulgadas. Utilicé diferentes materiales, tales como pintura acrílica, gelatos, crayola, marcadores, papel, metales, telas, sellos (stamps), "sprays", cordón, "modeling paste", madera, perlas, brillantes, "glitter", flores, vellum, glossy accents, lentejuelas y mucho más...

Cada mini Canvas tiene su "personalidad" y estilo... Para todos los gustos. Creo que pueden servir como excelentes detalles del Día del Amor, y quienes los reciban sabrán que están recibiendo un regalo original, creativo y único. 

Aquí se los muestro uno a uno y espero les gusten. Al final del post les dejo con link del reto actual LCSC55 de Latina Crafter el cual tiene un twist con el tema de amor y este trabajo va muy a tono, por lo que voy a compartir este post en dicho reto. 

ERES FUERTE

SOMOS EL UNO PARA EL OTRO

ERES BELLA

ERES UNA PIEZA ESENCIAL EN MI VIDA 

VALES MÁS QUE EL ORO 

YO CREO EN EL AMOR

Aquí una foto de todas las creaciones.  Déjame un comentario y dime cuál de todos es tu favorito. 

A continuación el link para el reto de Latina Crafter.  Saludos. 

http://latinacrafter.blogspot.com/2016/01/sketch-55-twist-de-enero.html?m=1

More LOVE cards

Remember my LOVE card from yesterday?

Well I made other three following the same concept design.  

I sprayed different combinations of color paint for background. 

Hearts are hand cut in vellum... Different shapes and sizes... Crafty handy. 

And they are also sprayed with colors. 

Stamped sentiments and added sequins and cord. Love the modern artistic look they ended up with. 

Here's the complete set. 

Have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by. You can also follow me in Facebook and Instagram.  Look for me as Scrapper Myra. 

Bye. 

Almost February

Almost February, and I'm already thinking of St. Valentine's Day.  I made a couple of  cards hand cutting hearts in vellum and spraying  some paint. 

This is one of them. I stamped a sentiment and also used some cord and sequins to embellish. 

Hope you liked it. I have some more to show you later. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend.   And don't forget to celebrate love every day.

Love Tag

Hello my friends.  Just a quick stop to show you this tag.  I made it with scraps from other projects recently made.  

Love theme is in my head since today is my 18th Wedding Anniversary and St Valentine's Day is coming soon.

The tag has texture with modeling paste, burlap, vellum, papers and more... plus a stamped "LOVE" word in the center.

Hope you like it... :)  I love my Love tag.

Mixed Media Canvas: Paris

Hello my friends...

A friend celebrated her birthday recently, and I made this for her.  I have it made since last week but didn't want to reveal until she received it to avoid her knowing before.  LOL

I started with gesso to prepare the surface of the canvas, and chose some papers to position in some designated spots.  I also included one to be as a guide for a photo I will use later.

I used gelatos and water to start bringing colors to the composition.  I made it on the top side and then turned it upside down to do the same. 

I also added some more color with Prima color sprays, and prepared some modeling paste with acrylic paint to add texture.

I also used some glitter paste I recently bought... Love it.  And stamped some images and abstract forms, plus the main sentiment.

I continued blending colors and added the photo...

I also added wood embellishments, burlap, flowers, metals, pearls, and chipboard letters painted with distress stains, and even some rub-ons.

I love the final results.  I added a base in the back so the "artwork" can be displayed.

I really love the final result.  Do you?

I will share with Take It Make It Challenge in Craft Stamper magazine blog.

Thanks for stopping by.