Take It and Make It Challenge - Craft Stamper Magazine

Sunday Sunday... It's kind of rainy today at home (Puerto Rico), but we've been waiting for this for a while.   Our island has been through a drought for more than six months now.

Anyway, I am sharing a special ATC I made for the Take It and Make It Challenge from Craft Stamper Magazine.  You can read more about it in the blog, linked HERE.

This beautiful girl is from Unity Stamp Co.  Love the way she is and is not smiling, and irradiates calmness... while at the same time you can't tell if she's happy or not.  Plus, naturally beautiful.

I stamped it in a canvas ATC and colored with watercolor pencils.

Then I created a mask to protect her while I used distress inks and sponge dauber to color her background.

I then inked the edges and reinforced the background with metallic Gelatos(R).  So sad you can really see the shining effect in the photo but it's kind of cool.

Finally, I also made the colors darker on this lady and loved the final result.

Hope you liked it too.

A card for "a" challenge!

What a beautiful day!  What a wonderful world!  What a great life!  What a good everything!  Well, I know it's kind of exaggerated but I want to keep optimism to a high level. Too many things happening in my beautiful Puerto Rico.  Weak economy, unemployment, government taxes... and more.  But I know we are not as bad as others in the sense that we have brothers and sisters from other parts of the world who are living worst nightmares.  We'll hang in there... we'll survive.  I wish no more young professionals left the island seeking greater success.  We need them here.  I appreciate your prayers for a better Enchantment Island really soon.  Thank you!

Anyways, that was just a note.  I'm stopping by to show you a card I made last night, inspired by several challenges.  One is this from Curtain Call.

Isn't this gorgeous?  I see the inspiration image and think of graduation, dresses, delicate things, love, fabrics, textures... and such great colors.

And then there's this great inspiration from current Unity Be Inspired Challenge.  Similar colors to the Curtain Call's image, so my inspiration matched both color combos.

I also wanted to participate in the current Take it Make it Challenge from Craft Stamper.  I would looooveee to see my work on this recognized magazine... so I keep sharing whenever possible.  This time is an "Anything Goes" theme, so I'm sharing this one.

I made a card.  Oh, I like it very much.  I used Unity Stamp image and sentiment, patterned paper, gold paper, a nice cute garland with mini soft balls hanging on it, and sequins.  It's kind of a CAS style even though there was some painting and cutting that could be time consuming for some, but the image is stamped and not colored, since I wanted the background to become THE color of this card.

How did I make the background?  Just played with Distress Stain colors.  I applied with the round applicator / tip ensuring it was wet so the color splashed.  When dried I achieved exactly the colors I wanted, and then I stamped on it.

Here's a larger picture of the card.  I hope you like it. 

Linking to (click on the names to access the challenges websites):

Curtain Call

Unity Be Inspired Challenge

Friday Friends with Flair

Take it Make it Challenge (Anything Goes)

Take it and Make it Challenge - MY MIXED MEDIA LOVE

Hello my friends.  Here I am sharing a beautiful canvas using mixed media.

Love to combine textures and colors in a canvas...  and to also add paper and embellishments to the project to create a unique piece.

Look at my heart with paper shapes for texture, modeling paste applied with stencils, and even melted crayolas.  Isn't it beautiful? :)  I also added stamped sentiments from Latina Crafter, and pearls, among other embellishments.

Here's the whole 10"x10" canvas project:

A few girls already saw this project in a local small store where it is being exhibited but this hasn't been shown/published yet so I am sharing it with you and with my Craft Stampers Magazine friends.    Take it and Make it Challenge this month features the use of stencils, and I think this project is perfect for it.  You can get more information HERE.

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