A mother's heart...

Hello my dear blog friends... and also those who follow me on Facebook.

I love this card I made... I had it in mind for a while and I love how it turned out.

I wanted to make this heart just like it looks.

When I saw this sentiment I thought of putting squares of patterned paper together and cut a heart shape.  I also draw lines simulating sewing.

I think I oficially have my first Mother's Day card of 2014...LOL!

I'm going to share this one on the Unity Itty Bitty a Day challenge in facebook.  :)

Also, remember to participate in my challenge.  Would love to have the 10+ friends participating for some nice goodies...  VIEW THE POST HERE.

Tks for your comments.

Love you just the way you are!

Happy Saturday my friends. The only fact you are alive and able to read this post, makes today a wonderful day. Think about it. 

Here is a card I made using a Stampahoot stamp. Nice couple, huh?

I used watercolor pencils to give'em some life. Also complemented with other stamps (Unity Stamp Co), strips of patterned paper, doillie and sequins. 

It resulted very cute and I really enjoyed making it which is at the end the most important part of this amazing imperfect process. LOL. 

Love life just the way it is... Imperfect and wonderful!!!

Tks for your visit. 

CAS Heart

Happy Sunday.

For today's CAS Sunday Challenge at the Outlawz I made a card that is all heart.

I stamped the image in three different backgrounds and repeated it.

Hearts are glued with foam squared to make them pop.

At left a ribbon and the sentiment.

Tks for stopping by.

Hello Friday... You are finally here!

It's Friday again and I cannot be more happy.  I have planned a very busy day at work, but will do my best to leave a little earlier than usual for "Summer Hours" in honor to the long hard working week.

I also have plans to have dinner with friends tonight, and a wine night tomorrow with other friends...  and just be at home after being traveling for work this week.

I believe that the best way to say something is just saying it as simply as it can be, from the heart, with sincerity...  So, what's the better way to welcome my favorite day of the week?  Simply saying Hello, hello and hello!

This is a simple card to say Hello...

Patterned paper in the background, stamped banners with stamped circles and an imperfect, hand cut, festive, inked, washi-tape heart.... (sounds a lot like my own heart... LOL!)

As simple as that... just saying hello.

And wishing you a great weekend!

Tks for your comments.

Artwall... Wall Art

Hola a todos...

Hope you are enjoying and scrapping your life to the full potential!!!!

Today I want to show you a project that I have still not finished but I am excited to share... so why wait?

You know I recently moved to a new office... but I have not put anything in the walls yet. The photos and framed articles I had in the old office were not appropriate for the new one (too big, branded, old...)... So I decided to do my own wall art for my new office.

It's not a big deal... I know most of you do it all the time... but well, this is mine! hahahahaha...

I didn't want to spend money on this, so I used these very same frames from the office. These had photos displayed in the hallway and were going to be destroyed. I just got 4... and later I thought I should have got some more...

So I've already made 2 of the projects (my plan is to do 3 or 4)... and I decided to share with you now...

This is the first one... It's totally made with cutted images from Cricut. It's very simple...and this is what I like about it. Lots of differents flower shapes, in vibrant colors. I used papers from a TAC collection I bought several years ago, and still have some scraps and elements...

The cardstock in the background has texture and a pearlescent look. Beautiful!

I placed "parenthesis" shapes to simulate stems. Outside in the mat, I placed some other little flowers with the theme and stamped the sentiment "Live, Laugh, Love". The stamp is from Inkadinkado.

When I finished it, I thought it was maybe too girly for the office... but at the same time it's a nice message and, what's the problem being girly, right? Anyway, I have not hang it in the office yet... let's see what happens.

I decided to have them all finished before I take them to the office, so when I hang them on the walls I can see how they all look together.

I made a second one... It happened the same thing when I finished... I was like... this is not what I had in mind for the office... but I like it... So I am going to show you anyway.

The idea was to do something with the sentiment: Wherever you go, go with all your heart. I have this stamp from Unity, and I really like this message/quote. I also wanted to use mixed materials... I wanted to paint, to cut, to draw, make my own things... you know... I wanted to express myself in this one... so this is the result...

My big heart has wings... it goes a lot of places! It's purple because I like that color and this is how I made it... I painted a piece of canvas with the purple ink. I cut it into little pieces and glued them in a carstock square. When arranged as I wanted, I drawed a heart in the back side and cut the shape. I love the result. The wings are from Fancy Pants chipboard shapes.

I love my flying heart...

Then I used washy tapes and stickers to have a fantasy corner... with the ballerina representing the girl I'll always be... I handwrote the word "dream" to remind me to not stop dreaming.

I also placed chipboard elements, and strips of papers bent and painted to create some dimensions... and handwrote the word "heart" in the corner as well. At the bottom of the artwork I also used some washy tape. It's supposed to be Christmas washy tape, but I do this a lot... I do not use it for what it's supposed or meant to be... I love doing that!!! Rebel?

The base of the project is painted and stamped with different colors and images for background... Here I just wanted to express freely.

Then I stamped the sentiment in the mat frame, and drawed a little heart along.

The bycicle is important because goes perfectly with my message... "wherever you go, go with all your heart"... it represents I'm "going" any place... and the heart is with me all the time. It's a girly bike from Dear Lizzy products (American Crafts), and I added in the basket some cut flowers from a patterned paper.

I really hope you liked my projects... I enjoyed a lot doing them.

When I have the other one or two to complete the series for the office walls... I will share them with you.

Thank you for your comments. I enjoy so much reading them... :)

I {HEART} you!!!

Tomorrow it's St. Valentine's Day. I personally believe we should celebrate love everyday, but I also respect there is this one day, some people celebrate it at a different level. I do believe we should not measure love according to the size of the gift you will receive/give this day, if any gift should be given except for love itself. But again, it's nice to share chocolates and special messages with people you care about, and if this day will make some people express love better or be able to show a good side... let's make it happen.



Remember the crop party I had the other day, where we had an ATC swap? Well, we also had Party Favors' swaps... and there was all kind of party favors. It was great to see the different styles and personalities reflected on the party favors... well they also reflected the tools each of us had... some people really did achieved a super professional look in their work... This year, is for me to get some new tools (but again, this is another future post...hehehehe).



This is a top view of the party favors I created:







And this is a bottom view:









You can note is a rectangular box that is between two hearts. The hearts are glued to the front and back side of the box, and then tied to each other through the top side.


The heart party favor can stand because the bottom side of the two hearts support the box and serve as base.

I embelished the heart with another heart, lace ribbon, buttons and flowers.

All the party favors together, looked really cool, and I am sure my friends enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed the ones made for me... with love.

Happy St Valentine's Day... I hope you can celebrate love everyday, and take time to be imperfect while doing it.

I will be sharing more LOVE projects next time.

(cardstock: Bazzill; patterned paper: Basic Grey; flowers: Portafolia; stamp: Studio 112; miscellaneous: lace ribbon, buttons, fibers, ribbons, adhesives, paper punch)