Merry Christmas ... Another Card

Merry Christmas ...  Another Card

So I have to keep on making some Christmas cards whenever I can so I don't let it for the last minute. 

I made this one using the heat embossing technique for the snowflakes stamped in white over vellum. Loved the effect. 

The vellum was then glued to cardstock and to colored burlap. 

Sentiment was also stamped over vellum and three final touch was achieved with the sequins and bakers twine. 

Hope you like it. 

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Birthday Wishes

Happy Monday to you all!  Hope you have a great week. 

Today I am sharing a CAS card with bright colors.   Using nice patterned paper as background can help a lot to bring life to a cute simple card. This design of bright flowers is awesome. 

The image is stamped and colored in a simple way too. 

The sentiment is stamped in vellum for a delicate touch. 

This one goes for my stash... let's see who's next on having a birthday!!!

Hope you like it. 

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Happy Birthday Cake Topper Banner

Some girls at work asked me for a cake topper with a Happy Birthday banner.  I loved making it and personalizing it an it so it could be even more special. 

For the banner itself I started with some pre made banner flags. If i didn't have these I would had cut them by hand or with the Cricut machine.  I've seen cutting punches with the banner shape too. 

I circle punched  cardstock and vellum to add dimension and layers to the flags and used AC's tickles letters. 

For the embellishments on the sides I also used punches. For the quote clouds I used Latina Crafter 's dies and stamps. The message in Spanish is also from LC. The name "Janet" was stamped with Inkadinkado stamps. 

I made the holes in the flags with my CropAdile and used baker's twine to assemble all with brochetas sticks. 

I liked the final result a lot and the girls also did. This is a photo showing how they finally placed it at he cake. 

Hope you like it and get inspired.  Making this made me think of so many other ways to make cake toppers. I'm sure will make a lot more in the future. 

Have a good weekend. 

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A Happy Card

This is a CAS card I made for my husband for a special day we recently celebrated. 

I assembled the emojis cut with spellbinders.  So cool. 

I stamped the sentiment which I love and then masked it to ink the rest of the background using a sponge dauber.  

The amount of happy these emojis bring to this card is amazing. LOL. Hope you like it. 

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Card with pieces of patterned paper...

We recently celebrated a special day in the family dedicated to three of us who don't have any children.   To celebrate we went to a restaurant located in what we call "country" referring to the center of the island outside the metro area. Unfortunately, not all family members could be with us but we celebrated anyway because this day is very important for us and the day is established to be the third Saturday of August. 

This card was made specially for my sister in law.  I used several pieces of patterned paper and put together instead of using perfectly coordinated colors, so I can support the message about no needing to be perfect to be awesome. 

I love the sentiment, by the way... I always say I love the perfect imperfection.   Love to be imperfect!

The stamped image was colored with watercolor pencils.   I also used some sequins to add some bling. 

My sister in law loved it. Hope you like it too. 

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Playing AGAIN with Watercolors...

I recently made these party favors for a family event. 

They are very simple in terms of design on how to display the treats but I wanted to make each of them unique instead of all of the same. 

That's why I used watercolor paint to make mini works of abstract art. 

I mixed colors and traced forms and then used a heated gun to make the colors travel in the card and dry to a great texture and design. 

Inside there are mini cinnamon sugar cookies. Yummy!

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Playing with Watercolors...

I love using paints in my projects. Either it is spray paints, acrylic, gelatos or watercolors... the mere fact of getting my marks in my fingers and hands make me feel I am creating.  Well, i really try to avoid excessive mess but it is what it is. LOL 

For watercolored projects specifically I've worked with pencils and paint itself. I love the effects that can be created with those. 

This card is a CAS style technique one, using watercolor paints for the mixed colors in the background. 

The stamped image in the center is also colored with watercolor pencils but the real center of attention for me is the background/frame. 

Hope you like it.  I even thing this girl is me. The hair... the wine glass... definitely me. LOL. 

I recently made another cool project using watercolor paint for some party favors. Will share with you in another post in the near future. 

I will share this post with Craft Stamper Magazine blog. An Anything Goes stamping challenge is running right now. Here's the link for your reference:

http://craftstamper.blogspot.com/2017/08/take-it-make-it-challenge-august.html?m=1

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend. 

#winecheeseandscrapbooking #scrappermyra #scrapbooking  #create #handmade #hechoamano  #unitystampco #stamping #papercraft #watercolors #watercolorpaint #watercolorpencils #watercolor #winegirl #CAS

Feliz Cumpleaños- card

I made this card as a request  to surprise someone for her birthday. 

This person likes Angels so I wanted to incorporate that into the card to make it more personalized.

I used vellum, card stock, and doily, plus some sequins for the card composition.   I also ensured to use the colors that are related to the decoration materials. These colors are gold, ivory, white and blue. 

I colored the image using watercolor pencils and water brush. 

I also used dies to have the perfect words "Feliz Cumpleaños", which mean Happy Birthday in Spanish. 

The person would receive the card next week. So I hope she likes it. And of course I hope you like it too. Thanks for stopping by.

Note:  the stamps image is from Unity Stamp Co.  The words dies are from Latina Crafter. 

I will share this post with Craft Stamper Magazine blog. An Anything Goes stamping challenge is running right now. Here's the link for your reference:

http://craftstamper.blogspot.com/2017/08/take-it-make-it-challenge-august.html?m=1

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend. 

#winecheeseandscrapbooking #scrappermyra #scrapbooking  #create #handmade #hechoamano  #unitystampco #stamping #papercraft #birthdaycard #happybirthday #felizcumpleanos #handmadecard #watercolor #doily #angels #latinacrafter

Happy Birthday Card

I recently made this CAS card for my birthday stash. 

Love this image of he tall lady. At least I feel she's tall because it is a large stamp. LOL!!

I colored the beautiful girl and framed with cardstocks.  I also used  painted doilies for the framing and to add some dramatic elements. 

Hope you like it as much as I do. 

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More of Women's Strength

I love this Stamp. This girl is gorgeous and can represent a lot of emotions. 

This time I stamped in cardstock and then stamped the sentiment in darker color over her, and heat-embossed to make it pop. 

I also used lots of gems and bling and doily to frame this beauty. 

I hope you like it. This message is to all women reading this now. Be strong. 

I'm sharing this post and some others with Craft Stamper Magazine blog. An Anything Goes stamping challenge is running right now and I want to share as many projects as possible. Here's the link :

http://craftstamper.blogspot.com/2017/08/take-it-make-it-challenge-august.html?m=1

#winecheeseandscrapbooking #scrappermyra #scrapbooking  #create #handmade #hechoamano  #unitystampco #stamping #papercraft #strongwoman #strength #girlpower #handmadecard #embossed #beauty

Trust Your Own Wings

I've been playing with this Stamp lately.  I love the image of this woman silhouette.  

The message about trust is so powerful.  It is precisely the sentiment that inspired me to combine two great stamps as I did. 

I stamped the image of the woman and fussy cut.  Did the same with a butterfly image in vellum and placed behind the woman as her wings. 

All this placed on embossed white paper and message delicately presented in vellum with final touch of rhinestones made the final card. 

Hope you like it. Happy Friday and happy weekend. 

I will share this post and some others with Craft Stamper Magazine blog. An Anything Goes stamping challenge is running right now and I want to share as many projects as possible. Here's the link for your reference:

http://craftstamper.blogspot.com/2017/08/take-it-make-it-challenge-august.html?m=1

#winecheeseandscrapbooking #scrappermyra #scrapbooking  #create #handmade #hechoamano  #unitystampco #stamping #papercraft #butterfly #Wings #Yourwings #handmadecard #embossed #trust

Revealing Card

I wanted so much to make a revealing card like the ones everybody's making lately. It's a trend. I know!

However, I didn't want it to have the same image outside and inside to just change color so I went for having the sentiment in the transparency and the image inside. 

I used autumn colors and the background is embossed simulating wood or a tree.

The sentiment is about how much happiness you have brought... and  When you pull the white insert the image is revealed so representing the happiness brought. 

Hope you like my card. Made with sooooo much love  

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Strong Woman

Hello all. 

I have  a significant beautiful young lady  in the family going through tough times.  She's a gorgeous young woman but she's also very strong. I have no doubt she will get through this and will be stronger everyday. 

Inspired in current Mixed Media Place challenge I made this special project thinking of her.  It all started with a wood frame that I painted with spray and other media.  I then added symbols to remind us all great characteristics of women in general. 

The feathers (one is stamped), reminds of how delicate a touch of a woman can be, while the bricks made with modeling paste and acrylic paint  in the composition (background and edges), along with the chain, represent the strength.  

The pearls over the girl stamped image and the big pearl with the cameo in the lower left side, represent the feminism; the girly side!  But they are over painted burlap because a girl can be rough when she wants. 

The flower represents how fragile a woman can sometimes be and the transparent circle is about life cycle and how things just go around one after another. Such is life. 

The  plaque provides for that "hope" most of the time gives us the power to continue fighting over adversities. 

The sequins are a symbol of how a woman shall always shine in everything she wants to accomplish and how she stands out. 

Finally, the sentiment itself, stamped in delicate vellum, speaks for itself. 

I will share this with Mixed Media Place. Below is the inspiration board and link to the challenge for your reference. 

Thank you for stopping by. 

http://mixedmediaplace.blogspot.com/2017/07/july-challenge.html?m=1

I'm also sharing this post and some others with Craft Stamper Magazine blog. An Anything Goes stamping challenge is running right now and I want to share as many projects as possible. Here's the link :

http://craftstamper.blogspot.com/2017/08/take-it-make-it-challenge-august.html?m=1

#winecheeseandscrapbooking #scrappermyra #scrapbooking  #create #handmade #hechoamano  #unitystampco #stamping #papercraft #womenstrength  #GirlPower #MixedMedia #mixedmediaart

Holiday Card

This is my first Xmas card this year. I loved making it and loved the final product. 

I used kraft embossed card base to which I adhered a distressed vellum with the stamped sentiment. 

I stamped the image in a die cut kraft cardstock and colored with watercolor pencils. I added some white ink to blur the scenery and stamped with embossing ink the snowflakes.  I also added faux stitching with a thin sharpie marker around all edges. 

I framed this with a doily and finished up with sequins and some glitter. 

Hope you like my very first Christmas 2017 card.   I will share with Facebook' Unity Show and Tell.    Hope it is liked enough to win and/or inspire others.  

See ya'. 

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Wine Notes...

Hello my friends.  I haven't shared anything via blog lately. I've actually been kind of taking a forced break in Scrapbooking but it's just lack of time... not because I want to. 

Thank you for continue supporting my blog and my Facebook and Instagram pages. You are awesome. 

I have already shared (in Facebook and Instagram), some of these wine mini notebooks I embellished using CAS style.  Thought it was cool to share all in one post in the blog too. 

These contain a special wine evaluation format my husband use when tasting wines.   I just don't like  to see him taking notes in any paper so I hand-make these mini books for him. 

I try to be very conscious to make them simple and kind of masculine or at least unisex because if I let it go I would end up with very girly covers. 

Overall I stamped sentiments and images, or included fussy cuts... I hand cut shapes and added nice texture with burlap and corrugated paper.  

Hope you like them all. 

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