Patterned Papered Dreams

Inspired by...

Good sunday morning! Lovely Lucy posted another challeng, this time about making a card inspired in other person's one. I chose this cute cupcake card by Dawn McVey, who is another of my "to go" gals for inspiration. My card does not have a sentiment because it's for my mother in law's birthday, and she doesn't speak english at all, so I've decided to hand write it on the inside. This said, wouldn't it be wonderful if some stamp company made a set with basic sentiments in spanish in nice fonts? I own one from Stampendous, but it's not exactly what I want...

Ok, so I was inspired by the color combo, the cupcake and the scallops, but instead of stamping polka dots, I embossed my card base with them.

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Supplies: Cardstock: Papertrey Ink; Stamps: Basic Grey; Ink: PTI, Tsukineko Versamagic; Patterned Paper: Basic Grey; Other: ribbon from my stash, white embossing powder, nestabilities scalloped squares and swiss dots embossing folder.

A spanish challenge at last!

Hi everyone! At last, a spanish papercrafting blog has jumped into this challenge frenzyness, and of course I had to give it a go :)

 

Creactividades is the name of the blog, as well as a lovely online shop with a nice selection of supplies (actually I think they're the only ones in Spain that carry Hero Arts stamps!).

The challenge was to use black, lime, aqua, orange and fuchsia in a card, and here's mine. Yes, it took a while to color all those flowers in the background, but I think the result is really pretty! What do you think? Does it make clear that I'm really longing for spring? ;)

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Supplies: Cardstock from my stash; Stamps: Hero Arts; Ink: Tsukineko Brilliance, Copic markers; Patterned paper: Bo Bunny. Other: Hero Arts rhinestone, dimensional foam tape.

Polka dots

Good evening! Lucy has posted another challenge in her blog, so here we go again! This time it's polka dots galore. I used a shop teapot-shaped flier as my template and it turned out really cute! I cut it twice and then scored the back one and adhered both with scor-tape. The polka dot bg is a Hero Arts cling stamp and the sentiment (PTI) is heat embossed in white. Some faux stitching with a white gel pen finishes up the card.

 

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Supplies: Kraft cardstock * Stamps: Hero Arts, Papertrey Ink * Ink: Tsukineko Versamagic (turquoise gem) * Other: White gel pen, white embossing powder, crochet twine, pink rhinestone from my stash.

Tags for Spring

A quick sunday post to share this tags I made yesterday for the current Hero Arts challenge (here). I'll add these to my tags stash. If you make them without punching the hole the design would be nice mounted on a card base, maybe embossed with a swiss dots folder. Just thinking... :) Also, this kind of tags are a great way to use up your stamps stash, specially the sentiment sets (I've had them a bit neglected for months).

By the way, I just received my latest Eclectic Paperie order, and one of the things I was waiting for were Tim Holtz's Tonic scissors. They're simply amazing. The handle is enormous, which completely surprised me as I thought they were tiny scissors. But they are perfect for detailed cutting and really confy to use! 

I'm really longing for Spring and warm time. Two winters in a row (the austral one in Montevideo, now the northern hemisphere one) are taking it's toll round here. It's freezing out there!

Have a nice sunday and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

- White cardstock
- Stamps: CG119, CG128, CG148, CL400, CL140, CL142, CL270.
- Ink: PTI (Spring moss, aqua mist), distress inks (broken china, shabby shutters), Tsukineko Brilliance, Copic Markers.
- Other: Nesties Labels 1, dimensional foam adhesive, ribbon, crop a dile.

Happy Birthday, PTI!!

Hi there! Well, as many of you already know, Papertrey Ink is celebrating their birthday with 15 days full of fun stuff, contests, and lots of exciting news as a weekly contest. Today, Nichole debuted on video with a feature on the embossing resist technique, and the deal is to make a card using that same technique. I learnt it a while ago thanks to Jennifer McGuire's videos and it's one of my faves. You can get such beautiful results!

So here's my go at Nichole's challenge. I embossed the PTI text style bg stamp with clear embossing ink on white carsdtock and then used my Ranger ink tool to color the background with distress ink in old paper. The PTI sentiment (from My Punny Valentine) was stamped with brown ink on a strip of Basic Grey paper (Nook&Pantry collection). The paper I stamped the flower on (PTI's In Bloom) is from the same Basic Grey collection.

Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

- White cardstock

- Stamps: PTI In Bloom, Background Basics Text Style, My Punny Valentine.

- Ink: Old Paper distress ink, Ranger Archival in coffee.

- Patterned Paper: Basic Grey.

- Other: Clear embossing powder.

On my fridge

Good evening! Not sure if I've said this before, but probably my fave collection ever has to be Cosmo Cricket's Early Bird. I've been hoarding it for months because I wanted to use it on projects that would be around me for a while so I could enjoy the gorgeous patterns daily. So instead of making cards, I decided to use it on projects for home. Today I want to share the first of them with you.

It's a super simple noteboard for the fridge with two matching magnets. For the board I used a piece of cardboard with two strips of magnet sheet attached to the back. Then I covered it with patterned paper and rounded the corners with my Corner Chomper.  I cut out and stuck one of the "elements sheet" cards from the Early Bird collection to another piece of cardstock and attached it on the board with foam tape for some added dimension. The bottom of the board is finished with a stripe from the stickers sheet (aren't those cofee cups really darn cute?!?!) and I also added a couple of Papertrey Ink's vintage buttons.

For the magnets (Ikea) I adhered the patterned paper with glossy accents, trimmed it with scissors and a file, and finished them with some more Early Bird stickers.

And obviously, I adhered a post-it style notepad wit some scor-tape.

I hope you like this little project and as always, thanks so much for stopping by!

I'm back!!

Hi everyone!! Well, that's just in case there's still anyone out there after two months of neglecting my blog. In my defense I'll say that I moved back to Spain after a two year posting in Uruguay. I went back to work. My toddler started daycare. We settled in a new home and started getting used to the crazy life of a big city after two years in the quiet Montevideo. But that's it. I'm back! And I can't think of a better way to come back than joining a challenge from one of my fave cardmakers ever. Lucy is probably one of the reasons I started making cards. Her work is SO sweet and inspiring!!

So here we go. The challenge was to use glitter, and so I did. Lots of stickles and even some "sparkly fluff", which by the way is an awesome product, really fun to use and not as messy as you would think.

Anyhow, here's my card. The Hero Arts cling stamp was colored with Copic markers (a new addiction, I find them here).

Thanks for stopping by!!

Supplies:

- Kraft and red cardstock

- Stamps: Hero Arts, Inkadinkadoo (sentiment)

- Ink: Tsukineko Brilliance, Colorbox chalk (alabaster), Copic markers

- Silk twine

- Stickles (diamond, cotton candy)

- My Crafts Lounge Sparkly Fluff

- Metallic rhinestones.

- Nestabilities Tags shapes