Patterned Papered Dreams

Tags, anyone? Take II

Hi there! Remember I said I'll be back with some more ideas using Nina's Simply Tags: Christmas and Texture Tiles: Be Cute for Avery Elle. Well, here I am! I have four different fun ideas for making tags.

 

I mixed elements from the two new sets with sentiments from Simply Tags: Everyday. Here's what I did:

1. For this tag, I started with a die cut tag from Simply Tags: Everyday dies. I used the thin stripe in Texture Tiles: Be Cute to stamp a random pattern in 3 colors, and the sentiment is from Simply Tags: Christmas. Don't you love that font? The little heart comes from the Bow Simply Tags: Christmas set and I covered it with white enamel accents. I've seen a lot of people doing that and I definitely love the look!

2. Ok, so here I gave in with the whole bacon craze. With some creative inking, the filler archs from Simply Tags: Christmas became little bacon slices, lol! The tag (die cut from the smaller die in this set) was finished with a sentiment from Simply Tags: Everyday.

3. This one shows what a quick and perfect backdrop you can make with the swiss dots from Texture Tiles: Be Cute. I simply stamped the dots and added a fussy cut sentiment from Simply Tags: Everyday. The tiny heart comes again from this dies, and was die cut from glitter craft foam.

4.This last one is my favorite from the set. First, I die cut the star from Ornament Simply Tags: Christmas dies and then stamped and heat embossed in gold the big star from Simply Tags: Christmas. I sponged pink ink on the open areas in the star image. The sentiment comes from Simply Tags: Everyday. I curved it on the clear block to follow the curved lines from the banner. Oh, and the banner was trimmed out after stamping the badge image.

Phew! That's it! Are you still with me? :) I hope this ideas inspire you to get creative with this fun sets. I still have lots of ideas, now I just need the time to sit and bring them to life...

Thanks for visiting!

Falling for You

Happy Sunday! I have a quick tag to share today, inspired by the gorgeous image from this week's Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World.

 

I loved the blended colors on the leaves and the organic feel of the whole pic. That woodgrain bowl and that weathered plancks on the background! Very inspiring :)

Here is what I made with the blended colors and the woodgrain as my starting point. For some reason the pic shows a completely orange background, but I promise in real life there's a lot of pink and yellow in there too!

 

I first blended a few Distress Inks on a die cut tag. Then, I die cut another tag for the front. I stamped the Hero Arts woodgrain background and part of a Kelly Purkey sentiment. I used alpha dies to die cut "you". And that heart? Yes, it's my first shy attempt to use embossing paste. Hello, Debby Hugues!

I die cut a heart from chipboard and used the negative piece as a stencil. Once the heart was dry, I smothered a bit of gold pigment ink on it.

Here's the tag against a different background. I couldn't decide which one looked best, so I'm posting both. Which one do you prefer?

 

Thanks for visiting!

 

PTI October Blog Hop

Hey there! Guess who made a tag set for this month's Papertrey Ink blog hop and then almost forgot to post them? Yup, you guessed right.  And guess who didn't read properly about the challenge and didn't make 5 tags? Yeah, right again. But at least I made 4 :)

 

These are mini tags, and I kept them really clean and simple. I used Fancy Folk Art with my favorite color combination, and added some silver stickles to "merrify" the whole thing. The "to" and "from" come from To You From Me. (wasn't that a tongue-twister?).

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Talk about a versatile set...

Good morning! I've said it before and I'll say it again: there are no better stamps than the ones designed by a stamper for other stampers. So that said (again), let me introduce one of the most versatile sets I've ever put my hands on: Simply Tags: Christmas by Nina Yang for Avery Elle.

When I was contacted by the sweet Nina a few weeks ago about the chance to play with her new sets and dies I almost fainted. Once I was on my feet again, I said YES! I knew I was in for a treat. And I was right. So here I present you the first two of the gazillion things I created as soon as the stamps arrived.

First, I have a card.

I started stamping the swiss dots rectangle from the also new Texture Tiles: Be Cute. It makes such an easy and perfect backdrop for focal images! Next, I played around with the super cool badge. The combinations are truly endless! Here, I used red, gold and green. The stars in the center are also from the set. A few Hero Arts clear dots finish up this card.

 

Nina was super kind and made a sketch from it! I'm really excited because it's the first sketch I've ever had made from a little card of mine. So if you give it a try, please link it in the comments because I'd love to see it!

Second, a tag.

This one started by die cutting the big circle from the Ornament Simply Tags: Christmas dies. Perfect for a big bold tag. Once again, I used Texture Tiles: Be Cute to stamp my background. I stamped the dots twice, once in green, once in red, and inked the edge. And here comes the fun part: a custom sentiment. The "A" comes from masking the word "Awesome" from Simply Tags: Christmas, and the word "happy" is also from that set. The "Christmas" banner was made by stamping and then cutting the "Christmas" banner filler on it's own. You can do this with all the word fillers in the set :) And finally, the word "Gift" comes from the previously released Simply Tags: Everyday set.

And that adorable die cut twine bow? It comes from Bow Simply Tags dies set and it is my new favorite thing. It's so delicate! Watch out if you're close to me, because you might end up with at least one of this bows adhered to your nose. Ha!

And this is it from me today! I'll be back later this week with more creations with Nina's sets.

Have a great day and thanks for visiting!

You & Me

Hi! This weekend I was able to craft non stop for a few hours, so I have a lot of cards to share. Here comes the first one, inspired by ric #46. Check the challenge here.

 

I picked the colors and the black and white pattern on the skirt and here's what happened:

 

First, I masked a semicircle and stamped the WPlus 9 flowers. Second, I used an Inktense pencil and a water brush to make the watercolor background. And finally, I heat embossed the sentiment from Hero Arts. This last step involved some masking so I could emboss it in two different colors.

That's it! Happy Monday!

CFC118: Tags and Bags

Hello there! It's been quiet for a bit around here, right? I traveled to Spain to visit my family, but now I'm back in Bolivia just in time for a brand new CAS-ual Fridays challenge. This week it's all about tags and bags: create a clean and simple gift or treat bag that includes a tag. Fun!

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps has an awesome prize for the winner!!! Check it out here.

 

While I was in Spain I scored a couple of cute little wood boxes, so this was a perfect occasion to use one of them. I went for a clean and a bit rustic look, so I used kraft cardstock, but "merried" it up with silver embossing powder. I stamped one of the images from Lotsa Links on a cardstock strip and wrapped it around the box. Then I wrapped the kraft and silver twine (another fab find from Spain!). On the tag, I stamped 3 times part of a sentiment from Snowflake Greetings. 

 

I hope you'll join us this week! Happy weekend and thaks for visiting :)

World Card Making Day Winner 2012 Blog Hop

Hello friends and happy day-before World Card Making Day! Today, all the winners from last year's WCMD have joined in a blog hop to celebrate this very special occasion. I will never forget the wonderful surprise it was to open my email one night and find an email from Holy letting me know I was one of the winners! I screamed out so loud it freaked out my husband and son. Oh yeah, and the neighbours too :)

I had entered a few cards, but the most surprising thing was that the winner card was one with no stamping on it. No even the sentiments. I am mostly a stamper but when I created this particular card, I decided to stretch out of my comfort zone. I ventured the path of electronic die cutting and stickers. However, it still was a "me" card. It had bright colors and an overall clean and graphic feel.

With this, my friends, what I try to say is that you can be true to yourself and try new things at the same time. It worked for me :)

Here's today's card...

 

 

I wanted to make a card in the same fashion as the winner one: a floral die cut design and a simple sentiment. No embellishments. So the white pannel was die cut, and I adhered colored cardstock behind the open areas inside the flowers. This time, though, I stamped the sentiment instead of using stickers.

And there you go! Here's the complete blog hop list. It was such a honor to see my name beside such talented ladies! I still can't believe it... Thanks for stopping by!

   

1.      Agata Pfister

2.      Amber Kroening

3.       Angeline Yong Jeet Leen

4.      Ashley Marcu

5.      Carolynn Wilson

6.      Chunyuan Wu

7.      Emily Leiphart

8.      Heather Hoffman

9.      Jamie Greene

10     Jocelyn Olson

11.    Kerrianne Bowen

12.    Laura Bassen

13.    Leigh Penner

14.    Lorena Cantó Lavería <----- You are here

15.    Mercedes Weber

16.    Mignon Jessica Bear

17.    Pamela Ho

18.    Sarah J. Moerman

19.    Stasia Sloma

20.    Tarynne Wise

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CFC116: Sequins and Chevrons

Hi friends! Today we say hi to a new CAS-ual Fridays challenge, and this week it is a pretty trendy one! Ready? Create a clean and simple project using chevrons and sequins :)

 

Ellen Hutson is the sponsor for this challenge. I truly love shopping there, she really has everything a crafter may need. Everything. Check the challenge blog for more details on the prize.

And now, the card. See my horizontal chevrons? They were stamped with the brick pattern from this cool CAS-ual Fridays Stamps set.

 

The "congrats" was die cut with the Cameo. I covered the whole word in Versamark and heat embossed it in gold. At this point I had no clue were to add the sequins. So I figured I could use one as a period at the end of the sentiment ;)

Thanks for visiting!

Celebrating the international aspect of World Card Making Day

Hi friends! Today, along with other fellow card makers from around the world, I have a card up in the Paper Crafts Connection blog. Hope to see you there! And a big thank you to Moxie Fab Cath for putting this fantastic feature together!

Have a lovely day, friends :)

We've got a winner!

Thanks everyone for the lovely comments you left me on the Handmade Cards Blog Hop! And the winner of this fantastic issue is...

awwww...super CUTE

Posted by: ~amy~ | 09/21/2013 at 01:52 PM

 

Yay! Amy, drop me an e-mail with your details and I'll pass it on to Paper Crafts so they can send you the mag :)

Happy Tuesday, everyone!