A snowman card

This is the second card I have to show today. The image is a Designed 2 Delight. I colored with acuarelable pencils.

I feel inspired by the snow... still we can´t build a snowman but everything looks white and it´s pretty cold outside!

I used a embossed green-blue paper (maybe teal color?) and red cardstock.

The only embellishment I used it's a Christmas ribbon and made a bow.. Sorry for the pics, they were made with the cell phone :(

Challenges:

The Sweet stop: sketch 136

Craft Your Passion - Tis the Season...

 Crafty Boots -  Anything Goes

 Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge Christmas

 Paper Creations Ink  Christmas

 Hooked on Crafts Winter Wonderland

Victorine Originals  Ribbon

The ribbon girl: jingle all the way to Christmas

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge Winter Wonderland
Designed 2 Delight designer's challenge: snowmen 
 Creative Craft Challenges Free For All

It´s cold outside!

Finally I've got time to write a blog... I am so busy almost not time to craft... but I was trying my new Sizzix Big Shot  (Yeah... I've got it!!!!) although I don´t have to many embossing plates or die cuts I was trying what I have, and LOVE IT!!!!!!!! It's so fun....

Ok, this is the first card I made using some of my new goodies...

The image is a Bugaboo Stamp freebie I've got a couple of weeks ago called Little Penguin winter (or something like it, sorry I don´t remeber very well) I colored with acuarelable pencils, then I cut with a nestabilities die cut and distressed the borders with a blue inkpad. I feel inspired by the snow... still we can´t build a snowman but everything looks white and it´s pretty cold outside!

I don´t have a snow embossing folder but this one looks like snow and thought it´s great for this little fellow.

I also used three blue metallic snowflakes with a blue gem on the center and a blue ribbon and made a bow. I'm so sorry for the pics, I made them with my cellphone as I don´t have my camera with me :(

Challenges:
Card patterns: sketch 143
Craft Your Passion - Tis the Season...
 Crafty Boots  Anything Goes
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge Christmas EDITED: I WON THIS CHALLENGE!!!!!!!!!!
Get Hippity with Ippity Embossing
 Hooked on Crafts Winter Wonderland
 Stamps R Us  Emboss It
 Victorine Originals  Ribbon
 Here Come the Boys For the Man/Men in Your Life
 Lollipop Crafts - 'B' is for... (bling, bows,  blue)
The crazy challenge: stars or snowflakes
 Creative Craft Challenges Free For All
Cards und more: snowflakes

Specially for you Christmas card

Here we go... this is another Christmas card for this year batch... I love this little fellow, he looks so happy and cute with that gift!!!!!!

This digistamp is from Cuddly Buddly, a freebie called: Specially for you. I colored it with acuarelable pencils and made some faux stitches with a blue marker.

I used Printer Soyuz dp and blue cardstock. I used a blue ribbon with stars and made a bow. Another simple card, but I think it looks very cute :)

Challenges:
DYSU: splash of blue
Forever friends: Christmas
Shelly's images: anything goes
GLitter geeks: Christmas shoping
Wags 'n whiskers: Christmas
Floweret stempler: Christmas cards
Phindi's: Christmas cards
RRR: Cas Christmas and ribbon theme
Lia stampz: for men
Glitter fairie: non traditional Chrismtas
Fresh brewed: anything goes
Paper pretties: non traditional Christmas colors - Christmas card
Bearly mine: one for the boyz
Digital Tuesday: Christmas time

Christmas tree card

I feel as this week I'm a little bit lazy because I only made three cards... but is not true, I'm very busy with real life and work!!!!!!!! OK, this is one of the cards I made. Isn't this Christmas tree beautiful? And it´s just great for a traditional Christmas card!!!

The image is a freebie I've got at Cuddly Buddly "Liliboo Designs - Christmas Tree". I colored it with acuarelable pencils and cut the silluette to make this card.

I used green cadstock and a gold glittered and embossed redish cardstock. I used a Christmas ribbon and some red gems. It's a very simple card, what do you think?

Challenges:
Pile it on: traditional Christmas
Southern girls: Bingo (glitter - ribbon- embossing)
Crimbo crackers: make it sparkle
Digi doodle: red-green combo
Shelly's images: anything goes
Cards and scrap: traditional Christmas colors
Creatalicious: Christmas - sparkle
Desert Island: 2 - 6 - 9 (ribbon - tree- embossing)
Stempelsonne: red, green, gold
Wags 'n whiskers: Christmas
Floweret stempler: Christmas
RRR: Cas Christmas and ribbon theme
Phindi's: Christmas cards
Heidi's hobbistuggu: bling and sparkle

Creative Freebie challenge 01

There is a new challenge at the Outlauz: Creative Freebie Challenge. Sandi Huggett and Anne Fenton started this new challenge and gave us two free images each of them to start to play (4 in total) and I can tell you, all of them are wonderful!!!

This is my very first one, a Christmas wreath by Anne Fenton. I colored it with acuarelable pencils and cut it to the edge. I love that little bird there!!!

I used green and red cardstock and a dp with Christmas roses and motives in white and red. I also used a very pretty red ribbon and attached three golden jingle bells.

Challenges:
Creative Freebie: to use the images
Try Stamping on Tuesday: sketch
Sassy Cheryl's: anything goes
Digital Tuesday: Christmas and digital
Daisy Doodles: digital
Forever friends: christmas
Heart songs: gold or glitter
Christmas card: wreath or holly
Paper Sundaes: digital images
Catered crop: Papers: Kraft, chipboard / Colors: kraft, black, cream, red, and green/ Images: birds, winter scene, hollies and berries, swirls, Christmas / Ink: pencils, distress ink / Tools: embossing folder, die cuts, circle punch, lace and/or scallop edges / Miscellaneous: ribbon, pearls, fishtail tags / Techniques: layers and layers, dry embossing, distressing

CDAC Progressive Challenge #6 - Flying bear

This is the last card I made for this round at CDAC progressive challenge. It's a male Birthday card...

The image is an Ellephantastic one. I colored it with acuarelable pencils and cut the silluette to use it on the card.

I used dp from Folia, kraft paper and some cardstock. I mounted the image with foami tape and did the same for the sentiment and the punched bears I used as embellishments. The sentiment is from Create with TLC.

Challenges:
Willow sketchy challenge: sketch for Nov 10th
Pattie's creations: birthday or thanksgiving
Digital Tuesday: anything goes
The crazy challenge: something with wings
Stamps R us: masculine
Birthday Sundaes: birthday wording
Ellephantastic: wheather related (Winter bear, right?)

EDITED: this card was featured at Create with TLC

CDAC Progressive Challenge #6 - shop til you drop

Another card for CDAC progressive challenge, this is my 4th card this time!!!
This sweet ellephant is doing the Christmas shoping... but love is the most important thing, so , how can we wrap a hug???

The image is Inked Treasures. I colored it with acuarelable pencils and cut following the silluete of her.

I used blue cardstock and Muresco designed cardstock. I also used a pink ribbon and made a couple of knots and three pink gems (I need to balance the card because of the snetiment!). The sentiment is from Create with TLC.

Challenges:
Paper minutes: sketch
Stamp and doodle: sparkle and shine
Digital Tuesday: anything goes
Jellypark: non traditional Christmas colors
My mum craft shop: sugar and spice (It's not a girl, but she is very sweet, isnt´she?)
Crafty cats: digital image
Always something creative: it must sparkle
Freshly brewed: anything goes
Glitter fairies: non traditional Christmas colors
RRR: Christmas
Sundays with Chrissy: non traditional Christmas colors
The craft garden: Christmas, no red, no green
EDITED: this card was featured at Create with TLC

CDAC Progressive Challenge #6 - Winter Barn

Another card for the 6th round at CDAC progressive challenge. This time with a Winter scene and green palette.

The image is from Ginger Loft. I colored it with acuarelable pencils and used glitter to make the snow.

I used papers and cardstock from my stash in different tones of green and a brown textile (I don´t know the name of this material). I also used a green Christmas ribbon and green gems, I tried to make a swirl with them, can you notice it?

Challenges:

Sketches by Carly: sketch # 44
Crimbo crakers: make it sparkle
Wags 'n whiskers: Christmas
Mami Doodles: Christmas
Inspire me Fridays: anything goes
Craft your pasions: anything goes plus brown
Blog and doodle: sparkle and shine
Crazy amigo: swirls
Inky impresion: glitter it up!
Always something creative: it must sparkle
Crafter's companion: let it snow
Freshly brewed: anything goes
RRR: Christmas

Interesting numbers

Just a quick note:

Yesterday was a interesting day, we'll never have the same: 11/11/11

What it's also interesting for me is that yesterday I've got my 111 follower!!! Don´t know what time, maybe it was at 11pm??? Who knows.... (LOL)

Have a great week end, I'm coming later to post three cards I made for the CDAC progressive challenge.

"I do" card

This is a card I made to the request of a friend who's best friend is getting married soon. She wants a lot of sparkle and a very cute card... I hope she likes it when she gets it!

I used a Beccy's image that I love because it's so romantic... I colored it with acuarelable pencils and used glitter for the bride´s dress. I mounted it on a pink cardstock.

The picture doesn´t show to well but the white paper has a fine texture, very delicate. I also used pink cardstock.

As embellishments I used a lace, a pink ribbon, many pink flowers and pink gems. The wording are the names of the happy couple and the word Forever I printed using the font ALS script.

Challenges:
Sentimental Sundays: wedding or anniversary
Ladybug craft: marriage and love
Midnight Madness: sketch
Charisma cards: cutesy
Southern girls: inspired by a song (don´t know the title, but the one Meryl Strip sings to Pierce Brossnan in Mamma Mia "I do, I do, I do...")
Do You Stack up: inspired by a song (as many people told me the song is "I do, I do, I do..." - ABBA's)
Inky Inpresions: glitter it up!
The paper shelter: all in pink
The paper variety: family (marriage is the beggining of a family, right?)
Digital Tuesday: anything goes
Bunny Zoe crafts: lace it up

One more Christmas card

One friend ask me to make a couple of Christmas card for her, and I didn´t have to much time, so I used some images I already have colored and made a quick card for her. This is the first one.

I used a Precious Moment coloring page (I found it - and many others - while browsing the web a couple of months ago) and colored it with acuarelable pencils.

I only used one plaid blueish dp from Printer Soyuz with golden stars and blue cardstock. As embellishment I only used a few blue gems. Very simple and fast, right?

Challenges:
My partner in crafting crime: use a freebie
Do you stack up: inspired by a song (Silent night)
Make it Monday: anything goes
Digital Tuesday: anything goes
There she goes: holiday project
Dream Valley: anything goes
I did it creations: Christmas
Catch the bug: anything goes
Always something creative: it must sparkle
Freshly brewed: anything goes
Glitter fairies: non traditional Christmas colors
Sundays with Chrissy: non traditional Christmas colors
The craft garden: Christmas, no red, no green

A quick Christmas card

One friend ask me to make a couple of Christmas card for her, and I didn´t have to much time, so I used some images I already have colored and made a quick card for her. This is the first one.

I used an Ellephantastic digi (I won it this year!!!) and colored it with acuarelable pencils and made some faux stitches around.

 
I only used one plaid orange dp from Printer Soyuz with golden swirls and red cardstock. As embellishment I  used a Christmas ribbon and made abow. Very simple and fast, right?

 Challenges:
Do you stack up: inspired by a song (Away in a manger)
 Top Tip Tueday: anything Christmas goes
Crazy amigos: swirls
Digital Tuesday: anything goes
Daisy Doodles: anything goes with a digi
Incy Wincy: stitching (faux)
Make it Monday: anything goes
My partner in crafting crime: use a freebie(I won this one!!!)
Oohlala: stitching
There she goes: holiday project
Christmas inspirations: bow
Dream Valley: anything goes
I did it creations: Christmas
OSATT: use a digi
Anythign goes: stitching
RRR: Christmas

CDAC Progressive Challenge #6 - Christmas bear

This is another card I made for the challenge at CDAC, this is round 6th and I hope to win the markers!!! :) I chose a monochromatic theme (blue) for this male card.

I colored it with acuarelable pencils and used some bling for the snow and I made some faux stitches on the edges of the image, then I mounted on a blue cardstock.

As background I used a Fiskar's embossing plate (snowflakes) on a blue cardstock {I don´t see the moment I get the Big Shot I bought few weeks ago, it´s almost here!!!}. Then I used a Printer Soyuz dp (blue + silver).

As embellishment I used a ribbon and made a double bow and put a button on top.

Challenges:
CDAC progressive challenge round 6th
Christmas card challenge: sketch
Cards for men: It's nearly Christmas
Christmas inspirations: bows
OSATT: use a digi
Incy Wincy: stitching
Ooh la la: stitching
Forever friends: bling bling
Heart songs: anything goes
House of Gilli: monochromatic
Simon says: button(s)
Top Tip Tuesday: anything Christmas goes
Party time Tuesday: bling it on!
Paper Crafting Journey: use a digi
Catch the bug: anything goes
Always something creative: it must sparkle 
Crafter's companion: let it snow
Glitter fairies: non traditional Christmas colors
The pretty little ribbon: bows and buttons
RRR: Christmas
Sundays with Chrissy: non traditional Christmas colors
The craft garden: Christmas, no red, no green

CDAC Progressive Challenge #6 - Candles

This is the 6th round for the Progressive Challenge at CDAC. This is a card I made with the Candles from Daisy Doodles. This is a very traditional color Chistmas card.

I colored the image with acuarelable pencils, just a little bit because I want to let the candles white and I used some golden glitter for them.

I used red cardstock and two different plaid green-golden dp from Printer Soyuz. I also used some red cord to tie some jingle bells and then I used a Christmas ribbon for the corners with a green bling on each one.

Challenges:
CDAC freebie progressive challenge
Pollycraft: sketch #118
My partner in Crafting crime: use a freebie
OSATT: use a digi
Creative inspiration Ink: anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday: anything Christmas goes
Party time Tuesday: bling it on!
Make it Monday: Anything goes
Catered crop: recipe Colors: pink/burgundy, green; jewel tone fall colors; Theme: Christmas or Fall; Embellishments:  Fun Flock, seam binding, gemstones, glimmer mists, glitter, jingle bells, lace, buttons, burlap, twine, and cord
Paper Crafting Journey: use a digi
Catch the bug: anything goes
The emerald fairie: red Christmas
RRR: Christmas