Have a mice birthday!

Hello, dear friends!
I don't know about you, but this week just passed so fast, between the spring break and my daughter's birthday (it was raining but we were prepared with games inside home)... I almost forget to make the card for I heart sketch challenge... I love these sketches. This week the challenge has as twist to make a masculine card, and this is what I did:

I colored the image with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils, I cut it with a circle die (Sizzix), I distressed the edge with a sky bue ink pad. We wished to make the birthday party outside like this mice, but we did it inside and everything went well :)

For the background I used a blue cardstock and Birthday embossing folder (Cuttlebug). I also used some patterned paper from my stash.

Challenges:

I heart sketches: #144 + twist, Art by Miran: AG, The stamping boutique: masculine, Crafting with friends: AG, Cardz 4 galz: cute and cuddly, Critters and creatures: AG, Fantastic Tuesday: cute critters, Creative Fingers: AG, Sieze the birthday: birthday (no topping), Jo's scrap shack: AG, Fresh Brewed Designs: Happy Birthday, Simply papercraft: AG, Crafty time: birthday, WAW: AG, Digistamp 4 joy: add an animal, Little Miss Muffet: AG, Wonderful Wednesday: AG, Simon says: come rain or shine, OSATT: AG w/ embossing, Creative Playground: birthday


EDITED: I won at I heart sketches!!!!

Spring/Easter Mini Shadow Box

Hello, everyone!
I would like to thank and give a warm welcome to my new followers, I feel honored that you are part of my blogging friends!!!
Today we have a new challenge at Cre8tive Hands Friends and Cre8tive Hands Fans at Facebook (come and join - lots of fun, tips and freebies), two challenges!!!!. And look at what I did:

Yes, a mini shadow box for spring!!!
The image is Chick painting Easter egg and I colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils. I cut it with a scallop circle die (Sizzix).

To make the shadow box/frame, I used an empty box of Armenian candies and with pastel green cardstock I wrapped it and here you can see how it looked.



To decorate it I used some Prima flowers from my stash. Everything is in Spring colors and now is decorating my home. You can see a picture with natural light bellow.  I hope you like it!!!

This challenge is ANYTHING GOES!!  You can find all sorts of amazing Digis over at CRE8TIVE HANDS SHOP and you will probably find some FREEBIES over on the Cre8tive Hands Blog

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NEW!!!

There are some exciting things going on!!!

Cre8tive Hands have a fun Facebook Page for Fans, for more challenges, Freebies, discussions and more chances to win!!  Hope you can join us!!  Request to join.

BLOG HOP

 Cre8tive Hands with the help of Create With TLC have a blog hop coming up that will be FANTASTIC! The theme will be Fairy Tale Dreams. There will be a winner at every stop PLUS, we will have one GRAND PRIZE winner who will get all of the new releases AND all of the sentiments Create With TLC have created for these new adorable images! Don’t miss out on all the fun and inspiration! Starts April 9th and runs to April 15th!

ALSO!!

Can't get enough of Cre8tive Hands Digi's???   
We have a Monthly Digi Club for only $5 a month.  Lots of Freebies and goodies!!
Read more here.  You would not want to miss out :)

Challenges:
Digi Choosday: flower frenzy  Cuttlebug Mania: happy Easter  Everybody art: AG  Fairy Tale: easter eggs  Fantastic Tuesday: cute critters  Going grey with scrap creations: go green  Inky chicks. happy easter  Lemon shortbread: AG  Artistic Inspirations: AG/easter  Crafty boots: easter  Critters and creatures: AG  Ooh LaLa: Spring is in the air  Crazy challenge: flowers  A gem of a challenge. easter 
All sorts: easter  Brown sugar: spring  Animal friends. easter  Lunagirl: spring flowers and birds   Double click skittles: bunny/egg/basket

Cre8tive Hands Friends Challenge card

Hello, dear friends!
I would like to thank and give a warm welcome to my new followers, I feel honored that you are part of my blogging friends!!! 
Today we have a new challenge at Cre8tive Hands Friends and Cre8tive Hands Fans at Facebook (come and join - lots of fun, tips and freebies), two challenges!!!!. And this is my card:

The image is Bear Easter Fun and I colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils. I cut with Nestabilities Labels 1 and used pastel yellow cardstock for mat and cut it with the same die shape.

The paper is from my stash (Easter rabbits) and I also used more pastel yellow cardstock for the mat. I used yellow ribbon and made a bow to embellish it.

This challenge is ANYTHING GOES!!  You can find all sorts of amazing Digis over at CRE8TIVE HANDS SHOP and you will probably find some FREEBIES over on the Cre8tive Hands Blog

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NEW!!!

There are some exciting things going on!!!

Cre8tive Hands have a fun Facebook Page for Fans, for more challenges, Freebies, discussions and more chances to win!!  Hope you can join us!!  Request to join.

BLOG HOP

 Cre8tive Hands with the help of Create With TLC have a blog hop coming up that will be FANTASTIC! The theme will be Fairy Tale Dreams. There will be a winner at every stop PLUS, we will have one GRAND PRIZE winner who will get all of the new releases AND all of the sentiments Create With TLC have created for these new adorable images! Don’t miss out on all the fun and inspiration! Starts April 9th and runs to April 15th!

ALSO!!

Can't get enough of Cre8tive Hands Digi's???   
We have a Monthly Digi Club for only $5 a month.  Lots of Freebies and goodies!!
Read more here.  You would not want to miss out :)

Challenges:
Crafty Sentiments: any shape  Cuttlebug Mania: happy Easter  Everybody art: AG
Fairy Tale: easter eggs (in the basket)  Fantastic Tuesday: cute critters  Inky chicks. happy easter
Lemon shortbread: AG  Artistic Inspirations: AG/easter  Crafty boots: easter  Crafty Dee Bowz: AG w/ handmade bow  A gem of a challenge. easter  All sorts: easter  Chocolate coffee and cards: ribbon
Really reasonable ribbons: spring with ribbon/trim  Cut it up: easter  Animal friends. easter
Crafts galore encore: make a card  Crafty hazelnuts: patterned paper  Double click skittles: bunny/egg/basket

I drink coffee and you?

Hello, dear friends!
As in the title of this post, I am a coffee drinker, for hot drinks it's my favorite :)
I don't drink much when crafting, I don't like to bring the cup to my working place because I am afraid to  make a mess if the coffee spills... But between cutting, glueing and this and that, I go to the kitchen and drink some coffee!

I made this card specially to participate in the Spring Coffe Lovers Hop:

The image is by Bugaboo Stamps and I colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils. I made some green details with a glitter glue and I think look nice. I cut it with Labels 2 Spellbinders die cut. The same for the craft cardstock mat.

I used Folia patterned paper, it's all about coffee on a green background. I used a brown ribbon (Crafty Ribbons). With a black fine marker I made some faux statiches around the image and around the background.

Challenges:
Spring coffee lovers: coffee creation 
Catch the Bug: Bingo (green - bling - ribbon)
Color your world: AG
Come and get it: add stitching
Glitter and sparkle: AG
Lil patch of crafty friends. AG
Pile it on: stitching
Quirky crafts: quirky masculine
Robyn's Fetish: square/recatangular cards
The Ribbon Girls: any image

Pot of flowers

Hello, dear friends!
This last week we had rain almost every day, this morning we woke up with some falling snow, but fortunately it's gone, and we hope for a new week with sunny days, as Nauruz festival (Central Asian New Year) will be held on 21st, 22nd and 23rd of March.... I also hope that this rain will bring lots of flowers and green grass. Wishing good weather and spring and flowers I made two cards:

I used white cardstock as background and embossing folders. I used flower dies (Sizzix) and made some flowers combining colors. I cut the pots, I didn't have a pattern at hand, that's why they look different, hahaha... For the first one I used two shades of green and two of yellow cardstock. For the second one, two purples, one green and one pink cardstock.

Challenges:
Brown Sugar: spring
Creative Fingers: AG
The Stamping Boutique: countdown to spring
Moving along with the times: in the garden
Crafting with friends. AG
Star stamps: think spring
Crafty enjoyments: spring/easter
Simply Papercraft: AG
Die Cuts Divas: something spring
Tinker dream: garden / nature / rainbow
Scrap n challenge. AG
Crafty Creations: spring fever
Crafty gals corner: show me the green
Fresh Brewed Designs: AG

Pink tulips

Hello, again!
Where I live tulis are the flower for March. You start seeing them for Women's day and the rest of the month, they decorate the whole city... you have them in many colors, I did these ones for my card in pink:

The image is From the Heart Stamps and I colored it with alcohol based markers and some details with pencils. I did some faux stitches around the image with a pink fine marker.

I used pink cardstock and an embossing folder for the background and the dp in the layout is from a My mind eyes stack.

The only embellishment is a pink glitter tulip that my friend Maryann gave me a bag with many long ago and I save them, so today I used one!

Challenges:
I heart sketches: #143
Simon says: cute and cuddly
Art by Miran: AG
Brown sugar: spring
Creative fingers: AG
The stamping boutique: countdawn to spring
Card 4 galz: cute and cuddly
In the pink: spring flowers
Moving along with the times. in the garden
Crafts and me: spring
Crafty enjoyments: spring/easter
Crafty Hazelnuts: patterned paper
Digistamp 4 joy: AG + animal
Paradise of stamps: spring
Sunsational stamps: critters

Cat with Hat

Hello, dear friends!!!
After some hours  (almost a day) without internet, I am back and would like to show a new card I made:

The image is by Cre8tive Hands, it is a freebie for the new group Cre8tive Hands Fans at Facebook (there are 45 members already, when 50, it will be a new freebie for fans!!!!), and with that freebie you can enter in a progressive challenge that just started, why don't you join? I colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils and placed it on a black cardstock mat. If you celebrate St. Patrick this looks great in green!

I used orange cardstock and an embossing folder and some dp with red and light orange. I didn't know how to combine this dp, and that's why I love embossing, because trasform a normal cardstock in something wow! Love the variety of folders and different textures you can make with them.

As embellishments I used a recycled red ribbon (from some flowers I've got in a wedding) and a black button with some embroidery thread.

When we moved to this place back in November,  a cat moved too and adopted our house as hers. We call her Mishi, and it is a sweet cat. I didn't like cats before her, and now I can say that she is winning me... She still lives outside, she is not allow in... yet! So this card is in her honor. Here, a pic:

Challenges:

Craft rocket: AG
As you like it: favorite embossing
Crafty girls creations: AG
Crafting with an attitude: AG
Through the purple haze: warm colors
2 creative chicks: AG
Fresh Brewed designs: AG
Simon says:cute and cuddly
Clear it out: AG + older than one year patterned paper (this is like 7 years old...)
Crafty Hazelnutz: AG w/ patterned paper
Digistamp 4 joy: AG + animal
Sunsational stamps: critters
Show us your pussies: lucky kitty

EDITED: I made top 3 at "As you like it"!!!!!!

Friends anyway

Hello, dear friends and visitors!

I would like to show you a card I made:

The stamp is by Mo Manning, I used Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad to print it on the paper. I colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils. I cut it with a circle die cut and used a blue ink pad to distress the border. The same for the sentiment that comes in the set.

The dp is Poligraphservis and I also used some blue cardstock. With the same blue cardstock I punched some daisies and used a blue rhinestone for each flower's center.

Challenges:
DP2: AG w/a Mo's image
Coloring in scrapland. AG
Crafting from the heart: AG
Craft your passion: AG
Eureka: AG
Corrosive challenge: AG
Artistic Inspirations: AG/easter
Our crafty corner: AG
The crazy challenge: flowers
613 Avenue create: AG/clock
Color your world: AG
Crafting with dragonflies: girly
W A W: AG

Spring is here

... almost here!
Hello, dear friends and visitors.
The last 2 days we had rain here, normal for spring, but this morning we woke up with a thin blanquet of snow..... It looked nice but the trees are about to bloom and that is not good for them :(
Anyways, I would like to show you a spring inspired card I made:

The image is a Bugaboo stamp and I colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils. I cut it with a circle die cut and the same for the green cardstock mat.

For the background I used white cardstock and a flowers embossing folder. I love dry embossing, it makes a simple paper to look gorgeous! I also used green cardstock to mat it.

As embellishments I used a couple of leaves and ladybugs I have for long time, they are made with cold porcelaine and think they look good with this image.

Challenges:
Catch the bug: bright and cheery
Simon says: a bit of green
Craft your passion: AG
Wags 'n whiskers: spring fun
As you like it: favorite kind of embossing and why
Come and get it: easter/spring
Aurora wings: favorite season (spring)
Colouring in Scrapland: AG
Critters and Creatures: AG
Eureka: AG
Ooh la la: spring is in the air
Glitter and sparkle: use some green

Spring Squirrel

Hello, dear friends and visitors!

Last week we had the visit of a little squirrel in our garden. It came so fast from the neighbour's garden and run up from tree to tree... Our dog saw the movement but didn't know what it was. I can tell you it was a great image in my mind, I will not forget it! The squirrel didn't have poppies but it was announcing spring, you don't see them before it :)

I would like to show you this new card I made and I would love if you can comment telling me your opinion:

I've got the image long ago, it was a freebie at A Day for Daisies, I colored it with acuarelable pencils. I cut it with a scallop oval die and I used some red cardstock and a die from the same set for the mat.

I used white cardstock and dots embossing folder for the background. I used more red cardstock for the mat. I love dry embossing, you can make a simple piece of cardstock to look awesome, it gives texture, adds dimension and a delicate background.

As embellishment I punched out a few butterflies from a magazine paper and then distressed them with a red ink pad, I glued them with double side fomi tape. I used pearls to give some sparkle and  add more dimension.

I am thinking, maybe instead of red, should I've used kraft cardstock?

Challenges:
A Day for Daisies: pearls/beads
Color your world: AG
Come and get it: easter/spring
Dragonfly dreams: die cut
Lil patch of crafty friends: AG
Corrosive: AG
A Gem of a challenge: Spring
QKR: add some sparkle
Simply papercraft: AG
Wags 'n whiskers: spring fun
As you like it: favorite kind of embossing and why
Cards in envy: butterflies

Painting ladybug

Hello, again!
This is another card I made and would like to show you:

The image is From the Heart Stamps: Painting Ladybug. I colored it with alcohol based markers (Kuretake), and made some lines with a white pencil to imitate brightness and I like the effect. I used a green ink pad to distressed the edges.

I used green cardstock and a flowers embossing folder for the background, some pink dp with multicolor flowers and glitter and lots of sparkle (the picture doesn't show very well).

I used my sewing machine and made three lines of holes in the left edge to make the stitching that shows the sketch. I used a pink/green ribbon. I used one of the sentiments that comes in the set, started being a tag, then I cut a little bit, then another little and finally left just a big sentiment. I die cut a flower from some magazine paper and distressed the edges with an ink pad and finished it with a big rhinestone.

Challenges:
I heart sketches: #142 + big sentiment
Simon Says: a little bit of green
Catch the Bug: bright and cheery
A Gem of Challenge: Spring
Allsorts: spring is in the air
Crafty friends: AG
Di's digis designs: lots of layers
My sheri crafts: spring fever
My time to craft: flowers
Art by Miran: AG
Left of center: stitching (no thread but I used the machine)
Patti's creations: use green
RRR: show me the green with ribbon or trim
QKR: add some sparkle

Rejoice!

Hello!
I would like to show you another card I made, I am loving this of doing my own backgrounds, and I love acuarelle paints!!!! I was inspired and learn through some cards I saw at Pinterest, here, here... and many more!

I used watercolor paper and acuarelle paints to make the background. I used a rubber stamp with Memento black tuxedo ink and then I used a glue pad for embossing powder and put some clear powder and the heating tool, I guess I need to get some black embossing powder, for now I combine the two things. I used black cardstock for the background. To embellish it I used clear dew drops.

Challenges:
Simon says: make your own background
Simon says: a little bit of green
Morgan's Art: include a sentiment
QKR Stampede: some sparkle
Star Stampz: embossing
One crazy stamper: AG
Crafty creations: Sentiment focal point
Word Art Wednesday: AG
Crafting with friends: AG
DLArt: AG (monthly)

Masculine birthday

Hello, again!
I would like to show you another card I made with a couple of techniques I am not used to: acuarelle background and embossing with powders. This is the card I made:

I used mainly green and blue acuarelles for the background on a watercolor cardstock. I used a rubber stamps with Happy Birthday sentiment with some glue pad for embossing powder, I used a blue one and the heating tool, I think I can improve... I used a blue-greenish textured cardstock for the mat. I also used some dew drops and green baker twine to embellish the card.

Challenges:
Simon says: make your own background
Simon says: a little bit of green
Morgan's Art: include a sentiment
RRR: show me the green with ribbon or trim
QKR Stampede: some sparkle
Sieze the birthday: Birthday (no topping here today)
Star Stampz: embossing
One crazy stamper: AG
Sparkles forum: Something for the males
Tinker dream: birthday
Creative playground: Birthday
Crafty creations: Sentiment focal point
Little red wagon: mainly manly
Word Art Wednesday: AG

EDITED: I won at Star Stamps!!!

EDITED:  I made top 5 at Sparkles Forum!!!