Black and white and a little of color card

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Normally I don´t use black and white in my cards but today I like what I did...

I used an image from Beccy's place and colored it with acuarelable pencils, isnt it gorgeous this bucket with flowers?

I used a embossed (Sizzix flowered flourish) white paper as background, black cardstock and a glittered black and white flowered dp with a black mat. I used some foami tape for the image to have some effect.

I also used a gingham black and white ribbon and made a knot.

Challenges:

Cards and things: sketch #76
Sugar Creek Hollow: embossing
Crafty calendar: april showers-may flowers
Kerry's Color Throwndown - Black and White with a splash of colour
ABC dt challenge: may flowers

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A tag card with flowers

Tomorrow we need to give a couple of cards... to say thanks to some teachers at the ballet performance.

I made this card with an image from Beccy's place.

Don´t know the name of this flower in English, but my neighbourhood here is full of this beautiful lilac color flowers. I colored them with acuarelable pencils.

I made a tag with some purple cardstock. I used DPs from my stash and a couple of purple ribbons and made a bow for the bottom of the card and a knot to the tag.

It looks very simple, maybe I should add some faux stitches...mmmmm...

Challenges:

Inspirational Card Sketches: sketch # 112

Just add ink: add a flower
Prairie Fairy: april shower-may flowers
Fussy and fancy: spring time
Paper cutz: anything goes

ABC dt challenge: may flowers

A good bye card

Tomorrow my daughter is having a ballet performance and one of her friends from this group is leaving the country in few days, so this is the last time my daughter will see her, so to tell her good bye I made this card.

I colored the stamped image with acuarelable pencils.

I used different DPs from my stash (don´t ask me the brand because some of them I won in a candy) and blue cardstock, I used blue flowers and blue blings.

Challenges:

Create4fun: sketch for April (don´t know if still I'm on time to entry this challenge, but the sketch is wonderful)

Phindi's place: glitter, glamour and glitz
Totally papercraftts: glitter
Crafts 4 eternity: anything goes
ABC dt challenge: may flowers

Bear birthday card 2

This is my second card today, and also birthday and bear!!!

I used a image from Pollycraft (Cuthbert's Party) and colored it with acuarelable pencils. 

I used a degradée (from red to blue) carstock as background. Then I used two different dps in blue-red combination, I used red carstock as a mat for the image.

Challenges:

Truly Scrumptious: sketch #56

Stamping vacation fountain of youth: going to the zoo

Stamping vacation watch this: grizzly adams

Joyful Stamper: anything goes

Digis with attitude: show us your stars (paper and a star in bear's t-shirt)
Crafts 4 eternity: anything goes
Moving along with the times: anything goes
Cards for men: circles
Blog-a- doodle: masculine creation

Bear birthday card 1

May brings a lot of birthdays... so I need to be prepared!!!!!!

For this card I used a Pollycraft image (Cuthbert with balloons), colored it with acuarelable pencils. 

I used two different dps from Folia with white background and red cardstock. I also used red ribbon.

 

Challenges: 

Papertake weekly: sketch #55

The fuzzy wuzzy: animal as focal point of the project

Stamping vacation watch this: Grizzly Adams

Stamping vacation fountain of youth: going to the zoo

Moving along with the times: anything goes

Art impressions stamps: use an animal in your project

A card for mom

After almost one year that I couldn't post in blogger, the last two days I tested it and worked!!! For that reason, today I come back to my blog to post a new card I made.

I used this warm and cute image from A Day for Daisies, although its name is "big sister" for me is a mom with her baby and they are enjoying each other embrace. I colored it with acuarelable pencils, distressed the border with a dark pink ink pad and mounted in a dark pink cardstock as mat and I distressed the border with a distressing tool.

I used a pink-green dp, a embossed green cardstock (polka dots). I used lace, a green flowered ribbon and a green ribbon overlaping the lace one. 

I used a pink button and made a knot with the same green ribbon. The sentiment is from Create with TLC.

Challenges:

Eat Sleep Scrap: sketch #128

AIFactory: anything goes

Aud Sentiments: happy mother's day

Craft us crazy: mother's day and/or flower (my flowers are in one of the ribbons)

Digi doodles shop best: anything goes

Dutch dare: mom

Moving along the times: anything goes

Outlawz POM: anything goes

Pals Paper Arts: CAS-buttons

Some Odd Girl: mom

Stamping vacation have you tried: ribbon over lace

Amber's craft stuff: use a digi

A day for daisies: oh, baby

Delightful challenges: distressing

I hope you like my card, if you do, please, leave me a coment :) Thanks for visiting!!!

Test 2 - Bullfrogs and butterflies

You can see the orignal post here.

This is my weekly card I normally make for the challenge from Designed to Delight, Free stamp of the month challenge - Delightful Inspiration blog.


This time I want to have vibrant colors and used markers, but as they are not alcohol based doesn´t look very nice, it seems as my daughter colored it (LOL), but it was me :(
I also used some glitter glue and made some faux stitches with an orange extrafine marker.


I used yellow cardstok as mat and some rainbow colored dp from Folia. I used ribbon, a flower and a flower-brad. I twisted a little bit the sketch as I didn´t want to put the ribon overlaping the image, then the ribbon goes behind it.


Challenges:
D2D: use the image
Sweet Sunday sketch: SSSC 114
Simon says challenge: anything goes
NettieG's: bugs and plants
Creative inspirations: inspired by rainbow
The corrosive challenge: animals
SSCC: anything goes
Make it monday: anything goes
Tuesday Throwndown: brads or eyelets
The stamping boutique: winged things (butterflies)
Party time tuesday: anything goes
Scrap creations: flowers


To tell you the truth I'm not very happy with the result... I think I should use some other color for the mat...

A flower garden

This is a post I did in my old blog at multiply. Now multiply is closing, so I am bringing my cards here...


April is all about rain and flowers... and gardening!!!

The image is from DZ doodles (Planting pots), and I colored it with acuarelable pencils, I chose to use blue and orange colors...

I used a blue mat and two different dp orange- blue combo. I used an orange flower and a blue minibutton for the center. It's that simple. 

 Challenges:
Woodware Usa: sketch
Hippity with Ippity: spring and anything goes
Creative cowgirls: happy spring
Stamping vacation to who challenge: someone who has planted a garden
Stampiong vacation special month: april (spring)
Scrap Creations: flowersThe crazy challenge: 3 different papers
Cattered Crop: Stamps – go digital, bunnies, butterflies, and flowers Embellishments – burlap, pinwheels, twine, buttons, eyelets, brads  Theme – Spring







 
That's all for today... I hope you like it :)

Test - Some cards I made...

This is a test to see if I can use my blog again... You can see the original posts here.

Cards I made this week:

I think Rainy bear from Bugaboo stamps is really sweet!!!!!!!! When I've got it, I printed and colored it and today I made a card with it. (I'm happy I printed it last week because my printer is not working now, don´t know why). I colored it with acuarelable pencils and mounted on a light blue circle in which I emboss some drops with a Fiskars plate (raindrops). I used a sky dp from Folia, a stripe dp from my Russian brand here and some cardstock in yellow. Then I used a light blue-turquoise gingham ribbon and a couple of buttons. I also made some faux stitches with an extrafine blue marker. The sentiment is a Create with TLC.

Challenges:
Stamp with fun: sketch
Catch the bug: We're singing in the rain
Send a smile 4 kids: April showers
Allsorts: april showers
Paper playtime: friends (this is an encouraging card for a friend)
Corrosive challenge: animals
Stamping vacation special month: april (rain)
Crafty calendar: April shower bring May flowers
Little Claire: animals
Simon says stamp and show: some buttons
Incy wincy: ribbon and button
House of Gilli: stitching and layers
Cattered Crop: Pattern Paper – stripes, miniprints Colors – pastels Stamps – go digital, bunnies, butterflies, and flowers Color Mediums – Copic markers, paint, white pens Embellishments – burlap, pinwheels, twine, buttons, eyelets, brads Theme – Spring


The image is from DZ doodles (Planting pots), and I colored it with acuarelable pencils, I chose to use blue and orange colors... I used a blue mat and two different dp orange- blue combo. I used an orange flower and a blue minibutton for the center. It's that simple.

Challenges:
Woodware Usa: sketch


Hippity with Ippity: spring and anything goes
Creative cowgirls: happy spring
Stamping vacation to who challenge: someone who has planted a garden
Stampiong vacation special month: april (spring)
Scrap Creations: flowers
The crazy challenge: 3 different papers
Cattered Crop: Stamps – go digital, bunnies, butterflies, and flowers Embellishments – burlap, pinwheels, twine, buttons, eyelets, brads Theme – Spring


In some challenge blogs the theme is Mother's day and although in my country we celebrate it in October (yes, October...) I wanted to make a card and now I'm ready to send it to my mom when the time comes!!! The image is a ChiChi Memories one. I colored with acuarelable pencils but I worked a lot in the hair as this is Make it colorful challenge for this week. I have to say is very treaky to do it with acuarelable pencils.... first I did as always do, but after words didn´t look as I wanted so I have to use the black pencil but no water this time. I'll tell you a secret, I colored the image first not knowing which paper I would use and it was a little hard to find the papers later... I used two different dp (or printed) papers, a lace and a ribbon and a flower as embellishments. I'm learning to chose everything forehand and then coloring the image, but this time I didn´t do it in that order and took me a while to finish my card!

Challenges:
ChiChi Memories: sketch #30 and CCM image
Make it colorful: coloring black hair
I did it creations: recipe: Use 1 image, 2 printed papers and 3 embellishments
Cardmadfairy: Use 1 digital image, 2 patterned papers and 3 embellishments
Creative Cowgirls: Happy mothers day
Stamping vacation have you tried: ribbon over lace
Really Reasonable Ribbon: Violets & Lilacs & Plums, oh, my!!!
Sparkles forum: anything goes

OK, I'm crossing my fingers to see if this post will work...

I hope you like my cards, and if you do, please, let me know :)

Have a great day!!!

Rain card

This card was posted on my old site at multiply. Multiply is closing, so I bringing my old posts here :)



I think Rainy bear from Bugaboo stamps is really sweet!!!!!!!! When I've got it, I printed and colored it and today I made a card with it. (I'm happy I printed it last week because my printer is not working now, don´t know why)


 
I colored it with acuarelable pencils and mounted on a light blue circle in which I emboss some drops with a Fiskars plate (raindrops).

 
I used a sky dp from Folia, a stripe dp from my Russian brand here and some cardstock in yellow. Then I used a light blue-turquoise gingham ribbon and a couple of buttons. I also made some faux stitches with an extrafine blue marker. The sentiment is a Create with TLC.


 
Challenges:
Stamp with fun: sketch
Catch the bug: We're singing in the rain
Send a smile 4 kids: April showers
Allsorts: april showers
Paper playtime: friends (this is an encouraging card for a friend)
Corrosive challenge: animals
Stamping vacation special month: april (rain)
Crafty calendar: April shower bring May flowers
Little Claire: animals
Simon says stamp and show: some buttons
Incy wincy: ribbon and button
House of Gilli: stitching and layers
Stamping vacation watch this: grizzly Adams (at least is a bear!)
Stamping vacation fountain of youth: going to the zooCattered Crop: Pattern Paper – stripes, miniprints Colors – pastels Stamps – go digital,  bunnies, butterflies, and flowers Embellishments – burlap, pinwheels, twine, buttons, eyelets, brads  Theme – Spring


 
Edited: this card is featured on Create with TLC.

 

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