Playing with my dies

... and embossing folders...
Hello, dear friends and visitors!
Does it happen to you that you have some embossing folders and dies and you almost never use them? It does to me... So I was playing a little bit with some of them and made a few things. I will show you one card today and I will keep showing you in future some other things I am making with my forgoten stuff...
This week is International Women Day and here is celebrated as Mother/Sister/Girfriend/etc... So I need to make a lot of cards to congrat many women in my circles.

For this card,   I used a Flowers embossing folder and used it for the white cardstock on the background (you can see that on the right side picture). For the flower I used a flower die (from a set of three different shapes) with pastel yellow and sky blue cardstocks and used some yellow rhinestones for the center, I also used a Swirl die to cut green cardstock. I used more pastel yellow cardstock to mat the card.
(I posted two pictures because in the left one you can see the real colors and the right one you can see the texture of the background.)

Challenges:
AAA: Embossing/CAS
Dragonfly dreams: use a die cut
Lil patch of crafty friends: AG
A Gem of Challenge spring
Crafting with an attitude: AG
Crafty girls creations: AG
 Simon says: touchy feely
Crimbo crackers; die cuts
Star stampz: embossing
Crafting by design; AG
Inspiration Destination; AG
Di's digi designs: use 2 or more dies

Rose Blessings

Hello!
How are you doing? I hope you are doing well... I am ok, but I would like to have vacations, hehehe....!!!!!!
I would like to show you a new card I made for Imagine That freebie challenge.

The image is called Rose Blessings and it's gorgeous!!! I colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils. I cut it with Labels 1 Spellbinders and made the same with the dark red cardstock mat (it looks darker that the reality in the picture...)

I used some pastel yellow cardstock and a swiss dot embossing folder for the background and some dp from Rosie's Studio. I tried to color the image in the same colors, this time I chose the papers before colloring!!!

The only embellishment I used were some pearls in two different sizes. I do like how my card looks, do you?

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Imagine that: freebie challenge
Sketch Saturday: # 258
Card Mania: flower power
Cupcake craft: lots of layers
Forever friends: pastel colors
Forever friends: anything goes
Love to create: flowers
Mema's crafts: anything goes / Mother's day/ May flowers
Songbird: bloom and grow
Three scrappy gals: flowers

Anything goes at Digi Makeover

Hello! Happy Monday dear friends!!!
We are having the first April showers here and the T° dropped a little bit... I saw in the forecast they are announcing snow for tomorrow, I hope not... as the frutal trees are already bloomed :( I hope the Spring wins tomorrow :)

I want to show you a card I made for this week challenge at Digi Makeover:

We have an easy and favorite challenge: ANYTHING GOES!!!!!!

I used Moody for Flowers and colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils. I rounded the corners with a punch.

I used Roses dp by Folia and rounded the corners too with the same punch.

I used a daisy lace and a paper rose to embellish the card.

I hope you like my card and would love to see your card playing with us this week in our blog challenge.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Raise the bar: sketch (twisted)

613 Avenue Create: anything goes + flowers
Challenges 4 everybody: anything goes
My Sheri Crafts: spring has sprung
Creative Inspirations Paint: anything goes
Chocolate, coffee and cards: Bring on spring
Lacy sunshine: anything goes
OSATT: spring
Creative corner: anything goes
Di's digi designs: flower frenzy

Basket of flowers

Spring is just around the corner and I love it!!!!!!!!! After 5 months having only temperatures bellow 0°C, today we have a wonderful sunny day with 9°C as max. and now is 1°C... I can´t believe it! I hope the snow is really gone until next winter... :)

When Faith asked at Facebook what kind of images we would like to see for this month challenge, I sugested a basket of flowers (many other people did too...) and Faith draw this gorgeous basket with the loveliest flowers to start Spring :)

I colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils and placed it on a baby blue cardstock.

I used some dp (don´t know the brand, I won it in a candy) and beige cardstock, I used an embossing folder (Sizzix) for the background.

My embellishments are  babyblue ribbon, a small bunch of flowers and a few rhinestones around the image.

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges:

I {heart} sketches: sketch #7
I {heart} stamps: freebie challenge
C.R.A.F.T.: use embossing
Crafty ribbons: anything goes with ribbon
Stamping with the dragon: anything goes
Polka Doodles: spring flowers
Creative corner: use designer paper
Simon Says: anything goes
Cards by Lady Anne: stamp/anything goes
Divas by design: anything goes

Sketchy Friday #9

Hello! TGIF!!!!!!!!
Don´t you love Fridays? It´s my favorite day in the week :)
I want to show you my card for this week's challenge at Sketchy Friday:

This is the fantastic sketch for this week. You can  use any stamp, rubber or digi. And you can win fabulous and cute SKdigis images.

I used Flowers in vase #2 and colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils. I placed it on a lilac cardstock mat.

I used purple cardstock and a flower embossing folder (that I love) for my background.

I added a lace, a flowery gross ribbon and made a bow. I also used three white paper flower and purple/lilac rhinestones for their centers.

I hope you like my card, I am very happy with it...
I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Simon Says: anything goes
Crafty Ribbons: anything goes with ribbon
C.R.A.F.T.S.: use embossing
Craft us crazy: anytihng goes
Happy Campers: use a favorite stamp
Sincerelly yours: mothers day
Paper crafting journey: bingo (lace, embossing, flowers)
Baffies: lila/grun (purple/green)
My heart pieces: three favorite things (ribbons, flowers and bling)
Divas by desing: anythign goes

Flowers for a friend

Hello!
I was so thankful today that I saw a reminder in a challenge I want to participate... "Imagine that" has a freebie progressive challenge going on and I am almost late to link it.
This is the card I made:

The image is part of a gorgeous set called "Bouquet for..." and the freebie is "...my friend". I colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils and then placed it on a green cardstock mat.

I used papers by Folia and by Rosie's studio and the same green mat for them. The sentiment is a Create with TLC and also placed on a green mat.

I complete the sketch using three green rhinestones. I was looking today for a sketch to make this card and found one I really liked it and also the theme of this challenge goes perfect with my image and the sentiment.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Imagine that: freebie challenge
Digi Sketch: sketch and theme
EDITED: I won this challenge!!!!!!!!!!
Crafty sentiments: 1 image, two papers, three embellishments
Oldie but goodie: bright colors (everything is older than 6 months but the image)
Party time tuesday: anything goes
Bearly mine: anything goes
Crafty bloggers network: anything goes
Word art Wednesday: antyhing goes
Crafty cardmakers: blooming images
Created with love: bright and cheery

EDITED: this card was featured on Create with TLC:

Ribbons and bows at Gingerloft

Hello!
I hope you are having a nice weekend. Today I would like to show you the card I made for this forthnight challenge at Gingerloft: "Ribbons and bows". I invite you to take your ribbons out and make some bows and play with us!!!

I used Flowering Tree and colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils and placed it on a pink cardstock mat.

I used three different pink dp scraps from my stash, a pink plaid one, a striped one and another pink plaid one combined with green. I also used some green cardstock.

As embellishments I used pink ribbon and made a bow, pink ribbon flowers and green ribbon for the leaves. I also used some light pink rhinestones to complete the layout.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
I {heart} sketches: sketch #6

Catch the bug: color challenge
A gem of a challenge: add a bow
Paper's creator craft: flowery delight
Delicious doodles: flowers for spring
Lady Anne's stamp: anything goes
DRS designs: plaids
Penny's papers: anything goes
Stamp n doodle: anything goes
Dream Valley: ribbon and bling

Red, white and black - Digi Makeover # 74

Hello!
Happy Monday!!!
Today I want to show this card I made for this week's challenge at Digi Makeover: Red, White and Black.

I used one of the images from the set Retail Therapy and one of the sentiments, I think it´s very fun and very encouraging to receive this kind of sentiments :) I colored it with Koh-i-noor acuarelable pencils and I used Sizzix circle die cuts for the image and the mat.

I used white/black dps (DCWV) and dotted red dp (Oriental Trading). I also used red cardstock.
I made a flower with a scalloped punch that has a white pearl in the middle (I feel it looks nice!) and three red rhinestones.
Hope that you like the color combo and would like to play with us in our challenge :)

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday: sketch
Joanna Sheen: 3-2-1
Simon Says: anything goes
Catch the bug: anything goes
Challenge 4 everybody: anything goes

Crazy for challenges: frindship and good spirits
Hiding in my craft room: red
Totally papercraft: make your own embellishments
By the cute and girly: roses are red
Digi Galore: 3 colors only

Another CAS and fast birthday card

Hello!
Today I have a couple of cards to show you, this is the second one. I was asked to make a few very simple birthday cards...

I already had this D2D Designed to Delight image colored with my acuarelable pencils... I love to color and I have many (hundreds?) images colored and never did anything with them, because there is always another cute image to use or a special ocasion, etc, etc...

I made some faux stitches with a fine sky blue marker and placed it on a sky blue cardstock as mat. I used a TLC sentiment used the same cardstock for mat. The only embellishment is a few sky blue rhinstones (I love bling!)

Hope you like it!

Challenges:
Kreative stempels: favorite colors (skyblue), Totally stampalicious: bling
My Grafico: anything goes, Song bird challenge: diamonds are the girls best friend
Tammy's scrapin corner: anything goes, Make it Monday: anything goes,
Lady Anne's: anything goes, Challenges 4 everybody: anything goes,
Robyn fetiches: anything goes, One stop craft: anything goes

Pink stocking

This is a card for the 9th day at Catch the bug challenge #12 days of Christmas: femenine project

The image is a Bugaboo stamp (stocking bear?). I colored it with acuarelable pencils and used some glitter in some parts. I cut out the image and mounted it on a white embossed flower (blossom die cut - flourished embossing folder)

I used pink and silver with glitter dp, pink and white cardstock, embossing folders (Cuttlebug - flourished). I also used a pink ribbon and made a bow. Very simple... I think is great for a first Christmas, don't you think the same?

I need to hurry up to finish all the cards, I made already 7 but I need to do 5 more to make one project for every day... Hope to finish on time, but life is quite complicated and specially now with all the celebrations and so on... I'll try!

Challenges:
Catch the bug 12 days of Christmas, Day #9: femenine
My time made easy: sketch #39
Lexi Creations: no traditional colors
EDITED: I WON A GUEST DESIGNER SPOT!!!




Creative Inspirations Paint: non traditional colors
OSATT: use a digi
Paper Sundaes: anything Christmas
Paper pretties: use ribbon
Pollycraft: Christmas fun
Dream Valley: Christmas
Creative stamp friends: X-mas

A red Birthday card and a sentiment in Spanish

I made this card for my aunt, she likes red and today is her birthday :) I am playing with it at Wacky Wednesday challenges at PCP and CDAC.

I am trying different folds, and I think this is a fun card... (I learned about this one at Scor Pal blog)

I used a Bugaboo Stamp image and colored it with acuarelable pencils. I used a red cardstock as mat.

I used a Folia dp and red cardstock. I also made a flower with red paper a scalloped punch and a red blinged (?) button. I used red bling to embellish it. And also made a band to close the card. The sentiment is an Ardilla's one, it says Happy Birthday in Spanish :) .... talking seriously, I can´t find many sentiments in Spanish and I don´t have a stamp to ink with this kind of sentiment, only English!

Inside the card I wrote a verse from the Bible (Psalm 23: 1,2)

If you need the sentiment, just click and then right click and save as...  :)

Challenges:

Wacky Wednesday #16 at PCP and CDAC: female, birthday, red and bling.
Sisterhood of crafters: flowers
Crafty challenge: august hot colors
One Stop: anything but square
Totally gorgeus: as you like it
The paper shelter: diecuts and punches
Digistamp4joy: spring + handmade flower
Phindi's place: make your own embellishment
Pattie's Creations: birthdays
Digidoodles shop best: anything goes
Crafty purple frog: hot... red hot!
Aud sentiments: anything goes
AIFactory: anything goes
Show and tell: anything goes
Digis with attitude: anything goes
Clearly I stamp: scripture
Scrappy frogs: time for some bling

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