Watercoloring with pencils and gelatos
Hi there! April is a month of celebrations in our house of So Suzy Stamps and Crackerbox Palace. Today I will CASE one excellent designer that is part of our team, Cornelia Wenokor. I selected one of her cards created with alcohol ink, and reproduced by me with watercoloring pencils and Gelatos. If you want to remember Cornelia’s card just click HERE. I will share with you how easy was for me CASE her model. I started creating the background. For that I took a watercolor paper piece and masked with post it tape the upper area and...
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Hi there! I’m back with ADORNit Art Play Coloring Books to highlight the Hello Friend Coloring Book. Coloring with Black is a real challenge for me and today I decided to use the Watercolor pencils from Leisure Arts to explore it on my illustration. This illustration is part of the Hello Friend Art Play Coloring Book and you have to see all the 12 illustrations included on that book. You will love them. I colored the flower and leaves with only two colors, black and red. To be honest was difficult because all the tones included on the...
read moreRetarte 120 – Anything Goes
Bienvenidas a nuestra celebración creativa con Retarte! Que delicia toda la creatividad y los sponsors tan maravillosos con los que hemos contado en este 2018. Asi llegamos hoy al Retarte 120 – Anything Goes y tenemos a uno de nuestros sponsors mas queridos Bugaboo Stamps por ustedes y por nosotras!!! Bugaboo entregará a la ganadora de esta edición de Retarte 120 tres imagenes de su elección. Las participantes solo tienen que crear un proyecto, es decir hacer uno totalmente nuevo y enlazarlo aqui en el link de este post antes del 7 de Mayo,...
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Hi all! Today I’m back with Creative Visions highlighting the adorable Monkey Business stamp set. I thought it would be fun to be part of this Monkey Business. I selected the small images to create my card. I stamped the images using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them with Studio 71 Alcohol Markers. It is a new brand that I discovered and after investigate the reviews I decided to buy, specialty because I am on a learning process of coloring with alcohol markers. They have an excellent price, less that one dollar for marker when you...
read moreFoiled Card & Creative Vision Stamps
Hi there! I’m back with Creative Vision Stamps to highlight the fantastic FOILables combined with clear stamps, and heat transfer foil. To create this card I used tangerine tango and basic black cardstock. This card is a regular size 4-1/4″ x 11″ with score in 5-1/2″. The first thing that I to create the card was select the FOILable that I wanted to use. I select the Giraffe from the Foilables Animals collection, available on Creative Vision Stamps. This collection has around of 16 different animals, with different sizes and in different...
read moreQueen for a day – Mother’s Day Card
Hi all! Today I’m back with The Cutting Cafe with the adorable Crowns Templates – Cutting File set. I thought it would be fun to create a Crown Card specialty for Mother’s Day, that is around the corner. I used the Assorted Crown Templates – Cutting File on my Cricut Explore using the SVG file version, but remember that these files also came in PDF and additional versions that you can use in any electronic cutting machine. The base of my card is Smoky Slate cardstock. The second layer or front of the crown is a Mulberry...
read moreDie Cut Flowers with Rinea Foiled Paper
Hello crafty friends, spring is here with Pastels Foiled Paper Variety Pack from Rinea and many colors! Today, I want to share with you another 3D project that I made using Die Cut Flowers and these fabulous colors of foiled papers to decorate a box. I love to use 3D die cut flowers with Rinea Foiled Paper because I can get more dimension on my projects. Take a look at my creation: I bought this jewelry box in a craft store and to make it more attractive I created a dot pattern with a stencil and Memento Ink. Then over some dots I added a...
read moreHappy Blossom Card
One of the advantage of use Chalk Inks like VersaMagic is the soft texture that you get after stamping your images. Creating texture and mixing colors is really easy when you use the Dew Drops because you keep the control of the color and you can obtain the most beautiful results. Here is my sample of that: Directions: On this project I used a single image to create the complete look. It is a very detailed flower included on the stamp set Heartfeld Blooms by Stampin Up. I decided to stamp my flower for the first time using a single color...
read moreMother’s Day Cards & More
Hi there! Today I’m excited to join the Mother’s Day Card & More event of Joy Clair Stamps. My project features the stamp sets Spring Time Flowers and the Hello Sentiments. I randomly stamped the flowers of the stamp set Spring Time Flowers over Whisper White cardstock using VersaFine Onix Ink. Then I colored with Premium Colored Pencils from Leisure Arts. This colors blend and mix fabulous and with them I decided to give different tones to each flower. When the stamped layer was totally colored I cut the die cut sentiment to...
read moreADORNit Paintable Cards
Hello friends, today I am excited to share with you two new cards that I made using ADORNit Paintables. On this opportunity I used distress Ink to color the backgrounds and create a romantic effect over each card. ADORNit Paintables come in a sheet of 12″x12″ with several images of different sizes in each page. All have different themes and you can combine them, use like singles to coloring or die cut easily. My first card is using the HELLO Paintable . I cut a basic black card base of regular size, 5-1/2×8-1/4 with score on...
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