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Friendship Blessings

Posted by on January 18, 2018 in Cards, Kennedy Grace, Recent Works | 1 comment

Friendship Blessings

Hello dear friends! Martha Lucia here to share with you a colorful card created with Kennedy Grace Creations Stamps! Today I used the Friendship Blessings stamp set and let me tell that for me is really difficult decide which stamp use because these flowers are totally gorgeous. Take a look at my card: The base of my card is Melon Mambo card stock and the second layer is a piece of decorated paper from the Everyday Spring Collection from Lemon Craft that you can find on Craftycity.com. Used a tiny piece of the other design of the same paper I...

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Joy Clair New Release Blog Hop

Posted by on January 16, 2018 in Cards, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Techniques, Tutorials | 22 comments

Joy Clair New Release Blog Hop

Joy Clair New Release Blog Hop is for us the first celebration of the year and the welcome party for the New Design Team members!!! Each designer prepared a project using one of the new sets and this is  a big hop because we have 13 new stamp sets to show you between the Everyday Collection and the Color by Faith collection. I selected one from the Everyday Collection, called Love Languages and perfect for San Valentine. Take a look at my card: I draw a heart on the center of the layer using a die cut as silhouette. Then, I stamped one by one...

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Retarte 113 – Anything Goes

Posted by on January 16, 2018 in Cards, Coloring, Recent Works, Retarte Challenge | 4 comments

Retarte 113 – Anything Goes

Bienvenidas! Comenzamos un nuevo año en Retarte con el Challenge 113 Anything Goes y este año estaremos celebrando nuestro 4to. Aniversario!!! Hoy tenemos como sponsor a Cute as a Button. Sus maravillosas imagenes dan inicio a nuestro año creativo y Cute as a Button entregará a la ganadora de esta edición de Retarte 113 dos imagenes en blanco y negro de su elección. Las participantes solo tienen que crear un proyecto, totalmente nuevo y enlazarlo aqui en el link de este post para el 29 de Enero de 2018. Antes de seguir les cuento quien fue la...

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A new year with Joy Clair

Posted by on January 12, 2018 in Cards, Imagine, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Techniques | 2 comments

A new year with Joy Clair

Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here to celebrate with you this fabulous group of ladies that will be with us during 2018!!! I am excited to continue for a third year as Designer in my Joy Clair family and as a Design Team Coordinator, it is not easy because, as you my notice, there is a lot of talent around but it make me happy and I am sure that you feel that in our posts every day. I don’t like to talk about myself, but today I had to make a little presentation so I made it short and sweet! I am Colombian and my first language is...

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Let’s go to coloring tulips

Posted by on January 9, 2018 in Cards, Coloring, Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps, Die Cutting, Recent Works, Techniques | 0 comments

Let’s go to coloring tulips

Hello everyone, I was missing my post on So Suzy Stamps. You know that these stamps are part of my heart and today I have something special to share with you. These stamps were designed by Olesya and I didn’t have the opportunity before to use so here they are: Flowers are my favorites stamps, CAS is my favorite style, white is my favorite cardstock, die cuts are my favorites accessories and color pencils are now my passion. I decided to stamp the two tulips sets that were designed by Olesya, the Tulip Single and Tulips using Memento...

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Scrapbook page with paper foil

Posted by on January 8, 2018 in 3D, Cards, Die Cutting, Recent Works, Rinea, Scrapbooking, Tutorials | 0 comments

Scrapbook page with paper foil

Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you a scrapbook page with paper foil that I made using Rinea Foiled Paper Love Variety Pack.  Valentine’s Day is next month and I am thinking in hearts, love, red and pink colors and this Love Variety Pack is perfect to create these projects. Take a look at layout: The base of this is craft cardstock stamped with old scrip. I pasted a strip line of photos of my daughter Mariantonia using Helmar Premium Craft Glue, then I created a lower border with Blush/Gold Glossy Foiled paper. I...

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Layering with one single ink pad

Posted by on January 5, 2018 in Cards, Imagine, Recent Works, Techniques, Tutorials | 0 comments

Layering with one single ink pad

Hello everyone! Layering stamps are trending and with Kaleidacolors ink pads you don’t need to worry about using many ink pads to make your layers stunning. You can create different tones on each layer, just with one pad. Take a look at my card: The process is very simple, just take the first layer of your stamp set  and ink it directly with the ink pad using the light colors of the ink pad. If you consider it necessary, repeat this process to obtain a crispy image. Then take the second layer of the stamp and ink it moving the...

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Grace’s Little Note & Big Letters Dies

Posted by on January 4, 2018 in Cards, Die Cutting, Kennedy Grace, Recent Works, Techniques, Tutorials, WOW Embossing | 0 comments

Grace’s Little Note & Big Letters Dies

Hello dear friends! Martha Lucia here to wish you the west during this year! We are so happy to have you as visitor on Kennedy Grace Creations Blog and today I am sharing a card that I made with one of my favorites stamp sets, the Grace’s Little Note but to make this I used Big Letters Die cuts! I made this card inspired on in our January Challenge, a great idea using the a Tic-Tac-Toe that our coordinator prepared. I selected the diagonal line: Die Cut, Embossing and Flowers! The easy way for my creativity time during this season of...

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2018 Occasions Catalog Stampin Up & Sale-A-Bration

Posted by on January 3, 2018 in Promotions, Recent Works, Videos | 0 comments

2018 Occasions Catalog Stampin Up & Sale-A-Bration

Comenzo el año en Stampin Up con nuevos catálogos, nuevos productos y la promoción mas esperada de todos los años Sale-A-Bration. VER 2018 OCCASIONS CATALOG EN PDF – CLICK AQUI Hoy les tengo el 2018 Occasions Catalog con todos los productos especiales para esta temporada del año y que no estan incluidos en el Idea Book 2017-2018. He querido traerles primero los videos mostrandoles los productos en acción, porque estoy segura que ustedes al igual que yo quedaran encantadas. OCCASIONS CATALOG VIDEOS: Ahora hablemos de mi promocion...

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Beautiful Blooms

Posted by on December 28, 2017 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Gina Marie Designs, Kennedy Grace, Recent Works, Techniques | 0 comments

Beautiful Blooms

Hello crafty !  Today I prepared a project with one of the fabulous stamp set from Kennedy Grace Stamps. I used the Just a Rose Stamp set with color pencils and some die cuts. Take a look at my card: I stamped the flowers using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink over a whisper white layer of cardstock. I pasted this layer directly over the card base hat is whisper white too. Then I colored the flowers with Prismacolor Premier color pencils and when I was satisfied with coloring I created a frame using rectangle scallop die cut and decorated paper. I...

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