DRAGONFLY CELEBRATION
Dragonfly celebration is the card that I made today for So Suzy Stamps. I love dragonflies and this is a very special stamp because depending of how you color it, you can give it different styles. Take a look at my card: I made this using a watercolor technique and partially coloring some details of the dragonfly stamp. The first thing that I did was choose the colors of distress ink that I wanted to use: I selected three blues and two greens. I applied the ink directly over an acrylic block and with an aqua painter or water brush I applied...
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Pencil Cup Personalized. Now creating your own version is very easy with Deflecto Pink Pencil Cup and today I will show how to make this is just a minutes. Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you a Deflecto Pink Pencil Cup that I decorated using black vinyl and a butterflies thin lits or die cut. I am not a pencil person, because I forgot my pencils every where, so I preferred to use my cup to keep and store the brushes that I use on my paper creations. I have two different types of brushes and the cup comes with two...
read moreSTAMPING WITH POWDERPUFF CHALK INK
Hello crafty friends, during this month I am using my favorite products and to create this card I used my favorite colors for spring that are part of Winter Bliss Collection. I also used a butterfly image that I colored with my favorite colors of PowderPuff Chalk Ink. But first take a look at my card to understand what I am talking about: Creating this card was very fun. I used as base color the turquoise and the Winter Bliss collection has different designs included with this color. I selected the Winter Bliss 103 and I cut two layers of...
read moreORGANIZING MY CRAFT ROOM WITH CAROUSELS
Organizing my craft room with carousels is now the perfect solution because I can see everything I have! Deflecto carousels are perfect for my tools and products! Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you how I am organizing my craft room, especially the paint area and the different bottles that I use for my crafts. Deflecto Craft has two different designs of rotating carousels. Basically they have the same structure – the only difference is that one comes with tall compartments or bins and the other is a combination of...
read moreJUSTINE ONE MILLION CELEBRATION
Justine One Million Celebration is a big party that we are celebrating today!!! Do you remember my friend Justine Hovey? My partner from So Suzy Stamps and many other creative adventures? Well she is celebrating ONE MILLION OF VIEWERS in her YouTube Channel and I am a special guest of this amazing video party and celebration! During this month she will be offering amazing prizes and videos to share with us and today a select group of friends created a special video to kick-off the celebration! HERE all the details. I prepared a quick video...
read moreSHAPES JOY CLAIR CHALLENGE
Shapes is the theme for Joy Clair Challenge this month and I found the perfect reason to play with this Tufted Buttons Background stamp that I have from Joy Clair since a few months and by the way show you a sneak of one of the new stamp sets, Hello Sentiments (…my new favorite scrip set!!!). To created my card I used the color inspiration that the Challenge gave to use and you can do the same to make your creation and play with us. This is the inspiration photo, and now is more easy to participate and join us because you can use any...
read moreNEW HERO ARTS FAVORITES
New Hero Arts favorites is that I have to share today. a2z Scrapbooking April Challenge requested that we use our favorite products from Hero Arts and to be honest I am crazy with the new layering stamps. I want to buy all these sets, of course using my discount code, but I don’t have enough time to create projects with these. So I need to go slowly. Today I have two favorites, layering stamps and flowers!!! Take a look at my card: This is a very clear and simple card. It was made in one layer of Whisper White card stock using the Color...
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Stencils are my passion and the effect created with the Creative Medium Iridescent is simply gorgeous. In one simple design, texture, color and sparkly shimmer work in unison. I decided to use the Iridescent Green over black card stock to catch your eyes! I took a stencil and secured it to my craft mat then applied the creative medium over the free areas of the stencil using a palette knife. If you want you can cover the entire area or just cover it partially like I did. Then I removed the stencil carefully and let the paper dry. Next, I cut...
read moreRETARTE 94- ANYTHING GOES
Bienvenidas a Retarte 94- Anything Goes! Para nosotras ha sido muy grato regresar de vaciones y encontrarnos con un gran número de participantes en nuestro Retarte Challenge. Gracias por su acogida y gracias a nuestros sponsors. Pickled Potpourri fue nuestro patrocinador en Retarte 93 y tal como lo anunciamos, entregará a la ganadora que anunciamos hoy un Certificado de Regalo de $7 dolares para que ella escoja las imagenes de su preferencia en la tienda de Pickled Potpourri. Asi, que no las hago esperar más y la afortunada es: #5. Deonna B...
read moreCLEAR AND SIMPLE WITH HERO ARTS
Clear and Simple with Hero Arts. Hero Arts, You Make me so happy! This is my statement today and it’s on my card too. You can’t image how happy I was with all your comments about my last card using one of the Hero Arts stencils with creative medium, but for me, and I think for you too, the most important thing is that all of us really enjoy and love the Hero Arts products and the a2z Scrapbooking Supplies! Based on this I got my inspiration to create today’s card. Take a look at my card: This is a very clear and...
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