FAUX SILK TECHNIQUE WITH HELMAR
Hello dear friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you a fun technique called Faux Silk. For this technique you will need the Helmar Craft & Hobby PVA Glue and tissue paper. This is very simple technique that you can use to improve your stamping designs and create a beautiful touches on your scrapbook projects and cards. This is my card: Creating this card is very easy, so let me show you how: Cut a piece of white tissue paper a little bigger of the piece that you will use of card stock. Stamp over the tissue paper the images that you...
read moreCHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
Hello crafty friends, I am here to show you how I created a table decoration using three Deflecto’s Versa Grip Magnetic Sign Holders and one of favorites stamp sets from Joy Clair, Christmas Borders. During Christmas I love to decorate all the corners, tables and spaces of my house but I love to have decorations that don’t look very tacky and that coordinate with my Christmas tree. I also love centerpieces that don’t cover the faces of everyone sitting around me. The Deflecto Versa Grip Magnetic Sign Holders have the...
read moreANYTHING BUT A CARD WITH HERO ARTS
Anything but a card with Hero Arts, es el tema del Challenge del mes de Diciembre de a2z Scrapbooking Supplies y en esta oportunidad decidi hacer un detallito bien curioso, especialmente ahora que es tan dificil comprar regalos y nos hemos inclinado tanto a obsequiar tarjetas o certificados de regalo de diferentes tiendas. Esa es mi propuesta para hoy y aqui la tienen: Siempre he pensado que los regalos hechos a mano son los mas especiales y por eso mi pasion por las tarjetas. Asi que si estoy regalando un certificado de regalo porque no...
read moreDISTRESSED GLUE CHRISTMAS CARD
Hello dear friends, I am here to share with you a fun technique called Distressed Glue. For this technique you will need the Helmar Craft & Hobby PVA Glue. This is an amazing technique to create colorful and unique backgrounds, with single colors or combining differing inks to obtain different looks. This is my card: Creating this card is very easy, so let me show you how: Cut a piece of whisper white card stock and add some spots of Helmar Craft & Hobby PVA Glue. Smear the glue with your finger and let the glue dry completely before...
read moreEMBOSSING WITH STENCIL TECHNIQUE
Stencils are my passion and endless love and today I want to share a fun technique with you: Embossing with stencil technique! It is easy, fun and beautiful, perfect for impressing our friends with beautiful cards or presents during Christmas time. Take a look at my card and let me show you how you can make one just like it: Take a piece of card stock and secure your stencil over it using masking tape. Then ink the free areas of your stencil directly the VersaMark pad. Remove the stencil and wash with warm water. Cover your inked image with...
read moreRETARTE 91 ANYTHING GOES
Bienvenidas a Retarte 91 Anything Goes, el ultimo del mes de noviembre. En esta edicion tenemos proyectos de navidad con imagenes maravillosas de nuestro sponsor Scribbles Designs, que se caracteriza por tener diseños divertidos, dinamicos y muy variados. Ademas tenemos algo bueno y es que la afortunada ganadora de este challenge podra escoger tres imagenes de su preferencia dentro de toda la coleccion de Scribbles Designs y llevarselas como premio! Primero quiero anunciarles la ganadora de nuestro desafio Retarte 90, quien escogera las tres...
read moreIMAGINE AND FLOURISHES BLOG HOP
Hello dear friends, welcome to Imagine and Flourishes Blog Hop. Today we have a great party to show you some creations combining these wonderful products, stamps and papers from Flourishes LC that I really like and the amazing inks from Imagine. What more I can tell you about the Imagine products if you have seen their in my blog during this year and they are simply fabulous! If you came from Shirley Qu, or you are starting here, then you are in the right place! For this blog hop I prepared two cards, one for Christmas and one for...
read moreOSCAR CUT-OUTS BY LIA FROM HERO ARTS
Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you a very cute card that I made using the Oscar Cut-Outs By Lia stamp set. This is not a Christmas set but I decided to use it during this season because I can’t wait to show you how I can combine it with some details from other stamp sets. Take a look at my card: The base of my card is Real Red card stock and the stamped layer is Very Vanilla. The first thing I did was stamp the bear randomly over the very vanilla layer using Hero Arts Cup O’Joe Mid-tone Shadow Ink ,...
read moreCLEAR AND SIMPLE CARDS
Hello dear friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you a selection of Clear and Simple cards that I made using stencils and butterflies. I love to combine die cuts and stamps in my cards, and Peek a Boo has all these elements in our store. My first card is a Christmas card that I made using a masking technique with stencils. I used the Grid Stencil and created three pines on it with masking tape. I inked it over the card stock using different colors of Classic Ink. I used Old Olive, Wild Wasabi and Garden Green. To complement the decoration...
read moreFIRST SNOW BLUE AND WHITE
Hello dear friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you a First Snow Blue and White model of card that I made using what I consider to be the three essential elements when creating a card: Stamps, Die Cut and embossing. Take a look at my card: During these days for a lot of us the time is too short to make all that we need to do. And Christmas cards are always in our list so with this idea you can create many cards in short time. This model is very simple and easy. Let me tell you how to make this: Cut the base of the card using...
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