Hello everyone, thank you for joining me today! Our challenge this week on Secret Garden is a little different, we need to use a doily in our creation and paper flowers. Easy don’t you think! I really enjoy creating this project because these two products combining perfectly. Take a look at my card: To create this I used Whisper White card base and  a pink decorated paper for the second layer. I used the Spring Doily Die Cut from...

Hello everyone, Martha Lucia here to share my Snack Time with Deflecto. I am using the Interlocking Storage Organizer to keep and “control” the snacks in my office. You know that I love candy and snacks, but with these containers is easy control the portions and “decide” what I want. Take a look at my tower: Sometimes I want something sweet or something salty, and other times I can’t decide. I decorated each...

Hello everyone, thank you for joining me today! Our challenge this week on Secret Garden invite us to create banners or a banner piece and I made my own version to celebrate a birthday using the gorgeous paper flowers. Take a look of this: To make this I used Quick Quotes Papers and some die cuts. Cut the banner base using a banner die cut from Little B. For this I used the paper Honeycomb 104. Cut the doily using the Spring Doily die cut from...

Hello everyone, thank you for joining me today! Smile, I have for you another creation I made for Secret Garden Design Team using the fabulous paper flowers. Our challenge today is creating cards with layers and I made mine very special. Take a look of this: To make this I used Whisper White card stock and a decorated piece of Pastels Color Basic Card & Mat Pad paper as second layer. Then I die cut three following Loopy Rectangle Dies from...

Bienvenidas a nuestra celebración creativa con Retarte! Esta es la segunda edición del mes, Retarte 104 – Anything Goes y tenemos a uno de nuestros sponsors mas queridos Pickled Potpourri Designs, con una maravillosa selección de imagenes y con mucha creatividad desarrollada por el equipo de Diseño!!! Pickled Potpourri Designs entregará a la ganadora de esta edición de Retarte 104 tres imagenes de su elección. Las participantes solo tienen que...

Do you believe in mermaids? I am not sure but I adore mermaids and today I have a Z-Fold card with a lot of dimension and a very special mermaid to share with you. I made my card with Kaleidacolor inks and Fireworks, two magic products because with them you can made extraordinary things! I will start with the simplest part, the folding of the card. This model is called Z-Fold and you need a piece of card stock of 4-1/4”x11”. Make a score in...

Hello crafty friends, today I have wonderful news to share with you: I am part of the Secret Garden Design Team. I am someone who likes challenges and as soon I saw the Secret Garden Store, I knew I wanted to work and play with paper flowers. Today I am here, sharing with you my first project on this Design Team and group of friends, because I am so proud to share with some of the talented partners of one of my previous teams, Creative Color...

Bienvenidas a una aventura mas con Retarte! Comenzamos Agosto con el Retarte 103 – Anything Goes y tenemos a uno de nuestros sponsors mas queridos The Cutting Cafe, asi que ya pueden ir imaginandose lo que hemos trabajado: Archivos de corte digitales y unos carros de ensueño!!! Como siempre The Cutting Cafe estará entregando a la ganadora de esta edición de Retarte 103 dos archivos de corte de su elección, así que a participar todas porque lo...

Hello everyone, Martha Lucia is here to share with you a gift box that I decorated with one of my favorite colors of Rinea Foil paper, Emerald/Gold Glossy. I love to alter packages and have them ready to use whenever I need them. To make this I used a pre-made pillow box and created a big belt with the Emerald/Gold Glossy Foil Paper. I measured the box, duplicated the size and added one inch to have the long paper foil. I also measured the...

Hello everyone, Martha Lucia here to share with you my new Craft Caddy from Deflecto.  I am very happy because now we can find the Stackable Caddy in another store, Target. And we can build our own version of craft caddy with all the levels that we want. Take a look at mine: I decided to use the first level to carry my  adhesives, little spray’s and enamels and the second level to store embellishments. I marked one side of the white frame...