Retarte 110 – Anything Goes

Retarte 110 – Anything Goes

Bienvenidas a Retarte 110- Anything Goes, hoy damos la bienvenida a la gran familia de Retarte a un nuevo sponsor Digistamps4joy. Estamos muy felices de contar con su apoyo y con sus maravillosas imagenes para presentarles a ustedes nuestros proyectos de Retarte Challenge. Digistamps4joy entregará a la ganadora de esta edición de Retarte 110 $10 gift card para ser usados en su tienda. Las participantes solo tienen que crear un proyecto, es...

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Poinsettia and Jesus is my Jam

Poinsettia and Jesus is my Jam

Hello everyone, Martha Lucia here with two Christmas cards that I made using new stamps from Joy Clair. You may know that I am Colombian and my primary language is Spanish, so you can guess how happy I am with the new stamp set 3D Christmas Poinsettia because it includes a sentiment in Spanish!!! During the launching blog hop we asked to our readers which was their favorite set and today I am revealing my favorite, so here it is: I love...

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Rinea Table Decorations

Rinea Table Decorations

Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you a very useful idea for your table settings: Rinea table Decorations. We just started the holiday Season and if you are like me, I love to present a beautiful table to my guests and family. Take a look at these three different decorations to show your silverware: I made these samples to be used on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Eve. I started to make the little bags using a Mini...

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Pinecones for Christmas

Pinecones for Christmas

Pinecones for Christmas are a real tradition and I love them. So Suzy Stamps has two beautiful options on the most recently collection and in today’s project I am using the big Pinecone to celebrate New Year! I started this card creating the card base on real red cardstock. My favorite color for Christmas projects. Then I dry embossed a second layer of very vanilla cardstock with the Softly Falling Textured Embossing Folder from Stampin...

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Pattern combination with papers

Pattern combination with  papers

Hello everyone, Martha Lucia here to share with you a colorful card that I made using the Winter Bliss paper pack.  I want to be sure that you remember that these papers are perfect for the winter season and to be honest it has my favorites colors! I started this card using a piece of cardstock of 12″x5-1/2″. Are you asking why? The answer is very simple, This card has 3 different folds that make it very special. To create these...

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Joy Clair New Release Blog Hop

Joy Clair New Release Blog Hop

Joy Clair New Release Blog Hop is for us a big party!!! Welcome to the last celebration of the year, today we are presenting the holiday collection from Everyday and Color by Faith the two lines of Joy Clair stamps.   Each designer prepared a project using one of the new sets and I selected one from the Color by Faith Collection. I chose Born is the King and I am sure that you will love the scrip of this fantastic set. Take a look at my...

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More than enough flowers and stamps

More than enough flowers and stamps

Hello everyone, today I have an special project to share with you. Always I said that the beautiful paper flowers from Secret Garden combine with all, die cuts, stamps, stencils and many more elements. Well today I decided to show you one of this samples. As you know I always participate of Joy Clair Monthly Challenge and I made one single project to show that this is possible. Take a look at my card: This month the Joy Clair Challenge...

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Serenade Inspiration

Serenade Inspiration

Hello everyone, Martha Lucia here to share a scrapbook page that I made using the Serenade papers – one of my favorites for their colors and designs. Take a look at my page: To create this page I used one photo of my daughter Mariantonia, she is very special and funny and I used the quote that she has on her Instagram and one of pre-design postal/cards styles available in my Canon PIXMA TS 9020.  With this option, I just have to select...

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Can we make something different?

Can we make something different?

Can we make something different? Yes, of course!!! The imagination is unlimited and today is one of these day in that you see other Martha Lucia. I said other because I am using different colors, stretching stamps and creating two models of cards atypical of mine. Why? Because I think some times we asked if we can make something different! My first card was created with the stamp set Rose Sentiments and before to make this card I never imagine...

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1,2,3… Easy Halloween Card

1,2,3… Easy Halloween Card

Halloween is around the corner and to be honest I don’t celebrate this holiday with scary parties or costumes, but I love to make Halloween cards with different colors and non-traditional images and this is one of those. To create this card I used some sprays from Imagine that you will love! But first take a look at my card: The process of this was very simple; I took a piece of whisper white card stock and a background stencil. I selected...

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