We Wish you a Merry Christmas

Well, here we are at the second week of December, and it doesn't seem to feel like Christmas season yet, at least not for us here in Arizona.  Our weather is still in the 70's as of today, however, come this week, we are finally going to hit 60's.  I think this explains why it is so difficult to get into Christmas card making when it's sunny and hot outside....I'm trying!

For today's card, I used this really cute stamp I purchased at my local scrapbooking store, it's by Whipper Snapper Designs - Maddie.  I stamped it on X-press it paper by Copic using Memento Ink-Tuxedo Black, then colored it using Copics.  I used the same coloring scheme as on the front of the stamp, since initially the cute image along with the colors was why I purchased the stamp.  I used Bazzill paper for my base (which I rarely use, since to me, it feels very flimsy, I normally use Papertrey ink for my card base), since I didn't have this color of card stock from Papertrey Ink.  The pattern paper I used is from a 6" x 6" My Minds Eye Merry Paper pad I purchased from Michaels.

I used Let it snowflake die-namics from My Favorite Things and layered one on top of the other using a dimensional, then added a pink embellishment that I purchased from Hobby Lobby (Crystal Stickers 5mm LT. Pink).  The sentiment I used is from SP and Company Bold Holiday Sentiments, which by the way, I have to mention how much I love these stamps, not only because they are high quality photopolymer stamps, but also because of the variety of sentiments that you get in one set, not to mention the two different fonts used.

This was a quick card to assemble, I think the thing that took me the longest was the coloring, which by the way I enjoy very much!

 If you'd like to watch me put this card together, click on the video below:

Thank you so much for stopping by!

~ Silvia


Materials/Supplies used:

Cardstock: Bazzill Paper; Papertrey Ink - Pure Poppy; Recollections -Glitter Cardstock
Stamps:  Whipper Snapper Designs - Maddie; SP & Company - Bold Holiday Sentiments
Pattern Paper:  6" x 6" My Minds Eye - Merry
Dies:  Spellbinder Nestabilities - Petite Scalloped Circles Large and Long Classic Scalloped Rectangles Large; My Favorite Things  Die-namics  Let it Snowflake, Die-namics - Wonky Scalloped Border, Die-namics Fishtail Flags STAX
Misc:  Copics, Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black, X-press it blending paper by Copic, Crystal Stickers 5mm Lite Pink by Mark Richards (Hobby Lobby)

Ho! Ho! Ho!

I thought I'd try out a different card size then the usual, or more like, than what I am comfortable doing, which is either an A2 size or a 5" x 5".  This card measures 7 1/4" x 6 1/2.  I really wanted to use the MFT Die-namics Peek-a-boo trio, so in order to do that, the card size had to be tweaked just a bit.....

For a detail description of how I made this card, you may watch the video below:

Thank you so much for stopping by!

~Silvia

Materials/Supplies used:

Stamps:  X-mas Hat by Penny Black; Hero Arts (sentiment)

Cardstock:  White/Pure Poppy - Papertrey Ink

Pattern Paper:  Me & My Big Ideas (12" x 12" paper stack from Micheals)

Dies:  My Favorite Things Die-namics - Peek-a-boo trio & Let it Snowflake

Punch:  EK Success - Snowflakes; Martha Stewart - Pine Border

Misc:  Copics, Red Rhinestones (Micheals), Embossing Powder by Stampendous - Kaleidoscope, Stampin' Up - Dazzling diamonds glitter, Zig 2-way glue, Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black, X-press it Copic paper

Merry Kissmas

For today's card, I am using a stamp image from My Favorite Things called "Merry Kissmas".    I colored the image using copic markers, then added Stampin' Up Dazzling Diamonds glitter by applying Zig 2- way glue to the desired areas where I wanted glitter.  I also added shading to the background of my image using BG000.

I matted my image using Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacey circles with Bazzil paper in Rose.  The pattern paper I used was from My Minds Eye - Merry 6" x 6" paper pad.  I also did some stitching....
The sentiment came from the same MFT stamp set, I stamped it on a Teeny Tag using Bazzil paper in  Rose, that I cut out using the tag die from My Creative Time set called Teeny Tag Greetings with Teeny Tag Dies.  Then wrapped up a bow using a roll of organza ribbon by The Ribbon Boutique that I purchased from Hobby Lobby.

Now to something non-crafty related.......

Okay, now I'm not sure if you all know how much I love owls.....yesterday, I got a visit from a real live owl.  My husband woke me up early in the morning and said, "you have to come see this, there's an owl outside"....now I was half asleep, I thought he was messing with me, because he knows how much I love em', but he wasn't....I peeked out of our kitchen window, and sure enough, there he was....sitting on the edge of the roof of the house next door.

Doesn't he/she almost look fake?  Oh my goodness, I was in heaven....I had never seen an owl before, specially that close to me.  I grabbed my camera and started taking photos.....he stayed here all day, then as it got later towards the evening, we noticed he was much closer to us, he was sitting on the wall that separates the house next door with ours.....

and as it got darker, he got closer to our house.....just so you know, I really wasn't that close to him/her, I have one of those lenses that makes things appear closer in pictures than you really where when taking it, LOL!  Now, isn't he/she cute?  Okay, maybe not as cute as one of those stamped images of an owl...

Keep in mind, it was dark when I was taking these photos, all I could see was his silhouette....so after I took this photo and saw what came up on the screen, I was a little spooked.  Had no idea "he or she" was looking at me, LOL! He truly made my day.  

He or She put a smile on my face all day along, every time I kept looking out my window and saw him sitting there.  This truly was a very nice treat!!  All I kept thinking about all day is, if he/she only knew how much I loved owls,  it's not like we live out in the middle of nowhere......

Thank you for stopping by!

~Silvia

Materials/Supplies used:

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink - White & Spring Rain
Pattern Paper:  6"x 6" My Minds Eye - Merry paper pad
Dies:  Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacey circles & Standard circles large; My Creative Time - Teeny Tag dies
Punch:  Stampin' Up - Scalloped Trim
Stamp(s):  My Favorite Things - Merry Kissmas; My Creative Time - Teeny Tag greetings
Ribbon:  The Ribbon Boutique - Hobby Lobby
Glitter:  Stampin' Up - Dazzling Diamonds
Misc:  Copic markers, Zig 2-way glue

Christmas Wishes

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I feel like I just skipped over Fall and went straight to Christmas.....although I'm hoping on gettting a couple of Fall cards made, I thought it would be a good idea to get started on some Holiday cards....

One of my Youtube subscriber brought to my attention that I should update my blog and list what materials I used to create this card that I posted a video of on my Youtube channel (see video below)....Thanks Barbara, I really appreciate you doing that.   I really needed someone to call me out on that, so that I may get my bootie in gear and get this blog current.....

I started off by stamping this adorable image by Crafters Companion from the Mulberry Wood collection, called Christmas Wishes using Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black, then coloring it with copic markers.  I used my Zig 2-way glue and spread it all over the bottom portion of the stamp, then covered the area with Stampin' Up - Dazzling Diamonds (my favorite glitter to use for snow).  I also applied a little bit of Liquid Applique by Marvy Urchida on the branch and the white spots (this product you have to apply to the area desired, then add heat with your heat gun, in order for it to create the puffy look of snow).  The sentiment I used came from the stamp set.

For my card base, I used Kraft cardstock by Papertrey ink, and layered all my pattern paper with Pure Poppy, also from Papertrey ink.  The stripped paper as well as the blue with white snowflakes pattern paper is from a 6"x 6" paper pad by My Minds Eye - Winter Wonderland. The green polka-dot paper is from 6"x 6" paper pad by Pebbles called Seen & Noted.  I used the Spellbinder Nestabilities Circles Large and the Petite Scalloped circles large to cut out both the small and large circle as well as the red layered scallop circles.  For my scalloped border, I used the Stampin' Up scalloped punch and to finish it off, the snowflakes were cut using the My Favorite Things - Let it Snowflake die-namic set, with glitter paper.  I stacked the smallest of the snowflake to the medium size snowflake using a small pop-dot, then applied red rhinestone to the middle of the snowflake.

I hope you liked this card.....and thanks for stopping by!

~Silvia

Materials/Supplies used:

Cardstock - Papertrey Ink - Kraft & Pure Poppy

Pattern Paper:  My Minds Eye - Winter Wonderland; Pebbles - Seen & Noted

Stamps:  Crafters Companion Mulberry Wood Collection - Winter Wishes

Inside Sentiment stamp:  Hero Arts - Holiday Sayings

Glitter:  Stampin' Up - Dazzling Diamonds

Dies:  My Favorite Things- Let it Snowflake Die-namics set; Spellbinders Nestabilities Petite Scalloped Circles Large and Standard Circles Large

Punch:  Stampin' Up - Scalloped border punch

Misc:  Liquid Applique - Marvy Urchida, Rhinestone - stash

Update and future blog posts...

Hello my fellow followers....I realize it's been such a loooong time since my last post, and I apologize for that!  I really, really want to be more responsible with my blog posts and would LOVE to post something every other day.....for some reason, I can't seem to do it!  I am going to make that a point to stay current and I might add a little here and there from time to time about something random that I want to share thay may not be crafty related, maybe that will fill in the gap for the days I don't have anything crafty to share.....now, I'm not saying that I'm going to be posting daily, don't get me wrong, baby steps....

I recently started to update my Youtube channel (sil2289) with more haul videos, card making videos and hopefully branch out to something other than just cards....I'll work on that.....

For now, I'll share some cards that I created for Halloween....

"HAPPY HALLOWEEN"

Want to see how I made this card?  Click on this video...

Materials/Supplies Used Above:

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink - Orange Zest

Pattern Paper: Night & Fall by Recollections 12" x 12" paper pad 

Character Stamps:  Darcie's - Ghoulish 

Polaroid stamps: Maya Road - You've been framed

Ink:  Memento Ink- Tuxedo Black, Memento Ink - Grape Jelly & Cantaloupe

Banner stamps: Studio G 

Punches:  Martha Stewart Punch - Rat border

Dies: Memory Box - Swooping Bats

Misc stash:  Black glitter paper

Copic Markers

Click HERE to watch me create the above card on my Youtube Channel

"GHOSTLY GREETING"

Materials/supplies Used Above:

Cardstock:  Stampin' Up - Going grey & Bazzil - Black

Spider stamp:  Studio G

Sentiment stamp:  Hero Arts - CL353 Happy Halloween set

Dies:  Memory Box - Swooping Bats, Small Madison Window, Small Madison

Window Shutter, Ghost Trio

Embossing Folder:  Bricks by the Paper Studio

Ink:  Memento Black Ink- Tuxedo Black, Staz-on Ink - White

Ranger Distress Inks by Tim Holtz:  Black Soot

Glitter:  Stampin' Up - Dazzling Diamonds

Glue: Zig 2-way glue

"BOO! FROM THE CREW"

Want to see how I made this card?  Click on this video....

Materials/Supplies Used Above:

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink - Orange Zest & Black

Dies:  Impression Obsession - Halloween Hill

Fence Die:  Taylored Expressions - spooky fence

Character Stamps:  Unity Stamps - The Boo Crew

Copic Markers

Click HERE to watch me create the above card on my YouTube Channel

"WITCHING YOU A SPOOKY HALLOWEEN"

Want to see how I made this card?  Click on this video....

Materials/Supplies Used Above:

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink - Black & Harvest Gold

Dies:  My Favorite Things Die-namics - Skyline Border & Solid Skyline, 

Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Witches' Brew

Ink:  Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Ink by Tim Holtz - Black Soot,

Tumbled Glass & Stormy Sky

Sentiment Stamp:  Penny Black Set - Spooky

Star Rhinestones:  Martha Stewart 

Click HERE to watch me create this card on my YouTube Channel....

Thank you all for sticking with me.......blog candy coming soon!! Woo-hoo!!

~Silvia

Sending Happy Mail

I tried to take a slightly angled photo of this card so that you can see the frame that I created around this image, I love the way it turned out, using Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle and Scallop circle dies:

For today's post, I wanted to share the small cards I made for my Blog and YouTube winners.

I wanted to include a little card with each of their packages, however,  I didn't want to make the same card for all of them, so I decided to create different scenes for each.  I love the way they turned out!  Each measure 3" x 3".

For the card base I used Papertrey ink Kraft paper and as far as the designer paper, well, I used several different 6" x 6" paper pads, Echo Park - Hello Summer, lilybeedesign - This and That and Basic Grey - picadelly.  The stamp sets I used were,  Puppy Love by There She Goes ,  Owl Be Thinking of You by The Crafts Meow, Spring is Here by The Crafts Meow and last but not least a set from Whipper Snapper Designs - Sugar N Spice.

I also stamped the inside of them, I just forgot to take photos before mailing the packages out.  I hope they'll like them!

Thanks for stopping by!

Materials/Supplies used

Paper: Papertrey ink - Kraft, White, Ripe Avocado, Chocolate, 

Designer Paper:  Basic Grey - Picadelly, Echo Park - Hello Summer, lilybeedesigns - This & That

Dies:  Papertrey Ink - clouds, Taylored Expressions - Picket Fence, Grass Border, Layering Doily Medium, Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles Large, Petite Scalloped Circles Large 

  

Mother's Day Card & Gift card holder

Hi Everyone!  I hope you all are having a relaxing and great weekend, hoping you'll have a very Happy Mother's Day!

Today I'm sharing with you the Mother's Day card that I made for my Mom this year.  I introduced her to My Favorite Things Pure Innocence stamps and she was in love!  She immediately said to me, "Please make my mother's day card using one of these stamps"....so I did!  I promise, I will be switching it up a little, and using other stamps, it's just right now, I've been on this MFT wagon and I can't seem to get enough of them.  I've purchased so many of these stamps, it's kind of crazy!  Maybe one of these days I'll share my obsession with you, until then, I'm kind of ashamed to do so, LOL!

For the base of my card I used Papertrey ink white card stock, my designer papers is from Authentique Delightful and My Minds Eye Miss Caroline.  I colored my image using Copic markers and paper pieced her dress.  The flowers were made using the Prima Donna flower die as well as the CC Design Cutter dies - Leafy Branch and Phlox Flower .  I used the Martha Stewart Pansy set Punch around the page, which I have to say, I loved the way that looks with the Pink background.  My sentiment was from a Stampin' Up! set called Teeny Tiny Wishes.   

Now, I have to say, the Purse gift card holder was not my original idea, I searched YouTube for purse gift card holders and found some inspiration, but as far as finding a video on how to make this one, at least I couldn't find one, but if anyone does, let me know...... so it was trial and error with the measurements, until I got to the size that I wanted it.  I really dislike trying to figure out the measurements and fiddling with making a pattern, I'd rather just find the "how-to" instructions or a video I can follow.  So if you are interested in learning how to make this, let me know and I will work on a YT video for you.

Thank you for stopping by!

Materials/Supplies used:

Card:
Paper:  Papertrey Ink - White
Designer Paper:  Authentique - Delightful Collection & My Minds Eye - Miss Caroline
Stamp:  My Favorite Things - Pure Innocence Crazy for Daisies,  Stampin' Up! Teeny Tiny Wishes (sentiment)
Punches:  Martha Stewart Pansy Punch around the Page
Dies:  MFT Prima Donna, CC Design Cutters Phlox Flowers, Leafy Branch, 
Purse:
Paper:  Stampin' Up! Whisper White 
Designer Paper:  Authentique - Delightful Collection & My Minds Eye - Miss Caroline
Dies:  MFT Die-namics Scalloped Scallops & Prima Donna flower, CC Design cutters Phlox Flowers, Spellbinders- Labels Eighteen (inside of card), Papertrey ink-Library pocket (inside of card), 
Ribbon:  Chatter Box Bloom
Stamp:  Stampin' Up! - Teeny Tiny Wishes
Rhinestone embelishmens - My stash

My 2012 Desk Calendar

I'm back!!!  Hello everyone!  I'm so sorry that I've been MIA for so long.  I decided to go back to school and after being away from College for sooooo long, I felt that it would be a good idea that I dedicate myself to that.  Don't get me wrong, I didn't abandon my craft room, I was just not creating as much as I would of liked to.  So, I'm down to my last couple of weeks, before Summer break and I'm so happy it's almost over.  It was tough, but I'm on a role now, and I'm looking forward continuing my studies.  

I've been wanting to share the calendar I created for my desk, hoping that the year wouldn't be over by the time I finally got around to posting it.    All my images as well as the sentiments are from My Favorite Things stamps, Pure Innocence line.  I paper pieced all of them except for the January image, that one I colored with copics.  I also used copics to color all the skin and hair.

COVER

January

February

 March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

I really appreciate all of you who have been so patient with me and continue to follow my blog or are a current subscriber of my Youtube channel (sil2289).


To show you all my appreciation for being such loyal subscribers and followers, I am going to have a Youtube and blog giveaway.  I'm not going to set all these rules in order to be eligible, because I feel just being loyal to my blog and/or channel is a lot already, your continued support is always appreciated.  The only thing is you MUST be subscribed to me and/or be a follower of my blog and you must leave me a comment,  please do not just type "enter me".  You can tell me anything from what you've been working on, to what you are most into right now, such as cards, layouts, mini albums, alterations....just not "enter me" : )


I will be choosing TWO people for my Blog candy and TWO subscribers from my Youtube channel using Random.org

BLOG CANDY #1:

PENNY BLACK SET - RAINDROPS & KISSES

PENNY BLACK CLING - SWEET DAY

TECHNIQUE TUESDAY - HOME TWEET HOME

HERO ARTS - SPARKLE CLEAR FLOWER FRAME

PRIMA FLOWERS - TRELLIS ROSES ORANGE CREME

BLOG CANDY #2:

PENNY BLACK SET - HELLO FRIEND

PENNY BLACK WOOD STAMP - FLOWERS FOR MIMI

HERO ARTS SET - ANTIQUE ENGRAVINGS 

PRIMA FLOWERS - BELLE ARTES PROSE

 9 FT OF EACH BROWN & LT PINK DECORATIVE LACE TRIM

(1) LIGHT PINK WITH PEARLS DECORATIVE TRIM

Here's my YouTube video  

If you happen to be a follower and a subscriber of my YouTube channel, then you are in luck, that means you get to win here and on Youtube.  Woo-hoo!

Hope you all have a fantastic week!