Work in progress...

Hello everyone!! I'm sorry it has been a while since I last posted. As I mentioned in a previous post I got engaged and well you know how it is when you are planning a wedding! The planning pretty much consumed all my time so I had to stop writing this blog and having my crafty adventures, then after the wedding I just couldn't get myself back to crafting since my mojo was nowhere to be seen and I just got busy doing other things. Hubby even told me I should get rid of all the crafty things I have collected since he said I wasn't using them anymore, I couldn't bear the idea of giving them away or sell since it's kinda hard to get or buy scrapbook stuff in Mexico... so I just packed them away. Also it didn't help that last year we were moving to different cities and pretty much traveled a lot :)
So I hope that finally this year I can get back to resume my crafty adventures and let the creative juices flowing. That's why I decided to change my blog as a way to restart!

Enough with the rambling! Today I have a Clean and Simple Valentine's card to share with you. I made this card for my dad, so he could give it to my mom ☆彡

It is a very simple card since I don't have all my scrapbook tools with me yet, I just have a few papers, scissors and glue.

I hope you enjoyed valentine's day with your special someone, family and friends.

I entered this card on the following challenges:

• Cardmania Challenges
• Charisma Cardz Challenges
• Crafty Creations Challenges

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My first Magnolia Card!

Hi scrappers!! How's your week going so far? Mine is going great! Today is my mom's bday!! And we're going out to celebrate , we are going to take her to her favorite restaurant and then to the mall to buy her a gift. I think moms are very hard to surprise, specially mine! Because she's always suspicious about things lol,  so I decided to play it safe this time and instead of giving her a surprise, I'll just go with her to buy the gift. And of course! I made her a card last night with a Magnolia stamped image Linda gave, thank you Linda!! The stamped images are really cute, I can't wait to create more cards with them! So here's the card:

I used a past Midnight Madness sketch that I liked, I tried to distress the paper but I'm not sure how to do that yet, so you can't really see my attempt in this pictures lol but "googling" around I found a perfect tool for this: the Edge Distresser (Heidi Swapp) or the Tim Holtz Paper Distresser! I'm not sure which one is better but you can always go to CraftCritique.com to check what are the best craft products.

Anyways, thank you so much for visiting my blog and before I leave I recommend you to go to the Bon's Scraps site, Bon is celebrating her 100th post with a fabulous candy.
I hope you have a wonderful day!
Happy scrapping!

Pinky Ballerina

Hi scrappers! Are you ready to take a rest this weekend? I am! I really enjoy weekends because I get to go visit my parents and relax a little while and of course I get to craft a little bit with my mom. I  hope to get many cards done this weekend, because there are a few challenges I want to enter. I've learn that challenges are a fun way to learn more tips on creating cards. I've been wanting to have time to create a layout of Ruby, but I just can't find the time to do it. Hopefully I can do that this weekend.

Anyways, I want to share with you this card. I'm not really into pink, but I thought that this paper was really cute and the ballerina stamp too so I decided to give it a try and enter this card to Carol's Sketch Fun! I've missed the last two challenges, but I'm on time to make it to this one.

I really like how the sketch turn out even though I had difficulties with the flowers, I wasn't sure if using brads would be a good idea but I think it looks ok. I tried to make it looks 3-dimensional, I'm not an expert in photography but I hope you can see it.

Well I hope you have a great weekend! Thanks for visiting my blog and for leaving lovely comments!

Cute as a bug

Hi scrappers!! I'm finally back, probably you're wondering if I was ever gone lol. Well the last couple of days I've been really busy at work and with other things I had going on that I didn't have time to craft or update my blog. I actually been wanting to show you a card I created last week but I didn't have time to take a picture :( to bad that I already gave it away. Actually I tried to be active by leaving comments on a few blogs and of course I checked my Google Reader so I'm really updated.

Anyways, I'm really looking forward to this weekend because my BF is going to receive his new cell phone (HTC Touch Pro) I can't wait to see it! Hopefully in the following weeks I'm going to get mine too, I really need one because the skating season is starting in exactly two weeks and since at work I can't see videos because of the proxy I really want to have this phone and have Internet as well.

Now talking about crafting... My mom and me worked on a card last weekend and I decided to enter it to the Cupcake Craft Challenges! The challenge is called "Cute as a Bug" so we had to create cards that had butterflies, fireflies, lady bugs, any kind of bug. Since I love butterflies, my mom picked a sketch and the paper and I created this card with a cute purple butterfly.


I really like this paper (DCWV posies glitter print), I really need to get more :) I don't have any butterfly punches so I printed and cut two butterflies, just to give it a 3-dimensional look


I hope you have a wonderful day!
Happy scrapping!

Almost Weekend!

Hi Scrappers! I'm sorry that I haven't updated my blog recently but I got sick this week and I was feeling terribly. Today I'm feeling much better! I'm just soo glad is almost weekend because that means I can get some rest and get to scrap a little bit. I gotta tell you that I really enjoyed my Labor Day off :) it was a nice long weekend! I spent time with my mom creating cards and cooking, actually we spend more time cooking and eating than crafting lol! I forgot to take a picture of the card she made (which was her first card) but hopefully I can take a picture this weekend before she gives it away :) I had a chance to go to an ice rink and see figure skating competitions! I was soo happy because I've never seen one before, I went with my bf and met my coach at the rink. Even though I'm in a really basic level I look forward to complete my first axel, single... double doesn't matter :P

Anyways last weekend I created a simple card for a friend's bday, I actually only did it in like an hour because I had to go. So here's the card:



I know the picture is not the greatest but... this is actually the first card I create without a sketch! I'm proud of myself lol!
Well I hope you have a wonderful weekend with your friends and family!
Happy scrapping!

Back to school?

Hi guys! Well I finally had time to create something! Today is the bday of one of my best friend so I decided to create a bday card, even though I won't see her until next week because that's when school starts at my hometown university I thought I would give her a card that welcomes her back to school too.


I decided to use Teacher Anya from The Greeting Farm Stamps, because she's going to be a teacher when she graduates from college. I tried to make the image look like a 3D image, just like the tutorial I mentioned the other day. I'm not sure if you can really see it on this picture but I think it turned out good for being my first time :) what do you think?


For this card I used the current Carol's Sketch at her blog challenge. I really like to create cards because I can create them faster than layouts :)


I hope you all have a happy scrapping day!

I'm feeling purple

Hi guys! Today I wan to share with you the card I created yesterday for the Carol's Sketch Fun Challenge. I'm happy with the way it turned out, what do you think? I hope you can see the picture, I need to find a tutorial on taking better pictures :P



Carol's challenge closes on Aug 11th, so if you want to play you still have a chance :) you can rotate and flip the sketch.



Her challenges run every 2 weeks, so you have plenty of time to get inspire and create something.
Happy scrapping!

One more card

Hello! I'm so excited to share with you guys the card I created for the "Crafty Goings" challenge. I did it yesterday and I can't believe it didn't take a lot of time as the first card. So anyways, here it is:



The girl of the stamp is called Annika from The Greeting Fram stamps collection, it sort of reminds me that it would also be the perfect card for someone that is going back to school :) I used cardstock and making memories paper, I cannot remember from where I got those stickers :P but I hope I can get more of those, hopefully this sunday I'll have a chance to go to Michaels and get some goodies, I'm dying to get some border punches! I've seen many people use them on layouts and cards.
I hope you liked this card and good luck if you enter this challenge :)

My first challenge

Well finally I have some time to share with you my first card! I'm excited :) lol I finally decided to enter the challenge that the Bee Crafty blog is having. The requirements for this challenge are:

Create any paper item which includes wings (butterfly, bird, fairy, angel, dragon...)

It must have a bit of 'digital' somewhere (image, papers...) and it doesn't have to be a Bee Crafty image.

So here's the card I created...



I printed an image of The Greeting Farm stamps, I believe her name is Fairy Chloe , isn't she cute? I think it turned out good, I use prismacolors to color the image, Making Memories Paperie Collection, a dark green cardstock and vellum paper for the card and a Inkadinkado "Sleep Like a Baby" stamp.
Thanks for stopping by and happy scrapping :)