My blog candy winner and Kellie's candy!

Hi girls!! I just want to take this opportunity to THANK YOU for all of your sweet and wonderful comments on my blog....it really means a lot to me! I had a really nice birthday, my parents called me really early in the morning to sing me "Happy Birthday" and my boyfriend came to my apartment in the morning to wish me happy birthday and brought a delicious breakfast he cooked and beautiful flowers! I was a little bit spoiled yesterday lol
Anyways, I used the random.org to pick the number for the winner and I'm happy to announce that the winner of my candy is....

Congratulations Stacy B.!!!! I  hope you enjoy this candy and share with us what you create with it, please email me by Thursday January 28 to claim your prize. If not, a new winner will be chosen and posted on Friday January 29.

Thank you girls for participating in my candy and I hope is not the last candy I giveaway :) and before I leave I would like to share with you the candy that Kellie is giving away!

 She is giving away the Spring kit from All That Scraps which includes: 9 Sugarplum kids, 2 accessory stamps, and one set of Spring Sentiments. Isn't that cool!! These stamps are soo cute that any cardmaker would love to have them :) So go to Kellie's blog and follow her instructions to win her candy.
Happy day!!

My Birthday Blog Candy!

 CANDY IS NOW CLOSED

**UPDATE Jan 22nd** Here are the pictures I promised, I know I said that I will post them on tuesday but better late than never lol! Don't forget to check back on the 27th to see if you're a winner, I will draw the winner around noon :) If for some reason Mr Linky disappears, please leave a comment and I will add you to the list.

Hello everyone!! How's your week going so far? I hope you're staying warm and healthy! Well my bday is coming up exactly in 2 weeks (Jan 26th) and I'm excited because this year it's going to be my "Golden Birthday"!! What is golden birthday? I hear you ask.... well a Golden Bday is when your age matches your birth day and this year I'm going to be 26 years old in January 26th.
And what's the best way to celebrate? Well... win non-fat, sugar-free candy!

And a close up..

Since Valentine's Day is around the corner the candy includes valentine's goodies!!

- Heart stickers by EK Success

- Tiny Alpha Memories by Making Memories

- Rhinstone stickers by Recollections

- Crystal Snow glitter by Stampendous

- "I love you" and hearts rubber stamps

- 25 sheet pack cardstock paper by Recollections

- 8 design papers of different companies (DCWV, Heidi Swapp, Autumn Leaves) and 15 vellum sheets

- 4 valentine's ribbons

- An assortment of charms and hearts

- 2 Studio G valentine's stamps

- An assortment of flowers

- An assortment of eyelets

- A heart-shaped fairy paper pad

Who loves candy? I know I do lol so what do you have to do to win this candy?
1. Add your blog to MrLinky (if you don't have a blog, make sure to leave a comment with your email so I can contact you if you're a winner).
2. Mention this candy on you blog (sidebar is fine).
3. Be back on the 27th to see if you're a winner!



I will select the winner randomly and I will ship internationally! You can follow my blog if you want but is not compulsory. I will keep this candy as surprise this week and next tuesday I will reveal what you can get.
Happy crafting!

Happy New Year!!

How's your year going so far?! Mine is going great! I'm sorry I haven't updated my poor blog lately, but Christmas preparations got me really busy, but ohh well now I'm back to the old routine and updating my blog often is one of my resolutions for this year.
Anyways, I've seen many girls sharing their favorite cards of 2009 on their blogs, I thought that was a good idea so I wanted to join in. Since I started blogging around june last year, I don't have many cards to choose from, so it wasn't hard to pick my favorite card:

I just love Magnolia stamps, they are soo cute, well designed and fun to color. I've been trying to share the Christmas cards I created for my family but I always forget to upload the pictures lol
Anyways, I'm starting the year by celebrating my bday at the end of this month, so be ready because I can see a blog candy soon and talking about blog candy... Quixotic Challenges is giving away a mystery gift pack to celebrate the New Year, so you probably don't wanna miss out.
Thank you for visiting my blog and for leaving lovely comments, I'm always happy to read them.
Happy crafting!

Tilda with flowers

Hi everyone! How's life treating you? Today is a beautiful day here, because finally we're feeling the autumn cool weather, now it's the time to wear sweaters, boots and sleeping in a little bit. Yesterday I finally manage to get some free time and make a card, just in time for a couple of challenges. I just realized that I haven't post any layouts in soo long! I have some nice pictures that I'd like to scrap, but I can't find the time to do one layout. I'm actually working on another project that it's pretty much consuming my time, besides work of course, so I hope that next week I can share it with you.
Anyways, today I want to share with you another Tilda card! I just can't get enough of this cute stamps, they're definitely one of my favorites. I'd like to enter this card to the following challenges:
- Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Thinking of you
- Magnolia Challenge - Sketch
- The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - 4 seasons - spring!
- Paper Cutz Challenge - hand stamped image or digital image

I used some Stamping Up! paper Cindy gave me, they are gorgeous! Thank you Cindy for the goodies you sent me. Here's another close up of the card, I really enjoy coloring Tilda, she looks so sweet holding that flower.

Well I want to share with you the goodies I received in the mail last week, I finally had a chance to get a nice picture and I'm really happy that I bought my first Magnolia Stamp! When I saw a card Mina created with this stamp at the Just Magnolia Challenge blog I fell in love with it, I just love figure skating and Tilda looks so cute skating with Edwin that I had to buy this stamp. I also got some Basic Grey paper, MS punches, two CC Designs stamps and black memento ink.

May you have a wonderful week and thank you for your lovely comments, I hope you liked today's card.
Happy crafting!

Hazel

Xmas is near :)

Hello scrappers!! How's life doing? I'm in such a good mood today, which is weird because I'm don't really like mondays lol you know, mondays mean saying goodbye to weekends, saying goodbye to free time, saying goodbye to sleeping in and getting back to work. Anyways, I'm happy because I received some packages on the mail yesterday!! Yey!! A couple of days ago I won a bid at ebay of 3 Martha Stewart punches at a very good price! I was in a hurry this morning that I forgot to take pics of the new goodies I received but hopefully tomorrow I will have a card to share with you and share the pictures as well.
Since yesterday I was very happy to receive my MS punches I was inspired and I created a Magnolia card, I used a Tilda image that Linda gave me, thank you again Linda! If you  have a chance visit her blog she creates beautiful cards everyday. I'm actually entering this card to 4 challenges!

- Just Magnolia Challenge - monochrome
- Simon Says Stamp Challenge - all that sparkles
- Papertake Weely Challenge - spots n' stripes
- ABC Challenge -  G is for green
- Cupcake Craft Challenge - sketch (I missed this challenge, I forgot it was due today lol I thought it was tomorrow)

So here's the card:

 I really love this stamp! I think is perfect for xmas, what do you think? Here's a close up of the image, I added a glitter dust to her wings and the gifts.

 

I colored this image with prismacolors. I asked my brother (who is an artist) to let me use one of his blending stumps...

I've seen many times how he colors and uses this tool so I had an idea of how to color this image. I think I'm getting better at coloring, because in the past cards I really didn't put much effort on the coloring . I really recommend this tool, it makes your coloring look much better, so if you get a chance to buy this tool, don't think twice!
Well I need to get back to work, I hope you all have a wonderful day .
Happy scrapping!

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!