I love you bear!

Hi crafters!! I'm in a really good mood today and you know why? Well because I'm finally making time to craft! Yey! Yesterday I had a terrible headache and I was feeling really tired and sored (for skating too much?? Mmm maybe lol), the headache is gone (thankfully!) but I'm still feeling a little bit sored I just hope that I can stand on my feet this evening at my figure skating class lol. I always say that the best medicine to get rid of headaches is a good laughter, sleeping or crafting! And I got all 3 done yesterday! I'm trying really hard not to stay up late and exercise, I have the exercise part cover because I have figure skating classes on Mondays and Wednesdays but... ohh my! Going to bed early? That's a really hard thing to do lol
Anyways, I want to share with you the card I made yesterday, it is a really clean and simple card.

I got this stamp at Michael's while I was on vacation in Dallas, I think the bear looks really cute holding that heart, don't you think? I used my Fiskars border punch, Basic Grey paper, I distressed a little bit the red Bazzill paper and I added some ribbon. The sentiment is another stamp I got at Michael's, I really like how it looks with the 3-D effect (I used Pop it Shapes from Ranger Industries), I know you can't really see it in this picture :( but it's been raining all day so no sunlight for me to take nice pictures.

And guess what?! I'm really happy to know that I can enter this card to 13 challenges! Well what can I say, it is easy to enter challenges when Valentines is really close LOL

- Magical Crafts Fornightly: valentines
- Fussy and Fancy Challenge: hearts
- Basic Grey Challenges: animals
- Secret Crafter Saturday: hearts
- Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays: open
- Paper Sundaes: valentines
- Papertake Weekly Challenge: Love Actually
- Lexi's Creations: valentines
- Ohh La La Creations: distressing
- Creative Card Crew: valentines
- SophistiCat Challenges: love
- Cupcake Craft Challenge: four legged and furry
- Creative Belli: ribbons

Well that's it for now, I really hope I can create another card or cards tonight to share with you tomorrow.
Happy crafting!

Hearts and Flowers for you!

Hi crafters!! How's your week going so far? Mine is going great! I had a fun weekend because I had a surprise birthday party saturday night at my house, I saw friends I haven't seen since december so it was nice to have time to catch up and have fun. I'm still in shock for all the nice response I had for my candy, I hope to have another one really soon, I just haven't decided when yet lol but I'll let you know.
Anyways, today I want to share with you a card I created using one of the stamped images I won in a blog candy. I really love all the Magnolia stamps, they are soo cute and really fun to color.

And a close up... I really like the images where Tilda has wings, she does look like a cute little angel, doesn't she? I used a Stamping Up! rub-on as the sentiment and some glitter for the wings.

I'd like to enter this card to the following challenges:
- Papertake Weekly Challenge: sketch
- Just Magnolia: hearts and flowers
- The Pink Elephant Challenge: pink
- A Spoonful of Sugar Challenge: freestyle
- Cute Card Thursday: blooming gorgeous
- Flutterby Wednesday Challenge: butterfly, fairy or angel
- Your next Stamp: anything that sparkles
- Little Red Wagon: hearts
- Creative Belli Challenge:  hearts
- Lexi's Creations: valentines
- Ohh La La Creations: distressing
- Magical Crafts Fornightly: valentines
- Fussy and Fancy Challenge: hearts
I think I just broke my record with this card, 13 challenges!!! Well actually I have to thank Susie because when I read her blog I can see all the challenges that are going on right now, so thank you girl!!
Well I gotta go now, it almost midnight here and my eyes are closing but I just couldn't wait to post this tomorrow because some challenges are due tomorrow lol!
Happy crafting!!

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!