Happy Little Hello

January 27, 2015January 26, 2015 Diana Sanchez1 Comment

Hi guys! I’m so excited to show you this card I made this last weekend. This is definitely one of my favorites! I finally decided to use felt and my new pear dies! I wanted to create a small, simple card, made for no specific reason but just to say hello.

I sprinkled some dots of Simply Chartreuse and Ocean Tides ink with my Ranger Water Brush. I then cut the pears out of felt and glued them with Tombow liquid glue and added some gold sequins with glossy accents.

I’m so happy with how this card turned out! I’m on the lookout for more pear shaped stamps and dies so this is not my last pear card!

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Random Pear Fact: Did you know there are over 3,000 different types of pears grown in the world?

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Pink Lemonade Hello Card

January 24, 2015January 24, 2015 Diana Sanchez9 Comments

Hello again! After I posted last night, I was ready to get in my craft room to try to come up with a card for the Lawnscaping Challenge: Create a Background.

Yesterday I bought the Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Mini Kit #1 and a Versamark Emboss Ink Pad and I REALLY wanted to use both with this card. For this challenge, I had to create my own background using stamps. I went with Lawn Fawn’s Sophie’s Sentiments and used the little happy face, flower, and heart.

I created the background with the distress inks, and used white embossing powder for the pattern. I cut the sides with Lawn Fawn’s Stitched Scallop Border and the sentiment with Scripty Hello in three different colors. The background was then added to the card with foam tape.

I’m very happy with how it came out and I can’t wait to submit more cards to the Lawnscaping Challenges!

I’m really happy with how the card came out and I look forward to submitting more cards to the Lawnscaping Challenges.

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Thinking of You

January 21, 2015March 1, 2015 Diana SanchezLeave a comment

Hello everybody! I definitely have Katy Perry’s “Thinking of You” playing in my head as I type this. I’ve been wanting to play with watercolor/gelatos for awhile now so I finally decided to buy some at my local Michael’s craft store. These are Faber-Castell gelatos, the “Blue” set, you can find these on Simon Says Stamp and Ellen Hutson. The colors are so beautiful in person, this picture does not do them justice!

I really didn’t know where/how to start but as I was playing with them I had a mixture of purple and blue puddles on my craft mat and I just grabbed my watercolor paper and soaked it all up. I used my new Ranger water brush to add some spots to the background. I wish it was more vibrant but I’m happy with my first attempt with the gelatos. I used the stamp set and some paper from the Simon Says Stamp monthly kit for January (can’t wait for February’s because it comes with a gold gelato).

I hope to play some more with watercolor techniques and hopefully get better at it because I’m loving all these watercolor cards that are coming out!

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Kiss Kiss

January 16, 2015January 16, 2015 Diana SanchezLeave a comment

Muah! Smooch! Or as my husband and I like to text each other, Kiss Kiss! I love love love the shape of lips! I thought about using lips as my “signature” on the back of my cards but I didn’t because 1. I hardly have any (lips) and 2. I never wear lipstick. But even though I’m so plain Jane, I can’t help but buy lipstick when I pass the MAC makeup counter at the mall. The colors are just so gorgeous! It’s like I’m a kid in a candy store!

So of course I was excited to use one of my “lips” stamps for a Valentine’s Day card. I decided to submit this card to the Make It Monday Challenge.

Part of the challenge is to use at least one Papertrey Ink item and use homemade foam stickers. The paper, ink, and rectangle die are from Papertrey Ink. I made the XOXO foam stickers with black glitter paper and foam paper I bought at my local Hobby Lobby. I cut them out with Lawn Fawn alphabet dies and my cuttlebug. The stamp, Kiss #127C by Rubber Stamped, was also bought at Hobby Lobby (a couple of years ago). Super simple but sweet!

PTI Perfect Match Pure Poppy – Inkpad	Perfect Match Raspberry Fizz – Inkpad	Perfect Match Hibiscus Burst – Inkpad	Perfect Match Raspberry Fizz Cardstock
Paper Basics – Rustic White Cardstock	Papertrey Ink – Stitched Rectangles Die	cole’s ABCs	*Elmer’s CLEAR BOND Foam Mounting Tape Permanent Adhesive

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Cotton Candy Birthday Card

January 10, 2015January 10, 2015 Diana Sanchez7 Comments

Today I decided to play with a Paper Smooches stamp set, Spectrum, which I think is such a cute stamp set. I’ve been waiting for a good reason to use it and then I realized my niece has a birthday this month!

I have a couple of Copic markers and even though I’m not that good at coloring, I want to try to use them more often. If I’m going to color in a stamp, I’ll stamp it more than once in case I mess up on the coloring.

I also stamped and die cut a couple of clouds and stamped a star burst. I also used my new Tim Holtz stencil for the background and I finished off the card with clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and a Lawn Fawn sentiment.

Hopefully the birthday girl will love it!

Supplies:

*Paper Smooches SPECTRUM Clear Stamps Kim Hughes	*Paper Smooches SPECTRUM ICONS Wise Dies Kim Hughes	*Lawn Fawn SOPHIE’S SENTIMENTS Clear Stamps	*Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK
Perfect Match Autumn Rose – Inkpad	*Copic Sketch Marker RV000 PALE PURPLE Light Muted	*Copic Sketch Marker RV52 COTTON CANDY Pale Pink New 2012	*Copic Sketch Marker RV55 HOLLYHOCK Magenta Pink Red Violet
*Copic Sketch Marker RV66 RASPBERRY Red Violet Pink	*Copic Sketch Marker RV69 PEONY Dark Plum	ZIG Wink of Stella GLITTER CLEAR Brush Tip Marker 025320	*RESERVE Tim Holtz Layering Stencil BUBBLE THS002
*Pretty Pink Posh 4MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins