Hi! So, a new project, huh? I cannot believe it myself hee hee :) Anyway, today’s post is about a gift I bought for my dear friend Elene in Spain. She got me these absolutely cute pens by Agatha Ruiz de la Prada and I wanted to give something back ♥ Also writing related actually.

A couple weeks ago I bought a set of 3 moleskine-like notebooks with blank, lined and squared pages each. I use the math one to note down random tidbits of information or just anything I don’t want to forget (which happens way more often that I’d like).

Granted, Elena doesn’t have such a bad memory as I do, but she enjoys writing stories. And you never know when inspiration might hit you, so I went back to the same store and picked a notebook with more pages for her (which you can see on the right).

I loved the colors on the book so I decided to make a matching card… but one thing led to another and in the midle of the project it hit me that I could make a cover for the book with the same original “card” (and that’s why there’s still a fold in the middle, lol).

Since I wouldn’t be able to write my sentiment in the inside of the card I made a small pocket of the front :) The base is Naturals Ivory cardstock stamped with the Woodgrain designer block (Hero Arts) in Antique Linen distress ink.

The blue cardstock (and ribbon) is the retired Soft Sky (one of my few sheets left, eck!) stamped with the “Home Sweet Home” set (October Afternoon). I had made a background with the house images for Father’s Day and loved the look so I repeated it here :)

The tag is cream cardstock trimmed down and stamped with the same woodgrain background in Fresh Snow ink (PTI). Seriously, LOVED the look of that one! (you can see a closeup in the first picture. I made a custom sentiment with my new Basic Lowercase set by HA also (teeny tiny cute letters). Finally I punched out a small circle and tied some string to make the tag easier to pull out.

Thanks for stopping by, I gotta go like right now, have a few tests and critiques this week, eek! I didn’t sleep more than FIVE hours all over weekend and today I just crashed on the couch while watching T.V, but I wanted to get this post done now or else I’d forget it :p

Ironic enough, I made this cards weeks ago, but just now I found some time to get them posted. It’s the end of the semester for me, and I’m being surrounded with final assignments, ugh. My old career had a yearly schedule, so I’m not quite used to having finals TWICE a year. I even got some new stamps last friday and they’re still uninked, eek! (blasphemy, I know! the stamping gods will be pissed).

Anyway, I madee this set of two cards with vintage cream bases (yes, they’re both cream, my camera hates me today :/) and some patterned paper Laura sent me looooooong ago. I just LOVE the oranges, reds and green colors together, they make me think of fall :) Here in my city (and everywhere in the north of Chile) we don’t have falling leaves in autumn, so I settle for looking at them in things like… paper, lol.

To make the birdie embellishment I just traced a Maya Road chipboard bird onto the reverse side of the paper, cut it around and inked the edges with “Tea Dye” distress ink. Then I glued the pieces with foam tape, loved the dimension it gave!

I also used my all-time favourite solution for custom sentiments, printing them on vellum. Really, it looks so classy and it’s SO easy. Plus, I didn’t want to cover that gorgeus paper with cardstock. The sentiment reads “Happy Birthday” in spanish. Since I’m making these cards for my aunt to sell I have to use spanish sentiments (or no sentiment, lol), so you’ll be seeing a lot of that :)

For my next card I used a different sheet of paper that matches the first one. Seriously, loved this big flowers. Anyway, same solution for sentiment instead this one reads “Congratulations” and the embellishments are some small flowers I punched out and gave form with my fingers. Final touch were the buttons.

I know, I’ve been crazy for buttons ever since I got a baggie of cream ones from PTI. Really, I have to refrain myself of using them every time. It’s addictive (and I still have a bunch on the baggie, ohmywerd). And the fact that I can color them with inks and Copics? Awesome!

Thanks for looking and see you soon ♥

I love today’s card! It reminds me of the sunny, bright days of summer. Today’s a cloudy and cold day here in my “neck of the woods” so it suits me well :)

I made this card for the HA challenge of last week (like i mentioned on my previoust post), but I totally forgot to upload it on time to participate in the raffle :p

Anyway, I printed the shape on some patterned paper by Memory Box and then clear embossed a swirl from the Baroque Motifs set (SU!) for an added texture. Then I stamped and colored my birdie (which seems to be my favourite one, lol) on Kraft cardstock and punched it out. To embellish it a little I used a paper flower and a button, that was originally white, but I colored it yellow with a COPIC marker. Love them ♥

Hi! :) So, I finally found some time to make a little card yesterday. This one is for the Hero Arts blog challenge. This week they partnered with Quickutz and we are to feature diecuts. I mean, the prize is crazy! (a Quickutz Silhouette SD, oh my world).

I love when people use diecuts on their cards, but since I don’t any machine -yet!- I was very happy when HeroArts offered some templates to print and cut. Today I’ll be working on another card using this frame template.

So I printed the biggest shape twice on some Naturals Ivory cardstock (SU!) and cut it out with a very sharp craft knife (so sharp I also got a little bit of my middle finger, ouch!). I kept the two shapes together with a brad and a paper flower.

As always, I used my Decorative Birds set :p It’s a great thing I love this set SO much because it’s the only HA set I own, lol! Fear not, for I already ordered my fix of HA goodies ;) I had such a hard time finding the stamps I wanted, since I wanted some pretty popular designs they were always out of stock everywhere! That, until I remember Diane’s store, Stampin Treasures. She even let me know via e-mail when one of the stamps I was looking for was back in stock so I could place my order right away :D

I’m so happy just thinking that in a couple weeks I’ll have some brand new stamps, I can even smell them. Sigh. Anyway, I digress, sorry :)

I paired the bird with an October Afternoon set I got from a drive-by contest over at 2peas :) I loved using the different shades of green in the tree. I went nuts so I don’t remember all the colors (Old Olive and Wild Wasabi are there, the others are from Colorbox’s stack queues).

Finishing touches were the Vintage Cream button (PTI) and the piece of Baja Breeze ribbon (SU!) which is actually stapled to the inside of the card :)

Thanks to everyone that still stops by *hugs*!

Something great happened today, not entirely school related, but still I wanted to share :)

So, my best friend from school is Dani. She lives like an hour away, but I went one day to her place to work on something for Workshop. There, I met her cat, Zagi, a cute white cat with some “blondie” spots, and he was such a cutie, very loving (for being a cat). Anyway, this last saturday Zagi went out at night, like always, but this time he never came back.

The first few days I told Dani not to worry, maybe he got lost around the blocks and we would go look for him. Then, one of my friend’s neighboors saw someone putting a cat in a bag and taking it into a car the night that Zagi disappeared. Ok, now, that’s creepy, I though.

We were getting really worried and today, when I was one block away from my place… what do I see? I cute little cat with blond spots that was meowing like he was scared. He came right to me when I called (did he recognize me or was I the only one that pet him? dunno) so I could take a picture with my mobile phone and sent it to Dani. She couldn’t download it, so I came to my place, checked pictures of the cat and… it WAS Zagi! :)

So, I went back to the place I saw him, took him into my place (took a while because he kept running away, but then would return when I called him) and put him in the bathroom with a bowl of food and water (I have my sis doggie here so I couldn’t have both of them out). I checked him up a couple times and he kept hiding behind the toilet, poor thing. God knows how he came here, so far away from her owner’s house.

Anyway, Dani came right away and took him back home, where he is now taking a warm bath and sleeping in its own bed :) I’m very happy this story had a happy ending and hope he doesn’t get stray anymore, but now I am left with a nasty allergy, LOL and a hyperactive puppy that knos SOMETHING was here, even though he didn’t see it ;D

And at times like this I wish I had time to start scrapbooking these random and cute events. Oh yeah, I am finding some free time this weekend so I’ll be able to make some cards… FINALLY! :) so look forward to that, since the Hero Arts challenge this week is SO good.

Hello girls :) Today I wanted to talk to you about the “little” assignment that devoured my weekend, leaving me with no time to make a card. I mean, this little dude seems like easy peasy but it’s a real pain in the… you know where ;) (more…)

Hi everyone :) How’s everyone doing? I’m ust back from a Workshop and I’m so tired. And tomorrow I have an examn (though it is not like the MEGA exams I used to have).

I originally was going to submit this card to the Hero Arts Blog (the theme was “distressing”, something this cards a lot of), but since I based it on a card from Kristina Werner I though that wouldn’t be right and didn’t. Unfortunately the unpolitelesness of my action came to me in the middle of the card, so I just went with it to share it here :)

So, I started with a A2 base of ivory cardstock, distressed the edges with distress ink and partially stamped a polka-dot background.

The bottom side of the kraft layer was scalloped with a corner rounder (looking forward to get one of those cute scallop border punches :) and the rest of the borders were distressed with… my fingernail :p I finished it by rubbed some white ink around the edges

Finally I stamped the bird and sentiment with a brown ink (Palette), the text balloon was handrawed with a brown ink pen. Then I paper pieced the bird and wraped Baja Breeze ribbon around the Vintage Cream cardstock and andhered the whole thing with foam tape.

And that’s it, a whole lotta distressing. Thanks for looking! :)

Paper: Naturals Ivory (SU!), Vintage Cream and Kraft cs (Papertrey Ink). Ink: Burnt Umber Palette. Stamps: Decorative Birds (Hero Arts), Mixed Messages (PTI), Polka dot background (SU!). Misc: Baja Breeze striped grossgrain ribbon (SU!), medium corner rounder.

Hi everyone! How are you doing? I hope everyones fine :) School has been busy (don’t I say that always? geeze), but I’m trying to squeeze time to get creative, make some cards and do a little drawing just for fun.

For this one I used some PTI goodies I just got (thanks, Patty!). Oh la la, now I understand why everyone else loves this cardstock, is so sturdy! I got a bunch of cardstock to make many cards because my aunt is selling them in her city. So, maybe I’ll get some income out of this! (and that means you’ll be seeing a lot of cards with sentiments in spanish or no sentiment, lol).

Also, I think my favourite item from the whole thing were the vintage buttons (no way, really? ;). I got a wonderful assortment :)

Thanks you for still visit en check up on me even though this blog has been a little neglected *hugs*.

Estivalia.

PS: Oh yeah, almost forgot. For this card I used a sketch from Pagemaps as inspiration (I believe from 2007).

I made these two ATCs today, for a trade with a user of ATCsForAll.com :D She collects cards with a cat theme and mentioned she preferred collaged one. It was a little tricky for me, since I’m not that good at this stuff as Patty, who is teh master of collage and vintage and things.

This is also the first time I manage to make a semi-perfect transfer, from a textboox to a scrapbook paper for the background of the ATC on the left. I also stamped some swirls on it an added a proverb about cats that says: “You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats“. It just came to me that goes really well with this zetti cat image I got as a RAK some time ago.

This one is a little less random, therefore, not as interesting, ha :) I just distressed the background with some coffee stains and Tea Dye distress ink. Then embossed the cat with white embossing powder to a red handmade paper. Add a piece of wahi paper and you’re done. I named this “A Cat is a Haiku”, sort of a continuation of a series I did sometime ago, remember?

It’s on, baby :D

I have been atteding Graphic Design for a couple weeks and… it’s exhausting! So many projects, assignments and homework to do. Everyday I get home, eat and fall asleep almost inmediatly. Maybe it’s because I have classes late, like 7 or 8pm and I was most used to get up early and finish early (mostly 4:30pm). The last time I had classes this late I was a freshman in Law… which seems so long ago.

But I got exempted from Basic English, so now I have 5 subjects instead of 6 :) I took a test and since I passed it, I don’t have to take the subject in the semester. I had a 95% 8)

So, my subjects are…

Observation Workshop - This is a weird one. Most works consist on personal reflexion and expression. Like, once we had to “listen” our feeling and try to represent them on paper… with tea, lol. It feels weird that there’s a subject -and a professor- actually interested in what I feel, after so many years no one really gived a damn, so it’s been a little uncomfortable and I’ve found I’m not working as “spontaneous” as my classmates :/

Theorics of Communication - Weirder. I don’t understand much of it, but the professor said he’s preparing some material that hopefully will bring me some enlightment.

Applied Anthropology - Supposedly to learn the influence of the evolution of man in art and to understand it changes. I’ve had only 2 classes because the lady who teaches it had to travel out of town this week.

Digital Design - My favourite subject so far :) The professor is really really young. So much I’m always mistaking him for a classmate (well, my oldest professor in Law was 75, so you get the idea). But he’s very kind to teach and funny (plus, he’s an illustrator!). This week we had to make a “under the sea scene” with vectors, which turned out awful but was fun nonetheless :)

Graphic Expression - Which should be like illustration. I haven’t had many problems with this one because I have an idea of how to draw, but it looks like I’m one the few that does :/ This week we had to do figure drawing (with our classmates as models) but the teacher didn’t gave any instructions or insights on human anatomy or proportions, so everyone was kinda clueless and a little frustrated.

And that’s it :) But since I got rid of English I’m planning on taking a Illustration/Painting class or something, if I find something that suits me. But I have to see how the semester goes :)