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Monday, June 8, 2015

A Gift for Grandma - Scrapbook Layout

Hola everyone!

Now that I showed you how I decorated the gift bags and some of the gifts I gave the mother's in my life for Mother's Day, I have to show you my Grandmother's gift for that occasion.

My grandmother turned 83 this year. These are pictures of her when we took her for lunch to celebrate her birthday. Isn't she gorgeous?

I placed the layout in a 12 x 12 picture frame and I was lucky enough to find a box that could fit it. I then decorated the box with ribbon and some flowers and ta-da!

This layout is one of the layouts I made to celebrate this past National Scrapbooking Day.

Hope you enjoy it and it inspires you to create!

Besitos,

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Friday, May 1, 2015

National Scrapbooking Day 2015

Hola everyone!

I have been away on vacation, so that's the reason for my silence. We went to California and it was AWESOME! The weather was a perfect upper 50's, we had a chance to rest and to see and do things we haven't seen or done ever. It was glorious!

Tomorrow is National Scrapbooking Day and I'm sooooo ready!

I will be playing on the online crop of A Cherry on Top, along with my friend Griselda, who will be on Skype. We have been playing with ACOT for years. You can actually see how I have evolved from a beginner until now if you visit my gallery.

Ohhh, I can't wait for NSD!!!

I am so ready, that I spent most of the day cleaning my scrap room to have the tools and space I need to spend the day tomorrow scrapping to my heart's content!

Even Casper has a spot to hang out with me tomorrow.

Tell me, are you celebrating National Scrapbooking Day tomorrow? How are you celebrating? Tell me in the comments!!

Peace and healthy days for you all!

Besitos,

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Quinceañera Card – Julie Nutting “Olive”

Hola everyone!

Hope you had a great weekend! It is Spring!! My favorite season of the year. The flowers are bluming, the birds are chirping… and I have a cute bird nest on one of my plants. I love it!

My grandmother called me a couple of weeks ago, asking for one of “those gorgeous cards you make” for the girl who she used to care for from 2 months old until she went to pre-school. She is now turning 15, and grandma wants a Quinceañera card for her.

I hit the Internet for inspiration, and then I remembered: I have some Julie Nutting stamps!! I'll use my Julie Nutting stamps for this card. I chose “Olive”:

I stamped “Feliz Cumpleaños” several times on the olive colored carstock (see the pun? “Olive” on olive paper…lol) and I stamped Olive in several papers, and pieced her back together with patterned paper for her dress, shoes and headband.

For the flowers and leaves, I got the cut files from here, and placed a white enamel dot on each one.

Hope you like my latest creation, and that it inspires you to create.

Peace and healthy days for you all!

Besitos,

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Sunday, March 1, 2015

I {heart} ur Smile - Using flowers on a manly LO

Hola everyone!

I've been so busy with work, time has just flown by. In addition, I am sick with the Chikungunya Virus. Everything hurts!

Trying to get my mind off how sick I feel, I sat in my scrap-room and decided to do an LO of some cute pictures of my brother. I read on the Daily Digi that it's ok to use flowers on a "manly" LO, so I decided to scraplift one of Heddy's LO's for this layout. Keep in mind that hers is a digital layout, while mine was done with paper.

For this layout I used American Crafts cardstock in white and green, DCWV "The Snapshot Stack" cardstock and thickers for the alpha. The paint, brads and flowers are from my stash and the circle was done with the cap of a large can.

I love how the stamps and colors complement the picture. And the flowers don't make it feminine, do they?

Hope you like my newest creation and it inspires you to create!

Peace and healthy days!

Besitos,

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Friday, January 16, 2015

Ian turns 3 - Jake the Pirate LO

Hola everyone!

Hope your year is starting as amazing as mine has.

I am playing in the Scrapping4Fun Challenges blog's DT Challenge and Guest Designer’s Challenge. The Challenge is to create a card, layout or anything using this sketch as inspiration:

I've done so many cards in the past months for different swaps, that a layout was long overdue. I hit my photo stash and found this cute picture of my 3 year old nephew on his 3rd birthday.

His birthday was a bittersweet celebration for us... it was just the day after my father's burial. He was trying so hard to make everyone smile! And he achieved it! This face is so lovable and laughable, that I just had to create a layout with it.

I used American Crafts and My Mind's Eye paper, which I stitched the border with my sewing machine. The button and string is American Crafts as well. The half beads were made by me!! Yep, I recycled some old plastic beads by melting them in the oven (400 F for 10 minutes or until melted). Jake the Pirate was printed from here, and all other images used, were printed off the internet.

I had tons of fun making this LO. Hope you like it!!! Happy 2015!!

Besitos,

Linking to:

· Paper Creator’s Crafts

· Art by Miran

· Jo’s Scrap Shack

· DL Art

· Inspiration Destination

· Mema’s Crafts

· Penny’s Challenge Blog
Bimini Moose

· Little Miss Muffet

· Scrap n’ Craft

· Pals Paper Arts

· Your Scrapbook Place

· Seema Crafts

· Moo-Mania & More

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Valentine's Day ATCs

Hola everyone!

Continuing with the ATCs, I signed up for an ATC swap where I had to make 28 Valentine's Day ATCs. Yes, 28!!

I downloaded the bingo cards from Designs by Denise:

And the tickets from Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking:

I printed the bingo cards and the tickets in very strong cardstock, and distressed it with Tim Holtz Tea Dye and Vintage Photo distressing inks.

Hope you like my creations and that it inspires you to create.

Besitos,

Update: Thanks to Heather from My Artistic Adventure for picking my design in the top three of her challenge!

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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Happy Three Kings Day (Epiphany) and my first ATC

Hola!

Happy New 2015 and Happy Three Kings Day! Here in Puerto Rico we celebrate today in the most beautiful way. Kids will leave grass for the camels the night before and the Three Kings will leave presents under their beds. Love our traditions!!

By the way, did you know that here in Puerto Rico we have the longest Christmas season in the Planet? Check out this USA Today report for all the details! I LOVE my Island!

Wow! 2015 has started super awesome for me and my family. We have had so much fun this Holiday Season and most importantly, we were able to spend some awesome time as a family. It has been one of the best Holiday Seasons ever!

I've also been very busy creating in my Scraproom. In a swap group I participate on Facebook, we were asked to make Three Wise Men (Three Kings) ATCs for the January swap. It is my first time making ATCs and I loved it!

I think they turned out pretty good for a first timer ATC creator, huh?

I used playing cards for the base, printed a music sheet jpeg from Google and used Tim Holtz distressing in Dusty Concord and Seedless Preserves to distress the edges.

In the back, I glued an ATC artist card that I created using PicMonkey. Here it is for you if you want to use it for your own ATCs (just right-click and pick Save As...):

I made 26 of these beauties... yep, 26!!! It was super easy and fun to do! You can check out this video or this video on YouTube to learn more about ATCs and how to create them.

Well, off to do 28 Valentine's Day ATCs!!!

Besitos,

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

A Snowman Card

Hola everyone!

I've been working on some Christmas cards for the past few weeks. I love the challenges posted in some groups in Facebook. It motivates me to create.

Here's my latest creation. A Snowman Card!

I got the image from here, which also inspired me on the design of the card. I used sequins for the snow, and the stamp "Let it Snow!" is a clear stamp I got from Oriental Trading a looooong time ago.

Hope you like it and inspires you to create!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Peace and healthy days!

Besitos,

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Echo Park - Best Friends - part 3

Hola everyone,

I told you I had worked several projects with just one kit. ONE KIT!! lol

This is a gorgeous Mini Theme Kit by Echo Park called "Best Friends". I was able to work several projects, and this is the 3rd one. It is a Toilet Paper Roll Mini Album, and as you all know I love to repurpose things, you can imagine this is one of my favorite projects to do.

I placed pictures of my best friends in my mini album, stickers from the kit and used colored ribbon to finish it up.

If you want to see other Toilet Paper Mini Albums I have made, you can click here, here and here.

*Update: You can see the Scrapbook Layout, card and notebook I made with this kit!

Peace and healthy days to you!

Besitos,

Linking to:

Crafting from the Heart

Through the Craft Room

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Echo Park - Best Friends - part 2

Hola everyone,

As promised, here is part 2 of my Echo Park "Best Friends" Kit projects. Like I mentioned before, it is a gorgeous kit, and I was able to work several projects with it. I still have one whole sheet and some of the stickers left!

echo park best friends mini theme kit - tarjeta

For this card, I used American Crafts twine and scraps from the first project. As you know, I love to repurpose things, this time pieces of cardboard. Thick cardboard. This I used to create the 3D effect on the telephone stamp and the sentiment. I like using cardboard versus using 3D dots or thick double sided tape.

Stay tuned for the rest of what I created using this beautiful kit.

*Update: You can see the Scrapbook Layout, mini album and notebook I made with this kit!

Peace and healthy days for you all!

Besitos,

Linking to:

Suzie Bee's

Crafting at the Weekend

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Echo Park - Best Friends - part 1

Hola Everyone!

It's been a while since my last post (over a month to be exact). I've been very, very busy with my new business, Relicarios y Dijes, where I am a South Hill Designs Artist.

Mom and daughter matching lockets

This past week in my spare time, I was able to work with the Echo Park Mini Theme Kit, "Best Friends". It is a beautiful kit with gorgeous double sided pages and a sticker page. I was able to make several projects, which I will be unveiling in the upcoming days. For now, let me show you the LO I made with this awesome kit, dedicated to one of my best friends.

It was really fun to create this LO. Stay tuned for the rest of what I created using this beautiful kit and make sure you check out my South Hill Designs store! And if you can, go ahead and Like my Facebook Page.

**Update: See the card I made using this kit here, the mini album, and notebook I made with this kit!!

Peace and healthy days for you all!

Besitos,

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Scrapping4Fun Challenges

Monday, June 16, 2014

In Black & White

Hola everyone!

My last challenge as a DT for Scrapping4FunChallenges, was to create a Black and White project, and I had just the pictures for that.

The papers are American Craft and the flowers I handmade after finding this tutorial from Lynn Larson. Gorgeous and super easy to do!! To finish off my Layout, I added some enamel beads in black and white.

With this LO I say goodbye to the wonderful team of DTs at Scrapping4FunChallenges, and her creator, Rachelle. It has been an honor and a privilege to have played with you.

Hope you like this project and that it inspires you to create.

Peace and Healthy Days!

Besitos,

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Friday, June 13, 2014

Project Life vs Smash Book

Hola everyone!

Hope you are having a great week! It is very, very hot here in Puerto Rico. The worst part is the humidity! So hot and sticky!

I recently bought a couple of Smash Books on eBay, which were only $10 each with free shipping. Now the question is, what are they? How do I use them?

I had heard a lot about smash books for the past couple of years, but never really paid any attention... until I saw what I think is a great deal on the books. I've also heard about Project Life and I was wondering, what is the difference between the two? I asked my very knowledgable friend, Google, and I found these two videos that explain really well what the difference is.

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As an avid scrapbooker, I think I will use my brand new Red and Black Smash Books instead of doing a Project Life. I like to make a mess of paper, glue and embellishments; it's my favorite hobby!

What do you think? Smash book or Project Life?

Peace and healthy days!

Besitos,

Friday, May 30, 2014

Father's Day Card

Hola amigos!

Wow! Time sure flies! It is almost June already! It's Summer Time!!!

It is also the time of the year I've been dreading... Father's Day. I lost my father in January 15th... He had a 2 year battle with Multiple Myeloma. I am in Peace. I am glad he is no longer suffering.

In his honor, I made this card for Challenge #18 of Scrapping4FunChallenges. He was a contractor and wood worker, and he loved his tools.

This is a hybrid card, as I printed the tool images I found online. Hope it inspires you to create!

Peace and healthy days!

Besitos,

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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Mama (Mom) Accordion Mini

Hola everyone!!

Wow, time sure flies!! I thought it was just a few days since my last post... And I almost forgot to update my blog for the Scrapping4Fun Happy Mother's Day challenge!

I designed this mini after buying something that came in some awesome plastic boxes. I was throwing them away, when all of a sudding "light bulb!" I can make some minis and place them here for gift giving!

The mini turned out to be 3 x 2 1/2. I used scraps to complete it, along with a felt flower.

Inside Back

Inside Front

I tried to take a good picture of it inside the box, but it came out a bit blurry...

I'm in the process of making a few more for Mother's Day. Oh, I should mention that inside, I just printed some pretty Mother's quotes, to make sort of a quotes mini.

Hope it inspires you to create something for Mother's Day!

Peace and healthy days for you!

Besitos,

Friday, April 18, 2014

Fun in the Playground - A Double LO

Hola everyone!

Hope you are enjoying your Spring Break! It is a bit rainy here in sunny Puerto Rico, but it usually is on Good Friday. I like it because the temperature is nice and is not as hot has it has been the past few weeks.

Last year I babysat my nephew and my niece (they are now 3 and 8) and we had a blast on the playground. So, that's my theme for Challenge #14 of Scrapping4FunChallenges, where as you all know, I am a DT.

I used DCWV and American Crafts cardstock. The washi tape at the bottom is My Mind's Eye and all the park embellishments are from a kit I purchased a Miss Kate Cuttables, but instead of cutting it, I used the included JPEG to print and cut the embellies. Unfortunatelly I have no idea where I got the polaroid camera... it is cute, isn't it?

I hope you have a splendind Easter Sunday! Thanks for stopping by and hope I inspired you to create!

Peace and healthy days!

Besitos,

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Friday, April 4, 2014

A Puerto Rico Mini Album

Hola everyone!

Hope you had a WONDERFUL week and an even better weekend! I am finally feeling better, after another bout of bronchitis that has kept me home for over 2 weeks. At least this time I didn't end up in the hospital... that would've been the worst! LOL

Today I share with you my DT entry for Challenge #14 of Scrapping4FunChallenges. This is a mini-album I made for my friend Susannah, who came to visit from Texas.

I used brown paper bags for the pages, to which I added tags for additional picture or journaling space. Most of the embelishments are digital clipart I found online, which I printed and cut.