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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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