Around the World.

Good morning!

 

Today I'd like to show you one of my lastest creations with one of my favourite themes: travels!

 

This is the card:

 

 

I again reached for my Broken Box Stock file and found this lovely globe. I colored it with Copics, added papers from October Afternoon (Travel Girl) and a pretty clip to hold notes and sentiment.

 

I always dream of travelling somewhere when I make these cards!

 

I'd like to enter the following challenges:
Addicted to Stamps Challenge # 122: Any Shape
Crafty Friends Challenge # 27: Anything Goes
Scrap N' Challenge March Challenge: Anything Goes
Scrapping4fun Challenge # 61: Anything Goes
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge # 09:  Anything Goes

 

  

This card is for sale. You can find it in my Etsy shop. Please, contact me if you need help!

Boy Voyage.

Bon Voyage cards are among my favourites.

Maybe because I like to travel or because I feel that every trip, no matter how far, is full of dreams, expectations and excitement.

 

I've recently made this card:

 

 

When I heard The Alley Way Stamps was closing down, I reached for my stamps and decided to put them in good use.

This plane is from the Priceless Joy set of stamps.

Paper is from Echo Park (Country Drive).

 

Even if I have no trip scheduled in the next future, this plane heading for the sun makes me dream of flying somewhere...

 

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge # 14: Anything Goes

Artistic Inspiration Challenge # 150: Anything Goes

The Paper Players Challenge # 283: Clean and Simple + Airborne Object

Try It on Tuesday Challenge: Transport

Whimsy Stamps Challenge # 91: Anything Goes

 

 

Cards for Boys - Part 1

I'm still pretty busy with commissions and I've just finished a couple of cards for a sweet lady who wanted cards for boy.

It's quite strange but cards for boy are rarely in my cards-to-do list, I always think about girly card, even when I make Christmas or Halloween cards.

This is one of the tow boy cards:

This image is Pilot Ted from Di's Digi Downloads and I think it's perfect for a sweet little boy!

I've treated myself with several Di's Digis in this period because I've had several commissions for Christening cards and her images are lovely!

I've used a very very old paper: I bought it so many years ago... I think it's from an Italian company but I'm not sure.

I slightly modified the digi stamp and put flags in the bear's hands instead of the bunch of flowers it came with.

I had some time this morning to check if there was a challenge to enter my card and luckily enough I can enter two:

Di's Digi Designs Challenge: Animals acting like People

and

Cards for Men Challenge # 20: Animal Magic

See you later for my second boy card!

I Can't Believe I Did It!

I did it!

I cleaned, reorganized, decluttered my craft room!

I had piles of things to sort, to find a place for, to throw away, lots of dust and now... it's all clean!

Last Tuesday I decided to start: I thought I needed three days but it took one week!

It's not all in its place, I have a few bags of things to donate, a couple of bags of old papers to be thrown away and a big box full of craft books, craft materials etc. which hopefully I'll be able to list on ebay in the next few months.

I lost the count of how many bags of papers I tossed: I decided to keep just a few cooking magazines and recipes I cut in the last years. I don't like to cook and recipes are available everywhere so I decided it was better to let them go to someone who maybe is interested and donated them. The same with craft and stitching books and magazines: some are old, some are out of my current taste, some are gifts i've never liked...

I did not manage to throw photos away but I promised I'll take sometimes to sort them and put them in albums so thet they can be more enjoyable.

My daughter helped me a lot and she had a great fun when I put all the things that were on the floor in the living room! It was difficult to walk and sit down on the sofa! I had tons of empty boxes and I managed to toss half of them at the end. Not as many as I thought but at least lots of them are gone!

In addition, I managed to create something early in the morning while waiting for my daughter to wake up:

TAGS!

I made a few, using some chipboard tags I found while I was sorting some of my craft materials and I had so much fun I'm planning to do some more!

This little plane is from The Alley Way: I colored it with Copics and used 3D dots to glue it on the tag. A dotted paper and a pretty bow and... voilà!

It's perfect for these challenges:

Simon Says Stamps Challenge: Tags or ATC's

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C143: Create a tag

and

The Cutie Pie Challenge # 21: One for the Boys