A Bunch of Flowers!

Here I am with my card for this month's Gerda Steiner Designs Challenge!

 

I thought I would never been able to make a card this month but here it is:

 

 

She is the super-cute Flowers for You digital stamp from Gerda Steiner Designs which we received as we took part in the April Challenge.

 

I colored her with Copics and used some old papers from Wild Rose Studio as background.

I LOVE her!

 

Time for me to finish some more cards!

 

I'd like to enter the following challenge:

Gerda Steiner May Challenge: Anything Goes with this digi



Christmas Card Challenge # 11 - Color Challenge.

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

Welcome to a new Christmas Card Challenge!

It's time for colors and the ones we chose are perfect for Valentine's Day too:

 

 

In detail:

 

This is my card:

 

I chose this cute Fancy SB Christmas from Bugaboo Stamps and papers from Lawn Fawn.

 

My teamies created gorgeous cards for this challenge, check them all here on the challenge blog.

You can also see if you're a winner from last week!

 

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

A Snowflake Promise Challenge # 16: Anything Goes

Love to Scrap Challenge # 71: Have a Heart

My Crafting Stories Challenge # 2: Anything Goes

Our Crafty Corner Challenge # 6: Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland Challenge: Have a Heart

 

 

This card is for sale. If you're interested and you can't find it in my Esty shop, please send me a convo and I'll be pleased to list it for you.

 

 



Christmas Cards Challenge # 2 - Color.

Welcome to a new Christmas Cards Challenge!

 

What about these great colors? Very Christmassy yet so fresh!

 

 

This is my card:

 

I've recently subscribed to the new 2 Cute Ink Digital Stamps Club and this was one of November images and my favourite!

The colors for the challenge were perfect to make a card with this adorable little gnome, I only regret I didn't print her bigger!

Papers are from American Crafts and colors are obviously Copics.

 

We are taking a break for a couple of weeks to enjoy festivities so we'll be back in the New Year with a new, exciting challenge!

 

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge: Y for Youngsters

A Gem of a Challenge # 159: Anything Christmas Goes

Fussy and Fancy Challenge # 154: Happy Holidays

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge: Anything Goes Christmas

Polka Doodles Challenge # 49: Traditional Christmas

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge # 306 - White on White (Only Color Your Image).

Welcome to a new C.R.A.F.T. Challenge!

 

This week we have a great theme for you: White on White - Color on the image only!!

 

This is my card:

 

 

My image is from Whoopsy Daisy colored with Copics and mounted on an embossed cardstock from Toga.

It was nice to use all this white on a card! I should do it more often!

 

Check what my teamies have created for this lovely challenge here on our challenge blog. You'll also find last week's winners and Top Three!



2 Cute Ink Monthly Freebie.

Have you already signed for 2 Cute Ink newsletter?

Every 1st of the month you will receive a freebie included in the newsletter!

This month there is this sweet owl:

 

 

Isn't it lovely?

This is my card:

 

If you haven't yet, sign up here for the newsletter and create a card for our Facebook contest here!

We can't wait to see what you create!

 

 

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge # 303 - Mother's Day/Female.

Good morning!

Ready for a new C.R.A.F.T. Challenge?

 

We have a very sweet theme for you this week: Mother's Day or Female.

 

Today it's Father's Day here in Italy and there are a couple of months before Mother's Day so there's plenty of time to create cards for our mums!

 

This is mine for today:

 

 

This cute bear is Kiki Bloom from Little Miss Muffet, colored with Copics and mounted on a dotted card from Ikea.

My mum loves flowers, she has just bought me some pansies and I'm can't wait to bring them home!

 

Have a look here to see the winners and Top 3 for challenge # 302 and don't forget to have a look at all the beautiful cards from the DT!

2 Cute Ink Newsletter Freebie.

Have you signed in for 2 Cute Ink newsletter?

 

Each month there's a freebie for you and a Facebook Challenge too!

 

Join the newsletter here and you'll receive this free digi:

 

 

Isn't this bee super-cute?

She makes me happy and longing for spring (even if winter has just begun here...).

 

Don't waste time, create a card or project with this cute bee and post it to 2 Cute Ink Facebook Group for a chance to win some digis!!

 

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

ABC Challenge: A is for Anything Goes

CCC Digi Creations Challenge # 16: Digi/Embellishments

Crafts galore Encore Challenge: Anything Goes

Creative Knockouts Challenge # 70: For the Kids

Cute Card Thursday Challenge # 354: Anything Goes

 

2 Cute Ink Challenge # 119 - Color Challenge: Orange - Brown - Yellow.

* * This is my 2nd post today, please scroll down to see my DT post for Not Just Cards Challenge * *

 

 

Here I am agan today, this time for the new challenge over at 2 Cute Inks Challenge blog!

 

This week it's all about colors: Orange - Brown - Yellow:

 

 For this challenge I chose a new digi stamp which is perfect for the given colors:

 

 

 

which became this:

 

 

I transformed this cute sunflower into a family, by resizing the images, I then added little details for the boys and the girls.

 

You can find this little cutie here in 2 Cute Ink shop.

 

These colors are perfect for autumn cards as well as for Thanksgiving cards.

Check the shop to see the new Give Thanks digi stamp:

 

 

Have a look at what my teamies have made, we have lots of inspiration for your cards!

I can't wait to see your creations!

It's Jessica's Birthday! Let's Celebrate!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESSICA!!

A while ago I was contacted by one of There She Goes DT member asking if I'd like to join the surprise party for Jessica Knutsen's birthday and, being a fan of There She Goes clear stamps I immediately accepted and made this card:

I've used a stamp from the Blossom by Blossom set, colored it with Copic markers and mounted it on an aperture card with a dotted paper behind. I think that these girls are very cute!

I'm so thrilled about this surprise party! I hope she'll be happy!!

Here's the link to all participants in this party! Don't forget to take a look and send some wishes to Jessica as well!

 

Flowers, Flowers, Flowers...

It's time for Challenge # 24 at Broken Box Stock and the theme is FLOWERS!

Perfect for spring!

This is my card:

I've used a sweet little girl digi stamp called Thanks a Bunch (available here in black & white and here colored) which I printed on a big piece of paper which I glued on a cream cardstock. The green border matches the satin ribbon and the little cloud perfectly!

I wanted the card to be fresh and spring-y so I colored the dress in bright yellows and oranges with matching socks and shoes.

To have more flowers on my card, I added a little yellow rose in the bow and a chipboard flower in the cloud.

I love its simple layout!

Don't forget to have a look at the challenge rules here where you can also find great inspiration from my fellow DT!

A Lovely Spring Morning.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I woke up this morning and saw that it was a sunny day!

We spent Easter vacations under the rain and this also meant that we all got flu... quite annoying.

I didn't have high fever but my bones... well, I felt like I had been to a boxing match!

Daughter gone back to school today, I can sit down and write this post before finishing some projects I left unattended for a week.

With The Alley Way Stamps Be Inspired Challenge # 25 in mind I created a card and matching tag.

First, here's the inspiration:

I first created a tag using the car in the Priceless Joy set from The Alley Way Stamp:

The paper is from The Country Drive Collection from Echo Park and I simply added a dotted satin ribbon and a couple of pearls.

Then, I made the card:

With the same stamp from The Alley Way Stamps, paper from Echo Park and light green dotted ribbon.

I love this girly set, it reminds me of spring weekends and Easter Monday picnics (no, not this year...) leaving for the country...

This card is for the following challenges:

The Alley Way Stamps Be Inspired Challenge # 25: photo above

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge # 35: Bring on Spring

Crafts & Me Challenge # 127: Spring Flowers

Fussy and Fancy # 85: Spring Days

To tell you the truth... pink is my favorite color and sometimes I'd like to have a pink car... it should be much prettier than a standard black one, right?

Pure Cuteness...again!

I made this card a couple of days ago but yesterday I was too excited with my new tags that I chose to showcase them first...

How cute are these cats?

My mum loves cats and when I saw this stamp from the Mulberry Wood Collection in the Bunny Zoe Crafts Shop I decided to buy it and make a card for her for Mother's day.

Unfortunately, her cat is not well and we're expecting the day he will leave us so I don't think it's a good idea to send her a card with cats on them this year...

I wanted to make a super sweet super feminine card, with lots of flowers and pink!

I've found a lovely cream card in my stash which matches perfectly the background of this floral paper I've just found in a magazine and which is perfect with pink.

Then, I added a ribbon, a little rose and some tiny butterflies...

This card is for the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts Challenge: Girly
The Shabby Tea Romm Week #158: Anything Goes

In The Pink Challenge #17: Spring/Easter in Pink

Simon Says Stamps Challenge: Easter/Spring

Ladybug Craft Ink Challenge: Spring



Happy Birthday at Broken Box Stock

This week challenge at Broken Box Stock is all about Birthdays!

It was a pleasure to create this card:

I've used Flower Girl Toodle, pastel colors a touch of glitter... I love it!

Papers are from Tulip-DoCrafts, I think they are perfect for this sweet card! And you know how I love when I can add tiny pearls to my Toodles!!

Here are the rules for the challenge:

Challenge Directions:

Make a Birthday card for someone :) 

Broken Box Stock Digital Stamps:

You don't have to use our stamps but we love it when you do! We have hundreds of digital stamps, click here to check them out!

 

FREEbies:

Check out our freebies too! View our entire freebie collection here.

Deadline: Thursday, February 28, 2013 @ 3:00pm

Prize: 3 FREE digital stamps from our shop at http://www.brokenboxstock.com (your choice!)

Challenge Rules: 

1) Follow the challenge's specific design criteria above.

2) To enter your card in the challenge, use our "inlinkz" link tool below.

3) No back linking.

4) Up to 3 entries per person.

5) Subscribe to our blog so you know if you win (winners must claim their prizes by emailing Broken Box, we will not reach out to you)!

6) We must have at least 5 entries to award a prize.

 

Take a look at the F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S creations of the DT, you'll certainli be inspired!

TSGBC05 - Part 2

And this is my last card for There She Goes Birthday Celebration:

As I told you in my daughter's post, together with the birthday theme for day 5 we have to use at least 3 embellishments. I've used rhinestones only, in pink and light blue, matching the coloring I made to the emboossed parts of this card.

The girl image is from the Blossom by Blossom set and I colored them with my Copics. The sentiment is from the Wrapped in Joy set.

Well, that's all for this incredible five-day Challenge!

We have had a great fun creating our cards, I hope you like them too!

Pure Cuteness

Happy Monday!

First of all, I'd like to thank all the visitors fromTSG Mother of All Blog Hops: you left such sweet comments, I didn't expect such a response to my card.

And welcome to the new followers!

These days last year I was making favour tags for a wedding: she was a Customer from my Etsy shop and she asked me to prepare tags to be added to her wedding favours. I also made a matching Tableau de Mariage and really had so much fun!

Yesterday, I finished the tags she asked me for the birth of her little girl!

It's incredible to be part of a wedding, somewhere far away from your town, thinking about people touching and taking home something I've made.

But it's even more incredible to be part of a birth!

She saw a daisy in my shop and we made tags to be added to favors. I started with this:

Aren't they cute! I had two trays like this one full of freshly glittered daisies and I couldn't help taking a picture of them!

Then, I ended up with this: 

The daisy digi stamp is from Birdie Brown. Tags were made with colors matching chevron bags my Customer had bought and will be attached to the bags by means of wooden pegs.

If she send me a picture of the finished favors, I'll post it here for sure!

Little Maia was born last Friday, so my best wishes to this blessed family!

And: Benvenuta Maia!

Tags!

Last month, while buried under snow, I took out my stash of unused stamps and decided I had to do something with them.

Some of them are very tiny and, although I love them, I found it difficult to put them into good use. I thought about making some tags, "tiny tags".

I made some samples and I loved both the creative process and the final results.

When I saw this week's theme at There She Goes Challenge # 146 I thought I could make some tiny tags with one of their stamps I bought last month.

And here's what I've created:

What I love most of these tiny tags is seeing them altogether!

I decided to use the Bee Happy stamp set: I took some ready made white tags with strings, I added some light green patterned paper as grass, I stamped the flower stem with green ink and glued the flowers and the bees, which I had colored with Copics, with 3D dots so they pop out of the tag.

Unfortunately, these tags are quite small and I couldn't use the sentiments in the set, so I decided to print some "with love" sentiments, cut them as a little flags and glued them to the tags.

And I'm ready to enter There She Goes Challenge # 146 - TAGS!

Enjoy your week-end!

Spring Is In The Air!

I can't believe spring will be here in a couple of weeks!

Last week we had some warm, bright sunny days: heavy down coats back in the wardrobe, snow boots away, light coats out together with silk scarves and sunglasses!

But... no, not again... we had a few dark rainy days... what a sadness!

So I thought about bringing some spring in my craftroom creating these pretty clothespins:

Since I discovered these clothespins in a shop, I've made a series for every season and these pretty flowers from Birdie Brown were just perfect for the spring version!

With glitter here and there and a light green organza ribbon they instantly brought some cheer on my craft room table!

By the way, I'm a very happy winner of There She Goes Challenge # 145!!! I couldn't believe my eyes when I read my name! And this helped me in a dark rainy day dedicated to cleaning the house...

This week the Challenge is about TAGS and I'm already creating some to enter it!

Meanwhile, I've just spent my $5 coupon on a new set of Torico's stamp!

Spring flowers...

It started as a very dark and rainy day and I was even more depressed because I had to clean the house.

Then, it turned out to be a sunny day and this made me happy and gave me the input to make a spring card.

I wanted to enter my beloved Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge: after I won the Grand Prize last week I wanted to enter a card this week too, even if I have lots of things to do which do not include cards...

But I've managed to make this and, once back from school, my daughter wanted to play by herself and I managed to color another couple of digis and hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to finish some more cards. There were so many interesting challenges this week and I'm so sad I cannot enter them and enjoy the fun!

Anyway, this was the sketch this week:

The sponsor is DigiStamp Boutique and I've used one of their digis to make this card:

I've used a white card, then I added a DCWV pastel green paper, a digi paper with small flowers which I found years and years ago somewhere I don't remember and another digi paper with white dots from Pink Petticoat. The digi is colored with watercolor pencils, I added some yellow glitter to it and some pearls here and there on the card.

The ribbon with flowers is another buy I made many years ago and I don't remember the brand.

I'm entering this card in the DigStamp Boutique monthly competition, too.

Fresh spring colors and a flower: spring come quickly!