Cards for Emily - Part 2

Here's my card for "A Card for Emily" project promoted by Dustin Pike:

Instead of using a Daisy and Buttercup image, I chose a frog image I had just bought from Doodle Dragon Studios: it's in the March 2011 collection and I love it!

I still have to write my message for Emily, it's difficult to write something after the wonderful words my daughter used in her card!

Again, if you want to send a card to Emily, read full instuctions here.

Cards for Emily - Part 1

A few days ago I read about "A Card for Emily"on Dustin Pike blog.

Emily is a 7 year-old girl who is fighting leukemia and Dustin let us choose one of his Daisy and Buttercup images to make a card to be sent to her.

I asked my daughter if she would like to make a card for this little girl and she made this:

She used the Daisy and Buttercup image from Dustin Pike, colored it with colored pencils and glitter and embellished the card with paper flowers, rhinestones and a pretty pink satin bow.

She also wrote a very moving message inside the card, which I translated into English hoping to be able to keep the same atmosphere. I suggested her not to write about illness or recovering and she really wrote THE perfect message.

I'm finishing my card and I'll post it as soon as ready.

If you want to send a card to Emily, you can read about it here.

Thanks, Dustin!

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!

A New Challenge!

I know, I know... I'm a really lazy blogger! I promised myself I would have been more active on the blog with the new year but time flies so fast...

Anyway, I'm so excited because I made a card yesterday which I really like!

In January, I treated myself with some stamps from There She Goes: I'm a fan of Torico, one of their designers, so I decided I should have some of their stamps.

They finally arrived and I love them! The lines are so thin and perfect and the sheets have many stamps and sentiments, very versatile!

Yesterday, they posted their weekly challenge and this was the sketch to follow:

This is my card:

This stamp is Float My Boat by Torico and I colored it with Copics. I made the bunting with the flags of the stamp sheet and glued them with 3D dots.

I wanted to keep the color scheme simple and "clean" so I used this striped paper from Pink Petticoat and I added no glitter... I still think that the stars on the bunting would have been very cute with some glitter...

I'm entering There She Goes Sketch Challenge # 145 and... I start dreaming about summer!

Buried under Snow...

These last 10 days have one thing in common: SNOW!

In our region it doesn't snow too much, I remember years without snow for the whole winter. These past few years were quite snowy and this is probably the snowiest of all!

It all started on Tuesday Jan. 31: it began slowly but, after weeks of warm weather, we were quite happy to see snow. It ended after 48 hours: cars buried under tons of snow, school closed for several days, everything was a real chaos!

It stopped for a while but than again, the whole weekend was spent looking out of the windows: it seems that the last heavy snowfall here was back in 1985 and I don't remember it.

Well, this morning I opened my email and read that it was suggested to collect kids from school at 11.30 because from 12.00 a snowstorm will start for another 36 hours... no, not again!

My sister had a baby last week: she lives in Milan but the conditions of roads and trains is so poor that I haven't managed to meet my nephew yet and it seems that this weekend it'll be impossible to go there...

Luckily enough, the last two days were sunny so the postman delivered some of my orders, amongst which four sets of new stamps from Torico I ordered from There She Goes stamps! I was looking forward to seeing them and now I think I'll work with them during the weekend!

Talking about Torico, as a daily reader of her blog, I discovered that she is sponsoring a challenge and I created this:

I love these pears and they were perfect for this little magnetic notepad, useful in the kitchen, near the telephone or wherever you need to jot down notes.

I've put in on a new metal shelf I bought from Ikea for my craft table and it looks so pretty!

Maybe I'll keep it for me...

The image is a freebie from Birdie Brown on Etsy and I'm entering the following Challenges:

DYSU Challenge # 58 - LOVE

and

Delightful Sketches Weekly Challenge - LOVE

and

Sarah Hurley Challenge # 59 - LOVE IS ALL AROUND

Well... I think that right now I could say that Snow is all around rather then love but in a few days it'll be Valentine day so let's celebrate!

Today I'm for Pink!

This morning when I switched on my computer and spent some coffee time looking at Etsy listings I noticed that I was attracted by PINK.

Pink is probably my favorite color and I decided to make a Treasury list there dedicated to pink items.

This afternoon, I've managed to finish a card with a digi I colored a while ago which I did not manage to assemble into something nice for a while and the card turned out... PINK!

This digi is "Lovely Couple" from Birdie Brown on Etsy and I bought it last year as soon as I saw it in the shop.

It took a while to transform it into a card but now I'm so happy with the result! I painted the newly wed with Copics and added a touch of glitter in the roses and in the groom's hankie, then I used a DCWV background paper on a white card, a paper doily, a sheer organza ribbon and bow and a delicate pink rose. I even added a button on the groom!

They look so happy!

Have a nice Saturday night!

OOhh... How Cute!

A couple of days ago I found a lovely freebie in one of my favourite blogs Birdie Brown and I immediately realized I could make some tiny cards with them:

Aren't they sweet?

In 2011 I bought some stamps from her shop on Etsy which I used for party decorations but I did not send a picture to her to show them.

I've had these pretty mini cards and envelopes in various colors for a while but they are so tiny I couldn't find something suitable for them. When I printed the pears I headed for them all and chose this bright green: a bit out of the usual Valentine color scheme but perfect for my pears!

In addition, I've had ideas for cards and other sweet little creations with Birdie Brown stamps, so stay tuned!

The Paper Shelter DT Call

The second card I've made this week is for a DT Call:

I bought this digi stamp from The Paper Shelter around Christmas but it was too late to make Christmas cards. I fell in love with its sweetness and poetry. I used only a part of the digi here, it actually has two gnomes and a little mouse watching them.

As soon as I read that they were looking for new DT members I thought about making a card with this digi. Ehm... well, to tell you the truth, the very first thing I thought was that I could never become a DT for them but then I decided I had to try.

The main thing they want to see in applicants' cards is colouring and, fingers crossed, I did my best with my new Copics. As you know, I'm quite new to Copics and I'm still practising.

I glittered each and every light, the gnome's belt and the pom-pom on his hat... Oohh! How I love glitter!

I wanted to keep the colors simple and I chose this red and white color scheme: a red card, white and red papers, red dots made with paint.

Christmas is over and I should be making Valentine cards but I couldn't wait to color this gnome and I have in mind to make at least one Christmas card per week... well, maybe every two weeks....

This card will be entered in The Paper Shelter Design Team Call

and

in the ABC Christmas Challenge: A for Anything Goes

Fingers crossed for the DT Call, for the Challenge and... for I manage to make one Christmas card/week in 2012!

PS: this card won't be for sale in my Etsy shop until later this year. Should you be interested in it, please let me know and I'll list it.

New Cards!

Well, my New Year's resolutions regarding my craft room are vanishing... it's such an overwhelming amount of work I prefer to go out and do something else.

I did manage to reorganize something but I should do that at a quicker pace.

In any case, I entered my craft room and, without looking on the left side where the most of my clutter is, I reached my seat and created some new cards.

The first one is this:

I've had this adorable lamp for a while and I've always wanted to make a card with it and finally I've found a simple layout in sweet white and pink tones.

This lamp is a digi stamp from Meljen's Designs which I mounted on a white card embellished with a striped pink paper from Pink Petticoat and a satin ribbon. A sentiment et... voilà!

I'll enter my first challenge this year: Meljen's Designs Challenge # 92 where "Anything Goes"!

I'm so happy I did manage to find some time to create new cards, I always miss it when I do other things!