Trick or Treat

Hello and welcome!!

To celebrate Halloween I've made a card with purple clouds and cute bats.

I created my own mask die cutting a circle from regular copy paper and then attached it to the card base using low tack tape. I stenciled the clouds using purple Distress Ink.

Then stamped the bats and glued googly eyes for a fun look.

Here's my card...

 

I'm sharing this card in the following challenges:

♥ Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Halloween / Spooky

♥ Animal Friends Challenge: Autumn / Halloween


Thank you so much for visiting!
Hugs,
Raquel

Supplies used:
♥ Cardstock: Neenah Solar White 110 lb.
♥ Stamp set: Halloween (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
♥ Ink Pad: Seedless Preserves (Distress Ink) / Jet Black (Archival Ink) / Cheese Puff (Ranger Dye Ink)
♥ Googly eyes

¡Hola little bird!

¡Hola and welcome!

I made a clean &simple card using my new stamp sets from Kinda Cute by Patricia. The sentiments are both in English and Spanish and the images are so cute.

I colored the adorable little bird with colored pencils and tied a bow as a final touch.

I'm sahring this card at:

♥ Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Spots


Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs,
Raquel


Supplies used:
♥ Cardstock: Neenah Solar White 110 lbs.
♥ Stamp sets: Little Bird / Kids (Kinda Cute by Patricia)
♥ Ink Pads: Tuxedo Black (Memento) / Jet Black (Ranger Archival Ink)
♥ Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils
♥ Twine (The Twinery)

Twinkly Birthday

Hello and welcome!!

Do you love cute colorful unicorns? I love them!! So for today I made a clean and simple card featuring a super cute unicorn.

I stamped the image using Memento Tuxedo Black and colored it with colored pencils.
Then I stamped the sentiment with black Archival Ink. I adhered the image with foam tape and applied a bit of Wink of Stella to my unicorn's horn.

Here's my card...

I'm sharing this card at:

♥AAA Cards Challenge #120: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
♥Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Clean & Simple
♥Cute Card Thursday Challenge #541: Anything Goes











Thank you for stopping by!
Hugs,
Raquel


Supplies used:

• Cardstock: Neenah Solar White 110 lb.
• Stamp set: Simply Sweet Unicorns rubber stamps (Simply Sweet Stamps)
• Ink pads: Memento Tuxedo Black / Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black
• Colored Pencils
• Zig Wink of Stella

Happy Birthday Friend!

Hello and welcome!!

I've made a simple one layer birthday card using a cute rubber stamp from Lili of the Valley. I colored the image using my Polychromos colored pencils and used some green Copic markers for the grass.

Here's my card...

 

A close-up...

Since the girl is wearing a cute dress with stripes it's perfect to play along in the following challenges:

♥ Seize The Birthday: Stripes

♥ Less is More Challenge #376: One Layer Card - Stripes









Thank you so much for stopping by!
Hugs,
Raquel

Supplies used:

• Cardstock: Neenah Solar White 110 lb.
• Stamp: Two's Company rubber stamp (Lili of the Valley)
• Ink pad: Memento Tuxedo Black / Ranger Dye Emerald Isle
• Colored pencils
• Markers

100% Fabulous!

Hello and welcome!!

I've made a clean & simple card featuring an adorable unicorn.

I stamped all the elements to create a little scene and colored them with colored pencils. I applied Wink of Stella to add a bit of sparkle to my unicorn's wing and wand.

Finally I die cut the frame (twice) using turquoise cardstock and glue it to my card front to frame my cute little scene.

Here's my card...

 

A close-up...

 

I'm sharing this card in the following challenges:

♥ AAA Card Challenge #118: Use a Frame




 ♥ Cute Card Thursday Challenge #537: Anything Goes




Thank you so much for visiting!!
Hugs,
Raquel


Supplies:
Cardstock: Solar White 110 lb. (Neenah) / Turquoise Sea (Gina K. Designs)
Stamp set: Fabulous Unicorns rubber stamps (Simply Sweet Stamps)
Ink pads: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Dies: Square Shaker Window & Frame (My Favorite Things)
Colored pencils
Wink of Stella

Tremendous Triangles

Hello and welcome!!

For today's post I'm sharing a clean & simple holiday card, featuring geometrics shapes and non- traditional holiday colors.

I've used a stamp set from Whimsy Stamps called Tremendous Triangles, it has three different sizes of triangles and I've used the smallest ones to create my holiday trees. I stamped them using dye inks and then I used Distress inks for the splatters. The sentiment was stamped using gray ink.

I just love these colors and how this card turned out. Hope you like it too!

Here's my card...

A close-up...

I'm sharing this card in the following challenges:

♥ Time Out Challenge #111: Holidays

♥ AAA Cards Challenge #117: Geometrics

♥ Christmas Cards All Year 'Round  June Challenge: Non-Traditional Christmas/Holiday colors 


Thanks for visiting and have a great day!!
Hugs,
Raquel


Supplies:
Cardstock: Solar White 110 lb. (Neenah) / Turcoise Sea (Gina K. Designs)
Stamp sets: Tremendous Triangles (Whimsy Stamps) / Holiday Sentiments (My Sentiment Exactly)
Ink pads: Raspberry Sorbet, Lemon Twist, Emerald Isle, Cool Graphite (Ranger Dye Ink) / Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade, Peacock Feathers (Distress Ink)

Have a Screaming Good Time!

Hello and welcome!!

This time I'm sharing a fun and colorful birthday card with cute monsters from Your Next Stamp.

First, I stamped all the images and colored them using my colored pencils.

Then, I die cut the circles and ink sponged them using Distress Inks and glued them to the card base and trimmed off the excess.

After that, I heat embossed the sentiment using white embossing powder and then attached it with foam adhesive. Finally, I glued the monsters and added googly eyes to the bottom rigth monster.

I LOVE this card so much, it makes me smile!!

Here's my card...

A close-up of these cute monsters...

I'm sharing this card in the following challenges:

♥ Your Next Stamp Sketch Challenge #87
♥ Seize the Birthday: Vibrant Colors

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Hugs,
Raquel


Supplies:
• Cardstock: Neenah Solar White 80 & 110 lb. / Black Onyx (Gina K. Designs)
• Stamp set: Silly Monsters 2 (Your Next Stamp)
• Ink pads: Memento Tuxedo Black / Distress Ink: Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Abandoned Coral  / Versamark Ink
• Embossing Powder : Opaque Bright White (WOW!)
• Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils

Party Til The Cows Come Home

Hello and welcome!

Today I'm sharing a one-layer birthday card. I made this card for my sister in-law. She loves cows, so every year I make her a cow themed card.

First, I stamped the cow in the middle and masked it. Then, I stamped the other two cows and masked them. After that, I ink sponged the background using distress inks. Finally, I colored the cute cows and stamped the sentiment with red ink.

Here's my card...

I'm sharing this card in the following challenges:

♥ Animal Friends Challenge #61: Farm
♥ Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Animals
♥ Seize the Birthday Challenge: "Anything Goes" Birthday

 

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Hugs,
Raquel

Supplies:
• Cardstock: Neenah Solar White 110 lb.
• Stamp set: Funny Farm Crew (Your Next Stamp)
• Ink Pads: Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers (Distress Ink) / Jet Black, Classic Cherry (Archival Ink)
• Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils

Happy Easter!

Hello and welcome!!

I'm back with another Easter card. This time I've used a stamp set from Papertrey Ink called So Sweet. It really is a sweet set and the bunny is the cutest. So, I had to use it on my card.

First, I stamped the bunny with white pigment ink. The nose, cheeks, whiskers, and sentiment were stamped using Archival inks. To finish off my card, I've added a twine bow and glued wiggle eyes.

Here's my card...

I'm linking this card to the following challenges:

♥ Animal Friends Challenge: Easter
♥ Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Happy Easter!!

Hugs,
Raquel

Supplies used:
Cardstock: Neenah Desert Storm 100 lb.
Stamp set: So Sweet (Papertrey Ink)
Ink pads: Unicorn pigment ink (Hero Arts) / Pink Gumball, Raspberry Sorbet, Jet Black, Cool Graphite (Archival Ink)
Baker's twine: Caribbean (The Twinery)
Wiggle eyes

Cactus Collection

Hello and welcome!!

Today I'm sharing a card I made to play along at AAA Cards Challenge #111 -Use Only One Third-

For this fun challenge I've chosen some cute cacti to be the protagonists of my card.
First, I stamped the flowers and masked them. Then I stamped all the cacti in different shades of green. As a final touch a glued two tiny pearls to the flowers.

Here's my card...

A close-up...

Hope you can join the challenge too!

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day!
Hugs,
Raquel


Supplies used:
Cardstock: Neenah Solar White 110 lb.
Stamps: Build your own Cactus (Momenta) / Sentiment (Stampabilities)
Ink pads: Ranger Dye Ink (Lily Pad, Electric Lime, Classic Cherry, Cheese Puff, Lemon Twist) / Memento ( Bamboo Leaves, Pear Tart ) / Archival Ink (Leaf Green, Garden Patina, Jet Black)

Birthday Bear

Hello and welcome!!

I made this clean and simple birthday card for my niece, who is turning 12.
I've used one of the cute bears from Present Trio from Lili of the Valley and colored it with colored pencils.

Here's my card...

A close-up ...

I'm sharing this card in the following challenges:

* Lili of the Valley November Challenge is: B is For... So, my B is for: Birthday & Bear

* Sweet Stamping Challenge: Birthday. They are celebrating 8 years, so I'm excited to play along and celebrate with them on this week special challenge.

* Seize the Birthday: Circles / 'Anything goes' Birthday



Thanks for stopping by!!
Hugs,
Raquel

Christmas Candlelight

Hello and welcome!!

For today's post I made a Christmas card, which is clean & simple, and one layer.

I used the stamp named Christmas Candlelight from Elizabeth Craft Designs, and colored it with colored pencils. The sentiment was stamped with black ink and then heat embossed using clear embossing powder. I mixed gesso and a bit of water for the white splashes.

Here's my card...

I'm sharing my card in the following challenges:

• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Clean and Simple
• Less is More Challenge #345: One Layer Card - Coloring In
• Christmas Cards All Year Round September Challenge: Use Leaves

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day!
Hugs,
Raquel

 

It's your day!

Hello and welcome!!

Today I'm sharing a one layer birthday card. The circle background was ink blended using a sponge dauber and three different colors of distress ink. Then stamped the images and lines with black ink.
I love the gradient look of the background.

Here's my card...

A closer look...

My card was inspired by the following challenges:

♥ Sweet Stampin' Challenge: One Layer

♥ Less is More Challenge #317-Sketch 19

Thank you for visiting!
Hugs,
Raquel

Supplies:

• Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah)
• Stamp sets: Wildflowers (Technique Tuesday) / Get in Line (Whimsy Stamps)
• Ink pads: Jet Black (Archival Ink-Ranger) / Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral, Spun Sugar (Distress Ink)

You're my Sunshine!

Hello and welcome!!

Happy New Year everyone!! I'm so excited because this is my first post of 2017, yay!!

I already sent all the January birthday cards, so now I can start making Valentine's cards, hurrah!!

I'll be posting more Valentine cards the following days, so stay tuned!! :)

Here is my card for today...

A closer look...

It's a simple one layer card. I sponged the sky with distress ink and colored the sun with colored pencils.

I was inspired by Anita's card  at Muse Card Club Challenge #198.
I used the round/ circular element as inspiration. So, for my card the sun it's the circular focal image.

This is Anita's card:

Thank you so much for visiting and have a great day!
Hugs,
Raquel


Supplies:

• Cardstock: Solar White 110 lb. (Neenah)
• Stamp sets: Things With Wings (My Favorite Things) / Smitty's ABC's (Lawn Fawn) / Sophisticated Script (Concord & 9th)
• Ink pads: Jet Black (Archival Ink-Ranger) / Dandelion (Memento) / Mermaid Lagoon (Distress Ink)
• Yellow and orange colored pencils
• Sponge dauber

Muse Challenge #196

Hello and welcome!!

Today I'm sharing a card I made to play at Muse Card Club Challenge #196.

This week's Muse is Tracey Mcneely. She has created a beautiful clean & simple card, featuring a pink watercolor butterfly and a large sentiment.

 

How was I inspired by Tracey's card?

• The colors. I used watercolor paper and 3 shades of pink to create the gradient effect.
• The insect (instead of a butterfly I used a ladybug).
• Tracey embellished her butterfly with three Nuvo drops, so instead I used three sequins as embellishments.
• The large beautiful sentiment

Here is my card...

I die cut extra wings from vellum and adhered them with small pieces of foam tape to give dimension to my ladybug.

This is Tracey's card:

Thank you so much  for stopping by!!
Hugs,
Raquel


Supplies:

• Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah) / Distress Watercolor Cardstock (Tim Holtz-Ranger) / Black Textured Cardstock (The Paper Studio) / Vellum (Core'dinations)
• Stamp set: Birthday Wishes & Balloons (My Favorite Things)
• Dies: Ladybug (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
• Ink pad: Jet Black (Archival Ink - Ranger)
• Sequins (Doodlebug Design)

Happy Halloween 2016!

Hello and welcome!! I wanted to make Halloween cards but I didn't' have any Halloween stamp, so I got some digital stamps by Mo Manning at Mo's Digital Pencil. Her site has the cutest images and I know you'd love them.

I made two clean and simple cards. I just printed and colored both images using Spectrum Noir markers (colors used are listed on the supplies list at the bottom of the post).

For the second card I stamped "Halloween", and die cut  "happy" from orange and purple cardstock. I glued a giggle eye to the letter "O" for a "spooky' look.

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¡Hola y bienvenidos! Quería hacer tarjetas de Halloween pero no tenia ningún sello de Halloween. Así que, compré unos sellos digitales en la página Mo's Digital Pencil de Mo Mannnig. En esta página encontrarás imágenes super lindas y sé que amarás si la visitas.

Hice dos tarjetas simples. Solamente, imprimí y coloreé ambas imágenes con los marcadores Spectrum Noir (la lista de los colores utillizados la encontrarás en la lista de materiales al final de este post).

Para la segunda trajeta, stampé la palabra 'HALLOWEEN', y troquelé la palabra 'happy' utilizando cartulina anaranjada y morada. Adherí un ojo móvil en lugar de la letra 'O' para darle un toque de misterio . Por ultimo, enmarqué los paneles de las imágenes.

Muchas gracias por pasar y visitar, abrazos!!

Card #1

Card #2

I'm entering these cards to the following challenges:

• Mo's Digital Challenge #268: Anything Mo Goes
• Spectrum Noir October Challenge: Halloween Colors

Thanks so much for visiting and have a great day!
Hugs,
Raquel


Supplies:

• Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah) / Green Room, Boysenberry, Orange Zest (MFT)
• Stamps: Hobson on Halloween, Hobson with Treats (Mo's Digital Pencil) / Smitty's ABCs (Lawn Fawn)
• Dies: Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables (Lawn Fawn) / Word Confetti (Momenta)
• Ink pads: Jet Black (Ranger Archival Ink)
• Spectrum Noir markers: Pumpkins (TN6,OR3, OR2, CT4); Face and Hands (LG2, CG4, CG3); Tongue (LV1, LV3); Eyes(LV2,IG1); Sweater (IG2, IG8, IG10, BGR2, BGR3);Sweater Dots (LV3); Elbow Patches (CT4, OR2, OR1); Socks (LV1, LV3,HB3); Shoes (OR1, OR2, OR3); Shoe Soles (IG2, IG4); Floor (IG2, BGR2); Lollipop ( CR1,CR2, CR8); Candies (CR8, CR10, CT1,CT4, IB2, IB3, LG2, CG4)
• Wiggle eyes (Darice)