Let's Get This Paw-ty Started!

Hello and welcome!!

I've already started making birthday cards for next year. My mom, sister and hubby celebrate their birthdays on August, so I made them a fun and colorful card featuring a cute lion, which represents their Zodiac Sign: Leo.

I used watercolor paper to create my card base. Then, I used my Le Plume markers to watercolor the background and to color the lion, birthday hat and balloon. And as a final touch I glued googly eyes to the critter.

Here's my card...

I'm sharing this card in the following challenges:

♥ YNS Fun Friday Challenge #99: What's your sign?

♥ Time Out Challenge #120: Colorful

♥  Size the Birthday: Anything Goes

♥ Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Animal Antics

Thank you for visiting!
Hugs,
Raquel

Supplies used:
♥ Watercolor paper 140 lb. (Canson)
♥ Stamp sets: Smiley Happy Critter Crew Set Two / Silly Monsters Incognito Two (Your Next Stamp)
♥ Ink pads: Archival Ink Jet Black (Ranger)
♥ Le Plume II markers (Marvy Uchida)
♥ Googly eyes

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)

Love is in the Air!

Hello and welcome!!

Definitely, l♥ve is in the air!! All this love around have inspired me to make a bunch a Valentine's cards.

Today's card was insdpired by Inkspirational Challenge #126 - Word Prompt "Flutter".
My card features a beautiful watercolor butterfly which has been fluttering by... and spreading love everywhere :)

Here is my card...

A closer look of the butterfly...

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


Supplies:

• Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah) / Distress Watercolor (Tim Holtz-Ranger)
• Die: Happpy Butterfly (Technique Tuesday)
• Stamp set:  Word Critters Spring Birds (Your Next Stamp)
• Ink pads: Jet Black, Deep Purple (Archival Ink-Ranger) / Cracked Pistachio, Mustard Seed (Distress Ink)
• Dylusions Ink Spray: London Blue, White Linen

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)

Watercolor Flowers Card

Hello friends!! I want to share a card a I made while playing with my distress inks.
I created my own stamped background and gold embossed the sentiment on a piece of vellum. This is my very first time using vellum and I really like how it looks.
I'm entering this card in the CAS(E) this Sketch #168.


¡Hola amigos! Quiero compartir una tarjeta que hice mientras jugaba con mis tintas distress.
Creé mi propio diseño, estampando las flores en papel para acuarela; y estampé sobre vellum con polvos para grabado dorado. Es la primera vez que utilizo vellum y realmente me gusta cómo se ve.
Con esta tarjeta estoy participando en el reto de CAS(E) this Sketch #168.

Here's a close up of the gold embossed sentiment...

 

 

This is the CTS #168

Supplies used / Materiales utilizados:

• Cardstock: MFT Ripe Raspberry / Distress Watercolor Cardstock / Core'dinations Clear Translucent Cardstock (vellum)
• Stamp set: Inkadinkado Doodle Flowers
• Ink Pads: Archival Ink Jet Black / VersaMark / Distress Ink: mustard seed, spiced marmalade, mermaid lagoon, shaded lilac, picked raspberry, cracked pistachio
• Gold embossing powder

Thanks so much for visiting. Have a great day!
Hugs,
Raquel

Pop-Up Birthday Card

Hello!! I had too much fun making this birthday card and I really like how it turned out. Hope you like it too!

¡Hola! Hacer esta tarjeta de cumpleaños fue muy divertido y el resultado final me encantó. ¡Espero a ustedes les guste también!

How to make it?
1. Die-cut a white panel from watercolor cardstock (I used Stitched Rounded Rectangles dies from My Favorite Things); then splatter panel with distress inks.
2. Die-cut "Happy Birthday To You" using the Pop-up Birthday die from My Favorite Things.
3. Adhere a piece of cardstock to back of white panel covering the message opening.
4. Stamp two balloon strings using black ink. Die-cut balloons and adhere to panel using foam tape.( I used: MFT Birthday Wishes & Balloons stamp set and dies)
5. Form a 5½ x 4¼-inch card base from Kraft cardstock and attach white panel using foam tape.

¿Cómo hacerla?
1. Troquela un panel de papel para acuarela utilizando uno de los troqueles de Stitched Rounded Rectangles de My Favorite Things. Luego, con un pincel haz salpicaduras de tinta distress hasta cubrir todo el panel.
2. Troquela la frase "Happy Birthday To You" usando el troquel "Pop-up Birthday" de My Favorite Things.
3. Pega una pieza de cartulina de color detrás del mensaje troquelado, y así resaltar aún más la frase.
4. Estampa los hilos de los globos con tinta negra. Troquela los globos y pégalos al panel. (Utilicé los troqueles y set de sellos de MFT: Birthday Wishes & Balloons)
5. Forma una base para tarjeta de 5½ x 4¼ pulgadas y pega el panel a esta base utilizando cinta foam.

 

 

Have a great weekend! / ¡Feliz fin de semana!

Raquel

Celebrating Cardmaking Day! / Celebrando el Día del Cardmaking!

Hi everyone!! Today is World Cardmaking Day, so I wanted to celebrate making this simple but colorful card. Hope you like it!
 
Hola a todos! Hoy es el Día Mundial del Cardmaking, así que, quise celebrarlo haciendo esta simple pero colorida tarjeta. Espero les guste!  

For the background I used Distress Inks (picked raspberry, mustard seed, peacock feathers).I stamped the sentiment using Memento tuxedo black and then restamped it with Versamark and applied clear embossing powder. As a final touch I glued some enamel dots, which coordinate with the background colors.

Para el fondo utilicé tintas Distress en los colores: picked raspberry, mustard seed y peacock feathers. La frase la estampé con tinta Memento en el color tuxedo black. Luego, estampé de nuevo pero esta vez con Versamark, para poder agregar polvos para grabado transparente y así darle un poquito de brillo a la frase.
Y como toque final adherí tres decoraciones en los mismos colores de las tintas del fondo de la tarjeta.

 Have a nice weekend! / ¡Feliz fin de semana!
 Raquel :)