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Angel de mi guarda

The Guardian Angel prayer for my DD birthay. A little shadow box 4 her bedroom, to remind her of the really important things in life. My version of Kazan's sketch.
Hope you all had a wonderful father's day!
PS I am so proud Paige from the Cards blog pick my fathers day card!
http://northridgemedia.net/blogs/cards/challenge/challenge-gallery-and-new-challenge-36/

Abuelita con todo mi cariño

Una tarjeta para una abuela especial con la plantilla de Laura. Dos paginas de mis dos amores, una romantica y una de puro verano!

This pretty paper from Kaisercraft was a joy to play with. I felt like a kid with the butterflies, birds and flowers, made for Kazan's lovely sketch. The bird cage is in chipboard inked with Tim Holtz new olive and then embossed clear.
Next is Pink Paislee with my DD, tons of beading and stitching in this one for TCR.

2 takes 1 sketch

I loved Laura's sketch so much I wanted to try my hand 2 different ways. First is a trio of hand embroidered hot air ballons. There is a Fun with Fabric Challenge at Moxie Fab World and I wanted to try my hand with it. Pure wool cut with a die from Papertry Ink, you just have to touch this to feel them, so rich to the touch of one's hand! I think they will not stay permanently on this card and will instead end gracing a teeshirt for my DD.
Next one is inspired by a tutorial on wings by Ingvild Bolme I so wanted to try, it was really fun making them out of recycled materials, there is a lot of green in this card, the hearts were cut with the slice feom a recycled book and just were lying around waiting to be used!
And last a LO with my DD for TCR, all in Spanish, titled Your Serious Side!
Have a fun week

Happy Birthday

I created this birthday bag inspired by the Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World. I loved the grid on the original card and I had these yummy buttons by KI Memories just lying around. I think they worked perfect with the Jenni Bowlin cabbage rose stamp as a background in black. I decided to flip the design to make it into a bag I could readily have available for the next B-Day!

Cherish

This week the sketch is going off the card and into the wall!
Tons of Webster's goodness into this, papers given to me by my friend Jackie, thanks!
and a LO with new BG Capella.

Devotion

Devotion is what a parent feels forever in their hearts for their children. For Laura's sketch I was inspired by this vintage image of a father pulling the curtain to see his baby. Not often do we see the tender side of men, but it's there specially when it comes to their children. This is the perfect father's day card for my husband, who is devoted to his children beyond belief. I am so lucky he's mine.
This is also the perfect card for the Cards challenge, this Sunday he will have a special sentiment inside by the kids!

Haute Couture

Senior proms are coming, and girls all over high schools are looking for what to wear. I just couldn't resist with only one choice so I ended up making 2, rows and rows of punched scallops...maybe I am not finished yet and will whip up another batch...who knows, inspired by Kazan's sketch this week!
Next is my mothers day LO, with my kids, blessed day with the grandmas, what more can we ask for! Hope you had a wonderful one with your mamas too.

Pretend

Una tarjeta para la plantilla de Kazan, utilizando una de mis imagenes favoritas. Un par de paginas para mantenernoa al dia. Especialmente esa de mamarazzi, que me parece somos muchas las que caemos en eso y por ultimo una foto de parte de la exhibicion de Montessori en el MAC.

Joy

Joy of being a mom, with its goods and the not so goods. This weekend we made cake together, yesterday not so good @ school, this morning the unexpected...Always an adventure that of being a mother: to care, to nurture, to be there

Pancakes, cards and pages!

What is a mom to do...I was making breakfast to little Miss M when I looked @ the pan I saw a ladybug. Now it may sound silly but it made my "non morning" little person cheer up! So much I did it again, not as an accident anymore, mind you. All you do is pour the batter off center in a non stick pan, and then pour again close to it to create the "head", before you flip it make a V mark with your spatula at the end of the first pancake and right in the middle, it will transfer to the other side, and then you flip, you can decorate with strawberries or chocolate chips or whatever strikes your little one's fancy!
For Kazan's sketch I made a Mother's Day card,it's coming before you know it
and to tie you over here are some new LO's I've created, sorry for the abscence but the kids were on their spring break and I needed to spend time with them!

Contrast

This past weekend I was outside with the little miss and I saw this glorious contrast of her sitting in the balcony against the variegated ginger. she was dressed in turquoise and I BEGGED her to let me take some photos. You see with her it is all about me hiding with the camera to have her pictures...I loved that smile and a bunch of other photos from that same shoot that will be surfacing, because I want to scrap them all.
So I devoted this week to contrats in the color wheel, the card for Laura with the hand sewn and beaded felt flowers and the new Jenni Bowlin, the pink and green for Melissa and the turquoise and green for me. Hope you end up as inspired as I am!

All dolled up

Sometimes a sketch will be able to fire me up, this time it was 2, Kazan's and Sarah's. So fun to work with this dolls, the ladies, the chipboards and Miss Mercedes!!! Hope you enjoy them as much as I did!