Thankful!

Thanks to the fine ladies at TSR for making my entry an honorable mention cup of tea!
November is already here and I can't wait to bring out my nutcrackers, trees, villas and all the Christmas Magic home!

In the meantime there is so much to be Thankful for

that it deserves a special feature.

With this weeks inspiration from TSR I have decided to go

the Thanksgiving way and prepare

a paper extravaganza for my table.

Don't you just adore this cute image!!!!

the colors plus a flower (S)

here we go

gather your supplies, and hydrate yourself

measure, cut and paste

embellish (my favorite part!!!)

give meaning to your creation!

full view for your tea lights

use your scraps! how about some cute place cards for your guest

make some napkin rings,

 Another ubber cute idea for the napkin ring can be found here

on my friend Audrey's blog,

 hers are mega cute with critters!!!

all I need now are some guests and some turkey!

This is an awesome way to use your scraps nothing was wasted

you can also visit my challenge at CC

for more "use your stash" ideas!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

 

 

Milagros

 

Bo Bunny Love Letters Je t'aime!

 

Hi everyone, it's a new week, almost Halloween, and here I am working with love...

 

This is the new palette at TCR

and my crop shows exactly that the red, teal, silver and white!

I love the silver book plates from Teresa Collins old release, I just needed that

for my silver

the red and teal beaded flowers are from Prima totally gorgeous!

and the papers and chipboard embellie are from the new Love Letters collection by Bo Bunny

TDF cute and with the perfect colors!

 the inspiration is beautiful, I love that branch in the photo with the hanging ornaments

I wish I had one at home, it looks so special...

That inspired me to pick my Prima wood branch and use it to hang some hearts

And here's my page! I was inspired by Laura Whitaker's sketch over at CC

Hope it puts you in a happy mood, I sure love it!

 

Hugs,

 

 

 

Milagros

My little Halloween Villa

It's almost Halloween and I can't wait!!!!

After receiving my Once Upon a Halloween collection I just had to do a project.

I decided to add to my villas collection and made me a house.

It's a fancy one, mind you

All my windows are sugared in Glow in the dark glitter

the gorgeous bags were hand cut from paper and properly accesorized

the goo had to come from the roof

the cameo was handpainted

and given a proper casing with a Spellbinders die and more bling,

of course

my chimney needed a guardian,

can you think of a better one? NOT this gorgeous green owl was my FAVE

and the smoke was sugared too

I also needed some "greenery" and another bird

the Villa's keeper, making sure everything is tidy

around here!!!

If you want to play you can visit me at my use your stash challenge here at Colorful Creations!

Be sure to comeback for more Halloween surprises

like the Glow in the Dark roject I made for

Papeles y Mas magazine

 

 

 

Spooky hugs to ya

 

 

 

Milagros

Happy

I have admired Britt's style for a very long time, I love the way she incorporates her hand cut photographs of her children on her pages in scenes craftily made.  To my surprise this weeks sketch at skissedilla is made by her, check it out!

 

After seeing some photos I had taken recently from Miss M I saw one that caught my eye as to be a candidate for this.  She was twirling in a tulle dress and she looked perfect for the sketch

I loved working this whimsical style and fuzzy cutting my way around the foliage and the picnic basket. The big flower atop a die cut piece from Spellbinders represents my sun in this little scene.

 I used the CSI palette #40 as my cue for colors.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

 

Milagros

 

 

Life

Hi everyone, so sorry about the long absence, there was some family illness and I could not sit down to post the way I wanted.  After this long hiatus brace yourself because this will be post # 1 of the day and more is on the way.

It's been a long time since I last played at OUAS so I decided to stop by their blog and see the new sketch and see where my inspiration would take me.

This quote is the inspiration this month

so, so perfect for me, love the sentiment behind this, and being I carry my camera with me at all times it is something I could very much relate too.

I decided to use Life as the title and then I wrote the complete quote behind the negative film strip

One of my favorite ways to journal is to draw swirls in my page and then follow the line and write around them

Gotta love that dancing little one from Webster's!

I also layered around my photo with some tulle, from the Once upon a Halloween collection

Unreal that it is beyond cute!!! with a gold trim at the end

And here is the full view, I have to say doing the sketch got my cretive juices flowing and I loooved the end result

Thanks so much for visiting, you always make my day!

 

 

 

 

Milagros

Limited Edition 1/1 2012 Edition

Hi Everyone can you imagine my surprise when I saw this picture over at The Shabby Tearoom?

If you know me you know that even my store is chartreuse and hot pink!!!! My most FAVE colors in the world....

and the challenge:

work with green, pink and flowers...

soooo me, right?

Well Kaisercraft made this gorgeous collection for their 2012 release called Mint Twist

irresistibly gorgeous, the colors scream my name all the way from Australia to Puerto Rico!

and so I worked this up for the challenge

If you know a bit about me you know how I love nutcrackers, I already started my 2012 wishlist

This year my best friend Myriam found me a wooden soldier, last year I did a king. 

For this years version I decided to enamel the eyes, so they are a shade of blue

I used Ranger enamels in black and white and nail enamel in "candy peppermint" shade (looove the name!!!!)

I blinged his sword...couldn't help myself and did it in pink of course!

top view of the hat, the paints are acrylic metallic silver by Kaisercraftcolour, pearl white by Martha Stewart and citrus green by Deco Art.  The cheeks are liquid pearls by Ranger and glitter by Doodlebug.  The mouth is Red wagon acrylic paint by Making memories with the Ranger white enamel.

Profile view, flower by Prima

I used the paper pad from Mint Twist and the Bling is  by Websters.

Hope you have enjoyed him as much as I did creating him!!!!

Big creative hugs to you

 

 

Milagros

 

PS     Thanks so much for the

Honorable Mention!!

Unique

It is mid month already and time for a "for the boys" Challenge over at Colorful Creations

I have chosen a very masculine palette and my challenge is to create a title

out of a scrap of paper, in my case I used a bingo card from

a Simple Stories paper for "unique" that's how he is! And to use a recycled item in my case I used a Prima packaging.

of course he is like me blinded by the sun!

I did some gesso work on my background with the gears mask.

Remember my other challenge is still running

Use your stash

head over to CC to view and play and here's my page

Enjoy the weekend everyone!!!

 

Milagros

 

 

Discovered

Hi Everyone!!! It's time for our mid month challenge over at sketchers

and this time I have decided to photograph every step of the way

 

This week I started working on a LO that got featured at TCR it was about my daughter using her brother's car, 8 years later and a little too late.

Well I thought it needed bigger pictures, maybe a second page

and it got me thinking I could link the 2 together, so I used the same palette and stamp.

Here's the begining of the background using a chevron stamp by Jenni Bowlin.

Don't worry too much about it being perfect as you will cover most of it later on.

I then used a pippette to splatter some ink

I have to say this is the fun part, you never know what result you are going to get!!!

lovely mess...

photos scattered according to sketch

dressed in goodies and well documented

I hope you have enjoyed my process!

Have a beautiful weekend and I will be looking forward to your entries to see what you come up with

Hugs

 

 

 

Milagros

Fantasia

 

Hi everyone!!! Hope you  had a beautiful weekend, I started this week with plenty of inspiration

my daughter had a recent photo shoot and it was inspired by fairies, hence the tittle fantasia. 

Iris Bermudez is the photographer of this gorgeous photo of my daughter

The page is inspired by this week sketch over at skissedilla

 

love the mixed media feel of this and this is my interpretation

 

I scrunged some crepe paper and then gessoed a Prima mask

worked some twine around my photo and some beaded pearls

the little pearl nest is just the perfect frame for that gorgeous face

she is just growing too fast...

 

and I just looove that beaded Prima leaf...

Here's the photo as Iris posted it on Facebook

 

I also wanted to share a sneaky peek

of my entry at The Color Room

 

See you as the week goes by, the title for this LO is a story about my little one finding this car that belonged to her big brother a little too late, as you can see she barely fit in it!