1/23/12

Mr & Mrs

There is something about that, just love the sound of the Mr & Mrs and envision the 2 of us together...
The Shabby Tearoom is having  a sparkly and bright challenge this week, using white / cream, silver and a splash of pink, check out this inspiration:

This inspired me to work on the MR & Mrs and do a wedding inspired card:
 The silver, sparkly...you know Basic Grey's new Valentine's line? I sneeked a piece of a heart to the Fancy PAnts charm and covered it up with glossy accents for the extra sparkle. I love how it dangles from the bow, the pin comes from a K & Co set, so pretty like lace.  The cream colored paper is a piece of Western Romance by Webster's, th epearl/crystal swirl is by Prima.
 For the splash of pink I went with some ruffled pink tulle underneath the pp and a piece of Crate Paper to accentuate the doily by K & CO, the sentiment is a stamp by Paper Trey
 see the tulle peeking in?
 Here is the full view!
And I also created this centerpiece with the BG paper I was telling you about.
 And officially today is my birthday!!!! it was filled with fun, the best of friends and the TLC of my loving family, I love you all!!!!

 These are believe it or not, dark chocolate, belgian tea cups, OMG!!! delish with the fresh strawberries, THANK YOU Judelly, Myriam baked me the  most scrumptious chocolate cake ever, Ana Maria was in charge of my wardrobe and accesories,  Tere brought awesome wine and gourmet coffee and Betty gave us the best coquito in town!!!


I will be at CHA this weekend so I know I will be seeing first hand all of the goodness coming your way, I will keep you posted, hugs

Milagros

1/19/12

Pretty inside and out!

Hi everyone, I sure have missed stopping by and spending time with you guys.  In due time I will share the things that have happened in the last month.   I saw it fitting to work with the City Crafter
girls for the opening of this New Year.  Pretty inside and out is their theme and this is what I did!

Let's start with the inside, it feels like a party here, I tell ya

The girl is bringing the ballon , the banners are hung, it's Party Time!!!
want to know a secret ( I am in a birthday mood ♪♪♪, turning over a new year this next Monday
 the 23rd  ♫ )

Now for the outside, and yes you can judge this cover it brings wishes inside

 And the full reveal ♫

This LO is our first day of 2012, my DH shoot the photo few seconds after the New Year ringed in!

Hope you have a glorious weekend and I will see you next week,
maybe for my birthday..care to join me?
Love
M
I also want to share the Beautiful Begginings photo on my header , shot by my 15 year old son, isn't it awesomenly inspiring, so proud of him!!! 

12/11/11

Love Letters

Happy Sunday everyone. I have been meaning to post this one for a while.   Last month we went to a wedding and I snapped this one of my DD
I thought she looked so perfect ni her pretty dress and red just suits her so much.  Well when I went to pick up my prints the lab tech surprised me with a 5x7 sepia copy and I thought it would be just the perfect addition to Webster's Western Romance collection.  It took me 3 hours to unite all my fuzzy cutting into one LO and here is the result, I think it was all so worth it:



This paper I cut following the scallops,  had a lot of dots and I thought they looked like lace, but were too pale and needed to be accentuated , hence the 5 rows of pearls...
These Prima birds are TDF cute!!!

My journaling perfectly tucked in behind the photo and easily pulled out by a cameo pin!

I don't know if you have seen this video, but the first time I saw it was in Nickelodeon with my kids and I cried ( I know...) when I saw it, so take a peek and enjoy the world united!!!
Hugs,

Milagros


12/5/11

10 of my Fave's chipboard projetcts

I drool over Imaginarium chipboard, dreaming of the day I'll be able to have it in my hands and play with... Chipboard and I go way back when I figured how to x-acto a scroll to decorate a Christmas page for my son way back in 2005.  Then the market started pouring in the fab material I could distress at my will, love at first sight ever since.  More recently they started adding laser cuts (insert ahhhhh here) and they made it even cuter.  Since there is a good chance I can play with it I have prepared this entry for Imaginarium.

My most fave chipboard projects:


Chipboard is pretty in its own right, so here is a LO made with raw chipboard I just love the contrast of the almost kraft look with pastels


This is a Christmas project I made die-cutting chipboard and dressing it up with paper, paint and glitter. It just got featured at the Scrap for Help blog.



This one used to be a flat ornate frame, I wanted to make a 3d box to make a prayer decoration for my daughter's bedroom.  With some more chipboard to make the box I ended up with this, finished in paint and glitter



Inspired by a drawing I made on a LO for my daughter's first piano recital, I designed my own chipboard and cut and finished it for this LO.  There is a picture of the chipboard and the one with the drawing.

More naked chipboard....


This used to be flat chipboard houses that I converted to a 3d version, I love doing home decor and off the wall projects and this one was featured on the Crate Paper blog.

This one is a card I made dressing up the chipboard with embossing powder for texture and also covering in paper.

This one is a Christmas ornament, I painted with acrylics and then covered in glossy accents for a glass like effect, the scroll is done with glitter


This one is a close up view of an inked and embossed piece of chipboard I embellised for a card.

And this one is a cupcake box I made entirely out of chipboard all dressed up in paper and sequins

And I can tell you for sure the recipient loved it as much as I did creating it and its pattern.

I hope you enjoyed browsing over my fave projects, some time it is so hard to choose since I pour so much love when I make them. I know I am missing Halloween and Easter they are in the blog I just had to pick just 10!
I will be doing a lot of project this week so stay tuned to what's coming over,
Milagros

12/1/11

Arbolito, arbolito...♪♪♪

Campanitas te pondré, quiero que seas bonito, que al Recién Nacido te voy a ofrecer ♪♪♪...This is a beautiful Christmas song offering the Christmas Tree to the Newborn Child, and that is the theme of my LO today.  December brings beautiful Christmas trees to the island and we can't wait to smell, touch and have a new one.  We always wait until December so they last longer.  Here in Puerto Rico we celebrate the 25th of December but also, the 6th of January when we celebrate the Epiphany, the coming of the Three Kings, or Wise Men to adore  baby Jesus.  So the tree stays put until January when the kids receive their last presents and then return to school shortly after!
OUAS challenge for this month is to journal about the thinsg we look forward in December, and one of them is the picking of the Christmas tree.  This year we found some funky ones, real ones painted in cool colors, I almost couldn't resist, they were so pretty.  We ended up picking an 8 footer that was perfect to hold our long collection of ornaments, so here it is!

see what I mean about those trees???

My journaling
A peek at what I did, since it was a mail box I saw fitting to xacto an entrance and write the date, and I couldn't resit to put some sparkle in the Fairy wings ;) !

And the final page, I used Nadia's beautiful sketch


And here is the song my LO's title is inspired in, it's a school play, but the song is perfect, enjoy, Milagros! 

11/30/11

time for a project...

just letting you know Frank feels like he won the Grammy's with his Honorable Mention at TSTR, thanks girls !!!
Continuing with my daughter's obsession of playing in the snow I have created a snow man.  My way, not very cold here and refraining to use pink was very, very hard...Thankfully I could use glitter!  Do you remember Target's back to school ads? the one where the teacher said "glitter, so much glitter (insert giggles)"!!! loved her,  I feel the same way.  Anywhoo this one is my second entry into the The Shabby Tearoom thought it would be pretty cool to take him for a picnic!

No name for the fellow yet...As you can see there's a ton of glitter in his Websters hat  of course, ferns (remember he's a guy from the tropics)!!! And glorious mica Flakes all over his face.
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 A ruffled neckline in glorious trim, Prima Lace at the end of his hat...And he is hiding a surprise. He is a recycling fella, and is sitting atop a box of Webster's pins that holds inside a 2x2 album, to keep unforgettable tiny Christmas memories in one place!



mayor micro mini cuteness factor, LOL!!!

Hi!!! Thinking I'll be calling him Frank, because little Miss M loves her Frank Sinatra
so here he is the complete little fella, hope you have an inspired rest of the week , I think I am pretty inspired and almost ready to scrap my last pics,
Hugs
Milagros

11/28/11

Happy Holidays!

We don't have freezing weather here, but in honor of my little one that dreams of playing in the snow I have decided to play over at the The Shabby Tearoom. where they have this glorious inspiration photo




I don't know if it's me but I see lace in those skates, cozy, beautiful and totally inspiring!!! And since I have decided to use a gorgeous Kraft doily I will also enter the card over at the Kraft Journal where they have a Christmas cards challenge.
I did my version in canvas, embroidered the boot laces and trim the tops with some vintage lace. For the blades I went all the way with the silver glitter, they are sooo sparkly and fun! Everything is nested atop a pretty Kraft doily and wrapped up in vintage ribbon.

I also used some Making Memories rub ons in silver glitter that gave it the special touch

Officially it's the Holiday Season, Ahhhh how do I love thee...Fresh Christmas Tree smell, cooler weather at least for us, from the average 85 down several degrees.  This morning I saw the mountains covered in a veil of fog, always inspiring.   The music changes, the spirit changes, there is hope in the air , poinsettias in the house, the nutcrackers already marched.  I really can't wait to trim the tree, we picked him yesterday and we saw the coolest trees painted , we wanted a pink one!!!! and the one we picked:


under a lot of  supervision...
I hope you get a lot of inspiration this Holiday Season, I will sure be creating some more, 'til then
Milagros

11/21/11

The Shabby Tea Room Winner Week 88

Week #88 - Milagros C. Rivera

Words by Debbie, still blushing...
{Love} does not even begin to express how much I simply adore this oh-so-pretty in pink handmade nutcracker! I want one for my personal collection ... it is absolutely stunning, creative and beyond inspirational! I am a huge fan of anything pink, so this sweet little fella really pulled on my heart strings this week ... thank you Milagros, for sharing your beautiful Christmas Nutcracker with us all this week!


Thank you Debbie for picking my entry, loved every second of creating it!!!

11/19/11

Itty Bitty Cottage

I am so happy for the feature thanks girls!!!



Scrap for Help has a beautiful challenge for their month of November.   To do a Christmas project with the theme of children. It is necessary to use recycled materials. I recycled chipboard to make it sturdy.  So here is my entry, inspired in children's books I made a little Chritmas Cottage, little because it measures 5" x 3" .  But it is big on details so much I had to use my twizzers to make the tiny banner on the top!  The roof opens in case you want to turn it into a gift box and slip a gift card on the inside.
On top you can see the opening!
Enjoy your weekend today we celebrate the discovery of our precious island
Puerto Rico!!!

Enjoy our Marc Anthony singing to our beautiful island!