New Design Team and First Challenge!!!

Hi everyone!

I have some wonderful news, I've been invited to join Crafting By Designs as a DT and of course said: Yes!

Crafting By Designs is a a fun place to share your creativity, chat with your friends, join a challenge or two and try new techniques.

The theme of the challenge I am hosting during this month is:

Valentines

Create a valentine for that special someone, mom, dad, daughter, son, sister, brother, etc.

for my first one I created metal accents by embossing a piece of tooling aluminum (Maid-ó-Metal) and then covered two chipboard heart die cuts (Sizzix, Tipsy Hearts). Used some pattina paint (Metallic Art - Gem Crafts) to age the hearts and some bling. Distressed the border of the DP with Ranger Distress Ink (Fired Brick).

Designer Paper by My Minds Eye

I'm entering this card in the following challenges: CFC34 - Create a Clean And Simple project using chipboard at Cas-ual Fridays and Bling it up at Some Odd Girls.

My second valentine is a simple card. Used my Cricut and Plantin SchoolBook cartridge to cut the circles and heart shapes. Added some glitter to the heart for bling and made a tag using the ippity stamp set: Your Friendship, My Cup of Tea.


Designer Paper: My Minds Eye, Colorbok

I'm entering this card in the following challenges: RCC34- Anything Goes with Unity Stamps!! at The Ribbon Carousel and Challenge #4 - "Layers, Layers, and More Layers" at Simply Create Too.

Visit Crafting By Designs for information on the prizes and sponsors.

I can't wait to see what everyone creates!

Thanks!

Love

Julia

Bookmark!

Loved this color combo from The Outlawz. Inmediatly thought of a different project: a bookmark.

Used my Cricut, Design Studio, Plantin Schoolbook and Elegant Cakes to create it.

The color combo:

Add beads or buttons

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Color Challenge, July 15, 2011 at The Outlawz

Thanks!

Love

Julia

Summer Fun!

It is so hot!!!

My neighbor’s kids are playing in the backyard in a small inflatable pool and they are having so much fun, you can hear them laughing all the time.
That inspired me for this card.
The image is from Bugaboo Digi Stamps. The background paper is from Martha Stewart and I fell it complements the image perfectly. I used my Cricut machine to cut the background circles and the image, and the rectangles for the sentiment (Plantin SchoolBook cartridge).

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• July Week 3 Copic/Marker Challenge at Crafting By Designs
• Scrapbookaholic By Abby Challenge #10 Anything Summer!!!!
• Ch# 51 - Digi Monday (or Stamps) - SUMMER
• The Pink Elephant - TPE109
• Copic Musketeers: Summer
• Challenge 41: Summer at Fussy and Fancy Challenges
• Challenge #28: Cool It!, at Really Reasonable Ribbon's Ramblings
• Paper Sundaes Challenge #79 - Beachy or Summer
• Pile It On #30 - Fun in the Sun
  Thanks!

Love
Julia

You're "Grape"!

I've had the Preserves cartridge (Cricut machine) for some time and have not used it a lot.  Today I was frutty inspired and made this card, used distress ink for some dimension and embossing to add texture.

Card Recipe;
DCWV cardstock and pp
Cricut machine
Preserves cartridge
Plantin SchoolBook cartridge
Mother's Day 2010 Cartridge

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Preserves! at Scrappy Moms Stamp
• Week 7: Made It Myself Mondays and Guest Designer at You Had Me At Craft
• Life is Sweet at Paper Issues

Thanks!

Love
Julia

Circles and Happy Birthday!

This is a fun and bright card. I used my Cricut with Doddlecharms cartridge for the birthday hats, Sentimentals cartridge for the frame and Plantin SchoolBook cartridge for the circles.

The image is from the Stamping Boutique and I tried to use vibrant colors: red, yellow, purple, blue, orange, pink and green.

Card recipe:
Cardstock: DCWV
Ink: Palette Hybrid and Martha Stewart
Image: The Stamping Boutique

I’m entering this card in:


The Stamping Boutique - Challenge #6 Circles
The Stamping Boutique Current monthly challenge – May
My Creative Time:Throwback Thursday Challenge

Thanks for visiting!

Love,
Julia

Something new!

Some time has passed since my last blog post!

Been going through some changes, all good, thanks to God.

My family is doing great. All of my kids are college students now and of course I was suffering the empty nest syndrome.

Recently I adopted three beautiful puppies: Luna, Principe and Pinky. They are just seven weeks old and a handful.

Obviously my oldest dog is jealous and requires more attention, so as you can imagine my free times has been cut short.

Still had time to work some of my projects, specially my Christmas cards, which were a big hit. Here are some pictures:

Don’t know about you, but Valentine’s Day feels so close. I feel I won’t be able to finish my projects on time.

Yesterday I finished this card and would love to share it with you! (tutorial)

Love, Love, Love

Card is 4” x 6”

Materials used:

• Card stock: white, brown, red and pink (Colorbok.com)
• Paper: hearts and pink (Me&mybigideas.com), tickets (TeresaCollinsdesigns.com)
• Bone folder
• Distressing tool
• Corner rounder
• Paper trimmer
• Die cut machine: Cricut
• Plantin SchoolBook, Cricut cartridge
• Martha Stewart Ink
• Jewels and embellishments of choice
• Adhesive

How to:

1. Using the paper trimmer, cut 12” x 4” piece of white cardstock.
2. Fold in half using bone folder to crease fold.
3. Cut a piece of heart paper, 4” x 4½, and add to top of card.
4. Cut a piece of red cardstock, 4” x 2½”.
5. Round the bottom corners.
6. Cut a rectangle, 1 ¾” x 4 ¼ ” from brown cardstock.
7. Cut a rectangle, 1 ½” x 4” from white cardstock.
8. Layer the white rectangle and the brown rectangle to the center of the card base
9. Use the die cut machine to cut: mini envelope (1) – 2.422” (w) x 1.734” (h) from pink paper and hearts (4) – 1” x 1” from red and pink cardstock
10. Put together the envelope and attach to the bottom of the cardstock rectangles.
11. Distress the sides of the hearts and ink them.
12. Adhere to the card using foam adhesive.
13. Embellish the hearts with jewelry.
14. Add the sentiments to the card.
15. See the card for placement.

Hope you enjoy making this card as much as I did.
LOVE,
 Julia