Guest Design @ Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #76: St. Valentine Card and Tags

Dear scrapper,

Yeah, I am back after a nice more than 6 months break of blogging, not crafting, just writing, 😂

I was invited to share my fun fold car with the Creative Creases blog: at the Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #76 challenge.

I decided to use the nice gumball machine die from TE, and a nice fun fold card I had made before:

I also made tags/ book marks for my kiddos teachers using perfume boxes to make the tags. I love how some boxes are so nicely decorated, so I cut out and use the We R memory keeper's tag punch board:

Even the inside grunge board is nice:

I was able to cover the writing and logos with the gumball shaker diecuts:

Sadly, I run out of the nice cardboard, so I made some out of regular cardstock:

I stamped the backs with some HeroArts stamps and my kiddos names. The shaker rhinestones, and elements are from Queen & Co.

I hope you enjoyed this nice recycling project and follow my blog, and don't forget to participate in Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #76 challenge.

Happy belated St. Valentine's day

Vicky Tovar

Some Challenges:

the crafting challenge: red-like-love

pearly sparkles challenge: 92-lovehave-heart

die-cut-divas: february-with-wonderful-hero-arts- non traditional valentines

Tuesday taggers: hearts-andor-flowers

the sisterhood of crafters: love

lil red wagon: show-us-some-love

simply ellibelle: i-spy-with-my-little-eye: hearts-and/or roses

dar and diane: heartfelt-challenge

crafty gals corner challenges: 252-add-heart

double trouble challenge: Challenge-160 -Fun Fold partner

DT Winter Wonderland: Reindeer

 

Dear Scrappers,

This is my August post for Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog:

There is no sponsor this month.

For this challenge, I used the Snowmen Selfie image from SheepSki forgetting that the theme of the challenge is "Reindeer". 

Which I fixed by adding a reindeer die cut in the inside to match the "warm winter wishes" sentiment:

Here is a closer look to the reindeer:

I used cupper metallic cardstock.

I colored the printed digital image with distressing inks using a watercolor brush for a soft look. 

I used the sketch:

From try stampin on tuesday current challenge. I die cut a fun scallop border and some tags to add the stamped sentiment from Taylor Expressions (TE).

Materials and tools:

unknown scallop and tags dies

Darisse Reindeer die

DCWV foiled Christmas paper pack

CTMH card

Amalgam ink, Gina K

HeroArts inks

TH Distress Inks

Watercolor brush, TE

red ribbon, unknown

3D dots

For more details about the challenge, please visit:

Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog

Closing date for entries is 5pm the day before the next challenge.

Winners and Top 3 will be announced on the Sunday morning at 11am following the end of the challenge.

Happy August

Vicky Tovar

Some challenges and inspiration:

ttcrd: anything-goes-challenge

the holly and ivy christmas challenge: challenge-120-anything-christmas-goes

crafty gals corner challenges: challenge-233-christmas-in-july

christmas-craft-creations: july-challenge-reminder-patterned-paper

addicted to stamps challenge: challenge-435-die-cuts-andor-stencils

DT Winter Wonderland: From Our Gnome to Yours

  

 Dear Scrappers,

This is my June post for Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog:

This month's challenge chosen by Michelle is:

FROM OUR GNOME TO YOURS

Our wonderful sponsor is:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ConieFongArt

And here's a little bit about our sponsor:

Conie Fong is a self-taught artist residing in California, USA with her husband, daughter, pet hamster and fishes.  In her early childhood years, she was inspired by every kind of art and crafts.  She loved watching demonstrations by artists on the streets and at festivals and spent most of her free time perusing arts and crafts books in the library, drawing, crafting and experimenting with her art supplies at home.  

Conie first started sharing her art with the world by selling ACEO reprints of her ACEO paintings of fairies, mermaids, and kitty art on Ebay in 2010.  She was a full time account manager for a University before becoming a full time mom and part time artist.  

She currently enjoys spending time with her family traveling, exploring the outdoors, and designing beautiful, cute, and magical art for craft and coloring lovers. 

.  The winner will receive a choice of 3 digital images from Conie Fong Art & Design Etsy store.  

***DISCOUNT CODE***

Conie has very generously offered a 25% discount code which runs for the length of this challenge and the code is:

WINTERWONDERLANDJULY

 For my card, I choose the Christmas Lights Gnome digital image and colored with my chameleon alcohol markers:

For the card design, I used some previously cut Christmas cards kit from CTMH and their sketch. This month, I was late making my card, because my office flooded and I didn’t have access a printer on time. The challenge went online last Friday, and I just finish my card today.

Materials and tools:

Chameleon Alcohol Markers

CTMH card

CTMH printed papers

CTMH ink and border and hollies stamps

CTMH green twine 

3D dots

Foam tape

For more details about the challenge, please visit:

Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog

Winners and Top 3 will be announced on the Sunday morning at 11am following the end of the challenge.

Our challenge will close on Thursday 4 August and we'll be back on Friday 5 August with our new challenge.

Happy July 

Vicky Tovar

Some challenges and inspiration:

everybody-art-challenge: two colors

Green and red

the holly and ivy Christmas challenge: challenge-119-anything-christmas-goes

simon says stamp blog: anything goes

 #ssswchallenge

christmas with the cuties: challenge-no-61-theme-have-yourself

peace on earth christmas: challenge-19.

world wide open design team challenge: Always "Anything Goes"

DT Winter Wonderland: Merriest Christmas

 

 Dear Scrappers,

This is my June post for Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog:

This month's sponsor is:

fred-she-said-store

I chose the Winter Chickadee for my card following this month challenge "Flying High at Christmas"

I used an sketch from try stampin on tuesday: challenge-558.

I colored the printed digital image with distressing inks using a watercolor brush for a soft look. Then I die cut a circular tag using the CTMH die, and distressed the edges using a gold ink. After it dried, I added some enamel dots to showcase the red fruits and snow flakes. For the rest of the fruit, I used red glitter paste after coloring them with red ink.

I attached the tag to a big red bow using gold twisty tie.

And cut the three different printed papers to assemble the card inspired in the sketch and attached my tag using foam tape and 3D dots for the bow.

Finally, I cut the sentiment I wanted from the Christmas washi tape and added it to the right bottom part of the card.

I really like the red and green color combination and the 3D feel of this card.

Materials and tools:

DCWV foiled Christmas paper pack

CTMH card

CTMH tag die

Amalgam ink, Gina K

HeroArts inks

TH Distress Inks

Celestial Cooper Tsukineko ink

Watercolor brush, TE

Red Glitter paste, TE

Christmas sentiment washi tape, TE or SCT Crop and Create delivered 

Gun Drops, YNS

Enamel Dots, TE

red ribbon, unknown

3D dots

Foam tape

For more details about the challenge, please visit:

Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog

Closing date for entries is 5pm the day before the next challenge.

Winners and Top 3 will be announced on the Sunday morning at 11am following the end of the challenge.

Happy June

Vicky Tovar

Some challenges and inspiration:

try stampin on tuesday: challenge-558

sketch 

everybody-art-challenge: glitter or pearls

christmas-craft-creations: two-colours

green and red

crafty gals corner challenges: challenge-231-buttons-bows

the holly and ivy christmas challenge: challenge-117-anything-christmas-goes

simon says stamp blog- Wednesday: simon-says-little-critters

simon says stamp blog-monday challenge: up in the air

CraftWell DT: Halloween and Dia de los Muertos Crafts

 

 Dear Scrappers,

This is my post for Craftwell:

For this post, I made threee different crafts to celbrate Halloween and Dia de los Muertos:

For Halloween, I made these candle holders using Spellbinder diea and my SNAP:

note: for the Volleyball, I cut out one of the cats from the dies cut and replaced with a BuBunny die instead. I gave that cancle holder to my daughter's team coach.

Every year, I go to a friend's house to celebrate Halloween and we bring our children Trick or Treating, however, with COVID, we decided to send each other goody bags with candy to each family:

Thus, I made some tags using an spellbinder treatbag tag die, and many of the Crafty Chica dia de los muertos stamps and dies, using my Crafty Chica printed paper pad and my SNAP. 

I also fussy cut some of stamped images from Paper Wings, some die cuts from Fun Stamper Journey (triangle banners), and HeroArts (banners):

I ended up making more than 30 tags. Here are some examples:

Front and back:

Front on the L side and back on the R side:

I also made some Dia de los Muertos cards for some friends of mine using my left over die cuts and fussy cuts:

October was a very stressful and bussy month. So, what do I do when I need to relieve stress?

CRAFT!!!!

I hope you enjoyed my quick and easy projects and please make sure to visit Craftwell for more inspiration and to follow me.

Happy November,

and stay safe from this pandemic.