CTO Challenge #50: Valentine's Day (must use a heart)

I am so glad I still have a few hours to enter this card at the CTO challenge blog. I made this card last week but didn't have time to post until today.

This card is my favorite from all the cards I made for V's Day...

I used CDS to cut the puzzle with My Community Cricut cartridge and the heart from Create a Critter.

The sentiment is from MCT and I think it goes perfect with the puzzle heart.
Thanks for visiting!
Vivi

3 x 3 Valentine's mini card

Happy Monday blog friends!
This week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge me Monday is to create a 3x3 Valentine's card.

Such a great idea to create some mini cards because they are so much fun to make and also they go perfectly with Valentine's Day favors.

I made this little one using some paper that I download from Paper Craft inspirations Isn't it cute?
The sentiment is from MCT which happen to be this week's sponsor at Fantabulous Cricut.

The cupid cut is from Sweetheart cartridge. It was cut at 1 1/4...

Then I embellished my card with a little piece of ribbon and those little stick pins that I learn to make thanks to my talented blog friend Georgiana from Carson's Creations. She made a picture tutorial that really encourages me to make some of those adorable stick pins. I didn't have bigger pins though, so I used some small ones which happened to be exactly what I needed for my mini card... THANKS so much Georgiana!!!

I am also entering this mini card to My Craft Spot Challenge: Anything goes.
There are BEAUTIFUL projects done by the MCS talented design team for our inspiration... you won't want to miss it!

Hope you like my mini card and thanks for visiting my blog.

Vivi

My Sweet love

I have always wanted to use this cut and for one reason or another I just haven't.


So this year I decided that I would make a Valentine's day card with that cut from A child's year cartridge... (It sounds like I am fullfilling my new year's resolutions) LOL

I love how this cute little card came up... I love the brown with the red and I LOVE that background paper which is from a DCWV stack that I've had for about one or two years. (There you go, I am using what I already have... another new year's resolution accomplished!!!)

My sentiment is from MCT, I am delighted with my stamp sets... who woldn't?

Hope you like my little card, and as always, thank you for visiting my blog.


Vivi

I am entering this card to MCT Throwback Thursday Challenge! : Valentine's day.



Get well soon Damask Decor cartridge card.

I love Damask Decor Cartridge although the cuts of that cart are not the type of cuts I usually make. I have to say that sometimes I just seat and look the booklet from start to end just for the pleasure of see the nice damask images. Today I feel brave enough to cut on of those images and place it on a get well card.

What I love from Damask Decor is that any of the shapes is enough to embellish a card... so I came up with this very simple card.
My tag is from Spellbinders "Fancy Tags". Sentiment is from My Creative Time. The green ribbon is a recycle one that I had in my statch... (I knew I had to save it from a Christmas present I received) Added a little ink to all the layers, a pearl and call it done.

I made an extra cut of the center of the Damask design and I used to decorate the inside of the card.

I am entering this card to the One Stop Craft Challenge (Under the weather) at the very last minute.

Hope you like my card and thanks for visiting me.

Vivi

P.S. i love you

A clean and simple card with a tag on it...
I love to use red and white together. I think that is one of my favorite color combination and I love to use it both in Christmas and Valentine's cards.
So to meet the challenge of The Paper Players I made this card clean and simple. Just a little bit of dry embossing and a simple tag stamped with My Creative Time "You had me at chocolate" stamp set.

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Vivi

Mini card

I was playing with a small piece of cardstock while I was hoping from blog to blog looking for a challenge when I found at 365 cards the perfect challenge for my scraps.
Today's challenge at 365 cards is to create a card not bigger than a 3x3" and the challenge at Flutter By Wednesday's is to use embossing (any kind) with your butterfly, fairy or angel.
I put both challenges togather into my small piece of cardstock and came up with this cute 3" by 2.5" card.

I heat embossed the butterflies which are part of a stamp set from MS that I bought a long time ago, I hand cut them out and placed them over the dry embossed yellow cardstock. Very simple / quick card and a great use of my scraps. (I know I have to make houndreds of these to actually start reducing my pile of scraps, but this could be a begining)  ;o)

Hope you like my mini-card.

Vivi

Birthday vintage card

After 6 wonderful days at the beach, I am back here to share with you my first ever vintage card.
I have seen a lot of wonderful vintage projects out there and to be honest I was so shy with this style, but I love the vintage look so I though that I have to give it a try. I am not sure if my card here meets or not the vintage rules (don't even know if there are rules) but I like the result.

Please enjoy my card and if you have any advise on how create vintage crafts, I would appreciate if you want to share your knowleadge with me.

Thanks for visiting,

Vivi

I made this card to enter the following challenges:
Card Patterns: Sketch 149
My Sheri Crafts: Something new (New style vintage)
Birthday Sundaes: A birthday card with the birthday sentiment on the front.
DYSU: Ribbons

You are my sunshine tag

I made this tag with three challenges in mind, but I think that the biggest challenge for me is to just decorate a tag. I think I´ve never done tags before, well at least not like this one, as a project it self with all the emblishments thought just for it.
Anyway, I am in the mood of crafting this week, so I thought it was a good time to get into the current challnge at Paper Playtime which is to create a tag and include a sentiment on it... So, thanks to Janis and the DT for the inspiration, I have to addmit that it was a lot of fun!
To choose the theme for my tag I get inspired from the Cardz TV (It's June in January) and the Sundays with Crissy (Beat The Mid-Winter Blues)  challenges. Both challenges remind me of the cut I used from the Country Life cartridge which at the same time made me think in my little daughter who is my sunshine. The sentiment come from my new set of stamps (yes you are guessing correctly) from My Creative Time.


So there you go, that is the story behind my tag. I hope you like it and thanks for visiting.


Vivi

My heart belongs to you

This is a simple card I made today thinking in Valentine's day although it is not made on the traditional Valentine's colors.
The cuts are from Give a Hoot cartridge and both the outside and the inside sentiments are from My Creative Time.
The squirrel background is white cardstock embosed and inked to match it with the card background paper from DCWV Nana's Kids.
The squirrel's eye is a PK Stamp.
 Hope you like it an if you do, leave me a comment... read comments make my day brighter!

Vivi

Esta es una simple tarjeta que hice hoy pensando en el Día de San Valentín, a pesar de que no son los colores típicos de esa fecha.
Los cortes son del cartucho Give a Hoot y los textos tanto del exterior como del interior son de My Creative Time.
Espero que les guste, y si es así, dejenme un comentario... leer comentarios hace que mi día brille!

Vivi


I'll be entering this card on the following challenges:
- Whimsical Wednesday Challenge #38: "Let's Get Sketchy"
- Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #46: "Any Occasion (must use Polka Dots)"
- Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #48: "Squirrels"

With a little caffeine...

There is nothing that makes me want to create cards than have something new in my statch. This is my second card today using my new My Creative Time stamps.
This card could be sent to my self, because caffeine is what I need to start my days, but I made this card with someone else in mind, who is the most caffeine addict person I know.
I hope she likes the card as much as I enjoyed making it.

The sketch of this card is from Paper Crafter's Libary and their challenge for this week:
Makeover Monday Challenge #10: Inspired by Jessica Witty.
I am also entering this card at Card Makin Mamas challenge (NEW) as my second entry for this challenge and into this week's challenge at Whimsical Designs: Anything goes.

Thanks for visiting!!!

Vivi

I am in the yellow mood

Maybe it is because I've been working with yellow paper on the last days (see my previous post) or maybe because we are having some wonderful sunny days here, but the thing is that I am in the mood of make yellow cards. That is a good thing because I realize that I have several yellow papers that haven't been touched in months (I don't want to say years).
Anyhow this is a card was inspired on the challenge at My Sheri Crafts  which is to make a card/project with a clock represented.
I am also very exited because today I received my first group of stamps from My Creative Time and I just wanted to jump and make a card with them and this sentiment goes perfectly with the clock from the challenge.
I am so happy with my new stamp sets and with the quality of the product. Sure I will go for more soon!
Hope you like my card and thanks for visiting my blog.
Vivi

Wedding invites

My youngest brother is getting married and I made these as the invites for his wedding.

My SIL wanted Yellow and black as their wedding colors and as both of them are biologist/ornithologist, they wanted birds a the motive of their invites. So I came up with this.

Hope you like them.

Viv

I am entering this card to:

Card Makin Mamas: Something new. (Hope invites count like cards-they are pretty much the same)  ;o)

Both the Bird stamp on the outside and the stamp for the inside are part of the "New stamps on my statch".

After 2 months off... I am back!

Hello!
I am not really sure if someone is still following my blog because I know I have been MIA for so long...
I am actually feeling like this is my first post ever and I am so exited about it!

I am getting back to blog-land with a card that I made for this weeks challenge at Birthday Sundaes Challenge blog. As you can remember I was part of the Birthday Sundaes design team until 2 months ago, and I had to leave it abruptly for personal issues. So it makes me so happy to come back into the blog world with a birthday card for their challenge. This weeks challenge is to make a birthday card using Green-purple-black and white colors.
Here is my card.

I hope you enjoyed it and thanks for visiting me!
Vivi

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #23 : Green, pink and white

Happy Sunday!
Today's challenge at Birthday Sundaes is a color challenge and Kristie couldn't choose a better combination of colors... Green, pink and white and the use of any neutral color is allowed, so I included brown to my card... (I think the world must be brown (lol) you can combine it with any other color and delicious things such as chocolate and coffee are brown)

Any way, when I think in green, pink and white (with a sprinkle of brown) I can't but think in the Kate's ABC Cricut cartridge, and I have to say that the heaviest part of this card was to decided which cut us for it. Once I have chosen my cut every thing came up easily, even when by accident I found an old small jar with those "brads" I have forgotten about. 

I inked the borders of the cut and embossed the base with my CB, The base and the frame are from Accent Essentials. The sentiment was computer generated and printed with my loyal Epson printer.

I hope you join us this week at the BIRTHDAY SUNDAES blog, specially because this week's challenge is sponsored by our DT colleague SUE from The Scrappings of Sue so you can win a Nestabilities Large Scallop Ovals Set!!! How good is that?
I can't wait to see all your green, pink and white birthday cards.
Hope you all have a blessed week!
Vivi

Birthday Sundaes challenge: All about Brads

This week's challenge at Birthay Sundaes Blog is to create a Birthday Card using at least 3 brads on it.
This is a birthday card I made for a special person who will be receiving as her gift from her family, a trip to Europe (such an amazing gift!!)
The plane and it's banner are from New Arrival Cricut cartridge.
Papers are from K&Company Lemon Citron and Sparkly Sweet stacks.
I  knit the little chain and used eyelets to join them from the plane to the banner.
Brads are used on the plane's propeller and on the left upper corner as embellishments.
Sentiment is a Hero arts stamp.
 

 

Birthday Sundaes challenge #21

Wow! What a busy and fun week we had!

There were lots of wonderful cake/cupcake cards this week and all of us at the DT had so much fun with the blog hop. I hope (and I know) you did too.

So today is a very special day because this is our first official challenge as a new design team, we also have a new sponsor this week and I have the announcement of my blog candy winner... 

Let me introduce you our sponsor for this week:

¡Vaya! Qué semana tan ocupada y divertida hemos tenido.

Hubo muchas maravillosas tarjetas con pasteles y quequitos esta semana, y el equipo de diseño se divirtió mucho con el "blog hop". Espero (y sé que así fue) que ustedes también.

Hoy es un día especial porque es nuestro primer reto oficial con el nuevo equipo de diseño, además tenemos un nuevo patrocinador y hoy tengo el anuncio del ganador de mi dulcecito  por el "blog hop".

Dejenme presentatles nuestro patrocinador de esta semana:

Gingerloft, is offering one lucky person 3 digis of her choice!!! All you have to do for a chance to win is to enter your card at the Birthday Sundaes Blog... this week's challenge is the everyone's favorite: "Anything goes as long as it is a birthday card".
Gingerloft,  está ofreciendo a una persona 3 imágenes digitales de su elección!!! Lo único que debes hacer para ganar es enlazar su tarjeta al blog de Birthday Sundaes... esta semana el reto es el favorito de todos: "Cualquier cosa se vale siempre y cuando sea una tarjeta de cumpleaños".

Here is my card for this week. It came out pretty masculine despite of the glitter I added to the cake (lol) and I am happy about that because I was almost out of masculine cards.

I had lots of fun making this card  because after I colored my image with markers, I decided to rip and  distress every layer on the card.
Esta es mi tarjeta para esta semana. Resultó bastante masculina a pesar de la escarcha que le puse en el pastel (je je) y yo quedé feliz con eso porque ya casi me estaba quedando sin tarjetas de cumpleaños masculinas. 
Me  divertí mucho haciendo esta tarjeta porque después de colorear la  imágen con marcadores, decidí razgar y añejar un poco cada capa de la  tarjeta.

Candy Blog winner - Ganador

 Before I tell you who the blog candy winner is, I would like to thank all my new blogger friends (they are called followers out there but you know I prefer to call you friends) Thank you so very much for the kind and sweet comments you leave. Thanks to those who are my long time friends and to those who just recently came and commented on my posts... to read your comments draws smiles on my face. 

And without any more words, the Blog Candy Winner is.................

Antes de decirles quien es el ganador del dulcecito quisiera agradecer a mis nuevos amigos de blogger (por ahí les llaman seguidores, pero ustedes saben que yo prefiero llamarles amigos) Gracias por sus amables y dulces comentarios. Gracias a aquellos que han sido mis amigos desde hace tiempo y a aquellos que solo vienen y comentan en mis publicaciones. Leer sus comentarios dibuja sonrisas en mi rostro.

Y sin más palabras, el ganador del dulcecito del blog es...........

Congratulations Thinkscrap!!!!

You won a set of Dyed Crinkle Ribbon from My Craft Spot.

I do not have your e-mail address, so please contact me before 

next Friday August 12th  to claim your prize. 

Mojo Monday 202

It looks like I've been having more time to play with my craft items this week!  {Happy dance here}

This is a quick scrapbook page that I made using the sketch from this week's challenge at Mojo Monday. As you can see scrap booking is not my strength, but it feels good to make some scrap booking out of so many cards. And my little one is happy because it is all about her. (he he)

This page will be the first page of the album that I am making for my daughter with pictures of when she was at a Kids garden which name is "Play Time". That was last year but I am way behind on my scrap booking. (Just in case you are wondering why I wrote down Play Time as the title if she is not playing on the picture (lol))

Hope you like it and if you have any advise that could makes me improve on my scrap booking, PLEASE feel free to leave a comment... I love to read comments!

Vivi

First time at Cricut 360° / Mi primera vez en Cricut 360°

Since Cricut 360° challenge blog born I've been wanting to play with them, but for one reason or another I always missed the closing dates. Today I finally  end my card on time and here it is my entry for this week's challenge. This week's theme is "Transportation"

At the moment I saw the theme, I thought in this cut from Sweethearts cartridge. I love how romantic this card came up! I wanted to pop up the cut so as embellishments I only used some flower beads and small pieces of cord that I had stored.

I will also entry this card to My Craft Spot Monday Challenge which theme for this week is You make me smile.

I hope you like this one.

Desde que inició el blog de retos de Cricut 360° he querido participar en ellos, pero por una u otra razón siempre se me pasan las fechas de cierre. Hoy finalmente pude terminar mi tarjeta a tiempo y aquí está mi entrada para el reto de esta semana. El tema es  "Medios de transporte".

Apenas ví el tema anunciado pensé en este corte del cartucho Sweethearts... me encanta lo romántico de esta tarjeta! Quería resaltar el corte, así que únicamente usé como decoración unos beads de florecitas y unos pedacitos de cordón verde que tenia guardados entre mis cosas.

También voy a incluir esta tarjeta en el reto de My Craft Spot donde el tema es "Tu me haces sonreir"

Espero les guste.

 

Birthday Sundaes Blog Hop!!!

All of us at the Birthday Sundaes Design Team are very exited for being celebrating our very first blog hop!!!

So, if it just happens that you are visiting my blog, I strongly recommend you to join us and hop through our hop starting the fun at the Birthday Sundaes blog. There are lots of things happening at the Birthday Sundaes Blog and of course it is a GREAT excuse to celebrate... We are going to be saying farewell to some of our first term Design Team members and Welcome our new Design Team.  There are going to be prizes, a fun challenge and blog candy along the way! 

If you come here from Maribel 's blog, then you are in the right place.

Now, into this week's challenge, you probably already saw the new look of the blog and as the goal of Birthday Sundaes is to build up those birthday card stashes, what a better theme for this hop than a Birthday Cake or Cup cakes... We all love cup cakes, didn't we?

So, our challenge for this week is to create a Birthday card using a Cake or Cup cake on it and any kind of birthday sentiment on the front.
Here is my first card for this week: 

I realize that I am using this sketch so much lately, so I decided to make a second card, this is quite simple but I like how it turns out.

Now, what is a Birthday with out sweets?  Lets go into the blog candies... remember that in order to have a chance at winning the Grand prize Kristie is giving away at the Birthday Sundaes blog, you must leave a comment on all blogs. 

I am also offering a prize for one lucky winner, all you have to do is to leave a comment on this post. If you would like to have a second chance to win, just become a follower and add a second comment.
This blog hop will be open until next Sunday 7th. so I will be posting the blog candy winner on Monday 8th.

Your next stop is at super talented CINDY's blog. 

Have fun!!!!

Here is the line up in case you get lost. : )

Kristie – http://kreativekristie.blogspot.com
Michelle - http://passionatecrafter.blogspot.com
Amber - http://my3escrapbooking.blogspot.com
Kimberly - http://www.hellocutiecrafts.blogspot.com
Sonia - http://www.scraps4fun.com
Marlene - http://scrappincookie.blogspot.com
Amy - http://amyscraftingspace.blogspot.com
Sue - http://thescrappingsofsue.blogspot.com
Jen - http://www.jenscraftcorner.com
Samantha - http://hooliewoodcreations.blogspot.com
Tara - http://creativeprincess-homemadehappiness.blogspot.com
Candice -  http://stampinpearls.blogspot.com
Maribel - http://ilovescrapping.blogspot.com
Vivi - http://vivienpapel.blogspot.com  (YOU ARE HERE)
Cindy - http://cindyvernon.blogspot.com (NEXT STOP)
Jo - http://joboogie.typepad.com
Tracey - http://trace-elementz.blogspot.com

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #19 - Inspiration Photo

Happy Sunday!!!
WOW!!! We have lots of amazing entries last week at the Birthay Sundaes
Today at Birthday Sundaes we have an Inspiration Challenge.
We are called to use the photo to be inspired by the theme or the colors for our Birthday cards! (We only ask that if you are going to post the picture on your personal blog, be sure to give the credit of it to the source)

http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/photogallery/seaside-sweets?lpgStart=1&currentslide=9&currentChapter=1

 Many thoughts came into my mind with this picture, but I decided to make a card that is pretty much stuck to the picture it self.

I used Life is a Beach cart for the base cut and Sweet Treats for the cupcake. The tag was computer generated by printing the sentiment on a slide sheet and then hand cut it.

Add lots and lots of glitter and done.

Hope you like my card and looking forward to see your creations this week!

Hugs 

Vivi