"Welcome little one" a cute baby card featuring Avery Elle!

Welcome!

This morning I had some fun with the new  "Polar pals" stamp set by Avery Elle and here's what I created.. !

Omg this set it's tooo tooo toooo cute!! Avery Elle designed sooo many beautiful stamp sets.. but I couldn't have all them so.. I chose this one and .. YAY..!That was a great choise! I love it! Those critters are super pretty, sweet and versatile, you can create any tipe of cards and I think they match perfecly some older stamps set too.

This little seal is amazing and since i had some free time to dedicate to crafting I made this card to complete a little gift set to welcome a baby!

This month the Avery Elle challenge is about "Non white card base".. thanks it was not about no white at all! ahah! There is always some white space on my card and I decided to keep it this time too. But i added some tumbled glass ink at the center of my card to create a little space for my critter to set and I used a light blue folded card base. :)

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Hope you like my CAS card and thank you so so much for stopping by today!

See you soon.. I'll show you some other projects with this set by Avery Elle! :)

franci 

 

Hello Jolly Holly Days!

Hi there and happy sunday! 

Although these are still super sunny days here, i'm dreaming of holidays and Christmas time! Chocolate, snow, cozy sweater.. yeah I love the winter season !! 

So I have another Christmas project to show you .. hope you enjoy! :)

I love that cute bear! It's so versatile, pretty and cute!! I love dressing all the bears included in the stamp set and for this one I just added few lines to make her wearing a simple pink sweater! :)

I also used an unusual shape for my card base and i love it! I think it's perfect to combine the hello sentiment!

I also use some glossy accents on my script to add some interest! And i'm trying to take confidence with fussy cutting.. i like how it looks on some cards! :)

The september challenge at "Make the Day Special" is a color one and the color combos they choose are amazing. I decided to pick the third chart with shades of pink, red and brown: they look beautiful together!

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Hope you enjoy and thank you so so soo much for stopping by today! If you like it please follow my blog, follow me on flickr and visit my facebook page! :)

See you soon with another cute project! 

franci :)

Merry Christmas a cute shaped card/tag featuring Mama Elephant!

Update: I'm the Weekly Winner at Christmas Card Challenges! I'm super happy! thank you so much!! :) 

Welcome!!

This week I enjoyed a lot the new Mama Elephant flickr challenge " make it shaped"!

I just have some circular and rectangle dies and I usually use them to make the base of my card... I'd love to have a star shape and while I was thinking about my wish list for Santa I decided to make a Christmas project! 

Here's what i created...! 

A shaped card! I call it a card-tag because it is both a card and a tag! I wanted to create something special for my lovely ones these days.. so i made this for my mum! She loves keeping all the cards and tags from every Christmas but what she likes the most it's recycle them into... paper ornament! Let me explain... Do you have a super funny Christmas Tree decorated with old tags, fronts of cards and winter postcards?! I do!! I mean my mum does.. so do I ! :)

Ahah! That's the reason I added a gold twine to make it a paper ornament too!

On the back i applied a little folded circular card to write my sentiment. I die cut all the penguins with their coordinate dies using the inlaid die cut technique and i cut with scissor all the space in between them! I don't know where i found that patience! ahah! :)

I love it, it's like the earth with all those little penguins going around! :)

Challenges:

Mama Elephant flickr challenge

            

Hope you like it and thank you so much for stopping by today! :)

See you soon with another Christmas project! :)

franci

Hippo mail!

Update: This card received the "Honorable Gnome" title!! I'm so so happy! thanks!! :)

Hi guys! 
I'll continue to say that I already miss the beach, the sun and the sea.. until my next vacation..! Yeah.. i'll probably do! :)
This summer there was a lovely mascotte at my hotel, a super cute and sweet hippo with his funny "granny panties"! Let me say it was super super cute! :) Both childrens and their parents were crazy about! So I decided to celebrate our hippo mascotte with a card! Here's what i created...

The challenge at Lawnscaping is "texture" so i decided to add some interest to my card with some distress inks shading and some dimension! I love all my distress inks.. For this card I used "Tumbled Glass", "Salty Ocean" and "Mermaid Lagoon".

Here you can see how I built my ocean waves scene...!

I curled all the waves to give lots of texture and dimension and I love all these little happy mails hiding in the ocean..! And I used some foam tape for my hippo to make it really stand out! 

I modified the Lawn Fawn original hippo stamp drawing some giant pants and i colored it with my copics and for the sentiment I combined two LF stamp set: "Year Four" and "Gleeful Garden".

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I hope you like it and thank you sososooo much for stopping by today! :)

franci 

It's been too long..!

Hi guys!! It's been too long since my last post.. I know ..  but I was working on some special projects and then I finally enjoyed my vacation! Yay! I spend lots of time walking on the beach and thinking about lots of new cards and designs that i'd love to create! It was a special and beautiful time, and I miss it already! :)
But I'm happy to be back to all my stamps, inks, markers.. I missed them too! 
Today I wanna show you this card I created with a super cute Penny Black stamp set that i love: Mimi Safari! 

Isn't this giraffe toooo cute?! And the sentiment?! Ihih!! :)
Maybe it's not  so visible in the picture, but I used lots of foam tape so the little giraffe and the palm really pop up! And I curled a little all the leaves edges and the bottom part of banner to give more interest to my card! :)
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Hope you like my card and thank you so so sooo much for stopping by today! :)

franci

Hello!

Update: Mama Elephant hearts me! This card received the Honorable Mention title! YAY! I'm a challenge fave! :) I'm super happy! Thanks ladies!! :)

Hi there!

And if you are new to my blog.. welcome! :)
Yesterday I wanted to create something new... and here's what came up! 

I love drawing.. yeah so much, but I always have too little time to do it! (Yeah i'm that kind of person who draws on the paper towels too! ahah!) 

For some times I saw beautiful works of art from so many talented designers and they had inspired me so much that I just wanna give my watercolors a try! 

So i took a watercolor paper and i started drawing on it directly with my brush, i didn't make any pencil line or design.. i just let it go! 

Here's a detail...

I think this hello script by Mama Elephant it's perfect with my background, it's so elegant! 

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I was inspired by this beautiful floral part of the dress, i think it's amazing! But i wanna a softened look so i use a pale yellow card base to complete my card and not a brighter one! 

Hope you like it and thank you so so much for stopping by today! :)

I'm working on some super special projects these days and i'm also thinking about some projects for the fall / winter season.. so be sure to always check my blog out and specially on late september and follow my blog and  my facebook page to be the first to know!! Oh and you can also find me on flickr! 

Have an amazing day! :)

franci 

Love you!

Update: Avery Elle hearts me! :) I've been spotted by Avery Elle and now you can find my project on the " Avery Elle blog"! Click * here*  to see! I'm so happy! Thanks! :)

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Happy wednesday friends!! :)
Today i have more dry embossing to show you.. here's what i created! 

I was out of my comfy zone with this card..! And i'm so happy about how it turned out! :)

I never create a card like this.. I don't know .. i think I was scared by black cardstock..! 

Now that i found how to create my own emboss design with regular dies I can't stop using this technique.. ahah!! :)

Here's a detail.. hope you can see clearly the embossing..! 

I think this little rabbit by Avery Elle is super cute! And it's perfect under a shower of love! ihih! 

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Hope you like it and thank you so so much for stopping by today! 

franci :)