Wrapping paper / Papel de envolver y un premio

A very easy way of making my own wrapping paper for some christmas presents. I've found the idea on the internet.

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Una manera muy fácil de personalizar algunos regalos navideños. He usado bolsas vintage de papel kraft y las he adornado. La inspiración la encontré en internet.

Lola , que hace unas manualidades geniales, me ha regalado un premio por nuestra amistad.

Muchísimas gracias Lola!!! Ya sabes que me encantan tus trabajos y te sigo siempre, un abrazo!!

ATC "Fiestas"

Aqui está mi inspiración para las ATC de diciembre en "Divas in Recycling".

Desde que he llegado a Australia (y más con los peques) mi Navidad se ha centrado en el dia 25 y Papa Noel. Con esta Atc he querido representar la chimenea por donde se desliza Papa Noel, la carta y los regalos.

Para crearla he cogido cartulina estilo kraft y le he pasado diversas tintas distress. A continuación he estrenado mi nueva plantilla de ladrillos ;-D Como fondo de la atc, utilizando pasta modeladora, hice esta especie de pared de chimenea . Una vez seca, volví a pasar diferentes tintas distress por encima hasta conseguir el color deseado.

En cada una de ellas hay un rubbon distinto, restos que me quedaban y he aprovechado de un proyecto navideño del año pasado.

Como las tintas distress son "embossables", espolvoreé un poco aquí y un poco allá polvos traslucidos de "embossar" y aunque es difícil de apreciar la atc tiene brillo.

Para la carta, cogí un trozo de cartulina, lo entinté y enrollé por un extremo a un palillo mondadientes ( al que corté extremos y pinté en dorado). Apliqué Mod Podge después de escribir para proteger.

Finalmente añadí flores acrílicas y puse brillo ("cristaline stickles") en el centro de ellas.

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Here is my inspiration for december ATC at "Divas in Recycling".

Since I'm in Australia, Christmas for me is the 25th and the Santa Claus coming home with gifts, so I decided so represent it with the chimney,the letter and the presents.

To start I cut kraft cardstock and distressed it. I applied my new brick template with modelling paste to make the wall of the chimney. Then I distressed it again until I achieved the colour I wanted.

In each one of them, there is a rubbon (leftover from past year's christmas project).

As distress inks are embossable, I sprinkle some clear emboss powder randomly and it gives a nice sparkle texture.

To make the letter, I cut pieces of yellow cardstock, distressed and rolled one of the extremes onto a toothpick (cut pointed edges and painted with gold acrylic paint). Then I applied Mod Podge to protect the writing.

Finally I added some acrylic flowers and put cristaline stickels in the centre.

A work in progress... / trabajando en ello...

Mixed media Inspirational Quote

Recently I've found this quote by Ralph Charell and felt totally inspired by it:

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the Chess player, not the Chess piece"

This mixed media project started with strips of book pages glued down with gel medium. Then I applied different Lindy' sprays and create a purple modelling paste for giving some texture to the background.

There is also gold Lumiere paint and black distress ink around the edges and on some raised areas. I randomly stamped a grunge background stamp with black jet stazon ink here and there.

The images of the people-chess-pieces are free images that I found in internet. I printed them and coloured using my "aqua-pen" (love it!) with TH distress inks. They are "protected" with Mod Podge on top .

I did a stronger cooper tone with the modelling paste for the metal accents and finally I painted a soft veil of white acrylic paint all over the project when finished.

There are both sides figures representing both sides of the chess board and the two clocks are there because there are always two of them in a chess game. I like how the charm came out.

The hand means the player and it's a coloured stamped image onto manila folder that has been glued down there.

I cut one of the "movers&shapers" dies from Tim Holtz . Then I cut it in half to make the big "brackets" that are at the top and at the bottom (2 parts from one piece).

The quote is distressed and glossy accented.

I'll post a video on my YT channel about this project.

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Recientemente encontré esta frase escrita por Ralph Charell y me sentí totalmente inspirada por ella :

" Evita la masa. Piensa por ti mismo independientemente de los demás. Sé el jugador de ajedrez, no la pieza. "

Para empezar este proyecto cubrí toda la superficie usando Gel Medium con tiras de papel extraídas de una página de un libro. Después utilicé los sprays de Lindystampgang para dar color y brillo. También mezclé pintura acrílica lila y pasta modeladora y la apliqué en diferentes areas para dar textura al proyecto.

Para dar mas definición, apliqué por los contornos y las areas elevadas tinta negra de distress de Tim Holtz y pintura en color oro de Lumiere. También estampé aleatoriamente con tinta stazon negra un sello de fondo grunge.

Las imágenes de las personas-piezas de ajedrez han sido impresas desde internet (gratis). Las he coloreado utilizando un "pincel de agua" (¡me encanta!) y tintas distress de TH. Para protegerlas, les he añadido una capa de Mod Podge por encima.

Para las piezas metálicas hice una mezcla en tono cobre con la pasta modeladora. Y finalmente pinté un suave "velo" blanco por toda la superficie con pintura acrílica blanca.

Hay figuras cabeza abajo y otras no representando los dos lados del tablero. Existen dos relojes porque siempre hay dos en una partida de ajedrez.

Me gusta mucho como ha quedado el colgante en este proyecto.

La mano representa al jugador. Es un sello que estampé en papel de manila y coloreé usando otra vez las TH tintas.

Corté un diecut con la troqueladora ("Movers&Shapers" de TH) y lo partí por la mitad y así creé esa especie de paréntesi grande que hay arriba y abajo del proyecto (dos piezas creadas de una sola forma).

La frase ha sido impresa y entintada con distress TH tintas (¿se nota que me gustan mucho estas tintas? ;-D ) . Cada palabra tiene una capa de glossy accent para resaltarla del dibujo general.

Pondré un video en mi canal de YT sobre este proyecto.

Christmas Decoration by the kids / Decoracion navideña por los peques

Christmas is coming soon. As every year we have made our own christmas ornaments. Kids always have fun making them and seeing them exposed around the house.

First, I bought a box of metallic balls and covered them with gesso. After that, the children painted them and put glitter on each one. When dried, they spread them around the tree. I added some tinsel and tons of mixed coloured lights and the tree was done!

Our nativity was created using nature stuff and felt toys that they have to create their own stories.

There are some other ornaments around the house, including a cross-stiched sign that I received last year as a present. Thanks!

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La Navidad ya se acerca. Como cada año nos hemos puesto manos a la obra y creado nuestra propia decoración. Es un actividad que encanta a los niños y les entretiene un montón.

Lo primero que hice fue comprar una caja de bolas de navidad y pintarlas todas ellas con una capa de Gesso. Un vez seca, los peques pintaron y decoraron con purpurina cada bola. El siguiente paso fue colocarlas en el árbol y yo añadí las luces multicolor y las guirnaldas. El árbol ya estaba hecho!

Hicimos nuestro Belén utilizando materiales naturales (troncos, hojas, piñas, etc) y muñecos de fieltro para las figuras. Los niños usan estos muñecos para crear sus propias historias cuando juegan.

Por la casa también hemos puesto otras manualidades como el cartel de Feliz Navidad hecho de punto de cruz que recibí el año pasado como regalo. ¡Gracias!

A special gift / un regalo especial

El artisteo corre en las venas de la familia, es heredado ;-D Para muestra, este regalo tan especial y tan hermoso que mi tia me ha hecho para mi cumpleaños. Muchisimas gracias!!!! es perfecto para poner mis charms, blings y otros pequeños objetos que uso para mis manualidades.

Aqui os dejo el link a su blog. Ella hace miniaturas, punto de cruz, ... un poco de todo:

Olga - mis chuches

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My auntie, who is a very versatile artist made this special altered box for me for my birthday. She's not a scrapbooker but I think she did a great job here. Love it!

She does other artistic creations like cross-stitching, miniatures, etc.

Check the link up here to see more of her gorgeous creations.

Mixed media canvas

This is my first mixed media canvas. I played with different textures and there is lots of layering as always.

The title is "Be yourself" represented with the words "believe, love, live... always". The key symbolises that these words are the key for being yourself. And the heart, flowers, butterflies are images that mean these words (all in my opinion, of course! :-D ).

The process I followed here was this one:

I started with a few different patterned papers glued down with gel medium and then I brushed different water colour paints over. After that, I stamped backgrounds stamps (crackle, cross-stiching, script) and put lots of white rub-bons and some black ones.

I used some modelling paste mixed with the paints to give some dimension to some areas of the canvas and also used marker pens (white&black) to help to pop up some edges and contours of the images.

I went back and forward with these different techniques until I achieved the result I wanted.

The title had been stamped previously in a cardstock and glossy accented after glued down to the canvas.

Last touch was to put some "cristaline" stickles here and there.

Any questions, please ask me :-D

(As always, click on the picture to make it bigger)

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Este proyecto ha sido mi primer mixed-media canvas. He jugado con diferentes texturas y como siempre hay unas cuantas capas en él.

El título "Sé tu misma" está representado con las palabras que se encuentran escritas en las flores y en la llave : " creer, amar, vivir... siempre ". Esta llave simboliza que en estas palabras esta la clave para "ser una misma" así como las imágenes de las flores, mariposas y corazón són la representación de estas palabras (en mi opinión, por supuesto! ;-D )

El proceso que he seguido aquí es el siguiente:

Empecé con diferentes papeles de imágenes que pegué al canvas. Luego apliqué diferentes tonos de pintura (base de agua) . A continuación estampé sellos (escritura, "crackle", punto cruzado) y también utilicé un montón de rub-bons blancos y negros (me encantan!).

Para dar volumen a algunas zonas, usé pasta modeladora mezclada con pintura y utilicé "rotuladores" (en negro y en blanco) para resaltar contornos.

Jugué con estas técnicas hasta que obtuve un resultado que me gustó.

El título lo estampé previamente en cartulina rosa y lo resalté con "glossy accent" una vez pegado al canvas.

Para acabar, un poco de brillo aquí y allá y ya está.

Espero que os guste el resultado. Cualquier duda, no dudéis en preguntármela :-D

(Como siempre, picar sobre la imagen para agrandarla)

Atc Travelling / Atc Viajar

My ATC's for november at "Divas in Recycling" site. The theme was "Travelling". I used it as an inspiration for travelling within ourselves, looking for our inner destiny/guide. There's lots of layering with stamping, embossing, misting, etc.

I really love Atc's. It's a great crafty way of expressing ourselves.

Mis ATC para el mes de noviembre en " Divas in Recycling ". El tema era "Viajar". Usé el tema para simbolizar un viaje interior. A la vez, jugué con la palabra norte utilizando también el significado de Polo Norte (de ahí los colores "glaciares", copos nieve, etc) sin olvidar el Sol que nos ilumina.

Me encanta hacer las Atc. Dan mucha libertad para expresarnos de una forma artística.

A perfect gift for christmas / regalo perfecto para Navidad

Following a tutorial from Elena I made this easy and fast project adding a few extra touches. I used a 12x12 double-sided cardstock that I had previously for the covers and green thiner sheets for the inside pages.

I added pockets in the inside front and back covers and embellished with stamps, white embossing powder and some bling.

You can find the tutorial in Elena's YT channel ("pegapapelotijeras"). Though it's in spanish it's very easy to follow, don't need to understand the words to know how to create it. She shows it very well! Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0JLSFkMEtQ

He hecho esta libreta siguiendo un tutorial de Elena. Es un proyecto muy facil y rapido de hacer. Yo he añadido mi toque personal poniendo bolsillos en la portada interior tanto delantera como trasera y haciendo un cierre con la goma elastica. Hay embossing, stamping y algo de bling.

El tutorial se puede encontrar en el link puesto arriba. El canal YT de Elena es " pegapapelotijeras" . Es en idioma castellano. Sus tutoriales son siempre super faciles de seguir

Craft project with the kids / proyecto de craft con los peques

I saw these fabric scraps at a craft shop and I thought they would make for a nice banner. My kids wanted to help so at the end it was their project. They decided the shape (I thought triangles but they have another idea...) and the size. We cut the pieces, did a bit of hand stitching and then they stamped (staz-on ink) what images and where they wanted from a whimsical stamp set that I've got. They are very proud of what they've done so we decided to hang it up in their room. Easy and fun project :-D

Click onto image to see it bigger.

Este es un proyecto que he hecho con mis hijos. Vi los restos de ropa en una tienda y me encantaron los colores. Los nenes y yo decidimos hacer una cinta con banderitas colgando. Ellos decidieron la forma y el tamaño de ellas y yo las cosi a la cinta. Despues ellos escogieron de un "whimsical stamp set" las imagenes que querian estampar y estamparon donde quisieron (con staz-on tinta). Les encanto tanto el resultado que esta cinta ya esta colgada en su habitacion. Es un proyecto muy facil de hacer y entretenido para ellos. :-D

Picar sobre la imagen para ampliarla.

The back side of the Christmas tag

More distressing, stamping and stickles here.

The pocket is made with a stamped coin envelope (it has the same motif as the background). The envelope is covered with christmas embellishing trim.

The little angel has been alcohol inked and has rock candy stickles on the wings.

Finally the tag has the sentiment written at the back. I think the candy canes add the perfect touch ;-D

A christmas tag

I'm not a huge fan of any themed project but I have some lefties from last years' christmas mini so I decided to play along with them and some new tools I have bought recently.

The base of this tag is thick yellow cardstock. First I did some masking using LSG and Glimmer Mists showing bells and green "flowers" (they were suppose to be snowflakes but I changed my mind).

Next step was to distress the card and stamp the lyrics of "wish you a merry christmas" with staz-on ink.

As it was very strong background, I used white gesso to tone it down.

I recently bought an embossing pen and was willing to try it so I went over the masked shapes and embossed there. I also used this pen onto parts of the image (Graphic45) to give some highlights to the dresses, the star and the candles on the tree. It's very shimmery though it's difficult to see with the picture.

The metal flowers were silver and I embossed them with white (as the title).

A bit of more misting, stickles and some acrylic flowers (like snowflakes) and my tag was done.

Another vintage mini

I made this mini using the "timeless" paper collection from Kaisercarft. As for the construction, I followed the tutorial that Anne has done in a video at her YT Channel "xannero". I didn't make it exactly as she shows but very similar.

I had a lot of fun while making this mini because I really loved the papers and enjoyed working with them. There are tons of tags that are shown in a video uploaded soon at my YT channel .

Thanks for reading!

UPDATE: Here is the link to Anne's tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06fhAbRabTs

Thanks for reading and commenting :-D

A work in progress...

Paper collection: " Vintage Timeless" by Kaisercraft. Love it!!

For a friend

Ok, cards are not one of my craft strengths... I wanted to create one for a friend but instead of that the result has been more a mini layout than a card. It measures nearly 7x7!

I've used some WOC and IAR flowers. They have been distressed with walnut stain TH ink.

The bird is a stamp from a bird set (Martha Stewart) that my friend Emma sent to me. I stamped it, painted with LSG products and then "fussy" cut out. It's adhered onto the paper with foam dots, the same as the diecut frame. Sentiment has been black embossed. To give a more aged look to the paper it has been sprayed with LSG choc truffle and though hardly aprecciated, there are gold ink stamped butterflies at the back ground. Chipboard swirls (Dusty Attic) under the flowers and the paper butterflies are distressed also.

Thanks for reading!

My " 3 Times" mini

I made this "3 Times" mini for my mum and her sisters (my aunties) who went to a touristic trip together a couple of months ago.

It has been a lot of years since they got together with no one else but just the three of them. To commemorate that I created a mini for each one of them. All exactly the same in and out, just changing small details to adapt to the name.

Papers and embellishments used here are from Kaisercraft "English Rose" collection.

There is a video uploaded at my YT channel "eluniversoencantado".

Thanks!