Winter Card- Joy

Hello everyone!

Winter is finally here, and today I wanted to share with you a card perfect for this time of the year. I used several Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powders on top of the wood veneers I used and I loved the look.

The wood veneer trees I got at my local Michael's, and I embossed them using Magic Moon Pearls embossing powder. Love the pearlescent finish with the peak of the wood tone in the background. The snowflakes are Maya Road wood veneers, that I embossed using Madonna Robe Blue Gold embossing powder. I also embossed a tiny bird you can see peeking on top of the white Prima resin birdhouse. It is a Studio Calico wood veneer that I embossed using Bougainvillea Red Teal embossing powder, so pretty!

I used 7 Dots Studio Paper for the background, a doily, and a sticker word from Pebbles ink. Super dimensional card, I hoped you liked it!

Have a great day!!!

Gratitude is and Action Word

Hello everyone! November is here! Can you believe it? I sure can't! Seems like the days are flying by and sooner than we know it Christmas will be around the corner.

As you know, I've been quite the busy bee lately and I promised I would share as soon as I could why. Well, this is it. I've been totally busy handling the sale of our house, and also the purchase of a new house. We are moving!!! and far!

Totally stressful and crazy process, but we are finally reaching the goal, as we have sold our house, and just bought a new one! So I'm up to my neck with stuff to do, packing, getting things finalized and well, I'm totally exhausted lol. I've been having quite a bit of giveaways on both my YouTube Channel, and my Instagram, so I've been also taking care of those, and I have been promising to do one on here, and hope to so asap. Been promising it for a while, but time has just gotten away from me guys. Hope you can bare with me. Just keep a look out, because IT IS happening lol.

Today, I wanted to share with you what I created as inspiration for the Lindy's Stamp Gang November Color Challenge. If you don't know about them, please go check out their blog HERE. We do challenges every month, and the designers always have great inspiration for everyone to draw from. I love how our team is so creative! We always share a variety of different projects for all different tastes. Go check out the blog, you will NOT be dissapointed.

Here is the inspiration photo for this month. Isn't that truck just adorable?! 

Here's what I created:

The products I used where the following:

Starburst Stain-Rusty Lantern Lime

Starburst Stain-Bayou Boogie Gold
Starburst Stain- Shabby Turbine Teal
Embossing Powder-Terra Cotta Rust
Embossing Powder- Caesar's Gold

Hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by today!

Hello Friend Card Tutorial

Hello friends!

Today I wanted to share a card I made using my favorite Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powders. If you are a follower, you know I love using their embossing powders, and I have been for years. I love their two toned effect. and I feel they give an extra special touch to all the projects I use them in.

For this card, I used the Glitz Spritz in Cactus Gold, and three different embossing powders: Imperial Crown Purple Gold, Midnight Copper, and Oakleaf Olive Gold. 

I loved the way these looked together, and hope you enjoy watching the process video at the end of this post. 

Preview Sale Video!!!

Hi everyone!
Just wanted to share a preview of what's going to be on sale on Blitsy.com starting Monday, Oct 21st. You know I love sales, and discounted prices, so it was wonderful when Blitsy contacted me to share this information with you. Lots of great stuff going on sale, so check the video out to see if any of your wish list items will be offered at a great price!Remember there are limited amounts of products at discounted prices so don't miss out by waiting too much to get to the site as soon as the sale starts.
To take advantage, become a member for FREE by clicking HERE.
Thanks so much for stopping by, and yes I have NOT forgotten about the giveaway I promised for the blog. I will be getting that together in the next couple of days, it's just been crazy busy around here!
Luv you guys!
Have a great weekend!

October Color Challenge with Lindy's Stamp Gang!

Hello friends!
Yes, I am still alive and kicking LOL! I truly apologize, because I know I haven't been present on the blog as much as I'd like to, for quite a while now. Basically, I have been extremely consumed both mentally, physically, and emotionally with a lot I have going on around here............ definitely lots going on around here (don't worry, it's nothing bad), but once things become a little bit more concrete, I think I'll feel comfortable sharing. Until then, please know I'm still around, you can keep track of what I'm up to through my YouTube channel, or my Instagram account, but until I'm more specific, just know, I really haven't had enough time for crafting, because I've been involved with a lot of things at home.  My mojo has definitely suffered, as I have not been crative for quite a bit now, BUT, I made this cute card as an inspiration piece for the Lindy's Stamp Gang october Color Challenge. I've been designing for Lindy's Stamp Gang for several years now, and I cannot tell you how much I enjoy using the products.
This month's Color Challenge uses a color combo a barely use, so it was extra challenging for me, but in the end, I'm happy with the result: a simple card with tons of texture.

Take a look at all the other inspiration pieces by the other design team members, and head on over to the Lindy's Stamp Gang Blog to participate in the challenge.

Products used:

Flat Fabios in Luscious Lime, Wicked Witch Purple, and Tears on My Pillow Tangerine

Embossing Powder in Imperial Crown Purple Gold, Ghouly Goblin Green, Terra Cotta Plum

Glitters in  Petrified and Purple Rain

Thanks for stoping by the blog today, and stay tuned for a giveaway coming soon (hopefully this weekend or sometime next week!)

Mad Hatter Blog Hop!

Hello everyone!
Have you seen all the new goodies available at  the Lindy's Stamp Gang store recently! Well, if you haven't, here's a little peek!

I totally love all those vibrant colors, don't you? 

Well, I wanted to let you know that in honor of the new releases, there is currently a blog hop going on, featuring some of the lovely designers whom I'm very honored to work with, on the Lindy's Stamp Gang's DT.  

I don't know if you've had the chance to meet all of the designers yet, since many of them have joined our team just recently, but this Blog Hop is a great way for everyone to hop on over to their blogs, get some inspiration, and show them some love. Want to join in the fun? They've been hard at work with the new products, and their creations are sure to inspire you. Head on over to the Lindy's Stamp Gang blog at http://lindystampgang.wordpress.com and check out the line up. You are sure going to have some fun! 

Mature and Girly Birthday Card

Happy Labor Day everyone!

Today, I wanted to share with you my inspiration piece for the Lindy's Stamp Gang's September Color Challenge. Every month, LSG puts out a great color combo to inspire, and all the design team members have a lot of fun playing around to show different interpretations of the inspiration picture. This month the inspiration piece was the one below.

 Definitely not a combination I use very often, because I find that I do not use a lot of purples, but I gave it a try and used some of my favoriet Hero Arts and Stampin' up stamps to create the following card.

I used two different LSG embossing powders in this card: Oak Leaf Olive Gold and Magic Moon Pearls. I also used a few Starburst Stains: Green With Envy Green, Tea Pot Purple and Cosmopolitan Pink. I have a detailed video tutorial on my YouTube Channel, on how I created this card, and in it, you can see how all the materials went from being white, to being colorful and shimmery.
This is a perfect birthday for a mother, a grandma and even your mother in law. Girly, elegant, yet colorful and full of dimension.
Lindy's Stamp Gang is having a Labor Day Sale! Get  25% off of everything using the code:laborday
Hope you enjoyed!

Stamps used: Dogwood by Hero Arts, Lace Background by Hero Arts, Raindrop Background by Hero Arts, and Stampin' up Netting Stamp.

Konad M95 Review

Hi everyone!

Hope you all had a great weekend!

If you know me, you know I love stamping, and when talking about nails, it is not out of the question. Such fun, and intricate designs can be attainable by just doing a little stamping on your nails. It's quick, and much easier than you might imagine.

I always love experimenting with my nails, so when I saw this plate, I knew I had to try it. Can you guess why? Well, of course, it has an owl on it!!!

So this is what the new Konad M95 Plate looks like: 

 I love the fact that the full nail designs are much bigger than the older Konad plates I own. I've paired the new plate with one of my old ones (Konad M51), so you can see the difference in the size of the design. I was super happy to see the bigger size on the new plate, because that means I won't have to worry when stamping, about the design not covering my entire nail. That is a BIG relief, because you don't want to know how many times I messed up a manicure because the design was too small for my nail. With this new plate, that is a problem of the past. Yay!

I started playing around with the designs and here are some of the shots I took.
For this first picture I used L'oreal's Haute Couture Red, and for the stamping Essie's Good as Gold. I have discovered that I don't always need to use special polish to stamp my nails. Metallic polishes seem to work really well too.

On this next picture I'm wearing Essie's Naughty Nautical which I stamped over with Konad's White special polish.

At this point I couldn't stop playing, so to that, I added Essie's Penny Talk for the design of the other nails.

 Here's a closer look to that other design on the plate using Penny Talk by Essie.

In this next one I used Essie's East Hampton Cottage, and Sally hansen Instadri in Pronto Purple.

I will continue trying the rest of the designs, and I'm very happy with the nail plate. If you are not an accurate nail stamper like me, these designs are perfect because you can get away with not having to stamp perfectly every time, and the designs don't end up looking crooked, or misplaced. Maybe the design with the lace print in the middle might be the most difficult to stamp, considering you might want to keep the design from looking slanted, but pretty much all the designs I tried were pretty fool proof.
One thing I will say however, is that you need to be careful when wipping your plate before tranfering the design to your stamping tool.  You don't want to remove a lot of the polish from the solid parts of the designs. I found this to be a little bit of an issue with the more solid designs on the plate, specially with the multiple hearts design. I found that I needed to be extra caredul just to get get an even looking stamped image. Overall, I think this is a super fun plate, with great designs. The possibilities with it are endless. I could layer that owl anywhere I tell ya'!
I have a tip for you too! My friends over at NailPolishCanada.com are holding a Nail Art Giveaway! The prize is for all 5 of the new Konad plates that have recently been released, and guess what? (Free shipping IS INCLUDED!
If you are interested in entering for a chance to win you can enter here: http://www.nailpolishcanada.com/categories/konad-nail-art.html
Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today, I hope you enjoyed my nail stamping post for today, and I encourage you to try some nail stamping. It's so fun!

Fluttering Butterflies

Hello everyone!

Summer is almost over, can you believe it?! My summer has been packed with tons of activities, and lots of cool little trips. I've definitely been busy, have you? 

Now, all the talk is about back to school, and getting organized for the new school year. Everyone will be going back to their regular routines, and then barge into getting ready for the holidays! Amazing how time flies bye these days.

Today, I wanted to share with you this card I created using Lindy's Stamp Gang Products. When I look at it I see August...what I mean by that is, I usually envision the months in my mind having some sort of color theme, and to me, this is how August is, rich, colorful and super bright!

 I used many different Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst Stains to make the background of the card, as well as the color on the butterflies. The method of applying color however, on those two things were completely different. I sprayed the background, and I painted the butterflies using a thin brush (two different methods of applying color, but both very effective). Can you see all the shimmer? I embossed the butterflies using black Versafine Ink, and Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder in Magic Moon Pearls, so the ebossing comes out black, but with a pearlescent finish. I love it! The pictures really don't do it justice.

The Starburst Stains I used were the following: Wake Me Up Before You Go Gold, Pretty In Pink Pink, Ponderosa Pines Green, Fuzzy Navel Peach and Bayou Boogie Gold.

I used a Prima Stamp set as well as Hero Art's Antique Engravings Stamp set, for the butterflies. The Sentiment of the card is from and Inkadinkado Stamp set. The background resist was done using the Hero Art's Raindrop Background stamp, as well as the Magic Moon Pearls embossing powder from Lindy's Stamp Gang.

The white you see behind the butterflies, is a piece of white vellum which I dry embossed using a Stampin' up embossing folder, and glued down to the card using some paper lace from my stash.

I added some Gold Stickles in some areas of the butterflies, specially the biggest one, just for some extra bling. I hope you enjoyed this card, as much as I did making it. Take care everyne, and have a safe end of the summer!

A tag using Lindy's Stamp Gang and My Favorite Things Products

Hello there!
I'm so glad you are joining me back here again for another project share. Today I want to show you a tag I created using Lindy's Stamp Gang (LSG) products as well as My Favorite Things (MFT) Stamps. Today is the last day to take advantage of the code SMFRIENDS at the MFT store to get a 10% discount of your entire purchase. Sweet, huh?
This is a super colorful tag I made for the LSG's August Color Challenge. Every month, LSG Hosts a color challenge on their company blog, and all of the designers, share some inspiration for those who wish to participate. The challenge goes live at the beginning of each month and it's super fun to watch what everyone comes up with. Check out the LSG blog every beginning of the month to see how to enter, and be a part of it.
I used a stamp from the  MFT's Distressed Background Blocks set, as well as some stamps from the Dandelion Wishes Set from MFT.

I used different LSG Flat Fabio Sprays, Starburst Stains, and on of LSG's fabulous embossing powders which I love. The Flat Fabios I used were: Tears on My Pillow Tangerine and Rizzo's Rowdy Red. The Starburst Stains I used were Open Arms Amethist  and Tainted Love Teal. For embossing powder, I used the color Imperial Crown Purple Gold.

I added tons of fibers like I always do on all the tags I make, used MFT's Stamp Ink in the color Factory Green to create the shadows of the flowers behind the dark stamping of the flowers in my favorite black ink, which is Versafine.

Super colorful tag for a super fun color challenge. Remember to Visit the LSG blog for more details on how to enter, and take advantage of your 10% discount on the MFT Store using the Coupon Code: SMFRIENDS.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed today's project share!