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Jot Magazine Mood Board Challenge

Sometimes you see something inspiring and it kickstarts your creativity, I found Jot Magazine by accident and I´m really loving it, so far I only have one challenge done but I hope to make many more.

The mood board challenge #8 was this:

The combination of colors is adorable, the ideas on of the design team are really cool and fresh. I think I have found a new favorite magazine :) This is my take on their colors, I know it´s nothing spectacular but I really like it, I know, my copic coloring has to improve.

So if anyone out there reads me you have until sept 16 to participate in the mood challenge, and don´t forget to check out Jot Magazine!

A new beginning....

Un nuevo comienzo....

Behold the new scraphouse, more to come soon!

Miren la nueva scrapcasa! Mas acerca de esto pronto!

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My planner for 2011

My agenda para el 2011

This is the second year in a row that I make my own daily planner, this way I can add what I´ll use for sure and remove all the things from planners I never use. Plus I add a scrapbooking inspiration section, some to do lists of crafty items and a section for sketches.

Este es el segundo año que hago mi propia agenda, de este modo puedo añadir o remover todas las cosas que me van a servir y las que no. Además añado una sección de scrapbook, listas de cosas de manualidades que quiero hacer y sketches.

On a visit to a local supermarket I saw a Frida Kahlo planner, now you should know that I love Frida, she is one of my idols and love her art, her life, her style etc, ever since I was a little girl I´ve loved all things Frida so I knew I wanted a Frida planner, but not just any....I wanted to make my own.

En una visita al supermercado me tope con una agenda de Frida Kahlo, les voy a contar que yo adoro a Frida, es una de mis idolos y me encanta su arte, su vida su estilo etc, desde que era una niñita me encantaba todo lo que fuera de Frida asi que sabia que queria una agenda de Frida....pero no cualquiera, queria hacer la mia.
So this is my Frida 2011 planner, I used paper by K & Company "Que sera sera" line, and several diecuts also from K& Co, the ribbon is Making Memories and the pictures I found them online printed them and just distress them to look more realistic.

Asi que esta es mi agenda de Frida 2011, use papel de K & Company "Que sera sera" y diferentes paquetitos de "diecuts" tambien de K & Co, los listones son de Making Memories y las fotos las encontre en linea, las imprimi y solo les hice "distressing" para que se vean mas realistas.

To be honest, I love it, it looks exactly as I pictured it and I know I´ll use it trought the year very very happy, hope you like it too and give you some inspiration to create your own planner.

La verdad me encanta como quedo, es exactamente como la imaginaba y se que me va a hacer muy feliz durante todo el año que la use, espero que les guste y sirva de inspiración para crear su propia agenda.

If you want to see each page of the planner visit my 2peas gallery.


Si quieres ver cada una de las fotos, visita mi galeria de 2peas.

Baby Girl Album

Album para bebé niña

A friend kindly asked me to make her a baby girl album, and I got super inspired and worked on that for a few days, and today it was finished and delivered. She loved it!

Una amiga me encargo que le hiciera un album de bebé para niña, la verdad me inspire mucho y trabaje en ello durante varios dias, y hoy ya lo termine y entregue. A ella le encanto!

Here are a few pictures of it, hope you like it, I´m proud to say that even the album was handmade by me and I love all the little details.

Aqui hay algunas fotos del album, espero les guste. Orgullosamente puedo decir que incluso el album fue hecho a manita por mi y me encantaron todos los detallitos que tiene.

My friend Sarah is starting "Made by me wednesday" in her blog and I had to join, because she is super sweet and also talented, if you want to join us just click the button and it will take you there.

Hope everybody has a very creative week, dont´forget to leave a comment!

Espero que todos tengan una semana muy creativa y no olviden dejar comentario!

Layout frenzy

Locura de layouts

Like I mentioned in the last post I was super excited about NSD and the challenges at twopeas, well I did manage to finish at least 3 challenges:

Como mencione en el último post, estaba muy emocionada por el DNS y los retos que iban a haber en Twopeas, bueno pues logré terminar al menos 3 retos:

Challenge: mmmm cupcakes, in which you had to make a project with something cupcake, as you can see I have a cupcake die cut made with a Sizzix die and a picture of some cupcakes cause I really do love cupcakes yum!

Reto: mmmm cupcakes, en el cual tenías que hacer un proyecto con algo de cupcake; como pueden ver, en mi layout hay un cupcake decorativo, que corté con un dado Sizzix y unas fotos de cupcakes, porque me encantan yum!

Supplies/Materiales: DCWV PP Sweet, Urban Rhapsody by K& Company, foam letters, and MS border punch.

Challenge: Glitter girl you had to use something with glitter. That was easy cause I had several supplies with glitter, so I used this chipboard letters and created a layout about my best friend Julia.

Reto: Glitter girl. Consistía en usar algo con glitter. Eso fue fácil, porque tenía varios materiales con glitter; utilicé unas letras de chipboard y creé un layout acerca de mi mejor amiga, Julia.

Supplies/Materiales: DCWV PP Sweet, Around the block PP, K& Company vintage diecuts, DCWV glitter chipboard letters.

Challenge: Create diecuts with other than paper. Easy peasy I had some felt flowers that I cut from Sizzix sizzlits a while ago, also I scraplifted the layout from the uber talented Tara Anderson and well I think she rocks and when I saw her layout I had to do something similar. So this is Us and love the fuxicos which I am hooked making.

Reto: Crea diecuts con otra cosa que no sea papel. Facilito; tenía unas flores de fieltro que corté con unos Sizzlits de Sizzix hace un tiempito, también me inspiré en el layout de la super talentosa Tara Anderson, la cual pienso que es una maravilla, y cuando vi su layout sabía que tenía que hacer algo similar, así que estas somos Nosotras (Us). Me encanta cómo se ven los fuxicos; estoy super adicta a hacerlos.

Supplies/Materiales: K& Company Smitten PP, Smitten glitter stickers, and other supplies not bought specifically for scrapbooking.

I also posted a picture of why I need a ribbon organizer and a clip it up, worth the shot!

También puse foto de porqué necesito un organizador de listones y un clip it up; digo, una no pierde nada con intentar!!

Have a great and crafty week!

¡Que tengan muy feliz semana y hagan muuuuchas manualidades!

Thanks to the caring people that leave me comments I truly love reading them

Mil gracias a todas esas personitas especiales que me dejan comentarios, me encanta leerlos.

{Inter} National Scrapbooking Day

Día {Inter}Nacional de Scrapbooking.

As many of you know specially if you scrapbook, this is our day, is celebrated on the first saturday of may. ALL scrapbooking stores, websites and forums help us celebrate and above all, encourge us to shop. I remember about 3-4 years ago when there was practically no scrapbooking supplies here, going to Office Depot (on NSD) to celebrate by buying some Fiskars products, that by the way I still use.

Como muchos de nosotros sabemos, sobre todo si haces scrapbooking, éste es nuestro Día, y se celebra cada primer sábado de mayo. TODOS los foros, páginas web o tiendas nos ayudan a celebrar y, sobre todo, nos alientan a comprar. Recuerdo que hace como 3-4 años, cuando no había prácticamente ningún producto de scrapbooking en Mérida, fui a Office Depot en (DNS) a comprar algunos productos Fiskars, que, a propósito, aún uso.

This week has been madness to us, roller coaster of feeling due the passing of one of our kitties (Boris) and I decided to stay home and hang on websites, check for online crops and have a low key day, in the evening we have a party at my friend Julia´s house to celebrate her bf birthday (Happy Brithday Jorge!) and we are really excited about going.

Esta semana ha sido una locura para nosotras, una montaña rusa de emociones debido al fallecimiento de uno de nuestros gatitos (Boris), así que decidí quedarme en casa y visitar páginas web, crops en línea y tener un día tranquilo, ya que en la noche tenemos una fiesta en casa de mi amiga Julia para celebrar el cumpleaños de su novio Jorge (¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Jorge!) y tenemos muuchas ganas de ir.

So tomorrow I´ll be here, hanging out probably on Two Peas and checking other online crops, so if you want to online crop with me twit me and we can do some challenge together and maybe I can convince Diana to join too.

Asi que mañana, voy a estar aquí, probablemente en la página de Two Peas y checando otros crops en línea, así que si quieres hacer scrapbooking conmigo, mandame un twit y podemos hacer algun reto juntas, y tal vez convenza a Diana a unirse.

Today was a Labor day here in Mexico, but since we had some errands to do we decided to finish the day going to our favorite cantina here in Merida, and it was yummy, relaxing and fun!

Hoy fue el Día del Trabajo en Mexico, pero como teníamos algunos pendientes fuera de casa decidimos finalizar el día con una visita a nuestra cantina favorita en Mérida, con un resultado rico, relajante y divertido!

P.S. Thanks for everyones well wishes and concern about the Influenza virus, here where I reside we have 0 cases so far so we hope it stays that way.

P.D. Gracias a todos por sus buenos deseos y preocuparse por nosotros debido al virus de la Influenza. Aqui, donde vivo, no tenemos casos de que preocuparnos y esperamos se mantenga así.

P.S.2 Thank you for your condolences, prayers and well wishes when Boris got sick and finally passed away, having your support means the world to us.

P.D. 2 Gracias por sus condolencias, rezos y buenos deseos cuando Boris enfermó y finalmente falleció; contar con su apoyo significó mucho para nosotros.

Album Alejandra

It´s funny how you think since I get to stay at home I´m going to blog a lot more and then realize that you are super busy and forget or do something else or you are simply not inspired and not because you are being lazy.

Es gracioso cómo una llega a pensar que como no tiene que salir a trabajar y sólo estar en la casa, va a tener más tiempo de escribir en su blog; luego se da cuenta que está o muy ocupada o se le olvida o simplemente no está inspirada... pero nunca por que estés flojeando.

This past two weeks I´ve been working on and off in this birthday present for Alejandra the daughter of dear friends, she turned 15 and as it is traditionally done she had a huge party and wore the purplest (is that a word?) dress I´ve ever seen, she looked great and danced awesome and hope she likes what I made for her.

Las últimas dos semanas estuve trabajando en un regalo de cumpleaños para Alejandra, la hija de unos queridos amigos, quien cumplió 15 años y como es tradición, tuvo una super fiesta y usó el vestido más morado que he visto en mi vida; se veia super bien y bailó fabuloso. Espero de verdad que le guste su regalo.

I made this album with DCWV Pocket full of poisies and the Glitter Stack, I also used tons of Primas a whole bunch of blings and a lot of Stickles and is not much of my style but I really love how it looks.

Hice el album con Pocket Full of Poisies de DCWV y el Glitter Stack; también utilicé un buen de flores Prima, mucho bling y Stickles, y aunque no es mucho mi estilo, realmente me gusta como se vé.

I have a lot of projects to do on the following weeks so I´ll be blogging about that, and I promise to write more since is taking me a while to post.

Tengo muchos proyectos pendientes para las próxima semanas y voy a estar blogueando acerca de eso, así que debo escribir más, ya que me está tomando un rato escribir.

Off to cut with the Silhoutte since she is behaving tonight.

Me voy a cortar con la Silhoutte ya que hoy está de buenas y se está portando bien.

Santa was here!

And the gifts were awesome, tons of scrapbooking supplies, Diana got a popcorn maker and a few goodies to go with it (she looooves popcorn), and I got......an Amy Butler scrapbooking bag!!!!! In Pink and with goodies inside!!!!!!

We had a blast at Julia´s last night, the food was incredible and we got gifts from her and she and her mom loved the gifts we gave them.

It was an awesome Christmas and not because of the gifts, we spent the time having fun, trying to not get so stressed about the season and really and focusing in the future and present, the best gift this Christmas for me was knowing I´m in love with someone that is in love with me.

¡¡¡Feliz Navidad!!!

Merry Christmas everybody!!

In a while we´ll be getting ready to go with our friend Julia and her family to spend Christmas eve with them and then tomorrow just stay here and eat yummy food and relax and enjoy what Santa brought us.

I finished my final gifts really late last night, this is a mini accordion album for Julia and her boyfriend Jorge so they can put special pictures of them during 2009. I used DCWV Pocket full of Posies and Old World, and some cut and paste vintage images from K&Company.

And this is for Julia´s mom Nina (her name is also Julia but no one calls her that) so I made this for her to put on her dresser or wherever she could need it, she loves those colors and owls and this paper Urban Rhapsody from K&Co. have owls and birds and vintage stuff and colors.

Hope you have an awesome time with your family and friends that you eat yummy, stay warm, drive safely and Santa brings you all the things you wanted.

I leave you with my favorite performers of the season dancing one of my favorite Christmas song.

The process to a layout

Have you ever wondered, just how do scrapbookers start doing their thing at least at home? I do and a lot. For example what does Toni do before creating awesome cards or how does Sarah prepares to do her super cute layouts? (just to mention a couple)?

Since today I´m going to be scrapping and already have half my chores done, I´ll show you what I do (don´t expect anything super exciting lol) just the plain, regular, easy going scrapbooker.

Ok first of all I clean my work area wich is my desk right next to my pc, I always do this first cause I have cats and fur travels and far and they always lay here so that goes first.

Then I pick up what I´m going to work on, this time was a layout for this week´s challenge on Get your scrap on!, so I picked my picture and started searching for papers.

Then I tell the kitty to please give me the chair back, he usually does, I need my chair empty to rest my knees because you must know I need to work standing up, otherwise it just doesn´t look ok.

(What do you mean is YOUR chair, I don´t see your name on it)

By this time I´m getting a bit thirsty so I grab my favorite drink, Diet Coke with lots of ice, you must have something nice to drink so inspiration flows lol.

Then some inspiration from magazines, I´m not that creative I need all the help I can get, this time I was checking out Scrapbooks etc.

Then I turn on the tv to watch something truly inspirational.

Oh yes nothing inspires more than Leonidas yelling "This is Sparta!" I love watching this movie because of the movement and art, the hot guys in very little clothing have nothing to do with it.

And then playing and cutting, trimming and punching finally voilá I´ve got a layout all done!

So hope you like what I do to scrap and at least had fun. I would love to know how do you prepare yourself to scrap or stamp or make cards.

Create and conquer

This past couple of weeks I put my ALBM album aside and worked on a banner I saw featured on TvWeekly, and I had a ton of fun, it was easy and fast to make and I took some pics today so you could see it, is going to hang over my door in my scraproom and it´s super springy I´ll have to do one for halloween and Christmas now.

(the pretty kitty in the back is not included in the banner)

(is kind of a long banner, excuse the mess in the back)

I´m so happy and proud of myself today I started conquering one of my biggest fears: lizards; I am terrified of lizards, big or small, green or blue, vicious or tamed, caged or free they simply FREAK ME OUT!! But today leaving home to go to work I greeted our neighbors who love animals and have a wide variety of them, including 4 dogs, 1 ferret, 1 rabbit and now also a green lizard and they wanted to show it to me, oh yes you know it I started to freak out and they were trying to get me to get close to it and I politely refused and then it occur to me, why was I so afraid? So I got close and gently rubbed Rene´s (green lizard) back with my finger, its been over 12 hours and I can still describe in detail exactly how it felt to touch it, I felt so good about myself maybe next week I allow them to place it on my hand, is a small step for manking but a huuuge step for me.

Tomorrow we have craft meeting and who knows what could happen there, fun times for sure, I also worked on a card today I´ll take a pic tomorrow and also work on my ALBM album, have a great weekend everybody and hope you all create a lot!

Tool time!

This is in my opinion the the best toolbox out there, of course I am biased since is my toolbox but you can ask anybody I talk about it and take it to any crop big or small, is like my pacifier, if I have it I know everything is going to be ok and I have anything I could possibly need and I´ll give you a sample of this:


This is the top layer, also known as the pentahouse of the toolbox, I carry there inkpad for inking, eraser, set of brushes; the red is in the bathroom soaked cause I forgot to rinse glue and well I´m rambling never mind, also letter opener that works as a bone folder (cause I don´t have one!!!) fine tip markers in blue, red and black and fine tip sharpie, mechanical pencil and you can´t see it but white ink marker.

Then comes the inner removable tray tha hols twezers, waterbrushe, sandpaper, crochet hooks, sequins, glue and of course my rounder corner punch.

And the bottom part that has my Fiskateer scissors, I´m #1337 just in case you were wondering, Fiskars finger tip craft knife, tacky glue, glue dots, glue lines, staples, stapler, Olfa circle cutter blade, embossing pens, sharpener, rounder corner scissors etc.

Is a simple Truper toolbox completey see trough so I can see what I have there all the time and this has made the difference when I craft because I know exactly where everything is and I don´t loose time looking for anything and when I go to crops is super easy to carry around and doesn´t take that much space.

2Peas Blogger Challenge:
Do you have any spring projects you excited about?

Well the "A little bit me" book has me really excited and I blogged about it here yesterday so you can take an early look.

So how do you guys carry your tools an stuff to crops and other places??

10 things that make me happy.....

Sarah from 2paws designs and several other bloggers had this challenge and I really wanted to do it too, but kept forgetting so here are mine:

10.Watching movies I love (like 300 or Love Actually)
9.Buying stuff for crafts, scrapbooking, stamping, knitting doesn´t matter
8. Kisses and hugs
7. Having a good hair day
6. Having a day off
5. Scrapbooking
4. Reading blogs
3. Eating and making cupcakes
2. Trying on clothes that didn´t fit and fit now
1. Cuddling with a kittie

When I went to Walmart today I found this, gotta love the little surprises Walmart offers once in a while, this just made my weekend I taste it and images of Sex and the City pop in my head ahh memories!

Also rented some videos, The DaVinci Code, Crash and A Night at the museum, seen all but could totally see them again and get inspired with them, maybe tomorrow I watch Nightmare before Christmas. Also tody we have daylight savings so we loose and hour wich makes tomorrow the shortest day but I´ll continue crafting.

Have a great sunday everybody, and hope the weather is great wherever you are!!

My confession book....

This weekend was very productive craftwise, because thats mostly what I did and it feels awesome, clicking on links today I somehow arrived at Shimelle website and loved the projects and faster that I´m saying it I started making the I have to confess book, it was fun and I had a blast making it, it calls for 6x4 pictures but I decided to use wallet size to have extra space and I love how it looks it took me all afternoon but thats cause I stopped to eat lunch and recharge the mojo.

I´m double happy cause I only used things that I had in my stash nothing new or bought for the project, all of the stuff I used was pretty old and it feels good to see it looking nice in an album, there are several pages so I made a little slide so the post is not huge and also you can see them and read the journaling on My flickr page My confession book.

2Peas Challenge:
Describe one of your birthdays as a young child

The one I remember the most was when I was 5 since my birthday is ver close to Halloween (oct 28) my mom made me a Halloween birthday and I dressed up as a black cat and I remember it was a lot of fun, here in Mexico you get of course a piñata and the food for parties is typically a little tamale, some spaguetti a little roll filled with cheese and a slice of cake and is a total delicacy that your cake frosting touches the tamale and you eat the salty tamale with frosting, I still do it when I can lol.

Hope everybody has a great week and the weather gets warmer where is really cold and cooler where is really hot, take care and be safe.

Waterfall cards and sweets

Well haven´t been all that crafty lately I know bad Lida lol, but really wanted to try the Waterfall card from Splitcoast Stampers and I am hooked, I made one at the office with my nephews stamps thats why the very rustic look and with elements I had there (not too many) and I loved how easy it was and how cool it looks.

Yes rustic indeed, no eyelets there or nice stamp but it was just as much fun.

Then I made this one at home, stamped the flowers and painted them with watercolors, double the fun.

Then finally this one that I really love, stamped the images and color them with markers and did some doodling around the edges and loved the colors and background and all.

So I plan to make some more cause its really fast and funt to make them.

This is how the Lollipop Heart Rice Krispie treat turned out, look good and were pretty yummy.

And a picture of our leftover mix turned into regular rice krispie treats, really really yummy.

And a very artistic close up, look you can even see the calories lol.

The 2 Peas Challenge is: Where do you see yourself in a year...

And honestly I rather not say, this last couple of years have been a rollercoaster of events and the plans I have made for the year or the future get on hold because of several situations, so as long as I´m on planet earth, healthy, happy and with the one that loves me everything will be fine.

Cardmaking

I hardly ever make cards, simple reason Mexico doesn´t have the culture of sending cards, I remember being very young and buying cards for my loved ones and then see them thrown away, so I stoped. Then with my boyfriends and stuff the same thing, so that thought me no cardmaking.

However since getting the Crafters Companion, cardmaking is really starting to grow on me, so I´ve been making cards, now I´m not really good at it and I struggle a bit but I´m really liking it.

Made with the Big Shot dies, paisley and the cat embossing die and brown, red and beige cardstock, I like it I think it looks cute.

This I made it with Prima Hybrid paintables, then I colored with water colors and added some glitter and stamped the word "Thank you". I like it too, coloring was fun.

This is the "I love you Bobby" card that I made for Diana´s date with Det. Bobby Goren, no not really but since she said about the date for Valentine´s we´ve been teasing her about it all the time, and when I made this card well I had to give it to her so she can use on her date, the little hearts are felt and I used the wild dashes textures of the Big Shot.

So thats my cardmaking, I might continue it, I have a new magazine about cardmaking so I´ll cardlift some that I like.

The challenge in 2peas is what that I have seen of CHA reviews do I want, and honestly I haven´t seen anything yet, but I do want a lot of things, for starters the Crop a Dile Big Bite and I want inkpads and alcohol inks and paper and bazzill cardstock and and, well you get the idea.

A girl and a sewing basket

So this is the story of a girl (a girl in her 30s) with a dream, her dream was to revamp this little sewing basket that her dgf had, but the mean gf would say no, cause she liked it the way it was, old and ugly looking, the satin that covered it in rags, the flowers that adorned her falling to pieces; no sorry I don´t have a picture but take my word it looked ugly.

So she waited, and waited, and looked at the sewing basket and thought of ideas on how to change it, plans and colors and textures and decorations etc, but would not touch it cause she didn´t have permision to do it and well it wasn´t hers.

Until one day 4 years later that she said "That is it! I don´t care if you don´t want me to change it, I´m doing it anyway, its too pretty to end up looking like this"

And the girl took off the satin that covered it, unstitched piece by piece the flowers that were falling apart, keeping all the pieces to recreate her looks, she thought that pink and black would be a great combination and since it was for dgf and she loved cats she thought a cute cat was the perfect decoration for it.

So she cut and glued and stitched to her heart content, and spray painted black the sewing basket to give her a nice shine back, and covered it in pink felt, added some black beads for some bling and hand stitiched a little cat to go on top as a handle.

She also respected the design and added a pin cushion with some hearts that hangs to the outside when you need it and finished the look with pink and black pins, when she presented to dgf she was so happy she felt bad she waited so long to have this done to the sewing basket.

And the girl was happy, cause her project turned out real pretty and cause she got her way, but mostly cause her dream came true, she revamp that ugly looking basket and gave it a cool new look to be used for years to come.

If only now she could get her hands on more sewing baskets to revamp, cause she has a sort of addiction to it now and wants to keep doing it, but thats another dream altogether.

The Enveloper

This Christmas we decided that we were not getting any extravagant or expensive Christmas presents after all there wasn´t anything we really wanted or needed. But in our last crop our friend Doris mentioned The Enveloper, and sent us the website so we could check it out.

Turns out The Enveloper is a gadget that as the name says it helps you make perfect envelopes and comes with a card and a box maker, and of course we had to have it, so Doris order it and like a charm it was here on Christmas eve, so we did have a little Christmas present.

Well today finally we had the chance to use it and made some envelopes just to see how it works how easy or difficult it is to use and how perfect the envelopes turn out.

I´m really happy to say that The Enveloper is everything they say, is easy to use, very simple and totally explained, clear instructions and you end up with totally perfect envelopes, we had a total blast making them and doing different techniques and can´t wait to make more envelopes and next try the box maker.

On the top of the post you can see our envelopes and The Enveloper, wich you can get at Crafters Companion .