Cloudy Day

Hi CDD Friends, Waleska here.

Today I'd like to share a card using a few current

favorites from our latest April release.

Card Details:

I used the adorable "Stormy Weather" stamp set.

I have decided already this little guy is my favorite.

The idea of this card was to create a very cloudy day

and a little mouse flying on the sky with his little umbrella.

To create the cloudy background I diecut a bunch of

clouds from the new Rainbow die set and glue them

to my card, with Pumice Stone distress ink I create

the gray color sky.

I hand cut my little mouse and added Comet 

sequins for a little color!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

"Remember"

You still have some days to participate in our

CDDMonthly for a chance to win great prizes!

CDD products:

Fancy Frame Dies

Stormy Weather

Rainbow Die

Comet Sequins

Sparkle and Shine

Hello Everyone! this is my second card for

the Pin-Sights Challenge at the Ellen Hutson ClassRoom

the Inspiration is so beautiful with lots of soft

colors and of course a great prize!

Here is the inspiration:

The colors I used for this card are:

Lawn Fawn Minty Fresh

Lawn Fawn Ballet Slippers

Distress Ink Shaded Lilac

This challenge is an inspirational based Challenge held

each month.  The challenge is based on a Pinterest inspired

piece chosen specifically for this challenge.

To participate use any Essentials by Ellen product and

create a project based on the inspirational photo.

I hope you can start participating on this Fun

Challenge, as I said before the prize is Amazing!!!!

I would say the best prize I have ever received

from a Stamp company.....

As easy as that! I won the prize on April and bought 

a lot of great things!

Hugs

Waleska

What is a CAS card?

Hi Card Makers... For this week's challenge on the

Always Fun Challenges

The theme is CAS

And as dumb as it can sound I did not know 

what does CAS mean... I hear it before and kind

 of have an idea of it, but did not know exactly 

the meaning of creating a CAS card, so here is

what I learned:

What is CAS?

CAS stands for Clean and Simple

*Your card has to have a design concept

and not so much embellishments.

*Your card needs to be uncluttered

*Your card needs to have lots of 

white space or open space

*Your card needs to have a focal point

But everyone can understand CAS

in different ways, everyone have their

own design style, so I guess the Card Police

is not going to arrest you if you make your

own style of CAS... hahaha

Hope this can help instead of confuse you!

For my card I made a rainbow, but I don't have 

a Rainbow die so I created one with a hill die 

from the Lawn Fawn Simple Stitched Hillside Borders

This is a little trick I learned from the Amazing

Jennifer McGuire (video link)

I cut lots of this borders from different colors

and then glue them together to make the 

Rainbow... They fit perfect so it is very easy

to make perfect Rainbows.

I hope you can play along with us at the

Always Fun Challenges

there is a new challenge every Monday!

Hugs

Waleska

(The information in my post is from

Splitcoaststampers)

Chicks Graduation

Ohh how much fun was to create this funny

Chicks Graduation!

This is my entry for the Lawn Fawnatics 

Challenge #3 OUTSTANDING OCCASIONS

I wanted to create a Graduation and since almost all

of the Lawn Fawn stamps coordinate I used one of 

the chicks of  the Chirp Chirp Chirp stamp set

and the Graduation hat from the Smart Cookie set

For the Stage I used a Silhouette File called

DRAMA THEATER STAGE by Samantha Walker

Design #9369

and colored it with Distress Inks

(I had to resize the image to fit my card)

I hope you had a great weekend and can be inspired

by my funny card!  I am totally planning to save this

card to give it to my little brother for his Graduation!

Hugs

Waleska

Flower Rain

This is my entry to the current

Pin-Sights Challenge at the ClassRoom

The beautiful inspiration for this challenge

has lots of soft colors and a spring vibe.

I used the Silver Linings by Julie dies with

a little flower of the Bear Ware by Julie

I used a white glitter cardstock to embellish

the cloud and make some heart dies.

The last Pin-Sights Challenge I was the winner

of the $50 gift certificate, and it was a perfect

time to win because that same week the Ellen Hutson

shop had a great deal so I bought so many stamps!!!

So excited for that Haul!

I hope you have a great day!

Waleska

How to make a Water Shaker?

Hello my Sweet Friends and CDD Fans!

The April release is available at the shop

and this is my last card for this Release Event!

I am very proud of  Tara Bruening (CDD owner)

and her Amazing job every release!

I love to be part of a company with so many

unique stamps and dies!

For this card I created a Water Shaker!!!

Yes you can make Water Shakers.....

Let me show you how?

First you need to make your window 

and as any other shaker you glue the 

acetate to the back of the window.

Then you have to start working on your

water shaker, for mine I use a small bag

that you can seal on top, (like Ziploc bags.)   I filled 

it with a little of water and add the color with 

distress reinkers.

What I do next is, secure the bag with 

lots of clear tape in the up part 

I attached the bag on top of the window I die cut

all of this in the back part of course

(I tape only the top of the bag) to my card

it is also important that the window you 

cut is smaller than the bag with water.

Clean your bag before you attach it to your 

card base... (This is important)

 

I put double sided tape around the card

it is better if you double the tape for the

water to have room to move.

I attached this to my card base... and

Tadahhhhh you have your Water Shaker!

I hope you find this little tutorial of help,

if you want to create one of this fun interactive

cards!  Kids love them! I don't know about 

the mailing (if it is safe to send it, because 

I have never tried it) but I know you can

make someone happy giving one of this in 

person to someone special.

So remember:

"When life gives you puddles,

jump in them.... and have fun!

Hugs,

Waleska

Carry an Umbrella

Hello CDD Friends are you enjoying our April

release? Today I want to share the card I created

with our cute and new stamp set "Stormy Weather"

and our new Cloud die.

For this card I used Oxide Inks in colors

Broken China and Faded Jeans

with a smooshing technique to give the look

of rainwater

I die cut the some clouds with our new

Cloud die and give it a little color with a gray marker 

I added some yellow sequins as waterdrops 

from our Pastel Paradise sequin mix

Craftin Desert Divas products:

Stormy Weather

Fancy Frame Dies

Pastel Paradise Sequins

Rainbow Die

I hope you love our April release as much as

we do... remember to share with us your projects

in our facebook gallery using our products!

Craftin Desert Divas Gallery

Fairytale Dreams

Today is the second day of the Craftin Desert Divas

April release and we are sharing the new and adorable

"Fairytale Dreams" stamp set... which has some of 

our favorite Fairytale girls from all time! 

My sweet girl Liah loves this set! you know why...

For this set of cards I used lots of Dies from 

Craftin Desert Divas so I wanted to share with 

you all the things you can do with even the smallest

of dies that come on each set! All you have to do 

is think outside of the box... As you know already

scene cards are my favorite so I had the best time

making this set of four cards...

The first card is an ocean theme so I used the 

great waves from our Outdoor Landscape Dies

and for the back of the ocean I used the mountain

from the Scene Builder dies which I love because

you get so many dies that can be used in many 

different ways, for all the cards I used the 

Fancy Frame Dies to give a unified look to the set of four.

I wanted an Oriental look to this one so I used

the little Tree Trunk from the Scene Builder Dies

to make some branches and make one of those beautiful

trees with pink flowers, the small flower is also a 

new die from this release!

For this into the woods scene card I used the

Scene Builder Dies again and I also used the 

little leaves that come in this set to make some

colorful wind and I also added sequins in different

colors, all of the cards are colored with distress inks.

This card was my last and I wanted to give the

look of a swamp so I used the leafs that come in

our Inside Scalloped Circles dies in a deep

green and added some gold stickles to give the 

look of a bunch of fireflies.

All the sentiments on this set are Awesome!

I hope you liked my cards and can be inspired

to make a card to a special girl of simply have

fun with this set! this and the whole release

will be available on Friday! Be ready to Shop!!!

Hugs,

Good Egg

Hello...it is a new week and it is Monday... that

means it is time for another challenge at the

Always Fun Challenges

The theme for this week is "Easter"

For my card today I used one of my favorite

Easter stamp sets from Sunny Studio Stamps

"A Good Egg"

because it has so many great stamps and sentiments

I used a spellbinders dies Square Swatch cut it

in soft colors to match the Easter theme.

If you want to participate in our challenge:

Name:  Always Fun Challenges

When: Every Monday

Challenge Type:  Themed Challenges creating any type 

of project you like, using any kind of materials you like 

as long as it follows the current theme.

Winners: Winners will be announced every Monday!

I hope you had an excellent Easter with your family

 Remembering Christ who gave his life for all of us in

the Ultimate act of Kindness!

Play along with us at the Always Fun Challenges!

Waleska

Flower Shoes

Hello Crafty Friends! Finally Friday and I had some little

time between baths, breakfast and many other things

to make my entry to the Mix It Up Challenge at the 

ClassRoom Blog at Ellen Hutson

For this Fun Challenge all you have to do is combine

Essentials by Ellen Hutson products with some other 

company products, for this challenge is Waffle Flower!

I have found myself buying more and more of their unique

stamps and dies!

For my card I used the Mondo Hydrangea by Julie

and colored it with oxide inks, because they blend so well.

I mix colors Fossilized Amber and Wilted Violet and

sponge it with Eyeshadow applicators to get in

the small areas.

I used the Oxide Inks to sponge

some areas of the base of my card to match

the colors on the shoes pattern.

Finally I flick some water to make it more interesting

For the shoes I stamp the First Step shoes in my flower 

piece and cut it out to make the pattern on the shoes.

This is my final card! I had this card on my mind 

for so long.... and It turned out exactly how I imagined!

Love when that happens!

Have a great weekend!

Hugs 

Waleska