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