I for… In Love

ciao a tutti!!! oggi e’ tempo per un’altra sfida dell’ABC Challenge…
I per In love…!!!
ecco quello che ho fatto…

ho alterato un cuore di stoffa che avevo fatto quest’estate aggiungendo questa immagine di Stamp Fairy!!!! che dite?

B is for...

Hi everyone...
how are you today? are you ready for another ABC Challenge? this time we'd like to see some wings cause the challenge is...

B for Butterfly!!!!

here is my project, a little picture to hang in my craft room...

so girls, join us at the ABC Challenge and show us your wings...
baci

new Deep Ocean Challenge

hi girls,
how are you?
I'm still struggling with my internet connection so a quick post while I'm at my sister's house using hers...!!!
today it's time for another Deep Ocean Challenge...
this time we'd like to see some

Sporty and Outdoors...

here is my banner, ready for my winter door wreath!!!

a super sweet Edwin (and a little clumsy, as I am...!!!) to welcome my guests

as always I colored him with my pastel colors...

hope you like it, and check out the Deep Ocean Challenge Blog and enter at this wonderful challenge...

hugs

more than two…

hi everyone…
today it’s time for another fabulous Deep Ocean Challenge and this time it’s

More than 2 Colors

super easy, right?
to celebrate the international book week here my new bookmark…


I love corner bookmark so easy to make and so fun to decorate… and I love this little fall Tilda. I colored her with my pencils and then watercolored a little bit.
for the international book week, here the rules: Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence as your status. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your status.
and here is my quotation:
“Perhaps my face explained she’d misconstrued, that I’d not wanted advice but congratulations: her mouth shifted from a yawn into a smile.”

deep ocean time…!!!!

 

hi everybody…

here is what I made for the latest Deep Ocean Challenge…

Things with Wings!!!!

 

a bookmark with a little angel Tilda colored with my colored pencils…

she looks like a little garden fairy, isn’t she?… just perfect for one of my favorite books: The Secret Garden!!!!

 

hope you like it, and don’t forget to share your wings with us at Deep Ocean Challenge!!!!

baci

What a wonderful woman…

hi everyone…
yesterday I had my big day… I did the exam in bakery and pastry making… in 8 hours I had to do a written test, make 2 different kind of bread and a cake, do an interview and finally assemble a presentation of everything for the test panel in which every commissary tested if it was good enough…and luckily it was!!!!
so now I’m officially a baker!!!!

 
I love the braided bread… so cute!!! and the other one it’s with poppy seeds and corn flour… delicious!!!!

but now… to the serious things… it’s time for another Deep Ocean Challenge and this time it’s

What a Wonderful Woman…

well, this time I want to celebrate… me!!! sometimes you have to celebrate yourself and so I did…
this is a door hanger I made for my craft room…

the room in which I scrap, paint, sew and… iron (that’s why I put a clothespin!!!!)
   

so girls, pop over the Deep Ocean blog and join us… we’re waiting for your wonderful creations…!!!!

hugs

G is for Green…

Hi everyone…
how are you doing? are you still all right, even after the last challenging week? Christmas and New Year Eve… too much for a single week, isn’t it?
Here in Italy we say that if you do something on the first day of the year, you’re going to do it all the year… no better reason for do some scrapbook/cardmaking today, uh?
and here the perfect occasion… the brand new ABC Challenge
this fortnight the theme is

G for Green

you can do recycling or use green stuff…I did both!!!

I recycled this old heart shaped hanger (which it used to be in the center of my door wreath) and I made this Green at hanger!!!!


so girls, go and visit the other amazing DT members' blogs for some inspiration and then… go Green!!!! and remember… If you scrap the First day of January, you’ll scrap all year round!!!
baci

Warm Wishes

 

hi everyone…

Are you busy with your last minute holiday organization or did you have already arranged everything? well, I have to do –almost- everything and I super worry about it… I hope to have enough time to do what I planned… we’ll see!!!!

this fortnight Deep Ocean challenge is perfect for showing up our holiday decorations cause the theme is…

Warm Wishes

and what I made is a little tag!!!

 

this time I colored my Tilda with watercolor pencil and just added a little bit of stickles here and there.

But I can’t decide where I can put it…maybe on the Wreath right next to the reindeer…

 

…or on my advent table centerpiece…

 

or maybe on my –other- heart shape little wreath…

well… I really don’t know where I can put it… I think I’m going to take it for myself and I will use it as a bookmark for my Holiday’s reading!!!

Hope you like it…

I wish you all a Merry Crafty Christmas and a Happy full of new ideas Year…

ciao ciao

F is for Frosty…brrr!!!!

hi everyone, how you doin’?

it’s already the 15th of December… only 10 days till Christmas…!!!

it’s time for another ABC Challenge, this fortnight is…

F for Frosty

this is what I made: a shabby frame with a little 3D winter landscape…

 

for the tree I use the pattern from this wonderful project, I simply re-sized it, stamped the cardstock with a Hero Arts background stamp and sew them.

I colored the Tildas with distress ink pads, handwrite the Noel sentiment and put some stickles on it. a bunch of snowflakes ( and a Tim Holtz snowflakes border) and that’s it!!! I finished it late at night and I had to take the photo right away…sorry, it looks so flat!!!! maybe I should take the pictures again…!!!

hope you like it…

hugs

Vintage!!!!

hi everyone…. how are you today? is everything ok?
I hope so…
today it’s time for another Deep Ocean Challenge… this time is

Vintage

isn’t it great? it’s one of my favorite challenges so far…

this is what I made…

it’s  a door hanger I made for my front door… it says “I’m in the Garden” on one side and

“I’m at my Sister’s” on the other…
so, If you couldn’t find me at home, you would know where I am!!!!


go and check what the other fabulous DT member made for this challenge and share you love to them…
hugs

my new two addictions: Pinterest and Bunting!!!!

 

hi everyone…

as most of you have already noticed, I joined the wonderful world of Pinterest… this photo sharing website it’s fabulous… you can find every sort of things, from recipes to home decoration tips, from outfit trends to craft tutorials! the fun thing of it is that it works by image searching and you can save –pin- your favorite results on different boards, share them to your friends, and follow other people so you can see what they pin. You can also add a “pin it” button on your website browser and pin every image you want from websites or blogs, even videos if you like.The other important thing is that when you pin and image you pin also its link to the web: in this way you always get the right credit to other people’s creativity.

I love it, it’s so great, it has lots of inspiring ideas and great tips…very useful… but I warn you… it’s quite addicting!!!! eheh!!!

now, in Pinterest I saw lots of buntings and was love at first time… this is what I made for my craft room (maybe I should have ironed my curtains, uh?! but I was too impatient to see the results…!!!)

and for my living room:

hope you like it

Baci

Sweetie….!!!!!

hi everyone…

It’s already time for another Deep Ocean Challenge…this time the challenge it’s

Sweet

It’s almost Halloween, perfect for this Challenge, uh?

here is what I made for my little nephew Francesco: he’s only 4 and this will be his first Halloween…

it’s a little treat bag with a black lace, some papers and a couple of little monsters…

and in the back… a witch fell into her cauldron, oppps!!!!

Happy Halloween to everybody

baci

Back to school…

Hi everyone…

today I made a bookmark with this cute Writing Tilda:

I drew a feather on a heavy cardstock and I placed a piece of wire in the middle. On a light brown paper I made a background with a script stamp and butterfly stamp, I cut it with the same feather shape and glued it on the heavy cardstock.

to add an extra vintage feeling, I used a real metal nib and I melted some sealing wax and then impressed it with a fleur-de-lis. A lace bow and some pearls complete the bookmark, ready to be use for all the books I’m going to study this year…

hope you like it…

with this I entered

TOMIC # Back to School + Metal

recycle…

hi everyone…

how’s is going your Sunday? hope everything is ok!!!

yesterday evening I made this recycle art attack to celebrate the second Magnolia Ink’s birthday!!!!

I have this empty sugar tin and I try to make an alterate tin to put my baking soda…

it’s nothing special, just paper, spellbinder, chalkboard, ribbon, lace and one of my favorite Tilda…

I made an organza flower (on the lid) and three little organza buds on the side.

with this I entered TOMIC #12 Recycle

 

hope you like it…

ciao

p.s. I’m really sorry for those bad bad mobile phone photos… I really need to find out where the camera battery charger is…!!!!

light blue…

 

ciao a tutti…

oggi ho una grossa novita’ da darvi… da questa settimana faro’ parte del DT del fantastico Deep Ocean Challenge!!!!WOW!!!

come primo lavoro per il Deep Ocean ho cercato di fare una cosa un po’ diversa dal solito…

…un piccolo giardino segreto da appendere in camera.

devo ammettere che sono un po’ fissata con I giardini segreti, e ho sempre fantasticato su come potrebbe essere un perfetto giardino segreto… ecco come mi piacerebbe fosse l’entrata…

Hi everyone…

today I have big news to share with you… I’m a proud new DT member of the amazing Deep Ocean Challenge…

this is my first work for the Challenge… a little secret garden to hang in your room…

I’m always being obsessed with secret gardens and this is how I’d like my secret garden entrance looks like.

per prima cosa ho fatto l’arco in pietra: ho preso del chipboard, ho tagliato I vari pezzi e li ho carteggiati per dargli una forma smussata; poi li ho colorati con il crackle colorato in grigio-azzurro. A quel punto ho assemblato l’arco, ho modellato il filo per la pianta rampicante e fatto I vari fiori… il muro esterno e’ fatto semplicemente usando l’emboss folder di Tim Holtz, distressandolo poi con Weathered Wood e Broken China. Il cancello (timbro hero Arts) e’ stato timbrato su dell’acetato e posizionato su una carta Basic Grey (Wisteria).

infine la Tilda e la staccionata, colorate con I distress ink pads.

Per completare ho aggiunto la sagoma di un uccellino in filo metallico(non so se lo vedete… e li, appollaiato sul cartello), strass e molte, molte farfalle!!!

first of all I made the arch: I cut the chipboard in pieces and then I sanded them to get that rounded look… then I painted them with a bit of distress crackle colored with a drop of black soot. I assembled the arch and I modeled the iron wire to make the climbing plant. the wall was made with this beautiful Tim Holtz emboss folder, distressed with Weathered Wood and Broken China. the iron gate (Hero Arts Stamp) was stamped on acetate and than put on a wonderful Basic Grey paper (Wisteria).

the Tilda and the Fence behind her was colored with distress ink pads.

to finish it, I added a little wire bird (can you see it? is right on top of the signboard!), paper flowers, rhinestones and lots of tiny butterflies!!!!

hope you like it…

 

with this I entered:

Tomic challenge #11 Monochromatic

profumo di mare…

 

ormai e’ diventata una tradizione… un biglietto di buona estate a mia nipote Elena che, come tutte le estati, e’ in California dal papa’… quest’anno, visto che ormai siamo in agosto –ed ero parecchio in ritardo con il suo biglietto- ho pensato di aggiungere un paio di ciabattine di stoffa e un fermacapelli da abbinare al suo costume blu… un perfetto look da spiaggia americana !!!!

siate indulgenti con me… questo e’ il secondo paio di ciabattine che realizzo e come potete vedere sono tutto tranne che perfette!!!!

it is a tradition… send a summer card to my niece Elena who spend all the summers in California at her daddy… this time I add a couple of things…some handmade –and no so perfectly made, these are my second– pair of summer slippers and a hairpin…

per il biglietto ho usato un timbro HAnglar & STanglar colorato con I dostress ink pads, della stoffa, la stessa che ho usato per le ciabattine e fiori, decorazioni e bottoni vari.

I colored the hAnglar and sTanglar stamp with distress ink pads, for the card I used the same fabrics I used for the slippers and some flowers, embellishment and buttons.

il fermacapelli invece e’ stato fatto sempre con la stoffa delle ciabattine e con del tulle.

for the hairpin I used, again, the same fabrics to make the bow and I add some tulle.

hope you like it

 

with this card I entered:

Deep Ocean Challenge: Sea

Just Magnolia: Buttons, Bows and Blooms