Feeling like a winner

Cause I am!! This week has been fun, fun, fun!!

First I found out I won the challenge at Get your Scrap on! and they are sending me something in the mail, is that super exciting or what? I didn´t even know there was a contest going on lol!

And then for NSD Jess from The Crafty Café was giving an awesome blog candy and I won too!!! So I´m on cloud nine, no plans on coming down soon and I´ve been feeling super creative and making layouts and challenges almost non-stop, it feels really good and got to take advantage of it while it lasts.

Then today I made this for Diana, is an altered cigar box covered in black gesso, wich let me tell you is very messy to work with it for starters as you may realize is black very very rich black and it leaves your fingernails all nasty looking but the effect on the cigar box is very cool.

I used DCWV PP and the D is a MM Funky Vintage some MM buttons and the owl, heart and flower are cut out from national PP that is really difficult to work with I had to back it up with cardstock, it doesn´t ink well and it wrinkles when it gets wet so not happy with it, too bad is so pretty and the swirlies are from the MM flocking kit.

I posted my box on The Dares because Dare #92 was to alter a box.

A few shots of the box of thingies for Diana, our boss´s husband is a cigar smoker and I always get his empty boxes or if he gets any cool tin-can I get that too I´m always telling him to pass his garbage my way lol.

Have a great day is Hump Day and the week is halfway there can´t wait for my goodies to arrive, Thank you so much again Jess and Get your Scrap on! team!

We have an LSS!!!!

Well not us personaly but here in the city an LSS just opened, and of course scrapbook addicts that we are we had to check it out, so off we went Doris, her daughter Doris, Diana and me.

Before getting there I asked Diana what her expectations were about this store and she wanted to find paper and some tools and cool stuff, I wanted to find Ranger products, Prima and chipboard.

So we got there and is a tiny store super cute, very new, nicely decorated, the name of the store is "Scrap Store" and they have tons of stuff we normally don´t see around here like Making Memories stuff, chipboard, some kits, and overall I think is a great start, hope they get more stuff in the future cause they´ll have three faithfull costumers, their prices are very reasonable and I love all the stuff we got.

Here are some pics:

Some of the neat stuff they sell, ribbons, kits, chipboard wall words etc.

Some flowers, gluesticks, buttons and felt flowers all very cute and love the jars.

Some papers super cute by the way...

And some of the stuff we got, the foiling and flocking kit, chipboard alphabets, clear alphabets etc, my favorite the making memories {note}worthy embellishment jar.

Thanks to Mariana the sweet lady that let me take the pics and if you live in the Merida area go visit and get some fun stuff, on friday april 25th they are going to be having a course to make a little album perfect for Mother´s Day, contact me to this blog if you want more information.

So above all yes very happy with this, no Ranger products...yet but I hope they carry a bigger selection of stuff soon and I wish them all the luck in the world.

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??

Mexican Scrapbooking

Last week I did some scrapbooking shopping, now these are all mexican scrapbooking supplies so the names might not make a lot of sense, but remember I was telling you last week that we hardly ever find stuff? Well several stores are starting to carry some things like paper and some embellishments.

This paper is from Fantasias Miguel, I think this is their second set of designs, and I love the prints, they are fun, funky and simply different, only one problem the quality of the paper is like wrapping paper, very flimsy and glossy so it doesn´t work that well but you can still use it with cards and stuff, I really don´t like that sort of material.


This is a pack of paper from La Parisina, wich is a very important fabric store here in Merida, they focus on fabric and some other stuff for crafts and now they are offering some scrapbooking paper and embellishments, this pack of paper was barely 3 dollars the designs in the pattern paper are really pretty and it comes with 40 sheets of 12x12 , they also have baby boy and girl, and wedding I got this one cause I thought it was very versatile, the felt flowers are less than 2 dollars the pack of 3.


This baby boy kit was less than 2 dollars as well, and it comes with a mini album 6 pieces of 6x6 paper, rub ons and some dimensional stickers, really cute if you ask me, I think I´m going to use it to make some cards, and also the rub ons are in english.

There is another store in town that sells scrapbooking stuff, El Nuevo Fenix and they carry some chipboard and paper mostly from American Traditional Designs, and they have really nice stuff rub ons, chipboard letters, stickers so it feels good to go shopping and slowly finding stuff to craft with.

2Peas Blog Challenge:
Do you try out for Design Teams?

And the answer is no, I´ve never have tried, I doubt I´m good enough I´m too basic and since I don´t reside in the US it also makes it a bit harder, but maybe in the future I´ll have the nerve to try out for one just to know what it feels like, must be an awesome feeling knowing you get to be in one and play with fun scrapbooking stuff, oh man now I want to try for one lol.

I´m an addict....

I have to confess, what is worst I don´t want to get better (at least not yet) my addiction is quite positive and not too expensive (yet), my addiction is too markers, good ones, cheap ones, fine tip, chisel, brush, permanent, water based, Sharpie, Copic ( wish I could be that lucky to have some) you name it I loooove them.

I currently have about 6 sets of markers, on monday I got those Bic Conté Visaquarelle, they are exactly the same thing as brush tip water based and were super cheap about 3 dollars the set of 10, but I saw some other ones Foray 24 ct. about 15 dollars, did not have enough money but I wanted them so I mentioned this to the other crafter that lives with me lol and she went and got them for me today, they are awesome, permanent markers, fine tip all the colors of the rainbow and soo nice, they are not super stinky and the colors are very vibrant.

My next goal some Copic here is an open letter to the Copic people:

Dear Copic People: I would love to get a set of your markers, I would love them and give them a good home, they would be the best gift I could have, they would be cherished and taken very good care of them and I would talk wonders about them here, you would never have to think how your markers are cause they would be with someone that cares so much for them. So if you have an extra set that needs a good home I would adopt them in a heartbeat, also if you want to send the airbrush system I would be set for life.
Thank you so much in advance
(A big fan of your markers)

Hey it could work!!! But for the time being I´ll be happy with the ones I have and can afford, next week I´ll get the Foray in extra fine tip and some Staedler, just cause they are cute!

2Peas Challenge:
How old would you be if you didn´t know your real age?

Mentally 9, Physically it varies....if I wear makeup over 30, if I don´t less than 25, so yes you guessed it I hardly ever wear makeup, actually mentally it varies too I guess in some things 60 and in some 17, so is a great mix.

Funny story: When I was living in Ca. I lived with someone who was 5 years younger than me (yeah I know cradle rober) so once on the bus really early some guy says to this person: "Oh you should take good care of your little sister, she looks so young and someone could take advantage of her" Yeah I was 24 supporting a family, robbing cradles for about 3 years and was totally independent, thats how young I can look.

Great day and is hump day!!!!

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 .