Winner of Glitter Explosion Blog Hop

And the winner is........#6!!!! Lisa!!!



 

Lisa said...

 

Wow - your projects are amazing! They are all beautiful but I especially love those pinwheels! I'm a new follower :)

http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/

Lisa, please contact me with with your Mailing address. Send your info to cadiz1997@gmail.com with-in a week or another winner will be picked..

Thank-you Hoppers for all of you comments!!

Glitter Explosion!!!!

My very First Blog Hop!!!!!!  Thanks Yolie for letting me be part of it. :)

I have to say after this one I'm all shiny and sparkly!!!  Glitter and more glitter everywhere.   

I worked on two projects: a center piece and a card. 

For my center piece, I added glitter every place and every way that you can imagine.  I used a galvanized vase from Michaels and covered it with floral paper.  I used my thin glue pen to highlight some parts of the flowers on the paper with glue and added Martha Stewart glitter.  I also added glitter to the three flowers in the arrangement. 

The pinwheels were cut with my Cricut using a svgcuts.com freebie and I followed the awesome tutorial video that they have on their site.  

 Because I did not have enough glitter, (Can you ever have enough glitter???). I added some to the floral picks.

Here are some pictures showing various details and my finished product. 

For my second project I created a card using this cute Spanish Tilda from Magnolia Stamps.  I absolutely love this stamp because as many of you know I'm a proud Spaniard :)

I colored her with copics and of course, I added some MS glitter to her dress, flower and fan. I used papers from my stash.  Cut the window frame and the tilda frame with my Cricut.  I used Stickles around the square windows and I glimmer misted the flower. (flower is from Michaels)

I do have some candy up for grabs, three packs of GLITTER stickers from Recollections, one alphabet sticker set (also shiny) and a "Crafted by me" stamp.  In order to win you have to follow my blog and leave a comment on this post.

Your next stop is at Debbi's - http://www.scrappingmamma.net/

Check out all of the other blogs too, here is the list.  Have fun hopping!!!Yolie – www.justyolie.com

Gaby – www.gabycreates.com

Lenea  - http://sugargemscrafts.blogspot.com/

Xochitl - http://cricutcritter.blogspot.com/

Angie - http://angie-scrappinmemories.blogspot.com/

Ann -  http://annlenth.blogspot.com/

Maria (MJ) - http://mariaschulz.blogspot.com/ YOU ARE HERE

Debbi - http://www.scrappingmamma.net/

Sherry - http://patternsbysher.blogspot.com/

Tammy - http://tammyjennings.blogspot.com/

Melin - http://papercraftingworld.blogspot.com/

Celeste - http://www.touchedbyabutterfly.blogspot.com/

John - http://meyer-imports.typepad.com/

Time for Teacher's gifts

This year, instead of going to the store and having to walk, walk and walk looking for a teacher's gift I decided to make them.  I made tile coaster sets for all of them. 

The tiles come from Lowe's and the stamp is from Michaels.  They were easy to make and they look amazing.  I double coated them with matte sealant to make waterproof and used some adhesive felt on the back trim to size.

Here they are!!

I'm back!!

After a few crazy weeks, getting ready for two First Communions, my little one's and my friend's son, I'm BACK!!.  We all worked hard at home for this big event.  Since I'm from Spain, I wanted all of the refreshments to reflect our Spanish origins.  Here are some pictures:



Manchego Cheese with Artisan bread, fruit tray and "Patatas Aliñadas" (Mediterranean Potato Salad).

Two pictures of our famous Sangria....... it makes me thirsty to look at these pictures!! :)

Paella on the grill!



Alex's First Communion cake: I ventured in cake territory once again, thanks to my friend Pilar.  The cake was a wedding cake with nuts covered with homemade marshmallow fondant.  All the decorations were fondant and made using my cricut cake. The leaves, bread, chalice and grape are made from gum paste. Alex loved it!!!

Now time for the favors:

Favor Cake!! I used SVGcuts.com files to cut these boxes and flowers. I used the

Betty's Bags and Boxes II and flowers from Crush on you Boxes.   Each boxes contained a bunch of Hershey Kisses and a Rosary.

For the kids, I made white chocolate cover pretzels. I got the idea from Joy at Joyslife.com

Cupcakes!!!

After all day working outside in the yard, my kids wanted me to make something fun.  This is what we came out with: Popcorn Cupcakes!!! Aren't they cute??? The cupcakes are White Chocolate Cake recipe from The Cake Bible and for the topping we used mini marshmallows.  My oldest helped me to give the buttery look with some food coloring.  I used my cricut to cut the cupcake wrapers.  They look good and taste even better!!!!

Love Tilda!!

I love Magnolia stamps. It relaxes me to color them at night time when everybody is already sleeping.  :)

Here are my last two cards.  I colored them with copics (don't have the color codes for these ones).  The flowers are from Michael's Recollection brand, Shimmer card papers are from The Paper Company and the pattern papers from Michael's.
For the first card, I have used "Secret Tilda" from the  Magnolia Merry Little Christmas Collection 2010 and I colored her with copics, I added some stickles to the flowers and the Butterfly punch is from Martha Stweart.

For the second card, I used "Christmas Morning Tilda" from The 2009 So Jolly & Under the Mistletoe Collection. I colored this cute lady with Copics and embellished the card with flowers, pearls, ribbon and a pendant from my stash.

Cake Time!!

My dear friend Tammy gave me the most awesome gift......... a Cricut Cake!!!  I received it last Friday and felt like a little girl on Christmas morning. Gracias Tammy!!

I could not wait to use it, so Saturday was "The Day".  My friend Pilar came over to experiment with the new toy.  She is an expert on homemade fondant and had already created several cakes...without the cricut.  I, on the other hand, am not a baker.  I'm a cook and have never ventured into cake making...until now!

Here is our creation:

We used the "Cake Basics Cartridge" that came with the critcut for all the decorations.

White fondant is homemade with marshmallows, powdered sugar and Crisco. Pink fondant is store bought from Michael's,  we used Wiltons's Rose Petal Pink Icing Color. White flowers were made out of gum paste and we shaped them to give them a waivy look.  We had sooooo much fun using the Cricut Cake, so much so that we were covered in powdered sugar from head to toe!! :)

There is a learning curve with this cricut.  I need to try again to adjust the thickness of the fondant and gumpaste. I loved the experience and will be playing with it again soon!