12 Jan

Make A Wish

Hello everyone,

The cards today are inspired from a card K. Werner made for her Holidays Series. I call this ‘Make a Wish’ set. It works well, I believe, for more than one occasion: either for holidays or for a birthday.

For these wish cards I used different stamp sets and combined them so they could match the design I chose for each one in particular. So, two of them use stars and ‘make a wish’ stamp, the other two have presents and the ‘fun-presents-cake-friends’ stamp. They have all been stamped on black cardstock in either gold or white. The dots were made using Docrafts Artiste gel pens in white and gold. The presents have a bit of Promarker fine touches (colouring) in red (Poppy and Crimson). Each of the cards has either ribbon or twine in gold and/or white. And they are all adhered to a recycled kraft card base.

I enjoyed very much adding those dots with my gel pens and wish to create some more cards using them. I find it very relaxing and it gives an interesting touch to the card.

Have a lovely day,
Talida

08 Jan

Angels & Lights

Hello everyone! Hope your day started with a smile and happy thoughts.

The post today is about two cards I made using these lovely angels. The #digistamp comes from Gerda Steiner Designs. I have discovered her page while following Julia Altermann’s creations and videos. Gerda creates such cute characters and I am so grateful for all of them.

Now, on to the cards, I can say that I adore this angel as it reminds me of my niece Antonia. Just look at this adorable face! Read more

07 Jan

Acts of Kindness Bookmarks

Good morning, everyone!

I’ve been pretty busy these months and today, I have a set of bookmarks to present as part of my acts of kindness. You’ll probably wonder why or not, but the idea behind this is nothing more than being kind, giving without expecting anything back.
Jennifer McGuire has started the Acts of Kindness campaign in the US. There were a lot of #sharehandmadekindness crafts worldwide. And I loved the idea.

This was somehow planned a long time ago, but waited until Christmas to share them with a lovely team. So, in order to know how many bookmarks I needed to make, I trusted my lovely elves to help with an approximate number. I got 25, but made a few extra, you know, just in case something happened.:)
I went with white and red for the card and die-cut the bookmarks in both colours. The bookmarks die I used are from Avery Elle and I got them from Onestopcrafts. Each recipient got a set of 2 bookmarks tied together with some red and white twine. For the sentiments I used Acts of Kindness Hero Arts stamp set created for Jennifer’s campaign. One of them says: ‘A bit of kindness to brighten your day’ and the other ‘throw kindness around like confetti’. Of course I added a heart on each of the white bookmarks for an extra touch.

Then, I packed them all in an envelope created by myself using the 1-2-3 Punch Board from We R Memory Keepers, a tool I got from Craft Mall. This is such a useful tool, especially when you have to create different types and sizes of envelopes. My niece loves the bows you can make using it.

Many thanks for stopping by.
Have a lovely day,
Talida

06 Jan

Dancing Penguin Shaker

Hi everyone!

Today, I have a shaker decoration to show you. I also call it a Dancing Penguin Shaker Ornament.
It looks pretty simple, but I can tell you it takes quite some time to make it ready to be added on your tree as a decoration. Let’s say that I worked an entire morning just to create it. Shakers have an awesome effect especially for children. And this one was a gift I made for my lovely niece Antonia.

To create the shaker I die-cut 3 times the WPlus9 Anastasia Tag out of thick kraft cardstock. I ran two of them through my XCut machine and die-cut the shaker window using the oval frames that come with the tag. I have also die-cut a piece of acetate and a double -sided foam adhesive with the same tag die. I adhered the foam adhesive to one of the tags with a window frame and ran through the die-cut machine to make a window in the foam adhesive pad too. It’s been quite a challenge to make it to the end!

05 Jan

New Year, New Calendars

Hello everyone,
Hope your year started in full speed, with lots of energy and in good health!
The post today is about the new approach I envisioned for my handmade calendars. Read more

04 Jan

My first calendars and their story

It all started with a wish. 2013’s wish, when I went online, full speed, with the project HandmadebyTalida. There was little time to make the calendars happen then, so last year I planned to craft and give them as presents to a few dear ones that matter a lot! Then, I can’t remember how it happened but I had a huge request for the calendars and ended up in making so many more than planned. I am so grateful to all of you who asked me to create new ones. You can’t imagine how much! Thank you.

There was a clear idea that I kept in mind for each calendar’s month, a set of colours and themes. Read more

31 Dec

A Jolly Snowman

Happy day, dear friends and crafty people!
There’s been a lot of posting lately and I must say I am very proud I succeeded to make it happen. For today, I chose to post two cards using a jolly snowman from Inkadinkado’s stamp set.

I made quite many cards using this snowman. Love the earmuffs which kinda look like headphones and that’s the reason I call him a jolly snowman.:)

30 Dec

Hot Diggity Dog

Hi everyone,

The cards today are all having one character in common: Hot Diggity Dog. A stamp set designed by Andrea Jayne that has this lovely dog as part of it. The set was designed for an exclusive Docrafts set that came with one of their Creativity magazine’s issues.

29 Dec

Cherry Branch & Flowers

Hello to you all,

The card today is about flowers, cherry branches and a cute tag. It’s long due past to post this card but it’s only now that it reached the recipient or at least that’s what I know.;)

So, I really hope she likes it. I chose to make a clean and simple card, just a few bits and pieces. The card base is made of cream card stock which I ran through my XCut machine in an embossing folder from Sheena Douglas called Cherry Branch. I die-cut a tag out of cream card stock and stamped it with some flowers and a butterfly using Docrafts Artiste pigment and dye inks. Then I went and added some twine and adhered the tag to the card base. A bit of bakers twine was the perfect touch to the tag, tied in a bow. Of course, I needed a bit more dimension and still keep it pretty clean, so I looked for some tiny gem stones in pink and lilac to give that to the card.

Hope you enjoyed this bit of change with all the Christmas cards I’ve shared so far.

Looking forward to being back here soon,
Talida

29 Dec

Stockings

As promised I am back with this year’s Christmas stockings. Read more

28 Dec

My Kind of Trees

Hello dear friends and fans,

Whether you were naughty or nice, hope Santa brought you all lots of cheer and presents under your Christmas trees, that your spirits are bright and all of you enjoyed this time with family and dear ones!

There were a lot of cards made for these holidays and I feel so grateful to those who chose me to craft them for. As expected, I haven’t had the chance to share all of them with you, so, I put some more together to present.

For today, I have some cards with trees. These are some die-cut trees, decorated with sequins from my mum’s stash, some tiny buttons and stars and others simply embellished with my glitter gel pens and star stamp for the top. Sentiments, ribbons and twine were added for the dimension.

Many thanks for your comments and see you later with a post about Christmas stockings.
Talida

21 Dec

Owl I wish for Christmas

Owl I wish for Christmas is health, joy and kindness. That’s what we should wish for, shouldn’t we?

Now, with that in mind, I created some cards using some great Christmas papers available on Docrafts. I really love the idea of having these cute owls dressed up (on paper) for Christmas cards. And nothing beats the mood when listening to your favourite playlists on Zonga.

So, for these cards I fussy cut some owls and looked for some frames to add them to. The first one uses the remaining paper in white after die cutting some frames with my XCut machine. I embossed it with an XCut embossing folder – Mixed confetti. I glued it onto the front cover of the card base. Added the owl, a sentiment stamped in white dye ink. To give it an extra dimension I went for some red twine tied in a bow in the upper left corner.

For the other card I used an owl again. But this time I embossed the front cover of the card base using a XCut embossing folder called Tartan. Added a crimson piece of card in a golden glittered frame, which was previously die cut using the XCut frame dies. That was done one day when I had a filled trip with my XCut machine for the entire day.;)The sentiment is from another set and was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

Hope you like them. I’ll be back tomorrow with other projects. It seems this has been a great time with lots of crafting going on.
Talida

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