Una tarjeta sencilla para MFT - A Clean and Simple card for My Favorite Things

Hoy os muestro una tarjeta CAS con sorpresa para el reto 2017 Card Design Superstar: Clean and Simple Genius. Mi espacio blanco en este caso es negro y mi tarjeta no lleva ni adornos ni muchos elementos...

Today I'm showing you a CAS card with a surprise feature that I made for the 2017 Card Design Superstar: Clean and Simple Genius. My white space in this case is black and my card has no embellishments and very few elements...

Estaréis pensando: "ni siquiera lleva un mensaje". Pero cuando tiramos de la luna...

You're probably thinking: "it doesn't even have a sentiment". But if you pull at the moon...

...aparece el mensaje "eres mi sol" y la noche se convierte en amanecer! Se trata de una tarjeta slider especial, ya que todo el panel se desliza.

...the sentiment "You're the sunshine in my life" appears and the night turns into dawn! It's a special slider card since the whole panel slides.

He usado el troquel Die-namics NY Skyline en dos alturas para crear la silueta de esta mítica ciudad. Para que pareciesen edificios diferentes, recorté algunas repisas y chimeneas, sobre todo modifiqué al Empire State Building... 

I used the Die-namics NY Skyline in two rows to create the silhouette of this great city. In order to make them look like different buildings, I  cut a few towers and ledges off. I especially modified the Empire State Building.

Entinté el borde de las siluetas y la luna, del set de troqueles Die-namics LJD Spooky Sweets, con tinta plateada. El sentimiento, del set de sellos Soak up the Fun está embossado en plata sobre ese cielo entintado con tintas Distress en papel de acuarela.

I inked the edges of the skylines and the moon, from the set Die-namics LJD Spooky Sweets, with silver ink. I also embossed the sentiment from the stamp set Soak up the Fun in silver on the waterpaper panel, that I had previously inked with Distress inks.

Os voy a revelar el truco del mecanismo, sin entrar en muchos detalles: 

Here' a brief look at the mechanism:

Corté un panel rectangular 1,2cm más corto que la base de mi tarjeta y usé uno de los banners del set de troqueles Die-namics Blueprints 28 para cortar dos ranuras paralelas en el mismo. 

I cut a rectangular panel, half an inch shorter than my cardbase and used one of the banners from the Die-namics Blueprints 28 to cut two parallel grooves in it.

También troquelé dos rectángulos cosidos con el troquel Die-namics Essential Cover-Up Vertical y adherí dos trozos de palito de helado en uno de ellos. ¡Encajaban perfectamente en las ranuras del anterior panel! 

I also cut two rectangles with the Die-namics Essential Cover-Up Vertical die and adhered two pieces of popsicle sticks to one of them. They fit perfectly in the grooves of the previous panel!

Hice el siguiente sandwich de abajo a arriba: base de tarjeta + rectángulo cosido con los palitos + panel con las ranuras (adherido a la base de la tarjeta con almohadillas) + 2º rectángulo cosido + panel de acuarela.

I stacked the elements in the following manner: card base + rectangle with the popsicle sticks + panel with the grooves (glued to the cardbase with foam adhesive) + second rectangle + watercolor panel.

Adherí el skyline directamente a la base de la tarjeta con almohadillas adhesivas en el extremo inferior para que no interfiriese con el mecanismo y listo.

I put a strip of foam adhesive on the lower end of the cardbase and attached the skyline to it, so that it wouldn't interfere with the mecanism and voilá.

Os dejo con un pequeño gif del movimiento y un ¡hasta la próxima!

Here's a gif of my card so that you can see it in action... Until next time!

A triple interactive Birthday card for the My Favorite Things "Card Design Superstar Challenge"

Nota para mis seguidoras de habla española: Volveré muy pronto con otra versión del vídeo y de la entrada, para que no os perdáis ningún paso. ^_^

Hi there, I'm a big fan of My Favorite Things products, but their annual Card Design Superstar Challenge always catches me off guard... not this year! I've made a triple interactive card for the Innovation Master category. I hope you like it!

I made the card for my nephew and godson Nico, using mainly the Die-namics Castle set and the BB Magical Dragons stamp set, but also many unexpected MFT products which you can see in my video tutorial (there's also a list at the end of this post):

I had to edit the video quite a lot so that it wouldn't be super long... if you feel like making the card and are uncertain about any of the steps, feel free to comment. I'll be glad to help!

For example, I forgot to mention that the sliding panel of the second mechanism (that makes the Dino open its mouth) is attached to the base with the same brad that goes through the first band-aid shape in the right column...  

The first mechanism, is a rotating disk that allows three different fairy tale characters to look out through the window... 

My favorite mechanism is the second one... when you pull the tab, a message (from the retired "Super Boy" stamp set) is revealed and the T-rex opens its mouth! It ate the present and the dragon looks so confused, lol!

Here's the card with the third interactive element, a hidden sliding tower, in full view. As I said in the video, my nephew Nico loves cows, so I had to add one to his Birthday card. The stamp, from the BB Whole Herd set, is also easy to color on gray cardstock... 

I paper pieced the balloons -which I stamped on thin red, blue and yellow cardstock and shaded with Copic markers- to the cow stamp. 

I hope you liked my triple interactive card... it's not quick to make but I bet any kid or MFT fan would love to receive one... ^_^

Here's a list of all the My Favorite Things products that I used. I'll be back very soon with another card!

• Die-namics Castle
• BB Magical Dragons
• BB Whole Herd
• Die-namics Band-Aids (for the T-rex mechanism)
• The retired "Super Boy" stamp set (the sentiment)
• Stitched Banner Alphabet
• Die-namics LLD Bundle of Baby Clothes (the curved rope die to cut the green hill)
• Die-namics LLD Tea Party (the tiny heart below the sentiment)
• Die-namics Stitched Circle Scallop Frames (the inside of the largest die for the rotating disk)
• LLD Cup of Tea (the sentiment on the brown banner)
• You're Rawr-some
• BB Birthday Bears (the present in the dino's mouth)
• Interactive Labels
• The retired "Blue Prints 15" (the pull tab)
• Die-namics Blueprints 28 (the tiny circle die)
• Itsy Bitsy Polka Dots Paper Pack

Tarjeta interactiva cumpleañera para Alba - An interactive Birthday card for Alba

¡Hola! ¿Hay mejor manera de empezar la semana que compartiendo una tarjeta con vosotros? ^_^ He creado esta tarjeta con motivo del cumpleaños de Alba del blog Bioartesaneando, inspirándome en la paleta de colores del reto Color Challenge 61 de My Favorite Things.

Hi! Is there a better way to start the week than sharing a card with you? I made this one for Alba's Birthday Challenge, inspired by the palette of Color Challenge 61 over at My Favorite Things.

El set de sellos Somebunny I Love es precioso y pensé que le gustaría a Alba, que pronto celebrará su 29 cumpleaños. No la conozco mucho, pero nos seguimos mutuamente por las redes y siempre me deja unos comentarios muy dulces. 

The Somebunny I Love set is so cute and I thought it would be perfect for Alba, who soon will turn 30. I don't know her in person, but we follow each other on social media and she always leaves such sweet comments.

Si giramos la rueda dentada, el sentimiento del bocadillo/nube desaparece...

If we turn the disk, the sentiment disappears...

...y deja paso a la princesa del set Magical Dragons, también de My Favorite Things. Seguimos girando la rueda para revelar un segundo sentimiento:

...and the adorable princess from the Magical Dragons set, appears. If we keep rotating the disk, a second sentiment emerges:

Este "Happy Birthday" tan bonito, que embossé en dorado, es del set de sellos You're the Sweetest. Aquí tenéis un pequeño vídeo clip, por si preferís ver la tarjeta en acción:

The pretty "Happy Birthday" that I gold-embossed, is from the You're the Sweetest stamp set. Here's a short video clip if you prefer to see the card in action:

Ay, que casi se me olvida mostrar la preciosa paleta de colores del reto de MFT:

Oops, I almost forgot to show you the beautiful color palette for the MFT challenge:

Vamos a ver un par de detallitos más, antes de despedirme...

Just a few more details before I go...

Usé una de las nubes de un viejo set de troqueles de Die-namics para cortar el bocadillo. Los dos puntitos blancos son brads (uno de ellos sujeta la rueda dentada). 

I used one of the clouds from an old Die-namics set called Jumbo Cloud Stax for the speech bubble. The two white dots are actually brads (one of them is holding the pinked circle in place).

Hice un poco de paper piecing con papeles estampados en el edredón y el osito. La zanahoria es del set Somebunny (la amplié un pelín con estampación parcial y un rotu de punta fina) y los libros del set Class Act, también de My Favorite Things. He usado rotuladores Copic para colorear todo.

I did some paper piecing on the duvet and teddy bear. The carrot is from the Somebunny set ( I just stamped it partially and made it a bit bigger) and the books are from the Class Act set. I used Copic markers to color everything.

Mañana mismo te mando la tarjeta y unos chuches, Alba... ¡Feliz cumple! También publicaré un tutorial de la tarjeta, así que espero que me visitéis de nuevo. ^_^

Tomorrow morning, I'll send you the card and some scrapbook goodies, Alba. Happy Birthday! I will also publish a tutorial for this card, so please come back. ^_^

Mi última entrada para My Favorite Things - My last blog entry for My Favorite Things

El tiempo vuela cuando te lo pasas bien y así ha sido durante estos dos meses como diseñadora invitada de My Favorite Things. Hoy toca mi cuarta y última entrada y he preparado tres tarjetas con unos sellos y troqueles muy chulos; LLD Cup of Tea y Die-namics LLD Tea Party. Aquí os mostraré un paso a paso de la tercera de mis tarjetas...

Time flies by when you're having fun and that's exactly what has happened during these last two months as guest designer for My Favorite Things. Today is my fourth and last entry and I've created three cards using some really cool stamps and dies; LLD Cup of Tea and Die-namics LLD Tea Party. Here I'll show you a step by step tutorial of my third card...

Aparentemente es muy "clean and simple", pero si hacemos caso de la mini etiqueta colgada de la taza y tiramos...

It looks very clean and simple, but if you follow the instruction on the mini tea tag and pull...

...aparece una guirnalda con una bolsa de té muy especial.

...a garland with a very special tea bag appears.

En realidad es una mini shaker, ya que he llenado la bolsita formada por dos capas de papel vegetal grueso con micro beads y Distress Glitter marrón. Otra opción hubiese sido llenarla con alguna especia como orégano... La mini grapa es de papel plateado... el troquel para la bolsa de té es tan detallado que ¡la incluye!

It's actually a mini shaker, since I filled the bag (two layers of vellum) with micro beads and brown Distress Glitter. Another option would be to use a spice like oregano... The mini staple is actually silver paper. The tea bag die is so detailed that the staple is included!

Mis seguidoras ya me habéis visto usar esta estructura antes, en esta tarjeta que hice para el reto de febrero de A Tendiña do Scrap y en ésta otra que hice para Up & Scrap. A continuación os mostraré lo fácil que es hacer este tipo de tarjeta...

My followers have seen me use this structure before, in this card that I made for the February challenge at A Tendiña do Scrap and in this other one, that I created for Up & Scrap.

Empecé por crear la guirnalda usando piezas cortadas con los troqueles de los sets Die-namics Blueprints 15 (los corazones) y Die-namics LLD Tea Party (el resto de elementos). Usé hilo grueso (torzal) para el cordón.

I started by creating the garland using shapes that I cut with dies from the Die-namics Blueprints 15  (the hearts) and Die-namics LLD Tea Party (the rest of the elements) sets.

Busqué un troquel de círculo del tamaño adecuado para usar como plantilla...

I used a circle shape as a stencil...

...y tracé un semicírculo con un lápiz.

...and traced a semi-circle with a pencil.

Ahora, con la ayuda de un bisturí, corté la apertura y pegué almohadillas adhesivas gruesas (foam), en la parte del arco, para adherir la taza:

With the help of a craft knife, I cut the opening and attached thick foam squares on the arch shape in order to glue the tea cup on top of it.

En el reverso del panel también adherí almohadillas de la siguiente manera, dejando un cuadrado en el centro para albergar la guirnalda:

On the back of the panel, I also adhered foam squares in the following manner, leaving an empty square in the center to hold the garland:

No saqué fotos del montaje pero fue muy sencillo. Adherí el extremo de la guirnalda en el medio del cuadrado que no tiene almohadillas adhesivas con un poco de pegamento líquido y un trozo de celo y saque el resto de la guirnalda por el agujero, antes de retirar el papel protector a todas las almohadillas y adherir el panel a la base de mi tarjeta.

I didn't take pictures of the assembly, but it was very easy. I adhered the end of the garland (on the tea bag side) to the middle of the square with some liquid glue and tape and pulled the rest of the garland through the hole, before attaching the panel to my card base.

Listo. Una tarjeta sencilla y unisex con un bonito mensaje. Espero que visitéis el blog de MFT para ver las otras dos tarjetas y si venís de allí, ¡muchísimas gracias por la visita!

Done. A very simple and unisex card with a nice message. I hope you'll visit the MFT blog to see my other two cards and if you came from there, thank you so much for your visit!

Mi tarjeta para el: / My card for the: Card Design Super Star Contest 2016

¡Hola! A pesar de que no dispongo de mucho tiempo para el scrap estos días, no podía dejar pasar la oportunidad de participar en el You Could be a Card Design Super Star Contest 2016 de My Favorite Things. Faltando seis horas para acabar el reto, hay ya 526 participaciones... ¡qué locura! Os muestro mi humilde tarjeta slider CAS para el concurso. A ver qué os parece:

Hi there! Even though I've been too busy to scrap these days, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to participate in MFT's You Could be a Card Design Super Star Contest 2016. There are six hours left and a staggering 526 participations so far... It's nuts! Here's my humble CAS slider card. I hope you like it:

Ya sé que os estáis diciendo... "¿pero, esto qué es? No se entiende nada." No se trata de un jeroglífico ni nada por el estilo, sino que el mensaje está oculto a simple viste y aparece al tirar de la solapita...

I know what you're thinking... "What in the world is this? I can't understand anything". Nope it's not a hieroglyph or anything like that. The message/sentiment is actually hidden in plain site and appears when the tab is pulled...

Lo podéis ver mejor en este GIF animado:

In this animated GIF you can see what I'm talking about:

El año pasado, hice una tarjeta parecida para mi amiga scrapera Sonia y resultó igual de divertido y casi igual de complicado crear ésta...

Last year I made a similar card for my scrappy friend Sonia and it was just as much fun and almost as difficult as it was to make this one...

Enseguida os mostraré cómo la he hecho, pero primero quiero hablaros de los productos de My Favorite Things que he usado. Los papeles tan cuquis son de los packs de 6x6 pulgadas; Lucky Prints y Dots and Stripes Sorbet.

I'll show you a quick step by step in a moment, byt first I want to talk about the My Favorite Things products that I used. The sweet papers are from the Lucky Prints and Dots and Stripes Sorbet 6x6 packs.

El set de troqueles Die-namics LLD Emmit Alphabet es mi abecedario favorito y lo uso un montón. El troquel de falso cosido, el corazón y la estrella son del set Die-namics Blueprints 15, la nube del set Die-namics In the Clouds y la flecha y los mini corazones son del set Die-namics Blueprints 28.

The Die-namics LLD Emmit Alphabet die set is one of my all time favorites and I use it a lot. The faux stich rectangle, the heart and the star are from the Die-namics Blueprints 15 set, the cloud is from the Die-namics In the Clouds set and the arrow and mini hearts are from the Die-namics Blueprints 28 set.

Vamos a ver rápidamente cómo la hice:

Let's have a quick look at the making of:

Descubrí que resulta muchísimo más fácil crear este tipo de tarjetas si se adhieren temporalmente los troqueles a una hoja de papel cuadriculado con cinta de doble cara. Para que la cartulina que troquelaremos no se adhiera al pegamento expuesto, conviene espolvorear el conjunto con polvos de talco. Como se repetían algunas letras, tuve que troquelar el panel en dos pasadas. Adherí un trozo de papel adhesivo de doble cara Stick-it al mismo, antes de troquelarlo, para que resultase más fácil de adherir al acetato.

I discovered that it's a lot easier to create these types of cards if you temporaly adhere the dies to a sheet of graph paper with double sided tape. So that the cardstock won't stick to the exposed tape, it's best to brush some baby powder on top of it. As some of the letters were used twice, I had to die cut the panel in two passes. I adhered a piece of Stick-it double sided adhesive to the cardstock before doing that, so that it would be easier to adhere it to the sheet of acetate.

Calculé la altura en la que tenían que estar las tiras de papel estampado y las adherí a la hoja slider. Pegué el panel de letras al acetato y construí el canal slider con varias capas de tiras de cartulina. Podría haber usado foam adhesivo, pero así quedaba más limpito.

I calculated where I needed to place my strips of patterned paper and adhered them to the slider panel. I peeled of the release paper and glued the panel with the die cut letters to the acetate. I also made a channel for the slider with layered strips of cardstock. Another, easier option would have been to use foam adhesive, but this was a neater solution.

Cree un tope para el panel slider con dos tiras de plástico celofán (ver las últimas dos fotos del collage) y adherí el panel a una base de tarjeta.

So that the panel could slide only to where I wanted it to, I adhered two strips of celophane on the back of it (take a look at the last two pictures of the collage) and glued the complete panel to a card base.

Espero que os haya gustado y que os deis un paseo por el blog de My Favorite Things, para ver las maravillas que se disputan los diez vales de 250 dolares, que hay en juego. ¡Hasta pronto, sois geniales! ;)

I hope that you liked my card and that you'll visit the My Favorite Things blog to have a look at the incredible cards that are competing for the ten 250USD vouchers. See you soon... you are great! ;)

¡Diseñadora invitada en My Favorite Things! - Guest designer at My Favorite Things!

¡Hola, hoy no puedo estar más emocionada! Una de mis marcas favoritas, My Favorite Things, me ha invitado a jugar con su nueva colección de agosto... ¡un montón de sets de sellos y troqueles chulísimos! Para mi primera entrada, he preparado tres tarjetas con un divertido y versátil set de sellos llamado "BB Magical Dragons".

Hi there! I couldn't be more excited! One of my favorite brands, My Favorite Things, has invited me to play with their new August release... a whole bunch of awesome stamps and dies! For my first entry, I've made three cards with a fun and versatile stamp set called "BB Magical Dragons". 

Ésta es la primera, pero si quieres ver las otras dos y saber más detalles sobre las tres, haz clic en el logo y visita el blog de My Favorite Things:

This is the first one, but if you want to see the other two, and find out more details about all three of them, please click on the logo and head on over to the My Favorite Things blog:

¡Hasta pronto!

See you soon!