Pilin' on the Black & White with a pop of color

The theme this fortnight at Pile It On is Black & White with a pop of color. I used stamps from Latina Crafter.

This card is inspired by my sweet dogs Allen & Walt. AWwww, ain't they cute!

Inspiration/Challenges:
Addicted to Stamps and More: Make Your Mark (ink)
CCEE Stampers: Opposites (black & white)
The Crazy Challenge: Ribbons
Moving along with the Times: Embossing (all stamps are also heat-embossed)
One Crazy Stamper: Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Critters (2nd entry)

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Love you an Eiffel lot

I've been having tons of fun with my new stamps from Latina Crafter (which I won at Connie Can Crop). I bought their Oh la la set mostly for the bilingual sentiments, but I wanted to ink up the Eiffel Tower & this sentiment as well. I'm giving this to a dear crafting friend of mine. Her favorite color is pink & mine is purple, so I think she'll get a kick out of this.

I Inked some white paper with a purplish ink & heat-embossed the Eiffel tower onto it in light pink. I stamped "oh la la" onto a pink ribbon & attached it to the fussy-cut piece. I stamped the sentiment, the tower, and a heart onto a pre-made pink tag, and attached it all to the card with a purple brad that I heat-embossed with more pink. The little Eiffel tower is from Viva Las Vegas Stamps, and is also stamped in black onto pink paper. The background was embossed in my BigShot.

Inspiration:
Allsorts: Ribbon and lace
Share Joy Challenge #17: Sketch & Color Combo
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Something New (new stamps)

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Flamenco de Amor

If you follow this blog, you've probably noticed that I have a soft spot for pink flamingos; so you can imagine how excited I was to see a pink flamingo die and stamp set by Recollections at Michael's. Unfortunately, once I got it home I realized that the die faces in the opposite direction of the stamps. I worked around the issue, but it was annoying. Here, I cut the shape from a shiny pink paper & heat-embossed the stamp in neon pink. I also die-cut it from craft foam to pop it up.

The doily design was inspired by Desíre's folded circle embellishment; the white fronts are covered with a gray-dotted doily. The banner is decorated with tape and more of the gray-dotted doily; I stamped the sentiment (Latina Crafter) directly onto it with pink ink. The blue background paper is stamped in a platinum ink with a heart-shaped stamp from the same Latina Crafter set. The hearts are punched from a neon pink paper & inked with the platinum ink.

Inspiration:

Latina Crafter: Sketch + Color + Theme (+ Latina Crafter stamps)
Sweet Stampin: Something New (all stamps/dies are new)

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Más vale tarde que nunca

I took a break from holiday cards to make an early (or late‽) Día de Muertos card featuring Dilly Beans Stamp #340, Frida's sugar skull. I practiced my Spanish (well, sorta!) and was inspired by two of my favorite Spanish-language blogs, Dilo en Español and Latina Crafter.

The sentiment is from the Queremos Pastel set by Dilo en Español Stamps. My husband picked out this cool sugar skull Washi tape for me at the craft store and I have had so much fun using it. The 3D skull was a gift from a friend. The patterned papers are all from Graphic 45's Fashionista collection.

Mom sent me some colored embossing markers (Marvy) and I just had to try them out! I colored the image with those markers (black, red, green, white) & Copics, and heat-embossed it with clear powder. I like the raised effect.

We're hoping to get to Mexico next year, for our family's semi-regular get-together. I really need to practice my Spanish!

Inspiration/Challenges:
Dilo en Español: Día de Muertos (+ DEE stamp)
Latina Crafter: Sketch #53

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