Thursday, October 25, 2012

Más vale tarde que nunca

I had so much fun making my framed Sugar Skull and Halloween/Birthday Card that I just had to make some cards using the same mix of paper-piecing and glow-in-the-dark glitter.  
I used orange and yellow flocking for the flowers, and colored the pieces with my Copics, using a lot of shading. 

I used the lovely Framed Sugar Skull & Flowers by Dilly Beans, and made the backing by printing it on shiny blue Recollections cardstock and then heat-embossing it in Glitter (Stampendous Kaleidoscope powder). The eye socket, nose hole, and teeth are actually a shiny white paper.

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As I'm sending this to my husband's Aunt in Mexico, whose birthday was earlier this month(!), I used the "Más vale tarde que nunca" ("Better late than never") & one of the birthday sentiments from the Queremos Pastel set by Dilo en Español Stamps. I think she'll appreciate the humor!

I used Spellbinders dies and another sentiment from the Dilo en Español set for the inside:

Here it is, glowing in the dark:

Our aunt owns & runs Arcos Del Atascadero Bed & Breakfast in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, and she taught me a lot about Día de Muertos traditions, as she's an expert in Mexican history and I like to ask a lot of questions! I'm really hoping that we can visit them during the All Saints holidays one of these years. Actually, the glowing skull sorta reminds my of this photo I snapped during our last visit to San Miguel de Allende, of the light show on la Parroquia in their main square:



Inspiration/Challenges:
Alota Rubber Stamps: Birthday celebrations
Cupcake Craft
: Paper Piecing
MarkerPop Coloring Challenge #9: Paper Piecing + Shading
Natalie and Amy's Challenge: Birthday bling
Poisoned Peas Please Challenge #8: Sugar Skulls and Day of the Dead (This is my 2nd entry; my 1st is here)


You can see all of my Día de Muertos projects here in my archives.

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11 comments:

  1. Gorgeous card with fab paper piecing. Love it!

    Thank you for sharing with us at Cupcake Craft Challenges this week.

    Warm hugs
    Maarit

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  2. OOOO Cool! Glow in the dark too! Love the card!

    Thanks for joining us Poisoned Peas Please...

    Sandy S
    PPPDT

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  3. Beautiful card and such a stunning design! :) Donna ♥ x

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  4. Another great skull! Love the paper piecing and glow in the dark glitter. What a fun sentiment to use on her card and of course being the expert, she will really appreciate it! Thanks for the photograph - that is wonderful to see. Glad you shared with us at Poisoned Peas, Please. Good Luck. Vee xx (October Guest Designer)

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  5. The skull is amazing. Thanks for joining our challenge at Natalie and Amy's this month xxx

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  6. A fabulous card...thanks for joining us at Cupcake!
    Helen x

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  7. Gor-JUSS! :) Thanks for joining our October Day of the Dead Challenge at Poisoned Peas Please. I hope we see you for November's Challenge. Good Luck~Patti PPP DT

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  8. Oooooh how striking. Gorgeous creation. Thanks for sharing at Cupcake. X

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  9. stunning piece. thanks for joining us at Poisoned peas please
    susan s.

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  10. Gorgeous creation.
    Thanks for joining us at Poisoned Peas Please.
    Hugs,
    Julia

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  11. This is a truly awesome card! You have colored it so well, great job!
    Thank you for sharing with us at PPP!
    Peace,
    KristyLee
    (PPP DT)

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