New Website

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I’m super excited bacause today I’m launching my new website inkandpawprints.com. Yay! This new website will be bilingual, so both Spanish and English speaking followers can read my posts.

Estoy superemocionada porque hoy estreno mi nueva web inkandpawprints.com. Bien! Esta nueva web va ser bilingüe, de manera que tanto los seguidores hispanohablantes como los angloparlantes puedan leer mis entradas.

My brother encouraged me to have my own website and he has made it possible, since he is the webmaster.

Mi hermano es el que me animó a tener mi propia web es él quien lo ha hecho posible ya que es el web máster.

I have a new logo as well! You might notice it in the last post since I used it to watermark the pictures. I think this cat paw holding her own paw print stamp represents really well the idea behind the name of my web in a very funny way.

También tengo un logo nuevo!! Igual os disteis cuenta al leer mi última entrada porque lo use como marca de agua en las fotos. Creo que esta patita de gato sujetando un sello de su huella representa muy bien la idea tras el nombre de mi web.

If you are a subscriber to this blog or you read my post through Bloglovin’ or Feedly, please, consider subscribe to my new blog or follow it through your favorite RSS feed aggregator.

Si estás subscrito a este blog o si lees mis entradas mediante Bloglovin’ o Feedly, por favor, suscríbete a mi nuevo blog o sígueme a través de tu lector de RSS preferido.

Go and take a look at inkandpawprints.com! See you there!

Echa un ojo a mi web inkandpawprints.com! Nos vemos allí!

Milestone Cards for my Baby II

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Today I’m sharing another batch of milestone cards I made for my baby. Mikel is 8 months old now. My, how time flies! I’m so happy to watch him grow up but so sad at the same time because he is not going to be a little baby anymore 😥 I’m so happy I decided to make his milestone cards myself and take pictures to check how much he has grown. Every time I see the first milestone picture, I think: “Did I ever had such a small baby in my arms?”.

This little sheep is one of my favorite stamps. He is so cute with his bow tie!

As I told you in this previous post, initially, I planned which images I wanted for each card, taking into account which month/season it is for. Today I’m showing you the 5 to 8 months old cards, corresponding to March to June months. If you read my blog post where I showed the first batch of cards, you already know I’m using mainly Purple Onion Designs stamps designed by Stacey Yacula with some other stamps to help to set the scenes.

I love how well the big flowers coordinate with the one the bunny is holding.

The cards are in Basque, so hilabete means month. If you are interested in the supplies I used to stamp the words and the numbers, you can check this post. The images are colored using Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers, and I used Distress Inks to color the backgrounds. Also, I used a white gel pen and a Sakura Stardust glitter pen to add some details.

In this card, I added a subtle cloudy background with a stencil, barely visible in the picture.

I tried to make rather simple scenes. If you follow my work, you know I love a good scene card with tons of elements, so making these clean scenes in such muted colors is quite difficult for me.

Notice I used the same background stamp as in the 5-months-old card, but with some selective masking, it looks totally different.

I’m still finishing the 12-month set, so probably I’ll share the last four cards after Mikel’s first birthday (please, can we stop time? I want him to be a little baby forever). I hope you like these cards!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Gym Rats card

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Yay! I made a card! 🙂 It has been a while since my last card. As I mentioned in a previous post, I haven’t much time to craft, and I’m making the milestone cards for my baby, so that is mostly my only crafting. But I wanted to make a card for the physiotherapist who has helped me with the childbirth classes and later with the hypopressive exercises. Now, after a lot of encouragement, I’m working out with her help.

I thought this Waffle Flower “Gym Rat” stamp set was perfect for making a card for her. I knew I wanted a tiled backdrop to simulate the Zoom screen since the classes are online. To make that backdrop, I used several Lawn Fawn dies.

The mice were colored using Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. I find difficult choosing the color schemes in these type of cards (basically, any non-scene card), but I like the one I used in this card.

I love making my own backgrounds using stamps, and this set has very cool small stamps, perfect for that.

I’m entering this card into Simon Says Stamp IG Challenge:

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I hope you like this card! Thank you very much for stopping by! Have a great day!

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Supply list

Stamps:

• Waffle Flower “Gym Rat”

Dies:

• Waffle Flower “Gym Rat”
• Lawn Fawn “Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables”
• Lawn Fawn “Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up”

Coloring:

• Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers

Inks:

• Versafine Onyx black ink
• Spun Sugar Distress
• Cracked Pistachio Distress
• Dusty Concord Distress
• Squeezed Lemonade Distress

Others:

• Neenah Solar White 80 lb cardstock
• Fabriano Artistico hot press watercolor paper