Kich N Bleus Challenge #1

Happy Saturday!!! In a mood to enter a challenge?? KICH N BLEUS DESIGNS has a brand NEW collection and a BRAND NEW challenge just for you!!  

Rules are pretty simple:

*** Link your ORIGINAL post with project up to Inlinks

*** Mention that your project is for 

KICH N BLEUS CHALLENGE #1

*** Deadline for this challenge will be midnight 

April 30th PST

 *** Project of your choice (card, LO, altered item, ect.) 

***You have to use a DIGI image and Spring related!

*** And most importantly, HAVE FUN!!

Here is what I created:

I used:

Kich N Bleus Designs "Kich's Spring" Collection

My Creative Time Stamps " Color Me Happy" set

Now, make sure you visit Kich N Bleus for more info and enter!!! 

You will NOT want to miss it!!! 

and how you combine this challenge with mine!!! Just make sure you look at the details of that challenge too!! Which is pretty much the same rules!!

There is a FREEBIE and some fun news just for those who enter the challenge!!!

Throwback Thursday~~ A Cricut-less one with a sketch!!!

Hello all!!! It is time for another Throwback Thursday!!! and this time we are doing a Cricut-less card!!! But you get to use a beautiful sketch from Pagemaps!!! Have you ever used their sketches?!!? Becky Fleck is just AWESOME at this art!!! If you have never used her pagemaps before, make sure you go and visit her page! It is full of inspiration!!!

Here is my take on the challenge:

Materials used:

My Creative Time Stamps! "Wow! So Many Candles" set

Kich N Bleus "Kich Celebrates" collection

DCWV Songbird Stack

Recollection Cardstock

In Stitchz by Bazzill

Here is the sketch from Pagemaps

Make sure you visit all the other awesome designers!!!

And just to make this even better.... how about a little giveaway??

Leave me a comment telling me how old you "feel" and 

I will pick three lucky people to receive this Kich N Bleus Collection!!!

Thank you for visiting!!!

Market Street Stamps~~ La Guitarra

Hello everyone! I have been in heaven these days!!! I got my new Gypsy! I just LOVE designing for My Creative Time!! and I am the newbie of an awesome DT over at Treasure Box Designs and I am also part of the DT of Angelica's company, Market Street Stamps!!! 

¡Hola a todos! ¡¡¡Qué he tenido buenos días!!! ¡Tengo de nuevo una Gypsy! ¡¡Me encanta diseñar para My Creative Time!! ¡y soy la nueva integrante de un fabuloso equipo de diseño en Treasure Box Designs y también soy parte del equipo de diseño de la compañía de Angélica, Market Street Stamps!!!

Market Street Stamps will be coming out in May with a new line with a lot more Spanish! "La Tiendita" Spanish for the "little Market" is where I will be designing! Can't wait to get started!!!

¡¡Market Street Stamps estará lanzando una linea nueva de sellos con más español! Se llamará "La Tiendita" y es ahi donde estaré diseñando! ¡Ya me muero por comenzar!

In the meantime, Angelica has a new release this month that is just BEAUTIFUL!!! As soon as I saw the Hippie Chic and the background Vintage Music I new I needed them for my brother (who is a musician) and my sister who well..... just plain LOVES music!! But..... as I was looking (smelling) at them last night trying to come up with something, I remembered a poem I studied in college.

Mientras tanto, Angélica acaba de sacar sellos nuevos este mes y están PRECIOSOS! En cuanto vi "Hippie Chic" y el fondo "Vintage Music" supe que los necesitaba para mi hermano ( que es músico) y para mi hermana, que bueno.... simplemente AMA la música!! Pero... mientras las miraba (olía) anoche me acordé de un poema que estudié  cuando iba a la universidad.

Federico Garcia Lorca is the AMAZING writer who wrote this poem called "The Guitar". Now, I don't want to go on about what I think the poem is saying... I am missing teaching my Literature class!!! :) You can find many reviews about the poem online. I will put the poem at the end of the post just in case you do want to venture in reading it and finding out more.

Federico García Lorca es un escritor ASOMBROSO y escribió este poema llamado "La Guitarra". Y bueno no quiero meterme en analizar este poema... como extraño mi salón cuando enseñaba literatura!! :) Pueden encontrar muchísimas cosas del poema en linea. Pondré el poema al final para aquellas personas que quieran aventurarse en leerlo y analizarlo.

Here is my card:

Material used:

Market Street Stamps~ MSS-19 & MSS-BK-08

Tim Holtz Paper Stash Lost & Found

Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo

Bling from stash

Walmart Ribbon

Spellbinders-Nestabilities 

And here is the poem:

The Guitar

The weeping of the guitar
begins.
The goblets of dawn
are smashed.
The weeping of the guitar
begins.
Useless
to silence it.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps monotonously
as water weeps
as the wind weeps
over snowfields.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps for distant
things.
Hot southern sands
yearning for white camellias.
Weeps arrow without target
evening without morning
and the first dead bird
on the branch.
Oh, guitar!
Heart mortally wounded
by five swords.

Y en español

La Guitarra

Empieza el llanto
de la guitarra.
Se rompen las copas de la madrugada.
Empieza el llanto de la guitarra.
Es inútil callarla.
Es imposible callarla.
Llora monótona
como llora el agua,
como llora el viento
sobre la nevada.
Es imposible callarla.
Llora por cosas
lejanas.
Arena del Sur caliente
que pide camelias blancas.
Llora flecha sin blanco,
la tarde sin mañana,
y el primer pájaro muerto
sobre la rama.
!Oh guitarra!
Corazón malherido
por cinco espadas.
  

I added this video I found on YouTube.... beautifully recited with images of Garcia Lorca and videos during the times García Lorca lived.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Añadí este video que me encontré en YouTube.... tan bellamente recitado con imágenes de García Lorca y videos en la época en la que el poeta vivió.

Gracias por visitar!

Scrapbookaholic By Abby Challenge #2 Anything Spring!

Happy Monday everyone!!! Guess what time of the week it is?!?! Yep, it is challenge time here at Scrapbookaholic By Abby with my AWESOME design team!!!

Scrapbookaholic By Abby Challenge #2 is all about SPRING!!! Create ANYTHING you like that has some element that has to with Spring! 

Here are the details for this challenge:

*** Link your ORIGINAL post with project up to Inlinks

*** Mention that your project is for Scrapbookaholic By Abby Challenge #2

*** Deadline for this challenge will be midnight April 9th PST

 *** Project of your choice and make sure it has something Spring related!

*** And most importantly, HAVE FUN!!

My project will be up later today! I created something BUT I am not happy with it!

But, I have for you 16 awesome projects from my design team!!!

Alina 

Amber 

Ashley 

Carley

Celeste B 

Celeste L 

Christine 

Erika

Karla

Kristin 

Maria Elena 

MEIGHEN 

Pammejo

Raven 

Sandra 

ZENI 

Zeni detail

What do you think?!? ARE THEY AN AWESOME TEAM OR WHAT???

So now onto the WINNER of Challenge #1!!!

We had 30 amazing entries!!! Thank You all sooooo much!!!!! 

This week I choose to use random.org for the winner and it was;

Ana Maria!!!

Please email me at scrapbookaholicbyabby@yahoo.com

You have until WEDNESDAY the 30th to contact me!!

And the price for this week???

I am sponsoring this week's challenge and the winner will receive:

6x6 SEI paper stack and SEI Ribbon Assortment

Can't wait to see your creations!!!