Birthday Cards!

Hi again! I know this blog is supposed to be about scrapbooking, but I made two birthday cards with the materials I showed you before and I think they look really cool, so I would like to show them to you and also to tell you how did I make them! This are the two cards:

I made the pink one for my grandma and the second one for a friend.

Materials you will need (for both cards):

- Paper.
- Watercolor paper (you can use another paper if you don't have this, but this one is the best one for using watercolor paint).
- Watercolor paint.
- Corrugated cardboard (the one I have is in a red-metallic color).
- Adhesive.
- Mounting tape.
- Foam
- A pencil, an eraser, a pen and scissors.

Instructions for the first card (the pink one):

1) Take a paper sheet and fold it in half (you can use any paper you want; I used a paper that is pink in one side and white in the other one).
2) Draw some flowers with a pencil in watercolor paper and then underline it with a pen.
3) Paint the flowers with watercolor paint, then cut them.
4) Cut two foam rectangles, a bigger one and a smaller one.
5) Write "Happy Birthday" or something like that in another paper (I used watercolor paper) and then cut it.
6) Stick the flowers with some mounting tape, and then stick everything else to the paper sheet you fold in 1). Use the picture of the card before to guide yourself. Then you have finished your card :)!

Steps 1 and 2.

Instructions for the second one (the one with the alligator):
1) Take a paper sheet and fold it in half.
2) Draw a cute alligator (or another cute animal or person or whatever you want) with a pencil in watercolor paper and then underline it with a pen.
3) Paint the drawing with watercolor paint, then cut it.
4) Cut two large corrugated cardboard rectangles, a bigger one and a smaller one.
5) Write "Happy Birthday" in another paper (I used watercolor paper) and then cut it.
6) Stick the drawing with mounting tape and then stick everything else to the paper sheet you fold in 1). And now your card is done!

Steps 1, 2, 3 and the completed card.

Details: You can add some details to your cards. For example, I made two flowers for the pink card; I added one in the back of the card (with some text next to it) and the other one in the inside. For the alligator card I made a little present and a heart. I did the two flowers and the present just as I did the other flowers or the alligator; by drawing them and then painting them with watercolor paint. For the heart I used corrugated cardboard.

The two flowers (the one in the back with the text, and the one inside the card), the little present in the back of the alligator card and the heart inside of it.

Recommendation: Before painting your drawings with watercolor paint, try them in a separate piece of paper, so as to be sure that the color you are using is the one you want.

Hope you've enjoyed this post :)! Please leave your comment!

My scrapbook's materials

Hello again! As I told you before, I'm trying to do a scrapbook for my boyfriend, as we are going to have our one year anniversary soon (next Friday). I know it might sound like I have no time for doing it, but the thing is I've already done like half of it.

I want to show you the materials I have for doing it. They aren't like pro or something like that, actually I borrowed all most all of them from a friend, who also lend me her Big Sizzix Shot Machine (because as I told you in the post before, in here they are around $240 dollars , so I can't afford one - yeay!). Here you have a picture of the materials I have:

My friend lend me three punchers, some patterned paper, holographic paper and foam (Thank you Fran!!). Also, I cut some paper with the Sizzix Machine, and I kept the negatives. I bought some mounting tape, an adhesive, one-color papers and some other materials (but I don't know their names, because as I told you, my first language is Spanish, so if you know the names of them or if I named something wrong, please let me know!)

So those are my materials. Also I bought some yellow paper for the pages of my scrapbook (which was a big mistake, I'll explain you why later). Anyway, as you see they aren't like spectacular materials for scrapbooking, but I'm a beginner in this. You'll see that you can do many things just with that :).

About 'I Wanna Scrapbook!'

Hello everyone! I'm Florencia Atria, a 17 year old girl from Santiago, Chile (which is in South America). Please, forgive me if I make too many mistakes in my writing. As I'm from Chile, my first language is Spanish. I've tried to write sooner in my blog, but it seems like I have no time! I'm in senior year, and I've many test and essays to do; actually I have a biology test tomorrow, but I have postponed this for so long that I said "OK let's write a little and then study". Also, this is my first blog ever!!! I mean, I have another one about 'Torres del Paine', but it was a project for English class.

This is Santiago, were I live :)

So, now that you know a little more about me, why 'I Wanna Scrapbook!'? Scrapbook is not too known in here. Actually, there are only like one or two stores for scrapbookers in the whole city. Then, how did I hear about it? The thing is that in like a week, it's me and my boyfriend's first anniversary year! I wanted to do a really cool present for him, and I thought about a photo album, but not just any photo album, I wanted one made by my self.

I started looking for tutorials about how to make a photo album, and with this I bumped into scrapbooking. I thought it was so fun! That was around two weeks ago. Now, is really difficult to do a scrapbook here, because as Santiago has only two scrapbook stores or so, materials are really expensive! For example, I have a friend who has a Sizzix Big Shot Machine. She bought it for $120.000 (Chilean pesos), which is equivalent to 240 dollars, approximately. That's too much! (Don't you agree?).

She said I could use it, and so I went with some one-color papers (those were the only ones I could find for a cheap price!) to her house and cut as many things as I could (she has around 7 different die cuts). Now, I don't have many materials, but I will try to do as many different pages as I can, and as I'm learning, I will show you what I've learned, what to avoid and many different ideas! (That's what I'm hoping for). My anniversary is in June 25th, that's the deadline for my scrapbook!

I really hope you can enjoy this blog, please leave your comments :)!!!!