Coffee filter flowers

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Hello creatives!! Few days before my baby born I posted this page of my life documented journal and I said that I would post next day the tutorial for this flowers. But then my baby born and I had no longer the time to do that. So today I want to share with you finally how I do this beautiful coffee filter flowers.

I like to use kids markers and watercolors to add color to the coffee filters.
Paint on the coffe filters with the markers. Then spray water to de paint and the paint starts to spread and blend and that makes beautiful combinations and efects.

You can do the same with watercolors.

After it drys I draw flowers and cut them. Vary the shapes and form of them.
You can do a bunch of them and them have prepared when you need to embellish some pages

ATC swap - Peek inside

Hello friends!!! Last week I was working on a swap with a friend creative Cristina from Cuadritos de colores, that I met on Instagram. She ask me for a swap and I made this three ATC'S  for her. I love to do them. As you know I love color, texture, mark making and stitches, so I put all my love on the cards. :)
I loved to do them. Take a look on some peeks of them.

Inside my sketchbook

As I told you yesterday this last days I was out, enjoying family time. So I was almost off with instagram, blog and facebook. I was far from my studio and my art materials. I only carry with me my sketchbooks and some simple material for drawing and some watercolors. This were my sketches during theses days!

Como eu vos disse ontem, nestas férias de Páscoa aproveitamos para passear um pouco em família e passar tempo juntos. Daí que estive quase ausente de facebook, instagram e blog!!! Claro que a maioria dos meus materiais ficaram em casa. Levei comigo apenas os meus dois livros de registos, umas canetas para desenhar e umas aguarelas. Estes foram os meus registos durante estes dias! :)
Sempre a praticar, sempre a aprender!!! Perspetiva e corpo humano... Um grande desafio!!!!

ART Card - my process!

Today I want to share with you a little bit of my process on the making of a little Art Card from my Planner. This little art cards are, as the name suggests, little bits of art that you can add as embellishments to your art journals, planners or offer as a gift tag for instance. 

As they are little pieces you can make them in few minutes. They are great for you to make art every day even if you don't have much time for that.

 I started with a page where I add some scrap paint from cleaning the brushes from other projects!!

Add some strips of magazines and newspaper.

 Add some stokes of white and doodled a flower! I stamped some flowers in the corner and added some collages with leftover papers! (I collect almost  every bits of paper that left from other projects! They fit great in this little pieces of art don't you think? :))The important is to create texture and beautiful fused layers!!!

You can write some words, or quotes that inspires you.
For the final touches I add some stitches which i love and a little strip of ribbon.

Hope you feel inspired to create. Is a little art card. You can make it in 10 min!! This is an artful therapy!!

Have fun!! Be inspired!!

Blog Planner

 Organization is fundamental in order to achieve the goals I want.Ttime is not enough for everything and waste it thinking about what you have to do or should do and not do, is a waste of time !!! ;)

Then organization is key. And speaks to you the person who battle every day with its interior to achieve this organization for not procrastinate!

This year 2016 I want my work take a leap and I want my blog has more activity. I decided to make a Blog planner. A notebook where I will plan the month with threads I want to do, where to record ideas of projects. As my head always walks a thousand with ideas I have to register them, because I can not do everything at once.

I leave you my suggestion of an altered notebook, very simple to do, and super cheap.

 O ano que passou foi o ano da descoberta. Da intensa aprendizagem de mim mesma e das minhas capacidades. Há medida que tudo vai evoluindo sinto que a organização é fundamental, para poder atingir os objetivos que quero. o tempo não dá para tudo e desperdicá-lo a pensar no que se tem de fazer ou deveria fazer e não se faz é uma perda de tempo!!! ;)
Então organização é fundamental. E fala convosco a pessoa que batalha todos os dias com o seu interior para atingir essa organização, para não procrastinar!

Como durante este ano de 2016 quero que o meu trabalho dê um salto e quero que o meu blog tenha mais atividade decidi fazer um caderno de planificação. Um caderno onde vou planificar o mês  com as postagens que quero fazer, onde registo Ideias de projectos que quero fazer. Como a minha cabeça anda sempre a mil com ideias tenho de as registar, pois não consigo fazer tudo ao mesmo tempo.

Deixo-vos a minha sugestão de um notebook alterado, muito simples de fazer, e super barato.

I used a notebook with black covers, very cheap, with white sheets. On the cover I used a doillie to make a flower. Simple but beautiful.

Eu usei um caderno de capas pretas, muit barato, com folhas brancas. Na capa eu usei um doillie para fazer uma flor. Simples mas bonito.

 For tabs made some marks on white sheets, to create a standard and pasted in the notebook.

 Para os separadores fiz marcas algumas em folhas brancas, para criar um padrão e colei no caderno.

I made some simple tabs. With a paper punch cut some circles. Fold in half and glu it. Glue two of this only by half. Put in the separator sheet.

 Fiz uns separadores simples. Com um furador corte circulos. Dobre ao meio. Cole. Cole dois só pela metade.Encaixe na folha separadora.

Flowers in a rainy day