Celebrate Fiesta !

Celebrate Fiesta, San Antonio!  Our city wide celebration is drawing to climax, with the two BIG parades, The Battle of Flowers Day parade on Friday, and the Fiesta Flambeau night parade on Saturday!

Today's card "Celebrate" with the Chili Ristra strand stamp from Deadbeat Designs reminds me so of Fiesta days gone by.  Since the Chili Queens of Texas had so much to do with the original celebration years ago, I thought it would be symbolic to use this stamp to show the "HOT times in the BIG city!"  I stamped the chili pepper strand on Xpress Blending stock and on white card stock and colored both with my Copic markers.

I cut out the peppers from one set and used foam tape to pop up the peppers on the card front.  I then stamped the "Celebrate" from a Hot Off the Press Birthday Sentiment set and added "Yipee" and the background "Moon and Stars" from two other stamp sets, to complete the background.  Using my Wink of  Stella dark blue glitter marker, I then touched the letters and some of the moons to give it a spot of bling. I also inked the edges of the card stock with chestnut roan chalk ink before attaching it to the card front with double-sided tape.

Enjoy the weekend, Saturday is just around the bend.

Peace, Love, and Margaritas

Fiesta in San Antonio is drawing to a close this weekend. The cards for today celebrate every day here in South Texas, not only during Fiesta. We have mariachis, sombreros, and margaritas that flow 365 days a year.

The backgrounds for these cards were made from the Firefly 6 X 6 paper pad from Prima, and the guitars were cut from the Folk Art Festival cartridge from Cricut. The phrase stamp, "Peace, Love, and Margaritas" the small sombrero, the margarita glass, and peace sign are all stamps from Mark at Deadbeat Designs.  The peace sign was stamped with the Blue Raspberry ink from ColorBox and the phrase, sombrero, and margarita were stamped with Tuxedo black ink from Memento. They were then colored in with my Copic markers and the margarita glass was highlighted with Icicle Stickles.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend, whether you are out enjoying the great outdoors, or staying in. I personally, am staying in this weekend to work on some cards for next month, Mother's Day cards for the 12th of May, and a new project for a dear friend who is having a birthday near the end of May. Thank you for stopping by for a visit, and don't forget to leave a comment on my blog, to be registered for my 1 year Blog-aversary Give-Away.  See you soon.

Mindy 

Fiesta Party Girl

This is a fun card I made for Fiesta this year using one of the awesome Magnolia stamps, "Tilda Running" I believe.I stamped her out on white cardstock and colored her with Copic markers. I then took a piece of printed scrapbook paper and added it to the front of my quarter-fold card. I off-set the fold and punched the top flap of the card with the Martha Stewart Swirl edge punch so it would show the word dots placed on the inside edge of the back of the card. I then stamped the letters, F I E S T A on the colored dots to show when the card was closed. I then colored the headwreath to match the colors of the pattered paper, and tied tiny ribbons to the edges, and stamped the word "Celebrate!" below her feet in the open space.

I have several friends that have lived in San Antonio for many years, but now live elsewhere in the United States, and they love being reminded of the great times had at Fiesta in San Antonio.

This would also make a wonderful birthday card or even a "cheer Up" I'm thinking of you card.