Away due to surgery

Hey crafter girl friends,

I had surgery on Monday to have a fybroid removed... Thanks to God all went well and smooth and I am at home resting under doc's orders, but, as you can imagine, I won't be crafting for about two weeks... :(
Once I am fully recovered I will post the pics of the thank you gifts I am planning to make the doctors and their crew  - we crafters are always looking for excuses to do our little things ;), so pls just be a little patient...
Thank you for following me and for the comments, it is good to make new friends and to see old ones here too!!
The (recovering) Brazilian Crafter.

A butterfly box with an envelope...

After being intensily involved in social interactions (specially with my couch, napping), I couldn't sleep so I decided to work on the project above, which is going to be submitted to another challenge from The Pink Stamper blog. That challenge involves a project with an envelope. When I read that post, I was amazed by Karlee's project and inspired by her thinking "outside of the box", so this is what I came up with: A gift box with an envelope glued "outside of the box" ;) and a matching card. Now all I've got to worry about for the next birthday party is a cute gift to put in my box!! Once more, wish me luck! Now, if I win the challenge I am thinking I could make a video showing how I made my project, what do you guys think about that?

A bird card...

The card above is my first entry ever to a paper crafting challenge. It is the My Pink Stamper challenge in celebration of her 5 MILLION hits at her blog (Congrats!), in which a bird had to be featured in a project. This card is one of my first projects, and I made it last Mother's Day for my grandma-in-law. Wish me luck!!

What in the world is Brazilican?

Hello, my name is Cris and I am the Brazilican Crafter. Now, if you are wondering what Brazilican means, this post will tell you :)
The word Brazilican comes from Latin (j/k)... Actually, Brazilican is a nickname my American husband invented to describe my nationality... no, I am not American, I am BraziliAN, but once I moved to the USA to marry my handsome American hubby, he insists I am not Brazilian anymore, but Brazilican, a mix between Brazilian and American... I tease him that yes, I am American once I was born in the continent called AMERICA but, as you can imagine, that is an endless silly funny argument LOL, so I took on my given nickname to name the blog.
About the crafter part, I have been introduced this year to the wonderful world of paper crafting by my mother-in-law, who gave me my first scrapbook kit as a gift and also free tickets to a scrapbooking convention and that was all it took to get me hooked.
In this blog I am gonna post my creations in paper crafting, as well as some of my adventures in the Uncle Sam land. I moved here in November, 2009, so as you can imagine it's a whole new world for me.
I hope that you enjoy my company, I will certainly enjoy yours!!!
The Brazilian Crafter