Thanks

Happy Friday, I love that the weekend is just around the corner. Do you have some crafty time planned?

I find it is hard to get into my craft room mid summer, all that sun shine outside just calls to me but I have a sun shiny card to share this morning.

I used my stitched die cuts to get a panel from each side of this pretty paper. I die cut the flowers and separated them with foam tape. The sentiments are popped up with foam tape and I finished with some gems.

Supplies: White card stock, Designer Paper - Photoplay, Simon Says Stamps - Stamps and Die cuts, gems.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Nina

The Challenge #93

Good Morning and happy Thursday, we have a new challenge for The Challenge for you.

Choose one or choose them all, the options are all yours. I chose a monochromatic look with grey and yellow. I also added in the some butterflies.

I used quick layers, all die cut with stitched rectangles. I popped up the sentiment with foam tape then finished with some glassy dots.

Supplies: Cream and gray cardstock, Designer Paper - Pebbles, Avery Elle-City Celebrations, Memory Box - Leavenworth Buterfly, gems.

Come and play along with The Challenge, our Design Team has some wonderful inspiration created.

Thanks for visiting,
Nina

Llama Tell you...

I think this stamps set so cute, this card is for a niece who recently moved to my little neck of the woods. She is an avid knitter, so Llama tell you.. Ha, Love it!

I stamped and fussy cut the llama and added just a wee bit of colour. I added some glossy accents to the little tuff of wool on the head then popped him up with some foam tape.

The sentiments are also popped up with foam tape. I finished with some sequins.

Supplies: White, brown and yellow card stock, Designer Paper - Unknown, Gerda Steiner Designs-Llama Tell You, sequins.

Cheers,
Nina

The Challenge #92

Good Morning and happy Thursday. The weekend is almost here do you have some crafty time planned?

We have a new challenge this week for The Challenge, use black, white and a colour of your choice on your card.

I chose to use blue as my third colour, my designer papers are a blend of white and blue. I added a thin blue layer to the panels and I stamped the sentiments in black. I finished with some white twine, the center panel and the sentiments are popped up with foam tape for added dimension.

Supplies: White and blue cardstock, Designer Paper - Authentique, Close to my Heart-Life is Sweet, twine.

Come and play along with The Challenge, our Design Team has some beautiful inspiration created.

Thanks for visiting,

Nina

Freshly Made Sketches #294

I had a little time in the craft room last night, I played along with Freshly Made Sketches. My husband and I have an anniversary coming up and this sketch worked wonderfully for a masculine anniversary card

I used stitched rectangles for the panels then added a thin layer of cardstock to each as the papers were of similar colours. I added a little texture to the brown hidden center panel with an embossing folder and popped it up with foam tape.

I used a die cut for the sentiment and fit all the pieces back into the top panel. I die cut the heart from a woodgrain pattern and offset it so that it would fit. I finished with some brown dots.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Designer Paper - Papercraft House, Simon says die cuts, dots.

Thanks for visiting,

Nina

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #254

Good Morning we have a new Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge. Lori is our hostess this week and her challenge is to Use a moose on your Christmas card.

We will be taking a summer break after this challenge, there will be a long summer challenge with a gift card draw at the end. We will be back with bells on in September :).

I stamped and die cut the moose then used stitched die cut for the rest of the panels. I popped up the moose and sentiment then finished with some sequins.

Supplies: Cream cardstock, Designer Paper - Authentique, Sugar Pea Designs - Moosing you, sequins.

Come play along with us for the Merry Monday challenge, the design team has some beautiful inspiration on the challenge blog.

Thanks for visiting,

Nina

The Challenge #88

Good Morning, we have a new challenge over at The Challenge. This week Lesley has us creating a card based on keywords. Our challenge will run for two weeks this time around.

I love this beautiful flower stamp from Verve, I heat embossed it and watercoloured it before adding a second fussy layer. The panel is popped up with foam tape. I added two layers of pretty bright papers.

Supplies: White cardstock, Designer Paper - Echo Park, Verve - Birthday Wishes.

Come and play along with The Challenge, our Design Team has some beautiful inspiration.

Thanks for visiting,

Nina

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #253

Good Morning we have a new Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge. This week Linda is our hostess and her challenge is to Create a Christmas Card using a bear on it.

I used lots of layers for my card, then added a die cut of a bear silhouette. I stamped the sentiment on a panel of red then layer it and popped it up with foam tape. I finished with some twine.

White, kraft and brown cardstock, Designer Paper Echo Park, Penny Black- Festive Snippets, Frantic Stamper inc - Bear in the woods, twine.

Come play along with us for the Merry Monday challenge, the design team has some beautiful inspiration on the challenge blog.

Thanks for visiting,
Nina

For Dad

Good Evening, as Father's Day rolls to a close I realized that I had not posted this card that was made for my Father in Law.

A CAS card with quick layers, I am down to the scraps with this designer paper and it has served me well over the last couple of years. I added a layer of DP then embossed a panel of brown card stock with a weave embossing folder. I stamped Dad right on the background then added the fishing hat which is fussy cut and popped up with foam tape.

I stamped the sentiment which is also popped up with foam tape. I added a couple of sequins to finish.

Supplies: White, kraft and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Karen Foster Designer, Lawn Fawn-Dad + Me, sequins.

Thanks for stopping by,
Nina

The Challenge #87

Good Morning, we have a new challenge over at The Challenge. This week Lesley has given us a colour challenge.

I used my stitched square die cut for the main panel, I then heat embossed flowers in white and added pink and orange distress inks. I fussy cut the flowers and popped one up with foam tape.

I stamped beautiful onto the background and popped up Happy Birthday. I finished with gems.

Supplies: White cardstock, Designer Papers - Kaisercraft,  Simon Says Sketch Ranunculus, gems.

Stop by and play along for The Challenge, our Design Team has some great inspiration.

Cheers,
Nina