Merry Monday #63

Happy Victoria day weekend, we have a brand new Merry Monday Challenge this morning. Take a look at this great sketch Lesley has created.

 

 

Isn't this paper elegant, I love how the card turned out. I used my Cricut to try to cut a snowflake to match the swirls on the DP but I could not manage it so I added pearls that match the colour instead.

 

 

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Kaiser Craft, Cornish Heritage Farms-Vintage Christmas, Cricut Winter Lace, pearls.

Stop by Lesley’s blog, Always Playing with Paper to see what the Design Team has created, join us and play along.

Cheers,
Nina

Graduation Time

Happy Friday and Victoria Day long weekend to boot. It is that time of year again when young men and women are graduating high school so I found myself in need of a Grad card.  I chose to make a simple style masculine card.

I tried to make the Grad cap with punches but it did not work out as expected, my sister Barb came to the rescue with a fantastic .SVG cut that I used with my SCAL software and Cricut.

I made the tassle with some grey embossing floss and added a snazzy little brad. I finished with a sentiment.

Supplies: Natural white and black cardstock, Designer Paper -Reminisce , Technique Tuesday - Tulips-Greenhouse Society, Barb Derksen .SVG, brad, embossing floss.

Check out my sister Barb's blog, she always has something fun and interesting to share but also a ton of Freebee's.

Cheers,
Nina

Tuesday Morning Sketches # 198

I have been a little absent from craft area as of late, I could call it a slump or being a little lazy but when the creativity does not flow then I find I just need to take a little break. This week though I have spend some fantastic time playing with my supplies.
 

I jumped right in with the current Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge. I did not manage to add any flowers on my card, I did not think the young man this card is for would appreciate it but I do like the sketch Jessi created.

 



I started with adding some texture to the base layer of the card, I then added lots of layers. I stamped the boots then fussy cut them out and I used my Slice for the star and inked the edges. I finished with some tiny pearls to accent the boots.
 

Supplies: Natural white and brown cardstock, Designer Paper - DCWV, MTF-Wild Wild West, The Stamps of Life - Spellbinders Die cuts, Embossing folder twine, pearls,

Cheers,
Nina



 



 



 

 

Die Cut Window

Happy Wednesday everyone, I have a simple card to post today.  I wanted to try using a die cut to create a window. See the technique video below, Barb and Judy are joining me for this challenge to :).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-6ZRXbcDxQ

I used a Lorelai Leaf die cut to create my window then backed it with some designer paper. I had some GStudio stamps within reaching distance so I had a small little sentiment. I finished with some twine and a gem.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Designer Paper -7 Gypsies , Poppy Stamps-Lorelai Leaf die cut, GStudio - Just Because, twine, gem.

 

Stop by Barb and Judy's blogs to see what projects they have created using this same technique.
 

Cheers,
Nina

Merry Monday #62

I had a wonderful weekend and an even better Mother's Day, how about you? It is time for a new Merry Monday Challenge. Lesley has a fabulous sketch for us.

 

 

 

I pulled out my Memory Box die cuts and created this pretty ornament, I heat embossed my sentiment then finished with some silver circle dots.

Supplies: Natural White, silver and navy card stock, Designer Paper-Echo Park, Celebrate the Season, Memory Box die cuts.

 

Stop by Lesley’s blog, Always Playing with Paper to see what the Design Team has created. Join us and play along.

Cheers,
Nina

Merry Monday # 61

We had a stunning weekend here in Victoria and the beautiful weather is going to continue right through the week.

 

 

 

We have a new Merry Monday for you today, I don't seem to have any troubles making Christmas cards when the sun is shining. This is the sketch Lesley has created for us.

 

 

I started with heat embossing the sentiment and snowflakes in black, I then masked them before stamping the text background. I cut out three layers of the snowflake with my Cricut and popped up the center layer. I finished with a swirled embellishment and silver pearls.

 



 

Supplies: Natural White and black card stock, Stampabilities - Faded Text background, Verve - Glad Tidings, Cricut - Winter Lace, Dress it up Embellishment, Recollections pearls.

 

Stop by Lesley’s blog, Always Playing with Paper to see what the Design Team has created. Join us and play along, it is never to early to get a start on this year Christmas cards.

Cheers,
Nina

New Beginnings

Happy National Scrapbooking Day :), I don't scrapbook but I could not pass up a few minutes in my craft area to make a CAS card to celebrate anyway.

This is a quick card for a family who is early in a pregnancy, I though this sentiment was cute.

I used square and corner punches for the shapes and heat embossed the sentiment.

I apologize for the on the fly photo but I wanted some morning light.

Supplies: Cream and brown card stock, Designer Paper-Echo Park , The Alleyway Stamps - Spring has sprung and Jibber Jabber much.

Cheers,

Nina

Motorbike Birthday

Happy Wednesday and Happy Birthday to my sweetie Mike.

I sent out another family challenge to Barb and Judy and they have once again agreed to joining in the fun. This time around the technique challenge is Joseph's Coat, see the video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn0GopxdLf8

I chose to make Mike’s birthday card using this technique. I created the background using different shades of grey and even added in some Frost and Pewter shimmer spritz. I then heat embossed with motorbikes stamps and clear embossing powder, I must admit I had no idea where I was stamping :) as I could not see the versamark once it was stamped but to my amazement I only overlapped in one small area. I then used Memento black ink to colour in the background, I like how it turned out although it is hard to see the background patterned behind the bike details.
 

 

For the center panel I heat embossed the motorbike with clear embossing powder and again inked the panel with black. I also added a little texture with an embossing folder.

The white of the twine was a little too bright so I ran blender tool with black ink over it a few times to ‘dirty’ it up a little. I used a small ribbon guide with the twine then finished with the sentiment.

 

Supplies: Natural white, black and silver card stock, Stampin' Up!-Birthday Whimsy, Great Impressions - Motorbike, Inkadinkado-Motorbike, misc twine, Shimmer Spritz - Frost & Pewter, Making Memories ribbon guide, embossing folder.

 

Stop by Barb and Judy's blogs to see what projects they have created using this same technique.

 

Cheers,
Nina







Merry Monday #59

We had last week off but it is time for a new Merry Monday challenge, Lesley has another fantastic sketch for us this week. I ignored all the papers handy on my desk and went digging in my stash for something new and found this wonderful double-sided sheet.

 

 

I heat embossed the sentiment and coloured it with glitter pens and water colour pencils then used Spellbinders to cut image out as well as the frame around it. I added some texture to the strip across the bottom and finished with a button made with circle punches and added some twine.

 

Supplies: Cream and brown card stock, Designer paper - Bo Bunny, Spellbinders, circle punches, embossing folders, twine, Recollections gem.

Don't forget to stop by Lesley'sblog to see what she and the rest of the design team have created for this week’s challenge, join us and play along.

Cheers,
Nina
 

Playing Paradise #114

Good Morning and happy Friday, we have had a stunning week here in Victoria and spring is certainly showing us some beautiful colours.

We have a new Playing in Paradise challenge for you today, Linda is our hostess this week and our inspiration is to create a ‘SpringTime’ theme.

Before I get to the challenge and my card there is some news over at the Scrapbooker’s Paradise blog,  the Playing in Paradise Challenge is changing the format and challenges will now run for two weeks.

My term as a Designer is up and I have decided not to renew, I have enjoyed creating and sharing with you all each Friday. It has been wonderful to see what the Designers and challenge participants have created each week.

I remember when I was young we had a large field across from our house that my mom use to toss all the weeds she had pulled from her garden.  Bachelor buttons started in a small area of her garden but soon spread... everywhere.. and mom started treating them like weeds. It was not long before the field across the street was blooming with these pretty flower each spring.

 

 

To created the background I used distress inks to added an aged look, I then stamped the script with a background stamp and used a darker colour to ink the edges. I also inked up a portion of the flower stamp with Tombo markers to add to the background. I did the same with the button embellishments. 

 

I inked up the bachelor button stamp with dark brown then used my markers to add some blue to the center. I love the watercolour look of this stamp.

 

I finished with the sentiment, embellishments and some twine.

 

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Crafty Indiviguals-Floral Collage Duo, Hero Arts - Old Letter Writing, HOTP-Tiny Words, twine, pearls, circle punches.

Stop by the Scrapbooker’s Paradise blog to see what the challenge team has created, play along with us for the challenge and you could win a prize.

Cheers,

Nina