Yahhh Friday, it has been a long loonngg week for me. I have been so busy at work that when I come home my brain is like mush. I failed miserable at being creative, but I did manage to mail 1 Christmas card. I know what I am doing this weekend:)

Dec 10, wow, next week begins the slow down slope to Chrismas for me, we have been to a Christmas party or two but I have 4 or 5 different lunches with work. It breaks up the day so nicely.

This is the final Dreamweaver Bare Branches stencil card from the class. I have altered one of the four cards from this class to use as one of my Christmas cards, I will post that in a day or so.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Dreamweaver Embossing paste, Heritage Farms Merry Christmas, Dreamweaver stencil-Bare Trees, Krylon-18kt Gold Leafing Pen, Sheer Shimmer Spritz - Gold.Cheers,



Nina

I am so glad that I am past the middle of the week and I can't wait for the weekend.

This is number three from the workshop.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Dreamweaver Embossing paste, Heritage Farms Merry Christmas, Dreamweaver stencil-Bare Trees,Krylon-18kt Gold Leafing Pen.

Cheers,
Nina

And today I am eight for eight :) I am doing the little happy dance Mrs. Miles.

Today is a quick thank you card. I wanted to try a curved corner design, I though it worked well with this simple card. This designer paper has a lot of bronze coloured foil that you can see a glimmer of in the upper right hand corner.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-s.e.i- Charlemagne, Inkadinkado-Thank you, Offray brown ribbon, Pink Pebbles - brown candy dots.

Cheers,
Nina

Quick second card post, still 1 behind on my sisters challenge darn it :).

This card is number two from the class.

This card was too funny to get set up, the instuctor wanted us to use a Spellbinders die cut to create the inside frame, however they were using a Cuttlebug machine but could not figure out the plate sandwich to make it all work. In the end it was close your eyes and hope for the best.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Dreamweaver Embossing paste, Heritage Farms Merry Christmas, Dreamweaver stencil-Bare Trees,Krylon-18kt Gold Leafing Pen.

Cheers,

Nina

I took a class at one of the local Scrapbook Stores a few weeks ago, I think the cards we made are pretty stunning. The Technique is using Embossing Paste and Stencils. I have seen cards done similar to this before but I was pretty happy to find out how it was done.


Some steps had already been done for us such as cardstock cut and spritzed. The brown cardstock was spritzed with gold sheer Shimmer Spritz and this was the first time I have used a gold Leafing pen, I am pretty impressed with the look.

We were recommended to use a Spellbinders Magnetic Spacer under a piece of paper to hold the stencil in place, and it worked like a charm. I used a plastic putty spatula to apply the paste, I then carefully pealed the stencil away and sprinkled warm highlights glitter on it then set it aside to dry. It took about and hr to dry. We were told that all the sentiments stamps were from a retired Heritage Farms set(I would have bought it in a hearbeat).

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Dreamweaver Embossing paste, Heritage Farms Merry Christmas, Dreamweaver stencil-Bare Trees,Krylon-18kt Gold Leafing Pen.

I did feel a bit rushed, what card class isn't but I would have like to clean up the edges and such before putting it all together. I used this stencil for one of my Christmas cards.


We did a set of 4 cards in the class, and to try to post every day I will share over the next couple of days.

Cheers,
Nina

A second post and little Mojo on a Monday.  I am going to keep this simple as it is my second go on my blog today.

This is the Mojo sketch:

This is my try at it, my creativity has taken a little dive after all the Christmas cards. When I am creatively challenged I always fall back on more masculine cards. This is for my son's birthday. I added a little brown Spica Glitter marker to the Happy Birthday and the wee little owl square is popped up with foam tape.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Memory Box-Twiggy 6x6 Collection, The Artful Stamper-Happy Birthday, Memory Box-Budding Branch, Martha Stewart-Branch Punch, Pebbles Inc-brown candy dots.
Cheers,
Nina

A big Happy Birthday wish to couple of wonderful Forsyth boys. Have a wonderful day Bill and Barry, I hope you are both spoiled today.

Sometimes a simple look just works, I tried to catch the shimmer and sparkle of the cattails in this picture. I know that cattails are not suppose to sparkle but in my world they are beautiful so why not let them shine. I first created the Cattails by using Flower Soft Wire and rolled the end of the wire in Flower Soft high tack glue, then rolled it in a mix of Gold and Nut brown Flowersoft and glitters pressing softly to make it all stick before it could dry. I stamped the image then created a small hole that I fed the wire through it so that it was hidden, I used tape on the back to hold it in place. I coloured the rest of the image with a mix of Tombow markers and Spica Glitter markers.

Supplies: Cream cardstock, brown mulberry, K&Company-Recycled Earth brown Mat Pad, LasVegas stamps-Cattails, The Artful Stamper-Happy Birthday, Flower Soft-Gold and Nut Brown, Jewel Glitter Ritz-Sahara and Bronze, Flower Soft wire.

As I was getting ready to post this, I realized that I had forgotten to take pictures of some card that have already gone out in the mail, it must have been one of my many scatterbrain days.

I am hoping to post something for Mojo later.

Cheers,
Nina

I think this stamp is so fun. I coloured the image with my Spica Glitter markers and used Perfect Puff for some of the icing.

Supplies: Cream and purple cardstock, Designer Paper-Unknown, Stampendous-Birthday Cake, Spellbinders-Curved Rectangle, Kaisercraft Gems, misc purple ribbon, Perfect Puff.

Check out my very talented sister Barb, she is back in a store with her amazing designs. Check out Scrapbook Elements.

Enjoy your Sunday.
Cheers,
Nina

This is going to tie this post in with my earlier post, scraps. I gave my sister a folder of my scraps, most were half sheets of patterned papers that I just did not think I would use. So this summer when I was visiting we sat down to do some cards. The first place I found patterned paper to use for this card was that scrap folder. Note to self ‘Dig through my scrap bin more often’.

I cut the cute little Birthday hats out and popped them up to make them 2 dimensional. I coloured hats and gift box with my Spice Glitter pens.

Supplies: Cream and Pink cardstock, misc patterned paper, Fiskars Birthday Party clear stamps, misc pink cord.

Cheers,
Nina

There is no way I will be able to keep with the challenge from my sister Barb, she is going to post daily for the month of Dec. I am already behind with today being the 4th, maybe I can post twice in one day to catch up :). I think that will count.


This was a quick card, I found this patterned paper in my scrap bin and though it would be perfect for a simple card. I really should dig deeper in my scraps, I might just find treasure.

Supplies: Brown and cream cardstock, misc patterned paper, Inkadinkado-Birthday wishes, Pink Pebbles Candy dots-Brown.

Cheers,
Nina