Mojo Monday #215

It is a beautiful day here in Victoria, the sun is out and the sky is a beautiful blue if the wind would just go away it would be perfect. I took a vacatrion day today, I am alone in the house and it is fabulous.

Mojo Monday has a new sketch today:

I pulled out my Linen Closet Stack for today's card, I am going to be so disappointed when I use all this DP. I love the wondeful mix of glitter and brilliant pages. I was not able to get the glitter to sparkle in the picture so you will have to trust me. I did manage to my the crystal to show their glitz.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Desiger Paper DCWV, TPC-Card Making Birthday, Cuttlebug embossing folders, misc punches, Swarovski Elements-Jolee's.

Cheers,

Nina

The Friday Mashup # 32

A quick second post for this Friday. There is a new Challenge posted on The Friday Mashup and I happily started working on this card first this morning.

So here is the "Mashup" Challenge :

1. Make a project featuring "A Girly Theme".
2. Or Make a project using "Your Favorite Technique".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Girly project using your Favorite Technique".

I struggle a little with girly cards, but I think I almost made it :). I have been loving embossing this past little while so I used both heat embossing and an embossing folder.


I embossed the designer paper with an embossing folder, it is new so the impression was deep enough to go through the DP. I decided to give the card a little bit of a shabby look with some brown edging to enhance some of the small tears. I embossed the bottom portion of the DP with Frosted Glass embossing power to give a little variation in colour.

I heat embossed this cute flower three time then cut out the different layers and added foam tape between each layer to give it dimension.I finished with an embossed Hello.  Just before I posted my husband walked in and said nice card I like the dints.

Supplies: Natural white and brown cardstock, Designer Paper - Unknown, Verve stamps-Sunny Day, TPC-Cardmaking Hello, Cuttlebug folder, misc ribbon.

Cheers,

Nina

Remembrance - 2011

"A Day of Remembrance"

Image by Dalicar, In Flanders Fields - By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)

 

Freshly Made Sketches # 10

Welcome to Thursday,  I love that I had some productive craft time last night. I had fun with the current Freshly Made Sketches Challenge, Rita has created a wonderful sketch.

I love layers and I popped each layer with a little bit of foam tape for dimension. I cut a Christmas bulb out of the Designer Paper and embossed it with my new favorite embossing powder-Frost Glass.

Supplies: Natural white and brown cardstock, Designer Paper- Basic Grey, Inkadinkado-Happy Holidays, Sew Easy Fancy Floss, Kaisercraft gems, Antiquities Frosted Glass.

Cheers,
Nina

Mojo Monday # 214

I seem to have fallen a little behind with my cards this week. I started my card for this weeks Mojo Monday Challenge yesterday but I was distracted and did not get to finish it till tonight. I am happy with the way it turned out.

Mojo Monday Challenge Sketch:

I tried to take the picture where it would show the shimmer of some of the designer paper, I just could not get the lighting to work for me. I guess that is what I get for trying to take the picture in the evening. I did get a close up of the snowflake embossed with Antiquities Frosted glass.

Supplies: Natural Ivory and brown cardstock, Designe Paper-S.E.I., Inkadinkado-Happy Holidays and small snowflake, Memory Box die, Snowflake punch, AMuse-Pearls.

Cheers,

Nina

CardPatterns #140

Happy Monday - This will be another very quick post for the current CardPattens Challenge.

Isn't this stamp the cutest, I think it matches this DP perfectly. I paired twine with buttons to finish.

Supplies: Natural White and red cardstock, Designer Paper-My Minds Eye, The Stamps of Life-penguins4Christmas, Sizzix Embosslets Sweet Buttons, Bakers Twine.

Cheers,

Nina

The Friday Mashup # 31 and Card Patterns # 139

I think I am almost down to the wire for one of these challenges so this post will be short and to the point :). I thought I would combine two challenges today The Friday Mashup # 31 and Card Patterns # 139.

Challenge info for The Friday Mashup is :

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So here is the "Mashup" Challenge :

1. Make a project featuring "Heat Embossing".
2. Or Make a "Thank You (Greatful)" project.  
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Thank You project with Heat Embossing".

The Sketch for Card Patterns:

I can always use a Thank you card, with my Birthday on the horizon I will definitely be sending out a few Thank you cards.

It took me a while but I have worked up a nice supply of Thank you stamps, I like how I was able to string these ones together. I love this Designer Paper and I wish I have more then one sheet. The buttons are just small circles punched out with holes added, I heat embossed them with Ranger Antiquities Frosted Glass embossing powder.

Supplies: Natural white and gray cardstock, Designer Paper - My Mind's Eye, Inkadinkado-Thank you Words, Fiskars-So Much Thanks, misc circle punches, Ranger Embossing Powder, misc ribbon.

Cheers,

Nina

Scrap n Stamp November 2011 Sketch Challenge

I am so excited Scrap n Stamp has posted a sketch challenge for November.

This is the Sketch:

This is my second time drafting this post, blogger ate the first one so unfortunately this is be short.

I am still building my small Christmas card stash one card at time.



I used Cuttlebug folders to emboss each of the layers to add some texture, then added some Versacolor Pinecone on the edges. I finished with a small amount of Stickles for a little sparkle.

Supplies: Natural Ivory and brown cardstock, Designer Paper- Graphics45, The Stamp Barn - Merry Christmas, Cuttlebug-Embossing Folders, misc ribbon, Stickles.

Cheers,

Nina

A quick post. I made this card with some scraps from my bin.

Simple layers, I embossed the sentiment with silver embossing powder. I added some leaves as accents. The button was created with Sizzix Embosslits Sweet Buttons then heat embossed with Ranger Antiquities Frosted glass.

Supplies: Cream and green cardstock, Designer Paper-S.E.I., Rivercity Rubber Works-In Sympathy, Gina K Designs- Autumn Leaves, misc silver twine, Sizzix-Embosslits Sweet Buttons.

Cheers,

Nina

Freshly Made Sketches #9

The rain arrived today, we have had a number of nice sunny days but it took a turn today. I can't say I am disappointed as it just encourages me to spend more time in my craft space.

Freshly Made Sketches new sketch:



Isn't this whimsy tree cute. I have wanted to ink it up for ages. I embossed it with this gorgeous Moss Tinsel, I wish the sparkle showed a little more. I added some gold and red Stickles for the little bulbs.

I added some little gems to the mini holly leaves. to give them a little sparkle as well.

Supplies: Cream and green cardstock, Designer Paper-DCWV, Penny Black-Winter whites and greens, Cornish Heritage Farms-Vintage Christmas, Studio K- Moss Tinsel Embossing Powder, Bazzill basics- Mini Holly leaves, Recollections gems, Stickles.

Cheers,

Nina