With Sympathy

We recently lost someone in our family, although we weren’t close in the last few years I will miss her.

I made these very simply and let the designer paper and sentiment speak for themselves.

Supplies: Natural white and light green cardstock , Designer Paper- American Crafts, misc sentiment.

Cheers,

Nina



Merry Monday #22

Hello Monday, it is time for another Merry Monday Challenge.  I hope that you come and join us this week, we love to see your creations.

I tried to stay away from this designer paper, but alas I could not hold out :). It was my favorite this year, so I might as well use it because there will be something equally fabulous this fall.

Supplies: Natural Ivory and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-My Mind's Eye, Cornish Heritage Farms, Verve-Die cuts, Slice-Basic shapes, misc punch and embossing folder.

Take a peek at Always Playing with Paper to see the fabulous creations from Lesley and the other design team members.

  

Cheers,

Nina

Playing in Paradise #68

Happy Friday one and all, I can’t believe how quickly May is ticking on by. Anyhoo :) it is time for a new challenge for Playing in Paradise and Angela is our host this week.

This week we have a colour challenge. I have to admit colour challenges are not my favorite,  only because my brain just can seem to make its way around the colour wheel. This week however it all came together nicely for the most part, don’t look too close through the colour matches are sketchy :).

I brought these beautiful papers in a 6x6 paper pack from Scrapbooker's Paradise. I used simple layers, and finished with some butterflies.

Supplies: Natural Ivory and brown cardstock, Designer Bo Bunny,Stamp it - Happy Birthday , Martha Stewart butterfly punch, Recollection pearls.

Please visit the Playing in Paradise blog to see the projects from the other Design Team members. Play along with us and you could win the prize. We love to see your projects.

Cheers,
Nina

Friday Mashup #59

So here is the "Mashup" Challenge :

1. Make a project " with a Decorative Edge! "
2. Or Make a project with " Ribbon and or a Bow. "
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project " with a Decorative Edge & Ribbon ". 

Supplies: Natural Ivory and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Simple Stories, Hot off the Press-Tiny Words,  Sizzix die cut, misc punch, twine.

Cheers,

Nina

Merry Monday #21

Happy Monday, it is time for another Merry Monday Challenge.  I hope that you get a chance to join us this week.

How cute it this little snowman? I don't use him often but I could not help myself with this card. I coloured the image with Tombow markers then added a little glitter and some while with gel pens.

Supplies: Natural white and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Echo Park, Penny Black-Jolly Friends,Verve-Christmas in the Air, misc thread and circle punches. 

Take a peek at Always Playing with Paper to see the fabulous creations from Lesley and the other design team members.

Cheers,

Nina

 

Freshly Made Sketches #35

It feels like forever since I have participated in some of my favorite challenges. I squeezed in some craft time this evening and decided to play along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches.

Clean cards don’t come easy for me, but I do love the sketches. I am still working my way through a nice stack of 6x6 papers I recently ordered.

Supplies: Natural Ivory and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Simple Stories, Hot off the Press-Tiny Words,  Cuttlebug folder, misc ribbon and pearls.

I am feeling sleepy so I will catch up on commenting tomorrow.

Cheers,

Nina

Playing In Paradise #67

Friday again, that means that it is time for a new Playing in Paradise challenge, Allison is our hostess this week and she has a fantastic sketch for us.

I created a masculine card this week, I brought the 6x6 Simple Stores pad from Scrapbookers Paradise  on my last order and I wanted to see what I could create with these great papers. 

I love this simple sketch design and I did not add to much, I did shadow a motorbike over the sentiment and add a small circle element.

Supplies: Natural Ivory and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Simple Stories, Stampin' Up!-Motorcycle, misc punch.

Please visit the  Playing in Paradise blog to see the projects from the other Design Team members. Play along with us and you could win the prize. We love to see your projects.

Cheers, Nina

Merry Monday #20

Happy Monday everyone, it is time for another Merry Monday, Lesley has a fabulous sketch for us.

This sketch had me thinking layers, I love layers :). The only embellishment I used was a single pearl on the snowflake.

Supplies: Natural White and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Upsydaisy Designs, Magenta-Let it Snow, misc-pearls.

Please stop by Always Playing with Paper to see the fabulous creations from Lesley and the other design team members.

Cheers,

Nina

Playing in Paradise #66

Happy Friday Everyone - it is time for a new Playing in Paradise challenge. This week our inspiration is Graduation & Encouragement.

Class of 2012 is pretty important in our household, our son has his graduation ceremony in less than a month.

I have had a small stash of graduation designer papers for a couple of years and I have had plenty of idea's for cards in my head as well. I wanted the card to match the 3D grad cap though and I just started putting layers together, I am happy with the end result.

I learned to make tassles too :) I heat embossed the stamped grad cap then cut them out, I added the small tassle then popped it up with foam tape.

I love this Graduation cap from SVG Cuts, I think I may fill it with jelly beans :). The tutorial made it look so easy to put it together. I think there is a reason I ahould stick with making cards.

The 3D cap is not very big. I took a picture of card and cap beside each other to give you and idea of sizes, the card is standard A2.

Supplies: Natural Ivory, red and black cardstock, Designer Paper-Reminisce, TPC-Graduation, SVG Cuts- Graduation cap, red embossing thread, misc brads, Candy dots.

Please visit the  Playing in Paradise blog to see the projects from the other Design Team members. Play along with us and you could win the prize. We love to see you projects.

Cheers,

Nina

Simple Birthday Greetings.

A quick post this morning,for the third day in a row :). I am quite pleased with myself.

You can't get a more simple card, I let my designer paper do all the work, I added the sentiment and a doilie from S.E.I with a pearl brad in the centre.

Supplies: Natural Ivory and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Memory Box, Word - Font unknown, Granny's Kitchen Doily, misc brad.

Cheers,

Nina

Retro Birthday

I spent some quality time in my craft room on Monday, it was fabulous. I have not been spending as much time as I would like creating.

I found I have few Birthday cards in my stash so that was my focus last night.

I used one of my new 6x6 paper packs I brought from Scrapbookers Paradise.

Supplies: Natural Ivory and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Simple Stories, Memory Box die cuts, misc pearl, Font-Raconteur NF.

Cheers,

Nina

Congratulations

Love is in air as the season of Wedding's is almost upon us. I have two cards today, both similar to each other.

I used lots of layers behind the heat embossed silver rings, then finished with small black gems.

Supplies: Natural Ivory and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Making Memories,TPC-Brush Stroke Greetings, Inkadinkodo-wedding bands, embossing folder, embossing powder, Recollections-Gems.

Cheers,

Nina

Merry Monday #19

Happy Monday, it is time for a new Merry Monday Challenge.

I turned the sketch this week, for some reason I just could not make it work on its side. As soon as I turned it, the card just came together. I added some background texture, heat embossed the sentiment then finished with pearls.

Stop by Always Playing with Paper to see what Lesley and the other Design Team members have created, we would love for you to play along with us for Merry Monday #19.

Supplies: Natural white cardstock, Designer Paper- Recollections, Fiskars-Seasons Greetings, Spellbinders, embossing folder, Recollections-Pearls.

Cheers,

Nina

Playing in Paradise #65

Happy Friday all, it is time for another challenge over at Playing in Paradise and I am the hostess this week.

This week it is an inspiration challenge, Victoria still has its fair share of cherry blossoms in bloom and they are stunning.

This beautiful Designer Paper is from Scrapbookers Paradise and it screamed spring to me. I used lots of layers with this card, this sentiment is part of the paper pack.

Stop by the Playing in Paradise blog to see the projects from the other Design Team members. Play along and you could win the prize.

Supplies: Natural white  and brown cardstock, Designer Paper- Teresa Collins, Recollections-Pearls, misc punches.

Cheers,

Nina