Heartfelt Thanks

I used a quick and easy design for this card. I used stitched rectangles to add some details to the layers. I popped up the sentiment and finished with some dots.

Supplies: White cardstock, Designer Paper - Kaisercraft, Penny Black - Heartfelt, dots.

Cheers,
Nina

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #267

We have a new Merry Monday Christmas card challenge for you this morning. Colleen is our hostess and her challenge is to Create a Christmas card in green, blue, white/silver/vellum.

The first thing I did was look through my stash of papers for some blue and green patterns. I like the delicate little ornaments on the page I used.

I then created the large flag out of vellum and heat embossed the sentiment in silver. I found that with the pattern in behind the works did not show up very well so I put in a flag of white in behind. I used some eyelets for the ribbon.

I added some rustic silver edges to a layer of white cardstock then finished with some dots.

Supplies: White cardstock, Designer Paper -Carta Bella , Penny Black- Yuletide Wishes, ribbon, dots.

Be sure to stop by the Merry Monday blog for all the inspiration created by the design team. Play along you can never have too many holiday cards.

Thanks for stopping by,
Nina

Simple Sweet Christmas Inspiration Hop

Good Morning and welcome. Lesley has put together fun and inspirational blog hop for last-minute simple yet sweet Christmas cards or tags. 

Anita Madden

Broni Holcombe

Claire Broadwater

Julee Tilman

Kelly Lunceford

Kim Heggins

Lori Tecler

Nance Salkeld

You are here :)

Rachel Bergfeld

Vicki Finger

My card is simple and relatively quick to reproduce. 

Card Recipe - I formed a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch card from cardstock. I used Simon Says Stitched rectangles to create a layer of brown cardstock and the second layer of white cardstock. I used an embossing folder to add snowy texture to the white cardstock layer.

I then die cut the trees and added some white pigment ink and sprinkled with some snowy glitter. I heat embossed the sentiment and popped it up with foam tape.

I finished the card with a small red cardinal. The die cuts make this a quick and simple card that is easy to put together multiple cards at once.

Supplies: White and brown cardstock, Simon Says - Stitched rectangles, Penny Black – In the Winter, Impression Obsession – Cardinal, Hero Arts – Jolly Holiday Wishes, embossing folder and Stampendous – Crystal Snow.

If you just happened to stumble across my blog and this post be sure to head over to Lesley's blog and start at the beginning to hop along to a long list of wonderful inspiration created for the Simply Sweet Christmas Inspiration Hop.

Happy hopping ;),
Nina

Here's to you

A quick post this morning. I needed a card for a co-worker who is moving on to bigger better things.

I used stitched rectangles to create the layers using a matt of brown and black cardstock. I heat embossed the mug twice. I added perfect puff for the foam and glossy accents for a sheen to the mug. I used two mugs and put foam tape between the layers.

Supplies: White, brown and black cardstock, Designer Paper - SEI, Two Paper Divas - Here's to you, white Perfect Puff.

Cheers,

Nina

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #266

We have a new Merry Monday Christmas card challenge for you this morning. Sue is our hostess and her challenge is to Create a Christmas card with a Santa.

I found this adorable little Santa on this fun DP. I used stitched squares to die cut the squares and pop him up with foam tape.

I used multiple inks to stamp the sentiment then finished with some twine.

Supplies: White cardstock, Designer Paper-Echo Park, My Favorite Things - Seasonal Sentiments.

Be sure to stop by the Merry Monday blog to play along and see all the wonderful inspirations by the Design Team.

Cheers,

Nina

Rainbows and unicorns

Rainbows and unicorns are not typically something that I would be drawn to as a go-to for a card. I just happened to get some very bright papers that I decided to give a try.

I used simple layers of pink cardstock to add a frame for the card and used DP for the main panel. 

I stamped the sentiment and popped it up with foam tape and finished with sequins.

Supplies: Pink cardstock, Designer Paper - Doddle Bug, sequins.

Have a great day,

Nina

Floral Hello

I have a quick card to share this morning, I used this pretty paper that I picked up at Michaels. I added some foam tape to the back of the sentiment panel. I added some twine along the bottom and then finished with some gems.

Supplies: White cardstock, Designer Paper - Craft Smith, twine, gems.

Have a great day,

Nina

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #265

Good Morning and welcome to a new Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge. I am your hostess this week and my challenge is Create a Christmas Card with an outdoor winter activity.

I have been so busy lately that my crafting time has been so  I decided to go with a CAS style card. I have so many fun papers that it was easy to find one that did all the work for me.

I created a card base with some turquoise cardstock, I used my stitched die cuts for the outdoor scene the added a simple sentiment and some very light sparkle along the snow edges. I also added a layer of red cardstock to pull some of the colour from the picture.

Supplies: Red and Turquoise cardstock, Designer Paper - Echo Park, Verve -Glad Tidings.

Be sure to visit the Merry Monday blog for tons if inspiration and we would love for you to play along.

Cheers,
Nina

Yippee

Who wouldn't want a pretty golden bicycle.

I layer this pretty DP with gold cardstock, then added some dimension with foam tape. I stamped the sentiment and layered it and also popped it up with foam tape. I used a stitched rectangle for some extra detail.

Supplies: White and gold cardstock, Designer Paper - Molly & Rex, Stampabilities - Definitions.

Cheers,

Nina

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #264

We have a new Merry Monday Christmas card challenge for you this morning. Marcia is our hostess and her challenge is to Create a Christmas card with kraft and red.

I used an embossing folder to add texture to the base of my card. The squares and rectangles were die cut with stitched dies and I popped up the centre panel. I finished with some gems.

Supplies: White cardstock, Designer Paper - American Crafts, SSS - Stitched dies, embossing folders and gems.

Stop by the Merry Monday blog to see all the fabulous cards created by the design team.

Have a great day,

Nina

Birthday Wishes

I hope everyone survived Halloween festivities, we had a good number of trick or treaters. There seemed to be a never ending amount of fireworks this year and it lasted for hrs and was great entertainment in between candy hunting visitors.

I used stitched die cuts to create three panels, I added a spotted gold layer at the base that shimmers through all the cracks. I added foam tape between the layers to give for a 3D effect. I also popped up the sentiment and finished with sequins.

Supplies: White and black cardstock, Designer Paper - My Mind's Eye, Sentiment - Verve, SSS- stitched Die cuts, sequins.

Have a great day,

Nina