365 Card Challenge Day 176- Water and Sand, today's challenge:

The challenge for today is to use watercolor paints on your card, and to use a sanding technique -"water and sand".

I started by making this distressed flower, I punched out various sizes of circles, then dry embossed a couple of the circles to give them texture. I then sanded all the edges and crumped them up and finished with a glitter dot in the middle.

I created my center image by stamping the sentiment with Versacolor Pinecone and embossing it with clear embossing powder. I then stamped over that with a text background image. I used my tombow markers directly on my Stampin'Up! Watercolor Trio stamps before stamping the paper. I think it turned out rather well.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Bo Bunny, Stamp'in Up!-Water Color Trio, Stampabilities-Faded Text Background, misc ribbon, glitter dot.

Cheers,
Nina

Another quick post this evening, this one for the 365 Card Challenge- Mixed Drinks. I missed my nieces birthday..bad Auntie. Happy Birthday to you TODAY Melanie. I will pop the card in the mail tomorrow, this is just a sneak peak should you visit my blog.

I had a blast with this card, my sister Barb created me a fabulous daiquiri glass for my Sure Cuts A Lot software, it was not meant to be though so I printed it off with my printer, cut it out and paper pieced. The drink contents are a beautiful Red Dragon embossing powder pinkish red infused with gold glitter. I finished the rest of the glass with Diamond Glaze.

Supplies: Cream and gray cardstock, Designer Paper-Fancy Pants, Glass Design-Barb Derksen, The Stamps of Life-minis4circles, Sew Easy-Fancy Floss, Stampendous-Red Dragon embossing powder, misc ribbon.

Cheers,
Nina

Greetings on a rainy evening, boy did it rain here today. A steady downpour from around 7:00am till about 5:30pm. The wonderful thing about that other then the plants get a good ol' drink is that it is a perfect evening to card... like I really need an excuse :).

First off hellllooo Mojo Monday :). I had no idea what I was going to do with this card. I like to take a peak at the sketch first thing in the morning then think about it during the day so I have an idea, not today though. I love how it all just came together though once I hid away with my supplies.

I have had  these 3 Fall Matstacks for years, in fact I think I brought them when my son was young and I though I might scrapbook... he is almost 18 now sooo. I was determined today though to used some paper from one of the stacks.

I love the rich autumn feel of my selection, I think the pretty sheer ribbon, brown sparkle fancy floss and gorgeous Prima flower match it perfectly. I punches out a couple of branches and clear embossed them, then secured them under the flower with a small bow from the floss. I used two EK Success punches for the edges, added pearls and voila.

As my sister keeps reminding me to share, please click on the picture below to see the card a little bigger.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-DCWV, TPC Studio-Flourish Text, Spellbinders- Diecut, EK Success-Border Punches, Martha Stewart Branch punches, Prima Flowers, Kaisercraft pearls, Sew Easy Fancy Floss, misc ribbon

Cheers,

Nina

Happy Monday Morning, welcome to a new week.

This mornings post is for the Clean and Simple Sunday Challenge #20.

Isn't this Hi. stamp cute, it was in one of the $1.50 bins at Michaels. Both sentiments and the button are embossed with clear embossing powder, the sentiments were stamped with Pacific Versacolor. I love this Stella and Rose double-sided paper, I think it was great for this card.

 Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Stella and Rose, Spellbinders die cuts, Gstudio-hi, The Stamps of life-kids2love, Sew Easy Twine, misc EK Success punches.

Cheers,

Nina

One more post for today, I think this has to be a record for me however I might forget if I don't post a card right away.

This is for 365 Card Challenge Day 174-Super Sketchy Sunday. This sketch makes me think masculine card so that is what I did.

I am not sure what dimensions are expected but I made mine approximately 4 1/2 by 4 1/2. There are tons and tons of layers here, from bottom to top there are 12 all together but I love how it turned out.

In addition to layers I also did a little embossing. The center piece us a fabulous stamp from The Stamps of Life, I used Versacolor Pinecone and clear embossing powder. I though it would be a little darker but I am happy with the end result I did however add an additional sentiment.

The buttons of course are embossed and have gold filament embroidery thread in them.

My sister Barb will be so proud of me for attempting a macro shot.

I don't remember a day or even a weekend when I have had so much craft time. I has been fabulous.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Hot of the Press, The Stamps of Life-sentiments4circles, Stampin' Up!-Birthday Whimsy, misc punches, embroidery floss.

Cheers,
Nina

Second Challenge post for the day. This is for 365 Card Challenge Day 170- Vintage Plus Blue.

Images from The Graphics Fairy there is some fabulous Vintage image on this site. I used my mini Bowdabra for this pretty little twisted bow.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Authentique, Images-the Graphics Fairy, TPC Studio-Brush Stroke Greetings, Making Memories antique brad.

Cheers,
Nina

Back to blogger... for now. I am still trying to get the hang of Microsoft  Live writer, I just need to take the time to get it tweeted, till then however I will post via the old fashioned route.

Happy Sunday all, the sun is playing hide and seek with some fluffy clouds here in Victoria I hear rumors of rain tomorrow :( so I am going to head out for a walk after this post to enjoy while I can.

Challenge for this post 365 Cards-Day 170 Vintage Plus Green, I am all over the map with these challenges. I can't seem to get the order right. I will post Vintage Plus Blue a little later.

Look no glitter... well I can't say that for sure.. the stray little glimmers are EVERYWHERE. I am told to embrace it :)

I love this Vintage style designer Paper from Stamp'in Up with matching stamp set. I kept the card simple.

Supplies: Cream and green cardstock, Designer Paper-Stampin' Up!, Fiskars-So Much Thanks, Stampin' Up-Nature Walk, EK Success Punch, Kaisercraft gems.

See you soon,
Nina

Another challenge post, and again I have managed to mix two challenges in to one card.

FM#12-Sweet as a button:

1. Create a project using Buttons .
2. or Create a project featuring "Cupcakes".
3. or "Mash it Up!" and create a project with Cupcakes & Buttons!

Stamp Something-Something to say Thank you.

This week our challenge is simple, just create a thank you something.

So I though it would be fun to try to combine these two challenges.
I think this Bo Bunny designer paper is so cute, I guess I did not realize it was probably a winter paper till I started this post… the name of the paper Organic Snow drop :). To me it looks like a fabulous array of buttons, so in my mind that is what it will be.

I love making buttons so this was a no brainer for me, however I have a new die cut from Joy crafts that makes these wonderful little buttons so I embossed them and added floss and all was great.

I paper pieced the cupcake from a Fiskars stamp, the bottom I glittered up with bronze ultra fine glitter, the top I covered with Diamond Glaze and sprinkled lightly with some warm highlight glitter to give a tiny bit of sparkle. The cherry on top is a Holiday Dot.

Supplies: Cream and burgundy cardstock, Designer Paper- Bo Bunny, Fiskars-The Sweet Life and So Much Thanks, Joy Craft-Die cuts, misc embroidery floss, Jewel Glitter Ritz, Dress it Up-Holiday Dots.

Cheers,
Nina

Glitter glitter on the floor, glitter glitter on the desk… in my hair and everywhere. I use a coffee filter to sprinkle my embossing powder and glitter over when making something sparkle. Apparently I did not put away the remnants from my last glitter adventure. I don’t believe I have seen an actual glitter cloud before. I made the mistake of snatching up my coffee filter without checking if there were contents…. Thank goodness for my Glitter Clean up cloth, it made short work of the clean up for the most part.

This post is for Clean and Simple stamping FTL154, they have teamed up with Jingle Belles for this challenge. The sketch is fabulous however my little internal jury is still out on my card.

I cut the large snowflake out using a Be Creative Tape sheet and my Cricut Winter Lace, I used Canadian Blue Jewel Glitter Ritz to make it sparkle. I stamped some smaller snowflakes with my glue pad and also sprinkled them with glitter. The remaining snowflakes and sentiment were stamped with various VersaColor mini pads.

Supplies: Cream and blue cardstock, Cricut Winter Lace, Inkadinkado-Warm Holidays, Jewel Glitter Ritz, EK Success border punch,  Recollections/Kaisercraft pearls, misc ribbon.
Cheers,
Nina

Something a little different for this post today. First my sister Barb…. her name seems to be popping up a lot these last few days... ok, so the something different, I am trying Microsoft Live writer for this post. I have never used this software so I am preparing for some interesting effects.

I made a card for the  Clean and Simple Sunday Challenge #19, when I was on vacation but obviously did not post it. So here goes, I am not sure if I like this card yet, my sister took a great photo but I am not sure it really does the card justice.

Thank you Brenda for a lovely sketch:

This fabulous paper is not displayed as nicely as it should on this card I think though it is just the way the sun washed it out a little at the time of the snapshot. It is double-sided, the background is a perfect contrast to the beautiful front which is a mixture of blues and greens with the flowers outlined in gold foil.

I found this image online, it gives a little better idea of how pretty this paper is.

Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Designer Paper- S.E.I, TPC-Flourish Text, Recollections- Flower embellishment, misc twine and circle sticker.

Cheers,
Nina