Tuesday Morning Sketches #243

I had a wonderful evening crafting with my sister, we had FaceTime going and it was like we were crafting in the same room.

This card is for the current Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge,  I ended up flipping the sketch  and skewing it a little but I am happy with the end result. I heat embossed the sentiment and the bird and then cut out the birds DP body. I used glitter markers for his plume and gave him googly eyes. I used my Silhouette for the oval and outline and popped it all up with foam tape.

Supplies: Cream and brown card stock, Designer Paper – My Mind’s Eye, The Alley Way Stamps-Birds of a Feather, Silhouette cuts, pearls, twine, googly eyes.

Cheers,

Nina

Bullrush With Sympathy

This is the third sympathy card I made and another CAS one. I stamped the images and sentiment, I finished with some pearls.

Supplies: Cream and brown card stock, Stacy Stamps – Solid Wildflower Set, Gina K Designs – Labeled with Love, pearls.

Cheers,

Nina

Black and Gray In Sympathy

A quick second card for tonight, for this one layer card I stamped flourishes in gray and black. The sentiment is stamped in black and I added white and grey pearls.

Supplies: White and grey card stock, Stampology – Autumn Leaves, River City-In Sympathy, pearls.

Cheers,

Nina

Heartfelt Sympathy

We had some sad news in our family this weekend so I needed to make a few Sympathy cards. This is the first of about 5 that will go out in the mail.

I wanted the card to be CAS, I stamped a large shadow stamp of a meadow flowers and added the sentiment. I finished with some pearls.

Supplies: White and gray card stock, Inkadinkado-Meadow, KaiserCraft-Sympathy, pearls.

Cheers,

Nina

Merry Monday Card Challenge #102

It is time for a new Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge, this week's challenge is to Use or Create a mistletoe on your Christmas Card.

I have been wanting to try this technique for awhile now, I printed this fabulous image three times then used circle die cuts for two of them and made each one a little smaller and popped them up with foam tape. I layered the main image with green and brown card stock then finished with a sentiment.

Supplies: Natural Ivory, green  and brown card stock, Vintage Image - The Graphics Fairy, Cornish Heritage Farms - Vintage Christmas Expressions, circle die cut.

Stop by the Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge blog to see all the great samples from the design team and to play along with us.

Cheers,

Nina

Tuesday Morning Sketches #242

Crafty in the morning and in the afternoon, crafty in the evening.. Actually I think that is the Skidamarink song but it popped into my head when I started my blog post.. too much tea perhaps.

Anyhoo :), I made a card this morning for the current Tuesday Morning Sketches.

I heat embossed the sentiment on the center panel and popped it up with foam tape along with a die cut balloon. I finished with some twine and gems.

Supplies: Cream and brown card stock, Designer Paper – Crate Paper, Woodware-What a Catch, Paper Smootches-Balloons wise dies, twine, gems.

Cheers,

Nina

Easy Button

Happy Friday J, I am looking forward to 2 days off over the weekend.

I had such fun making this card, it is actually a retirement card for a friend at work. She takes care of all the background but vital stuff, she has one of those Staples easy buttons on her desk. I don’t think I have ever visited her desk without finishing our conversation by pushing on that silly button after a number of years that is just a few ‘That was easy’s’. 

 

 

This card has been brewing in my head for weeks and weeks as her Retirement day gets closer and the other day I found that easy button on my desk with a sweet little note attached and I knew that my card would be perfect.

 

I wanted a simple or basic card so I used lots of layers, I am loving my Spellbinders circle dies right now. I created the  layers base first then created my easy button. I used my Silhouette for the letters and heat embossed the top layer of the button with clear embossing powder. I have lots of foam tape between the layers to build up the button.

 

 

 

Supplies: White, black and red cardstock, Designer Paper – Crate Paper, Spellbinders.

 

Cheers,

Nina

The Challenge #3

My sister Barb told me about a new to me site called Peachy Cheap, every day there is a new deal... awesome right. I think so, I don't  buy the deal each day but there have been a couple I could not resist.

 

The first was a package of like 20 rolls of twine, the second was a 4 pack of 6x6 paper pads. Anyone that follows my blog knows I am a sucker for the 6x6 paper pad.

 

My twine arrived last week and yesterday I happily found my 6x6 paper pads in the mail so I fit in a quick card as I was running around yesterday.

 

Lesley has posted a new sketch for The Challenge. I used simple layers of DP, and then fussy cut a cute jar from the paper and heat embossed the sentiment and popped both up with foam tape. I finished with a tiny twine bow. Isn't this paper darling.. love it.

 

Supplies: White card stock, Designer Paper – American Crafts, Hero Arts-Be Silly, twine.

Cheers,

Nina

Merry Monday Card Challenge #101

It is time for a new Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge, this week's challenge is to Create a Christmas Card using only Grey, Red and White.

I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing power (it does have a touch of silver, but isn't silver just a glittery grey?) I used circle die cuts to create a multi layer ornament. I added a die cut bow and finished with a few red pearls. I wish the camera picked up the ornament better but I tried a few times and it was not happening.

Supplies: White and red cardstock, Designer Paper – KaiserCraft, Technique Tuesday - Merry Christmas snowflake seal, die cuts, pearls.

Stop by the Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge blog to see all the wonderful design team creations. We would love to have you play along.

Cheers,

Nina

Wiggle Bum Sunday

I can’t seem to sit still today; the house was cleaned by 9am as was the laundry and linens (husband helped :)). Then I decided I wanted to make some apple cinnamon scones, and then the spice cupboard got cleaned.

I somehow found a box of stuff to go for donation and cleaned them up and then I put together a tray of peet pellets for garden starts. I tried to sit still for a card but ten minutes in I put some bacon in the oven for the start of some fully loaded potato soup, the rest of the prep follow closely in behind and I could understand all that if we were having the soup tonight… not.

I almost finished the card before wiggle bum set in again and I went and made some cinnamon vanilla nuts, you know those nummy nuts that you find being brewed up in the corner of conventions and tradeshows.  I finally finished the card which I am happy to say was intended for both the current The Card Concept and Seize the Sketch.

I have a few brand new 6X6 paper pads sitting on my desk and I love these cheery colours, I heat embossed the sentiment and popped it up with foam tape. I added in a little twine and finished with the flags. For The Card Concept I think I fall under Clean and Layered style.

Supplies: Cream and black card stock, Designer Paper – Fancy Pants, DRS Designs – Happy Birthday, twine.

I wonder what other trouble I can get into today J, I still have a couple of hrs and I still have ants in my pants so I will come back later to catch up on commenting.

Cheers,

Nina