Cutie Pie

I love this adorable paper, I used the designer paper to fill the whole card panel. I fussy cut a balloon from a piece of scrap and covered it in Nuvo crystal glaze then popped it up with an action wobbler.

The sentiment is simply stamped and popped up with foam tape.

Supplies: White cardstock, Designer Paper - Photo Play, Clearly Besotted - A Little Sentimental, action wobbler.

Thanks for visiting, 

Nina

You make me smile

I love these bright and cheery papers they make me think spring is on its way. 

I used stitched edges to add a nice edge to the panels, the top panel is popped up with foam tape. I die cut the YOU three time to give it nice dimension. The sentiment is heat embossed in white on black, I have it popped up as well. I finished with gems.

Supplies: White cardstock, Designer Paper - Photo Play, Simon Says Stamp - You Matter, MFT - Stitched Basic Edge, gems.

I am playing along with the Wednesday Challenge at Simon Say Stamp.

Have a great Friday.

Nina

Kind Words

A quick post this morning, this is a simple design for this card. I layered the designer paper with some brown cardstock and mounted on a white card base.

I stamped the sentiment, inked the edges of the sentiment a little then popped it up with foam tape.

I finished the card with some grey Nuvo drops.

Supplies: White and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Bo Bunny, Verve - Kind Words, Nuvo drops.

See you again soon,
Nina

Better Together

Happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate. I have a cute sweetheart's card this morning. I gave this to my fabulous husband with a tray... yes a tray of sour cream sugar cookies.. heart shaped of course.

I layered my designer paper with a red cardstock. I heat embossed the sentiment added a little ink to the edges and popped it up with foam tape.

I fussy cut a few hearts then popped them up with foam tape and added some Nuvo

Supplies: Cream and red cardstock, Designer Paper - Authentique, Verve - Better Together, dots.

I hope you have a wonderful day.

Cheers,
Nina

Tuesday Morning Sketches #440

A quick second post today, I was playing along with Tuesday Morning Sketches. My sister Barb and SIL Judy were all chatting online as we indulged in some crafting time together.

I turned the sketch, I layered cardstock and designer paper. I love the gold highlight on the top section. I heat embossed the sentiment in white on brown and popped it up with foam tape.

For the decorative piece at the top, I used dots that looks like water droplets.

Supplies: White and brown cardstock, Designer Paper - Jen Hadfield, Close to My Heart - Create Kindness, dots.

Cheers,

Nina

Be Yourself

It was a stat holiday here in BC yesterday, so today is my first day back to work after a long long wonderful weekend.

I wanted to share another card from the retreat. Very simple in design and easy to make using just the designer papers and some card stock. 

I layered the panels then popped up the sentiment with foam tape, the butterfly panel has lots of gloss as does the base layers so I did not want to add any additional embellishments.

Supplies: White and blue cardstock, Designer Paper - Kaisercraft.

Have a wonderful day,
Nina

My crafty adventures at the Honeymoon Bay retreat.

I attended my first Retreat/crop this past weekend, I jumped in with both feet and gusto. It was a four-day three-night adventure of fun. The retreat was located in beautiful Cowichan Bay and the wonderful Honeymoon Bay Resort.

I figured it was a good sign heading into the rainbow.

So, so beautiful.

The location was so pretty, the facilities were fabulous, the food outstanding the group of ladies were amazing. So creative and I love the sharing of crafty secrets and techniques, I walked away with a ton of new information and an exciting shopping list. I had the best time and am looking forward to more crafty adventures soon.

I was told that all this generous space and the large tables are not the norm but I was sure happy to stretch out with all my supplies. I thought I had over packed but I was rather light with my packing in comparison to some of the other ladies.

The wheeled office chair was a wonderful luxury.

I am a pretty slow cardmaker so I only produced around 21 cards in my time there but I am pretty happy with most of the results. It gives me lots of content for some blog posts over the next little while.

This card was pretty easy to put together, I took designer paper pads that had sentiments in them to make cards easy to produce. For this card I added a simple grey layer of cardstock to each layer, the sentiment is popped up with foam tape. The flowers already have beautiful shimmer and shine.

This sentiment was how I was feeling for most of my weekend;) 

Supplies: White and grey cardstock, Designer Paper - My Minds Eye.

Thanks for stopping by,
Nina

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #277

We have a new Merry Monday Christmas card challenge, Deanne is our hostess and her challenge is to Create a Christmas card using a stencil.

I ink blended the background of my card then applied glass bead paste over it using a stencil. I die cut the top panel then added it using a layer of foam tape. I finished with a sentiment.

Supplies: White cardstock, Papertrey ink - Two Feet Deep, Memory Box - Coountryside Circle, Faber Castel - Glass Bead Paste, GRS Studio - Distortion.

Stop by the Merry Monday blog to take a look at all the fantastic cards created by the design team.

Cheers,

Nina

Two hearts - One lifetime

I had a little time in the craft room this past weekend I have seen lots of stencils and paste used with ink blended background lately so I thought I would play with this technique a little today.

I cut a square piece of cardstock and used a die cut to create a window. I made a slightly small square from some watercolour paper and did some ink blending. I pulled out my Faber Castel - glass bead paste and a stencil and added some texture over the blended ink. 

Once it was all dry I added some sentiments to the top panel and popped it up with foam tape.

Supplies: White cardstock, Verve - Anniversary Birda, GRS Stencils - Distortion, Simon Says Stamps - Double Heart die.

Cheers,
Nina

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #276

We have a new Merry Monday Christmas card challenge, Colleen is our hostess and her challenge is to Create a Christmas card using the photo inspiration.

I could not resist those darling birds. I have some Birds & Berries papers that I knew would be a perfect fit for this challenge.

I used my stitched squares then added additional layers or brown cardstock. I embossed the sentiment in white and popped it up with foam tape.

Supplies: White and brown cardstock, Designer Paper-Wild Rose Studio, PapertreyInk-Snowflake Flurries,  SSS- Stitched squares.

Stop by the Merry Monday blog to take a look at all the fabulous cards created by the design team. Come play along.

Cheers,

Nina