Birthday Soaring

Good Morning, I am a little in awe that 2018 is just around the corner and it seems another year has melted right away.

I have another quick post.. I guess they all are ;).  I used lots of layers for the panels that were die cut with stitched rectangles.

I heat embossed the sentimnet then added a couple of brads.

Supplies: Kraft and Gray cardstock, Designer Paper - Carta Bella, Avery Elle - City Celebrations, brads.

Thanks for stopping by,
Nina

Snowflake kisses

Merry Christmas.

I have a quick card to post, I was so late to get cards made for my husband and son... like down to the wire. I was frustrated beyond belief because the creative juices had gotten up and ran as fast as they could out the door.

I make Christmas cards through the year, how is it that I could miss these two you ask. Don't know, I always wait. I made it through and I am happy with both.

This is the one I made for my son, he is artsy so I know he would appreciate the ink blending and flecks of white.

I heat embossed the string of lights or whatever they are as well as the snowman, I then masked off the snowman so I could ink blend the background which is watercolour paper.

I used colour pencils for the details then used so watered down white pigment ink for the flecks of falling snow. I finished which the simply stamped sentiment popped up with foam tape.

Supplies: Blue and white cardstock, watercolour paper, Penny Black - Festive Snippets and Wonderful & Jolly.

Cheers all, I hope you have the most amazing of days.

Nina

Birthday - garage grunge style

I love how this grunge style paper works well together for this masculine birthday card.

I used a base layer of black then added different patterns with each additional layer. I heat embossed the sentiment then added button like brads to finish.

Supplies: White and gray cardstock, Designer Paper - Scrapberry, Avery Elle - City Celebrations, brands.

Have a wonderful day,
Nina

Winter Thank you

I went with a clean and simple design on my card today, I have a number of layers to frame this pretty panel of paper. I heat embossed the sentiment then popped it up with foam tape. I finished with gems.

Supplies: White and brown cardstock, Designer paper - Bo Bunny, Technique Tuesday - Greenhouse 08-12, gems.

Cheers,

Nina

Happiest of Christmases

I used a quick and easy layout for this card. I cut a couple of pieces of the designer paper and then over laped them a little to hide the seam. I cut the buck head from a large grey glitter paper then I heat embossed the sentiment in white and popped it up with foam tape.

Supplies: White and black cardstock, Designer Paper - Wild Whisper, Woodware-Happiest, misc die cut.

Have a great day,

Nina

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #270

We have a new Merry Monday Christmas card challenge,  Kelly is our hostess and her challenge is to Create a Christmas card using diagonal, horizontal, or vertical line.

I went right down the left hand side for this challenge. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment popping it up with foam tape.

I used a die cut for the scissors and the bow, this is a card for my stylist so I had to get them in somewhere.

For the final line item I used DP that is a rich wintery burgundy, that is in the family of red.. yes?

I added a layer of paper underneath and cut it as if it is being peeled back. I finished with some gold Nuvo drops but I find they don't settle the same way the plain black ones do so I must be doing something wrong.

Supplies: Kraft and brown cardstock, Designer Paper - Teresa Collins, misc die cuts and Nuvo drops.

Be sure to stop by the Merry Monday blog to take a look at all the fabulous cards created by the design team.

Play along with another fabulous challenge.

Cheers,
Nina

Congratulations baby girl

I used lots of layers for this card,  I pulled out my stitched die cuts for all the rectangle layers. I stamped the giraffe multiple times and die cutit. I then fussy cut all the small bits and popped them up with foam tape for a 3D look.

The sentiment is simple stamped then popped up with foam tape.

Supplies: White cardstock, Designer Paper-Echo Park, Mama Elephant- Bountiful Blessings Simon say stamps - Stamps and die cuts.

Thanks for visiting,
Nina

Real Tree Birthday

I have been pretty lucky this past year to acquire a great selection of paper pads that make it easy to put together quick and easy cards. I will admit that it should be easy but I always futz and it takes me longer to put it all together ;).

With this card, I used an easy design and pieces together two different patterns and matted them with black cardstock. I added a sentiment that is embossed in white and popped up with foam tape. I then finished with Nuvo drops.

Supplies: White and black cardstock, Designer Paper - Uniformed, Poppy Stamps-No truffle at all, Nuvo Drops.

Cheers,

Nina

Woodgrain thanks

This morning I have a thank you card to share. I did not realize that the colour was a little washed out in the picture but you can still see the design the lovely papers.

I used simple layers for most of the card, the Simon Says stitched dies always add a nice finished edge, I stamped sentiment then die cut it, I added a larger layer of blue below and popped it up with foam tape. I finished with gems.

Supplies: White and navy cardstock, Designer Paper - Kaisercraft, Inspired by Stamping - stamps and die cuts, gems.

Thanks for stopping by,
Nina

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #269

We have a new Merry Monday Christmas card challenge for you today. Debbie is our hostess and her challenge is to Create a Christmas card with tree of the inspiration photo colours.

I used blues and red on my card. I used layers of blue and red cardstock to matte my designer paper.  I heat embossed my sentiment with a blue glittery embossing powder. The sparkle played tricks on the camera, the sentiment is actually not missing parts of the letters.

I backed the sentiment with some foam tape and finished the card with a large snowflake brad.

Supplies: Red and blue cardstock, Designer Paper - Echo Park, Penny Black - Yuletide Wishes, brad.


Be sure to stop by the Merry Monday blog to take a look at all the cards created by the design team. Play along with another fabulous challenge.
Cheers,


Nina