Hello, Back again with another card today this one if for the Fusion Card Challenge where I opted on just the sketch this time. This SU puzzle piece set is so much fun to use. I paired it with this beautiful paper from Bo Bunny. Added some little hearts and rhinestones and I was done.
Hope you are having a creative day! Nanc’
Hello, Hope your day is off to a good start. It’s February, and time to get out those Love theme stamps. The card I have for you today is for The Paper Players where they have a Love inspired theme for us to get inspired by and over at Time Out Challenges they also have a Love themed photo too. You can’t have a Valentine card without red somewhere….Right? I have had this SU set for over a month or two now and have been waiting for February to give it a try. I can tell it will be one I will be using again and again, and I haven’t even used one of the dies that comes in the set that is a complete puzzle. Fun Fun!
Nearly all the products are SU and the DP is Bo Bunny. Isn’t it gorgeous? The large stitched rectangle is MFT.
I am so glad you stopped by! Nanc’
Hello there, Today over at Just Us Girls we have a new challenge starting and the word Ina has for us this week is LOVE! Easy huh? I stepped out of the box a bit and decided to do something that wasn’t red, which is the typical color we all think of when you hear that word. I also would like to welcome out guest designer…Lisa Elton, https://mypapertales.blogspot.com/. She will be with us all month! Welcome Lisa, we are thrilled you are joining us!
Here is a bit about my card! Flower is very dear to me and is from Verve! One of my first stamps I ever bought from Julee. The leaves are a punch from SU and then embossed for added texture. The flowers were colored using the smooshing technique and oxide inks. I think they came out great! The heart die is from MFT, the love die is from Neat and Tangled and the you is Simon Says Stamps. The background was lightly stenciled.
I am so happy you paid me a visit. If you are creating this week…please won’t you join us! Nanc’
Hello, Hope your weekend is off to a great start! It’s time for a new challenge at Just Us Girls. Angie has asked us this week to use stencils on our card and or project! Easy huh! Who doesn’t have a pile of stencils laying around? The stencil I chose for my card is the heart from Heidi Swapp. This card was made for my Hubster! He has been very patient with me over the past several months, as I have not been well, and I don’t know what I would do without him. He is a keeper for sure! I do not own this adorable otter from MFT, but when my good friend and fellow STB DT member Barb was down in Florida this past winter, she let me ink up this adorable set and take some images back home with me. Thanks Barbara!!! I used my oxide inks for the background, and a mixture of Copic and Prisma Colored pencils for the cute little otter. I am not quite sure how I feel about the clear Nuvo drops…I think I got carried away!
Please come on over to Just Us Girls and join the team and our fabulous guest Patti Kehl this week, who knows you might be chosen as our next Chic of the Week! Happy crafting, Nanc’
Today over at Just Us Girls we have a new challenge starting and the Trend Sue has chosen for us is to make a Galaxy Background or Night Sky. What a fun idea! This was something I had not done a lot of, so I enjoyed pushing my creativity. Thanks Sue!!
When putting this card together I had some complications along the way but I do believe they turned out to work in my favor. I love to do emboss resist and this is where my card began. The inspiration behind my card you can find HERE. The only thing I wish I would have managed to have done differently is make the center of my moon mostly white. That is a challenge for me, as I tend to be a heavy handed ink blender. As much as I love the Oxide Inks I am still struggling with them. The other thing that worked out well is, I couldn’t find my bottle of white paint so I decided to try Gesso for my stenciled stars. It worked, as the stars became more muted and I think it looks awesome that way. Last, I had to tilt my panel as my sentiment didn’t stamp straight. LOL
The stamps are a miss match of this and that picked up at Local Stamping stores.
Hope you will consider trying your hand at a Night or Galaxy background as well and join us over at JUGS! Nanc’
Hello Happy Weekend! I was so bummed when I went to my faithful photo editing software Picmonkey and found out it wasn’t free anymore! 😦 So bear with me till I find one that I am happy with! If you have any recommendations, I will take them. This one is called Fotojet, and I only had a few minutes to play with it, so the verdict is still out if it’s a keeper! This card was made with Verve stamps and or Free digis that Julee is so gracious to give out so often.
The challenge over at JUGS is to make a Window or Peek A Boo Card. How fun are they!
Come on by Just Us Girls and join us! Nanc’
Hello Friends, I am hosting this week at Just Us Girls and we are in full fledge wedding planning at our house, so the Photo I was inspired by this week, fits my mind set perfectly! I hope you enjoy it! Remember, you don’t have to make a Wedding card per say, however the photo inspires you is all you need to do! All the products you see here are from SU. This card was very tough to photograph because of the shimmery silver paper and the silver embossing powder, but what can you do! Please come on over and join my fellow teammates and I this week!
Take care, Nanc’
Hello Friends, I have been eyeing this sketch over at Mojo Monday and finally found sometime to play along. In addition, Julee Tilman from Verve has so graciously once again created a FREE digi set for us to use! You can find it HERE! It’s till available for a few more days, so you must go and get it before it’s to late! She also has a Love From Me challenge and giveaway going on with her digi set over at the Verve Blog! I fell in love with the sentiment that I used on both of my cards instantly! It made a perfect Valentine for my hubby, since he is indeed my best friend. I just have to decide which one I am going to give to him, probably the one with the paintbrush. I combined her free set with some Stampin Up paper and oval and circle stitched dies, a MFT stitched heart die and scalloped border die, my favorite Verve heart border die, and two stamp sets called Positive Strokes and I Heart Art from Paper Smooches. I cut two heart border dies one back and one white for the second card and glued back in the white hearts so as not to see all the paper and such behind the openings. I paper pieced the paintbrush.
I sure hope you will swing on by the blogs that I have linked up for you and take advantage of Julee’s kindness. Thanks so very much Julee, I will be using the digi again soon! Take care, Nanc’
Hello Friends, I am popping in with a quick post for the latest MFT Sketch Challenge. I have been eyeing this sketch for about a week, and tonight after work I finally had a chance to put something together. I literally am in love with my new Adorable Elephant stamps and matching dies from MFT along with my Stitched Hearts. You are going to be seeing a lot of these so I will apologize in advance! Infact, all the dies here are from MFT and the you sentiment is from Verve.
Thanks for checkin’ in on me and have a fabulous day! Nanc’
First off, I guess I should apologize for this post in advance! YES, you were forewarned a few days back that I was madly addicted to this Blooming Heart Die from SU, so I don’t feel too bad about it. LOL This first card is being entered over at The Card Concept where they have this great Valentine cookie image with flowers on top. This time I decided to layer the two single heart dies together with out placing one back in the negative die like I had been doing lately, and I really love the look of it! I would call my style on this card Clean and Layered.
I decided I better put the next ones in a collage for you to speed things up a bit.
Here is the great graphic and link for The Card Concept, you have plenty of time to join them!
Take care and thanks for all the great comments and visits as of late, I sure do appreciate each and everyone of them! Nanc’
