Hello, I have another CAS Christmas card for you, that was so much fun, and simple to make. I think I will be making a few more of these before the holidays are over. I am linking this fun card up over at the CASology blog where the word is North, and Inkspirational blog where it’s Anything Goes Christmas. The JOY die set is MFT. Have a joyful day! Nanc’
Hello, I have a very quick post for you today! The above card is for Photo week at Just Us Girls and this card was easy and fun to put together. Next time I will do a better of making my stamping more uniformed, but as I said it was a quick one. I used the bow from the new to me SU set- Wishing You Well. The Christmas part of the sentiment was made with letter dies from MFT. The Merry diecut is cut out of sparkly silver and was a gift from a friend, so I don’t know whose it is. I love it though!
Thanks for looking and please come join us at JUGS! Nanc’
Hello! Vicki is our hostess this week at Just Us Girls and she has a great photo for us. As soon as I saw those wine glasses on the table I knew I was going to break out one of my new MFT sets ( Margarita Shaker Die and Spirited Sentiments) and make a shaker card. The only thing that completely backfired is, I decided to finally open up my Gelatos that I have had for ages and see how they worked. Little did I know, or use my brain, that they smear when you rub your finger over them. So now my background paper that was once white is now pink. If you know my style you probably know that I don’t do shaker cards very often, but it was fun. If you look closely my margarita glass has sugar on the top (fine glitter)…I prefer sugar over salt! What about you?
Please come over and check out what the ladies did, and before I go I would like to say thanks to my pal Linda for being such a fabulous guest this month! Nanc’
Hello, Although we don’t quite have Autumn here in Florida and the temps are still in the 90’s, it didn’t stop me from making a couple of Autumn theme cards over the weekend. One is made of the colors you would traditionally expect, and the other one …not so much. I love how they both turned out!
I am linking up these cards to two different challenges. The first one is The Twofer Card Challenge which I am totally thrilled not to miss out on this month, and the other one is The Color Throwdown, which I have been following since its inception.
The stamps I used for these cards are from Verve, with an exception of the larger leaf on the autumn colored card, who knows where that one came from, but it’s a keeper. On both cards, I heat embossed the leaves with either white, silver, gold or red. On the fall colored card, I used my oxide inks to blend the background. The leaf punch is from SU and dry embossed, and the tag and wonky rectangles are from MFT. I splattered some white paint to help hide some of my stray embossing powder on the black card. Finally, I got to use my new Rectangles with the rounded corners from MFT. I just love those patterned leaves from Verve, and I knew they would make a fun fall card. The black card is so very shimmery in real life! If you have any other questions…let me know!
Hope you have a really awesome week! Nanc’
Hello, Hope you are having a great day! If you were in the path of Hurricane Michael, I hope you are safe and with minimal damage. Mother nature isn’t being kind lately and I hope it stops very soon. It breaks my heart to see the devastation it left behind. Feeling very blessed as I write this post. Other than some rain and gusty winds, all was well here on the west coast of Florida. I am sending this card to my son ( whom I adore and miss, more than you can even imagine) and I can’t say exactly why I am sending this card, but I hope he doesn’t happen to check my blog before he receives it. You will have to trust me that it looks even better in person. I had so much fun creating my celestial background with my oxide inks, starting with a piece of white card stock. It was a ton of blending!! The letter dies are from MFT and the “so proud of” is from SU. That wooden moon stamp is something I have had for eons and is white heat embossed. The stars were heat embossed too and made with a SU stencil as well. Some splatters, and I was done.
Please come on over to Just Us Girls and check out my fabulous teams designs! Nanc’
Hello, Lisa has a fun color combo for us this week at Just Us Girls. I hope you don’t tire of these Adorable Elephants from MFT. I just can’t resist their sweet little faces.
Card Details: MFT-Small letters and Elephant, SU- corner punch and striped stencil, Gina K- polka dotted label, Bow-Paper Smooches.
Come on over and join the team and I along with our talented guest Julia! We would love to have you! Nanc’
I have wanted so badly to join in the fun over at the Twofer Challenge this month, and couldn’t seem to settle on the perfect stamp. Then I came across a never used stamp set from Altenew, that I completely forgot I had. They so happen to be trees! Apple trees actually. It was fate, I tell you! If you aren’t familiar with the Twofer Challenge you have to go check it out! You take their theme of the month and make two completely different cards using the same stamp/ die or what have you. Darnell and the team are fabulous!
On the Elephant card I used the tops of the tree to make the clouds, the grass, bushes, and to color my balloon. Here is a picture of the stamp set so you may understand it better. On the tree card, it was a bit tricky to line the stamps up perfectly even after lots of practice. I think they look pretty good, but the yellow one is the best!
I so appreciate your visit. Have a fabulous day! Nanc’
Some Card details: Tree card-Altenew Apple Tree set, SU stitched rectangles, SU Thank You sentiment, Cuttlebug-Dot EF, Tag-Spellbinders
Elephant card- MFT-Adorable Elephants, Wonky Rectangles and Sun-stencil, Sentiment-Verve
Hi, Hope you week has been good so far! I am hanging in there best I can. Let’s just say my health has not been cooperating over the past few months and I am losing my patients to say the least. The doctors and I can’t seem to get to the bottom of it all. I will not bore you with the entire saga, I just need to catch a break real soon. Preferably before vacation comes around! Anyhoo, you didn’t stop by to read my woes.
Today’s card got rather busy. It was not my intention to have quite so many layers, but here you have them. The cupcake and the cute little envelope are from Verve. As I am typing this I am trying to figure out where Birthday came from and I am stumped. I guess that means I officially have TOOOOOO MANY STAMPS! Shhhhh! My hubby might hear you! LOL
Don’t look to closely at my novo drops on my icing, they kinda got messy and over done!
I hope you will consider coming on over to Seize the Birthday and join us for our Anything Goes challenge…as long as it’s birthday related. Also before I go, I need to say a huge thank you to SonjaK for being an Amazing Surprise Party Guest the past two months! We have really enjoyed having you! Please don’t be a stranger! Take care, Nanc’
Hello, Hope you are having a good day! I have been eyeing this challenge over at Addicted to CAS and decided to take sometime today to join in. The challenge is rainbow. Hopefully the added embellishments doesn’t disqualify me from CAS. However if it does, I had fun just the same.
I am also linking up to the Addicted to Stamps and More site where it’s Anything Goes.
I am also enjoying the 30 day coloring challenge but unfortunately I missed yesterday and messed up my perfect track record. I know it’s not a huge deal in the grand scheme of life, but disappointed just the same.
The negative heart die is from SU, the hill stitched border is Lawn Fawn and the stamps and letter dies are MFT.
I sure appreciate you stopping by, 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’
