Poetry in Kindness

A quick card to share with you today as we are still not well - will it ever end?!?! Arghhhh!

  I have used a different palette than I usually work in and have to say I quite partial to it!

 

 

 

 

The image is from Glitz and has been stamped in Tsukineko StazOn in Black. The sentiment is by JustRite® Stampers - Kindness stamp set and is also stamped in Tsukineko StazOn in Black.

 

 

 

 

The image has been cut out using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine  and the Standard Circles LG Nestabilities®

 

 

 

 

I have also used the gorgeous new Spellbinders Fantastic Flourish Two  Shapeabilities® Die D-Lites™.  I love the way these look with flowers - such a versatile Die.  I have used the die as a Stencil, sponging with Tsukineko Spanish Moss Versafine Ink.

 

 

 

The pearls are from Want2Scrap 72 Count - Sage Green Pearls - love the way the colour matches the ink perfectly!  Crochet lace and KaiserCraft paper have also been used.

 

This card is for the following challenges:

Simply Create - Always anything goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Tuesday Alchemy - Anything Goes

Crafty Boots - Anything Goes

House of Gilli - Die Cuts

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 

Paper Pretties Monday Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}

 

Never Never Never Give Up

I am popping in to share a quick card.  I have not been posting too much this week as our household has been hit with a virus - and it has wiped us out for a few days! 

 

 

 

But thankfully we have all picked up a bit today, so while the rest of the family are watching a movie. I thought I would 'sneak in' a post.  One of the great things about having my desk in the living area is I still get to be with everyone.  It is a standing joke that I never see a movie now, I just get to hear it! LOL! The sacrifices we make....

 

 

 

 

I have used one of my favourite Our Daily Bread Designs stamp sets for this card - Never Give Up. 

 

 

 

 

I have stamped the image and sentiment in Tsukineko Versafine - Vintage Sepia and cut them out using Spellbinders Labels Twenty-Eight and layered onto A-2 Fancy Postage Stamps Nestabilities® .  My Die are cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® .

 

 

 

 

My bling is from Want2Scrap.  I always love the way it finishes off a project - I forget what it is like to create something without it!

 

This card is for the following challenges:

Cards by Lady Anne / Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes 

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes

Tuesday Alchemy - Anything Goes 

Tuesday Throwdown - Lots Of Layers

Crafty Boots - Anything Goes

 Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 

Corrosive Challenges - Anything Goes

Pile It On - Anything but a Christmas Card  

Sunday Stamper - Vintage 

 

 

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}

Spellbinders Tutorial - All Wrapt Up

 

 

I am sharing a tutorial over the the Spellbinders Paper Arts Blog today - the theme is Gift Wrap/ Tags.  You can see the Step by Step details HERE!  I would love you to leave a comment letting me know what you think!

 

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}

SSIC Christmas Blessings

This weeks Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge is hosted by Kris.

 

 

 

 

 "They rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshipped Him. And... presented gifts to Him." Matthew 2:10-11

Kris has asked us to make a Christmas Card or project.

 

 

It is with very mixed feelings that we share our cards this week and the news that this is the last week of the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge.  This is the most amazing group of ladies, both past and present, who have come together each week to share challenges and inspire us with their art and from the heart.

 

 

 

 

The Stampin' Sisters are sharing Faith Based Christmas Cards this week, although the challenge is for any Christmas Card.  It is our faith that is our mutual bond and the whole foundation of this wonderful challenge, we are from all different denominations but our Design Team is all united in our faith and love for  the one true God, Jehovah - after all, it is not God who puts 'fences' around Churches, it is people who do - I very much doubt that we will be seated in Heaven according to denomination!

 

 

 

 

I have used an image from Crafty Secrets! I have used theSpellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine  to cut out the Spellbinders Lattice Rectangles as my card base and added the gorgeous Want2Scrap co-ordinating Nestabling. My sentiment has been embossed using Tuskineko Gold Embossing Powder.

 

 

 

 

I want to take this opportunity to thank each Stampin' Sister in Christ, for their friendship, encouragement and support, both corporately and personally.  You enrich my life and I am so grateful that our 'sisterhood' has eternal value and is not limited to being on a Design Team together, although that has been an amazing journey in itself.  This season is coming to an end and I am grateful that each season has a beginning and an end - I pray that each of you will be blessed with the beauty of a 'new day' and 'season' opening in your lives.  You have all left footprints on my heart Sistah's!!

 

This card is for the following challenges:

Allsorts - Bring on the Bling 

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - For Someone Special  

Crazy 4 Challenges - Put a bow on it 

Hiding in my Craft Room - Christmas 

Little Claire's - Christmas 

 One Stop Craft - Vintage Christmas

Artistic Stampers - Anything Goes  

Just Keep on Creating - Christmas

Ladybug Crafts - Monochrome / Tonal

 

 

Thank you to our sponsor

 

 

 Doodle Pantry

 

Make sure you stop by the Designers Blogs are some amazing inspiration - these ladies are inspirational on so many levels and I know they would appreciate hearing from you this week,

* Kristine * Linda (that's me) * MariLynn * Miejse * Peggysue * Traci M *

* Candice * Diane * Helen * Jerusha * Michelle *

I would like to thank you for your comments, emails and support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!!   I have made such wonderful friends on this journey and I am forever grateful!!  Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}

Thinking of You Always

It has been a few days since I shared a card, I have been creating madly, but all things I cannot show you yet - but there will be plenty coming at the right time.

 

 

 

 

I have been creating for future publications, Guest Designer Spots/ Artists Event, New Releases and even CHA, which I am just thrilled about.  It has been very busy and in amongst it all, I have an exciting opportunity coming up that I cannot share just yet, but will SHOUT OUT when I can - you will hear ALL ABOUT IT - don't you worry! LOL!

 

 

 

 

In the meantime I am sharing a cards created using product that has been lying on my desk for what feels like eternity - both the Layers of Color image, coloured using SU Chalks/Pastels and the Spellbinders Die are retired, but I just love them both and could not resist making this simple card.

 

 

 

 

The background paper is wallpaper - love the embossed richness of it, the pearls are from Want2Scrap, the sentiment from my stash, along with a mulberry rose (you know how much I love these), finishing with buttons and pearls.

 

This card is for the following challenges:

Chalk N Stock - Anything goes w/ chalk

Simply Create - Always anything goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes

Card Mania - Pearls & Swirls

House of Gilli - Die Cuts

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 

MyGrafico - Anything Goes

Victorine Originals - Anything Goes

Stampavie and More - Swirls and Pearls

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}

NinaB Designs November Blog Hop

 

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Welcome to the monthly NinaB Designs team blog hop. NinaB Designs is a product designer for a few paper crafting companies including Spellbinders, Want2Scrap, Penny Black, and The Craft's Meow. For this month's hop, Nina challenged us to create something with Winter and Holidays in mind.
 

The holidays provide many opportunities for paper crafters to give an extra personal touch to every occasion. Whether you are doing place cards for a dinner, tags for gift giving or even just hand made projects using your supplies on hand, it is a blessed season indeed!

 

Here is my project.
 

 

 

 

I was inspired by wintery colours - the crispness of blue and white 

 

 

 

 The Christmas Angel has been coloured using SU Chalks/Pastels and had some Diamond Dazzle added to the wings.

 

 

 

 

The gorgeous bling on the Holiday Collage Christmas Tree is from Want2Scrap

 

 

The images are layered into the Spellbinders A-2 Fancy Postage Stamps Nestabilities® that has been cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine. 

 

Here are the products I used for my winter themed card

Christmas Angel

 

Holiday Collage

To welcome you back to our blog hop, we are giving away PRIZE PACKAGES so be sure to hop along! Winners will be picked randomly from 2 of the designers' blogs:
 

Nina Brackett * Beate Johns *  Beatriz Jennings * Clare Buswell *

 Jennie Harper * Julie Overby * Lea Lawson * Linda Lucas *

 

Everybody is welcome to comment and be eligible to win. The winners will be announced on November 23 on Nina's Blog, where you will also find all the relevant info regarding the giveaways. Finally, please consider liking the following Facebook pages that are represented on today's hop, so you don't miss the latest news and happenings:
 

NinaB Designs

Spellbinders Paper Arts

The Craft's Meow

Want2Scrap

Penny Black Inc.

Thank you for joining us today! 

You Mean the World to Me

Today I am sharing a card created using Spellbinders Paper Arts Dies, KaiserCraft Paper and Want2Scrap bling

 

 

 

 

All of these have been lying lose on my desk and need to belong somewhere!

 

 

 

 

The image is a free digital that I printed about a year ago (head hung in shame! LOL) It has been coloured using Distressing Inks and a Dauber, but out and popped up onto the Spellbinders Marvelous Squares Nestabililties.

 

The sentiment is from the Shabby Chic Labels Four by JustRite® Papercraft, cut out using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine and the Fancy Framed Tags Two Shapeabilities®.  The gorgeous bling from Want2Scrap.

 

 

This card is for the following challenges:

365 Cards - "Ravishing" Ribbon

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes

Card Mania - Pearls & Swirls

Cards by Lady Anne / Monday Anything Goes Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

 Crafty Cardmakers - More than One Punch and/or Die Cut

House of Gilli - Die Cuts   

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

 MyGrafico - Anything Goes

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

The Crazy Challenge - Decorate the inside of your card 

Victorine Originals - Anything Goes

  Amusing Challenges - Special Folds

Opus Gluei - 3D Project

Robyn`s Fetish - Make it Vintage

Stamptacular Sunday - Recipe: ribbon/twine, Pearls/Gems, Dies/Punches 

   The Squirrel & the Fox - Anything Goes

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}

CFC11 Inspirational

Two weeks goes by very quickly, especially when we are waiting for the next Crafty Friends Challenges.  This fortnight is hosted by the very talented Nina of NinaB Designs.

 

 

Nina has given us an inspiration challenge - don't you love those gorgeous warm colours.

 

I have used Spellbinders Sweet Folk Art Shapeabilities® designed by Nina Brackett of NinaB Designs.

 

 

 

 

For the top of the stocking I cut a small rectangle and added white Flower Soft

 

 

 

 

The stockings are layered onto gold card  cut using the Resplendent Rectangles Nestabilities® .  The Filigree Die is from the Frosty Forms Shapeabilities.  All of the Dies have been cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine.

 

 

 

The pearls are from Want2Scrap.

 

This card is for the following challenges:

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything goes

Happy Campers - Use bright colours

Southern Girls - Christmas projects 

Whimsy Inspiration - Traditional Christmas colors 

 

  

We would love you to join in with our challenge, pop over and check out the Design Team - you are sure to be inspired at every stop!

Beate Johns * Charmaine Ikach * Jen Balcer * Linda Lucas (that's me) * Nina Brackett

Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to leave a comment, I read each one and appreciate your support and encouragement! I do look forward to seeing you play along with this Bi-weekly challenge - there is so much fun ahead and you are going to want to be part of it!

{{{hugs}}}

SSIC Childlike

I am sharing my card for this weeks Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge - this week Jerusha is our hostess and has chosen the following scripture:

 

 Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a reward from him. Psalm 127:3

Jerusha has challenged us to create a card for a child.

 

 

I have used this gorgeous image from Crafty Secrets - how adorable is it!  The corner is one of the newly released Spellbinders Fantastic Flourish Two Die D-Lites

 

 

 

 

The image is layered onto a Spellbinders Classic Ovals Nestabilities and embellished with buttons and Want2Scrap pearls.  My Dies have been cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine 

 

  

 

Finishing off with narrow lace, a Seam Binding bow with an added button.  The patterned paper is from KaiserCraft.

 

This card is for the following challenges:
Divas by Design - anything goes
Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - Buttons
Crazy Amigo Challenge - Stripes
Tuesday Alchemy - Anything Goes
 Crafty Cardmakers - More than One Punch and/or Die Cut
Creative Stamp Friends - Your Favorite Colors
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 

 

Thank you to our generous sponsor

 

Our Daily Bread Designs

 

Make sure you stop by the Designers Blogs are some amazing inspiration - these ladies are inspirational on so many levels!!

* Kristine * Linda (that's me) * MariLynn * Miejse * Peggysue * Traci M *

* Candice * Diane * Helen * Jerusha * Michelle *

 

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}