Valentines Tutorial

 

This week on the Spellbinders Paper Arts Blog the theme is Valentines - it is my turn to share the Step by Step Tutorial - I would love you pop across and have a look - make sure you leave me a comment to let me know what you think - you can see it HERE!

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!

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Nested Cups

It is not too often I get to make a set of cards, but I am recycling some tags I created some time ago and have not used - the Spellbinders Nested Tea Cups are too adorable not to use.

 

Each card has the same basic elements, I have used a combination of blue, pink and green with each card - giving them a 'Shabby' feel.

A combination of layered Dies from the Parisian Motifs, Nested Tea Cups and  Floral Doily Motifs Shapeabilities.

I have used the Spellbinders Asian M-Bossabilities folder.Want2Scrap bling is added to each card, along with Mulberry Rose, this sentiment is from Penny Black® Inc. 

Each card has it's own feel

This card has been embossed using the Spellbinders Garden Lattice M-Bossabilities folder and a sentiment from  JustRite® Papercraft

 

The final card also has the Spellbinders Garden Lattice M-Bossabilities folder on the patterned paper 

The sentiment is from a retired stamp set from Layers of Color and the gorgeous bling is from Want2Scrap

 

These cards are for the following challenges:

 Creative Craft Challenges - Bling It Up 

Die Cuttin' Divas - Anything Goes 

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes 

Through The Craft Room Door  - Always Anything Goes!

Tuesday Alchemy - Anything Goes

 Tuesday Throwdown - Bling It On

 Vickie's Challenges - Anything Goes 

Art With No Boundaries Show Off Your Art - Always Anything Goes 

 Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 

Sugar Creek Hollow  - Lots of Layers

Totally Gorjuss - Flower

  

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!

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Postcard Birds

Vintage cards are such a pleasure to create, they would be my favourite style, I always refer to it as very 'kind' with it's distressed lines and muted shades.

Soft tones feature in this card, using the Penny Black Inc harmony cling stamp for the background, this image has been cut using the Spellbinders™ A-2 Matting Basics B Nestabilities®and the Grand Calibur® Machine

and an adorable Crafty Individuals Seven Cheeky Songbirds image for the center, lightly coloured using Tsukineko Memento Markers, I love this image - it is the first time I have used it,but definitely won't be the last - infact the whole site is divine, their images appeal to me greatly!

Finishing off with Want2Scrap bling and pearls, lace and Mulberry Roses - a little bit nostalgic and totally easy.

This card is created for the following challenges:

Opus Gluei - Glitz, Glamour, Bring on the Bling 

Penny Black and More - Love is in the Air 

The Squirrel & the Fox - Something New 

 My Time to Craft - Things with Wings 

One Stop Craft - Sparkle and Bling 

Moving Along With The Times - Bling it on

 Crafts and Me - Vintage

 Sweet Stamps - Pearls & Lace

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!

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In my Thoughts

It is a very quiet Sunday afternoon, the things I should be doing are still waiting for me and I suspect will be waiting a little while longer while I try and find the motivation....but as for card making - never lacking motivation there! LOL!

When I am creating cards I try to think about the different occasions we give cards for - some of them are not always happy reasons - this is the kind of card I have made today - to encourage or comfort someone, letting them know we are thinking of them.

I have used a sentiment from a Stampin' Up set that I was given sometime ago but it has not seen ink until now - I don't know why as I love the sentiments in it.  I have used Tsukineko Memento Peanut Brittle Ink and cut it out using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine and Labels Twenty Nine Nestabilities.  Before removing the card from the Die, I have used it as a stencil and sponged the inside edges, also using the Tsukineko Peanut Brittle.

The patterned paper has been embossed using the Spellbinders™ Dotted Flowers  M-Bossabilities™ folder.

I have also added leaves from my stash, Seam Binding ribbon and now, along with a Mulberry Rose and Want2Scrap bling.

This card is for the following challenges: 

Sweet Stampin -  Ribbon 

Inspire Me Fridays – Anything Goes 

QKR Stampede – Soft Pastels

 Simply Create Too - Anything Goes 

Delightful Challenges - Thinking of You Project

 Moving Along With The Times - Bling it on

 Crafts and Me - Vintage

Papertake Weekly - Tie up your loose ends  

House of Gilli - Anything goes with pink and bling 

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

 My Craft Spot - Bling

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!

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Bird King

It is Australia Day here and a day we all celebrate, often with a BBQ - who doesn't love that!  Australia has been my home for 32 years this year and I count myself blessed to be here - it is a wonderful place!

 

My card today is created using an image from Glitz - I love this image that has been stamped using Tsukineko Versafine in Vintage Sepia and cut out using the Spellbinders™ Classic Ovals LG and  Floral Ovals  Nestabilities®

 

I have added a little bit of colour to the bird using Tsukineko Memento Markers - just lightly, along with a touch of shimmer to the wings.  This has been layered using foam tape onto the Floral Ovals  Nestabilities® and in turn layered onto patterned paper cut using the Spellinders™  Grand Calibur® Machine and  5 x 7 Detailed Scallops Nestabilities®

The sentiment is made from some stickers from my stash and added to the 5 x 7 Detailed Scallops Nestabilities®.  The white card has been sponged, using the Die as a Stencil, before removing from the Die. 

  I have finished off by using some Want2Scrap Bling  Swirls Finesse - Rhinestones

This card is for the following challenges: 

Brown Sugar – Valentines 

Delicious Doodles - All you need is LOVE 

Fat Pages & Cards with Attitude – Love

Simply Create Too - Anything Goes 

Moving Along With The Times - Bling it on

Crafts and Me - Vintage

Craft Room Challenge - Monochrome

Paper Playtime - Use some Brown

Stamp and Create - Love  

Vintage Stamping Challenges/Flonz Craft - 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!

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Birthday Clock

Today's card is created using a stamp I was given - I just love clocks - especially these old Grandfather ones.

My Nana had a fabulous Grandmother clock and I remember it chiming through the night, on the hour EVERY hour, when we would have sleep overs there.
 

The sentiment from TeddyBo has been stamped with Tsukineko Jet Black StazOn and the Clock coloured using Tsukineko Memento Markers. 

I have used the Spellbinders™ Standard Circles LG Nestabilities®, they have been cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine.  The bling is from Want2Scrap - no surprises there!  I love how is can be used on masculine cards too.  The sentiment sticker is from 'deep' in my stash - we won't even 'go there!'

This card is for the following challenges:
 CCEE Stampers - Masculine Cards with some connection to time or clocks
Moving Along With The Times - Bling it on
 Simply Create - Always anything goes
Crafts and Me - Vintage
Paper Shelter Challenge - anything goes
Clear It Out! - Theme: Circles Stash: Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door  - Always Anything Goes!
Vickie's Challenges - Anything Goes 

Eureka Stamps - Anything Goes 
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 
My Craft Spot - Bling
 MyGrafico - Anything Goes
Use Your Stuff - Birthday

 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!

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Life is Heavenly

I am back to share another vintage card, created using the things I have at an 'arms reach' from my desk- and the choices are many!

One of those things is the fabulous new Spellbinders™ Gold Labels Four Nestabilities® - not only does it Cut, Emboss and Stencil - it now debosses and the details are divine - it just gets better and better!  The Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine cuts these Dies to perfection.

 

My image is from Crafty Secrets and the paper from KaiserCraft

Embellished with narrow lace, Seam Binding, flowers from my stash and gorgeous Want2Scrap

Swirls Finesse bling - one of my favourites.

This card is for the following challenges:

 Sweet Stamps - Pearls & Lace

 Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes! 

Crafty Bloggers Network -  Flowers

Crafty Boots - New 

Created With Love - Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodles - Ribbon (Seam Binding)

 Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 

Pretty Little Ribbon - Flowers & Ribbon 

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Vintage/Shabby Chic - What are you Known For? (Eclectic Vintage style)

Unstampabelles - Use one or more Dies

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!

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God's Blessings to You

Sympathy cards - are always hard to make when you need them, I try to have some on hand especially for the shop where my cards sell, some months they are the fastest sellers - a sad reality.

For my card today I have used the fabulous Spellbinders Rose Creations Shapeabilities® and a retired sentiment from Layers of Color.  The Die has been cut using the
Spellbinders Grand Calibur®

Along with the Foliage Shapeabilities® The patterned paper  is from the KaiserCraft After Five Collection and the bling from Want2Scrap - I love the Swirls Finesse, a favourite.

This card is for the following challenges:

The Squirrel & the Fox - Anything Goes  

Allsorts - Flower Power 

Simply Create Too - Anything Goes

 4 Crafty Chicks - Pearls, Pearls, Pearls 

CCEE Stampers - Sympathy cards

Creative Moments -  Monochrome

 Whimsical Designs -  Anything Goes 

One Crazy Stamper - Anything goes 

Sparkles Forum Challenges - Die Cuts and Flowers

 The Crafter's Cafe Challenge - 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!

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NinaB Designs January Blog Hop

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  Welcome to the NinaB Designs* first team blog hop of 2013! We hope you have had a relaxing holiday break and ready to join us for another year of inspirations and prizes! 

*NinaB Designs is a product designer for a few paper crafting companies including Spellbinders, Want2Scrap and Penny Black, and The Craft's Meow. 

For this month's hop, Nina challenged the team to create a project with the LOVE theme, which can be interpreted in many ways: Valentine, Anniversary and Friendship. 

I have created a set of cards, including a birthday card -  LOVE is not just limited to Valentine's - we all love to show it in many ways during the year, sometimes for no reason at all - spontaneous...

For my sets of cards I have used Nina's set  TCM Flower Garden Stamp, cutting the flowers out and popping them up on foam tape for some added dimension.  I have also used  Spellbinders™ Wavy Rectangles  Nestabilities® and Classic Ovals LG   Nestabilities®, the sentiment from the TCM Sew Happy stamp set is cut out using the Ribbon Banners Shapeabilities.  My bling is from Want2Scrap

For my second card I have layered the flowers into Romantic Rectangles Nestabilities® and Fancy Tags Three  Shapeabilities®

My final card has a  flower layered onto Floral Ovals Nestabilities® and Grommet Tags Shapeabilities® All of my bling is from Want2Scrap

 

Here are the products I used for my cards:

TCM Flower Garden Stamp set

TCM Sew Happy stamp set

 

The NinaB Designs team is giving away these TWO PRIZE PACKAGES: Prize Package #1 includes Spellbinders Venetian Accents and Motifs: 

 

Prize #2 includes 2 retired sets from Layers of Colors stamps:

Winners will be picked randomly from 2 of the designers' blogs:

Nina Brackett * Beate Johns * Beatriz Jennings * Clare Buswell * Heather Jensen * Jennie Harper * Julie Overby * Lea Lawson * Linda Lucas *Viola Mahr

Everybody is welcome to comment and be eligible to win. The winners will be announced on  January 22 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

Penny Black Inc.  Want2Scrap 

Thank you for joining us today!

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Heart Boy

Going back to colouring in is a pleasure for me - a first love.  I have coloured in since childhood and always found it soothing - infact I won my first Colouring Competition when I was 10 years old and still have a the book I won.

I was thrilled to get some 'Happy Mail' from Penny Black Inc and find a few Whimsical stamps in it - love this darling his heart cling stamp

I have coloured him using Tsukineko Memento Markers, stamping, then colouring a second heart that has been cut out and popped up on foam tape.

and cut out the coloured image using Spellbinders A2 Distressed Edges Spellbinders™ Nestabilities® using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine.  I have used the Die as a Stencil, sponging with Tsukineko  Dessert Sand Memento Ink.

I have also used the Spellbinders Harlequin M-Bossabilities™ on the blue card - the checkers side, the sentiment tag is from my stash.  The bling is from Want2Scrap

This card is for the following challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge - Emboss it
 Penny Black Saturday Challenge - January Blues
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything goes
 Simply Create - Always anything goes
Crafting for all Seasons - Something New
Crafts and Me - Something new
Crafty Creations - Something New

 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!

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