No Greater Love

Hello friends - today I am sharing a card with you that has been created using a beautiful stamp created by the lovely Nina Brackett - this stamp has now been retired but that doesn't have to stop us using it - we all get our favourites don't want to part with them.

I have coloured the image using using Chameleon Pens and cut it out using the oval from the Spellbinders Amazing Paper Grace A2 Filigree Delight Card Creator Etched Dies and the Platinum Die Cutting Machine. It has been popped it up onto the Spellbinders Nestabilities Elegant Ovals Etched Dies #4 using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares.

The butterfly from Indigo Blue has been stamped using Imagine ink in Tuxedo Black and also coloured using Chameleon Pens.  It has been cut out by hand, using scissors and popped up onto the lower portion of the layered image also using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares.  Next the layered image has been layered onto a pre-cut card base and card front.  A flower and bling added to the butterfly.

This card has been linked to the following challenges:

House That Stamps Built - Count Your Blessings

Just Keep On Creating October Link-Up - Anything Goes

Creative Ladybirds Creations - Always Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge - Anything Goes

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week - Anything Goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Moments Challenge - Anything Goes

Retarte - Anything Goes

Crafting By design October Challenge - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Sentiment in Focus

Little Miss Muffet Challenge - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination Challenge - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks - 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}}} and happy crafting

Recycled - Love to You

Hello Blog Friends - today's card involves something we are becoming more aware of - recycling!  I have recycled since I was young and love the feeling of creating something lovely out of something that would otherwise be disguarded.

The gorgeous (and so comfortable looking) chair has been recycled from a catalogue - it was just too lovely to throw away. It has been hand cut using scissors and adhered to KaiserCraft patterned paper, that has been sitting on my desk for YEARS..

Both the card base and patterned paper have been cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine and A2 Curved Matting Basics Spellbinders® Nestabilities® Card Creator.

Heart Braid has been added along with a sentiment from Penny Black Inc. 
Want2Scrap  bling has been adhered to the corners.  Scrapbook by Adhesives by 3L - 3D Foam Squares and E-Z Runner have been used on this card.

This card is for the following challenges: 

Clear It Out - Challenge Theme: Anything Goes Stash: Anything Goes

 Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes 

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes / Summer Fun 

Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes  

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Anything Goes 

 Sunday Stamper - Patterned Paper

 The Corrosive Challenges - Crop It or Cut It

 Cards Galore Encore - 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}}}

Bee-u-tilful Bling Tag

I am sharing a little sneak peek of my post on the Want2Scrap© Blog.

Using Want2Scrap© bling, Spellbinders Dies, Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko Inks and Penny Black®, Inc. stamp sets. 

You can see the full project and details 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!

{{{Hugs}}}

SRM Happy Birthday

You can never have enough birthday cards, especially feminine ones - they are the biggest seller at the Shop where I sell may cards.

The silhouette image designed by NinaB Designs for The Craft's Meow is perfect for a quick card.  It has been stamped using IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® VersaFine™ Archival Pigment Ink in Spanish Moss and been cut and embossed using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine and the Scalloped Labels One Nestabilities®.

 

The bling is from Want2Scrap©  The leaves are from the Foliage

 Spellbinder® Shapeabilities®and have been sponged using IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® VersaMagic™ Chalk Pigment Ink Dew Drop in Thatched Straw.

 

The paper is from the Madison designer paper pad.

This card is for the following challenges:

Incy Wincy Designs - Spring

 Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

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

 The Crazy Challenge - Use Sentiments 

Allsorts - Here Come the Girls 

Card Makin' Mamas - Use Rubber Stamp

 Sister Act Card Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

Creative Card Crew - Punches/Dies

 Papertake Weekly - 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}}}

NinaB Designs May Blog Hop

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Welcome to the NinaB Designs Blog Hop!

 The theme of this month's hop is Make it Masculine. Father's day is just around the corner, for those in the Northern Hemisphere. It's a great opportunity to honor those men who mean so much to us.

I could not resist using the Sweet Silhouettes stamp set designed by NinaB Designs for The Craft' Meow.  I love the stamped frame that co-ordinates with the Labels Ten Spellbinders™ Nestabilities®.  This is layered onto the Opulent Ovals Spellbinders™ Majestic Elements Nestabilities®

I added a sentiment from the Sweet Sentiments stamp set, also designed by NinaB Designs for The Craft' Meow.

I have added some of the Want2Scrap© - Beautiful Bling Borders by Nina Brackett - Beautiful Blooms , along with a button and some Bakers Twine

Lots of dimension for 'the man.'

 

I have used the following sets

Sweet Silhouettes

Sweet Sentiments

The NinaB Designs team is giving away these TWO PRIZE PACKAGES:

Prize #1: Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two Dies

   

Prize #2: $20 Gift Certificate to Want2Scrap.

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

* Nina Brackett * Clare Buswell * Jennie Harper * Jessica Fick *

* Lea Lawson * Linda Lucas * Rae Barthel *

Everybody is welcome to comment and be eligible to win. The winners will be announced on May 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 and 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 April Blog Hop

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Welcome to the NinaB Designs Blog Hop! The theme of this month's Hop is Stamping Techniques. Nina challenged the team to do a technique, which could be as simple as coloring, die-cutting or more involved like emboss resist, making your own embellishments, etc. If you have arrived from Lea Lawson's Blog, you are in the right place!

I have used the Sew Lovely stamp set, designed by NinaB Designs for The Craft's Meow and have used the Emboss Resist Technique - this is one of my favourite techniques, along with Die Cutting and Stenciling.

I have stamped the image using Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko VersaMagic - Cloud White Ink and embossed using White Embossing Powder and a Heat Tool.  I have then sponged the image using VersaMagic - Pixie Dust and Versafine - Vintage Sepia

It has then been cut out using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine

 and Labels Eight Nestabilities® then mounted onto the Decorative Labels Eight Nestabilities® using foam tape.

The button image has been cut out using the Standard Circles LG Nestabilities®. 

 Want2Scrap©  Self Adhesive Pearls have been added around the edge of the circle and a button glued to the center to create a unique embellishment.   This is added on top of vintage lace and a border of  Want2Scrap© - Beautiful Bling Borders-Fancy Waves! by Nina Brackett.  Finishing off with a Mulberry Rose and some floral touches from my stash.

The NinaB Designs team is giving away these TWO PRIZE PACKAGES:

Prize #1 

 Prize #2: TCM's Crafty Shelf and Retired LOC Elegant Labels set

 

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

Nina Brackett * Clare Buswell * Heather Jensen * Jennie Harper * Jessica Fick 
* Lea Lawson* Linda Lucas * Rae Barthel

Everybody is welcome to comment and be eligible to win. The winners will be announced on April 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 and 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}}}

CFC9 Sparkle and Bling

The last two weeks has flown by - it is time for the next Crafty Friends Challenge - our hostess this week is the talented Jenn

 

 

Jenn has challenged us to use BLING AND SPARKLE! Woohoo!!

 

 

 

 

I have used the negative Die from the NinaB Designs Spellbinders Sweet Folk Art Licensed Dies, which has teh been embossed using the Spellbinders M-Bossabilities

 

 

The Christmas Tree has had rows of bling, lace and pearls added - never too much shimmer for Christmas!

 

 

 

The sentiment has been cut out using the Spellbinders Fancy Framed Tags One Shapeabilities and had shimmered buttons added.  I added 3D Kindy Glitz to the button and a pearl to the center.

 

 

This card is for the following challenges:

Cards Galore - Anything goes

Paper Crafting Journey - Add some bling

ABC Christmas Challenge - Anything goes

Cards by Lady Anne / Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me - Lace and Pearls  

Through The Craft Room Door  - Always Anything Goes!

Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

Fashionista Challenge - Anything Goes

 Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 

 Just Keep on Creating - Christmas

Fussy and Fancy - Anything Goes

Hotshot Crafts - Bling 

Totally Gorjuss - Bling it on 

One Stop Craft - Anything goes

  

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 * Jenn 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}}}

Friends

I love colouring and don't seem to do it often enough these days.  I am sharing a card I created using an image that was coloured during a PrismaColor Class I taught a few weeks ago - my first Class infact.

 

 

 

 

The image is from the Petal Party stamp set designed by my very dear friend Nina of NinaB Designs for Penny Black

 

 

 

 

I have cut the image out using the Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles Nestabilities

 

 

 

 

The sentiment is from Want2Scrap and is layered into the Spellbinders Ribbon Banners Shapeabilities.  My Dies have been cut using the  Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine

 

 

 

 

Finishing off with a beautiful pearl flourish from Want2Scrap and some recycled vintage lace.

 

 

 

 

This card is for the following challenges:

Crafts and Me - Lace and Pearls

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Bling

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes!

Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

Fashionista Challenge - Anything Goes

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 

Deep Ocean 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!

{{{hugs}}}

 

Fine and Dandy

I had a lot of fun creating this card, after being inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest - so much to see over there and a constant source of organised inspiration - you have to love that!

We will be making this card at my Card Design Class Next week - using NinaB Designs Flower Garden set for The Craft's Meow.

 

I have added Liquid Pearls to the tips of the Dandelions and cut them out with the Spellbinders Grand Calibur and the Classic Ovals Nestabilities - the card would not be complete without the addition of at least a few Want2Scrap Pearls - love them!

This card is for the following challenges:

Cards und More - Anything Goes

Catch The Bug - Anything Goes

Sugar Creek Hollow - Something Old (paper) Something New (stamps)

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Summer

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

 Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - 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}}}