SSIC Masterpiece

This weeks Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge is brought to us by Jerusha, who has chosen the following scripture for inspiration.

'For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.'  Ephesians 2:10

Jerusha has challenged us to create something that reflects you - you are God's masterpiece!

The  Divine Pattern stamped background is a newly released stamp illustrated by Laura Kirste Campbell for Penny Black.  I have cut out this bird from the A Flight of Thread cling set that is also illustrated by Laura and co-ordinates with Spellbinders Labels Twenty Nestabilities. 

 Being me, I wanted to use it differently and cut out the bird and used it with a sentiment from the Sent With Love collage image illustrated for Penny Black by NinaB Designs.  I love the earthy tones and the arty feel the images give.  I would describe my signature style as eclectic and vintage, although I am enjoying trying other styles - challenging myself.

Finishing off with some bling from Baby Bling Rhinestones BlueGreen from Want2Scrap, sheer ribbon and a button from Buttons Galore and More

This card is for the following challenges:

Speedy and Friends - Vintage

Sweet Stampin - Summer Fun

Hotshot Crafts - Distress Ink

Raise The Bar – Summer

Pixie Dust Studio - Birds

Freshly Brewed - Anything Goes

Stampavie and More - Something with wings

Creative Mondays - Summer  

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Anything Goes 

Gingerloft - Vintage 

Penny Black and More - All My Favourite Things

Thank you to our sponsor Clear Dollar Stamps

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 * Sandie L *

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}}}

Sent With Love

I have another card to share with you using a new images from Penny Black - this card is created using the Sent With Love image by my dear friend Nina of NinaB Designs.

I love a collage and this one is divine to use.

The image is stamped with Tsukineko Versamark and embossed using White Embossing Powder and then sponged with a mixture of Distressing Inks.  It is then cut out using the Spellbinders Labels Seventeen and adhered to a card base cut with the Spellbinders Labels Eight.  I use the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine for all Die Cutting.

I have added some of the divine Want2Scrap Sage Green Pearls - I love this colour!

 

Finishing off with some Seam Binding and a button secured with gold cord, from my stash.

This card is for the following challenges:

Freshly Brewed - Anything Goes

Paper Shelter Challenge - Anything Goes 

Truly Scrumptious -  Flower Power

Whimsy Inspiration - Buttons and Bows

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Creative Mondays - Summer

Fashionista Challenge - Simply Summer

House of Gilli - Vibrant Colours/Summer

Lollipop Crafts - Flowers in Bloom

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Anything Goes

The Crazy Challenge - Recipe: Ribbon/Twine, Gems/Pearls, Dies/Punches

Amusing Challenges - HOT Embossing

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}}}

Guest Designer Part Two

I am back to share the other two cards I created as a Guest Designer for the Craft Queen back in May. You can see the first two cards here, or scroll down to the previous post.

I have created these cards using some of the divine papers from Echo Park.

 

The image NinaB Designs set for The Craft's Meow is stamped onto Spellbinders Labels Eighteen Nestabilities and layered onto the Lacey Circles Nestabilities.

 

and for my final card I have used the Spellbinders Fancy Tags Three Shapeabilities®  and the border Die from the Ironworks Accents Shapeabilities®.  All of my Dies have been cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine.  I have used ribbons and embellishments on all of the above cards, Nicole has so many divine products available in her store - it is so worth a visit!!

This card is for the following challenges:

Shopping Our Stash - Double The Ribbon - card 1

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

 Creative Mondays - Summer

House of Gilli - Vibrant Colours/Summer - card 2

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Anything Goes

Gingerloft - 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}}}

Craft Queen May Guest Designer

I was honoured to be a Guest Designer for the Craft Queen back in May and am long overdue to show you some of the cards I created using their product.  There is a set of four and today I will show you two and be back with close ups of the other two tomorrow!

I have created these cards using some of the divine papers from Echo Park.

For this card I have used a retired set illustrated by NinaB Designs for Layers of Color Art Stamps.  I have also used Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Pendant and the Fleur de Lis Squares Decorative Die Elements Nestabilities.

For this card I have used Spellbinders Lacey Circles Nestibilities and a Negative Die from Fleur de Lis Squares, the smallest size Die.  The crochet flower is handmade from my dear friend Maxine, I love it as the local point.  All of my Dies have been cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine

I have used ribbons and embellishments on all of the above cards, Nicole has so many divine products available in her store - it is so worth a visit!!

Thises cards are for the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Fashionista Challenge - Simply Sumer

House of Gilli - Vibrant Colours/Summer

Lollipop Crafts - Flowers in Bloom

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Anything Goes

Gingerloft - 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}}}

Petal Party

I am having such fun with the new images from Penny Black - this card is created using an image designed by my dear friend Nina of NinaB Designs, called Petal Party and I am loving it!   

I have used my Spellbinders Paper Arts Dies - Labels Eight, Beaded Ovals and Classic Ovals - they make a lovely framework for this image.

The image is coloured using SU Chalks/Pastels and Tsukineko fantastix, they work beautifully with Chalks.

I have added some of the gorgeous Want2Scrap Fancy Waves bling, also designed by NinaB Designs (yes, she is gifted lady!)

The layers are popped up with foam tape to give that added dimension.

This card is for the following challenges:

Great Impressions - Die Cuts and/or Punches

Let`s Ink It Up - Use Your Favourite Embellishments

Penny Black and More - All My Favourite Things - NinaB Designs, Spellbinders Dies

Crafty Calendar - Flowers in Bloom

Polka Doodles – Flowers

Shelly's Images - Bling

Always Something Creative - Garden

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 Love in Action

This weeks Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge is brought to us nb the lovely Helen this week.  Helen has chosen a scripture from the book of John. 

 "Dear children, let's not merely say that we love each other, let us show the truth by our actions" 1 John 3:18 NLT

Helen has challenged us to 1) image showing action OR 2) an image only on the front of your card (no sentiment on the front) OR 3) action card (make it move)

My image is from this weeks sponsor The Paper Shelter and has been coloured using Chalks/Pastels.  It has been cut out using the Spellbinders Standard Circles LG and layered into a Parisian Motifs Die using foam tape.

This has been layered into the Spellbinders Leafy Squares Nestabilities and has Mulberry Roses and Want2Scrap bling added.  All of my Dies have been cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine

Seam binding and a butterfly has been added and finishing off with a swirl from Want2Scrap.

This card is for the following challenges:

Crafty Ann's - It's A Girl Thing

Crafty Catz - Summer Time

Fun with Shapes & More - Summer

Fussy and Fancy - Swirls & Flourishes

Shelly's Images - Bling

I Brake for Challenges - Summer fun

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

Thank you to our sponsor The Paper Shelter

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

* Candice * Diane * Helen * Jerusha * Michelle * Sandie L *

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}}}

Lacey Butterfly

I am back with the second stamp in the gorgeous set from Penny Black  illustrated by my dear friend and ever so talented Laura Kirste Campbell - as I said in my previous post, those of you who LOVED Layers of Color and have been missing Laura's artistic flair, will be happy to know she is back and ROCKING the images.

Juts like the Lacey Bird this image, A Flight of Thread, co-ordinates with the Spellbinders Labels Twenty Nestabilities - don't you love that!

I have stamped two images and cut out the butterfly on one, coloured the image and the butterfly with Chalks using the Tsukineko fantastix , they are perfect for colouring.  They are then layered onto the Spellbinders Lacey Circle Nestabilities with foam tape.  The single butterfly is popped up with foam tape as well, to give the wings dimension.

Seam Binding is my ribbon of choice, I love the softness of it and how beautifully it makes bows without the 'bulk'!

 

 

A Mulberry Rose has been added.

This card is for the following challenges:

Emergency Crafters - Butterflies, Birds, Anything with Wings

Fun with Shapes & More - Summer

Just Add Ink – Pearls

4 Crafty Chicks - Monochromatic

Crafty Ribbons - Butterflies & bows

Crop Stop - Monochromatic

Crafting for all Seasons - many layers 

Truly Scrumptious - pink

Whimsy Inspiration - things with wings

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}}}

Lacey Bird

I am excited to be finally able to share a card with you using one of the new Penny Black images illustrated by my dear friend and ever so talented Laura Kirste Campbell - those of you who LOVED Layers of Color and have been missing Laura's artistic flair, will be happy to know she is back and ROCKING the images.

I love this Lacey Bird and the fact that it Co-ordinates with the Spellbinders Labels Twenty Nestabilities is such a plus.

The image has been cut out using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine  and coloured with SU Chalks/Pastels and my new secret weapon - the Tsukineko fantastix - I love these for colouring, they make it so easy - and we love that don't we!

The wing has been partially cut around and popped up onto a foam dot to give dimension but not bulk - to make it easier for posting. The shimmer is added with 3D Kindy Glitz - i love the texture this gives - it adds another dimension to the card.

This card is for the following challenges:

CCEE Stampers - Card with a vintage feel

DRS Designs - Anything that can fly

Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Rainbows, clouds or wings

Paper Crafting Journey - Handcoloured image

Sassy Studio Designs - Use something wet (stickles, smooch, glimmer mist, etc)

Southern Girls - Things with wings

I Brake for Challenges - Summer fun

Just Keep on Creating - anything goes

Whimsy Inspiration - things with wings

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Some Texture

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}}}

Father's Day Tutorial

It is my turn to post the Tutorial at Spellbinders Paper Arts - this weeks theme is 'Father's Day.'  Beate shared a fabulous card 'Father's Guiding Lights' and International Spellblogger shared 'So Glad you are my Dad'. 

To see my Step by Step Tutorial for my take on this week's theme, you can click here - I would love you to leave a comment so I know you have visited - it means so much to me!

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}}}

Patterned Wings

I have been busy creating a lot of projects - cards for Card Design Classes, tutorials for Design Teams, submissions for magazines and I have suddenly realised that it has been days since I posted - where is my head?! LOL!

I am happy to share a card created using images illustrated by NinaB Designs for Penny Black - love this Puzzle Parts set that co-ordinates with the Spellbinders Edgeabilities.  I have used the Classic Edges One Edgeabilities and layered it inside a negative of the Spellbinders Labels Eleven.  All of the Dies have been cut using the Grand Calibur, my Die Cutting machine of choice!

The butterfly is from the Free Flight set, also designed by NinaB Designs - this has been stamped with Tsukineko Versafine - Vintage Sepia ink, but out and popped onto the centre panel - the wings have been popped up using foam dots.

The bling is from Want2Scrap - my favourite bling!!

This card is for the following challenges:

I Brake for Challenges - Summer fun

Lia Stampz Challenge - Things with wings

Just Keep on Creating - anything goes

Tandastamps - Something new

Whimsy Inspiration - things with wings

Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash - Father's Day Or Masculine

Cards For Men - Father`s Day

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}}}