Happy Birthday To My Baby Girl!

Good morning! Just wanted to say "Happy 33rd Birthday!" to my daughter, Jasmine, and share the Birthday Card I made for her. Jasmine has quite the "creative eye" and the ability to bring her beautiful ideas to life, so making a card that she would truly love is sometimes quite a challenge...our styles are a bit different. But, I enjoy a good challenge once in a while, so here's what I came up with.

 

I think it turned out quite nice; though in hind site I think Jazz would have distressed the edges, to give it that "Shabby Chic" look, {she is so good working with that style!}. But, nonetheless I know she appreciates the work that goes into "Home {and Heart} Made things so she'll love it! 

Even though her Birthday is today, we celebrated on Sunday, 

 [since we could all get together}, complete with Ice Cream Cake from Diary Queen!

 

 

So, that's it for today. Have a great one!

Until next time ,

hugs,

Nancy

Time for a New Challenge {with new rules} over at Meljen's Designs!

I sure hope you get time to join in on some of the fun challenges happening over at Meljen's Designs. The rules have changed a bit and you don't have to use one of Melissa's images to participate. But if you do { Melissa has been so generous all summer with weekend freebies, so you should have a few to choose from}, your prize will be even greater than if you use another Artist's image. This week's challenge is "Laugh Out Loud!", use a funny sentiment on your project. Here is what I came up with...

I have to say that although this sentiment is funny, in my case it is true! I love cupcakes! Not only to eat but to colour and Melissa has almost 2 dozen of them in the shop! You can check them out right here. This one is called "Cupcake Treat Trio" and I coloured it with pencil crayons. The pretty papers are all from my Treasure Box. I simply type out the sentiment on my computer using a fun font.

Well, that's it for today. Hope to see your project linked up this week!

hugs,

Nancy


Challenges:
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Celebration
Mod Squad - Stripes

* Saying "Hi" to these cute images.

 

I recently discovered these cute digital images by Ppinky Dolls. Aren't they adorable! I love that these images have a lot of shaded areas already on the image. I used Copics to colour  her up with. The DP's are all MME. I used several different dies to cut out the different pieces. Embellishments included several buttons, thin satin ribbon tied in a bow, and 9 little heart brads. The sentiment is a rubber stamp and I used a circle punch to cut it out.

Hope to have another one of these images made up into a card really soon, {I've already coloured the image}.

Until next time.

hugs,

Nancy


Challenges:
*Ppinky Dolls - Anything Goes
Fan-tastic Tuesdays - Anything Goes with Buttons
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Spots and/or Stripes
Stamp and Create - Circles or Dots
* Cut It Up - Country's Colours (England)
Creative Knockouts - Bingo (digi/sentiment/ribbon)

DT Day over at Meljen's Designs

Hi there! For my DT Inspiration project I drew some inspiration from a little visitor we had this summer. A sweet little bunny! Here she is...

My husband and I thought she was just the cutest little thing and loved seeing her hopping around in our back yard. Then our neighbour told us that all of her Coneflowers had been eaten off, by what she suspected was a rabbit.  That's when we noticed that not only our Coneflowers, but most of our perennials, had been devoured! We also realized that our cute, little bunny had grown into a large, flower-eating rabbit! We tried to catch her in a live trap but ended up catching a squirrel instead!  Afraid that we might end up catching something worse {ie. skunk!}, we gave up on that idea. We then decided to secure our back yard so the rabbit couldn't get in, only to find out that we had ended up trapping her in! With the Fall season right around the corner we'd decided to give up catching her for now, only to discover that she has had a litter of little ones! Hopefully, as the foliage dies down in our flower beds, we will be able to discover where they are hiding and assist them in finding a new dwelling place. 

Anyway, all that said, here is the card that came out of this experience. 

 

 

 I still think bunnies are the cutest little things and Melissa has a litter full of adorable bunny images in the store. This one is called "Sweet Little Lop" and you can find her in the shop right here. 

Until next time, happy crafting.

hugs,

Nancy

I Love Sketch Challenges!

So glad you stopped by today because I want to let you know that Meljen's Designs is having a "Sketch Challenge". You can check out the great sketch right here.

This is what I came up with...

 

I'd call this sketch pretty "CAS" and I loved working with it!

I used Meljen's pre-colored image "Little Gingerbread Man". I used a Spellbinder die to cut out the holly leaves; used some red brads for the berries; a bit of folder embossing and several red buttons. Quick and easy, and it's given me a jump on my Christmas cards!

Well, I hope you will give this sketch a go and then share it with us over on the Meljen's Challenge blog. I'll be keeping my eye out for your work!

hugs,

Nancy

Time for a New Challenge....

Hope you are enjoying your summer. It certainly is flying by.  Hopefully the nice weather will hang around for a while.

Over at Meljen's Designs it is time for a new challenge and this week it is called "Splat!"; we would like to use paint, sprayed ink, etc. on your project.

I have to admit I had a hard time with this one, I couldn't get the ink to spray where and how I wanted it to! Let's just say at least 3 attempts ended up tin the trash! Here is what I finally came up with...

 

 

I used the Meljen's word art "Smile", with that cute little lady bug on it. I folder embossed 2 opposite corners and then I sprayed it with red Copic ink {from one of my refill colours}.  I trimmed it up close the the edge of the embossing and then mounted it onto white card stock. I ran a few strips of Washi Tape around the edge and then trimmed it up again to fit on my card base. I added a pretty bow and a few red flowers to finish it up. After so many attempts I was pleased with how this turned out.

I hope you will take a visit to the Meljen's Designs blog and see what the rest of the DT came up with and then try your hand at it! 

hugs,

Nancy

 

It's My Meljen's Designs DT Day

Good Friday morning to you. Hope you are looking forward to a wonderful relaxing weekend. Got to enjoy the Summer days while they are here!

Summer is a very busy birthday season for me, so I can never have too many cards on hand. Here is one I made for my daughter...

 

I used the Meljen's image "Little Stitched Flower", which I printed on 2 pretty DPs, in 2 different sizes. {Re-sizing of images; one of the many things I love about digital images!} I used a double layer of buttons, tied with stretchy gold thread, as the flower center. I had these wonderful big brads,but they were the wrong colour, so I pressed them into my ink pad and sprinkled them with embossing powder and heated them up with the heat gun...voila!, just the colour I needed! I folded little pieces of ribbon in half and attached them with the brads. The sentiment was cut using a die. All edges were ink distressed and, as usual, I faux stitched around most everything!

Well, that it for me.

Until next time.

hugs,

Nancy