Another Attempt At CAS [clean and simple]

Happy Sunday morning to you. Hope you are looking forward to a wonderful day. I am! I'm in charge of childcare at Church today and we are going to make a fun Thanksgiving Day craft and have a special treat during snack time. I love hanging out with our little ones...they are such a great group of kids!

Since it is Sunday, that also means there is a new challenge up at the Scrapping Turtle and here is my Guest Designer project for the CAS challenge.

 

 

I think I like this one better that the one I did a few weeks back. It just seems cheerier and brighter. I think it helps that I used a striped piece of DP [ from my leftover scrap box] as the card base. The flowers were cut by using a Spellbinder Die. I used these pretty little floral printed buttons for their centers. The decorative edge was cut using a Memory Box Die. { I own an pre owned original red Sizzix, a Grand Caliber  and {won} a Big Shot, and I use all three all the time! All three are so great for die cutting and folder embossing. If you don't have one I recommend you get one...you won't regret it]. The sentiment is a rubber stamp. Again I did a bit of faux stitching to tie this card together and finish it up. Sure do hope you will play along with us. Check it out right here.

 

If you are a fellow Canadian I'd like to wish you a very Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving Day tomorrow. Hope get to enjoy the day with family and friends and have lots of turkey and pumpkin pie. For the rest of you non Canadians be blessed anyway!

hugs,

Nancy

 

Challenges:

CAS on Sunday - Get Well Soon

That Craft Place - Think Pink

Dream Valley - Buttons

Hiding In My Craft Room - Super Scraps

CAS-ual Fridays - Stitches



*** Christmas Joy

Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to stop by. Today I would like to share with you an easel card I made featuring a Tiddly Inks digital image that I just bought; Winter Wryn.  I coloured her with my Copics and then fussy cut her out and attached her with a triple layer of foam squares to make this winter scene.
 

 

I used a Spellbinder's die to cut out the main white parts and used them as the base for this rectangle easel card. I matted them and formed the easel back with a cranberry coloured cardstock. I then traced the inside of the same die on to first a red printed DP [the wall] and a wood look DP [the floor] and adhered them to the center. I used a different die to cut the scalloped baseboard. Another die was used to cut out the window. I adhered a piece of snowflake DP the back of the window and then attached it to the easel front with foam squares. I used a Sizzix die to cut out the Christmas tree and another Spellbinders to cut out the pine bough branches. The big snowflakes were made using a Martha Stewart punch. I added a twine bow and button to the center of the pine boughs, lots of glitter to the snowflakes and a wooden star, some faux snow, "gem bulbs" and a hand cut pot to the Christmas tree.

 

 

I added a couple more die cuts to the base of the card and then mounted a free digital sentiment which I punched out with a circle punch to the center with more foam squares.

 

This card was a lot of fun to make, especially watching as all the pieces came together.

Thanks again for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

hugs,

Nancy

 

Challenges:

 

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Simply Christmas

* Craftitude - Anything Goes plus something beginning with S [snowflakes]

Crafts Too Challenge You - A Christmas Scene

Fairytale - Bingo [snowflakes/winter/gemstones]

Sister Act - Anything Goes

Stampi' For The Weekend - Anything Goes

Sweet Pea Stampers - Sparkle and Shine

Tiddly Inks - Anything Goes

Craftyhazelnut's - Anything Christmas



*** Whoop, Whoop! I'm Guest Designer over at Color Dare!

A few weeks back my  CAS card won the challenge over at Color Dare and my prize was a "Guest Designer" spot for their challenge this week. What a great honour! Thank you Marie and the rest of the Color Dare Team for granting me this privilege. I hope you like my project.

So, this week, over at Color Dare, the DT's would like to see you use "Cranberry plus One Other Color" on your project. [neutrals are also allowed]. Here is the card I came up with: 

 



Since here in Canada we will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day this weekend I decided to do a card using that as some of my inspiration. Along with the Cranberry coloured card stock I used a Hunter Green, an Ivory and a piece of DP [ the poppies], all from my scrapbox! [love when that happens!]. As you can tell I used a few different dies; some Memory Box, some Spellbinder, and some Sizzix. I also used 2 different folder embossers. I hand stitched [using 3 strands of cranberry coloured embroidery floss] around the center die cut. I used the same floss to attached the sentiment label. The sentiment is a clear stamp by Inkadinkadoo, which I stamped using a cranberry coloured ink.

I'd like to thank you for stopping by today and hopefully you will take a minute or two to check out what the Color Dare Challenge Team have come up with over at their site. Hopefully you will even be encouraged and inspired to play along with us.

Until next time.

hugs,

Nancy

Challenges:

C.R.A.F.T. - Autumn/Halloween/ Thanksgiving
Happy Campers - Show Us Your Flowers
Divas By Designs - 3 or more Layers
Little Red Wagon - Thanksgiving
* Perfect Sentiment - Layered Thanksgiving
Simon Says Stamp - No Digi - must Stamp

For You, With Love

 

 

Good Tuesday afternoon to you all. It's turned out to be a beautiful sunny day here in SW Ontario! I love sunny days, they just make even hard days that much easier to get thru.

Today I'd like to share a card I made featuring one of the adorable Tiddly Ink digital images. I love these images...they are all just so cute! I used Copics to colour her up  with. The DPs used are leftover pieces from other projects. I've used 5 different dies on this card. Most are by Spellbinder, thought the fancy edge is a Memory Box die.  I am trying to use up the ribbon, flowers and buttons in my leftover jars so this card has a modge podge of them for embellishments. Here is a close up:

 

 

The sentiment is by Stampin' Up.  I added some ink distressing and faux stitching to finish this card up.

Hope you have a blessed day. Until next time.

hugs,

Nancy

 

Challenges:

 

Tiddly Inks - Anything Goes

Lexi's Creations - Pink

Anyone for Anya - Monochromatic

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Dream Valley - Buttons

Keep It Square at the Scrapping Turtle

 

Hi there. This month I have the pleasure of being Guest Designer over at the Scrapping Turtle. Today I'd like to share with you a card I made for the "Keep It Square" challenge going on over there. [Hope you'll join in and play along.]

The digital image is by A Day For Daisies. I coloured it with my Copic Markers. The DPs are all "oldies but goodies"from my scrap box. I used several different Spellbinder Dies to cut out the corner flourish, the leaves and the layered flower.  Lots of faux stitching and a bit of line work on the leaves. I also used some Washi Tape to create the flat ribbon ends along the bottom of the image.A single button  for the flower center helped to finish this card up. 

Thanks for stopping by. I do hope you will take a minute or two and head over to the

Scrapping Turtle to check out what their talented DTs came up with.

hugs,

Nancy

 

Challenges:

A Day For Daisies - Flowers
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Flower
365 Cards - Square Card plus at least 2 more squares on project
Sister Act Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafting By Design - Anything Goes
The Stamping Chef - Stitching
Just Inspirational - Bingo [square/3DPs/flowers}
Oldie But A Goodie - Bingo [stitching/flowers/die cuts]
The Scrapbooking Queen - Anything Goes
 

*** So Glad You Stopped By.

Today is my DT Day over at Meljen's Designs and so I'd like to share with you a Halloween card I made for my Mom. My Mom is 80 years old, but she is a "Young Girl in a Great Grandma Body"! Mom loves to be around people and looks forward to any opportunity to have some fun. Halloween has always been one of her favourite holidays...she has always dressed up in a costume just to hand out candy and she loves seeing all the little children in their costumes; she even buys a disposable camera to take their pictures! This past year Mom has moved into an apartment building that doesn't allow "Trick or Treaters" and that has made her a little sad. So to brighten her day I thought I send her this card along with a box of her favourite chocolates.

 

 

 

Here is a close up shot to show how I raised up the Pumpkins using foam squares.

 

 

What do you think? I'm thinking this will bring a smile to her lovely face.

The DPs are by Bo Bunny and the sentiment is a rubber stamp I got at Michael's [in the $ Bin]. I added some faux stitching and some distress inking to the edges. The 3 small pumpkins are actually buttons. The digital pumpkin images are of coarse by our talented Melissa and you can find them right here in the shop. The frighten one is called "Surprized Pumpkin" and the other one is a new image called "Top Hat Pumpkin". Both of these images were fun and easy to colour up. I also used a Tim Holtz's die [along the bottom edge] and a Whimsy Stamp die [around the sentiment]. A pretty orange gingham bow helps to tie this card all together.

Well, that's it for me for today. I hope you have a blessed week and don't forget about our Meljen's "Sketch Challenge" going on right now...we'd love to see your take on it.

hugs,

Nancy

 

Challenges:

2 Creative Chicks - Halloween

Imagination Crafts - Halloween

The Stamping Boutique -Halloween

Cuttin' and Stampin' - Halloween

Bearly Mine - Halloween

Sarah Hurley - Halloween

My Heart Pieces - Halloween

Cute Card Challenge - Signs of Distress

Crafty Ribbon - Anything plus Ribbon

* Craftin' Boutique - Halloween

 

Time For A Sketch Challenge!

 

Hope you are doing great today and that you are feeling up to a great challenge! Starting today, Meljen's Designs would like you to create something featuring this sketch:

 

Fun huh! I love all the layers! Here is what I came up with:

 

 

I decided to make a "Thanksgiving Day" card because I live in Canada and we celebrate this wonderful holiday in October. For the image I picked "Teddy Pilgrims" and coloured them with my Copics. I don't own a really big pretty die [and I didn't trust my shaky hand to cut out a nice shape], so I used this pretty "pre-cut" shaped DP by Little Yellow Bicycle, which I have had for at least a year! I did use a couple of Spellbinder Dies to cut out the image and it's matting and the flowers,[again using papers that I've had forever!]. It's kinda hard to tell from the picture but I folder embossed the cardstock base of the card. I added a few gem stones to the flower centers and some silver paint pen to the buckles on the bear's hat and shoe. I cut a strip of glittery paper and adhered it along the bottom.

For more inspiration and to enter your card in the challenge head on over to the Meljen's Blog.

Until next time.

hugs,

Nancy

Challenges:
Crafting By Design - Anything Goes
Inky Impressions - Blue as main color
The Stamping Chef - Stitching
Turtle Soup -  Crash Your Stash [use 2 papers that are at least 1year old]
Creative Craft Challenge 2 - Anything Goes
Inky Chicks - Use 2 different Die Cuts
Oldie But A Goodie - Bingo [ flowers/ stitching /die cuts ]
Just Inspirational - Bingo [flowers/gems/vintage]