Remember...

 

Happy Easter to you. Hope you are having a wonderful day.

Today I have a layout for you. It is my last project as the March Guest Designer at Just Imagine Crafts. I want to say a big "Thank You" to Bev and all the wonderful girls on the JI Design Team. You've all been so  kind and helpful and I have loved working with you this month. Blessings to you all.

This layout is about my niece's grade 8 graduation. Now that is a day to Remember! The Dp's are an assortment of leftovers from my stash box. I used a rubber stamp for the sentiment.  Some pretty ribbon, a few buttons and a large Gerber daisy were used as embellishements. I used  Kreaxion punch # 902 (without insert, insert A and insert B. You can find these awesome punches right here.

Well, that's it for today.

Off I go in search of some chocolate...I'm sure the Easter Bunny must have dropped at least one chocolate egg around here somewhere!

hugs,

Nancy

Good Friday & MD New Release Day.

Blessings to you all on this Good Friday morning. I hope that you will celebrating, not only with Easter Egg hunts and chocolate bunnies, but with thankful hearts for all that this weekend truly is about...the wonderous fullfillment of God's love that started on that first Christmas morning. God really does love us with an amazing love, how blessed we are if we only accept it.
Because I will be enjoying the day with my husband, first at church and than visiting our parents, I decided to post this ahead of time just so you wouldn't miss out on the sweet new images Melissa, from Meljen's Designs has come up with this week. I made this corner bookmark using the image "Flower Power Car" and you can find it {and see that the rest of the DT created} right here. While you at it why not check out this week's Meljen's challenge "Easter Basket". The DT girls have come up with some really great projects to inspire you into playing along with us.
Well, that all for now.
hugs,
Nancy

Let me introduce you....

                                  ...to our new blog, "So Very, Very {P}interesting"  .
As a 2013 New Year's resolution we, (my granddaughter, Bellie; daughters; Season (Bellie's Mom); Jasmine (Bellie's Aunt) and myself, decided to try our hand at some of the projects we've pinned from Pinterest. We each wrote out 4 projects, threw them into a hat, had Bellie draw out 13 (we figured we'd do 2 around the Christmas season) and slotted them into the appropriate month. We've been busy scouring Thrift Stores, our basements, garages, junk drawers, etc. looking for the supplies needed to make these projects. The "Hunt" has been a lot of fun in itself, but getting together once a month to create is proving to be a lot of fun as well.
Each month we will have photos of our projects and share with you things we learned that worked out great or that we would change if we tried it again. We will also reveal the next project with a supply list just incase you might like to create a project along with us.
We've picked a wide variety of projects and we have also decided to make at least 2 of each: 1 to keep and 1 to share with a friend.
So without further delay let me introduce you to our first So Very, Very {P}interesting project:  Ceramic Tile Coasters. These were so easy and so very inexpensive to make. Definitely "A Will Do Again Project". Here are the ones I made:

My Keeping Set

 

My Give Away Set

(I gave the blue set to my sweet SIL, who has her foot in a cast and needed a little something to brighten her day).
So, now I invite to head over to So Very, Very {P}interesting and see how the others did their coasters and find out what our next  So Very, Very {P}interesting project will be.
Blessings & Hugs,
Nancy











 

Beautiful Things.

 

Hi there! Today I have another of my Guest Designer projects for Just Imagine Crafts.  This is a very simple card using only cardstock, Kreaxions punch #910 {with insert C on the corners}, Kreaxions Circle Cutter, a rubber stamp {sentiment}, a bit of ribbon and a few pearls. I love how these punches can be used to do edges, corners, and around the inside or outside of a circle. Their circle cutter is so compact & easy to use...a definitely a must have.

I do hope you will take a trip over to the Just Imagine blog and check out the wonderful and inspirational projects by their very talented Design Team.

Hugs & blessings on your day.

Nancy

Challenges:

Craft Your Passion http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.ca/ - Ribbon/ Lace

Rogue Redhead Designs http://rogueredheaddesigns.blogspot.ca/p/our-current-challenge.html - Focus on Sentiment

A Quick Hello with a New Release

 

Good Friday to you all. Hope you are looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Today is New Release Day over at Meljen's Designs. This one is called Little Hummingbird and you can check out the others right here. I cut the base using my Creative Memories cutting system. I also used the system to cut out another layer of white cardstock & the DP. I folder embossed the extra white layer before adhereing it to the front. The image is coloured with copics; adding a bit of glitter here & there. A few layered flowers to finish this card up.

Hugs,

Nancy

 

Challenges:

Forever Friends http://foreverfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/fortnightly-challenge-57-shaped-cards.html - Shaped card

Simon Says http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.ca/ - Spring/Easter

Dutch Dare http://dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.ca/ - Shaped Cards

Whimsy Stamps http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.ca/ - Stitching {Real/Faux}

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards http://chocolatecoffeecards.blogspot.ca/ - Bring On Spring

My Mum's Craft Shop http://mymumscraftshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-3-spring-has-sprung.html - Spring has Sprung

Oozak http://blog.oozak.com/2013/03/march-challenge-anything-goes-wspring.html - Anything with Spring

Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny

I am so glad you stopped by becasue I'd like to invite you to join in our New Challenge over at Meljen's Designs. This week we would like you to make Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny 3"x3" cards.

I knew right away which of Melissa's sweet images I wanted to use...precoloured "Loving Ewe".

When making smaller projects like this Melissa's precoloured images come in so handy. The colour quality is wonderful. You can find them right here in the shop: http://meljensdesigns.com/

Since 3x3 doesn't give you a lot of room to play with I kept these cards fairly simple...a cardstock base (brown) with a rust coloured matt, two different DPs and rounded the corners on everything but the card base.

I do hope you will play along with us. You can enter your project right here: http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.ca/

hugs,

Nancy

Challenges:

 

Paper Crafts Connection http://www.papercraftsconnection.com/ - March Gallery Challenge

A Little Late But Better Than Never

Well, it's official...Spring is legally here, at least according to the calender now we just need the weather to co operate. It's still just a high of -2 C here in SW Ontario and that's without the wind chill factor! {which is very cold !}.
Anyway, to try to give you a warm, snuggly feeling, I have 2 cards to share with you. Each one features last Friday's New Release Images from Melissa, over at
Meljen's Designs. Yes, I'm a bit late; but like my post title ...Better Late Than Never. {giggle}
This first card features the image "Easter Bunny Cupcake" , and I am going to enter it into the challenge at Simply Create Too, where the ladies are looking for Bunnies.
{Both cards qualify for the following challenges, but alas, I'm not sure how to enter them both from one blog post. I'm going to try from an open gallery, so I'll have to see what happens.}
 Crazy 4 Challenges provided this Sketch for their challenge. Party Time Tuesday is hosting a Colour Challenge, so I'm sure this assortment of embossed cardstock will work just fine. {It's so nice to be able to use up some of the stuff that's been hanging around in my scraproom for quite some time now! There are a whole host of Challenge Blogs looking for Easter projects, including: Simon Says, Oldie But A Goodie, Celebrate The Occasion and Twist of Faith, so I'll be entering both of these cards in their challenges, I used a Kreaxions Punch to add the fancy little border.

 

For card # 2,  I used the Sketch from Crazy 4 Challenges again, but switched the circles for rectangles. This Meljen's Designs image is called Spring Flowers Cupcake. Again I went with soft Spring colours so I think it will also qualify for the Colour challenge at Party Time Tuesdays. Lots of folder embossing again to give new life to plain, old cardstock, which gives it a nice Easter look for the challenges at Simon Says, Oldie But A Goodie, Celebrate the Occasion and Twist of Faith.

 

Well, that's it for today. Check back tomorrow for my project for the new challenge over at Meljen's Designs.

hugs,

Nancy