A Couple of Challenge Cards

It has been a while since I participated in a challenge. I had some free time this weekend, so I went ahead and made these. The first one is for the Penny Black's Fresh Cut Challenge to "create something that focuses on fussy cutting, using punches and die cuts!" Easy enough, don't you think? The main image on my card was fussy cut. I used Penny Black's adorable Sweet Day stamp set.

I colored the cute image with Copics. I kind of messed up the dress and strawberries. I think it's because of the paper I used. But I guess these imperfections are what make handmade cards special :). The sentiment is from TCM's Life is a Carnival set.

My next card is for the Flourishes' Timeless Tuesday Challenge to use glitter. I used Flourishes' Summer blossom stamp set and colored them with Copics as well.

You can see more clearly the glitter I used on the flower centers. The papers on both cards are by My Little Shoebox.

I hope you're having a great day!

NinaB Designs September Blog Hop

EDIT: Some of the links may be off in the team members' blogs. Please use the list on my blog for the updated links. Thank you!

Hello, friends! After a much needed summer break, the NinaB Designs team is back to showcase some of my designs for our monthly hop. Make sure you check out the new Summer CHA Releases by Spellbinders, Want2Scrap and Penny Black, and my monthly release by The Craft's Meow.

For this month's hop, I challenged the team to create something with gift-giving in mind. Here are my projects. First is a set of tags that used Spellbinders' Homespun dies, Penny Black Free Flight stamps (background on tag) and The Craft's Meow stamps for the sentiments (Life is a Carnival and Love Dwells Here).

Here is a close up of the pie die cut. I just love how you can mix and match the top and bottom parts with different patterns. The sentiment is from TCM's Life is a Carnival.

Here's a close up of the basket with a small tag die cut using Spellbinders' Home Sweet Home dies and TCM's Love Dwells Here. The tags are Want2Scrap Manilla Tags..

My second project is a card set using S5-088 Sewing Elements dies and TCM Sew Lovely stamps. This is the box I packaged the cards in.

I shared one of the cards in this set on a previous post. I'll be sharing the other two in a future post!

Here are the products I used for my tags and card box:

S5-142 Homespun

 

S5-089 Home Sweet Home 

The Craft's Meow's Sew Lovely

 TCM Love Dwells Here stamps

Penny Black Free Flight

To welcome you back to our hop, we are giving away these TWO PRIZE PACKAGES:

Prize Package #1 includes Spellbinders Ironworks Accents and Motifs:

Prize #2 includes The Craft's Meow's Vintage Rides and Retired Layers of Colors Dotted Dahlias and Dotted Peonies Stamp sets:

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

Nina Brackett (you are here!) * Beate Johns * Beatriz Jennings * Clare Buswell * Heather Jensen * Jennie Harper * Julie Overby * Lea Lawson * Linda Lucas * Viola Mahr

Everybody is welcome to comment and eligible to win. I will announce the winners on  September 22 right here. Due to the number of prizes being given away on my blog and my dependence on my mom to do the shipping, I have to ask that the winners email (via Contact tab above) me with their info within 4 days (till September 26) in order to claim the  prize. This will help with organization and avoiding confusion. Thanks for understanding!

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

Want2Scrap 

Penny Black Inc.

I hope we'll inspire you all today! Happy hopping! 

You're So Sweet

Slow and steady, I'm finally getting back to creating again and it's been wonderful. I'm still a bit rusty after taking a few weeks off, but I'm just glad I produced something. I can't stop now :).

Today's card uses a vintage image that I downloaded a while ago and I can't remember where I got it. I just love that little girl. If she were a brunette, she would totally remind me of my youngest, curls and all. The stamps are The Craft's Meow's Life is a Carnival and Timeless Tags sets. The images were die cut using Spellbinders dies. I used one of the Elegant Post dies as sort of a border. I like that and will do that again. The papers are Prima.

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Enjoy Your Day

Today's card uses The Craft's Meow's Life is a Carnival and Just Sayin' sets. The papers are My Mind's Eye's Hazel. I made this as part of a card set. You can see the other cards here.

Don't forget my giveaway. Please go to my Augst 22nd post for more details.

Hang on Tight

Hi, friends! We're buzzing over here in our home as we all excitedly anticipate my parents' arrival. My girls could hardly contain themselves. They've been counting the days for their arrival. What a blessing to have wonderful parents (and grandparents)!

Today's card is super simple and uses The Craft's Meow's Life is a Carnival set. The papers are MME Hazel.

Birthday Carnival

Hi, all! I hope you had a relaxing weekend. I spent much working on the computer, designing future stamps and dies. I feel like I accomplished so much, but I still have lots of ideas I want to make into stamps/dies. I love my job! I have been working hard as I will not be able to do much the next few weeks. We are taking about 100 kids to a youth camp on the Croatian coast for a week. I'm not much for camping, but it means so much to my girls and there's always a need for more workers. I know I will enjoy myself. I will share photos whenever possible.

Today's card uses The Craft's Meow's Life is a Carnival and Timeless Tags sets. The paper is by Echo Park.

 

 Here are some photos from a place I visited with our friends a couple of weeks ago. I forgot to share here some photos. This place is called Plitvicke Lakes and it's one of the prettiest places to visit in Croatia. I'm so fortunate to live just a few hours' drive from here. The lakes are crystal clear and have deep hues of blues and greens. Beautiful places like this make me more in awe of my Almighty Creator. 

 

And here's my favorite photo of that trip. It's my youngest with our pastor's wife, my girls' adoptive grandma in Croatia.

Enjoy the Ride!

Welcome to day two of The Craft's Meow's July Release previews. We're featuring Life is a Carnival today. This is a huge set (6" x 8") that includes tons of fair/carnival-themed images and sentiments. I made the images a bit bigger so you can use them on scrapbook pages as well as on cards. I also made the images a little more elegant and vintage than typical for this theme. I hope you will like them :-).

I stamped 3 of the images in the set to match the colors of my papers (Echo Park Dots and Stripes Candy Shoppe).

Make sure you stop by the TCM Blog for more project inspiration and information on release giveaways!

Come back tomorrow for another set I illustrated that goes with Spellbinders dies that I also designed. :-)