The 1st Nina B Designs Blog Hop: May You Be Blessed

Welcome to the first ever Nina B Designs Dream Team Blog Hop! We are so thrilled to have you join us on this very special day. My friends and I have some projects to show you that feature the Nina B Designs' Spellbinders™ Paper Arts (Home Sweet Home and Sewing Elements), The Craft's Meow Stamps, and Want2Scrap bling.

Here is my project for today. It's something that I've always wanted to make, but never could because of lack of tools. It's part of the reason I was inspired to design the Home Sweet Home dies by Spellbinders. My family and I host a lot of friends throughout the year. In our guest bedroom, I did a print out of this old saying as a welcome to our guests. I always wanted to create something more personal than just a printed page, and so here it is now.

I decorated my wall hanging with birdcages from The Craft's Meow Tweet of You stamp set. I die cut my letters using an electronic cutter.

 

All the papers, glittered chipboard and this adorable mini vintage frame and photo (which is a sticker) is by Melissa Frances. Aren't they beautiful! I love MF products!

 

I die cut more Melissa Frances papers with the house and wings from  Spellbinders Home Sweet Home dies. I inked the edges of the house and the embossed part of the wings. The pretty little bling is Want2Scrap Borders and Corners collection.

I finished my project using some of my favorite things: twill tape, flowers, buttons (put these instead of the letter O's) and lace.

Here are the dies the Nina B Designs team is showcasing today:
Spellbinders Home Sweet Home

Spellbinders Sewing Elements:

Now we can't have a hop without giveaways, can we? I added a fun twist to the giveaways. There is a prize hidden in each of the designers' blogs, so, I encourage you to comment on each of them to be entered in all the drawings. Now the rules:

• The prizes are hidden in the blogs and winners will be drawn randomly.
• One comment per blog please. ***Just to clarify, you DO NOT NEED to comment on ALL the blogs to qualify for the prize, but it certainly increases your chances of winning!***
• The giveaways are open to everybody in the world!
• The winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 21.
• This is not required, but if you have projects using NinaB Designs stamps, dies and/or bling (see tabs above), please upload it to the NinaB Designs Flickr gallery, so we can all see your beautiful work. And who knows, I may have a Flickr fan giveaway someday :).
• This is not required, but please consider liking the following Facebook pages: NinaB Designs, Spellbinders Paper Arts, The Craft's Meow and Want2Scrap. These companies provided some of the prizes today. Join me in thanking them and tell them NinaB Designs sent you. Thank you, friends. :)

Here are the prizes that are being given away - 11 prizes and 11 stops in the hop:

Spellbinders Layered Flowers dies	Spellbinders Aster Flower Topper dies	Spellbinders Bauble Blossoms One	Spellbinders Bauble Blossoms Two dies
Spellbinders Classic Decorative Inserts One dies	TCM Timeless Tags set	TCM Sending You Sunshine set	TCM Lovely Birds set
TCM It's a Banner Day set	TCM Fruity For You stamps	Want2Scrap Borders and Corners

Thank you for joining in my excitement with this fabulous team! Now, go be inspired as you visit these talented ladies.

Beate Johns * Beatriz Jennings * Clare Buswell * Heather Jensen * Jennie Harper * Julie Overby * Lea Lawson * Linda Lucas * Mona Pendleton * Viola Mahr

Celebrating You Birdcage

It's been a great day of reunion and unpacking, so I'm a little late with today's post. My sweet husband brought me and the girls our goodies and left his beloved books behind, due to limited luggage space.What a guy! I am thankful to God for this life we've built together and I am indeed a blessed wife.

For my card, I used The Craft's Meow's Tweet of You and Celebrating You stamp sets. I also used Hero Arts Hydrangea card on the background. The papers are the brand new Miss Caroline by My Mind's Eye. I love these papers. I bought mine from Papers and Such and she shipped so fast even for me who's overseas.

I had to bling it up with some brown flourish by Want2Scrap. At first I thought it was odd to put a flourish there, but I am happy with it :). I just gotta have my bling :).

Don't forget to join us on Thursday as my friends and I do our very first blog hop. See you then!

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Bird-day Birdcage

Hi, friends! Happy weekend! Do you have any crafting plans? I'm having a card workshop tomorrow with some friends and their friends. We planned this two weeks ago, but we were snowed in. We anticipate spring-like weather this weekend, so I can't wait!

Today's card uses one of my latest The Craft's Meow stamps, Tweet of You.  I made it a little whimsical by adding the wings from my Spellbinders Home Sweet Home dies.

The papers are Crate Papers again. The little flower is hiding a little stamping "blob" :-). The colors were inspired by this week's Moxie Fab's Tuesday Trigger.

Enjoy your weekend!

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Loving Thoughts Birdcage and Artsy Hair

Thank you for joining The Craft's Meow release hop. I hope you found tons of inspiration to apply to your own paper crafted projects.

Today's card uses one of my new TCM sets called Tweet of You (birdcage) and the sentiment is from Sent With Love. It's a fairly simple card with lots of "white" (patterned paper in this case) space.

The gorgeous papers are Melissa France. You can see my new favorite embellishment, Want2Scrap's rose ribbon on this card again. I think what makes it stand out from other companies' similar product is its smaller size, just perfect for card makers like me. The little bird is a punch by Martha Stewart.

Now on a different topic: hair. My girls love it when I fix their hair beyond the simple ponytail. Here are some of our hair adventures that were so much fun to make and produce beautiful results.

This first one we call Everlasting braid bun because you can't tell where the braid starts and ends. 

 Here is the back view: 

This one is called the Waterfall Braid, which is perfect with shoulder-length hair.

Have a great day, friends!

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