Beautiful View, Vintage Fashion and New OWH Winner

We have had wonderful weather here and enjoying being outside. I finally put out some potted flowers and can't believe I waited this long to do it. Here is the view from my house. Our terrace is the perfect place for reading, having coffee and entertaining friends. I have even held craft classes here, but sometimes the wind makes a mess of our projects. :) God truly is the most amazing artist. And I am thankful that we get to express creativity ourselves having been made in His image.

I have a thank you card for you today that was inspired by vintage couture. I used some lovely Graphic 45 papers as a background for this card that I stitched in place.  I then placed an SRM Stickers doily off center. I then adhered Spellbinders die cut and Nestabling Petite Scalloped Circle Sm Black Rhinestones on top of the doily. I saved the cut portions of the die cut and doily to embellish other parts of the card.

The Want2Scrap Dress Form Silhouette – Card Sized (2 Pack) fits perfectly with this Graphic 45 paper. I placed the doily scrap as a skirt and Sleek Strips Pearls-White pearls as a belt on the dress form. The chipboard bird is from Bird Flourish – Chipboard and colored on the edges with Clearsnap white pigment ink. For the wing, I placed 3 72 Count – Teardrop Bling – White Pearls and a black pearl (from 72 Count – Black Pearls – Self Adhesive) for the eye. The sentiment is by Penny Black. which is anchored by a big Bulk Bling black pearl and the cut scrap from the off center die cut.

Finally, I never heard from my OWH Blog Hop winner, I'm drawing another one. The winner of my giveaway is...#84 By Annette. Please contact me (via Contact tab above) to claim your prize. Please put in your subject line, "OWH Memorial Blog Hop Winner" so I can easily spot your email in my every growing inbox. Have a great day!

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Get Well Soon Mixed Media Card and Winner

I have a mixed media card today that uses Distress inks, acrylic paint, embossing, markers, and of course, some lovely Want2Scrap products. I first heat embossed with white ink some Penny Black background stamps (text, music and woodgrain). I blended Distress inks in brown and blue, then squirted a little bit of water. With a pencil, I sketched a tree silhouette and colored that with Memento markers. Because the markers are water-soluble, I was able let the ink bleed a little with a water brush to make it look watercolored.

I then took 3 DecoArt acrylic paints in green blue, peach and white on a plastic palette. Using the eraser end of a pencil on the paints, I dabbed the dots on my tree as you see below. I started with the darkest green, then pink, white with a touch of peach, and finally white. I used the handle tip of a brush to get the smaller dots. I then embellished the dots with some Want2Scrap Le Creme pearls. I painted white on the outline of the Large Bird Flourish Silhouette – Card Sized (2 Pack) before adhering to the card. I then used 72 Count – Teardrop Bling – White Pearls for the wing. The sentiment is by SRM Stickers, which was mounted with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares.

I'm entering this card to Curtain Call's challenge. Muse Challenge (sketch), Colour Me #16, Fusion (Photo Insp), SSS Wednesday Challenge. It's been a while since I participated in challenges. And I'm now just finding out some of my favorites have closed shop. But I'm excited to see some new ones have taken their place.

Now, the winner of Monday's giveaway is...Patti P. Please email me via the Contact tab above with the subject, "Lots of Love for Lauryn Winner" so I can spot your email right away in ever-growing inbox. :) Thank you all for joining us in the hop.

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Fairy Birthday Card and Winner

I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was wonderful. It was sunny and warmer than usual. Snow has melted and I didn't need to wear my marshmallow jacket outside. :) It's a little colder today, but it's not supposed to last. I believe this is the shortest winter we've ever had here.

My card today is one I made for my youngest who loves pink, purple and fairies. It's hard to see, but the tag says, "Celebrate" and it's from my now retired TCM set. It was die cut using Spellbinders' die. The papers and image panel are Graphic 45. The flower is by Prima. The panel was framed with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Photo Corners. And the pearls are Want2Scrap.

Finally, the winner of my giveaway is...CARRIE R. Please send me an email (via Contact tab above) and under subject, please type "Penny Black Feb 2014 giveaway." Thank you all for entering. I will have another giveaway soon. 

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So Blessed, New Stamps & Winners

Hello, friends! I have a new card, new stamps and the winners of the NinaB Designs blog hop to share with you today.

First my card...I used 3 of my Penny Black stamps: Lace Delight (the border on the bottom), Petal Party (flower) and So Blessed (sentiment). I had so much fun making this card. I used that Polaroid frame again.

The die cut center is actually parchment paper cut using the Spellbinders Medallion Four die. Isn't it beautiful? The flower was colored with Copic markers. The leaves were die cut using my design, Spellbinders Little Leaves.

Now some new stamps to share with you. These 5 sets were introduced at Winter 2013 CHA and are now available at your LSS or the PB Online store:

 And last week, The Craft's Meow had their February Release, including these two sets of mine: Baby Shelf and Soaring High:

***And now the winners of the NinaB Designs hop:

Prize #1 from my blog: Tammy  

Prize #2 from Clare's blog: Moosik

Winners, please email (via Contact tab above) me with your info within 4 days (till Feb 28) in order to claim the  prize. Please put under Subject, "Feb 2013 NBD Hop Winner." This will help with organization and avoiding confusion since I have to depend on my mom to do most of my mailing for me. Thanks for understanding. Thank you all for entering! See you next month for the March Hop!

New Stamps and Winners!

I hope you enjoyed the new The Craft's Meow recent release. These are the two that are my designs:

Beautiful Hymns
See project samples HERE 

 Crafty Shelf
See project samples HERE

The Craft's Meow release hop is still going on and you could win these and the other new sets.

Now...the winners of the NinaB Designs Blog Hop:
Prize #1 from Lea's blog is...Loly Borda-Towery
Prize #2 from  Beatriz' blog is...Becky Dunham

Winners, please email (via Contact tab above) me with your info within 4 days (till Jan 26) in order to claim the  prize. Please put under Subject, "Jan 2013 NBD Hop Winner." This will help with organization and avoiding confusion. Thanks for understanding.

TCM Previews: Valentine Wishes and Winners!

Hello, friends. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! We don't have Thanksgiving here in Croatia, but we celebrated it as a family. We even had our own version of Black Friday (without the deals :( ) and finished our Christmas shopping. Then the weekend was spent at church and cleaning my house. After I've been sick for a couple of weeks, I've been playing catch up. It's been busy and so I apologize for the delay in announcing the winners of the NinaB Designs blog hop. Please scroll below!

The Craft's Meow team has previews this week for our November release. Today's set is one by Mabelle RO called Valentine Wishes. It's her signature cute and adorable style that is so fun to color and/or paper piece like I did below.

I colored her hair and pants with Copics and paper pieced the dress. The papers are My Mind's Eye. I adorned my card with some Want2Scrap bling.

Please make sure you stop by the TCM blog for more info on today's giveaway and inspiration!

Now, for the winner of the NinaB Designs Blog Hop. Prize #1 came from my blog and goes to...Lagene! Prize #2 came from Julie Overby's blog and goes to...Pam! Winners, please email (via Contact tab above) me with your info within 4 days (till Nov 30) in order to claim the  prize. This will help with organization and avoiding confusion. Thanks for understanding and happy hopping!

Mass-Produced Cards Tutorial and Winners

For my The Craft's Meow's preview post, please scroll down below or click HERE.

Happy Monday, friends! I hope you had a relaxing weekend. As promised, I am showing you how I mass produced some of my Christmas cards this year. It's pretty simple really and it starts with a basic sketch. I made at least 24 cards from one paper pack.

Supplies

• Spellbinders' Sweet Folk Art, Home Sweet Home and various Labels dies
• The Craft's Meow's Season's Greetings stamp set
• My Mind's Eye Merry 6x6 paper pack
• Inks in red, black and white pigment
• Optional: ribbons, twine, buttons

Instructions (Click photos to enlarge):

1. Cut various dies from 6 sheets of the paper pack. I cut two sheets at a time. Die cut labels from kraft and/or sand cardstock. I do this while watching TV or something else with the family.

2. Cut 1” (2.5 cm) off the remaining 18 of the 6x6 papers. You will end up with 18 sheets of 6" x 5". Save the 1" strips for later use.

3.Cut 12 of the sheets in half. Cut the remaining 6 in quarters. You will end up with 24 - 3"x 5" panels and 1.5"x5" strips:

4. Mix and match solids/prints of the patterned paper pieces, one panel and one strip for each card:

5. Adhere them to coordinating folded A5 cards. Stitch the top and bottom edges of the patterned papers, if desired:

6. Put together tags (see previous post):

7.  Adhere tags to front of cards. I made three versions:

Easy (added twine only to the tag, no stitching)

Intermediate (added folded ribbon and some stitching)

Fancy (added ribbon, button and twine, stitching)

I will show other cards later using the other die cuts. You can see others that I already posted on my blog here and here.

And now, the WINNERS of the NinaB Designs Blog Hop.  The Spellbinders' Ironworks Accents and Dies go to...Shartl (from Linda's blog). The winners of my Layers of Color stamps is Lisa's Creative Niche (from Clare's blog). Winners, please email me via Contact tab above with your info within 4 days (till October 26) in order to claim the  prize. Under the subject line, please put "NinaB Designs Oct 2012 Blog Hop winner." This will help with organization and avoiding confusion. Thanks for understanding!

Here For You and Winners!

Thank you so much to your kind words about my new TCM stamps, Vintage Clocks. It's now available for purchase at the TCM store. I have another card for you using this set. I love how even with its vintage images, I can create fun and cute cards, as long as I pair them with fun and cute papers and embellishments. I love this set's versatility and that you're not limited to creating the vintage/shabby style with it.

I stamped one of the clock images directly on to the patterned paper. You will find my favorite embellishments here, like lace, button and twine.

I stitched the sentiment in place. I also added stitching on the bottom or the paper strip, just because it looked like it needed it :). The papers are all by October Afternoon

Now, on to the winners of our last Nina B Designs Blog Hop. Thank you for all your kind comments. I hope that you were inspired by all the work put together by the team. 

Prize #1: The winner is picked from Beatriz Jennings' blog... Monica Edwards!

Prize #2: The winner is picked from Jennie Harper's blog...Renee!

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! We'll see you on October 14th for the next NinaB Designs Hop!

Cards and Winners!

Thank you all so much for your visits while I was gone. We took a much needed break. My family and I were treated to a Grecian vacation where we got to see many ancient sites that brought Bible stories to life! We visited places where the Apostle Paul went, like Philippi, Thessaloniki, Corinth, Berea, Athens. It was a trip we will not soon forget. I'll share some photos in a future post. We hit the ground running as we now prepare for a super busy summer (expecting 23 guests this weekend!) that involves English and Youth camps, so I'm still on semi-hiatus on this blog over the next few weeks.

Here are today's cards. I made these a few weeks ago, but never got to sharing them. These use leftover scraps from my Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe collection.

I'm always in need of girly cards for my girls' friends. The sentiments on this card is from a LOC retired set.

This one will be perfect for one of my girls as they are all Daddy's girls (well, they're Mommy's girls, too). It'll be hard to pick which daughter gets it...Hmmm, I may have to whip 2 more similar cards. :)

Before I announce the winners, I have to let you know that most of the prizes will not be mailed out until July 17 at the earliest. I'm sending them through my American friends who will return to the US then. They will get to you faster (and it's more secure!) that way, than if I send them from Croatia. Also:

A note about claiming your prize: 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 July 10) in order to claim the  prize. This will help with organization and avoiding confusion. Thanks for understanding!

Now onto the winners of my giveaway...

Spellbinders Sewing Elements dies... Monika Buzsy

Spellbinders Bauble Blossoms One...Denise Bryant

Want2Scrap Bling...Nicole Doiron

The Craft's Meow's Vintage Rides stamp set ...  Becky Dunham

Layers of Color's Sweet Silhouettes stamp set (retired) ...House Built of Cards 

Congratulations, winners! Please email me via the Contact tab above and, if possible, with the subject, "June 2012 Giveaway Winner (prize)." This will make it easier for me to spot your email in my ever growing inbox :). Thank you, all, for joining in my giveaways.

Birthday Girl Vespa, Winners and a little peek!

I hope you had a great weekend. We had some rain here with chilly winds. It was a perfect paper crafting kind of weather :).

I have a girly card for you today and my girls totally love it. I used the Vespa scooter from my new TCM Vintage Rides stamps for this card. I colored it with Copics.

I just love these happy papers from October Afternoon's Sidewalks collection. I die cut some scalloped borders using Spellbinders Edgeabilities dies and layere them here. .

And now the winners of the NinaB Designs blog hop giveaways:

Spellbinders Home Sweet Home from Heather's blog is...Jean Martin

Want2Scrap bling from Beatriz' blog is...Sandra

The Craft's Meow's Thanks Bee to Thee stamp set from Clare's blog is...Ruza's Craft Corner

The Craft's Meow's Lovely Birds set from Jennie's blog is...Margie

Congratulations, winners, and thank you all for joining our hop. Please email me, via tab above, with your address, so I can send off the prizes to you.***Remember that you can still enter the Crafty Friends Challenge to win the Spellbinders Sewing Elements dies!***

Finally, do you recognize this lady stamp? :)

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