The Craft's Meow's Previews: Vintage Clocks

Hi, friends! It's that time of the month again when The Craft's Meow team previews the new stamps to be released on the 21st of the month. Today's previews highlight my new Vintage Clocks set. You know how much I love everything vintage and this set is another great addition to my collection and, I hope, in yours as well. This is a HUGE set with 5 clock images, one long border image and 15 sentiments/sayings that go well together. The sentiments can be paired to stamp inside and outside your cards.

It's been gloomy here lately, so I was inspired to make cards with happy colors for this release. I stamped one of the vintage clock images and sentiment in red to match the October afternoon papers.

To frame it, I die cut vellum with Spellbinders Oval Lace die. I used the vellum because I wanted the pattern to show through.

I am delighted that my dear friend Jennie Harper is joining me in showcasing my new  release. Here is her card that uses the vintage alarm clock image from Vintage Clocks. On her card, Jennie white embossed the alarm clock, sentiment and border. The white on dark pink paper makes such a bold and beautiful statement.

Please make sure you check out the TCM blog for more links to inspiring projects and information about the stamp giveaway! And don't forget to join us on the 21st for the Release Blog Hop! In the meantime, feel free to join the NinaB Designs hop going on now. Comment to win till September 21st! Spellbinders dies, The Craft's Meow stamps and retired Layers of Colors stamps are up for grabs. Have 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! 

Sunflower Kindness and an Announcement

It's a gloomy day today in our town and I felt like coloring. So I reached out for my Flourishes Sunflowers stamp set. The distressing was inspired by their current Wild and Wonderful Challenge.

The sentiments is from Penny Black's Foliage Fancy set. The papers are My Mind's Eye.

Tomorrow, the NinaB Designs team will be having our hop, after a summer break. I hope you can join us! My friends and I will be showcasing some of my work, including my brand new Spellbinders Licensed Design dies. And of course, there will be prizes!

Smiles

I'm sharing today a card I had posted on the Want2Scrap blog a few days ago. I paired my favorite bling with Niki Sivils papers  (Exit Here collection) and Spellbinders dies (my brand new licensed design called Homespun).

I love the bright colors of this collection that make me feel more summery, even though fall is just around the corner. The mason jar is from Spellbinders' Homespun set. I embossed and stenciled the designs on it with some Clearsnap inks. The sentiment is from The Craft's Meow's Stitched Sentiments set. It's framed with the gorgeous Want2Scrap's Nestabling Fancy Tags Two White Pearl.

The card is embellished by a paper doily, seam binding and Want2Scrap's Red Rose Ribbon 1" that you can see up close here.

I hope you have a wonderful day. I have another Niki Sivils card for you next week!

Want2Scrap Products used:

Nestabling Fancy Tags Two White Pearl

Red Rose Ribbon 1"

Cross Promo Products used:
Niki Sivils' Exit Here Collection
Spellbinders Homespun dies
The Craft's Meow's Stitched Sentiments set 
Clearsnap Vivid Brick Ink

GlueArts Adhesive Squares™ Brand Adhesives-PermaTac

GlueArts U-Cut-It® 4x4

A Pinterest Christmas

I have a Christmas card for you today for Flourishes' Timeless Tuesday Challenge. The the theme is Pinterest Christmas. Here is my inspiration:

Pinterest link

Here is my card that was inspired by the photo. I used the beautiful Flourishes' Seasonal Wreaths. The happy papers are October Afternoon's Sidewalk.

I copied the word banner across the wreath using letter sticker and added the flowers.

It seems so early to think of Christmas, but it's good to work ahead :). Have a great day!