Sewing-inspired Friendship Card

I shared two sewing-inspired cards on the Want2Scrap blog today. Both cards use stamps from the The Craft's Meow's Sew Happy set, which coordinates with Spellbinders' Sewing Elements dies.  

Here is one of them using Want2Scrap's Beautiful Bling Borders-Fancy Waves! on the side. 

The bling strip is just the perfect accent, along with some lace and buttons.

Please check out the other card on the Want2Scrap blog. Thanks, friends!

Butterfly Hi

I have a card for you today that is also featured on the Crafter's Home blog to celebrate WCM day! It has all the pretty Want2Scrap lovelies that make your project literally shine. :)

I used the Want2Scrap Nestaboard Labels Twenty Four to frame my focal point and adorned it with Nestabling Labels Twenty Four White Pearl. I die cut some beautiful Graphics 45 Little Darlings paper with Spellbinders Labels 24.The coordinating border was die cut using Spellbinders Classic Petal Edgeabilities.

The butterfly is from The Craft's Meow's Beautiful Spring set and I colored it with Copics. The sentiment is from Sew Happy, also by TCM. I love adding pearls to the butterfly bodies and the Baby Bling Pearls White - 100 Count - 2.5mm is just the perfect size for that.

Here you can see the Nestaboard and Nestabling up close.I love the depth they add to my projects.

Have a great day!

I'm still here! And summer highlights...

Hello, friends. Have you missed my posts? I know I have. I've been traveling and hosting all summer that I had to take a break from blogging. After a busy June and July traveling, hosting guests and doing outreach camps, my family and I went to visit the US to celebrate (though belatedly) my in-laws' 50th anniversary. I was away from my craft table pretty much all summer, but being with dear friends and family made it worth it :). I had hoped I would have time to do some work while in the US, but we don't go there often and always have more friends and family to see than we have days there.

I have missed creating and blogging, but I hope I'll get back on track quickly. I find that when I take a long break from anything, it takes me a while to get used to it again. My card today is something I made for my NinaB Designs blog hop that I had planned on Aug 15th, but an uncle passed away during that time that I had to postpone it. We will still have one in the near future, so don't worry :). This is a little preview.

I used my Spellbinders' Sewing Elements dies, which coordinate well with my The Craft's Meow's Sew Lovely and Sew Happy stamp sets. The papers are Crate Paper.

I used my usual favorite embellishments like seam binding and lace (from Ribbon Carousel), button and twine.

Here are some highlights of our summer. Our girls' introduction to professional baseball. Atlanta Braves vs the Padres. The Braves won!

Bible Camp in Pag, Croatia

English Camp

Visiting Vienna, Austria with some dear friends

Conference at the Aegean Sea, Greece (photo courtesy of Rich Hall Photography)

So how was your summer?

 

Sewing-inspired Happy Birthday

Hi, friends! Today's card is for The Craft's Meow's June Sketch Challenge. I had so much fun coming up with these sketches for TCM. There are so many fabulous sketches available online, so I wanted to do something a little different (at least for me).

Here is my card, using TCM's Sew Happy stamp set and Spellbinders' Sewing Elements dies.

The papers are Crate Paper's Pretty Party. The pin cusion was die cut and paper pieced.  I die cut Spellbinders' Romantic Rectangle for my tag. The colors were inspired by the Shabby Tea Room challenge this week (also include fabric elements, for which I used twill, lace and seam binding).

I hope you can play along with us for this challenge! Have a great weekend!

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The Craft's Meow's May Release Blog Hop

Hi, crafty friends! I hope you have enjoyed the previews The Craft's Meow team has been showing the last few days. If you came from my friend, Michelle Bertuzzi's, blog, then you are at the right spot. Please check the TCM blog for the list of participants.

The release is finally here that includes two sets by me. Flower Garden and Sew Lovely. For my project today, I made a card set that uses many of the new sets. The first two are the more feminine ones. I stamped several images from the  Flower Garden set to create a colorful background on a 4" x 5.5" white cardstock. I then cut it in half and used them on two cards.

I used a sentiment from Sew Lovely on this one. The patterned papers are from scraps I had laying around. 

This one uses a sentiment from Typically Teen set.

Here's a close up of the butterfly embellished with buttons.

I also made two masculine cards using the same concept. I stamped the borders from Retro Foundations using inks that coordinate with my card set.

This sentiment is from Dads & Grads. Because they're meant to be masculine, I didn't put the butterflies, but big buttons instead.

This sentiment is from Typically Teen. Twine in coordinating colors are perfect for this card set.

Here are the new sets by me that are now available in The Craft's Meow store.

Flower Garden

 Sew Happy

Sew Happy coordinates with my Spellbinders Licensed Design, Sewing Elements dies.

I am the last stop on the hop. Don't forget to comment here and everybody's blog for a chance to win the new stamp sets! And if you want more opportunities to win prizes, my NinaB Designs blog hop giveaway ends tonight. I will announce the winners tomorrow!