#GDP008 - Case the Designer - Zoo Babies

Hello again! Thanks for joining me again for a blog post, this time for a challenge for Global Design Project. This challenge is a 'Case the Designer" one, a card originally created by my friend and Stampin' Up! mentor, Kylie Bertucci. The original card she created was awesome - so it was a big ask!

Anyway, here is the card I came up with. I have followed the colour palette of Tip Top Taupe, Cherry Cobbler and Hello Honey. I wanted to make a birthday card for my friend who LOVES giraffes. This one is just so adorable.

I've included a colour swatch for my project below. I really love this colour combination!

And here is the challenge from Global Design Project. You can click on the image to go straight to their blog.

Here are the supplies I have used in my card today.

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Thanks for joining me for my card today! I hope you click on the link to see the awesome creations for the design team and other entrants.

Til next time,
Nicole x

Global Design Project #GDP007 - Farm, Tractor Punch Art, Tree Builder

Hi and welcome back to you! If this is your first time visiting me, I hope you enjoy my creations! Feel free to follow me so you don't miss any posts. You can also follow me on Pinterest and Facebook! Anyway! Today I have another card for you, this time following a challenge called Global Design Project. This is for #GDP007. The theme was FARM! I don't have any farm stamps, so I settled on puch art instead! I searched on Pinterest to find some ideas, and came across this cute Tractor. You can find the instructions HERE.

Here is my card.

The challenge is below. You can click on the image to be directed to their blog. Here you'll find awesome ideas and other challenges.

The supplies I've used today are:

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Thanks for coming along today!

Til next time,

Nicole x

SIP Challenge #19 Giggle Greetings

Hello there! Welcome back to my blog for a Stamp, Ink Paper challenge!

I liked that this challenge was a Tic-Tac-Toe grid. There are many options to participate in this challenge. There are plenty that relate to a Halloween theme but unfortunately Halloween isn't a big of a deal in Australia. However, one of the options involved a cat.... and my only cat stamp happens to be in one of my favourite funny stamps sets. Orange and Patterned Paper also complete the challenge options. I have incorporated these by using Pumpkin Pie and Tangerine Tango colours from the Brights Collection and Tangerine Tango Designer Series Paper.

Before I show you the challenge, here is my card.

Here is a view showing the inside of my card. I have used both sides of the DSP for a contrast.

Here is the challenge I have used for my card fir Stamp Ink Paper: you can click on the image to go straight to the challenge. 

The supplies I've used today are:

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Thanks for stopping by today!

Til next time,

Nicole x

Crazy Crafters October Blog Hop - Fun Folds

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop for October. This month we are excited to show off some amazing fun folds. We hope you find great inspiration from the projects.

You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog - Nicole Spicer - or may have come from the person previous to me in the list. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all the projects. At the moment you are visiting Nicole Spicer.

Here is the Blog Hop line up:

1.	Angela Lorenz
2.	Angela Westland
3.	Kylie Bertucci
4.	Bruno Bertucci
5.	Katie Kaup
6.	Sara Evans
7.	Stephanie Fischer - The Crafty Thinker
8.	Lisa Whitehead
9.	Carolina Evans
10.	Wendy Boag
11.	Vicki Hunter
12.	Sue Vine
13.	Rosalie Desmond
14.	Nicole Spicer

(Linkup closed)

Here is my card for this months blog hop, using the fun fold "Tri-Fold Shutter".

I absolutely love making tri-fold shutter cards. I think they're a great way to show off beautiful designer paper and let them really speak for themselves, without too much embellishment. I have used papers from the new 2015 Holiday Catalogue called "Season of Cheer". I think the design are so lovely and contrast so well together. The colours are really beautiful with a hint of Soft Sky on some of the designs. I have matted my panels of DSP with Mossy Meadow to compliment the Cheery Cobbler card base.

I have used two stamp sets on my card , one for the front called "Peaceful Wreath" and the sentiment from "Versatile Christmas". I seem to always purchase sentiment stamp sets in Wood mount because it saves so much time to stamp and go, especially in this case where I have stamped and then die cut my circles. For more precise stamping I always use my Stamp-a-ma-jig.

The dimensions of my card are as follows. I got this from Pinterest, from "The Per(s)nickety Scrapper". She also has some pics of how to cut and place your layered DSP. You can visit her blog by clicking on the image below.

I have also folded my card a bit differently to how I sometimes do it, because I wanted a flush, clean front with the same DSP showing.

I hope you've enjoyed my card today. I would love it if you could leave me a comment and let me know what you though too!

 A list of the supplies I have used are below.

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Til next time,
Nicole x

Just Add Ink #283 - Watercolour Wings

Hello again! This morning I got to make two cards! Look out! For those that know me, I have 4 kids and sometimes it can be days until I can sit down at my craft desk, let alone make two cards! But this one is a simple card based on a challenge sketch for Just Add Ink. I'll show you that after.

But here is my card. I had the butterfly pre-made in my stash so that saved me some time! Usually when I'm doing something as time consuming or fiddly as the 3 stamp process of this butterfly, I tend to make a few and have them on-hand! I also love washi tape!! So there is bound to be some I've used here that are retired, but they can be substituted for any you have!

 

The challenge from Just Add Ink is below. You can click on the image and it'll take you straight to their blog. Check it out for some great ideas!

 And here are the supplies I've used on this card.

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Thanks again for joining me today! 

Til next time,

Nicole x

Global Design Project #GDP006 & CAS Challenge #74 - Dove of Peace

Hello and welcome back to my blog today. Today I have made a card for two blog challenges, Global Design Project #GDP006 and Addicted to CAS Challenge # 74. Both these challenges will be below.

I had to change the layout on the GDP project  as I wanted to use the Dove of Peace stamp set from Stampin' Up! and I think it just looked wrong the other way, though maybe that's just my brain! I also wanted to use my Winter Wonderland vellum stack too. I haven't used any of the white and gold vellum pages before and thought they'd look good with the detail of the dove stamped in Gold ink.

Here is my card.

Here is a closer view of my card. As you will know. if you have worked with vellum, it can be a bit tricky to adhere the vellum to cardstock without the adhesive showing through! In my case, I have used glue dots in the corners and placed a candy dot over them to disguise. The area under the sentiment can be glued down with regular snail because it's covered over.

I have used a retired stamp set called "Curly Cute". Of course this can be substituted for a current sentiments, but I love this one!

The two challenge blogs I've used are below.

Here are the supplies I've used are as follows.

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I hope you'v enjoyed my card today. Please leave me a comment if you can!

Til next time,
Nicole x

MOJO418 & #GDP005 - Endless Wishes

Hi there! Welcome to my blog today! Thanks for joining me for a "two challenges in one" post! Today I've made a card using two challenges - Global Design Project and Mojo Monday. GDP has provided me the colour pallet and Mojo Monday gave the sketch.

Here is my card.

The two challenge blogs are below. You can click on each of the images to go straight to their blogs. Check them out for yourselves!

 

The supplies I have used on my card today are below. You can click on any of these items to go straight to my online store!

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Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Hope to see you again soon.

Til next time,
Nicole x

Pals Paper Arts PPA276 - Brushstrokes

Hello again and welcome back to my blog post this evening! And oops, the title says PPA276 instead of PPA270, sorry!

I have another blog challenge, this time for the Pals Paper Arts PPA270 colour challenge. The colours for this challenge are Always Artichoke, Sahara Sand and Blackberry Bliss. I was a little curious with this one, as this colour combo is really out of my comfort zone!

So here is my card today. I finally used by stamp set "Brushstrokes" too and I have to say that I love the look. In my card I have used my Stampin' Write Markers to colour in the three sections.

This colour palette follows the challenge from Pals Paper Arts. You can click on the image below to go to their blog.  These blogs are an awesome place to find inspiration and ideas, both from the design team and the other blog entrants.
 

The supplies I've used on my card today are below.

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Thanks for stopping by my blog today. As always, I welcome your comments!

Til next time,
Nicole x

MOJO417 & #TGIF23 - Lightheated Leaves

Hello and welcome to my blog today for two challenges I combined, one for Mojo Monday MOJO417 and TGIF Challenges #TGIF23. You can view the challenge blogs below.

But firstly, here is my card. I wanted to create a clean background and so I stamped off and then on with one of the stamps from the Lighthearted Leaves stamp set. I coloured in the berries with Pumpkin Pie and also added some random dots with Rich Razzleberry. After colouring the smaller leaf for the focus of my card, I added some glossy accents to the centre parts, and also the random dots for a bit of texture.

The colour palette for my card came from the TGIF challenges blog. The Brights collection has also been my favourite, so this combination was my cup of tea. You can click on the image below and you can see the challenge projects that have been entered by other bloggers, as well as the design team.

The design of my card followed the sketch from the Mojo Monday blog. As is the last week of the month, they that their Tall & Skinny cards - always a challenge for me as I like 'room to move'! You can also click on the image to go to their blog site.

The supplies I've used today are as follows.

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Thanks for stopping by!

Til next time,

Nicole x

Stamp Ink Paper #16 - Birthday card

Hello! Welcome back to my blog today.

I made this card last week but didn't get around to posting it :-( However, when I was looking at the newest SIP challenge, I thought I could use this card as it features a few of my favourite things!

Bermuda Bay has to be one of my favourite Stampin' Up! colours. And my favourite complimentary colour combinations is purple and yellow. Daffodil Delight is such a happy colour and my purple is Rich Razzleberry.

The stamp set "Tin of Cards" is such an awesome stamp set for sentiments. The font is beautiful and there are also borders included in the set.

So here is my card.

The challenge and link is below.

A list of the supplies I've used are below.

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Thanks for stopping by today. Please feel free to leave me a comment!

Til next time,
Nicole. 

The Paper Players PP264 - Peaceful Pines

Hello again! The second card I made today was for a challenge by The Paper Players, PP264. 

I enjoy doing sketch challenges and this one was great! When I saw the sketch, I had to think of which stamp set I wanted to feature in the center of my card with all the clear space. I decided on a Christmas tree, one I hadn't used yet from the Perfect Pines photopolymer stamp set. Its in the new Holiday catalogue. I love the sentiment in the tree and of course it saves space by having an image and sentiment in one! I also pulled out my Season of Cheer DSP which I hadn't used yet. Lovin' it too!

Here is my card.

 

Here is the sketch challenge from The Paper Players. Click on the image to go to their blog to be inspired!

The supplies I have used in my card today are as follows.

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Thanks for stopping by!

Til next time,

Nicole. x

GDP#004 - To You & Yours Too

Hello and welcome back to my blog today. I managed to make a couple of cards today and I can't wait to show them to you!

The first card I've made is a Christmas card using the Global Design Project #GDP004. This was a "Case the Designer" challenge this week. A card is provided for you to case. This week's card has been made by Louise Sharp and it is gorgeous! I'll put the card and link after my card.

So here is my card. I have used the colours that Louise has used on her example. These are Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla and Glimmer Gold. The stamp set I have used is called "To You & Yours Too" from the Holiday Catalogue.

So here is the challenge from Louise Sharp. You can click on the picture to go straight to the GDP blog. The other entrants and design teams cards are amazing!

Here are the supplies I have used in my card.

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Thanks for joining me today. Please leave me a comment if you're able to!

Til next time,
Nicole x