I finally got some mojo today so I could make a card for one of my favourite blog challenges, Global Design Project. This week they have a CASE the designer, a beautiful card by Brian King. I'll show you Brian's card soon, but first I'll show you what I came up with!
I started out with Brian's colour scheme of Pool Party and Whisper White but that was as far as I got! Garden Green is one of my favourite shades of green for my trees, especially with white embossing! They just pop! I have also run my Pool Party piece through my big shot with the Softly Falling Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. Then I sponged Whisper White craft ink gently over the raised embossing to create more of a snow effect. For the fallen snow I tore some Whisper White paper to make two 'hills'.
Here is Brian's beautiful card which links to the Global Design Project blog. Check it out!
For a complete list of the supplies I have used today are below.
Gee it feels like ages since I've been in my craft room to actually make a card! But today I was able to make a card for a little man and I've followed a challenge for Just Add Ink. Their challenge was Just Add... Music this week and it was a great opportunity to use my Skating By stamp set, as I haven't used it yet! I love the guitar!
Here is my card.
Click HERE to go to the Just Add Ink challenge blog. You'll see all sorts of inspiration for your next project. Why not try one of their challenges?
Hello everyone! When I saw the challenge for The Paper Players this week, I knew exactly what I was going to make! The them was CAS Christmas Card and I had been dying to try a card using a fun fold I saw Julie Davison make on YouTube. You can watch her video HERE. Its amazing and so clever!
Here is my card.
And here is the link to the challenge blog for The Paper Players.
Well Hello! Welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop for November! This month we are excited to show off projects made with our most-used stamp set. We hope you find great inspiration for all the beautiful 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 at the end will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all the projects. At the moment you are visiting Nicole Spicer.
This has been a very weekend for the Crazy Crafters team! Yesterday I went to the very first On Stage global event for Stampin' Up! It was AMAZING!! It was also my very first Stampin' Up! event so I was so excited!! I have come away from it absolutely inspired! So much so, that when I got home at 10pm, I started re-doing my blog hop card! In fact, this morning I made another 3!
I have used two stamp sets, Lighthearted Leaves and Tin of Cards for the sentiment. I love both of these sets. The Lighthearted leaves stamp set has matching dies so you can whiz them through the Big Shot to save SO much time. No fussy cutting here! All the supplies I've used will be at the end of my post.
So here are my cards. I have also done some minor stamping on the inside of each card so I'll include a smaller pic of that too.
The first card I created I wanted to be really simple. So I have
included one of the leaves from the Lighthearted Leaves and stamped it
in opposite directions onto Very Vanilla cardtock. The sentiment I have
used in all my cards is the Happy Birthday from the Tin of Cards stamp
set. I stamped this in Tangerine Tango onto Very Vanilla and cut this
out plus a mat piece from the Lots of Labels framelits dies. I then
wrapped around some thick bakers twine across the middle and popped the
sentiment up with dimensionals.
To make my next card, I created some DSP of my own by stamping the different leaves onto Whisper White cardstock in Rich Razzleberry, Hello Honey, Cajun Craze, Garden Green and Crumb Cake. I then trimmed a piece to adhere to my Crumb Cake cardstock and then adhered that to my Cajun Craze card base. The sentiment is also stamped in Cajun Craze.
The third card I've made is a little more involved, but still very easy to create! Firstly I stamped the leaf in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and coloured it in using Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie markers. These are all from the Brights collection, and you can purchase all the Brights collection Stampin' Write markers together in one pack. I cut it out with my Big Shot using the matching framelit - love that timesaver! I also embossed my Pumpkin Pie piece with the Woodgrain Textured Impressions Embossing Folder and layered that on my Soft Suede cardbase. The tag was punched with the Triple Banner Punch on the largest size. I love this punch too!! I used the 1 1/4" Burlap trim to add a more masculine touch.
The final card I've made uses the Whisper White random stamped leaf design I made for my 2nd card. I just wanted to use a little bit to contrast. I embossed the Crumb Cake piece with the Woodgrain TIEF and layered it on my Garden Green card base. The leaves were stamped with matching ink and paper, in Garden Green, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake and Tangerine Tango. For something different, I have used the Tags & Labels Framelit dies. Aren't they just awesome. The set comes in two shapes in so many sizes. Just perfect for these medium-sized sentiments.
Well I hope you've enjoyed my cards today. I had a lot of fun creating them! To stay on track with the blog hop, please click on the name after me, Nicole Spicer.
Thanks for joining me for my card today. The theme for my card is Christmas, as I've chosen the challenge from Stamp, Ink, Paper. I love making Christmas cards, and this stamp set is really beautiful. I hadn't used the holly branch before and I love it! I've used a very simple colour palette of Cucumber Crush and Whisper White and a dash of silver glimmer! To make my berries stand out, I'd normally colour them in a red marker, either Cherry zcobbler or Real Red and then grab my Crystal Effects and dot over them, but I didn't want to wait until it dried, so I used some red rhinestones from Kaisercraft instead. Shhh! Don't tell anyone! :-)
Here is my card.
And here is the challenge from Stamp Ink Paper. Click on the image and you'll be directed to their site. Check out the amazing projects and inspiration!
Hi again! I made this card yesterday after watching a YouTube video, from Ophelia Crafts. You can view that HERE. I loved the look of their card using a sunburst stamping technique. I hadn't tried this before, so I was intrigued. Here is how it turned out.
When making this card, I also kept in mind the challenge set by TGIFChallenges, which was a Remix challenge. The idea being that you pick at least 2 of the challenges set in the last month. Here are the ones I chose.
I made this card with two challenges in mind, one of them being Mojo Monday. I always try to make a card from this challenge blog, but sometimes I don't get around to blogging and entering it! But anyway! Here it is.
The challenge for Mojo Monday this week was a sketch challenge. I really like sketch challenges! They allow a great place to start (the design!) and enable you to get creative within that. I hope I didn't get too creative with this sketch, because I kind of did change a few things, like the Tip Top Taupe DSP in the background is wider and the sentiment oval is at the opposite corner! But as its quoted in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl:"the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules." :-)
Here is the sketch. You can click on the picture to go straight to their blog.
This card I have made was following the challenge set by Global Design Project, a colour combo! I love the 2015-2017 In Colours and these three work so well together. They are Mint Macaron, Watermelon Wonder and Tip Top Taupe.
Here is my card.
And here is the blog challenge. Click on the pic to see it for yourself!
