Crazy Crafters Blog Hop - Special Guest Dawn Olchefske

A very big hello to everyone out there visiting me today for our Crazy Crafters Blog Hop. This hop we have a very special guest, Dawn Olchefske! I have loved Dawn's creations and videos for years now, so it is an honour to have her with us! Thanks so much for joining us this month Dawn. 

You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog - Nicole Spicer - or may have come from the person previous to me. Be sure to click on the person listed under me further down the page to continue your journey on this blog hop.

Here is the card I have made.

I am so in love with Sweet Sugarplum at the moment! I think I'm a tad addicted....! I love the effect of the emboss resist technique too, and I wanted to give it a try with these beautiful feathers. I've embossed them on watercolour paper and then used my aqua painter to deliver the ink straight over, removing the excess off with a tissue.

I also used my Layering Oval Framelits dies for the first time for my sentiment with my Stylised Birthday greeting stamp.

Here is the card from Dawn I have chosen to CASE today. Click on Dawn's card to go to her blog featuring this card.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, and I hope you will continue on our blog hop to check out the amazing creations made by Dawn and our team of Crazy Crafters!

Here is the blog hop list. Remember, you are visiting with Nicole Spicer so please click on the person after me!

Til next time,

Nicole x

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop - Special Guest Jennifer Michalski

Hello there! Thank you for visiting my blog today for our Crazy Crafters Blog Hop. This hop we have a special guest from the USA - Jennifer Michalski from Stamping Serenity.

You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog - Nicole Spicer - or may have come from the person previous to me. Be sure to click on the person listed under me further down the page to continue your journey on this blog hop.

Here is the card I've made.

I have finished off my card by stamping on the inside as well. Just a little to carry the theme without being too intrusive!

Firstly, I stared my background as I chose not to use DSP. I love the freedom of stamping your own DSP! I have used the stamp set Penned & Painted which is a two-step stamping set. I love it! The colours I have used are Sweet Sugarplum and Night of Navy.

I then sliced this card stock into strips and matted them with Night of Navy card stock. I then positioned three of these pieces onto Sweet Sugarplum card stock and adhered that onto my Night of Navy card base.

The sentiment is stamped with a new stamp set Stylised Birthday from the annual catalogue. I have certainly got my monies worth from this stamp already! I cut this out with my new Layering Square Framelits and my Big Shot. I love these new framelits! The sentiment is popped up with dimensionals and I wrapped a piece of ribbon - the one I have used has retired, but you can use any ribbon you have.

Here is Jennifer's card that I have used for my CASE. You can click on the image below to go to Jennifer's blog where this card starred!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, and I hope you will continue on our blog hop to check out the amazing creations made by Jennifer and our team of Crazy Crafters!

Here is the blog hop list. Remember, you are visiting with Nicole Spicer so please click on the person after me!

Til next time,

Nicole x