An Uplifting Week

This has been an uplifting week for two reasons:

First, I got an email last week from one of my friends on the Paper Wishes Message Board, Fabrizio (Fab) Martelluci, that he had sent me something. Out of the blue, no swaps going on, no challenges, he just had seen something he thought I would like and sent it to me. I received it during the week and it was a lovely cat stamp - you know how much I like cats! I will definitely have to pay this forward to another crafter one day! Here is the thank you card I made for Fab, using the stamp. I tried something a little different on this one. I used two different colors of embossing powder - a chocolate brown and a copper. Like the effect?



















Then, I was looking at my different blogs and favorite sites, and ran across a notice that Michelle Oatman, a card designer and digital artist, had been in a car accident and Meljen's Designs had created a freebie digital design and was asking people to create cards for Michelle using the design. It is of a donkey, and evidently Michelle raises miniature donkeys. So people are flooding her mailbox with these cute donkey cards.


















Just renews your faith in people again to see this happening. What a great hobby we have!

Nancy

Christmas In July

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at my house already! Time to start making cards for my shop! I finished five sets of four cards this weekend! Whew! I've got stuff EVERYWHERE! It's fun, though, getting ready! Here are my first ones of the year:

Next Contest Please!

I enjoy challenges and contests so much - being limited to a certain product or color or design really stretches your creativity! The next contest at Paper Wishes is using their 3-D Dazzles - I chose the butterflies - they're GORGEOUS! Voting hasn't started yet - I'll let you know when - but here's my entry. I used two pieces of paper from their Handpainted Papers so I could make the mirror image for the gatefold card, I then added Stickles on the flowers and added two layers of the 3-D Dazzle butterflies. I then used leftover paper and fussy-cut around the flowers and added another butterfly to the inside of the card. I love how it turned out!

New Scrapbook Pages!

I've pretty much done nothing but cards for the last two months trying to get enough inventory for my first craft show. So it was good to get back to some scrapbooking last weekend! I finished several heritage pages and a couple of Judy and Hunter's trip to Washington, DC. It was fun to play with mosaics again! By the way, if you want to learn more about mosaic scrapbooking, go to my link on the right side of my main page.

A Great Class with Mitra of Impression Obsession

Sorry I haven't posted much lately - I've been madly working to build my inventory for my first craft show coming up next Saturday 6/19. I went to a class recently and really would like you to see all the things we made. Mitra from Impression Obsession was the guest instructor and the class was sponsored by Stamp and Scrap Nest in Simsbury, CT. The first half of the class we learned all kinds of ways to use impression Obsession's Cover-a-Card stamps - if you haven't seen these yet, they are WONDERFUL background stamps and after taking this class I want more of them!

In this first card, we used a striped stamp. We used a baby wipe to put alternating colors on so you get various colored stripes. Then we used the vine background over top of that - I had never thought of using more than one background! It turns out great! We then stamped the leaves in the corners, and applied the sentiment. Beautiful!

In this next card, we applied a "scratches" background in a light brown. We then added a rose background on top of that. Nice shappy-chic effect!

Next we applied three colors of background ink on a card (to get the shading) and then applied the tree branches stamp over top, and then spritzed with Perfect Pearls mixed with water. Gorgeous!

Then we used the same tree branch background, and made a shaker card - a lot of people named this their favorite! The shaker has bird seed in it!

Last, we used the distressed stripe background again - first using turquoise ink, then turned it 180 degrees and used the purple ink - nice effect!

Finally we made a series of shaker cards. Fun!

Free Stuff from Tami Potter!

Go to the address below for free downloads to use in your mosaic scrapbooking pages! Just print, cut out and they fit right into the grid! You can also click the new links I have on my sidebar to go to Tami's shop.

http://www.snapncrop.com/Free-Downloads_c_29.html

Happy scrappin'!
Nancy

Vote for Me Again! Please! Please!

Paper Wishes is having another contest - another chance for $100 shopping spree! This time it's using their absolutely GORGEOUS foil papers. I have a lot of competition this time - there are a lot of beautiful pages and cards already out there. So I need your votes! Tell your friends too!

Voting begins June 4 (tomorrow). Go to www.paperwishes.com and click on the contest tab. Here are pictures of my entry. This is Judy some time around 8th or 9th grade. Everything black! But I did like the way she was wearing her hair then!