Scrap Meeting Saturday Afternoon

Hello Nomad friends.  My local crafty store Hobbylageret is having an online scrap meeting.  I did one of these with them before Christmas and it was such fun.  It started last night, but yesterday was hectic, so here are the first cards I have managed to get finished.  There are already 8 different challenges running and they are adding more all the time!!  I seem to be working very slowly today and I'm gonna blame it on the cold, but here's three that I am quite pleased with.

Challenge 3 - use three of something

I wanted to get this Hobby Art set Christmas Greenthings at Christmas but they were sold out.  Luckily Jo had already grabbed it and she was kind enough to stamp me a bunch and send em on.   I used, three layers, three hexagons, die cut and covered in glitter, three sprouts, stamped by Jo, coloured with Promarkers and fussy cut by me.  I popped the sprouts up on foam circles to give a bit of dimension.  The hat came on the sheets Jo stamped as did the sentiment, thoughtfully stamped in green.  Thanks Jo.

Joining the fun at
Hobbylageret Digi-Scrap Challenge 3 - Use 3 of something 1/2
Christmas Kickstart Challenge 47 - Slimline
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 529

Challenge 5 - Slimline card to a special occasion (if birthday has to be a special birthday)

I made this card for a 40th birthday

I used a blue base card and offset a scrap of Paperartsy Chatsworth paper with ripped edges.  I used 4 stamps from Kort og Godt Motorcycle set and the matching die for the motorcycle and rider.  I stamped the motorcycle and 40 sign on a scrap of mottled blue paper.  I fussy cut the 40 sign and added a brad and a scrap of brown card to make a post..  The sentiment says 'now you are old enough to be young again'. 

Joining the fun at
Hobbylageret Digi-Scrap Challenge 5 - Slimline, special occasion 1/2
Allsorts Challenge Week 611 - Masculine
Pixies Snippets Playground Challenge 396 - Ruby's Challenge

Confirmation is a big thing in Norway.   I used three different Kort og Godt patterned designer card, one for the base, one for the Kort og Godt diecut girl and one for the sentiment panel.  The stamp is from Aall and Create.  I stamped it with red ink on white card and black ink on pink paper, fussy cut and layered them up.  Then I just added a little green gel pen for her eyes.  

Joining the fun at
Hobbylageret Digi-Scrap Challenge 5 - Slimline, special occasion 2/2
Stamping Sensations Challenge - Colour My World
Papirdukkene - 3 Forskjellige Mønsterark 1/5
Hobbykunst Utfordring - 3 Forskjellige Mønsterark 1/5

Thanks for dropping by.  Hoping to get some more makes made and posted later this evening.  Have fun.  Stay crafty.  Hugz

Squashed Love

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the 10th of the month and time for a new Let's Squash It! challenge!!!!  We have our December Empress Joanne helping us out with awesome inspiration for our Love and Red theme.  You must use a love themed embossing folder, one with hearts, words of love, cupids.  Does anyone have a cupid embossing folder????  You must also use the colour Red and/or Pink.  Here's a card I made using two Sizzix border folders; Hearts and Forever & Always.

I started by embossing the top and the bottom of a red card panel with the Hearts border embossing folders.  Then I placed the Always & Forever folder in the middle and embossed that.  I know, I should have done the one in the middle first!!  I thought the edges of the words folder might flatten my hearts, but luckily it didn't.  And my positioning isn't bad.  But I will do the middle first next time!!  Or at least second LOL.  I smeared the embossed areas with Cactus Flower pink ink for a tone on tone look.   I actually think this would have been fine as a card, just mount it on a base and done!

 

 

I decided to make it a bit more complex by running a piece of lace around the panel and then mounting it on a red card base.  Gives it a bit more dimension and a bit of a vintage feel, but I think I actually prefer it without the lace.  Maybe that's my Clean and Simple side.  What do you think??  With or without??

 

 

Grab your love themed folders and join the Let's Squash It! fun.   It doesn't have to be a valentines card.  I think this one would stretch to a wedding.  Or maybe you have a New Baby folder with hearts on it, or words including the word love?  As long as you use an embossing folder with hearts and/or a definite love theme then it's good with us.  And Red/Pink!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hop over to Let's Squash It! to see the amazing inspiration cards from Jo and Joanne and the linky.  See you there.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Scrap the Rainbow - Rødt/Rosa 3/3
Unstampabelles February Challenge 108 - Anything Goes
Kreativ Scrapping Utfordring 2 - Rød
Allsorts Challenge Week 610 - Love Is
Double D Challenge - Valentine/Love

 

 

Chocolate Easter Bunny

Hello Nomad friends.   Less is More is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a Chocolate party....

I used Creative Expressions paper cuts Spring Hare and made a chocolate Easter Bunny.....

Cut once from green card and then I cut from chocolate brown card, trimmed the bunny out and added it all to a cream base card.  Run chocolate bunny, run.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Less Is More Challenge 436 - Chocolate
Country View February Challenge - First Signs of Spring
AAA Cards Game 183 - One Corner/Create a Scene
Scrappelyst Utfordring for Februar - Dies/Puncher/Mønstersaks

The Night After Christmas

Hello Nomad friends.  My man insisted we went ice fishing today.  I am not converted.  I feel my time would have been better spent in my craft room.  The sun was nice.  Walking on water was novel, if a little intimidating.  It was cold!!!!!!  We didn't get any fish!  Hmmmmm....   But when I got home there was happy mail from the UK and I couldn't wait to play with this fun Santa embossing folder.

I'm sharing a few techniques for embossing folders over at Let's Squash It! today and I decided to include this one on stretching your folders. 

I embossed this 10x15cm Father Christmas folder by Craft Stash on a 10 x 20cm piece of card.

Using an embossing tool I extended the lines on the RHS, scoring the ones along the bottom of the wall and the vertical wallpaper lines.  Then I used a black archival ink pad to highlight the embossed lines.  I got some ink on the un-embossed floor so I smeared a few more lines on there to even out the over inking.   Then I coloured with Promarkers and watercoloured with distress inks.

I mounted the embossed coloured panel on a DL base card and added some glitter to Santa's fur trim.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Christmas Kickstart Challenge 47 - Slimline
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 528
Scrap the Rainbow - Rødt/Rosa
Unstampabelles February Challenge 108 - Anything Goes

Pirate Talk

Hello Nomad friends.  The month of love and blogland is full of hearts and red.  I was just not feeling it this afternoon but luckily Memory Box are going against the trend and want to see purple.  I have a friend who loves purple so I made her a card.  Arrr harrr, me hearties.......

Wot, no pirate????   Alas!!  He is sailing above whilst we are floating serenely below.   I used Memory Box Underwater Scene die and Oceanside Typewriter Sentiments stamps.  I started with a purple base card and a layer of patterned paper.  I cut the Underwater Scene from lilac card and used various purple Promarkers to colour the seaweed, coral and anemone.  I die cut the little fish that come with this die from a purple metal sheet and added them to the scene.  The two sentiments were stamped on a scrap of lilac card using Thistle archival ink.

I'd like to be under the sea, ta dum ta dee......

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Memory Box Challenge 69 - Pretty Purples
Scrappelyst Utfordring for Februar - Dies/Puncher/Mønstersaks

Screwed

Hello Nomad friends.  It's been a day.  Not convinced I got my colours right on this, but it looks better in the real.  

I used a diamond pattern card panel, stamped Crafty Individuals Bauble into the pattern and embossed with silver powder.  I used a sky blue Promarker to colour the baubles and distressed the panel edge and coloured with cadet blue Promarker.

I took three bottle caps, squashed them a little to reflex the edge and ran various blue Promarkers around the inside rim.  I stamped the smallest stamp from the Bauble set on dark blue card, embossed with silver powder and die cut with a circle die.  i glued the die cut embossed circles into the bottle caps.

I added the bottle caps and three screw brads to the baubles and mounted the panel on a blue card base.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
52 Weeks to Christmas Week 5 - Kerstballen
Art Piaskownica Mae Formy - Kapslenakretki
Knutsels en Kadootjes - Ruitjes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 527
ABC Christmas Challenge - D is for Diamonds

Pink Wheek

Hello Nomad friends.  2nd of the month and time for the Card Chain Challenge reveal.  26 amazing cards winged their way around the planet last month using at least one of suggested options.  I used the sketch and the colours and a guinea pig.   My card went to Sandra in the Netherlands and I just found out she has a guinea pig!  So that was a good call wasn't it LOL.   She doesn't have a pink and brown guinea pig, until now!!

Wheek!!  I used a designer card card base.  Then I added circles die cut from glitter and gold card.  I used Lawn Fawn Bayou Backdrop pond die to cut a piece of pink card and stamped it with a Stamplorations sentiment.  The guinea pig is a Hobby Art stamp.  I stamped it on brown card, added some strips of ripped pink paper and stamped again.  Then I fussy cut and added some white gel pen details.  Wheek!!!!

Hop over and check out the whole reveal

If you would like to join the fun the February sign up is open until the 6th

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

GP is joining the fun at
Allsorts Challenge Wheek 609 - Four Legged Friends