CardMaker Blog Hop

Welcome to the CardMaker Blog Hop!  Today the theme is Graceful Leaves and we created cards celebrating the first day of autumn!  This is my favorite time of the year...the mornings are cooler and the leaves are beginning to change color creating their beautiful spectrum of fall colors.

For my card, I used the Penny Black Foliage Fancy stamp.  I stamped the leaves using Versafine Oynx Black onto an ivory piece of card stock and embossed them with clear embossing powder.  Then I sponged liberally with Distress inks.  I added a sentiment using Spellbinders Fancy Framed Tags Two.

Be sure to check out the inspiration from the rest of the team.  I know that I am looking forward to seeing the fall cards everyone created!!

Anya 

Carolyn

Colleen

Glenda 

Jennie (you are here)

Kimberly 

Trudy

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

NinaB Designs Blog Hop

Hello, friends! After a much needed summer break, the NinaB Designs team is back to showcase some of Nina's designs for our monthly hop. Make sure you check out the new Summer CHA Releases by Spellbinders, Want2Scrap and Penny Black, and her monthly release by The Craft's Meow. For this month's hop, Nina challenged us to create something with gift-giving in mind. Here is my project:

I made some Lemon-Poppy Seed Zucchini Bread and using stamps/dies packaged it for gift giving.  I used the leaves from Foliage Fancy (a stamp set illustrated by Nina for Penny Black) and combined it with a sentiment from Sew Lovely (The Craft's Meow).  The tag was made using Spellbinders dies: Home Sweet Home.

Here are the products I used for my project:

To welcome you back to our hop, we are giving away these TWO PRIZE PACKAGES:

Prize Package #1 includes Spellbinders Ironworks Accents and Motifs:

 

Prize #2 includes The Craft's Meow's Vintage Rides and Retired Layers of Colors Dotted Dahlias and Dotted Peonies Stamp sets:

 

Winners will be picked randomly from 2 of the designers' blogs:

Nina Brackett * Beate Johns * Beatriz Jennings * Clare Buswell * Heather Jensen * Jennie Harper (you are here!) * Julie Overby * Lea Lawson * Linda Lucas * Viola Mahr

The winners will be announced September 22 on Nina's blog.  Finally, please consider liking the following Facebook pages that are represented on today's hop, so you don't miss the latest news and happenings:

NinaB Designs

Spellbinders Paper Arts

The Craft's Meow

Want2Scrap 

Penny Black Inc. 
 I hope we'll inspire you all today! Happy hopping! 

Blessings, 

CardMaker Blog Post: Favorite Technique

I am excited to share my first post over on the CardMaker Magazine blog and it is about a favorite technique using a cleaning agent.  Please pop on over and check it out!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

Grateful For You

A quick card to share today using Spotted Winter which I turned into an autumn tree using Memento markers.  The sentiment is from Foliage Fancy and the little bit of patterned paper is Madison from Penny Black and just LOVE it. My dear friend Nina designed it and a huge fan as it coordinates with some Penny Black stamps too!

Well, last week incredibly busy and hoping this week lends itself to more stampy time.  I have some exciting news to share tomorrow about a fun opportunity that has come my way...will be back then!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

Your Kindness

I managed to squeeze some card making in this morning while Jeb was working on some coloring papers. I know you have seen these leaves (from Foliage Fancy) before...but I am longing for fall. This set was illustrated by my dear friend Nina and love the two-step stamping possibilities.    

The solid leaf image was stamped with a spectrum pad and with the outline image was stamped with Rich Cocoa. I  distressed the edges and I sprayed it with a little Rich Cocoa Fireworks spray. I am entering this into the Moxie Fab World: Card Design Handbook Week: The Repitition Challenge. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

Thanks

I have a quick card to share that I made really fast using Foliage Fancy from Penny Black. The solid image was stamped using a Spectrum ink pad from Tsukineko and then each leaf was stamped a second time with the outline image using Memento Black Tuxedo. I stamped one extra leaf on scrap paper, trimmed and added a sentiment to a ribbon die.

 Really FAST...in fact, thinking of making an assortment of these to have on hand.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings, 

Grateful For You

 I recently won a contest over on the Penny Black blog and received some wonderful goodies from Penny Black...such a FUN package to open... thank you Penny Black :)  One of the sets I received was Foliage Fancy which I just LOVE!!!  

I made this card using the solid images from the set and gelatos from Design Memory Craft (Faber Castell). I spritzed the stamp with water and used the chapstick tubes to color directing on the solid leaf images before stamping on ivory cardstock. (Some generational stamping was done as well to fill the panel). After I was finished, I used a Black Big Brush pen which I colored onto my craft mat and picked up the ink using a wet paint brush flicked onto the panel. It added some cool speckles!!! The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Oynx Black and embossed with clear embossing powder.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,