Halloween Witch

Once again I have missed the challenge for this card. It is from a fairly new company called Nutcrafters http://nutcrafters.co.uk/zen/ and they were giving this digital download Witch on their challenge blog http://nutcrafters-nutshells.blogspot.com/ for free. I snagged her and used her to make my Halloween cards this year.

Of course as always I missed the deadline to enter my card. But at least I got some Halloween cards made. Which was starting to look doubtful. They have some super cute images, you should check them out. I also purchased their Breast Cancer Digital download. The cutest images and 50% goes to Breast Cancer Awareness. I will be back later in the week with a card for that, I hope.

I made the card in three different colors. Tangerine tango, kiwi kiss and lovely lilac. The web is a cuttlebug folder cut with a scallop circle punch. The spider is confetti and the sentiment is Stampin Up. Oh and I almost forgot the best part - my Martha Stuart dripping goo punch. Love it. LOL.

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Nic

Finding Nemo

I just love this movie don't you? There is a story attached to this card so let me tell you it. I will make it as short as possible. I was looking at stamps online one day a couple of months back and came across this cool one with seagulls at Whipper Snapper and thought to myself that it would make a cool card if ever they chose Finding Nemo for the Cinema Saturday Challenge so I promptly put the stamp on my wish list where I then promptly forgot about it. Till that is I checked the challenge for this week (Challenge #54) and lo and behold there was Finding Nemo as this weeks movie choice. Straight away I went and ordered the stamp as I really really wanted to do this card. Today it finally arrived and I quickly made this card. There was a color guide for it that I totally missed in my excitement and I'm not completely sure I like it 100%, simple cards are very hard for me these days. I keep looking at it thinking somethings missing. My sentiment is improvised and I know that in the movie the birds apparently say "mine" not "mate" but it suited the card better.

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Nic

New Seat Cover

I finally got some time to focus on my computer chair in my Craft room. It got a hole in the seat courtesy of the cats. I covered it up temporarily with duct tape but I really wanted to give it a new lease of life and make it match my room. I bought the seat material ages ago and have been waiting for the right project to use it on. As for the seat back, the kids and I went out to Hancock Fabrics with a sample of the seat material the other day and managed to match the green to it exactly. I am so happy. I think I may cover my craft chair the same so they are both matching.

Speaking of happy, I just have to show you what my friend Lucy made for Megan for her birthday. I have forgotten to show you this so many times but I could not let it slip my mind completely. I just had to show you what an awesome woman she is.

Sneak peak: I wonder what I could be making with this? ;-)

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Nic

Cased Christmas Card

I got asked by a friend of mine if I would make her Christmas cards for her. I can never say no to a friend so I asked her if she had something in mind. One of my previous Christmas cards from back in April was one that she picked but she wanted 50 so we opted for 25 each of 2 designs. For the other card I told her to see if she could see something she liked on Splitcoast Stampers. They are a wealth of inspiration in my opinion.

She came back to me with this http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1494974

First thing that came to mind was WOW! What a beautiful card. Second thing that came to mind was oh, my gosh how am I gonna do that. Well after putting it off a couple of days I sat down at my craft desk and slowly but surely I created my card. It is practically a complete case (can't mess with perfection, right?) apart from the couple of things I changed due to not having the same supplies. Everything on the card is Stampin' Up. The stamp set I used for the flower was Fabulous Flowers. I really like how it turned out. Now all I need is to make another 24. LOL. I have everything stamped, punched and cut so far. I will show you a pic of them all when they are finished.

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I am trying to get into Halloween mode but to tell you the truth I am waiting for my friend Tracy's next Christmas Challenge. I love Halloween but for some reason I have real trouble thinking up idea's. The kids are hoping for treats for their class. Here's hoping the spooky creative juices start flowing soon.

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Nic

High Hopes Challenge #47

World Card Making Day completely passed me by. I woke up Saturday full of a cold and just didn't feel up to crafting or spreading my germs to others for that matter so I stayed out of my craft room much to my sadness. I am feeling much better today so I got on with a project I have been trying to do for the last 3 High Hopes Challenges.

The first challenge (#45) was to use your favorite High Hopes stamp. Well at that point I was super excited to have just had just had a whole bunch of rubber arrive from High Hopes so I picked out Jolie's Little Friend. It drew me to it straight away. Such a cute little image, I love it. Well the deadline came and went and the new challenge was Happy Birthday as the High Hopes Challenge Blog celebrated it's first birthday (#46) it wanted you to make a birthday card for the challenge. That's exactly what I needed this card for so, Yay! However that deadline came and went. So this week once I started feeling better I finally got some time in my craft room and finished my card.

This weeks challenge is 'lots of layers'. I'm pretty sure my card fits this challenge too. So here it is along with a picture of all my yummy rubber. It took a while to get here but when High Hopes announced they were going wholesale they were inundated with orders from people making last minute orders and mine got caught in the rush. I new they were busy so I was not angry that my images took so long but man was I doing a major happy dance here when they finally arrived. It took me a whole day to foam mount these babies but now they are all safely stored in my new Stampendous storage files and good to go.

Cardstock: Taken with Teal & Black

DP: The Paper Company - Bugs & Butterflies

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Nic

Emboss Resist Christmas

More Christmas cards. I am playing catch up with these. Would you believe I missed the deadline for Tracy's challenge by just one day. I was very excited by this one I must say. I got to do one of my favorite techniques.

The challenge was to choose one technique from the following 5 techniques and complete 5 cards.

1. Spirelli - String Art

2. Shaving Cream

3. Faux Linen

4. Emboss Resist

5. Cracked Glass

Well, I chose Emboss Resist. I just love the effect once it is finished. Stamp sets are Snow Swirled and Best Yet from Stampin Up. I used Purely Pomegranate ink, cardstock and ribbon for this card. I am very happy with the result, I think this is my favorite so far.

The Extra-Giga punch made my circle and SU large oval and scalloped oval was used for the sentiment. I dry embossed the white and sprayed it with Pearl Glimmer Mist to give it a little sparkle. I posted double pics as one shows up the embossing pretty well and the other you can see the shimmer from the mist.

* I entered these cards in two challenges this week. A Spoon Full Of Sugar has a Christmas theme and ABC Challenge has an Embossing theme. My cards fitted both these challenges. It has been a while since I was able to join challenges. Isn't coincidence awesome. Thanks for looking

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Nic