"Thanks" card using chalk...

Hey everyone!!!
I hope your having a great week so far. We had a Dr. appointment for the baby yesterday and all is well.. woohoo!!! :) Just 6 more weeks till this little guy is done baking!! :) Woohoo!!!! I am so ready!

This is the card that I did for Practical Scrappers this week. Our challenge was to use chalk/ink this week. Chalk is something that I haven't played with a lot but really love how it looks, the soft look it has. For this card I used my Alphacolor Square Pastels (chalk crayons). I've had this set for a long time just haven't used it on my cards before. I used three colors blue, green and yellow. I started of with a 2 1/2 by 3 3/4 peace of white card stock and simple added little at a time some chalk with a sponge. That gave me a back ground for the flowers. I also added some brown chalk around the edges of the blue printed paper.



Used:
Several different cardstock.
ColorBox "Rose Coral" and "Maroon" chalk.
Pamass Pigment Ink pad "Green".
CTMH "Happiness" stamp set.
CMTH "For Every Occasion" stamp set.
Martha Stewart yellow ribbon.



Thanks so much for stopping by my blog!!! Hope you enjoyed this card!!! :) Let me know what you think of it!!!!

Don't forget to stop by Practical Scrappers for more ideas on how to use chalk and inks.

HUGS!
Nadya

A gift bag for "MOM".....

I've seen some of these paper goodie bags done in several blogs so I thought I'd give it a try. This week at Practical Scrappers we had to use any die cut machine we had. I of course I used my cricut expression... :)

So here is what I came up with..... I really like the way it came out. All though I think I'll make the shape a smaller size. The size for this baggy I did 5" I'd go with 4 1/2 or 4 1/4, just little smaller.





I used Plantain Schoolbook cartridge for the basic shape and Beyond Birthday cartridge for the "MOM" that was cut at 1 1/2" size... but it can be cut bigger too... Oh, actually I did cut it bigger size I just used the wrong cut. I realized that I did that after I put it all together and took pictures. I went back to my table and a bigger piece was just sitting there.... Oh, well I can use it for something else.



I covered the "MOM" cut with start dust stickles, let it dry very well before adhering it. I had some flower stickers (not sure what they are called). Some jewels in different places. Ribbon on top, and I added a cute butterfly on the ribbon.



I know this is too early for Mothers Day... But hey why not? :) I think this would be supper cute to give to a mom or make one for a teacher, put some candy or other goodies in there and your gift is done!!! It was very super easy to make and fast....

Hope you'll give it a try....

Thanks for visiting my blog today!!!

HUGS!
Nadya :)

Blog Hop - WINNER!!!!!!!!!! :)

So I'm up and ready to go, I guess... LOL :) It's 8:25am right now as I'm typing this. My husband went to work and our oldest is at school so it's just me and the girls. The youngest is still sleeping but was coughing all through the night. The other two also got up with a really bad cough and all that yucky stuff that comes along with being sick. So I'm really not looking forward to today. I just don't like seeing them so sick.

But sense I'm up and I did my dishes and even a load of laundry already... Yeah, I know I'm crazy... ha ha Who does laundry at 7:30 am?

So I decided I might as well post my WINNER for the Blog Hop!!! Woohoo!!! I'm so excited sense this is my first ever give away on my blog and a Blog Hop as well. I think I like giving things away and I just might do another one soon.

Well first off I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all of you ladies!!! Thank you for being part of our Blog Hop and for stopping by my blog and for your sweet comments!!! I wish I could pick more winners... Maybe next time.... You are all AWESOME!!! :)

My husband offered his help in picking a winner for me. Isn't that sweet of him? :) Love that guy!!! I had 38 comments left and he went with number DRUM ROLL PLEASE #28!!! Because that's how old I turned this month.... that silly guy!!! :) Thanks sweetie for your help!!!

Debbiej _1959- Congratulations!!! :) You are the Winner!!! :)

Debbie, Thank you so much for hopping during Practical Scrappers Blog Hop and for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment!!!! Please e-mail me at fitz_henry2002@yahoo.com with your addy so I can mail you the flowers!!! I hope that you'll enjoy them!!!

Thank you all again for playing along!!!!

Don't forget to stop by Practical Scrappers this week. The challenge for this week is Pattered Paper and the design team ladies did such an awesome job! You really don't want to miss out on all the inspiration!!!! Hope you'll be stopping by my blog again soon!!!

HUGS!!!!
Blessings!
Nadya :)

Practical Scrappers BLOG HOP!!!!!!

Thank you for stopping by my blog during the Practical Scrappers Designer Blog Hop. Today I have created two Valentines cards for you. I am also giving away some hand made paper flowers that I have made for a prize for the blog hop, everyone is welcome to play. I'll add a photo of the flowers little later... :) In order to qualify you need to become a follower here and leave a comment on this post. I will announce the winner on Monday, January 25th so make sure to check back in!

Here are the two cards that I made. Used some kraft card stock, Valentines stamps, chalk and some heart stickers. Very simple and easy cards, but still cute... :)





As I promised a picture of the flowers that I'm giving away during this Blog Hop.... Thank you all for the sweet comments!!! :) You all are wonderful!!!



You should have arrived here from Jessica's blog. Your next stop is Crystal. If this was your first stop head over to Practical Scrappers to start at the beginning of the hop. The designers are giving away some great prizes - you don't want to miss your chance!

Blog Hop list:
Practical Scrappers
Christine
Kerri
Kim
Heidi
Erin
Jamie
Jennifer
Erika
Jessica
Nadya - you are here.....
Crystal
Robin
Jill
Tanya
Julie
Amy H
Dianne
Joy

Thanks for stopping by and have FUN playing!!!! :)

Blessings!
Nadya

Birthday and goodie buckets..... :)

Our oldest daughter turned 8 last Sunday. :) WOW! The time has gone so fast. I can't believe we have an 8 year old. She was born 7lb and was the cutest little baby girl ever!!!! She was born 2 hours and 10 minutes after my birthday... :) I love that our birthdays are next to each other!!!!

Every year I have the hardest time deciding what to do for our kids birthdays. What theme? What kind of goodie bags? and so on and on.... Planning a birthday party for an 8 year old is totally different then planning a party for a 5 year, I tell ya. Specially for a girl. What ever happened to a princess cake and princess type games???? LOL :) She really really wanted to have a make up party this year. So mom caved in and we had so much fun. We had 7 little girls here, we painted their toe and finger nails. Did facial masks, watched a really funny movie, had pizza and cake with ice cream. I am so glad that my sister is here visiting right now and she was able to help me with this party or I would have never been able to do it all by my self that's for sure.

Even though my baby girl is grown up I'm so enjoying all the fun that we are having!!!!

Here are all of the girls with their masks on.... aren't they cute?



Here is one of the goodie buckets that I did for the girls. Practical Scrappers challenge this week is embossing so I did more heat embossing. Still learning, I'm scared I'll do it the wrong way... LOL :) But I LOVE it so much!!! I just need to get more embossing powders now.



I just had these pail buckets left over from another project that I did, they were perfect as a goodie bag. Went to Target with my sister and picked up couple of party favors.



I cut the heart from "Doodlecharms" cricut cartridge, then punched the wholes and chucked the edges with brown chalk.

I simply stamped the sentiment stamp with the embossing ink thing (sorry forgot what's it called :) ) and then heated with my gun.



Added some stickers that I picked up at a store and all done.... Oh and I also did these cute little paper clips that I added to the ribbon.



It was a fun birthday party!!!! :) We all had a blast!!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!!!!

Don't forget to check out Practical Scrappers. There's a BLOG HOP going on this weekend. A lot of design team ladies are participating. So go there and check it out....

Nadya

Christmas altered gifts and wrapping...

This week at Practical Scrappers we were asked to do some kind of Christmas wrapping or a gift that we have done.

As you all know I've been doing things for our Auction. One of the things that I'm entering is a Gift wrapping basket. I altered a tin that you saw couple of weeks ago. I made over 40 gift tags. A friend of mine came over to help with a lot of things, so I had her stamp Christmas images on the tissue paper. I also got some cheapboard boxes at our local craft store and altered them, added some ribbon and some Christmas embellishments on top. So that was my entry for Practical Scrappers this week.

And here are my gift boxes with the Christmas tissue paper.







Thanks for stopping by today!!! Stay tuned for more fun Christmas ideas!!! :)

Merry Christmas!
Nadya

Advent Calendar...

Today one of my projects is being featured at Practical Scrappers... WOOHOOO!!!! :)

When I first saw this advent calendar I fell in love with it... hee hee No really! I had to make this the same day as I saw it.

Christmas with the Cricut had Christina from Creations with Christina as a guest designer one week and one of the things that Christina made for Christmas with the Cricut was this awesome Advent calendar. It was so easy to make.

You can watch Christina's videos on how she did it here and here at her blog...

Here is my take on this advent calendar.



I had saved bunch of those card board idea sheets that Creative Memories puts with their paper packs. I knew there was a reason why I saved them... :)



I cut the shape using Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge. Had my cricut set to multi cut 3 times (depends on how old your blade is and if you have a deep cut blade) blade set to 6 and pressure to max, size 4 inches. I cut 14 of these cards. Pick your paper pattern and cut the same shape, same size but 24 of them.

I then used glue and glued the patterned paper to the card board shapes. On this photo you can see how much glue I put. The blurry part is the glue.



I used Fabric glue, I used this glue only because it dries fast. You'll need 2 rings and something to punch wholes with. I used my Making Memories Eyelet setter the biggest size.

Advent calendar standing. The calendar is very sturdy so it stands on it's own.



Here are some pictures of couple of the pages.








When you get to # 12 you'll flip the pages over just like the original Advent calendar that was done by Christina that is why that 24 is upside down. Don't forget to go to her blog and check it out.



I used Creative Memories Open House gift set from two years ago, Christmas stickers.
Some of the other shapes I cut out from a patterned paper that I had used and had scraps left over.
Creative Memories Christmas die cuts and Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut cartridge for other shapes. The numbers are Lyrical Letters cartridge and other stickers.

Lots of stickels. White gel pen on some of the die cuts.

I had a lot of fun doing this project. This is going in to our Auction next week Wednesday. :)
Thanks for visiting my blog today and don't forget to check out Practical Scrappers for more awesome Christmas ideas!!!!

Nadya :)