"Easter" cards.....

It's time to make some Easter cards!!!!

It seems like everyone is doing spring/Easter cards. Well it is that time of the year after all. So I'm joining you all... :) There's so many cute cards out there. I wish I could show you all of them. There's just so much inspiration. One of the cards that I'm sharing with you is a card that I cased from one of the blogs that I follow. Laurie from Just Give Me Stamps is very talented, her cards are just beautiful... you can find the card that I cased HERE...

And here is my card... So what do you think???



I used dollar clear stamps from the Studio G.
Martha Steward ink.
SU scalloped punch.
CM 1 1/2 circle punch.

The second card I did is a simple card but I love how it turned out.


Used:
Studio G clear dollar stamps.
Scalloped decorative scissors... yeah, I really need to get some of those border punches... but until then I'm using my decorative scissors.. :)
Paper.

Hope you liked my start on Easter cards. Let me know what you think of them!!!
Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting me today!!!

HUGS!
Nadya

Valentine's Day cards.....

I say it's better late then never!!! :) So here I am posting couple of Valentine's Day cards that I did.

My husband and I don't do Valentines Day. It's just something that we never did, well he did get flowers for me one year and that was really sweet it's just something that we don't make a point of doing. But this year after looking at all the wonderful cards and projects that other paper crafters did I decided to make a card for my husband just to let him know how much I love him and what a wonderful husband and daddy he is. The Lord really blessed me with a wonderful husband!!!! :)

This is what I came up with!!! This year Valentines day was on a Sunday and I come home before my husband from Church, he drives the buss for our Church Buss Ministry so he comes home little later. I had the card waiting for him next to his bed side... :) Took him some time to see it, ha ha... but he LOVED it!!!!





Used:
Cricut "Doodlecharms" cartridge for the heart.
CTMH "Endless Love" stamp set.
Inkadinkado "Floral Flourishes" stamp set.
Brown Cats Eye chalk.
Zing "Blush" embossing powder.
Martha Stewart Pink ribbon.
Pop up dots to pop up the heart.

And this card was just for FUN!!! :)



Used:
CTMH "Love Flourishes" stamp set
CTMH "Endless Love" stamp set
Martha Stewart Pink ribbon.
Zing "Blush" embossing powder
Red Heart sticker.
Gemstones.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!! :) I hope you all had a wonderful Valentines Day!!! :)

HUGS!
Nadya :)

Couple more fun cards....

Just couple more cards that I did last week. Playing with new things I've learned and another fun new stamp that I got at our craft store for a $1. :) I just had to get that pregnant lady stamp. It's so cute!!!! I colored it with some color pencils. And again used the "Sentiments" stamp set by Making Memories and some other stamps. Oh and I have I said how much I love playing with my heat embossing things, it's so much FUN... :)

So anyways, here are the cards.... Enjoy!





Thanks for stopping by my blog today!!!! Hope your having a wonderful day!!!

Nadya

"Hello"

I really love the look of simple cards. Plus I can get more of them done when they are simple to make... :)

Here is the last set of cards that I did for our Ladies Fellowship last week Thursday. These are very simple and easy cards to do. I know, I know... :) I'm using this stamp set way too much. But I just love it. The images are beautiful and they stamp so nice and clear. But what a girl to do? When you get a new toy you just play with it as much as you can... well at list that's what I do.

Used:
Stamp set by American Crafts "Sentiments" both large and small.
Cardstock and printed papers.
Brads.
CTMH "God Bless You" stamp set.








Thanks for visiting my blog today!!! :) Hope you enjoyed these simple cards!!

HUGS!
Nadya

"Laughter" and "Just Because"

This week at Practical Scrappers our challenge was to use brads in our projects. I did a 12x12 layout and a card for my Wednesday submission. :)

For the layout I used Basic Grey patterned paper for the back ground and other different kinds of patterned papers. Flowers and some Bo Bunny rob-ons. I used large size brads for the middle of the flowers as my flower centers. For the title I used Thickers ABC stickers. love how this layout turned out!!!



For the card I used one of my new and favorite stamp sets by American Crafts "Sentiments". I stamped the flowers 3 times in a row and used sugar coated brads for the flowers. I used some patterned paper from my scraps bin so I don't even know what brand they are, sorry. I added some jewels in the middle of the chipboard butterfly and some ribbon and the card was done. I really how it turned out. It's so bright and colorful!!! :)



Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Don't forget to check out Practical Scrappers for more awesome layouts, cards and other projects. Your not going to want to miss next weeks challenge as well so head over there and get inspired!!!

HUGS!
Nadya :)

"Thinking about you" cards.....

I had a productive day yesterday. I feel like my crafting mojo is coming back. :) About time too I say!!! :) I made 7 cards yesterday and thought I'd share couple of them with you today.

I really enjoy making simple cards. I love the fancy cards but just don't have the patience to do that.

We had Ladies Fellowship last night and I brought my supplies for us all to use. We worked on some cards that we can mail to our deployed soldiers, college students and some of the elderly people in our Church. Everyone had so much FUN! I did couple of examples for the ladies to look at. And this is what I came up with.

On this card I used Kraft paper, brown cat's eye chalk, a die cute shape that I picked up at a scrapbook store. The flowers and the sentiment came from my new stamp set... I really LOVE this set, it has so many beautiful images. The stamp set is by American Crafts called "Sentiments" large and the last touch was some ribbon.



This card looks more elegant in person then on the picture. I had a really hard time taking pictures of these cards, the weather wasn't the best to do this.... I used Kraft and cranberry cardstock. Rusted look (kind of) brads, the sentiment came from American Crafts "Sentiment" stamp set. The flower/swirl image came from INKADINKADO called "Floral Flourishes" stamp set ... very cute set. I embossed it with American Crafts Zing embossing powder Brown Sugar.



Not sure if you can see the leaves on this card. But I stamped some leaves on the white card stock before stamping "thinking of you" sentiment from CTMH "Rustic Flower" stamp set. Some cardstock and ribbon to finish off the card.



Again I used "Sentiments" stamp set by AC. Some buttons, brown and orange cardstock....



I hope you enjoyed these cards as much as I enjoyed working on them!!! :)

Thanks for visiting my blog today!!!!

HUGS!
Nadya :)

This week at Practical Scrappers....

We had to use Office Supplies.
I had NEVER EVER used staples or paper clips in any of my cards or layouts. So this was totally NOT me.. :) But boy was it fun when I started....

This is the card that I came up with.



I had bunch of ribbon scraps left over from when I did the banner for the baby shower. I used Xyron 150 tape to get some adhesive on too the ribbon first and then I stapled them with staples.

I used Gina K. "Back to School" stamp set for the back pack.
American Crafts "Teen Drama Club" paper.
Thickers ABC sticker for the title.

Thanks for looking and don't forget to check out Practical Scrappers for more great ideas!!! The ladies there are so fantastic!!! :)

God Bless,
Nadya

Birthdays, birthdays, birthdays!!!!!

We have so many birthdays going on around here it's so much FUN!!!! I got to do some invitations and goodie bags for two of my dear friend's daughters. It was so much FUN working in these projects. Now that we had the parties I'm able to show you some of the things that I did.

Both of the girls and my friend LOVED everything. I'm so glad that the girls liked their goodie bags.

I'm going to start off with the invitations. The party theme for this party was "Wheels" anything that is on wheels. The kids got to bring their scooters, bikes, skates, roller blades and anything else that had wheels on it and they spent about an hour playing and ridding things. It was a lot of FUN.

I used some CM paper from NSD last year or the year before, don't remember. White card stock and purple CM cardsotck. CTMH markers and stickles.

I got my first set of Gina K. stamps and I just LOVE them. They stamps so nicely and the image is so clean. I used "Are we there yet?" stamp set from Gina K. designs on this card.



As a birthday card I used SU "Birthday wishes" stamp, CM printed paper same as in the invitations. Some jewels and "Rollerskate Milly" stamp from Pink Gem Designs. I colored "Milly" with some colored pencils.



The second birthday theme was "Mermaid" :) So I just had to use the "Life is a beach" cricut cartridge. I also used the Accent Essentials to cut the flower for my shaker box. I cut the flower solid then used one of CM CCS's circles to cut out the middle.
SU- Your Invited stamp
Chunky glider.
Plastic for the shaker box from a gift box. Yahoo, I reused things... :)
Aqua chalk.
Aqua CTMH ink pad.
Some left over paper from another project that I did.





As a birthday card I used the same paper and another Gina K. designs stamp set "100% Sweet."
Some CTMH markers and stickles for the frosting.



Now on to the goodie bags. These were so much FUN to make. I had a little hard time getting my idea of what I wanted to do with the roller skate one. But I had my girls help out. :) 3 minds work better then one... right? :)

I used "Paper Doll Dress Up" for the mermaid.
I used the hair and the crown from the "pixy" girl.
Heidi Swapp paper form LSS.
Some regular card stock.
Ribbon.
Lots of sticles.
Plantin SchoolBook cartridge for the bag it's self.





I just love the way these goodie bags turned out.

Plantin SchoolBook cartridge for the bag.
Heidi Swapp papers from LSS. (I think it's Heidie Swapp).
Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge for the shoe part of the roller skate. The shoe is from the Franking Stine image. I picked this one because it had slits at the bottom and it was perfect for the roller skates.
Buttons
Scrappers Floss
Ribbon
Paper Dolls Dress up "Pixy" cut flowers accessories 3. I cut them apart to layer them.
Foam tape... lots of it...
Sticles
CTMH "Simple Stitches" stamp set.
Punched out some circles for the wheels.



I had a lot of fun working on these projects!!! Stay tuned for more soon... :)

Thanks for visiting my blog today!!! :) I hope that you liked my projects!

God Bless!
Nadya

"giving thanks for you"

I got a chance to do some cards for our SOS ministry at our Church. It stends for "Serving Our Servicemen". We are sending Thanksgiving packages to our military men that are deployed right now and I was asked to make some Thanksgiving cards. I saw this stamp "giving thanks for you" at our local scrapbook store and I just had to get it. I thought it was perfect for these cards. The leaves are by Making Memories I think, got them at Target. Used lots of fall colors, ribbon and some raffia.










Thanks for visiting my blog today! Hope you'll like these cards and get inspired to send something to our Servicemen this Holiday season.

Nadya :)

Practical Scrappers week 5!!!!

This week at Practical Scrappers we got to play with transparency.

I'll be the first to say that I had not worked with transparency before in a crafting kind of way. But I had so much FUN. And I learned new stuff and that is awesome. Watch for my next project with transparency...

Anyways, I did a Christmas card and a gift bag. They both turned so cute. At list I think so!!! :)

For the card I used Lyrical Letters cricut cartridge card shape. I picked a simple card and then just cut out the shape that the card comes with. And it gave me a clean window with out any shapes. The Christmas tree also came from Lyrical Letters cartridge.

I stamped some Martha Steward snowflakes using white StazOn on too the transparency. Added some jewels on to the tree and that's it. Simple and easy.

All though "Merry Christmas" didn't turn out as well as I wanted it too being stamped on top of the snowflake but I still like how the card turned out.



For the gift bag I used a brown lunch bag and just cut a circle out of it using CM CCS and made a window out of transparency. Cut the scalloped circle flower using a Accent Essentials Cartridge. Some flowers by Making Memories and swirl stickers from Target.






Thanks for looking and don't forget to check out Practical Scrappers for more great ideas and ways to use your stash!!!!!

Nadya :)

Birthday invitation card.

LOL :) Ok... I fixed the post.... I do not know why but I keep calling this ladybug a butterfly!!! Why? I have no clue!!! I was doing that the whole time me and my friend were making these cards. LOL :) but it's fixed now!!!! Oh and yes my friend wanted the ladybug theme not the butterfly so we are OK!!!! :)

I did Birthday party invitations for my friends babe's first birthday.

She wanted to do ladybug theme... I used the Doodlecharm circut cartridge for the ladybug, 1 1/2" size. SU stamp for the "Your Invited" and CTMH "Playful Flourishes" stamp set for the swirls. Some bling for the eyes and a flower!!! It's very simple but I think the invites turned out cute. I know that the green paper is from CM but don't remember what the pink one is.



Thanks for looking!
Nadya :)

"A heartfelt thank you"

I've been making a lot cards these past two days. Play with Lyrical Letters cartridge is a lot of fun. If you have this cartridge but haven't played with these images yet, you are missing out on a lot of FUN!!!! :)

Here's 3 more cards that I did. They are very simple and easy. My cricut did the cutting of the image. All I did is added the paper and some embellishments. Again, I'm using my scraps, getting the basket to a smaller size... So you'll see some of the same colors, papers used.








I used CTMH stamp for the sentiment on this card.



Thanks for looking!!!

Nadya

3 cards using Lyrical Letters cartridge!!!

I wanted to try those card shapes that Lyrical Letters cartridge has sense I got the cartridge. But haven't done it till last night. I really don't know why I waited but I'm glad that I finally decided to try them out.

I have so many cards to share with you all but I think that I'll keep some of them for tomorrow.:)

I used my scraps of papers these projects. I'm on a mission to get that basket full of paper scraps smaller A LOT smaller!!!!

Used only Lyrical Letters cartridge and some word stickers that I had laying around. Actually I think I got those stickers in the mail with some scrapbook magazine subscription or something like that.
Start Dust stickers, pearls, ribbon, button and scrappers floss.
Hello Kitty sizzix embossing folder. I used baking rolling pin thing, to get that blue paper embossed. Don't have a cuttlebug or a bigshot and yes my hands were hurting after words. But I LOVE the way it came out.

OK here we got... Hope you'll like these!!!! :)









Thanks for looking and I hope you'll give this cartridge a try!!!

Nadya

Flower Soft and Practical Scrappers Challenge!

I posted yesterday that I got my first tin of Flower Soft and BOY do I LOVE IT!!!!? :) It's is so AWESOME!!!

I found these two videos that are very very helpful. The lady has a very nice teaching voice and she explains everything so nicely!!!!

Flower Soft video #1
Flower Soft video #2

Make sure you watch both of them if you want to learn more about Flower Soft and awesome ways to use it!!!! I'm just starting out with it so both of these videos have been so helpful to me.

I had a BLAST working with Flower Soft last night. My husband and my brother in law who is visiting us right now even liked the cards that I did.. LOL :) It was SO easy to use and so much FUN!!! Now I need to get more colors!!!! hee hee

So here are the cards that I did plus a layout using Flower Soft. It is so windy outside today that I could not get the layout and cards to stay still. I take my pictures outside for better lighting. So I'm sorry if the pictures didn't turn out all that great.



Used on both of the cards:
Flower Soft Heather.
Aleene's tacky glue.
Flowers stamp from Garden bouquet collection by Posh Impressions.
CTMH Ink pens, Hydrangea, Topiary and Holiday Red.
Scraps of CM embossed paper that I had left over.
Bazzill Olive green card stock.
White card stock.
Star dust stickles.
Eyelets by SU.
Rub-ons.





They layout is simple. Some paper STMH stamps and Flower Soft. I just had so much fun playing last night!!! :) The layout is also a Challenge page for Practical Scrappers. We had to use 5 eyelets on a layout. Go check out their blog and what their DT team came up with for this challenge.

Here is my layout. The 4 eyelets are on the two pink strips at the bottom and the 5th one is on a circle. For the title I used Lyrical Letters cartridge the Capital font.


Close up of the circle that has the flowers with Flower Soft.


Thanks for looking and I hope you liked my projects!!!

Nadya :)

Lita's sketch #4 and Scrunchy Flowers...

I have two projects to show you today!!!!

First is the Scrunchy Flower or paper flower or the flower that everyone is making these days. :) I've seen them EVERYWHERE! There's a lot of great tutorials out there for these flowers. I found this tutorial at Christian Paper Crafts to be very easy and simply to follow.

I finally took the time last night to make couple of these flowers as I was waiting for my husband to finish up his home work. If you haven't done these yet, you have too. They are so easy to make and are so CUTE!!!

Here is a card that I made for a boy birthday for a friend with the first flower that I did.


Up close of the flower.


Second is Lita's #4 sketch. To see her sketches please visit her blog at Embracing Imperfection.

I had a lot of fun doing this sketch. I just love how these little scrunchy paper flowers turned out!!!! I started working on the Volume 2 album for our friends and the photos are of their oldest daughter. She is such a good kid!!!!


And the corners with the flowers.




I just LOVE how these flowers turned out!!! I see my self making more of these that's for sure!!!

Thanks for looking!!!!
Nadya