Bling, glitter, pearls and anything else that sparkles...

This week at PS is all about SPARKLE!!!!!!! What fun!!!!!

Ladies on the design team have so many awesome layouts, cards and other projects to use all kinds of bling. It is all about SPARKLE that's for sure!!! :)

For my project I decided to make a bridle shower card, as I was going to a bridle shower and I needed a card anyways. It turned out so cute... I just love it!!! :)

My sweet handsome husband got me a heat gun for Christmas.... Side note on that..... I have been wanting to do heat embossing for such a long time and kept telling him that I needed a heat gun. So it was an awesome surprise when one of my Christmas gifts was the gun... Couple of days later after Christmas I got my Secret Santa package from a friend and guess what she had in there? Yap, a heat gun!!! LOL :) Now my husband told me to no tell him what I want because my scrapbooking friends get it for me and I end up with two... LOL :) Anyways, I love my husband and my friend for thinking of me!!!! :)

Back to the card... :)

I used a bride and groom clear stamp by Studio G. Stamped it on the white card stock with black ink and heat embossed it with clear embossing. Now this is my very first time doing heat embossing. I was so nervous about doing it... but it was so much fun!!! I can't wait to do more... :)

After that was done I cut out a heart shape to help me guide where to put pearls around the bride and groom. Got these pearls at Target. Stamped the sentiment in black and my card was done... :)

It's simple but beautiful.... :)



Thanks for visiting my blog today!!! I hope you'll go over to PS and check out the rest of the projects there!!!!

Have a wonderful day!!
Nadya :)

Buttons!!!!

My first post of the year!!! Woohoo!!! :)

I hope that you all had/having an awesome first week of 2010!!! It's going to take some time for me to remember that it's not '09 anymore. :) So far it's been a great year. My sister is coming next week. I'm excited for that, all thought she'll be here for only a week, but still we get to see her and the girls have been asking for family members to come and visit. It'll be awesome to have her here. My other younger sister got engaged on Dec. 30th and we are all so THRILLED for her and our brother in law to be!!! :) The wedding will be this year, so that's exciting!!!!! A lot of FUN things happening!!!!

With the Holidays gone now things are getting back to normal schedule around here as well as at Practical Scrappers. This week our challenge was "buttons"... I love buttons! All though I need a bigger collection. LOL :)

I did this card this passed weekend at a friends house. I got to use some of her stamp sets and such. Woohoo... Love playing with new stamp sets...

This card is simple but cute. I used a very large button in the center of the card. Punched out a circle out of printed paper and threaded some embroidery floss though and attached it to the center of the button.

Papers are "Discover" pack by CTMH.
Stamp set is "From Me to You" also by CTMH.



Thanks for stopping by my blog today!!! Don't forget to check out Practical Scrappers for more great ideas on how to use buttons. The ladies on the DT there have out done them selves that's for sure!!!!!! :) So go and check them out...

Have a wonderful the rest of the week!!!
Blessings!
Nadya :)

Happy New Year!!!!!

Happy New Year to all of you!!!!

Have fun this New Years Eve and stay safe!!!!

I'll see you all next year!!! :)

Nadya

Merry Christmas!!!!

Merry Christmas to you all!!!

I know it's Christmas Eve today but still... :) I hope that you all are enjoying your time with family today and tomorrow!!! What a wonderful time to celebrate the birth of our Savior!!!!!

We'll be opening out gifts tomorrow morning and the girls can not wait to open them up. We got them all wrapped last night and got them under the tree.

Our families and friends have been asking for new photos of the girls so I thought I'd post some pictures that I took of them from last Sunday as we were getting ready to go to Church.

Katherine, Leda and Sara... :)









Merry Christmas to you all!!!!!!

Nadya :)

Paper Christmas Trees.....

I love making these paper Christmas tress. They are so much fun and so easy to make.

I was shown how to make them couple of years ago by couple of friends from one of the message boards.

All you need is a couple of Styrofoam Cones, I guess as many of them as you want but you'll need online one cone per tree. :)

Then pick your colors and style of Christmas cardstock. All of my trees were different. That makes it more fun I think. :)

Cut your printed paper 1" wide and 3" long. You can arrange the loops of paper on your tree how ever you like it.
When you make a loop make sure that you don't crease it.
You can use those needles with the top hat kind of thing to hold your loops of paper on the cone. I used hut glue gun this time around. I found that the needles don't really hold the paper in place very well, but with hut glue gun those papers don't move at all.
Once you have all of your loops on the cone you can add some thing to the top. It came be a ribbon bow, some flowers or what ever else you have on hand.

I added some jewels and stickles to the papers after I was done with everything, just to make the trees sparkle little more...

I made three trees for our auction this passed week.

The first picture is of the trees that I did about two years ago. Last pictures are of the two trees that I made for the auction, I totally forgot to take a picture of the third tree..... So, sorry your not going to see the third tree.









Thanks for looking and I hope you'll try these out. They are really easy to make and so much fun. You can even have your kids help you.

And don't forget to check out Practical Scrappers for more Christmas ideas....

Merry Christmas,
Nadya :)

First day of Auction.....

I'm so tired right now....
Went to bed last night just pass midnight and got up at 6am this morning to be at the School by 7:30am for the auction.

I need to remember to take a picture of our tables when I go back in couple of hours and post it for your all to see.

We already sold some things there. WOOHOO!!! Very exciting!!!! Parents were looking at our stuff right and left... hee hee :) So much excitement!!!!

I can so see the Lords work in this!!!!!!

So anyways thought I'd give a small update for you all!!!! I'll be back soon with some pictures hopefully!!!

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