CAS Valentine

Helloooo world of lovely Peoples :0)

It has been an age since I was here posting - but I discovered Pinterest in the meanwhile! (So much easier to click on other peoples gorgeous creations than sit and create your own - Ha!)

It hasn't been a case of not wanting to - but life sometimes just has different ideas from mine. And extended family haven't been at all well - we've had to do some travelling to visit - I must say, we've had some sadness there :0(

On a happy note ... this is the card which I'll be giving my totally CAS Hunkadorus for Valentine's Day. He's always joked that he "loves every colour - so long as it's white". OH so true in his case ...

Really, simple, but I think he'll get the message. The woodgrain debossing is meant to create some textural  interest without adding colour, in the background.

The gingham is 'me' in this card. I've always loved it - so it's meant to be a subtle mix of both of our tastes in one!

I hope that you have sweet Valentine's plans to share with the people you love!

ENJOY every minute - here's hoping that your day is *full* of  heartwarming hugs! :0)

Best wishes to you!

x

N 

Stamps: Love and Marriage, Bitty Background Blocks, Love Lives Here (Papertrey Ink)

Debossing Plate: Woodgrain (Papertrey Ink)

"Incontrovertible Print"

Helloooo sweet People!

Happy first Thursday of the year ... I hope it has all been fabby so far!

I've really wanted to play along at the new "Runway Inspired" challenge site ... so I bit the bullet, and TODAY is the day!

Here is the pic that was up for inspiration -

... and the FIRST thing that crossed my mind when I saw it was (wait for this!) BLACK AND WHITE. Amazing huh?! :0)

But moving a little laterally - I thought about that phrase that we sometimes use - "There it was in black and white!" So that is where the mojo flowed and ended up here:

(I thought, using this newspaper stamp, that the "Daily News Herald" was a great frame for the sentiment - even when my recipient doesn't know about the challenge that made it all happen!)

And the dash of red? I'm sure if you look REALLY hard the model has painted toenails. (lol).

Lots of fun - thanks to the RIC team for setting it up! :0)

Hope you're off back into a great day!

x

N

Stamps: Background Basics Newsprint, Love Lives Here (Papertrey Ink)

Typewriter Letters (Hero Arts)

Something New ...

... COPICS! I thought for the first post of 2012 I should venture out into new horizons/unchartered waters - that sort of thing ... and this is about as brave as it gets in my little world!

Colouring with them isn't so bad, chosing images to use with them isn't so bad - but WHAT do you do with the images once you have them?? The only thing I've managed to do so far is to stick them onto white cardstock. As soon as coloured or patterned paper comes anywhere near them I start to feel like I have colour overload! Eeeek!!

Here goes ...

Some pearls and a little ribbon made the cut ...

Maybe it's just a symptom of where life has been for a while - soooooo busy - but I seem to be drawn more and more to really simple cards at the moment.

I came upon this card by Carly Robertson, the other day and it blew me away. It's a picture I'll return to often over this coming year and in so many ways it summarises what I'm striving for in 2012 -

To simplify, and if I do fill life up with anything - to keep those things real.

Happy New Year, sweet People, I hope it's a goodie!

x

N

For a New Year

Hello world of lovely people!

I hope your Christmas holidays were absolutely fantastic! We nestled in and had a HUGE FEAST of family time - it was sooooo wonderful!

My poor little blog hasn't been very festive lately, and so I thought - with the New Year galloping towards us, I'd share a little baby card that I recently made to welcome a perfectly new, sweet little girl who was much anticipated, loved and celebrated. Welcome to the world little one! :0)

I took a bit of inspiration from Melissa Phillips during the release week of "Hanging Out" for this one. The card needed to be 100% girly, and I needed a touch of Shabby Chic inspiration!

I'd love to re-take these pics with a little more background contrast ... but getting the card in the mail was the main focus at the time. (And that covers a New Year's resolution too - to get my cards *INTO* the mail! :0)

Hope you have a *sweet* day!

x

N

Stamps: Hanging Out, Bitty Baby Blessings (Papertrey Ink)

Paper: 5th Avenue (Melissa Frances)

The Eleventh Hour

I've been wanting to play in the "Get Inspired in the Kitchen"  Moxie Fab Challenge - with this as the offering pic:

Those lines on the plate are really eye-catching aren't they? Kind of like ric-rac that has been layered and inverted ...

This is a seasonal interpretation, but I think this could be a fun idea to return to - for spring or for a masculine card?

Maybe also with a broader ric-rac?

I had a lot of fun with this - and it sure got the wheels turning.

Now to head out to a potluck. (I have the dessert -if I'm any later they'll send out a search party :0)!

Heee, hee.

Have a good one!

x

N

Stamps: Snowflake - Indadinkadoo
Sentiment - Hero Arts



Christmas Blessings

I was at a Christmas dinner a few evenings ago and met a fellow stamper (oh bliss) ... talking stamps, I mentioned that perhaps Waltzingmouse has made the most gorgeous poinsettia stamp ever?

So why isn't there a picture of one on my blog?

This is to remedy that :0)

To make the flower festive, I heat embossed it with Champagne embossing powder and then rubbed ink over the image. Fussy cut and layered. There are 4 layers to this one.



The gold berries are recycled from a past Christmas package :0)

This has been popped in to play at the PaperCrafts December Gallery Challenge , and in Waltzingmouse's Gallery Challenge for this week too.

Hope you're having a good one!

Hugs! :0)

x

N

Bon Voyage!

Back playing at the Moxie Fab World "Inspired By" ... Challenges and this one fitted right into a niche I needed a card for :

A friend of ours is taking a much anticipated trip next month - and we wanted to send him off with some well-wishing. He has a lively sense of the ridiculous ... so we'll be giving him this :0)

I think it will garner a smile! There isn't much to show in a deet shot, but for the sake of tradition, here goes ...

Such a great button, isn't it? :0) Hee, hee.

Well, I think that about does my offering for today ...

Hope you're having a good one!

x

N



Rusticating

It's lovely isn't it? It's the present inspiration picture for the Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World. The colours, the texture, the atmosphere. This struck an instant chord with me and I really wanted to do something with it.

The door is my favourite item in this picture - so my card took that direction too ...

With one little red heart to capture the goodness of those beautiful cushions.

(Sorry if the angle of this one makes you seasick - it was a bit extreme :0)

And a final note for this entry - the lovely OLD book that my card is on, is a fascinating read. It contains everything from how to cook real food in the kitchen (for the healthy and the sick) and recipes for the cure of all sorts of illnesses. But my favourite thing is a newspaper clipping stuck inside with the following : "I am willing to risk my reputation as a public man if the worst case of small-pox cannot be effectually cured in three days simply by cream of tartar. This is the sure and never-failing remedy: 1 oz of tartar dissolved in a pint of boiling water, to be drunk when cold at short intervals. It can be taken at any time, and is a preventive as well as a curative. It is known to have cured in thousands of cases without a failure. It never leaves a mark, never causes blindness, and always prevents tedious lingering of the disease."

We don't know the gentleman's name. Do you think his reputation survived the never-failing cure?? :0)

Have a great day!

x

N