Hello everyone! Welcome to the first day of sneak peeks for the March release of Newton's Nook Designs! If you love the look of quilling and liked NND's Beautiful Blizzard set you are going to LOVE Jen's new quilled set for spring - Beautiful Blossoms:
I decided to use the chalkboard technique to show off one of Jen's pretty flowers in this card:
Would you like to win 'Beautiful Blossoms'?
This set will be given away to one lucky winner!!
Here's how to win:
Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' release posts. Make sure you check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday, March 19th at 9 pm CDT to comment -- the winner will be announced on the blog post on Friday, March 20th.
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Jess is the next stop on the hop - I am sure she has created something spectacular for you to see! Enjoy!
~ Crafty Math Chick
Hello Friends & Followers! I was finally able to begin on my Dare to Get Dirty Challenges hosted by Splitcoaststampers.com (note - you will only be able to see the challenges if you are an SCS Fan Club member). I had hoped to be able to make a separate card for each of the 41ish challenges, but seeing as how we had expected company stay with us this weekend, I got a late start and began to panic that I would not be able to complete them all, and I would like to do so, so for now, I am combining challenges. If I have time to spare at the end I can go back and make cards for the challenges that I overlapped right?
Here is the first card which I created using Some Odd Girl's July Sketch Challenge sketch:
using their adorable Preppy Pups set colored with Copic markers and paired with some patterned paper from MME's 'Sunshine' collection (which I really like!)
(please click on the photo for clearer resolution if necessary). I figured I would write 'to have you as my Daddy' on the inside and let our furbaby give it to his Daddy for his next birthday or father's day (yes, our dog gives cards of his own).
This card also fulfills the following challenges:
My second card was created for two of the DTGD challenges along with Stamp TV's Saturday Night Chat & Challenge to create a floral card with an encouraging sentiment (which I later found had expired the week before, LOL! Hey, it is still inspiration right?). I used GKD's 'You are Not Alone' set along with the Floral Fantasy CB EF and Perfect Plum and Pale Plum cardstocks and chalks to create this card:
I don't know if I am personally in love with this card (I am not much of a floral person or a purple-lover, but someone else might, right?). Since this card contains embossing I am entering it in Milk Coffee's embossing challenge.
So, those are the two cards I have created today thus far, you may seem more later this evening, but if not, most likely tomorrow! Thanks again for stopping by!
~ Crafty Math Chick
Hello friends & followers! Hubby was kind enough to watch Ty baby today so I was able to steal upstairs and STAMP! YEAH! I was able to make four cards, WOO HOO! It felt soooooo good to be stamping again!! The first card I have for your viewing pleasure was made for Cat Tidwell's Anniversary Challenge to Distress Newsprint. If you haven't checked out the videos at Stamp TV yet Gina has the BEST distressing tutorial I have seen anywhere! I used Sketch 257 by Card Positioning Systems and created this card using Gina's 'Cool Beans' set:
I crimped some kraft cardstock and sponged it and around the image to accentuate the distressed look. I topped it off with this cool Offray ribbon that reminds me of steam coming off of hot cocoa and some bronze brads around the mat for a little added texture and shine. This card also fulfills the requirements of the following additional challenges:
Sassy Studio's Dare to Be Sassy Thursday Challenge 116 - Monochromatic,
Partytime Tuesdays Challenge 59 - Monochromatic,
The Pink Elephant Challenge 140 - 'Get Krafty" (use kraft cardstock),
Make It Monday with The Kraft Journal - Anything Goes w/kraft cardstock, and
Shopping Our Stash Challenge 43 - Food & Beverage.
Card one, clap clap done! My second card was created for Deb Felts' Stamp TV Anniversary Challenge to make a card using the chalkboard technique and using My Time Made Easy's Sketch 51 along with 'Stenciled Spring' by Gina K. Designs to create this card:
Not really in love with how this one turned out, but art is subjective and all cards need some love right? My white ink didn't smudge this time, but I had trouble getting all of the pastel chalk off. And the colors look off here, I used Real Red, Ballet Blue (with metallic ribbons over them) and Sage Shadow, which kind of blends into the background. I added yellow brads to the flower centers for a pop of color. I punched some 5/8" circles of black cardstock and added some blue buttons with maraschino twine threaded through them. This card also fulfills the requirements of Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge to make a thank you card.
I have a few more cards to post, and all the stamping and only makes me want to increase the size of my upcoming blog candy because stamping makes me so happy, so be sure to check back!
~Crafty Math Chick
