BIRTHDAY CARDS

Hi there,
Just thought I'd post a few cards I recently made using my good scrappin' pal Diane Oliver of Rubber 'n Rafters who was kind enough to let me borrow some of her supplies while I'm spending some time back in MI.  In case you're wondering most of my scrappin' stuff was relocated to Fl.

Here's one birthday card made for an ( almost) relative birthday.  This young man is a baseball, basketball, you name it athlete loves anything to do with sports, plus he's very good at it.

I found the inspiration for this card from a friend of my daughter's (Nance Lempinen Leedy of Canopy Crafts).  She is the talented Ginger Toivonen of gingerstamps.com.  I really was stuck trying to think of something when I happened upon Ginger's card and it all fell into place.  Loved her idea of creating the baseball from a circle punch and adding the "stitching", the bat I just happened to have among some old stickers and thought it worked well together.  Thanks Ginger for your inspiration

I hope you take a moment to leave me a comment, thanks for looking.
Nancy

Circle Birthday

Here's another card that was CASED from http://1stampingnightowl.blogspot.  This is one of the gals that was on the Display card project at Convention 2014.  Thanks for a great idea!

I liked the simplicity of the card and the cheerful colors, which of course you can change up to whatever you prefer.

Here is my version of her card...

I think it's so simple and not frilly at all so it would be a great masculine card, don't ya think?

Thanks for stopping by and peeking at my blog.

Nancy

I'm back!

I know, it seems like ages since I've posted something on my blog, well it has been.  However during my absence I was fortunate enough to become a Stampin' Up Demonstrator and attend the Stampin' Up Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah with my daughter, Nance Lempinen Leedy of Canopy Crafts.

What a great time we had and there's nothing better than bonding with each other, plus meeting people I've only known through their blogs, yep they're real people.
Here's a picture of some of us at Convention.

LeAnne Puglise, Nance Lempinen Leedy, Shelli & Sterling Gardner and me!

Ann Schach, LeAnne Puglise and my daughter, Nance Lempinen Leedy

Easter crochet flower barrettes

Gosh it's been months since I've posted...but here's a recent project I made for my granddaughter and one of her friends for their Easter Sunday morning.  They were away camping, but still enjoyed a visit from the Easter Bunny!

Each barrette has 3 flowers die cut from felt in graduated sizes, either hot glued together or hand stitched whichever you prefer (this time I hand stitched).  The center of each has a hand crocheted flower by the lovely Christina MacLaren (Sea Glass Papercraft) and then I stitched a fancy button to the crocheted flower to finish it off. 

Once the flowers were assembled I used a very clever stamp & die set called Boutique Accessories from PTI which allows you to have a felt cover for the barrette to slide into I stitched them together with some  embroidery floss (only took a minute or two since the die cuts holes showing where to stitch, then a dab and I mean a dab of hot glue to adhere the flowers to the felt barrette. I had admired these adorable little crochet cuties early last year and Christina was gracious enough to make several and send them to me, thank you again Christina, hopefully I'm on a roll and ready to make some more.

I forgot to take a close up picture of the finished product, so here is an earlier version I made a while ago made pretty much the same way.

Thanks for checking out my blog and I hope you visit again.

Nancy




Fall candy acorns!

I know, I know, I haven't posted in months due to a major relocation to another state.  I'm still adjusting to everything.  However in the meantime I did snag this cutie-patotie idea from Pinterest. OMG don't you love Pinterest (and hate it at the same time, I'm definitely addicted to it).

So here are the cute little "acorn" cookies.

Made with mini-vanilla wafers, chocolate kisses and chocolate and butterscotch chips.
I used a chocolate frosting (out of a tube for easy squeezing) to "glue" the "kiss" & the chocolate piece to the vanilla wafer.  So cute the gals at scrappin gobbled 'em up quickly!

Enjoy,

Nancy

Painted vases-who knew!

As I was browsing Pinterest one day I discovered someone who had painted a variety of vases to mimick retail ones that sell for quite a bit of money, so I thought I'd give it a try as well.  I thought my newly painted accent walls in the kitchen deserved a new color scheme for some of  the vases and knickknacks.

Here is a "before" picture of all the different shades of blue and mixed patterns:
Nice, but not what I wanted anymore.

Here is an "after" picture of the same vases after being spray painted with white paint.  I used what ever type of spray paint I had on hand as long as it was white and since I was on a roll I found a few more to add to the collection too.

Here's a picture of some of them on the shelf over the pantry doors .

 Here's the rest of them over the kitchen window

Someone also mentioned if you painted the inside as well the colors wouldn't bleed through.  I didn't take the time to do that as most of my colors were easily covered.  The trick however, is to make sure you do very light coats (several times) to avoid streaking and I spray painted mine outside on the patio.

Hope you like them as much as I do, thanks for looking.

Nancy

SIL Birthday!

Well since I seem to have forgotten to send my SIL a card for Father's Day, I figured I better get on the bandwagon and get his birthday card done in time!

He is an adventuresome soul and has the good fortune to have a job that allows him to travel to one of his favorite locations, Africa, several times a year.  So I though a card with something about travel would be quite appropriate, and this is what I came up with.

I'm quite pleased with the outcome of this very CAS card.  I stamped the map on vellum using black ink and made a tiny slit in order to slide the "Birthday" banner underneath the vellum so as not to interfere with the map image, did I say I was quite pleased with the outcome and hope you like it too.

Here's the card now:

 

Here's a peek at the inside as well:

 

I'd love to hear from you and hope you take the time to leave a comment, many thanks,

Nancy


Supplies used:
PTI World Map and sentiment stamp
Stampin' Up Vellum paper and PTI Fresh Linen Cardstock
Die, PTI Photo Finish and Stamp