A Creative Touch

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

An Exciting Announcement!!

Happy Hump Day everyone!! I hope that you are all having a fabulous week!! I know I am.

Today I am here to share with you something I have been sitting on for a while and have had to keep under my hat. I am now a member of CAS-ual Friday Design Team, The Ink Squad!!

I was tickled pink when Michele asked me to join. I LOVE the products and have had so much fun using them. The other members of the team are amazing and I am humbled to be in the mix.

I created a card over at the CAS-ual Friday Blog with a step by step. Here is a sneak peek!

I also decided to create a card just for my blog.

I used CAS-ual Fridays "Casual Comfort" stamp set, the "Fun-Fetti Fri-Dies" and the "Linked Fri-Dies".

I used Ranger Distress Ink's in Cracked Pistachio and Twisted Citron on watercolor paper to create my green background. I then used mist spray in teal, green and gold over it to get the effect I wanted.

I then die cut some links out of white card stock and layered them one the top in a pattern. I did a lot of altering on them to create the design I wanted. I then adhered the watercolor paper to a white card base.

I used the "Casual Comfort" stamp set for the sympathy sentiment, which I stamped in gold pigment ink onto vellum and then heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I adhered the vellum over the card front and added a gold butterfly from Martha Stewart that I punched out of gold card stock.

My last step was to adhere gold hearts that I had die cut using the "Fun Fetti" Fri-Dies and some green sequins.

To get the CAS-ual Friday Supplies that I used, click on my links under the supplies. Use my code to get 15% off your order.

For more fun and fabulous inspiration, please head on over to the CAS-ual Friday blog.

I thank you for stopping by today!! Have a fabulous week!!

CAS-ual Fridays Supplies:

InLinkz.com

All Other Supplies:

InLinkz.com

Sneak Peek Card Supplies:

InLinkz.com

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

The Winner of the Stamping Smiles Design Tic-Tac-Toe Creative Fools Blog Hop!!

Hello everyone!! Just popping in to reveal the winner to the Stamping Smiles Design Tic-Tac-Toe Creative Fools Blog Hop for my blog is....

#7 Taunya Butler!!

Taunya Butler said...

Nora, this card is FUN, FUN, FUN!! Love the styling, the background and it is just so great!! Love seeing your work and looking forward to possibly posting again pretty soon!! Hugs to you- what a great card!!

April 1, 2016 at 3:18 PM

Congratulations Taunya!! Please e-mail me your address so that I can send you out your package!!

I want to thank each and every one of you for making this blog hop a success. It was so fun!!

Sunday, April 3, 2016

SJ Kit Club Reveal, Freshly Made Sketches #230 and Sketch Saturday #406

Happy Sunday!! I hope you had a nice weekend. It has flown by way too fast for me.

Friday we picked up Chris' new truck, yesterday I went to a Robotics competition for Charlotte and today I have a wedding shower. I did fit in a bit of crafting time, though, as I had to get two cards done for some gifts!!

My cards for this post were made with a kit that I received from Jenny for the SJ Card Kit Club.

I am going to admit that I augmented this kit a lot with what I created. Since I needed what I made for my specific purpose, I totally cheated. That and my mojo has run away so I needed help!!

My first card I used Freshly Made Sketches #230 for my inspiration.

Here is my card:

I die cut the piece of green paper using MFT's Blueprints #13 and adhered it over a white card base. I then used PaperTrey Ink's Basic Bookmark #3 Die to cut out the white tag placed it in the middle of the green background.

I then die cut the umbrella from the flowered paper that was in Jenny's kit using the Paper Smooches Wedding Shower Dies. I layered it over the white, using foam for some dimension. I used my umbrellas as the white piece from the sketch.

I then layered the little chick from the kit one the umbrella and added "baby" which I die cut out of blue card stock with PaperTrey Ink's Modern Alphabet Dies.

I then created the inside of the card using Lawn Fawn's "Little Bundle" stamps and dies.

I adhered this panel into the card after photographing. I always have such a difficult time photographing the inside of the card after I complete it!

For my second card, I used an older Retro Sketches sketch as my inspiration.

Here is my card:

I started by die cutting a white panel for the background and shading it with distress ink. I then adhered torn pieces of patterned paper that came with the kit. I masked and stamped an envelope at the bottom, as well as the sentiment. I then used foam adhesive to adhere the "happy mail" envelope that came with the kit and I colored with Copic markers. The last step was to adhere sequins.

My last card I created yesterday for the shower I have today. I used Sketch Saturday #406 as my inspiration.

I tweaked it a bit to make it my own, leaving the flower elements off and using the top of the bookmark die instead and only have one strip down the left side.

The background paper, which came from Jenny's kit, I misted with white, blush and primrose Colorshine. I then adhered it to a white background. I added a piece of pink glitter tape and a strip of green that I had left over from the background of the baby card on the left side of the background.

I die cut the white rectangle using an MFT die and adhered it over the front of the card, tucking the left over top of the bookmark die under it. I then die cut the sentiment and used glossy accents to give it a bit of dimension.

I die cut the umbrella from paper included in Jenny's kit using the Wedding Shower die from Paper Smooches. I adhered it to the card and used some Nuvo Apple Green crystal drops to give the middle of the umbrellas some polka dots. I covered the end of the umbrella in Wink of Stella and Glossy Accents.

Well, that is all from me for today!! I hope you enjoyed these cards. Please hop on over to the SJ Card Kit Club Blog to see more from the ladies. Many are card newbies and would love you to stop by!!