Nutshells Blog Hop Winner!

Did you enjoy the blog hop? It's time to annoucne the random winner that left a comment on my blog hop post! And the Winner is... Katie-Louise Oakley Congratulations Katie! Please go to the Nutcrafters blog for details on how to claim your prize! Thank you to all of you who left such sweet comments on my blog hop post! My term as the Guest DT member is coming to an end.. but I have one more project up my sleeve! Stay tuned on 3/24 for my last Nutshells Challenge as a Guest DT member.

Nutty Nutshells Challenge #9- Valentine's Card

Hi Everyone!

You guessed it! Time for another Nutty Nutshell's Challenge. I was happy to be asked to stay on for another month as a Guest Designer for Nutshell's Challenge Blog. Did you get a chance to enter into the last challenge? Hope so!

This week, the challenge is to make a Valentine's Day card using any stamp or image available at Nutcrafters. They have a great selection of stamps to choose from and you can also purchase a digi so you can play right away! I know everyone's been busy making Valentine's Day cards, so this one should be of no extra effort at all to you!

Here's what I came up with... I really like this image. It was supposed to be for New Years as the girl was in a champagne glass. I just cut her out and put her on a heart instead. To create a pretty border, I used my new Martha Stewart heart punches. I just love her punch around the page corner and border punches. Its so nice to have punches that coordinate.

Here's a close up of the image...

For more information on the Challenge, click here. All you have to do is make a Valentine's Day card using a Nutcrafter's stamp or image and post a comment on the Challenge blog. Good Luck!

Supplies:

Girl- Nutshells digi

Heart punches- Martha Stewart

Ribbon

Cardstock- Bazzil

Stickles

Cheers!

I love this Nutcrafter's Digi image. If you make a purchase of 25 (sorry currency is in pounds) or more, you will recieve this free Celebration digi! Isn't she cute? All ready to ring in the New Year! Since she looked like she was all dressed up, I decided to go with a basic black dress for her. Kept to the black and white (silver) theme by using some old Bo Bunny scraps (yay! using up my scraps now that I have a filing system!). Added the new double loop MS punch- which I'm totally loving. To throw in some color, I decided to use some red prima flowers. Oh yah, and can't forget the "bubbles". Decided that since it was a New Year's card and she was in some bubbly, went with the crystals for bubbles.

Supplies:

Celebration Digi- Nutcrafters

DP- Bo Bunny

Cardstock- Bazzil

Flowers- Prima Crystal brads- American Crafts Crystals- Hero Arts

Nutshells Challenge #6

Hi Everyone! Thank goodness its Wednesday! Do you know what that means? The week is half over- Yay!! The sooner this week is over the better.

Since its Wednesday, that means its time again for another Nutshells Challenge!! Challenge #6 to be exact. This week's challenge is to make a Christmas Card using any stamps that Nutshells carries. I chose a the Christmas digi stamps since they are perfect for a Christmas card.

I've been meaning to use this Cosmo Cricket paper and thought it would be a good background piece since I wanted to keep the angels in white/pastels. I decided to make a tri-shutter card since they are very easy to make AND I could dangle the angel on the cloud from the middle section.

Here's what the card looks like when its open.

Here's another view of the inside. I used the SU Sizzix deco strip with the sentiment Peace, Love, Joy & Cheer. I ran out of glitter paper, so I just cut it from white cardstock and used stickles to give it the bling it needed.

Its hard to tell from the photos but there is a little shadowing on the angel's clothing, but that's it... kept it very simple.. they are angels after all!

I hope you will join us for this challenge... check out the challenge blog here for more info.

Supplies:

Angel digis- Nutcrafters

DP- Cosmo Cricket

Cardstock- Bazzil

Stickles

Markers- Copics

Getting Nutty!

Hi Everyone! You are probably wondering why I posted the Nutty Nutshell's #5 Challenge earlier today... well, I have some exciting news!!! I've been asked to be a guest designer for the months of December and January!!! Happy Happy Joy Joy!

Ok, enough celebrating... I got word of the challenge requirements two days ago, so I didn't have time to make anything to post till now. I used their new Christmas digis for my ribbon projects and boy are they cute! I love how they are holding the words "Joy" or "Peace".

The cool thing about their challenges is that you can use any of the stamps they sell, and they have a pretty good selection to choose from. If you don't have any of the stamps they carry, you can always purchase their digi stamps (like these) and play along!

Here's the close up of the card and box. When you open the card, the angel actually swings a little. I suspended her from some fishing line to make her appear like she's floating.

Here's a close up of the bag. I wanted the projects to coordinate, so I used the same DP and ribbon.

I know its getting hectic with the holidays, but hope you can participate! Click here for more details...

Supplies:

Angel digis- Nutshells

DP- Reminisce and Jillybean

Cardstock- Bazzil

Stickles

Ribbon

Markers- Copics

Bag die- Sizzix/Stampin Up

Merry Chirstmas sentiment- Island Scrapbooking Laser Cuts

Nutshells Challenge

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to pop in to post this card for the Nutshells Challenge. I hope I make the deadline, if not, oh well. In Hawaii, its still 10/19, so hopefully it still counts.

The challenge was to use this digi that you can get for free on their blog. I think her name is pecan pie or praline or something yummy sounding. Anyway, since she was supposed to be flying, I had to make her fly, right?

You can't tell from my junk photos, but I suspended her from the top of the circle so that there is some movement. I turned off my flash in this photo so you could see that the image was raised. You can also see that the bats are fluttering next to her.

I also used the MS spiderweb punch (my favorite) and attempted to make a full web border. It came out better than I expected. I cut a 1" strip of black cardstock and punched one side of the strip, then turned it around and did the other side.

Check out Nutshell's challenge here..

Supplies:

Pecan Nut digi- Nutcrafters

Circle punch- Marvy

Cardstock- Bazzil

Spiderweb punch- MS

Flying by sentiment- Hero Arts

Bat punch- MS

Markers- Copics