Vintage summer

I have really enjoyed myself making this card!
I am a bit pleased with the end result too :OD
I followed lilians sketch over at the sugarbowl for challenge #36 Lilian is such a tallented paper crafter and this sketch was fun to work with :O)

I am also entering this card for Everybody Art Challenge # 94 - Things with wings.
and Stempel magie - flowers and The crazy challenge - Distress it!

I have used distress ink reinkers to colour the sweet sugar Nellie stamp called 'bird house' by Elisabeth Bell. As you can see i have masked away the actual bird house though because i wanted the girl to be looking at the butterfy :O)

I have used design papers from 'classic Chic' called petticoat, and i just love them!

I wanted to keep the 3 bars from Lilians sketch light and 'dainty' just like the image and the papers so I spent ages searching my scrap room for something to use when my husband suggested using baking parchment! It being light and slightly see-through. I distressed it and it was perfect! so thanks hubby!

I have used distress inks pads to age all the edges and papers after 'fluffing' them up with my edge distresser and then sewing round them with a lovley fawn coloured thread i found in my sewing box. I have drawn on the MS. Butterfly before distressing it. I have used pearl glimmermist on the butterfly and flowers that i coloured with promarkers ( thanks for the tip Wenche, and also the loan of all your lovley reinkers!)

Phew I think thats all I did :OD

Oh and the little bronze dragonfly is from my hobby box.

Hope you like this card, and thank you peeps for all of your lovley comments,

I love reading them :O)

Hugs Nina

One of my new stamps.

Good evening peeps, Hope everyone is well and happy, I am :O)
I Bought some new papers, and have finally got round to trying out this new stamp I ordered from Funky kits. Isn't it CUTE! (Bird house by Elisabeth Bell for Sugar Nellie) I love it anyway! Its a shame really that the stamp is so large and that not much of the Cosmo Cricket (earlybird brunch) paper shows, cos I love them too. The cards size is 15x15cm.



I have used my new MS butterfly punch and am really lovin that too :OD
The ribbon is from Panduro hobby shop. The half pearls are from Basic grey -Opaline.

The flowers are punched with the retro flowers punch from EK Success, (medium and small size) with T.H Vintage photo distress ink around the edges. I used the same round the edges of the stamp and also to paint the white paper the stamp was stamped on cos it was looking far too white.

The card is for 5 challenges, (Yup I did my research this time and it's a record for me! hehe)

First up Fun to stamp Who wants to see 'your latest bought stamp'

Ett Trykk's May challenge is a colour combo of Green, Blue/Torquise and Cream/white.

Colour create has a colour combo too of Kaki, Aqua, brown and cream.

One stop craft challenge wants to see 'summer breeze'

and last but not least Crafty Anns Challenge blog said 'anything goes' :O)

phew! now to just make sure i remember to enter them all correctly :OD

Hope you like my card, I love hearing your comments.

Hugs Nina xx

Its good to be home again!

We are home at last after being stranded in Scotland because of the volcano eruption in Island! An already long holiday of 3 weeks turned into a month long trip!
A long time to be away from home with my 2 small boys, but luckly we were staying with family, so it could have been worse.

There has been alot going on in blogland whilst I was away and I feel a bit out of touch.
I was just dying to get back to my hobby desk and the first thing I made was this Thank you card for an old neighbour who lent us their holiday cottage to help ease the fact that we were stranded and what a fantastic place Pittenween is in Fife!




Pittenween is an old fishing village from the 7th century, its got lovely old buildings, cobbled stoned windy narrow streets and cute fisherman cottages. My card has things that I found on the beach there even some sand on it that made its way back to Norway in one of the shells :OD

I just love the effect crackle paint gives.... and here you can see some of the sand i glued on.

The card is made out of a peice of cardboard I ripped and distressed.

I then mixed some hobby paints to get a kind of duck egg blue colour before painting it roughly with T.H. Distress crackle paint - frayed burlap, then distressing it some more with T.H. Distress ink - Vintage photo. The boat stamp is from Anita's, with hand written text.

The rusty butterfly and copper brads are from Minne hjørne, and the button, worn glass, sand and shell as mentioned before all comes from the beach in Pittenween.


The following card is for 3 challenges:

A spoon full of sugar - Who wanted a birthday card.

Stampavie and more - Who was looking for lace and button.

Sukkersøtt - Utfordring #81 - Ram det inn. (frame it.)

I had fun making this card, I have a bit of a soft spot for pink! and i just adore this stamp by Elisabeth Bell called 'Beary Big Hugs'.

Such sweet Papers from MME!!

The Spellbinder frames are borrowed from Wenche (thank you :O)

I distressed the edges then sewed around them, and inked them with T.H. distress ink - Tattered rose. The ribbon, lace, waxed cotton and Birthday text (in shiney silver not able to be shown on this scanned picture) are all from by bits and bobs box as is the button. The butterfly is from Minne Hjørne.

I will be spending the next couple of days trying to catch up with you all in blogland and having a closer look at what you have all been up to, I must say i'm really looking forward to that!

Thanks for any comments always interested in what you think :O)

Thats all for now folks :O9

Hugs Nina