Welcome back! Have you been enjoying all the crafty awesomeness Jen has created for us this release? Day 3 continues with a terrific silhouette set perfect for scrapbooking tropical vacations and cards of all kinds -- introducing 'Paradise Palms':
Since I love to color so much, I don't have nearly enough silhouette style sets, so I was PSYCHED when Jen revealed this one! Here is my card, I brayered the background using a spectrum ink pad and then heat embossed the palm tree scene with black EP:
My husband said that this card was his favorite of the release (he helped me with the photography, my trigger thumb isn't completely gone and still gives me trouble, so he has a steadier hand these days). I do love those vibrant colors...
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Comment on the NND blog and the Designs Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' release posts. Make sure you check out each of the 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, July 14th at 9 pm CDT to comment -- the winner will be announced on the blog post on Friday, July 15th.
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Thanks so much for stopping by! Jess Gerstner is the next blog on the hop, I am sure she has created something spectacular for you to see, she always does! Have a great day!
~ Crafty Math Chick
Welcome back for the third day of reveals for Newton's Nook Designs. Today we are showing off this cool new Halloween set with lots of cool silhouettes images to make you own cool spooky Halloween scenes called 'Spooky Street':
I was psyched when Jen sent us this set because I don't have a lot of silhouette sets and they are SO much fun to use with brayered backgrounds, so that is the kind of card I made:
I actually got the idea this card from a card I received several years ago from one of my crafting friends, Emily, which used a different set of course, but had this cool brayered background behind solid black Halloween images, a similar layout, and was the impetus behind me searching high and low for that EK Success Boo border punch (LOL, I love it!). I really like how this card came out, in real life, the center panel looks luminous, like it is glowing, VERY cool! I used an ultra fine black gel pen to draw a line from the 'A' in 'happy HAUNTS' to the spider so he (she? it?) looks like it is dangling from the sentiment.
Would you like to win 'Spooky Street'?
This set will be given away to TWO lucky winners!!
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Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners 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, September 18th at 9 pm Central Daylight Time to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, September 19th.
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Thanks so much for stopping by! Shellye is next on our hop, I am sure she has created something spectacular for you to see! Enjoy!
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~ Crafty Math Chick
Hello friends and followers! Today I have three cards for your viewing pleasure, all for the Hope You Can Cling To (HYCCT) card drive for the patients at the UT MD Andersen Cancer Center and their families to use during their stay. The first is based on Skipping Stones Design Sketch 98 using their Chic Martini set:
(You can tell that the big olive circle and the small olive circle are supposed to create a great big olive, eight?). I found this cool DP from the Paper Studio's Birthday Extravaganza Mat stack from Hobby Lobby and thought all those different sized circles went well with the two forming the olive, and added some Offray ribbons to hold the sentiment highlighted with a few petite rhinestones. This card also fulfills the following additional challenges:
HYCCT1121 - Big or Small Save 'Em All (use two sizes of any geometric shape, I obviously chose circles), and
Wee Memories Challenge 73 - Free for All (anything goes).
My next card was created using a Stamp TV Release Party sketch by Theresa Momber and Holly's HYCCT Challenge to make a supportive card featuring the color purple. Here is what I came up with using Gina K. Designs' Many Wishes set and a Kaleidoscope spectrum ink pad:
(This picture really does not do this justice - there are lots of rich purple and lilac hues in this card, for some reason the photo washes them out, it is much more vibrant in real life). The flowers are velvet from an old Stampin' Up! kit with black brad in the center. This card also fulfills the following additional challenges:
My last card was created for another Stamp TV Release Party Challenge to use Pink in a card with Gina K. Design stamps and I decided to combine it with the HYCCT Challenge to create a collage card to create this card:
Personally, I am not a fan of collage style cards, it just is not my taste, but since beauty is in the eye of the beholder I am hoping that one of the patients at the hospital or a family member will like this card and it will make them smile. I used a lot of different GKD stamp sets to create this card: Little Tees, Many Wishes, Timeless Textures, and You Are Not Alone and various shades of pink and tan ink. In addition this card fulfills the following additional challenges:
Thank so much for stopping by. You know... my next blog post will be my 100th... might just have to have a little bit of blog candy to celebrate... ;)
~Crafty Math Chick
