Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice

Friday, February 01, 2013

My work space

My work space..

Starts off like this..

Ends up like this..not too bad.. this is in the midst of my first card.. haha gets worst ;)

Notice the bowl of chips hahaha!! I've been craving chips :P

Card 1 done.. This is when I decide to take out the Cricut Create and really get creative...

More pictures to come later today hahaha

Nadine

XOX

Thursday, January 31, 2013

I'm still making some changes to my blog design so bare with me a little longer... Still new to blogging and designing so will be playing around with the fonts and colours till I'm happy with it.

Have a great day!
Nadine

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Happy Tuesday everyone!

I just wanted to clarify that indeed I DID make a valentine themed "Never Ending Card" like I promised... In fact I made two of them. I've been busy over the weekend and haven't had time to take pictures of them. I was thinking of adding a video to show how the card opens up over and over again :) It's always nicer seeing it in action then flat in a picture. I shall try and bother my husband to take a video for me sometime tonight or tomorrow. Patience, it will be posted soon so come back and visite my blog!! :D

Nadine
xo

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Cards..

This weekend I felt like making different styles of cards that weren't my usual style.

I recently bought a new book from Chapters on card making.. Loved it.

So... I decided to pick one card, get inspired by it and create one of my own.

This was the outcome :) I will post more pictures on how I made them.. soon..

card-love-congratulations-scrapbook-butterflies-flower

The book from Chapters.. pricey but soo worth it!

This was the card I choose to inspire making a card.. I took a picture of the page of the book...

My work space and my new toys!!

My work space for this weekends projects (heehee) and some of my new purchased toys..

Note.. yes that is my dining room table that I took over.. mouhaha.. and don't you just love our purple wall!!! Please disregard our zebra print carpet haha.. we have had that carpet for a while and the dog loves laying on it so we cant seem to throw it out.. so tacky but keeps my toes warm while I work LOL :P

Playing around with my new Stamp and toys..

Got this new stamp from Michael's for $3.00.

I was playing around with it to see what I could come up with..

cool-frame-mirror-tim-holtz-distress-markers

Wedding Anniversary Present: Part 2

1 Year Wedding Anniversary Present for My Husband

Part 2

anniversary-present-love-60-things-husband&wife

I added a thick layer of Glossy Accents to the entire front of the card. Before doing so, I added shimmer to the words and I also distressed the edges of each word. I was trying to make it manly but still pretty haha. The glossy accents really tied it all together and gives it a smooth finish feel and look. Note I should have waited at least a day or couple hours for the ink to set before adding the gloss over it.. at parts you can see the ink didn't mix too well... Bah I'm still happy with the finish product. I have to admit this project took me days to complete. Also note that my printer started running out of ink and it's also not aligned properly so it printed my pictures with lines going threw them..

To give you all a bit of inspiration, I decided to post a couple pictures and sentences I wrote for my husband.. Aww eh! He's pretty amazing and i'm a lucky lady ;)

Wedding Anniversary Present: Part 1

A present I made for my Husband for our 1 year wedding anniversary. We got married January 21st 2012.

Part 1

I wanted to make something special for my husband for our one year wedding anniversary. I wanted to make something small that we could keep forever. So I came up with this idea..

A deck of cards and I added 60 things I love about being his wife (during our first year of marriage).

Never Ending Card- YouTube Video Tutorial

Hey bloggers!!

This weekend I will be creating more of these fun Infinity 'or' Never Ending Cards. They are so fun to play with and I've gotten great feedback from my 3 friends who I've sent these out to by mail. (Check out my older posts to see the 3 cards I've created.. they were ''friendship inspired theme''). I've decided, on my days off (this weekend Sat-Sun wohoo) I will be creating a Valentine's day themed card. I wanted to make sure I had all the right measurements before making a blog of my step-by-step card making process so figured I would just post this video I found on youtube because this lady describes the steps so clearly and really shows just how simple it is to make.

Video is from:Robin Messenheimer ''Robinscraftroom.com''

Instead of showing this part in my step-by-step, I will focus on ideas to decorate it!!!! More my type of thing haha. So if this is a card you'd like to attempt, check out this video and then fallow my blog for inspiration on decorating it.

P.S. For valentine's day theme I suggest using either WHITE, PINK, RED or BLACK cardstock as the background colour so that the items you add on will really stick out more. (like the red and pink tones). You'll soon see what I mean. I will try to make two different cards so you will be able to compare and see what you like better before trying it out yourself.

See you this weekend!!!
Happy Scrapping :)
Nadine xox

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Making Changes to my blog..

Good morning bloggers!

Just a little heads up.. I'm playing around with the layouts and backgrounds of my blog for the next couple days. Please bare with me as it might look a little funny if you happen to be on my blog while I'm making changes. Trying to amp it up but keeping it true to me.

Thanks for checking it out., enjoy the rest of your Sunday :)

Nadine xo