Spellbinders™ Imperial Gold Dies!

Supplies:  Cardstock - Bazzill, Stamp - JustRite Stampers (Seeds of Summer); Pattern Paper - Authentique; Dies - Spellbinders 5x7 Matting Basics A and B, Gold Labels Four, Labels Four; Glitter - Martha Stewart

Happy Wednesday everyone!  I wanted to start off letting you know that Nina has announced the winners of the blog hop on her blog.  Hope it was you!

Today I wanted to share with you a card I did using the award winning Gold dies that Spellbinders released at this last CHA.  You can read about the award on the company blog.  This Gold Labels Four die is gorgeous and one of the things that make it so amazing is the debossing that no other dies have.  It is more noticeable if you ink it up or paint it but I think it looks amazing just plain white!  This is a card I created for our lss.

I'm working on some bright cheery stuff now.  I am sooooo ready for Spring.  How about you?

LOVIN' NinaB Designs Blog Hop!!

Welcome to the NinaB Designs* first team blog hop of 2013! We hope you have had a relaxing holiday break and ready to join us for another year of inspirations and prizes!

*NinaB Designs is a product designer for a few paper crafting companies including Spellbinders, Want2Scrap and Penny Black, and The Craft's Meow.

For this month's hop, Nina challenged the team to create a project with the LOVE theme, which can be interpreted in many ways: Valentine, Anniversary and Friendship.

To create this card, I embossed the cardstock with a Spellbinder Bricks and Bark M-Bossibilities folder.  After adding a rectangle cardstock and Pink Paislee pattern, I adhered a trim across the midde.  

Next, I stamped the bottom part of the house with black ink and the top with red.  Then I cut them out with the matching dies.  I was actually going to stamp the heart in the center and cut out seperate so that I could pop it with foam dots but after I got my heart die out on the scrap table...it vanished!  Ugh!  LOL  Although I cannot find it anywhere, I know it'll show up.  The nice thing about these house stamps is that you can stamp which ever heart you want right in the center where there is a spot for it.  So I chose the 'Love You' one and stamped it right in the center.  Then I colored the outer frame and added some glitter!

Here are the products I used for my card:

The NinaB Designs team is giving away these TWO PRIZE PACKAGES: Prize Package #1 includes Spellbinders Venetian Accents and Motifs:

 

Prize #2 includes 2 retired sets from Layers of Colors stamps:

 

Winners will be picked randomly from 2 of the designers' blogs:

Nina Brackett * Beate Johns * Beatriz Jennings * Clare Buswell * Heather Jensen * Jennie Harper * Julie Overby * Lea Lawson * Linda Lucas *Viola Mahr

Everybody is welcome to comment and be eligible to win. The winners will be announced on  January 22 on Nina's Blog, where you will also find all the relevant info regarding the giveaways. Finally, please consider liking the following Facebook pages that are represented on today's hop, so you don't miss the latest news and happenings:

NinaB Designs

Spellbinders Paper Arts

The Craft's Meow

Penny Black Inc.  Want2Scrap 

Thank you for joining us today!

Spellbinders™ Media Mixage

Spellbinders Supplies:  S5-025 Labels Seventeen, S5-131 A-2 Matting Basics A, S5-132 A2 Matting Basics B, MB1-001 Ovals,MD1-001 Ovals, Spellbinders™ Grand Calibur® Die Cutting and Embossing Machine, Pearls - Want2Scrap, Core'dinations ColorCore Cardstock, Green Cardstock, Bazzill Basics Paper, Peach and Cream Cardstock, ScorPal, ½" Scor-It Tape; Patterned Paper – Pink Paislee; Stamp - The Craft's Meow Happiness Is Stamp Set

If you are any kind of Spellbinders Paper Arts fan then you know by now that they have just made a break through in the industry by just introducing this week at CHA, Media Mixage!!  Our world of paper crafting and mixed media have just opened to a whole new level!  You can read all about it on the Spellbinders Site.

  ~AND!  I just read that Spellbinders won the Attendees Choice for innovations at CHA!!! ~

I feel so blessed to be designing for this innovative company and had the privilege of creating with some of this new product early on.  This 'Just A Note' card was created with a one of the new bezels they have come out with.  You can find out more about this card in the new Explore Beyond Idea gallery.  It's all very exciting and I'm so glad to finally share!  There are amazing new blanks and dies that fit in all the bezels, making the design process sooo easy!  Grab a cup of coffee and take a journey as you surf through the new Explore Beyond site.  It's pretty impressive!

So happy you stopped by!  Have a super day!

Purely White Card and another Winner!

Supplies: Cardstock: (white) Georgia Pacfic, (Metalic Snow) Do It With More Options; Dies, embossing folders, brass templates: (M-Bossibilities EG 002 Folder Dainty Dots B) Spellbinders Paper Arts, (S5-152 Fancy Lattice, S5-143 Jewels Flowers & Flourishes, S4-371 Papillion); Tool: (Grand Calibur Die Cutting Machine) Spellbinders; (Flower) Zva, (Doily) Wilton 

Hi blog friends!!  It's that time of year when all the companies gather together for the CHA event and release their new products.  I LOVE this time of year!  I am counting down the days that you will get to see all the new fabulous products the Spellbinders has this winter!  

Also, I wanted to let you know that this Creative Cards magazine has hit the stands and I'd have to say that it is by far the BEST magazine I've ever seen for inspiration.  75 different very unique challenges in it and all the  cards are fantastic!  One of the ones I have in their is this white one posted above.  You can find a few other cards that are in the magazine on the Paper Crafts Magazine blog.  I suggest getting your own copy....it's that awesome!

And guess what else?  I need to announce another winner from the blog hop.  I never heard back from the first winner and if I do, I can send her a little something but for now, I need to find someone who will claim the prize.  If I don't have any info on you, there is no way for me to get a hold of you so you would need to email me to claim it.  Off to Random.org......

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

30 

Timestamp: 2013-01-11 19:49:09 UTC

CONGRATULATIONS Ellen!!  You are the new winner!  Email me your addy and I will get the prize from the blog hop out!  (BTW...there is another hop right around the corner!)

Have a fantastic weekend and thanks so much for stopping by!

Are You the Winner? If not...a card to Cheer You!

Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  You are the sweetest blog readers evah!  I loved and appreciated everyone of your comments.  Some of you crack me up!  Just so you do know, I use Random.org to choose the winner.  I don't actually 'pick' one.  LOl  I also wanted to answer another question.  The precious baby in the photo is not mine.  The picture is from a photo shoot I did of my sweet friend's baby.  She actually has three gorgeous girls, all who are very fun great in front of the camera!  LOL

So, I was busy working and mostly playing hard with my own kids this week and didn't get anything created and decided I was going to post this card that I made for the store.  Funny thing is, as I was loading it, I thought the sentiment was quite appropriate!  LOL

Supplies:  Cardstock - Bazzill;  Stamp - JustRite Stampers, Die Template - Spellbinders S2-020 Medallion Five; Bling- Want2Scrap

A simple card 'To Cheer You' if you didn't win any prizes during the hop.  LOL  Wish I could mail something out to everyone!  Hopefully you were all inspired.  I know I was!  Okay...on this blog's winner....
Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

93 

Timestamp: 2013-01-08 05:14:05 UTC

Congratulations DARLA!!  You have 48 hours to contact me with your email and addy.  I don't have your contact information!  If I don't hear from you, I will have to randomly choose another winner.  

If you're loving the blog hops, I hope you've got a chance to check out the Spellbinder's Sneak Peaks because there has been some fantastic inspiration there.  There are still chances to win some fabulous product!

~ And have you heard the news??? ~

Finally the news is out!  I've been dying to share about the exciting new products that Spellbinders Paper Arts is coming out with!  I can't wait to share with you what I've created.  It's hard to believe that CHA is just around the corner!  But you can find out all the inside scoop on the Spellbinder's blog that was just posted today!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I'm finally starting to feel better so hopefully I'll get a chance to create more with these fabby new products that are being released....so stay tuned!