May 2013 NinaB Designs Blog Hop: Make It Masculine

Welcome to the NinaB Designs Blog Hop! The theme of this month's hop is Make it Masculine. Father's day is just around the corner. It's a great opportunity to honor those men who mean so much to us. I have two cards for you today. One that is more involved, in the Mixed Media-inspired style I've been loving lately. The other is clean and simple.

For my first card, I did an emboss resist technique for the background using Penny Black's Puzzle Parts, Music Background and Breezy. The horse and sentiment are from The Craft's Meow's Giddy Up. This set coordinates with Spellbinders' Grommet Tag dies, which I used to cut the sentiment frame. I used various Memento inks to sponge the background. I added little flags of patterned papers from Oct Afternoon for added interest.

My second card is clean and simple using PB Treemendous set. The reds ended up looking more pink, but who says you can't use pink on a masculine card? :) I stamped the tree heads on vellum. I mounted them with foam dots. I placed buttons to conceal them. The sentiment is from The Craft's Meow's Mother and Father set. I accented it with some Want2Scrap Chevron bling.

Here are the products I used:

The NinaB Designs team is giving away these TWO PRIZE PACKAGES:

Prize #1: Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two Dies

   Prize #2: $20 Gift Certificate to Want2Scrap.

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

Nina Brackett * Clare Buswell * Jennie Harper * Jessica Fick * Lea Lawson * Linda Lucas * Rae Barthel

Everybody is welcome to comment and be eligible to win. The winners will be announced on May 22 here on my Blog. Feel free to share this post on your Facebook page, Twitter and/or Pinterest. 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!

TCM April 2012 Release Blog Hop

Welcome to The Craft's Meow's April 2012 Blog Hop featuring 6 sets! But first, some blog admin stuff...:)

Blogger has been causing problems for some of our designers all week long so you may come across a few of our designers' blogs that do not appear updated with today's blog hop post. If that happens, please refer to the hop order at the end of my post or on The Craft's Meow Store Blog to continue on, but make sure you plan to check back on the other blogs because you'll need to leave a comment on each blog in order to win our BIG PRIZE!

I wanted to highlight as many of the stamp sets being released onto my cards, so I made collage cards today. I don't do this often because I feel they turn out messy. My "OCD" likes everything straight and balanced :). I did overcome that hurdle and made these. The background fence is from Nature's Beauty. The plane is from Travel Time. The stamp sentiment is from Giddy Up! and the sentiment is from Inspired by Audrey.

Do you see the burlap peeking through? I love that texture. The "stamp" on the bottom right is die cut with Spellbinders dies, along with the border Edgeabilities Classic Petal.

 

For this card, I used the Owl Journaling for the note paper. The horse and sentiment are from Giddy Up! The canceled stamp is from Travel Time. The background flower is from Nature's Beauty.

 

The papers are scraps from October Afternoon and My Mind's Eye. I inked all the edges of all the layers. Some burlap string, seam binding and buttons finish my cards.

Now onto something a little different. I couldn't fit in the cute images and punny sentiments from Vintage Rides in my collage cards, so I have to show you this. The papers are Cosmo Cricket. The image is colored with Copics. Doesn't this card just evoke nostalgia? Now my youngest has a bike that's very similar to this.

  

Don't forget to check out the rest of the team's blogs. You could win ALL 6 stamp sets. To be eligible, you will need to visit & comment on each blog on the hop. The deadline to comment is 9:00 pm PDT, Monday, April 23rd.

Here's the hop order:

The Craft's Meow Blog
Amy Tsuruta
Amy Wanford
Ivana Camdzic
Geri Freeman
Iwona Palamountain
Jackie Rockwell
Jean Martin 
Jen Cuthbertson
Jenny Suchin
Jessica Fick
Gini Cagle
Julie Ranae Karen Baker
Lindsay Amrhein
Michelle Bertuzzi

Nina Brackett <<-- you are here!

Here are my two sets being released today by The Craft's Meow:
 Vintage Rides

Giddy Up! - coordinates with Spellbinders Ribbon Tags Trio 3

TCM Previews: Giddy Up!

Welcome to the last day of the TCM Previews before our release tomorrow. Today, The Craft's Meow team is featuring a set of mine called Giddy Up!. It's a re-release of a set The Angel Company sold before they closed.

This is a western-themed set that includes a silhouette horse with a damask "saddle."  The sentiments fit inside the Spellbinders Ribbon Tags Trio 3. I loved this saying on my card from the moment I heard it for the first time from my Southern gentleman husband. It's an empathetic phrase and who wouldn't love hearing that when you're going through something awful. It could also be a phrase you use to lessen the blow of a criticism, but hopefully that's not a card you'd like to make often...haha.

I wanted to make a girly card and used My Mind's Eye papers. Some stitching, a lovely rose and vintage seam binding add to the feminine flair.

Please visit The Craft's Meow's blog for more inspiration and prize giveaways! And my Nina B Designs Blog Hop is still ongoing with several prizes up for grabs. I hope you check it out HERE. I will announce the winners on Monday!