Mother's Day CAS cards with Freebie

I have tons of mother's day cards for you all that uses my FREEBIE sentiments that you can find HERE. Here they are in yellows.

In pinks:

And a few close-ups of my favorites.

The papers are from various companies: Crate Paper, Graphic 45, and October Afternoon.

The pearls are by Want2Scrap, twine by the Twinery.

I hope you all have a great weekend, esp those of you who are moms! Happy mother's day! :)

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Vintage Card #2 with Printable ATCs and a Freebie

Hello, friends. Starting today, I have a series of cards I made using the Printable Spring ATCs I have on my NinaB Printables etsy shop. Today's card uses the ATC with the beautiful verse from Songs of Solomon.

The little tag and "Friend" sentiment is from my Penny Black's Blooming Tags set. I adorned this pretty pink seam binding with a paper flower and burlap twine. The tag has lovely Want2Scrap pearls.

Nothing like this verse to welcome spring. :) I inked the edges of my papers and added some subtle stitching. Some vintage lace and buttons add more chic-ness, don't you think? :)

Here are the Spring ATC's ready for you to print out and make beautiful cards with.

 

And speaking of spring, here's a couple of FREE Facebook covers for you. I love taking photos of nature, including this tiny daisy from our yard. Just click on the photo to get the larger version and save on your hard drive. You can then upload it to your Facebook timeline. This one includes one of my favorite quotes by JC Ryle.

This one includes a quote by Anne Bradstreet:

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Embellished Vintage Christmas Tags

Happy Monday! I hope you are all staying warm. I've been reading many updates on FB about snow all over the place. Thankfully, we haven't had any here! I am an island person through and through. Even though I haven't lived in one in so long, I'm still "allergic" to cold :). I do enjoy watching snow fall, esp when I craft, but only if I stay home.

My projects today are embellished tags that I shared on the Want2Scrap blog last week. You can get the free pritnable tags HERE. And the complete supplies and instructions can be found HERE.

This is it for me today, friends. We have a busy week ahead: lots of guests, parties, exams and concerts! I'm teaching at our church's Women's Christmas party this coming Saturday (if you're local and would like to join us, email me and I'll send you info) and I'm loving the extra study time in God's Word. As I shared on FB: When studying the Christ of Christmas, I don't know which is more awe-inspiring: His divinity and equality with God the Father in all essence, or that He was fully human like us.
 
And I will leave you with this beautiful verse:
"We have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, ...For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." ~Hebrews 4:14-16

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DIY Quick and Easy Watercolored Card Set (Free Download)

Hello, friends. I have something new today that I've been working on. If you follow my blog regularly, you  know how much I've been enjoying mixed media projects. One thing I like to do is watercolor the backgrounds. I have found that as much as I enjoy watercoloring, my papers don't always work well with this medium. I have to use the thick cardstock that tends to be a little costly. I also have to wait for my watercolored backgrounds to dry and often need to flatten them between pages of a heavy book.

I thought, why not make a digital watercolor background that I can simply print out in varieties of colors, so I can skip the tedious process of watercoloring. This is what I came up with. I printed these out on regular cardstock (Walmart's Georgia brand, more specifically). I simply trimmed them and matched them with my cardstocks.

I then heat embossed Penny Black's Tweet, Tweet flower image, added the sentiments (from The Craft's Meow), bow and Want2Scrap bling. I mounted the front panel using SA by 3L foam squares.

I made this set in less than 30 minutes. How would you like to make these yourself? They're perfect for holiday gifting. I have two of the colors as a free download for you. The first two cards above use these. Just click on the photo below to download:

I have made 14 colors total. The other 12 are available for purchase on my ETSY store. I hope you will check them out. Included are these trendy colors: Orchid (the new Pantone 2014 Color of the Year), Corn, Dusty Rose, Emerald, Green, Gray, Honeysuckle, Kraft, Orange, Hot Pink, Red, Turquoise. The other colors I used on my cards above are the Red and Green.

 

Have a great, crafty weekend, friends!

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Thank you and Free Printable Vintage Tags

Thank you so much for the many emails and comments I received regarding The Craft's Meow's closing (by the way, the sale is still going on). As I said in my previous post, though I am sad that TCM is going away, it couldn't have come at a better time for me. I have been busy with mom-stuff, more specifically, preparing to home school mama-stuff. I've never done this full-time, so I'm a little nervous. My oldest only has a few years at home before she goes off to college and start her new adventures sans mom and dad. It hurts just to even write about it, but we have to let them go sometime, don't we?

Anyway, I'm not going away completely just yet. I still do some product design for Penny Black, Spellbinders and Want2Scrap. I just won't be doing monthly release hops as I did with TCM. I may actually have more time just to enjoy my hobby. And I am really into making designs for download, e.g. cut files, digital papers, etc. You can check out my Etsy store where I will be sharing some things I've been working on.

Speaking of digital files, I have new freebies for you today as a way to say thanks for your encouraging words. I used images from The Graphics Fairy. Click on the photo below to download the high resolution version, without the watermark, for printing. Watch out for my post on the Want2Scrap blog on Thursday where I will share a mini tutorial embellishing these holiday tags.

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Cardinal Cards Using My First Freebie Cut File

Hello, friends. I have something new today. As I said in my previous post, I made a bird cut file to share with you, so you can create your own card using the Mortise Masking technique (aka reverse masking. I didn't even know there's a technical name for it). I'm having fun experimenting with my Silhouette Cameo. I have provided below a link to download the cut file in the most popular versions I know: SVG, Studio, DXF, and PDF. If you think it needs to be in another version, please let me know and I'll try to figure out how to do it.

Here are my cards using the cut file. For this one, I cut a white card stock. I then stamped and water colored a Penny Black Poinsettia image. I traced the edges with a thin black marker to highlight the image.

This one is CAS. I just cut a Christmas patterned paper (from Pink Paislee's City Sidewalks) and adhered to a card base. Some twine and felt snowflakes (that I bought ready made) finish the card.

 

Download the Cardinal Joy Cut files (zip) ***HERE***  If you download it, please note my Terms of Use included in the zip file. Please consider following me on the social networks listed below. Finally, comment below if you use the file and share the link to it for me to see. Thanks, friends!

 

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I'm still here and a FREEBIE!

Hello, neglected blog, it's good too see you again. :) I still don't have any cards to show today since my craft room is still not quite organized. But, soon!

As stated before, I have been in the US all summer, with limited supplies and even more limited time. We literally had something going on the 2 months my family was there, except maybe a couple of days. It was crazy busy, but altogether was a huge blessing. People everywhere were so encouraging and enthusiastic to hear about our life in Croatia. We have experienced so much generosity, love, and kindness of friends and family. We came back home to Croatia filled of wonderful memories and a greater appreciation for the Body of Christ. We are truly blessed that God would instill a love among His people that remains strong, even though these reunions are few and far between. 

Here are some of my favorite pics this summer. 

My youngest at the GA Aquarium

 Bubbles!

 My oldest two were able to take horseback riding lessons.

 My oldest with her horse

How can something be both creepy and beautiful at the same time?

 The beautiful GA sunset:

 A glimpse of my MIL's beautiful garden.

And I used the photo above to create this that you can download for your Facebook Cover on my NinaB Designs' FB page.

Have a great day!

Free Angel Decor Pattern

How about another freebie? I'm enjoying making these and I hope you do, too.

A while ago, I found this really cool angel project from Martha's Stewart that uses a paper plate. I took that genius design and made it fancier and converted it to SVG that I can cut with my electronic cutting machine. I cut over a dozen of these that range in size from 4" to 8" circle for our Women's Christmas party.These are super easy to make. My girls and I had a blast dressing these little angels.

I used some DCWV papers and embellished them with ribbons, lace and Want2Scrap bling. They look really good clustered in groups.

Here's a close up of one. this is the 8" circle. Don't you just love that swirly bling?

This is the 4" circle that makes an upright 2.5" tall angel. I just tied a mini jingle bell with twine around the waist. I wish I had taken a photo of them clustered with the different sizes, but the ladies at the party snagged them before I could do that. It makes me happy that they loved them!

If you want to make your own, here's the pattern that you can download. I included in this zip file a PDF format, PNG (if you want to customize the size in Word, and SVG (which is compatible with many electronic die cutting machines). I used an ecraft machine to cut mine. Just click on the photo below.

As usual, please leave me a comment if you created something with this pattern. I'd love to see it.

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Free Tag Printables

In the spirit of Christmas, I have some printable tags for you to use. I had fun designing these and I hope you will like them. I tried to include all different styles, from vintage to graphic. I printed them and embellished with scraps of ribbons, lace, and whatever was laying on my desk at that time :).

For these two, I inked the edges with Distress Inks to make them look even older.

You can download by clicking on the photo below.

The Santa image is from The Graphics Fairy. The vintage flower is courtesy of VintageHolidayCrafts.com. Please take note of my Terms of Use (included in the download file) and leave me a comment if you use these tags, so we can all see. Thank you!