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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

WOYWW + BD WINNERS !!!

Happy Woyww everyone !!
So here is my space today I have a few BD cards from Friends and with Canada Post on the maybe for a lock out it will be interesting next month to see what goes on with our mail.
Today being my birthday we have plans for a little late lunch out and where ever we end up no real plans just got the day off of work and that itself is an Amazing gift, working on your birthday is BLAH!!! lol
Handmade Birthday Cards from my friends
Top Shelf  Left to Right
Fiki and Her Daughter Paola, My Sister Anne (flower just fell off) Michelle (From WOYWW)
Claire(WOYWW),
On my Desk from the mail man today
Evelyn (swap Group I'm in), Suze (From my DT)
Also what arrived was my lucky winnings from a challenge Dare2BArtzy Ink(in Orange LOVE IT) and some fun stamps they are get well but I'm gonna try and make a cough cough "C" card out of them lol
So also playing with some Kraftin Kimmie stamp Francesca" ,she was the last one Kimmie had out of the first group she put out she's now starting to make clear stamps too now !!

My Birthday Candy Winners
#40 = Tee Hall Will need your snail mail + $15 to spend in Limited Runs - Claimed
#15 = Debra Kenthworth  $10 to spend in Limited Runs - Claimes 
# 37 = Lisa Webster $10 to spend in Limited Runs claimed
#3 Robin C $10 to spend in Limited Runs  - Claimed

All winners will have one week to contact me to claim their prize 
Please send me an email and I'll get your prizes off to you 
elusionary60@hotmail.com

So that's my space for today
I'm off to enjoy the rest of my birthday with the DH
hugs Nikki

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Little Princess Birthday Card

My Candy is ending in a few days please join in  HERE 

I made a little card based on a sketch from Kraftin' Kimmie's challenge Special Occasions
now I don't need any wedding cards yet but I do need birthday cards so 
I made this one up using Princess Penny this was a little surprise stamp that Kim sent me
isn't she a cutie and she has a Frog. Love them !!!
The brick wall I made using Inks,Markers,Gel Pen,Pencil Crayons took a while but I wanted a castle like background and then I also used a blast from the past but flower soft in this for the little flowers growing in the vine up the wall

Challenges - Kraftin Kimmie - Sketch/Special Occasion 7/1
Little Claire's - Create a Scene 7/1
The Pencil Case - v = Variety of Colours 7/2
Fussy and Fancy - Say it with Flowers 7/1

Thanks for looking
hugs Nikki 






Tuesday, June 21, 2016

WOYWW

Happy WOYWW everyone!!!

Here's where the stained glass windows went  on to the garage now if it wasn't fancy before it really is now  This is just the picture from my window where I craft ... I know the garden is being worked on so it's a little dreadfully boring at the moment 
BTW this is HIS TOOL SHED I have nothing to do with it other then my Halloween and Stained Glass supplies are stored inside it. He know's where everything is and keeps it tidy himself :P

Well today my desk isn't that full of creativeness going on it does have some new stash my sister sent me I've started making pocket letters so she sent me some small extra stash she wasn't using and sent it along ... Now I will say this some of it was birthday presents my sister is HORRIBLE at waiting on me to open it she wants to know how much I like the stuff it was all fantastic  ... I could have waited but nope she was on the phone the whole time with me while I opened it up (she's always so excited about giving gifts that she could have blown up waiting lol)  then she asked me are you going to take a picture ... only for me to realize I've already started putting some of it away without even realizing it lol so a few things got put away but that's just how I am lol  ... That is Minion Hand wipes just for those who are Minion nuts  he's cute.

So here's the pull out shot of my desk with all my stash I did make a coffee gift card but that's about it
Now to Fit all that other Ribbon on my desk into this already Crammed packed little drawer!!
Mostly all taken off the rolls and re-rolled and tucked into little bags to keep them rolled 
I know It's a little insane but it works for me Really well this is the best way I've figured so far :)

Happy Crafting everyone and Have a wonderful week 
Also my Candy will be ending NEXT WEEK I lost track of the days last time so there is still time to enter ...
I have found one nugget of bad news Canada Post might get LOCKED out on July 2nd so I'm hoping they don't cause how will I send out Happy Birthday cards and Happy Mail UGG and the bills ah Whatever lol .  But will wait and see how that turns out maybe Uber will start delivering world wide mail too lol 

Hugs Nikki 

Hello there little fox

To Enter my Candy Please go here 

This challenge at Incy Wincy we only have Just ME digital Stamps as our sponsor.  We also had to add a button and a bow well I kinda cheated using a brad button lol but it is a button. I used the cute little fox and coloured him us with my pencils and used a Simon Says Hello die that I love to use.  I used some papers I normally wouldn't use and I like how it turned out with that soft background this card has already been mailed out so I'm hoping the person who gets this likes it.
Challenges
Anything Goes @ 

Deep Ocean Metal or Wood 
Craft Dee BowZ - Anything with a bow
Simon Says Mon - PAttern Paper


Thanks for looking 
hugs Nikki 



Sunday, June 19, 2016

Jumbo Coffee + BD CANDY

This is my 2nd Card for the Summer lovin Coffee Blog Hop and this one is a Coffee Gift Card 
I've used Limited Runs Mini Bird with Jumbo Coffee he's Only $2.00 or you can get all 8 Digi for Only $10.00  got to love a savings 
Challenges 
Dare2Bartzy - Bling 7/1
Crafting with Dragonflies -Cards with Butterflies or Dragonflies
Alphabet - H= Handcoloured

To Enter my Birthday CANDY - Please CLICK HERE and follow along ends June 28th (comments here do not count but thank you for them)

Digi - Limited Runs 
Stamps Studio G (added them on coffee sleeve) 
Coloured - Spectrum, Shinhan Markers
Prismacolor Pencils
Inks - Heidi Swapp
Die - Quickutz  Bling From Stash


Pocket Letter


Here's a Pocket Letter I've made up and I've found I like them to have one background paper and build off of that plus this paper is just so pretty to look at too with everything on in it.
I love all the blues and Greens with purples looks like what I'm planting in my garden this summer 
Challenges 
WOW -  Summer 7/1
613 Avenue Create - AG w Creating a tag 6/26
Allsorts - How does your garden grow 6/25
Let's colour Sat Linky Party AG + Hand Coloured Image 6/25
Chocolate Coffee Cards - Use a Die Cut 6/24
YNS Colour inpired 6/23

Recipe 
Papers - K n Co,MME.
Stamps Girl- Simply Betty ?? , Wow "Just Saying and Happy Little Flower"
Embossing Wow - Matte Clear
Flowers - Prima  and from Claire
Dies - MFT,Sizzix 
Everything from my stash
Inks - Versafine

thanks for looking
hugs Nikki 

Friday, June 17, 2016

Birds and Espresso +BD Candy


Here's my coffee card to join into the Summer lovin coffee Blog hop 
which I have to hop around and check out as much as I can I love this hop it's so wonderful 
This Digi is from Limited Runs and it's only $2.00 
I wanted this to be all about coffee so I used Tim Holtz Distress embossing around the edges to look like coffee fine grounds 
So as I enjoy my iced coffee I'm off to hop around 
and if you would like to win my candy you'll win this card too 



Hugs Nikki 


Tuesday, June 14, 2016

WOYWW



Happy WOYWW
Here is my space this week It's pretty tidy seeing I'm in the middle of making a stained glass window it's the 4th one and the last one so not to bad at all 
So I've laid out all my happy mail and the lovely card Judy made me (big one)
smaller one is from Lynne (my fellow Canadian on the west coast )
Here are the ATC's From the swap that I got this week :) 
Here's the last window to work on have to stretch out the lead then put it all together I have most of the glass cut out just have to get it all done there are 4 matching windows like you've seen before 
these are only 10 inches by 30 and the other 2 where smaller which went pretty quickly 
K well I'm off to make the last window that the DH wanted Yesterday lol but alas I can only make them once I get the measurements and he still wishes he could snap his fingers and they be done. But I've been working on them pretty quickly so it's getting there 
Happy WOYWW and I'll try my best to get around to as many people as I can 
hugs Nikki 

Flowery Birthday Girl

Here is a Rick St Dennis Image Called Daisy Dew used all up and this used a lot of colours I fussy cut her out and made the image the main focus of this card 
Challenges 
Dragonfly dreams say it with flowers  7-1
Come and get it  weird whimsical 
Ribbon Girls  anything goes as long as it's a card 7-1
Cards galore anything goes7-1
Crafty awesomeness AG +colured image7-1 
Odd ball digi + girl


Image Rick St Dennis , Stamp Studio G
Ribbon May Arts, Die - Sizzix. Papers - Nichole Sweetheart , SEI
Brad - Recollections
Markers - Shinhan,Prismacolor,Promarkers Sakura Gel Pen

thanks for looking
hugs Nikki 

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

WOYWW + Cards and ATCs


Happy WOYWW   so here's my space for you all labeled up I have to mail off some birthday cards this week and then make some more seeing I've been using them just about as quickly as I can make them so I'll keep this short and I'll try my best to get to visit everyone as soon as I can but time got away from me last week it seems there is never enough hours in a day 


ATC's that my mail man brought me this week 
Here are a couple cards that I posted off to a couple friends for an ATC swap for our 7th year of us sharing our spaces it's just a online link up of all our spaces and it's addictive to join in and check out our stashes and shares our crafty spaces every week.  I added in the name of the site and made it all up and then made them both re-useable which was too funny, cause they won't be at all lol
This Mini Bird is from Limited Runs and I'd like to enter it into these 
Challenges
Crafty Sentiment Designs - AG
Retard - AG
TTCRD - AG

This cat is from Crea8ive Hands which has sadly closed up shop now
Challenges
Crafting from the Heart - AG
Critters and Creatures - AG + Critter

Thanks for looking 
hugs Nikki 



Monday, June 6, 2016

Mini Notepads

To join in my Candy CLICK HERE 

Time to Alter something at Incy Wincy and here our our sponsors for this challenge Bugaboo  and Oddball Art 

Using Bugaboo- Kidz-3- Sitter
I've Altered a pad of Paper into a little note book complete with magnet to keep it shut 
the magnet was just one that was lying around the house so I cut it up to fit 
I made a little Brick wall for her to sit on and It turned out better then I thought it would :) 

Challenges -
Anything Goes @
Catch the Bug  , Lil Patch of Crafty Friends , A bit more time to Craft
Alphabet - G for Girlie

Image - Bugaboo, Stamp Studio G, Paper - KnCo .
Die - Quickutz, Markers - Promarkers, Shinhan

Next I'm using an Oddball image - "Sugar"  Creepy Style
This one I was just playing around with pencil crayons and blended over the lines to
create a hazy bag which I liked how it turned out added in extra black lines in her hair too

This one is just a flip open notepad great for doodling on


Challenges
Anything Goes @
Artisitic Inspirations  , Craft your Passion ,*won* Crafting from the Heart 
Our Crafty Corner
Stamps and Fun - stripes
CCPP - Pattern Paper 7-1

Digi - Oddball Art , Stamp Unity (from Claire)
Die Quickutz - Coloured with chalks
Papers BG

thanks for looking
hugs Nikki

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Pocket Letter Swap

Here is the last pocket I sent out for Roni's swap. I forgot to take a picture of it before I sent it off but the address I sent it to was off by one number and that one didn't exist so they sent it back to me so now I can share it with you all seeing I did have to repackage it and it should arrive shorty to Michele without any delays now 
I love the bg paper so that is where this was all inspired from all the embellishments have been altered so they go really well with the bold reds I hope Michele likes this I did use a lot of embossing on the camera with black and gold. On the just a note using embossing powder makes everything richer in the colours and matches the prefectly.
Here's the backside of it with all the goodies mostly wrapped up so it will all be a suprise when she opens it. The letter is tucked behind the coffee mug or tea if your like me and could drink a gallon at one time lol. I even used the left over paper to make a few matching tags too.
Challenges 
CraftCatz add a butterfly 
Docerela must stamp + AG no winner posted
Chocolate coffee cards  Tic tac toe- Embossing,Die cut, Ribbon
CHPP AG with Pattern Paper 7-1
WOW  Summer  + embossing 7-1


Thanks for looking 
Hugs Nikki 


Friday, June 3, 2016

Hello Butterfly


Here's a little note card I made for someone that should be getting it in the post this week :)
I've used a Limited Runs Digi  and altered the brad with embossing powders to get it Hot pink with a little gold in it. 
Challenges - 
Crafty Catz - Add a Butterfly


Papers - Basic Grey 
Digi - Limited Runs
Flowers Micheals/Prima 
Markers Faber Castel

Thanks for looking
hugs Nikki