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A free quickie sheet

Hi Friends

I wanted to make sure I started your weekend with another one of my latest 3D sheets, so grab it while it's here.  I hope you can find some use for it.  Here now, gone soon!

GONE NOW.  The newest sheets will be uploaded to the Bucket soon.  I take more of that time to make the sheets right now so you all get a chance to come new stuff first. 

Carmel R. sent a beautiful card to share with you "Thank you Carmel it is really lovely"

A5 card lined with patterned paper and mounted on gold miri card.  Your lovely decoupage of ladies shoes

and handbag (Marianne has one just like it)- I have built the decoupage up with foam pads. I printed her name

and a greeting and also mounted this on foam pads. I used a cutter to do the crinkled effect on the tag.

 

Have a great weekend ladies and gents!  I have more sheets to come, perhaps this weekend.  I have finally tapped into my reserve of images, so you come here for free sheets, that has not changed.  We are visiting our close areas this weekend it is labor day weekend here so we are going to see the Cherry blossoms in Lushun and the bridge to North Korea without crossing not to worry we know better.  But this area is also a nice area to sight seeing.

Nicole :)

More gorgeous cards, with another quickie sheet!

Hi Friends

Here is the newest addition to my sheets, I hope you find some use for it.  Here now, gone later. If you miss it, wait until I add it to the photobucket in a week or two.  If you missed it, sorry!

Sheet removed 

Penny W. (d0npen) sent us her gorgeous card with instructions:  "Love your card Penny, always so creative of you"

I used your giraffe 3d, and made a birthday card for our granddaughter's 6th birthday.. I printed the card onto regular cardstock, the 3d sheet onto glossy photo cardstock, and made a couple of message tags, and 2 little teabag medallions for the card.  I used my scalloped Nestabilities die cut to cut the scalloped rectangle around the giraffe.

Thank you Penny for sharing your border and tea bag sheet.  It will make such a gorgeous set as we can see on your lovely card.  Thanks

 

 

Christine G. sent us her how to's in pictures of her newest cards.  Thank you Christine I really love working on acetate, you did a fantastic job!

1st photo, it is all you need to do this card

  
2nd photo is the front of the card

 
the 3rd photo is inside the card

  
the 4th photo is the back of the card

The site with the tutorial for this technique and where you can find the products needed to make this card. "Christine well done on your card, it is beautiful, I love the technique" http://www.jorihobby.com/

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Fabienne G. sent us her latest card and here are the instructions:  "Lovely card Fabienne"

I cased the card from the current French SU catalogue.  I used Stamping Up Designer paper for the panel and the punched border.  I stamped the SU wale with bashful blue ink on white cardstock, and cut around it.  I punched a 1 3/8 hole in the panel, glued a piece of scrap blue paper and used dimensionals to stick the wale. I found another piece of scrap to make the embroideries between which I white embossed the message.  I Put a ribbon,  buttons, a “breloque” and that’s it. 

   

Joan C.'s beautiful card and short description as follows:  "Amazing card Joan, I am sure Adam loved his special card from grandma"

This is a birthday card for my grandson made using one of Nikky's 3D images & a Cuttlebug folder
from the new Asian collection.  I mounted it on some silver & then some glitter cardstock.

 

 

Thank you for all comments, ladies you are so very pleasant to read on any given day!

Have a great day!

Nicole :) 

Surprise!

Hi Friends

This is a quickie sheet!  It is here now and gone soon.  So if you miss it you will have to wait until I upload it to photobucket.

 
To get it, just right mouse click, save as, to a folder assigned for 3D sheets.  Enjoy!

Have a great day!

Nicole :)

Another few cards for you to enjoy!

Hi friends

Here is a quicky sheet, that means it is here now and gone later so grab and have fun!

 

I am so happy some of you have been able to try the scarf technique it is much easier than it looks even though I tried to keep it as easy as I could with the white marking on the photos.  I am not experienced in showing how to by camera but I am learning now how to use the video cam and transfer to Youtube so I can link it from the blog for you to enjoy.  So if all goes according to plans I will be able to make tutorials on Youtube for you to look at instead of reading which works better for me since I am soooooo visual.

Just remember, your cards to share are not calculated from the date I posted them but rather when you email them to me.  So if you have a card sitting and waiting to be sent in a week or so please send it to me now.  But make sure it has been closest to 2 months since you sent me your last card.

If you have not started to share cards this year with the new rules, please know that from now on we need a description with your single card of any technique you like to share, but only one card every other month will be accepted.  So if you have not participated since January you are allowed to send me two cards at once but remember I need a short description of it simultaneously. Thank you

I try my best to keep you interested, if you have any ideas, suggestions as to what I should include on my blog please write to craftynikky@gmail.com please make sure you write SUGGESTION on the subject line.

Here are a few cards for today:

Martha S. sent us her beautiful card with description "lovely card Martha thank you for sharing it"

I stitched this card from a photo my hubby found of the lovely rose. The stitching pattern is a "Chrissie" I believe.  Punch is EK success border punch.

 

Pam A. sent this beautiful stitched card with recipe "Well done Pam love it!"

It is Mothers Day card, enbroidered with plain thread and metallic  thread on butterflies. The 3d and pattern is from 3d Stitching Sheets with Ann's Paper Art.

  

Thank you for all of your participation to my blog.  I always have a good time reading your comments as well as showing off your work of art! Have a great day!

Hugs

Nicole :)

I have a link to some of the Chinese New Year 2010 firework intense night

Hi Friends

Remember way back in February I had told you I would share with you some of the fireworks that we were surrounded with for more than 10 hours that day.  That was an experience I had never thought I would live.  So keep in mind that this was going on all around us, pay attention to the lantern falling off the sky to a tree next to me.  All firefighters are on duty that night and there were quite a few homes that burnt down that night.  But the experience was one we will never forget as we might also see next years as well.  We were talking about going away for 10 days that time around. hee hee

So I hope you enjoy the small piece of film we were able to extract from 2 hours of it that our camera would let us take before the battery went dead.

Just click on the link and enjoy!  No need to sign up for a Yahoo account.

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7380469?fr=yvmtf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYFT9qDBS-c if you prefer Youtube

Have a great weekend

Nicole :)

More fantastic shares

Hi friends,

Almost another week over.  How time flies when we're having fun.  I hope that you had a fun and creative week.  I have been trying to clean up my work space but I always seem to cover it up with more of "this is possibly a card" items, and then I lose my train of thoughts.  Back to square one I go again hee hee.

I am trying to make more cards, I will have to use another approach so I stay focused, turn off PC for a few hours a day when I am at home.  I have had so many things I wanted to try lately, I will have to stick to one technique and make a few cards from it before trying something else.  If I don't, my desk looks messy, probably sounding familiar to a lot of you (we call this normal) :-)

Trish A. sent her gorgeous stitching and roses with a description:

Pricked and stitched the crossover with multi coloured gold thread, then did the heart with a red thread.  Matted white stitched card to red card and then attached to yellow (didn't have gold) cardstock.  Punched out red and yellow shapes and made into roses.  Attached roses to card with some leaves.  A verse on the inside.  Then hand delievered.

 

Kathy in Iowa sent us her beautiful iris folding card:

I made this card for a friend's year old daughter.  I used a cupcake pattern that I have had for sometime and wrapping paper for the iris folds.  Really a very easy card but I thought appropriate for a one year old.  (Thanks so much for such a lovely card the variation of colors in your folds make you card come to life Kathy)

 

PurplePauline sent us 2 cards to get updated as well as a description for both of her cards:

The envelope card.....
I chalked the card with some pink chalk as a background. Layered the 3D image onto some gold mirri board, glittered the flower centres and finished with gold corners and borders. The dots are just 'waste' from a used up peel-off sheet.

 

 
The Rose card...
I lightly chalked the white card with pink chalk as a background. Covered a quarter of the card with backing paper, layered the 3D image onto gold mirri board and glittered the roses,
finishing off with gold corners and borders..  "Thank you PurplePauline for your lovely cards"

 

Thank you for visiting, commenting and sharing your beautiful cards. Have a fun weekend!
Nicole :)

More beautiful cards, plus the scarf wearing technique I have learned in Japan

Hi Friends

I am thrilled to bits to be able to share with you what I have learned among other things while in Japan.  By that I mean while shopping for silk scarves the store owner showed me how to make this easy and beautiful scarf technique.  I have taken pictures on how to make it step by step.  If you already know this one, others might not have tried or seen it before so I hope if it is new to you, that you will enjoy it as much as I did when she taught me how to do it.  If you are like me knots are often bothersome but this way is very lovely and comfortable to wear, it shows more of your lovely scarf simultaneously.  Enjoy!

This will be found in Technique folder for future reference.

 


 
Here are some of the cards you have shared with me in the passed week:

Starting with Glenys H. with her beautiful card and recipe: 
I used one of your 3D images here for a friend who loves going on holiday.  The backing paper is some I had bought commercially.

 
Joyce in Australia share with us a card she made out of one of my sheets:

needed a rush card in 5 minutes and this was so perfect for what I needed.. you had done it so easy to cut out quickly and layer thank you!

 

A birthday "envelope" card for my daughter that Anne G. shared with us

It is quite easy to make a card envelope.  Depending on the size of card you want to make, once you know the dimension just undo an envelope you already have and trace the opening like you see on Anne's card and you can accessorise it for the theme of card you are making at that time.  Anne your card is beautiful thank you.

 

Diane M. shared her beautiful card with us:

I used one of your floral sheets, backing paper, and glitter paper. made it a dl for a change, on cream card stock. (Well done on it Diane I really love it) thanks

 

Pam (Nedlnut) shared her cards to catch up and 1 ahead since her access to the internet is limited until her computer is fixed.  Here are the photos and descriptions she shared with us.

Pink Flowersoft girl - I cut out the Flowersoft image and used Ultra fine Flowersoft in Raspberry Fizz, Citrus Crush and Sage. The stitching pattern is one of Emy's from Emilie's Designs. I changed the centers so that they would all match and look more like the flowers in the bouquet. Threads are variegated from Sulky and MM flower brads used in the corners. The little girl is attached with pop dots.

  

Pink watering can girl uses the same pattern from Emy but I kept it original with the different flowers. Also used variegated threads from Sulky, round mini brads for the flower centers, the stamped image is from Sarah Kay "Elodie in her Garden", colored with Marvy markers and used blue stickles for the drops of water. I cut out the stitched piece to make a border for the stamped image and used pop dots to pop it.

  

Yellow Flowersoft girl - again I cut out the Flowersoft image and used Ultra fine Flowersoft in Citrus Crush and Sage. The stitching pattern is free from Pinbroidery (left the happy birthday out of the middle), threads are variegated from Sulky, yellow pearls from Hero Arts, yellow/green ribbon, Nestabilities scalloped and regular circles and JustRite Stamps "Seeds of Kindness". Little girl is attached with pop dots.

  
 
Thank you for following me as you could see once you click on the left hand side of my blog where the followers are signing up it asks you step by step some information and you are in!  Thank you for that ladies. 

Nicole :)

More beautiful card creations

Hi Friends

I am always so happy to show all of your talents.  It makes me smile to have this ability to share your talent and today is no exception, so here are more cards to enjoy:

Ruth P. has shared her two cards to be up to date with her recipes to beautiful cards:

On  baby card used white card- cuttle bugged swiss dots on very soft floral paper abd added 3d baby picture Put sticker on 2 pieces of contrasting card and added a bit of glitz here and there.
Next on doggie card used bleck card added a contrasting striped paper and added 3d doggie picture added my usual glits and sticker. (simple but effective) I love them both Ruth thanks!

 

Coralie G. shared her newest creations and recipe:

" To make this card I used a vine paper from Funky Fairy and a wonderful sheet from Tracey Miller (Fred she said). The little girl is 3d and I glued the flowers with 3d fom. A cute result and an easy card to make!" Thanks Coralie

  
Sue S. shared her newest card:

This one is a glitter cat image on a cuttlebug background with a silver metallic layer and peel off dots.

 
Gyongyi shared her beautiful card to send to her husband in the forces.  I am sure he will love it and treasure it.  Well Done Gyongyi
I used your Shakespeare design and cut the frame from the cricut home accent ( I think lol) cartrige. I hope he will like it.

 

Thank you for sharing, visiting and commenting, I enjoy reading all of your comments every day.  It is so much fun to smile first thing every day just by reading what you have left with your visit.  Thank you I appreciate it more than you know.

Nicole :)

P.S.:  If you have any long scarves in your collection, I might have a nice way to wear them.  I learned that on my trip.  I am trying to show you via pictures as it is hard to explain.  But so easy to make.  Will post as soon as I get the pictures together.

A few cards to share!

Hi Friends

Here I am again, I thought I should take a break between photo choosing and post a few of the cards you have sent me in the passed week.  I will try my very best to add the photos to the albums this weekend.  Wish me luck there are quite a few.

Here are a few beautiful cards for your visual treat!

Let me start with Grace L.'s card, another great stitched card for us to view and get inspired by.  Thank you Grace.

I made this card by scanning the Christa pattern and then printing the image onto two sheets of card, one cream and one green. It seemed a way to get a coloured mat which could then be easily cut along the pattern lines. I embroidered it with variegated yarn from a card by Chrissie of Joy Crafts. The flowers are by our good friend Fred (FSS), slightly shaped, set on foam pads and decorated with a variety of gems.

 

Here are DoryTracy's cards to be up to date. I love both of them DoryTracy thank you!

Dorytracy 01 :-   I used one of Nicole's green vintage ladies and put it on an A6 card covered in green angelhair paper. I then attached layered white and green silk flowers with a yellow brad. Then using foam pads attached a tag with a ribbon and happy birthday stickers on it. To finish it of I put green gems on the corners of the tag and the ribbon.

 

 
Dorytracy02:-  I Used an A6 card in white and covered half of it with pink scrapbooking paper and scalloped the edges with my embossing board. Then used a vintage picture off the net and put a frame around it. Threaded a tag with ribbon and attatched it with foam pads.  Placed a happy birthday sticker on the tag and put a purple gem in each corner, Put a silver star gem on the ribbon. To finish it off I place three confetti butterflies in pink, silver and pale green in the top left corner.
 
 

Thank you for visiting, commenting and sharing it is always a delight for me to see what you have created lately and the ones you will share soon.  Thanks

I am thrilled to see all the ones who have signed up as followers to my blog.  If you are not sure what to do please click on the title of it and it will guide you through the rest.  You need to add your username the name we know you by and your email it is very easy to do.  If you want to add your beautiful picture or avatar feel free to do so it is fun to see pictures in there.

Have a fun day and thanks for following my blog I am trying to make it as interesting as I possibly can!

Hugs

Nicole :)

As promised...Japan photos. And look what's back!

Hi friends

http://www.circleofcrafters.com/forum/index.php Just a quick info, go see what's back!

Next....

As promised I have added some of the photos we have taken in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan.  There are 73 and if I can find more time and more photos that I feel should be added I will added.  The night photos of the City are of Osaka a view from the Floating Garden Observatory.  There were breathtaking gardens mixed with some beautiful flowers to enhance the fresh leaves of the Japanese Maple trees. The first day we arrived was somewhat sunny and warm.  The 5 next days were cloudy, rainy and much colder.  But we thought it was a perfect weather for all the walking we had to do.  Overall, I think Japan was one of the cleanest, friendliest, most impressive considering this is another language we don't speak, people that didn't know the language were going out of their ways to help us.  The food was also great.  A few times though, I wasn't sure about the look of some of it. hee hee.  I will let you decide what the rice and mini shrimps with thousand eyes look like, it starts with m....  We had a great time as hubby was curious to see how much of my food I would eat. 

Well, I am happy I can lend my travelling eyes to you.  It is extremely fun and exciting to travel, but it is always good to come back home.  So I hope you will enjoy some of the photos I have shared with you.  I was so happy I could find the time to do it immediately.  Enjoy!

Next blog....some of your cards...tomorrow!

I hope you are enjoying your weekend, I know we are!

Nicole, glad to be back and recharged. 

Yes, I am back from Japan

Hi Friends

I hope you are all well and creative.  Well, as the title says, we are back from Japan.  We had a fabulous time for 6 days.  We visited a lot of shrines and temples, the Emperor's quarters and so on.  We also stayed one night in Osaka.  We visited a tower that has a view to the city and the so many bridges and trains going all around it was gorgeous a night city scape to remember.  We took over 1,000 photos and so many videos we are not yet done looking trough all of them.  I was happily shocked to see that most of the photos are more than successful.  Here is what it looked like:

 
 

I have received quite a few cards, while away, so I will try and send a few out tomorrow.  Right now I am enjoying our photos.  I will select some of the best pictures for you to view on the blog under Japan 2010.

Just as a reminder, just send me one card every other month of one of your favorite you have made.  This new procedure has started back in January this year. I am still receiving more than one card at once.  I don't want to have to pick and make up a description so please be sure to add a description for me when you send your beautiful card to me.

Here is a stub from one of the temples we visited so if you wanted to use it as a background for your Asian cards, this is Japanese though.

 

I will try and share your beautiful pictures tomorrow or the next day so come back I have a lot to show you.  Glad to be back in our home away from home. hee hee

Big hugs

Nicole :) 

 

Yes I am away but I had another few cards to share

Hi friends

By now you already know we are living another dream, visiting Japan is one of the list of travels we want to do in the next 17 months.  So this is No. 1 of them all.  Next one as of right now is Hawaii in about 2 months time.

Right now I am sharing more cards that were sent to me in the passed month so here we go:

Beth H. shared with us her daughter's Birthday card and description:

I made this card in February for my daughter's 14th birthday, and it was pretty simple.  I cut out the basic card shape on the Craft Robo (love that little machine!) out of regular cardstock.  I then cut the overlay 14 out of holographic card (sorry about the  glare on the picture, but that stuff is very reflective).  I used 3 different ribbons, and finished off with a pre-made flower.  The perspective in the picture makes the card look huge, but it's just a normal sized card!

 

Sally R. sent us this beautiful card with instructions:

I stamped the flowers and coloured them with promarkers. The background is a couple of different patterned papers with the strip at the top punched with a Martha Stewart 'round the page' punch. The sentiment is stamped and the edges of this and the flowers have been rounded with a corner chomper. It has been finished off with a couple of pink gems.

 

Kathy T. is sharing another one of her beautiful cards:  (Side step)

Here is one of my latest cards for Easter that I made for my cousin. I did a side step design and attached a TB fold to the side. On the bottom of the card I also applied cut outs of each of the bunnies

 

Thank you for your participation in commenting, sharing and visiting.  It is more appreciated than you think.  Thank you again ladies and gents.

Nicole :)

More cards to share!

Hi Friends

You probably saw that you can become followers I have 5 that have already signed up so please feel free to become a follower I absolutely encourage you to do so in fact hee hee.  Show me how many can sign up in the next week.  Thank you!

Here are more cards to share, enjoy!

Shellie sent us her beautiful lattice card with description:

This is a card I made for My wonderful OH's step-mum for Mothers day. I love the lattice effect, but not having any fancy cutting machine or punch, I had to weave my own! A lot of work, but the end result is just how I wanted it. I cut the leaves from some paper which looks like grass, and used some lady-bird stickers and silk flowers too. Barbara (step-mum) loves her garden, so this is an appropriate theme.
 

Grace L. shared her beautiful quilled card with us
I made this card by punching out the squares ,I put the diamonds on the
card and added the quilled flowers. I added this to a white card.

 

Janet R. sent us her 2 cards for January and March here is her description:

As with all my cards, I pick the image and then choose a stitching
pattern that matches the 3d. Resize them in my digital editor, print,
prick the holes and choose the threads to match the colors in the 3d.
Then use 2 way tape to attach the stitched part of the card to similar
color cardstock, then add different embellishments, such as sticky
stones, peel offs, beads etc.  "Well done Janet, thank you"

 
 

Maggie's card and description:

The owls are a 3D sheet from Nikky.

The base card is white with an oval hole in the centre front.

I covered the front with scrapbook paper that resembled wooden planks,  and in the centre hole I put a yellow/green coloured velum - hoping to make the area look like a bright moon lit night.

I used the same wood paper backed with brown card to make the signs and punched tiny brown dots with my Fiskars punch to look like nail heads. Around the edge of the oval hole I put some fine gold peel craft.

I also used Kindy Glitz on the owls eyes and on the flowers. "Fantastic looking card Maggie"

 

Thank you for visiting, commenting and sharing!  We are in Japan right now, so I will send another blog with cards as soon as I can. We are only gone for a week.  So I might have some beautiful pictures to share when I get back.  Will call it Japan in albums.  There is another blog this week so come and look for more beautiful cards.  If you have sent a card and have not seen it yet.  Look for the next blog it will be in there unless I didn't receive it.  If you don't see your card please re-send.  Things like that happens so I want to make sure your card doesn't go without being noticed.  All of your cards are important to me.

Nicole :)

More fabulous cards for your viewing pleasure

Hi Friends

Jane (Webby) has shared another beautiful card for us to enjoy:

I cut a square piece of card and mounted patterned paper on the bottom third of the card. I then attached a piece of ribbon across the card where the paper joins the card fixing it on the back of the card to hold it in place. I printed the Happy Birthday in green from a word processing programme and mounted this onto a piece of dark red paper. The 3d image was mounted onto textured white card which was then mounted onto a piece of blue paper and then put in position on the card. I made a bow and fixed this onto the ribbon. The whole piece was then mounted onto a piece of dark red paper and then put onto the actual card.

 

Pam A. sent us her lovely card with a short description:

Ok this is a C of C Egg Pattern, cut in gold card. First egg done with wrapping paper, second egg done with wrapping paper and last egg done with metallic papers. The little bits from peel and stick are the extra's.
 
 

Brenda W. sent us her beautiful card and recipe:

Decoupaged the bunch, and added some glitter to the centres of the flowers. Used the background paper on  the side, and punched a decorative border. Put a Thankyou disc, attached with a bronze brad, and added the ribbon with a bow. 

 
Wendy G. sent us her beautiful stitched card:

I used a lovely spring yellow for the base card, then I hand embroidered the tulips and the words using a machine embroidery thread, it has a sheen to it. The pattern is a form-a-lines one.

 

New week, more cards

Hi friends

Here is such a lovely card Fern made for us:

I am taking a chance that this will work http://mywebface.mywebsearch.com/download/index.jhtml?partner=GRxdm011&spu=true&sub_id=33212

Made from one of your sheets, the stitching is from  Anns paper art

So beautiful!

 

Anne H.

45th Wedding Anniversary is sapphire so I used blue pearlescent card and white linen effect for the base,  I used Marth Stewert lace doily punch, nestabilities hearts, a cake decoration, silver peel-offsand pretty ribbon.  The words and numbers are done with the Cricut Storybook cartridge.  Kept the insert simple and used the lace doily punch down the edge.  Well done Anne!

 
 

Carol H sent us her beautiful card with her recipe:

I printed the 3d flower sheet, and background.  Cut the background to half the size of a c5 card
and pasted it down left hand side.  I put a thin silver border down both sides made the 3d tulip up, and pasted it to a piece of silver card , and put it in middle of c5 card.
I punched some flower petals out of 2 shades of pink paper and placed in corner of card added a happy mothers day  banner and  then just added a tiny bit of  stardust stickles to edge of tulip.........

 

Gail N. sent us her January card and March card at once.  Here is what she wrote about them both

The first one is a card I made for my daughter passing her exams to gain her wings so that she could become an air hostess.  i obtained the picture from the web and matted it and layered it.
 
The second one is a card I made for a new baby, a friend of mine gave the baby picture and i used greeting card factory to put the date and time on the card.  Inside I used matching papers and added "velvet" feet.

 
 
 


Thank you for stopping by for your valuable encouragement.  I am also very appreciative of it.

Have a fun day!

Nicole :)

More sensational shares for you (HAPPY EASTER ALL)

Hi friends

let me tell you that I am so happy.  We are finally seeing green patches of grass around us and the small tree I have outside of our window here shows some pink buds.  It is almost open I am hoping I will get to see some pink blooms from our living room.  By the time you read this, it will probably be in full bloom as I am writing this when it is Friday for most of you and almost Saturday for me.  You are going to get to read this late on Saturday but Easter for you.  So Happy Easter to everyone.  Here is is tomb sweeping holiday so it almost looks like a huge contrast in the celebrating reasons. 

Here are more cards for sharing:

Amy sent us this amazing stitched card for our viewing pleasure:

The card requires little explanation.  I stitched the vase, matted, and attached the 3D of the daffodil.  Stitching pattern by Chrissie.  3D by masje.

 

Mark B. shared his card with us, another really lovely card:

Firstly I cut the shape of the card and layers
and the insert, I stitched the pattern with a very light lilac thread
and used a deep purple for the butterfly body, I then used one of nikky's sheets
I positioned it at the bottom left hand corner to leave enough space for a sentiment.

 

Ellen C. Shared her beautiful idea with us: 

I attached a card using Amy's flower patterns.  I used paper from magazine articles and ads for the folds.  I really liked the azalea colors from a garden magazine article showing close up blossoms.  I cut the fancy folding papers from the blossoms.  What an excellent idea Ellen, thank you for sharing a money saving idea for cardmaking!

  

Fern B sent us her beautiful card made from one of your sheets, the stitching is from  Anns paper art!

 

 

Thank you for visiting and leaving a sweet comment on your way out from your daily visit.  I always do appreciate all of them. I hope you will enjoy this Easter Holiday if you celebrate it, if not I am sure no matter what you do it will be fun, hey, let's face it, soon we will all be able to say, finally the nice weather is here. Have fun!

Thank you also very much for the email comments that some of you have sent me lately.  Words cannot describe my gratitude from all the positive comments about the cards and description idea since I started last January, it is a little more work but it is so much fun to see how you all come up with such lovely ideas.  I do this so you can enjoy more of free shares done among friends.  Did I ever say how true friendship is to me?  It is priceless and so heartwarming, each and every comment sent, makes me feel so blessed to have you as friends in my life.  Thank you friends. 

Nicole :)

A quick share plus a surprising 3D twice the fun!

Hi Friends

I had a quick chance into making a 3D sheet yes I know, a long long time coming.  But here it is grab it while it is there!

 YOU CAME TOO LATE FOR THE GRAB - Sorry 

Next blog will have more of your beautiful cards.  But here are a few more for you today!  Thank you for your patience.  The weather is still improving here, it is that time of the year when we can't decide what to wear because the day starts off cooler then as it progesses it gets hot to eventually get much cooler after the sun has set for the night.  They say we usually have long Spring time here when Summer doesn't really kick in until sometime in June.  I was also told that snow was seen a few times in May.

Yes replying to a comment I have received, yes it takes much longer to post cards and comments but I rather post both than just cards.  This way no one has to ask any questions that may not be answered so posting info is very productive for the ones that want to try their hand at different techniques/templates out there.  In my opinion it is fantastic, you are all doing a great job.

So enough chit chat here are the beautiful cards shared with us:

Sandra K. my card is made with Paper Nation decoupage and papers,
 
I've used an a5 size card and printed my sentiment to the right hand side,
I then cut a piece of backing paper which I embossed a wavey line on and cut at an angle, then I decoupaged the couple and baby placed them to the left of the sentiment and just over the paper and finished off with peel off corners and borders,
 quite a quick and easy card to do.

 

Alice H. has sent the recipe for her beautiful card:

I am attaching my March card and the How To is as follows:
 
Recipe:    Art Deco découpage from Nikky
    1 A4 sheet of white cardstock and 1 sheet of A5 white cardstock
    1 sheet of A5 Handmade Paper
    Spellbinder's Lattice Borderabilities and Fancy Tags
    Blue sick-on jewels and silver beads
 
What I did:  This another Easel card, A5 in size -  my all time favourite at the moment.  I covered the main panel with the handmade paper which has a silver leaf embroidered design.  I punched the corners of the main image, layered it onto a slightly larger piece of white card and attached the blue jewels to each corner.  I attached the Lattice border to one side.  I also used the waste from the dies to create the corner and embellished all with little silver beads.
I embellished the lady's gown and the fireworks with glitter.  The sentiment was computer generated and punched out with a Fancy Tag which was then layered onto another Fancy Tag and again embellished with little beads.

  

Cariad Anne O. shared such a beautiful card too:

I made this card in February for my grandaughter's birthday in August.   It has been a long time since I have stamped and coloured images and enjoyed doing this card so much that I am going to be doing more.   Following is the description of what I used to create the card.
 
The image is a stamp entitled "Violet" from Stamps Happen Inc.    I coloured it using General's Kimberley Watercolor pencils.   The image was then cut and mounted using dies from Spellbinders Nestabilities "Curved Rectangles".   The bow was created using ribbon by Offray. 
 

 
Mary G. shared one of her beautiful cards with us: 

It is one of your sheets with stitching, I made for my granddaughter. I call it Bunny Love

and I call it beautiful, thanks Mary

 

Thank you for visiting, commenting and leaving your cards with me for showing them off to all of you.

Come back soon as I am trying to get back into making more sheets but there is no telling how many a week but I will try what I can with the little time I have.  Sorry I missed making Easter sheets this year but I can see there are a lot of us making sheets now so I am sure you were well taken care of during my slacking period LOL

Have a great day!

Nicole :)