Rub a dub dub! and a simple tutorial

This little cutie in his tub is from Scrapmagasinet stamp set 103 Baby #2. This set has 4 sweet babies in total and an accessory stamp. If you get a chance check out the Scrapmagasinet DT blog to see what my other team members have been creating recently. I love making these little nestabilities cards and was asked recently how I made these. Here is a quckie tutorial to show you how.

For the main card first score your card in your chosen cardstock.

Then fold in half.Place near the top of the nestabilities but leave a gap so to keep the join. Run through your die cutting machine. I use a Wizard.

Cut the front panel as normal in your chosen cardstock. Mine is in blue.

Glue the front panel to main card ensuring that you line up them up at the bottom carefully.

When you turn the card around there will be a small gap of about 0.5 cms at the top. Taa daa and there you have it! You can make lots of quick fun cards with most of your nestie shapes!

My image is coloured with Prismacolor pencils with sansodor and paper stumps to blend. I have added Sakura stardust to the bubbles. I applied the stardust to an acrylic block and lifted with a damp brush. The sparkles are not showing well on camera but you can see them a little in the below close-up.

The sentiment and little duck are from CC Designs - My Rubber Ducky Digi set. Nestabilities used: Square, Scalloped Square and Labels Two. I have also used an SU Slot punch to thread the ribbon. Other accessories: Lace, button brads and dew drops. I was a little clumsy and accidentally knocked off ducky's little tuft when cutting him out so improvised and added a little fibre.

Right now off for a little blog hop to see what you've all been doing.

Have a great evening,

Big Hugs,

A Spoon Full of Sugar "Challenge 23" - Sparkle!

This week for our challenge over at A Spoon Full of Sugar we would like to see some sparkle to your creations. I have made a gift bag using one of the new release High Hopes stamps "Santa Portrait" and an older but very useful stamp To: From: Isn't he just one of the cutest Santa's ever!
I would like to thank my friend Jakki for this fabulous idea and you can see her spooky project here. I have added some sparkle to Santa's hat with stickles. Ok.. I know my project isn't too sparkly but do shiny sweet wrappers also count?

Instructions: The bag I used is a 6" x 4" cello. I have used the largest scalloped circle nestability for the plain card stock and the largest circle nestability for the patterned paper. I stuck the pattered circle in the centre of the scalloped circle. I then scored the centre on the plain side and folded in half to make the tab. I punched two holes on the back of the tab to add the ribbon handle. I then added double sided tape to the back of the bag and stuck to back of the tab. I added a velcro fastener to the front of the bag so it can be opened and closed. Finishing touch was to add Santa and the tag.. oh yes and the yummy sweets! The tags were cut using SU Small Tag and Tag punches.

These little gift bags would be ideal to give to your children's teaching assistant's/helpers, maybe an elderly neighbour or your children's little friends. Who wouldn't appreciate a bag of yummy chocolates! If you have time before Friday you could make some Halloween treat bags like Jakki's project. They would even make great party bags!

We have a great prize this week which has very kindly been donated by Lana From Dotty do Crafts

I would like to thank Maddy and Dawn for passing the "I Love Your Blog" award to me. Thank you also Dawn as this is the first award my Sketches blog has received. If you get the time please check out the work on these two wonderful ladies and Maddy has just made the most awesome Fimo brads and has a fabulous tutorial.

Have a great week!

Hugs,

Cute Card Thursday - Hanglar Fiskekille

Here is my card for this weeks Cute Card Thursday. I am so pleased with how this card came together and it has been made for my FIL for Father's Day. This weeks Cute Card Thursday challenge is to make a card using Katharina's fantastic sketch - see below. I have used my Hanglar Fisher boy Fiskekille. It is coloured using my Prismacolours pencils with use of Sansodor and paper stumps to blend. Used my Sakura Stardust pen to add a bit of shimmer to the fishy scales. The Fishy paper is by Provo Craft. The Bazzill has been embossed with Cuttlebug folder Spots and Dots. I used my nestabilites to cut the oval and scalloped oval shapes. The little fish sentiments were cut using my Cricut Expression and distressed with Versamagic. The sentiment was then handwritten. Other accessories: brad and fibre for seaweed. The ribbon and scalloped edging were from this months kit at Rebecca's Scrapbooking Stash. Hope you like it.

Wishing all my blogging friends a great weekend,
Hugs,





Nestabilities
I have been asked a few questions about Spellbinders nestabilities and thought this may help. I buy mine from a US company called Cut @ Home. If you register with them they will send you a 40% off voucher once a month, which is good for one item. They sell sets of four nestabilities and this is classed as one item. Including postage this will come to just over £30 including shipping. I was lucky in that I did not incur customs charges as they marked the package a low value. Don't forget to put the offer code in the notes entry and they will adjust you balance later and confirm this by email. I can fit a set of four nestie’s nicely in a cd jewel case to store. Hope this helps.





I would just like to thank Ila for passing this award to me today. This means so much to receive this from her as I totally idolise her and her work is so amazing. If you have never visited her blog before pop on over and say hello.

I would like to pass this award to:

Camilla
Claudia

Both of these ladies work will blow you away so go check them out!