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Sunday, July 28, 2013

July Card Kit Shares

Hey All! Hope you have all enjoyed your July! We have had a pretty laid back summer so far. One more month and it will be all about getting the wee ones ready for school to start !

This month I hosted the Card Kit Club at Scrappin' Mojo. So much fun putting together a kit for my online crafty friends! Here's a peek at what I made up for each of them and sent off for them to create with:

I have loved those Dear Lizzy Neapolitan Papers for some time, and thought they would make a cute little summery kit. I stamped and die cut and packaged everything up for them and sent off 9 little crafty packages...

I had to get creating on my own and started with a card for my mama and a little gift for her July birthday.

I love to make homemade sugar scrubs and knew she would appreciate that, so I whipped up a little batch of Honey Almond Sugar Scrub and added some embellishments from the kit to the jar.

Candles are another fave of hers and I picked up this simple scented one at Target. The label matched the card kit papers so perfectly, that I just added a little tag and Voila!

I love this balloon bunch stamp and use it often on birthday cards. I wanted a light and airy feel and just added color with my watercolor pencils...

Just a sweet little something for my Mama...

Next up a couple more cards with the kit. One of my favorite stamp sets from Papertrey Ink is the Rosie Posie stamps and the Rosie Posie Step 2 set that goes along with it. I have both sets and the matching dies and wanted to share those with the Mojo girls. I stamped each of them a set of flowers to use in their creations. I used mine a card with a little window that I die cut from the posie paper.

So many fun things you can do with this set! Looking forward to many years of stamping fun with these...

Here's a matching tag too, I was bumped by Cole when stamping the sentiment, but it gives it a little bit of a worn look, don't ya think? I love anything with mason jars.

This little stamp comes from American Crafts Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm Collection.

And lastly, little card with the ice cream cone paper. Love ice cream cone crafty supplies! I sent the girls some die cut ice cream cones using the Papertrey Ink "Sweet As Can Be" stamps and dies. Love those too..

Thanks for letting my host the card club this month Mojo Girls! You are the best!

Don't forget to click on the girls' names check out their creations; they have done some amazing things!!

Jan

Nite, nite!

~Nik

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Always and Forever

Hope you are all gearing up for the 4th of July holiday! Next week will be full of celebrations for this great country that we all love and care for deeply. I have some crafty Independence Day shares coming your way next week, but for now thought I would share a couple things I made my sweetie pie for our anniversary which was on May 4th. May was crazy for us and I didn't get a chance to post these. Time always gets the better of me with so much going on with the kids, house and my Etsy shop, that I often don't get to post here as often as I want to. I made a simple little card with some embossing. And played around with photo shop to make some chalkboard art (see pic at bottom). Sweet and simple, just like Pat likes things.

Pat and I celebrated 11 years together this year. I would love to say it was all total "bliss", but that would be far from the truth! Ha! But I will say that it has been a lovely, bumpy, romantic, life learning ride and I am thankful, so thankful for God putting you in my life, Patrick. I love watching you teach our kids about the "real" stuff, the hard stuff, the GOOD stuff....what it means to work hard and enjoy the simply things in life...