Trio of St. Patrick’s Day Cards

Who doesn’t love St. Patrick’s Day?! Such a festive holiday. And Robin’s Nest has some gorgeous papers and embellishments that are just perfect for creating your own unique greeting cards. For my first cards I teamed Robin’s Nest supplies with the versatile CraftGeek Autumn punch from Purple Cows. I began by building layers of color on a white 5″ x 7″ card base—black layer is 4.5″ x 6.5″; silver metallic layers is 4″ x’6″; Robin’s Nest Green Glitter Chipboard is 3/5″ x 5.5″. The white punched mat is the same size as the green glitter cardstock. Next, I added the two bands of satin ribbon. The green glitter mat in the center measures 1.75″ square. I used my Zing electronic cutter to cut the small white mat and the green glitter shamrock. The last step was adhering the Robin’s Nest Champagne Dew Drops to the punched mat.

For the second card I layered a 5″ x 7″ corner of Robin’s Nest Glitter Wedding Swirl paper to a white 5″ x 7″ card base. I like the way using just a corner of the page allows the borders to create a nature area for the greeting. I accented the glittered swirls with Goldenberry Dew Drops. The greeting was stamped in green and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

The third card also pairs the great Robin’s Nest papers with the Solstice CraftGeek punch from Purple Cows. I started with a white 5″ x 7″ card base. I used a corner rounder on opposing corners and used bronze ink to stippled a border on the card base and ink the edges. I used a 4.5″ x 6.5″ piece of Robin’s Nest Spring Green Watercolor for the background paper. For the banner I used Brilliant Brown Glitter Chipboard with punched corners. The sentiment and edges of the sentiment layers were inked with the same bronze ink as the card base. I also used the corner rounder on opposing corners of the banner and sentiment layer. I embellished the lower section of the card using two sizes of Men’s Dew Drops.

Now, I just need to get these cards in the mail so they arrive in time for St. Patrick’s Day!! You can see more of my projects on the Create & Craft blog.

Carole

Hello Friends,

Dana and I are off to Arizona working on Humanitarian work with some of the Tribes there.
What a fun drive it is this week. We have driven through Arizona many times and enjoyed the scenery each time we have driven there. This time we have taken a route that we have never driven before. It has been so fun, new rock formations and arches along the way. Of course, we take time to stop and take pictures so we can bring our memories of Arizona home with us.
The few days we were home I was able to get more closets cleaned. It seems to be an endless job. We cleaned our fruit room, which was more than a mess. We vow to keep cleaning shelves as time goes on. Shelf by shelf, now that I can get to them. Many years of canning are on those shelves and many jars older than my kids, time to dump them out. So this will take time, as the shelves are many. I am just happy to get to this point. We took another car load of things to the local second hand store. I make it sound like we just have stuff stacked everywhere. But we just have accumulated so many things we thought at one time we needed and saved. After spending 2 years in Africa, I'm feeling that we simply don't need all these extra things, nor will we use them in our lifetime. Plus, styles, colors, and hobbies change over the years, and it is time to share the things in storage with someone who really will use it. Somehow it makes me feel better by sharing.
Even as we travel through Arizona, and meet with tribal people, we see such a need to share with others when we experience the needs of the people in our own country. We are happy to share. We are learning so much. What good people are here, and how they love their people, and how they want to help.
I continue to work on my scrapbook pages. When I am back home, will scan some finished ones in and share with you. Nothing gives me more relaxation than to work with paper, scissors, and glue.
Love, Love, Love it. What a great craft we are involved with. My love is to share it with others.
Some years ago, we helped a friend open a small scrapbook store in our home town. Again, this week we were helping this store. It was fun to re-merchandise, and organize. I had a blast. It felt like having my store again. Loved it. I will continue to help in the store, and bring layouts to display products for sale. There are some things in life we just simply love. This is one of mine.
We hope all is going well with you, with your love of this fun craft. We learn and create new things every day. This is why blogging is so fun. I learn so much from the great designers we have. Thank you for the great ideas that are posted every day. Love, love, love.
Have a great week. Until next time. Enjoy, Love, Create.
Robin

Time Flies

It seems just like yesterday and our son was born and then suddenly March 12, 2012 arrived and he was turning 19.  It feels impossible.  Where has the time flown to so quickly?  My husband and I have watched him grow into a very fine young man and we are so proud of him.  I wanted to do a layout of showing how he has grown and since his favorite color is blue I decided to use this wonderful paper and the embellishments from The Robin's Nest.  I love this paper and the embellishments because they are masculine.  I find it hard to find a lot of papers to scrap for boys especially older ones, but The Robin's Nest always has what I am looking for and to add to the fun The Robin's Nest Design Team teamed up with Purple Cows to use the new punches they have created.  On this layout, I used the Autumn punch from Purple Cows to add this terrific background behind the pictures and again in the corners where I used some of the glitter chipboard from The Robin's Nest to add another layer behind the paper. .

Robin's Nest Products Used:

Tear Stackables Dew Drops
Glitter Boy Star Paper
Time Flies RubOn
Blue Glitter Chipboard
Boy Stickers

Dauphin Island Remembered

One of the things I like best about the paper crafting industry is preserving memories.  I had a wonderful trip this past December to Dauphin Island, Alabama.  It was so fun to go and now I have picked a few of my favorite photos to do a mini album using the wonderful papers and embellishments from The Robin's Nest!  I started with chip board and covered it with a variety of papers.  I used the floral and glitter and sparkle papers.  Once I covered the chip board I distressed the edges and and added ink in Jumbo Java from Tsukineko.

I let the ink dry and then used my Zutter Bind-It-All to make the book.  I then used the glitter alphabet to label my album.

I added my photos to the pages and some journaling.

I added butterflies to the corners of the photo for fun!

I just went page by page and added the fun DewDrops to the photos.  I love that the DewDrops add so much to a page. The colors are so fun and love the butterfly shapes!

 Love how the TearDrops make a flower!

What was really fun was I went back in and added to the cover!  Love the TearDrops!

I hope you all enjoyed this little mini album! 
Happy Creating,
Kristi

Friends make great pages (and Purple Cows too)

Hello , my dear Robin's Nest friends! It's Irit here again and this time with my new and fancy lo made with lots of Robin's Nest products and with some Purple Cows punches and Stamp it Roller.  You will get all information about those gorgeous tools a bit later.

So this page is made with black and white photo of one of my twin girls and her very best friend, who studies Dentistry in Romania, so they meet maybe 3 times a year for the last 2 years and it's 4 years more being so far away.
I used this  Red Swirl cardstock as my base and then trimmed the Time  Glitter Writing cardstock a bit to make some borders. The inner cardstock was distressed with brown ink and I made Dotty borders with white ink and a Purple Cows Stamp it Roller. As I said, I used one ball of 4 (they also have stars, hearts and snowflake shapes in this Love set)
Now for the Purple  Cows action: it took me about 2 hours to understand the point of making a filigree  using this  Spring punch, but then it was a great fun. I used  Glitter Seashore cardstock (the teal part), made  two 4*4'' pieces and made those squares you can see on this page. Then I added 2 smaller ones, another design, made with the same cardstock back side. The focal matting was made with another piece of Glitter Writing(thanks god I had 2 or 3 of them), then another piece was punched with the second  punch, just a bit as nobody can really see the design. Another piece was punched as a corner with Spring punch  on the upper left side of this page.

Now for the final part: my title was inked and heat embossed with red embossing powder and I made a banner from Red glitter chipboard and another punched piece (again, different design of punching). I also hand cut a swirl piece from the same paper and made  this 3d look on the lower corner.
The very same Red glitter chipboard was trimmed as another layer of matting and I added the photo over all 3 layers.

Then I used those Viva rub- ons and added a red rub- on from Palm tree rub- on too, over the white shirt on the photo.
The chipboard candles  die cut was stacked behind the matting and I embellished all possible pieces with Parisian mini dew drops and Beaches Dew Drops too. Then I decided to add a hand cut clock from  Black and White Clock paper and a piece left from Glitter Writing (back side) to connect all 3 squares.

I think this is a lovely girly page in some vintage mood and I want to thank Purple Cows for  those great products we got to design with.
See you next time!
Irit

Using Fabulous Fashion Trends on a Page

One of my all time favorite fashion trends is Men's Wear details for Women's clothing! So, when I saw The Robin's Nest Classified Line I had to have it! And how fabulous is the black, yellow, grey and white combo!? So, how do you use this trend on a page? Try small patterns, like the Mens suit stamp paper. Use small feminine details, like the Purple Cows Spring punch and use a classic color combo like the one in this page.
This month The Robin's Nest Design Team is doing a swap with Purple Cows. I was sent several punches and a stamping tool. Here is my first project with The Purple Cows Craft Geek Punch It-Spring tool. I love that you can use this tool any where on the page, and rotate it to make multiple designs. The possibilities are endless!
So, here are the details of this project. The background sheet is The Robin's Nest Distressed Honeycomb paper. On top of that is layered The Robin's Nest Mens Suit Stamp. Before I adhered the Men's Suit Stamp, I used The Purple Cows Spring Punch it to add the border detail on the left hand side. To use this along the length of the page, you need to roll the paper under the punch. Since, The Robin's Nest paper is such a heavy weight paper, I rolled the paper in the opposite direction when my punching was finished and it laid flat again. The Mens Suit Stamp was then sewn onto the Distressed Honeycomb paper with a zig zag stitch.
The title was created with the Cricut Imagine and Cricut Craft Room software using Graphically Speaking, and Elegant Edges. I used the print only mode for the Top 10, and the black border around the reads). I then used the cut only mode for the rest and cut the yellow label in The Robin's Nest Honeycomb Linen Fleur Paper.
The library cards are a free printable I got from a favorite Etsy Shop: Sweetly Scrapped Art. Be sure to check out their blog using the link in the supply list below.
The stamp is Inkadinkadoo and on top of the dots in the image, I added The Robin's Nest Black Dew Drops. They add the perfect bit of fashion glamour to balance the yellow in the page. The key to using yellow is small doses. I added a bit of black Stickles to the smaller dots on the stamp too.
The photo on the page is our local library. I so wanted to scrapbook this for my children, along with a list of our favorite children's books. What wonderful memories I have of my childhood library and reading. I so hope my children grow to remember our library fondly!
Supply List
The Robin's Nest Distressed Honeycomb Paper (Backgound)
The Robin's Nest Honeycomb Linen Fleur Paper (reads title & Behind punched border)
The Robin's Nest Men's Suit Stamp
The Robin's Nest Classified Die Cut Shapes (under Sycamore Library)
The Robin's Nest Classified Stickers (center of flower, library tag)
The Robin's Nest Solid Black Dew Drops
Purple Cows Punch It Spring Craft Geek Punch
White Paper Flowers
Yellow Acrylic Flowers
Inkadinkadoo Wellspring Stamp
Cricut Graphically Speaking Cartridge (Top 10 Reads)
Cricut Elegant Edges (Title Label in Honeycombe Fleur)
Library Cards free printable from Sweetly Scrapped Etsy Store
Silk Daisy
Sewing Machine & Thread
Distress ink

Festive Friday - Blog Hop #5

For this weeks Holiday card, I was instantly drawn to this beautiful paper from The Robins Nest.
 It's called Glitter Admiral Fleur. Just stunning to look at, so much pretty details and lovely glitter. This made me dream of a celestial card, so you can see how it went well with this Elegant Angels stamp from Stampendous. Then a bottle of Cotton Candy dews completed the Angels heavenly glow!
Thank you for coming to look at my card this week.
Please continue on the hop to Cheryl  Lindsay or if you'd like to start at the beginning, Terri Sproul is the place to be! Have fun and look for some blog candy along the way!
~Michelle Frae Cummings