A new Zentangle Mini-Scrapbook

Hi all!

I want to share with you another mini-scrapbook that I made decorated only with Zentangle.  Yes, that is right!  No flowers, no special designer paper, and no ribbon! A travesty to be sure, but since I became certified to teach the Zentangle drawing method I thought I would try to marry it with my other crafting activities such as cards and min-scrapbooks.

This is the cover

Inside front cover

Each of the page flaps open to reveal
a belly-band.

On the inside of the flaps I used white gel pen.

The middle section has two page flaps

Back inside cover

The album has all the regular places to put photographs and journalling.  The only thing I have left to do is make all the photo-mats.

I used Michael's kraft black paper because it is slightly heavier than other papers that I use. Chipboard plays an important role in constructing scrapbooks and I get mine from a local Scrapbook store - Scrapbook Central. I used a combination of tacky glue and Sookwang score-tape to assemble everything. The Tangles were penned with Micron pens and the paper is Strathmore watercolor paper.

I'll enter the album into the following challenges:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges for Everybody - Anything goes
• Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes
• Crafty Catz - Anything goes
• Polkadoodles and Studio - Anything goes
• Craft My Life - Anything but a card
• Artistic Impressions - Anything goes
• Love to Create - Anything goes

Hope you enjoyed this min-scrapbook project.

NancyD

Dear Santa ...

It is getting very close to Christmas and all the little (and big) children are writing their letters to Santa.  Festive Monkey is here to help make sure that your letter gets to the right place.

This is a Shadow Box card and you can find instructions here.  I used the Martha Stewart sprig punch to make lots and lots of branches for my tree and they layered them up with a bit of glue. Then I added Stickles in green, red and gold.

Card Recipe

Images: Digital Delights , Festive Monkey, Christmas Fireplace Set Colored, Winter Fun Sentiments

Paper:  Bazzill Red and Green, Stampin Up Christmas Pack
Markers/Ink: Distress Fired Brick

Embellishments: Stickles, SU Label Punch, La-La-Land Die, MS Sprig punch (lots and lots of them)

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
• Crafting for all Seasons - Anything Christmas but a card (shadow box)
• Divas by Design - Anything goes
• Ruby's Rainbow - Christmas
• Sisterhood of Crafters - Christmas Sparkle
• Deep Ocean - Santa is coming!
• Inky Chics - Christmas

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Design Team has come up with for your inspiration. And then hop over to the Delightful Challenges site and check out this weeks challenge.

Have a Great Day!

NancyD

Have a Jolly Holiday!

Some of my family members are hunters so I decided to make up this great new image from Digital Delights with camo shirt and pants.

Not all Christmas cards need to be in red and green.  This BoBunny cream and gold paper is stunning and really helps to showcase my color them with this wonderful Digital Delights image.

Card Recipe

Images: Digital Delights Donnie and Slippy, Winter Fun Sentiments

Paper:  Bazzill Brown, BoBunny Silver and Gold Collection papers
Markers/Ink: Distress Tea Dye

Embellishments: Stickles, Prima Pearls, Really Reasonable Ribbon

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
• Crafting by Designs - Anything goes/Penguins
• Creative Craft Challenges - Non-traditional Christmas colors
• Holly Jolly Christmas - Christmas
• Papertake Weekly - Anything goes
• Cards for Men - Anything goes
• Created with Love - Anything goes

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Design Team has come up with for your inspiration. And then hop over to the Delightful Challenges site and check out this weeks challenge.

Have a Great Day!

NancyD

Tri-Shutter Winter Scene for Craft A Scene Challenge

This month at Craft a Scene we are making winter scenes with the option of making a Tri-Shutter card.  I thought you might appreciate a little bit of a tutorial to help transform your scene into a great looking tri-shutter card.

Start with a 5 1/2 by 12 inch piece of cardstock.  Score at 2, 4, 8, and 10 inches.

The tricky part is  cutting between the 2" and 10" score lines, 1 1/2 inches from the edge on both sides.  If you need help with this there is a great tutorial at Split Coast Stampers.

Next, take your piece of cardstock for the scene.  I used plain 120 lb stock because I am coloring with PanPastels, but you can also use glossy if you can find it 12" long.

Mark very line pencils lines at 2, 4, 8, and 10 inches, and along the two cutting lines (between 2" and 10").  This just gives you a guide to help with stamp positioning.

Unfortunately, I didn't take any more intermediate pictures. The next step is to stamp your images onto the paper keeping in mind the pencil guide lines.

After you have stamped and colored your scene, cut along all the pencil lines.  Then cut  1/8 of an inch of each side.

Glue all the sections in place and add sparkles or embellishments if desired.

When you are all finished the card folds flat and fits into a small envelop.  For this card, I used all Stampscapes plus an Our Daily Bread sentiment.  It is colored with PanPastels and highlights were added with Copics.

Challenge for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Everybody 4 Challenges - Anything goes
• Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything goes
• Simply Create Too - Snow or all white
• Sister Act Challenge - Anything goes
• Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything goes
• Crafter's Cafe - Anything goes

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Craft a Scene design team has come up with for your inspiration. 

Have a Great Sunday!

NancyD

There's Snow Friend Like You!

Penguin's and Snowmen go together like peanut butter and chocolate!  These two cutie's are from the new Digital Delights Christmas images.

Card Recipe

Images: Digital Delights Slippy and Snowman, Winter Fun Sentiments

Paper:  SU Specialty Paper and Old Olive, 
Markers/Ink: Distress Fired Brick

Embellishments: Spellbinders, Stickles, SU label punch, Prima Gems, Craft Ribbon

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
• Crafting by Designs - Christmas
• Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes
• Party Time Tuesdays - Anything goes
• Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything goes
• Lexi's Creations - Christmas
• My Craft Creations - Anything goes
• Paper Playtime - Anything goes

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Design Team has come up with for your inspiration. And then hop over to the Delightful Challenges site and check out this weeks challenge.
Have a Great Day!

NancyD

A Christmas Hostess!

This week I am the Monday Hostess over at Digital Delights.  For my project this week I made this cute little box that I found here. I made a few adjustments to make it work for inches and added my Christmas Digital Delights images to finish it off.

Believe it or not, this box lays flat and fits into a regular size envelope.

Side view

 I used Snowball Andie and the House from the Snowball Sarah and Andie set, as well as Snowie Lola and Winder Fun Sentiments.

Start by making the box:

• Cut a piece of card stock 5 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches
• Score at 2 1/2, 5, 7 1/2 and 10 inches
• Turn 90 degrees and score at 2 1/2 inches (on the long side)
• Cut the 4 box sides and cut out the little extra on the top of the tab
• Fold on the score lines and glue the little tab over to form the box.

What you have now is a box (with no bottom) with open flaps at the top.  The base of the box is 3 inches and the top flaps are 2 1/2 inch squares.

Cut your designer paper:

• 3 pieces of 2 3/8 square
• 3 pieces of 2 3/8 by 2 7/8
• The back of the box has one longer strip of neutral paper to add your note. Cut a strip 2 3/8 by 5 3/8

Cut two little strips to attach to the box on the inside.  These will hold your images up.  The strips at 3 1/2 by 1 inch.  Score at each edge at 1/2 inch.  Fold them like a Z and glue inside the box close to the top edge.

Now glue in your images and your done!  Have fun making your own Christmas box cards.

Card Recipe

Images: Digital Delights,  Snowball Sarah and Andie set, Snowie Lola, and Winter Fun sentiments

Paper:  Cherry Cobbler, Season of Style dp
Markers/Ink: Copics, Distress Tea Fired Brick

Embellishments: Stickles, SU label punch, BossKut Pointsettia die, Glossy Accents on the Christmas lights

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
• Crafting by Designs - Anything goes
• Come and Get it Challenges - Anything goes
• Creative Inspirations Paint - Anything goes
• Glitter and Sparkle - Show us the snow
• Scribble and Scrap - Anything goes
• Color Me Creative - Anything goes

Have a Great Day!

NancyD

Have Yours-ELF a Merry Christmas

This step card is made with a pre-colored image from Digital Delights.  Using the pre-colored images is a quick and easy way to make up a card.

I decided this little fellow was trying to get to Santa so I put him in front of his house flying away to the workshop.

I used a bit of Old Olive card stock in the Sizzix embossing folder to make the raised brick impression and then rubbed a bit of Distress Fired Brick over it.

Pre-colored Image

Card Recipe

Images: Digital Delights Elf Up and Away, Christmas Fence, Winter Fun Sentiments

Paper:  Bazzill red, SU Specialty Paper and Old Olive, American Crafts Coper sparkle paper
Markers/Ink: Distress Fired Brick

Embellishments: Stickles, SU label punch, Sizzix embossing folder

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
• Crafting by Designs - Anything goes
• Fab n Funky - Anything goes
• Lady Anne's Challenges - More than one layer
• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Anything goes
• Stampavie and More - Christmas

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Design Team has come up with for your inspiration. And then hop over to the Delightful Challenges site and check out this weeks challenge.

Have a Great Day!

NancyD

Just Daffy for You!

I know, not what you were expecting, right - a spring time card in the fall!  Well this cutie caught my eye and I just had to make her up into a card for my Digital Delights DT.

I am actually not home right now.  I am at the Zentangle teacher certification course in Road Island having a great time learning more about the Zentangle method of drawing.

Card Recipe

Images: Digital Delights, Flower Power Daffy 

Paper:  Bazzill Yellow, BoBunny designer paper
Markers/Ink: Copics, Distress Tea Dye Vintange Photo

Embellishments: Michael's gems, Spellbinders, Tim Holtz flourish, BoBunny Ribbon

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
• Crafting by Designs - Anything goes
• Card Mania - Anything goes
• Paper Playtime - Sparkle  ** Featured! **
• Love the Scrap - Anything goes
• Addicted to Stamps - Dies

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Design Team has come up with for your inspiration. And then hop over to the Delightful Challenges site and check out this weeks challenge.

Have a Great Day!

NancyD

Ahhh, Autumn Days!

I have another card here for the Craft a Scene Trees challenge. This time I made it with a little bit more color in the sky.  I also tried combining Copics with PanPastels.  I wanted a little more definition in certain areas so I added complimentary Copic colors.  It turned out a little darker than I wanted it..

I used all Stampscapes stamps including my two favourite - the fence pieces.

Card Recipe

Images: Stampscapes,  

Paper: Bazzill Teal, Black, Cryogen White, SU Old Olive, and a wood grain cardstock that I found on closeout
Markers/Ink: Momento Black, PanPastels, Copics

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Everybody 4 Challenges - Anything goes
• Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything goes
• Stampin Royalty - Colors
• So Artful Challenge - Trees
• All Dressed Up - Autumn Colors
• Brown Sugar - Anything goes
• Sister Act - Anything goes
• Charisma Cardz Challenge - Anything goes

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Craft a Scene design team has come up with for your inspiration. 

Have a Great Sunday!

NancyD

Have a Jolly Holiday!

Angels are good for a card anytime, but at Christmas they are special.  Even Gingerbread cookies want to be angles! I am adding to my Christmas card stash with Natasha Cookie Angel and this sparkly ribbon to go along with her sparkly dress.

Card Recipe

Images: Digital Delights, Natasha Cookie Angel, Christmas Hugs Sentiment Set

Paper:  Stampin Up Season of Style speciality paper
Markers/Ink: Copics, Distress Fired Brick, Sparkle Pen

Embellishments: Prima pearls , Stickles, Spellbinders, Sparkly Craft Ribbon

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
• Crafting by Designs - Anything goes
• Holly Jolly Christmas - Traditional colors
• Papertake Weekly - Anything goes
• Card Mania - Anything goes
• Created with Love - Christmas reds and greens

Such lovely lashes!

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Design Team has come up with for your inspiration. And then hop over to the Delightful Challenges site and check out this weeks challenge.

Have a Great Day!

NancyD

Trees, Trees, Trees - Craft a Scene Challenge

I have a card for the new Trees, Trees, Trees challenge over at Craft a Scene.  I used all Stampscapes stamps for my quiet waters, misty scene.

I love camping and hiking in the woods!  It is not uncommon to be out walking in the early morning and see the mist hover above a stream or lake as the sun rises between the trees.

I stamped the background trees, rocks, water (051G) image then added a bit of rippling water with the 305C stamp.  Next I added lots of swamp grass and of course the birds in flight. The wonderful sentiment is from Our Daily Bread.

I colored the scene with PanPastels and then added White Brilliance ink on a cotton swab tip to form the mist.

Card Recipe

Images: Stampscapes, Our Daily Bread Quiet Waters stamp set 

Paper: Bazzill Teal, Black and Cryogen White
Markers/Ink: Momento Black, PanPastels, White Brilliance

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Everybody 4 Challenges - Anything goes
• Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything goes
• Paper Crafting Journey - Anything goes
• Stampin Royalty - Anything goes
• So Artful Challenge - Trees
• All Dressed Up - Autumn Colors

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Craft a Scene design team has come up with for your inspiration. 

Have a Great Sunday!

NancyD

A Step Toward the Goal!

A couple of weeks ago I set for myself a personal challenge to make the most of a set of Graphic 45 - 12 Days of Christmas papers.  You can see the post here. My goal was to make an 8x8 album and a 3x5 album, as well as at least 10 cards.

Well, I have accomplished the first part of the goal by making the two albums.  The first one is actually 8 1/2 x 6 1/2.  I modeled the style after Clare's album located here. Clare does a wonderful job on her albums and I was inspired by her style of page flaps.

The album is made with black Recollections paper binding chipboard with Clare's special spine.  This cover has pointsettias made from BossKut, Window from from PoppyStamps.com.  I closed the book with a magnet behind the Graphic 45 chipboard piece.

Both the inside and backside covers have pockets with tags. One side of the tag is for the picture and the other is set up for journaling.

My favorite page is this one on the right.  Looks like an envelope.  Open the clasp to find the picture below.

Inside the envelope looking page is a tri-page with side pocket, center pocket with tag and lovely paper strip on the side.

This page is layered with the same paper.  In the center is a tag slipped into a cutout section of the paper underneath.
That paper is actually a flap that opens to find a tag and a bookmark.

The remaining pages - 6 in all, are pretty much the same with varying types of flaps, pockets and belly bands.

A big tag hidden behind a cut apart on the left and a pocket and top flap on the right.

Belly band on the left and fold-out flap on the right.

Well, that was the larger album.  The smaller one is only 5 1/2 by 4 1/2.  Every page has a tag for a picture and journaling as well as a pocket. This album is for the Christmas charity auction at work.

Cover with a little Stickle sparkle added.

Inside first page

All the pages have a tag for journaling and a picture

Typical pages

Well, there is part of my challenge met - two albums.  I will be back in another week or so with the 10 cards (hope there is enough paper!).

Gotta enter a challenge or two:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
• Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything goes
• Charisma Cardz Challenge - Anything but a card
• Paper Crafting Journey - Anything goes
• Stampin Royalty - Anything goes

Have a Great Day!

NancyD

Count Your Blessings!

This time of year, having just celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving and looking forward to American Thanksgiving, it reminds me to count my blessings for which I have many. I have been blessed with four wonderful children, now grown to adults, and six living grand children.  Being a grandma is one of the greatest feelings!

Anyway, here is my card for this week - a cute little mouse from Digital Delights to help us count our many blessings.

Card Recipe

Images: Digital Delights, Acorn Fall value set

Paper:  Stampin Up Fall speciality paper
Markers/Ink: Copics, Distress Tea Dye

Embellishments: Prima pearls , Wild Orchid flower, Spellbinders leaf and label

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
• Rhedd and Rosie Challenge - Anything goes
• Crafting for all Seasons - Autumn
• Die Cuttin Divas - Autumn and Animals
• Party Time Tuesdays - Anything goes
• Always Something Creative - Fall and Halloween
• Animal Friends - Fall or Halloween
• Feeling Crafty Challenge - Autumn

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Design Team has come up with for your inspiration. And then hop over to the Delightful Challenges site and check out this weeks challenge.

Have a Great Day!

NancyD