Nae Made Creations

Hi everyone! It's May 1st and that means another challenge is up at the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog.   This month is Anything Goes Challenge featuring Cas-Ual Fridays Stamps. Please join us and link your creations for a chance win a $25 store credit to Cas-Ual Fridays Stamps.                                        ENTER HERE------->>>>  Love to Scrap Challenge Blog I made two cards using the Cas-Ual Fridays Little Birdie stamp set. I used Zig markers to color in the birdies for both cards. I love how they blend so easily on Bristol Smooth card stock. For my first card I was in a rainbow mood. I used Bristol smooth card stock with the MFT cloud stencil and distress oxide inks. I had fun with this 😂. The little birdies are so cute. You can't see it in the pictures but the sentiments have little hearts in the O's. I added clear Nuvo drops to finish off the ca...

Hi everyone. Happy Monday. Today's post is about using your stash to create fun cards. I have a pretty small budget for crafting.  I try to keep my purchases to my monthly budget and that means skipping out on a lot of things, especially most new releases. Sometimes I just have to be patient and wait til I have enough money saved to buy from that release.  And, it KILLS me!!! ugh! However, it does give me the opportunity to go into my stash and use the items that I already have.  Using my stash makes me look at things in a different way.  Coming up with designs, using patterned paper, and stamps & dies I already have challenges me to be more creative.  I made these cards with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge in mind.  The theme this week is Red,White and/or Blue.  And, since the challenge started on 4th of July, a card with stars was so appropriate.  I knew I had some patterned paper left over from p...

Hi there.  Hope everyone is having a great week.  It's Friday and the weekend is finally here! I thought it would never come. Today's post is about the beautiful May card kit from Simon Says Stamp called Kind Heart.  It is full of so many amazing goodies.  There are two stamp sets.  The Everything Together stamp set is 6x8 with gorgeous lettering. The picture above shows an A2 sized card and how the largest stamp fills up the card.  It's truly stunning! I used emboss resist technique on the card front.  I added VersaMark ink and then embossed using a glitter embossing powder to give it a sparkly effect.  After that, I used Wild Honey Distress Oxide Ink  to cover most of the card front and then wiped away the ink to reveal the prettiness. I love using this technique when I want a solid background for bold lettering stamps. I used one of the sheets from the Pinkfresh studio paper pack that was included in the kit and cut ...

Hi there.  Hope everyone is having a good weekend.  It's my daughters 9th birthday during this weekend and I had a house full of giggling girls.  And, it was a sleepover party.  Lord help me! But, my daughter loved it and she had so much fun, so I guess that's all that counts. This week I'm using an ink smooshing technique with an acrylic block.  I seen this done so many times and it comes out so cool, thought I'd give it a try.  I used a 4.25x5" acrylic block to smoosh Distress Inks (Fired Brick, Scattered Straw, Salty Ocean, Seedless Preserve), I added water on top of the ink until it beaded up and then turned it over onto distress watercolor paper.  I let it sit for about 10 mins before I took the block off.  Even though it wasn't dried, I used my heat tool to finish drying and set in the color.  I did this twice to get a deeper color. I didn't get the result with yellow or green that I wanted to, so I used  SSS Brigh...