Project Club: Baby Card

This is this months final card for the Nina Crafts Project Club, I have used the sentiment again, but this time on a baby card - I can see that sentiment getting used a lot!!!!!!!

Ohhh, and just in case you missed them before here are the details of the Nina Crafts Club: If you would like to join our project club for just £10 a month and also get discounts on your purchases, then visit our website for more details.

How to make: 

• Cover the front of an A5 white card with three pieces of baby pink patterned paper, attach white ribbon or lace (two of mine are Sizzix Vintage Lace 657481) over the joins.
• Onto a 4.5cm x 9.5cm piece of white pearl card, stamp “our Journey begins here...” to the right hand side o.6cm up from the bottom in Memento Lilac Posies, clean and dry the stamp and stamp the “Y” only in front of the saying. Stamp a narrow boarder along the top right and bottom left, attach to the bottom left hand corner of the card.
• From pink pearl card die cut a Onesie (Sizzix Bigz Die Baby Onesie 655379), stamp Princess and a crown on the front in Memento Lilac Posies, fold in half add some lace around the neck and sleeves, glue pearl gems around the bottom flap. 
• Thread narrow pink ribbon through two white buttons and white ribbon through three pink buttons.
• Attach the Onesie to the top of the card on an angle with foam pads, using 3D glue add a pink and white button to the Onesie and other three down the right side of the card.  

Project Club: Retirement Card

This time a retirement card made using the fabulous sentiment from this months Nina Crafts Project Club.

How to make:

• Stamp the large sentiment and three tomato plants (Crafty Roo Designs: Gardeners Delight) onto cream card in Memento Rich Cocoa, colour them in and roughly cut them out, edge the plants in green and the sentiment in brown, shape the plants.
• Stamp the three plant pots (Crafty Roo Designs: Lots of pots) onto dark orange card in Memento Potters Clay, shade in down the right side cut out and shape. 
• Cut a piece of cream card 1cm smaller then the front of an A5 card and randomly stamp “Retire the garden is calling!” in Memento Toffee Crunch distress in Tea Dye.
• Tie three pieces of green twine down the left side of the mount onto a piece of craft card 0.5cm bigger and centrally attach to an A5 green card.
• Attach the sentiment to the top of the card with the tomato plants in pots below with 3D glue or foam pads.

Project club: Star Graduation

Another card for this months Nina Crafts Project Club, Imagine all the different colour ways for this one, I quite fancy trying a zingy orange and lime but that could just be because of todays' fabulous weather!

How to make:

• Trim a piece of pale blue card to fit a small square medium blue card leaving a narrow border.
• On the bottom 6cm stamp the small scroll, Good Luck and for the future in medium blue ink, colour in the mortarboards and ribbon on the scrolls in darker blue.
• Cut out a 6cm white star and stamp Well Done over it in Memento Paris Dusk edge in a toning blue and mount onto silver and cut out.
• Onto 2.5cm strip of white card, stamp the word stamp across it in Memento Paris Dusk, cut it to fit across the pale blue card and mount onto a 3cm strip of medium card the same length, attach over the change in backgrounds on the pale blue card and centrally attach to the medium blue card.
• Attach the star to the top left corner.
• Stamp Congratulations onto a 2cm x 8.5cm piece of white card in red ink, cut the end near the C to a point and edge in red attach over the star with foam pads.

Project Club: Wedding Day

This time a wedding card using this months Nina Crafts Project Club.

How to make:

• Onto a 7.5cm x 3cm piece of white pearl card stamp “On Your Wedding Day” (Occasions NC 022) and the two small hearts (Decembers 2013 Project Club), in lilac pigment ink and emboss with cosmic shimmer tropical pearl, then cut into a tag shape, punch a hole at the top and edge in lilac, tie a silver edged lilac ribbon through the hole.
• Onto white pearl card stamp the large sentiment , the rose twice and the rose flower head once more in lilac pigment ink and emboss, roughly cut out the sentiment and edge in lilac, colour in the leaves, stem and the tips of roses in lilac, cut out one full rose with the first petal only, the leaves and flower head with more petals and a bit of stem from the other and the full flower head with a bit of stem, shape all pieces and assemble starting with full rose head using 3D glue leave to dry.
• Place the sentiment on an angle going across an A5 white pearl card ( do not attach yet), now stamp “Congratulations” above the sentiment going up to the right hand corner with a large swirl heart in each bottom corner, in lilac pigment ink and emboss, attach the sentiment under Congratulations with foam pads or 3D glue, thread the rose stem through the back of the bow on the tag and attach to the card with 3D glue, add three lilac card candies down the top left hand side and three under the sentiment down the right hand side.

Project Club: Well Done

Here's another of this months cards for the Nina Crafts Project Club.

How to make:

• The cream background was stamped with rows of Well Done and Congratulations in Memento Toffee Crunch and edge in a toning Promarker.
• Tie a piece of dark cream ribbon down the left hand side and attach to a small square brown card.
• Onto a 7.5cm x 10cm piece of darker cream card stamp the mortarboard in the middle with the small scrolls around it in memento Rich Cocoa, colour in the ribbons, mortarboard and edge with the Promarker, attach to the top right hand corner.
• On a piece of darker cream card stamp the top of the mortarboard with tassel, two feathers and a pen (old Dimension Stamps) in Memento Rich Cocoa, and the ink pot on brown card in black ink, colour in where needed, cut out and shape attach to the card with 3D glue or foam pads.

Project Club: Gap Year

Wow where have the past two months gone!  I hadn't realised I hadn't been on here sooo long so much so I had "misplaced" my password, I'll blame it on the fabulous weather we have been having!!!!!

Anyway, lets get back to business with April's Project Club, this months set is a great one to have as it is can be used on baby cards to retirement cards and everything in between, I just love how versatile the set is and I hope you do to.

Ohhh, before I forget here are the details of the Nina Crafts Club: If you would like to join our project club for just £10 a month and also get discounts on your purchases, then visit our website for more details.

How to make:

• Onto a 15cm x 15cm square piece of cream card using Memento Rich Cocoa, randomly stamp the globes (Artemio stamps used ref no:10001236, 10001146), "Good Luck", "for the future" and  "Gap Year" (ABC 123 NC021), trim down to fit a small square burgundy card with 0.5cm border.
• Onto a 5cm x 15cm piece of cream card stamp “our Journey begins here...” to the right hand side and 1cm up from the bottom in Memento Rich Cocoa, clean and dry the stamp and stamp the “Y” only in front of the saying.
• Stamp the plane, suitcase and part of the compass picture around the saying.
• Mount onto a 6cm x 16cm piece of burgundy card and attach on an angle across the cream card, trim down and attach to the burgundy card, add a burgundy card Candi to each corner.