NBUS Challenge #2

Well the fun loving, oh so entertaining, Miss Darnell has reached another milestone with her followers, bringing her up to a whopping 600 now! Wow! So she's having her second NBUS challenge! If you live under a rock ( I sometimes do) and don't know who Darnell is, check out her blog HERE. She's just one of the funnest blogging friends I have!

The only rule you have to follow is to use your NBUS - never before used schtuff, which I have plenty of.... 

Darnell set a little side option you can follow if you want:

1. Christmas
2. Make two cards using the same stamp.
3. Both of the above.
4. None of the above.

I liked her side option. I chose to do #3, because I love making Christmas cards, and I thought it would be fun to do two cards with the same stamp/stamps. 

So here's what I came up with! 

I did my first card in pretty traditional Christmas colors.

And my second one in soft wintery colors. I've always love blues and browns together.

I followed a fun tutorial by Danielle Flanders found here to make the neat off the edge cuts. I wanted to do this for Make It Monday when it first came out, but didn't have the time. I thought it worked out so fun with the snowflakes!

For the NBUS part, I used Festive Flurry stamp set and matching dies from Stampin' Up. I've had these since last fall and never used them. 

I won't go into how I created these cards, because you can just watch Danielle's video. I did exactly as she did just using the snowflakes instead of apples :)

Supplies:

Stamps: Festive Flurry- Stampin' Up, Snowflake Flurries- PTI, Happiest of Holidays - PTI

Dies: Festive Flurries- Stampin' Up

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great rest of the week!

Hugs,

Kay :)

NBUS #1

Hello and Happy Sunday!

I hope everyone has had a nice weekend. I spent the whole day yesterday all by myself in my craft room making cards. Is that heaven or what? There's not much I'd rather do :) I got my order of Lawn Fawn goodies, so I had lots of funness to play with. I like to take a new set and make several cards with it, so I get to know it. So yesterday I used my adorable new set called Life is Good to created eight cards! That's right! Eight with one set! There were so many cute little things in the set, that I had to color and die cut lots of them :)

So since this is new-never-been-used-schtuff, I am adding it Darnell's new challenge!!

I think everyone who reads my blog probably knows Darnell, but if you don't, you should! So check out her blog here. She's so sweet and she's down right hilarious! I can't tell you how many times, I have sat and laughed right out loud reading her entertaining blog posts! Anyway, since her followers have reached 500, she decided to have a challenge. You can read all about it here. She's even giving away prizes to winners, so hop right over there and play along :)

Anyway, here's one of my eight cards I made with my super cute new little Lawn Fawn stamps!

The large stitched die is from Lil Inkers and the waves I die cut with a scalloped die from MFT. I just turned it upside down. Everything else is from Lawn Fawn. The stamps are all from the set Life is Good, except for the cloud, which is from Bon Voyage. I colored all the little designs with my Copic Markers.

There you have it! So much fun!

Hope you have a wonderful week!

Hugs,

Kay :)