*Whimsical Wednesdays Blog Hop*

Hello and welcome to the Whimsical Wednesday Grand Opening Blog Hop. We are glad you could join us. You should have arrived here from Jessica's Blog. If you just stopped by to say hi you can start at the beginning of the blog by clicking HERE..

　

 Here is the project I created for this blog hop :

 

Don't you just love Graphic45 and their new Once A Upon A Springtime collection is to die for..

So for this layout I distressed the edges and inked mostly all of the papers.. Added a few branches that I cut using my cricut expression, added the flowers and leaves, then finally the pearls.. 

Here are a few close ups of the layout:

Please be sure to visit all the blogs in the hop, the talented Design Team have some wonderful projects for you.  There is also such fun grand prizes, in order to qualify for those you must leave a comment on each blog in the hop. You will have until Sunday(April 3rd, 2011) night at midnight (Eastern time) to leave a comment on all blogs.  

Babbette from The Kraft Outlet is sponsoring our hop. In addition to giving one lucky winner a $10.00 gift certificate to her store she is offering something for all of you. From April 1 until April 7 enter the code BLOGHOP at check out for 10% off your total purchase and must be used between April 1st and 7th..

and  Whimsical Wednesday will be choosing a winner for their grand prize of: A bundle of shabby crinkled ribbon donated by: Prairie Bird Boutique:..  

Thank you for stopping by today and your next stop is Kim's blog, just click HERE..

Alrighty ladies..Thank you all so much hopping by !!

Hugs

Nanné

Best Time of your Life-SOUS reveal

Oh Spring, for where art thau?   

I dont' know about any of you and how much snow and cold you all have had to endure this winter, but COME ON!! enough is enough already...LOL

Lets all pray to the spring god's and lets get the spring on the way..

But before we can get to spring, us girls over SOUS are having our bi-weekly sketch reveal again today and we found a really beautiful sketch thats made by Beggahuna..I love how she can encorporate so many beautiful elements into her sketches..

So, here is my take on her sketch:

and here is the sketch I followed (sort of)..LOL

I've been dying to make one of these roman clock circles and it was so easy to make using my cricut expression and my George cartridge.. In a way, I wished I had made it a different color, but it looks pretty good for now..LOL

OH and I will be uploading that "roman clock" file onto this post as soon as I get all the other stuff off of the Design file.. So, be on the look out!!

and then for some close ups:

and for the list of supplies used:

Papers by: Basic Grey: Bittersweet collection

cardstock: white, maroon, brown and black

Cricut cartridge: George and Basic Shapes

Title font: Time, Life

Roman clock 

download file by clicking HERE

(file now available for download)

Big flower by Prima

roses by Prima

hydrangeous by Prima

white flowers by: I am roses

Leaves by: I am roses

Hand made vine 

Gems by: Prima E-Line

pink ribbon

white crochette lace ribbon

I hope I didn't forget anything off of that list..

Thank you all so much for stopping by and I certainly hope you stop by SOUS and see what the other designers have created using this sketch and I have included a link to the vine tutorial which is by Sandy Windsor at Details by Sandy and she created this tutorial for us over at SOUS ..

Hope everyone has great and creative weekend..

Hugs

Nanné

Gears- Free SVG file upload

.So, I ventured out on the web and found an image of three gears and played around for the very first time with Inkscape and finally was able to make these cuts into a SVG.file and thought to share it with you if you have SCAL 

I've split the image into two files and you can of course lay them 

out on your layout or card anyway you like..

Just click HERE for gears #1

and click HERE for gears #2..

 Here I have cut them with brown cardstock and then heat embossed them using Tim Holtz distressed embossing powder: Rust!!

HOpe you get some use out of it..

and p.s. if you are having any problems getting the files to work, PLEASE let me know..This is my very first shared SVG.files..

Hugs

Nanné

New Sheriff in Town-DT project for Frosted Designs

The girls over at Frosted Designs are having their Sketch along Tuesday reveal today and I just went all out with my Cricut this week.. Needed a good ole hoe down (sounds funny)..LOL

These photos are of my daughter Amber showing off her VIP ticket and these were taken a few years ago at a food expo that we attended.  Its party central thats for sure, good food, drinks and live bands playing all night long..

That year, was a "Old West!" theme and they were handing out sheriff stickers to everyone.. So, thats where I came up with the Ole West theme for my layout..

almost forgot, but here is the sketch that I followed (sort of)..LOL

I loved this sketch for the sheer fact that it gave me so much room to play!!

and for a few close ups:

and for supplies used:

Papers by: K& Co

Cardstock: Brown and tan

Cricut cartridges:

Old West:

Barrels, hay, cowboy, cowgirl, stage coach wheels, sheriff star, wanted sign, barb wire, rope and title font.

Walk in My Garden: Wheelbarrow

Tags, Bags and boxes: pull out tag

Cuttlebug and Tim Holtz wood grain embossing folder

flowers by ranger

pearl drops

Tim Holtz distress inks: Vintage photo

Chalks

pop dots

Well ladies. that it for me to this Tuesday.. Do stop by Frosted Designs and join in the Sketch Along Tuesdays challenge..

thank you all so much for stopping by and taking a look.. I hope everyone has a great and creative week..

Hugs

Nanné

Whimsical Wednesday Design Team

I'm so super happy and beyond excited to announce that I've been chosen to be on the 

Whimsical Wednesday design team!!.. 

We will start our adventure with a blog hop on April 1st,  which is such a fantastic way of getting to know all of the wonderfully talented ladies of the new DT..

There will be a scrapbook and a card team.. I, of course will be on the scrapbook team, since I'm not much of a card maker..LOL

Do stop by Stephanies blog by clicking HERE

and you can see all of the other DT members and their blogs.. I did today and one word says it all: Wow!!

I am sooooo looking forward to working along side with these talented ladies and I can't wait to get working on my very first Wednesday post.. 

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope everyone has a great and creative week :)

Hugs

Nanné