Norwex - Mop special!

Just going to throw this out there in case anyone is interested...

I have recently started selling Norwex products.  They are great cleaning products - they absolutely work!  It has transformed my cleaning!

Norwex offers great hostess specials.  In July and August you can earn the MOP for FREE!  Awesome deal!  Plus there are 3 other ways to earn free product that are easy.

If you would like to be a hostess, you can test any of my products in your home.
Or let me know if you'd like to order anything.
I also have a website...

http://TrishGiesbrecht.norwex.biz

Wedding - blog challenges

Finally have time to get back into doing some of my favorite blog challenges...

 

I used my new set "Best of Brides and Babies" to make this wedding card.

I completed two blog challenges.

 

Sketch Frenzy Friday - layout - and

Fab Friday - colors - tempting turquoise (I used coastal cabana), real red, basic gray

 

Used the new ribbon!  Very fun.  Some piercing and hearts embossing.

I like how it worked out with coloring the image highlighting some parts with red.

2 Butterflies

 

Made these 2 butterfly cards today.

 

Now that it is summertime I am looking forward to having a bit more time for card-making!

 

Punch Art - lollipop flower

 

Two simple punch art cards.  The lollipop is made using a circle punch with a sparkly brad in the center.  The card base is Pacific Point and the edgelit embossed layer is raspberry ripple.

 

This flower is made using oval punch, circle punch and bird punch.  I scored around the edges.  The colors are Soft Suede, Daffodil Delight and Early Espresso (and green).  Finished with mini brads and twine.

2 butterfly cards

 

I got some crafting time today so here is what I made.  Punch art trees with butterflies.  There is a close up view below.

 

This is called a telescoping card.  It swings open on the brads to reveal layers underneath.  This first picture is the "closed" view.

 

This is all 3 layers.  And a close up.  I used the secret garden framelits and layered 4 flowers with some sponged tips.

 

Here's a close up of the punch art trees.

Creative Crew - Month 2

Here are some of the projects I made for my design team work for the Creative Crew challenge on Splitcoast this month.

Masking & Sponged

 

I masked the square shape with scrap paper and sponged it.  Very simple card to make.

 

First I stamped the leaves, then masked them.  I used apothecary accents framelit negative shape to mask and sponged it in with yellow.  Another very simple card.

Happy Hellos

My friend asked me to design some cards for her to send to her relatives.  She likes this car set and the colors blue and yellow.  This is what I came up with...

Creative Crew - Design Team!

I'm quite excited.  I've been asked to be on the Design Team for the Creative Crew Challenges on Splitcoast for 4 months.  This is a challenge for Stampin' Up! demonstrators!
Here are the projects I created for this month's 4 challenges.  Hope you come play along.  You can find the challenge here and the challenge gallery here for all the projects.

for Baby

I made this baby card for the Queen for the Day Challenge from last week!  Just getting the card made tonight!  You can come play along with the Queen for the Day Challenge here.

I paper pieced the duck (stamped on yellow and cut out and glued onto the white stamped image).
I used two types of patterned paper, both razzleberry and some wisteria twine to match the base color.
I can't believe I didn't even texture anything, although I did use my Big Shot for the Top Note piece.

Pieced and Pierced

 

I made this card for Creative Crew SU! challenges on Splitcoast.

 

One challenge was to use the soon-to-be-retired 2011 colors.  Focus on your least favorite.  My least favorite was Calypso Coral.

 

Also the challenge was to use piercing in a different way.  I pierced a heart behind my sentiment.

 

The snail and flowers are stamped and cut out (paper pieced) on white, limeade and coral.

I inked the zigzag embossing folder with brown ink before running the calypso coral paper through.

New Queen... QFTD158

Here's my card for Queen 158 - Sharon (smadson).  Feel free to join in the Queen for the Day Challenge.

I used 2 framelit shapes and pierced the inside one.

Thanks a Million music notes

 

I embossed the music notes with white, then punched out a hole with decorative label punch and put the sentiment behind.  The blue music piece is popped up.

 

The colors are: white, island indigo, more mustard, sahara sand

Raspberry Poppies

Fun to make a card today.

I found this great color combo at Pals Paper Arts - Raspberry Ripple, Calypso Coral & Crumb Cake.

The layout is from RetroSketches.

I heat embossed the poppies with white on the Raspberry Ripple.

I used the smallest framelit behind the oval sentiment.  Used some SAB ribbon/button and a bit of scallop trim.  Embossed the card base with stripes.

 

2 for 2

I'm home on a sick day with my son, so I have some time to make cards!!  (I'm not neglecting him, he's feeling mostly better now and playing happily!)

I took two challenges - color challenge and a layout and made 2 different cards with some of the same elements.  The color challenge is from Splitcoast from last week - more mustard, old olive and midnight must (I also used very vanilla).
The layout is from Retrosketches.  I made one vertical and one horizontal.

  I made this one to be a male birthday card.  I used chevron embossing and a glimmer brad.  See how I cut the framelit shape (green) to be only behind the top half.

 For this one I embossed with pewter the music notes in the background.  The flower is 3 layers cut out and popped up on each other.  I embossed on the flag strips and also used my new Simply Scored plate for some scoring patterns on the bottom of the card.  Added two buttons to finish it off.