Happy Holidays Pinterest Style!

Hi Blog family,

I pray that you all are having a wonderful holiday season!! As usual, our home was filled with family,fun,and lots of love.
Christmas is my favorite time of the year and I enjoy looking for creative (yet inexpensive ways) to dress the house... This year, thanks to Pinterest and all the wonderfully creative people who share their ideas/posts I was able to give our home just the right touch of DIY love that I was looking for. If you haven't joined pinterest you are really missing out, send me a message if you would like an invite! Hugs and Happy New Years to you all!

1.Christmas Charger
2.Red Velvet Cheesecake (Recipegirl.com)
3.Hot Chocolate Bar
4.Santa Hat Brownies
5.Our Christmas Tree(no pinterest ideas here:-)
6.Hot Chocolate dippers
7.Candy Jar (made from terra cott pot, lid and glass bowl)
8.Wreath (no pinterest here) and Happy Holidays in vinyl
9.Foam trees(tissue paper, glitter, and Christmas tinsel)

Winnie the Pooh and Baby Too!!

  Hi Blog Family,

I hope that this post finds you all well!

 Life for me has been busy as usual; however, I've managed to find a little "Me Time" in all our family mayhem.

Recently I attended a baby shower for a family friend whose nursey theme will be Winnie the Pooh. At the last minute I decided to purchase the Pooh diaper bag but I couldn't find anything to go inside soooo... Vinyl and MTC to the rescue.

In a hurry I was able to create a few cute little personalized items for Baby Christopher.

Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

Personalized container to hold baby odds and ends

Wipe container

Wipe container- front

Personalized onesie using HTV

Monogrammed Cake Carriers

This month has been super busy for Nubian Crafter Designs in a good way!!!

Orders have been coming in almost daily, and I have gotten an opportunity to create some really cute custom items ( If I may say so).

The cake carriers were a custom order for a bridal shower and Mother's Day gift... (from what I hear, both recipients loved them)!!!

Turquoise and chocolate brown with lavendar accents...

Lady Bug
Lime & Black with white accents

Baby on Board car decal...

Hi bloggers,
A  dear friend requested a "Baby on Board" car decal... We found the image online and I traced it in MTC. The image was cut using Oracal 651 vinyl... TFL

Hello Kitty!!!

Hi bloggers,

Thanks for stopping by!!!

My little cousin is graduating from high school this weekend and heading to Temple University in the fall... we are all soooo very proud of her.

Rach, loves Hello Kitty so as a congraduation gift I decided to make her a custom Hello Kitty car decal and tumbler in Temple colors of course!!!

Tumbler and car decal

Car Decal



Tumbler front and back



I created all the images using MTC and oracal 651 vinyl... The car decal is about 5.5 inches x 5.5 inches.

Basketball Mom Car decal

Today while going through pictures of projects that I have recently completed, I realized just how much I've been focusing on vinyl related projects. Don't get me wrong, I love vinyl but I remember a time when I also loved to papercraft!!! Sooooo for the next week I have decided to "push" my beloved vinyl to the side and focus solely on some paper projects that I have wanted to complete for some time... Bloggers, please wish me luck as I have a mini-album swap that is due on the 28th!!! 

Anywho, my family is a huge sports family so I created a car decal with my son's AAU Basketball team logo... I've been getting tons of requests for decals but they will have to wait until my self imposed vinyl ban is lifted... LOL 

I used MTC and outdoor vinyl

Sports Tumblers

Happy Valentines Day bloggers!!!

I hope that you all have had a wonderful and relaxing weekend... This weekend was really low-key and I did a bunch of lounging and movie watching... so all is good in my little corner of the world.

Last weekend my cousin requestd a couple tumblers. I found the svg for each tumbler on google.com and used MTC and Oracal 651 to create the look...



Sorry for the bad picture...



Steeler's Beer Mug

Hi bloggers,

I wanted to drop off a Steeler's beer mug that I created for a neighbor for the Super Bowl. Although the Steeler's couldn't pull off a win he still LOVED his mug!!!

Excuse the poor photo... I forgot to take a pic before delivery

Breast Cancer Tumbler

Hi bloggers,

I hope that everyone is having a great week!!!

This weekend, I had some spare time to get some crafty projects completed...

Told you all that I'm addicted to tumblers; however, I'm down to my last two until the next shipment comes in:-(. Anywho, my MIL is going through breast cancer treatments and I wanted to make something to help brighten her spirts...

For this tumbler I used the Fight Like A Girl svg that Todd over on the scal forum created, thx Todd! Brenda and the random words were created with the Hot Fudge font... All items were cut using MTC and Oracal 651!!!

TFL

Water bottles and tumblers galore!!!

This has been a super busy and crazy week and it's only Wednesday.

On Friday my oldest son came down with a nasty cold and strep throat, then to top it off I started feeling sick on Sunday night...

Uggh, what awful timing... I had orders that HAD to be completed, basketball mom duties to fulfill and my regular job to deal with ( did I mention, I hate being sick).

Anywho, on to the important stuff:-)...

I was asked to decorate 14  aluminum water bottles  for my  8 year old cousin's birthday party.  The birthday girl requested each guests name with butterflies on one side of the bottle (easy enough)! I wanted to do something special on the Bday girls water bottle so I found an awesome Justin Bieber svg file on the SCAL forum ( thanks Sweetness4713 for sharing your cool file) and I added this to the opposite side. The name font is Storybook created using MTC and the butterflies are a random clip art image that I traced in MTC.

All the other water bottles look similar to the ones shown

My name is Nubian and I'm an addict... YES, I have admitted that I have an addiction. I can't stop altering these double walled acrylic tumblers. I'll be cruising the net, see an image and the next thing you know I'm decorating a tumbler!!!

Whew, what a relief :-)

A co-worker requested these two tumblers for her 13 and 16 y/o nieces. The only information that she provided to me was their names and ages.

My goodness, I haven't been 16 in years and have NO idea what teenagers today really like- so hopefully I hit the mark. The images were found in google and I traced them in MTC. I used the Hot Fudge font on Brianna and the Princess font on Brittini.

Click on pictures to enlarge

My First Floating Frame!!!

After many months of saying that I wanted to create a floating frame, I've finally finished one!!! I'm a serious procrastinator, I'll see an idea, RUN out and purchase supplies and then let them sit for weeks sometimes months untouched...

So, when my cousin needed a Christmas gift for her ex-MIL I figured this would be the perfect occasion to use one of the floating frames that I snagged from AC Moore... This frame is 11x14; I used oracal vinyl with the Shishoni Brush and Aquarelle font.

The tissue paper is here for photo purposes only...

University Acrylic Tumblers & Cake...

I'm hooked on decorating these acrylic tumblers (they are sooo addictive)...

Anywho, as one of the holiday gifts for the kids teachers we personalized a tumbler with the teachers name or monogram and favorite University!!!

I found the college logos on sportslogos.net and used  MTC and Oracal 651 vinyl to complete the look.

Why, stop there... while browsing around Michaels, I picked up these super cute ceramic loaf pans...

My grandmother has the most amazing lemon poundcake recipe; what better time to share than the holidays!! Add some cellophane and ribbon and you have a nice little gift.

Click on pic for larger view

Glitter Ornaments

Hi blog family... I'm back with another post!!!

Over the weekend, the kids and I made glitter ornaments; the ornaments turned out perfect and they were so easy to make! 

To create the ornaments we used clear glass ornaments (2 5/8), martha stewart fine glitter, doodlebug glitter for a couple of them and pledge w/ future shine  floor wax.

For the finishing touch we added names created in MTC with the Andantino JF font using oracal outdoor vinyl...
Click on pic to enlarge

The kids wanted to thank Tameka and Nett for placing an order!

Sistas Scrap Too Christmas and Countdown to the New Year Blog Hop!!

Christmas is coming and so is the new year! To get you in the spirit of the season, the divas of Sistas Scrap Too! have come together for a Christmas and Countdown to the New Year blog hop! There are 17 blogs in the hop, so make sure you use the links below this post to hop to all of the participating blogs. If you arrived here from Stampin Dymonz's blog you are on the right track! No worries if you miss one, you can always go back! These 17 divas have a lot in store for you. From exquisite creations to offers of blog candy, you will enjoy hopping your way to all of the blogs involved! Don't forget to leave some blog love for the creators -- they love getting feedback on their designs!

Milk and Cookies for Santa on the Run...We all know that Santa is super busy...

so I created a treat that was dash and go appropriate!!!!

Using an awesome MTC file from Dana and 2 sheets of 12x12 cardstock I was able to create this cute cookie box complete with yummy chocolate chip cookies ( the instructions were crystal clear and the box can be made in minutes)...

I finished it off by adding a simple PNC gift tag!

For the 16oz acrylic tumbler ( the tumblers are super sturdy, even the straw is acrylic and they arrive blank); which I purchased during a share on the Smart Gal MB I used oracal outdoor vinyl  and a adorable penguin file from the MTC gallery to make it more festive ( you can customize these anyway your creative heart desires). Makes a perfect gift for the Santa who's on a run!!

Make sure you leave a comment with contact info for a chance to win some yummy blog candy!

Cookie box and Acrylic Tumbler



Acrylic Tumbler with lid



Cookie box with cut & print tag

 Disclosure- we did not order our tumblers from the company in the link; however, another person on the MB made this recommendation!

DON'T GO YET!!!

I have a couple more projects and some BLOG CANDY to share...

Cyber Crop Project 44 over on the MTC forum was to create a Picture Puzzle... This project was soooo much fun and will turn almost any image from ordinary to WOW!!!

I found both images on the web via google images, using the instructions and MTC file from the attached link I was able to re-create these awesome Picture Puzzles.  The first image was framed in an 8x10 frame and the smaller image in a 5x7 frame.



8x10 Framed Picture Puzzle



5x7 Framed Picture Puzzle and Close-up

 Thank you for participating in the Sistas Scrap Too first ever blog hop! 
Leave a comment and become a follower on my  blog for a chance to win the blog candy; You have until 10:00 am EST on Monday, December 6, 2010 to leave a comment to win the blog candy ( remember to leave contact info). I will choose the winner using Random.org... Now hop on over and visit Renee ; Remember to visit all of the blogs and leave blog love -- you never know where you'll find candy!! If you loose your way, below is a linked list of all the participating blogs:

1. Treva's Craft Corner

2. Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space

3. Nubian Crafter NC

4. My {Life}, My {Blog}

5. Step Into Nita's World

6. Sweet Lil Scrapper

7. P-Kaysunshine Creations

8. Sharing My Stuff

9. Yaya Philly Craft World

10. Cassie's Crop Corner

11. M. M. DeZigns

12. Made By Dee

13. Riley's Custom Creations

14. It's A Family Affair!

15. Cuttin' Up

16. Stamping On The Road

17. In Shelly's World

I didn't forget the BLOG CANDY!!!!



Good Luck!