Fine Feathers!

Playing with a set from Waltzingmouse Stamps - Fine Feathers and the matching dies.

Inks by Studio Calico.

I had hoped to participate in the PJ Party that Claire organises on the 14th of each month over on Waltzingmouse Stamps but wasn't organised enough!

Thanks for peeking!.

WMS - Nov PJ Party! - Interactive Christmas Card

So it's fun times over at Waltzingmouse Stamps as it's the monthly PJ Party!

I should have tried to do more of the challenges - but there are not enough hours in the day with a new puppy in the house (who is doing very well by the way!).  Here's a photo of him trying to sneak into a sailing bag to go sailing two weeks ago!.  I noticed he didn't try to do the same thing this morning - he obviously knew the layer of frost outside meant it was COLD!.

 Anyhow, on to my card.

Supplies:  Seasons of Love stamp set and Compliments of the Season set - 

WMS, Spellbinders heart dies, vellum - Papermania, 

blue & metallic cardstock - Canson, ultramarine stazon

 ink, wink of stella clear, blue sequins - Studio Calico, 

machine stitching and tombow roller adhesive.

I used sequins in this shaker type card (yipee! it's interactive!!!) under embossed vellum with scored metallic cardstock that I had left over from another project.  I stamped the sentiment from the Seasons of Love stamp set and die cut the little heart and then stamped it with a tiny starburst from the Compliments of the Season set.  I then added tiny dots of wink of stella to each starburst which doesn't show in this photo.

I am also putting this into the WMS Christmas Card Challenge - February - "Incorporate hearts into your card".

Thanks for peeking.

Waltzingmouse Stamps - November Pajama Party!

Supplies:  Compliments of the season sentiment - WMS, Festive Foliage - 

WMS, Textured cardstock - Papermania, Swiss dot - Bazzill, 

Distress ink - peeled paint, tea dye and walnut stain, Tuxedo 

black ink - memento, pop dots and roller adhesive.

I decided to play along with this month's Pajama Party over at Waltzingmouse Stamps - lots of fun challenges this month.  Challenge 2 for this party is "Pick a card, any card as long as it's Christmas"!, so I made two!

I am loving all the cards with diagonal designs and decided to give this trend a twirl!.

Added some glossy accents to the berries for added dimension.  I also added it to the card base with pop dots.

Thanks so much for peeking.  Make sure you jump into your night attire and pop over to the "Party" - check it out here - it starts at 11.55 pm GMT.

Waltzingmouse Stamps - Friendly Feature

As you all know I am a HUGE fan of Waltzingmouse Stamps - so you can imagine my absolute delight when Lynn Mercurio/Claire Brennan contacted me a little while ago to appear on their new "Friendly Feature". Yeah... still doing the happy Irish gig! - today is the day.

Check out my creations and step by step over on the Waltzingmouse Blog.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you leave me some "lurve" over on the WMS post.

Have a great weekend - I know mine has gotten off to a wonderful start!.

For the Dads!

Supplies: Green Washi Tape - Prima Marketing,  

Telephone Wire Washi - Freckled Fawn @Simon Says Stamp, 

black tuxedo ink - memento, sentiment from Man of the Hour 

stamp set - Waltzingmouse Stamps, Glasses - spectacle stamp set - 

Sweet Stamp Shop, glossy accents, black sharpie, kraft knife/

 scissors and pop dots.

This one is a quick and easy card for the Dad in your life!

I stamped the spectacles, fussy cut them - then went over them with a black sharpie and added glossy accents on top!

I had them sitting on my craft table ready for use and didn't know what I would do with them.  Then my order arrived from Waltzingmouse Stamps and I knew I had to use the sentiment with them - hey presto - card born!

Challenges
Paper Creator's Crafts - For the Boys

Stampavie and more - Use Kraft Cardstock

Thanks so much for peeking - hope you have a fun day.

Fancy a cuppa?

Supplies:  Coffee cup - Food on the Go stamp set - Jane's Doodles, 

Cupcake - Frame It stamp set - Waltzingmouse Stamps, 5x5 

Card blank, copics, cork mat, pop dots, tuxedo black ink - memento.

A very clean and simple card to share today.  I knew as soon as I saw Jane's new set - "Food on the Go" I just had to have it.  I teamed the "to go coffee cup" with a fun cupcake by WMS.  I was going to add sprinkles to the top of the cupcake and decided it was perfect just the way it was!.  I stamped on cork and cut it out to create the sleeve for the cup.

I spotted last night that "Jane's Doodles" are now going to be carried by Simon Says Stamp - great news - congrats to Jane.

Challenges
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Lets get paper piecing (hope using cork counts for the paper bit!)

Creative Creations Challenge - Keep it Simple

Pause Dream Enjoy - Desserts

Paper Playtime - Use some brown

Thanks for peeking.

Cupcake - Get Well!

As you know the challenge that kicked off on Paperplay yesterday was - Cupcake!.  So I decided to make another card using kraft, some stamps, one punch and very cute ribbon by May Arts (BT-90).

The wonderful sentiment and cupcake/border are all by Waltzingmouse Stamps - you can find them here.

Thought that this would be a good card to send someone with some homemade treats to cheer them up.  Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a "sweet" weekend.!

Autumn Leaves

Supplies: Papermania 12x12 kraft collection, WMS sentiment and frame, 

cork, Tim Holtz leaves die, bakers twine - the twinery, Labels Fourteen - 

Spellbinders, Big Shot, memento black ink, button - stash, 

X-cut corner punch - large, glue dots and pop dots.

This week's challenge over on Paperplay is Autumn Leaves.  It's not my week! but I am just popping in to share a card I created using kraft and cork!  Am loving how cork cuts in my Big Shot/Dies.

This card was quick and easy - the pattern is already printed on this kraft cardstock!.

Challenges
Ooh La La Creations - Punches/ Dies
Crafting for all Seasons - Fall Colours
 For Fun Challenges - Anniversary (no cake or bells)
Little Darlings - Brown and red
Simon Says Stamp - Dies or punches
Truly Scrumptious - Clean and Simple


Thanks for peeking - hope you have a great day.

Paperplay - Stars!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating and "giving thanks today".  A big "hello" and "miss you" to all our friends in Chicago.

This week's challenge on Paperplay is set by moi!.  The theme is "Stars" - we want to see stars on your project/cards.  So it doesn't have to be a holiday card but has to have stars on it somewhere!!.

I used the wonderful Seasons of Love star stamp by Waltzingmouse stamps which are nestie friendly - don't you just love that?  Despite that fact I actually cut this one by hand and used red scraps off my table to create this card.  I ran the kraft card blank through my sewing machine without any thread in it to get the delicate holes around the edge.

Thanks so much for peeking and I hope you get a chance to play along with Paperplay this week.  This week we are very kindly sponsored by Phindy's Place.  Full challenge details are available here.