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.

Moxie Fab Thanks!

By now everyone knows that the wonderful Cath over on Moxie Fab World is finishing her 5 year stint.  While we were all very saddened by the news we decided to honour her in a way that hopefully she will appreciate - a blog hop!.

 Cath - for the daily inspiration, amazing challenges and friendship that you extended to us all - thank you.

You should have arrived here from Tifany DeGough's blog.
Here is my card! - just realised when I posted it that it mirrors the banner colours! woohoo!

Supplies:  Cardstock - Bazzill, canson and docrafts (kraft), patterned paper - 
Cosmo Cricket, Hero Arts background stamp, versamark ink, feather dies 
- my favourite things, tag die - pti, button - SC October add on kit, 
enamel dots, white embossing powder - 
Hero Arts, "you" die and sentiment - Simon 
Says Stamp, pop dots and machine stitching.

 Thanks so much for stopping by - the next blog on the hop is Cheiron Brandon.  If you have got lost (which believe me won't be too difficult with the number of blogs to hop! you can go back to the Moxie Fab World Blog here).

Hope you have a truly wonderful day.

Meet York!

Meet York!  He arrived into our family on Monday and is just a complete cutie.  He is 7 weeks old and we will "puppywalk" him for the next year for the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind.

He is a golden retriever/ x labrador.  If you want to see some photos of him when he was younger you can check them out here.  You can spot him as he is the blondest/white one in the litter.

Thanks for stopping by - hope you have a blessed day.

Puppy Proofing!

We are waiting for our next Guide Dog Puppy to arrive.  We are due to collect him/her next Monday so the house and garden are in the throes of being "puppy proofed" again!.

We are hopefully getting a puppy from the "y" litter but don't know it's name yet.

Want to see some amazing photos of these cuties? 

Check out  http://chennaspups.info/

Thanks for stopping by - hope you got a good dose of puppy cuteness!

Best Wishes!

Supplies:  stitched sentiment stamp - The Crafts Meow, 

Feather die - mft, white dotted swiss cardstock - Bazzill 

Basics, cerise cardstock - Canson, enamel - Ranger industries,

tuxedo black ink - memento and pop dots.

I loved how Laura Bassen created this - love how she used up scraps and stamped the sentiment twice to make a beautiful card.

I have these stitched sentiments for quite a while since I saw this card by Jennifer McGuire.

I used cerise pink cardstock that looks very bright here in this post! and some scrap swiss dot cardstock that I had in my stash to cut out the feather.

Enamel dots are all the rage at the moment but I didn't have any white ones - I grabbed my bottle of enamel by Ranger Industries and created my own!

Challenges

Simon Says Stamp - We are going dotty!

Thanks for peeking - hope you have a great day.

Congratulations - another fun shaker Wedding Card!

Supplies:  pp - Amy Tangerine for American Crafts, 

computer generated sentiment, glassine envelope and 

insert - from my stash (possibly Paper Source!), machine 

stitching, SRM sentiment sticker, heart die - Spellbinders, 

pop dots, roller adhesive - Tombow, white sequins and white 

card blank - Craftworks.

Used some pp from the Studio Calico August Card Kit - Marks & Co to create this fun wedding card. 

I found the glassine envelope and insert in my stash and know that I have had it for quite a while.  I machine stitched the top of the glassine envelope to make sure the sequins wouldn't fall out!

It's a touch of a shaker card! - it has the shaker element and is certainly using non traditional wedding colours but I thought it was perfect for an autumnal card.

Thanks so much for stopping by and peeking - hope you have a wonderful Wednesday.

Wedding Cards using dies!

Supplies: pp and cardstock - October Afternoon 

(Studio Calico July Card Kit), white sequins, Alphabet dies - 

Lawn Fawn, acetate, computer generated sentiment, 

enamel dots - MME, pop dots, white card blank.

Firstly, I decided to make some wedding cards in non traditional colours!!

So the first one I created using some patterned paper from the July Card Kit by Studio Calico - Valley High.

I created a layer between the cardstock and pp and layered it with acetate to create a "shaker" card using sequins.

 

Supplies:  pp and cardstock - Studio Calico August Card Kit (Marks & Co.), 

gems, Boy Meets Girl - Die-namics by MFT, heart die - 

Spellbinders, pop dots and card blank

The second one I want to share today is another wedding card with the same colour palette!

Thanks for peeking - hope you have a wonderful day.