PDCC #62, Card Patterns #96

Hi fellow bloggers, hope the Christmas season has been good to you this year! The snow has melted around these parts, but it's grey and dull and a bit drizzly, not great, but at least we can get out and about!

Look what Santa brought me this year! How lucky am I? Loads of Spellbinders dies, and my most wanted Waltzingmouse Stamps! What can I say, except that I have been a VERY good girl this year LOL!!



So I set to, and had a little play........ but my mojo has taken a little Christmas stroll, too much turkey and Christmas pud, lol! So after a few attempts, and a little rest (ie a big sulk!) I came up with a thank you card for two challenges, Card Patterns and The Play Date Cafe.

Here is the Card Patterns Sketch:


And here is the colour inspiration from The Play Date Cafe:


And here is my take:



Using a white linen card base, I have stamped the lace border from Faux Fun in Victorian Velvet Distress ink. Then using some kraft card, have cut a decorative circle using a Nellie Snellen die cut. The scalloped circle is a Papermania paper, cut with Spellbinders Small Scalloped circles, and topped with a sentiment from Waltzingmouse Fancy Phrases and Victorian Fripperie.



I have inked around the kraft circle in Rosebud ink and added flat backed pearls from Kaisercraft. Finally finished off with some jute twine and pink bakers twine from The Ribbon Girl. Added a couple of clear gems to the top corners, I do love a bit of bling!

Thanks for looking, and Happy New Year to you all!

Pauline xx

Stylish Blogger Award

Oooh, I had a lovely surprise yesterday from Clare Buswell, over on Clare's Creations. She has given me my very first award!! Thank you so much Clare! It was a lovely little extra christmas gift, and made me smile.




By accepting this award I have to:


1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you this award. Thanks Clare!
2. Share 8 things about yourself
3. Pass it on to 8 bloggers
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their award

So now I have to think of 8 things about me!

1. I am addicted to coffee, in particular Costa coffee with their lemon cake, it's yummy!

2. I love reading, and for christmas my lovely hubby bought me a Kindle, (haven't looked at the
instructions yet!) in the hope I will stop buying books and stop cluttering up the house! He is
mistaken. I love Tintin books, and read them with my children, I just can't see how this type
of book will transfer to a gadget. We will see....

3. I am ashamed to say that I am a bit of a technophobe, whilst my hubby is the master of all
things electronic. I have only been blogging since the early part of this year, and I really
needed his help to get things going.

4. I love cooking, but hate the washing up afterwards! That's what lovely hubbys are for!

5. I was born in London, and moved to Thatcham near Newbury 14 years ago. Everytime I
go back to London it feels like going home, I miss it.

6. I am a big Kate Bush fan. There, I have said it! My family find it quite irritating that I play
her music all the time. I love her music, and her last album is very soothing, I usually have
it on in the background whilst I make a card. She needs to make a new album, if only for the
sanity of my family!

7. I like to watch documentaries on all periods of history, I find the past, and how people lived
fascinating. One of my favourite programmes is Time Team, I love Tony Robinson in this he is
so enthusiastic, but he will be known forever in my mind as 'Baldrick' from Blackadder, one
of my most favourite comedies EVER! He has a cunning plan m'lud!

8. I have 3 wonderful and inspiring children, who never cease to amaze me with their love,
sense of fun and take on life. My 10 year old has the next 100 years planned out! We will all
apparently have flying cars by then!

So, I managed to find 8 things about me, I hope I haven't bored you!

Now here's the fun bit! 8 lovely ladies I like to visit on a very regular basis, pop by their inspiring blogs, you won't be disappointed!

1. Julie's Inkspot

2. Diaries of a Craftaholic and Demented Housewife

3. Ruby 2 Shoes

4. Flower Sparkle

5. Glitter Me Silly

6. The Peddlar's Gallery

7. Helen Berry Design

8. A Delightful Waste of Time

Well, that was difficult, so many inspiring blogs to choose from! Hope everyone is enjoying the on-going festivities, I have my in-laws coming today.

Happy New Year everyone!

Pauline xx

WMSC #28, CR84FN8

Hi all, hope everyone is ready for the Christmas festivities? I braved the supermarket today, it was manic, but I made it there and back! Phew, now I can start to relax and enjoy the season!

I have a card today for a couple of great challenges, Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge and CR84FN at Mona Pendleton's blog Cupcakes's Creations.

Here is the WMSC sketch:
And here is the colour inspiration from CR84FN8:



And here is my take:



I have used a white linen card base, and made a topper using matt silver card from a christmas stack by Papermania. The pink gingham and floral papers are also by Papermania, cut to look like and envelope, and edged with some Victorian Velvet distress ink. I still have not perfected the art of making the sponging look soft and dreamy like everyone else, but I guess I'll have to practice a bit more!

Added some cream daisy lace ribbon by Dovecraft over the join.



Using the lacy circle from WMS Faux Fun Circles, stamped and silver embossed twice onto some kraft card, and cut out the middle from one, and cut the other using Nestabilities Small Scalloped Circles. Stamped the sentiment from Peace and Plenty in Tuxedo Black on the cut out, and popped it onto the other circle with some foam dots.


Wrapped some pink baker's twine from The Ribbon Girl around the silver topper, tied a bow and added a punched out butterfly.


Added some gems and stickles to the butterfly for some shine, would have added some more, but I restrained myself!


Finally distressed around the edge of the scalloped circle with Pink Petunia chalk ink, layered it all together and voila! A pretty thank-you card for a girly girl!

Thanks for looking and Merry Christmas!

Pauline xx

Hi all, today I have a card for the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge. I have been a bit M.I.A the last few weeks due to the Christmas frenzy and pesky things like house work!

I was determined to play along this week, so here is the sketch:



And here is my take, I have flipped the sketch upside down.



I have gold embossed the star image from the Season's of Love stamp set, and the same with the sentiment, the middle of which has been stamped twice and cut and layered up for a bit of height. At the top of the star are two buttons layered together and tied with some jute string from The Ribbon Girl.


The backing papers are from Wild Rose Studio's Christmas paper stack, the card base is kraft card, and the star is stamped onto some red coredinations paper. The red twill ribbon is from Marks and Spencer, and all the gems are from WH Smith. Around the edges of the card and the topper I have distressed using Victorian Velvet Distress ink.


I am also entering this into:

Bunny Zoe's challenge.

Fab n Funky Challenge



Short and sweet tonight, got some wrapping to do!

Pauline xx

WMCS #25 and a few other challenges

Hi all, today I have a card made for the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge, and a few others too. I've made this christmas card for my middle daughter, she's a very girly girl, so it had to be pink!

Here is the sketch:


And here is my card:



I've gold embossed the little gingerbread girl from Oven Fresh Gingerbread Joy, and popped her onto a label from Holiday Labels 14 stamped in Victorian Velvet Distress ink.


Using Versamark Ink, I stamped the background flourish from Very Vintage Labels 10, the little snowflake from Compliments of the Season, and the little star from Oven Fresh..Joy.

Stamped the sentiment circle, gingerbread man and star again from Oven Fresh in Victorian Velvet and cut using Nesties Scalloped Circles sml.
Added a lot of gems, (my daughter loves the bling!) some ribbon and a little bow, distressed around the edges of the card in Victorian Velvet, and the edge of the scalloped circle in Pink Petunia. Finally added a little gingerbread man stamped in Rich Cocoa and added some glossy accents to him.

I'm now feeling very sweet!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Die Cut dreams

The Creative Cottage

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge

Totally Papercrafts

The Alphabet Challenge

Thanks for stopping by

Pauline x