Pajama Party!

Hi all, I have a card today for the Waltzingmouse Stamps Pajama Party. This is a card I had made for a craft swap, but I haven't got around to blogging, so now is as good a time as any! Plus, I've run out of time to create for this month afresh, so this has come in handy!

I have used Country Labels No.4 for the label and sentiment, and some pretty papers from prima, teamed with some blue ribbon and lace.

Thanks for stopping by today, sorry it's a short and sweet one!

Pauline

SSCB #24 - Gift Tag/Present

Hi all, today brings us another challenge from Serendipity Stamps challenge Blog. This fortnight we would like to see your gift tags or gift boxes/gift holders, using your Serendipity Stamps and dies.

I've made a little treat hanger, suitable for hanging on the tree filled with some little goodies, or as a gift holder for a special someone!

To decorate my hanger I stamped the Small Snowflake in Midnight Muse ink, and cut two panels to fit.

On the other sides I used some Christmas themed paper from Echo Park featuring these cute penguins!

The gift tag is cut using a Sizziz die, backed with two die cut sizzix snowflakes, and the sentiment is also from Serendipity Stamps. I added some gems to the flakes, and shadow stampoed the little snowflake on the tag, tied with some baker's twine and topped with a blue bow.

Please stop by the rest of the Design Team:

Jeanne Jachna

Jenny Gropp

Julie Warner

Karen Amidon

Marybeth Lopez

Miriam Napier

Pauline Pollington

Vickie Zimmer
Anya Schrier

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

WMFC #6

hi all, I had a little crafty play today, and checked out the new challenge over at Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge. This fortnight, they would like to see us be creative for Christmas , without using christmas stamps!

So I pulled out one of my new faves, Art Deco Backgrounds! I stamped the 'rainbow' background in red, green and embossed gold (although I am having problems with the embossing not taking - it shows up matt rather than shiny), and hand trimmed around the curved bottoms.

I layered them onto some Cherry Cobbler card, with a mat of Lucky Limeade. I then stamped the sentiment from Nutcracker Sweet in Cherry Cobbler ink, and edged with some decorative bits from the Art Deco Backgrounds set. Before adhering to the base, I added some green ribbon, which I thought matched the geometric style of the Art Deco, with it's little black squares.

I may go back to the drawing board with this, as it doesn't look like I had planned!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

WMFC #5 - Stormy Skies

Hi all, I have a card today for this fortnight's Waltzingmouse Fanatics challenge. The Theme is a colour challenge of these stormy colours -

And here's my take:

I made a shaped easel card, using my favourite dies of the moment from Stampin' Up!.

I used the Teeny Trees set, with some suitably sormy inks in Black Soot, Weathered Wood and Stormy Sky Distress inks and S.U's Midnight Muse card and ink. I used the masking technique for my little snowy forest.

I added Silver pearl drops to the trees for some snowy accents, and some Stickles for some icy sparkle.

Sorry it's short and sweet today, I've got a much needed hair appointment in 10 minutes!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

SSCB#23 - Paper Scraps

Hi all, today brings us a new challenge over at Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog. The theme for this fortnight is to use up those scraps! I don't know about you, but I have a ton of scraps, I just can't bear to part with it! Here's half of my scrap stash - yes I'm unorganised, it all just goes into a box. Then when it's full, I start a new one!

*Warning - Photo heavy Post!!*

So here are the scraps I pulled out today.

 And I made a few cards with them!

For my first, I used the Serendipity Stamps Happy Birthday sentiment cut using a Spellbinders Floral frame, and mounted onto a kraft card base embossed with Swiss Dots. I then layered some papers along the bottom, and some pink satin pleated ribbon. Finally I added some Creme Liquid Pearls around the frame.

For the next card, I took a more masculine theme and I used a Houndstooth E.F, and used a strip of patterned paper topped with some brown gingham. The sentiment is Happy Birthday from the Everyday Words Horizontal Sml from Serendipity Stamps.

For my next card I made a Christmas card. I used a Tim Holtz E.F, and although I didn't have any Christmassy scraps, I had some glittery bits, so I used those for some Christmas sparkle.
The Merry Christmas Sml Sentiment is also from Serendipity Stamps.

For my next card I made a Thank You card. I used a Stampin' Up! Chevron E.F, and used some chevron scraps and plain blue card. I cut the Thank You Sml Sentiment using a Spellbinders tag die, and finally added a blue gem and some twine.

Here they are together:

For my next batch of cards, I went for a smaller scale, these are all about 4 x 4.

This card has strips of plain mustard coloured card, and strips of the red stripy card stuck directly to the base. I then cut the heart shape using the Serendipity Stamps Heart Base Die, and stamped Happy Birthday on the bottom. 

For this card, I stuck strips of patterned paper to some kraft card, and cut using the S.S Heart die.
Then stamped the sentiment underneath.

For my last card I used the heart die cut from the first card, and stamped the Live Well.. sentiment in red ink. I then layered some strips of floral and stripy patterned papers onto the card base.

Here they are together:

And here all the cards are together. I hope you feel inspired to create using up some of your scraps!

Here's the D.T list for some more inspiration:

Jeanne Jachna

Jenny Gropp

Julie Warner

Karen Amidon

Marybeth Lopez

Miriam Napier

Pauline Pollington

Vickie Zimmer

Thanks for stopping by

Pauline