WMFC Take 3!

Morning all, it's a bright sunny day here in West Berkshire, a welcome relief from the storms and rain we have had this past week.

Well, I do love these colours, and this little stamp set from Waltzingmouse Stamps, I love those sweet dolls! So I had to make another card for the Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge!

I have a ton of Washi Tape, that I have bought in the past, and got it home only to discover I don't really know what to do with it! Anyway, I've had these purpley coloured tapes for at least a year, I think I got them from Paperchase and I had to use them for this challenge! They are the perfect colours!

I just cut the tape into a banner tip at the ends, and stuck to a card base, stamped the sentiment and layered the already cut doll on top! Simple! Took about 5 minutes, the quickest card I've ever made!

Well, as it's such a lovely day, we are going to attempt a walk, but trying to fins somewhere accessible and not flooded may be tricky.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

WMFC #11 Take Two!

Hi all, I'm back with my other two cards for the Waltzingmouse Fanatics challenge! 

My first card features the pretty frame and floral elements from Folk Art Medallion and You're a Doll stamp sets.

This next card features the sentiment from Compact Sentiments set, and flowers from You're a Doll set. I like the softer tones of the second stamp on my other card (see previous post) so I tried it on this one. I had a slight boo boo in that I dropped one of the flower stamps after stamping and smudged the sentiment a bit, but I still think it looks nice.

And here they are together. I added some stickles to the flower centres on both cards, and they are now dry, unlike the U.K!

 Here are a few pics of the damage last night's storm brought to our little corner. We are very lucky that we have not had the flooding occur here, I just pray this weather breaks at some point soon.

We dragged the childrens old little wendy house over to wedge it between the conservatory wall and window and the fence as it was knocking into the side of the building.

Then we discovered another panel at the back of our garden very dangerously flapping about so David had to completely pull it off.

All in all, an expensive Valentines night! We have a fencing chap coming round in about half an hour for a quote, so hopefully we can get it fixed in the next week.

Thanks for stopping by, and stay safe wherever you are.

Pauline

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge, ColourQ #213

Hi all, I'm here today with a couple of cards for two different Challenges- Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge, and colourQ Challenge. My first card is for the cQc, using these pretty colours: 

I've made a New Home card for the creator of Waltzingmouse Stamps Claire Brennan, who has recently moved house. She also managed to host the monthly Pajama Party over on her blog during moving, no mean feat at the best of times.

I have stamped the smaller house image from A Cottage Home by WMS in Wisteria Wonder and Lucky Limeade, the closest colours I have to the inspiration pic.

I layered the panel onto some card which was the closest colour I had to Peach Parfait, and wrapped some purple button twine along the bottom before adding the sentiment in London Fog ink  from A Cottage Home and Big Day Today set, also from WMS.

Finally I finished off with some sparkly gems.

My next card is for the Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge, which has a sketch for us to follow this week:

And here's my take:

 I have used Two Step Sprig and Big Day Today for this card, stamping the flowers in a couple of different pinks and purples, and cutting out and layering with pop dots.

It's a fairly CAS design, but I took forever deciding how to place the flowers!!

I love this elegant sentiment., finished off with a couple of pink gems.

And that's all from me today, off out with the kids to see Thor 3, I hope it's not too scary!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #2

Hi all, another post from me today!  Please scroll down to see my card for this week's challenge for The Ribbon Reel.

I almost ran out of time to make this for the Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge I've been sooo busy! Anyway, I took a little stampy time out this evening before I go back to work (our store is having a re-fit, and they need staff to go in for an hour to move stuff etc.)

Look at this fab colour combo:

Well, these colours just shout Christmas to me! So I made a Christmas card.

I did a bit of random stamping with the WMS Big Blooms -Poinsettias set in Stampin' Up! Cherry cobbler and Raspberry Ripple, and Memento Pistachio and Pine Cone inks.

I then made a kraft card base, and a Raspberry Ripple base, and punched the edge with a Fiskars punch. The sentiment is also from WMS Compliments of the Season II set - stamped in Espresso Truffle but I didn't think it was bold enough so I added some glamour dust to it. Not sure if I like this or not yet! Finally I added some red striped ribbon.

I've kept this purposefully flat for posting, our rates have gone up so much recently, I'm going to have to try to keep it a bit more CAS this year!

Well that's it from me today, thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #1

Morning all! What a beautiful day it is here in sunny Berkshire! We have been so lucky with the weather this year haven't we?!

Well, today sees the start of a new challenge, especially to gladden the hearts of us Waltzingmouse Stamps fans! I was broken hearted when the last Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge finished last year, and I've been missing my WMS sketchy inspirations very much indeed.

So, a big thank you to Deborah Frings and Tara Cardwell for starting this new challenge up - I am determined to enter each one!

 Here's the fabby sketch:

For colour inspiration, I am following the lovely autumnal colours of Green and Rust from this week's Less is More Challenge, and opting for a CAS design today, and I love how it turned out!

I used the beautiful feather images from Fine Feather set, stamped in Memento Pistachio and Stampin' Up! Gumball Green and Lucky Limeade.

The sentiment is stamped using Memento Potter's Clay, and for a little sparkle I added some green gems and a little rust coloured twine bow.

That's all from me today - back to school means back to weekend clubs too - so i have to take my children to their music classes in half an hour, I better get dressed lol!

Thanks for dropping by,

Pauline