PDCC 90, WMSC

Hi all, today i have a card to share for a coule of my favourite challenges, Waltzingmouse sketch Challenge and The Play Date Cafe. This week the Cafe want us to use some gorgeous colours, and I just had to get creating!

Below are the inspiration pics:





And here is my take:




Now, I hope the image fits this sketch, and that the Mischief Makers don't think I have taken a liberty, but the pumpkin stamp from Waltzingmouse Stamps Peace and Plenty set just popped out at me to use for this sketch.

The image has been coloured with Promarkers, and I have added a frame around it from Fram-it! stamp set, then cut out using a Go-Kreate die.



As you can see I have made a teacher card for my son's teacher - he's really going to miss her, and she has done such a fabulous job with all the children.




I have used Coredinations cardstock in Fuschia, a deep aubergine and burnt orange colours - sorry these are scraps and the labels were cut off!

I embossed the orange panel with a folder by Indentz, and sanded back to reveal the paler core.
Then stitched this to a distressed piece of aubergine card. Then I layered this panel onto the fuschia card which had been stitched around the edge and distressed.



Inside I have stamped the sentiment from Frame it and Teeny Trees, love this font style!



Before adhering all together I went rount the image panel with Milled Lavender and Dusty Concorde distress inks, and the kraft card base with Antique Linen and Walnut Stain.

Finally added some teeny butterflies and gems in the colours of the coredinations, and i just love it! I may make another like this for my daughter's teacher, just one more to do!

I have just noticed that the border is wider on the left than on the right - and I noticed this on my last card and i think it may have something to do with the fact I am left handed lol! I need to aim more to the left when mounting my panels!!

Have a great weekend!

Pauline xx

CR84FN, WMSC

Hi all, today I have a card for a couple of my favourite challenges - Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge and CR84FN.

Below are the inspiration pics:




And here's my take:




I have used a cream card base, and embossed a piece of pale pink Core'dinations card with Swiss Dots EF.

Then using the same cream card, stamped the swag banner from the newly released Eat Cake repeatedly to make a pattern.



Then using the same pink card, cut a small mat using Nestabilites Labels No. 10.

On some cream card, I then stamped a scroll frame from Ovals Classic Frames, and cut using a nestabilities scalloped oval.

In the centre of the oval I stamped the star motif twice, and adhered a red paper rose to the centre.


I stamped the two little cameos in Rosebud pink, and cut using nesties, and layered them onto two hearts stamped using WMS Sweethearts.

I edged the cream patterned panel with a Martha Stewart edger punch - as soon as I saw the swag stamp I knew I had to use the punch with it! Added some cream pearls and a couple of pink gems to the lady's hair. Finally stamped the sentiment from Say it with Style.

Sorry this is such a short post, I've got the school run in 5 minutes!!

Thanks for stopping by today

Pauline xx

The Ribbon Reel # 6

Hi all, today brings us another challenge from The Ribbon Reel! This fortnight we have a sketch for you to try, and it's a fabulous one! I am also entering this card into Crafty Catz Challenge, which this week want a vintage theme.

Below is the Sketch:




And here is my take:


I recieved my new Waltzingmouse stamps this week, and couldn't wait to get them inky!

The card is a multiple fold card that I got from my local craft shop - I call it a tri-fold card, but I'm sure it has a proper official name somewhere!

In line with the images I have used, I thought I'd try my hand at Shabby Chic - not something I'm entirely comfortable with, but I think it turned out ok!

Here is the side view:



I have used the newly released You're Lovely set from Waltzingmouse Stamps, and stamped the dressform onto some Martha Stewart patterned paper, then paper pieced a bodice in Rich Cocoa ink.


The Dressform is mounted onto two panels cut using a Go-Kreate die, both stamped with the flourishes from WMS Flourishes - Scallops and Dots, embossed in White Pearls embossing powder.



The large rose at the top is from The Ribbon Reel, as is the satin ribbon and lace trim through the middle of the card. The two smaller roses in the bottom right hand corner are from stash.


A close up of the shimmer from the pearlescent card base and embossed scrolls, they are so pretty in real life!



Before assembling this card, I distressed all the edges and corners of all the panels and card with Antique Linen and Walnut Stain.


The green leaves are vellum, and punched with a McGill punch.


This is the inside of the card unfolded - I decided to decorate the inside too, as it was visible from the outside.

On one of the panels, I simply stamped the dress in Memento Rich Cocoa onto some cream card, and on the other panel, stamped some more flourishes in Versamark and embossed with White pearls powder.


The ribbon and twine under the larger rose is from my stash.


After assembling all together, I finally added some cream pearls and some gems to the little Vintage tag, cut with nestabilities Fancy Tags.


Sorry this is so photo heavy, I just couldn't decide which pics to choose!


Please pop by The Ribbon Reel and visit my team-mates for some inspiration - they have some gorgeous creations to share with you!

Hope to see you at The Ribbon Reel,

Thanks for stopping by

Pauline xx

Less is More

Hi all, I have a card to share this evening for the Less is More Challenge that this week wants us to use something with LEGS on our creation! After my mistake of posting late last night and making a big boo-boo with the font size, (still don't know how i did that!) I thought I would get in early this week lol!!

So here's my little creation:



I have used a new stamp I got at the weekend from the Newbury Artstamps Show, from Little Claire. Isn't he sweet, toiling away under a hot sun (I imagine!) and I've nicknamed him Herbie the Hedgehog!




I stamped him in Versamark and black embossed, then coloured him with my Watercolour pencils.

I had to search through my stash for a suitable sentiment, and found the 'Thankyou for all you do' in my not very often used box of wooden stamps. It's by Penny Black, and I thought it suited the little guy working hard!

That's all from me this evening, hope you're enjoying the weekend, and if you've been to see Take That this week, I hope you enjoyed it and I'm a teeny bit jealous lol!!

Pauline xx

Less is More, CAS-ual Fridays

ED to add: I have no idea why the bottom part of my text is in a very large font! Any advice would be appreciated, I must have done something wrong lol!!!

Hi all, a quick one this evening, as I've left it a bit too close for comfort for this week's Less is More Challenge. I thought I'd combine it with CAS-ual Fridays too, so hopefully it will be accepted as a CAS card for LIM, as I realised after I had made it there isn't a great deal of white space - ah well, I put it down to experience!

So, CAS-ual Fridays would like a shaped card, and Less is more would like:

"For our challenge this week we would like to see you use

SHADES of BLUE

You can use a white card base, but we do want to see more than one colour of blue, not just one!"

And here is my take:


I have used a Go-Kreate die cut for the shaped cream card base, and cut a turquoise panel in the middle die shape. I then stamped some beautiful scrolls from the new release by Waltingmouse Stamps Flourishes - Scallops and Dots.

I used Distress Ink Tumbled Glass for the scrolls to make a frame, and then Weathered Wood to stamp the little dotted oval, from WMS Fancy Phrases set.

The sentiment is from Dainty Doilies, also by WMS, stamped in Weathered Wood.

Around the edge of the turquoise panel I sponged some chalk ink Aspen Mist and Colorbox Sky Blue.

Finally added some sweet little blue roses.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline xx

PDCC #89, WMSC 54

Hi all, I managed to make it to my craft room today to make a card for a couple of my favourite challenges - Play Date Cafe and Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge.

When I saw the colour story at the PDCC I just had to get making, such soft beautiful colours!
And I also knew exactly the style of card I wanted to make using the WMSC sketch and a set of stamps that was one of my first stamp purchases almost 2 years ago now!

Here are the inspiration pics:

And here is my take:


I have used a creamy card base I got from my local stationers shop - it's very thick and has a beautiful pearly mottled effect.



I then made a panel from some pale minty green card from a Martha Stewart paper stack, and stamped the stitching, from Waltzingmouse Stamps Offbeat Backgrounds, around the edge in memento Rich Cocoa.


I then made another panel from some Bazzill kraft card - I hope this qualifies as the 'Taupe' the Cafe wants us to use! Then stamped two stitched strips in Rich Cocoa.

On a spare piece of the cream card I stamped a variety of butterfly wings from WMS Earthangel set - one of my first sets I bought, and it remains one of my favourites.

After tinkering about for ages with which wings I preferred and where and in which colour combo etc, I finally decided on making the butterflies up using the smaller wings of this butterfly.


I coloured them in using Promarkers in Buttercup and Pale Green - I had tried colouring it with a Mint Promarker, but it was very bright, and not the pastel shade I wanted.

I then stampd the butterfly body twice, and assembled all together using glue dots.



The sweet little roses are from The Hobby House, and hopefully, again I hope the Taupe colour on the rose passes muster!

Finally added a sentiment from WMS Frame It, and some creamy pearls, and voila!

I love this soft colour palette, and I think this is going to go to one of my children's teacher's with a leaving present.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline xx

PDCC #88

Hi all, it feels like I haven't been here for ages, and I haven't ! I have been a bit busy with one thing and another, and seem to have mislaid my mojo along the way! Well, I need to get back into it, as the school holidays are 3 weeks away, and I don't think I will get much time to craft.

So today I have a card for The Play Date Cafe, which wants the colours of (my interpretation!) Russet, Mustard and pale Aqua.

ED: to add: the blue in the pics looks more an aqua in real life, honest! xx

Here is the photo inspiration:



And here is my take:



As the end of term is looming, I thought I'd start on some teacher cards. They are the people who make such a difference to our world - the future is literally in their hands, and I for one take my hat off to them.

This particular card is for my eldest daughter's teacher - she is in Year 6, so is leaving this term for Big School, scary stuff. And, to put it politely, she's had a difficult class with some difficult children, so I for one am going to give her a couple of bottles of vino as I think she deserves it!

I have stamped the sweet little apple from Waltzingmouse Stamps Peace and Plenty set onto some kraft bazzill card twice - coloured with my water- colour pencils and decoupaged up. This stamp set is still quite a new purchase for me, and I feel I've only tapped the surface, the images are wonderful!


I was aiming for a Cox's Orange Pippin Apple - I hope you agree! I have framed the apple with the frame from WMS Frame it, and the sentiment is from the same set.

I then cut the image using my nestabilities Squares Sml, and layered up onto some pale aqua polka dot bazzill card cut with nestabilities lacy squares. Then layered this onto some russet and mustard shades of bazzill after distressing all the edges with Antique Linen and Walnut Distress Inks.

Finally added some mustard coloured gems to the corners, and inside added the sentiment "You're so fabby" also from the Frame It set.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline xx