Less is More 1000 Challenge!

**For my Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz entry please scroll down**

Hi all (again!), Less is more have a challenge and a half this week - Can we manage 1000 submissions with a CAS anything goes theme! Well, I think we can all manage at least one if not more!

I have a card I made a little while ago, but hadn't got round to blogging yet.


The image is one of three from one stamp by Stamps Happen, Dragon, Butterfly, Bee.

I cut the bee, coloured with Promarkers, and layered up onto some pink and yellow card, and edged with some gold stickles.

The sentiment id from Stamp-It!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline.

Waltzingmouse Blog Waltz...BOO!

Phew, I made it this month! I very nearly didn't make it! It's that time again, The Waltzingmouse Blog Waltz!

This month's theme is ..Halloween...BOO!


I received Cicely at Halloween last week, and I have to say this is one of my favourite little sets. She is a sweetie to colour in, and i just love the vintage 1930's feel to the graphics.


Cicely at Halloween had been stamped twice - one main image and one small image. Cut Cicely's face, hat and scarf from the larger image and decoupaged this into the smaller circular image. When I first got this set, it was something that immediately came to mind, her hat and scarf over the edges. I also stamped and cut out a little extra bat too.

I went around the image with a Promarker in Putty for a little dimension, and left her uncoloured.


I then layered the image onto a die cut circle of kraft card cut using a Nellie Snellen die, and a pinked circle of My Mind's Eye patterned paper, cut with an X-Cut die. Then layered this onto a small circle of kraft card cut using my Nestabilities Circles Small.


Then onto a white linen card base, attached a tartan pattern from My Mind's Eye, distressed with Walnut Stain Distress ink. Cut a panel of kraft and layered this up with some more DP and kraft edged with a Martha Stewart punch.



Wrapped some lace around the panel and layered all together, finally adding some gems.

I'm also entering this card into Papertake Weekly, and Paperplay challenges.

Happy Waltzing everyone, I'm off for a turn around the blogosphere myself!

Pauline xx

WMSC #64

Morning all, I have finally finished my card for this week's Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge.

The sketch is very open to interpretation, and I decided to use one of my new Halloween stamps from Claire, Cicely at Halloween. The images in this set are beautifully vintage in style, and evoke an era of times gone by a la Enid Blyton.

So here's the sketch:
And here's Cicely, coloured with Staedtler Soft Colour Pencils. I wanted her to have a glow, like the Ready Brek child (remember that advert?) and thought the pencils would give the image a softer feel all round.



She is being chased by bats, and doesn't she look terrified!



I kept the background simple, to give Cicely the focal point, she is such a gorgeous image to colour.



The little sentiment is also from the same stamp set, mounted onto some green ruffled trim by American Crafts.



The background is stamped with the stars stamp from the same set, in Versafine Vintage Sepia.



I had a lot of fun colouring this sweetie in, I'm going to try some different colours today!

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

Paperplay Challenge

Pile it On

CES Challenge

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

The Play Date Cafe, The City Crafter Challenge

Hi all, today I have a card for a couple of challenges; The Play Date Cafe have a gorgeous colour story for us to try, and the City Crafter Challenge have a recipe to follow of 1 Ribbon, 2 Words and 3 Butterflies.

Here's the jewel like colour inspiration from The Play Date Cafe:


And here's my take:

I have used a white linen card base, distressed with Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap Distress Inks, so it actually looks like kraft card.


Then distressed and layered onto the card base some Core'dinations card in Aquamarine. Then layered a distressed piece of Victoria Gardens DP by Echo Park.

Using a Martha Stewart punch, created 3 panels in the required shades, distressed with inks and sanding and layered together with a cut down vintage postcard featuring a beautiful butterfly, also distressed with inks.


Added some floral ribbon and dewdrop gems, and two layered butterflies cut using a Martha Stewart punch.


Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline xx

A card for a few Challenges...

Hi all, a really quick post from me as Eldest is nagging me to get off the computer as she has to do her homework lol!

A CAS card for a few of my favourite challenges, here's the inspiration:

The Play Date Cafe colour inspiration:



CAS-ual Fridays inspired by a book - I have chosen The Snowman.


I have made a shadow-box card, following a fab tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers by Dawn Griffith.


A swinging snowman, a red metal eyelet and some little metal rings to dangle him by...



Some red polka dot embossed bazzill in the background, highlighted with some Opal Pearls for some snowflakes...


A couple of black gems for his buttons, and some red hessian ribbon threaded with gold strips...

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Less is More - Metallic - Metal jump rings and eyelet

Craft Catz - Monochrome

The Play Date Cafe - Colour splash

CAS-ual Fridays - What's Black & White & Read all Over?

The Pretty Little Ribbon shop - Monochrome

All stamps are Waltzingmouse Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

The Ribbon Reel Challenge #10

Morning all, today brings us another fortnightly challenge from The Ribbon reel. Already into September, and the kids are either gearing up for a return or have just gone back. So, with this in mind, our challenge for the next fortnight has been chosen by Zuzana Obert with a theme of 'Back to School'




I have made a card for my Big Girl who is starting at Secondary school tomorrow - there's a jumble of mixed emotions in this house right now, and I'm sure there will be nerves tomorrow morning too.



I have used a white linen card base, and layered some red bazzill and some ledger style paper from My Mind's Eye - Oooh La La For Him paper pack.



Then embossed in a script folder some black/grey Cor'dinations paper, and sanded to reveal the grey core. I thought it looked just like a chalkboard!



I then stamped the apple from Waltzingmouse Stamps Peace and Plenty set onto some green and red bazzill, cut out and layered together. Attached these to a panel stamped with the square frame from WMS Frame-it! set, and cut with Nestabilities Squares. The sentiment is also WMS from Asian Gardens.

Before assembling attached the layered stripy black Twill and Sheer Ruffle Edge Ribbon in Celery under the white panel, and used some yellow and red Seam Binding to create the bow, all from The Ribbon Reel shop, then topped off the bow with a large red paper rose.

Finally added some shiny green flat backed pearls and some stickles to the rose and the apples.

Please see the challenge rules HERE for more information on how to enter and the prize up for grabs!

If you need any more inspiration, do visit my fellow team-mates on the Ribbon Reel Design Team:

• Keilly Mulvihill - Keilly's Little Blog
• Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures
• Clare Buswell - Clare's Creation
• Pauline Pollington - Craft Obsession
• Zuzana Obert - Jelly Welly
• Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Peace and Plenty , Frame-it! and Asian Gardens both Waltzingmouse Stamps

Papers: My Mind's Eye - Ooh La la for Him; red and green bazzill; Black Core'dinations; white card

Ribbons: Black Stripy Twill; Sheer Ruffle Edge Ribbon; Red and Yellow Seam Binding all from The Ribbon Reel

Nestabilities: S4-126 Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Squares Large

Other: Flat backed pearls; paper rose; stickles, all from stash.


I am entering this card into the following challenges:

If The Shoe Fits - Back to School

Guylous Inimitability - Back to School

Crazy For Challenges - Back to School

My Grafico - Back to School

Pixie Dust Studio - Back to School

Stamp Insanity - Back to School

Paper Issues - Back to School



Thanks for stopping by!

Pauline

Milton Christmas...

Hi lovely bloggers, I have a sweet little card today, starring Milton the Bear with his Christmas Stocking! I do love this character, he is adorable, and fun to colour.

I have followed the sketch this week from Sketch Saturday, it reminds of the Union Jack, and my first instinct was to go with red white and blue. But then, I spied Milton looking balefully at me from my stamp box with an accusatory glare - You have never used me! - so I went with a traditional colour scheme for a christmas card.

So, here's the sketch:

And here's my take:


Milton is coloured with Promarkers and layered onto a label cut with Nestabilities Labels 11 - he just about fits in the larger one of these dies, and I then traced around the edge of it onto some green paper and hand cut for the mat.



I then cut some red and green dot embossed bazzill to make up the central cross, and trimmed with a Martha Stewart edge punch. Tied some green bakers twine around the strips before adhering to a poinsettia patterned paper and green bazzill.

The sketch has little embellishments in the corners, but I thought the pattern on the paper would suffice for this, I hope that's ok for this challenge!



Finally added some glamour dust to the stocking top and the poinsettia flower centres, so sparkly in the sunshine this morning.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Let's Craft and Create - Challenge 8, It's Christmas!

Do You Stack Up - Friendly Critters

Sketch Saturday

Passion for Promarkers - Anything Goes


Supplies Used:

Stamps: Milton With Stocking - Wild Rose Studio

Papers: Milton Christmas Papers - Wild Rose Studio; Red and Green dot embossed Bazzill; crema card from stash

Other: Ranger Glossy Accents; Deco Art Glamour Dust; Martha Stewart Edger Punch; Promarkers; Green Baker's Twine - The Ribbon Reel


Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline