Goodbye to Watzingmouse Stamps

Hi all, I'm here today to share something I made way, way back in 2011! Waltzingmouse Stamps store is closing down, and there is a blog hop for us WMS fans to show our own favourite WMS make. I have a large amount of WMS creations that I love, it was so very hard to choose, but in the end I plumped for this one.

I made this using an acordian style tag from Little Claire's, and used several WMS stamp sets and distress inks, and embossing to make it.

There were a lot of different layers, and I can remember making this, and the time I spent on it, happy memories.

I am sharing this at Waltzingmouse Fanatics blog, so if you have a fave WMS past creation, pop over and share it with us.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

That's Crafty - Red & Green

Hi all, I'm back again! Today I have a card made for this fortnight's challenge over at That's Crafty, and the theme is red and green. Not my favourite pairing of colours I will admit, and this card has ended  up completely different to how I had planned it!

I have used my new Tim Holtz stamp set Perspective, which features this beautiful large butterfly. I stamped the butterfly in black embossing ink (I find my pot of black embossing powder is very messy, and doesn't give the sharp lines of an image) and embossed in clear powder. I then fussy cut, and coloured with Barn Door and Peeled Paint distress inks. I added some sparkle to the wings using my new Spectrum Noir pens, I'm not really fussed on them, but I will try and use them!

For the background, I stamped the number stamp in Barn Door randomly, then overstamped with the butterfly using Peeled Paint. I distressed around the edges with Black Soot. The sentiment is from the same stamp set - I was going to colour in the first word, but I thought there was enough red and green on here haha! Finally I added some sparkly gems to the body of the butterfly.

I have a few more ideas for this set, and some half finished pieces which I will hopefully finish later.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

That's Crafty - Red & Green

Glitter 'n Sparkle Challenge - Anything goes

Moving along With The Times - In the Garden (butterflies in the garden)

Southern Girls Challenge - Nature

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Less is More -What's Outside Your Window?

Hi all, just popping by to share a card I made for thei week's Less is More challenge. The theme this week is What's outside your window! Well, today is dull, gloomy, cloudy and grey.

So I have represented the clouds I can see this morning, and the drizzle that we have too!

 

I tried a new to me technique with some gilding wax and distress inks. First I applied a little bit of silvery wax onto my craft sheet, and added 2 drops of Distress re-inker in Stormy Sky. I then spritzed with water and then mixed together. Then I smooshed some cardstock through it. The wax didn't have the effect I was looking for so I added some silvery pigment powder and spritzed again. I left this to dry for an hour or so, to ensure it was completely dry.

Then I ran this piece through my cuttlebug with the clouds embossing folder by Sizzix. To get some more sheen on, I gently rubbed some more of the wax over the raised clouds.

I attached this piece to some silver mirri card and attached to a plain card base. I stamped the sentiment in London Fog, and stencilled the raindrops with Weathered Wood. For a bit more sparkle, I added some glossy accents to the raindrops, and a bit of glamour dust.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Less is More - What's Outside Your Window

Addicted to Stamps and More - photo inspiration using the bold sentiment inspired by the graphic.

Unicorn Challenge Blog - Anything Goes CAS

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

CAS Sketches

Hoi all, a quickie from me today, I made a card for the CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge, this is the sketch -

And here's my card -

I made some backing paper with shaving foam and distress inks a little while ago, and I have loads of it to use! So I used a snippet here, and stamped the musical stave in Dusty Concorde distress ink, and overstamped that with the sentiment - both stamps are from Visible Image, from their Soul Music set.

The inks I used in the shaving foam are fired brick and milled lavender.

Well that's all from me as I am popping out soon, thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Less is More - Sentiment

Hi all, it's saturday, and that means a nice new challenge at Less is More! This week the challenge is a one layer card, with the sentiment as the main focus.

Well, I have plenty of large sentiments from Visible Image, and I chose this fab sentiment!

I used a large 6x6 card base, and sprinkled some Leaf Green and Terracotta Brushos onto it acros the card diagonally, then lightly spritzed with water to release the magic. When dry, I sprayed with Phill Martin Cosmic Shimmer in antique gold, it has a greeny/gold tint to it.

Then I stamped the sentiment in Versamark, and used some green/gold two tone embossing powder, it also left a golden shimmer over the whole card, I tried to catch it in the second picture here, but it doesn't really do it justice.

Well, a nice, quick and easy card to make, and shimmery too!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Less is More - Sentiment

More Mixed Media Challenge - Green

Simon Says Stamp - Make your own background

Make my Monday - Square Card

Ooh La la Challenge - Sentiment

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Mixed Media for a Few Challenges

Hi all, I'm back again! Today I have a mixed media card to share for a few challenges. Last month I was a top 3 pick at That's Crafty (thanks ladies!) and their new challenge is up - this month they would like to see the use of Stencils or masks on a project. And over at Mixed Media Card Challenge, they would like to see Trees on our cards, and over at More Mixed Media Challenge, they want to see us use green on our projects. So feeling inspired by Green, Trees and Stencils, I set to.

I created the background by first sprinkling some Leaf Green Brushos onto some damp watercolour card, and allowed to dry. I then sprayed it with Tattered Angels Dazzling Diamonds shimmer spray.

Then I stamped the cup rings from Clarity Stamps  Journaling set in Evergreen Bough and Pine Needles distress ink. Then I  randomly stamped the script also from Clarity Stamps in Crushed Olive distress ink.

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For the stencilling, I used a That's Crafty Stencil,  Distressed Harlequin, and some Cosmic Shimmer paste in Champagne Gold, and set aside to dry. The tree is a Cheery Lynn die, and came with little woodland creatures, which I have also used here, they were too cute to throw away! I cut them with a sticky backed piece of cork, and adhered directly to the card. To finish off I stamped the sentiments from Jofy Stamp Set 11 in Pine Needles, and added some liquid pearls in Peacock green dotted around the card and on the little critters eyes.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

That's Crafty - Stencils

More Mixed Media Challenge - Green

The Mixed Media Card Challenge - Trees with added option birds - I have an owl in the tree.

Make My Monday - Square card

Simon Says Stamp - Make your own background

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Live in the Moment...

Hi all, I'm just popping by with a quick make I did yesterday, using a freebie stamp from this month's Craft Stamper magazine, by Visible Image. It is a smaller flower image that matches the larger one in their shop, which I already have.

I inked a piece of white card using distress inks in Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers and Blueprint Sketch, and then sprinkled some water droplets to 'bleach' a bit of the colour out.

I then stamped the little flower around the edge in Versamark, and embossed with Sparkle Puff powder from Stampendous, it's very sparkly in real life.

I then stamped the sentiment from one of VI's new release Live in the Moment and again embossed with the sparkly powder. Finished it off with some flat back pearls, and job done. This is a nice flat card (apart from the pearls) so should be a nice easy one to post!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline