Merry Christmas ....

... Morning!!  It's really dismal here today, so I'm spending the day inside and playing in my craft room.  I've made another Christmas card for my stash - I need over 100 cards, so I really do have to start early.  Here's my card:

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps - Pinstripe Background; Pink & Main - Christmas Mugs
Inks: Gina K - Dusty Rose, Soft Stone; Stampin' Up! - Poppy Parade; Versafine - Onyx Black
Dies: Pink & Main - Christmas Mugs
Accessories: White Lustre Card; SU Card - Poppy Parade; Copic Markers; Red Glitter Card; Nuvo - Aquashimmer Brush; Clear Embossing Powder; Sakura - Clear Glaze Pen

I'm entering this card into the following challenges, Jingle Belles - JB:20:04 where they want to see a mostly RED card, and to 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - 52CCT07-20 where they have a Cocoa theme.

The striped background on this card is the piece I had left after making the ladybug birthday card earlier this month.  I layered the panel on bright red card and added a strip of red glitter paper.  Using my MISTI (and leaving the stamp in place) I stamped the festive mug of hot chocolate on white card, coloured it with Copic markers and then restamped using Versafine black ink, and embossed with clear powder.  I cut it out with the matching die.  I added shimmer to cream, cherry and red berries with a clear shimmer brush and also added a glaze coat to the cherry.  I stamped a simple sentiment in red and adhered the mug with dimensional pads.  On the inside, I cut a mat layer of red card and on the white panel added a greeting and another sweet mug of cocoa.

My plan for the rest of the day is to make some more cards - only this time I think I need to make some birthday cards for my stash.  I hope that wherever you are, you keep warm and safe.  That's all for now.

Sweet Birthday Wishes ....

.... Morning!  I hope everyone got through Storm Ciara safely.  We were quite lucky to only have heavy rain and strong winds yesterday morning; the afternoon and evening were much kinder to us.  Anyway, I got to play again in the evening and with some new stamps that I got yesterday from Seven Hills Crafts.  Here's my card - very clean and simple:

Stamps: The Stamping Village - Happy Birthday; Lil' Inkers - Rainbow & Clouds Sentiments; Waltzingmouse Stamps - Pinstripe Background
Inks: Gina K - Dusty Rose; Versafine - Onyx Black
Dies: Die-namics - Stitched Tag-Corner Rectangles #4
Accessories: White Lustre Card; SU Card - Poppy Parade; Sakura Stardust Pen; Clear Embossing Powder; Copic Marker

I'm submitting this card to MFT Wednesday Sketch Club - MFTWSC#475, Seize the Birthday - STB#182, The Paper Players - PP#477, and Just Us Girls - JUGS#522.

I used two of my oldest stamps and one of my newest stamps on this card.  The pinstripe background is from WMS and the sentiment inside from Lil' Inkers, both now sadly closed.  I stamped the background on a large panel and cut a piece for the bottom of this card (you'll see the other piece later this week). The image is from the Happy Birthday stamp set from The Stamping Village - love this cute bug! I stamped it in Versafine, clear heat embossed and then coloured the image with a glitter pen. I cut it out with a stitched edge die and adhered it to the card with dimensional tape.  On the inside I cut a mat layer of bright red card and on the white panel added a sentiment and another little ladybug.

Today I'm off to my local craft group - first time for a couple of weeks.  I'm taking the little scrapbook that I've been working on - hopefully, I'll get it finished this week and share photos later.  Have a good day and see you soon.

WMSFC - Sketch ....

... Hello all!  It''s time for our new challenge at Waltzingmouse Fanatics.  You didn't seem to like our challenge to use lots of Waltzingmouse sentiments - but you ladies who did play along rocked the challenge.  So this time we've gone back to a favourite - we've a sketch for you to use.  You can turn it or flip it, but we must be able to see the basis of the sketch in your project.  You must also use at least one Waltzingmouse image, digi or sentiment.  Here's my card:

Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Pinstripe Background, A Good Egg, Lil Buddies; CAS-ual Friday Stamps - Truth Is; The Wild Ones (FOC with Quick Cards Made Easy)
Inks: Stampin' Up! - Pacific Point, Bashful Blue; Memento - Tuxedo Black
Dies: Poppystamps - Bijou Film Strip; Die-namics - Fishtail Flags Layers Stax #3, Fishtail Flags STAX #3; Stampeddler - Six Blind Mice
Accessories: White Lustre Card; SU Card - Marina Mist; SU DP - Bashful Blue, Pacific Point; Copics

We're are going to our first American Baby Shower this afternoon, and I've made this card for the family.  They already have a daughter and were delighted to find out that the new baby is a boy!!  So I decided to use mostly shades of blue on the card.  I stamped the pinstripe background (second generation impression) first.  To create the row of four panels I used my new film strip die.  I stamped a number of different animals onto white card, coloured them with a mixture of Copics and paper piecing.  I die cut a tiny little mouse in dark blue design paper (well it is a Waltzingmouse challenge) and adhered him with dimensional gel.  I finished the front with a flag sentiment to say that our friends have so much excitement to come and a tiny butterfly going towards it.  On the inside I cut a panel of Marina Mist for the mat layer and on the white panel stamped a sentiment and tiny blue chick!

I do hope that the weather kind to us all - it's a barbecue.  So no snow and lots of sunshine would be great.  Do check out Tara's card using our sketch.  Hopefully lots of you will join in the fun this week.  You have until Thursday 1st May, 5.00pm BST (Noon EDT) to join in the fun.  See you soon - have a great weekend.