Happy New Year!

I've not made many Christmas cards this month, but I didn't want to let December pass without sharing one. I've used Joy to the Woods (my prize from Lawnscaping Challenge), Peace Love Joy (a prize from Lawn Fawn Inspiration Week last year), Winter Owl & Winter Gifts.

A close up of the cute owl & his polka dot scarf. You can also see the lovely stitched border dies.

I love these colours for a modern Christmas card that's bright, light and cheery: lots of snowy white, a touch of grey and the deep pink and blue. Glossy Accents, Wink of Stella, Stickles, sequins and a star gem to finish this relatively CAS card.

Challenges:
Craft for the Craic Mí na Nollaig Challenge: Favourite Christmas Colours [First Place]
I ♥ ProMarkers Challenge #250: Anything Goes
Passion for Promarkers Mega Christmas Challenge: BINGO [Diecut, Free, Glitter]
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

          

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Winter Owl, Winter Gifts, Joy to the Woods, Peace Love Joy
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles, Winter Owl, Stitched hillside borders

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Luxe Tuxedo Black

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: sequins, stickles, glossy accents, wink of stella, white gel pen, star gem
Colouring: ProMarkers & Flexmarkers

Athbhliain faoi shéan is faoi mhaise daoibh. I would like to wish everyone a happy new year and lots of fun in 2015. 2014 has been a mixed year in this house; we've welcomed some fabulous new members into our family, through birth and marriage and we've lost some, that have meant the world to us. Joy and sorrow in equal measure and time is needed to adapt. I'm looking forward to the challenges and possibilities of 2015, and the memories of 2014 that make me, me! Time marches forward :)

Welcome 2015!

WMS Bedtime Story Sketch #8

 I've used the Waltzingmouse Bedtime Story Sketch #8 for this card to create a little snowy Christmas scene featuring the Milky Way and Northern Lights. The pine forest was built up using second generation stamping all along the curve of the stitch hillside snow drifts.

The Milky Way is white heat embossed and highlighted with distress ink to mimic the Aurora Borealis. The background is misted with glimmer mist for extra festive shine and I've used the Falling Snow Stencil from Simon Says Stamp with pearlescent embossing paste around the aperture.

I've taken a few photos at different angles at allow the shimmer and shine to be seen and finally a close up of the stamping.

Challenges:
CASology Cue Card: Festive
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: We're Seeing Stars
Waltzingmouse Stamps Pajama Party Bedtime Story Sketch #8

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Teeny Trees
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles, Stitched Hillside Borders Lawn Cuts, Spellbinders Oval Nestabilities, Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow Stencil

Ink: Versamark, Tim Holtz Distress Inks Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire, Pumice Stone, Dusty Concord, Pine Needles, Everygreen Bough, Iced Spruce

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: white embossing powder, pearlescent embossing paste, glimmer mist

Hope you've enjoyed the Pajama Party and you'll come back again.
If you missed the other parts here are the links to my Pajama Party entries:

1. WMS Scandi Tags
2. WMS Wrap Up Warm
3. WMS Old Pajamas

WMS Pajama Party Old Pajamas

I've made a project using my oldest Waltzingmouse Christmas set, though it's much more than just a Christmas set. This is one of the first sets from Waltzingmouse Stamps that I came across when I first started stamping. I just love it [in case you haven't guessed by my recent posts!] and keep coming back to it time and time again.

I've trimmed the trees with liquid platinum embossing powder and the stars have been coated in layers of it giving them great dimension. The edges of each of the squares are inked in silver to soften them and they are evenly positioned on a rectangle of silver mirror card. I've masked the sentiments so that I could stamp them side by side and mix up the greetings. I've round the bottom corners of the card base to mirror the rounded tree bottoms and the curved edges of the cakes in the photo inspiration.

I've used the photo inspiration from the Fusion Card Challenge for my colour choices and the three trees represent the three layers of cake. Subconsciously I incorporated the rectangle element of the sketch in the card design too.

Challenges:
CASology Cue Card Week 121: Festive
Fusion Card Challenge: Embossed Ombre Photo Inspiration or Sketch
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: We're Seeing Stars
Virginia's View Challenge: All Things Metallic
Waltzingmouse Stamps Pajama Party: Old Pajamas

 

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Teeny Trees
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Spooktacular Lawn Cuts

Ink: Versamark, Encore silver

Paper: White & silver card from stash

Hightlights: Liquid Platinum embossing powder

Hope you've enjoyed Part 3 and you'll come back for Part 4.
If you missed the other parts here are the links to my Pajama Party entries:

1. WMS Scandi Tags
2. WMS Wrap Up Warm

WMS Pajama Party Scandi Tag

 

Waltzingmouse Stamps Teeny Trees transformed to a Scandinavian Christmas! I've white heat embossed repeating patterns on red card stock, cut it into strips and created a Christmas tree. My favourite is the teeniest tree turned into a row of the knit stitch. I've used white embossing paste stencilled through Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow, then glittered it for a little festive shimmer.

I've concentrated on one main visual element for the tag to keep it as CAS as possible. This tag is great for mass production as I stamped lines of the repeating images and can use the cut offs to make a few more tags.

On the back I've restamped the stitched tag stamp from Lawn Fawn and the sentiments from Teeny Trees. 

Challenges:
CASology Week 121: Festive [Scandinavian Christmas Patterns]
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: We're Seeing Stars
Waltzingmouse Stamps November Pajama Party: Scandi Tags

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Teeny Trees, Half Pint Heroes, Lawn Fawn Winter Gifts
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Tag It You're It  Lawn Cuts, Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow Stencil

Ink: Memento Luxe Love Letter, Versamark

Paper: Kraft & red card from stash

Hightlights: white embossing powder, white embossing paste, distress glitter, stickles, ribbon

This is my first post for WMS PJ party and I'll be back with the second challenge.

Christmas Shaker

My first shaker card with lots of metallic sequins, hearts, snowflakes, gold glitter, distress glitter, beads and vellum snowflakes! The background is a mix of distress inks spritzed with iridescent gold glimmer mist. The Penny Black Christmas tree and sentiment is embossed with liquid platinum and the card front is embossed with pearlescent embossing paste using Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil.

 

All shook up! A closer look at all the bits and my snow drifts.

 

Colour intensity and light levels courtesy of the very dull Irish weather with intermittent torrential rain!

Challenges:
Penny Black and More November Challenge: Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations November Challenge: Christmas
Virginia's View Challenge #9: All Things Metallic

Supplies

Stamps: Penny Black Wonder Collection
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles, Stitched Hillside Borders & Stitched Snowflakes Lawn Cuts, Spellbinders Oval Nestabilities, Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow Stencil

Ink: Versamark, Tim Holtz Distress Inks Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire, Pumice Stone

Paper: White card & vellum from stash

Highlights: liquid platinum embossing powder, pearlescent embossing paste, sequins, glitter, beads,

Hope you enjoyed all shook up visit and see you again soon!

Tree Top Baubles

This is one of my favourite Waltzingmouse Stamp sets and I love using it in different way than originally intended. The baubles are created using the tree tops from the Teeny Trees stamp set. Memento Luxe inks are fantastic for their rich colour and second generation stamping, perfect for the Waltzingmouse Fanatics Colour Chalenge. However, they take a while to dry so I've clear embossed the baubles to allow me to do a little masking and not have wait too long. The bauble clasps are courtesy of bubbles from Half Pint Heroes and the strings are drawn with silver gel pen. I've used lots of silver for Virginia's View All things Metallic Challenge. Lots of stamping to join in with the Penny Black & More Challenge and the Christmas theme at Stamping Sensations Challenge.

Mirror card, glossy embossing and dull yet surprisingly bright in spots light give rise to 'fun' photography. I've tried lots of angles yet there is too much shine, not enough light or the colours are off. Hopefully you'll get the picture,  by taking all the photos as a whole!

Challenges:

Penny Black & More November Challenge: Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations November Challenge: Christmas 

Virginia's View Challenge #9: All Things Metallic 

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #30: Colours

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Teeny Trees, Half Pint Heroes
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Large & Small Stitched Rectangles Lawn Cuts, Simon Says Stamp Happy

Ink: Memento Luxe Teal Zeal, Lilac Posies, Sweet Plum, Pear Tart, Encore Silver

Paper: White & silver card from stash

Hightlights: clear embossing powder, stickles, sequins, clear gems, silver gel pen

Wplus9 Comfort Zone

As usually I'm rushing, so I really needed my comfort zone for this card. A quick CAS card in about 10 minutes. Wplus9 do this so well with matching dies for their build an image stamps. I die cut my shapes, embossed my panel, stamped my images, added gems and Wink of Stella then assembled. I've marked my dies where the stamps line up, so with a small pencil mark I can stamp exactly within the die cut shape. Woodland Wreaths is one of my many favourite Wplus9 stamp sets and I'm looking forward to creating some spring, summer and autumn wreaths too, but that would have been a little outside my comfort zone at the moment.  I want to take my time any experiment with different colours before I show you those! Here's a close up of the wreath:

Challenges:
Wplus9 Birthday Celebration Week 1: Comfort Zone

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Woodland Wreaths, Tim Holtz Sentiment
Ink: Memento Luxe Love Letter, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Peeled Paint

Dies & Punches etc: Tim Holtz Texture Fades Woodgrain embossing folder

Paper: White and red card from stash

Highlights: Wink of Stella, gold gems, Lawn Fawn Lawn Trimmings silver sparkle cord

Hope you enjoyed this quick post and see you again soon.

Owl I Want

As soon as I saw the Merry Monday photo I knew I had to make this card.  I've cut an aperture in the front of the card using Lawn Fawn Circle Stackables and framed it with paper from the Peace Love Joy Paper Pack (also used this for the hearts). My die cut circle was stamped, coloured, distressed and then lightly misted for a snowy effect.

Challenges:
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #88: Use an animal on your Christmas card

Supplies  
Stamps: Lawn Fawn You're A Hoot, Winter Gifts,Smitty's ABCs
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa, Luxe Pistachio, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Chipped Sapphire
Paper: White card from stash, Peace Love Joy Petite Paper Pack
Highlights: Stickles, Wink of Stella, Dylusions White Linen Ink Spray

Dies: Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Circle & Scalloped Circle Stackables, Hearts

Colouring: Promarkers/Flexmarkers- Forest Green, Poppy

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon!