Last WMFC

Sad news that this is the last Challenge at Waltzingmouse Fanatics. Last year left me little time for crafty challenges and I didn't get enough time to play, but enjoyed all their fabulous inspiration. I've used my favourite image and played with my mists and ProMarkers.

Lots of sparkle and splatter!

I loved making this vapour trail, I feel it has a cosmic look.

Challenges:
Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #33: Anything Goes [Top Three]
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
I ♥ ProMarkers Challenge #250: Anything Goes

 Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroes, Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABCs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Glossy Accents, Stickles, Wink of Stella, silver gel pen, Glimmer mist Iridescent, Red, Blue, Ranger White Linen

Colouring : Promarkers/Flexmarkers

 

Hope you enjoyed your first visit of the new year 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

WMS Blue Rocket Birthday

I really enjoyed my last crafting interlude, but was a little remiss at tiding up. Everything was stilled splayed over the table, so instead of clearing it all away I decided to use everything again with a little twist. While the embossing paste was still wet I sprinkled it with distress glitter and left it to dry by itself. I've chosen a blue colour scheme for a cooler and brighter look. I made sure to leave room for the WMS have a blast sentiment on the front of the card, but can you spot what I forgot to add in? Yes, the three dots to connect the numbers, hopefully Ruairí will not be too upset!

The glitter is fab in the sunlight, but a little muted on camera. I'm not sure if this is the best way to ensure the glitter stays put, as there was some rub off. Next time I might try some glittery embossing powders.

Challenges:

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #26: Birthday/Anniversary [Top Pick]
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Rock the Techniques [emboss & glitter]
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #224: Vehicles [Top Three]



Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroes, Lawn Fawn Quinn's 123s & ABCs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Stencil: Prima Finnabair Stars

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Glossy Accents, Stickles, distress glitter, white embossing paste, silver gel pen, Heidi Swapp Colour Shine Gold

Colouring : Promarkers/Flexmarkers

As you can see, I now have a great excuse for not tiding up- extra crafting inspiration! I don't think I'll get away with that for long though so I'd better bite the bullet and put everything back in its own crafty space. Thanks for visiting and hope to see you again soon.

WMS Red Rocket Birthday

I've not had a lot of crafty time over the last few months, but I wanted to celebrate Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge's first birthday. I've used one of my favourite Waltzingmouse stamps and a few of my favourite techniques to create a starry sky for the birthday rocket. I love how you can choose a face to match the birthday boy!

The star stencil was a little thicker than my other masks, so allowed a much deeper layer of embossing paste. After inking with distress inks I wiped the stars to leave them a little brighter than the background and added some splatter drop planets in red, white and gold.

My main sentiment was on the inside as the rocket's countdown and the stars had taken over all of the outside! This sentiment is one of the reasons I keep coming back to the rocket stamp, time and time again.

Another look at the glitter and glossy accents added to the stars and the cute little red rocket.

Challenges:
Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #26: Birthday/Anniversary [Top Pick]
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Rock the Techniques [emboss resist]
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #224: Vehicles [Top Three]


Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroes, Lawn Fawn Quinn's 123s & ABCs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen, Pumice Stone, Iced Spruce, Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire, Black Soot

Stencil: Prima Finnabair Stars

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Glossy Accents, Stickles, Wink of Stella, white embossing paste, gold gel pen, Dylusions ink spray Postbox Red, White Linen, Heidi Swapp Colour Shine Gold

Colouring : Promarkers/Flexmarkers

 

Hope you enjoyed you visit and see you again soon!

Georgia's Birthday

A quick post to join in with Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #18. I've used embossing, stickles, star gems, layers and textured card to add texture to my card.  The link is about to close so I'll have to finish this post later after I've completed the after school swimming!

Updated:

This took a little longer than expected. Family is the most important thing to me and we miss them deeply when we lose them, but they remain forever in our hearts. For this reason I've not posted in June nor July and the following months have been light as well. Please excuse me.

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroines, Half Pint Heroes, Lawn Fawn Quinn's 123s, Sally's ABCs

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Peacock Feathers, Memento Tuxedo Black

Embossing: Provo Craft D'vine Swirls, Spellbinders Stars

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Stickles, Star gems

Colouring: Promarkers/Flexmarkers:

 

WMF#10 Widescreen Over the Edge Heart

For this card I've used Waltzingmouse Fanatics sketch in widescreen!, tried my had at looping some thread beneath an embellishment and created part of the constellation Orion with Stickled fussy cut stars. For my first attempt at controlled mayhem, I'm surprisingly pleased!

My over the edge heart is Stella'd to within an inch of its life and coated with copious amounts of Glossy Accents. The stars and moon are liberally coated in Antique Linen distress Stickles.

Challenges:
CAS-ual Fridays Challenge CFC127: Over the Edge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Have a Heart
Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #10: Sketch

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #10

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroes, Teeny Trees, Hero Arts Starburst background

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Peacock Feathers, Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire, Picked Raspberry, Versamark, Encore Silver

Dies etc: Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Heart Dies

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: White gel pen, glossy Accents, Stickles, Wink of Stella, Glimmer mist, White embossing powder, twine

Hope you enjoyed your visit and come back soon!

WMF#9 CAS(E)#60 Air

I wanted to join in with Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge 9: Fabric, so I've stamped with Stazon on felt and done a bit of 'Felt Piecing'! I've kept with the fabric theme and used lots of sequins to colour my clouds. My layout was taken from CAS(E) this sketch #6 and I'm also taking Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge A is for.......AIR. Hopefully you can see the embossed AIR swirling around the hot AIR balloon!

Challenges:
Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #9: Fabric
CAS(E) this Sketch #60
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge A is for ... AIR

Waltzingmouse Fanatics #9: Fabric

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroines, Half Pint Heroes

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Chipped Saphire, Memento Tuxedo Black, StazOn Jet Black

Embossing: Provo Craft D'vine Swirls

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Stickles, Sequins, Glossy Accents, Pink felt

Colouring: Promarkers/Flexmarkers

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Retro Rocket Birthday

I love to combine challenges so when I saw the Waltzingmouse Fanatics Colour Challenge and the Retrosketches challenge, a rocket was launched! I wouldn't normally mix reds, peaches and black, but nature does so I gave it a go.  I inked my background with Barn Door, Festive Berries, Antique Linen, Iced Spruce, Black Soot, Potter's Clay and London Fog hoping to achieve a nebulous sky. Over the red portion I masked and misted Starburst Background for the rocket's plume to echo the rays from the sketch. My rocket was coloured with red, peach, gray and beige Promarkers, black enamel, Wink of Stella and Stickles.

I've also taken A Blog Named Hero's Challenge to use 1 & 4: One Hero Arts stamp and 4 Waltzingmouse stamps. I hope you can see all the glittery bits on this card a little better than my last rocket photography attempt.

Challenges:
A Blog Named Hero Challenge #35: 4 & 1 {Heroine}
Retrosketches #95
Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #8: Colours {Top Three}

Supplies  

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroes, Studio Calico/Hero Arts Starburst Background

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Barn Door, Festive Berries, Antique Linen, Ice Spruce, Black Soot, Memento Tuxedo Black, Potter's Clay, London Fog

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Glimmer mist, Stickles, Wink of Stella, Black enamel

Colouring: Promarkers

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Friends Always

I've been wanting to try a card like this for ages, but didn't have any solid geometric shaped stamps or so I thought! While making the card in the previous post I spotted some circular tree tops and some extra crafting time was found. I've used the colours from Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge and the layout from CAS(E) this Sketch. It's another single layer card with some gold embossing for the One Layer Wednesday Challenge. Please excuse this dull rainy evening photo, but even during the day the light quality is poor here at the moment.

Challenges:

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #2: Colour Combo {Top Three}

One Layer Wednesday Challenge OLW#159: Free for All [friendship]

CAS(E) this Sketch #47 {Honorable Mention}

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #2

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Teeny Trees
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Barn Door, Memento Bamboo Leaves, New Sprout, Rhubarb Stalk, Sweet Plum, Desert Sand, Tsukineko Versamark

Paper: White card from stash

Hightlights: gold embossing powder

 

Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed your visit.