February Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz!

Hi there! It's my first Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz and this month's theme is Designing with Buttons! You can find all the links to the waltzers in the Waltzingmouse Stamps Forum!

Here's my card...


I started with these beautiful shades of purple and aqua in this Memory Box paper set. I stamped the WMS Very Vintage Labels No. 10 on the dp and cut it out using the matching Spellbinders dies. The flourishes in the corners are from the VV Labels No. 10 stamp set too. This sweet little rosebud from the WMS Roses in Bloom set is colored with Copics (although the piccy shows the color a little differently than IRL). It's cut out and popped it up with pop dots. I also popped up the sentiment which is from the Roses set too.

I added my purple silk bow, a few pearls to adorn the corner flourishes and of course, buttons...these are tied with some thin, green silk ribbon knots (they remind me of little leaves)!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today...I have some dancing...umm...I mean waltzing to do, so I must go see what everyone has created today!

A Christmas Tag...

Here's a little something I've been working on lately...a tag for the Waltzing Mouse Tag You're It Challenge on Claire's blog! I used the new Big Blooms Poinsettias stamps and the Compliments of the Season set.

The background is the smallest poinsettia heat embossed in gold on a shimmery red paper and covered by an acetate sheet with ivory text. Then I gold embossed the medium poinsettia and cut it out, popped it up and decorated the center with green pearls. The sentiment is also heat embossed with gold and is cut out with Spellbinders Labels 8 and a great big black satin-edged bow finishes it off.

Challenges:
Waltzing Mouse Makes - Tag You're It!
Flourishes - Bring Back Beautiful 4 - Bows
There She Goes #79 - Gifty!
Creative Cottage #26 - Embossing

Thanks for stopping by!

Hello Cupcake!

Edit: This card won at Moxie Fab World's Perfectly Placed Pleats challenge!

Hi again! Just popping in to post this one before it's too late!

I love birthdays and cupcakes and this card has both! It doesn't have to say Happy Birthday on the outside to be a birthday card...but this little cutie has it on the inside!

I'm getting down to scraps of this pretty MME Abbey Road collection of dp's...so sad it's going away. I'm sure I'll get hooked on a new collection soon. I was going to go out shopping today, but it's cold and rainy and I just don't feel like it. That's just more 'me' time in the craft room! (the green plaid dp is from DCWV)

The layout here is for the Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge and I also made this work for the Moxie Fab World Perfectly Place Pleats challenge too! The stamps are Waltzing Mouse Roses in Bloom. I had this idea to make them into cupcakes one night while I was trying to fall asleep. I'm so glad I remembered it! I used my Scor-Buddy to make my pleats on my kraft paper and I had to paper-piece the rosebud leaves. The sentiment is a $1 stamp from M's and it had a cupcake in between the words which I didn't want on my tag, so I lined it up the best I could and tada'! The ends of the sentiment tag are cut with a Fiskars punch. I love how the cupcakes look like they are popping off the card! That's all for now!

Challenges:
Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge #18 - sketch
Moxie Fab World - Perfectly Placed Pleats
Crazy4Challenges #58 - Birthday

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget about my Follow Me blog candy...you can find it HERE...until October 17th!

Harriet...a Waltzing Mouse WCMD Beauty!

Isn't she beautiful? She is a free digital stamp from Waltzing Mouse in honor of World Card Making Day. Her name is Harriet and she is bundled up with her fur-lined coat and beautiful hat with a gift for you! I had so much fun with this card. I used some of my favorites too...this great lace which I colored the perfect color with a copic marker, the green pleated ribbon, a BoBunny bloom with the gingham ribbon flower center, Spellbinders dies to cut it out and this cute little charm (which I realize now I should have used an H for Harriet, but that's okay...the person getting this has a name that starts with P!) and of course, pearls to finish it off! Oh, and the papers are from BoBunny and Basic Grey.

Challenges:
Waltzing Mouse Makes - Harriet WCMD Challenge
2S4Y - Laura's Sketch #62 (Bonus Sketch)
Moxie Fab World - Jolly Holiday Greetings

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget about my Follow Me blog candy...you can find it HERE...until October 17th!

Grandma's Birthday Card...

Hi there - before I head out into the terrential downpours we are having here, I just wanted to share this card with you! I had to wait to post it since I spent the evening in the ER with my dd again...sprained ankle this time (woohoo) and yes, I am cheering because it isn't broken. She has broken both her ankles in the last two years. So a few days on shiny new crutches and she'll be fine!

This card is for my MIL whose birthday is two days before mine. We are going out to dinner that night and this is for my kids to give her. I used the Waltzing Mouse sketch and if you look closely, you will see that I stamped over the flowers in the dp with the rose from the WM Roses in Bloom set. I also used the "Grandma" sentiment from that set. I wish you could see how shimmery this card really is...Glimmer Mist in pearl all over card and the edges of the sentiment die cut and the butterfly are both covered in Diamond Stickles!

Challenges:
Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge #16 - sketch
Flutterby Wednesday #124 - sparkle and shine (and wings)
Crazy 4 Challenges #56 - bling
Wild Orchid #6 - Ribbons and bows
The Creative Cottage #24 - bling

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget about my Follow Me blog candy...you can find it HERE...until October 17th!

You are a rose...

Super quick one today - busy, busy busy! I wanted to try the JUGS #50 technique challenge to use the cracked glass effect and I love it! I used the Waltzing Mouse Sketch #14. I think my card is a little shabby and a little sweet! I'll also be sharing this with The Shabby Tea Room #27...inspired by nature!


Have a great day and thanks for stopping by! Stay tuned early next week for some very exciting news and some blog candy!

My Friend...

What a beautiful day today! I hope your day is going well...I just got home from work and wanted to share this beauty with you! I made this for my friend (obviously!) for her birthday!


I found this great 4x6 paper pad in a discount store somewhere and all the papers are neutral colors and are irridescent (see inset picture), embossed or textured in some way! I wanted to use the colors of the Curtain Call Color Challenge and I didn't really have the right "concord crush" so I took my sapphire blue ribbon and a couple different RV shades of copics and made it the right color!

For The Shabby Tea Room this week, the theme is old meets new...well, my new are these great Waltzing Mouse stamp sets which I just inked up for the first time. They match my old item which is the Spellbinders Nesties Labels 10. I tried something new too! I accidentally smudged my ink on the edge of the flowers and I really liked it...it softened the hard lines and made it sort of watercolor-like! So, then I grabbed a white pencil eraser and wet it ever so slightly every once in a while and smudged the rest of the lines... I'm curious to know what you think about this look!

I added a yummy silk bow, a couple of pearls and I thought it would be interesting to stamp my sentiment right onto the leaf! I'm really happy with how this turned out. I hope you like it too!

Challenges:
The Shabby Tea Room #25 - Old Meets New
Curtain Call Color Challenge - Act 45
Waltzing Mouse #12 - Sketch
The Pink Elephant #82 - Mostly White

My Crafty Recipe:
Stamps: Waltzing Mouse Roses in Bloom and Vintage Labels 10
Inks: Memento - Rich Cocoa, Pear Tart; ColorBox Blue Iris, Cerulean, Lime Pastel
Paper: Bazzill cardstock, Canson irridescent paper
Spellbinders: Labels 10
Other: Silk ribbon, Recollections pearls, Distressed Stickles Peeled Paint

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!