Hummingbird

Hummingbird stamp is by Woodware, sentiment stamp is Waltzingmouse.

I've used Distress Oxide sprays to create the patterned paper. Square debossed dies are by Phill Martin.

Deck Those Halls

Card is 7 x 7 inches
Embossing folder by Creative Expressions
Stamps are Waltzingmouse
Ornament and oval dies by Spellbinders

Craig

Card is 8 x 8 inches
Patterned paper is by My Mind's Eye

'Craig' is Sizzix Sunset alpha
Birthday wishes stamp by Waltzingmouse

Birthday Wishes

I made this for one of my ladies and, with her having a December birthday, wanted it to be as un-Christmassy as possible. Easier said than done when you are surrounded by Christmas stash and everything red, green and gold.

Flower stamp is by Woodware and the sentiment stamp is by Waltzingmouse.
I coloured the flower using Colour Cloud inks and added some Glamour Dust for sparkle.

Thinking About You

This started out as a birthday card, 8 x 8 inches, but it ended up "Thinking About You" instead.
I couldn't get a decent cut edge (think I'd done too many layers) and it started getting smaller and smaller...good job I'm not a hairdresser!

Papers are from Making Cards magazine and sentiment is a Waltzingmouse stamp.

Mum

I wanted some large sparkly centres for paper flowers and decided to make my own.
These were really simple to do, just used a hot glue gun to drop some blobs on a silicone sheet, then covered with glitter.

And this was the card I wanted the sparkly-blob centres for. It's an 8 inch easel card,  I used Go Kreate dies to make the card blank.
Papers are all Lili of the Valley, stamps are a mix of Waltzingmouse and Papermania.

Season's Greetings

I managed to find some gorgeous shimmery purple card at one of the fill-a-box places recently and knew it would be great for Christmas cards.
I've used a Docrafts embossing folder on the gold card, and stamped and heat embossed (with clear powder) on the purple using a HOTP swirl stamp.


The bauble and sentiment stamps are by Waltzingmouse, dies are by Spellbinders.
The finished card is 7 x 7 inches.

Celebrate

As usual I left it until the last minute to make projects for card club.

Some weeks ago I realised we were having issues with people queuing to use the Sizzix (normally have two machines between twelve women) or waiting to use a particular stamp or one of the heat guns or whatever.
I didn't want the ladies becoming too frustrated if they felt they were wasting half their time in a queue, so made the decision to split the group into three tables of four.

Now I make three separate projects, trying to mix the equipment needed, so that one group does not need to do any die-cutting that week.

I think the ladies prefer this way of working because not only are they not waiting for eleven other people to finish with a die but also because they haven't got eleven other people breathing down their neck when they want the die.

The negative is that it's more work for me!
I have to think of the three projects, take three separate lots of stuff, worry if the projects will now be finished too quickly because not so much waiting...

So when I leave it until the last minute I only have myself to blame really. In these circumstances I've found Sue Wilson is my saviour, her dies are so easy to make a card with.
The only thing not SW on this card is the sentiment, a Waltzingmouse stamp, on vellum. Initially I had planned to make more, fuller, flowers but I really had left it too late, oops.

One Sheet Wonder

Two more cards made with the same one-sheet wonder from the previous post.
I ended up making two 6" x 6" and two 5 x 7" from the same sheet, I still had more left over but was bored of it at this point!

The above card, it's not easy to tell from the photo, but the green on each side of the panel is actually vellum so it's softer than it appears here.

Sentiment here is a Waltzingmouse stamp

Thank You

I recently dragged out my very old "peg" stamps thinking it would be a good project for craft club.
I need a bit more practice: this card was a rush job!

Sentiment stamp is Waltzingmouse
Wreath and flower/ leaf stamps are Rubber Stamp Tapestry.

Saddle

 All stamps are by Waltzingmouse
Made for my dad who is a bit poorly at the moment, I'll be posting less frequently for a week or two until we get him sorted out.

Birthday

Stamps are Waltzingmouse, butterfly dies Spellbinders
Papers are K & Co

Courage

Background made with distress inks, all stamps are by Waltzingmouse.
(love that sentiment!)

Thinking about you

This card was too hard to photograph, the shiny surfaces were confusing my camera. In real life the colours are plum/ purple with silver.

It was made for last week's craft club project. We cut a negative shape using a Memory Box die and backed with self-adhesive sheet before applying gilding flakes.
Bit of a mess when we scrubbed the flakes off, leading one of my ladies to declare "I'm definitely not doing this at home!"

Sentiment stamp by Waltzingmouse.

Thanks

Sentiment is a Waltzingmouse stamp and is heat embossed in white.
Circles randomly punched from scraps, real not faux stitching! (amazing for me, I can't sew for toffee)

Hello Sailor!

We made this card at craft club yesterday.
The sentiment stamps are Waltzingmouse and the shell stamps (just about visible, we stamped in Versamark) are by Hero Arts

We attached the navy card to the card-blank just using masking tape and cut a hole through both using a circle Nestie die. Then we removed the navy card, did the stamping and heat embossing, and then adhered a small piece of acetate over the hole.

The navy card was then fixed to the card-blank, the same circle die plus one two sizes bigger used to cut silver card to make the porthole.
The gems were a last-minute decision, we didn't want to make it too fussy but decided the gems looked like rivets or whatever they are called.

The anchor is a Memory Box die and this was glued to the inside of the card.
Some more stamping of the Hero Arts shells to finish.

Thanks

We had a lovely time recently at a friends' house so I wanted to make a thank you card. During our stay one of our friends wore a very bright shirt absolutely covered with butterflies (he's quite a big bloke as well so lots of butterflies!)

Butterfly paper is SEI
Sentiment stamps are Waltzingmouse, I've heat embossed with SU pewter powder.

Thanks

It's so dull here at the moment, nightmare for trying to take photos!

Anyway, sentiment stamp is by Waltzingmouse. Card it's stamped on has been spritzed with mint and gold inks.

Season's Greetings

As previous post; stamps by Waltzingmouse (three separate ones).
In real life the silk crush ribbon matches the patterned paper, the paper looks washed out here.

I'm unsure whether to keep the card as it is so it's flat enough for cheaper postage or to add something else; maybe a bow or some gems or something...

Gift Boxes

Someone recently asked me if I could make boxes for these Christmas sweets.
Rolo tube is 100g, M&Ms is 90g, box-wise they are about the same size.

I started with a piece of A4, cut down to 21.5 x 21cm
I scored at 5, 10, 15, and 20cm along the longest side and then 3cm up from the bottom.

The box is slightly too short but by the time the lid is on you can't tell, it just makes it easier with the measurements as A4 is 21cm.

The lid is a fraction over 13cm square, 13.1 or thereabouts, and scored at 4cm each side.

I used SU white ink which gives a nice strong white, I tried Brilliance ink initially but it hardly showed against the kraft card.
All stamps used are Waltzingmouse, I really like that some of their sets are designed to coordinate with Nestabilities.