WMS - Let's Get Together

How's your weekend going?  I hope it's a sunny productive weekend!  Today I made this card using the Waltzing Mouse Stamps Dinky Doughnuts and We Go Together.

I also used the die from We Go Together for the coffee cup and sequins from Old Gold Shaker Mix.

Have a lovely day!
Kary

WMS - Kaboom! More than Coffee!!

Hello!  Today I have another Waltzing Mouse Stamps project to share.  This project uses the recent release We Go Together and dies We go Together, Kaboom, Snowflake One and Stitched Tags.

Quite a number of dies, right?  I love mixing dies with stamps a lot on my cards, and my friends think I'm mad for having hundreds of dies.  I guess this card justifies the dies purchase, yes?

Are you into Planners?  There's a new release of WMS Planner Basics this week!!  Check it out here.

Thanks for visiting me.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Kary

WMS - Shaker Card

Today I have another Waltzing Mouse Stamps project to share.  It's always fun to receive a shaker card, though I must admit there's so much fun making them too.

Lately I have been playing with foil and my new minc machine, as a result I am addicted to adding foil on every card I make :) LOL!  I discovered that when you heat emboss sentiments and do not reduce the heat on the Minc machine when adding foil, the embossing powder melts and spreads out. But, if you ink up your stamp once more with Stazon ink or any alcohol based ink and stamp above the foil sentiment, you get a pretty cool efffect.

The sentiment is from the set Your Sparkle and I think it goes so well with the shaker card - for the shaker fill, I used the Peaches and Dream Shaker Mix.  I used the die set Funky Flowsrs to cut the felt flowers and assembled them with a brad.

Thanks for visiting me.  Have a wonderful day!!

Kary

WMS Guest Designer - Coffee and Doughnuts

Hello Everyone! I am so very, very excited to be invited as a Guest Designer for Waltzing Mouse Stamps.  Over the next four weeks, I'll be sharing some projects on my blog using their latest release.  I discovered Waltzing Mouse in 2010 and fell in love with their elegant and fun stamps.  Claire, the owner is such a lovely lady and I feel so very honoured.  I hope to do her proud.

Today, I'm using this really cute Doughnut and Coffee set and it has a matching die set too.

Here's my card:

and a little close up view...

The stamped images are coloured with Copic markers.  I hope you like the card.

Thank you for visiting me, and please visit again next week for the another Waltzing Mouse Stamps project.

Kary

WMS Pajama Party

It's so fun to be creating with my WM stamps over the weekend.  Life gets busy and sometimes your favourite stamps do get neglected :)

My first creation for the Pajama Party is bringing out the WMS older sets.  On this card, I've used the Nutcracker Sweet and Compliments of the Season sets coupled with the WMS dies.

Of course I had to play along the Sketch challenge as well ...

 

For this challenge, I brought out two of the older sets which I've not used much - You're A Doll and Folk Art Label 25 sentiment set.

It's always so fun to join the Pajama Party and I can't wait to see what everyone has created.

Thank you for visiting me.

Kary

WMS March Pajama Party

 

Hello Friends!  I have been eagerly waiting for the Pajama Party to start.  It's been a little while since I played with my WMS stamps.  Life has been so busy!

I can't play along with the first challenge as my WMS Cutting Edge dies haven't arrived.  But that's ok, cos there's something for everyone.  I don't know anyone personally who celebrates St Patrick's Day but it's always fun to find a cause to celebrate.  So, here's my card:

I used the digital freebie and created a vintage-like card.  The card base was stamped with Crackle Mini stamp all over.  The sentiment is from Big Day Today set, and the little feather is from Funky Feathers set.  

Next, I have a card which I think my mum would make.  My mum loves to sew and she loves little sweet floral prints on fabric, in happy colours.  She has such great love for flowers. 

I picked the floral print paper for the background, and the big rose as the focal image of the card.  I used 3 different stamp sets for this card - the sentiment from Fine Feathers, the fancy sentiment label from Folk Art Medallion and the rose from my all-time favourite set Roses In Bloom.  

I added a touch of glitter on the edges of the rose petals, which doesn't show on the photo.  The rose is coloured with Copic Markers (R30, 32, 35, 37, 39, Y02, R02, W2).

I can't wait to see what everyone creates!

Thanks for visiting me.

Kary

WMS Pyjama Party

Hello! I'm so pleased to join the WMS Pyjama Party - I was a little worried that my new stamps may not arrive in time, but they did last Friday.  I just love the nautical set so much.

Here's the first card I made for Challenge 1 - Tie a Knot in It

I used the Safe Harbour Sentiments and the Ocean Bound sets with an older set Very Vintage Labels 18.  Claire makes such great sets to play with and I had so much fun making the card.

I think the nautical theme is so great for masculine cards, and I am needing a few of these soon for my friends' birthdays.

For Challenge 2 - Get Nauty, I had more or less the same layout as the first.  When I looked at two cards, I couldn't really decide which challenges they should be paired with, cos I think they fit both the challenges...LOL!

Here's the card, I think it's a slightly fun card for a cool guy, maybe..

Challenge 3 is colour inspiration, something I always have trouble with.  I'm not the most patient person, and I want to finish making cards really fast, and having to find colours which match is always a huge challenge for me.  But, I was determined to play along.

Here's my take:

I also used one of my very first Waltzing Mouse stamp sets, Very Vintage Labels 1 on this card.

Finally, for Challenge 4 - Oldest Stamp it was fun to search out the Oldest stamp set in my stash.

On this card, I just couldn't resist adding the oldest (Very Vintage Labels 4) with a newer set (Compact Sentiments Part Two) and the newest set (Two Step Floral Sprig) in my WMS collection.  This is such a fun challenge, I love how the sets go so well together.

Wow, what fun it has been to participate in this PJ Party.  I really enjoyed the challenges, and get to play with the new stamp sets together with the older sets.  I can't wait to see what all of you create!

Thanks for visiting me.
Kary

Thank You

 

The Waltzing Mouse Stamps Pajama Party last week was so fun.  I didn't want it to end :)  It was good that there was a sketch challenge, so I could save it for this weekend.

 

Here's my little card:

 I used a few sets of stamps for this card. The sentiment and frame are from Country Labels No.4, the flowers are from You're a Doll, and the little folk art beside the sentiment is from Folk Art Medallion set. I love how the different sets go together quite well.

Here's a little close up on the flowers:

Thank you for visiting me.  Have a great week ahead!

Kary

Feathers

Hello! Last week I made quite a number of cards for my brother to take home.  Guess I've never mentioned it, my brother is a theologian, and we're all so proud of him.  But it's frustrating asking him questions about faith, cos his standard answer is the more you know, the less you really know.

I have been wanting to break out my new Waltzing Mouse stamps, and this was the perfect, perfect opportunity.  I love the Scripture sentiment Claire has added in this beautiful Fine Feathers set.

As I had so little time, I kept the card rather simple.  Teal is the colour of the week for me :)  I used Memento Teal Zeal on this card.

My second card was created with the Funky Feathers and the background stamp Crackle Mini, using approximately the same colour scheme.

Here's a close up of the crackle mini stamp - I LOVE it!!

Just one last card to share, for the Doll challenge:

The doll was coloured with Copic markers.  I just wished I had more time to decorate the card :)

Thanks for visiting me.

Have a wonderful week!!
Kary

Thanks a Bunch

Hello Friends!  I'm participating in the WaltzingMouse Stamps' Blog Party, and the theme for this month is Teacher Appreciation.  It's a difficult theme for me as I have left school a looooong time ago, and I don't know what kids and parents give their teachers these days. 

 

But, if I were to make a card for a teacher, I think this would be it :)

It's a little girl saying thanks to her teacher and she's standing in front of a blackboard :)  The colours on the blackboard aren't showing up well on the photo (I don't have my camera with me, just the faithful iphone).  The girl image is from Half Pint Heroines, and she was coloured with Copic Markers.

Perhaps this close-up shot might be a little clearer.  I stamped the sentiment (from Compact Sentiments set) and white embossed it.  Actually I found the white embossing powder has turned a little yellow, and I quite like the effect.  Then I stamped the little bird from Half Pint Heroines with white ink and coloured it with metallic colourpencils.  I promise you the effect is pretty good in real life!  I embossed the frame of the blackboard with some score lines using Scor-pal to give it some dimension.  I added some distressing on the girl image for a more vintage look, seeing I've left school ages ago... hehe.

The patterned paper is from Graphic 45 - An ABC primer, which helps to create the scene for this card.

Thank you for stopping by.  Please join me to check out all the Amazing creations at the WMS Blog.

Have fun!
Kary
I'm also submitting this card for the Simon Says Stamp challenge - Flower Power.

Make It Move Challenge

I can't believe how fast time flies, when on holidays.  But, the great thing is, I get to make fun stuff!  I can't resist this WMS challenge - Make It Move.  Click on the link and see Claire's beautiful and fun card!

Truth is, I've been making some kids cards and when I saw Claire's challenge, I thought I should make another one with movement based on this card...

and then, I thought wouldn't it be fun if the elephant can move?  After some thought, this card was the outcome...

See the ribbon at the bottom of the elephant?  Hang on to it, and you can move the elephant forward on the slider... like so:

Just a simple mechanism, I had a little strip of cardstock behind the elephant, wrapped around an opened slot of the patterned paper.

The images are from one my favourite sets (I have so many ;)) Half Pint Heroines and the images are coloured with Copic Markers.

Hope you like the idea.

Thanks for visiting me.
Kary

Thinking of You

Have you been to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Flower Show?  If you haven't, you must do - there are lots of wonderful floral creations!  After you have seen the creations, you might want to enter the WMS Flower Show competition ;)

I love flowers, if I were to count the stamp sets I own, probably flowers would top the list.  At the WMS Flower Show, I was really inspired by Meredith MacRitchie's creation.

She had so many wonderful things going on in this card. I love the colours of the flowers on her card with the rock and roll technique, and the white embossing that she did.  I think her card looked fantastic.

So, here's my take:

I used my favourite WMS floral set "Roses in Bloom" and coloured the roses with Copic Markers (R30, RV21, RV13, RV14, RV17, RV19, RV69).

Then I stamped the same flower using Versamark inkpad and white embossed the flowers.  To give some definition, I sponged some Versamagic SeaBreeze around the flowers.

On the card, I added a sentiment from "Compact Sentiments" and the frame from "Very Vintage Labels 25".  I used the rock and roll technique on the Vintage label with Memento Teal Zeal and Tuxedo Black.  Seeing this will be a Birthday and Mother's Day card for mum, I added a little sewing machine charm to the ribbon & button corner.  My mum loves roses and she loves sewing, although she doesn't sew that much these days as her eyesight is failing.  I know she is going to enjoy the card.

Here's the finished card:

Thank you Meredith for inspiring me to create this card - Hugs to you!! I had so much fun!

Kary