Waltzingmouse Oct Preview - Day 3 - Ornaments and Santa!

Wow - here we are at Preview Day 3 already! Hope you've got your 'must have' list written up and ready for tomorrow!

Today we are previewing two new sets -  2011 Holiday Ornaments (that JUST so happen to fit the new Spellbinders 2011 Heirloom Ornament dies!!) as well as a jolly set called Santa's Coming to Town

I had so much fun creating with these stamps that I made 3 cards!

For my first card - I stamped three of the smaller ornaments as if they were hanging from this lovely pine branch - don't you love the wonderful designs on them??   I was still in the Nordic mood from yesterday (!)   so I used the Good Jul sentiment from Nordic Winter. The pine boughs are from Festive Foliage.  I gold embossed the tops and strings of the ornaments which are separate stamps.  I masked the red ornament in order to stamp the string on the blue ornament "behind" the red one.

I got a little more elegant with my 2nd card -  gold embossing this lovely large ornament and cutting it with my 2011 Heirloom Ornament die (although it would also be very easy to cut this out by hand.)  Then I just looped a gold cord through a hole in the top and let it drape down.   I thought this paper looked like a wall in a cozy parlor!

The sentiment is from a set from last month's release -  A Cottage Christmas.

I used stamps from Santa's Coming to Town for my last card -  a little more playful and fun!  I stamped the background with two stamps from this set - using one of them again over stamping the Santa silhouette.  I created his pipe smoke with a little steam stamp from Afternoon Tea!   The little ornament with the deer is from 2011 Holiday Ornaments and I cut it with the smallest 2011 Heirloom Ornament Die.  I made a paper rosette out of dotted red paper to layer my Santa silhouette on.

So there you go!  Ornaments and Santa!  Tomorrow we'll be have a DT blog hop previewing the final two sets -  and just wait until you see them!! - they're all about baking and candy treats!  Be sure to stop by because you'll have a chance to win a Waltzingmouse Stamp set just by commenting!  Tomorrow we'll be posting at 2 pm EST so Claire has a chance to set up the new sets at the shop!

Now - who's coming with me to see what the other DT have to inspire us today??!  Here are their links:

Anya Schrier
Becca Feeken
Belinda Chang Langner
Clare Buswell
Julia Aston - me!
Jennifer Holmes
Kate Whelan
Kelly Schirmer
Laurie Schmidlin
Lynn Mercurio
Mona Pendleton
Niki Estes
Sandie Dunne
Tosha Leyendekker
Claire Brennan (Owner)

Good Jul:  

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - 2011 Holiday Ornaments, Good Jul from Nordic Winter (to be released 10/15), pine boughs from Festive Foliage.

Paper:  White, New Leaf - PTI

Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo black, lady bug, bamboo leaves, Bahama Blue, rich cocoa, Versamark

Accessories:  gold embossing powder, hot gun

From Our House to Yours:

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - 2011 Holiday Ornaments (to be released 10/15), sentiment From Our House to Yours from A Cottage Christmas Set.

Paper:  White, New Leaf, DP Mini Deck Social Club Cosmo Cricket

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Accessories:  hot gun, gold embossing powder, gold cord - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy Shop, lace - Mark's Finest Papers, ribbon - Mar Arts, cropadile, foam tape.

Be Very Good:

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - Santa's Coming to Town, deer and ornament from 2011 Holiday Ornaments (to be released 10/15), steam stamp from Afternoon Tea.

Paper:  Pure poppy, true black, white - PTI, DP Modern Homemaker October Afternoon

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black & Lady bug, Versafine - Smokey Gray

Accessories:  Twine - PTI, 2011 Heirloom Ornament dies Spellbinders., wrinkled seam tape - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy shop, glue dots, Circle & scallop Circle Nestabilities, paper rosette die - Tim Holtz Alterations.