January Waltzingmouse Blog Party - My Heart is Yours!

Today I'm participating in the Waltzingmouse Blog Party - our parties are held the 17th of every month and anyone can join in!  Lynn announces the topic over on the Waltzingmouse Blog on the first of every month - so you have 16 days to get a card made.          This month the theme is Love!

 I made a Mini Blind card for my project today -  the tutorial is over on Split Coast  here.  I changed the design a little - adding window 'panes' and using a front and back panel as opposed to a folded card taped together.

This is the card with the 'blind' closed.  Before folding it - I stamped the leafy heart and sentiment 'my heart' from the WMS set My Heart on the patterned paper.

and when you pull the two ribbons at the top on both sides of the blind -  the blind opens and reveals what's outside!  Outside of my window is a tree with a heart on it that says -   is yours -  finishing the sentiment on front (My heart......  is yours)  How cute is this???!!!

I wanted to show you what my back panel looks like without the front panel over it so you could see how I made it.  I stamped a rectangle of Vintage Cream card stock with the WMS woodgrain background using Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink, then trimmed it to look like a tree trunk with a couple of branches. I sponged the edges with the same ink and layered it to a piece of Kraft core Core-dinations paper that I had sanded a little.  I laid my already completed front piece over the panel to help me place the tree and heart on the back panel.   I stamped the heart and sentiment  from My Heart on a scrap of Vintage Cream, cut out the heart, sponged the edges and adhered it to the tree.  The sponging really gave depth to the trunk!

Below, you see the back of my front panel -  you can see how I laid the little strips to make the window panes - just taping the ends to the edges and the thick foam tape I place on all 4 edges so when I layered it over the back panel it was lifted up a bit to give some space between the window and the tree. ( Not so pretty from 'back stage' huh??!!)

I know this probably looks tricky to make - but it is REALLY easy using the step by step tutorial on SCS.  And what an impressive little card it makes don't you think??!!

 

Now -  let's go over to the Waltzingmouse Blog where everyone attending the party has posted links to their creations!  Let's go share the LOVE!!!

Oh and big news!  Waltzingmouse Stamps are being featured on Cath's  Moxie Fab World today!! Be sure to check that out as well!   You could win both of the stamp sets I've used here (plus a few more!)

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - My Heart, Woodgrain Backgrounder Set

Paper:  Vintage Cream, Scarlet Jewel - PTI, Kraft Core Core-dinations, DP Irresistible Love Dots and Sweet Hearts - My Minds Eye.

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Rhubarb Stalk, Ranger Distress Brushed Corduroy.

Accessories:  Scor Tape, foam tape, Scor Buddy, large rectangle Nestabilities, wrinkled seam tape - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy Shop, Cropadile, scallop edge punch - SU