Waltzingmouse Sept Sneak Peek Day 1 Art Deco!

Welcome to the first day of the Waltzingmouse Sept Sneak Peeks!  Claire has 8 new wonderful stamp sets being released on Thursday Sept 19th.

Today we are showing Putting on the Ritz, Art Deco Backgrounders and Opera Tags Christmas.

First I have 2 projects to show you using Art Deco Backgrounders and Putting on the Ritz.   Here's a fun little tote I made from a template.  I stamped the background on the front and back panels before assembling the tote. The tote measures 5 1/4" x 5 1/2" x 2 1/2" so A2 size cards will fit in perfectly or a nice sized gift!

 There's a little pocket that you place on the inside that I stamped with the same background - you can slip a gift card inside the pocket.

There's also a little coin purse to hang on the outside.

I closed the flap with a piece of Velcro.

Next I made a card using both backgrounds from the backgrounder set and two more of the sentiments from Putting on the Ritz.

I die cut a Polaroid frame out of black sparkly card stock and adhered the sentiment panel to the frame.  I popped the  top piece of background and the frame up on foam dots.  I die cut the black bow, added a clear rhinestone and adhered it below the sentiment.  

I'm entering this card in the Little Red Wagon Challenge - Frame it.

I stamped the frame from Putting on the Ritz and another sentiment from the set on the inside of my card.

My last project today is a 3D creation I made using one of the ornaments from the Mini set Opera Tags Christmas.  When I stamped the ornament - I turned it upside down and it looked like a tree to me!

I stamped the ornament 4 times, die cut them with Claires' Opera Tag Die and punched out the centers with a 1 3/4" circle punch.  I cut off the point on the bottom just a bit so it would stand up.  I scored each piece down the middle  and glued them together - half to half to half. I punched 2 circles  with a 1 1/2" punch, stamped the sentiment on both pieces and adhered them together with a silver thread in between them. Before I adhered the top pieces of the 'tree' I placed the silver thread between the pieces so the circle would 'float' in the opening.

Here's a view with the 'tree' laid down so you can see all the sides.  This will fold pretty flat so it could be mailed like a card.

Well -  I hope you enjoyed my projects for today!

Here are the links to the Design Team members showing these sets today.  And please stop by tomorrow for Day 2!

 Becca Feeken  Jean Martin Jeanne Jachna Jennifer Holmes Julia Aston  Kelly Schirmer Kim Duran Laurie Schmidlin Teresa Kline Lynn Mercurio Renee Lynch Sandie Dunne Tosha Leyendekker Claire Brennan


Haute Tote Bag:
Stamps:  Art Deco Backgrounders, Putting on the Ritz - Waltzingmouse (available 9/19)
Paper:  Vintage Cream - PTI, black - Michaels
Ink:  Black Soot - Ranger Distress
Accessories:  Haute Tote Template - Creations by AR, Silhouette Cameo, wonky rectangles - Spellbinders, beaded key chain - Tandy Leather, Scor Tape, 1 1/2" circle punch - EK Success, brads - Black Tie/Bazzill, foam dots, Velcro.

Cat's Pajamas Card
Stamps:  Art Deco Backgrounders, Putting on the Ritz - Waltzingmouse (available 9/19)
Paper:  Vintage Cream, True Black - PTI, sparkle cardstock - Michaels
Ink:  Archival Jet Black - Ranger
Accessories:  Clear rhinestone - Michaels, scor tape, foam tape, Bow Die - L'il Inker Designs, Polaroid Die - Jillian Vance Design

Tree card/ornament
Stamps:  Opera Tags Christmas - Waltzingmouse (available 9/19)
Paper:  Certainly Celery - SU
Ink:  Archival Jet Black - Ranger
Accessories:  1 3/4" and 1 1/2" circle punches - EK Success, Opera tag Die - Waltzingmouse/Spellbinders, rhinestones - Kaiser, silver cloisonne thread.