WMS November SoAP- Day 3 - Everything Christmas

Welcome to Day 3 of the Waltzingmouse Stamp of Approval Parade!

I went back to my Sturbridge Yankee Workshop Catalogue for my inspiration today.  This wooden wall hanging featuring a feather tree caught my eye.

The tree is exactly like the tree in the set, Sewing Box Christmas.

 If you look below (or have this set!) you will notice the tree stamp has bare branches -  but notice the little stamp that looks like one arm of a snowflake (or a chicken leg - LOL!?!)  It's to the left next to the little heart,  I stamped that on the bare branches to make my tree look like the feather tree!

Another CAS (clean and simple) folk art/homespun card (Kelly - do you like this one?!! Kelly's our resident folk art stamper on the DT!)

Now off we go to continue the parade at the blogs of the following Design Team members who are participating today!  Hope you'll have a chance to stop by tomorrow for our final parade!

Anya Schrier
Becca Feeken
Clare Buswell
Julia Aston - You're here!
Jennifer Holmes
Kate Whelan
Kelly Schirmer
Lynn Mercurio
Mona Pendleton
Sandie Dunne
Tosha Leyendekker
Claire Brennan (Owner)

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - Sewing Box Christmas,  inside sentiment from Nutcracker Sweet.
Paper:  Rustic Cream - PTI, red metallic foil board - Grafix
Ink:  Ponderosa Pine - Close to My Heart, Pallette Hybrid Ink - L'Amore Red, Ranger Distress Wild Honey, Memento Potters clay.
Accessories:  tiny twinkles - Taylored Expressions, glue pen.

WMS November SoAP - Day 2 Everything Christmas

Welcome to Day 2 of the Waltzingmouse Stamp of Approval Parade!  Did you follow along the parade route yesterday and get totally inspired for your holiday card needs??!!  (scroll down to yesterday's post if you missed it!)

Once again I've been inspired by looking in catalogues or magazines for my creation.  Today my card was inspired by a Martha Stewart ad for some of her bedding - aptly named Fair Isle Sweater Knit Throw!

I bet you can tell what 'just released' stamp set this inspired me to use??!!  Yes, yes - you're correct!!!  Nordic Winter of course!!  Claire told us that this stamp set was the best seller of the October release -  I hope you ordered one - (there's still time so order it now if you missed it!)  then you can make this card to send out this year!!

Now off you go to check out these Design Team members who are participating in the parade today!  Hope to see you tomorrow for Day 3 of our lovely parade?!

Anya Schrier
Becca Feeken
Julia Aston - you're here!
Jennifer Holmes
Kelly Schirmer
Laurie Schmidlin
Lynn Mercurio
Mona Pendleton
Sandie Dunne
Tosha Leyendekker
Claire Brennan (Owner)

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Nordic Winter
Paper:  Vintage Cream, Pure Poppy - PTI
Ink:  Palette Hybride L'Amore Red
Accessories:  rhinestones - Kaiser Craft, foam tape, Modern Label Punch - SU, square Nestability.

WMS November SoAP Day 1 - Everything Christmas

Welcome to the first day of the Waltzingmouse Stamp of Approval Parade (SoAP)!   As you may remember, the months Claire doesn't release new stamps - the Design Team has a 4 day parade using sets from past releases.  This month the theme is Christmas/Holiday.

I don't know about you -  but around this time each year my mail box starts filling up with all kinds of catalogues (maybe because I ORDER so much??!!)  Anyway -  I was looking through the latest Sturbridge Yankee Workshop catalogue and found some terrific inspiration for my parade cards!

Here is the first item that inspired me:  It's a wooden sign hand made in Wisconsin out of white pine and it's screen printed (10" x 6.5")

And here is my inspired card -  using vintage cream paper, the tree (Santa's boot print) from Secret Santa (you'll need the password  ibelieveinsanta  to see this secret set!)and the sentiment from Santa's Coming to Town.  Inside I stamped Merry Christmas from Secret Santa

I layered the image panel to a piece of gold metallic card stock to give it a little festive framing.  And how easy is this to duplicate!!?? - no coloring, no ribbons, clean and simple - and still pretty!

Then I thought the St. Nicholas Nutcracker would look just as lovely with this CAS design and created my second card!  Sometimes I just don't feel like coloring, but I want to use a certain image -  and see how lovely he looks just stamped, the detail is so wonderful on this - no coloring is needed!  For St. Nick I used blue metallic card stock as a framing and stamped the image on white paper.

Now I hope you'll follow the parade with the following Design Team members who are participating today!

Anya Schrier
Becca Feeken
Julia Aston You.re here!
Jennifer Holmes
Kelly Schirmer
Laurie Schmidlin
Lynn Mercurio
Mona Pendleton
Sandie Dunne
Tosha Leyendekker
Claire Brennan (Owner)

December 25th:
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - tree from Secret Santa Set, December 25th from Santa's Coming to Town, Merry Christmas (inside) from Secret Santa
Paper:  vintage Cream - PTI, metallic gold - Mark's Finest Papers
Ink:  Ponderosa Pine - Close to My Heart

St. Nicholas:
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - Nutcracker Sweet
Paper:  White - PTI, metalic blue foil board - Grafix
Ink: Versafine majestic blue

A Christmas bag, a basket of flowers and pots of tea!

I have 3 cards to share today that I made for the Inspiration Challenge over on Split Coast.  Anne was our hostess and she showed us The Blue Carrot Shop - a site that sells vintage and retro items (I have to admit that I recognized lots of stuff on this site from my growing up years!)

For my first project - I was inspired by these nut bags

I was more inspired by the glassine bag than the colors or images. I created a Christmas gift bag that could be for a gift card or cash or even treats if they are not too thick!

My stamps are from Rubbernecker  I just love this beautiful snowflake and the font on this sentiment!  I added a rhinestone to the center of the snowflake and tied blue/white twine around the top. My bag is 3 3/4" x 6 1/4". from Papertrey Ink.

I used Versafine Ink to stamp the images and I used my hot gun to help the ink dry - I think I'll leave this over night to be sure that it does dry - you may have to sample different kinds of ink if you stamp on a coated bag to be sure it dries.

My second inspiration was a faux wood covered thermos

 The weave of this basket reminded me of the wood tone on the thermos. First I stamped the flowers on the panel, then drew on stems with a fine tip green pen. Then I dry embossed the panel with my Square Lattice embossing folder.

I stamped the basket, cut it out, sponged the edges and adhered it under the flowers. I sponged the edges of the panel and added pearls to the centers of the flowers.  The basket and flowers are from a Rubbernecker set called Create a Garden

I cut the sentiment with my key tag punch, then punched a hole on the side with my horizontal slot punch (I haven't used this punch in years!) and looped 4 colors of twine through the slot. I adhered the tag to the card with foam tape. The Thinking of You sentiment is also from Rubbernecker.

This card is 3 x 5 1/2" so it will still fit into a regular A2 envelope even with the tag and twine sticking off the edge of the card.

For my final card - I was inspired by these Bartender Invites

Instead of drinks and appetizers - I used a row of teapots.

My stamps are from a fun  Rubbernecker set called Tea Time Set.  Inside I stamped "brewing up a birthday wish for you" perfect for a tea-loving friend!  I added a rhinestone to the top of each of the teapots.

I hope you'll stop by on Nov 1st -  the Waltzingmouse Design team will be having a 4 day SoAP (Stamp of Approval Parade) using previously released WMS Christmas Stamp sets!

Christmas Wax Bag:

Stamps: Rubbernecker - Merry Christmas #387-10, Snowflake #1504 SO (Stamp Oasis)

Paper: wax bag - PTI

Ink: Versafine Majestic Blue   

A Basket of Flowers:

Stamps: Rubbernecker: Create a Garden Set #512, Thinking of you #565-10

Paper: rustic cream, terracotta tile - PTI

Ink: Versafine Onyx black & Habanero, Ranger Distress - Old Paper, Memento Rose Red, Potters Clay,and sweet plum

Accessories: foam tape, green fine tip pen - Creative Memories, square lattice embossing folder - SU, pearls - Kaiser, keytag and horizontal slot punches - SU, Lilac, mandarin, peapod and pink sorbet bakers twine - The Twinery 

Is it Tea Time?

Rubbernecker: Tea Time Set #457

Paper: White, Smokey Shadow, Simply Chartreuse - PTI

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories: Rhinestones - Kaiser

Season of Gratitude

I wanted to share a couple of cards I recently made using stamps from Sweet 'n Sassy.  My 6 month term of being on the SNSS Design Team is drawing to a close and I have greatly enjoyed using Korin's lovely stamps and sentiments on my creations.

This card was made using a recent Split Coast Stampers sketch.   The stamps are from Forest Silhouettes and Autumn Bounty.

 I used the Square Lattice embossing folder from SU on both cards. I love the texture it gives to the cards.

I made my second card for a recent SCS Inspiration challenge.  This was my inspiration - a wall hanging from the  Handscapes Gallery web site.

and here is the card I created using Serene Silhouettes and Seeing Spots.  The background strips are pieces of weathered wood grain patterned paper by Fancy Pants.

Hope you are having a happy stamping day!

Oh - and just looking ahead -   The Waltzingmouse Design Team will be having a Stamp of Approval Parade Nov 1-4 using prior release Christmas stamp sets -  so please stop back then for lots of holiday inspiration!!

Wishing you a season of:
Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy - tree from Forest Silhouettes, sentiments from Autumn Bounty

Paper: Kraft, Dark Chocolate - PTI, DP Pyrus Paper Pad/Basic Grey
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black & Potters Clay
Accessories: Square Lattic Embossing Folder - SU, foam tape, wrinkled seam tape - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy Shop, tiny twinkles - Taylored Expressions

Thinking of you:
Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy - Serene Silhouettes, Sentiment from Seeing Spots

Paper: Kraft, Orange Zest, True Black - PTI, DP Fancy Pants/Papa
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Old Paper
Accessories: 3/4" circle punch - EK Success, square lattice Embossing Folder - SU, foam tape, twine - PTI

Gingerbread Holiday Hugs!

I made this card for today's CAS sketch challenge over on Split Coast as well as the Waltzingmouse October Christmas card challenge held in the WMS forum - to use food on your card!.

I stamped the group of three candy canes in red on the card, than stamped the gingerbread men on Really Rust and cut them out layering them over the candy canes with foam tape.

I added black sticky pearl eyes and buttons, stamped the sentiments in two colors of ink and drew the frame around the edges with a 01 Micron fine black pen.

My stamps are from the newly released Waltzingmouse Set called Candy Jar Christmas Fillers.

You may have noticed I've been missing in action for the last several days -  we had our annual Church Fair this past Friday and Saturday and two friends and I run a table selling stamped cards and crafts - so I was madly working on last minute projects as well as organizing and pricing all the items I had managed to finish!

Here are a few pictures of our table.

 Over the two days we sold $227.00 from our table - pretty good when you consider most things were between $2.50 and $4.00!

And here are Gwen and Nicole (Gwen is the daughter of Elizabeth working with me and Nicole is the granddaughter of Sandy,  co-chairperson of the Fair)-  the theme for the fair this year was The Wizard of Oz - so they were dressed up like the bad and good witches! They had such a good time running around and also helped us stamp "thank you" on our brown lunch bags we used for sales.

So now things will be a little less hectic for me and I will settle back into my regular stamping routine!

Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Candy Jar Christmas

Paper: white - PTI, Really Rust - SU

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Palette L'Amore Red, Adirondack Butterscotch

Accessories: foam tape, black pearls - Amuse, 01 micron fine Line Black Pen

Sweet 'n Sassy Meets the Twinery - Blog Hop!

Today I'm excited to be participating in the Design Team blog hop between Sweet n' Sassy Stamps and the Twinery!

You should start the hop at The Twinery  if you came here from Tifany DeGough then you are in the right place!

See below how you can have a chance at winning a prize!

This little lady bug makes ME smile - isn't she the cutest!  I stamped her on white, die cutting with a circle Nestability.  I colored her with Copics and added some tiny twinkles to her smile and antenae!

I wrapped the twine to get 3 loops on each side, then adhered it to the back of the lady bug circle.  I layered that to a black scallop die cut circle.  I embossed another circle on the card and layered the image onto the frame with foam tape.  I thought the loops of twine gave the impression of wings, although I didn't try to make them even or in a straight line.  Then I simply stamped the sentiment directly on the card.

So here are the details on how and what you can win!

There will be TWO prizes awarded from those who leave comments on all participating blogs. 

The Twinery will give away to one winner:

One Ultimate Color Sampler Pack (retail value $25)

Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps will give away to one winner:

One Season of Change Stamp & Die Set (retail value $28)

Deadline to hop/leave comments is 11:59 EST, Saturday Oct 22nd
Winners will be announced at the Sweet 'n Sassy Blog  and The Twinery on Sunday, Oct 23rd.

Next stop on the hop is  Hera Frei

Thanks for stopping by -   and Good Luck!

Stamps:  Sweet 'n Sassy - Some Buggy Loves You

Paper:  Pure Poppy, White, True Black - PTI

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories:  Copics - R37, 100, Mandarin Bakers Twine - The Twinery,  tiny twinkles - Taylored Expressions, circle and big scallop circle Nestabilities, foam tape.