Love Lives in the Fairy House Box!

As promised yesterday -  today I'm sharing a sweet little treat box that I made for my friend Anne's mother, Evelyn, whom Kent and I visited yesterday along with Anne and her husband.  It's a sweet little Fairy House Box!  and I made it using a free template from Waltzingmouse!

For the door and windows I stamped the house from A Cottage Home and just cut them out from the stamping.  I sponged the edges  with Peeled Paint Distress Ink (as I did on the house and roof) and layered them on the house with foam tape.  The sentiment is from the same set and I die cut it with a banner from Nested Lacey Pennants/Spellbinders. I clipped the banner onto a Memo Pin from Tim Holtz and stuck it into the center of the roof where the pieces come together.

The roof comes off and reveals a little treat bag tucked inside!    How cute is this???!!

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - A Cottage Home
Paper:  Green - Tim Holtz Alterations Bazzill, Blue - Prismatics, Brown Bazzill, Simply Chartreuse - PTI
Ink:  Versarfine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Peeled Paint.
Accessories:  Fairy House Box Template - Waltzingmouse, Scor Tape, Nested Lacey Pennants - Spellbinders, Memo Pin - Tim Holtz Alterations, wrinkled seam tape - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy Shop, form tape.

Return to Blossoming Health

Just a quick post to share a card I made for this weeks' CAS(E) this sketch challenge and a little treat 'hat' box..

I used a strip of beautiful digital paper called Folk Art 'Clean' from Waltzingmouse along with a lacey punched strip beneath it (Martha Stewart.  This lovely get well sentiment is from Vintage Garden Seed Packet from WMS.  The card base is vintage cream and I used a Memento Nautical Blue ink. 

This is a great CAS sketch -  this would be lovely as a sympathy card with the appropriate sentiment or a Happy Birthday - don't you think?!   Very versatile!

Kent and I are off to visit my friend Anne, her husband and mother who now lives with them.  I met Anne (jdmommy) through Split Coast and it turns out she only lives about 40 minutes away, so we get together now and then.  Anne recently had surgery on her thumb so we are going to have some pizza with them and to hopefully help take her mind off her hand for a few hours!

I made this little top hat treat box to bring to Anne. You may remember when I first posted some of these in green colors on this post.   Anne's favorite color is red - so I thought it would be fun to make one for her in red!  The template is called Hat's Off and it's from Creations by AR  The bow I used on the brim of the hat is also a template called It's Bow Easy

 I even packaged the little treats inside the hat in a red polka dot bag!  She'll get a kick out of that I think!

Tomorrow I'll show you what I made for her mother, Evelyn!  (It's really cute!)

Blossoming Health Card:
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - Vintage Garden Seed Packet
Paper:  Vintage Cream, Fine Linen - PTI, DP Folk Art 'Clean' Digital Paper - Waltzingmouse
Ink:  Memento Nautical Blue
Accessories:  Lacey punch - Martha Stewart

Top Hat
Stamps -  The Cat's Pajamas - A Beary Good Year
Paper:  red and black - Prismatics, Simply Chartreuse - PTI
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black
Accessories:  Hat's Off Template, It's Bow Easy Template - Creations by AR, Scor Tape, Modern note Punch - SU, red polkadot bag - Impress

Waltzingmouse March Release DT Blog Waltz!

We've finally made it to the WMS March Release day!  All of the sets we've been previewing for the past 3 days ( A Good Egg, Folk Art Labels No. 25, and Folk Art Medallion) are now available for purchase at Claire's Waltzingmouse shop!  You can win a WMS stamp set today - see the details at the end of my blog post.

You should start our blog waltz at Claire's Blog - she has a master list if you lose your way.  If you came here from Sandie Dunne's blog you are in the right place!.

Sometimes I just don't feel like coloring a stamp -so I wanted to show you how lovely the wreath in Folk Art Labels No. 25 looks simply stamped on a panel.  I embossed the panel after stamping and then just added 3 rhinestones.

 

Easter is early this year - March 31st -  so I'm already creating items to sell at my church.  I used A Good Egg to create a treat bag, a card and a tag for the Easter Basket!  I love this combination of orange, dark purple and lilac!

I made the tag out of two Nested Egg Nestabilities layered over each other and tied together with wrinkled seam tape.

 I embossed a Nested Eggs Nestability on the front of my card - then stamped inside it.

 I bought these cute 3" x 4" drawstring unbleached muslin bags at a garden shop - but I found ones just like it on line here.

I stamped directly on the bags with Ranger Distress Inks and adhered the bows with glue dots.  I filled them with malted milk ball eggs! Yum!

So that's it from me!  I hope I have inspired you this week with my projects using Claire's lovely new stamp sets!  They are all available now in the WMS shop here.

I'm also entering my 'bunny' in this week's CAS-ology challenge - cue card BUNNY! and my birthday card in  CAS on Sunday -  Happy Birthday.

Next in the waltz line is the ever talented stamper Laurie Schmidlin!

There will be a prize of a Waltzingmouse stamp set of choice from a random drawing from comments left on all of the Design Team blogs.

You have until March 11th at 11:59 PM (GMT), 5:59 AM Central (March 12), 3:59 AM Pacific and 6:59 AM Eastern to leave comments.  The winner will be posted on Claire’s blog on Wednesday, March 13th.  Good luck!

Birthday Wishes Card:  
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - Folk Art Labels No. 25
Paper:  Hawaiian Shores - PTI
Ink:  Memento Teal Zeal
Accessories:  rhinestones -Kaiser, square lattice embossing folder - SU

Easter Tag:
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - A Good Egg
Paper:  White, Royal Velvet - PTI
Ink:  Ranger Distress Ripe Persimmon, Shaded Lilac, Seedless Preserves
Accessories:  wrinkled seam tape - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy Shop, Nested Egg Nestabilities

Easter Card:
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - A Good Egg
Paper:  White - PTI
Ink:  Ranger Distress Ripe Persimmon, Shaded Lilac, Seedless Preserves
Accessories: Nested Egg Nestabilities

Easter treat bag:
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - A Good Egg
Ink:  Ranger Distress Ripe Persimmon, Shaded Lilac, Seedless Preserves
Accessories: Nested Egg Nestabilities, unbleached muslin bag - Save-on-crafts.com, wrinkled seam tape - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy Shop

WMS March Sneak Peek Day 3 - Folk Art Medallion

Welcome to the 3rd and final day of the WMS March Release Sneak Peeks!  Tomorrow is the big day when you will be able to purchase all of these wonderful new sets!

Today the Design Team is showing you a set called Folk Art Medallion.  It is a large stamp set and includes a wonderful  large circle medallion, a floral swag, several frames, leaves, smaller medallions and two sentiments!

I've used the large medallion and several of the smaller florals on my canvas gift bag below.  Each color is a different stamp.

Here's a close up of a sentiment from the set that I die cut with a Labels 25 Nestability  I'm entering this bag in the Simon Says Stamp Challenge - a Bit O' Green

Next up is a CAS Thank You note using the floral swag and another sentiment from this versatile set.  I die cut the sentiment with Labels 25 and added 2 rhinestones to the center of each flower on the swag.

 The ink and card base are both dark purples - but the card looks more like navy blue in the picture.  Below, you will see what I stamped on the inside of my card.

And for my final project to share today -  I used Claire's wonderful Rubber Band Box template cutting it out of some beautiful Folk Art Medallion Digital patterned paper Claire is also releasing tomorrow!  They coordinate wonderfully with this stamp set as well as Folk Art Labels No. 25 which we showed you yesterday - the birthday sentiment below is from that set.

I stamped the thank you sentiment on a Labels 4 Nestability and then cut it in half.  Below you see the flap outside of the round elastic cord that holds it closed so you can see the detail.on the flap.

 

To make the circle on the flap, I stamped one of the frame stamps from the set in black and a smaller floral medallion in Ripe Persimmon on white card stock - punched it with a 1 1/2" circle then colored in the white spots with black and yellow Copics.  I adhered that circle on the bottom of the flap along with a punched scallop edge strip.

 

For the birthday box, I again used half of a Labels 4 Nestability for the sentiment and sponged the edges with Ranger Distress Pumice Stone.

 

 I inked the leaf part of the swag with Memento London Fog and colored the dots on the stamp with an SU marker and then stamped it on white. I didn't ink the flower as I couldn't get it inked without getting the orange on the other pieces.  There is a separate stamp of the same flower in the swag with this set - so I just inked that flower and stamped it in the space after I stamped the swag.  Then I colored inside the flower with 2 different shades of yellow Copics. I wanted to match the patterned paper as much as possible!  I just hand cut around the edges of the swag.

 These Rubber Band Boxes measure 3' x 3 1/2" x 1" deep and you so you could fit tea bags, gift cards, Ghiradelli chocolates, etc. inside!  Claire has a larger box in the template as well.  It comes in PDF (to hand cut) and SVG (to use with a cutting machine like Silhouette Cameo)

Sorry I took so much of your time - but I had a lot to share today!

Once again - there's a little competition - PIN IT TO WIN IT! - All you have to do is PIN your favorite sample from today's Design Team creations on your Pinterest board, use the keyword #wmsfolkmedallion in the caption to your pin. On Friday at 6pm GMT Claire will gather all the pins with the keyword to pick a random pinner to win this new stamp set!



Now lets see how the rest of the Design Team used this lovely stamp set today!  Their links are posted below.

And don't forget to stop by tomorrow for the big release DT Blog Waltz!  You could win a WMS stamp set!!

Anya Schrier
 Becca Feeken
 Belinda Chang Langner
 Clare Buswell
 Edna Morrisedie
 Iwona Palamountain
 Jean Martin
 Jeanne Jachna
Jen Cuthbertson
 Jennifer Holmes
 Julia Aston - ME!
Karin Åkesdotter
 Kelly Schirmer
Kim Duran
 Laurie Schmidlin
 Lynn Mercurio
 Renee Lynch
Sandie Dunne
 Sarah Martina Parker
 Teresa Kline
 Tosha Leyendekker
 Claire Brennan  - owner/designer
 
Canvas Bag:
Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Folk Art Medallion (to be released 3/8)
Paper:  Rustic Cream - PTI
Ink:  Ranger Distress Peeled Paint, Ripe Persimmon, Chipped Sapphire, Seedless Preserves, Antique Linen.
Accessories:  bag from Pouch Mart, Labels 25 Spellbinders, rhinestone - Kaiser Craft, wrinkled seam tape - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy Shop.
Thank You Card:
Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Folk Art Medallion (to be released 3/8)
Paper:  White, Royal Velvet - PTI
Ink:  Ranger Distress Seedless Preserves
Accessories:  Labels 25 Spellbinders, foam tape, rhinestones - Kaiser Craft
Thank You Rubber Band Box
Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Folk Art Medallion (to be released 3/8) 
Paper:  White - PTI, Folk Art Medallion digital DP - Waltzingmouse
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Ripe Persimmon, Pumice Stone
Accessories:  Rubber Band Box Template - Waltzingmouse, scallop punch - SU, round elastic black cord - Dritz (Joanne's), Cropadile, orange eyelets, foam tape, scor tape, Copics: 100, Y38, Labels 4 Nestability, 1 1/2" circle punch - EK Success, corner rounder - Zutter,
 Birthday Rubber Band Box:
Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Folk Art Medallion and Folk Art Labels No. 25 (to be released 3/8) 
 Paper:  White - PTI, Folk Art Medallion digital DP - Waltzingmouse
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Ripe Persimmon, Pumice Stone, Memento London Fog
Accessories:  Rubber Band Box Template - Waltzingmouse, scallop punch - SU, round elastic black cord - Dritz (Joanne's), Cropadile, orange eyelets, foam tape, scor tape, old olive marker - SU, Copics Y34, Y13, Labels 4 Nestability, 1 1/2" circle punch - EK Success, corner rounder - Zutter,

WMS March Sneak Peek Day 2 - Folk Art Labels No. 25

Welcome friends to Day 2 of the Waltzingmouse March Release Sneak Peeks!  Did you LOVE  A Good Egg yesterday??!! (Thanks for all of your lovely comments left!)   Well - today we have a pretty little mini set to show you called Folk Art Labels No. 25 (No. 25 because the lovely wreath frame fits in Labels 25 Nestabilities!)  This mini set consists of the lovely wreath frame, birthday sentiment, two design elements (a floral and a leaf) as well as To: and From:

And I used the Labels 25 Nestabilities to cut mine - but it would have been very easy to hand cut as well.  I black embossed the wreath on white card stock - and then colored it with several colors of Copics and added one rhinestone to the top center flower.  Isn't this a beautiful wreath?!  It colored up so nicely!
I embossed the green panel with Wicker Weave and popped the wreath onto it with foam tape for some nice dimension.

Then I thought - well what else can I do with this set???...and my eyes set upon this fun polka dot paper bag sitting on my work table from another recent project.  And I looked at the dots and thought - I could stamp the floral design element from this set over the white dots randomly on the bag to color it up a bit?!?!   So that's what I did!

Here's a close up of part of the bag so you see how I stamped over the printed polkadots.

Then I stamped the birthday sentiment on a piece of Kraft card stock, punched it and adhered it to the bottom corner of the bag - it just worked out that it fit between two of the polkadots - so I added two rhinestones to shine it up a bit!  A couple of big home made cookies would fit nicely inside as well as many other 'slim' gift items!  The bag measures 5" x 7.5"

So here you go - two very different projects from a mini set!

Once again -  there's a little competition - PIN IT TO WIN IT! - All you have to do is PIN your favorite sample from today's Design Team creations on your Pinterest board, use the keyword #WMSfolklabel  in the caption to your pin. On Friday at 6pm GMT Claire will gather all the pins with the keyword  to pick a random pinner to win this new stamp set!

Now it's time to check out the rest of the WMS Design Team to see what they have created with this set!  Here are their links!

And please stop by tomorrow for Day 3 of the Sneak Peeks!

I'm entering my card in the Simon Says Stamp Challenge - a bit of' O' green.

Anya Schrier
 Becca Feeken
 Belinda Chang Langner
 Clare Buswell
 Edna Morrisedie
 Iwona Palamountain
Jean Martin
 Jeanne Jachna
 Jen Cuthbertson
 Jennifer Holmes
 Julia Aston  - ME!
 Karin Åkesdotter
 Kelly Schirmer
 Kim Duran
 Laurie Schmidlin
 Lynn Mercurio
 Renee Lynch
Sandie Dunne
 Sarah Martina Parker
 Teresa Kline
 Tosha Leyendekker
 Claire Brennan - owner/designer

Embossed Wreath:
Stamps:  Folk Art Labels No. 25 - Waltzingmouse (to be released March 8)
Paper:  White, true black, simply Chartreuse - PTI
Ink:  Versamark
Accessories:  black embossing powder, heat gun, Labels 25 Nestabilities, Copics: RV09, Y35, YG03, YG95, BG49, rhinestone - Kaiser Craft, wicker weave embossing folder - Provo Craft.

Polka Dot Bag:
Stamps: Folk Art Labels No. 25 - Waltzingmouse (to be released March 8)
Paper:  kraft - PTI
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Seedless Preserves, Festive Berries, Mustard Seed.
Accessories:  Polka Dot bag - Impress, rhinestones - Kaiser Craft, key tag punch - SU

WMS March Sneak Peek Day 1 - A Good Egg

The Waltzingmouse Design Team is happy to welcome you to Day 1 of the Sneak Peeks of the long awaited release of new WMS stamps!  Claire has designed 3 wonderful new sets for us all!  Today we are showing you creations using  A Good Egg - a smaller set with 3 eggs, bunnies, chicks and a rooster, 6 wonderful sentiments and 7 little design elements!

It's not a set just for Easter either -  in fact, none of my projects today are for Easter (!)

My first creation is a new baby girl card - I used one of the eggs in the set, a little chick and one of the sentiments.  I layered the images onto a Fleur de Lis Square with foam tape and added 3 Tiny Twinkles for a touch of shimmer.  Isn't this sweet?!

Next up is a really, really, clean and simple card -  just using one of the wonderful sentiments in this set and a little leaf design element teamed up with two strips of patterned paper.  Love the two different  fonts on this sentiment don't you?  I would use this as a get well card or as an encouragement card.

And for my last inspiration for you today - I have a card that could be used, I think, as a new baby or a new home card.  I used the sweet little bird house from this set - stamped it, cut it out, popped it up on foam tape and added a little red heart rhinestone over the door opening - and another two-font sentiment.  The branch is a Memory Box die cut out of Tim Holtz Kraft Glassine paper -  my card is 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" (as are all three of my cards today) so it's ok that the branch sticks out over both edges - it will still fit in a standard A2 envelope!  I like how it allows your eye to flow off the card - almost like you are looking at a real branch coming off a tree just out of sight!

Now - I hope you'll take some time to visit all of the Design Team whose links are listed below where you will find TONS of inspiration!  You may notice that the Design Team has almost doubled in size!  We are very happy to welcome all the ladies that were on the sketch design team to our WMS DT!  Whoo hoo -   please give them a warm welcome when you visit them!

And please be sure to stop by tomorrow for Day 2 of the Sneak Peeks!

Oh AND there's a little competition - PIN IT TO WIN IT! - All you have to do is PIN your favorite sample from today's Design Team creations on your Pinterest board, use the keyword #WMSagoodegg in the caption to your pin. On Friday at 6pm GMT Claire will gather all the pins with the keyword #WMSagoodegg to pick a random pinner to win this new stamp set! Such a fun idea!!! : )

Anya Schrier
 Becca Feeken
  Clare Buswell
Edna Morrisedie
 Iwona Palamountain
  Jean Martin
 Jeanne Jachna
 Jen Cuthbertson
Jennifer Holmes
Julia Aston - ME!
 Karin Åkesdotter
 Kelly Schirmer
Kim Duran
 Laurie Schmidlin
 Lynn Mercurio
 Renee Lynch
 Sandie Dunne
 Sarah Martina Parker
 Teresa Kline
 Tosha Leyendekker
 Claire Brennan - owner/designer

Just Hatched:
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - A Good Egg (available March 8)
Paper: white, hibiscus burst - PTI
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Worn Lipstick
Accessories:  fleur de lis square - Nestability, foam tape, tiny twinkles - Taylored Expressions

Sunny Side Up:
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - A Good Egg (available March 8)
Paper:  Harvest Gold - PTI, DP - October Afternoon Sidewalks
Ink:  Memento Teal Zeal

A New Nest:
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - A Good Egg (available March 8)
Paper:  Blue - Prismatics, white - PTI, Kraft Glassine - Tim Holtz Alterations
Ink:  Memento Teal Zeal
Accessories:  foam tape, woodland branch die - Memory Box, heart rhinestone - Michaels

A Pillow for St. Pat

Just another little St. Patrick's Day treat project I made to sell at my church next week. I kept them pretty clean and simple since we sell things for really cheap at our sales!   I used the Square Pillow Box Die from MFT that made it a breeze to whip these cute boxes up!  I used 4 different colors of green Prismatic card stock.

Then I just added my sentiment cut with the Key Tag Punch from SU and a clear plastic shamrock that I got at a dollar store last year!.  I filled them with Dark Chocolate Mint M&M's - Yum!!

If you are looking for St. Patrick's Day ideas -  You can see several on my past blog posts here.

I hope you'll plan to stop by tomorrow when I start 3 days of Sneak Peeks for the Waltzingmouse March Release!   You can see Claire's sneaks already over on the WMS Blog.

Stamps:  My Sentiments Exactly - Irish Blessings,
Paper:  greens - Prismatics, white - PTI
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black
Accessories:  Square Pillow Box Die - Die-namics My Favorite Things, scor Tape, thick glue dot, plastic clover - Dollar Store, Key Tag Punch - SU