House Mouse has Gone Fishin'!

 I adore this image as do my boys who both sat and coloured in their own ones this morning.  Thanks House Mouse for 10 minutes of family craft time!

Anyway... on with the card making... House Mouse had a Challenge!  It was WINGS... so anything House Mouse with wings... my Gone Fishin' stamp sprang to mind... so here it is!

The actual House Mouse Challenge is 

Things with WINGS for Mousey Challenge # HMFMC139 so stop by and have a look at the other entries and some great ideas from the design team.

Materials used in this project…

House Mouse stamp “Gone Fishin’”

Corners cut ¼” Crop-a-dile Corner Chomper.
Memento black Dye ink.

Blue “feather” glitter cardstock from “Animal Crackers Stack” by DCWV.

Cuttlebug used for cutting and embossing Spellbinders Shapeabilities Ladies Fashion Buckles.

Blue pearls, cardstock, feathers and ribbon from my stash.

Coloured with Faber Castell Pencils.

Thanks for visiting…

Sarah x

Queen for a day!

I sure am learning a lot as I whittle down my Mad March Birthdays list... especially what works for me and what doesn't!  Including blogger at the moment!  I keep signing up to follow blogs and by the next day I am no longer following... hmmmm

Okay todays card is again my Magnolia "Christmas Tilda With Puppy" but she is not for Christmas again today since I wanted to explore the image a little more after yesterdays effort.  I think she lends herself quite well to birthdays!  Anyway enough babble... the card:

To tie in with a Shabby Chic theme everything including the lace (given to me many years ago by my Mother In Law!) got a good dabbing of Tim Holtz Distress Ink... I did find there is a fine line between "distressed" and "too much" lol.

The Challenges... well firstly... thanks to all of the Challenges for giving me some direction and some deadlines!  No I don't expect to win anything but you are all giving me some great ideas!  Now the ones this card is entered in...

Crafty Sentiment Designs... This was a difficult one for me... Pretty in PINK! (I definitely managed lots of pink though and this stamp is sooooo Pretty!)

Our Creative Corner... Shabby Chic with Fabric Flowers and a Crown... There is also the colours from the inspirations photo, pretty pink... light blue and Tim Holtz's antique linen (I am wearing this inkpad out!).

Marvelous Magnolia - Anything goes!  Very nervous about entering this one... everyone's entries there look like they have been crafting since they were born! 

Materials:

Stamps:  Magnolia "Christmas Tilda with Puppy"; "Queen For the day" from the Cool Britannia collection by Louise Allen.

Cardstock and doilies from my stash.

Inks: Memories Dye ink - black; Tim Holtz Antique Linen.

Embossing: Cuttlebug embossing folder "Wrought Iron"

Circle and Scalloped Circle: Spellbinders.

Lace and fabric flowers were from my stash. (It's amazing what I find when I go digging in boxes!)

Pencils: Faber Castell.

Punch: Martha Stewart Doily Lace.

Anyway... I hope you like this one... it's growing on me...

Sarah x

Springtime Green

G’day and welcome J

Today’s make is my first ever make with a Magnolia stamp… I happened upon a Christmas magazine while at the shops and it had a Christmas Tilda with Puppy on the front so happy Newsagent and happy me! Hehe  Now on stamping her I realized she loans herself to all year so here she is.

 

This is one more of the Mad March birthdays down… lots more to go!

A few challenges in this card… in no particular order… well ok… in the order they are written down on my notepad…

Cupcake Craft Challenge… Sparkle… beautiful sparkly bella brad on that flower just finishes it off nicely!

The Crafting Café… favourite colour… Green!  The colour of my garden J

Lej Designs Challenge blog… Spring… Real Spring to me was when I was in England… the white snow would melt and vibrant green shoots would burst out of the thaw with tenacity and throw out delicate flowers.

Flourishes .org has a challenge of using Cardboard which worked brilliantly to give my leaves texture and add interest.  I will use your stamps when I can manage to buy one :-)

CardMakingMamas have a challenge of using Green…. I think I might have covered that one!

Emmas Cards UK has a challenge of vintage… now I am hoping this is vintage enough as it all reminds me of old times (and Aunty Nora with her doilies)…

Materials:

All cardstock/paper/doilies right from my stash!

Stamps: Magnolia Christmas Tilda with Puppy; “Happy Birthday” stamp from Papercraft Inspirations stamps Issue 72.

Flower: Stampin’ Up! Punches.

Leaves: Create-a-flower Cuttlebug die and Spellbinders leaves.

Spellbinders Circle and Scalloped Circle.

Brad:  Bella!

Inks: Memento “New Sprout” and “Pear Tart”; Black ink – Memories Dye inkpad.

Pencils: Faber Castell

Crop-a-dile Corner Chomper.

Thanks for stopping by… happy crafting…

Sarah x

Sky-blue-pink-with-polka-dots!

Todays make is a card to enter The Ribbon Girls March Challenge.  The must have is “twine or ribbon” so since yesterday I had to explain to my dear Husband and Sons WHY I received a bag of bakers twine by post from a lovely friend it seemed bakers twine was the order of the day! (Thank-you Sam!)

The challenge is also sponsored by Lili of the Valley which made me go digging in my stash!  A while back I bought a magazine and with it came a whole heap of gorgeous printed images from… you guessed it… Lili of the Valley so I decided to use those since I haven’t got my hands on any of their stamps as yet!

I am also entering this in the Cupcake Crafts Challenge for *Sparkle* as the cardstock is pearlescent and the brad is as one of my darling boys pointed out "pretty, pretty, shiny, shiny."  So I hope that qualifies as Sparkle :-)

In Mad March we have a whole string of birthdays so that is my focus this week… get them all done and posted. My Nanna’s birthday is one of the first so I picked out a beautiful Lili of the Valley image that lended its self to the colour that my Nanna used to tell us was her favourite… 

Sky Blue Pink with Polka dots!

So this is my interpretation of that with bakers twine featuring down the side with a happy birthday slider so it’s a little tactile and interactive.

I used:

Image: Lili of the Valley

Flower: Stampin’ Up! Punches.

Brad: Making Memories “Paperie Rouge”

Leaves: Create-a-flower Cuttlebug die and embossing folder.

Slider: “Fruit and tags” Cuttlebug cutting die and “Happy Birthday 2x2.75” embossing folder.

Patterned Paper: “The birthday brights” from Australian Simply Cards Magazine.

Punch: Martha Stewart Doily Lace.

Spellbinders Circle and Scalloped Circle.

Souffle white pen (for lettering).

Faber Castell Pencils for colouring the stamp.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah

There is always time for a party!

It has been forever since I did a challenge (we moved!) but its Mad March which means a mega amount of Birthdays all clumped together sooo what better way to get motivated and some direction than challenges? 

The first inspiration & direction I am taking is from a Simon Says Stamps challenge which was Anything goes with a focus on Tim Holtz… what is not to love about this?  Now the majority of my Tim Holtz seems to be my “masculine” and “steampunk” themed folders and dies along with my Adirondack/Tim Holtz inks so that made my decision easy… a card for Pop!

I accidentally stumbled on Simon Says Stamp and Show’s blog (so glad I did!) and voila my decision was made as to what to do… a challenge of “By the Numbers”… Now Pop who is turning 84 years young has rebuilt many clocks and has fascinated my boys with winding and chiming them!

Tim Holtz’s Alterations Texture Fades Sizzix Embossing Pocket Watches folder… Try saying that fast!  A celebration of Pop’s birthday and his love of clocks and the order that the numbers on the faces bring him… Perfect for both challenges!  So here is the result:

I embossed the copper coloured Spellbinders craft foil through my Cuttlebug in the Pocket Watches folder and cut it to size, matted it on black cardstock then made a white card blank and mounted it.

I also used Tim Holtz’s idea-ology Game spinners on the pocket watch cut from my Spellbinders Timeless Heritage Die.  I highlighted the numbers on the pocket watch with a black sharpie (awesome on Spellbinders foil!) and then added some texture to the foil with a few light dabbings of Tim Holtz and Adirondack Rust coloured alcohol inks…

That’s about it… Have a great day!

Sarah.