Waltzingmouse March Blog Hop

Happy St. Patrick's day everyone and that's the Hop topic today (or Irish or Green)!

I've had a sore week - which hopefully won't end up with a long visit in the doctor's office next week :0( so decided to keep my hopping card pretty and simple. This focuses on the GREEN ...

I used the beautiful "Roses in Bloom" set on this card, which very kindly arrived in the mailbox YESTERDAY and had a few quiet moments colouring with Copics ...

...and doing some background stamping with an old favourite - Faux Fun.

Keeping it short so that you aren't delayed! 

Hoping you have a wonderful trip through blogland and thank you for stopping in!

Hugs!

x

N

Stamps: Roses in Bloom, Faux Fun, Join Us (Waltzingmouse Stamps)

Soft Baby Girl

Hi Lovely People!

Here is the next installment into the local Baby Box ... something a little more soft and visually more 'full', than my previous cards.

I decided to make my Nordic Winter stamps do double duty for this one - not so Christmassy anymore :0) The little rolled roses are a My Favourite Things Die - those things have paid for themselves a hundred times over! (Always stick that 'u' in there and have to go back and take it out :0)!

And there it is in full!

Thank you for the visit today! I was hoping to play along in a couple of different challenges this week, but here is Saturday and it didn't happen - I guess next week is another story and can have new hopes of it's own!!

Hugs to you!

x

N

Stamps: Nordic Winter, Sewing Box Hugs, Holidy Labels Number 14, Very Vintage Labels Number 2 (Waltzingmouse Stamps)
Bitty Baby Blessings (Papertrey Ink)
Dies - Small Scalloped Rolled Rose (MFT), Labels 14 (Spellbinders)

Little Chickie

Here is another for the baby card run! And this one was a whole lot of fun to put together. A little colouring, a little 2 step and background stamping, a sweet die cut ... and a little masking and sponging. 

 

This one doesn't have too much of any one thing - I really enjoyed dabbling a bit with different crafty approaches in making it.

All just fun! I think this may be my personal favourite of the year so far :0)

This is off to play in the Waltzingmouse Gallery again this week! I hope you're all getting some good, happy, satisfying crafty time in!

Happy wishes, peeps!

x

N

Stamps: Lil Buddies, Nordic Winter (Waltzingmouse Stamps)
Garden Variety, Baby Button Bits (Papertrey Ink)

Star Baby

Hello Lovely World :0)!

I'm back in the Baby Card groove - it's a local fundraiser time again ... so this is one to get started:

It was fun to paper piece this one and the little button in the centre is all blinged up with some leftover Stickles from Christmas :0)

One down - about 10 - 15 more to go ... (eek!)

Hope you're having an awesome day! We have FRESH snow on the ground and some sunshine - but the crocuses have finally shown some little leaves - and are whispering sweet things about spring!

x

N

Stamps: Sewing Box Hugs, Faux Fun, Off Beat Backgrounds (Waltzingmouse)
Inside and Out: Baby, Out On a Limb (Papertrey Ink)

Quilted Flowers

Hellooo Peeps! Happy weekend!

Here is a little card that I wanted to pop into the Waltzingmouse Gallery Challenge this week, and also into the Tuesday Trigger Challenge at the Moxie Fab World which is called "Home Sweet Home" -  this cutie picture was up as the inspiration ...

I immediately thought of Waltzingmouse's "Sewingbox Hugs" set - which has an adorable little cottage image in it (so tempting to just pop that card in .... :0)

However, I decided to use the floral images from the set as paper pieced "appliqued" images. I also wanted to try and create a 'faux hand quilted' look, by heat embossing a stitched image on the background of the card in white on white:

I really liked the idea of paper piecing to try and emulate the different fabrics that had been sewn into the original inspiration piece ...

Well, there it is. Now this card is off to do some real work, thanking a very kind friend who went out of her way to help me!

Thank you *so much* for stopping in!

Hugs!

x

N

Stamps: Sewing Box Hugs (Waltzingmouse Stamps)
Stitches and Swirls, Mixed Messages (Papertrey Ink)

Get Well

Helloooo lovely people!

Good thing I don't depend on my blog for a living, or I'd be starving right about now wouldn't you say!? :0)

How many people blogged yesterday - the 29th of February? Any 29th birthdays? Do you celebrate on the 28th or March 1st? It must be quite a lot of fun to be a leap year baby!

Here is a little CAS get well I made recently. It incorporates some of my very favourite things - texture and shimmer ...

The sentiment strip is vellum and heat embossed in silver - kind of hard to see, but quite delicate. The butterfly is coloured with Copics.

And there it is! I hope March is off to a great beginning for you - and that you have lots of inky days ahead - I'd sure love for a few more to come my way!

Happy Days!

x

N

Stamps: Antique Engravings, Everday Sayings (Hero Arts)
Stitches and Swirls (Papertrey Ink)
Linen and Canvas Embossing Plate (Papertrey Ink)

CAS Valentine

Helloooo world of lovely Peoples :0)

It has been an age since I was here posting - but I discovered Pinterest in the meanwhile! (So much easier to click on other peoples gorgeous creations than sit and create your own - Ha!)

It hasn't been a case of not wanting to - but life sometimes just has different ideas from mine. And extended family haven't been at all well - we've had to do some travelling to visit - I must say, we've had some sadness there :0(

On a happy note ... this is the card which I'll be giving my totally CAS Hunkadorus for Valentine's Day. He's always joked that he "loves every colour - so long as it's white". OH so true in his case ...

Really, simple, but I think he'll get the message. The woodgrain debossing is meant to create some textural  interest without adding colour, in the background.

The gingham is 'me' in this card. I've always loved it - so it's meant to be a subtle mix of both of our tastes in one!

I hope that you have sweet Valentine's plans to share with the people you love!

ENJOY every minute - here's hoping that your day is *full* of  heartwarming hugs! :0)

Best wishes to you!

x

N 

Stamps: Love and Marriage, Bitty Background Blocks, Love Lives Here (Papertrey Ink)

Debossing Plate: Woodgrain (Papertrey Ink)

"Incontrovertible Print"

Helloooo sweet People!

Happy first Thursday of the year ... I hope it has all been fabby so far!

I've really wanted to play along at the new "Runway Inspired" challenge site ... so I bit the bullet, and TODAY is the day!

Here is the pic that was up for inspiration -

... and the FIRST thing that crossed my mind when I saw it was (wait for this!) BLACK AND WHITE. Amazing huh?! :0)

But moving a little laterally - I thought about that phrase that we sometimes use - "There it was in black and white!" So that is where the mojo flowed and ended up here:

(I thought, using this newspaper stamp, that the "Daily News Herald" was a great frame for the sentiment - even when my recipient doesn't know about the challenge that made it all happen!)

And the dash of red? I'm sure if you look REALLY hard the model has painted toenails. (lol).

Lots of fun - thanks to the RIC team for setting it up! :0)

Hope you're off back into a great day!

x

N

Stamps: Background Basics Newsprint, Love Lives Here (Papertrey Ink)

Typewriter Letters (Hero Arts)