House Mouse and Heat Embossing

Until last week I only had one House Mouse stamp! Then I saw the new slapstick ones released by Stampendous and one or two (lol) fell into my basket!

 

This is the first one I have played with. I coloured the image with Distress Markers and edged the die cut shape with a gold Krylon pen. The paper is from my stash but I think was Papermania from a couple of years ago. The holly on it really is green IRL but quite muted. I finished it off with a holly vine die cut from Memory Box, some shimmery ribbon and a little bit of Dazzling Details on the holly leaves. Oh and where is the heat embossing I hear you ask - well it is on the berries on the image, but couldn't get it it to show up in the photos and I took loads! So you'll just have to take my word for it! I am entering this into the House Mouse challenge of course and as the holly was cut from a snippet I'm going to see what everyone is up to in the Playground!

 

 

Merry Monday

I had an idea of what I was going to do for this week's Merry Monday challenge when I went into my craft room. And this is nothing like it!

 

 It came  together really quickly after I'd picked the papers out. I like the vintagey colours of these papers that have been in my stash for a couple of years now. I think they were Papermania ones. The topper was again left over from previous Christmases.  I think it took me a lot longer to tie a decent bow than it did to make the card!

Less is More - Take 2!

The Less is More challenge this week is to CASe it! My first attempt here was a CASe of Jen's card, but decided to have a go at CASeing Chrissie's as well. This is my attempt and I was pleased with the final result.

 I cut the letters on my Craft Robo and stamped over them before lifting them off the carrier sheet. the stamp is from Papermania.

PTW Sketch Challenge

It is quite a long time since I joined in with the Papertake Weekly challenge. This week it is a sketch challenge and here is my entry for it. The papers are from a Papermania pad, the stamp is by Creative Expressions and the sentiment is from Little Claire. Coloured with copics.

Yellow Easter Elephant!

I've been making this card for about 4 days! Something always seems to interrupt! So I was determined to get it finished today and uploaded. The stamp is Little Claires, the papers from Ppaermania Capsule collection, flowers and ribbon from stash. I wanted to put some small yellow buttons in the middle of the flowers but can I find them anywhere? Nooo. So it had to be brads instead.

I'm entering it in the following challenges:

Little Claires - Animals
Papertake Weekly - Spots n' stripes

Easter cards

I don't usually make Easter cards but the card swap I participate in has the the Easter for this months and decided to send one to each of my grandsons as well as it's difficult to post Easter eggs. No doubt they'll have "chocolate tokens" in!! No idea what make the decoupage is as it's been in my stash a long time but the dotty paper is from Papermania as are the flowers and bow and the cardstock is from Kanban.

Two Birthday Cards

This is for my son's birthday next month. It is made from some Papermania products from one of their goody bags.

This is for my gorgeous grandson Jack who will be one next week. I've again used some Papermania decoupage from a goody bag. The letters and number were cut using my Cricut.

Tent Card

Well I spent a very enjoyable couple of hours this morning at the Make It Show in Farnborough. Spent far too much money of course BUT I didn't get the plastic out!!! Here is a card that I made at card club evening last week. It was a bit experimental as none of us had made one before. They basic card blank is available prescored but we made them from a piece of 12 x 12 card. The decoupage is from Papermania Sumer Blooms collection.

Last of the Christmas Cards

Some more cards using Papermania's Silent Night collection.

Some More Christmas Cards

A selection of cards. The top four were all made using various Papermania products and the bottom one was a Creative Expressions stamp which was embossed and glittered.

Silent Night Christmas

I've been so busy making, writing and sending cards that I have not been posting on here. Here is a selection of cards made using Papermania's Silent Night collection and inspiration from Docrafts Creativity magazine.

More Henbury Lane

Two more cards using The Papermania Henbury Lane papers and stamps. This one has two stamped images and the centre image is the matching sticker.

The pink rose was coloured with pencils and the edges were inked with Tattered Rose distress ink. The lattice strip is a Martha Stewart edge punch.

More Henbury Lane

Made with the Papermania Henbury Lane range. The papers are so pretty. Image was also a Papermania Henbury Lane stamp coloured with copics.

Easel Card

This is the first easel card I have made. The papers and sticker are from the Papermania Henbury Lane Collection.

Simon Says Challenge Recipe

The Simon Says Challenge is a recipe set by the very talented Lorraine. The recipe is to use 2 papers, 3 buttons and 1 ribbon. Here is my interpretation. The papers are Papermania and the stamp is " Skateboard Dude" from Woodware.