Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge No 24 - Make Your Mark

Hi, time for another Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge
Number 24 - Make Your Mark

I decided to use the Waltzingmouse Stamp Set "A Cottage Home"
Plenty of options for colouring in using my Spectrum Noir pens

The background is green spectrum noir pens and blue sky using cloud blue ink pad lightly dusted over with a Clarity Stamp stencil brush. The front door section has been cut out and raised up on foam pads, as are the two pots and topiary bushes. Finished with a sentiment from the set, "New Home", I just love how Waltzingmouse Stamps have such detail and variety in their choice of fonts for the sentiments.

Of course if you have a New Home card you will need a matching tag, to accompany your gift,

The tag was made using the smaller front door section of the stamp set, using the two pots and topiary bushes again mounted up on foam pads. Die cuts from Spellbinders.

Thank you for visiting and reading about  my Waltzingmouse Fanatics Card Challenge Entry

Kathy x

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Colour Challenge No 23

Hi, time for another Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge.

Challenge Number 23 : A Colour Challenge.
This colour choice really set the "Tropical Beach" mood, Tara's card inspiration, and Deborah's using another of my favourite Waltzingmouse Stamps, the Folk Art Medallion are great.

I have been in Christmas Card mode, with so many Christmas Card samples around. I thought that I could add a twist for a Christmas Card destination in the Southern Hemisphere, where the days are high summer and Christmas can be celebrated at the beach. Using the colour choices and  Very Vintage Christmas Stamp Set, Festive Foliage and die cut and the Pinstripe background.

I feathered the pine leaves from sand to orange inks, brown pine cones and using the three shades of sea blue through the sentiment, Very Vintage Christmas Stamp and the Pinstripe background. 

I did go on to make a second card, where I had to use the My Island set of stamps as they just seemed so perfect for the challenge. Again with a twist, I have stamped a scene adding a boat from another of my go to sets, Ocean Bound. The island in the backgound and the sunset colours have been made using 2nd generation stamping, to get a more distant appearance. I was thinking that this would make a great journal cover, where I could collect together holiday photographs.

Thank you for visiting and hope that you have enjoyed reading about my colour card challenge.
Do visit the Waltzingmouse Fanatics blog, entries in the challenge are still possible until Thursday.

Kathy xx

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge No 22

This is my design for the latest Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge.

Challenge number 22 - Sketch

I do find sketches challenging, but still enjoy looking through my Waltzingmouse Stamps for ideas.

My choice of Waltzingmouse Stamps was the Folk Art Medallion set. I stamped the large medallion image and raised up the sentiment on foam pads for some dimension. I cut the arrow design and background stamped with a stamp from Nordic Winter. Then stamped and cut out Funky Flowers to decorate, carefully inking the leaves to have two colours.

Taking my colour inspiration from, winged palette on the Design Seeds Site.

Here is my card,

Hope that you enjoyed reading about my card challenge, there is still time to enter your own design on the Waltzingmouse Fanatics Blog,

Thank you for visiting

Kathy xx

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Anything Goes Challenge No 21

This is my entry for the Waltzingmouse Fanatics "Anything Goes" Challenge.

This card is "For the Girls", using Waltzingmouse Stamps to create a background using French Country, I love the line art drawings of flowers in this set, and then adding a sentiment from Folk Art Medallions, on a Spellbinders Die cut and Waltzingmouse Funky Flowers, stamp and die cut. I used similar colours to the previous Fanatics colour challenge, and left the card simple without inking the edges, for a clean and crisp look.

I went on to make a co-ordinated tag, using Stitched Tags die cut and Sentiment from Dainty Doiles

Photo did not turn out too good, so have attached a photo of both together, which looks clearer.

Then when I had viewed earlier entries in the Fanatics Challenge, I found the ColourQ Challenge no 248, and the colours got me thinking of the Waltzingmouse Ocean Bound set,

So out came the stamps and some "For the Boys" Card ideas,
using Zig Zag Backgound, and Splat that for the water stamp.

This time I used a Spellbinder Die for the backgound shapes, Splat That for the water and Oceans Bound stamps. There are so many motifs on the Ocean Bound Set, I was spoilt for choice. I must get to use the Sea Horses  they look adorable. I have entered these into the ColourQ challenge too.

Thank you for visiting and I appreciate all  your comments.

Kathy x

Red, White & Blue CQC 248 Challenge

I have been inspired by the colours on the Colour Q Challenge no 248 for the following cards

                                                                 ColourQ Challenge #248

There are some great designs posted there. Well worth a visit.

My card designs are "for the boys"

Using the colour palette, red, blues, sand and white
Stamped using Waltzingmouse stamps, with a Spellbinders diecut detail in the card below.

Thank you for visiting.

Kathy x

Waltzingmouse Colour Challenge 20

Hi, this is my next Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge card. This time it is a colour challenge, peaches and cerise with a dash of fresh green.

I was inspired to make a card for a friend to be like a "notelet" and, if I could, to use all the colours. The lightest green grey is shaded around the die cut using Spectrum noir pens, and used as the stamp frame around the sentiment.

Using Waltzingmouse stamps taken from Heirloom Patterns background canework stamp, a frame from All Hallows Eve, which fitted around the Dove from Folk Art Christmas Additions. The dove is stamped and cut out then raised up on foam pads for some dimension. (this does not show well in my photo) My sentiment came from Vintage Garden Seed Packet along with a stamped frame from that set. I added a Spellbinders die cut coloured with Spectrum Noir pens.

Hope that you enjoyed reading about my card submission.

I have been busy on the farm with new arrivals.

First time mum Coco with her little boy, a gorgeous colour and his fleece is so silky and bright.

Alameda's little girl, (on the right)  although not so little up against Pasha on the left.

Thank you for visiting.
Kathy xx

Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge No 19

Hi, this is my card design for the current Waltzingmouse Fanatics Sketch Challenge. There is still time to enter, a visit to their blog is well worth checking out.

I had in mind a design using the Half Pint Heroines Stamp set, recently aquired from Waltzingmouse Stamps.
Using a colour scheme and background stamps inspired by the sixties, all flower power and funky (well hopefully )

The backgrounds were stamped using You're a Doll flowers, Dainty Doilies, and Zig Zag backgrounder, before being die cut in rounded corner shapes.
The sentiment came from the Ocean Bound stamp set.

The balloon came from Half Pint Heroines set and coloured, with the addition of a flower cut with the dies to suit and a pearl centre coloured with copics and little dots of sparkle on the balloon.

All mounted up on an embossed sheet of kraft card, with more funky flowers, finished with a brayer colour.

The card has been created for a friends daughter who is going to take some time out travelling.

I then went on to stamp up a background sheet in a plaid design using Pic-Nic patterns
Adding a die cut Little Lantern, with sentiment from Light of the World and Country Labels no 4 mounting.

Hope that you enjoyed my designs
Thank you for visiting,

Kathy x
I have just noticed that my link up on Waltzingmouse Fanatics Blog is showing my alpaca blog  name, my mistake, I usually change to Kathy C, but I must have missed it this time.