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Happy Birthday Claire!

I am so pleased to participate in a blog waltz to wish Claire Brennan, owner extraordinaire of Waltzingmouse Stamps, the best birthday ever.  To start at the beginning of the waltz, go here.   Next up is the amazing Sarah Martina.

Here's the card that I made with Claire in mind.  It uses stamps from Waltzingmouse Asian Gardens.

 

Card Construction Details:

1.  Cut cream cardstock to a little more than a 4" square.

2.  Stamp tree trunk and then gorgeous leaves/flowers.

3.  Emboss panel using back side of a Nestability Square die.  The back side is wider and, using the Grand Calibur, got a very deep border.  Love.

4.  Stamp sentiment.  Actually, stamped sentiment first and then tried to emboss border but did not leave enough room.  Repeated 1 - 4.  Lesson - emboss after the tree but before the sentiment.

5.  Added pearls.  

6.  Cut 4.5" square card from cream cardstock and adhered panel with dimensionals.

Mood When Done = Wishing I was in Northern Ireland giving Claire a real hug, rather than a virtual one!  Claire, you are the best!

Supplies:

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Asian Gardens
Ink:  Ranger Distress Peeled Paint and Memento Bahama Blue
Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream
Other:  self adhesive pearls, Nestability Square Die, Stampin Up dimensionals 

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To answer a question --

Marci -- yes, get the Scrapbox.  For $500 you are getting a great buy.  I love mine.

ps  If you leave your email when you comment I can respond directly.

 

November Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz

Welcome to the November Friends of Waltzingmouse Blog Waltz!  If you are viewing all the Design Team blogs and counting "watermarks" (some blogs have zero), you should have come from Lisa's blog and the next blog in the waltz is Carly's. 

You can get all the information you need on the waltz, and what to do once you've counted the watermarks, here.  (Counting them may earn you a prize...)  Or, you can go to the forum and find all the links participating in the waltz here.

The theme this month is Christmas.  And I need gift card holders. 

So I went online and asked around and took Allison's advice and found a very easy pattern on Kristina Werner's blog for a gift card holder.  You can read Kristina's post on this gift card holder here.  Her post contains a link to a you tube video and a link to the pdf file with measurements, etc.  The nice thing about this gift card holder is that it doesn't need an envelope -- so break out the buttons, the bling and the dimensionals!  And you can make 3 from one sheet of cardstock (and have cardstock left over.)

I made 7 different ones (and there is a story there), but I'm only showing one tonight (I'll share more of them and the story in a later post). 

This one uses my favorite image from Waltzingmouse Stamps Around Christmastime. The set is full of images that are perfect for these gift card holders...

Ok, is this cute or what?

 

Untie the ribbon and the gift card holder is in a slot formed by the bottom piece.  Rather than staple the edges together as Kristina did, I glued the sides.  Perfectly easy. 

And after my recipient opens up the holder and tosses it aside, I will grab it and save it for next year!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse Around Christmastime

Paper:  PTI patterned paper and white and kraft cardstocks

Ink:  Versafine Onyx; Memento Lady Bug

Other:  Stampin Up ribbon; dimensionals; Spellbinders circle die; Paper Shapers circle punch

Waltzingmouse Stamps Design Team Blog Waltz

Welcome to the Waltzingmouse Design Team Blog Waltz.  This celebrates the release of 4 new sets today. The beginning of the festivities, as always, start with Claire.  If you started with Claire and go in order, you should have come from Anya's blog.  And the next blog on the Waltz is Belinda's.  I haven't seen what these ladies have in store but they really are a marvelous group and I love seeing what they have created.  In fact, I often gasp. 

There are prizes available!  One lucky person will be selected from those who leave a comment on Claire's blog and another person selected from all the comments on the rest of the Design Team blogs. 

For this card, I decided to use cold, icy colors -- pale blue, dark gray, and crisp white. Winter!

The polka dot ornament from Vintange Ornaments is a fun one and I embossed it in white so it really pops against the gray.  Popped up the sentiment in the center -- the oval in the center matches one of the Spellbinders oval dies but it was quite easy to hand cut.  The pale blue panel is embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder.

 

Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz

Today Claire releases 5 new sets!   For the next person on the blog waltz, check out Sandie!

And to help highlight the fun, a Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz....

This card features a new WMS set called Text It -- beautiful words in 5 different fonts.  One of the fonts is the same as the one featured in Frame It, so I paired them together in this card.  It's quite late as I write, so I am going to skip the chatter on this card (plus you've got some waltzing to do). 

Supplies:

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse Text It and Frame It

Paper:  Papertrey Ink White, Berry Sorbet and Smokey Shadow

Ink:  Versamark, Memento Dandelion

Other:  Versamark, White embossing powder; crochet trim (I cut out a piece to fit and make the fancy edge), pearls, Copic marker, Martha butterfly punch

Mood When Done = Flirty

   PRIZE ALERT!

BLOG WALTZ INFO!

*** One person who leaves a comment on Claire's blog will get a prize and one person who leaves a comment on one of the Design Team's blogs will also win a prize.  (I love free stuff...)  So, good luck, and happy waltzing! The competition will end at 11:59 pm Eastern on October 9th.

Here's the order of the waltz!

Claire
Jennifer
Mona
Joan -- that's me
Sandie
Bonnie
Lynn
Laurie
Lisa
Julia
Anya
Belinda