Inspired by Kate

Hi all, I'm here today with a card I made for a couple of things - A Kate Bush inspired competition to make a card, and the WMSFC, which has an open theme of anything goes using WMS. I would also like to enter this into the WMS Pyjama Party,  and the challenge I am going for is an older set.
http://waltzingmouse.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/welcome-to-december-pajama-party.html

Back in September I had the great luck to see Kate Bush in concert 3 times. She is an artist I have admired for many years, since I was a young girl, so to actually get to see her perform was a dream come true. In the show, at the end of the second half, she transforms into a bird, with huge wings, borne aloft. It was a breathtaking moment. She sings, just before the transformation 'My beautiful Wings, my beautiful Wings, they're so exciting' so I've made a blackbird wing!

I have used Fine Feathers stamps and dies, and embossed the feathers using pearly embossing powder, which shimmers against the black card I used.

I added some black gems, and a clear sparklet to the top of the wing for some extra sparkle.

The sentiment is computer generated, using her line My Beautiful Wings.

I hope you like it!

Thanks for looking,

Pauline

Feeling Festive!

Hi all, well it's been another month gone by! I'm averaging one card a month at the moment, I just need more hours in my day! Today I'm sharing a Christmas card for the Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge, which is anything goes using a Rick St. Dennis image. This fun, happy chappy is called 'Star Elf', and you can find him in Rick's Zibbet shop.

I coloured him woth Polychromos pencils, and teamed him with some festive paper from My Mind's Eye, and some stripy ribbon from Stampin' Up!.

I used some red baker's twine and attached a little tree charm to it, and topped with a red Christmas rose and some white pearly flowers from my stash. The leaves are a die cut from Sue Wilson Designs.

The sentiment is from Darcies and is cut using a S.U punch, and I added some red gemstones to the label.

I am also entering this into the Facebook Rick St. Dennis challenge.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge

Hi all, I'm back today with a card made for the Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge. The wonderful image is called Belle et Bete and is from the Rick St Dennis shop at Etsy.

I coloured them with Polychromos pencils, and matted with some black card. I was going to add some more panels, ribbon, glitter and pearls, but the image is quite big, and the papers from Graphic 45 are quite busy, and are too pretty to cover up, so i left it as it is! A relatively CAS design from me with this beautiful image!

Do check out the Progressive challenge if you haven't already done so - if a new player you will have to purchase Belle et Bete, but next month yopu will get an image for free to play with in the next challenge.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

20 Winks..

Good morning bloggers! Well, it's been a while since my last post here, nearly two months! But I'm here today with a card for my daughter's friend who turns 15 today, and I'm also entering this into the Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge, over at Sparkle and Glitter.

The RSD image I have used is called 20 Winks, and I've coloured her with Polychromos pencils.

I layered her with some pretty Prima papers, and used some lovely Tattered lace border dies, and a Cheery Lynn Doily die.

The butterflies were cut using a Stampin' Up! punch, and the die cut 'Dream' is from Serendipity Stamps.

For some extra sparkle and glitter, I added some sparkly gems.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Feeling Nautical!

Hi all, it's been a while since my last post, just busy with kids, work and lack of a crafting mojo!! I'm here with a card made for Rick St. Dennis Facebook Group and for his own personal challenge to create using a mermaid theme. I have used one of Rick's newest digi stamps called Lemuria, and you can find her here in his Zibbet shop.

 I coloured her with Polychromos pencils, and teamed her with beautiful nautical papers from Graphic 45.

 The frame behind her was cut using a Tonic die, and the little sea themed charms were cut using dies from a new to me company called  All Occasion Dies, from Robert Addams shop.

I cut one of the little clam shells from the DP to put in her hair, and used liquid pearls for her jewellery.

I added some stickles to her starfish bikini top and some crystals to the ship wheels, also from All Occasion Dies.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

Serendipity Stamps & The Twinery Blog Hop

 Hi all, and welcome to my post for a joint blog hop - Serendipity Stamps and The Twinery have joined together for a special 3 day blog hop event, and today is my day! You should have arrived here from Katarina Damm- Blomberg, and after me you should next visit Anita Mulcahy.

Do stop by both The Twinery and Serendipity Stamps for some awesome twine, stamps and dies!

Click on the pics to go to the shops!

Here's my card using The Ladybug die and Stamps set, and the stamped flower is from the  Flower Pops cling set. I cut the Ladybug in pink swiss dot Bazzill card, and after adhering to the card base, I added some Glamour Dust to the 'spots' for some sparkle.

I stamped the sentiment 3 times in pink Raspberry Adirondack ink, and wrapped the twine in
Blossom Solid Mini Bundle and Flax Stripe Mini Bundle colours.

Finally I added a pink faceted button to the flower centre.

Here is the hop list for today:

The Twinery - http://thetwinery.com/blog

Serendipity Stamps - http://serendipitystamps.com/blog

Julie Ranae - http://juliesopenwindow.blogspot.com/

Monika Wright - http://www.iloveitallwithmonikawright.com/

Jenny Gropp - http://onekraftykat.blogspot.com/search/label/Serendipity%20Stamps   

Marybeth Lopez - http://marybethstimeforpaper.blogspot.com/search/label/Serendipity%20Stamps

Christine Meyer - http://scrappingwithchristine.blogspot.com/

Miriam Napier - http://miriamsdelirium.blogspot.com/search/label/Serendipity%20Stamps      

Katarina Damm-Blomberg - http://krumeluran.wordpress.com/

Pauline Pollington - http://pauline-littlemrsp.blogspot.fr/search/label/Serendipity%20stamps   

Anita Mulcahey - http://happypapercrafthappenings.blogspot.com/

Rebecca Greco - http://hugsarefun.com/

 Serendipity Stamps is also offering a $20 gift certificate on Facebook to one lucky person who “likes” Serendipity Stamps and LEAVES A COMMENT.  You must do both to be entered to win. So Plenty of opportunity to win some goodies!

Serendipity Stamps is also having a sale during the blog hop  - 20% off all items in the “Garden” category through August 3! 

Thanks for stopping by today, don't forget to visit Anita Mulcahy next!

Pauline

Red, White & Blue for RIck!

Hi all, it's been a while! Mr. Mojo has upped and left the building I'm afraid, maybe away for a hoilday, who knows?!!

 I coloured up Starry Suzi by Rick St. Dennis, available from I Brake for Stamps, using Rick's personal Challenge over on the Facebook Rick St. Dennis Group, to use Red, White and Blue. For the layout, I used this week's Sketch from Friday sketch Challenge.

I used Faber Castell Polychromos pencils, and blended with mineral solution. She is my first image coloured with these new to me pencils, and I'm fairly happy with how she turned out.

I layered her onto silver, red and blue glittered paper, and a red, white and blue patterned paper as a base.

For the bordaer I cut lots of little glittery stars using Spellbinders, and the sentiment is by Impression Obsession. Finally I added a little red and white striped ribbon bow, from The Ribbon Reel shop.

Well, I got the Stars and Stripes in, and want to wish my American friends a very happy Independance Day!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Friday Sketch Challenge.
R.S.D Facebook Challenge Red, White and Blue.
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Twisted Tuesday - Red, White & Blue with stars
Paper Pretties - Red, White & Blue

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

SSCB #32

Hi all, I'm here for the second D.T post for this month's Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog. For my card I have made an accordian style card. I have used lots of different S.S images and dies, so apologies for the photo heavy post!

 This is one side of the card, featuring mostly die cuts, and one panel of stamped images.

 One the other side I used mainly stamps, and one panel with die cuts.

 Here are the close ups of the stamped images:

For the panel featuring the Heart and sentiment, I used some glittered embossing powder.

This is the end panel, and the Dragonfly is also embossed with the glittered E.P.

 On the other side, I used the same E.P for some more Dragonflies and Butterflies, cutting them out with the matching dies, and teaming them with the new sentiment dies.

I used the Orchid stamped image, along with the corresponding 'Butterfly Kisses' sentiment.

For the end panel, I used all three sentiment die cuts, layered over the Rosebud stamped panel.

Here is a close up of the glittery embossing powder. To finish I added a range of sparkly gems and flat back pearls.

Here is the list of products I used from the Serendipity Stamps shop:

Dies:
Imagine die.
Love die.
Dream die.
Believe die. 
Butterfly solid die.
Dragonfly solid die.
Floral Frame Embellishment die (mini dragonfly from this set.)

Stamps:
Double Cloisonne Butterflies.
Floral Dragonfly.
Floral Butterfly.
Calico Background.
Orchid.
Butterfly Kisses.
Mason Jar Cling Set.
Victorian Heart Set.
Live Well sentiment.
Jar Label.

Phew, I think that's everything!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Rick St. Dennis progressive Challenge

Hi all, I'm back today with a card for the Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge. Every month, Rick will send out a free image to the previous month's participants to use for the following month's challenge.

Last month was the first, so we all used a different RSD image, but this month, we have all been given this fun-tastic image of Nyner The Winner! Thanks so much Rick!! I can't wait to see what everyone else does with him!

The theme for the challenge is Steampunk. This is my second card using this theme, and I'm still not sure I'm all that good at it to be honest, but they do say practice makes perfect!

I coloured him with Promarkers, and trimmed him out. I layered him onto a die cut clock - I was in sore need of some Steampunk embellishments, so I ordered the cogs die and the clock die from Robert Addams All Occasion Dies - the service was amazing, I got them two days later, and a free C.D and mini die too. Before cutting the clock, I stamped some Waltzingmouse Splats in Versamark, and used Aged Silver Frantage embossing powder to create a slight metallic effect.

Underneath the clock I arranged some die cut cogs cut in silver mirri card, and layered these on top of some matt gold card embossed with a steampunk style folder. I then layered this onto some brown card, and distressed the edges.

I layered this onto a card base, covered with some Graphic 45 paper from their Steampunk Spells stack.

If you want to join the fun at the Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge, but did not enter last month, never fear, you can buy Nyner The Winner HERE, and enter for this month. Your entry will get you an image to use for next month's challenge!

I would also like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Passion for Promarkers - Mythical Creatures

I Love Promarkers - Digi's

Crafty Catz - Inspired by a song, 'We are the Champions' by Queen!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Serendipity Stamps Challenge - Window

Hi all, I'm here today with a card for a new challenge over at Serendipity Stamps! This month we would like to see your take on a window card, using your S.S dies or stamps of course! For your inspiration today, the Design Team have been asked to CASE a fellow teamie. I have cased Vickie Zimmer, I love her elegant style! Here is Vickie's card that I am CASE-ing:

 For my patterned paper, I stamped some of the newly released Flowers from the Flower Pops set in Versamark onto some cream card. Then using some Distress inks, I sponged over the flowers to reveal the images.

I really love this method of emboss/resist technique, and it is a great way to personalise your own paper.

After I was happy with my sponging, I cut some card to size, and cut a circular window in it. I cut a blue frame using Spellbinders Circles and scalloped circles, and lay this around the window.

Then on some dark blue card I stamped in Versamark the Happy Mother's Day sentiment, and embossed with white powder.

I added some gems to the flower centres, and added a pink seam binding bow topped with a floral button and twine.

Do stop by the rest of the D.T for some more inspiration!

Pauline

Angelina Who Mk II!

Hi all, I'm back with another card using the fabulous Angelina Who? image from Rick St. Dennis. Yesterday I coloured her in greens, today it's purple!

This card was made with inspiration from a few challenge blogs - the sketch is from Papertake Weekly Challenge,  I Love Promarkers want us to use flowers (and Promarkers), Haunted Design House want us to use a recipe of Green, Black, Purple, Metal and a flourish, Addicted to Stamps and More would like to see us use Markers, Pencils, Crayons etc, and Passion for Promarkers want us to use Pearls and Pins!

 I have coloured Angelina Who? wiith Promarkers, and hand trimmed. I then cut a black frame using a Spellbinders die, and mounted her onto it.

Following the sketch from Papertake Weekly Challenge, (which is pick any of their old sketches, I have chosen Sketch No. 81) I created 3 panels in different D.P's. After layering them all together, I added some black lace and green satin pleat before adding the frame and flourishes.

I added two flourishes cut using a Cheery Lynn die, in black and silver mirri card, and topped them with some green and purple flowers and two pins - the purple pin was coloured with a Promarker to get the right shade.

Finally I added some lilac pearls and some green brads (these are my metal embellies) and I think I've got everything onto this card that I could!

Here's the sketch from Papertake Weekly.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

Angelina Who??

Morning all! I have a card to share with you today, using this FAB-U-LOUS image by Rick St. Dennis - she's called Angelina Who?, and very apt, as I took the kids to see the new Maleficent movie yesterday. The film was great, and it's nice to see a different take on the Sleeping Beauty story.





I coloured Angelina Who? with Promarkers, and went for the traditional Disney colours for her. I also did a non-Disney colour scheme, but I will post that one when I have made her into a card.

I used Spellbinders dies and accents to frame her, and some thick stripy black ribbon from Stampin' Up!. The sentiment was computer generated using Zapfino font. I didn't have a suitable sentiment to go with her, so I did a little internet search, and came up with this - very fitting I thought!

I added lots of gems and white pearls for this card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More -Make your Mark, I used Promarkers.
Craftitude - Dimension, she is popped up on foam pads.
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge

 Hi all, I'm here today with a card that has been nearly a week in the making! I have made my very first Steampunk style card!! I have recently fallen in love with the gorgeous images by Rick St. Dennis, and he has a wealth of Steampunk images to choose from.

This month's new challenge over at the Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge is Steampunk, so I just had to have a browse in this category, and, well, let's just say more than one image fell in my cart Lol!!

Today I am using Aerocruiser for Lady B - I see her as an imperious Lady, observing her minions below, she looks a tad grumpy (I think it's the way I coloured her, I used pencils and had a bit of slip with the lips!).

I coloured her in the earlier part of the week, then was a bit stumped as to how to mount her. I had a rummage in my stash, and found a Steampunk themed embossing folder, some screw head brads, and I bought some little cogs to use too. I know I have some steampunk style paper somewhere in my stash, but I haven't a clue where!

Here's a close up of her - I fussy cut the image with my craft knife, my finger still tingles, it went almost flat!

For the background, I used the embossing folder on some green card, and rubbed some Versamark over the top - my intention was to emboss the raised parts only, but I got the ink all over it. However, I like this too, I think it looks like burnished leather. I then distressed around the edges, and set aside.

I cut a brown mat to size and distressed around the edges, added the cogs to the gold embossed panel, and layered together.

I used this sentiment from Kaisercraft, embossed in gold, and cut using a Spellbinders nestie. I added the brads befor adhering to the panels, along with Lady B.

The card base is green Bazzill - I added some Aged Gold Frantage embossing powder to the edges, before adhering the entire panel to the base. Then inside I added a gold glitter layer, and topped it with an embossed Color Core'dinations brown panel using the same folder as on the front, then sanded back the raised areas. Then i used some stamps from Uniko Studios for the sentiment and cogs and clocks, and sponged the edges with some Antique Linen distress ink.

Well, it took me longer than I thought, mainly because I had never made a steampunk project before, and spent a lot of time thinking lol!!

There is still a week to enter the challenge, so I may use another image and create again, but I better get my (steampunk) skates on!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline