Waltzingmouse Stamps October Release Blog Hop

Hi and welcome to Waltzingmouse Stamps October new release blog hop. If you've arrived here from Sarah's blog then you're on the right track, if not then you need to head back over to Claire's blog where the hop begins and where you'll find the full list of participants today

I do hope you've enjoyed the DT's previews over the last 3 days, as we showcased Seasonal Remedies, Nordic Winter, 2011 Holiday Ornaments and Santa's Coming to Town.  

Today we have the final 2 fabulous sets - Candy Jar Christmas and Candy Jar Christmas Fillers.

All of the new sets will be available to purchase once the store re-opens at 7.15pm GMT {which is 15mins from now!!}

I made a little gift set of a Candy Jar and matching Card.

For the candy jar I made a rosette and adhered my image, from Candy Jar Christmas Fillers, into the centre. The image has been shaded using copic markers G20 & G21.

The circular sentiment is from the Candy Jar Christmas set. 

These sentiments fit the Circle Nestabilities dies but I trimmed it out with a scissors and sponged the edges with Antique Linen distress ink.

Both the image and sentiment on my card are from Candy Jar Christmas. I hand cut around the image and mounted it on dimensionals. I cut the sentiment out using the 2011 Heirloom Nestabilities dies from Spellbinders.  

There will be a prize of a stamp set of choice from a random drawing from one of the Design Team's blog so be sure to leave a comment on all the blogs.  You will have until October 17th 11:59 PM, 5:5 9AM Central, 3:59 AM Pacific and 6:59 AM Eastern.
The winner will be selected on October 18th.
 

Thank you so much for dropping by. Next stop on the hop is Julia's blog.

Happy Hopping!

Sandie

xx

Waltzingmouse Stamps September Release Blog Waltz

It's release time!!

Today Waltzingmouse Stamps is releasing 4 new collections - A Cottage Home, Hocus Pocus, Say it Loud Autumn/Winter and A Christmas Cottage. 

If you've arrived here from Sarah's blog then you're stepping in the right direction, but if you've lost your way or just stumbled across this  post you need to head back to Claire's Blog where the Waltz begins. 

Over the past 3 days the DT have been bringing you sneak peeks of each set and today it is the turn of A Christmas Cottage

I have made a couple of cards and a gift bag. On these projects I have used various stamps from A Christmas Cottage, A Cottage Home &  Vintage Ornaments. 

For this card I stamped out the trees and masked them before stamping the cottage. I also used the pathway from A Cottage Home. I used copic markers to colour it, then added some Polar White flower soft for the snow. 

I handcut the sentiment, inked it with distess ink and added some punched snowflakes with pearl centres. The snowman has been trimmed out and mounted on dimensionals. 

For the gift bag I used Prisma pencils, blended with Jest-It solution. For the snow I used Star Dust Stickles. For the tag I used the Vintage Ornaments stamped with red SU ink, hand cut it out and tied it to the bag using a soft twine.

For a very quick and easy card I took two sheets of Bo Bunny Blitzen paper, cut out the baubles from one and mounted them on dimensionals over the other and stamped a sentiment with black momento ink. I stitched down all of my papers, adhered it to the card base and voila!!

Next stop on the Waltz is Julia's Blog. 

Have fun!!

Sandie

xx

Waltzingmouse Stamps July Release Blog Hop..

It's time!!! Welcome to Waltzingmouse Stamps July release blog hop. For the past 3 days the whole team have been previewing the 8 sets which will be available to purchase in just a few minutes!

If you've arrived here from Anya's blog then you are on the right path. If not, then you need to hop back to Claire's blog where the fun begins

Today I am sharing something a  little different.

When I saw the Eat Cake stamp set one sentiment in particular reminded me of when I bake cupcakes - no sooner have I taken them out of the oven when the chimes of 'can we eat them yet?' start, lol. So I made up a batch of cupcakes and created some toppers for them using both the circle and scalloped circle nestabilities and 2 sentiments from Eat Cake. 

These would go down a treat at any party!!! I bought the Wilton Lollipop Sticks from The Scrapbook Store. They are 8" in length so I cut them in half, which is a more suitable length for cupcake toppers... and you get twice as long out of the pack, lol.

Of course I had a very willing tester...

Sizing it up... 

must not waste the butter frosting.... 

Sinking the teeth....

Needless to say there wasn't a whole lot left to photograph ;)

 Next on the hop is Kate's blog. Have fun hopping!!!!

And the full list of ladies in case you get lost....

Claire Brennan

Jennifer Holmes

Belinda Chang Langner

Mona Pendleton

Bonnie Sharp

Lynn Mercurio

Niki Estes

Laurie Schmidlin

Anya Schrier

Sandie Dunne

Kate Whelan

Julia Aston

Tosha Leyendekker

Sarah Martina Parker