Love You Always

Super quick post today while I'm waiting for the bath to run as we're off to our favourite Turkish restaurant tonight to celebrate my best mates birthday but I wanted to squeeze in my take on the Waltzingmouse PJ Party Bedtime Sketch.

I kept it really simple - I took inspiration from the DP I selected which has a nice texture which led me to the wood grain heart from "My Heart".  I stamped the leaf border over it following the sketch using wet cement shadow ink and added a strip of red spotty paper from the same pad (prima bohemian bamboo) to finish the sketch shape.  Then I overstamped the heart using pale tomato shadow ink and added the sentiment to match from the same set.   I think it has a masculine feel - romantic but not too mushy - so will go to my hubby.

You've still got a couple of days to play along with this cute sketch http://waltzingmouse.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/march-pajama-party.html

Love Grows

Just a quick post tonight as I'm having a bad pain day but I wanted to join in the first Blog Party of 2013.

This was one of those cards that looked so much better in my head!  I inked up the small heart from the My Heart set using pink and yellow ink and cut them out so I could form flowers with them.  I used the vine from the same set to make the flower stems.  I used love from same set and used letters from Woodenheart Alphabet to spell grows.

the last Waltz :-(

I was REALLY sad to read that this week's sketch at one of my favourite challenge sites is to be the last ever - boo hoo :-(     http://waltzingmousesketchchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/last-challenge-129december-29-2012.html

So, I had to ink up my Waltzingmouse stash and join in for a final waltz - don't you just hate it when the party is over and you have to go home?    Here's hoping it won't be long before we get an invite to a new party with the same old friends :-(

I was going to ink up my all time favourite stamp sets - "Back in the Saddle/Way Out West" for this final sketch but the urge to play with my new Christmas present stash was too strong so my sets from the latest release won the day.    I stamped 3 of the hearts from the new my heart set onto white card in pear tart and pistachio inks and added some banners from the woodgrain set which I stamped sentiments from my heart onto.  I cut the hearts by hand as my laptop with my silhouette software on died on New Years Day - for the vine one, I drew around the outside of the stamp to get a nice even line to follow ;-)  I added some gems for a little sparkle and an embossed background for added texture and interest.  I finished the sketch with a strip of white card stamped with chevrons from woodgrain and the leaf vine from my heart.   I'm not sure why I initially pulled out the two shades of green - not the first thought for hearts - but inadvertently I've created an anniversary card for friends whose wedding colours were these greens.  Their anniversary isn't whilst September though so I'd better put it somewhere safe..........

Whilst I had these sets out, I also decided to make an quick anniversary card for my hubby - for our first date anniversary which is next week.  We've only been married for 5 years, but we've been together for 18 so we like to celebrate both as I fancy a golden anniversary party and the together one will come quicker ;-)

As you can see, my thing for kraft cardstock has followed me into 2013 as I opted for it again.  I really think it works well with the woodgrain.  For this one I wanted the wood to be more prominent as I spotted a challenge where the theme is wood (holz as it's a German challenge site)  http://kis-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/kis-4-holzwood.html so I thought I'd play along.   As the stamps are NEW then I'm also entering this into this week's casology challenge as new is this weeks' cue word  http://casology.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/week-25-new.html

This time I stamped the large background stamp using real red ink onto the base card and rounded the corners.  I cut some more kraft card and drew some soft pencil lines to make sure I centred my heart images perfectly - I stamped them using peanut brittle and just a hint of rich cocoa inks.  I used the vine stamp again to "hang" the heart with.  I then used 3 of the sentiments from my heart to finish it off.