Category Archives: non-card projects

Nov 20

A Waltzingmouse Christmas - tags

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Welcome to the special, four day event at Waltzingmouse Stamps, called A Waltzingmouse Christmas! Today we roll in with TAGS! You can have a proper Christmas without these!

It’s kinda lame but I ended up using the same stamp set that I did yesterday, Compliments of the Season. Figures I really love it, I know it well enough, but still my sincere intentions were to focus on something else today. Once I had an idea for a tag, I just could not find a better sentiment, though. One that would make a statement.
I took inspiration from the super lovely tags, pinned HERE to my Pinterest board, full credit for the idea goes to the designer of those beauties. I used a Spellbinders snowflake die to cut the shapes (I cut double and adhered the snowflakes back to back), and then a regular circle for the insert. I then distressed the edges generously with Old Paper ink.

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Here’s the list of all ladies participating in today’s festivities:

Jeanne Jachna /Jennifer Holmes / Julia Aston / Kelly Schirmer / Kim Duran / Laurie Schmidlin / Renee Lynch / Tosha Leyendekker / Claire Brennan / Lynn Mercurio / Teresa Kline / Edna Morrisedie / Anya Schrier / Becca Feeken / Jen Cuthbertson / Karin Akesdotter / Sandie Dunne / Laurie Schmidlin


Nov 14

CASE Study Challenge #166

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Today at CASE Study, we’re serving you another portion of yumminess from Keisha Campbell and it’s an absolutely divine set of tags! Aren’t they amazing?

Keisha’s tags are so lush and chunky, I really wanted to achieved this effect, alas it didn’t happen as well as I had it envisioned. I settled for my own set of tags, each of a different shape and slightly different style, but all of them featuring the Simon Says Merry Trees stamp set with matching dies. I cut some pieces from patterned paper off-cuts, and some from plain white CS. I added a sentiment on one of the tags, from WPlus9 retired Poinsettia Patterns set. I decorated the tags with different trinkets, making sure that I’ve got a few pearl brads here & there, true to Keisha’s style.

Each tag has a white felt backing; a touch of cozy, very appropriate for Christmas-themed anything :)

Check out the blogs below for the Design Team’s takes on the challenge, or visit CASE Study for the full reveal.

Keisha Campbell - November Muse
Amy Tsuruta - November Guest Designer
Amy Wanford
Andrea Ewen
Clare Buswell
Debby Hughes
Jeanne Jachna
Maureen Merritt
Silke Ledlow
Tasnim Ahmed


Nov 04

November Beautiful World Tour

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ETA: I’m sorry for the delay, I accidentally saved the post, instead of scheduling it… blame it on my tired brain… duh!

Hello and welcome to November Flourishes Beautiful World Tour! I hope you’ll join us for the blog hop and get inspired by the talented girls from all over the globe. Leave a comment on every stop, and you could WIN A FREE FLOURISHES STAMP SET! You’ve got until Nov 30tht for your chance to win.

You should have arrived here from Meredith’s blog, you can also join us from the beginning at the Flourishes Blog.

This month our hostess is Bridget and she challenged us to Off The Page. I made a mixed media decoration, to put on a mantle or hang on the wall. I used my favourite Santa, I Believe stamp set, on a small sized stretched canvas. I used a Silhouette - cut template and Wendy Vecchi silver embossing paste, to do the textured background, and then another Silhouette cut: a snowflake frame (paired with a large Spellbinders circle), to put the Santa face on.

I added some life to Santa’s cheeks, by giving it some colour in light pink Copic marker (E93). The sentiment has been stamped in black pigment ink, on a piece of vellum. I finished with a big satin bow topped with a matching colour flower. Oh, and lots of sparkly gems :)

Thanks for taking time to visit me here in Australia, it’s time to grab your passports and board Flourishes Flight, your next and last destination is… Bridget’s blog!


Oct 25

Papertrey Ink October Blog Hop

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I’m joining in Papertrey Ink October Blog Hop today! It’s been a while since I gave my PTI stuff a workout, and I need some Christmas gift tags, so here goes!

I cut some tags with the Tag Sale #4 dies, three from red cardstock and three from white; with the idea of aligning them back-to-back. Then I took the silhouettes from the In The Meadow die set and cut the sleighing kid and the horse sleigh in the white tags, using the negative space to bring them to life. I couldn’t do the same with the deers since they’re in a cluster of shapes, so I cut the silhouettes from red cardstock and arranged them on the third tag. I wanted to use the sentiments from the matching stamp set but they’re all too big, so I settled for the phrase from Mega Mixed Messages instead.

I used a silver metallic pen to fill in the debossed circle on each of the tags. It gave the design a nice finish and a bit of more of an ‘oomph’. Hope you like them :)


Oct 24

CASE Study Challenge #163

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Hi guys, you know what comes on Thursdays, right? CASE Study! After the last week’s woodsy theme, we’re serving you today a subtler inspiration piece from Elena Roussakis. Who’s in for a bit of Muse-inspired crafting?

I can’t lie that I picked this ensemble because I’m partial to the Twinkle Toes stamp set from Clearly Besotted and it came to my mind the minute I saw it. The result is this set of four tags; I embossed the silhouettes in gold, stamped the sentiments in grey, and added a strip of a different washi tape to each tag. Now they’re ready to affix to my little princesses’ gifts :)

Check out the blogs below for the Design Team’s takes on the challenge, or visit CASE Study for the full reveal.

Elena Roussakis - October Muse
Michelle Williams - October Guest Designer
Amy Wanford
Andrea Ewen
Clare Buswell
Debby Hughes
Jean Martin
Jeanne Jachna
Maureen Merritt
Silke Ledlow
Tasnim Ahmed


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