Mosaic Madness Meets Hello, Doily!

Does anyone have any idea where my inspiration and ideas have been over the past few weeks?  I finally get some time to craft, I sit down at my desk and... nada...

I've been pinning, blog surfing, checking out challenge sites (I vaguely remember those from the dim and distant past) and reading a couple of magazines.  I *may* also have ordered some treats from the new annual catalogue plus some pre-order items from the new Autumn/Winter catalogue which launches at the start of next month.  I suspect it was this that helped the most ;-p

Today I have finally come up with something that I like.  It's a CASE of a Christmas card Vicky Hayes made using Mosaic Madness and my favourite colour so this card really stuck in my head.  Here's my take:

I stamped my new Hello, Doily stamp in Versamark and embossed in gold before stamping six mosaic shapes on scrap white card.  My coordinating punch made short work of cutting them out and I scored three of them down the middle to make them look 3D when on the main card.  I added three little pearls to the top of each ornament to try to ground them a little.  This Whisper White panel was mounted onto Cherry Cobbler and then again onto Naturals White card which has lovely little speckles in it.  I used my Cherry Cobbler marker pen to pick out part of the detail of a mosaic border stamp and then the words 'happy' and 'Christmas' from Happy Hour and Simply Sketched.  I stamped a border on the inside of the card as well.

Oh, and what's that intriguing envelope you see in the background?  You'll just have to wait a couple more weeks to find out!

Supplies
Stamps: Mosaic Madness, Hello Doily, Happy Hour, Simply Sketched
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, VersaMark
Card: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Naturals White
Other: gold embossing powder, stamp-a-ma-jig, pearls

I'm entering this into the lovely Di's snippets playground and into the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge where it's all things red and gold this week.

I'm having a great day today.  This morning, while seeing the midwife, I got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time!  It was amazing!

Enjoy your day!

Sneaky Peeks!

I've decided to spoil you a little bit today.  Amid all the excitement of the retiring lists, I'm also having a play with some new bits and bobs that I am privileged to get my mitts on a whole month before the catalogue is actually released, so I thought I'd show you what I've been up to.

I am really enjoying one stamp set in particular called Mosaic Madness, which comes with a matching embossing folder and punch.  All will be available on the 2nd July.  Here are a couple of creations I made last week.

I embossed the bottom of the Whisper White cardstock and then stamped a few of the designs on some scraps.  I glued them onto the embossed card and adhered one on a dimensional.  I added in some of the Itty Bitty shapes and a greeting from A Word For You.  I added the panel to a base made from Midnight Muse to finish it off.  I made another version out of Raspberry Ripple too and I quite like both.

Supplies

Stamps: Mosaic Madness, A Word for You

Ink: Midnight Muse, Raspberry Ripple

Card: Whisper White, Raspberry Ripple, Midnight Muse

Other: stamp-a-ma-jig, mosaic embossing folder, Mosaic Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes punches

I've heard rumours that we might be getting another spell of nice weather next week, but until then today's picture probably sums it up:

Thanks as always for your visit,