Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge 70

So this week's Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge is from WMS DT member Kelly Schirmer.  She's a real sweetie and she's come up with a great sketch.  So, as my boys played in the beautiful fall weather, mom got to work on 2 cards!  Woohoo!  (This is totally unusual for a slow poke like me btw)  Here's this week's sketch...  

This first card was inspired by the stamp of the Santa's sleigh silhouette.  I got my stamp from A Muse, but there is a WMS version that you could do the same thing.  The card is pretty self-explanatory, but there are a couple things that are hard to see in the pic.  The house is fussy cut and popped up a bit.  I cut out the window and put the yellow bit behind it for candle glow.  

The moon is also cut out and popped up a tiny bit.  I hit it with a little pearl dust for moon shine!  The background is lots and lots of blending of almost every dark blue ink I had.  Whew!  

I embossed the "believe" sentiment and had lots of messy embossing (I guess I didn't wait long enough for the background to dry).  This time, I actually like the messiness!   And the base of the card is a sparkly paper from Mark's Finest Papers.  It's so pretty and has a lovely sheen to it.    

The next card was a real quickie and it's a bit cheeky.  It's for a friend whose husband has literally had a mustache since 8th grade.  We tease him about it, but give him a pass because 1) he looks weird without it and 2) we all grew up in the era of Magnum P.I. & Smokey and the Bandit and secretly like it;)

Of course, I had to use the WMS sentiment "hope it tickles" and my mistletoe stamp to go with the Christmas mustache theme.  I don't have any mustache stamps, so I printed it off the web.

I die cut the circles and blended with Distress ink with the dies still on.  This card just makes me giggle!  Hope she likes it:)  That's all for me for now!  I'm off to try to get all this blue ink off my fingers.  Thanks 

for visiting and have a great week! 

{Aloha, jj} 

Believe Card

Stamps: Cottage Home (Waltzingmouse Stamps) Believe (Inkadinkado), Winter Wishes (A Muse) 
Ink: Paris Dusk (Memento), Broken China, Faded Jeans (Distress), Mustard, Sunflower (American Craft), Versafine

Paper: 

Enchanted Evening blue, white (Papertrey Ink), Sparkle Cardstock (Mark's Finest Papers)

Embellishments: Embossing Powder, Perfect Pearl dust

Tools: Circle dies (Spellbinders)

Tickler Card

Stamps: Festive Foliage, Teeny Trees (Waltzingmouse Stamps)
Ink: Bamboo Leaves (Memento), Antique Linen (Distress), Versafine
Paper: Poppy Red, White cardstock (Papertrey Ink)
Embellishments: Embossing powder, baker's twine (The Twinery)

Tools: Circle dies (Spellbinders), Corner Chomper