CAS(E) This Sketch 193

Hello!

Another week has flown by and we're back with the new CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge. :-) This week I've pretty much copied the sketch. I liked it so much, I didn't want to change a thing!

I used WaltzingMouse Fine Feathers and PTI Get Well stamps. I created that coloured strip with blended distress inks and a little bit of sparkle.

This is a great sketch! I hope you're inspired to join us this week!

Thanks for dropping by to visit me!

Michelle

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CAS(E) This Sketch 154

Hello!

Welcome to our first CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge for 2016! We have a super sketch to start the year off and I hope you all join in the fun!

For my card I used Altenew Wild Hibiscus stamps to create a little flurry of butterflies.

Stamped in Tuxedo Black with some yellow sequins for a little colour.

I also made a second card while I was inspired by this awesome sketch using Waltzingmouse Fine Feathers and Altenew Label Love.

I could have kept going. I love this sketch!

Thanks for coming by to visit!

Michelle
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CAS(E) This Sketch 129

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It's my sketch over at CAS(E) This Sketch this week! :-)  I can't wait to see what everyone makes with it. This is my version.

I used Waltzingmouse Fine Feathers stamps and a few sequins. Super simple. Well, super simple except for the LONG time it took me to place each element, lol!

When I make cards, I usually focus on the bottom right corner. It is rare that I use the top left. I really enjoyed making this card. I'm now on the look-out for some vertical sentiments so that I can use the sketch again just as I designed it!

Thanks for dropping by.

Michelle
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MUSE 88 - hello in gold

Hello!

The past couple of weeks have been challenging creatively. My mojo has gone on holiday. Today I sat down and made a few cards. Some will never see the light of day, lol! But this one, I quite like. I was inspired by Vicki's card over at Muse this week. Truth be told, I'm inspired by Vicki regularly. She makes great cards, full of colour and life!

I used Waltzingmouse Stamps Fine Feathers, wPlus9 Hand-Lettered Hello stamps. Gold embossed on black card. I'd forgotten how fabulous gold on black is!

I am hoping my creativity reappears sometime soon and I can make a few more shareable cards. ;-)

Thanks for visiting!

Michelle
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CASE Study 209 - dreamy feathers

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Oops! I'm running a little late! The day got away with me. I have a day off work for the first day of school holidays (parent-teacher interviews at school, buying new Summer uniforms for next term, shopping for family presents) and I thought I would have PLENTY of time to whip up a post for CASE Study. It turns out that I got home, lay down on my bed with my book and didn't come up for air until that book was finished. You know how it is when you only have a couple of chapters left... lol!

So here is my card!

Our muse is Debby Hughes, who is awesome, and inspires me all the time. I loved Debby's colour scheme and the wreath and feathers! I white embossed Waltzingmouse Stamps Fine Feathers on Fine Linen card, added a few sequins, and mounted on white card base.

Please forgive me being so tardy! And thanks for visiting!

Michelle
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CAS(E) This Sketch 84

Hello!

I have had a fabulous day! I have a couple of days off with my kids. It is the last couple of days of school holidays and my youngest has ballet workshops leading up to her exam on Monday. Rather than try to work magic to be at work and also taking her to ballet, I took the days off. And today, I did nothing else. Just one trip to ballet and the rest was a lazy day at home. :-) I snuck to my craft desk and made a few cards, too. I'll share them over the next few days hopefully!

Tonight I bring you a card for this week's CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge #84.

I used Waltzingmouse Stamps Fine Feathers and wPlus9 Hand Lettered Hello. Ink is SU! Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, and Tsukineko Delicata Gold.

How are you inspired by the sketch? I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Thanks for dropping by to visit!

Michelle
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Case Study 193

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It's our last week with Wida Miller as our muse at CASE Study Challenge. I took the angled panel, the pale colours, and the sequins from Wida's card. I wanted to take more, but my stamping supplies didn't quite support what was in my head! Must be time to go shopping again... ;-)

I used Waltzingmouse Fine Feathers stamps.

This has been one of those challenging weeks. Work is crazy, life is crazy, and I'd really like a little bit of quiet time, lol!

Catch you later!

Michelle
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Clean and Simple 3 - Day 7 - Watercolour

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I'm here with my homework from Day 7 of Online Card Class Clean & Simple #3. After watching Jennifer Rzasa drawing and watercolouring her image, I decided that tonight was the night for me to finally draw that bird I have been thinking about.

I have never drawn a bird before, not really, not where I actually tried to make the bird look like a particular type of bird... but on the week-end I was looking at the art of Geninne, and in particular her birds, and I was overcome by the desire to draw and watercolour a bird. So, tonight, after Jen inspired me, I looked up photos of robins, wrens, and jays and decided to draw a robin redbreast. I looked at about three different photos of the birds to figure out the colour variations, and the various shapes in different positions and then gave it a go.

The sentiment is from Waltzingmouse Fine Feathers. The bird was painted using Derwent Inktense pencils and a water brush.

So what do you think?

I know it isn't perfect. It is a first try, after all. But I will admit to being so excited and encouraged by this first version that I just might try drawing and painting some more! I'm not sure I can replicate this to make a set and Jen suggested. I'm pretty happy that I even made one, lol!

Thank-you for coming by to visit!

Michelle
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Fusion #4

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It's Fusion Challenge time! When I first saw our inspiration photo, I was (of course) thinking of butterflies. I played around with butterfly ideas for such a long time, lol! I really wanted to make a card that was a fusion, and my butterfly ideas just didn't work with the sketch. So I started thinking a little more laterally, and thought about things that fly - so I thought butterflies - birds - feathers - and ended up here:

I used Waltzingmouse Stamps Fine Feathers stamps. A wide expanse of white card and a little pink ribbon and, voila! I was finished! Ultra clean and layered. :-)

Our Fusion design team have done amazing work again this week, and they are all worth a visit. ;-)

Betty J
Cathy Weber 
Dannielle Robeson
Deepti
Geri Freeman
Julia Aston
Katie Brooks
Kelly Griglione
Kimberly Wiener 

Lyndal Higgins

Lynn Mangan 

Michelle Lupton

Sindhu
Stephanie Severin

Thank you for popping by! I can't wait to see the entries this time around, the last couple of weeks have been fabulous!

Michelle
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A beautiful (feathery) life!

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My hubby asked me to make a birthday card for his runnning coach. Masculine cards are not my forte, but each time I make one I get a little bit better, and a little less apprehensive about the next one! I suggested that I make a "feather" card, since I  am currently having a love affair with Fine Feathers. Hubby gave me one of those wobbly yes's - ye-e-e-sss - but I kept going, and I think he's pretty happy with the end result.  I will admit that this card is not my own original design in any way. I CASEd Claire Brennan. I KNOW, what was I thinking? CASEing the stamp designer? LOL! Claire's card is amazing. My card is slightly different, but pretty much I made a card with what I remembered from her card - a wreath of feathers with sentiment in the middle. :-)

I made a stamping smudge - the bane of the one-layer card-maker's life! It's too late in the night for me to go back and fix it. Hubby is taking it to his running group in the morning. At least they'll know it was handmade. ;-)  The feathers are Waltzingmouse Fine Feathers. The sentiment is from PTI Meadow Greens. This card is big, so that the whole running group can sign. It's 7.75" x 5.5". Colours are SU! Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, and Delicata Golden Glitz.

Here is a little closer look at the shine of the golden feathers.

I almost don't want to give this card away. It's really delicious and warm.

Thank-you for visiting! I have a big week-end of major housework planned (we have our family Christmas party here next week-end), but I hope to sneak off to make some cards at some point. Fingers crossed!

Michelle
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Feather crazy!

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I may have fallen totally in love with Waltzingmouse Stamps Fine Feathers... I can't get enough of them!  Today I made a little bouquet for a birthday card - yes, out of feathers! :-)

I just love how well these feathers layer over each other! And they're so elegant! The top (dark blue) feather, I stamped in pigment ink so that it sat properly on top of the other two feathers. The other two are in dye ink.

As well as Fine Feathers, I used Simon Says Stamp Sketchy Banners. I stamped the "Wishing You" in Delicata Golden Glitz, which was hard to photograph. Here is a closer shot.

The problem was that if I showed you the full intense shine, you couldn't see the sentiment. You may just have to trust me that that little banner is SUPER glitzy! :-)

My kids are off on adventures tomorrow. Vacation care is taking the little kids to Lone Pine Sanctuary, where they get to feed kangaroos and emus, pet koalas, and hold snakes, amongst other things. The big kids are going to Dreamworld (a theme park). We are lucky to live within a reasonable distance (about one to one and a half hour drive) from a number of theme parks. My eldest daughter isn't so keen on rollercoasters and other rides, so I'm not sure how her day will go.  I hope she tries some of the rides out. ;-)

Now I'm off to bed for a little beauty sleep!

Thank-you for visiting!

Michelle
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Feathers Galore!

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I'm here with a flurry of feathery cards. The first is my entry into this week's CASE Study Challenge. This month at CASE Study, the muse is a selection of the best of the "Oh My Moxie Fab!" posts from Moxie Fab World. I will admit, that these posts were some of my favourites of Cath's. She always came up with something a little surprising, often sending me on journey's of discovery to find out more about the picture she had shared.

I used Waltzingmouse Stamps Fine Feathers stamps. The inks are SU! Cool Cabana (I thought smudging this across my card may be a good way to get rid of the WETness from my pad), plus some sponged Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Crushed Olive. The gold is Delicata Golden Glitz.

My other cards were not made for a particular challenge, but just because I love these feather stamps so much! This card was mostly me checking out how Mama Elephant Hazel ink stamps with a fine image. I can report that it stamps perfectly!

These next couple of cards were the original idea I had in my head when I first wanted feather stamps a long, LONG time ago.  The pink feather went to one of my daughter's violin teachers. It was taken off my craft desk almost before the ink dried! I think the ink is PTI Hibiscus Burst.

And finally this one, I used Memento Luxe Nautical Blue.

Today was the third day of school holidays. My youngest daughter still had her gymnastics lesson this afternoon, but other than that we had a day at home. The kids swam in the pool and watched tv. I think they thought they were in heaven! Next week I am back to work and the kids are off to vacation care... I think I'd rather stay on holidays. ;-)

Thanks for coming by to visit me!

Michelle
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CASE Study 167

Hello!

CASE Study this month has Keisha Campbell as the muse. Keisha's cards are amazing, but they are in a style that I find a bit unattainable. Me being me, I can't resist a challenge. So I thought I'd give Keisha's style a go. I have a LONG way to go before I come anywhere near Keisha's style. With this card, I really just copied, not so much as following the muse as copying the muse... but at least I gave it a shot, and I'll try again, I'm sure!

My card is a mish-mash of stamps and dies. The feathers are Waltzing Mouse Fine Feathers, flowers are Jane's Doodles Pretty Peonies, zig zag is Hero Arts, the sentiment is Papertrey Ink Stylish Sentiments. The dies are Mama Elephant. I would love this card, if I hadn't accidentally stuck the feathers in slightly the wrong position (the glue stuck by accident while I was positioning, argh!). It's really different for me, but still reflects my style. This is one of the things I love about CASE Study, I get to stretch outside of my comfort zone. :-)

This is Keisha's beautiful original.

This morning my daughter attended her piano exam. She has decided to stop learning piano, even though she's very good at it, because she doesn't enjoy it. I'm sad. I'm hoping she goes back to it in the future. She will continue violin (which she loves) but, for now, the piano is to be sidelined. She's only 11, there's still time to return.

Now it is time for my beauty sleep. It's been a busy few weeks. Only a week and a half left of school, and I don't have the teacher gifts done yet, eek!

Thanks for visiting!

Michelle
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