Inspired Designs

Merry Christmas Mouse

I found this adorable little punched mouse on Kim Score's blog.  Kim has an amazing talent for creating the most adorable punched creatures. 

I won't bother boring you with step-by-step instructions on how to make this little fellow because Kim provides a great tutorial on her blog.

I kept the design of the card very simple because I wanted the mouse to be the focal point of the card.   He is sitting on a glittery tuff of snow with a black skyline behind him.  I matted this on a going grey mat and a real red cardbase.  Simple but sweet!

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Stamps: Warm words

Ink: Basic black , white craft pad

CS: Whisper white, basic black, real red, going grey, basic grey, pretty in pink

Accessories: 1 1/4", 3/4", and 1/2" circle punches, ornament punch, butterfly punch, large oval and scallop oval punches, boho blossoms punch, curly label punch, three flower punch, modern label punch, heart to heart punch, big shot, mover and shaper die, dazzling diamonds, 2-way glue pen, sponge dauber

   

  

Glittery Scalloped Serene Snowflake

Even though this is a CASE'd card I had to share it with you.  I CASE'd this card from Dawn Griffith's blog.  I absolutely love the elegance of the design and decided to change the colors from shades of blue to pale plum and rich razzleberry. 

I added some small snowflakes from the Serene Snowflake set, stamped in white craft ink, on the large rich razzleberry circle.  I heat set the large snowflake with white embossing powder on a small white circle.  I masked off the edges of the circle with a small circle nestie die and sponged rich razzleberry ink over the snowflake.  I love the look of an embossed resist image and the rich razzleberry really makes the snowflake image pop.  

I layered the small stamped circle on larger pale plum and rich razzleberry mats and added a small clear rhinestone brad to the center of the snowflake.  These mats were popped up a whisper white scallop circle cardbase and a length of white organza ribbon was added to the top of the card.

Hope you are all staying nice and warm on this cold weekend.  We hit -50 degrees last night!  BRRRR!

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Stamps: Serene Snowflakes

Ink: Versamark, white craft ink

CS: Whisper white, rich razzleberry, pale plum

Accessories: Big shot, scallop circle die, circle nestabilties, white organza ribbon, clear rhinestone brads, white organza ribbon