House Mouse Fall Card

I colored this image last weekend and finally made it into a card while watching Pan-Am tonight.  I luckily didn't miss out on the Fall House Mouse challenge that ends in a few hours.

I am also entering these challenges: 

Simon Says Stamp - Buttons

PaperPlay Challenge - Buttons

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - sketch #126

Supplies:

House Mouse image from my stash

Basic Grey Indian Summer paper

Leaf buttons & paper leaves from stash

lots of copics!

TFL!!

PCC #116 {Gobble, Gobble} - Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake

TGIF! Any plans for the weekend? As I always say, I hope to get some crafting time in!

It's time for another PaperCutz Challenge and guess what starting this week each challenge will run for 2 weeks now! This week's challenge is called "Gobble, Gobble" and we'd like to see you create a card, layout or project for Thanksgiving incorporating a favorite Thanksgiving dish.  Now if you know me, you know I do not cook LOL....so I saw this challenge and was like, eek what do I do??? Well last weekend I was flipping through some magazines and I found a recipe for Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake and earlier I had come across an adorable House Mouse image of the mousies eating pie and an idea sparked!

Here is what I came up with~

You can't tell in the picture but the image is cut out and popped up on the page.  I finished off the page with some buttons and twine from The Twinery. Click {HERE} to enter your creation and to see what the rest of the DT made. You have until November 17th to enter!

I am also entering the following challenges:
Moving Along with the Times #123 - Food & Drink
Paper Playtime #59 - Anything Goes Past or Present
Stamp with Fun #135 - Buttons

TFL!

Stars, Circle and Diamonds, Oh My!

TGIF! Any big plans for the weekend?  I hope to get some crafting & cleaning in my craft room done. I moved my desk last weekend and it makes a huge difference since I'm closer to the lighting but now I have a big mess to clean up LOL! Well several since every time I make a change, I've never finished cleaning it up! I'd rather spend my time crafting!

This week's PaperCutz Challenge is to make a card, layout or project for Halloween and to use circles, stars or diamonds.  Click {HERE} to enter your creation and check out the great DT samples!

Right away I knew what paper I wanted to use, I've had this Cosmo Cricket Matilda paper since it came out and haven't touched it. I also incorporated the House Mouse color challenge of orange, yellow, black and green after seeing my bloggy friend Vicki's card on Monday. It's been ages since I've played with my mousies! The mousie is from my stash of HM images and the sentiment is from the Happy Haunting set by My Craft Spot. The ribbon is from Walmart.

For the layout of the card I played along with My Time Made Easy Pretty Patterns #31 which is to choose a sketch from challenges #13-18.  I chose #17, pictured below. 

This card will also be entered into these challenges:
Going Grey with Scrap Creations: Halloween
Everybody Art #163: Halloween
Clear It Out Tuesday: Halloween + Old Supplies

TFL!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope you all had a sweet day!

This is the card I made for my husband. I found this House Mouse image in my stash so I'm not sure of the name...the paper is from Bo Bunny Crush. I love all the heart patterns in this pad.

I even decorated the inside! The stamps are from an old CTMH set. The ribbon is from American Crafts, I won it in a blog candy package from my friend Jennie a few months ago.

I'm entering these challenges:

Crafty Catz #69 - Valentines/Love

2 Sisters #26 - Hearts

Crazy 4 Challenges #74 - Hearts

And a few photos from our night lol...our family photo. This is our first married V-day and our first with our puppy!

Our yummy dinner prepared by my husband!

TFL!

ESS #79

I love when I have time to use Tracy's sketches!

Here is this past Thursday's sketch ~

And here is my version ~

I've had this image stamped for weeks and finally had a chance to make a card with it, actually I made two but I'll save one for another post, he he he. This mousie looks so comfy in the pretty pink flower.

Card Supplies ~

Stamps: Flower Bed ~ House Mouse

Paper: Green at Heart ~ Basic Grey

Ink: Memento

Copics: R00, R20, RV14, E33, E35, N2, YG25

Other: pink spica pen, leafy cuttlebug folder, leaf punch ~ EK Success, prima flower, MM brad, SU corner rounder

That's all for now. It's American Idol time!

Stop back tomorrow for Flutter By Wednesday and the Squigglefly Rewind!

Happy April!

Happy April!

I totally forgot to do my end of the month roundup for March...let's just say it didn't stack up to the first two months of the year. Hopefully I'll do much better this month!

Here is a card that I created on Thursday night for quite a few challenges :)


I love, love, love this card and hated to mail it away this morning lol. The spotlight technique is one of my favorite to use. The layout is from a sketch posted on the House Mouse challenge blog a few weeks ago.

Challenges completed:

Pile it On #12 - Animal-riffic!
Corrosive Challenge - Easter or Spring
Everybody Art Challenge #84 - Spring
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Fab 'N Funky Challenges #17 - Spring is in the Air
Little Red Wagon #22 Rolling into Spring
Charisma Cards #13 Animal Magic
Treehouse Thursday #43 Spotlight Technique

Card Supplies
Stamps: Bed of Flowers ~ House Mouse
Paper: Basic Grey Euphoria
Ink: Memento
Copics: E31, E33, E35, R81, RV17, V06
Other: CM circle punch, Studio 18 rhinestones, prima flowers

Off to enjoy the nice weather for a bit, will be back later with a card I finished this morning!

Saturday Spotlight #20

So when I saw this Saturday Spotlight challenge "Clean It Up" - make a clean & simple card....ack, really??? I think I make simple cards but they tend to have lots of busy paper which makes them look less simple (if that makes any sense at all LOL!!!)

I've been wanting to try last week's Clean & Simple Fall to Layout #79 and thought both challenges together would work out well and I was right!


I made this card last night to send to one of my cousins that had a baby boy last week. The adorable image is from my friend Terry.

Here is the layout ~

Card Supplies
Stamps: House Mouse, Inkadinkadoo
Paper: DCWV, misc. cardstock
Ink: Memento
Copics: B21, B23, R81, E00, T1, T3
Other: Marvy punch, Swiss Dot Cuttlebug folder

TFL! Come back in the morning for another Flutter By Wednesday!

Eerie Halloween!

Here it is...the last Halloween card of 2009!

I really liked all the cards I made this year, but I think this one might be my favorite. It has a "spooky" feel to it, I think. The fabulous paper is Eerie by Basic Grey.

The image is another House Mouse from Terry and I used Frosted Lace stickles to make it stand out a bit more. The layout is MOJO103. love their sketches! I think this will be another one used for Christmas cards.
I hope you all had a fab day! I'm off to finish up a few fall cards and maybe start one or two swap cards before bed. I'll be back tomorrow with more to share!

Trick or Treat!

Yay, I got some trick or treaters!

Here is the card I created for my neighbor. She only used to give out candy to us when my sister and I were little, he he. We're special :)

This is another House Mouse from Terry. She was so kind to send me some images to play with since mine are still packed up. I think this dino is so cute and just had to glitter it up lol


I used another Splitcoast sketch - SC220...too lazy to link it up at the moment, sorry!

Here's a better shot of the sparkle
Be back later with one more card!

Its a Candy Corn Halloween :)

I'm back with another Halloween card for you! This is the card I mailed to my mom, she liked it a lot :)

This adorable image was sent to me by my friend Terry. She is a huge House Mouse fan
The paper is all DCWV from various fall stacks. I can probably make at least 50 more cards with all the paper I have for this holiday. I used my spica glitter pens to color in the candy corn costumes and candy. Look below for a close up view of the sparkle. I didn't want to over embellish the card, so I used a single Petaloo Dazzler to accent. Love those! The layout is from SCS- SC252, I think this will be fab with a Christmas card!


I'm off to make sugar cookies with Mom. Will share another card when I get back!

Flutter By Wednesday #81

Happy Flutter By Day!

Its another open week, so if you would like to join us (and I hope you do!), please create something using a butterfly, fairy, or angel and link it to Danni's blog.

This happy card was created using a House Mouse image from my friend Terry. I used my newly discovered Basic Grey June Bug paper...knew I bought it but couldn't find it until this past weekend when I had to go through my scrappy stuff to repack it and move it to another room :sigh:

I went sorta Clean & Simple on this card using FTL61 from the Clean & Simple Stamping blog...hard for me to call it clean when the paper is so busy LOL! I couldn't find any appropriate embellishments so I added some sparkle using my gold spica pen on the butterfly, its kinda hard to tell by the picture though. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts clear set. I even dusted off the prismacolor pencils to color the image in, and have decided I still love my copics better.

Please visit my fellow team members, links are on the left sidebar!

Have a great day!

Challenge 39 - House Mouse Birthday

Its the House Mouse Challenge Blog's 1st birthday!

It so happens that I have a cousin celebrating a first birthday party today, so I made him this card.

I had a good time creating this card last night. The sketch was inspired by this week's Twisted Thursday #12. I got to play with my copics ~ I think my cupcake looks divine! I also used my nestabilities for the first time in my Cuttlebug. I don't know why I waited so long!! They really cut quite easily - if you have them and haven't used them in the Cuttlebug yet, watch THIS awesome tutorial by Gina K. Designs. It is wonderful! I started another card this morning using a different nesties set, I'm addicted now!

The Recipe:
Stamps: Make a Wish 02 ~ House Mouse Stampabilities, sentiment ~ Inkadinkadoo
Paper: GP, DCWV
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento, More Mustard ~ Stampin Up
Copics: E00, E33, E35, R81, YG25, B14, YR24
Accessories: Xtra Giga Oval Scalloped punch ~ EK Success, Ribbon Tag Trio ~ Nestabilities, ribbon ~ American Crafts


Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoy your day.

Good friends & Chocolate...

You can never have enough of either one!

I created this card for a House Mouse swap and I just had to use this stamp with the chocolate since Stamptacular Sunday's challenge this week was "Oh, for the love of chocolate". The layout is Tamara's Card Sketch #96. I had to flip it to accommodate my image. I love how this card turned out, but I forgot to stickle the tops of the chocolates! Oh well, I'll have to remember that next time.

The Recipe:
Stamps: Chocolate Delight ~ House Mouse by Stampabilities, Chocoholic ~ Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps
Paper: GP, CTMH, DCWV
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento, Copics
Accessories: scalloped scallop border punch ~ EK Success, brads ~ Joanns, zig writer

Thanks for stopping by!

A Spring Tail

A quick card share for today!

I created this card on Sunday for a garden swap. Lots of fun copic coloring here!

The Recipe:

Stamps: A Spring Tail ~ House Mouse (Stampabilities)

Paper: GP, DCWV, Lemon Tart ~ Papertrey Ink

Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento, copics

Accessories: prima flowers, brad (Making Memories)

Thanks for looking!

Sweet Sunday Sketch #10

I love, love, love this card and totally didn't want to mail it out!

This card was created for a spotlight swap. I really love this technique, its easy and fun. I was stamping images for a swap and decided this House Mouse would be a great one to spotlight. I used Sweet Sunday Sketch #10 which you can find HERE.

The Recipe:
Stamps: Flower Drop ~ House Mouse, sentiment ~ Studio G
Paper: DCWV, GP, CTMH Sweet Leaf
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento, Almost Amythyst ~ Stampin Up
Copics: ROO, R81, BV11, E35, YG03
Accessories: ticket corner punch ~ SU, ribbon ~ Michaels

Thanks for looking!

On the 24th Day of Christmas...

I have 3 cards to share with you all today. These are the cards that I made for my co-workers (or as I like to call them "my boys"). I used Splitcoast sketches for them but unfortunately I left my notes home and I'm hanging out with my sister for the night. I also have to apologize for not cropping the pictures, for the life of me I can't figure out how to in the Paint program even after visiting the help section.

On to the cards:

I had fun with this card. I decided to break out the fun flock for the first time. I used a Quickie Glue Pen to apply it, most of it stuck but I did end up with a lot on the desk and inevitably me LOL, it really does look cool though and I will be using it again...think I might need to get more colors too!

Stamps: Owl (Hero Arts)

Paper: DCWV

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Accessories: brads & eyelets (unknown), Marvy punches, primsacolor pencils, fun flock

Another House Mouse card - I bought this stamp at Creative Play Stamps, great prices & service!

Stamps: House Mouse

Paper: DCWV

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Bravo Burgundy (Stampin Up)

Accessories: prismacolor pencils, copic spica pen, eyelet (unknown)

I got this cute moose by Rachelle Anne Miller at Sweet N Sassy Stamps. I also got some cool SNSS Christmas sets but I didn't have the time to use them.

Stamps: Moose (Rachelle Anne Miller)

Paper: DCWV

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Accessories: Ticket Corner punch (Stampin Up), copic spica pens, prismacolor pencils

Sorry for the funky spacing issues...using IE instead of my Firefox and I can't figure out the glitch! Its driving me batty. LOL

TFL!

On the 22nd Day of Christmas...

its getting close! I can't believe Christmas is only a few days away!! I'm still not ready...one more card to make, one set of note cards to make and all the presents to wrap!

Today's card is a House Mouse. Its an old Stampa Rosa HM that I bought on ebay. I love how it turned out. Glossy Accents was my friend for making this batch of cards lol. I used another Splitcoast Stampers sketch - SC120.

Stamps: Little Candy Striper (Stampa Rosa)
Paper: DCWV, Provocraft
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Accessories: Ticket punch (Stampin Up), Glossy Accents, prismacolor pencils, copic spica gold pen, English Red marvy marker

I had a good mail day today, got lots of cards from my friends AND my bella order! Woohoo!! I won a $15 gift certificate back in September on Jen Del Muro's site and I finally used it during the Bella Anniversary sale. I got some extra goodies for placing an order during this time - 4 jars of some embellies that I've never seen before and 4 mini bellas! They will be neat on my scrappy pages!

TFL!

On the 20th Day of Christmas...

I almost forgot to post! LOL

I blogged so much earlier that I took and break and then completely forgot about my daily card!

The image used is a House Mouse that I got from the image swap that I hosted. This card is for my boyfriend's parents and I think it turned out awesome! And for those that don't know...the top to the Glossy Accents comes off, I learned that lesson the hard (and messy) way! LOL!!


Here is a close up of the candle & marshmallow - I had fun shading it to make it look "toasted". You can slightly see the shine on the candle holder. It looks cool IRL.

Stamps: House Mouse, Holiday Greetings (AMuse)
Paper: DCWV
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Handsome Hunter (Stampin Up)
Accessories: prismacolor pencils, Marvy markers, brad (unknown), copic spica yellow pen, corner rounder (Stampin Up)

TFL!

On the 16th Day of Christmas...

I have more mousies to share with you!

This is another image from my friend Sandy, aren't they cute?! The sketch is from Splitcoast Stampers #203. The corner images are from Studio G - I just love the $1 sets, I've been getting so much use out of them. And of course I had to get the bling in there, for the tails I colored them with my prismacolor pencils and went over them with my copic clear spica pen. I accented the ornaments with the Sakura Stardust pen.

Stamps: House Mouse, Studio G
Paper: DCWV
Ink: Rhubarb Stalk & Bamboo Leaves (Memento), Bordering Blue (Stampin Up)
Accessories: prismacolor pencils, copic spica pens, sakura stardust pen

Thanks for looking! I need to get back to the craft table so I'll have something to share tomorrow!

Birthday Mouse

This had to be one of the quickest cards I've ever made. I whipped it up in about 10 minutes, before I left for my brother's 12th birthday party. I used Jen Del Muro's Sketch for You to Try which you can see HERE. The paper is from the Christmas DCWV stack and the House Mouse image is from my good friend Sandy.

Even though this is a boy's card, I still had to get some bling in there. I used my copic at you spica pens on the candle.

I'll be back later with my daily Christmas card. Need to get to work on it now!