Showing posts with label House-Mouse. Show all posts
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Saturday, 18 August 2012

Thanks House Mouse, and Thanks again

A couple of Thank You cards as you can see, using House Mouse. These are part of a decoupage collection. In both cases I've used section 2 of the decoupage pages, leaving the rest to actually turn into decoupage and use on other cards....I like to get the most out of my little housie mousies. 

On this first card I coloured my background with chalks, just a random dusting. It looks better in person than in the pic. In both cards my paper is digital from Bearly Mine Designs, the ribbon binding and yellow striped button is ribbon girl, the flower prima (coloured with promarkers) and the beautiful pins are from Linda at Creative Harmony. Except for the flower, stamp and Linda's pins, nothing I've used is less than a year old, and some much, much older. I'm getting quite good at shopping my stash.

I've used a new technique on the inside. I coloured my stamp with promarkers, then damped the page with a baby wipe. That reactivated the promarkers to produce a 'distressed' looking image. I quite like the effect and think I'll have another play using more than one colour on the stamp. Sorry, I can't remember where in blogland I saw this....so if it was you, please let me know and I'll credit you for it.

I'd like to enter this for
 Buttons, Ribbon, Chalk, Adhesive, Markers 
 I'm entering this second card for the challenge at 




Tuesday, 24 April 2012

House Mouse Anything Goes

It's our anniversary today, this is the card for my hubby.  I do love how cute these little house mouses are, and there is always one perfect for any (or many) occasions. I used my Lyra Pencils again, enjoying them more and more each time. I scored my cardstock in a double lattice pattern...I've seen it on a few cards around blogland recently. My image is matted onto a satin silver card, and the square behind is a shimmer pearl, also matted onto the satin silver. I have added a silver bead to the crossovers on the lattice.
A Close up just because these little fellas are so adorable. 

I'd like to enter 




Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Amber's Crafts & Stuff #18 Embossing.

A nice simple challenge for us this week at Amber's...Embossing. So show us your embossing techniques, whether that's dry or wet embossing, what do you like to do? You can see what the rest of the Crafting Pals did this week here. The winner this week will be invited to join us as Guest Designer during an upcoming challenge, we love to have you with us.
 I've gone with my beloved House Mouse again, coloured with a mix of blendable and watercolour pencils.  I so used to love those sweets/candy, when I was a kid.  I used to look for the not so lovingly worded ones to give to my brothers lol. 

This embossing folder is a new one I have,  by Tim Holtz, and my seam binding  and dew drops are from The Ribbon Girl. My die-cut label is cuttlebug. The cardstock and the sheet of white mulberry paper overlaying the card is from stash and the pin is handmade by little ol' me.  

A Close-up 

Some Challenges ...
Jac-Inks Papercraft Challenges -   Die-cuts Plus Texture
Shopping Our Stash -  Use something you've been hoarding or your newest products (new embossing folder & hoarded dew drops) 
 Use It Tuesdays -  Animals (Hoarded supply is the dew drops...been hanging on to those babies, have trouble breaking out the seam binding too)
Forever Friends -  Not Square
KB Cute Monday - Something Cute
Ellephantastic - Celebrations
Paper Creator's Crafts   - Special Occasion 
Sweet Stampin -  Cute & Cuddly 
Quirky Crafts - No patterned papers; make your own



Monday, 11 July 2011

The Crazy Challenge #75 Summer

I'm delighted to announce I'm on the Design Team for The Crazy Challenge. This week the Theme is Summertime, so show us your summer related projects, we've shown you ours here . Our Sponsor for this week is Hobbisimo.
We have such a glut of strawberries at the moment that I just had to use this little fella for my summer themed card....boy is he stuffed lol. 

A Close up of the image and my hand made flowers. 
Please hop over to The Crazy Challenge and see the lovely work the other DT members have to show you. 
If you'd like a Guest DT spot, simply add GD after your name when you enter the challenge. 

My Receipe:-
Image ... House Mouse Designs
Sketch ... Tuesday Trio 
Colourants ... Water Colour Pencils 
DP's ... Craft Creations
Die-Cut ... Nesties decal rectangle
Flowers ... Handmade 
Butterfly Gems ... Stash

Some Challenges ...
Tuesday Trio - Sketch 
Dream Valley Challenges -  Summer theme
2 Sisters - Summer Fun
Crazy 4 Challenges -  Summer Themed 
Sweet Stampin -  Cute & Cuddly 
Totally Gorjuss - Summertime 
Card Makin' Mamas - summertime
Digi's With Attitude! - anything goes challenge
Art Impressions Stamps Challenge -  Use something from your stash (butterfly shaped gems) 
Creative Belli -  handmade embellishments




Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Ambers Crafts & Stuff #14 Vacation, All I ever Wanted

The week at Ambers we want to see your Vacation related projects - a card about Travel or your Favourite Vacation or a scrapbook page. I haven't been on vacation for many, many years (difficult when there always seems to be a least one member of the household housebound ...do I hear the sound of violins lol) and as,  quite frankly I still haven't got my scrapbooking into gear yet - I've made a card that reminds me of holidays (vacations) when the kids were little. We used to go in a big family group and there was always one of the males amongst us getting himself buried in the sand. 

I've made this masculine because, as I said, in my experience it's the males of the species who like getting buried up to their necks....personally I think it's because it gets them out of trooping off the buy the ice-creams and soft drinks lol. 

This is from a new set of House Mouse Decoupage I've just had..you'll be seeing it a lot I'm sure. The images are so large and full, just lovely...I felt this one cried out to be an easel card. 

 The easel stand, with matching greeting....as if you need to tell a man to 
take it easy on vacation eh!! ...or is it just the men I know lol. 

Close up of my lovely manly buttons, 
with a little Basic Grey fibre for added interest. 

Pop over and see what the rest of the DT have made this week, right here. Remember you can make any kind of project you like for Ambers Crafts and Stuff...so long as it follows the theme for the challenge.

My Receipe:-
Decoupage ... House Mouse Designs
Fibre ... Basic Grey - figgey & Two Scoops
Die Cuts ... Marianne Creatables and Nesties
Card-stock & Buttons ... Oh so old Stash.

Some Challenges I'd like to enter ...
Anything Goes Challenge - Here Comes Summer 
Top Tip Tuesday -  Open Challenge
Bows 'n Berries - Masculine.
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge - Father's Day / masculine
Hooked on Crafts - Anything goes.
Incy Wincy Designs - Father's Day/Masculine
Squigglefly   Make it Masculine
Sentimental Sundays -  Father's Day or Masculine






Thursday, 9 June 2011

Hop to it, Adorn with Jewels.

My second post....don't think I've ever posted two cards the same day before.

I've made this card for a Friend who has just had an operation on her foot. She has pins in it and will be hobbling about on crutches for 6 weeks, poor thing. 

This is one of my favourite housemouse stamps...think they are just so cute and look like they are having a whale of a time - I've used it previously for a new home card too....very versatile. Not quite sure how long I've had the stamp, it's pretty old, a good few years. 

The first part of my sentiment 'Hop to it' is fitted onto one of the retro flowers, with the 'and Get Well soon' acting as the bar to hold the easel in place. My image is coloured with water colour pencils - I coloured the image, and wet the area's afterwards. 
Wish I could remember where I had the card stock from, I really love the texture, and these sheets are pearlised too. 

Close up of my Retro Flowers 

Sentiment. 

Receipe :-
Image ... House Mouse Designs
Die Cuts ... Marianne's Creatabilities, Nesties & Go Kreate
Cardstock & Gems ... Stash

Some Challenges ...
House Mouse Challenge - Adorn with jewels
Crafts and Me - Stamp something
Dream Valley Challenges - Stamp Something
Pixie Cottage - shaped cards
Your Next Stamp Challenge - shaped cards
Stampavie and More - more than one fold 
Claudia & Co - Fancy Folds 
Top Tip Tuesday -  More Than 1 fold 
 Deep Ocean Challenge -  Anything Goes 
Oldie But Goodie Challenge -  Lots of Layers (stamp over 6mths old)
Card Cupids - More Than 3 Layers
Anita Be Stampin' - Go Crazy with Layers
Cupcake Craft - Things with tails.
Word Play Weekend Challenge - Anything with a Tail
Alphabet Challenge -  Easel cards.
Stampin With The Dragon - Easel card.



Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Amber's Crafts & Stuff #1: Stashbuster/Anything Goes

Amber's Crafts & Stuff launches her Challenge Blog today with Stashbuster/Anything Goes. Now I know everyone loves Anything Goes, and who hasn't got some old stash they really, really should have used by now. Go dig it out and join us in a fun Challenge here 
I used up a fine amount of stash on this card, the youngest of my old stash is the House Mouse decoupage, which is about 1yr old and I'm extremely miserly with it. I mostly just get it out and look at how pretty it is lol, but occasionally break them out and make a baby card.   The very oldest is the quilling papers which I used to weave a background. I've woven a few in the past in different colours, it's a lot of fun. The card blanks I used to make my easel cards is probably just as old too. I used to buy them when I was first cardmaking....then I discovered sheets of card stock. The blanks usually get cut up now. 



A few close ups of the details. 



My Receipe...
House Mouse Decoupage - Old Stash
Quilling Papers - Old Stash
Basic Grey Baby Paper - Old Stash
Kay & Co Die Cut Stickers - Old Stash
Pink Acrylic Embellis - Old Stash
Card Blanks - Old Stash 
Ribbon & Ric-rak - Marianne Designs 
Label Die Cuts - Cuttlebug Fanciful Labels 
Baby Shoe Embellie - Hobby Craft

I'd Like to enter the following Challenges 


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