HMF #96 Challenge - Green & Yellow Football

This is my card for the HMF #96 Challenge. These little guys aren't playing football but they are playing a game. Its called 'Shoot the Pimento'. This will be a birthday card for my niece who has loved olives since birth I think. She might even like to play this game invented by these 2 little mice. Her birthday isn't until December so I'm a bit early making it. Her sisters have their BD's in July and I haven't even started their cards yet. Those might be another challenge on HM...

I colored the main image with copic markers. I love using these markers and have slowly collected quite a collection of them. The sentiment was stamped with black ink and then I used clear ep to heat emboss. A Happy BD embossing folder was used for the bg which I took a sanding block to. A few flowers & brads were added to finish it off.

Here are the ingredients for this card:

Stamp: HM What a Pit & SU Birthday Wishes
Ink: Black Memento
Paper: Green & Yellow Cordinations textured cs, SU barely banana, crumb cake and choc. chip
Accessories: Spellbinders dies, MS punch, Happy BD ef, sanding block, green & yellow Prima's, fancy brads & copic markers.
Techniques: Dry & heat embossing and alcohol markers.

I did stay up late last night finishing this card. I guess I just enjoy the quiet of the evening to do my cards. I never seem to have time during the week nights or days to make my cards, so, I look forward to Saturday nights to do my thing. I love coloring the HM stamps and creating cards for all occassions with them. I look forward to making many more.

I really enjoy reading peoples comments on my cards which are posted here and on Splitcoast. So thank you all for taking the time to look at my cards and I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.

Cherry Lovin' Mice

We are celebrating the Queen's Birthday here in Canada and I am really enjoying a day off from the office. What better way to spend the day than making cards. With summer just around the corner (I think lol) cherries seem like a fitting subject. It was a really long winter here in Alberta and I thought Spring would never arrive. I love cherries just as much as these 3 little guys and will be looking forward to cherry season.

I left the inside of my card blank so it can be used for several different occasions. All images were stamped on Manga Artist Paper with black Memento ink and then colored in with copic markers. The dp I used is from a K & Company paper pack and the cs is chocolate chip from Stampin Up. The stitching around the edges was done by hand as I'm not good with a sewing machine - small or big. I leave that to my daughter and I don't know where she got her sewing talent from as its certainly not from me. I made the bow in the corner by using cherry ribbon which I purchased at Michaels, a large red brad and red & gold jewellery wire which I wrapped around a screwdriver to make into coils. I then added gold snaps to the other 3 corners to finish it off.

Well, I really should be doing something else today, but, its poring rain out and thats my excuse to spend the day making cards. The trees are really in need of a good drink which is what they are getting. So on that note I'll be off and I do hope everyone has a fantastic Monday and to those who read my blog Thank You for taking the time.

House Mouse May Flowers

Well, it has been such a long time since I've added anything to my blog. The last time was for a baby card for my friend at work, and now this is a card for her second baby. For this card I have used House Mouse stamps which I must say I really do love. The images are so adorable and so much fun to color. It seems like there is a baby boom happening right now, as I have 2 more baby cards to make before July.

The stamps I used were HM Baby Blocks for the front of the card & HM Monica With Pacifier on the inside. Both images were colored with copic markers. I used ms punches for the top & bottom borders & the infinity punch to border the main image. Spellbinders oval dies were used under the main image. Marvel punches for the yellow ovals and corners of the green cs. The bow was cut with a sizzlet die and I took the su spritzer tool to spray pink ink all over the bow. The pins were something that I had been thinking of doing prior to making this card. I took safety pins and added some white fabric paint to the ends to make them look like baby pins. I added prima flowers to the corners with sm silver button brads for centres and added blue ribbon under the image. The dp is from a dp pack from Michaels. I used coredinations cs and a metallic cs for the ovals that I put the pins on. SU pink cs was used for the main part of the card in which everything is attached to.

I do believe that I should make more of an effort in keeping my blog up to date. I have made many cards inbetween these 2 baby cards. Stamping is something that I truly love to do. I spend many late nights doing my stamping and other crafts during my weekends.

Boguslavsky Baby Card

This is a baby shower card I made for one of the girls I work with. She is due in Oct. and doesn't know the sex of the baby. So, I tried to incorporate all the colors associated with babies into this card. The stamp set is 'cute & cuddly' from stampin up. Very cute set. I used prismacolors & oms to color the stamped images. I tried to do quilting for the bg on the front of the card using dp and cs that was embossed with a heart folder. I just love using the spellbinders dies for cuting out images and adding bg's. What a great invention they were and so easy to use along with the cb. I also used the New Arrival cartridge for the cricut to cut out the safety pins & feet on the inside of the card and the little bow on the front. I used 2 small circle spellbinder dies to cut a ring and then added white ribbon to half and laid the other half under the bear image. I used a ms border punch to give a little bit of a lacey look to the card. I have sort of been on a vacation from making cards over the past month and now its time to get back at it. I have started to invest in the copic markers but haven't really given them a try yet so am looking forward to getting familiar with them in upcoming cards.

HH Challenge #35 - Lotsa Circles

This is my card for the High Hopes Challenge #35 - Lotsa Circles and I have added circles everywhere. I really love the DT cards and the entries I have seen for this challenge. Again I started making this card around 12:30 last night. Got most of it colored and cut up and just finished putting it all together. These images are so much fun to color. So, here are the ingredients for this card:
Stamps: HH - Oops Ellie & Sentiment
Paper: DP, SU in color blue, white & cream cs, yellow core'dinations
Ink: Black stazon, yoyo yellow, white & black gel pens
Accessories: Spellbinders dies & embossing folder, buttons, emb. floss, fiskars corner punch, copper brads, yellow stickles, prisma colors & oms
Techniques: Gamsol Magic
The main image was colored with prisma colors & oms. I added some yellow stickles to the ribbon around the trunk to give it a little sparkle. I ran the yellow core'dinations through the cb with a circle embossing folder. YoYo yellow was added to the edges of the circles for the elephant and the sentiment. So, here is the finished product and I must say that I had a great time making it.

Sketch Challenge #34

This is my card for the HH Sketch Challenge #34. I just love this HH stamp and it is one of my favorites. I love the layout that was chosen for the challenge and the DT cards are just fabulous as always. They give me so much inspiration.

To make this card I used the always popular prismacolor and oms to color my image. I bought the dp some time ago and it seemed to fit in as it has apple images on it which don't seem to appear in my picture. To make the larger apples in the corners I used a MS apple punch, glued a green apple with a red one. I then rubbed versa mark on the top of the apples, put Utee on top and then heat embossed. I did this several times to give it that look of glass. The leaves were punched with ms punches and a marvel punch. The main image was cut out with a spellbinder die and then brads added to finish it off. Here are all the ingredients:

Stamps: HH - Annie's Bushel
Paper: SU cranberry, white cs and various dp's, dk. med. & lt. green & gold cordinations'
Ink: Black stazon, versa mark, white & black gel pens & su glorious green stampin' write
Accessories: Brads, prismacolors, oms, spellbinder die, ms apple & leaf punches, marvel leaf punch.
Techniques: Gamsol Magic & Heat Embossing

Thanks for the fun challenge and I'm looking forward to the next one.

HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #33

This is my card for the High Hopes Challenge #33 - No Corners. This is the first time I have ever made a round card. Wasn't sure how I was going to do it, but, it was very easy to do. I just might make a few more. I have been doing the insides of my cards lately and did the same for this one. It's simple but just adds a little bit more to a home made card. I haven't invested in any copics yet but am getting closer. Until then I still like and will use my prismacolors & oms.

Stamps: HH Lion & Lamb

Paper: White cardstock & SU dp

Ink: Black stazon & more mustard

Accessories: Primas, small coper brads, nestabilities, prismacolors, oms & sizzlets alphabet

Technique: Gamsol Magic

I had lots of fun with this challenge as it was something that I hadn't done before and I will be looking forward to the next challenge.