Morticia & Gomez

I made this card for the HM&F Challenge #106 - Color Challenge Black, Orange, Yellow & Green with a Halloween theme option.  Decided to go with the Halloween theme.  I have used this HM stamp as a wedding card, graduation card and now a halloween card.  I love the Addams family so have decided that this will be Morticia and Gomez Mouse.  My daughter has a lot of Halloween stamps and accessories so have borrowed her SU House of Haunts, Best Friends & Just Between Friends stamps.  The fence and spider web border punches are from MS.  I used a spider web embossing folder on the house portion of the card.  The image was colored with copic markers and I used an oval & scalloped oval nestabilites dies to cut out the image and add the green behind it.  SU black craft inc was used to stamp all the images except the mice who were stamped with black Memento. 

Tis The Season

I stayed up late last night to make another House Mouse card for Challenge #105 - Sparkle On Your Christmas Creations.  The sparkle is in the dp, around the main image, the centre of the poinsetta and the brads in the corners.  These two little cuties are going to enjoy a hot cup of cocoa on a cold winters day.  Its not a cold winters day yet, but, it is just around the corner and I'll be wanting to enjoy a hot cup of cocoa too.  I have quite a few christmas cards made so far which is a good thing.  I usually wait until some time in November to get started and then stress myself out trying to get them done. 

The image was colored with copic markers.  I added Tis The Season in the corner from a SU set I have.  I cut the image out with a nestabilites die and the poinsetta was also cut out with a die set I just bought.  I added the bells and ribbon, the brads in the corners and centre of the flower and then stickles around the main image and on the brads on the flower.  The dp and cs is from SU.

Well, its Thanksgiving weekend and I'm really enjoying myself making cards and just relaxing.  I will be having dinner at my place with family.  I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend and finding some time to spend with family & friends.  Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for taking a look at my blog.

No Crows Scarecrow

Happy Fall everyone!  I've been itching to do a Fall card as I just love the colors.  A scarecrow makes me think of Fall for some reason so that is what I have used as my image.  The scarecrow, corn stalks & signs are all from High Hopes which I purchased ages ago.  The leaves & acorns on the inside left are from a SU set called Autumn Splendor.  I stamped the HH images on Manga Artist Paper with Memento Black Ink and then colored them with Copics.  I just received the MS Branch border punch in the mail last week and have been wanting to use it.  My collection of punches is getting very large.  There are just so many of them out there these days and they are so wonderful to use.  Spellbinders dies were used for the ovals and MS maple leaf punches for the corners.  I also had some acorn brads which I have added to the corners.  The Maple Leaf border on the inside is also a MS punch.  Heat embossing was used for the 'No Crows' sign and the leaves & acorns on the inside of my card.  All the paper is from Recollections and is called Spice Market which I purchased at Michaels.

Enjoy whats left of the weekend and thanks for visiting my blog!

The Birthday Singing Duo

This is my entry for the House Mouse Challenge #104 - Birthday theme with a bunch of flowers.  They are also having a blog hop in celebration of their 3rd anniversary.  Happy 3rd Birthday HM & Friends!  I've had a chance to look at all the DT cards on the HM&F blog and a closer look on their individual blogs and have also checked out some of the other cards that have been submitted.  There are so many wonderful cards and so many talented people out there. 

The name of this HM stamp is Two-Part Harmony.  These 2 little cuties are singing the Happy Birthday song.  I just love the HM images and really enjoy coloring and making cards with them.  These two little singers are colored with copic markers and cut out with a spellbinders die.  The actual card is also cut out with a spellbinders die along with the foliage on the bottom and the tag on the top.  The daisy was made with a MS punch and I added a fancy brad for the centre.  The dp is from stampin up along with the sentiment.  The sparkle around the main image is icicle stickles and I used cotton candy stickles around the sentiment. 

Thank you so much for dropping by my blog and taking a look.  I hope you all enjoyed your weekend.

Lovin' The Chocolate

This is my card for the HM & Friends Challenge #103 - No Cookin' Recipe Card.  I had a lot of fun with this one and knew exactly which stamp set and recipe I was going to use when I read the challenge on the blog.  I have never made a pocket card before so I found the single pocket card directions in the SCS Resources. 

The HM stamps I used are Chocolate Delight, Jumpin' For Joy & I Love Chocolate.  They were all colored with copic markers.  I used spellbinders dies to cut out the main images and the bg ovals as well.  I sponged SU creamy caramel around the mice, pixie pink around the sentiment with regal rose on the fancy oval behind it & close to cocoa around the recipe.  The dp is from SU along with chocolate chip & pixie pink cs.  The ribbon came from Michaels, I think, and the brown brad is from Bo Bunny.  The recipe I'm sharing is one that I usually make when I'm doing my Xmas baking. 

I've been on vacation for 2 weeks now and have thoroughly enjoyed them.  We have had really nasty weather for the most part over June, July & August and now that Sept. has arrived we are having some really hot and beautiful days.  Maybe this is our summer now?  Anyway, I will enjoy whatever we get even if it is from looking out the office window.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my blog.   

Fruit - It Does A Body Good

This is my card for the House Mouse Challenge #102 - Lets Get Fruity.  I just love this little buy with his belly full of summer berries.  He is colored with copic markers on Manga artist paper.  I used lt & dk brown cordinations textured cs and also a dk blue cordinations as well.  3 or 4 different sets of spellbinders dies were used for all the various shapes.  I don't know what I ever did before these came along.  I just love them!  The corner flowers were cut using a die and silver foil.  I added some red and white fancy brads to the centres of the flowers and some small flower brads at the sides and sm square brads above & below the image.

Well, we are finally having some warm summer weather here in sunny Alberta.  About time.  I was starting to think that there are just 2 seasons here - Fall & Winter.  I hope you are enjoying some beautiful weather as well.  Thank you for visiting my blog and enjoy your day.

Family Heartfelt Sympathy

This is a sympathy card that I made for my stepmom who recently lost her stepmom.  She was a big part of our family and was a very memorable woman.  Always so happy and very energetic.  There is going to be a service for her tomorrow so I wanted my stepmom & her brothers to know that we are thinking of them.

The main image and sentiment were stamped with versa mark and then heat embossed with black ep.  The circles, ovals & label were all cut with nestabilities.  Don't know how I ever got along before nestabilites.  I just love them.  The fancy shape at the top was cut with a nestability and bronze foil.  The branches along the sides were cut with a MS border punch.  Love those punches!  I used a roller and kaleidacolor to add the color behind my main image.  Here are the details:

Stamps: SU - Upsy Daisy & Close As A Memory

Paper: SU dp & red riding hood cs, black &white cs & adirondack textured cs

Ink: Versa mark, su choc. chip & cameo coral, pumkin patch kaleidacolor & black

Accessories: Nestabilites, MS border punch, black ep & bronze foil

Techniques: Heat embossing

Well, I hope everyone is enjoying another Sunday.  Thanks for taking a look at my blog.