A Gingerbread Man Christmas with the House Mouse Gang

Buttons and Bows with my favorite House Mouse stamps (Finishing Touch) Just a bit of clear gel pen on the bell and white gel pen on the word and gingerbread man's buttons:

Copic Colors Used

For:
House Mouse & Friends - Buttons and Bows
Crafting with Dragonflies

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Alice in Wonderland with a Sweet Pea Stamp

Who could resist an Alice in Wonderland challenge? Not me. I LOVE anything Alice, but I had to search to find a "dark" version. (I used to play the computer game of Alice that was wickedly evil!) Anyway, I found this one at Sweet Pea Stamps. I also added some Sakura Gel in clear to her bow, eyes, and lips. Love that stuff! It adds just a touch of shine.

Copic Colors Used

Entered:
Mojo Monday
Outlaws Friday Color
Crafting From the Heart
Crafting with Dragonflies

Clean and Simple Fall Leaves

A very simple CAS (Clean and Simple) made with my alcohol inks sprayed with alcohol on glossy paper for the background and then some water colored leaves that I did a while ago. Stamped sentiment from Stampabilities.

Outlaws CAS
Crafting From the Heart

Christmas Gifts from a House Mouse

I had so much fun making this card using one of my House Mouse stamps from Stupendous. I used my spray gun to do the green on the raised flower that is holding a package, and on the circle so they would match. I also fussy cut the mouse and added some embossed "snow". I did some paper piecing with the packages adding one more to the grouping. The top of the mouse and the flower and the gift are each raised with foam squares.

Copic Colors used

Mojo Monday #363

Entering:
Mojo Monday
House-Mouse & Friends
Crafty Girls Challenge

Love You Bunches from Little Miss Muffet

This little cutie, Love-you-bunches, comes from Little Miss Muffet Stamps. The Outlawz Friday Color Challenge was to have a hat somewhere on the card. I used the layout from Mojo Monday. Entering in Whoopsi Daisy Challenge and Fab 'n Funky also.

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Mojo Monday #362

Trick or Tweet from Stupendous House Mouse and a Halloween Cat for the Outlawz

Well, it's that time of the year. I have a couple of relatives that just live for Halloween so I thought I would do this adorable stamp from House Mouse/Stupendous. This was a bit of a challenge to color with Copic because some of the little critters were soooo small. But, by holding my breath, I got it done! This card, because of the colors, allowed me to use some of the papers I had made a while back. Too bad I can't remember how I did them LOL! I also used a few of my own melted beads for dots. The card base is a craft brown even though it looks kind of green here. And, I finally found some of those little wooden easels to use to hold my card upright for photos.

Copic Colors Used

This card is for the Outlawz CAS (Clean and Simple), color our world, and I used most of the same colors. I didn't use all of them but didn't introduce any new ones for this Hampton Arts Halloween Cat and spooky spider. I had the paper so I simply covered the whole front of a card with that and I cut out an extra cat so it could go over the spider paper.

Orange and Green for Halloween

House Mouse Knitters Card

My friend is having a birthday in a few days. We met because we are both knitters. I couldn't pass up this House Mouse stamp from Stupendous to make a card that would be special. I embossed the button band.

Copic Colors Used

The layout was from Mojo Monday.

Outlawz Sunday CAS with and Owl and Pure Innocence from My Favorite Things

This is my final week as a guest designer over at the Outlawz CAS (Clean and Simple) Sunday challenge. I really have enjoyed being part of a design team and hope that one day I will have the opportunity to do so again. This week's challenge was to use a button as the focal point of our card. The first thing that I thought of was an owl winking. Not finding one, I had to just draw one myself.

Copic Colors Used

Then, not completely sure that my owl was drawn that well, I decided to use some button papers and this simple little girl from Pure Innocence by My Favorite Things and do a second one. I forgot to take a picture of the colors used on this one though :( The Outlawz team decided to post both :)

Caroling Snowmen from Meljens Designs

Aren't these caroling snowmen from Meljens designs just so much fun. Very happy and I want to just pinch their cheeks! It really, really puts me in the holiday mood :)
I thought I would enter this into the Meljens challenge as well as Friday's Color Challenge for the Outlawz, anything goes with a Christmas twist, this week.

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Little Garden Sally from Art by Mi Ran and Mojo Monday #360

I just love this Little Garden Sally with the watering can from Art by Mi Ran and decided to combine her Anything Goes with the Mojo Monday challenge. I added an embossed tree to one side, a black die cut to the left, the ribbon is kind of see through with little flowers and the topper to the button I made myself with a Pearl Pen.

Copic Colors Used

Monochromatic Card Using Meljen's Designs

What fun. Do a card monochromatic! That was the challenge from Meljen's Designs and I grabbed the beautiful Meljen's Designs Cup of Sunshine and all the red/violet Copics and got to work. I just love the raspberry color. I sprayed a cut out strip with my air brush and added a couple of flowers and three of my own dots made from melting beads. This is my first entry to Meljen's and I was so impressed with what the design team came up with. Hop over and enjoy more monochromatic goodness!

Copic Colors Used

Friendship - Outlawz Challenge with House Mouse Berrying Gifts

 

Sunday is National Friendship Day. Humm, didn't know that, but I do love my friends. (And, I count my dear readers as friends too!) I learned about this from the Outlawz Challenge where they asked for friendship-oriented projects. I happen to love the Stampendous House Mouse stamps and this one, Berrying Gifts, really spoke to me about the sharing and giving aspects of friendship.

I added some clear gel on the berries to make them glisten and some gold gel on the inside of the raised word, friends. Copics used below.

Stampendous "Gifts to Tie" for the Outlawz

Over at The Outlawz' Friday Coloring Challenge we were asked to to and anything goes card with the option of a Christmas twist. Well, this was another opportunity to get some of those Christmas cards going. I had a new House Mouse, Gifts to Tie, stamp from Stampendous that I was just itching to use. Snow is Stampendous Chunky white embossing enamel. I also had another chance to some of my handmade dots.

Copic Markers Used

Quilling, Outlawz Challenge

I have been asked to show some of my quilling. I am a beginner and have only done a few pieces. So, I thought I would take this week's challenge from The Outlawz CAS (Clean and Simple) to use a tag and add some quilling to it. I fringed the red and white ones. I really had a battle with my computer to get the colors right and the computer won. This time anyway. The card is one of those craft paper colors, so brown. The bottom tag was painted with Wild Honey Distress Paint and the top one was sprayed with Dylusions in a purple. They both started out as the brown as well. I added an eyelet and stamped "just because."


More quilling, and do remember these are my first tries :)

Copic Pallet Blending Technique

Stampendous Cling Bowl Bouquet

On Friday's Coloring Challenge for the Outlawz Challenges, we were asked to use a specific pallet with 6 specific colors. This was a bit of a challenge and I decided that I should use the pallet blending technique with my Copics.
The technique worked best with the colors that usually would not blend with Copics. I used a piece of acetate and scribbled on some BG75 and BG 72 then used the Rll to swipe through them and apply the color. Put this down where you want it dark and keep circularly blending outward to get this to work. If you've never tried this method, it is a lot of fun. Do practice, as you can see on the photo below to get it down. I used this method on the roses.

Photo courtesy of Design Seeds (http://design-seeds.com/)

A Little Birdie Says HI

Here's a "red, white, and blue" card featuring the Meljens Designs Birds Little Letter digital stamp. (The brown in the back is my kitchen table LOL) I fussy cut the bird and used pop-up tape on the top. The side design is from my new die from Sizzix.
This card is being entered in Mojo Monday and the Outlawz Friday Coloring Challenge.

Copic Colors Used

Mummy Dog and My First Outlaw Challenge

Another new site and more challenges! Fun stuff. I became a member of The Outlaw Challenges and already joined a group called "Sunday's Clean and Simple." Well this certainly was a challenge for me because I am just learning to layer. So, back to the basics. I'm not sure how "simple" these have to be. I looked at the design team's work and see up to 6 items, so I should be safe :)

Since the theme is "dogs", hot or otherwise, I went on an Internet search for a digital stamp. I found a great site, Meljens Designs and found this Mummy Dog. On sale even! I used a die punch from Sizzix for the only real embellishment and airbrushed it a matching green.

I have entered this in: The Outlaws Sunday's Clean and Simple
http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/group/sundayscleanandsimplecas

Copic Colors Used

Cards with House Mouse from Stampendous

I have taken a couple of classes from Jennifer Dove at our local shop, Scraps of Love. She is a great teacher and has come up with some really fun compositions for the Stampendous House Mouse line. Here are a few that I completed using my Copic markers:

Hole in one Hal from Doctor-digi

Hubby has a birthday this week. Had to make a card for him or he would be disappointed indeed!

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Hole in one Hal Doctor-digi

Copic Colors Used

I'm new to cardmaking so you comments and suggestions are most appreciated.