House Mouse and Cookie Crumbles

Recently, I won this adorable stamp from sponsor Stampendous as part of the Coffee Lover's Bloghop, Cookie Crumbles. I could hardly wait to color it up!

I stamped onto Kraft and colored with Luminance colored pencils and edged with Distress Inks. The popped sentiment, from Waffle Flower, was heat embossed and cut with a heart die. The background is an embossing folder from Sizzix that I swiped with ink, then, a few Nuvo drops were added for some extra fun.

Thanks for visiting. I am adding this to the House Mouse & Friends Challenge.

Edited to add that I was the winner for this card:

House Mouse Climbing Iris and Hummingbird in Watercolor

This week the option is to add stitching, real or faux, to your entry over at House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge.  I selected the Climbing Iris stamp and colored it with Windsor & Newton watercolors on Master's Touch Watercolor paper.  I created an easel card. Using Gina K paper for the card base.

The background was created with alcohol inks. I added a couple of pieces of Washi tape. The sentiment from Wild Rose Studio was embossed with white,  popped for dimension, and a few large white pearls added from my stash.

Also sharing with The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Contest.  

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House Mouse Painted Pansies

The optional theme for House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is Hot Summer Days. Living in central Arizona, well, I am quite familiar with temps well over 100 degrees for the long days of summer. Even with these temps, flowers seem to be quite happy as long as you give them lots of water.

This sweet image, Painted Pansies, was colored with Copics. There's also a bit of clear gel pen over the jar, and some purple gel pen over the words. The frame is from MFT Die-namics Wonky Stitched Rectangle. The Hello is from Honey Bee and is popped up.

Copic Markers Used 

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Shared with:
Simon Says: Summer Fun 
Crafting with Dragonflies 

Edited to add winner status:

 

House-Mouse Hanging Lights

Recently I purchased the cute little stamp, Hanging Lights. I thought the purple challenge at House-Mouse & Friends would be perfect for it.

I stamped out the Christmas bulbs two more times, colored and fussy cut them, to add to this tinsel like yarn from my stash. A bit of Wink of Stella helps to make the bulbs shine.

Colors Used

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Cupcake Belly from House Mouse

Over at House-Mouse & Friends, the challenge is "Love all Around"! What says love more than a chocolate cupcake? A couple of heart brads and a bit of pink and white twine complete one of my favorite images, "Cupcake Belly"! I made this card for a very special friend. Hope she saves me a bite!

Copic Colors Used

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Also shared with:
Penny's Paper-Craft Challenge

Three Little House Mouse Mice

Three of something. That is this week's optional twist on The Outlawz Twisted Thursday. Who could resist three cute little mice from Stampendous? Head on over to see more projects with three and enter one yourself for a chance to win a nifty prize!

Easel Card

Side View

Ready for Mailing

These were all colored with Copic markers during a class I took with Jenn Dove.

Also shared with:
Gruffies & Guests
House-Mouse & Friends
Party Time Tuesdays
Scribble and Scrap

Finishing Touch by House Mouse

This is my last post as a guest designer on House Mouse& Friends. I had so much fun and I appreciate the opportunity to be part of a fabulous design team for even a short time.

This adorable stamp is called “Finishing Touch” and it reminds me of decorating gingerbread men with my boys when they were little.

Thanks for stopping by and even more thanks if you leave a comment. Wishing all of you a wonderful holiday season and at least one gingerbread man!

Copic Colors Used

Entered:

Crafty Catz

Pinecone Tree House Mouse

I have been avoiding wood stamps lately because of the spacing issue in my studio. Humm, nobody else has this problem, do they? But, I couldn't resist this one called Pinecone Tree with my much loved House Mouse from Stampendous. I colored him with my Copics, added some Wink of Stella, a bit of red gel pen, and embossed some Chunky White for snow. I matted him with sparkly paper in red, then white on the green cardstock. (This doesn't seem to show in the photo though.) Then I added a few red dots, and finished with a simple bow. I kept it quite simple to show off my mouse :)

I had some of the red run. I'm not sure when but I think it was when I was using a clear embossing pen to scribble the snow. It was impossible to get rid of so that's why the berries in front became dots and poor mousie looks like he burned his hand. The gel pen? Let's pretend that he just got stained from playing with too many berries LOL! I still love him :)

Copic Colors Used

Entered:
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas
The Cutie Pie Challenge
Gruffies & Guests
Use Your Stuff
Party Time Tuesdays

House Mouse Says Merry Christmas

This week, as a guest designer for House Mouse & Friends, I decided to do something a little different. "Add a Little Sparkle" is the twist for challenge #183. I made a Christmas tree using my watercolors and then added Stickles glitter glue, Wink of Stella, , and glittered stars for some sparkle. The mouse was edged with Festive Berries Distress Ink and the cutout in green was cut with my Little B Scallops die. The Mouse and Sentiment are raised.

Also entered:
Diva's That Cut
Gruffies & Guests 
Crafty Catz

House Mouse Reindeer Games

For November and December, I am a guest designer over at House-Mouse & Friends. This week, the Challenge is "Brrr, it's COLD outside"! I think this will be a great addition to my growing Christmas card collection! There is a blog hop going on as well, so do drop over and join the fun.

Reindeer Games

I am sorry that I must not have taken a photo of the colors I used for this one. I can tell you that the snow is Chunky White Embossing Enamel from Stampendous. I added a few stamped white snowflakes along the top, some snowflake embellishments as well as a die cut of leaves with some red dots in two sizes.

Also entered in: Die Cut Divas - Christmas Card

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House Mouse Baby Blocks on White

Another chance to play with my House Mouse stamps! I had fun working with a specific color palate for the mice and then moving over to layers of white that included some embossed papers, ribbon, lace, paper flower, a button and some pearls. (Oh, and a touch of Wink of Stella on the flower petals.)
The top on one block and part of the top mouse are fussy cut and raised with foam dots.

Copic Colors Used

White on White, with a colored image.

Just wanted to let you know (kind of proud), that I have been selected to be a guest designer over at House Mouse and Friends for November and December because I my card was selected as a winner for this month. I won for my Gingerbread Man card. So be sure to watch for those cards to show up. I certainly do love doing those House Mouse stamps!

Challenge Colors Plus Lace for Outlawz

Entered:
Mojo Monday
House Mouse and Friend
Outlawz Tuesday Color

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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House Mouse Fall Float, CAS Merry Christmas

Mojo Monday, 365, had a tall and skinny design. I really didn't like the solid topper so I softened it with just leaves and my own melted bead accent. Instead of three descending banners, I did Merry Christmas in that space in the same kind of downward motion. So, I think I stayed within the spirit of the design.

A Facebook group for House Mouse Lovers asked for a card with a pumpkin. I don't have any stamps with my little mousies that have a pumpkin, so I just added a pumpkin and some leaves to Fall Float.

The pumpkin and the little guy are on foam lifts and the "HI" circle is edged with gold glitter glue.

Entered:
House-Mouse & Friends, Autumn/Fall Challenge

House Mouse Christmas and an ATC

I had made a pile of die cut leaves and thought this might be a good place to add a couple. This stamp is from Stampendous and it features a House Mouse and is called Berrying Gifts.

Colors Used

Entered:
Friday Coloring Challenge, Outlawz
Wags 'n Wiskers Stamps

Colors Used

This little ATC (Artist Trading Card) is stamped with Peggy from Whimsy Stamps. I may eventually add her to a card.
Entered:
Little Miss Muffet Challenge, Make it a Mini

Fall Float House Mouse

This morning, I was playing with my Copics. I scribbled on my craft sheet, using this tutorial from Split Coast Stampers, and some photo sheets that I get every time I buy new printer ink. I never print out photos, so I have lots. On the one I chose to use (the one on the right), I stamped some flowers with black Momento Ink before I cut it to size for my card.

Then, I grabbed one of my House Mouse stamps for fall, called Fall Float and went from there.

Copic Colors Used

I had a silk leaf that I added as well.

I used the layout from Mojo Monday. I really didn't have room for a second sentiment though as my mouse is kind of tiny :)

I also entered this in:
House Mouse Challenge
Crafting From the Heart
Crafty Girls Challenges

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

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.

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.