Get Well Soon

Hi everyone,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Being the beginning of a brand new month it is time to introduce our new challenge hostess which is Joanne Grzelak. 

Apparently today is Physician’s Assistant’s Day. In honor of that let’s make get well cards. 

As you can see I have created a Pop Up Card using the Pop Up die from the Barrel Basket with Pop Up designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. The pop up die from this set creates only a small pop up panel approximately 1/2 inch wide, so I was able to position the die in two places along the fold of the card so I could pop up both my images.

I figured it was time to play with my much neglected House Mouse stamps that I have had for years, I so adore these stamps..

For the sentiment I used an old "sentiment" stamp which I layered onto one of the labels from the Labels and Circles die set.

Along the top and bottom edges of the card I used the scallop border from the Pull Card Edges die set.

Here is a view of my card taken at a different angle so you can see the pop up panels of the card a little easier.

For the front of my card I kept it fairly simple adding the labels from the Labels & Circles die set and adding the A Way with Words - Get Well Soon sentiment.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Joanne Grzelak

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Vicky Gould

Stamps: Mouse Drops - Stampa Rosa; Feeling Better Soon - Krafty Lady

Paper: White; Green; Pink; Camp Out DP - Three Bugs in a Rug

Dies: Barrel Basket with Pop Up; Labels & Circles; Pull Card Edges - designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs; A Way with Words - Get Well Soon - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other: Black Ink; Foam Tape; Copics

Noel!

Hello everyone,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog.  Being a brand new month it is time for a new challenge hostess which is mwah!

With Christmas just around the corner for our challenge this week you will need to incorporated something starting from each of the letters in the word 'NOEL'

Here are a few suggestions to help you, but of course you are not limited to these ... Use your imagination!
N = Nativity, navy, natural
O = olive, orange, octagon, oval, ornaments
E = embossing, emerald green, eyelets
L = lace, lines, liquid appliqué

For my card today I used the following things to complete the word “Noel” …. N = Noel; O = Ornaments; E = Embossing and L = Lines.

For the front of my card I used a new Stampendous House Mouse image called Gift’s Galore. I love House Mouse and it is fun to have a new one .

I embossed the front of my card using Couture Creations A Magical Time embossing folder.

For the inside of my card I used my Sizzix Pop N Cuts Noel Insert with the Sizzix Pop N Cuts A2 Card base. I also used the Sizzix Noel Sizzlits set to layer the word Noel.

One the top section of my card I used designer paper that has ornaments all over it (the ‘O’ in the challenge) and along the bottom part of my card I used designer paper with lines on it (the ‘L’ in the challenge).

Here is another view of the inside of my card. The sentiment on the lower portion of my pop up uses the Sizzix Wavy Labels Framelits set.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Andrea Murdock	Anja de Regt	Barb Anders	Betty Wright	Jessie Rone	Joanne Grzelak	Kelli Hull
Kristine Reynolds	Peggy McCurry	Sarah Gough	Silke Ledlow	Laurie Clout (December Guest Designer)

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Stamps: Gifts Galore House – Stampendous

Paper: White; Blue; Red; Gingerbread DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Sizzix Pop N Cuts A2 Card Base; Sizzix Pop N Cuts Noel Insert; Sizzix Noel Set Sizzlets; Sizzix Wavy Labels Framelits; MFT Die-namics Icicles Border; Couture Creations A Magical Time Embossing Folder; Foam Tape; Copics

 

Merry Christmas

Hi everyone,

With Christmas less then 2 months away, I thought I would make a few more gift cards to use on my Christmas gifts.

I have again used Simon Says Stamps Circle Card Border to create my gift cards. I also used a circle die to create a hole on the top card layer so that the House Mouse image which is stamped on the inside of my card can be seen from the front.

Here is the inside of my card. The “To/From” is also part of the House Mouse image … I trimmed it off the stamp so I could use it separately if I wanted to which is what I have done here.

Stamps: Monica’s To From – Stampa Rosa; Instant Photo Holidays – Papertrey Ink

Paper: White; Red; Fruitcake DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Corner Rounder; Simon Says Stamp Circle Card Border; MFT Die-namics Fishtail Flags 1 & 2; MFT Die-namics Circle Stax; Foam Tape; Copics

 

Love You to the Core!

Hi everyone,
It’s challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Lois Bak our challenge hostess for September continues to bring us fun challenges.
Today is Johnny Appleseed Day. Let’s make a card using some kind of fruit (extra points for apples).
I guess this week I can claim extra points LOL … not that I get anything for it hehe! As I used an apple for my image and also there are apples on my designer paper and I also have an apple related sentiment.

For my card this week I used a House Mouse stamp (mine are soooooo neglected! As you can see I have created a flip it card using my Sizzix Flip it dies. Normally I would select a smaller frame to use for the image to attach to the centre part of my card, as I normally like the border around my image. But doing that for this image would have meant losing too much of the image, so I selected a frame the same size as the centre.

Here is the flip side of my card. I created the sentiment in the centre on my computer.
Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Charlene Merrick (on a break)	Joanne Grzelak	Shirley Quarry	Anne Harmon	Lois Bok	Vicky Gould
Sabrina Friel	Kathy Bradley	Amber Hillman

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Stamps: Spitting Apple Seeds House Mouse – Stampa Rosa; Alphabet – Karen Foster Snap Stamps

Paper: White; Red; Green; Class of 87 DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Sizzix Majestic Flip It Die; Sizzix Majestic #2 Labels Framelits; Green Hemp Cord; Red Button; Oval Punch; Word Window Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

Get Well!

Hi everyone,

Thursday’s mean challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Joanne Grzelak our challenge hostess for April has given us another fun challenge!

Apparently today is a day many of you in the U.S. dread. It is by this date that your federal taxes must be paid. This fact makes many people ill. So.....the challenge this week is to make a get well card.

This week I decided to fish out a old stamp that I haven’t used for a while so I headed for my House Mouse stamps and selected this little cutie! The sentiment is from MFT Stamps “PI – Better Get Better” stamp set.

Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

• Tosh
• Charlene
• Cindy
• Joanne
• Shirley

Stamps: Sentiment – MFT Stamps; House Mouse

Paper: White; Blue; Purple

Other: Black Ink; Aged Paper Distress Ink; Oval Punches; MS Garden Trellis Border Punch; Grosgrain Ribbon; Blue Button; Foam Tape; Copics

Spit Happens CC119

I created this card for this weeks color challenge which is to use Real Red; Barely Banana & Creamy Caramel. Fortunately I just received my Real Red ink pad & card from my SU demo yesterday which made it easier to make the card, although if I hadn't had that particular red I would have used one similar - but as I had the real thing I might as well use it. The sketch I used here is the same as the one I did a few days ago for this card Sage Happy Harmony, which is recipe 37 in the Joy of Card Making vol 2. If you haven't seen these magazines they are a valuable resource full of all types of sketches.

Recipe:
Stamps: Rabbit - Stampabilities; Paint Splatter - Printworks; Greeting - Karen Foster Snap Stamps
Paper: Real Red; Creamy Caramel & Barely Banana - Stampin' Up; White
Other: Black Ink; Real Red Ink - SU; Ticket Corner Punch; Word Window Punch & Oval Punch - SU; Spots & Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Red Gingham Ribbon; Copper Fastenator Staple

Magnetic Bookmark Cards

Well today was club day for me at the stamp club I belong to down the coast. Our project today was from a Stamping & Papercrafts magazine from about a year ago, magnetic bookmark cards. As the samples in the magazine were all made using House Mouse stamps many of us used our House Mouse images to create our cards. I did make one bookmark cards using a HM stamp but I didn't want to do all HM cards so I also went looking for another stamp to use and discovered this one I got about 11 years ago and hadn't used for a long time.
These cards are simple to make and ideal for when you want to give something a little bit more. All you need to do is create your card as normal with the fold of the card on the left side. For my cards I made hinged cards but you wouldn't have to do this unless you wanted to, this is what was made in the magazine and it was nice to do for a change.

On this second photo of the cats card you can see the bookmark off the card. It is best not to have toooo many layers on either your bookmark or your main card so that the magnet will work. We discovered today that not all magnets will work for this, with all the layers. If you look at both photos of the card card you can see that the pumpkin card only shows at the top of the bookmark so it matches the card, I trimmed it so it was level with the black image as you don't want toooo many layers on the side of the bookmark as it would change the look of the card itself. If you wanted to you could make your bookmark the whole length of the card, I cut both of mine a little shorter.
Seeing I have lots of HM stamps I did make one HM card, I am not sure if I have used this stamp before. I can't even remember buying it for that matter so maybe someone gave it to me as a gift - hmmmmm. However I got the stamp it is a darling image, this mouse looks soooo adorable on the ducks back. Pity they aren't as cute in real life.

Recipes:
Cats on Fence:
Stamps: Cats - STamps in Motion
Paper: White; Black; Pumpkin
Other: Black Ink; Black Brads - Bazzill; Magnet strip

House Mouse:
Stamps: HM - Stampabilities
Paper: White; Black; Yellow; Certainly Celery - SU
Other: Black Ink; Yellow Brads - Making Memories; Magnet strip

Another Featured Stamper #16 card

I'm back again with another card for this week's featured stamper Kirsten DuBosque. Kirsten had a HM card in her gallery that I really liked and a few other people have also cased that card so I couldn't help myself I had to case it too. Here is her card "Hey Cupcake", as I chose the background paper I did I decided to go with bright colors for this card, I also figured this would count to this weeks ways to use it challenge which was to use yo yo yellow, which I don't have but this would be fairly close to it. I also layered all my layers onto black card as there is black in the background paper and I wanted this to follow through the rest of the card.

The verse says "How Mice of You" - I don't think the mouse about to pop the balloon is tooooo nice so maybe it is referring to the sleeping mouse LOL - I guess if Kirsten is the "naptime stamper" (as per her blog) then she appreciates anyone napping so she can get some stamping done. I doubt she would be waking them up in a hurry like this mouse though. One thing I did find funny, after I finished this card and taken the photo, I picked up the stamp to put it away and noticed on the side the name of this stamp - "Wake Up" - now for those who have gone to the Featured Stamper Forum and have seen how Beth titled this weeks post for the featured stamper, you will know what I am referring to. That wasn't why I picked this stamp to use, but is funny how things work out.

Recipe:
Stamps: House Mouse - Stampa Rosa; Verse - My Favorite Things
Paper: White, Red, Black, Yellow, Salmon, Rainbow Stripe B/G Paper.
Other: Black Ink; Black Brad; Word Window Punch; Red Grosgrain Ribbon; Paper Piercing Tool & Mat; Tria Markers; Foam Tape

How Mice of You

This card is for the Color Challenge on SCS, this weeks colors for the challenge were to use: Vintage Violet, Certainly Celery & Old Olive. These colors reminded me of grapes so I thought it was a great opportunity to play with this House Mouse stamp. I kept to Allison's sketch again (Stampin' When I Can), as I wanted something I could make fairly quickly as I should have been getting ready to go out with a friend today not stamping. I am not ready, but she isn't her yet so I can upload it too.
Tip: I didn't have the right color ribbon to go with my colors for this card so rather than try to color my white grosgrain with an ink pad I took my tria marker I used to color the grapes and used that. Tria's are alcohol markers similar to Copic or Prisma markers. I was surprised how well it colored my ribbon, soooo quickly and I didn't have to wait for it to dry.

Recipe: Stamps: House Mouse - Stampa Rosa; Verse - My Favorite Things
Paper: Vintage Violet, Certainly Celery, Old Olive - SU; White; B/G paper - Amazing Creations
Other: White Grosgrain Ribbon (colored with tria marker); Black Ink; Tria Markers; Foam Tape

Flashback Friday - House Mouse

I just adore House Mouse stamps, they are sooo adorable. I can't stand real mice but these I will have in my house anytime LOL. So of course I had to feature them as one of my "Flashback Friday" features. I have decided to focus on just one image today - when I purchased mine it was when Stampa Rosa was still manufacturing them and mine is called "Wake Up!", however these days they are created by Stampabilities and when I just went searching for the image I noticed it now has a new name - "Pop"-ular Fun.

In the first card I used a variety of pinks & purples to color in the balloons, I have made this card for various different occasions including birthdays and thank yous. As there are a lot of balloons in the image your "Thanks a Bunch" verse work well with this image if you have them. I also like creating scenes sometimes with my stamps so for this one I created the floor and the walls - this is easy to do by just first drawing two lines to represent the skirting board around the floor and then using your background stamps on your walls for wallpaper and you can either just sponge your floor or in this case I used my wood texture block I have to create the floorboards. This was all done of course after I had stamped my HM image and masked it.
As I said in the previous paragraph I like creating scenes, I also like to cut my HM images apart and use them to create my own scenes - this way I get more value from my stamps. Normally if I am going to do this I would stamp my image and cut out the various HM creatures and then go through my stamp catalogs I have at home which contain images of all the stamps I own and see what will go with which image. Because I have cut out the little HM I can place them against or on the image in the catty to see what will work. This is how this fridge scene came into being! Instead of using stamps for my floor and walls, this time I used background papers - in this case the check paper represents kitchen floor tiles - I cover the join of the two papers with a piece of white paper/card to represent the skirting this helps define the wall and the floor. The fridge was then stamped and cut out and attach to the card - I added cheese in the fridge (another stamp), what else could you expect in a mouse's fridge LOL! Then the HM images were attached where needed.
By coloring your balloons in various red and green colors you can turn your HM image into a Christmas Card!

And here's my final card today using this image - this time using bright colors to create a bright birthday card!