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This is one of the new house mouse stamps I got last month. I love how it turned out.

House Mouse Spotlight

I've been a very bad blogger... haven't been posting or updating in much too long.

For quite awhile, I wasn't doing much crafting, but I am finally getting back into the swing of it again.

A few weeks ago, I needed a thank you card quickly for my niece. She loves tulips, so I knew I had to use this stamp, but I really didn't want to take the time to do all of the coloring/ shading. I decided to do a spotlight card-- my first. I was happy with how it turned out and will definitely do one again--- especially with these big House Mouse stamps that are beautiful, but have so much detail in them!! It was a nice compromise!!

Also pictured, along with the card is a matching envelope I made with one of my new toys. I got a Martha Stewart Scoring Board. It is similiar to a ScorePal, but has more scoring grooves and is cheaper--- if you can believe that any MS item could be cheaper!! It also has an envelope tool-- making envelopes is a snap using the tool!

House Mouse Bookmark

I love some of the bookmarks I've seen recently. Since it doesn't appear that anyone is going to send me one, I decided I'd better make one for myself, but it didn't work out quite as I had planned. This is one of the House Mouse cuties that arrived in my mailbox today. I quickly inked him up and started working on the bookmark. The plan all went well-- until Laura came hom and stole him from me before I could even get his picture posted!! Oh, well, she didn't actually steal him--- I gave him to her, but I'm still without a bookmark, so I guess its back to the craft table for me!!

Berry Happy Birthday

I went to the scrap table this morning, planning on finishing up some more Magnolia images that I had leftover from yesterday. The little mousies had different ideas. They jumped on the table and demanded some attention. My internet friend, Kristie, gave me the idea of putting the ribbon through the buttons. Thanks, Kristie!! Kristie also gave me the strawberry stamp-- so thanks, again!!

Weekend Tildas

This is the last of my Tildas for tonight. I still have some more images that are colored, but they are drying and not ready to work with yet. I'm hoping I might get them completed tomorrow morning.

Thanks, Danni, for the suggestion!! I've accomplished quite a bit this weekend--- more than I ever imagined, but its been another cold, snowy weekend for us, so that provided lots of play time.

This first Tilda is one of my favorite images... she just turns into such a cute card. The raindrops are 3-dimensional. I love using the bright colors of the Basic Grey Lemonade collection with her-- it matches her so well!!

There are also these 2 simple girls... one with blueberries and another with an apple pie!!

Christmas Tildas

Two more cards to add to the weekend theme of Magnolias. Both of these are Christmas cards.

Paper Pieced Tildas

Here are 2 more of the paper pieced Tildas... which just happen to fall into Danni's weekend theme of Magnolia stamps!!

Tilda Weekend

My friend, Danni, has been working on "themed weekends". I couldn't play last week, but this weekend is Magnolias. I just happened to have some Tildas that needed attention!!

I love this cute image that I got just before Christmas, but the card layout did give me some headaches.

This is a lonely, neglected Tilda stamp that I've had for ages but had not inked before. I like the way she looks, so she is sure to be used more from now on and not collect dust as before.

This is one of the images that I've been working on with paper piecing. Again, her dress and socks are paper pieced.

Another cute Tilda... this one has 3-dimensional raindrops.

Same image as before, but this one is colored a little differently and different papers/ embellies.

Another new stamp that had not been used before.

Tildas

I colored some Tildas the other night. The first 2 are new stamps that I got right before Christmas and hadn't had a chance to play with until now.

I had a difficult time with this stubborn little Tilda. I colored her and cut her out. She is sitting on a 3-D swing. The board is a small piece of cardstock with chalked edges. The ropes are twine. All of that was the easy part. Trying to decide what to do with her was the hard part. I kept putting her on different backgrounds but I wasn't satisfied with any of them until I used this BG Indian Summer dp paper. I finally decided to leave her alone!

I have to give credit to the layout of these cards and the use of the dp to Danni. She made such a cute card using a sketch from CCEE Stampers.... and CASEd her card!! Be sure to check her original card out on her blog.

Guest Scrapper

With all of the recent snow, I've had plenty of extra scrap time on my hands.... and so has Laura. All of these pages are hers. She's been working on her dance pages.

One clever thing that she did that I really like can be easily seen on the first page. Instead of putting brads on the corner of the title and journaling, she put little dots of black stickles... looks just like a brad, but was much easier for her and she could control the size "brad" that she wanted!!

I think this is one of my favorite cards. The raindrops have a 3-D effect due to the liquid applique.

Another Sugar Nellie

This is another of the Sugar Nellie images. I colored a bunch of them before Christmas and never got them on cards until now. The colors on the scan are terrrible. She is actually a bright pink and bright green.... but you get the idea.

Halloween Cards: Part 2 ..... and still counting!!

If this post seems like dejevu for you, don't feel bad--- it does me too!! I've made so many Halloween cards, I see them when I close my eyes!!

These are more of the cards that I am helping make for Laura for her friends. She hadn't seen any of the cards until last night and was very excited and pleased with how they are turning out, although they are all very simple with not a lot of layers or extras. As a matter of fact, she told me I could make more than the original 20 we had agreed on!! Goody, goody!! LOL!!

These are the ones I worked on yesterday afternoon and this morning.... and there will be more to come!! LOL!! I have 3 on my desk now, waiting to be finished!!

Autumn Scene

I made these last week end.

Christmas Cards

Seals are an endangered species... at our house. I had a seal image colored and on this card-- only needed to add the finishing touches when the new addition to our family-- a black, curious, pesky kitten decided to check it out. I couldn't save the image after her little paws examined it more closely, but was able to color another image and salvage the rest of the card.

It doesn't show up in the picture, but the baby seal is painted with Shimmerz, so she has lots of shine!!


I found a bunch of small house mouse and Fluffle images in my image basket last night. I had colored them last Christmas, and then didn't use them. I put them on cards this morning. I felt like I had won a lottery by finding images already finished and ready for a card!!

More Fall Cards

I'm still working on some fall/ autumn cards. These are the same 2 Bilmalarna stamps/ images with a different layout. The pumpkin is a magnolia stamp and the "leaves" around their feet is Flower Soft. DP is Basic Grey, Indian Summer. I love that paper!!

Autumn Scarecrows

I made 2 more cards using my cute little scarecrow stamps from Bilmalarna Stamps.

Both images are colored with prisma pencils and OMS. Also, both have autumn flower soft at their feet. The dp is Basic Grey, Indian Summer.

Very Witchy Halloween Card

I made this card late Friday night, but was so tired, I didn't post it. We had a busy week end, so this is the first chance I've had .

This is another of the Tri fold cards. I used the Halloween stamp set from Inkadinkadoo.

Snowmen with Wreaths

I started out just making one card... but when it got time to put the snowman on, I didn't like the way it looked. I went back to the drawing board-- or craft table, and came up with another color scheme so I could use both snowmen.


Both of the snowmen are painted with Shimmerz for some shine. In addition, I used touches of Stickles for the holly berries and the cuff of the jacket.



Its hard to see in the pictures, but the white cardstock behind the snowman is embossed with a CB embossing folder. The snowmen are cut out and attached with pop dots for a little added dimension.

Also, when I originally showed them to the 15 year old quality control inspector that lives in my house, they did not pass muster. I didn't have the "Merry Christmas" on there. I had to go back to the craft table one more time and work on them some more. They passed inspection the second go round, and I agreed that they did look much better than they had originally. I guess I'm lucky to have a live-in inspector so readily available!!