Needed a note..

I need a quick note the other day and sat down at my desk and created this...



Instead of breaking out my copics, I grabbed my prisma pencils and gamsol and went to town with this adorable House Mouse image. These stamps are so cute.
I couldn't tell you how many times I catch myself chewing on pencils or even catch my kids and DH.... I'll be playing some this afternoon as I'm waiting on UPS to drop a package..

CPS Inspired....

Today's card is inspired by this weeks CPS sketch. It can be found over on the CPS blog, here. The CPS74 sketch is just too cute not to pass up. Here is what I came up with..


Haven't you ever just had one of those days. I think this image just explains it all. It is just too cute. I colored him in with my copics and then I went through my different selection of designer papers and came across a mat pack from DCWV. It was a beach themed set but this one selection had a piece that reminded me of sand paper and I thought it fit this image perfectly.....
Here is a close up of that paper it has a textured feel to it also. The color is just perfect for sand paper too. I used it to frame my image as well as a piece to counter it. I then reached for a piece of creamy caramel to offset the look a bit.

I had to add a bit of ribbon to it as well. I hope this card makes you laugh a bit. The sentiment that House Mouse has created to go with this image is just too cute as well....
I used to marker to stamp it in two different colors... Have a great Tuesday everyone...

Newest addition to my Housemouse stamps....

I found this cute image and the sentiment to go with it at the stamp store in Williamsburg. I love House Mouse and enjoy coloring these images. So today's card was fun and rather adventurous for me.... it is my first time trying this type of card and if you want a great tutorial to make this type check out Dawn's Stampin Studio Tutorial. She has a great video tutorial for this card.

This is a surprise pop-up card. It was fun to make and the sentiment is just perfect for this type of card..... I loved adding some bling and coloring in this fun little card. I had to improvise on my scallop frame as I've yet to add the scalloped large rectangle set of nesties to my collection.



I had to take my long rectangle scalloped nestie die and adjust it to fit my image.... It isn't perfect but it worked. I colored my mice in with my copics and sponged soft sky ink around them for the sky. I also added waterfall stickles to the drops of water and the sprinkles from the watering can. I love the way the copics blended on this image.




Now for the sentiment I used my SU markers in close to cocoa, cameo coral and old olive.... and who could resist not following through with a little bling in the middle of that flower.

This card was so much fun I hope that some of you get a chance to make one. I'm off to go help out my parents today and then maybe relax with the kids and Issy and diana. Issy is definitely keeping us on our toes here and she can find the smallest things here..... Have a great Sunday...

Supplies:
Stamps: House mouse stamps, retired stampin up flower stamp
Ink: adirondack espresso, soft sky, versamark
Cardstock: Close to cocoa, stampers select white, cameo coral
Accessories: copic markers, waterfall stickles, amuse twinkle sticker, nesties large rectangle and long scalloped rectangle, SU Markers: old olive, close to cocoa, cameo coral, soft sky ribbon

A GinaK sketch Challenge...

I threw this together last night after going over to SCS and seeing that GinaK was having a release party over in her forums. The sketch for this can be found on this thread. It look like so much fun.

I grabbed my coluzzle and my 1/2 inch circle punch since I have yet to add any of the circle nesties to my colection... Really need to add them though. However the Coluzzle was fun to use also. To make the scallop edge I added my punched out circles of chocolate chip cardstock. Have a great day....

Supplies for this card can be found here.

An oldie and an inspiration...

I'll start tonight out with an new version of one of my older house mouse cards... I'm trying to nailed down the perfect cards for both my mother-in-law and my mother. So these are a few practice runs today and tomorrow I've got to get my mother-in- law's done... it has to travel to Florida.



For this card I colored the house mouse image in with my copics and added some crystal effects to the rain.. The sentiment is a rub on from the SAB sets Stampin up had a couple of months ago... I so love those rubons.I have been feelin green and yellow today and played with the combo alittle. I used my light table along with one of my stampin brassy templates on the yellow cardstock.

Supplies:
Stamps: House Mouse gentle rain
Ink: Adirondack espresso
Cardstock: green galore, barely bananna, close to cocoa, stampers select white
Accessories: copic markers, spring moss dotted ribbon, sab rubbons, light table, stampin up brassy template fun filled

Now on to the inspirational piece... I was doing my blog hopping today and fell completely head over heels over on Claudia's beautiful card... You can find it here. I love the idea of the hidden message and had to try and make a card similar to hers... I changed my colors and the stamp I used. Well what do you think...



This was so much fun to make. And my newest nesablities dies helped to make the little note card....
Actually the little notecard is held together with some of basic grey's magnetic snaps... they are so nice to have for cards and scrapbooking... And again for the sentiments I grabbed my SAB rubbons ... And colored the main image in with copics. I also used my cuttlebug swiss dots A2 folder to emboss my yellow cardstock. Hope everyone is having a great night... I'm off to see what tomorrow may bring.

Supplies:
Stamps: Magnolia tilda stamp
Ink: Adirondack pitch black
Cardstock: certain celery, so saffron, vellum, retired su patterned paper
Accessories: long retangle nestie scallop die, square nestie die, cuttlebug, A2 swiss dots embossing folder, papertrey spring moss dotted ribbon, SAB rubbons

Berry Sweet

Yup that is exactly how I feel about this card today...



I want to thank everyone for the kind words and prayers. Our car was fixed yesterday and I am very thankful that that was the only damage we had during the storms. My Husband and I went out Tuesday and worked with the red cross delivering food to the areas hardest hit by the storms. The areas were hit so bad.. it actually look like a scene out of a movie. Our area is not used to Tornado's like this we are more prepared for a Hurricane than a tornado so this was unexpected... We were lucky because there were no deaths during this storm. And this really was luck because of the time of day it hit... most people were at work, in school or getting off work. But enough about the storms lets get back to the card....

Last night this hit me after browsing around a few blogs.. My DH didn't like that I stayed up to finish it... but oh well. This designs is the CPS62 sketch of the week.

I colored the House Mouse image in with my copic markers... isn't he so cute with his belly full of strawberries. After coloring my image in I used my newest set of nestiablities, megabilities dies to cut him out and then I also cut a scalloped mat out. I embossed each edge with these dies too. I place a piece of papertrey inc ribbon along the bottom edge and attached a tag to it that says You're Berry Sweet... My Background paper was stamped with Papertrey's anniversary set... I got it for buying 12 unique sets last year and guess what you can get a free set in Feb 2009 just by buying 12 unique sets this year. Well I'm off to get somethings done today... hope everyone has a great afternoon...


Supplies:
Stamps: Papertrey Inc Aniversary set, House mouse sleeping with strawberries
Inc: Adirondack espresso, papertrey berry sorbet
Cardstock: papertrey sweet blush, papertrey stampers select white, papertrey pink patterned 6x6 pad
Accessories: Megablities long rectangle dies large scallop and large regular, copic markers, cuttlebug tag dies, cuttlebug, berry sorbet stitched ribbon

House Mouse and some BLOG Candy....

Well my aunt and I made it to the stamp store in Williamsburg yesterday and she had some of the newer House Mouse Stamps and I had to have this one....



And of course I had to ink it up last night with the idea that started floating in my head once I got out of the store. We took the kids with us so yesterday was a late day and I had to finish this card up this afternoon but the coloring and the dimension was all done late last night. I finally took the step of coloring my mouse in with my copics and loved what he look liked afterward. I haven't liked the mice I've colored with my copics the last few times because I couldn't get the shading like I wanted it but....
with this little guy it was perfect. I have also got my hands on Fiskars new finger tip craft knife... I'm hobby blade challenged and when I cut a shape out it usually is missing some important part or I've cut myself....

If you can find one or happen to see one in your craft store grab one... They are great. I used it to cut the flower out of a second stamped image and layered it with dimensionals and it makes this card pop. Along with popping the flower image I grabbed my bottle of crystal effects and gave each rain drop a little bit..
These are the copics that were used on my card.

Supplies:
Stamps:House Mouse Stamp Gentle Rain, Stampin up sentiment So Many Sayings
Ink: Adirondack Espresso, basic black
Cardstock: papertrey spring moss, so saffron, basic black, whisper white
Accessories: copic markers, crystal effects, stampin dimensionals

But as I promised I am offering up some blog candy this week all because I have typed and shared over three hundred post in the last year and a half with all of you... so in honor of my readers I am will give some lucky reader this card...
and these three clear stamp sets a block and the little flower punch and a small assortment of some of my favorite ribbons I have in my stash and all you have to do to win is post a comment on this post by Wednesday, March 19 at 12pm est time. I will then draw a name using random number generator.... Have a great Sunday Afternoon...

Gettin a little Dirty....

I'm getting alittle dirty today and playing with the Fan Club Challenges over on SCS. I really recommend joining because besides supporting a great site full of enabling and resources you get to see some outstanding work unveiled every month on the 15 of the month. And they also like to challenge fan club members with some great challenges....

Today I combined two and came up with this great card...




I thought it was a fun card and turned out cute...
I used a new House Mouse stamp called Make A Wish. I colored this image in with a mix of both my prisma pencils and gamsol and copic markers. I then sponged around them with soft sky classic ink. For the base of my card I used Stamper select white cardstock and stamped my new Stampin Up background Pretty Petals.... I stamped this using my stampin write markers.

I also grabbed my riveting stamp set(retired SU) and stamped wishing you the best twice once in black and then in so saffron.

I think this card is so cute and hope everyone is having a good Friday... I am off to take care of my son.. and maybe sneak in another card or two latter...

Supplies:
Stamps: Make A Wish by House Mouse, Pretty Petals Background, riveting stamp set
Ink: Adirondack espresso, basic black classic ink, so saffron classic ink, soft sky classic ink
Cardstock: Stampers select white, bordering blue, fall flowers designer paper
Accessories: coluzzle, circle punches, prisma color pencils, gamsol, copic markers, sponge, circle ice brads, velvet ribbon, gold glitter spica pen

GinaK's sketch challenge...

Yesterday GinaK unveiled her new stamp sets... during which she had a few contests going on throughout her reveal party one of which was a card sketch. I decided to play along with it. I also got my hands on some new prisma pencils yesterday at Micheals with the 50% off coupon.... and I got the 48 pack with a bonus of 12 verithin pencils for $30... you know I had to color something with them.



I just love this house mouse image... It is actually a wishRak image I got a few months back. I think I need to invest in this stamp before I run out the images.
I decided to take a close up of the mouse and his strawberries. I used the gamsol magic technique with my pencils... you can find several tutorials around the web on this technique.

For my sentiment I used my new papertrey Ink set Year round puns... The birthday sentiment fits this image so well and I do need a few birthday cards this month...

I need some black brads but it seems I have run out so I grabbed my black copic marker and colored two silver ones in... Love my copics... I also took the hearts out of my papertrey ink set my punny valentine and created the row of hearts across the top of the card... well I am off to see what other kind of inspiration i can find around here while I clean... have a great Sunday afternoon...

Supplies:
Stamps: My punny Valentine, year round puns, house mouse image
Ink: black stazon, purely pomegrante
cardstock: wild wasabi, purely pomegrante, black, whisper white
Accessories: silver brads, black copic marker, gamsol, prismapencils, copic glitter pen

Berry Best Birthday...

Today I happened on AmyR's Blog and she had a sketch that was just calling out to one of my House Mouse images that I had colored but not used yet. Her card sketch can be found here.



I colored this with my copics when I first got them... I used a combination of stamps to make this card... and a combination of papers.

Supplies:
Stamps: HM Sleeping with Strawberries, papertrey Green Thumb, papertrey Year Round Puns, Micheals $1 stamp hearts
Ink: black stazon, craft white, real red, wild wasibi
Cardstock: ww, papertrey stampers select for the base, chocolate chip, uptown girl TAC pad paper
Accessories: copic markers

Playing with some mice....

I got some fun images in the mail yesterday and one of them was calling to me to be colored....



I'm in the Wish Rak group on SCS and every now and then I get some images in the mail to play with and these were sent to me by gmcbunny. You can find the WishRAK group on SCS here. If you are not yet a member you should join... it is a great way to get your hands on some of those images that you have yet to purchase but are dying to try out... I think this is a stamp I'm going to have to add to my collection.

Here is a close up of the main image. I colored it in using prisma color pencils and gamsol. You can find a great tutorial on this over on SCS, here. Also if you want you can find a great video tutorial on this here done by GinaK. I also used my star dust gelly roll pen to add a little sparkle to the Candy canes.

Supplies:
Stamps: House Mouse image, So many sayings
Cardstock: Soft sky, basic grey figgy pudding, creamy caramel, whisper white
ink: versa mark, stazon black, soft sky
Accessories: soft sky double stitched ribbon, star dust pen, prisma color pencils, gamsol. blending stumps, silver embossing powder, nestablities dies large scalloped oval and large oval