Sqeeeeeeeeeeak HM&FMC midweek Reminder

Morning all, 
well we are half way through again and boy what a peculiar few days I have had, 
but back on track again now.

so squeeakking to remind you

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge

with the theme chosen by Sue Dress, which is

Only 50 Days Till Christmas
So Getting ready for Xmas, sort of baking, cooking, wrapping, shopping and trimming if you get the idea.

those two fabulous sponsors again

a $25 Gift Cert to Simon Says Stamp

and 

a $10 Gift Cert to Sweet Stamp Store

So here is my design team inspirational piece, but don't forget to hop on over to the main challenge site to see the rest of the gorgeous creations by the team .

I decided to buy a new image for this one, and thought that this image would be useful for many occasions but fits so well for Xmas.  I used some older papers located in craft room and distressed all the edges

and as always the copic coloured image, I have used a gold glitter pen for the spoon and taken the photograph in a different light so you can see it

Well what are you waiting for - off you squeak and get creating and enter this super challenge, will see you over there!!!!!

Don't forget, you too may submit your House-Mouse, Gruffies and Happy Hoppers creations directly to THE Official House-Mouse Designs site found HERE! Simply look for this "HMD By Me Gallery" button on the site's sidebar and follow the steps to upload your projects.

I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for the lovely and inspirational comments you leave, which allows me to hop on over in return to see your own lovely work.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenge

2 Sisters - Favourite Xmas Stamp 
One Stop Craft - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin - Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss - Pastel Xmas
CSAYL - Anything Goes

hugs

xx

Cold Frosty and HOT!!!!! with Joanna Sheen Design Team

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

 

 Today is another fabulous challenge at the 

Joanna Sheen Challenge  

The theme is

Cold and Frosty

So here is what I created for my design team inspirational piece but do hop over and see all the rest of the wonderful creations on the main challenge blog

I made an oval Xmas Light Box

using some of the gorgeous sheets within the 

Thomas Kinkade Decoupage - Christmas Lights  pack.

This is one box with two different scenes one on the front and one on the back.

The tutorial can be found on the Joanna Sheen challenge site and in my tutorial page link above.

I had such fun with this but the photography was a little difficult to say the least, but here are some more shots

in the dark to show the lights

close up

at a slight distance 

the other side at a slight distance

 

Why not get some more ideas about what you can do with items sold in the 

Joanna Sheen shop 

As always I would like to welcome my new followers and say thank you to all my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which allow me to hop over and visit you in return

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Whimsy - Traditional Xmas

Anything Goes - Anything Goes

Bearly Mine - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Tuesday Alchemy - Anything but a Card

CSAYL - Anything goes

Inspire me Friday's - Always Anything Goes

Stampin with the Dragon - No Reds and No Greens

SweetPea Stampers - Gifts

DRS Designs - Candles (hope this is okay, candle provides the light)

Milk Coffee - more than one fold

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Southern Girls - Xmas Projects

Hugs

xxx

Retro Ladies Birthday Card

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

 

A card for another work colleague, who loves the retro flapper ladies, spent ages looking for images and finally found this one, she loved it :) phew!!!!!!!!!!!! so pleased as I was not sure about it myself.

This is another  8 x 8 inch card, made with space for all those work signatures.

Base colour and contrast is black.  With those gorgeous GCD Studio papers " Paris Night".  The edges of the top to panels edged with the MS heart punch and wrapped in red and gold ribbon to create lovely bows on each side.  The lace frames the image plate and the roses covered in stickles adorn the base of the card.  The sentiment sits on a nestie tag.

Now wondering where the sparkle and bling is the whole of this image is coloured in Atyou glitter pens to sparkle, however you cannot see much of it on this photos sorry.

As always, I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for the lovely and inspirational comments you leave, which allows me to hop on over in return to see your own lovely work and welcome to my new followers. 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Patties Creations - Birthdays
Raise the Bar - Birthdays
Crafts and Me - Reds
Inky Impressions - Birthdays
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

hugs

xx

Triple Celebration Card

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Last weekend we received an invitation to a multi function celebration event.  Obviously I needed to create a  card to fit the bill.  The celebration is to cover

25th Wedding Anniversary

65th Birthday (female)

Retirement (Male)

Some ask!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After some thinking this is what I came up with, it was lovely to create last weekend whilst Matt was fishing :)

Looks quite normal and I thought could be to celebrate anything.

When I went to Grimsby Crafts sale the other week, I was lucky enough to find a gorgeous paper stack that contained beautiful papers, so I used these. I contrasted with black, added the black ribbon to tie at the side.  Lots of little pearls, lots more little bling diamanté  a few butterflies, a tag and some flowers and foliage. I used liquid pearls down the butterfly bodies.

Here are some more images

The front being the celebration image, the inner back panel for the signing bit and the remaining panels to add a sentiment for each occasion individually. The first one they will see is the Anniversary sentiment, all sentiments are computer generated and have been edged with TH distress ink, however the Tattered Rose was too pinky for the papers, so I mixed this with the Mulled Lavender to get a match of colour for the papers.

The left panel inside is for the 65th Birthday

and the right hand panel inside for the Retirement

The image is one of my very old wooden ones and I stamped this, coloured it with copics, Atyou for the ribbon, stickles for the bubbles and glossy accents for the liquid (although you cannot see the lovely shine on the wine)

I made a box to match and overall love how it turned out, I hope they like it.

As always I would like to welcome my new followers, and thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for taking the time to view my creations and add those all inspiring comments that mean I can hop over and visit you in return

I would like to enter this one into the following challenges

MilkCoffee - More than one fold

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

S J Crafts - Birthday optional ovals

Flutter By Wednesday's - Anything Goes with a butterfly

My Mum's Craft Shop - Sentiments

Penny's Paper Crafting - Lots of Layers

Anything Goes - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Fancy Folds

LEJ Designs - Die Cuts / Punches

Loves Rubber Stampin - Anything Goes

Papelitos - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

enjoy your day

Hugs

xxx

Bella on Bauble Wild Rose Design Team

Morning to you all and hope you are all well and not too cold

 

Don't you just love it when the husband goes fishing especially when he just might win some pennies :)  that is where he was when I was playing creating this little number, he did well but unfortunately did not win but he had a great day, which is what he likes.

It has been a while since our 

Bella has hung around, so thought she needed an airing as she is so darn cute!!!!

so here she is

Such a pretty vibrant pastel Christmas Card for such a beautiful Bella

Recipe

Image - Bella on Bauble by Wild Rose Studio

Papers - Wintry Christmas  by Wild Rose Studio

Sentiment-  computer generated

Die cut is my new nestie

snowflakes by Marianne Die cuts

Embellishments are

Polar White Flower soft

Turquoise fine glitter

snowball ribbon

 bling

Poinsettia covered with spun glass after spun sugar distressing

here is a close up of the image

coloured in copics with some Atyou and all that fluff with a little stickles on the bauble cord

If you want to see more of the Wild Rose Studio collection or be inspired by others hop and see us on 

Facebook 

or in the 

Wild Rose Studio's gallery

I would like to say hello to my new followers, and as always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for the lovely and inspirational comments you leave, which allows me to hop on over in return to see your own lovely work.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

The Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas Anything Goes

Created with Love - Christmas no green or red

Hooked On Craft - Christmas no green or red

Lawnscaping - Something from Stash not used for a while

OLLCB - Christmas

The Pretty Little Ribbon - die cuts and punches

There's Magic in the Air - Pink

Whoopsi Daisy - Christmas

ABC Christmas - V for Vibrant (sponsored by Wild Rose Studio)

enjoy the rest of your day

Hugs

xxx

Only 50 Days Till Christmas with the HM&F'sMC Design Team and my Candy Winner

Wow that was a mouthful of a header wasn't it, and good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the next challenge at the 

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge

where the theme has been chosen by the very talented Sue Dress, she chose

Only 50 Days Till Christmas
So Getting ready for Xmas, sort of baking, cooking, wrapping, shopping and trimming if you get the idea.

We have two fabulous sponsors this time around which you would not want to miss, 

a $25 Gift Cert to Simon Says Stamp

and 

a $10 Gift Cert to Sweet Stamp Store

but before I move on I need to let you know who the winner was of my House Mouse Candy, linked to our last challenge (by the way one of the images here is perfect for this week's theme)

I used Mr Random who made his choice, I then checked that this person had met all of the requirements for the hop, and she did, so here is who Mr Random drew

and that is

Susan from My Little Sanctuary

Congratulations hun, if you would like to e mail me your snail mail address, I will get your candy in the post for you.

So back to this weeks challenge, here is my design team inspirational piece, but don't forget to hop on over to the main challenge site to see the rest of the gorgeous creations by the team .

This is always one of the images I use at Christmas, it does make me laugh you see my son hates carrots :)

The base layer is a green pearlescent card as is the contrast, the papers are I believe from an old Prima stack.  The corners have been decorated with the MS corner section of the punch around the page set.  All the edges have been distressed and a little platinum stickles added.  I have used small red pearls from the Hobby House for holly berries and a lovely spray of red berries all glittery to sit with the ribbon and bow, that has been twirled around the image.

Here are some close ups

The berry spray

and as always the copic coloured image, I have used Atyou Glitter pens on the red base

Well what are you waiting for - off you squeak and get creating and enter this super challenge, will see you over there!!!!!

I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for the lovely and inspirational comments you leave, which allows me to hop on over in return to see your own lovely work.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenge

Catch the Bug - Anything Goes
CMC - Anything with a twist of orange
Sweet Stampin - All that glitters
Clearly Inspired - Critters
Crafty Ann's - Christmas
Stampin for the Weekend - Anything Goes
Crafty Ribbons - Christmas
My Heart Pieces Digital - Use Ribbon
Paper Crafting Journey - Ribbon or twine
Southern Girl - Animal Crackers

hugs

xx

Starry Night Wild Rose Design Team

Hello again, blimey I need to return to my craft room as it is bloomin cold in my office

Today I get to show you a card I have been playing with for the last few days,  I wanted to make it to join in with the challenge at

 

ABC Christmas

where the theme is V for Vibrant and the sponsor is 

Wild Rose Studio

and the winner will receive their choice of two stamps

so for those of you that adore Wild Rose Studio, what an opportunity to win some of their wonderful stamps.

So here is my playing

Recipe

Image - Starry Night by Wild Rose Studio

Papers - Wintry Christmas  by Wild Rose Studio

Sentiment-  Jolly Greetings  by Wild Rose Studio

Die cuts are my new nesties nestled with my very old ones

MS Heart Edge punch

Embellishments are

Polar White Flower soft

Turquoise fine glitter

Dotty Pink Ribbon

Pearls and bling

Poinsettia covered with spun glass 

here is a close up of the image

coloured in copics with some Atyou and all that fluff.

If you want to see more of the Wild Rose Studio collection or be inspired by others hop and see us on 

Facebook 

or in the 

Wild Rose Studio's gallery

I would like to say hello to my new followers, and as always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for the lovely and inspirational comments you leave, which allows me to hop on over in return to see your own lovely work.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

2 Sisters - Pastel Xmas

A Gem of A Challenge - Polka Dots and Spots

Sweet Stampin - All that Glitters

Crafty Ann's - Christmas in October

Crafty Catz - Add Texture

Fussy and Fancy - Pearls and Flowers

Totally Papercrafts - Twinkle Twinkle Xmas Star

enjoy the rest of your day

Hugs

xxx

A Big Thank you :)

Good morning to you all in the land of blog
A little sunshine to warm your day :)

Here is a little something that I whipped up, nothing exciting but quite effective I thought.

I decorated the inside to match the outer.

I have used a mustard yellow card to contrast with the white.

The die is a Cheery Lynn and I cut this out in white, then sat it onto the yellow card and trimmed to fit, I then added another layer of the yellow to give a small frame around this and then layered onto the main card.  I did the same for the inside.

I then used my nesties and layered white, yellow and finally white, these are all die cut and dry embossed, adding the sentiment and heat embossing in the gold.  I added the Wild Orchid Crafts flower and some tulle for the delicate touch and finally over-sprayed with a fine gold glitter.

Here is the close up of the sentiment

I would like to welcome my new follower and as always, I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for the lovely and inspirational comments you leave, which allows me to hop on over in return to see your own lovely work.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

365 Cards - Say it with Flair
Dutch Dare - Thankful
PaperPlay - Thanks a Bunch
Sassy Studio - Thank you
The ABC Challenge - A for Appreciation

hugs 

xx

While Shepherds Watched or We Three Kings With the Winter Wonderland DT

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the next challenge at the

Winter Wonderland

with the theme this week being hosted by the very talented Sally, the theme is

While Shepherds Watched or We Three Kings

We are sponsored this challenge by the fabulous

Crafter's Companion

who are offering the winner a gift voucher of £10

So here is what I created for my design team inspirational piece but don't forget to hop on over to the main challenge site to see the rest of the design teams gorgeous creations.

The base layer and contrast here is the silver mirror card, with some Papermania papers from Grimsby Crafts on top.  The image plate die and fronds are by Marianne Designs and the snowflake is a Cheery Lynn.  The Sentiment is by Wild Rose Studio from the Christmas Circles set.

As always, I would like to thank all my wonderful followers and visitors for their lovely inspiring comments, which allow me to hop over and visit you in return.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Divas by Design - Feeling Festive

Fab and Funky - Die cuts and punches

Hugs

xx