House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #145

It's House Mouse Monday and time for a new challenge. 

Challenge #145 being hosted by our talented teamie Stacy and she has chosen the theme:

Flower Power/or Flour Power.  Use a House Mouse, Gruffie or Happy Hopper with  flowers or cooking flour.  This should be fun, great challenge, Stacy.

 

I chose this Stampabilities Happy Hopper stamp Dust Bunny

(HMPR-1064)

Papers by DCWV Sweet Stamp

Die is XCut-Docraft-Rectangle Parenthesis

Rhinestones - Martha Stewart

Baker's Twine - Sew Easy

Scalloped border Stampin'Up

Colored with Copics

We are sponsored this time by Joanna Sheen

 

 

They are graciously offering a $10 gift certificate to their online store

Please remember, shipping and all taxes are the responsibility of

winner.

 

 

The design team has some really creative and beautiful inspiration for you on the House Mouse and Friends Monday Blog site, please stop over and check them out.  You will also find all the rules for the challenge.

 

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a wonderful Monday.

 

 

BSS MONDAY IDEA - FATHER'S DAY CARDS

WELCOME TO THE BUFFALO STAMPS AND STUFF MONDAY IDEA.

Today's idea is a couple of Father's Day cards.

Father's Day is Sunday, June 16th.

These beautiful wolves are a stamp from Northwoods (PP9043)

Colored with Copics

Green card stock run through the cuttlebug wood grain embossing folder.

Black twine bow.

Black card stock base card.

Inside of card, pine needle border is Memory Box (98467)

Shirt and tie card and gift bag. These are so easy and

very cute.

Gift bag link http://www.littlefamilyfun.com/2012/06/fathers-day-goodie-bags.html

Card link

http://www.littlefamilyfun.com/2012/06/easy-fathers-day-card.html

Red card stock and Bazzill Basics Paper, red.

Darice embossing folder Chevron for the red tie.

Small buttons from my stash

If your Dad isn't a shirt and tie kind of guy, this card is fun.

You can slip a gift card into the pocket.

Link to this card

http://www.holiday-crafts-and-creations.com/fathers-days-cards-shirt-pocket.html

This is the stamp I used for all the words on the outside and

the inside of the cards. It's from Great Impressions K81.

I've had it awhile, so don't know if it is still available.

Hope something here sparks an idea for you for Father's Day.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Have a great week.

Sue Drees

'SIMPLY' FABULOUS

Hi friends.  A beautiful sunny day here in New York.  Had to laugh at a facebook entry I received this past week (it was very cold here) that said "Buffalo, New York, the only place you can get frost bite and a sunburn all in one week!

My card today is for the challenge at Mo's Digital Pencil 2 Challenge #184 and the challenge is Clean and Simple.

 

Is this little gal a sweetheart or what?

 

Card Recipe

 

Spellbinder's die

Blossom punch and circle punch for flowers

Digi and sentiment digi - Mo's Digial Pencil 2

Stickles Diamond and Star Dust

Glossy Accents on glasses

Colored with Copics

 

Need to get this posted, have had it colored up for a couple of days

but the challenge is about to end.

 

Have a great Wednesday.  Thanks for stopping by.  Until later.....

 

 

MID_WEEK REMINDER HOUSE MOUSE AND FRIENDS MONDAY CHALLENGE #144 FEELING BLUE

Just a reminder that the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge is at the Mid-way point for Challenge # 144 - Feeling Blue.  Interpret as the color blue or Not well/sad.

 

Stamps - Stampabilities

Gingham designer paper

Blue Card stock mat

White cardstock base

Martha Stewart border punch, dotted embossing folder

Ribbon from Michael's

Buttons - ducks - Michael's tied with yellow twine

Martha Stewart flower punch for small flowers

Colored with Copics

 

 

Closeup of these adorable little Gruffie faces.

 

Rules and sponsor information can be seen on our

Challenge blog

 

Hope you can make time to join us.  Please remember, you must use a House Mouse, Gruffie or Happy Hopper on your card and follow the current theme.

You have until Saturday, May 18th at 12 midnight EST to enter to win.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great Monday.  Until later...............

 

BSS MONDAY IDEA - IT"S QUILTED

WELCOME TO THE MONDAY

BUFFALO STAMPS AND STUFF IDEA.

Today's idea is quilting on your card.

I have seen a lot of different quilting designs on cards lately.

This is a pretty simple one I found on Pinterest.

Cut a piece of 4x4 inch card stock. Now chose 4 strips of 1 inch wide

card stock in patterns or colors that coordinate. You need four.

four inch squares from each strip. You now have 16, 1 inch squares.

I ran the squares through various Cuddlebug and Darice embossing folders.

Figure out how you want them to look on your "quilt".

Now start gluing them on the 4 inch square piece of card stock.

I did the four corners first, then the outer edge and finally the four squares in the middle.

Here is a close up of the embossed squares.

After the quilt was finished, I mounted it on a 4 1/4 inch piece of

ivory card stock. I ran a piece of green card stock 41/2 inches square through an embossing folder. I mounted the quilt which has been adhered to the ivory card stock to the green embossed square and adhered that to a 5x5 inch card.

Sentiment is by Inky Antics(D6-0682)

Crystal Hearts by Say It In Crystals

Flower Button by Pebbles

Spellbinders die - Label Four (S4-190)

Sponged with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink

Papers are Authentique - Lovely Collection and Cloud9Design

Luster Sara's Garden Streams

Colored twine bow on button.

It's fun to quilt a design. You can cut some squares in half on the diagonal and

mix and match the patterns too.

Hope you have a chance to try this technique.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great Monday.  Until later..............

 

 

 

Basket of Flowers

Hi friends.  Where did the week go?  We worked on opening our pond and had to take the filter box out and reseat it because it was leaking around the sides because it had
been displaced because of the ground shifting in the cold winter weather and ice!
What a job, but it is done and when I get the rock all back around the edge and cleaned up, will take some pictures.  Oh, did I mention that the pump didn't work when we went to start the filter, so had to replace that too........

Today's card is for my daughter for Mother's Day.  She never has time to look at my blog, so no need to not show it now.

 

Beautiful stamp by Northwoods Rubber Stamps

Basket full of Hydrangea's (PP9089)

I stamped it twice and cut out the front pink flower and

the blue flower on the far right with the leaves and colored them and popped them up.

 

Finished card

 

Papers - Designer paper is K& Co. 

Spellbinders Grand Decorative Oval die

Paper lace doily

Inside Sentiment says Because Your Special...Happy Mother's Day

Dragonfly is K & Co, cut from a border set

Picket fence pink ribbon is from Michael's

Corner punch is Paper Shapers

Pearls are Queen and Co.

Colored with Copics

 

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great Thursday.  Until later......

 

EXPLORE

Hi friends, happy Wednesday.  Hump Day, Yeah!

 

Today's card is for the challenge at Tilda's Town, it's challenge #51

Anything Goes.

 

 

Card Recipe

 

Card stock - The Paper Studio

Dies- Spellbinders and Cheery Lyn Designs

Butterfly Punch by Martha Stewart

Leaf Vine - Cheery Lyn Design

Flowers - Prima

Bow - Hobby Lobby

Button Candi around scallops

Glossy Accents on the looking glass.

Star Dust Stickles on the flowers.

Colored with Copic Markers

 

I am also entereing this card into the

 

Anything Goes Challenge #92 - Shaped card (not a square)

 

 

I hope you have a fantastic Wednesday.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Until later..........