HMFMC #258 - Midway Reminder Anything Goes-Optional theme LOVE

Challenge #258 continues at the

HOUSE MOUSE AND FRIENDS MONDAY CHALLENGE

and ends on Saturday, February 3rd

 at midnight EST.

Our talented teammate and Hostess is 

CHRISTINE

 Anything Goes 

OR 

Option theme - LOVE 
You must use a House Mouse Designs
 image on your card or project.

A Mother's Love

Stamp - Close Knit Family - (2001) Stampabilities
Tea Time Border die - Cottage Cuts
Hot Pink and White Card stock
DP 6x6 paper pad from AC Moore
Yarn trim
Colored with Copics

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Our Generous Sponsors for this challenge are

House-Mouse Designs(R)  

We are also thrilled to be welcoming back our AWESOME sponsor,
the Official Mousey Family, House-Mouse Designs(R)
 

HMD is offering a Lucky player a $20 Gift Certificate to go shopping at the official House-Mouse Designs(R) site! Eeeeek!!  

AND 

Welcome back our second Generous SPONSOR

STAMPENDOUS!

Winner will receive a Fabulous $20 Value Reward Card

Stampendous is now the official rubber stamp licensee of House-Mouse Designs®.  Visit the store at www.STAMPENDOUS.com 

For lots more inspiration from Stampendous, be sure to check out their other sites; STAMPENDOUS! Blog,  

Find Stampendous! on Pinterest and Facebook.  

Big thanks to our Sponsors for their continued support.

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The design team has come up with some great inspiration for this challenge.

  So, scurry on over to the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge blog

and check them out, then get busy and enter a card of your own.

  Wonderful prizes on offer.

We love to visit  you to see what you come up with to inspire us!! 

This challenge ends, Saturday, February 3rd at midnight EST.

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

BSS IDEA - Cool Chicks

Welcome to the Buffalo Stamps and Stuff Idea.

Snow is all melted, and I see the sun.  

This week, a sweet Valentine card with some cute chicks!

Stamp - Stampingbella-Cupid Chicks (eb457)

(sentiment is included)

Yellow, Red and White cardstock

Colored with Copics

Clouds done with a torn paper towel and swiping ink

along the edge with a sponge applicator in an upward motion.

Move down, move the paper towel to the right or left so

the same pattern isn't repeated on each sponged area.

Only a couple of weeks to get your Valentines made.  The store

is packed with great stamps and dies for those special Valentines Day

cards.

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

LITTLE STINKER

Hi friends, a quick little post on this Sunny Sunday.

This digi is from Craftin Desert Divas.  Isn't this little skunk so cute.

Oval dies are Spellbinders Grand dies.

Flowers are old punches of mine

Colored with Copics

Inside sentiment not shown says "Aren't you glad this

isn't a scratch and sniff card?"

If you want to check out the digi's on this site , they are

all just 99 cents 

Have a wonderful rest of the day. Thanks for stopping by.

HMFMC #258 - ANYTHING GOES-OPTIONAL THEME LOVE

A new Challenge #258 begins today at the

HOUSE MOUSE AND FRIENDS MONDAY CHALLENGE

and ends on Saturday, February 3rd

 at midnight EST.

Our talented teammate and Hostess is 

CHRISTINE

 Anything Goes 

OR 

Option theme - LOVE 

Close up of image

Love of a good friend

Stamp-Purrty Nails-1998-Stampabilities (HMLR1042)

Paper- American Crafts-Bright Pink cardstock

Dies - Spellbinders for card base,

 Gina Marie fancy edge rectangle

Flowers and leaves from my stash

Pearls, Satin blue ribbon

Glossy Accents

Colored with Copics

Our Generous Sponsors for this challenge are

House-Mouse Designs(R)  

We are also thrilled to be welcoming back our AWESOME sponsor,
the Official Mousey Family, House-Mouse Designs(R)
 

HMD is offering a Lucky player a $20 Gift Certificate to go shopping at the official House-Mouse Designs(R) site! Eeeeek!!  

AND 

Welcome back our second Generous SPONSOR

STAMPENDOUS!

Winner will receive a Fabulous $20 Value Reward Card

Stampendous is now the official rubber stamp licensee of House-Mouse Designs®.  Visit the store at www.STAMPENDOUS.com 

For lots more inspiration from Stampendous, be sure to check out their other sites; STAMPENDOUS! Blog,  

Find Stampendous! on Pinterest and Facebook.  

Big thanks to our Sponsors for their continued support.

The design team has come up with some great inspiration for this challenge.
  So, scurry on over to the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge blog
and check them out, then get busy and enter a card of your own.

  Wonderful prizes on offer.

We love to visit  you to see what you come up with to inspire us!! 

This challenge ends, Saturday, February 3rd at midnight EST.

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

BSS IDEA - BUSY BEE

Welcome to the Buffalo Stamps and Stuff Idea.

Another week.....can't believe January is almost a thing of the past.

I was at the store on Saturday, and Valentines stamps, papers and

dies abound.  February 14th will be here before we know it.

So, of course I bought some new stuff.  Here is a little card I made

with an adorable stamp I bought.

Stamp - Stampingbella - The bee and the heart (eb460)

(The inside sentiment on this card is included)

Two shades of pink cardstock

Cuttlebug Music Embossing Folder

Little heart on the string die - Memory Box Precious Hearts 98474

Flowers - Prima

Pearls - Queen and Company

Colored with Copics

Card Size is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches

Hope you are keeping warm and the cold weather

has given you a little more time in your stamp room.

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

FRENCHIE

A quick post for this Sunday night.  I saw this adorable pup stamp at Buffalo Stamps and Stuff, my local stamp store.  On a card sample that is.  Unfortunately (I'm an immediate gratification girl) for me, they were sold out of the stamp.  So when I got home, I went on a search for it.  It's from Impression Obsession , but everyone was out of it.  I finally found it and when it arrived I headed up to my stamp rooms to color it up and make a card.

AWWW....right?

Stamp - Impression Obsession -Dina Kowal Designs H13581

Fancy Square dies are Spellbinders Grand Dies

White flower soft on hat

colored with Copics

Hope you had a wonderful weekend.

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

                                                            

HMFMC # 257 - Midweek reminder - Anything Goes - Optional theme Winter

Midweek reminder for our first Challenge of 2018

Challenge #257 continues through midnight EST
Saturday, January 20TH.

Our talented teammate Karin is our Hostess.

 Theme, Always Anything Goes

OR 

Challenge Theme Option-WINTER

Stamp - Roasting Marshmallo - Stampa Rosa (1997)

Paper - Reflections, Michaels

Black 6 x 6 in card base

Black glitter paper scalloped border die - Gina Marie

Holly Border - K and Co.

Sentiment Die - Sizzix

Snow Writer and Sparkly White Glitter

Holly Die - Sizzix

Our Two Generous SPONSORS for this chall are 

Crafty Ribbons 

Crafty Ribbons are offering one lucky winner a £15 voucher to be spent online at : http://www.craftyribbons.com  

and 

Pizzazz Aplenty 

Pizzazz Aplenty has expanded our inventory to include a nice variety of metal cutting dies.  You can check them out on the Pizzazz blog, or I've created a  Facebook group called  Reasonable Craft Dies.  So if you are shopping for flatback pearls or rhinestones, brads, dies, or even daubers, you'll find them at Pizzazz Aplenty

Prize from Pizzazz Aplenty for ONE lucky Winner is a Surprise package to the value of $40  of Embellishments/  Dies flat back pearls etc. 

Don't you just Love Surprises!

The design team has come up with some great inspiration for this challenge.  So, scurry on over to the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge blog and 

check them out, then get busy and enter a card of your own.

  Wonderful prizes on offer.

We love to visit  you to see what you come up with to inspire us!! 

This challenge ends, Saturday, January 20 at midnight EST.

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

BSS IDEA - COLOR LAYERING ELEPHANT

Welcome to the Buffalo Stamps and Stuff Idea.

Hope everyone is keeping warm and cozy.  Feel sorry for those

folks that work outside, it has been brutal.

This weeks card is made with a Hero Arts Layering set.

Stamps - Hero Arts - Color Layering Elephant (CM224) (including sentiments)

Inks Used - Solid image - My favorite things Gravel Gray, Second Stamping

details on elephant - Vintage Photo Distress Ink, third stamping outline of

Elephant - Onyx Black Versafine

Papers - Core-dinations

Yellow paper is an Ombre card stock

Border on tag - Spellbinders-A2 Scalloped Borders (S5-182)

Yellow Twine bow

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

BUTTERFLY

Good Saturday Morning.  Snowing again and cold here after a two day respite.

  Temps are down again and winter driving skills are needed!

Just before Christmas, I purchased the Gemini Jr. during all the hype on HSN.

I really didn't need another die cutting machine, but the lure was it was small, electric,and

could be used right on my work table instead of having to get up to go to the back room

of my two room stamp room to cut a die.  It came as a bundle with some beautiful dies.

I am loving the dies, the machine, not so much.  This is one of the dies that

came in the bundle.

Butterfly die - Crafter's Companion

White Scallop die - Little B

Additional butterfly die - Little B

Flower sprigs - Dee's Distinctively die

Designer Paper - DCWV

Gold Mirror card stock

Black 6x6 card base

Keep warm if you are somewhere cold!

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

REINDEER RIDERS

Hi friends, I've decided to leave my Christmas papers out and make a card a week.  I have done this before but dropped off after awhile.  Hoping this is the year I end up with cards to send out next year!

Stamp -Penny Black (1995) Reindeer Riders

Sentiment is from the Pop up Reindeer from Impression Obsession

Embossing Folder - Sizzix

Snowwriter with white sparkly glitter

Colored with Copics

Joining these challenges

 ABC Christmas challenge - Antlers/birds

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful day.  Until later....

HMFMC # 257 - ANYTHING GOES/ OPTIONAL THEME WINTER

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018 

 And welcome to our first Challenge of 2018
Challenge #257 begins today and closes at midnight EST
Saturday, January 20TH

Our talented teammate Karin is our Hostess.

 Theme, Always Anything Goes

OR 

Challenge Theme Option-WINTER 

Stamp - Mice Snowball - Stampabilities 2008

Plaid Paper -Lawn Fawn

Word sentiment - Kaiser Craft

Snowflake die - Amy Design
Rhinestones and twine bow
Colored with Copics

Our Two Generous SPONSORS for this challenge are 

Crafty Ribbons are offering one lucky winner a £15 voucher to be spent online at : http://www.craftyribbons.com  

and 

Pizzazz Aplenty 

Pizzazz Aplenty has expanded our inventory to include a nice variety of metal cutting dies.  You can check them out on the Pizzazz blog, or I've created a  Facebook group called  Reasonable Craft Dies.  So if you are shopping for flatback pearls or rhinestones, brads, dies, or even daubers, you'll find them at Pizzazz Aplenty

Prize from Pizzazz Aplenty for ONE lucky Winner is a Surprise package valued at $40  of Embellishments,Dies, and flat back pearls etc. 

Don't you just Love Surprises!

The design team has come up with some great inspiration for this challenge.  So, scurry on over to the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge blog and 

check them out, then get busy and enter a card of your own.

  Wonderful prizes on offer.

We love to visit  you to see what you come up with to inspire us!! 

This challenge ends, Saturday, January 20 at midnight EST.

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

BSS IDEA - WINTER SCENE DIE

WELCOME TO THE BUFFALO STAMPS AND STUFF WEEKLY IDEA.

Cold enough for ya?  WOW, we turn our heat down at night, and the kitchen floor has been

so cold in the mornings, we have adjusted how much to turn it down.  

I feed the squirrels and birds, and they have been coming in flocks to eat.

Even a bunny or two has been visiting to eat the seed on the ground.  

Supposed to get more normal this week.  Keep warm and cozy.

This weeks card is made with a beautiful winter die.  

I cut the die out and colored some things, and paper pieced behind

the lights, the windows, and the mountains and ground.

Then I cut a piece of glossy card stock and sponged it with distress ink, 

stamped the snow with white pigment ink and set it with a heat tool.

I placed a small circle on the paper before I started to ink it to form

a full moon.I then adhered the sponged piece behind the die.

Die - Amy Design - Village Frame Straight ADD10121

Paper - Royal Blue, White and Glitter White Cardstock

Inside

Snowflake die is Martha Stewart.

Keep warm and drive carefully, stay safe.

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