The Easter Mouse has Arrived

It's Good Friday and all the major stores are closed and in between laundry and dishwasher I was crafting a couple of Easter cards for the Great Grandsons, Sunday we are all heading for a family brunch ~~ 10 or 12 of us. For the first year in a long time we haven't had ham and all the trimmings and it sure gives everyone more time to enjoy the day.  So here is the first one I made.

I just got a set of slider/spinner dies and of course I just had to try one, I kept it pretty simple for the first one, also it is for a 9 year old boy so he probably wouldn't like a fancy one. I followed instructions and used my anti static bag on the opening and all around where the foam tape is so it slides really nice. The stamp I used is from House Mouse Designs.

I got a little carried away and just had to use the Karen Bernstein pop up label die, I've only used it once before a year ago Halloween. I added another house mouse image. 

Just added a die cut Happy Easter to the inside.

I'm entering this in:

House Mouse & Friends Monday challenge ~~ Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting today and stay tuned for part 2 of the Easter mice parade.

Challenge #274 at Shopping Our Stash is ~~~ Hey Ghoulfriend

What a great title for a challenge ~~ thank you, Chris!!! The crew at  Shopping Our Stash  would like to you make a Halloween card or project.

Halloween is not as huge a celebration as it is in the U.S. so I don't make a lot of Halloween cards, but if there are challenges to be done then send them off to who ever I think would like a surprise. I had a lot of fun making this card and "shhh it's for my great-grandson". I bought a Pop up Die I think about 1 1/2 years or longer and had never taken it out of the package, it looked like a lot of work but surprise, surprise it wasn't as hard as it looked.

I had printed this super cute image from Bugaboo Stamps quite a while ago and had it all layered on gold and black ready to go. I added some colour to the windows, lights and eyes then using some chalks I did the background in pink and yellow for an eerie sky.  I punched the fence and popped it up and added the black cat that I found in that "parts box" The background paper is from Bo Bunny also a couple of years old.

Tada!! the pop up part of the card, The sentiments are computer generated and the bats are from an EK bat punch I found at Dollarama and I attached them with thin strips of acetate. The paper is from a 12 X 12 pad I bought 2 maybe 3 years ago at Winners.

Close up of the pop up part of the card and of course the super cute bats.

I would like to enter this in:

Cardz for Guys ~~ challenge 142 Boo Halloween or a Thank you card.

The Male Room ~~ #46 Halloween.

Thanks for stopping by today and were you surprised it's not a Christmas card? Have a fabulous day!!

Head over to the main blog check out the rules and see what ghoulish creations the rest of the team has made.