Take 2 of the Easter Mouse Saga......

I'm back with the second of the House Mouse Easter cards I made on Friday, I used another of my Easter house mouse and I made a Shaker Card. This is for the youngest of my Great Grandsons.

Since little guys like bright colours I chose polka dots to accent the round shaker, of course I used a pre-made shaker dome it takes the stress out of starting from scratch. I pulled the colours from the dots and coloured the Easter eggs he is holding.

Close up of the little mousey with the coloured eggs.

Didn't have an Easter sentiment but found one that kind of worked. The bunnies on the bottom are dies from Gina Marie.Designs

I am entering this in:

House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes.

I'm glad you stopped by again to see my Easter creation.

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.

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Spirit of Christmas Past

Since the Jingle Belle's challenge has a specific theme and it's one I love but for some reason this year I am struggling with Vintage!!! There is a prize too and if you don't have anything vintage there are two downloads from Lauren's personal stash.  I started with plan "A" but soon went to plan "B" and I like it much better. Lots of layers and fancy stuff it's certainly not CAS or DAB.

One of my favourite Christmas stamps it is called Santa Collage and is from Rubber Stampede I do believe I bought it eons ago on a trip to the U.S. at Target. I guess I had stamped it last year as it was in my box of stamped images, bonus, I did a bit of colouring on it cut with spellbinders ovals, the gold embossed paper was on my table beside the cutter and thought oh that would look good. So three layers of plain ovals, one scalloped and a fancy oval die cut. I embossed the scalloped rectangle with the Textile cuttlebug folder. It was too pretty to put a sentiment on it.

The image and 3 layers is popped up with fun foam and attached to the fancy oval.

Since we are going vintage I used a very vintage sentiment from the Artful stamper it might be older than the Santa Collage.

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Spirit of Christmas Past 

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ E is for Embossing G is for Glitter

Christmas Card Throwdown ~~ March Technique 

Thanks for checking in today and have a wonderful weekend.

Get Ready it's Rudolph Days March 25 to March 31

Well I'm not as late as I usually am in getting a Rudolph Days card finished but that was because my image was coloured and fussy cut already and the Santa hat was also stamped, coloured and fussy cut too. So I'm half way to being finished.

Well it sure took me time to figure out who's Moose image this was but it's QKR Stampede. I have quite a few QKR digital images from when I designed for Clear it Out Tuesday and I'm still in love with them all. For this card as I said I had the image and Santa hat ready to go I also had the fir trees border in my scrap box, wow talk about using up your "stuff"  The Merry is from a Hero Arts set and the Christmas is an IO die.

As you see I popped this super cute moose up on pop dots.

Finished the inside with another die cut tree from the scrap box and a left over scrap of patterned paper. The sentiment is from Impression Obsession. 

I am entering this in:

Rudolph Days ~~ March

QKR Stampede Challenge ~~ Anything goes every week.

Chalk up another Holiday card!!! 

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.

Shopping Our Stash is Holding an Intervention ~~ No Ink.

Hello and welcome to the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash!!! Challenge #347 is NO INK!!! There are lots of choices and if you check out the main blog you will see how it's done. You could use pencil crayons, or dies and there is always patterned paper just don't use ink. I went the easy route and did all die-cuts.

I have had this die for quite a while and I got it with our son's birthday in mind so this will be for his birthday in July. I don't have to worry about posting as he doesn't read my blog or follow me on instagram or even twitter.  Almost the last piece of Stampin'up black cardstock and the copper is also from Stampin'up and I'm sure it is two years old and only cut once for a card a few weeks ago. 

I carried the "ink free" to the inside  using dies. The copper layer on this is from a package I bought at least 5 years or more ago. 

I'm entering this in:

Use Your Stuff ~~ #305 Travel

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will join Shopping Our Stash for the Ink Free challenge and head over to the main blog and check out what the rest of the team have done without ink.

Need a Cup of Joe?

It's Saturday and it's a NEW challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and it's a dandy!! N is for Need Coffee..........are you awake and ready to join us? When I saw the challenge I immediately searched my Bugaboo Digis folder and found Stella and you know what that means........SNARK!!! Here she is............

I had to search for scraps of Crumb Cake but I did use some new Tim Holtz Distress Oxide walniut stain with his stencil. The blue cardstock is Ballet Blue and has been retired for years. The sentiment is from a coffee sentiment set from Gina Marie Designs. (lots of choice of snark), The coffee and Stella's glasses have paper glaze on them,.

 Close up you can see the paper glaze on Stella's glasses but not so much on the coffee. but it's there.

I'm entering this in:

Naughty or Nice ~~ Drink Up

This is the sentiment that came with the digi of Stella and the coffee cup. I added some coffee stains with TH stencil, although if I have my coffee anywhere near my table it would look like it naturally.

Thanks for joining me here today and I hope you will stop by the Main Blog check out the challenge and see what Coffee snark the rest of the design team have made for your inspiration.

Here Comes Peter Cottontail ~~~ Oh No it's a Mouse!!!

Shopping Our Stash #346 is Here comes Peter Cottontail so make an Easter Card. I used my favourite Easter image from House Mouse Designs.  The stamp I used is old I'm not sure how old but it's a wood block stamp. The patterned paper is probably 5 years old.

Other than using Purple for Easter cards I love yellow and teal together. I stamped the image twice and cut the egg shell out and popped them up. I used my ancient spellbinders dies to cut them out. The Hello is fairly new but never been used. My sketch is from CAS(E) this sketch #263, it was perfect for my image, and this is about as CAS as it gets for me.

Close up of the image.

The plain teal paper is from a paper pad I have had for so long I haven't a clue where I bought it or how long ago, it is listed for use with a cricut.  Isn't this a gorgeous Happy Easter die cut. 

I am entering this in:

CAS(E) this sketch #263 

Thanks for stopping by today and I'm looking forward to seeing your Easter Cards!!