House Mouse Halloween

Good Morning! I have one last Halloween project to share with you. I am a little sad that Halloween is over. In part just because I love Halloween so much and because after Halloween the rest of the year just seems to zoom by in one giant big flurry of activity. Between Halloween and the end of the year we have Kip's birthday, Thanksgiving and travel involved with that, my grandmother's birthday, our anniversary, and the Christmas. Mixed in with all that is the shopping, massive baking and cooking sessions and different holiday parties.

Now on to my card, this is a House Mouse image and was colored with Copics. The little sentiment panel is a piece of thin wood, painted black and then I wrote Boo with a white gel pen. Pretty simple. I just love this image though! It's so funny though, for the longest time, I would only color House Mouse images with pencils and because I was never really happy with the result when I used Copics on them. I am pretty please with this one and now when I sit down to color them it just depends on whether I am in a pencil mood or a marker mood.

Have a great day!!

House Mouse Flag Card

Good Morning! I spent quite a bit of time this weekend coloring. Sometimes I will do that, I will just stamp or print a bunch of images and then just color. I have always loved coloring, with crayons, pencils or markers, it doesn't really matter, coloring is just relaxing for me. Most of the time now I use Copics when I color but sometimes I want to play with pencils. I am getting another box ready to send to a Marine friend in Afghanistan and thought this House Mouse image would be the perfect on to include on the accompanying card. When coloring House Mouse images I do tend to reach for my pencils more often than my Copics, I am not sure why either, but they are generally my first choice. Image is from House Mouse Stamps and was colored with Prismacolor pencils, paper is from The Paper Studio (I think) and the stars are from my stash.

Hopping Down the Bunny Trail

I am so excited that I am finally starting to see some signs of spring around here. Even though it has rained for the past few days, it has still been much nicer now that the mercury is moving up on the thermometer. One of my favorite things to do it sit on the porch in the mornings or evening with a good book and a cup of tea of coffee. It is time that I can do that again, and for that I am grateful. I have been pulling out spring papers and embellishments too. I love this little House Mouse stamp and wanted to make sure it gets plenty of use this year for Easter. It was colored with Copics, I used DCWV papers, a Fiskars grass punch and some ribbon from Hobby Lobby.

My husband and I were talking last night about musicians that we really like. He is going to see Rush in concert this weekend and he was saying that he couldn't really pick a favorite song of their because he likes them all. So we were talking about musicians that we like that we just love every song. Like ABBA, love them, and sometimes I will hear a song by them and that that one is my favorite, then the next song and that one becomes my favorite. Harry Chapin, Tom Yarbrough, Johnny Cash, John Denver and Dolly Parton are some of my faves that just have so many songs I love. House Mouse stamps are like that for me too, I think I have a favorite, but every time I see one that one is my favorite.

Have a great day!

March Oldies But Goodies Blog Hop

Welcome to our Designing DIVAS Blog Hop! Each month we have a blog hop using those supplies that haven't seen any love and attention in a while. You should have arrived here from Mary's blog, if you want to start at the beginning you can visit Melissa and then click through the hop. I love the idea of these blog hops. For me personally, this is a great challenge. It gives me a little more motivation to look for and use things that I haven't been using. This is one of those stamps. I love the House Mouse images and love ice cream so when I saw this one I needed it. I can't remember the last time I used it though. I think it was last summer when I was coloring with my niece Zoie, I'm pretty sure that was the last time it saw ink. I was visiting with my parents and had taken my Copics and a bunch of images that I thought Zoie would be interested in playing with and we spent the better part of an afternoon coloring. I don't know how happy my brother was after that because she wanted a set of Copics for her birthday!

Image is from House Mouse and colored with Copic markers, papers are DCWV, buttons are American Crafts, and I used some DMC floss in the buttons.

Thanks for visiting today. Your next stop is Angie!

House Mouse Coffee

Good evening! I just love these House Mouse images and I have always preferred coloring them with Prismacolor pencils more than with Copics. I know, big shock, right? Someone (sorry, don't remember who) suggested going a little bit lighter with the marker colors than I would normally have picked. I tried that and I was very happy with the results. I still like coloring these with my pencils, but now I like the look with the Copics too. I got this image from Scrapbook Store at Your Door. Julie has a wonderful selection of HM images and she ships quick, and has great service. The only place I can get these locally is Hobby Lobby and they just don't get new ones very often. All the supplies on this card came from my stash. I think the papers are DCWV, but the ribbon is American Crafts and the brads are Making Memories. 

I hope everyone had a great Easter. I had a migraine that wouldn't quite go away so I slept most of the morning and into the early afternoon. We were on our own this year, but I still wanted a dinner so my husband offered to cook lunch on his own. I was pretty proud of him, and other than a little help with the deviled eggs, he did it all. Before my Grandmother passed away we always had a big family dinner for Easer. It makes me feel connected to her by continuing that tradition--even if it is just the two of us. Kip knows that so he made sure I had my dinner. He's pretty cool, I am going to keep him!

Happy Halloween!

I forgot I had this one last Halloween project to post. I have been using my Copics so my that my Prisma pencils have been seriously neglected. I stamped this Halloween House Mouse with Memento ink and colored it with pencils. I decided to go with a non-traditional color scheme so I colored the butterfly costume to match the papers that I had chosen. This was a pretty simple and quick card. 

I had a pretty low key Halloween. Kip had to work today so we didn't have any plans. He won the costume contest at his work though! Anyone else do anything exciting? Have a great night everyone and don't forget to set your clocks back.

Smile!

I first saw this image on Julie's blog and every time I saw it, I laughed. I mean laughed out loud, it absolutely cracked me up! I kept going back to look at it and show it to other people and I never stopped laughing. I knew that this stamp had to eventually come and live at my house. I followed the Ways to Use It challenge on Splitcoast today which was to use Kraft paper. I love the Kraft paper paired with red and since it matched my little mousie lips, that is the color combo I used. The main image was stamped with Memento ink and then colored with Prismacolor pencils and OMS. The sentiment says SMILE and was stamped with Brilliance White Cloud ink using the My Sentiments Exactly ASL alphabet. That's a fun alphabet to play with, all the letters are individual so I can make words to say whatever I want to say. What I really like about it is that you can place the letters close together and make one stamp. I have some alphabets that I have to stamp each individual letter because if you try to line them up on a block they are spaced too far apart, but not with this set.

Speaking of Julie, I have to give a shout out to the service at her online store Scrapbook Store at Your Door. This is where I purchased this stamp. I am lucky enough that I live less than half a mile from Hobby Lobby, have to pass Jo-Ann's going to and from work and Michael's isn't too far. I do spend plenty of time and money in all these places, so much time that Kip says going into any of these stores with me is like going into Cheers with Norm, but their stamp selection doesn't change. We also don't have a good stamp store close by, do I do a lot of online shopping. The two ways I choose where to shop online are price and shipping time, this store met both of those. I was very surprised how quickly I got my order. Thanks for stopping by tonight!

Kip's Valentine Card

This is the card that I made for my husband Kip this year. I couldn't post it early because he reads my blog. Not every day, but I knew if I posted it early then he would definitely see it. I am so loving these House Mouse stamps. I can't believe it took me so long to finally buy one. For this card, I started with a red base and stamped little hearts with Versamark. My image was colored with Prismacolor pencils. I used Red Tinsel embossing powder on the inside of the little heart and then clear embossing powder on the rest of the heart. I finished it off with some ribbon that I got from Jo-Anns. Have a great Sunday.

Another House Mouse

Okay, these stamps really are addictive! I had so much fun with the first image earlier in the week, I decided to do another one tonight. I think this is just the sweetest image. I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils and used OMS to help me with the shading a little bit. I have been practicing with my pencils and am getting happier with the results, especially areas that need shading. My paper is DCWV and the ribbon came from my stash. These colors look a little on the bright side, they are slightly more muted in real life. I have a new camera, am working on a strange computer and am using different photo editing software and I think I got carried away enhancing the color. I am so tired tonight so I am going to crash before I fall asleep at the keyboard, thanks for dropping in tonight!

Little Ballerina

Look! A picture that isn't blurry!!  No, that doesn't mean that my computer is fixed, or even that I have a new computer. I am still working with Kip's computer but I can use my camera on here now. I have always been a little afraid of these House Mouse stamps. I just thought they would be so difficult to color and do them justice. I keep seeing them on the blogs from my blogger group and every time I do, I get a little more tempted. So the last time Hobby Lobby had stamps for 50% off, I picked up a couple. (BTW all stamps on on sale this week too). It was a lot of fun coloring this little ballerina. This is the card that I will probably give to Samantha for Valentine's Day. I know she will love this little mouse. Not, sure if you can see it or not, but the white piece of paper went through a paper crimper and has little hearts on it. Tuesday Morning had them one day for like $1.97 so I got this one and one with stars on it. My paper is from DCWV, ribbon is from Hobby Lobby and the little heart brads were a gift from my friend Angela and I think they came from JoAnn's.

Thanks for your patience and your comments while I have been having computer problems. I appreciate all your comments especially the ones with the blurry pictures! I have a crazy busy week at work this week and will be back as soon as possible. I am working on a home organization notebook and hopefully I will get it finished tonight. I got the idea from Erica  and as soon as I saw hers, I knew my house could benefit from something like that too. Have a great night!