Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: You PARTY Animal!

This week on the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge the theme is PARTY ANIMAL!
For this challenge your projects must include at least one animal. Let's try to get wild and crazy with this challenge and make something out of the ordinary...you know, something that fits the "Party Animal" theme! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

So here's my version of a party animal...well...maybe this is an "after the party" animal! LOL... Anyway, I decided to do another cake, but this time instead of a wedding cake, I decided to do a birthday cake, I embossed my layers on the cake with my cuttlebug folder and I pop dotted the last two off the card for just a hint of dimension, I added some ribbon and some punchie flowers with rhinestones...hope you enjoy and thanks for looking today! Recipe is below:

Recipe:

• Stamps: House Mouse, Studio G
• Punch: EK Succes (flower), Nestabilities (oval and scalloped oval)
• Other: Copics, Pop dots, rhinestones, cuttlebug embossing folder swirls.
  

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #4: Charmed, I'm Sure

This card is for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #4, Charmed I'm Sure! The challenge is to use one charm somewhere on your card... So I decided it would look adorable hanging on the moon!
I cut the moon using 2 circles from my Nestabilities set, I used the Largest circle in the set to cut out my moon, and then I used the next size down to give it a moon shape... I then pierced a hole at the edge and threaded my charm through that. I double pop dotted the moon off of my embossed background so that the charm could hang freely. I then stamped, colored (with Copics) and cut out my mouse (she was originally on a cottonball) and added her to my moon. I then stamped and cut out my sentiment, letting it hang over slightly on my moon, then added the lace border and organza ribbon. I hope you like it, recipe as usual, is below...thanks for visiting today!

Recipe:

• Stamp: House Mouse Dreampuff, SU So Many Sayings
• Paper: SU Heavenly Blue, CM Graduation (yellow paper)
• Ink: Memento
• Dies/Punches: Nestabilities Circles, Martha Stewart Lace Border
• Other: Cuttlebug Swiss Dot, Organza Ribbon, Love Charm, Pop Dots, Copics

House Mouse Challenge #29

Ever just have the right stamp for the right sketch? The moment I saw this sketch, to me, it screamed WATERMELONS! I had recently purchased this little Happy Hopper, the Seed Shooter and was itching to use him...so I did! The circle in the upper right hand corner to me, reminded me of a watermelon, so that's what I went for...and then mimiced it slightly with the strips of paper on the left hand side of the card. The scallop was made with my rectangular scallop die by Nestabilities.
I punched and stickled all of my flowers and then added dew drops on the smaller flowers and a button and a jewelry finding for the larger flower.

I colored my Happy Hopper with Copics. Recipe is underneath...

Recipe:

• Stamps: Happy Hopper Seed Shooter, Studio G Sentiment
• Papers: DCWV Nana's Nursery
• Copics: C3, RV10, R20, R32, YG03, YG11, B00
• Punches: Flowers by EK Success, Leaves by Martha Stewart
• Dies: Nestabilities Circle and Rectangular Scallop
• Other: Stickles, Button, Dew Drops, Jewelry Finding

Baby Card...and a thank you...

First my thank you for all of you that have sent your condolences, some have verbally told us, some have emailed and some have left comments here on my blog. We appreciate each and every one, again our thanks...

Now onto our card for today, my mojo is kind of gone at the moment, so I went for an EXACT of the sketch I got off of Amy Rysavy's Blog. Gotta just love them sketches! They take most of the work out don't they? I did use my Copics again, they are getting easier and easier for me. This card is pretty straight forward, so I'll leave the recipe at the bottom. Thanks for looking!

Recipe:

• Stamp: House Mouse Dream Puff, Studio G
• Ink: Memento
• Paper: DCWV Nana's Nursery
• Punches/Dies: Martha Stewart Leaf and Heart Scallop, Nestabilities Circle and Circle Scallop
• Other: Organza Ribbon, Copics

House Mouse Monday Challenge: Thanks

This weeks House Mouse Monday Challenge was a sketch from 2 Red Bananas (see last photo for sketch). It was very circle-y...which I like, cuz I have THE PERFECT stamp, Donut Bliss...doesn't a donut just SPEAK circle? LOL... Anyway, I used my favorite dp to go with my little donut blissed mouse, Sweet Tooth by Creative Imaginations. I decided instead of layering my circles, that I would pop a circle frame off of my card instead, to give it a little dimension, then I ran my ribbon behind the frame and added my sad little bow on top...truly that's what took the longest is my sad, little bow...I tied and retied and tied again, and just dealt with what I ended up with...LOL... I added a little Thanks tag (I can NEVER have enough thank you cards around!) and added 3 eyelets (dusted them babies off...LOL) to the upper right. I also added some dimensional glaze to the donut (see second picture, it shows up there). Ok, now this has made me hungry, so I'm gonna go have some breakfast...recipe and sketch below...enjoy!

Recipe:

• Stamps: House Mouse Donut Bliss, Paper Trey Ink Limitless Labels, Hot Off the Press Expressions
• Ink: Staz On, SU Pretty in Pink
• Paper: Bazill, Sweet Tooth by Creative Imaginations, Circle Paper unknown (sorry)
• Ribbon: American Craft
• Other: Nestabilities Circle Dies, Eyelet, Tag, Pop Dots, Dimensional Glaze, Colored Pencils

Welcome Baby Love Bunny

Today's card was made using Mojo Monday's Sketch #74 and completed the second challenge on the Pink Elephant blog...which is one of my fav's GLITTER!

Here's the sketch:

...and here's the card. Dh's aunt is going to have a baby next month, so I thought I'd better get a baby card done! Doesn't this Happy Hopper from House Mouse seem like she's loving on a baby? I think so.

It seems like I used a lot of "stuff" on this card, but when I look at it, it doesn't LOOK like a lot of "stuff", KWIM? I glittered up the scalloped heart and the welcome baby medallion by sticking them through my Xyron sticker maker and then added the glitter to them...makes that glitter stick evenly and still be able to read the message on my little medallion. I added the little stamped hearts behind the welcome baby message, I just LOVE how that looks and I always forget to do it...but not this time! Other than the glittered heart and medallion this card is pretty straight forward...recipe and another close up below...

Recipe:

• Stamps: Love Bunny Happy Hopper by House Mouse, Paper Trey Ink Limitless Labels for Sentiment and hearts
• Ink: Staz On and SU Pretty in Pink
• Dies: Nestabilities Labels 1
• Embossing: Cuttle Bug Swiss Dots
• Punches: Martha Stewart; Scalloped Heart, Branches, EK Success; Circles
• Other: Ribbon, Glitter, Xyron, Hope Charm, Pop Dots

Thanks for looking and have a "hoppy" day! :)

Sweet Dreams, A Surprise and FINALLY...OUR NAME...

First and foremost...SCS Blogger Group 8 is now called CREATIVELY CUTE! Appropriate I think, it was a tight voting race...as this name won by only ONE vote! So now things are really going to happen...right? LOL...

Now onto our card. House Mouse Monday Challenge this week is for Tall and Skinny cards... DL... to be exact... so I had NO IDEA what D2 was, but I assumed it was a business sized envelope and that's what I went with... I used some more paper I have been coveting...this blue paper from IOD...sooooo pretty! I also used my HM stamp Dream Puff, mostly because everything else I own is TOO BIG! LOL I haven't used her enough anyway, she's soooo sweet! I used my Nestabilities Label 1 and cut her out, then I cut out a frame for around her and popped it out with pop dots (so there's some dimension here, more noticable in the close up photo). Now I have to admit, I've been on a floral frenzy here lately and I probably spent an hour fiddling with flowers and couldn't find "just the right" floral combo for this card...so I turned to my Martha Stewart butterfly punch and pondered over that ... what was I gonna put as the butterfly body?(certainly couldn't leave it plain! LOL!) then I remember I had seen somewhere someone had made the body out of a ribbon knot going vertically... and I was cutting the Organza ribbon with very dull scissors and getting frustrated because it wasn't looking right, I cut and extra long end and ended up liking how it looked...so walla...happy accident! I also drug out my sewing machine for this card...sewing skills are a little rusty, but I like how it turned out... recipe below the card...and keep reading about the surprise (for me that is)....

Recipe:

• Stamps: House Mouse Dream Puff, Sentiment CTMH
• Ink: Staz On
• Paper: IOD, Scenic Route
• Punch/Dies: Nestabilities Label 1, Martha Stewart Butterfly
• Other: Ribbon, Thread, K & Co Heart Stickers, Pop Dots

My surprise...I won the random drawing on A Spoon Full of Sugar! I won High Hopes Stamps and some Prima's donated by Nutcrafters...Go take a look at the stamp...is that NOT PERFECT for my JOB? (horse trainer for those that don't know me)... I saw that on their website and thought...wow, it'd be kind of neat to win that...there were over 130 entries...and I GOT PICKED! You can bet I'll be using ALL of these a LOT!

The Sound of Crickets.... and a Valentine

...so I went to a Mary Kay demonstration last night with my BFF (she's a consultant)...and we did our faces and they tooks our photos (which we'll collect next week when they try to recruit us...LOL)... However my BFF was in another room doing "consultant" things and we (the guests as we were called) were left with one of the "higher" up consultants that helped us through our make up application process. Very sweet woman, however, she just wasn't too sure of me... For starters, she had us hold up our right hands and "repeat after her"...so I did UNTIL she said "laugh at my jokes..." I took my hand down and looked at her straight in the eye and said "Nope, not gonna promise that, 'cuz I don't know if you're funny..."... I don't think she's used to having someone so straight forward (or with a DRY sense of humor...because really, I was just being my comedic little self!), after that I think she just handled me with "kid gloves"...(I did laugh at a few of her funnier jokes though...). So we get our make up on, our photos taken (Valentine's gifts for dh's is how they were presented) and the rest of the consultants return to the guests...and the "higher" up consultant goes around and asked the consultants what differences they noticed in their guests... Comments for the first guest were like "Wow! What a difference, beautiful, etc..." is what I heard... Comments for the second guest were like"Deeper eyes, etc..." and then we get to me...and YES this is where I heard crickets.... I felt like saying "Buehler, Buehler....Buehler?"...and then one consultant yelled "YOU'RE SMOKING HOT!" ... I couldn't help but giggle.... I almost ran over there and kissed this woman I didn't even know... so I'm guessing that this makes me ... well ... makes me... hmm... I CAME to this thing w/o make up and no one really noticed a difference AFTER the makeup... so I'm either uglier than a mud rail fence or I just don't look like I'm wearing make up when I am...hmmm??????? So I'm not sure WHAT it makes me...but when I got home dh told me I looked "all dolled up..."...gosh I love that man! I did feel pretty...even if I did hear crickets....LOL...

Ok, well now onto our card for today...this was done for the House Mouse Monday Challenge (Valentines) and the Spoon Full of Sugar Sketch. I made this card for my mom, she's pretty much the reason I have an affinity for bunnies (and who could resist the snugglishishness of these Happy Hoppers?)! The quote on the bottom of the card says "If I know what love is, it is because of you!" My flowers have been lightly inked, then stickled and then two tear drop rhinestones put together to fashion a heart in the middle. I added ribbons and the love charm to the right. The stick pin on the lower left of the card is actually a jewelry pin, that I added beads to and a distressed Martha Stewart Lace Heart to...the minute I saw the lacey heart I KNEW I wanted to stick a pin through it! LOL! I added the tear drop rhinestones to the top of the lacey heart to give it a little bling! The last bead has 1/2 a glue dot on it and then the pin stuck through so the beads don't slide off. My Happy Hoppers are colored with colored pencils and I shadowed them in pink very lightly and then distressed the edges of the cardstock with some Antique Photo Ink by Tim Holtz. I stickled the hearts (although THAT did not photo well) I also distressed the Lacey Heart Border with the Antique Photo Ink. I finished the card off with a little piercing...and yes I used my favorite color...PINK! Recipe below...

Recipe:

• Stamps: House Mouse Happy Hoppers Love Bunny
• Ink: StazOn, Tim Holtz Antique Photo
• Paper: De Ja View, Around the Block
• Punches: Martha Stewart Lacey Heart, Heart Lace Border Punch
• Other: Rhinestones, Beads, Ribbon, Heart Charm, Pop Dots, Colored Pencils, Stickles, Piercing Bug

Cupcake Craft Challenge 24, 3-2-1

The Cupcake Craft Challenge this week is 3-2-1. What is a 3-2-1 challenge, you ask? Well it's 3 pieces of cardstock, 2 embellishments and 1 ribbon... I decided to use this adorable HM stamp called Donut Bliss, did you notice the paper on the bottom...it says Mmmmm, Melt in your Mouth and Yummy on it...seems to go perfect with this little Mousie! Recipe is below as usual! Enjoy...think I'll go have some breakfast now...he he!
Recipe:
Stamps: HM Donut Bliss, Sentiment Studio G
Paper: Creative Imaginations Sweet Tooth, Imaginisce Baby Powder Baby's Breath
Ink: Staz On
Other: Grosgrain Ribbon, Queen & Co Heart Brads, Colored Pencils

House Mouse Dream Team

The House Mouse Monday Challenge board is having a "try out" to be on their dream team...so I'm suiting up to try out... Here are the requirements:

1. Why you would like to join the team

• I would love to inspire others with my work. I am also good with deadlines and enjoy challenges. I think it would be great to share a comraderie with the other team members. I also LOVE the House Mouse line, I hope my passion shows through my work.

2. Show three samples of your best work on the post (please post pictures and not links to help save us time), they don't have to be new work and do not have to contain HM stamps (though we would like to see at least one)

Thank you for your consideration!

Happy Birthday House Mouse

This is a dual challenge card, I decided to do the Split Coast Stampers Sketch Challenge 213 and the House Mouse Challenge (piercing was this weeks theme). I traveled away from my "comfort" colors and went for something a little bright and bold (at least for me), it seems very "birthdayish" at any rate! I pierced the sides of the plaid paper and added a simple sentiment at the bottom with SU's Think Happy Thoughts set and added a candle punch to the center and stickled the flame (I did that with the cupcake also...stickled the flame). This is a fairly simple card, it came together really quickly. Hope you enjoy and the recipe is below it! Have a "stampy" day!
Recipe:

• Stamps: SU Think Happy Thoughts, House Mouse Make a Wish 02
• Paper: My Minds Eye
• Punches: All by EK Success
• Other: Stickles, Paper Piercer, Pop Dot, Colored Pencils

Whimsy Guest Designer Call

Have you seen Whimsy Stamps? This is a fairly young stamping company, but OH THE CUTENESS! I just love their adorable animals...do take a look over there, they may be young, but what neat stamps they have!

They are having a February Guest Designer call and I have decided to toss my hat in the ring, so-to-speak. Part of the requirements for the Guest Designer call was to make a card with an animal and using the following sketch:
So since I'm lacking in Whimsy Stamps, I decided to use one of my Happy Hoppers from House Mouse, I just love this little bunny, he looks so R.E.L.A.X.E.D.!
I colored him in with colored pencils, added some stickles to his steam and cut him out with my Nestabilities Rectangle die. I layered him and then I added a panel embossed with my Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Swirls. I then put all that on dp by Adornit (Winter Collection - Snowball Fight) which I had added some flourishes by Inkadinkado (Dot Flourishes) and glittered the dots with MS glitter. I also pierced the edge and inked the edge slightly.
I had a hard time finding "just the right" sentiment in the space I had left...so I printed my own out with brown ink on my printer, inked the edge and also pierced it and backed it in brown paper, I added a few hearts from K & Co. I then added some organza ribbon to the bottom! The recipe is below as usual!

Recipe:

• Stamps: House Mouse Happy Hopper Bunny Bath, Inkadinkado Dot Flourishes
• DP: Adornit Carolee's Creations Winter Collection Snowball Fight
• Ink: Staz On Black, Tim Holtz Antique Brown
• Dies: Nestabilities Rectangle, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Swirls
• Other: Paper Piercer, K & Co Hearts, Organza Ribbon, Stickles, Martha Stewart Glitter

House Mouse Monday Challenge #21, Bunny Bliss

I have to admit, when I visited the House Mouse Challenge Blog and saw this challenge, I panicked a little...it was a color challenge...and colors I'm not "comfortable" with...the colors I had to work with were:

• Cameo Coral
• Old Olive
• Night of Navy

The dream team of this blog had done fantastic things with their cards...I was just hoping I could pull it off.... Once I was done panicking and started looking at the colors and my dp, I thought maybe, just maybe I could pull it off...

So I chose Bunny Bath, cut him out with my rectangle Nestabilities, colored him in with colored pencils and added some stickles to his steam. I then backed him in Navy and decided to put him on a slight slant. I then sat there and pondered HOW I was going to add the Cameo Coral, and I spied in my "Valentines" stuff a pack of stickers by Marah Johnson that had the word BLISS on it...PERFECT and "almost" Cameo Coral, so I decided to use it...doesn't the Bunny LOOK like he's in BLISS? I also spied my long forgotten heart punch and added some hearts and prima flowers with REAL Swarvoski rhinestones...so pretty (Ya know I gotta have my bling!).

So what do you think? Did I pull of this color challenge? As always, recipe below...

Recipe:

• Stamp: House Mouse Bunny Bath
• Ink: Staz On
• Paper: My Minds Eye
• Punch: Posh Impressions
• Ribbon: American Crafts
• Flowers: Prima
• Other: Stickles, Swarvoski Rhinestones, Pop Dots
  

Make a Wish House Mouse, SCS211

FINALLY, warm weather...ok, warm"er" weather for us. What a week this has been! It has been BRUTALLY cold here and this I know because the cold water pipes in the HEATED part of the barn froze! They have NEVER done that before...the coldest it got was in the minus teens, but with the wind chill was in the minus 30's....brrrr...and that makes for some COLD mornings going to feed the horses...brrr.... I know when I walk into the heated barn and I can see their breath, and BOTH of the heaters can't keep up...it's COLD! So now we are in the teens, and let me tell you what a difference 20ish degrees makes, wouldn't think when it got that cold you could feel a difference, but you most certainly can! Anyway, onto today's card...

I decided to enter Split Coast Stampers sketch challenge this week (go HERE for the details). I actually had this image colored and cut for another sketch challenge and it just wasn't working! I think it works great for this sketch though...I again used my favorite yummy paper from the Sweet Shoppe DCWV stack, and a cupcake punch (Martha Stewart) to finish this off...and of course had to use one of my favorite color combos...pink and brown...yummy! I added stickles to the flame and all of the cupcakes...gotta have some bling in there somewhere! Below is the recipe...
Recipe:

• Stamps: House Mouse Make a Wish 02, Sentiment by Studio G
• Paper: Sweet Shoppe by DCWV
• Punch/Die: Martha Stewart Cupcake, Rectangle Nestabilities
• Other: Stickles and Pop Dots

House Mouse Challenge #20

This weeks House Mouse Monday Challenge was to make an ATC (Artist Trading Card). I just knew I wanted to use Dreampuff for this challenge...doesn't Monica look adorable napping on the cotton ball? Since she's so feminine looking, I decided to use some feminine colors, pink, white and black. I also decided to add some feminine touches such as the lace border, the heart pin (found at Joann's), the pearls and the organza ribbon.

Recipe:

• Stamp: House Mouse Dream Puff
• Paper: Basic Grey
• Die: Labels One from Spellbinders
• Punch: Martha Stewart Lace
• Other: Heart Pin, 1/2 Pearls, Organza Ribbon

Happy Hoppers, Sending you Hugs and Kisses!

As promised, here's something "paper crafty"! I could.NOT.resist this Happy Hoppers Stamp (Love Bunny) when I saw it on Hobby Lobby's shelf...and at 50% off...well, needless to say, it went home with me....it's just too cute! I have a "thing" for cute bunny's anyway, I have a small collection of bunny's...my personal obsession... Anyway, I also did this for the Split Coast Stamper Sketch Challenge #209 and participated in the House Mouse Challenge (this is a House Mouse stamp). I also purchased some new paper by My Minds Eye, and it BLINGS....with all the glitter...which, unfortunately didn't show up to well in my photo...go figure! Anyway, recipe is down below...enjoy!

Recipe:

• Stamps: House Mouse Happy Hoppers Love Bunny, Hero Arts Sentiment
• Paper: My Minds Eye
• Ink: Tim Holtz Black Soot, Vintage Photo
• Other: Rhinestone Heart Targe $ Spot, Organza Ribbon, Eyelet Lace