Penny Black Mid Way Reminder-Baby or ATG

Penny Black May  Saturday Challenge

Mid Way Reminder

Anything Goes 

or 

Optional 'BABY' Theme

I tried my hand at a little watercoloring today. It's been a long long time since I dug out my Stampin' Up watercolor crayons.  Now some of you might think this is a hot mess but it was fun to try something different for a change of pace!

This post is a little late as my internet has been a little sketchy late at night. Sawwwrrryyyy!

For today's cards I used the following stamp sets:

Sweet and Cute-Penny Black Transparent set

Jolly Friends-Penny Black Transparent set

Snippets-Penny Black Transparent set for the sentiments

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is:

1-2-3 Stitch

Prize winner gets a $20 voucher!

Thanks for stopping in to say Hello today! Come introduce yourself to our new members of the design team. :)

 ♥ Sue

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Wet and Wild

Penny Black May  Saturday Challenge

Anything Goes 

or 

Optional 'BABY' Theme

Welllll...not exactly a baby themed card, I decided to go with the Anything Goes Theme because I wanted to use this stamp set again while it was summer.

I used a trifold card base from My Scrap Chick and a cool sun file from the Silhouette Store. Colored the littles with copics and used a sentiment from the same Wet and Wild set. 

Wet and Wild

Tri Fold Card base

Cool Sun

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is:

1-2-3 Stitch

Prize winner gets a $20 voucher!

Thanks for stopping in to say Hello today! Come introduce yourself to our new members of the design team. :)

 ♥ Sue

HMFMC 269 Back to School

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge

Challenge #269

Anything Goes 

 Please use any House-Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie image 

OR Option theme 

"Back To School"
(anything SCHOOL themed)

Stamp: older stamp named Smarty Pants

Card Base: Apple Card base from My Scrap Chick

Blogger is doing weird things tonight so this is a short post and who knows if it will post!

Our Generous SPONSORS for this challenge are

SIMON SAYS STAMP

We are very happy to welcome back Heidi and her team at Simon Says Stamp!

Winner will receive a RANDOM ASSORTMENT of Premium Dye Ink Pads

Simon Says Stamp has been in business since 2002, offering you the best selection of Rubber Stamps, Altered Art, Scrapbooking, Artist Trading Cards and Paper Crafting Supplies in the world. Stock includes over 100,000+ items along with the latest and greatest releases from the Simon Says Stamp brand Hero Arts, Tim Holtz, Lawn Fawn, Copics, House-Mouse Designs and so much more. With such an amazing variety and awesome deals on shipping, it’s always good timing to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp store!

Our Second Generous Sponsor is 

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.  

Thanks for stopping in today!

  ♥ Sue

Father's Day Card and Wood Project

Father's Day Projects 2018

I made this card on my wonderful and rare jammie day last week. The pattern is designed by Lettering Delights and was purchased from the Silhouette Store HERE.  I always call my Dad Papa Bear-so this is just perfect! The bear and tree were cut with my Silhouette and the sentiment was print and cut. 

I made this sign for him too.  The chalkboard base is leftover from a past Christmas project I made and worked perfectly for my wooden letters and tools.  I cut everything out with a scroll saw, and then primed and painted them. (I let him choose the colors- Orange is his favorite color)  I used my Silhouette to cut the patterns out of vinyl for this project (Simple Tools).  I used a 'shaky' font for his name because I knew my cutting would be shaky anyway.(smart thinkin'!) This is not as easy as it looks, but I hope to get some time after cherry harvest to get a little practice in!  If you are on instagram check out @sawdustjunkies , @thenorthandpine, @lushlemonco  just to name a few of the  wonderful scroll saw artists!

Thanks for stopping in!

♥ Sue

Penny Black June Challenge-Masculine

Penny Black May  Saturday Challenge

Midway Inspiration

Anything Goes 

or 

Optional 'Masculine' Theme

Have you all seen the new inner shadow box card video that Jennifer McGuire shared not too long ago?  Well...I had to give it a try!  I had already made this distress oxide background a while back and it was waiting for the right card...so here it is!

Stamps used:

Penny Black Teed Up

and 

Special Thoughts by Penny Black

Unfortunately I did not remember to take a pic of the very simple front, but it had a grass die cut with a little PB mousie running with a birthday candle. Another CAS creation!

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is:

1-2-3 Stitch

Prize winner gets a $20 voucher!

Thanks for stopping in to say Hello today! Come introduce yourself to our new members of the design team. :)

 ♥ Sue

Father's Day Fishing Favor Box

Father's Day Favor Box

Fishing 3D Bucket Hat  Favor Box

I made this favor box for one of the Dad's for Father's Day.  I used some Recollections (Michaels) kraft and green cardstock for the main body and some Kaisercraft  Post Card papers for the band. The brim is about 5.5 inches wide and the box inside is about 3 inches wide. It was very easy to put together and fun to decorate with all the little fishing baubles! Now to fill the inside box with treats!

Aud Sentiments-ATG + sentiment 6/17

Crafting with an Attitude#40-ATG 6/23

Craftoholics R Us-use Kraft paper  6/19

Crafty Creations#368-ATG- 6/25

Creative Moments 145-ATG-6/25

Ellibelles Crafty Wednesday June Make it Masculine-6/30

Pause, Dream Enjoy- ATG-6/20

Cardz4Guyz #196 Father's Day 6/17 

Die Cuttin Diva's #373-Masculine or Father's Day 6/17-winner!

Try It On Tuesdays -For the Boys  6/25

Unicorn Challenge Blog #33 Masculine-6/29

Unhinge the tabs and pull out the box to fill with candy!

I have a fun Father's Day card I made for my Papa Bear coming soon-just need to get a picture. I actually got a jammie day/craft day last week to make these...oh I miss those days!

Thanks for stopping by!

♥ Sue 

House Mouse and Friends #268-Happy Birthday

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge

Challenge #268

Our NEW challenge of 

***ANYTHING GOES*** 

 Please use any House-Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie image 

Or Option theme of 

BIRTHDAYS

Hosted by our Talented Teamie, Christine

 Happy Birthday to you all! 

 Today I wanted to make this Twisted Gate Fold Card and add in my cute Gruffie birthday boy! The stamp is named Party Preparations and I have not been able to find a current link for it, but there are plenty of other cute House Mouse Birthday images that would be perfect for our Birthday challenge! It just goes to show you how classic house mouse stamps can be. I first stamped this image over 10 years ago!  

The sentiment is from this sentiment set:

Brushed Wishes Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

This is how the twisted gatefold looks folded flat.

We are Generously  Sponsored by;

FOUR 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!!  

 We welcome back Di's DigiStamps  as Our second generous Sponsor 

Di's DigiStamps

 One Lucky Winner will receive  a

 $12 Voucher to spend @ Di's Digi Stamps

Bio.

I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started cardmaking about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a cardmaking kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with likeminded people.

I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.

This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!

Our THIRD Generous sponsor is 

Pizzazz Aplenty  

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 etc.  
You won't be disappointed. 

Our FOURTH prize for this chall. is a generous donation of a  House Mouse clear stamp set from 
The Stampman

Wow! What  fabulous Prizes. 

 Be sure to enter for your chance to win!  

Thanks for stopping in today!

  ♥ Sue

HMFMC #267 Midway-Use Dies

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge

Mid way inspiration!

Challenge #267

"ANYTHING GOES"

Please use any House-Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie image 

OR

USE DIES

Hosted by our Talented Teamie Karin.

I am using the clear stamp set named Clear Wishes and a cut file Layered Flower frame from the Silhouette Store-about the closest I get to dies cuts :).  Simple and Sweet!

Many thanks to our generous Sponsor/s for their continued support.  

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.  

Second Generous Sponsor is 

SIMON SAYS STAMP

We are very happy to welcome back Heidi and her team at Simon Says Stamp!


Winner will receive a RANDOM ASSORTMENT of Premium Dye Ink Pads

Simon Says Stamp has been in business since 2002, offering you the best selection of Rubber Stamps, Altered Art, Scrapbooking, Artist Trading Cards and Paper Crafting Supplies in the world. Stock includes over 100,000+ items along with the latest and greatest releases from the Simon Says Stamp brand Hero Arts, Tim Holtz, Lawn Fawn, Copics, House-Mouse Designs and so much more. With such an amazing variety and awesome deals on shipping, it’s always good timing to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp store!



Out hostess Karin is offering this fun prize:

Many thanks to our generous sponsors for their continued support.

Thanks for stopping in today!

  ♥ Sue