HMFMC#401 Anything Goes or Add a House Mouse Friend Other Than A House Mouse

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge

New Challenge

#401

ANYTHING GOES

with the option theme of 

Add a House Mouse Friend other than a House Mouse. 

Hosted by our Talented Teamie BUNNY

Don't Cry Over Spilled Candy (Booda and Pebble)

I dug out some of the House Mouse Gruffie friends. What a blast from the past! I sure miss these friends of the meecies! I wish they would bring them back!

Halloween projects:

I have two containers of just Halloween stamps, ribbons, papers. I dig them out every October and have fun putting together Halloween scenes. I have baggies of fun elements I cut with my Silhouette (bats, spider webs, fences, haunted houses,) extra stamped images and parts and pieces of past projects. 

Card #1-Image colored with copics. Matted on an embossed spider web panel and then some fun Halloween DP leftover from another time. The label tag and the bat were from the stash bag and the sentiment from those little Studio G $1 stamps sets that were so popular years ago. Added Wink of Stella on the butterfly wings

Card #2-Image was cut out with my Scan N Cut and colored with copics. The spider web card base was cut with my Silhouette as well as the bat, fence and sentiment. DP was left over from a past project. Added Wink of Stella on the butterfly wings

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

 so join the fun!  Please use  a House-MouseDesigns^(R)
  House-Mouse Friends /Happy Hoppers, or, Gruffies image stamped/decoupage or CD rom.

Welcome back our Generous SPONSOR

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!

Many thanks to our generous Sponsor for their continued support. 

Thanks for stopping in today, I do

 hope you enjoyed checking out

 my House Mouse inspiration!

💕♥ 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 (Lori Whitlock)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

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #155-Hey Pumpkin!

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge # 155

Hey Pumpkin!  Create a project using "Pumpkin" as your inspiration. Image of a pumpkin, pumpkin colored paper or inks,pumpkin shaped embellishments, etc. Use your imagination and have fun! Thanks to Lori for this fun challenge!

Spilled Halloween candy? OH MY!

This card is featuring mousie friends Booda and Pebble-gruffie friends!

I made this Halloween  library card with my Silhouette...welding a piece of Halloween candy to the top of the black library card and cutting the card jacket out of the best Doodlebug Halloween paper ever! You know how I love bright and colorful! 

 I punched a Martha Stewart BOO border at the top of the card sleeve and then added a pretty orange bow. I  initially thought I was going to add Happy Halloween to the front...but decided I wanted to leave those Trick-or-Treat doors showing. Love the ghostie eyes peeking out!

Our sponsors for this challenge are

Simon Says Stamps-$25 Gift voucher

Di's Digi's Downloads-$10 gift voucher

Thanks for stopping in today-I do hope you can join us in this fun challenge!!!

♥ Sue

I am entering these grand challenges!!!

Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog-Halloween Oct 31
HobbyCutz #19-Halloween
Quirky Crafts challenge blog-Quirky Pumpkin Time
Crafty Calender Challenge Blog-Halloween
Crazy 4 Challenges #206-Halloween
Hiding In My Craft Room-Halloween

card details:

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Stamp: Don't Cry Over Spilled Candy(Booda and Pebble)

Cardstock: Black and doodlebug design halloween pararde (LOVE IT)

Copics:

Greens- YG 21,23,25

Yellows- Y 00, 19,38

Purples- V 12,15,17

Gruffie- E 30,31,33,34  and E 70,71,74

Pumpkins-YR 16,68,07

Ground-W1,3

Misc: Martha Stewart Boo border punch, orange organza ribbon

Silhouette cut files:

Halloween Candy

Library Card 3x4(enlarged for this card)

Love You Sew Much-House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #139

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #138

Love You Sew Much

Our Teamie Dorte chose the challenge this time around...It is all about stitching-real or faux or even an image that has sewing in it!   I chose to dust off my sewing machine and do a few real stitches on this card...a little rusty I tell ya!

I used some pretty jillibean soup papers with hearts and stitching on it. I used the sketch challenge from Sweet Sketch Wednesday #192.

Some of the flowers and also the image are added on with pop dots. 

 

We have many great sponsors for this challenge!
 
 ONE Lucky winner will receive a $25 gift voucher to shop at Simon Says Stamp store.

Simon Says Stamp has over 100,000+ items in stock.  They have all of the latest releases from Magnolia, Whiff of Joy, Tim Holtz, Spellbinders, Copic, House-Mouse Designs and so much more!  With great deals on shipping, it’s always a great time to shop with SSS.

 and...

One Lucky Winner will receive a fab $10 Gift Certificate to HM Stamps online Shop

H M  STAMPS

http://www.hmstamps.com/
A GREAT New online website offering the complete line of HOUSE-MOUSE and SNOOPY stamps! Check them out!
 
and...

One Lucky Winner will receive a fab $10 Voucher to Di's Digi Downloads online Shop

"Di's Digi Downloads is a great little company offering lots of super adorable digi stamps". 

Thanks to all of you who joined in last week! 

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Stamps:
Wheelbarrow Ride LR1010
Cardstock: Expresso and Gumball Green, jillibean soup Dutch Mustard

Copics:

Bear-E,31,33,34  E00, 11
Panda Bear-W1,3,5,7 
Wheel barrow-C 1,2,3,4 YR 16,18

Greens-YR23, 25

Flower- Y 19 Pot E13,15,19

Sky-B0000

Misc:Dimensionals, Green Pearls, Sewing Machine
Silhouette:
Flowers

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #86-New Beginnings

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #86

Happy New Year and Welcome to the first Blog Hop of 2011 at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Blog. We always have so much fun and have some Super Doooooper prizes to give away this time! You can see all the sponsors and prizes on the challenge blog. There will be lots of winners this time around...each prize will go to a different person AND.........there is hidden blog candy along the hop as well. You must leave a  comment here and then as you hop along, leave each DT member a comment as well as one on the main blog to be considered for the prizes. You have to have a card entered to win the main blog candy and the last I heard, our sponsors were RK Stamps, Simon Says, Di's Digi Downloads, and Joanna Sheen  and the Official House- Mouse Designs!

You could be a winner! (ha that sounds like a TV commercial doesn't it?)

We also would like to introduce our first Guest Designer for January  2011-Tracy and her blog is Country Mouse! (now isn't that just the perfect blog name??) We hope you all play along and get a shot at being one of our guest designers this year!

Okay...a little bit about this card I made for our challenge this week-New Beginnings! This card sort of "morphed"  You know what I mean??? You start out with a specific idea and the next thing you know, things have changed. Well...my "New Beginning" for 2011 was to use all the wonderful DP I own and not hoard my favorites and not go out and buy a ton until I make a dent in what I have...and Guess WHAT???  I took a nice little Michaels and Craft Warehouse gift card to the big city this weekend and promptly bought a bunch of "purty" paper! Oh well, I guess it makes me happy, but it does put my card in a different context now LOL!

Oops, almost forgot to mention that I used the sketch from SFYTT over at I (heart) 2 Stamp. This is a year long challenge. A once a month deal...let's see if I can remember!!!!

I hope you can hop along with all our team below and then hop along to TRACY's blog for the next stop! All our teamies are back and joining in! You have two weeks to link your creation on the main blog!

Follow the blog hop trail here:

America

Christine

Curt-yeah he is joining in!

Heather

Lisa

Lori

Lorraine

Mary

Natascha

Scoopy Sue

Sue Drees

Sue Kment-you are here

Tracy-Guest Designer for January

Card details:

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Stamps: Bear-ied in Paperwork (Biggly) JR1071, Sentiment is a Heidi Grace Epoxy word sticker

Cardstock: Real Red (SU!), DP is My Minds Eye Alphabet Soup (Twinkle, Twinkle--Little Man and Ledger)

Ink: Memento Black, Copics(sorry, forgot to write them down, but my guess is E31, 33, 34  R  22, 24-27, 29 and can't remember the teal)

Misc: SU! Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon, Star nestie, dimensionals, and computer generated 2011

House Mouse and Friends Bedtime Stories-The Letter "B"

Welcome to another House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #74.

Today's challenge is brought to you by The Letter "B" (why does that sentence remind me of something right out of Sesame Street LOL?)

Today is Curt's turn to pick our challenge and he wants us all to make a card that has something to do with The Letter "B".  I chose this Gruffie Bear taking a lil' snooze while trying to read his bedtime story! I think Gruffie is a lot like me...when I start a book...I just hate to put it down!

So let's see how many B's I can get out of this card...Brown Bear reading his Bedtime Book!   There!

I really wanted to add  flourishes to this card instead of flowers, but I could not find my die cut...until today...oh well I sort of like the flowers with the brown pearl centers too.

I hope you can all join in this week..and make sure to pop on over and check out all the fun creations by the rest of the Team!


Card Details:

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Stamp: Gruffie- Bedtime Story Pebble l1090, Sentiment- A Little Dream  QR1055 Stampabilities
Cardstock: Kraft and Retired SU DP, Baja Breeze
Ink: Memento Black and Brown, copics
Misc: Flower sizzlets, brown pearls, SU white ribbon, nesties

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #43.- Caffeine Crash

This is me!

I've crashed and I can't get up! Just kidding...But I do have to tell you...a LOT of caffeine is consumed during harvest!

I made this card for this weeks House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #43...a sketch from the ladies at 2RedBanana's. I had to fudge just a wee bit to squeeze in the kaiser pearls, but otherwise I stuck to the sketch.

I know all of us "harvest type" people feel like Mr. Biggly Gruffie! Give us a LOT of caffeine and we perk right up! My caffeine of choice is always pepsi or cocoa...no coffee for me...never acquired the taste...but love the smell!

Okay, the rest of the story...

All the cups are cut out and put on pop dots-- as is the waste basket. This makes for a fun card with lots of dimension. The inside is finished off with a white mat embellished with a small strip of the red polka dot DP matted on a scalloped piece of gable green.

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Stamps: Biggly Gruffie stamp named "Attack of the Caffeine Crash" OR1048 by Stampabilities.

Cardstock: SU! Specialty DP, Gable Green, Basic Black

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics

Misc: Nesties-Circle and Scallop Circle, Dimensionals, SU scallop punch for the inside of the card, Kaiser pearls

Happy Father's Day Papa Bear!

3 Clovers Thursday Challenge Team are honoring fathers this week. The challenge is to make a Father's Day card with a little hardware. I had a whole 'nother card planned, but Papa Bear sort of took over my thoughts, so I just had to go with him instead!

I had been playing with this Gruffie image, practicing a techinque I learned in the copic class I took a while back...(yes, pictures still to come...) Marianne showed us how to make the pretty blue "halo" (that's what I call it anyway) that some stampers like to add around their image to make things "pop". It took me a while to get, but this is my first try and I really like it, reminds me somewhat of a watercolor look.

I am going to add a computer generated sentiment inside. Something like It's Your Day to Relax Papa Bear! If any of you have any better idea's I would love to hear them...I am never very good at coming up with catchy phrases!

I used the weekend sketch challenge from Lori Craig's blog HERE. This is a large image, so this card ended up being a 5 x 7 card.

Come join us this week at 3 Clovers Thursday Challenge. I would love to see some REAL hardware...mine was a little weak with just 3 little brads...but hey, it is hardware all the same!

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Stamps: Hammock Hibernation PR1026 (Gruffie stamp purchase at RK stamps-link on the side of my blog)

Cardstock: DP by Basic Grey(striped DP) and Snips and Snails by 3 Bugs in a Rug (polka dots), Summer Sun and Choc Chip for SU!

Ink: Memento Black, Copics

Misc: SU Choc Chip ribbon, misc brads

Beary Full of Truffles

I could use a couple truffles after a busy day cleaning my house...it was time...I would rather be stamping.

Here is one of the stair step cards I promised to show you. This card fits the House Mouse Monday Challenge #23-Valentine cards.

I have another Penny Black stair step card I need to post too. I used my new Stampin Up DP on both...boy I love that stuff!

hmmmm...I am off to find some truffles...I need a house cleaning treat.

Stamps: Beary Full of Truffles (Pebble) VR1004, Studio G $1 stamps from Michael's (Circle Sentiment and hanging hearts on the front of the card

Cardstock: RHRed, RHRed and Pink Pirouette DP

Ink: RHRed ink,Memento Black, colored with prisma's and OMS.

Misc: Heart Nestabilities, Martha punch, SU! punches, RHRed satin ribbon, scorepal

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge-Paper Piecing

I used one of my Gruffie Stamps for the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge! I pieced his hat and the balloon. The balloon is on dimensionals, as well as the sentiment. Edges of image are sponged with apricot and pumpkin.

Meet Pebble, isn't he cute?

Stamps: Gruffie stamp called Party Preparations, Pebble VR1005, misc SU! sentiment

Ink: Black, colored with prisma's, sentiment colored with SU! markers

Cardstock: The new in color Riding Hood Red, Old Olive and DP by Bo Bunny (ballon) and background and hat is My Mind's Eye DP

Misc: brad, misc organdy ribbon, dimensionals


Don't miss my blog candy HERE.

A new Heidi Gruffie RAK!

What a wonderful mail day! Heidi told me she was sending me a special Gruffie RAK so I have been watching my mail. This treat arrived today!

She made this neat bookmark using the new House Mouse Gruffie stamp. The Gruffies are available at hmstamps.

Heidi, I love the saying! The interesting part of this bookmark is the green background...it's fabric! I'm going to have to give that a whirl.

Thanks again Miss Heidi for sharing your amazing talent with me!!!!!!!!