With Love House Mouse Card

Morning Everyone. I must apologise for being so behind with my replies. I have read your comments and I am so happy to get them. Sadly I lost my little cat 'Smudge' a couple of days ago, she was nearly 23 years old so she did have a good life, but I am sure most of you will know that it's always hard to say goodbye. Here she is with her Mum (Mum is black n white).

I have always thought it would be nice if animals passed away peacefully, instead of us owners deciding when the time is right. We are never so lucky though are we, however little Smudge, went out to sit in the sun on the terrace and fell asleep. It was only in the afternoon when she didn't come for in for dinner that I found her. I was in my early 20's when she first arrived and that seems an age away now.

Anyway, everything has taken a back seat and so I am very behind with everything. But I did still want to try and get a post up for today.

This card is another House Mouse card, I know a lot of people like them and the cards are always well received. I chose a topper for this particular card ad built my design to fit the image. I made a gate fold card blank by taking a piece of Centura Pearl (Crafters Companion) an 8'' square with 3'' either side. The left hand side was to house my topper.

I created the cotton reels by hand and coloured them with my Alcohol markers. I wound embroidery thread around the middle reel to add a little extra, then pushed a needle through, I used 3D glue get to ensure it was completely secure. Then I traced around them leaving an extra 5 mm onto the right hand side of the card and cut around this leaving it attached to the card.

I added a layer of pink Co-ordinations card onto the card back and the left hand side and used the same card to mat my topper. I chose ble card to form the next layer, approximately 5 mm smaller than the pink. I then took my backing paper along with the blue and hand stitched the pieces together. I repeated this for the back also.

Finally I cut a hand stitched 'With Love' sentiment using a spellbinder die and layered onto the same blue card stock. Finally I assembled my card. I hope you like what I have shared today. Exciting things happening in the week, so I will hope to share it very soon.

Thank you so much for visiting today and I hope you will be back very soon. Take care xx

Hydrangea Easel Card

This Easel card is made with JustRite Stamps. I really like the JustRite stamps and thought I would share this card with you today.

I used versamark to stamp the background on the blue foundation cardstock from Creative Expressions, then used fine detail embossing powder and heated with my heat gun. I used the labels 7 coordinating die to cut out the centre and a ruler and craft knife to cut around the background.

 

On 300gsm Supersmooth card, I stamped the hydrangea twice (the second is for decoupage) and the label with a Memento Black Tuxedo. I used the best wishes sentiment from the set within the label, stamped in blue. Then I coloured all my design with a selection of blue and green alcohol markers. I only coloured the flowers I was going to use for the decoupage from the second hydrangea. I then completed my decoupage with 3D glue gel.

For the stopper, I used the inside of the label along with the beautiful thought from Rabindranath Tagore. This was stamped and embossed onto white card with versamark and white fine detail powder. Then I used Salty Ocean Distress ink to colour the stopper blending from darker around the edges to lighter in the centre.I did this because I wanted a similar colour to the base but not the same to allow it to stand out ore than if I had have used the same foundation cardstock.

On white card, I stamped 2 butterflies with Memento black and coloured using alcohol markers and stuck to the background. I created my easel base card using white 300gsm card and matted using the blue Foundation cardstock. Th top image was matted onto white cardstock using Foam tape to lift it from the white and the best wishes topper was glued inside this, onto the white card using cosmic shimmer glue. To the base I added my stopper and finally finished off with a large Navy bow made with double sided satin ribbon.

I hope you have enjoyed your visit today and really hope that you will come back again soon.

House Mouse Project Book Designs.

Morning.Well I am not doing bad. I have updated my blog for the third day in a row. I have plenty to share with you and I hope you will enjoy it. Today I thought I would share some of my House Mouse cards. When I was in Joanna Sheen's design team I was fortunate enough to be given the chance to have some designs published in one of her wonderful Project Books.

Some of my designs were also used in the beautiful Thomas Kinkade Christmas Project book and I will share those in a later post. The project books really are brilliant and comes along with a CD Rom that contains everything you need to put the cards together and then use to design your own cards too. 

The House Mouse Project Book Volume One has been beautifully illustrated in photographs taken by Debbie Patterson. The 48 page book contains full instructions to make all of the 23 House Mouse designs. I thoroughly enjoyed making the cards that are in the book, there is something for everyone, easier designs for new crafters and some more elaborate ones too. The CD Rom has some beautiful backing papers, toppers and decoupage to use again and again so it's a great resource to have in your stash.

I have checked and the House Mouse project book is still available at the Joanna Sheen online shop. Here are a few more of the cards I made for the book. I really hope you like them.