House Mouse Monday Challenge #30

This challenge from the House Mouse Challenge Blogspot was to make a shaped card....well, in all honesty, I don't think I have ever made a shaped card! After looking at some of my House Mouse stamps, this is the one that made an idea pop into my head. I was pretty happy with how the card turned out!

Black paper is from PaperTreyInk. The clear acetate is from Cornish Heritage Farms. Believe me, this is tough stuff. I had a hard time punching out the openings with my punch! The stamps, besides the House Mouse one, are from Stampin' Up. Hello and the stars are Stampin' Up RubOns. The "cord" was made by rubbing some Elmers School Glue on a piece of black cord and wrapping it around a pencil until it was dry. The phone receiver was stamped with Stampibilities White Emboss Ink and then embossed with Stampin' Up clear. I cut the Mouse off the phone's receiver and then stamped it again in brown. I colored the mouse with copics and cut him our and stuck him back on the receiver.

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Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #55

This card is for Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #55. This was a challenge for me! Don't usually have to cut that many straight lines! :-) At first I thought I didn't like the card at all but then I added the embossed swirly and the ribbon and this really seemed to bring the card together for me. The plain paper is the Perfect Match paper from Papertrey in Aqua Mist. The patterned paper is "Let it Bloom" from Black Market. Ribbon is Ocean Tides from Papertrey. Sentiment is from Hero Arts stamped with Ocean Tides and the Swirly is from Stampabilities embossed in Whiskers Seafoam White. And, as a final touch the little robin eggs!

This week I also decorated a couple of cute photo boxes for wallets for seniors...but I let those go out the door before I took a picture. :-(

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TECC #51

Woohoo! I've played 2 weeks in a row! This is for Taylored Expressions Challenge #51 (http://tayloredexpressions.blogspot.com/). I wanted to make a bright, happy card for a birthday!
The stamp is an old one from Hook's Lines & Inkers that I stamped with Stampin' Up Glorious Green and then I colored the image with Copics. I don't remember where I got the ribbon, but I don't think I had ever used it any of it. I used red line tape to attach the ribbon and finished it off with the little flower brads. The orange paper is from Basic Grey's Cupcake pack. The green is just some old paper I had around.

I made this card last weekend and then I saw the inchie challenge at http://ellenhutson.typepad.com/inchie_inklings/ so I had to enter it.

The snowflakes are from a stampin' up set. I stamped them with versamark dazzle and then clear embossed them. I punched the snowflakes out and spread artic ice Ice Stickles over them. I also edged the window with the Stickles. The inchie was a Lockhart image and I colored it with copics and used a clear spica for sparkle. Used my snowflake embossing punch from fiskars for the edge of the piece inside the card. Blue paper is Prism.