Merry Mice Blessings

WOW!...today is already the last day of November! Which means it's also the last day of the Stitched from the Heart promo. Makes sure to purchase Merry Mice, Christmas Pines, or any of the several other great stamp sets while they are at a discount!

This card uses one of the three adorable Christmas mouse images included in the Christmas Mice stamp set along with Christmas Pines for the sentiment and Peace This Christmas for the border and the background.

I have been enjoying water coloring the cute little mice from this set using my Aqua Painter and Classic Inks pooled in the lids of my ink pads. The main colors used here are Pool Party & Garden Green.

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Christmas Pines & Merry Mice

Today's card features two of the great sets offered at a 25% discount this month during the Stitched From the Heart special from Stampin' Up!

These little mice from the Merry Mice set are just so cute and fun to watercolor...and so hard to resist at 25% off! The sentiment used is from another set also on sale...Christmas Pines.



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Celebrate Today Birthday Balloons

Seeing a bunch of colorful balloons makes me happy. This is the perfect card that can be used for a guy or gal of any age...just change up the colors accordingly.  

I cut a stencil out of a transparency using my Balloon Framelits. Then I sponged on the colors:

• Crushed Curry
• Tangerine Tango
• Cucumber Crush
• Bermuda Bay

Sponging vs stamping made the balloons more transparent so that you could see the colors of the overlapping balloons. After I had my balloons sponged I added some stars to two of the balloons using the stamp from Celebrate Today stamp set inked in Bermuda Bay. Next I stamped my sentiment in a bold, masculine font using Black Archival Ink. The HB stamp is from the Perfect Pairings set which was from this years Sale-a-Bration. The cluster of three stars is from the Merry Mice stamp set. If you don't already have this set I recommend adding these adorable little mice to your collection this month while it's on sale.

Inspriation for this card came from this awesome card created by Maura. I just adapted it using the products I have on hand. Thanks for visiting today!

Merry Mice This Christmas

Just love those Merry Mice! Especially this guy with is decorated pine bough...so cute!

These little guys are fun to watercolor! I used my Aqua Painter and various inks to coordinate with my card stock and DSP. I stamped the Cherry Cobbler layer with one  of the pretty images from Peace This Christmas stamp set and used strips of DSP from the This Christmas Specialty Paper.

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Merry Mice Singing in the Snow

The stamp set Merry Mice is just the cutest! I've paired up this adorable set with the This Christmas Specialty Paper for today's card.

The snowflake design sheet of DSP is black and whte, so I chose to add some color by sponging on Soft Sky, Marina Mist & Night of Navy. I did the same with the music sheet banner as well...only there I used Garden Green.

For a little added bling I die cut a banner and border from Silver Shimmer Paper using the Flourish Thinlits. I also added some Fancy Frost Sequins. The little mouse's song book was stamped twice, cut out and popped up for dimension.

Three Merry Mice

Today I have another Christmas card to share using the the adorable Merry Mice and the beautiful Christmas Pines stamp sets...two of my top picks from the upcoming Holiday Catalog.

If you are like me, and love to color, then you need this cute set! The little mice were watercolored using my Aqua Painter and Classic Inks to coordinate with the card stock used: Pool Party & Garden Green along with some Real Red.

The background was embossed with the Pine Bough Embossing Folder. The sentiment stamped at bottom right is one that is included in the Christmas Pines stamp set. A few Fancy Frost Sequins add some sparkle.

It's hard to believe this is the last weekend of August! :-( ENJOY!

Festive Merry Mouse

I received my Holiday Catalog pre-order on Friday! The new Holiday Catalog really is phenomenal! It was really hard to control myself...but for now I narrowed my wish list down to a few favorites for both Christmas & Halloween. My Christmas favorites include the adorable Merry Mice stamp set along with the beautiful Christmas Pines bundle. I used items from both of these sets to create this card.

The background was embossed with the Pine Bough Embossing Folder and a pine bough was also stamped in bottom right corner. There's a tiny star stamp included in the Merry Mice stamp set which I also used on the background.

The cute little mouse was watercolored using my Aqua Painter and various classic inks. I stamped an extra ornament, cut it out, and popped it up on Stampin' Dimensionals. For a little shimmer I used Clear Wink of Stella on the ornament and the little star hanging from his tail.

I used some retired Vanilla Seam Binding Ribbon along with some of the new Fancy Frost Sequins to finish off my card.

If you don't already have a demo, contact me to get your copy of the Holiday catalog.