Yep, those cute little House Meeces at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge are at it again. This time they want us to show a love themed project with more than one heart, which is easy enough, I LOVE House Mouse stamps, so there’s one love right there!
We don’t do Valentines in our house so I didn’t want to make a traditional Valentines card or have too much red either. My husbands birthday is the week after though and I wanted to make a card for him with a cute, but not soppy, love theme and colours that are more suited to a male of the species!
I used scraps of a free digi download from Summer Driggs in shades of blue and beige as a starting point. The image is Cosy Shoe and I water coloured it with Distress Inks, adding a little bit of Crystal Stickles on the shoelaces. My hubby is a huge snuggler, he snuggles up to me every single morning, often whilst I’m still asleep, it’s really sweet. So I came up with this sentiment on the computer. There are three hearts on here, the large blue heart, with the smaller yellow heart within it, and the third one is the red heart shaped gem on the middle paper strip. The large blue heart has stitches on it in black pen which are showing up in the photo but you can see them IRL. I was going to use my white gel pen but it seems to have dried up!! The punch across the middle is a Martha Stewart one. Here’s a close up of the meeces and that heart shaped gem:
And of course, the card was made with LOVE too.
Card Recipe:
- Card ~ The Paper Company ~ DCWV ~ Bazzil
- DP: Free digi download from Summer Driggs
- Stamp: House Mouse Cozy Shoe
- Ink: Versafine Black ~ Distress Ink Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, Vintage Photo, Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky & Victorian Velvet
- Embellies: Crystal Stickles ~ Making Memories Gems ~ Tsukineko Black Ink Pen
- Tools: Computer & Printer ~ Fiskars Small Heart Punch & Corner Rounder ~ Marvy Uchida Large Heart & Scalloped Square Punch ~ Martha Stewart Border Punch
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Challenges:
HM&F ~ Love With More Than One Heart
Pixie’s Crafty Snippets ~ Use Up Your Scraps (The entire card, apart from the kraft base, came from the scrap box)
Joanna Sheen Challenge ~ Love Is In The Air
Simon Says Stamp ~ Love Is In The Air
may said:
O my Word… this image is soooooo cute, I love how you have coloured this image!!! Perfect x x Hugs May x x x x
Di said:
Totally adorable Brenda! Your colouring is so perfect for the snippets – lovely 🙂 Di xx Want an extra bottle of milk – mind, with the weather it’s a bit frozen right now!
Maggie said:
Lovely card great colours
Maggie H
BumbleVee said:
someone to snuggle…in their very own little shoe…. so cute….
*Vicki* said:
AWW! This turned out so adorable!! 🙂 I love the colors you chose and how you’ve made it a non-traditional Valentine’s card!! Thanks for playing along with us over at House Mouse & Friends! Hope you will join us again and good luck!! Smiles and Hugs – *Vicki* ~ DT member
sue said:
Hi hun
aww totally adorable card, super cute image, fabulous colouring, lovely papers & design, thank you for joining us at House Mouse & Friends this week, good luck, sue,x Dont forget to link to the DT blog? x
Sue Drees said:
Cute image and papers. Such sweet little mice. Thanks for joining us at the
House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge and Blog Hop.
Hugs
Sue
Stamping For Pleasure said:
So sweet!
Funnily enough I just made a House Mouse card tonight too! xxx
Sandy Dehon said:
Hey Brenda! I love the way you have colored these mice – or should I say painted. I have never tried this technique. What a great idea to put Stickles on the shoe strings. I love to snuggle – my husband not so much. Oh well, you can’t get everything!!!!! Cute card.
sandy
Rica said:
This is one of the most adorable of image!!! I love your design and your stunning colours, the little snugger’s are beautifully coloured.
Thanks so much for joining us with the House Mouse and Friends challenge
hugs
Heather xx
Bernie said:
Adorable!!! Love the sentiment! I’m sure your husband will love it.
Blessings Bernie
Kate said:
perfect loveable image and gorgeous card, hope you enjoyed the hop and good luck in the House Mouse and Friends Challenge
Hugs Kate xx
Tracy said:
Thanks for joining our challenge House Mouse & Friends with this great entry, good luck.
Mousey Hugs
Happy crafting
Tracy x
Jackie W said:
Very cute, I like House Mouse too.
Sharon said:
Awww this is soooo sweet…love the sentiment too…very fitting……………………….x
Natascha said:
Great card, lovely colours and cute image! Thank you so much for joining us at House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge and our Blog Hop. Good luck!
Hugs, Natascha
Elizabeth said:
Another fabulous snippet card – love those meeces and the papers are fab. Elizabeth x
Judy Mattson Palmer said:
I like that the card was made with love too! Great colors and layout and definitely man-friendly. I have a snuggler hubby too. It’s so awesome!