Hello Mousie fans! I haven’t made a House Mouse card in such a long time! There’s a new HM challenge blog on the block too, run by my Sparkles boss, the lovely Shaz, so I thought it’s about time to stop procrastinating and get back into the craft room again!
Shaz has a simple theme for their first challenge of Anything Goes, and the lovely guys and gals at House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge want us to use a stamp that hasn’t seen ink before. I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve got a number of HM stamps in that category! So I looked through them and decided to use One Mouse Band and make something happy and Springlike, as it’s nothing like Spring outside yet and I’m definitely not happy about that!
I coloured my image with my Prisma pencils, adding the Inkadinkado sentiment on the side before I started to colour. The papers are also having their first ever outing although I’ve had them for a while. The yellow floral is from Provocraft and the green is from a Melissa Frances 6×6 pack. I used purple gingham ribbon to cover up the join. The three fishtail/pennant strips were cut by hand using two DCWV scraps from the scrapbox and a little piece of the yellow floral. My only embellishment is a few gems in three of the corners, so quite a clean and simple card for my first foray back into HM.
I based the card on the current sketch over at Sketch Saturday too.
Card Recipe:
- Card: Blank form Michaels ~ GinaK Pure Luxury White ~ The Paper Company Lilac
- DP: Melissa Frances Kitschy Kitchen 6×6 pack ~ Provocraft Yellow Floral
- Stamps: Stampabilities One Mouse Band ~ Inkadinkado Sending Wishes clear set
- Ink: ColurBoxQ Wicked Black ~ Memento Sweet Plum
- Embellies: Purple Gems from Michaels
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House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge ~ Ink Up An Unused Stamp
Gruffies & Guests ~ Anything Goes
Sketch Saturday ~ Current Sketch
Pixies Snippets Playground ~ Use Up Your Scraps (the stamping card and two bits used for the pennants)
Cute Card Thursday ~ Warm It Up
Sister Act Card Challenge ~ Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge ~ Use Patterned Paper
Wags n’ Whiskers ~ Anything Goes
Butlers Abroad 
Aww what a cute image. Lovely card and nice fishtails! xxx
Fantastic card Brenda! love the colours and LO
Thank you so much for joining us at Gruffies & Guests good luck
Hugs Shaz DT xx
Lovely use of adorable House-Mouse stamp. Pretty papers, colors and bling. Thank you for playing with us at the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge. Good Luck to you and please come join us again! 🙂
This is really perfect Brenda – from the design to the colors and the little mouse is soooo very cute – wonderful!!!!! Everything you have put together here is smashing and I do so love the title!!
Sandy xx
What a lovely card! I love the little touches you added like the pennants and gems! Just the perfect touches for this cute card!
What a cute image and card! Thank you for playing along at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge. Vickie Y, GDT
Aww gorgeous card there Brenda. Love this image too. Now is he blowing up the flower or nibbling it? Tee Hee!
xx
Brenda, he is just so darned cute, I wanted to come give him a hug. I will have to rummage through my HM drawer cuz I know I have lots that are NBI’d (that’s never before inked! Just ran across that earlier today. Wonder if that blogger knows Darnell! My vocabulary is growing with all these acronyms!) Loved the way you have colored Cutie Mouse, and your spring colors, the bright banners..just a great card. TFS & I enjoyed your Valentine cards too! You’ve been a busy cardmaker. Good for you! Hugs
Such a cute card, Brenda. I love your image and the color combination. The yellow and lavender are lovely together. Thanks for linking up with us at the SIster Act Challenge Blog.
Cathy xx
Bwahahaha – got me laughing here B – what a fantastic image!! Gorgeous colours, everything is so perfectly co-ordinated. Love it!
Hugs, Di xx
Oh my! So lovely. I haven’t peeked over at the HM challenge blog since it was silver and gold or whatever sparkly they were having. I’m sure I have an uninked HM especially since I just bought an Easter one. I love you card, so pretty and springlike. I’m ready for spring too, bring it on!!!!!
Hi Brenda, love the look of Spring with this adorable card. Pretty papers and coloring on the little mouse image. Flowered paper and flags looks great too. Thanks for joining us for the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge.
Hugs
Sue
PS, the nuts were delish, thanks again!
Such an adorable card! The gingham ribbon is the perfect touch!
As for the LOTV sale, yes. I came, I saw, I spent money I don’t have, lol. That company is going to ruin me! x
Thank you so much for joining my Craftyhazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge for January with your delightful card – hope to see you again soon. x
This image is def on my wish list, such a lovely spring image. Fab colouring and a great design.
Thanks for joining us for the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge this time. Hope to see you again.
Hugs Dorte
Super card, Brenda – the image is fab and I like the banners – a great way of using up snippets. Elizabeth xx
Beautiful card, thank you for joining us at the Gruffies and Guests Challenge Blog , Fran (DT) xxx
Such a cute card, lovely image! Thanks for taking part in the Gruffies & Guests Challenge xx