House Mouse & Friends............Paper Piecing !!!

** NEW CHALLENGE, HMFMC178***

Our very talented Dorte Kvist is hosting next and has chosen this super FUN theme;

~Paper Piecing~ 

Papercraft paper piecing is;  cutting pieces out from a design and layering them on paper. This is a versatile technique and easily adapted. Rubber stamps designs are often used for paper piecing projects. A design can be stamped several times on a piece of paper and then these can be cut and adhered to a project. See Paper Piecing for a step by step guide to this technique.

ALL challenges have the alternate option of *ANYTHING GOES* too!  So come PLAY ALONG with us and enter your projects using stamps, CD images or decoupage by;

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We are very happy to welcome back Heidi and Simon Says Stamp!!

Simon Says Stamp is generously giving away a RANDOM ASSORTMENT of some of their Premium Dye Ink Pads to one very lucky player!

 Simon Says Stamp has over 100,000+ items in stock along with the latest and greatest releases from Magnolia, Whiff of Joy, Tim Holtz, Spellbinders, Copics, House-Mouse Designs and so much more.  With such an amazing variety and awesome deals on shipping, it’s always good timing to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp store! 

...AND by...

The lovely Marianne at Marianne Design

Marianne Design develops high quality craft products with much care, all to enable you to make beautiful cards, scrapbooks and other craft projects.

http://mariannedesign.nl/
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Thank You Sponsors for your great generosity! 

I'm set posting this card today and still late!!! I've been having a problem of uploading Inlinkz - is me, is it just the story of my life ??? I've Iinkzed as much as possible and add as possible as the rest.

This is one of my very farouite little Christmas mousies and is called 'Stocking Full of Love'. The papers are some I found I was sorting out my box - I used the as them as the background and the rest to piece the stocking although you struggle to see them as I have added Copics to shade them.

The Holly die is from Penny Black but suspect they have been retired as I can't find a like for them anywhere. I use Simon Says Stamp Ink Carabbean Blue for the background, snowflakes are from Impression Obsession and Simon Says Stamps Kate die
The snow Aleene's Glitter Snow and sprinkled with Hero Arts Ultra fine Glitter. I stamped the sentiment from Simons Kit onto vellum and embossed.

InLinkz.com

Challenges

Animal Friends Challenge - Must have an Animal made ​​of paper and an animal motif
Card and Scrap -  Everything is allowed.
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - anything goes as long as it's Christmas
Ladybug Crafts -  Anything Goes!!Gruffies & Guests-  Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly- Anything Goes
Scrapbook Stamp Society -  Anything Goes
Without Words- It's a Celebration (warm Holiday wishes)

Thanks so much for calling by and all have a great week.

I shall now have some lunch and recover from fighting Inlinkx .

Simon Says STAMPtember® blog hop................Sneak Peek!!!

Simon Says Stamp was founded in 2002 with an interest in exclusively selling rubber stamps. It didn’t take long until we realized we couldn’t stop there. For more than 10 years we have celebrated rubber stamping and its glory. We work to bring companies from around the world together in a one stop shopping environment. Rubber stamps still remain the heart of our business and we are celebrating by hosting a “STAMPtember®" event intended to inspire, educate, and celebrate the delight of rubber stamping. Part of the enticement of rubber stamping is that stamps can be used in creating or complementing ANYTHING! From stamping dates on bank documents and postage parcels in the early 18th century, rubber stamping has dramatically expanded to include card making, scrapbooking, mixed media and many forms of altering and expressing art.

Also, we have a very special, very limited time sale going on in celebration of STAMPtember®! Starting today, use code MAGNOLIA at checkout for 50% off all Magnolia branded items!

Here is a Sneak Peek to celebrate the STAMPtember® blog hop

LIM...............I do like to be beside the Seaside !!!

Phew!!! I only just managed Less is More this week - I've made a manic week and didn't think I would make it although I as determined to make it every week.

I use Magnolia images and coloured them with Copics and created the sea with Gelatos - hmmm - I definitely need much more practice - not my finest hour!!! 

I love the sentiment 'The Time Always Turns' (again Magnolia) and I do wish the Tide will Turn for me and give me a little more time -  next week I will (I'm eternally optimistic!!!)

Simon Says STAMPtember® 'Stamp-It' and Blog Hop

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is ,,,,,,,,

STAMPtember® 'Stamp-It' and Blog Hop

You must create a project using a rubber or clear stamp, no digi images allowed, add your creation to the linky AND hop around the designers blogs leaving comments along the way.  We are only showing sneak peeks of what we made so you need to visit our blogs to see our creations in all their glory :-)

You should have arrived here from Debby's blog if not then   CLICK HERE to go to the start of the hop on the  Simon Says Stamp Store Blog 

TODAY is Heidi's Birthday, as you know Heidi is the owner of Simon Says Stamp and we would like you all to join us in wishing her a very Happy Birthday

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp 

You should have arrived here from the lovely DEBBY

A rather simple card today - I sort of run out of time - I hung on hoping my new STAMPtember® images  etc. would arrive but sadly it didn't so I needed to quickly get a card together using in the regular STAMPtember® goodies used.

I do love CAS style cards, especially with the basically white on white.  The image is Stampendous Blowing Bubbles and I coloured them with Copics. I love the Crafter's Companion Embossalicous embossing folder Chevron - so effective.

I couldn't decide which of the STAMPtember®  product used but settled on the  Simon Says Stamp Die and Stamp Set Apothecary Labels.   

I opened a box shipped from Germany I found a box full of ribbons and flowers all just tipped loosely into one white box I'd never seen before - due to the Customs I suspect. 

The problem of this is I haven't a clue what anything is or where it is from. I found some white ribbon but don't now which it is although I suspect is from May Arts but couldn't locate them - probably out of stock of reduntent.

InLinkz.com

From here you need to pass on the fabulous JENN (SHURKUS)

So now it's YOUR turn.  Happy Crafting

There are fabulous Give Aways and inspiration from fabulous designers on a daily basis over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog , if you haven't subscribed by email you may want to so you don't miss out 

You have until Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

No backlinking allowed, Only 5 new creations will be eligible in the prize draw

Everybody Art Challenge...............A Sketch!!!

As Everybody Art Challenge we are back from out summer break and start with a

SKETCH

I've chosen one of  Mo Manning's adorable images and this one is called 'Paddy' - so cute, look at that adorable expression!!!

I coloured Paddy with Copics and left it pretty free from embellishments.  I'm not happy about the photograph as the coloured haven't turned out true to IRL - the checked panels look rather acidic where the rest turned out a rather grey green, possible as I photographed it at night although using a daylight lamp ???

The cardstock is Simon Says Midnight whilst the papers are from my stash.  The border is with a Martha Stewart Cherish and I added Memory Box Tender Leaves (wish I had some clover die). I added some Hemptique Vintage Natural twine and that is it other than the Paper Artsy Mini Text around the border of the image.

Mid Week House Mouse & Friends.......Food Glorious Food!!!

**FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD**

use ANY FOOD related image even Christmas cards with FOOD..

Please NOTE that ALL challenges also have the alternate option of *ANYTHING GOES* too!  So don't worry if you don't have a stamp with FOOD, as you can still join us by entering any of your projects using HMD stamps, CD images or decoupage all count..

Proudly Sponsored by;

  

http://www.qkrstampede.com - home of the Perfect Shim!

Prize - Winner will receive 5 Digital Stamps of their choice to QKR's online store

  Welcome to our QKR Rubber Stamp store! We have the Somewhat cute, Somewhat Quirky images that are available as unmounted, natural red rubber stamps OR as digital stamps! We have several rubber stamp lines featuring over 10,000 designs. Our QKR Stampede website features the artwork of Ken Herrod. Ken has a unique, somewhat quirky, style with lots of humor and character. Not a day goes by we don't get a chuckle out of a design we run across!  We are also the home of the new product: the Perfect Shim!!!

Check out their line of FABULOUS Stores! 

QKR Stampede - http://www.qkrstampede.com - home of the Perfect Shim!

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Biblical Impressions - http://www.biblicalstamps.com

Alluring Impressions - http://www.alluringimpressions.com

AND...A Generous CANDY PRIZE...

Our fabulous Teamie, Christine is kindly offering another Lucky player this awesome NEW pack House-Mouse Designs Food/Drink Decoupage sheets

AND... a fun "FOOD" themed PRIZE from your Mousey Team

This Wooden Rubber Stamp will be given away to a third lucky player;

It's practically bed time before I manage to upload my challenge - I kept loosing my internet connection again. I'm with BT and I think I shall be sacking them if it can't be sorted out. Everytime I connect it swaps itself over to BT's own 'blog' and won't go anywhere !!!

Anyway - I used one of my favourite image - 'Blueberry Delight' although I decided for a change to made them Red berries this time (coloured with Copics) - along with the fun sentiment - 'Eat Dessert First' - I'm a great believer in this and sometimes as my daughter shakes her head in disgust!!

The background papers are some old ones from Hot Of The Press and I added a small charm and and cutlery set I picked up in Germany especially for the Mousies - although I can't see them using them, especially with the napkin - cut aren't they??

Well as it is now about bedtime - and long for a more successful connection on my internet!!! 

Goodnight to you all