No-Color House Mouse Challenge! {Scrapy Land}

Greetings, blogging friends! SO HAPPY you are here!

I have some fun news to share!

Ta-Daaaaa! Today is my first card share using dies from Scrapyland where I have joined several talented artists in the all new DESIGN TEAM!

We will be featuring a "new and improved" Challenge Blog on the first and third Wednesdays with prizes and awards! Challenge Rules are here. It all begins on September 3! Hope to see you there!

Scrapyland brings 47 BRANDS OF DIES to the crafting world!

More sharing...

Do you ever make promises to yourself, and then put everyone else (and every "thing" else) in front of the promises? It's a bad habit of mine.

Every month, I promise myself to participate in certain challenges, and the time always gets away from me.

This month I decided NO MATTER WHAT, I would play in the HM challenge. 

And then the photography would not cooperate! BAH! 

Four days and nearly 100 photos, later, I am still dissatisfied. 

This card glistens and sparkles beautifully, but the camera refused to capture it. I'm so sorry for the shoddy photography, because the card is really pretty. I promise it does not look slightly "icky" wherever the distressed glitter appears. (giggle)

The first challenge: House Mouse and Friends Challenge (absolutely NO COLOR on the HM image!)

The card uses this week's MOJO Monday sketch:

Do you like the machine stitching for A Gem of a Challenge and ALBC Challenge?

My shoulders spasmed and made the left side go crazy LOL 

(that is why my card designs are results of covering up mistakes and blunders)

One of my favorite dies is the Spellbinders Blossoms (the roses shown in my card), available at a discount at Scrapyland. 

This is the only photo which even remotely captures the amazing glitteriness. The Chunky Diamond Dust and Luau Green Microfine glitters are both from Sparkle N Sprinkle. See the Diamond Dust in the tear drops of the circle, too? As well as the holes in the MS border punch?

Thanks for sharing my happy news today!

Products:
Scrapyland Spellbinders Blossoms (the roses shown in my card)
Scrapyland Spellbinders Circles and Teardrop Circles
House Mouse Daisy Throwing stamp
House Mouse You Make Me Smile stamp
Sparkle N Sprinkle  Chunky Diamond Dust and Luau Green Microfine glitter
The rest is old stuff from my stash

Fun Challenges I'm playing in:

1. House Mouse and Friends Challenge - #176 Leave the image uncolored - with thinking of you 8/25
2. MOJO MONDAY Challenges - #359 Sketch - 8/25
3. A Gem of a Challenge - #126 Stitching - 8/28
4. STAMPlorations Challenges - August - Use Stamp(s) and Die Cut(s) 8/31
5. ALBC - August - "Sew What?" Stitching from Sewing Machine 8/31
6. Crafts Galore - August - Anything Goes 8/31
7. Sparkle N Sprinkle - August - Anything Goes (2 colors of glitter shown) 8/25
8. Natalie and Amy challenges - #23 Die cuts and Flowers 8/30
9. Mema's Challenges - August - Anything Goes 8/30
10. Crafty Girl Challenges - #25 Anything Goes 9/4
11. We Do Doobadoo Challenges - #13 Add Textures (layers, glitters of different sizes, ribbons, stitching) 9/13
12. Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge  - #43 Anything Goes 8/29

hugs,

Vintage Roses (October's FS Sketch)

Good Morning, friends! I'm happy to see you!

Fellow Florida Stamper Sharon Field drew my attention recently to a wonderful Sketch site - Creative Sketches. One Sketch in particular became October's Sketch of the Month for our Florida Stampers Group. This A6 size card will be mailed to swap partner Sandy Meier.

To see the sketch cards created by the Creative Sketches Group, just click here.

My version uses ovals rather than rectangles.

It's actually my first try at a vintage style card. Then I couldn't find the right stamp for the centers of the small Nestabilities Ovals! The second stamp I ever purchased back in 1988 came to the rescue (another oldie-but-goodie crying out to be used!). If you've been stamping for 20 years, you'll remember that PSX (Personal Stamp Exchange) was the main stamp manufacturer in those days. This was their small botanical rose image. "Incredible" describes Sandy to a T. The image is part of an Anna Griffin set. (What ever happened to Anna?)

Flowers were colored with PrismaColor Pencils. The Labels One Grand dies, Ovals, and leaves were cut on my Grand Calibur (truly my favorite of all the die cut machines in my stash). 

Thanks for visiting.