Happy Humming! -Friday 20th March 2015

Hello Friends,

Thank you for your birthday wishes yesterday, we had a lovely meal last night, at The Gumstool Inn, which is part of a Manor hotel near Tetbury and we have just got back from a fabulous day at Adam Henson's Cotswold Farm Park...tomorrow I will fill you in on the day, plus the 2 hour walk we did across country during which we saved the life of a sheep..yes we did!

Our friend's daughter Natalie, who I made the horse card for, told me this morning that she was thrilled with it...so pleased!

Now for today's craft:

I love all birds, but if I was really pressed for a favourite it would be the humming bird, these beautiful tiny creatures have held a special place for me, since being mesmerised by them in my auntie's garden in San Francisco when I was a young girl.

This week's Sunday Stamper challenge  from Hels Sheridan, is to include a bird in our project. I created this card for one of my friends, whose birthday is also this month  and thought I would share it for these week's challenge, as I haven't had the time to make anything for ages and I have missed it.

I used a base of black card and mat and layered with purple,around which I wrapped lilac web net and dark purple ribbon.

I then die cut two rectangles with black card and mat and layered one with paper from G45 French Country and again wrapped with net and also green twine.

 I die cut stamped the main House Mouse image on to a white die cut rectangle and coloured using distress inks as watercolours. I did paint in clear Wink of Stella pen and also added glitter to the bird's wings, but it doesn't show in the photo.

I then inked the edges with antique linen distress ink and using some left over watered down Dusty Concord ink, I took it up with an old toothbrush (one of those travel ones you get on a plane) and spritzed some spots of ink over the card using my finger against the brush.

To finish I added some gems.

 I've become very interested in envelope art recently and have found some amazing creations on Pinterest, but I thought I'd start small by using another House Mouse stamp in the corner.

Finally, here is a humming bird I managed to snap when we were in California in 2013, after all these years I finally managed to get one that wasn't blurred!

Thank you so much  for stopping by, I'm having my own proper birthday celebrations today, a day late as we are both off work and heading off to Adam's Farm/Cotswold Farm Park. One of my favourite places to spend my birthday amongst all the animals!

Love and Hugs
Carole X

House Mouse Easter - Thursday 6th March 2014

Hello Friends,

I'm afraid my posts will be short for the next week as I am too busy actually crafting, finishing off projects for the Craft Fair on 15th..the good news is that I have a few days off work next week to use up my holiday.

Today's card is a little House Mouse Easter card..this is a House Mouse  wooden stamp I've had for a long time and love it for the hen (of course!)...I love the little meeces tucked in the warmth of her feathers.

I decided to make this little 3D Aperture card - to be honest I have heard this type of card called so many things, that I'm not sure of the exact term!

I stamped the image and coloured with Promarkers, then  I cut the actual image out from it's background. I printed some wood effect card from a Pink Petticoat download and used this as the back of the card, adhering the hen and mice to it with 3d foam pads, then I added some raffia to the bottom for her nest.

For the front I measured the card and cut an aperture with a Spellbinders scalloped oval die. I then made an accordion fold in each side (see below) to create the depth. 

To finish I added another little stamped mouse on the front, stamped eggs and die cut flowers. The sentiments are also by Pink Petticoat.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Love and Hugs,

Carole X

I would like to enter this card in the current House Mouse and Friends Challenge:

HMFMC #164 Anything Goes