Good morning blog friends,

I hope you are all well, thank you for visiting my blog, it really does mean a lot to me to know you have stopped by and I love reading all your comments. 

I have been busy in all my spare hours this week, trying to make the last few Christmas cards, whilst also making non-Christmas commissions..goodness there seem to be a lot of people getting married this Christmas!

Today I thought I'd post a bit of humour! This is an unusual card style for me...I love House Mouse, but am not keen on decoupage. However, at Christmas we have to make a lot of cards and much as stamping is my first love, it does take quite a bit of time...plus, we can't get all the HM designs here in the UK, some you would only use once a year anyway; so it made sense to buy the lovely Project books that Joanna Sheen has brought out. I don't need to decoupage the images if I don't want to!

Having said that, this image is from a sheet I had in my stash - I cut out the framed base image and chose just to add one layer on top to give the topper some depth. I  matted and layered an A6 blank with green card and then some paper from stash. The image is matted and layered on gold and then green card. I tied the bakers twine around the side of the top layer before mounting and then added a bakers twine bow and a greeting, The greeting is a washable by Clevercut, which I inked with a little Spun Sugar.

For a final touch I added some holly. This card is going to my friend in Italy who also loves the House Mouse images!

Emergency Crafter DT card - Saturday 10th November

Hello Friends,

After the LOTV baby card yesterday, I am returning to my other favourite stamp company,  House Mouse!

Today's card is my Design Team card for the new Emergency Crafters challenge, the theme of which is  'Get Well Soon'

I chose to use this cute House Mouse and Friends stamp, which I've coloured with Promarkers and cut out using Grand Labels 23; I also cut  the next side up on double-sided card to mount it and use as the frame for my easel.

The edges are shaded with Tattered Rose distress ink and framed with flowers from my stash box. For the base, I stamped the sentiment  with Butterscotch Adirondack ink and then heat embossed using a translucent embossing powder. To make the the 'stopper' I cut it out using Spellbinders Labels Four Small and repeated in the larger size using the same card as for the frame. Then I simply added some ribbon and a button from stash.

'Hop' over to Emergency Crafters via the link above, this time our sponsor is The Glittermonster, with a super papercraft goody bag from Trimcraft.

Hope this cheers you up if you're feeling poorly! Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving a comment, 

Crafty Love, Carole X