HM Valentine's day card for my HM online friend

"She" sent me a very pretty HM Valentine's day card last year, and "she" told me that "she" is expecting my HM Valentine's day card this year! lol ;-) So, here is the card I made for you, Mary Anne! :-) I made this card, having HM & friends' Monday Challenge ("hearts") & Simon Says Stamp Challenge ("love is in the air") in mind. Yes, you can see lots & lots of hearts on this card! I used Glossy accent on the glass bowl & the mice's eyes. I stamped lot of hearts, using old SU!'s set, then heat embossed. I dry embossed the tiny hearts (cuttlebug), and added glitter here & there. I was kind of getting tired of looking at RED hearts on the Valentine's day cards I previously made, and wanted to choose the colors other than red. :-)

Simon Says... Animal Antics!

well, I made this card to my HM online friend, Sue S. but also Simon Says challenge in mind. This week's challenge is "Animal antics"! I luv Roasting Marshmallows, and I foud this stamp funny, not our mice roasting marshmallows but rather, "someone" is "stealing" their marshmallows on the bowl! :-) Since the stamp image is large, I made this card a bit large too, and since not much to do on the image itself other than coloring, I decorated some around the image. I luv Baker's Twine!

Mojo Monday 175

Ok, I miss summer, beach & tropical islands very much, as you can tell & some of you alreaday know... I decided to use these two stamps from Guam for this week's sketch at Mojo Monday. These flowers are named Plumeria and you always see them all over Guam! I saw 11 turtles on the North Shore of the island of Oahu, Hawaii, when I went there for the 2nd time, after I moved there. They come to the shore and I could even touch them because I was so close to one of the turtle! But I was told that it was inhibited. I also saw another turtle overturned by the wave, when it was trying to "climb??" the small rock on the beach. The group of 3 (2 young men & a girl) also saw this turtle, and a man went to HELP it, kind of pulling the turtle's hand, to the ground!! I'm attaching those pictures. We can see Dolphines often in Guam, and I even saw a Baby Shark during the low tide but this was my first time to see the TURTLE in wild, and there were even 11 of them! I counted them! LOL! That was a nice, fun & WARM day... while I'm typing this, Pro Bowl is on TV... they are showing the sites of Hawaii...I lived in Waikiki where I could see Diamond head... two blocks from the beach...To make the turtle's shell a bit real, I used the glossy accent. I attached Plumeria & the turtle with pop up dimentional glue. Good thing that I had this "bubble" embossed CS in my scrap, to use, because my cuttlebug is broken...

House Mouse Challenge 87

This week's challenge at House Mouse Monday Challenge Blog is "Embossing". Unfortunately my cuttlebug broke after only 6 months of use... I realized how much we depend on these die cutting mashine... Anyways, so, I chose rather simple nestie die shape, traced around it, and used the scisoors to cut the main image & the layering CS. What did I emboss, then?? I did "traditional" Heat Embossing for all swirls and hearts on white background CS. I used an old SU! wheel stamp. I covered the white CS with this stamp in red, and used fine detailed clear embossing powder. Since the image is rather simple, I decorated a lot! :-) I put glitter on the edge of white CS & red CS of the image and inside of the punched out hearts. Vertical sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Clean & Simple 124

I luv this sketch. Simple, yet, the card looks nice :-) Anyways, I luv the way my card turned out :-) The rose stamp is Penny Black (old one! :-)) and the sentiment is a dollar red rubber stamp from Michaels :-) I used heart brads on where the stamped heart images are. I used the pop up glue dots for sentiment & the roses.

Mojo Monday 174 & HM Tea Swap

I really like this weeks' sketch at Mojo Monday blog challenge. I also needed to finish my HM Tea Swap for HM group I belong to, and this is what I made. I've been wanted to use this Cute background paper of "sweets", with my Tea stamp. I adhered glitters around the nestie, inside of the punched tiny hearts on the corner on the front, and flower petals. The main image is attached with pop up glue dots to give a bit of dimention. Inside, I made this pocket using border punches. The buttom of the pocket is a bit open in the middle, because I wanted to give a bit of space in the pocket, so that Tea bag can fit nicely :-)

~ Thinking of You ~ by Tilda

This card is for 2 challenges; Magnolia-Licious Orange/Green Challenge & Magnolia-Licious Highlightes "Recipe" challenge (4 flowers, 3 types of patterned paper, 2 Magnolia images & 1 ribbon). I thought of making a Valentine's day card, but when I thought of the sentiment to finish this card up, "thinking of you" came to my mind. Actually a doller stamp image is Thinking of You being inside rather than Edwin image! Yes, that's just one stamp I used, but separately :-) I attached Tilda's image with pop up dots (and the sentiment) to give a bit of dimention. I used Crystal stickles all around of nesties, sentiment & Edwin, and also used them on roses & leaves. I've handdrawn the grass in 3 different colors of markers on the bottom of Tilda's image.