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I made this card for HM & friends Monday Challenge 89, HM & friends (February), Mojo Monday 178. HM & friends Monday Challenge is "Favorite HM stamp". I love All of my HM stamps! LOL! but I always think House Mouse & tea/coffee theme designs are "well-matched" :-) HM & friends monthly challenge is "LOVE". I'm tired of using red and pink for "love" cards this month, so I made this card in light purple :-) The picture doesn't show much but I used perfect pearl for coloring "water". I used Glaze pen for those tiny rose buds to give a bit of shiny look. I used cuttlebug's tiny hearts folder to emboss the circle and glitter it around the edge. Right now, I'm tired of color "white", after looking at snow for so long, and red & pink just because of Valentine's day cards! lol!

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What a nice Challenge this week at Wee Memories; "live, laugh, love"! I can make cards for this theme all year around!! :-) But well, this is my latest creation :-) I've been wanting to use this image & red heart doily! I placed tiny pearls in each small hearts on the border. White background paper (with "love" writings) & circle layering red heart paper is Bo Bunny which my HM online friend Sue K. sent me (Thank You, Sue!:-)) I used red glitter pen to draw "stitches" around the cats image & sentiment. I'm sending this to my godmother for Belated Valentine's day! lol... I did send e-valentine's day card but she is always looking forward to my Handmade card, so I'm sending this tomorrow :-)

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. :-)

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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.

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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.

HM "New Beginnings" - Easel Card

That's the challenge this week at Simon Says Stamp & House Mouse Friends Monday. I don't have House Mouse "Happy New Year" kind of stamp nor Babies. I don't have Wedding related stamp nor School related stamp, so my "new beginnings" is "New Relationship"! :-), and I chose this stamp. I luv this nesties & colors I chose. I put a bit of glitter on the edges of tulips' petals in clear & red. I got these little hearts from the border punch, and I always keep those hearts for confetti and something else :-) Sentiment is from House Mouse image swap I participated a couple of months ago. I put glitters in the heart image. The swirls I attached is from Fiskar's this year's new punch. I'd been looking for swirl punch for a long time, and I really like this one when I found it at Joann, just 2 days ago, and in fact, that was the last one on the shelf :-) And of course, I could use 40% off coupon, so I was really happy! :-) I put a tiny red gem on each swirl, to finish this card :-)

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I luv this sketch!! esp. when I have Pretty Papers! I recently bought Martha S.'s paper stack and wanted to use them! I embellished a bit MORE than "Clean & Simple" but I can think of making more cards with MORE embellishments, using this sketch! I didn't have a Pink Glitter paper so I made one!, filling all the cuttlebug heart die cut outs with quick glue pen, and pour the pink glitter. I really luv this effect! I couldn't help embellishing with tiny pearls around the words "love". I used the same glitter, tracing the shapes of hearts to give more accent. After I stamped the sentiment, I traced the whole sentiment with pink gel pen. I attached two tiny pink heart brads to finish the card! :-) oh, I made this card in 4" x 6". Easy to cut squares in 2"x2":-)