Be Mine - House Mouse Challenge

Well, I am back home from my week away. It's nice to be home, but it stinks coming back to reality. It always means time to go back to work, and back to the normal daily routine. I had a very nice visit with my parents in Minnesota though. I am going for another visit by myself in a week! Lucky me! So I guess I really can't complain can I?

I thought I would continue with my Valentine's theme this week and this card fits in with the House Mouse Challenge for this week to use a tall and thin card. This is my first week playing along. I decided I needed to start trying some of these challenge blogs and since I don't use my House Mouse and Happy Hoppers as much as I should this should help. You can check out the House mouse challenge blog here. So here is what I came up with :

and here is a close up where you can see I went a little crazy with the diamond glaze :)

Supplies :

• Stamps House Mouse - Be Mine Heart & Sole (#HMER1014), Stampin Up! - Just Celebrate
• paper The Paper Company
• inks brown Versa Color, Black Versa Fine
• Miscellaneous - Pink Glaze pen; Paper ribbon hearts by K & Co., Prismacolor markers, rhinestones by Heidi Swapp, Diamond Glaze.

Stay tuned tomorrow for our Fun-Filled Friday challenge posts! And Saturday for another Valentine's Day creation. I have to make up for skipping Tuesday!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Happy Crafting,
Kimmy

Happy Fall!

Sorry for my delay in today's post. It's been a little crazy in the Kowalik house today. A ton of running around to do. I don't know why it seems like everything gets crammed into 1 day. On with my card for today! As you may know the challenge this week was a fall/harvest card. Here is what I came up with :


To make this card I stamped my image on plain white card stock with black in and colored it in using my Prismacolor pencils blended with Gamsol. Then I used the scallop Nesties to cut out the image and layered it with a copper card stock then again with brown. Next I stamped my sentiment "May the blessing of the the season fill your heart and your home" on the gold card stock and layered that on brown. Next I stamped 3 leaves on different colors of card stock and cut each one out. Then I cut a piece of leaf pattern paper 5.25" x 5.25". I then glued the pattern paper to the center of my 5.5" x 5.5" card base. Next I glued my layered image to the upper left of the card, and the sentiment to the lower left. Finally I added my leaves to the right side.

Supplies : stamp - House Mouse, paper - DCWV, card stock - Bazzill, Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol, Nesties, Marvy Uchida corner rounder.

Here is a close up of my image. I think he turned out so cute!

I again want to apologize for my delay. I hate when things get overly hectic. I do want to share with everyone that my DH surprised me with an iPod touch yesterday! I was so excited. I played with it all night. I knew I was getting one, but I didn't think until Christmas.

Stay tuned I plan on having another post this evening since I got a blog award!

Happy Crafting,
Kimmy

Pink Lemonade for two

As you probably know this weeks challenge was to use pink and green. I admit I used more than just pink and green. Here is what I came up with:

I got the image from a House Mouse image swap a while back. I was very happy with my coloring. I used my Prismacolor pencils blended with mineral spirits. Then I outlined the image with my grey zig marker and made a shadow along the bottom. Next I used my chalks to color the background green making sure the edges were a little darker. I then cut the image out, added dimensional glaze to the pink lemonade and set it aside to dry. I cut a piece of the green pattern paper to 4" x 5 1/4" and glued it to the center of a dark green A2 size card base. I then stamped the sentiment "have a very mice day" in the lower right corner and put diamond glaze over that. Once the dimensional glaze was dry I glued my image to the front. How does it look?

Supplies: stamps by House Mouse (sweet treat for two), cardstock by Bazzill, pattern paper by Quick Quotes Paper, chalk, Prismacolor pencils, Zig marker, Diamond Glaze dimensional glaze.

I love how the dimensional glaze made the lemonade look. Did you make a pink and green card? If so post a link to it in my comments and you will be added to the monthly blog candy give-away.

Yesterday was my DH's birthday so maybe this weekend we will do some celebrating. Do you have any big plans? Hope you have a great weekend.

Happy Crafting,
Kimmy

FUN FILLED FRIDAY!

Christmas in July!

Sorry it's been a slow week on my blog. I had a busy weekend, then a bit of a cold. On top of that I had to work an extra day this week to make up for being off last Saturday. I hope I am over my cold and can get back in the groove. We are definitely cooling off today with Jen's Christmas in July theme for this week. (btw have you checked out her blog?? She has started Sketch Wednesdays-I haven't had a chance to join in the fun yet!)

Here is my card for the week - let me know what you think.


For this card I will admit I was a little rushed, but I LOVE how it turned out. I started with my House Mouse image stamped on white card stock with black Stazon. I colored the image with my prismacolor markers and pencils blended with Gamsol. Next I cut and matted the image on Dark green Bazzill card stock. Then I cut a piece of the striped pattern paper to 4"x5.25" so that I would have a 1/4" mat on my A2 card base. Then I used my new SU! slit punch and made 4 slots to run my red ribbon through. I tied the ribbon in the center and glued the pattern paper on to the card base. Next I got out my Stamp-a-ma-jig (one of the greatest tools for stampers), and used that to stamp my sentiment. Finally I added my matted image to the front and I was done. So how does it look?

Remember I have blog candy to give away at the end of the month so show my your FFF challenges! I am assigning each entry a number starting with the first and at the end of the month I will randomly pick a winner. Hope you decide to join in the fun! You can also get an entry by promoting my blog somewhere, just let me know what you did.

So, what's new with all my blogging friends? Any big plans for this weekend? I know we may go to the Polish Festival for a bit - it's a big weekend long thing here. Since my hubby is 100% Polish and I'm almost half Polish I'm sure we would enjoy ourselves. We can eat a ton of food and do a little Polka here and there:) Well, I hope things have slowed down for the time being. I am really looking forward into jumping back into my papercrafting. Stay tuned I am working on stuff for a new segment on my blog my "Make something Mondays". I figure it would be a good time to share some new things I have been trying and maybe you can share some new techniques or challenges with me.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend, I hope to post a couple things this weekend. And a 2nd blog candy announcement Monday so make sure you check in.

Happy Crafting,
Kimmy

Supplies: Image by House Mouse, Sentiment by Hampton Arts, pattern paper by Bo Bunny Press, card stock by Bazzill, Prismacolor markers and pencils, Gamsol, slit punch by SU!, ribbon by Bobbie M. Designs, ATG.