Rub A Dub Dub

The current challenge over at Divas by Design is a sketch to follow.  Here is my take on the sketch:

This is a card for my daughter to sent to one of her best friends who is a big cat lover.

Base card 8 x 8 decorative edged card from Cupcakecrafting

Image printed from Joanna Sheen's housemouse project cd-rom onto glossy photo paper and matted onto silver them lilac card from Papermill.

Backing paper from Housemouse inserts cd-rom, printed onto satin finish paper.

Central paper embossed using a Darice Embossing folder and then trimmed.

Sentiment stamp from a WOW Stamp Set, as is the flourish, stamped in silver metallic ink.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Paper Pretties Challenge - Square cards

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Animal Antics

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Animals

House Mouse and Friends Challenge - Double Trouble- Use an image with 2 or more animals on

Pile It On Challenge - Cuddly Critters

Bearly Mine Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Best Friends

Whimsy Stamps Challenge - Lots of Layers

House Mouse & Friends

Good Afternoon

The new challenge over at House Mouse & Friends  is Thank You.  I needed to make a thank you card to send to some special friends so this fitted the challenge perfectly:

I'm sorry about the quality of the photo, the card is actually quite colourful in real life, but the light is so bad today, this was the best I could do.

I use a housemouse decoupage from Joanna Sheen.  The backing paper is from the Housemouse cd-rom, printed onto centura paper.  The frame is a wonky rectangle spellbinders die cut into some platinum pearlescent cardstock.  I added some gems to the frame.  The sentiment is lili of the valley, layered onto a memorybox die.  For the mini bouquet I made some flowersoft stems and also threaded some seed beads onto wire.  The bouquet wrap is made from angelhair paper.

I would also like to enter my card in the following challenges:

My Mum's Craft Shop - Thank you card

Fussy and Fancy Challenge- Be thankful and use a sentiment

Truly Scrumptious Challenge - Bingo - I chose Gems/Flowers/Die-cuts

Paper Sundaes - Rectangles

Pile It On Challenge - Give Thanks

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

If I'd Known You Were Coming I'd Have Baked A Cake

Good evening!

Phew, I thought I was going to be too late for the current House Mouse & Friends challenge, but I've got there just in time!

Here is my card:

This card is for a friends birthday.  He loves to bake and loves pink, so this card should go down well I hope.

The card uses a House Mouse decoupage from Joanna Sheen, and backing paper from the House Mouse inserts cd-rom.  I printed off 2 different sized photos of a chocolate muffin, put one behind the main image, and attached the smaller one to a penny slider, and then attached a mouse to the muffin.

Inside the card I've made a pocket to hold a recipe for Mississippi mud pie which I typed up and printed out, and then attached to some brown linen card.

I'm sorry about the quality of this photo.  My camera battery ran out just as I'd taken it, so I can't try and take a better one until tomorrow.

My card is for the following challenges:

House Mouse & Friends Challenge - Include a recipe

Here Come The Boys - Slider of shaker cards

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Make yourself uncomfortable - I find penny slider cards very difficult to make and get to work.  This one works - hurrah!

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Inspired by a Song - If I'd know you were coming I'd have baked a cake

One Stop Craft Challenge - Food and Drink

The CD Sunday Challenge - M is for Mice and Mudpie

One Stitch At A Time Challenge - Anything Goes

Creations by Gill M - Cupcakes

Pile It On Challenge - Lots of Layers

Thanks for stopping by.

Jo x