Monday, May 10, 2010

House Mouse Monday

Don't Stress...
Actually....DO Stress....Distress that is

House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge #69 - Distressing
Thanks go out to Mary for today's challenge idea. Distress anything on your projects and include at least 1 House Mouse, Gruffies or Happy Hoppers image. We have a great prize this time around. Git-R-Done!!! Go on over to the HM & Friends Monday Challenge Blog to get all the details.

My friend Cynthia let me stamp a bunch of HM images from her collection. Many of the stamps in her collection are limited edition and hand numbered. This one on my card is from her collection. It's called Fantastic. SUPER CUTE!!!



I did soft distressing around the edges of the blue cardstock layer. The edges of the card base layer is sponged with Distress inks. All coloring is done with Prismacolor Pencils & Gamsol. I also used a Clear Spica Glitter Pen on the fan...but didn't catch the sparkle on my pics.



Have fun stressing.....I mean distressing!


Other House Mouse Monday Challenge Blog News
Emma, the Founder/Owner of the HM blog is not able to continue running the show because of personal reasons. Stepping in her place as the new Design Team Coordinator is America along with Mary who will help as well. Emma will still be joining us as a floating design team member.

We also have 5 new members on our team.

Sue Drees - http://www.suestamping.com/
Lorraine Aquilina - http://loraquilina.blogspot.com/
Sue from Oregon - http://suesstampingstuff.blogspot.com/
Natascha (nata1984) - http://nataschas-blog.blogspot.com/
Sue, Scoopy Stuff - http://scoopysstuff.blogspot.com/

If you have a chance stop by their blogs and give them a warm welcome :)

Recipe:
Stamps - House Mouse Fantastic; A Muse Little Fun Today
Paper - Papertrey White CS; Three Bugs in a Rug - Summer Flowers Designer paper
Ink - A Muse Artstamps Black Dye
; Ranger Distress Ink Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey
Misc. - Prismacolor Pencils & Gamsol; Copic Spica Clear Glitter Pen; Misc ribbons; Edge Distressing Tool
; Foam Tape
Finished Card Size - 6" x 5.5"

3 comments:

America said...

Oh Man, youve got to teach me to color with those gamsol pencils woman! Actually, teach little ole me to color like you already teach everyone else to color might be nice. :) This card is is FAN-TAS-TIC!!!! I seriously had this image out to use with the FAN verse, but decided against it because I would have had to color not 1, but 4 mice!! LOL!! You know how I feel about coloring! LOL! Thank goodness I didnt use this stamp because you blew this one out of the water GF!! :) I love this!! Awesome gentle distressing!! Way to go!!

Sue said...

Lori, this is just stunning coloring. And that image is so cute and so right for your hot climate. Nice distressing too.

Sue Drees

Lorraine A said...

thanks for the welcome :-) I am looking forward to being on the team and getting to know everyone better :-)

Fabulous card Lori :-) the image is just soo cute ! they do look like they are enjoying the breeze eh :-) perfect colouring !

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