House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

Stamp Cents - Beauty on a Budget

I thought my blog name was pretty fitting for today's House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge. Well....Cents being money - instead of Scents meaning candles :) hee hee hee

Here's your Monday Morning Kick Start....

HM & Friends Challenge #4 "On A Budget"

Make a card (or whatever you choose to make) for less than £1/$2.
Your stamps and coloring tools are excluded from the budget. You can use any tools you have to create your project. Anything on your project that you got for free/in a swap or a RAK may be used but must have an estimated value/cost. Work out the cost for everything used - papers, cardstock, flowers, brads, ribbons, dimensionals, tapes, glues, etc. Obviously some of these things will be pennies - but you still need to give them an estimated value. Most importantly - use at least one House Mouse or Friends image on your project - that's the best part right! :)

Here's my sample and a cost estimate below

I wanted the main image to be showcased so I used a large House Mouse stamp and layered it on coordinating cardstock. A small piece of sheer ribbon, an altered paper flower and a brad is all this card needed. I stamped on Watercolor paper with Black Stazon. The name of this stamp is Feeling Breezy and features sweet little Monica. Coloring is done with Watercolor Crayons and Aqua painters. I love the look of watercoloring! Look at how many shades I got with only 7 crayons. I used Angel Wings Shimmerz to add touches of sparkle to the flowers. The paper flower is painted with Sugar Plum Shimmerz. It turned out perfect! I'm lovin' these Shimmerz Paints!! "Hang In There" would have be great for the sentiment...but Monica looks to be smiling and having a great time....so "Happy Day" won this time.

Click on this closeup pic to get a better look.

Card Cost Estimate in US dollars & cents: (not including the price of the stamps, watercolor crayons or Aqua painters)

TOTAL COST ESTIMATE = 0.6911
Watercolor paper piece .1488
Very Vanilla Cardstock piece .0938
Orange Cardstock piece .0750
Green Cardstock piece .0750
Ribbon piece .0825
Bazzill Brad .08
Paper Flower .05
Dimensionals .066
Double sided sticky tape .01
Shimmerz paint .01

So how's that for Beauty on a Budget! :) Make sure and check out all the other design team members On A Budget projects HERE.

Recipe:
Stamps - House-Mouse Designs Feeling Breezy (Monica), A Muse Art Stamps Sentiment
Paper - SU Very Vanilla Cardstock, Bazzill Textured cardstock, Watercolor Paper
Ink - Tsukineko Stazon Black
Misc. - SU Watercolor Crayons, Staedtler Karat Aquarell Water Color Crayons, Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Painting Crayons, Shimmering Products Shimmerz Paints Angel Wings & Sugar Plum, CTMH Paper Flower, Bazzill Brad, Misc. Ribbon, SU Dimensionals, Scotch ATG double-sided sticky tape

House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Blog HERE.
House-Mouse Designs Official Website HERE.
Tips on how you can easily color the House-Mouse Stamp Images HERE.