House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge #130

Hey hey all you House-Mouse Lovers!
 
We have a fun challenge for you today over on the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Blog:

ATC Turn-About. Take your ATC and turn it into a card creation. Easy Peasy, right? Get all the challenge details, along with prize info and some fantastic design team samples HERE.

If you are not familiar with what an ATC is, let us explain; It is a miniature work of art with an approximate size of (2 ½ X 3 ½ inches), or, (63 mm X 89 mm). It is small enough to fit inside standard card-collector pockets, sleeves or sheets. The ATC movement developed out of mail art and has its origins in Switzerland. These mini cards are produced in various media and usually traded or exchanged rather than sold. The sky is the limit in this fun art. So give it a go!!! :)

The ATC I used on my card is actually one I made 3 years ago.

 I did recolor a few areas and added some glitter accents along with a twine bow.

The flag banner is made from StampinUP! stamp set and punch.  Then some extra pieces of popcorn added.

So go grab an old ATC....or make a new one....and lets see what YOU come up with!
 Have a micey nice day!

Easter Day

I have lots of FUN Easter stuff to share!

A Good Egg for Michaela

I was browsing the gallery at Splitcoaststampers (as I often do!) and ran across a super cute card made by jupiter. Check out her card here. I decided to make one and give it to my daughter for Easter. Michaela really loves to get cards. Wonder where she gets that from?! ha! Card details are on my SCS Gallery here.

We did Paper Crafting with our Easter Eggs!

Our Easter Egg dying kit had fun papers and templates to make these flowers. The pieces of square paper were folded and then cut out...sort of like how you make snowflakes. These turned out really cool! I saved the templates and instructions because we can use them for other paper crafting projects. By the way....can you find Sponge Bob hiding in there?

More Fun With My New Holly Berry House Easter Egg Stamp

As I was making a card with this new stamp from Holly Berry, I had this idea of making an ornament. I stamped the image 4 times and colored them all the same. Trimmed the out and then traced around them used my Layer Ease to cut out colored cardstock to back each piece. Scored all the pieces down the middle and then taped them together. Before I put the 4th piece on, I put the string with beads down the middle. The crystal and silver beads really add to the piece. I gave this to my daughter Alisha for Hosting the family Easter get together. (See previous post for card here.)

Family Fun on Easter Day!

Michaela finding Easter goodies.

Baby Emalie's 1st Easter.

Haylie makes the cutest Spring Flower!

Kayla and James found some really special eggs!

Kylee was as cute as can be with her girlie Easter basket. Nicholas is getting so BIG! He is my first grandchild.

Here's Alexa checking out all her Easter eggs. Brendon stopped for a "quick" picture and then off he went searching for more eggs!

That's me with my daughter Sabrina and grandaugther Kylee. We did manage to get the kids to stand still for a couple minutes to take a group picture.

When we all get together....my 3 oldest daughters always manage to get their picture taken together. Of course it's usually not just 1 shot...it's MANY shots! You know...we have to get ONE that all 3 of them look fabulous in! LOL

Easter Blessings

Holly Berry House Stamps

You ever heard of Holly Berry House stamps? I never did till I went to my favorite stamp store the other day - Stamp Works. That's where I saw this awesome stamp. This is a very large stamp, but it was super easy to ink up and stamp with. Wonderful quality!



The last thing I had on my wish list that day was an Easter stamp....but there was NO WAY I could resist this one! And she only had 1 of these left....so FOR SURE I had to get it before someone else did! ha ha. AND it was the 20th so I got 20% off!



Naturally I had to pick out a couple pieces of paper to go with it. When I found some patterned paper from Bella Press I knew this was going to be an awesome card. I couldn't wait to get home and create!



Recipe:
The card is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Cardbase is Bazzill Textured cardstock. Image stamped with Black Stazon on Stampin'UP! Very Vanilla. Colored in with 3 colors of Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol - Henna PC1031 (matches SU Cranberry Crisp) Sandbar Brown PC 1094 (matches the patterned paper) and Cream PC 914 (matches SU Very Vanilla). I did use my Clear Spica Glitter Pen on the bunnies for just a little shimmer. Cut out egg and layered on SU Cranberry Crisp cardstock. I used my Layer Ease to trace around the egg. Stampin'UP! had them in the catalog a few years back. Some stores carry them still....they are called Magic Matters. The little round stickers on the egg are from Stampendous and are called Dot Sparkles. They didn't stick at all...I'm thinking because the colored pencils are like waxy...so I just dabbed a tiny bit of Crystal Effects on them to attach. THAT was really time comsuming, but worth the work! The Flower in the middle of the egg is made up of 2 paper flowers from CTMH and a punched flower from Cranberry Crisp CS. French Vanilla Brad in the middle from Bazzill. Patterned paper is from Bella Press - Chandler Collection. Used my SU Ticket Corner punch on the corners and then layered it on Cranberry Crisp cardstock. Little Black Brads in the corners and attached it to the base. Attached the Egg Layer to base with Dimensionals. Stamped Easter Blessings from SU Fancy Flexible Phrases set in Black on bottom corner. Grossgrain ribbon from SU - True Thyme and Cranberry Crisp. Attached ribbon with glue dots.