Football Frenzy at House Mouse

This is my second post as Guest DT at the House Mouse Monday Challenge.   This has been a wonderful and enjoyable opportunity!  The next challenge has been set by Stacy...Football Frenzy...inspired by Super Bowl champs, Green Bay.  For this challenge, we can go with colors, overall theme, team, etc.  I chose this "Little Nibbler" image, because it's a good depiction of how I am during the play-offs and Super Bowl.  I was rooting for the Colts until they were eliminated, then went with Green Bay for the Super Bowl.  I didn't actually chew pencils during the game...but I did munch down a bunch of chips and salsa!  : )  I went with green and yellow for the Packers' colors, colored the image with Copics, and added the lettering to the pencils with a Copic Multiliner.  I used Spellbinders Labels 18, added some German glass glitter to the edges.  I made this a twisted easel card, followed the sketch at Pixie Cottage, framing the image with embossed CS strips that I sprayed with Glimmer Mist.  I stamped the background repeatedly with the clock from the "Sense of Time" set from Stampin Up. 

Challenges:

The Pixie Cottage - Sketch

The ABC Challenge - Unusual fold

Simon Says Stamp - Sparkle and shine

Our Creative Corner - Frame it

The Stamp Man - Recipe

Crazy4Challenges - Humor

Stamps:  House Mouse "Little Nibbler", Stampin Up "Sense of Time".

Paper:  The Paper Studio CS, Neenah Solar White CS.

Ink:  Memento, Distress Inks.

Accessories:  Spellbinders Labels 18, corner punch, CB embossing folder, Glimmer Mist, German glass glitter, Liquid Pearls.

Midnight Madness, Shabby Tea Room

Last card this week, as we are going camping this weekend, leaving this afternoon.  Can't wait!!  Monday I start full-time hours at the law firm.  Finally!  The part-time hours were playing havoc on the savings account!  I've been at the law firm four months a 20 hours a week, and they asked me to go full-time.  Still getting used to legal side of things, considering I have worked in medical field since I was 15, but they say I'm doing a good job.  Okey dokey!

I had planned on using this "Ballerina Resting" digi image from Priscilla Styles for the Midnight Madness sketch, and when I saw that Crafty Cardmakers challenge was decoupage, this is what I came up with.  I printed the image three times, colored it with Copics.  Then I cut out the full skirt and then part of the skirt for the top layer.  I used scraps of Grunge Paper to pop the images up, as foam dots were too thick.  Added some Stickles and a few pearls for a bit of bling. 

Challenges
Midnight Madness - Sketch.
The Shabby Tea Room - Flower Palette.
ABC Challenge - R for roses.
Crafty Cardmakers - Decoupage.
Paper Romance - Bling

Stamps:  Priscilla Styles "Ballerina Resting" digi stamp.
Paper:  HOTP.
Ink:  Colorbox Queues, Distress Ink.
Accessories:  Computer, Grunge paper, Wild Orchid roses, Stickles, Sizzix leaf punch, pearls.

Bah! Humbug Meets Crafty Hazelnut For My COTW

Back to a normal work week.  Bleh!  Back to school today for Tyler.  He has a bad case of senioritis"...can't wait to graduate in June.  Shelbie made it back to Norwich Saturday without any problems.   So here we go with some more cards!  This week at Bah! Humbug! they want us to use metallics.  I combined this with Crafty Hazelnut's challenge to use silver, and my card ended up going in non-traditional Christmas colors direction. I had cut the snowflakes from some foil paper and they looked pretty but were missing some pizzazz.  So I covered them with German glass glitter.  Oh my, the bling from that is gorgeous!   The cutesie image is Rubbernecker's "Crystal", colored with Prismacolors.  The "fur" is Liquid Pearls.  Sentiment printed from my computer.  Now to separate this from my stash so Chuck doesn't see it, because this will be his Christmas card this  year.  :)

Challenges
Bah! Humbug! - Metallics.
Crafty Hazelnut - Silver.
Sunday Sketch & Stamp - Sketch.
ABC Challenge - Q for quote/sentiment.


A little update on the making of the dress for Shelbie (same pic as before, darn it).  I have been sewing since before I was 10, consider myself an advanced seamstress.  Thankfully I can look at something, sketch it, make the mock-up, and end up with a relative close copy, so Shelbie has always had one-of-a-kind formals.  I bought this Vogue Designer, advanced level pattern about 7 or 8 years ago and had never opened the envelope.  Apparently for Vogue advanced means HA! We left out some pieces!  LOL!  Four out of 19 pieces are missing.  Nice.  So I had to take extra time to figure those pieces out and thus was not able to get the dress finished before Shelbie had to go back to college.  I'll be finishing it up this week and will ship it to her.  I'll post a picture of the dress all by its lonesome, then Shelbie can have someone take a picture of her the night of the Junior Ring Presentation in April and I'll post it then. What I was able to get finished so I could do a final fitting on her looked beautiful, if I may say so myself. :)   

Stamps:  Rubbernecker "Crystal".
Paper:  Anna Griffin, The Paper Studio.
Ink:  Colorbox Queues.
Accessories:  Spellbinder scalloped rectangles dies, Stickles, Dew Drops, Cuttlebug snowflake die and embossing folder, German glass glitter.

Embossed Angel

Adding to my Christmas card stash.  This week's Bah! Humbug! challenge called for embossing.  I inked up this pretty Inkadinkado angel and embossed her with gold embossing powder.  I inked the outside edge of Spellbinders Mega Rectangles then cut and embossed the image to get that sharp border.  I also cut the card base with the largest die from that set, embossed the front panel with a Cuttlebug snowflake folder, and tapped the stamp pad on the snowflakes to bring them out a bit.  The ABC Christmas challenge this time around is also embossing, plus three different embellishments.  The gold vellum snowflakes are from a Cuttlebug die.  The word is a metal word from Colorbok.  It was silver, but I colored it with a gold DecoColor marker.

Challenges
Bah! Humbug! - Embossing.
ABC Christmas Challenge - Embossing and 3 embellishments.
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Metal.
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Embossing.

Stamps: Inkadinkado Christmas Silhouettes.
Paper:  The Paper Studio.
Ink:  Colorbox Queues.
Accessories:  Versamark, gold EP, Spellbinders dies, Cuttlebug dies, metal word, rhinestones.