It's Mousie Monday again.............and here comes Summer !!!

Here comes Summer is this week's theme at House Mouse & Friends - yeah, right!!!

This is the choice of the lovely Christine and I'm holding her totally responsible for putting a jinx on the weather -  it's bloomin' freezing here today!!

I love this image, it reminds me so much of being taken to the seaside with my parents when I was a child, going in the sea to paddle or swim and coming out dripping wet, teeth chattering and freezing with cold just like the Gruffie on the right !!! 

My mother always insisted we put suncream on also - WHY - hardly saw the sun on a typical English summer day.

My Gruffies are coloured with the usual Copics and I've stamped a frame around them with the edge of a Stampelglede grunge stamp. My paper is some vellum I've had for donkey's years (used to go on those at the seaside too - donkeys that is), the sentiment is computer generated and the postcard stamp is  Lili of the Valley from the clear additions range.

Check out the fabulous fun creations our Guest designers Kendra and Brenda have created along with the rest of my teamies !!

I shall be back later with some Lili of the Valley  cards - I've been colouring images and think it's time I turned them into cards.

Thanks for stopping by - hope you all have a great week

I'm celebrating with Teddy Bo!!

Just a quick celebratory post and card.

I'm so excited - Teddy Bo has adopted me as one of his design team - how cool is that??

I've loved Teddy Bo and Teddy Bea since I first met them back in February (I think it was) and I've been entering his challenges ever since although I have to admit to missing one or two.

Bea is coloured in Copics and I've stamped the edges with a Stempelglede grunge stamp and heat embossed using clear powder, I then  inked the edges with Victorian velvet distress ink. The papers are Tim Holtz vintage shabby, I've cut a border and the leaves using Crealies dies and a dragonfly using a Magnolia one. The flowers are from Wild Orchid, the ribbon from my stash and I've added a charm, pearls and a flower to the bow.

Another cause to celebrate is finding out why I've been having so many computer and blogging problems. Thank you all so much for the advice and suggestions you've been leaving me, I've tried them all and more!!! Sadly it doesn't help me stop the problems as apparently it is a local problem, I'm not sure now it works but apparently  reception is poor and when everyone stars using the internet in the evenings the system can't cope.

I usually do my DT commenting in the mornings but I think I'm going to have to re-arrange my day and change my routine so I hope you'll bear with me in the meantime!!

Come and Doodle at Copic Creations

This week at Copic Creations we would like you to do some doodling!! You can use your Copic multi-liners, spica glitter pens, pencils or even your Copic markers!    We’ve rounded up  several links to Marianne Walker’s blog showcasing lots of DOODLING options below under TUTORIALS.

********************

We’d also like to welcome a SUPER exciting sponsor this week ~

the one and only PENNY BLACK!!  
Check out the fabulous, amazing prizes on offer.    

This little cutie is called Gentlest Kiss

I had a go at doodling - I'm useless at it - I can draw a picture easier than doodling - I need lots of practice I think.

I did have an attempt at a dragonfly but it's rubbish - there is another one under the ribbon 

 but that was even more rubbish, so I hid it!!!  

I decided in the end to add a curly coat to my bear with pencils, I used Prismas in lighter shades on the lighter areas and darker on the shadows. I think He looks cute with curly hair, I just hope Penny Black don't mind LOL!!

If the sky looks a little patchy - that is my cat, just adding his own personal touch. Sadly I didn't have time to start again so I just blended it in as best I could.

I'm not having the best of weeks so far. I've spent most of today sorting my computer out

- so far so good, keep your fingers crossed for me.

Simon Says ...........lets play BINGO!!!

Thanks you for all your 'fruity' entries in the Simon Says Stamp challenge last week - enough for us all to have a fruit salad.

This week we would like you to join in a game of BINGO, check out the other design team's fabulous 'bingo cards'

I used the bottom line across - shape, ribbon and sentiment

We, the design team are featuring The Greeting Farm's images and I chose this little cutie call Chelsea, she is or course coloured in Copics then cut out and mounted on a Nestabilites  Labels 4. I used papers from Basic Grey's Curio pad. The music stamp is by Kaiser Craft and the corners cut with Cuttlebug vintage corners. The sentiment are from Hero Arts. I've used ribbon is from my stash.

I've got my dozy head on this morning - I've forgotten to photograph the reverse side of the card with the main sentiments on - I shall do this later.

As always, you can win this INCREDIBLE prize and a huge thank you to Heidi and the team at Simon Says Stamp for providing an amazing prize week after week!

lovely hAnglars only

This has been sat in my drafts for a couple of days waiting to be posted, as it's for 

the lovely hAnglar's only challenge I thought I'd better post it before the challenge ended and  I missed it, I've been good at that recently!!

I knew exactly what I wanted to do with these images when I first saw them and fortunately the sketch suits them fairly well. I cut the center from the card using nesties and the image is placed on the inside of it.

I stamped my little mermaid, masked her then stamped the little merman. Both images were masked and the seaweed stamped over them. I finally stamped the fish and masked a little of the seaweed. I can hardly believe I managed to get them all in the right order for a change - probably a lucky accident.

I used Magnolia swirls around the edge of the image to represent seaweed, and at the bottom some lace, some clear Magnolia chandeliers and some pearl drops.  It needed something else so I cut/tore a left over piece of my mosquito netting to add to it.  I'm nearly at the end of this and found it so useful I can see myself buying another curtain when it finished.

This is the inside of the card and I shall add a sentiment at the top when I decide what, when, where and how etc.

Right I shall go and have another fight with Mr. Blogger and see if he will let me do some commenting without the performance of trying several times before managing to actually arrive on a blog!!