House Mouse & Friends centenary blog hop

This is our 100th  challenge at House Mouse & Friens Monday Challenge so guess what - WE'RE CELEBRATING!! 

We are having a'blog hop' and you want to see the fabulous prizes we have lined up for you from our more than generous sponsors - not only that many of our 'teamies' have individual prizes for you to collect along the way.

 Its being hosted by our super talented Teamie, *Lisa Cook* <http://bylisac.blogspot.com/>and she's chosen

Buttons, Bows & Bling!

 Sadly, this will also be Lisa's final challenge with our Team. She's moving

 on to new adventures and opportunities. Lisa <http://bylisac.blogspot.com/>has been a huge part of our little Mousie family and we will miss her and her gorgeous HM&F creations. Best of LUCK to you sweet Friend.

 

This adorable Hoppy stamp is called  Hoppy Birthday, and coloured in Copics, the papers used are Basic Grey's Sweet Threads.  The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley, the ribbon is from my stash and I made the buttons with a tiny heart die, glued about 5 together, and then punched the holes with a cropodile .
The corners are punched with a EK Success punch - lookie - not a flower in sight, believe it or not!!

You should have arrived here from

Gill

and from here you need to hop off and visit

Kat

and just look at this amazing list of prizes from these wonderful sponsors.

Sponsor #1
*The official House-Mouse Designs site;* 
(A $25.00 Electronic Gift Certificate to the official site's store) 

Sponsor # 2
Joanna Sheen* 
(10 packs of House-Mouse Decoupage)

Sponsor # 3
*Di's Digi Downloads* 
(Will have 2 winners for 3 Digi Downloads Each)

Sponsor # 4

*K n' K Designs*
( 4 Free Digi sets)

Sponsor # 5
*Pizzazz Aplenty* 
( A $10 embellishment gift package)

Sponsor # 6

* R K Stamps* 
(2 of the new House-Mouse Designs release stamps)

Sponsor # 7

*Emma @ Crafty Emma's Store*
( A £10.00 voucher to Crafty Emmas Store, excluding P&;P)

Sponsor # 8

Simon Says Stamp 

( a $15 Gift Card PRIZE to the wonderful Simon SaysStamp store )

Sponsor # 9* *

Bearly Mine Designs 

*Offering a £10 gift voucher*

 Don’t forget to leave me a comment and if you would like a chance to win this great $10 voucher to spend in Simon Says Stamp then please leave a link to your HM&F entry with Mr Linky before the challenge closes on Sunday, July 31st at 8:00 PM 

LOTV Seak peak & WOC Blog candy

Wild Orchid Crafts and Lili Of The Valley have teamed up to host a

'Christmas In July Party'.

Starting today Monday 18th July for a week long of Christmas creations made by the Wild Orchid Crafts Design Team, the Lili Of The Valley Design Team and a few Guest Designers.

These creations will be featured on the
Wild Orchid Crafts Blog
LOTV Ideas To Inspire Blog
and also daily on the featured Designers Blogs.

You won't want to miss this as you will see sneak peeks of the new Lili Of The Valley Christmas release and the new Christmas Goodies from Wild Orchid Crafts.

This is the outside of the envelope card where I've used the 'Baubles' image, I've closed the flap with a brad and a photograph hinge or  whatever you call them!!  The image is coloured in Copics and the baubles were given a coat of  glossy accents. I think I will re-photgraph these and contrary to the norm the camera has picked up too much of the glossy accents - 'Sod's law' at work (lol).

Here is the inside of the card, and I've used the new Lili Of The Valley Christmas image 'Oh Christmas Tree' - isn't it just sooo sweet!!! My papers are some left over from last year and I haven't a clue who they are by!! The  Magnolia Doohickey swirls are coated with Glamour dust - the pears clusters are sent to me by my adorable friend America.

The label is a Cuttlebug fancy tags and I have threaded through this a tag cut with a Go Create die to write on. I've used  Lili Of The Valley stamps for both the corners and the beautiful sentiment.

A close up of the sweet image

The beautiful Wild Orchid flowers

Hellebores, Cherry Blossoms, White Carnations, 25mm Wild Rose, White Stamens

Lili Of The Valley  peek:  "Christmas Baubles" and "Oh Christmas Tree"

I have two lots of Blog candy for you - the Lili of the Valley image I've used and the pack of Wild Orchid crafs Christmas flowrs. Leave a comment to be in with a chance to win - winners will be chosen 

on the 28th July.

'lovely hÄnglar only' GD card

Today is my second GD card for the 'lovely hÄnglar only' challenge, I've enjoyed my GD post with them and I'd like to say thank you very much for having me on board.

This week the challenge is EMBOSSING !!! 

Being my usual indecisive self I couldn't make my mind up which type of embossing I wanted to do = so I did both 'heat' and 'dry'. The panel behind the image and the one to the right are both dry embossed, the fish and the sentiment tag are both heat embossed. My adorable little mermaid and seaweed are both coloured with Copics, I cut a oval with 'nesties' out of the panel stamped with seaweed  and placed my image behind this first having cut her tail 'out of the box'. Her tail and the small fish are coated with glamour dust and the bubbles in the water finished with a drop of  Glossy Accents.
The little shells and seahorse at the bottom left I picked up locally and the blue 'chandalier' sprays are from  Wild Orchid crafts.

That's definitely all from me today but I shall see you tomorrow with a couple of exciting posts.

Copic Creations

Oh shame on me - this should have been posted on Friday, but wasn't due to a catastrophe which was soley down to my being pathetic and totally disorganised!!! I lost my computer specs in the middle of last week, carried on without them and by Friday afternoon ended up with a spitting headache and couldn't bear to look at the computer screen. I've found them now  and  need to pick up the pieces !!!

This is my DT card for Copic Creations and for this challenge we would like you to colour with pastel Copics.

We also have another FABULOUS sponsor this week!    We’re excited to welcome SPARKLE CREATIONS to our Copic Creations star-studded sponsor list!

My image is Broomstick Lucy and the Copics I used are

Hat, shoes and boots - V0000, 20, 25

Dress and scarf - G0000, 01~Y0000,E30

Hair - Y0000 ~ E40

Cat - YR0000, 02

I'll keep this one short as I now need to do my Guest Designer post for hAnglar stAanglar - see you soon!!

A little news and a LIM card

There will be some fun happenings with a joint venture between LOTV and Wild Orchid Crafts next week! Lots of prizes so keep your eyes peeled.

I've managed a LIM card this week, I've had a load of  DT work on and desperately needed a break and this was it. Sorry I've missed the last couple of challenges Chrissy and Mandi,  life has taken a manic turn yet again in more ways than one.

This is part of a 'Tea with Alice'   by Crafty Secrets - with legs like that I'm sure the Mad Hatter qualifies for this weeks LEGS theme. I've coloured him with every colour of Copic available - well not really but it feels and looks like it. The sentiment is part of the set as well.
Right I shall rush and get this published before I run out of time.

Thanks for stopping by and I shall see you later with my Copic Creations card