House Mouse with Pencil

I love this House Mouse image...he was first given to me by a good friend I met through a swap on SCS who had received one of my cards... we sent goodie packages back and forth and she included some stamped images of this little guy.... I had to get one for myself...

He's stamped on watercolor paper... He's really fun to color with watercolor pencils, then blend with a wet paintbrush or aqua pen... I used a silver gel pen to go over the metal parts of the pencil near the eraser ends. I used a tiny bit of Crystal Effects on his teeth...

The corners were shaped and embossed using one of Fiskars' corner embossing punches.

The card base is brown and a couple of small Cuttlebug embossing strips were used to do the button border along the top and the dotted border along the right side.

The brown and pink striped ribbon was glued down the left side and the image was popped up on dimensionals.

This is one of my very favorite cards (and images) that I have in my collection.

I saw on SCS where someone who had retired from teaching made a bunch of cards with this little guy to send to her fellow teachers when they returned at the beginning of the new school year... wishing them a great year and gloating about being retired... I thought that was a pretty cute way to use this image...

Have a great day... and happy crafting,

Blessings,

~Kathy

Another Quickie

OK... here's another quick and easy card made from one of the pre-printed cards from a box of 50 that I get on sale for $6 (includes envelopes!)...
I used my favorite MS embossing border punch on the card front and did the same to two other pieces of coordinating cardstock and glued those to the inside of the card front so they extend in layers.

Had some pink polka dot ribbon and a little "friend" charm which were added to the front and the finishing touch was one of the Cuttlebug embossed butterflies with a couple of itty bitty brads. This particular die and embossing set is one of my very favorites... it comes with the butterfly die and four separate, small embossing folders to give you a choice of embossing design...

Hope you like this quick idea for an inexpensive handmade card...
Blessings,
~Kathy

Five Butterflies

This little card is covered in sherbert colors. The patterned cardstock came from one of those 4x6 pads (DCWV I think)... two Stampin'Up dies were used on this card... and one Cuttlebug embossing folder (swirls)...the StampinUp dies are the Top Note and the five butterflies (a small embosslit that cuts and embosses 5 different sized butterflies)... these are two of my very favorites... and ones that' I've used more than any of the others... 

I used a coordinating piece of cardstock (from the same pad as the cs on the front of the card) for the envelope lining. I rounded the corners of the card base and orange and pink colored mats which were run through the Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dot embossing folder.

Hope this gives you some ideas...

Blessings and happy crafting,

~Kathy