Handmade Background Card #1

Hi and welcome to my blog. I hope you had a Happy New Year! Each year I have a series on my blog so that I can try to use up my many craft items! I know I never will, but I try to make a dent anyway. LOL! I will show my background cards every 2nd and 4th Tuesday. I hope that you will drop by often to take a peek.

This year's series will be all about backgrounds. I love trying techniques and I have made hundreds of card backgrounds. I am starting off with a fun background that I made using acrylic paints.

For this background I swiped purple, blue and white paints over the card in a horizontal and vertical direction using a credit card. After it dried I brayered some white paint on bubble wrap and patted it on the swiped background.

I used an image a stamping friend sent me. I colored the scarf and carrot nose with alcohol markers. I added Sparkle embossing powder to the snowman's body. He was cut out using the Gina Marie stitched circle die. The snowflake is a Cuttlebug die and clear Stickles glitter was added to it for sparkle.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day!

Challenge entered:

The Artistic Stamper:  Anything Goes

HMFMC #307

Eeeek!! Welcome back to HMFMC!
We're so happy you are here!

  #307 ANYTHING GOES
with Optional Theme of 
Food and/or Drink
hosted by Lols 

NOTE that ALL of our challenges are ANYTHING GOES and have the alternate option of a Challenge Theme which is chosen by our Team Hostess.

So come join the fun by entering your projects that use any House-Mouse Designs® House-Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie image stamps, CD collection images and, or, any decoupage by


We want to welcome our new team memeber,  Mia, who will be joining us this month. Welcome to the team! Mia will also be offering a prize on her blog to a lucky winner!

I hope that you had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I am always needing birthday cards so I chose to use this cute stamp to make one.

HMGR1011 Make A Wish - Stampendous

Patterned Paper - Creek Bank Creations

Dies - Spellbinders Phrase Set One

Elizabeth Crafts - balloons

Colored with copics

Sparkle embossing powder

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Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope that you will join in the challenge. I would love to see what you make! Have a wonderful day.

Challenge entered:  

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: January 2020

Patterned Paper #24

Hello and Merry Christmas! This year just flew by for me. I can't believe that this is my last patterned paper card for this year. For the New Year I will start a series on backgrounds. I have hundreds of backgrounds where I have played with many techniques. I need to use them up as well, so I hope you will check back on my blog in the new year and see all the many ways to make backgrounds for your cards.

I used strips of patterned papers to make the Christmas tree. This little penguin from Fiskars was colored with alcohol markers, fussy cut and pop dotted to the card. The background is also a piece of scrap patterned paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a very Merry Christmas! May God bless!

Challenges entered:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: December 2019

ModSquad: Christmas or Winter

Stamping Sensations:  Anything Goes

Patterned Paper #23

Hi and welcome to my blog. I can't believe that Christmas is almost here and that I only have one more card to make for my scrap patterned paper series! Here is a Christmas card that I made using die cut snowflakes cut from various patterned paper scraps.

The snowflake dies are from Spellbinders and the snowman is a Sparkle N Sprinkle stamp that I colored with alcohol markers and fussy cut. The saying is also from Sparkle N Sprinkle. I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder to make the "snow" at the top of the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  December 2019

HMFMC Challenge #306

Hi and welcome to my blog! First I want to tell you how happy I am to be joining the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge design team. This is my very first card and I hope that you will join us in this fun challenge. If you are like me, you are probably still working on those Christmas cards. This challenge will help you get one more done!

Welcome to House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #306
December 9th - January 5th

The hostess for this challenge is Bunny.

Our challenges are "Always Anything Goes" and for this challenge an option of Christmas.

Please remember to use a House Mouse design image on your card or project.

I used a fun new stamp called Cookie Ornaments. These little mice sure have their tummies full! Thanks so much for stopping by! I wish each of you a very Merry Christmas!

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Challenges entered:   

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge:  Anything Goes #467
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  Decemeber 2019
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Traditional Christmas

Patterned Paper #22

Hi and Happy Thanksgiving! I can't believe Thanksgiving is almost here. I am showing another card today in my Patterned Paper series. I paper pieced the truck and the pumpkins were stamped on different patterned papers and fussy cut.

The background was made by using a border stamp (unknown) and stamping it with different colors across the card stock. The truck stamp is by Printworks and the pumpkin stamp is by DJ Inkers. I colored the mirrors and bumper using a silver paint pen. The saying is by Just For Fun Stamps.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

Addicted to Stamps:  Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  November 2019

Patterned Paper #20

Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I am showing another way to use up those paper scraps I have stored in many ziplock bags!

I used a fun new stamp from Technique Junkies that I recently bought at a stamp show. It was colored with alcohol markers. I added some enamel dot eyes to the cat. I cut one and a half inch squares and placed them at different angles across the top of the card. The saying was computer generated and cut out by using an unbranded dye.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  October 2019

      Word Art Wednesday:  challenge # 410- # 411

White Christmas

Hi and welcome to my blog. I have been making Christmas cards throughout the year so that I don't get in a panic to make cards right before the season. I want to show you a Christmas card I made using a House Mouse stamp that I have just used for the first time.

I used two embossing folders to add texture to the card. The white frame and the swirl tree dies are from Memory Box. I punched out two snowflakes and added clear Stickles glitter to them. The image was colored with alcohol markers, fussy cut and added to the card. I  made "marshmallows" by using small square pop dots and adding clear Stickles glitter to them too.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great day!

Challenges entered:

House Mouse and Friends:  white on white - only the image in color

Time To Celebrate

Hi and welcome to my blog. I want to show you a card that I made for a couple of challenges. As usual I am in need of birthday cards so I made a birthday card using a stamp from the Penny Black stamp set called Time To Celebrate.

I made the background using a splattered dot stencil and light blue ink. The frame is a Spellbinder die. I colored the image using alcohol markers.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you are having a good day!

Challenges entered:

My Favorite Things:  Color Challenge 127
Penny Black Saturday Challenge:  Anything Goes

A Surprise Inside

Hi and welcome to my blog. I saw this on line a few months ago and I had to try it! I love cards that move or have a surprise inside. First of all here is the outside of the card. I used a bird image that I love that has now been retired. I used alcohol markers to add a little color to the image.

Here is the inside of the card.

These flowers are folded and an edge is cut off to form the flower. Then they are glued together and attached to the card. Here is a link to the instructions.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=folded+flowers+pop+up+inside+a+card#id=2&vid=95ed4bc05a48a57818402413ae9f20a7&action=view

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!

I would like to enter this card in the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge:  Something Inside.

Other challenges entered:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  Oct. 2019

Patterned Paper #19

Hi Everyone! Welcome to my blog. I am showing another card where I used my patterned paper scraps. With all these patterned paper cards I have made I still have not made a dent in my scrap papers! LOL! I love this time of year with all the wonderful Fall colors. I hope that the trees will be pretty around here this year.

I found this frame from Memory Box that I had already cut out. I punched the leaves from various patterned paper scraps. The saying is from Just For Fun Stamps and the owl stamps are from Darcie. The owls were colored using alcohol markers.

Thanks so much for popping in. I hope you have a fabulous day!

Challenges entered:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  October 2019
Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Fall/Autumn
Word Art Wednesday:  Anything Goes #405 - #407

Patterned Paper #16

Hi and welcome to my blog. We have come to the end of Summer and the kids are back in school here! Where did Summer go? It still feels like Summer so I used this cute penguin, wearing his wave swim trunks, on my card today. I would love a bite of his popsicle, LOL!

I found another way to use up my patterned paper scraps. I used a one inch circle punch to punch out circles from various patterned paper scraps. I made a border with them on the bottom half of the card. I first placed wide double sided tape at the bottom of the card and laid the circles on top. This made the placements of the circles much easier. The image and saying (unknown) were pop dotted to the card. The stitched circle die is from Gina Marie.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day and stay cool!

Challenges entered:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  August 2019
Simon Says Monday Challenge: S is For  ( Summer )
Time Out:  Fashionable

Clean and Simple

Hi and welcome to my blog. I hope you are keeping cool. It has been so hot here!

Today I want to show you a clean and simple card I made. I have a hard time making clean and simple cards because I want to fill up all the space!

I used an acrylic stamping block to stamp the pink background for the Cat's Pajamas image. I used Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink. The saying is from Stampendous. Enamel dots were added for interest.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day! Keep cool!

Challenges entered:

The Cat's Pajamas:  Clean and Simple

Patterned Paper #15

Hi and welcome back to my patterned paper series. Today I made a large flower using the Inkadinkado petals stamp for the stamping gear and various patterned papers.

The hedgehog is from Penny Black and the image was colored using alcohol markers. The saying is from Studio G. I added clear colored enamel dots for interest.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered :

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  August 2019

Penny Black:  Anything Goes

Many Thanks

Hi and welcome to my blog. I am showing an easy way to use this Friends Are Flowers stamp from Just For Fun Stamps, without having to color a lot. Sometimes I do not want to spend the time to color every detail!

I used the smoosh technique to add Distress ink colors to the background. I stamped over the colors and brought out some of the flowers using my Spectrum Noir glitter markers. Sequins were added to the centers of the large flowers. The saying is from the Sentiments 3 unmounted sheet.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you are having a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

ModSquad:  All That Sparkles
Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Bright And Cheerful

Patterned Paper #14

Hello and welcome to my blog. Who doesn't like ice cream on a hot summer day? I love it anytime of the year! I have been trying to use up some of my paper scraps, so you can see that I have on this card.

I used a cloud die from Memory Box to make my ice cream scoops! The cone and saying came from the Hero Arts Color Layering Ice Cream stamp set. The pink frame was made by using Martha Stewert's Around The Page punches.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Keep cool and have a nice day!

Challenges entered:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: July 2019

Lavinia World Challenges:  Anything Goes

Love To Scrap:  Anything Goes

Patterened Paper #13

Welcome back to my patterned paper series! There are so many ways to use up those patterned paper scraps. I am showing a card where I made a sunburst with my papers.

I let the papers hang out from the card and then cut them off when I finished filling in all the spaces. This helped the edges be straight and even. I used the saying from a Stampendous words set and cut it out with the Gina Marie stitched circle die. I stamped one of Tim Holtz's Bird Crazy birds, colored it with a Zig marker, fussy cut it and adhered it to the card.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a great day!

Challenges entered:

2 Crafty Critter Crazies:  #28 Critter

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  July 2019

Thanks

Hi, I am showing you a thank you card I made using a fun background technique and some Just For Fun stamps!

I covered an acrylic stamping block with clear tape, first taping the bottom of the block horizontally and then vertically. I stamped the block onto a multicolored stamp pad and then stamped the block onto white card stock. I love the distressed plaid look it gave.

Next I stamped the Just For Fun bicycle stamp over the background and added the saying from the Sentiments 1 unmounted sheet, at the top. Black  enamel dots were added for interest.

We would love to see what you create for the Just For Fun challenge that is going on this month. The theme is "At The Shoreline." You might even win a gift certificate to the store!

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great day!

Challenges entered:

Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Make Your Own Background

Word Art Wednesday:  Anything Goes #394 - #395

Just For Fun July Challenge

Hi and welcome to my blog! We are having a fun challenge over at Just For Fun Stamps. We hope that you will join in. The theme is "At The Shoreline."

This is the card I made that follows the challenge theme.

I used a background I had made with Distress Oxide inks and placed it behind the Spellbinders small circle cutout. The cattails from Memory Box were added inside the circle. I stamped the Blue Heron stamp beside the circle and lightly colored with alcohol inks. The saying was stamped onto the blue background. The saying is from the Sentiments 3 unmounted sheet. I used Gina Marie's stitched rectangle die for a frame and pop dotted it on white card stock. Sequins were added for sparkle.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

2 crafty Critter Crazies:  #28 Critter

Die Cut Divas:  Anything Goes

Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Make Your Own Background  

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes

Lazy River

Hi Everyone! Welcome to my blog. I want to show you a card I made with this cute little House Mouse paddling down the Lazy River. With the summer heat this is a good way to cool off!

I found a background in my stash that I had made with Distress Oxide inks. It looks like a waterfall is behind the mouse. I stamped, colored and fussy cut the mouse and pop dotted him to the card. I used an exacto knife to cut around some of the flower petals so that I could pop them up. The frame is a Memory Box die. I added little paper flowers to the tree frame and used pink Liquid Pearls for the centers. The image was colored using alcohol markers.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Keep cool and have a mice day!                                                                                                     😉                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Challenges entered:

House Mouse And Friends:  Anything Goes/ Summer Fun

Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Transport It

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Travel/Vacation