House Mouse and Friends 3rd Birthday!!

Happy Birthday House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Blog! I started blogging 3.5 years ago. And in August or Sept of that year I found HMFMC and was thrilled! I had these wonderful House Mouse stamps but really didn't have any clue on what to do with them. Boy have I learned a lot since then. By challenging myself to learn new techniques and enter the challenges whenever I could. Also, along with that I met and made some wonderful friends. We may have not met in person, but that does not mean I do not consider you a friend. So enough of my yakking, here is my card for the hop. I have not figured out where to put a sentiment. So please feel free to give me some advice. I just love this stamp of the mousie floating in the lemonade. So I wanted to create a bright cheerful card to showcase it. The card base is soooo old. I bought them long before I was a "real" cardmaker. The orange cardstock and the Pebbles confetti DSP are scraps.

If you haven't done the blog hop yet, hop on over there. There are many wonderful goodies being given away.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a wonderful first weekend of Fall!!!

OWH Veteran's Day Blog Hop

**Chances to win - now closed**

Welcome to the Hop! Ok so it isn't actually Veteran's Day today, that was on Wednesday! But you've gotta love that 75 cardmakers have gotten together to promote Operation Write Home. A wonderful cause for our servicemen and women to get handmade greeting cards to send home to family and friends. If you can why not create some cards for Operation Write Home. Do it yourself, have a few friends over or have a card making party. If you don't have the time or just aren't a card maker please consider donating $$ for shipping. Shipping all the wonderful cards overseas does cost quite a bit. You can see for yourself on Operation Write Home's site. Here is the Any Hero card I created.
(Remember you can click on the image to enlarge photo)

I created this with a digi stamp from Fresh Brewed Designs. Heather Dennis is the creator of this wonderful Love Mug image. You can find out more about Fresh Brewed Designs here. Here is my Valentine's card:

I realize my Valentine's card is just a bit different from the usual Valentine's Day Card, but I wanted to use the Bubbly Beauty Cameo. I thought cameo sounded cool after I diecut the image in an oval. This digi stamp comes from Busy Beauties Boutique. My dear friend Carolyn and her friend Thomas create these wonderful images. I followed the Sketch Saturday sketch and just love how this card turned out! You can go to the Busy Beauties Boutique by clicking the image in my sidebar. I know she has some new images in the works, so please be sure to check back again soon! From now until January 8th please consider making Valentine's cards for OWH. Servicemen and women love to send love home. Occasionally you can find a note on the Homefront Blog about a serviceman/woman who sent home a card and the recipient's reaction. Which always warms my heart and gives me the motivation to create more cards for OWH. Also OWH is on Facebook and Twitter so you can follow there to for the most recent updates. It's always great to see Mailroom Monday and Thankful Thursday posts. You will also want to check the Homefront Blog to hop along and see all the wonderful cards created. Some will offer prizes. I will be offering 3 prizes for those who leave a comment. I will choose 3 random names from all those who comment today! One Grand Prize winner will receive 2 images 1 from Fresh Brewed Designs and 1 from Busy Beauties. One winner will receive 1 digi image of their choice from Busy Beauties Boutique and one winner will win 1 digi image of their choice from Fresh Brewed Designs. I will also throw in some goodies, like gems because you know Busy Beauties need some bling. hehehe . If you would like to boost your chances at winning, make sure you stop by and visit the blogs of the following ladies: Carolyn, Catherine, Heather D & Kelly

Here are two Free images to get you started from Busy Beauties & Fresh Brewed

Bubbly Beauty and God Bless Ewe Now hop on over to Heather and see what wonderful cards she's created!

Blog Hop on Friday

Just wanted to let you know about Fresh Brewed Designs Blog Hop on Friday Nov. 6th!Heather has some wonderful digital images and you won't want to miss the chance on winning some! She has some really cute ones. I love the Snow Buddies and her Coffee mugs and Coffee related images are perfect for all of us coffee, tea and hot cocoa drinkers. I also have the above image linked in my sidebar so you can click the image and be taken to her blog.