My cards are on Google search!!!!

I Googled "House Mouse rubber stamped cards". 

To my surprise there were the House Mouse cards from here at the blog!

Because of that I decided to place a few more of my past House Mouse cards.

 

I also plan to look for new images to create more cards...can you tell I love House Mouse???

Coffee Cafe'

 

That's the title of the value pack of cards and envelopes I

purchased from Hobby Lobby when they were on sale for half price. 

Then I pulled out all my coffee related saying stamps. I found some that I thought would go with them!

  The card above is made by Cuttlebugging the red card stock with the music embossing folder...seem odd with coffee??? The saying inside says "COFFEE RUN".

 Get it??? Music ...run!

 The coffee cup is from Hero Arts. I stamped it first on white and then on kraft paper. I trimmed out both, layered and foam taped onto the front of the card.

 Ziggy, by Stampendous, was perfect for the saying inside, "I don't do mornings ..until I have my coffee"!

I saved the best for last. I had a set, sorry I don't remember what company, had a saying that was fine but I needed it to be split in half. So I cut it in half!

I dug through my "people" stamps and found two from Art Impressions, that I thought would be perfect with the saying! Below are the views of the front of the card and the inside.

 Outside!

 Inside!

Have a wonderful day and don't forget your cup of coffee!

 

Happy Valentine's Day

Above is an example of three cards I made for a class I taught at our local library.

The top card is made with stamps I found at Micheal's, with patterned paper and circle punches for the saying. Quick simple and fun!

The card on the left is made with a three flower stamp from Stamps by Judith. I didn't ink the flower part, but added hearts instead of the flowers. More punches and the red background is made with my Cuttlebug and the pin dot embossing folder.

The final card was done with my Cuttlebug for the background using the heart embossing folder. The heart was cut using the Sizzix heart. I cut one in red and one in white for the center with the saying!

Have fun preparing for Valentine's Day!

Double Dutch stampin' with my friend...

 I spent a wonderful day yesterday stamping and creating with my friend, lynda.

I took an idea that I found on Splitcoaststampers for  a card called "Double Dutch"

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/doubledutchfold/

As  you can tell I'm getting cards ready for my servicemen. I used stamps from Stampin' Up, Paper Inspirations and Our Daily Bread!

Such fun trying a new fold or technique.

I just had to make a card for lynda to say thanks for the day AND for lending me her Darice monkey stamp. I knew I had this Debbie Mumm paper pad at home and it just goes SO perfect with the monkey and this technique !

Thanks to all my friends over the years who have stamped with me!

Leftovers AKA I was going to throw that out but...

So here is where it begins... last summer I went to Buffalo to shop at Buffalo Stamps & Stuff. I found this darling snowman, called Snowbody Warms my Heart, and saying by Unity Stamp Company.

  http://www.unitystampco.com

I wanted to send out something for my people in adult homes as well as the wonderful servicemen who are coming home and need to be welcomed back. The above quick and easy card fit the bill.

I colored the snowman with Marvy markers and stamped off on scrap paper, then realized how pretty the image was on the scrap paper and stamped onto card stock for a card later (more below). I stamped the saying, punched out some snowflakes (EK Success) and corner rounded the edges.

 These two are the "leftovers", the punched out snowflakes and the stamped off snowmen. I wish you could see the brown that I used but my scanner made everything look black instead of the beautiful dark brown. The snowflake background below is a Cuttlebug folder and the Get Well is from Hero Arts. It will be sent out tomorrow to a friend from work who just had surgery.

 I try never to throw anything away that I might be able to use in a future project, but last night really made me think when I watched a show on the Food Network called "Waste". They showed a full meal made for 100 from food that was thrown out or ready to be thrown out just because it wasn't "perfect". 

We should remember this in our food as well as our crafting supplies!