Monday, 12 May 2025

Buzzy Buzzy Bee


 Hello and welcome to my Blog, I hope you’re all OK and have had a lovely weekend.


It’s time for a new theme over at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge
Our Mousey sister Lols is hosting and her theme is
Anything Goes
Or an option of
Add Some Sparkle

I have used House Mouse stamp HMLR1044 Buzzy Friends, I stamped my image then masked it.  Using Distress Oxides I inked up my background in Squeezed Lemonade and Cracked Pistachio.  Stamped around the border with flowers and colour the buds, then coloured my image with pencils. For my sparkle I add glitter to the Bee wings and around the flowers.
   
Of course you must use a House MouseHappy Hopper or Gruffie to join in.

We are sponsored We are sponsored by:-







Winner will receive a RANDOM ASSORTMENT of Premium Dye Ink Pads

Please be aware that customs duty may be payable for destinations outside of the United States


Thanks for looking, the DT have all made gorgeous cards for your inspiration so hop on over to the HM&F Monday Challenge to see them.   

Recipe:-
Stamps - House Mouse  HMLR1044 Buzzy Friends, Lavinia foliage, 
Colouring Mediums - Castle Arts Pencils, Distress Oxides, alcohol marker,
Embellishments - Sharpie pen, glitter, 


Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Monday, 28 April 2025

Just A Note To Say…….

 


Hello and welcome to my Blog, I hope you’re all OK and have had a lovely weekend.


It’s time for a new theme over at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge
Our Mousey sister Karin is hosting and her theme is
Anything Goes
Or an option of
Add A Ribbon

I have used house Mouse stamp using Postcard Mice, coloured with pencils.  The base card has been inked with Distress Oxides, then two types of ribbon added.  Finally some Nuvo drops as a pearl embellishment.
   
Of course you must use a House MouseHappy Hopper or Gruffie to join in.

We are sponsored We are sponsored by:-

 
HMD is offering a Lucky player a $20 Gift Certificate to go shopping at the official House-Mouse Designs(R) site!

Thanks for looking, the DT have all made gorgeous cards for your inspiration so hop on over to the HM&F Monday Challenge to see them.   


I would like to enter the following challenges:-
1.  



Recipe:-
Stamps - House Mouse  Postcard Mice, 
Colouring Mediums - Castle Arts Pencils, Distress Oxides, 
Embellishments - Nuvo Drops, Ribbons, 


Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x


Monday, 14 April 2025

 


Hello and welcome to my Blog, I hope you’re all OK and have had a lovely weekend.


It’s time for a new theme over at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge
Our Mousey sister Cari is hosting and her theme is
Anything Goes
Or an option of
Spring/Easter

I have used House Mouse stamp HMKR 1026 Hoppy Dreams, I coloured this with pencils, then matching the colours to Distress Oxides I made a background for the base layer.  I stamped eggs around the edge then added Stickles. 
   
Of course you must use a House MouseHappy Hopper or Gruffie to join in.

We are sponsored We are sponsored by:-






Winner will receive a RANDOM ASSORTMENT of Premium Dye Ink Pads

Please be aware that customs duty may be payable for destinations outside of the United States

Also
One Lucky Winner will receive a 
$6 Voucher to spend at 

Thanks



Thanks for looking, the DT have all made gorgeous cards for your inspiration so hop on over to the HM&F Monday Challenge to see them.   


Recipe:-
Stamps - House Mouse HMKR1026 Hoppy Dreams, sentimental from stash, 
Colouring Mediums - Castle Arts Pencils, Distress Oxides
Embellishments - Stickles, gel pen, 


Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Monday, 31 March 2025

April Showers



Hello and welcome to my Blog, I hope you’re all OK and have had a lovely weekend.

It’s time for a new theme over at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge
Our Mousey sister aNNie is hosting and her theme is
Anything Goes
Or an option of
April Showers

I have used a House Mouse stamp House Mouse HMOR1096 Special Delivery, I coloured it with pencils and used some Glossy Accents on the raindrops. For the background I did some smooshing with Oxides and then in grey ink I stamped some poppies.
I stamped, coloured and fussy cut some poppies to embellish my card, and added glossy accent droplets on them.
   

Of course you must use a House MouseHappy Hopper or Gruffie to join 



We are thrilled to be welcoming back our AWESOME sponsor,
the Official Mousey Family, House-Mouse Designs(R)

 

HMD is offering a Lucky player a $20 Gift Certificate to go shopping at the official House-Mouse Designs(R) site!

Recipe:-
Stamps - House Mouse  HMOR1096 Special Delivery
Colouring Mediums - Castle Arts Pencils, Distress oxides, 
Tools - 
Embellishments - glossy accents, ribbon, 


Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x


Monday, 17 March 2025

The Food Of Love

 


Hello and welcome to my Blog, I hope you’re all OK and have had a lovely weekend.

It’s time for a new theme over at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge
Our Mousey sister April is hosting and her theme is
Anything Goes
Or an option of
In The Mood For Food

I have used the stamp with one of my favourite meals, Spaghetti Bolognaise!  I have used Italian Feast HMTR1061 stamp, it’s a large stamp with lots of detail which I loved colouring with pencils.  I layered this with 4 different layers of card and using a die I cut a frame to give it the look of a doily.
   
Of course you must use a House MouseHappy Hopper or Gruffie to join in.

We are sponsored We are sponsored by:-






Winner will receive a RANDOM ASSORTMENT of Premium Dye Ink Pads

Please be aware that customs duty may be payable for destinations outside of the United States



Thanks for looking, the DT have all made gorgeous cards for your inspiration so hop on over to the HM&F Monday Challenge to see them.   


I would like to enter the following challenges:-
1.  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - A bit of green



Recipe:-
Stamps - House Mouse  Italian Feast HMTR1061, 
Colouring Mediums - Castle Arts Pencils, Distress Inks
Tools - die for frame (don’t know the brand), Sentimentally Yours nesting dies, 


Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Monday, 3 March 2025

A Doggie And Ducklings

Hello and welcome to my Blog, I hope you’re all OK and have had a lovely weekend.

It’s time for a new theme over at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge

Our Mousey sister Karin is hosting and her theme is
Anything Goes
Or an option of
an Easel Card

I have used this fabulous image of Soggy Doggie, I coloured my image and then used some crystal glitter on the water and suds.  I went with a vintage look, the background I created to look like the tiles from the old swimming baths I used to go to when I was at Primary School.  They were very old, it used to be a Victorian building and the cubicles had little wooden doors on around the sides of the pool.
The ducks are from an old Joanna Sheen House Mouse stamp set.
   

Of course you must use a House MouseHappy Hopper or Gruffie to join in.

We are sponsored We are sponsored by:-


 
HMD is offering a Lucky player a $20 Gift Certificate to go shopping at the official House-Mouse Designs(R) site!



Thanks for looking, the DT have all made gorgeous cards for your inspiration so hop on over to the HM&F Monday Challenge to see them.   

Recipe:-
Stamps - House Mouse Soggy Doggie HMOR1038, 
Colouring Mediums - Pencils, Distress Inks, Distress Oxides, Oxide sprays,
Tools - Sweet poppy stencils, 
Embellishments - Gilding wax, 


Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting

Monday, 17 February 2025



Hello and welcome to my Blog, I hope you’re all OK and have had a lovely weekend.

It’s time for a new theme over at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge
Our Mousey sister Sue K is hosting and her theme is
Anything Goes
Or an option of
Spring Flowers

I have used the super cute House Mouse stamp, Sleeping Under Flowers. My base card was created by smooshing oxide inks, then stamping over with a little flourish stamp. I chose colours to co-ordinate with the colours on my image.
For the main image I coloured with pencils, then inked around the edge with oxide. To give it a little interest I added glitter around the edge. 
   

Of course you must use a House MouseHappy Hopper or Gruffie to join in.

We are sponsored We are sponsored by:-







Winner will receive a RANDOM ASSORTMENT of Premium Dye Ink Pads

Please be aware that customs duty may be payable for destinations outside of the United States


Thanks for looking, the DT have all made gorgeous cards for your inspiration so hop on over to the HM&F Monday Challenge to see them.   


Recipe:-
Stamps - House Mouse  - Sleeping under flowers,  Lavinia flourish, 
Colouring Mediums - Pencils, Distress Oxides
Embellishments - Glitter, 


Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy

Monday, 3 February 2025

Love Is In The Air

 Hello and welcome to my Blog, I hope you’re all OK and have had a lovely weekend.  I have re-joined House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge, oh how I have missed using my little mousey stamps! It will be wonderful to create along side the lovely team again!

It’s time for a new theme over at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge
Our Mousey sister April is hosting and her theme is
Anything Goes
Or an option of
Red and/or Pink & White

I have used the fabulous House Mouse stamp “Take A Bite Out Of Love” HMJR1060, and coloured it with pencils.  I have used a stencil around the mice, which look like tiny little hearts.  I shaded around my mice and then grounded them with pink ink.
For the base card I smooshed Andy Skinner’s Ink-ology Inks, and added some Kuretake glitter liquid into the wet ink for a bit of a shimmer.  Then stamped some hearts all over the card.
   
Of course you must use a House MouseHappy Hopper or Gruffie to join in.

We are sponsored by:-

 
HMD is offering a Lucky player a $20 Gift Certificate to go shopping at the official House-Mouse Designs(R) site!


Also


One Lucky Winner will receive a 
$6 Voucher to spend at 

Thanks for looking, the DT have all made gorgeous cards for your inspiration so hop on over to the HM&F Monday Challenge to see them.   




I would like to enter the following challenges:-
1. Crafty Calendar Challenge - February - Hearts
3. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes


Recipe:-
Stamps - House Mouse  Take A Bite Out Of Love HMJR1060
Colouring Mediums - Pencils, Ink-ology inks, Kuretake glitter ink, 
Tools - gel pen, 



Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy


Thursday, 9 January 2025

Happy Mouse Day



Welcome to my post today,  I have decided to give my House Mouse a turn and it’s nice to be finished with winter and Christmas themes.  

I have kept this simple as I love this stamp and it just works standing alone with no fuss. I have used “Birthday Mischief”  I have coloured my image with Castle Arts pencils, they are new and I now have three different collections.  They are so soft and blend beautifully. The background is done with Distress Inks and some Glossy Accents on the balloon.


I would like to enter the following challenges:-

1.  House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge,  - #431 -  Something New (I am using new pencils to colour with)

2.  Double “D” Challenge - Birthdays

3. Simon Says Stamp Monday - Something New (new pencils to colour with)




Recipe:-
Stamps - House Mouse  Birthday Mischief 
Colouring Mediums - Castle Arts Pencils, Distress Inks
Embellishments -  Glossy Accents


Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy

Friday, 5 May 2023

Fairy Toadstools


 Hello lovely people, I thought I would pop on with this creation I did.  I am using another one of Angie's  stencils.  I am so happy with the quality, they are good value.

So I have started with the mushroom stencil & Mask Set, you can find it here from Angie's Happy Hobby, I created the background using Distress oxides  then using Lavinia stamps I set the scene stamping with Versafine Clair.  I added extra detail with Posca pen and gel pens, 


I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:
1. Elliebelle's Crafty Wednesday - May - Anything Goes
2, Fab 'N' Funky - #572 - Things With Wings
3. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - No Patterned Paper
4. Try It On Tuesday - Use a stencil


Recipe:-
Stamps - Lavinia -
 twisted vine set, orchard grass, mini berry, Quinn, fairy toadstool 
Stencils - Angie's Happy Hobby - Mushroom Dreams,  
Colouring Medium - Distress Oxides, Versafine Clair, Posca pens, gel pens

I hope you all have a nice relaxing Bank Holiday weekend, and Coronation day

Thanks for popping by.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Friday, 28 April 2023

Midnight Wolf


Hello lovely people, I haven't blogged for some time but do post on social media a lot. I thought I would pop on with this creation I did.  My crafty friend Angie  creates her own stencils, and gave me some to try.  I have used my first one and I say first one as I was so happy with the quality, I will definitely be using them a lot more.

So I have started with Vulpe Wolf stencil & Mask Set, you can find it here from Angie's Happy Hobby, I created the background using Distress oxides with a moon and hill stencils. then using Lavinia stamps I set the scene stamping with Versafine Clair.  I added extra detail with Posca pens, I think it could do with a couple of tweaks but happy enough with the result.


I also created a matching envelope for the card.



I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:
1. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes
2. Dream Valley Challenge - #292 - Our 4 Legged Friends
3. Creatalicious - #257 = Anything Goes/Stencil


Recipe:-
Stamps - Lavinia - Maka, singel fairy thistle, twisted vine set, small trees, fairy fir tree, fairy fir tree 2,  
Stencils - Angie's Happy Hobby - Vulpe Wolf, Lavinia - moon, hill masks, 
Colouring Medium - Distress Oxides, Versafine Clair, Posca pens

I hope you all have a nice relaxing Bank Holiday weekend, 

Thanks for popping by.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Sunday, 25 September 2022

Travel With Nature

 


This is my last post for this month using samples made for August's shows for Chocolate Baroque.  I started with the background and in tones of green and brown I stamped leaves from the stamp set From Nature 2,   Then using the Nature strip word stamp from Word Strip 1 I stamped it across the background in black.  I lined up the Tree Of KNowledge to sit on the strip word.

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This card I started with the Word Strip 1 set and using the solid strip I inked it up in several colours of Versafine Clair, the colours reminded me of tropical colours to go with the Travel texts, I stamped some leaves from  From Nature 2, coloured them and cut them out.  I added them to the centre strips then matted and layered everything up.  

Thank you for popping by

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Friday, 16 September 2022

A Bit Of Christmas And A tree

 

I have popped by to share a couple of creations from August's show for Chocolate Baroque, for the first one I used the Word Strip 2 stamp set.  I started by doing an inky background in Distress Oxides, then stamped the background strip first in light blue, it has circles in it which I hoped looked like falling snow.  Then in a darker blue I stamped the words which are lots of Christmas words.  I then added some glitter to the word Christmas to finish it off.

 

For my second card I used the stamp The Tree Of The Knowledge, starting with the background using Distress Oxides and a mask I created some hills,  I used a mask to create a sun in yellow and orange Distress Oxides.  I then moved onto the sky using a cloud mask, before stamping my main image.  I stamped the tree in Versafine Clair, and with a white gel pen coloured in the fruit/blossoms.  I added the sentiment to the bottom.

Thank you for looking
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Monday, 5 September 2022

Making Balloons From Trees

  


Here are some samples from last months shows for Chocolate Baroque. Well I had fun making this card, I started with a strip of card and using four colours in Versafine Clair I stamped up the Word Strip 2 Birthday, to create the balloons I used the stamp set From Nature 2, I took the smallest leaf and stampede it in each of the colours above the stamp strip.  Using gel pens in the same colour I drew a triangle on the base of the leaf to turn it into a balloon.  I then did a squiggly line for string, to finish I did polka dots all over the card to look like confetti.


To create this card I started with a Gel Plate, using a brayer I put some ink down on the plate.  Then splashed with Brusho's and pressed it down on my base card.  I took the Tree Of Knowledge stamp and stamped it into the middle of the circle, I coloured it and then using a red glaze pen coloured some apples on to it.  

Thank you for looking

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Sunday, 28 August 2022

Old Oaks And Roses

 


 This is the last post for this month showing some samples from Chocolate Baroque's July's shows, where we had lots of gorgeous stamps to use.  For my first creation I used 'O Is For' , you get three stamps with this set, the main image , a small oak tree and a verse.  I used the small oak tree to build up a background on a Distress Oxide background, I stamped the little tree using Versafine Clair in a green.  Using the same inky background I did it on a die cut circle.  I stamped the main image and added detail with some gilding flakes then matt and layered.


My second creation is made using Freedom Flower, another set with a main image then two worker stamps.  So for the background using the new Saltwater Taffy Oxides I edged the card fading to the centre.  Using the dotty worker stamp I went over the top of the ink around the edge.  I stamped out the main image colouring with matching Distress Ink, I stamped a further twice fussy cutting two layers to decoupage.

Thank you for looking and I will see you next month with more samples to see.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Tuesday, 16 August 2022

Harebells And Notelets

  







This is my second post this month for the Chocolate Baroque's shows that were in July, using some really gorgeous stamps.
My first make is a notelet set, I do enjoy making the notelet sets,  I used several stamp sets for this project, I used Harebell Butterfly, Honeysuckle Butterfly, Briar Rose Butterfly and Thistle Butterfly.  I started by creating the box to put the notelets in and as you can see used the Harebell hero (main image) stamp for the front, the notelets are made using a worker (smaller) stamp from each set.  I masked the edges of the cards off, then using three colours of Distress oxides did an ombre background, I stamped the images in the centre, then matted and layered each card.  For the envelopes I took a circle mask and added some ink to each corner of the envelopes. I then stamped one of the worker stamps over the top.


I absolutely love this image from Harebell Butterfly set that I used for my second creation, I started this one by stamping my image then using Distress Oxide and a stencil brush I added some ink around the image, I coloured the image using Aqua pencils then adding water to blend.  I very lightly drew with a pencil a rectangle with a ruler to frame it.  I went around the pencil line free hand so's not to have an exact straight line with a fine liner.  Using the Oxides I did a matching backing paper to matt and layer on.

Thank you for looking, I will be coming back at the end of the month with a couple more samples.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Friday, 5 August 2022

Monochrome With A Red Heart



These are some samples from the Chocolate Baroque's July's shows, there were lots of gorgeous stamps to use.  So for my first one I started by stamping out the graph paper as I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do, I stampede it twice and thought what is graph paper used for then I thought the paper for Heart Monitor machines and so I went on to draw the heart beat line and added in a hearts.  I matted and layered them adding a sentiment to it from Birthday Words , would have made a good Valentines card.



For my second creation we are Monochrome again, utilising the corners from the Butterfly Daisy Collage set,   So I stamped one of the corners and embossed it forming a square, out of the same set I stamped out the butterflies twice and fussy cut them.  I added them to two of the corners then added a sentiment from the Birthday Words set in the centre.

I will see you again towards the middle of the month for some more samples.

Happy crafting

Tracy x