Whew it is Monday but it feels like Sunday! Hope you are enjoying your holiday if you are in North America. Today's card was created for the third House Mouse Challenge. Emma made a sketch to play with. I used BasicGrey Mellow patterned papers over the new Stampin Up! Tangerine Tango cardstock, as well as Chocolate Chip and textured Garden Green. I really love the combination of colors.
I colored in shadows, grounding, and the mouse with Copics then propped it up on pop dots. Other embellishments include some deep brown yarn and flowers made of brown paper bag and orange felt from Wal-Mart die cut with the Cuttlebug. The how ya bean? sentiment is by A Muse.
Since the card was coffee themed I thought it would be fun to add coffee beans as an embellishment (you need to sand the oil off the back to make it stick to a glue dot).
Be sure to check out the House Mouse Challenge Blog to see what Emma and the other DT members have come up with - the cards are always so awesome. Here is Emma's sketch. With the sketch you can - flip it, stretch it, shrink it, twist it, add accents to it BUT you MUST be able to see the original sketch on your project.
It's entirely your choice what you make - card, Lay out, ATC - anything goes as long as it features at least one House Mouse or Friends image and follows this weeks theme.
Hope you are having a great weekend. Allan and I spent the day getting burned to a crisp at the dog park by the Quidi Vidi Lake - warm sun, tons of cute dogs to play with ours (including a 4 month old Pug named Haggis lol) - the burn was totally worth it! Later in the evening I finally was dragged to George Street (infamous for having the most bars per square inch in North America) and had a great time. We went to the fat Cat Blues Bar, located in a cave like setting, then decided it was too nice a night to be cooped up inside so hit a heated open deck over at Sundance. My weapon of choice: Cosmos. You know how you are warned to never drunk dial? People usually drunk dial an ex, right? Well we drunk dial our parents LOL! We are sooo far away from everyone and started talking about how we miss our family, and before you know it we called Allan's mom begging them for a visit LOL...... (we weren't really drunk).
Thanks for stopping by.
Suzy
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Okay - this card made me SMILE right away... it's such a calming .. beautiful feel when you look... I'm a lover of coffee and this is so awesome....
GREAT job Suzy ....
Hugs from away...
Dee
Posted by: Deanna | Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 09:17 AM
Love your card! What an original idea to use real coffeebeans!
Els
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Posted by: Els G | Friday, September 05, 2008 at 04:57 PM
This is soooooooooooo sweet! Love your design and popped up stamp!
Posted by: Julia Stainton | Thursday, September 04, 2008 at 01:26 PM
Fantastic! The paper piercing and coffee beans make your card so unique! xx
Posted by: Tara | Wednesday, September 03, 2008 at 04:04 PM
I love this card, the papers are gorgeous and I love the way your paper pieced the cup to go with the papers. Adorable.
Posted by: Shary | Wednesday, September 03, 2008 at 05:36 AM
Love this card! Your papers are so cute and I love the coffee bean embellishment. Very clever! I would love to have a coffee mug like that. It really grabbed me. Great job on your entry.
Posted by: Karen | Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at 09:06 PM
Love this card! Your papers are so cute and I love the coffee bean embellishment. Very clever! I would love to have a coffee mug like that. It really grabbed me. Great job on your entry.
Posted by: Karen | Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at 09:05 PM
So beautiful and the colours are gorgeous - love your blog
Posted by: Dawn | Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at 05:26 PM
this is such a cute image. love the colors you used. i think this is such a sweet card.
Posted by: Rachel | Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Gorgeous card and so much fun!!! It is full of energy...like coffee;o) You always select the perfect EVERYTHING, and this card is no exception. What can I say...I love, love, love it!!!!
Posted by: Carolyn | Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at 01:12 AM
Love,love the card, especially the bright & happy colors. Coffee beans gave it that extra oomph & a BIG winner with me.
Posted by: Pat Batastini | Monday, September 01, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Great card...I love the paper. I see we both used the same image...GMTA! :)
Posted by: Mary | Monday, September 01, 2008 at 10:46 PM
How creative and adorable! I love the paper piecing and your beans are the coolest touch! Awesome card.
Posted by: Stacy Twinshappy SCS | Monday, September 01, 2008 at 12:52 PM
You card is awesome!
Posted by: Janneke | Monday, September 01, 2008 at 12:36 PM
SWEET card...I love how you used BG Mellow...it is perfect!
Posted by: ~amy~ | Monday, September 01, 2008 at 10:43 AM