Chocolate Bliss

Todays card is a design team make for the wonderful team over at Gruffies and Guests. A new challenge starts today and is anything goes with the option of buttons and bows. There is some wonderful inspiration from the other design team members, so if you get chance, please pop over and take a look. Why not enter the challenge..there is a wonderful prize of a £10 voucher to spend in the online store of our sponsers Scribble and Scrap. To enter a card it must feature a gruffie, house mouse or happy hopper..but if you're like me..you just adore them anyway.

For my card, I used a decoupage image of two little house mice who have been munching on a box of chocolates.I mounted the decoupage onto some purple mirri..which happened to be a certain purple that reminds me of a certain chocolate make..lol. I added a yellow ribbon and some chocolate coloured buttons.

Well I have to say it's freezing here in the mountains today. All the cats are in and all cosied up with Reg.During the last week we have some horrible weather..the mists have been down, the wind has ragedand we have had rain by the bucket full. Everyone that has visited has looked as if they have been dipped in the river. The roads flooded in certain areas and as I lay in bed I could hear the slates banging on the roof. Today it's at least dry but as I said it's really cold. The weather man has said that it's going to get bad again soon. Just the weather to stop in and craft.

Jeff has spent the last few days in a cat pen due to the injuries that he received after a fight with Sprout. He hurt one of his back feet and could not put it down. I put him in a pen so that he could rest it..and today is his first day out..and he's making up for his quiet time. At the moment he's going round causing chaos and hoovering up any food he can find. Don't get me wrong..he had a tin a day to himself..so he can't be hungry..just greedy..lol. He keeps jumping up on my knee giving me lots of love..and goodness help you if you're on the computer..the delete button is working overtime as he types when he lands. The rest of my cats are still in love with the electric blanket and it's a hard job to get in bed round everyone else..lol.

Well the coffee is calling and I still have a pile of work to complete. I am hoping to get my first order of the year off on Monday.I am aiming to start a new order book but haven't had the time to start it due to the amount of orders that I received over the christmas season..I hope that this year proves to be a busy one. So until tomorrow..take care and happy crafting

Blowing in the wind

Todays card features the wonderful house mouse. The image is from the triple house mouse cdrom brought to us by Joanna Sheen. This picture comes from the third disc..the christmas one. It is from the winter section. With all the bad weather I thought that I would do a card featuring the leaves blowing around. We have certainley had that lately. I mounted the image onto a diecut mat and added a matching punched border. The die and punch were from tonic. I diecut some leaves and painted them using H20s using autumn colours. The backing paper is the matching one to the image on the cd. I loved the keep cosy greeting. It's a great one to use at this time of year.
The bracken on the hillside has changed colour over the past few days. It is now a fabulous orange with brown and purple streaks. The colours that nature bring just take my breath away. The path is coloured with a patchwork of leaves. I think that one of the joys of card making is that you can feature the seasons in your cards. I love the autumn colours. When I was little I had a friend who was lucky enough to be a red head and I was so jealous of the colour of her hair. I always wanted to be a red head and as an adult I used to dye my hair every shade of red I could find. Isn't it always the case in life that we always want something we don't have. I have friends who had beautiful heads of curly hair and they dreamt of straight. Friends who were tall who wanted to be tiny. I think one of the things that comes with getting older is that you can become happy with what you've been given. I always count my blessings every day..being thankful for all that I have instead of worrying about what I don't. Good friends, my son and my animals make my life a joy everyday and my cardmaking adds to that joy.
Well the coffee calls.so I hope you all have a great day...take care and happy crafting

The Snowflake Mice

Todays card is made using the wonderful Brambley Hedge cdrom from Crafters Companion. It is a card that I have featured on my facebook page..Vixenvarg Cards and Creations..and have been asked for more details. In fact there are a number of cards that I have featured there and will be detailing on here because people have asked and I love to share.
The image on the cd was with a different coloured doily so I matted it onto the blue doily and then matted that onto some silver holographic. The backing paper is an older piece from my stash but any matching colour paper would be just as nice. When I had mounted the image, I surrounded it with snowflake die cuts. These are from my ever growing collection of snowflake dies. Some are from the All Occasion Range and some from Crafters Companion. Some of the snowflakes have been cut in silver mirri, silver holographic, blue mirri and some have been painted with H2Os. I have also glittered the window of the image.
I hope you like the card and wherever you are, I hope you have a good day. Take care and happy crafting.