House Mouse using copics

This is another request from my stamping friends.  I apologize for it being SO late. Hopefully this first day off in more than 6 months, will be the start of me getting back into the swing of blogging.

Everyone who knows me , knows that I love House Mouse Stamps.  Many stampers had a fear of them because of the coloring issues.

Although I tend to make the skin of the mice a bit different for each one.. the easier way  would beto use the same on all of them until you develop your own preferences.
SKIN
I use either E000 or R00 all over the skin and then use E00 to shade it with just a bit of W1 for the darker shadows. Underside of the tail etc.
CHEEKS AND INNER EARS
      TANNED look I use
            R11
       LIGHTEST, BRIGHTEST PINK LOOK
            RV02 blended out with RV000
       DARKER, VERY PINK
            RV23 blended with RV10
NOSE
      Although any of the cheek colors would work, I like
             R22 blended with RV000 or a hightlight done with 0.
FUR (I will post one Mouse a day)
AMANDA
She has been discribed by her designer as having fawn colored fur.
I use;
Y21 all over
I blend in YR 23
Y26 for deeper shadows
W1 to tone out the brighter areas.

I'm Back

Well it has taken me a long time.. But I finally have a day off! Thank God for the 4th, and the freedom it has given me today...

I promised many stamping friends that I would post my favorite sandwiches for the cuttlebug.
So better late than never!!

To Cut a Nestable: (In the Cuttlebug)
(From the bottom up)
Wizard's master white plate
Wizard's magnet
Nestable die cutting side up
card stock
Cuttlebug's B plate
Wizard's other white plate

I like this sandwich as I have never had to replace another plate...and that  is doing hundreds of cuts a week. Before, when I used what most of the people I read about use with the cuttlebug.. I had to replace a B plate about every third week.  With this sandwich I've been able to even straighten out the warping caused by using the nestable with the cuttlebug only sandwiches.

My "fave" embossing sandwich (in the cuttlebug with the nestable)
(From the bottom up)

Wizard's master white plate
Wizard's magnet
Nestable die cutting side up
        with card stock inside it
Wizard's Tan embossing mat
Wizard's white spacer plate
Wizard's other white plate

There you have it.. I have never been so happy with the way my spellbinders cut and emboss as when I discovered this sandwich.

Long time. . . I'm trying to come back!

So sorry that all of my best laid plans went astray.. and I was unable to squeeze in blogging with all of my other duties since my hubby had had surgery in November of last year. Once you take it out if your daily schedule, one is sunk to find a way to squeeze it back in.  i have MANY things to share, and I hope that it will start happening by this weekend. School is almost over.. so my early MORNING duty at school ended yesterday. (Why I have an extra 20 minutes this morning!)

My first order of business this weekend will be to get all of you MY fave sandwiches for the various other than cuttlebug dies in the cuttle bug.

So tune in, by Monday I will have the first installment of those ready to go!!! I'm Back!!
Thanks for your Patience!
Chick

Humerous encouragement

Christmas time as wonderful as it is, it is also hectic, if we are honest about it.  Not that we don't love it, just it is hard to get every thing done.  Then at times, things happen that we need to give a bit of encouragement...How to fit THAT kind of a card into our schedule? You need to make a card that my friend Denise Householder calls, A QUICK CHICK card.  Although she says that dripping with sarcasm.  This is a quick one.
My main vice is ICE CREAM!! I could eat it for breakfast!!  So when I saw this stamp at the Crackerbox Palace,  http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com/  I had to make a card with it... I remember seeing a "sticker" of ice cream in a rummage sale-like box of goodies I had picked up.. and literally the card was created in a minute.  I know that the CRACKERBOX PALACE also has some really cool ice cream stamps, and I plan to use those on cards when I am not in the season of needing to finish my Christmas cards.  But to get it out "chick quick" style there are no bows, and the words are the only thing stamped.

Finishing up for Christmas

Guess what happens if you bump a button too soon?  You post something that wasn't ready.

The folders on here are a couple that I picked up from HSN( which are now totally sold out, sorry)

These stamps  are really fun ones from the Crackerbox Palace http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com/

colored with copics and embellished with the only Flower Soft that I really really like (Polar Ice).

Here is a close-up of the Santa.

Cat card is finished!

I promised that I would share the actual card once I got it finished!  Well I mannaged to do so before the Kittens came home! It is also an easel card. I do love that style of card.

This shows it from the side for those who have not seen easel cards before.

and a close up from the front.  Have a great Day!

For my "baby" boy's birthday!

My youngest,Reza, turned 25 on 12/12/09 and since he loves to play poker, I decided to make him a "money" card.  It is an easel/shaker card.

Of course the words are mostly computer generated, and I had to put a quarter in the shaker part to symbolize his turning of a quarter of a century.

I love the easel cards, because not only do they display themselves, your message that is hand written can be hidden from the rest of the viewers, even when the card it on display.

TIP: 

Did you know that if you use an ink jet printer and work quickly, you can emboss your words, thus making it seem like you really stamped them.  You do have to work quickly, but if anyone is interested in the details, email me at chickali@gmail.com and I will give you the details.