AYLI (DT) Your Trademark

Good morning chaps, it's the start of a new challenge with As You Like It and this time around the team are asking you to tell us about your trademark.

Easier than it sounds ....... so my trademark - the simple answer is CAS.  I tend towards a feature image, watercolour painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers), and I try to match a sentiment to the image.  It has been said that my makes are readily identifiable ..... !

So, we have a House Mouse taking a dive into a sprinkle covered cupcake

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Sentiment is from MFT

Mattiing layer is a scrap of Basic Grey

Custom sized card base

and that's it, it certainly sums me up - simples.

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Hugs to all

Squirrel xx

Thank You - Cute Card Thursday

Can you believe that it is New Year's Eve?  What happened to Christmas?  And hasn't the "festive" tv been absolutely dreadful this year?  Or is that just me getting older and jaded?  On second thoughts, don't answer that!

As you may have noticed, I've stepped down for the time being from the DTs that were kind enough to have me.  Life gets in the way of many things and personal issues meant that I wasn't able to give the amount of time I wanted to so that I could be a good DT member instead of a skin-of-the-teeth one.  In the last ten days I have even considered, very briefly, selling all my stamps and stash (Samantha, sit DOWN!!) but then reason took over.  Put that nano-second of insanity down to too many chocolate brazil nuts.  But just because I'm not DTing, it doesn't mean I'm not crafting.

Here is a little card to end 2010 with for the CUTE CARD THURSDAY challenge whose theme is THANK YOU. 

I love this little House Mouse image, so useful for so many things.  Coloured with distress inks.  Sentiment is Personal Impressions and papers are a mixture of old ones from K&Co and Making Memories.  Corner die is a Sizzlets photo corner.  A very CAS card but it does what it says on the tin!

Edited to thank Delphine and Ann for letting me know about the Cupcake Craft Challenge and Phindys Friday Challenge who also have Thank You as a theme. 

Anyone making any Resolutions?  The only one that I can publish here is that I will make a bigger effort to hop round and visit all your blogs more often.

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year, and here's to a better, brighter, happier and healthier 2011 for all of us.

Hugs, Sxx

Passion For .... Cute Card....Cupcakes!

Happy weekend everyone!  At last, the sun has popped out from behind those miserable clouds and doesn't it simply lift the spirits?  Toad, on the other hand, is very miserable because we have a case of "man flu", poor little soul, he does look a bit pathetic this morning.  As you can tell, he's getting buckets full of sympathy!

Anyway, to the challenges ..... this little fella is for three super challenges this week:
Passion For ProMarkers All Creatures Great And Small
Cute Card Thursday Spots and Dots; and
Cupcake Craft Challenges Four Legged and Furry 

For this I have used House Mouse "Autumn Cruise", coloured of course with ProMarkers, the papers are Cosmo Cricket Early Bird, the sentiment is Cuddly Buddly and the flower is Flora Doodles and Prima.  I had to take a chance with the leaf shapes, because they are not leaves at all.  I really must get my hands on that fabulous Sizzix branch die.

Thanks for popping over, see you again soon I hope.

Hugs

Squirrel xx

First Time Grandma Card

Now my friends, I would really appreciate your comments on this one - one of my work colleagues, and a very dear friend, is about to become a grandma for the first time and I cannot express here just how excited she is. Her son and his partner live a five hour drive away so she's had her suitcase in the back of the car for over a week. Baby Girl is due to make an appearance this Friday but knowing first babies she could well be overdue.

Anyway, as a department at work we wanted to give her a card and I was asked to make it to celebrate the occasion. I wanted the card to be sweet but not over-the-top sugary so I was rummaging amongst my stamps and unearthed a House Mouse stamp that had never seen ink and I thought it was spot-on.



I coloured the House Mouse with ProMarkers and spent a bit of time fiddling around to get the image to fall outside of the Nestability die.



Other items used are Papermania Regency papers, Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch, Quicklets, Prima flowers, Dovecraft brads, ribbon and lettering from stash.

What do you think? Is it suitable for the occasion? I'm entering this into the "Celebration" challenge No 52 over at The Secret Crafter as a new grandchild is certainly cause to celebrate!

Thanks for dropping in, always lovely to see you.
Hugs
Squirrel xx