Love at Christmas

This little card manages to fit four challenges this week, I don't think I have ever managed that before

House Mouse Challenge - Non traditional Christmas colours

Papertake Weekly - No red or green

Inspirational Card Sketches - I followed the sketch!

Colour Create - Lilac, Aqua, Black and White

The base card is a very pale lilac, the aqua panel was embossed with the sissix snowflakes folder, the star punch is Martha Stewart and all the lettering is making memories. The stamp is from the acrylic Christmas house mouse set. I added pearls for the mistletoe berries, and the black snowflakes are a cuttlebug die

House Mouse Autumn Card

I love making autumny cards after the bright colours of summer. I coloured the mouse in with prisma pencils, the papers are all from DCWV's Indian Summer stack, and the leaves were cut from Home Accents

The leaves look a bit frayed in the photo, they are not like that in real life......
We have been coping with a few technical breakdowns here..... I won't bore you with the non-functioning dishwasher, or the memory stick that refused to give up it's pictures to the computer. Let's concentrate on the saga of the garage door................
Anne and I went out (shopping!) one evening, got back home and the remote control for the garage door failed. We didn't have a key, so drove to some neighbours who were already in their PJ's and collected the spare key. The next day, the door wouldn't budge, or opened in a intermittent sort of way. A friend called round to take a look. He tested the remote - nothing, tested the wall switch, nothing................ then he took a look at the sensors and said 'ermmmm, you've put a sack of garbage in front of the sensor'. Voila, fully functional door. Thanks Howard. Truly a double blonde moment I think, we probably shouldn't be allowed out without supervision

Feel Better Card for Colour Create.....and a sneeky peek

On Colour Create this week the colours are red, chocolate and cream, so I made this little house mouse stamp fit the bill. I added a large scalloped circle (cut in half) down one side, and a strip of torn corrugated card. Some ribbon, flowers and a bit of string and I was done. I love this little image.

Here is a sneeky peek of one of the cards that I made this month for Papercraft Inspirations (on sale now in the UK, June 1st in the USA). The whole article is about turning your pocket cards into gifts. Here is a man card, I made some girlie ones, a teen one and so on.

House Mouse, Copics and Wobbly Stitches......

On national scrapbooking day yesterday, I went to a crop at a store near here called Scrapbook Fanatics, it was fun and I was actually quite productive, unlike the last one where I made two cards in two days! This is one of the cards I made, and because I didn't have my machine with me wanted to put some stitching on, so I bought some of the little Daisy D stitch runners. Hmm, the jury is out on these, I found them best for just dashes of random stitching, it would be impossible to get a nice stitched looking border all the way around with them. So my rolled on stitching looks a bit wobbly and uneven, a bit like my regular stitching really. The stamp is house mouse, coloured with copics, and the paper is a mystery, but I like it. The green scallops were done with my new EK Success border punch.

I have used a random number generator for the first time to get the winner of the blog candy and the winner is

JOZZA

Can you email me please Jozza with your address. Bitten by the Bug are planning to have a monthly blog hop from now on, so this will be a regular feature of the site. Thanks to all of you who joined in the fun.

House Mouse Card for Inspirational Card Sketches

I found a new card sketch blog - inspirational card sketches - and love following sketches, so used their sketch for this week to make this little card. The house mouse stamp is one that I borrowed from a friend and is so sweet. I like to think that the little mouse is kissing the bird better because he has lost a feather. The papers are by Magnolia and the scalloped card is by Papermania UK. The scalloped ovals are by Go-kreate
It has been COLD here in Florida for the past two days, not just a bit chilly, but really cold. I think it was warmer back in the UK before we left. The problem is I don't really have any cold weather clothes here, just one pair of jeans and a sweater, so I hope it warms up soon otherwise I will have to hibernate (or go shopping!)

House Mouse and Strawberries

Isn't this little mouse adorable, fast asleep after his fill of strawberries........The colouring was done with prismacolour pencils, and the berries had diamond glaze added for extra shine.
We are off to the Lake district in the north of England for a couple of days, we love it there, stunning scenery and loads of sunshine (well the last bit is wishful thinking on my part!)