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Very Versatile Mice

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Since Mikey Mouse put in appearance here , I’ve been having a great time with the Spellbinders Say Cheese Classic Mouse sets.   I made this card for another friend who is sadly starting treatment for cancer.   I rearranged the arms, attempting to make it look like Mr Mouse is flexing his bicep!   The background was decorated with Arden’s Maker’s Marks. There is also a lady Mouse in the set so I’ve been combining the two to make wedding and anniversary cards.   The anniversary card was just a straight die-cutting exercise – the most challenging bit was getting all the letters onto the card front!   For the wedding cards, I made her skirt from real silk by using double sided adhesive sheet to adhere the fabric to thin card.    It needed a few passes through the Big Shot but worked fine.   The adhesive sheet also helped prevent the fabric fraying at the cut edges.   To get the mice to hold hands, I had to chop and change the arms a bit. ...

It's Time!

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It’s new release time over at Visible Image!   Tomorrow’s Memories is the amazing new release designed by Mark Alexander and it’s not just stamps and stencils this time.   Oh no!   There’s a gorgeous paper pad, tags and some cool continuous PET tape too.   The full collection can be found here . Today’s make is a Z-fold card and is one of the samples you might have seen during Mark’s Live on You Tube.  I started by stamping and silver heat-embossing the butterfly in Counting Moments  three times on one of the pink/purple paper pad sheets .   They were fussy cut and I neatened the cut edges with a silver Sharpie pen. After silver heat-embossing the butterfly clock on Arden’s Pitch Black card, this was fussy-cut and one of the butterflies from above was glued on. Next, I cut the card blank, 12” x 4”, from a 12” x 12” sheet of Arden Pitch Black linen effect card, scored it along the long side at 3” and 6” and folded it into a Z-shape.   ...

Cake Is Always A Good Idea

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First of all, I have good news - our missing cat from last week’s post has been found!   She was in a neighbour’s shed all along, despite them checking.   We believe she was afraid of their dog and wouldn’t come out.   I wish I’d gone around and checked myself, she might have come to me.   Anyway, she was checked out by the vet and, despite losing a third of her body weight, she is absolutely fine.   Having not eaten for 3 weeks, we’re having to feed her a small amount, slowly increasing her food allowance over a week so that she doesn’t have complications from refeeding syndrome.   She’s not very impressed with her meagre rations though! It was my brother-in-law’s birthday earlier this week and, having watched Visible Image’s Live earlier in the week, I grabbed the same sets Mark used, Grunge Birthday Words and Blow Out The Candles.   I also got out some other favourites, Stamper’s Anonymous Snarky Cats and Snarky Cats Halloween.   I white heat...