It Mouse Be Your Birthday

 Welcome to November!!!   

Just want to let you know the new Birthstone Challenge has started.  The featured birthstone colors in this challenge are Turquoise and Topaz.

The theme is always anything goes with the featured birthstone colors, and you may use one or both of the colors in your project. The color(s) you choose should be prominent on your project. The optional theme has been added for inspiration and is not required to play. 

For this challenge, Polkadoodles will be sponsoring our Nov/Dec challenge! And who doesn't love Polkadoodles. So how cool is that. 

Let me share my DT inspiration project with you.

Products used:

Mouse  and sentiment - Polkadoodles - Birthday Mouse

Dies - Cheese Background and small mice - Gina Marie Dies

Borders Stickers - Stamp On It

Paper - Turquoise, Topaz, White  CS

Markers - Spectrum Noir

Well, this mouse made the cutest birthday card, didn't it!! I bet you know someone who would love to get this card for their birthday.

Remember to join in the fun and enter your projects in our Birthstone Challenge . We would love to see your creations.

Thanks for stopping in today.

I will be back soon.

Thinking of You

Welcome to November!!!

Getting close to that 'bird day", or as most of us call it, Thanksgiving Day. (LOL). I can already smell the turkey baking away in my kitchen. Yum Yum

Well since its a new month its also the start of a new challenge over at  Birthstone Challenges. It starts today, (November 1). The challenge runs November 1 thru December 15.

The Birthstone Challenge is a color challenge blog, welcoming all types of handmade projects such as cards, scrapbook layouts, ATCs, mixed media, altered items, 3-D projects, etc. using the featured birthstone colors. 

There are two birthstone colors featured in each challenge and those colors must be the main colors seen in the gallery. You're required to use only one of the colors in each of your projects, however, you may use both if you want. A monochrome color pallet would be wonderful but not required. 

Here are the colors for the November/December challenge

I chose the color of turquoise to use on my project.

For my project I added a few die cuts to accent the magnolia branch that graces the card. Do real magnolias have turquoise colors in their petals? Not that I know of, but I took artistic license and used this beautiful color. Hope you like my color rendition,  That magnolia branch looks so pretty IMHO. 

Here is what I used to make my card:

• Stamps used - Digital Image - Graciellie Design - Magnolia Branch; Clear Stamp - Rubbernecker Stamps - Organic set #3
• Inks used - Ranger Distress Ink - Vintage Photo; Spectrum Noir Alcohol Ink Markers; Staedler Triplus Fineliner
• Dies used - Rubbernecker - Crosshatch Design Die; Spellbinders - Kaleidoscope Strip
• Cardstock - White CS, Turquoise CS, Cream colored CS

I am submitting my project in the following challenges:

• The Crafty Addicts   #7 - Anything Goes (#9)

Thanks for stopping in today and I will be back soon. Hope to see you then