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How to Make a House-Mouse Party Parade Birthday Card Step-by-Step
Hello, crafty friends! I’m Melody Rupple, and today I’m excited to share a fun project using the House-Mouse Party Parade Stamps Set. I documented my creative process step-by-step, so you can follow along and recreate this card for your own celebrations! Let’s get started! Start by creating your card base. I used an A2 card base (4.25” x 5.5”) using Kraft Cardstock. Score and fold the cardstock in half to create your card base. Cut a piece of white cardstock to 4” x 5.25. Select the main image from the House-Mouse Party Parade Stamps Set and stamp with Brown Pigment Ink. If you plan to use alcohol markers or watercolors,…
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How to Color the House-Mouse Party Parade Stamp with Copic Markers – Step-by-Step Birthday Card Tutorial
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial with you using the House-Mouse Party Parade Cling Stamp Set. This adorable stamp set is perfect for birthday cards, but any celebration would work too. I am colouring the image using Copic Markers, which are alcohol based, but any colouring medium will work here – pencils, paints, etc. If you are a beginner colourist, this image is perfect for you, as the stamped image already has shading lines on it, so a lot of the work is already done by the stamp! STAMPING THE IMAGE & SENTIMENT Remove foam insert from Mini MISTI. Place panel of white alcohol marker-friendly cardstock…
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Watercolor Fun With The New House Mouse Heart And Soul Collection
Hello fellow crafters! Deborah Hellman here to share with you some cards that I created using the new House-Mouse Designs Heart and Soul Collection. I love House-Mouse, and this new rubber stamp collection does not disappoint. They are sweet, beautifully drawn, and easy to color with all the purposeful detail. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, these stamp sets include some great sentiments that can be used to express love, caring, and encouragement. For my card set, I decided to use watercolor to my stamped images, but you could easily use colored pencils or alcohol ink markers to add a little color to your stamped images. They could even…
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How to Tint Papers and Die-cuts to Suit Your Color Palette
Hello there, Michelle Short here, and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog using the Beautifully Imperfect Collection. This is such a beautiful collection for all sorts of papercrafts – cards, scrapbooks, mixed media, etc., filled with dies, embossing folders, papers, rub-ons, die-cut shapes, plus lots more! Whilst this isn’t my go-to style for card making, I tend to prefer clean and simple designs, I loved playing with this collection to fit it into my own style! JUST BECAUSE My first card uses the Beautifully Imperfect Die Cut Shapes. Whilst I love the colours in this collection, I wanted to bump up the pinks and aquas with…
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House-Mouse Tree-mendous Christmas with Dina Kowal
Hi, Dina Kowal here! I love the sweetness of House Mouse stamps – they are so fun to bring to life with any coloring medium! This month’s Tree-mendous Christmas collection is full of delightful fall and winter images featuring Ellen Jareckie’s endearing little characters. I use a mixed-media approach to these images when I color, so I wanted to share my process with you today. I hope you learn something new! I chose to color the Hats Off to You image – isn’t this little mouse so sweet in his acorn cap? I stamped the image on one of Spellbinders’ Cotton Card Panels. This was my first time using this…
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Step By Step Tutorial: House Mouse Tree-mendous Christmas Collection Christmas Card
Hello, crafty friends! Brenda Noelke here from My PaperCut Creations! I’m super excited to be back on the Spellbinders blog today sharing this step-by-step tutorial featuring the Tree-mendous Christmas Stamp Set from the House Mouse Tree-mendous Collection! These sweet mice are decking the halls, and each of the stamps in the collection showcases the House Mouse mice involved in holiday activities!! Let’s get started!! I started by stamping the image in the Tree-mendous Christmas Stamp Set onto an A2 panel of Neenah Solar White 80 lb. cardstock with Copic-friendly black ink using my MISTI. Be sure to remove the foam pad or grip mat from the MISTI before stamping, as…
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House-Mouse Summer Fun Card Ideas
Hi crafters, Dina Kowal here! The House Mouse gang is back with some hot weather antics in the Summer Fun collection… I’m not even sure how it’s already time for summer cards, but here we are! There are 4 new sets in this House Mouse release, each with a card-sized image and several coordinating sentiments. I love the movement that is drawn into each of these images, so I used different methods and mediums to highlight those details. You know I love to watercolor, so on all these cards I used my favorite paints to begin my coloring. I let the paint dry between layers and kept building up intensity,…
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Colorful Rare Bloom Watercolor Cards by Deborah Hellman
Hello crafty friends! My name is Deborah Hellman, and I am thrilled to be a guest designer for Spellbinders this month. Today, I am sharing with you some colorful, Spring watercolor cards that I created using the newest House-Mouse Collection: Rare Bloom. I love House-Mouse and watercoloring, so for me it is a perfect pairing. Another option, these beautiful stamped images could easily be colored with colored pencils or markers to suit your personal preferences. In addition to being adorable, all of the House-Mouse stamps have great details and shading which is a big plus. I stamped all of the images on a 4¼ x 5½ inch piece of Spellbinders’…
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Easy A2 Cards with House-Mouse – Let’s Stamp & Color!
Hey crafty friends! It’s Paula Fontenelle here from Crafting with Paula, and today we’re going back to basics with a simple A2 card tutorial featuring the adorable House-Mouse Rare Bloom collection. Whether you’re new to cardmaking or just love a quick project, this one’s for you! Here are some examples from the collection. For the tutorial, I’ll be using the mouse with the balloon. FIRST THINGS FIRST: LET’S BUILD A CARD BASE! What’s an A2 card? It’s the most common card size out there: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″. To make one, just cut a piece of cardstock to 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″, fold it in half, and you’ve got your card base.…
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Simple & Sweet: Watercolored Critter Cards
Hello, crafty friends! It’s TaeEun here today, excited to showcase the adorable House Mouse Creative Day critter stamp collection. You may know me from my blog, Rainbow in November, and also that I absolutely love coloring with all kinds of mediums. So, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to create some watercolor cards with this collection! The House Mouse Creative Day collection includes four cling stamp sets featuring sweet house mouse images that can be used for various occasions. For today’s post, I created three cards using three of the sets: Creative Day, Top Notch Birthday, and Healing Thoughts. I stamped the Creative Day image in black pigment ink,…
