Challenge #85 - APERTURE

Welcome back to House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge. So glad you're here!!
We sincerely hope that you are having a Wonderful Christmas Time!! :)

Our brand NEW challenge for this week is #85 and its being hosted by our wonderful and talented Design Team Member Christine, who has chosen for us to create an *Aperture* card.  Dont know what an Aperture is? An *Aperture* is an opening, such as a hole, a gap, or a slit. Sounds easy, right?? :)  SO go create a card and include a House Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie image on your creation  for your chance to win this ADORABLE House-Mouse Designs Stamp from our Design TEAM!!! How cool is that?

 
It's called" Mouse E. Claus", #HMJR1079 from Dec 09 & measures 3" x 4" 

We have also chosen a WINER for our last Challenge (#84, "Charming Christmas Tree").  AND THAT WINNER IS.....drum roll please....... Silvia -of CraftySil !!!!  Wooohoo!!  CONGRATULATIONS Silvia!!  You do such beautiful work! Please contact us to claim your prize.

Now its YOUR turn to play along for your chance to win a prize!  So come on and join to show us what you can do with Apertures!  To get you inspired, take a look at the lovely designs by our fab Design Team;

America

Christine (card 1)

Christine (card 2)

Heather

 Lori

Lorraine

 

Natascha

Sue C.

Sue D.

Sue K.

Additional Aperture samples can be found in an older HM& MC challenge - found HERE!

THANK YOU all SOOOO much for joining us & making our Challenges so FUN!
Just wait and see what we have in store for YOU on our next challenge!  It'll be our very first BLOG-HOP of 2011.  It will be a very special one since we are featuring our first ever Guest Designer who will be joining us for a month!  We will also have big PRIZES!!!!! You wont want to miss it! :)

Hope we have inspired you enough to play along with us today!!

Thanks for stopping by our little BLOG!!  :)

The House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Team

Sorry Katie :-/

Hi Katie ,, we are sorry that you couldn't link your card, the linky was in a different time zone :-) We have fixed it now so can you please pop back and link your card.

Apologies xx
Luv
Lols and the DT x x x

Oh Charming Christmas Tree, Challenge #84

Welcome Back!!! Sorry for that delay. Computers make life easier, but they sure are a major inconvenience when something technical goes wrong!!! Whatever did we do before computers existed anyways???

Now on to HAPPIER things...
We have a WINNER for our previous ENVELOPE ART challenge...... and that is..... drum roll please.....

CATHY

Congratulations Cathy!!!!!! Please contact us to claim your PRIZE from our fabulous sponsor RK Stamps!!!

NOW on to this week's brand NEW Challenge #84! We are generously being sponsored by the fabulous SIMON SAYS STAMP Store and they will be offering you one stamp of your choice.

Simon Says Stamp started in 2002 and now has over 100,000 items in stock. They strive to bring you a wide range of rubber stamps, Altered Art, Scrapbooking, ATC and papercrafting.
Take a look at the wonderful variety of items they offer here.

It is America's turn to host this new challenge and she would love see what you can do with the adorable House Mouse & Friends characters and CHARMING CHRISTMAS TREES!!! Anything goes, as long as you use HM&F characters and follow a Christmas Theme. And as most of you know, America loves CHARMS!!! Sooo, extra bonus points go to those of you who use CHARMS on your Charming Christmas Tree creations for this challenge! :)

Take a look at our awesome Design Team's Creations...

America

Christine

Heather

Lori

Lorraine

Natascha

Sue (Scoopy)

Sue Drees

Sue Kment

Now that you've seen all of our Designers wonderful Christmas Samples, come join us for your chance to win. We are going to be looking forward to your creations as we are super excited to announce that we are looking for Monthly Guest Designers to join us at the start of the new year!!!!!!

So hurry and show us what ya' got!!!! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by & Happy Mousie Creating!!! :)

The House Mouse & Friends Design Team

Today's NEW POST COMING SOON...

Hello beloved House Mouse Friends,

Please forgive us, but today's post will be slightly delayed due to big-time Computer TROUBLES for the past 2 days!!!  The issues seem to be getting resolved and so today's post will be up very soon.  

Please come back and check in a little later this morning!

We thank you kindly for your great patience!!  :)

Your Mousie Friends, 

The HM& F Design Team!!!