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!!!

Challenge #83, ** ENVELOPE ART **

Hello Friends & welcome back to House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge!!! Are you ready for another FUN challenge???

FIRST, a big thank YOU for playing along with us last challenge. Here's our lucky winner's name that was randomly chosen for the Simon Says Stamp prize;
An  from  Ankortit

CONGRATULATIONS  An !!!!!
Please contact us to claim your prize.

NEXT.... we are lucky enough to be sponsored by the very generous RK STAMPS for this challenge!!!
Take a look at some of the great new designs that RK STAMPS carries;  

Their mission is to provide customers with the largest inventory of in-stock stamps from four great stamp lines--STAMPABILITIES, GREAT IMPRESSIONS, LOCKHART, NORTHWOODS and STAMPENDOUS.  They offer a timely, personalized service with LOW prices.  RK Stamps carries most of the super adorable House Mouse Stamps, Gruffies Stamps & Happy Hoppers Stamps. AND...they are being generous enough to offer you a choice of ONE if you play along with us this challenge. How awesome is that?? So join us for your chance to win!!!!


All you have to do is participate in this challenge using at least one House Mouse & Friends image & make sure to link your project back here by Sunday, Dec 5th! 

So what's our NEW challenge you ask??  Well, our sweet and awesome Design Team Member Sue Kment from Sue's Stampin Stuff wants you to practice ENVELOPE ART by decorating your mailing Envelopes with furry House Mouse, Gruffies or Happy Hoppers images !!  That's it!!! :)  But before you get busy stamping, go get yourself a cup of coffee, sit back and enjoy taking a walk through our fabulous DT's samples to get you inspired....

America

Christine (front of envelope)

(back of envelope)

Heather (front of envelope)

(back of envelope)

Lisa
taking a much needed family break during this challenge

Lori (front of envelope)


(back of envelope)

Lorraine (front of envelope)

Mary
coming soon

Natascha (front of envelope)

(back of envelope)

Sue C. *Scoopy* (front of envelope)

(back of envelope)

Sue D. (front of envelope - with a peek of the back)

(envelope - with matching card)

Sue K. (front of envelope - with a peek of the back)

So what do you think???? Pretty amazing bunch of envelopes, heh??? :) Now it's your turn!

Thanks so much for stopping by!! Hope you can join us again as we look forward to seeing your lovely ENVELOPE creations,

The House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Design Team

***You Gotta Have Friends*** for Challenge #82

Welcome back to House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge BLOG! Its time for a NEW CHALLENGE..... but...First things First....
We have a Halloween Challenge winner...... It is DANA. CONGRATULATIONS DANA!!! We loved your super creative and incredible and spooky House Mouse Halloween scene. Please contact us to claim your prize. :)

Our next challenge is being sponsored by the wonderful Heidi of Simon Says Stamp.

ONE HOUSE MOUSE, GRUFFIES or HAPPY HOPPER stamp of choice will go to one lucky winner!

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.

This NEW CHALLENGE was set by our sweet and talented Team Mate Sue Drees. We are to create a House Mouse & friends project keeping it "ALL ABOUT FRIENDS".

To inspire you, take a look at our DT's fabulous *YOU GOTTA HAVE FRIENDS* projects....

AMERICA

CHRISTINE

HEATHER

LISA

LORRAINE

LORI

MARY


NATASCHA

SUE D.

SUE K.

SUE *Scoopy*

Please upload NEW work for this challenge to your blog or public photo gallery, and leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Inklinkz form found at the bottom of this post by Sunday, November 21st! Winner will be announced with the HM&F next post on Monday, November 22nd!

PLEASE use ONLY House Mouse & Friends images to be eligible for any of our prizes.

Thanks for stopping by. We cant wait to see your *YOU GOTTA HAVE FRIENDS* fab creations. :)

Happy creating!!!
The House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Design Team