Mouse Love

I'm working on my coloring and I find that the house mouse stamps are quite difficult, but I'll keep practicing.  I used a heart embossing folder in the background and a very old house mouse stamp that came from "I don't know and I don't remember buying it."  I actually always stayed away from buying these because I knew the coloring was difficult for me, but there it was......in a drawer.... 😊 

Let's go fishing....

 

Nothing spectacular here, just going through the masculine drawer and found the fishy papers and thought it was time to use them up.  The top stamp is from Heather.  The bottom is Stamping Sensations.  I think I got them both at the last stamp show they had in Allentown.  It looks like this year's show has been cancelled - they are using the building at the fairgrounds for vaccinations. 

I do miss rubber stamp conventions, even though I have enough stuff to last a lifetime.  Seeing all the new products was always inspiring.  Maybe we'll be sort of back to normal in another year or two....

Hello

 

....Housebound for a couple of days last weekend, due to some (a lot) of the flying white stuff.... 

 I played with a gel press for the first time.   I had no clue what I was doing and my next attempt will be a lot different.  I tried it with stencils and with stamps.  I wasn't thinking about how everything was going to be reversed, so my music clefs are backwards and I didn't realize it until I was taping it down to the paper. Oh well.  I used another unmarked stamp for the filigree, embossed it with white and topped it with a die cut of curly stems and leaves and a die cut hello.   I had expected the gel press to be messy, but it wasn't and I'm anxious to play with it again.  Hopefully not due to another over zealous snow storm.

~Nancy