Kraft Cheese Birthday

Hidy Ho, crafty peeps!

I'm here with yet ANOTHER installment in my card making Lolapalooza!!

I recently reconnected with my college roommate, Mary. Talking to her on the phone brought me IMMEDIATELY back to those "good old days" of nursing school. And, they were VERY good days. Largely in part due to my dear friends Mary, Joanne, Gloria, and Therese.

Well, I remembered that Mary's birthday is at the end of May. (Am I good or what?) So, I figured I would send her a card.

And, as luck would have it, it just happens to be...ANOTHER HOUSE MOUSE CARD!!!

Can you stand it? Maybe I should think about joining their design team.

Some of you might ask, "Torrey, how do you get your inspiration for these cards?". Well, it's like this... I was eating a lunch (prepared for me by my DH) of one of my childhood favorites-- Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. That's when it hit me...Kraft....Cheese....which led to Kraft paper with a cheese theme.

Yeah. My mind works like that. Scary isn't it?

For her card, I decided to use Kraft cardstock, both for the card and for the images and sentiments. I love using colored pencils on Kraft. They can be very subtle...or they can cover everything underneath like a drag queen's makeup.

That is ONE THING Copics can't do.

Neener neener neener!

I used the "Say Cheese", and the "Cheesy Gift" stamps by House Mouse. I colored the images with Prismacolor pencils, then paper-toled (decoupaged) the main one into several layers to give it depth and dimension. I keep wondering what it would be like to use those pre-printed color image decoupage sheets where all you have to do is cut the images out...

Then, I think, "NAH!" It's more fun to do it myself. That way I get the colors I want. There are 4 layers on the camera, and then the mouse is its own layer. I made the title by hand.

Who knew I could draw cheese?

Here is a detail shot of the coloring:
(Prismacolor Pencils on Kraft cardstock)

And, here is the INSIDE of the card.

The colors are a bit wonky because I kept having issues with my flash reflecting off the waxy surface of the colored pencils. You can't even tell the images are on Kraft paper, can you? Oh, and forgive the cheesy sentiment. I just couldn't help myself. I'm a pun-Muenster...what can I say?

And, I'd like to enter this in the House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

#HMFMC 195 - In the Kitchen

Thanks, as always, for venturing out to Left Field!