Happy Harvest

Hidy ho, crafty peeps!

I'm here today with my very first project as a full-fledged designer for House Mouse and Friends!

Hooray!!!

They're having a challenge over at House Mouse and Friends. It's midway through, so you still have PLENTY o' time to enter! The theme this time around is

Fall/Halloween

So put on a sweater and join in the fun! There are PRIZES to be had!! Check it out!

We have two loverly sponsors this time around.

Di's Digi Stamps 

Winner will receive a $12 voucher to spend in their store!

  

and our second sweet sponsor is

Pizzazz Aplenty

The place for embellishments of all kinds!

Winner will receive a goody bag of a random assortment of embellies!

And we're not done yet!

Our fabulous DT captain, Miss America, is offering 

*** A NEW way to WIN a Mousey Prize***

We also have a 3rd special PRIZE from America that will go out to a fabulous player who promotes us on their FACEBOOK page. (simply leave a direct link to our Mousey Blog on YOUR Facebook page) sending people back here.  Let us know that you've done this and leave us a link to your post to be in the running for this brand NEW stamp draw. :) If you dont get a chance to create an entry, its ok, as long as you have promoted us on your own Facebook page, then you are in the running for this stamp!  Easy Peasy! :)

A brand NEW, wood mounted rubber stamp, newly released

House-Mouse Designs®, "Pumpkin Carving" #HMR43,

 manufactured in the USA by Stampendous!

Now for my project. 

I chose to do the "Fall" theme for my project. To me, Fall means pretty leaves, warm colors, and apples.  The image I used is a black and white digi stamp from the Triple CD. I WISH WISH WISH there were more digi stamps on that CD set...HINT HINT HINT.

I had to sharpen my colored pencils to a needle-like precision tip, and pull out my magnifying glass to color this sucker. Why?, you ask. Well, it's not because I'm going even more blind than normal... it's because the mice in the background image are only 3/8" tall. That is practically MICROSCOPIC. 

There must be some scientific theory that explains my affinity for the apparent inverse correlation of my declining visual acuity and the size of the images I color. Either that, or I'm just weird.

Probably, I'm just weird.

I can't go much smaller than 3/8"-sized mice...my colored pencils don't get sharp enough. If the mice get any smaller, they'll just end up looking like little dust balls anyway. 

As I mentioned (repeatedly), for this image I used my ever-trusty Prismacolor pencils to color it. I couldn't decide between red apples and green apples, so I made my apples variegated. I believe they're Jonathan apples. That's appropriate being that my hubby's name is also...Jonathan.

That solved that.

And, since my Copics were still hanging out on my desk, I pulled them back out and stippled a light blue background so they didn't feel left out. Then, I capped them all up, put them back in their case and sequestered them HIGH on a shelf, tucked way far away in the very back of my studio.

That's where I keep them.

As far from me as possible...and out of sight.

I told you, I'm copicphobic. It's either that, or I start taking Valium.

Thanks, as always, for tromping out to Left Field...where the grass is green year-round.