Little Acres and Coffee Loving Cardmakers...Mousie Match!

Hello there coffee loving cardmakers!  I'm thrilled to be joining my teamies on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog and the Designers at Little Acres Creations for a fun collaboration featuring LAC's adorable new set called "Cafe Dreamers".  This little mousie set is just the cutest and I am so excited to see what everyone has created with it!

Little Acres Designs has graciously contributed two $10 gift certificates for two lucky commenters.  Just make sure to comment on each blog post in the hop by Friday, April 20th!  A winner will be announced on their blog as well as the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog on Monday, April 23.

If you've arrived here from Amy's blog, you're off to a great start!  If you're beginning your journey here, don't worry...I've included the complete blogroll at the bottom of my post.

I decided to create a card every mouse would love.  My inspiration was the sentiment...It had me thinking of that little mouse on her coffee (or tea) cup and what she would be dreaming of...Yes...CHEESE, CHEESE, and more CHEESE!  Soooo...I got out my pencil and started drawing some cheese.  After penciling in my cheese lines, I grabbed my Leisure Arts Colored Pencils and my Leisure Arts Watercolor Pencils and got to work!

I started out by coloring that adorable little mouse and coffee/teacup with the watercolor pencils.  After watercoloring, I ran over the image with the colored pencils to give more dimension to some areas.  I set that aside and started coloring the cheese...Oh fun!  

Isn't she cute?!  After coloring her up, I set her aside and marked up the pencil lines with my Staedtler .01 pigment pen and started coloring the cheese with the colored pencils.  After I was satisfied with the color, I fussy cut the cheese and mounted it onto a white card panel.  I used my Misti to position the sentiment perfectly on the panel then gave it two presses of ink.  After that, I just popped the mouse/cup image up onto the cheesy panel with some foam squares.  NO RIBBON.  GASP!  

Such a fun, fun set!  I loved working with this set so much!  I can't wait to play with the mouse on the upside down cup next!  

Did you know that Little Acres is celebrating their birthday?  If not, they're having a BIG BIG HOO-RAH and you are invited.  Check out all the deets on their blog and social media outlets!  

Thanks so much Little Acres for the opportunity to play with your adorable mousie set!  I just LOVE it!  Thanks visitors for stopping by to see my creation, I hope you were inspired!  Please hop on over to Helen's blog for the next stop on the hop!

Little Acres Creations

Chelle Ratcliffe

Heather Clay

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Lisa Bzibziak

Coffee Loving Cardmakers

Amy Tsuruta

Kerry Urbatch

Helen Gullett

Becca Cruger

Dana Gong

Dana Warren

Katie Brooks

Kathy Schweinfurth

Laurel Seabrook

Robyn Jordan