Summer Showers

Moving right this week in the House-Mouse  summer theme I'm sharing one that I really loved to color. It was really my first time to color rocks, tons of rocks. So I did a search for river rock and used an image for reference.

photo credit: ebay search polished river rock

So the next step was picking out the closest marker color matches I had and start coloring!

Now before I tell you the whats and hows of my project, here is the list of designer's that are posting their Mice summer projects.

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Janelle Stollfus

Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Fritts (Tuesday post)

Lea Fritts

Supplies:

Stampendous:

HMR62 House-Mouse® Spigot Shower

SSC1246 Ocean Wisdom Perfectly Clear™ Stamps Set

DCP1006 Fitted Frames B Die Cut Set

DWLX7011 Big Dots Stencil

MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

SSH57 Jumbo Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Stamp Handle

Plus:

My Colors™ cardstock by My Mind's Eye®

Sketch™ markers by Copic® (B60, C1, C2, C4, C7, E0000, E00, E21, E23, E25, E29, E31, E33, E40, E42, E44, E50, E51, E53, E70, E74, E81, E87, E89, N1, N2, N4, W3, W5)

3-in-1 Beacon Adhesives

Foam Tape by Tombow®

Ribbon by May Arts

Perfect Layers rulers by Perfect Papercrafting

Instructions:

1. Fold a 5 1/2 x 11 inch cardstock in half for a 5 1/2 square inch card base.
2. Layer between your embossing machine plates and embossing mat the Big Dots metal stencil onto the bottom plate then add paper and rest of pads and plates according to your machine's instructions and roll through your machine. Hand emboss with a stylus if the paper and stencil do not fit through your machine.
3. Stamp Spigot Shower with black ink onto mixed media paper and color.
4. Trim around image and layer onto color cardstock and trim with ruler, or measure and cut cardstock 1/8 inch larger than image size. Repeat with another layer of color cardstock.
5. Trim Mixed Media White paper with Fitted Frames B die and one more with larger size in color cardstock. 
6. Stamp sentiment from Ocean Wisdom with black ink onto one end of white fitted frame die cut and glue onto color cardstock mat.
7. Score along middle mark, fold and glue back to matted image layer. Add foam tape to the front and secure sentiment.
8. Glue onto card base.
9. Tie a bow around card front.