Trying to Start Off the New Year Right

 Last Year in November I won a stamp at the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge.

I received the stamp in December and then I saw the Challenge for January 5.   The stamp was perfect, with a few alterations for a card for the first  Monday Challenge of the year.  

                            This is the stamp set I won.  House Mouse - Noel by Spellbinders

This is the way I used it for the first New Year Challenge.

 I stamped and watercolored the bottom half of the stamp and cut around the upper part of the image.  Then I cut the numbers on my Scan 'n Cut out of mirrored silver card stock.  I have a pad of patterned papers that has a paper for every holiday of the year.  So, I found a sheet that looked like fireworks and put a panel of that on the card base, added the watercolored mice and the numbers.   But it just didn't seem finished.  I had a scrap of mat gold card stock barely big enough to cut a 4 x 5.25 panel.  That panel was turned into a frame with my paper trimmer.  I think that was just the touch the card needed. 

It was fun to use this stamp right away even though it is a Christmas stamp.  

I will be exploring other things that these little mice friends can hold up for cards throughout the year.  

Lots of thanks to Sue Kment for providing this stamp as a prize in the November Challenge.  

I think I will be checking out the Wednesday Challenge as well.