Monday, 29 August 2011

House Mouse Challenge #103 - a recipe

Hi everyone!

Thank you for joining us for House Mouse and Friends' 103rd challenge, and my last as Guest Designer for August :-( Thanks for having me on the team ladies - you've been wonderful to work with! Following on from the last fruity challenge, we're sticking to the food theme and challenging you to a recipe. It could be inside or outside your card, and I'm not sure whether it HAS to be food ;-) but with so many mouth-watering HM&F stamps out there, it would almost be a pity not to, wouldn't it? Hehee.

I've been hard at work for the last few weeks making 18 jars of lemon curd for our church fund-raiser food fete on Saturday. Here are two of them. MmmMmmmMmmmmmm....... Do you like the highly personalised label? And the cute little lemons on top? DH couldn't get as excited as I did about those, but then he hadn't spent all afternoon designing them and cutting them on the Silhouette and Cuttlebug.


In keeping with our theme, I made a recipe card to be displayed at the fete, showing exactly how the lemon curd was made. I used a Mudpie from the "Berry full" stamp and a very excited Monica jumping into the jar. I couldn't find a jar stamp that fitted so I drew one of mine. All are coloured with Copic markers. The paper is from Basic Grey's Lime Rickey 6"x6" pack, and yellow Stickles made perfect lemon curd running down the jar and all over greedy little Mudpie's paws and mouth.


I'm also entering it into these challenges:
Basic Grey Challenges: anything goes (Lime Rickey)
Charisma Cardz: glitter
Simon Says Stamp: sketch

15 comments:

Sue said...

Hi hun
aww this is totally gorgeous, luv the zingy colour, great design, lovely lace,thank you for being such a fabulous guest designer with us, sue,x

crazyribbonlady said...

So sweet! Thank you for joining us at Charisma for this weeks glitter it challenge! Emma x

Sue said...

OMG, your card and jar labels are wonderful,not to mention how yummy that lemon curd looks, sure it will be a best seller. Lace on the card is beautiful and your coloring is amazing. Has been great having you on the team for August, thanks for your beautiful creations.

Hugs
Sue

Lorraine A said...

Fantastic card Squirrel ! the images are adorable and WOW, how fab is that jar !! so very artistic ! BRILLIANT !! The whole creation is gorgeous and I bet the lemon curd is yummy ! :-)

It has been fabulous working with you this month :-) I have really enjoyed it :-)

luv
Lols x x x

Becky said...

That is awesome. Loving the lemon curd card.

Jacqui P said...

Oh wow a fab card!! great fun, those naughty mouses look a little sick!! serves them right!! Lol!!
thankyou for joining us at basic grey. good luck
Hugs
Jacqui P x

thimbles bobbins paper and ink said...

Oh this is GREAT! I love it. So lemony beautiful! And yes, I love the labels too. And I also love lemon curd! You would happen to be willing to share your recipe, would you? I'd love to make some!

Lovely artwork!

Cheers!
Jennifer :)

Christine said...

Hi Rosey what a stunning take on the HM chall theme..& yes I do love lemon curd && orange..beautiful fresh colours very creative with the jar & images.

many thanks for being a great GD for HM chall blog.

smiles Christine x

sallysbitz2 said...

This is brilliant x
It goes perfect with the jars of lemon curd.
It's great to be working along side you on this fab hop x

hugs sally x
sallysbitz.blogspot.com

Heather D. ~ Fresh Brewed Designs said...

Oh my goodness how SWEET!~~~ I love the REAL lemon curd jars as much as your sweet card. What a super sweet and adorable project!

Billie A said...

Great idea making the lemon custard and the card to go with it. Great images they are so cute. Happy Anniversary.

Crea Astrid said...

What a beuatiful card. Lovely stamp.

hugs Astrid.
http://creaastrid.blogspot.com/

Lorraine said...

this is stunning huni love the image xx

Krafty Kows said...

Oh wow what a brilliant bright citrus card. I love it. Jeanette

Miria said...

Gorgeous creation , Miria x