Spooky Mouse House!

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Welcome back to my crafty blog!

What a fun card I have for you today!  Such a cute card especially if they love that famous mouse, Mickey.  I was inspired to make this card after watching Disney's Mickey's Boo-To-You Halloween Parade on YouTube.


It was such a fun card to put together.  All of the products used in the card are from Kat Scrappiness and I love how well they go together.

For the base of the card, I die cut the house part with orange cardstock and ink blended around the edges with a darker orange.  I die cut the mouse ears in black cardstock. For the door, I die cut the door with purple cardstock and also used the same door die cut to die cut directly onto the house base.  Oh, and don't forget the doorknob!

In order to make this house spooky, you will need the Haunted House Add On Dies.  From that set, I used the boarded window dies in kraft cardstock, the spooky roof in purple cardstock, the bricks in gray cardstock (die cut 3 or 4 times), and the fence in black cardstock.

I used some brown colored markers to mark up the boards and glued them onto the windows.  For the doorway, I used the largest boarded window die, die cut twice, trimmed off the dome part so I just had the square shapes and glued them onto the door frame at an angle.

For the purple door, I added some black ink around the edges to make it look dirty and glued that behind the frame at an angle so it looks like it was busted in or falling off its hinges.

For the bricks, I colored in the bricks in darker grays and used black marker to color in the cement or mortar. I glued two of them directly onto the edges of the house on the bottom left and right side and then trimmed off the excess.  With the excess and the other brick pieces, I cut them down to size and glued them in various places around the house and under the roof.  I then added the purple spooky roof on top and then glued the mouse ears behind the house.  Even though they are from two different die sets, everything lined up perfectly!

The fence is one long piece so I first glued it one side of the house.  I then laid the house onto the card panel to see where I wanted the house to be.  I then trimmed off what would hang off the edge and then glued that to the other side of the house.  I snipped some of the pieces off the top of the fence as well as some of the inside boards and bottom boards to make it look them look shabby.

Behind the windows and the door, I glued scraps of yellow cardstock to make the house glowing inside.

For the clouds, I used Kat Scrappiness' scene builder 6x6 stencil and used a dark gray to ink blend the stencil onto a gray card panel instead of a white panel.  Using the gray card base eliminated the need for an additional ink color which saves time - bonus!

Now, when I laid the house onto the card, I felt it needed just a little more character.  From the Crafters Essentials Halloween Dies, I die cut the tree and one of the bats with black cardstock and then glued everything down to the card panel.

For the sentiment, I die cut the Happy Halloween from the Simple Sentiments Halloween stamp.  The Simple Sentiments stamp collection is a great collection every crafter should have.  It's one stamp with several sentiments and the coordinating die will die cut all the sentiments at once!  She has other sentiments for holidays and everyday sentiments.

Now that the panel is finished, I was able to glue to it a cardbase and it's ready to go for that special spooky mouse loving person!

Products used from Kat Scrappiness:

  • Mouse House Craft Die
  • Haunted House Add on Dies
  • Crafters Essentials Halloween Dies
  • Scene Builder 6x6 Stencil
  • Simple Sentiments Halloween
You can find these great products and so much more at www.katscrappiness.com

I hope you enjoyed this card today and thank you for stopping by!

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