I was trying out some of my new stamps from my haul and thought this happy little mouse was perfect for a birthday card. I didn't have any particular birthday in mind, but I like to keep a stash of cards for all occasions. Anyone else do that?I started with the image stamped on white card in black ink, then coloured with watercolour pencils. I fussy cut the tail of the mouse then used the circle die to cut out around the rest of the mouse. (It's easy to do - just feed the tail through to the top side of the die so it won't be cut then run through the die cutter as usual.)
For the background I took some bright patterened paper and cut it to fit the bottom diagonal half of the card base, then covered the join between the paper and the card with some purple ribbon to match the colour of the mouse's hat.
I stuck the mouse on with sticky fixers, stamped the sentiment with black ink and stuck on the tiny coloured pearls on the white part of the background and on the top of the mouse's hat.
What I used:
- House Mouse "So Big" stamp
- Coloured paper from Poundland
- "It's your birthday!" stamp from "Everyday in Moonbeam Meadow" set by Crafter's Companion, free from magazine
- Ribbon from The Works
- WHSmith set of 24 watercolour pencils ad Derwent Academy skintones set of 12 watercolour pencils
- Small gems from eBay
- Circle die and Big Shot die cutting machine
- StazOn Jet Black ink pad
- Plus scissors, double-sided tape, tacky PVA glue, foam sticky dimensionals, A6 card blank and envelope
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