Yellow, blue and white House Mouse card

What I used:

• House Mouse "Trim the tree" stamp
• Yellow spotty paper and "Smile and be happy" stamp free from magazines
• Blue and white card, and ribbons from my stash
• WHSmith set of 24 watercolour pencils
• Decorative border edging punch (was given to me so I don't know where it's from)
• Nail art tiny pearls from eBay
• Oval Spellbinders die and Big Shot dies cutting machine
• StazOn Jet Black ink pad
• Plus scissors, double-sided tape, tacky PVA glue, glue dots, A6 card blank and evnvelope, and a blue fibre tip pen

A very simple card to make - stamp the image on to white card and colour with watercolour pencils. Cut out with an oval die and stick to blue card, then cut around with scissors leaving a thin border. (I didn't have the right size die to give a thin enough border using a die.) Distress the edges of the blue oval with scissors and add in the faux stitch detail with a blue pen.

Cut a piece of yellow spotty paper just smaller than the card base and stick down with double sided tape. Cut a strip of white card about an inch wider than the blue card, use the edging punch to create the pattern then stick on to the base and stick the image to the white strip, both using double sided tape.

Stamp the sentiment at the bottom of the white strip, then use two pieces of ribbon, one thick white organza and one thin white satin, to tie a bow and stick down using a glue dot behind the knot.

Add final embellishments of the tiny coloured pearls using PVA glue in a fine-tip applicator. The pearls are the same colour as the coloured in bow, but for some reason they photographed darker.

For the 200th House-Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge :)