25 cards of Christmas - Day 12 - Sleepy kitten

This is probably my favourite House Mouse stamp and I love making cards with it.

For this card I stamped straight on to the card base. I never have any worries about doing that, because if it doesn't work then I can just use the base for something else and cover it up with paper or embellishments or something else.

I coloured the picture with my Derwent Inktense watercolour pencils and once it had dried I stamped the sentiment and embellished with a red and white ribbon and the red stick on gems.

This card took a lot longer than the other ones in the series so far, but I really like watercolouring so it doesn't feel like a chore. Maybe not the best if you want to mass produce a card unless you start a while in advance of Christmas or you only have a few to do.

The other thing I like about this stamp is that you can customise the colours, so for my friends with cats I've tried to give them cards with kittens that have vaguely the same colouring as their pets.