House Mouse Birthday

This little card was done for a work colleagues birthday. I don't know about you but I am not a morning person but my colleague is bouncing off the walls from the moment she walks into work right through to when it's time to go home. So this little mouse reminded me so much of her and the little mice asleep in the thimbles would be me:

I stamped this image onto Neenah glossy white card and used Promarkers to colour in. Glossy highlights was used on the thimbles and pin heads to try and give them a more metallic feel (don't think it shows up too well on the photo):

I cut a Sunflower out using the Cameo and added Candy to the centre:

Well I hope you like the card, thanks for popping by and have a great weekend x

Something a bit different

This was a mask I bought from The Range last year, it's a chipboard mask and cost 50p. It became one of those projects that is on the ever growing 'To Do / Try' list and so I thought I would have a go at doing something with it.

So, here is the finished mask:

For this project I used:

Acrylic paint - black
Half a sheet of white Vinyl
Alcohol Inks - Rust, Ginger, Caramel, Latte, Cranberry
Anita's 3D clear gloss finish
Circle stickers

I painted the chipboard with black acrylic paint (2 coats). Leave each coat to air dry a day each.

Use the alcohol inks on the white vinyl until you are happy with the results.

Cut out the shapes you want to use (I used the Cameo to do this). I cut the first lot out on scrap card first just to ensure I had cut them at the right size and to help me to decide what layout to use.

Now at this stage I would have used Transfer tape to move the vinyl from its backing sheet to the mask but when I tried this all the transfer tape did was remove a layer of the alcohol inks. So, until I work out what will fix the inks in place I had to transfer the images by hand - not an easy thing to do.

Next I added the circle stickers.

To ensure everything stays in place and to give it a glossy look I painted Anita's 3D clear gloss finish all over the mask.

I love how the alcohol inks look on the vinyl so its something I will definitely be using again, maybe see how it looks in a picture...

I have one more mask to do but I am going to experiment a little with different mediums so it will probably be a while before I post the results.

Hope you enjoyed the post x

I have fallen in love........

I have fallen in love.....

With the House Mouse range of stamps! Bought a few sets a while ago and to be honest, when they arrived I was a little daunted about the colouring in part. Anyway, I decided to give them a whirl this week and after a quick google search I found that you only needed one or two colours for the mice.

So here is my first attempt with a stamp from the Sew Mice JSHM042 set:

I used Neenah ultra smooth white card to stamp on (thanks Sue) and Versafine onyx black to stamp with. Now a lot of crafters have reported Memento is the best ink to use with Promarkers but I don't have that at the moment. The Versafine ink pad was ok but I did find it bled slightly when I used the blender pen in the more inked up area's but not so bad that it would stop me from using it again. Anyway, tomorrow I will be off out to buy a Memento pad.

I used Promarkers Raw Sienna and Caramel for the larger mouse and Cool Grey 3 and 4 for the smaller mouse. I used Tan and Soft Peach for the ears, faces, paws and tail.

Yellow chalk was used to soften the white card around the edges and to give the mice something to 'stand' on.

The backing papers are from a Tilly Daydream paper pack which I thought matched really well due to the cross stitching look. I did a quick Cameo cut for the button and added some yarn to finish.

So, I will be going mouse mad this weekend. Hope you all have a good crafty weekend too x