Jelly Bean Heist

There's a little story behind this card.

I have a brother called Richard and (like a lot of men) it's hard to know what to buy him for birthday and Christmas.

One year I bought him a huge jar of Jelly Belly beans and his wife told me he liked them....

Well that was what he started getting for every present every year!

Sometimes I would put a little extra with the jelly beans like a gift voucher or some toiletries etc

Anyway it was his birthday last Saturday and my mum had mentioned that what he would really like this year was some cash to put towards a new computer part.

I had already bought this cute House Mouse stamp with the intention of matching it up with Richard's jar of beans only now I wasn't giving him any beans.

The title of the stamp is "Jelly Bean Heist" so that gave me an idea....I put cash inside the finished card and wrote "Sorry, the mice ate all the jelly beans".

I hope he liked it.

The stamp was stamped and embossed with fine detail gold powder - this meant I could get away with not colouring so much of the image *however* I soon realised that Copic markers do not like embossing powder! (the nibs were starting to pick up the gold colour). I won't be doing that again but I did manage to get the colour off the nibs by scribbling on a bit of scrap paper so it wasn't total calamity.

The sentiment is Jane's Script by Woodware.

Inspired by Sarita's gorgeous card from her blog