House Mouse

I think this is the third card I've made using this House Mouse image recently. Whilst I like the image I have struggled as to what colours I can use to mount it other than yellow and grey or black. Coloured the image with Copics and added Glamour Dust to the wings.

The yellow card is gorgeous in real life - a rich buttery gold pearlescent that I got at one of the fill-a-wallet places. Scrap of ribbon to finish off.

Best Wishes

House Mouse stamped image coloured with Copics.

I have added some Glamour Dust to the wings.

The scallop punch is by Stampin' Up and I used some cheap gems from eBay along the edge.

The sentiment stamp is by Personal Impressions, layered on punched circles.

House Mouse

Another House Mouse coloured with Copics. This one is called "Sweet Success".

I have added some Glossy Accents to the lollipops for a bit of shine and also used a white gel pen for some highlights. I'm not 100% happy with the colours but never mind :)

The 'Celebrate' is a Sizzlits die and I made the background paper spotty just using a small circle punch and then turning the pieces over (the card is textured on one side so turning it over means the spots stand out a bit more).

House Mouse

Another House Mouse ("Mouse Bounce") image and again coloured with Copics.

I've added some glitter and also some Glossy Accents to the thimbles and the pins but you can't see this on the pic.

The patterned paper is by Papermania and the buttons are just from my big button jar.

House Mouse

Please ignore my awful colouring in! I love these House Mouse stamps but there is a lot of fine detail and my Copic nibs are a touch too big to be totally accurate (plus I'm always rushing).

In fact because my colouring in was so bad I ended up having to cut around the image so I could re-mount it on another piece of card. That was a bit of a mistake because all the fiddly bits were a nightmare to trim round, oh well we live and learn!

So I used Copics to colour the image which is House Mouse "Berried Strawberries". A white gel pen was dotted on the berries and then I added some Glossy Accents just as a highlight on each berry (next time I might try covering the whole berry with gloss but I quite like the highlight effect).

The red card is Core'dinations, I ran it through the Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder and then sanded the tops off the dots so the white core shows through (just used an emery board to do this). I tend to forget I can sand after embossing but love the way it looks especially on this card, kind of matches the berries. I had to add the green band across the middle to hide the join of the red card - too wide to go through the Cuttlebug in one piece. Sentiment is Jane's Script by Woodware.

Buzzy Friends

This is a House Mouse stamped image "Buzzy Friends".

I've coloured it with Copics and then added some Glamour Dust to their wings.

The flowers and gems are by Prima.

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