Mouse Pop Up Birthday card

Hi everyone, thank you so much for your patience while I've been sorting my health out, and I hope to be back regularly again soon.

I've had my hospital treatments, my neighbours funeral ( Bless him ), and just got over Conjunctivitis, so as soon as my hands start to ease I can do more crafting. Yaaaaaaaay!!

Meanwhile, It has taken me several weeks to make a card for my niece's first birthday on 16th April, but I thought I'd share it with you before I seal it in its envelope.

Sophie's favourite toy is her Molly Mouse, so with that in mind I made this pop up card 

The mice on the front were stamped onto patterned papers for their clothes and coloured in with pencils and Promarkers. The butterflies are stamped onto tracing paper and coloured with Promarkers and stuck down so their wings are dimensional.The grass was sponged and tufts of grass drawn with SU Write markers. I made the bunting out of scraps of card with letters printed from a CD.                                                                                         Inside, the little mouse in the blue blazer has his paws outstretched to catch the falling mouse in the red coat ( he is attached to acetate so he moves when the card is knocked ), and the little mouse in the corner is signing a card.

Here is a side view of the mouse on the acetate.





I hope she will like it?

Recipe :

Card =  Daffodil Delight and white card from my stash

Stamps = Crafter's Companion, and Daisy and Dandelion

Inks = SU Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, and Basic Black. Promarkers, pencils, and SU Write markers

Extras = Acetate and tracing paper

Tomorrow we're off to my sisters for an egg hunt so I hope the rain stops long enough for us to find them all!!

I am hoping to get some more projects made very soon, so please call back again if you can.

Happy Easter to you all, and what ever your plans I hope the weather is good, and don't eat too much chocolate !!!!!! ( I cant believe I've just said that!!  You can never have too much!! )

Butterfly Bonanza

This evening is the first chance I've had to  do some crafting since Tuesday, and I needed to make a card for the Make My Monday Challenge where the theme this month is 'Things with Wings', and this week that means Butterflies or Dragonflies.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do!. Some time ago I bought a Clarity stamp that was all about the winged insects, and included the word Butterfly in several different languages. However, after stamping it in Black Archival ink on some silk white card stock I decided that it was too flat, so, I went to town and cut it all up!!

Firstly, here is the card after spending an hour ( or two ) on piecing all the messy inky bits together onto a card.

I started with a 5" cream square card from my stash, and sponged the edges with SU Bashful Blue ink. I then tore a rough square of the same cream card and sponged it with Gable Green and stuck it at an angle, on top of which I placed a strip of blue open weave hessian.

I cut the stamped image into four ( the large butterfly tag, small tag, and two butterfly words ) and coloured them with Pro markers before sticking them onto more torn and sponged BBlue card. Then my trusty BS came out and I cut 2 Green Galore vines, 2 Bashful Blue Nellie's ornate corners, and a BBlue  and a GGreen flower.

I then used 3D pads to stick down the large tag, small tag, and 2 words. The vines were glued by the back of the leaves, and the ornate corners by a glue pen because of the narrow areas. The 2 flowers were stacked in alternate colours in the bottom corner and topped with a gem from my stash.

The butterfly was then stamped onto  some thick tracing paper, coloured with the same Pro markers as the one on the tag, cut out, and stuck by the body section onto the tag image.

This is a side view

Recipe : Card = SU Bashful Blue, Gable Green, Clarity silk card, cream card and tracing paper from my stash.

Stamps = Clarity

Inks = SU Bashful Blue, Gable Green, Black Archival, Pro markers

Extras = 3D pads, Big Shot, Crealies, Nellie's dies, and  Marianne vines, and a gem from stash.


Well that's it for tonight, I don't think I could fit anything else on it even if I wanted to. What do you think??

If you can, please leave me a comment as I really appreciate reading them, and the time you take out of your busy day to leave one.

Thanks for having a look at my blog and I'd love it if you could drop by again soon.