Soooo, a little mouse (my Iphone) ate my shamrock video and the video for today's card, sadly, but I had so much fun making it, I had to still share. This card is for Monday's blog hop, which you can see here.
I'm one of those people who thinks mice are some of the cutest things on the planet. I also love cheese! So this card was a no-brainer.
I used my magic fadeout ink to stamp the mouse, and then masked him (or her?) with masking paper before stamping the cheese. Then I painted them both with Daniel Smith watercolor, and popped the whole thing back into the MISTI. I used my Copic Gasenfude pen to make the nose and eye black and then overstamped them.
I never remove my stamps from the MISTI until I'm done completely with a card, because I do overstamp so frequently - that's my tip for today!
Punny sentiments crack me up, and this little stamp set is full of them. They always have such clean fonts, too.
So how about a giveaway?? It's my anniversary-ish today - it's actually on the 29th, but we don't have one of those this year, so today is the stand-in date.
I have a Bob Ross water bottle from Creativation to give away. Here's what it looks like (bag not included).
Here's what you need to do - comment on this post by Friday, telling me what thing you like (like mice) that other people don't like. We can find out how quirky we all are!
I'd done part of this technique before, but not the way she did it. I loved how she illuminated the images. You can see the challenge and her post here - go to post #1.
So I decided to use the critters from We Must Celebrate for my attempt at this. I've been seeing them everywhere lately, but not like this. The sentiment from the set, which I embossed in white on black cardstock and punched with the triple banner punch - is PERFECT for the scene, since it looks like the animals have their backs to us.
Then, on my team call Sunday, I demonstrated this for them on Facebook live, this time with Magical Day. I had done this galaxy background during the Daily Marker coloring event, and I just stamped the little wizard, colored him in, and highlighted him. After that was done, I used a white Polychromos pencil to create a little glow around him, since the background is so dark. I positioned him so that it looked like a star I had already added was in his hand.
