Christmas Animals

Christmas Animals

Hallo There!

Getting nice and chilly now and

we've even had some snow down

here on the coast.  It was amazing

everyone was talking about it

and I never saw a thing.......even

though I was on the phone at

the time and looking out the

window!  Apparently it lasted

all of ten minutes.................!

Right, back to business and you

will be relieved to know that

there is no snow involved.

Louise Thompson is here with

the first of our Christmas animals:

"Penny black have to be one of my all

 time favourite stamp companies, 

so when asked to make a Christmas card 

with mice there was no question I would 

use their stamps.

These ones come from a set called 

'U R the gift.' I stamped them on four

 separate squares of card and coloured

 them with Inktense pencils. 

If you haven't come across Inktense before, 

you add water to them for a watercolour effect

 but they retain their lovely bright colours

which don't move once the ink has dried.

I wanted to add the text around the pictures

so after some deliberation decided to hand 

write it on using fine liner.

I mounted the images on to two card blanks

 using 3d foam mount tape and then fixed

 those cards together for a concertina effect

Look away now if you're squeamish around

 small furries, but by complete chance I ended up

 fostering my own little family of 'Christmice'

This is Sprout!"

Materials;

Penny black stamps 

Inktense pencils

Card

Stickles glitter

Delightful cards Louise and

thank you for sharing one

of your Christmice with us.

Sprout looks so cute.....!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx