Christmas in July - House Mouse Christmas Fireplace

Just as the elusive summer finally appeared, it’s time for Christmas in July – but I hope these cute little House Mouse characters in Joanna Sheen’s Christmas Fireplace will melt your heart!  'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the House, Not a creaturing was stirring, not even a Mouse.......

Card Recipe:

Stamp: Joanna Sheen House Mouse Christmas Fireplace

Colouring Mediums: Memento Black, Promarker Pens

Paper & Card: Paper Adventures, Stardream, Elegance Satin

Tools: Martha Stewart Punches, Marianne Design Creatables dies, Big Shot, Spellbinders

Embellishments: Zva Pearl Swirls, Hand-made Pearl & Crystal Hat Pins, prima flowers, Christmas Charm, pearl brad.

I started by twice stamping House Mouse Christmas Fireplace onto Joanna Sheen's Elegance Satin Card using Momento and colouring with Promarkers to coordinate with my gorgeous Paper Adventures papers in teals and reds. I then cut out and decoupaged the candy cane, the peppermint sweet and the cute mices in their Christmas Stockings. The stockings were embellished with little pom-poms – really fun!

I created a message topper on my computer. Both this and my main image were cut out and mounted using Spellbinders Labels 2 – one of my favourites.

To ensemble, I created the backing mat from PaperAdventures and stitched the outside edge. I used a Martha Stewart snowflake punch to crate a feature border, and Marianne Creatables die for the Poinsettias which I cimbined with Prima Got Flowers. A liberal sprinkling of rhinestones followed.








To finish, I added Zva pearl flourishes, handmade crystal and pearl hatpins and a sweet Christmas Stocking charm.

 

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Party Presents Mice Birthday Card

Spring is definitely in the air today and must have influenced my colour choices for this super-cute Party Presents Mice Card.

The background papers are Fresh Print Blue Raspberry by Déjà Views and I think they certainly are fresh.  I’ve used double satin ribbon to accent the Crochet Lace Trim (by May Road) and narrow double satin on some of the buttons

The stamp is by Lili of the Valley, I really love Mice stamps and have quite a collection.  This was the first time I’ve used this image and it is stamped with a Rich Cocoa Momento pad onto Elegance Satin

and coloured using, what else, Promarkers.

The main image and greeting have been die-cut using spellbinders, and the background lattice is using a Martha Stewart deep border punch.

Thank you for looking!

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