Lavinia Stamps Dancing Mice Birthday Card

 

This will be my final make before I pack up my crafting things for moving house.  The move date has not yet been confirmed, but I need to get ready.  I'm likely to be not properly crafting for a couple of months.  However, I am well ahead on the tag challenge, having made tags up to mid March, so those posts are scheduled on here and will pop up each Sunday morning.

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For this card, I started with the Inkylicious Mini Splatter Circle, using two shades of Distress Oxide Inks:  Kitsch Flamingo and Abandoned Coral ink.

I used Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink to stamp the Lavinia Stamps "Musical Notes" using both the small and large stamp set.

I then used Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp the dancing mice, using the Lavinia "Basil and Bibi" and "Tilly and Tango" stamp set.

Finally, I stamped the "Happy Birthday" greeting, part of the Lawn Fawn "Simply Sentiments" stamp set, stamped in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink.

Lavinia Stamps "Tilly and Tango" Card

 

This was a quick monochrome card using Lavinia Stamps and a Funky Fossil stencil. Throughout all of this card, I have used Versafine Clair "Monarch" purple ink.

I used the Funky Fossil "In the Spotlight" stencil with Versafine Clair "Monarch" to create the background "spotlight" area'.  I then used the same ink through the Lavinia Stamps "Filigree" stencil over the top to get the over all pattern.

Using "Monarch" again, I stamped the Lavinia mouse pair called "Tilly and Tango".  I then stamped the Lavinia "Star Cluster" and finally the sentiment, which is part of the Lavinia "Heartfelt Verse" set of stamps.

I added a few dots of white gel pen to the stars and for the eye area, with a touch of pastel pencil to ground the mice.

Lavinia Stamps Dancing Mice Birthday Card

This morning I made a card for a young lady that used to live across the road from us, but moved house recently.  She would be out in the garden in the summer dancing and singing like nobody was listening, she also attends dance school, so I thought these dancing mice would appeal to her.

In the background of this card, I have used the Lavinia Stamps "Dynamic Stencil" with three shades of Archival Inks:  Pink Peony, Violet and Watering Can.

I used the Lavinia Stamps "Hill Mask" with Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink to create the ground that the mice dance upon.

I used two of the Lavinia Stamps mice stamp sets, the "Minnie and Moo" set and the "Tilly and Tango" stamp set, both stamped in Versafine Clair "Monarch" Purple ink.

The sentiment by Hobby Art Ltd, part of their "General Greetings CS016D" is also stamped in Monarch.

Finally, I used a 2B pencil to draw in grass and added some flowers using a pink and a silver gel pen.