LOTV Mice and Simple... I know- sorry!!lol

Hey there lovely bloggers!! :)

A quick post from me on this gorgeously sunny afternoon with a quick little card I made at the weekend to enter the LOTV challenge... so often I don’t manage to enter these as the challenges only run for a week and my energy levels don’t let me get anything done in time, but I thought if I can manage it when the challenge is as open as ‘Happy Birthday’ when will I!?! So I made this very simple little card with one of the gorgeous stamps I got from their last rubber release... and, to my great shame, have not got around to doing anything with any of them yet- so I’m trying to make myself use at least some before I let myself order any of their new Additions range!!!! :( lol

It’s really a very simple card indeed- one of the residual ideas from the LIM ‘Touch of Red’ week, I think!! :) I coloured in ProMarkers, then used a red PM to colour some white paper for the mat layer and a little bit of white dotty ribbon to match. A few gems added a bit more colour and the greeting is also LOTV :)

I was trying to do so many things at once on Saturday- a card for a friend and my easter cards were top of the list when I got distracted by this image!! :S lol- that I dumped the pens back in their box trying to clear the decks a bit before I wrote down which I’d used but from what I remember I *think* I used Cinnamon and Umber with Pastel Beige and Sandstone for the mice, Poppy and Cardinal for the cherries and Pastel Blue and Sky Blue with Blender for the pot and cake stand. The rest was a mix of light Cool Greys and Beiges with the blender as I wanted to keep it simple with all but the reds and blues fairly light and muted so those colours popped as the focus :) I have to say, I found this trickier to colour than I expected as I’ve seen a lot of people say they are easy but I suspect that’s a mixture of the small size of everything and my utter ineptitude when it comes to blending brown PMs!! :S Don’t think it came out too badly in the end, though :) Don't know what's happening with the angle on this pic or waht I was thinking when I took it- apologies if I've made anyone feel seasick!! ;)

I put a thick layer of Sakura Clear Glaze pen on the cherries and then went back and added another thick layer when the first was dry as I wanted to get real 3D look to them :) I also put a bit on each mouse’s nose... ‘cos I couldn’t resist!!lol I also used some Clear Stardust on the icing :)

So, I’d like to enter this in the following challenges: LOTV – Happy Birthday :) ; Ladybug Crafts Inc TLT – Anything Goes :) ; Papertake Weekly – Spots and Stripes (spots in my ribbon and stripes in the pot in my image :) ) :) ; Tuesday Throwdown – Polka Dots :) ; Crafty Cardmakers – Red, White and Blue and/or a Wedding Creation :) ; Little Claire’s – Animals :) ; Totally Gorjuss – No Patterned Paper :) ; Crafty Catz – Furry Friends :)

Now I’d best get back to my Easer cards- they’re coming on okay at last thankfully but need to get the ones for going in the post finished asap... don’t ask me why I allowed myself this little deviation into birthday cards I don’t even need at the mo’ when I hadn’t started the easter ones (or infact, why I still hadn’t started my easter cards in the first place) ...just had mental block on them, I think, and needed to clear the cobwebs a bit!!lol 

Hope you’re all having a good week- isn’t this weather wonderful!?! :D And thank you so much for all the really lovely comments over this last few days- I really am so happy to have found a way to share my love of craft with people who love it just as much and are so generous with their encouragement- thank you!! :D

 

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