At Craft Your Passion the challenges are Always Anything Goes!We have the fabulous Fabrika Fantasy as our sponsor too.Head on over to check how to play and win.Don’t forget to take a look at the DT inspiration,they’ve done a wonderful job.
Meet the adorable Happy Mouse by Fabrika Fantasy.I decided to go all CAS as this is something I struggle with and I thought if I used my Polychromos pencils it may make my little mousie friend stand out.After colouring him with my pencils I fussy cut him leaving a little white around the edges.Setting him to one side I then pierced a border around a piece of white textured card and stamped the greeting.I made my own washi tape by adhering Scotch Magic Matte Tape to my chosen scraps of paper,burnished with a bone folder then trimmed the excess paper away.Next I soaked them in a shallow tray of water.After a few moments I gently rubbed the paper fibre from the back until I was left with the patterned transferred onto the tape.The hardest part was waiting for it to dry!Once they were they were trimmed into pennant shapes.As I was creating a banner hand stitched to the card I stuck them into place with just a little tape pen adhesive as I still wanted a little movement.Other than that they would have to be glued quite firmly into place as unlike shop bought washi tape there is no gum on the back.Black cotton was used to tie in with the ink for the sentiment.Finally I added the mouse with some silicone glue.And that’s that!This will be for my DS2’s birthday in September 🙂
Supplies :
Image : Happy Mouse by Fabrika Fantasy
Sentiment : From a freebie stamp set
Mediums : Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils,Archival Jet Black Ink,White Sakura Gelly Roll Pen (on his tooth)
Card & Paper : Craft UK Limited 6 x 6 Kraft Card Blank,White Cardstock American Crafts Textured 12 x 12,DP Grace Taylor Playtime Collection (to make home made washi tape)
Tools : X-Cut Guillotine,Crafts Too Metal Edge Ruler with Stitching Holes
Other Stuff : Black Cotton from my sewing box,Scotch Magic Matte Tape,Stick It! Silicone Glue
Some challenges I would like to enter :
Colour Your World with Lucy Sunshine : Anything Goes
Crafty Friends Challenge : Anything Goes
Hiding in my Craft Room : Super Scraps Saturday
Let’s Color Saturday Linky Party : Anything Goes with Something Colored
Artbymiran Challenge : Anything Goes
Crafting-With-Friends : Anything Goes
Creative Fingers : Anything Goes
Left of Center Creative Challenges : Stitching – real or faux (real to hold banner in place)
Morgan’s Art World : Include a Sentiment
PDE Linky Party : Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft : Anything Goes
Craft Rocket Challenges : Feathers &/or Fur
Crafting With An Attitude : Always Anything Goes
Creative Moments : Always Anything Goes/ optional twist use a sentiment on front of project
Inspiration Destination : Always Anything Goes
Little Red Wagon : Mainly Manly
Thanks for looking
Lisa x