A Tangled Winter Tumble

I've used another of Ellen Jareckie's whimsical House-Mouse images for my new card.  This one is called A Tangled Tumble.  As you might expect, it features the adorable Amanda mouse, tumbling through the snow, tangled in some Christmas lights.  Lucky for her, the lights are not plugged in.

I used a Heavy Whisper White base with a matte of Cherry Cobbler cardstock.  Then I added a piece of the wonderful It's Snome Time patterned paper by the Craft Consortium.  I stamped the image on a piece of mixed media paper using my Early Espresso ink.  Since I intended to use my wax-based pencils, I needed a water-based ink.  I used a mixture of colours from both my Derwent my Koh-I-Noor collections. For blending, I used my paint brushes as well as the Gamblin Solvent-Free Fluid which I've used before.  I love that the colours become so smoothly blended with no change to their tone.  If you're wondering why the lights seem to be a sparkly 3-D, I added some clear Nuvo drops to each.  The plug for the lights is a lovely, shiny silver as well, and, especially in the close-up, you can see the sparkle on the snow.

Once finished, I cut out the image using my Big Shot and Stitched Nested Labels dies.  Then I cut an additional piece of Garden Green cardstock for my matte.  The sentiment is stamped using Cherry Cobbler ink and then cut out using a smaller of the same dies.  A Garden Green matte completed it nicely.

Finally I cut  two holly leaves from the same Garden Green and added three Cherry Cobbler "berries".

I love the way the little scene turned out, don't you?

I'm linking my card up to the current House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge since it completes the "option" with both some sparkle and shine.

HMFMC #330 - Anything Goes with an Option of Sparkle/Shine