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.
