Mouse Marathon!

Something slightly different from me today prompted by two cards I saw on other blogs. Marilyn had used a 'High Hopes Stamp' and in my comment to her I said I had a couple of their stamps and never used . Having a rootle around I found 3 in fact and this got me somewhat into craft mode and I decided to ink up 'Sweet Lili Mouse ' L-121 and have a play.  Well this started up a bit of a Marathon as I kept inking up, painting/colouring and discarding my efforts. The first 2 uncharacteristically of me actually ended not only tossed into the bin but torn into shreds too .

 Here is effort  no.3 that very nearly ended up in the same place but got pushed to one side while  I inked up a further two!

Image number 4 was a disaster from the word go and in desperation I changed tactics of trying to paint a brown mouse  and got out my Copic Markers and coloured up a white one instead. Still not happy, but by this time the little mouse above had dried out and having been left for a couple of hours whilst tea called  I decided  didn't look so bad after all!! This is where Tina came into play as she had used the June Cheerful Sketches Challenge to make her card.  Now I don't follow sketches normally but I rather liked the look of this one and the little mouse was looking for a home so  I made the following card. 

Design papers  are all by Hunkdory 'Boutique Chic' free with Paper Crafter Jun 2016 mag. I distressed the edges.

Doily flowers and square pearls from my stash. I used brown pearlised card stock to die cut the Sizzix scallop rectangle frame which I put through a Sizzix EF  Flowers 656978. There is a piece of acetate sandwiched between the frame and the image but as luck would have it I managed to get a photo without the usual glare showing on it.  The mouse was stamped onto a scrap of white card (that was on my desk. I had given up trying to use watercolour paper by this stage) using distress ink vintage photo. I then scribbled some distress marker pens onto a clear stamp block and with a fine paint brush and loads of water mixed into the colours filled in the image.  Of course it buckled and pilled and looked a mess as had the previous 2 now in the bin.



Here is the sketch that I followed. I rather like the finished result! Mouse is not the colour I had in mind but heck she's a Field Mouse!!!!!!!!

Then instead of having just told you about the afore mentioned disasters I thought I would show you

them. I painstakingly fished  the pieces out of the bin and pieced/glued them back together again. Took me 2hrs!

 So here they are Warts and All.

Effort No 1.

 On watercolour card using distress markers.

I coloured the ribbon was pleased with that then did the arm.

Too dark and I went and smudged the eye. Darnation!



Effort No 2.

Brown colour perfect, bow not so good and then I

mucked the nose up. Grr.

I will show you Meeces 4 and  5 next week

Does this give a new meaning to paper piecing I wonder. Lol.

I'm off to lie down in  a very dark room now

but first I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Cheerful Sketches Challenge # Juni   Follow the sketch above and use a stamp.

Pixies Crafty Workshop #234  Use your snippets up.

Love  To Scrap #80 Anything goes.

Tuesday Throwdown #299 Distressing.

Crafty Creations #318 Anything goes.

Inspiration Destination #91 Anything goes.

Penny's Paper Crafty #283 Anything goes.

2 Creative Chicks #11 Anything goes.

Crafts Galore # Anything goes.

One Crazy Stamper # Anything goes.

Petal Lu Challenge #16 Anything goes.