Besotted With Our Pets: Wednesday Challenge at Simon Says Stamp

Today I am participating in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

Theme this week is BESOTTED WITH OUR PETS.

Hah! That’s me all the way!

I’m planning on attending a Lawn Fawn retreat soon and I needed a swap. I love their Mice on Ice set and mice are pets too!

What do you think? I’m a sucker for puns…

Products used:

• Distress oxide ink – Wild honey and Picked raspberry
• Blending Brush
• Neenah white card stock
• Black card stock
• Tarnished brass distress acrylic paint
• old tooth brush
• Spray bottle
• Copics – Y13 Y17, E21 E23 E25 E27 (lighter 3 for mice, darker 2 for box), V04 V06, RV10
• Memento black
• Just stitching double rectangles die
• Mice on ice stamp set and coordinating dies
• Holiday helpers stamp set (box)
• Harold’s ABCs stamp set (“have a” and “birthday”)
• Beam me up stamp set and coordinating dies (cake)
• Smooth ceiling stamp set (action accents)
• Quinn’s ABC’s dies (“mice”)
• Liquid glue
• Foam dimension for under “mice”
• gold sequins

Techniques or tips and tricks

• For the background, I ran the white paper first with the stitching dies and then used a blending brush to lightly ink the rectangle with a little bit of light overage at the edges. I went for a little messy/hazy look. I then spritzed it with water.
• If you’re making 25 like I will be, consider getting a Brother Scan N Cut or something like it! I literally stamped 25 of each image on what ended up being 4 sheets of paper and walked away while it cut a nice border around each of my images for the rest of my swaps. Easier than using a die cutting tool over and over and over and getting huge arm muscles haha. Or wearing out your Gemini!
• Use your scissors or an x-acto knife to cut a slit in the box for the mouse to peek out of
• I made my own colored paper for the pink “mice”. I took white card stock and inked on Picked Raspberry distressed oxide ink. Then i placed in a box, sprayed lightly with water to get light spots and then used a toothbrush and a block to flick on the gold acrylic paint. After I let it dry, I used this for my dies.
• I also cut out “mice” in black and offset it a bit to look like a shadow. Then I placed it on some foam adhesive.

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