Sunny Studio - Merry Christmouse

Hello there,

 I'm thrilled to be back on Sunny Studio's blog and share with you the latest adventures of the mice family with this cute and festive slimline card featuring a bunch of images, including ones from Merry Mice. If you have missed their first adventures, here is a recap: they went apple picking during the Fall season here, were busy delivering presents here, and today is all about Christmas caroling, or should I say Christmouse caroling?!

So I started off by creating a simple wintery landscape on a 8,5 x 3,5 inches Strathmore bristol smooth panel. On three quarters of the panel, I created snow hills using salvaged patina oxide ink and a hillside stencil from my stash. And at the very top, I created the sky using salvaged patina oxide ink again, with a little bit of peacock feathers oxide ink. I love to add texture to my backgrounds when I use oxide inks, so I mixed a little bit of peacock feathers oxide ink with water, and used a small brush to make splatters on the snowy hills. I did the same on the sky with a mix of blueprint sketch oxide ink and water. And the same again with a mix of white ink and water, but this time I made splatters all over the panel.

Next I stamped all my images on 80lb Neenah solar white cardstock using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, cut them all using the matching dies and colored everything using once again my favorite color palette for this holiday season, which is red, light pink, aqua and green. Here is the detailed list of the stamp sets I used:

• Merry Mice - singing mice, mice (with the scarves), scarves, ear muffs, beanies, Santa hat, snowmouse • Harvest Mice - mice (with the sweaters), sweaters • Christmas Critters - mouse (in the balloon) • Balloon Rides - hot air balloon, banners • Feeling Frosty - trees • Snowman Kisses - snowflakes

I stamped my "Have yourself a merry little Christmouse" greeting from Merry Mice at the very bottom of my panel: "Have yourself a merry little" in black, and "Christmouse" in silver. Next I attached the images on my panel using 1mm and 2mm foam squares, and finally added highlights and details to the images and sky using a white gel pen.

SUNNY STUDIO SUPPLIES

- Merry mice stamp set

- Harvest mice stamp set

- Christmas critters stamp set

- Balloon rides stamp set

- Feeling frosty stamp set

- Snowman kisses stamp set

OTHER SUPPLIES

- Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers

- Graph'it brush markers

- Ohuhu markers

- Oxide inks: salvaged patina, peacock feathers, blueprint sketch

- Sakura white gel pen

- Copic opaque white ink

- Jet black ink by Lawn Fawn

- Black versafine ink by Tsukineko

- Clear embossing by Lawn Fawn

- Silver embossing powder by Lawn Fawn

- 80lb Neenah solar white cardstock (images)

- Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock (background)