Colorful Layered Apples

Welcome friends! This is Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook sharing a card combining unlikely products from the September release. I just adored the new Layered Apples stencil set so I had to play with it but wasn’t sure what I wanted on my card. Then, as I was coloring some of the images from Mouse Friends this sweet design hit me and I knew what I was creating!

I inked the apples from top left to bottom right red, yellow and green just like the colors apples come in. Then I added brown stems and a different color green leaves. Isn’t that background so much fun!?! I love it!

Next, I stamped and colored the pair of mice from Mouse Friends with my copic markers. Typically I color mice in grays but I switched gears to cute little brown mice today. Aren’t they sweet?!? I used the E40 line of copic markers for these critters with R11 and R00 for the ears and nose. I popped them up with foam squares and started die cutting my sentiment. 

I cut the Thanks Script from white cardstock 6 times to keep it level with the mice. The top layer is the complete die but all the layers below have the tops of the T, H and K trimmed off. I adhered it with liquid glue so the mice are standing on the letters. 

Finally I pulled a smaller sentiment from the Mouse Friends stamp set, stamped and heat embossed it on black and used the banner die in that set to cut it out. This is popped up on a foam strip to keep everything level.

Finishing touches on this card were simple by adding black glaze pen to the mouse eyes, glossy accents to their noses and white gel pen highlights all around them. 

I hope you enjoyed today’s project and found some inspiration to create something wonderful! Have a fabulous day!