Happy Mail!

Happy Mail is something we all love. What fun it is to find a handmade card from a crafty friend in the mailbox! Well this is Happy Mail with a difference. My mousey make for this fortnight was inspired by some organizational Youtube videos I was watching while sewing, where pin boards and peg boards were used for inspirational quotes in the organised space.

I used patterned paper for my card panel that resembles a cork board and added a frame cut out of silver metallic cardstock with stitched rectangle dies so that I had a faux stitched line in the center of the frame. I then created 3 little envelopes and inserted a little House Mouse in each one. These are from the stamps I had recently found in the destash sale. I stamped them onto Strathmore Paint Pad paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them with my Prismacolor pencils.

I inserted each mouse into a little envelope and glued it onto my pin board. I stamped the happy Mail sentiment onto a small Post-it note and added brads to each item to represent push pins.

I also glued two stickers from my stash onto the pin board. Some additional brads dotted around the board completed the look.

I then mounted the "board" onto a piece of thin craft foam and then onto a top folding cardbase.

General supplies:

Strathmore Paint Pad paper

House Mouse Designs stamps from my stash

Reflections 110lb heavyweight cardstock for card base

Prismacolor pencils

Stitched rectangle dies

Patterned paper

Metallic silver cardstock

Stampabilities Everday Expressions stampset

Concord & 9th Perfectly Penned stampset

Brads and stickers from my stash

Craft foam

Entered into the HMFMC Anything Goes/Optional theme "Stitching (real or faux)" Challenge #272

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Entered into the QKR Stampede Challenge #309 - Anything Goes