There's always room for more birthday cake

The theme today at As You Like It Challenge is to use your favourite rubber stamp.  The idea is that we all tend to forget our old favourites sometimes, and so this is a great excuse to dig out that stamp you cannot possibly live without, and remind yourself why you love it!

I've gone back to my stamping roots, as my first introduction to rubber stamps was Penny Black and so I always have a soft spot for these critters.  My favourite characters are the hedgehogs and mice, so I've chosen an image that features one of each character.

I've softly water-coloured my image with my Distress Ink reinkers, and I've used my favourite papers (again) from Papermania (Lucy Cromwell), (current) favourite nestie (floral ovals), and two of my favourite dies (Lavish Branch and Corner bow).

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Penny Black Slapstick Hedgehog Birthday
• One of my own Freebie Sentiments
• Colouring - Distress Inks, copics for highlights on leaf die cuts
• Clouds - Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Papermania Lucy Cromwell
• Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
• Lacey Circle Spellbinder Nesties
• Floral Oval Spellbinder Nesties
• Memory Box Corner Bow Die
• Memory Box Lavish Branch Die
• Organza Gold Ribbon
• Blue Mesh Ribbon
• Pearls
• Glossy Accents

I've been inspired by:

• Bunny Zoe - Case a DT member (Karina's sketch, nestie, ribbon layers, coloured using DIs)
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes

Happy crafting.