Matilda Mouse

Here's another little cutie from Digistamp Boutique - this is Birthday Matilda and she's available here.  When I started this I was following the sketch at Sketch Saturday... but it just wasn't happening so this is what I ended up with!  I don't know why, but that seems to happen a lot when I use a sketch lately, I don't seem to be able to stick to them at all!

I've coloured Matilda with promarkers, with added shading and 'glow' using koh-i-noor pencils blended with sansador.  The plain circle was cut with nesties, scalloped circle cut with a Go-Kreate die.  The paper is from the K&Co Brenda Pinnick 'girl' pad... seem to be using these a lot at the moment!  I've added some swirl die cuts - ages ago I borrowed some sizzix swirl dies from a friend and cut lots of swirls, but then never used them. I'm not sure why, because I quite like them now... might have to get some swirl dies myself lol.  Added a little stamped tag sentiment, some ribbon and a bow (tied with the bow-easy) and lots of pearls around the circle... oh and the pearl pins - another thing I've had for AGES and just can't seem to use, so I made myself use them.

I'm entering my card for the following challenges:

• Fab 'n' Funky - whateva!
• Paper Sundaes - mixed medium colouring (2nd entry)
• Die Cut Dreams - pearls & pins
• Passion For Promarkers - sweet treats
• A Spoon Full of Sugar - animals
• Crafty Creations - transportation (does the little cart count?!)
• Stamp Something - cute

We're doing the dreaded potty training in our house at the moment - I HATE potty training and have put it off for as long as I can... Dex will be 3 in January so I thought we'd better have a go.  He won't have anything to do with the potty though, so we went out to buy one of those padded toilet seats so that he can use the loo instead.  I let him choose which seat he wanted... he could have had plain white (nope)... green 'in the night garden' one (nope)... blue 'thomas' one (nope)... no, he chose the bright pink Peppa Pig one lol :o)  That's my boy!