Krafty Chicks challenge #713 - All occasions

Good morning friends.  I'm back again today to share my DT card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge.  As we are on Week 4 we are looking for your 'All Occasions' creations; so basically anything goes!  

I didn't have anyone in mind when I made this card, although the background panel was the starting point.  I had made it for another card but it wasn't exactly what I wanted so put it to one side.  When I looked at it again I thought it looked like cheese and that's where my idea began.  

Here is my card:

a closer look at the images:

I decorated the inside:

So when I made the background I originally was going for a beer/lager bubbles feel but I didn't like it and cast it aside and when I went back to it I thought it looked more like cheese so decided to dig in my stash and see if I could find anything cheese related.  I stumbled on this image that I had never used before and thought the punny sentiment was hilarious.  On further searching I found this tiny mouse image in a different set that I thought would be fun to use too.  I stamped the images using memento ink and coloured them with Promarkers.  The mouse image had a matching die so cut them out using that; the cheese/grater image was fussy cut out.  When I created the background I ink blended the panel with yellow ink and then went over it with a stencil using slightly darker inks, moving the stencil slightly with each different colour.  I decided to die cut some circles from the background to make it more like a cartoon block of cheese and added foam tape behind before adding it to my card base.  I stamped the punny sentiment in black ink and die cut it out with a sentiment strip.  I added the main image in the centre of the panel and tucked the mice in the circles as though they were peeking out (all with foam squares).  The sentiment was added overlapping the largest circle with foam squares.  I finished with some gold sequins and the front of my card was complete.  For the inside I cut a white panel 3 3/4" x 5" and used the left over circles that I cut from the front panel and placed them in the same configuration as the front.  I stamped a sentiment in the centre and added one mouse peeking from behind the bottom circle.  A really fun card and one that came from a discarded panel.   I hope you like it.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - make your mark

Classic Design challenge - ATG optional twist happy birthday

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG must include an animal

Creative Moments challenge - cute & cuddly (my mice are small but super cute)

Day of the Month Card Club challenge - National Look Alike Day (my two tiny mice)

Get Creative challenge - April Fool's Day (a joke or punny sentiment)

Just Us Girls challenge - anything goes stencil

Scrapping4Fun challenge - ATG

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Tic Tac Toe challenge - stencil/die cut/critter (3rd entry)

Unicorn challenge - use dies

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'All Occasions' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer for April, Rachelle. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Sweet Stamp Shop - cheesy card stamp set (they sadly closed many years ago)

MFT - farm friends (for mouse image) (no longer available)

Gina K Designs - fizzy stencil

Gina K Designs - sentiment strip dies

Gina K Designs - ink pads - wild dandelion, honey mustard and sweet corn

Gina K Designs - birthday cheer mini set (for inside greeting)

Spellbinders - standard circles large dies

Spellbinders - color essential sequins gold smooth discs

Promarkers

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Limetree Designs - 250gsm silky smooth white card